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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-21
TELEGRAPHic NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Duchess of Leinster, the widow of the
fifth Duke of Leinster, is dead. She was the
daughter of the first Earl of Feverhal and re.
puted the most beautiful woman in the United
Kingdom.
Negotiations were completed at Chicago
which effect a combination of all the whisky
interests of the country and practically assure
to the Spirits Distilling Association, of which
Receiver McNulta of the trust is chairman. a b.
solute control of the spirit output of the United
States
There was much excitement when the first
ballot was taken and it was found that Higgins
followers, with the exception of Representative
Wilson, had voted for Edward G. Bradford of
Newcastle. So far, eighty-six ballots have been
taken since the Delaware Senatorial deadlock
began.
Richard B. Hartshorn, chairman of the reor
ganization committee of the Distilling and Cal
tie Feeding Company, says that the reports of
cutting whisky prices are false. This applies
to the whisky trust and the affiliated compa-
mics. If the remaining outside distillers are
cutting prices they are doing it to their injury,
he said
The Yachtsman of London of March z con.
tains an account of the capsizing of yacht in
Swan River, Perth, West Australia, March d.
Among those reported drowned was Edward
Fox, who earned the soubriquet of "Modoc"
when acting as correspondent of the New York
Herald in the Modoc war. Afterward he be-
came promoter of various enterprises. and
went to England. Fox became prominent as a
second for Borrowe in the Drayton- Borrowe
duel negotiations
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-21
GRIP Is AFRICAN FEVER.
A Traveller Who Has Gone Through the
Dark Continent Says So.

Dark Continent Says So.
Up two flights of stairs under the roof of
double tenement house on Catherine
street lies S. John Kuno, African pioneer
and missionary, sick with African fever.
After four years experience of mission
airy work under the tropics he has returned
with the usual missionary reward-a con-
seriousness of duties well performed, a
troublesome and ineradicable disease and
a large wad of photographs
The African fever is really a cross be-
tween malaria and influenza. Your head
splits, you SILVER and roast by turns, and
when it is through with YOU YOU are so
weak that you generally die as matter of
preference. The doctors claim YOU can't
but Mr.. Kuno says he knows better. He
has had it this week. Moreover he goes
further and advances a new theory for sci
entitic consideration.
The grip, he says, as far as he can learn.
is nothing more than the African fever in
a mild form. What is more the disease
started few years ago, Just after lot of
African missionaries had returned home
and he is personally convinced that Afri-
can fever was among their baggage The
African disease, he says, the doctors know
nothing about, and he thinks we treat the
grip too mildly, being too much afraid of
quinine. The dose for African fever in the
medical books is two grains at time, but
in Africa the old hands take as much as
100 grains at crisis, putting it down liter
ally in handfuls. He himself has taken so
much that it has permanently affected his
hearing, continuous buzzing going on in
his head like spluttering telephone
Springfield Republican
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DOMAIN OF THE RED MEN.
WORK OF CARRYING OUT PRO-
VISIONS FOR THE SALE OF
THEIR LANDS.
ADVISED TO RENT TRACTS
TO FARMERS.

W WASHINGTON, March 20-The Indian
Office, under the direction. and supervision
of Secretary Smith, will find considerable
work provided for in the last Indian appro-
priation bill which will keep it quite busy
during the coming season. Among other
things authorized in the bill is the appoint
ment of a commission to negotiate with
the Belknap Indians for the sale to the
United States of portion of the reserva-
ton in the north central portion of the
State of Montana; also to negotiate with
the Blackfoot Indians for the sale of por-
ton of their reservation in the northwest
ern part of the same State. An appropri-
alton of $500 has been made for this pur-
pose, and as the sum is so small it is quite
possible that the commission will consist
of employees of the Interior Department.
Secretary Smith has said to all the visit
ing delegations of Indians, no matter from
what portion of the country they came,
that if they have no desire to sell their
lands the department has no purpose to
urge them to do so. He prefers they should
keep their lands where they can make use
of them.
To one delegation he recently said he
thought it would be a good thing if they
would divide their reservation tracts among
themselves in some equitable manner an
farm such portions as they could and lease
the remainder TO farmers who would paw
them a reasonable sum for the privilege.
In the case of the Belknap and Backfoot
Indians it may be found advantageous to
the Indians to dispose of portion of their
lands, as the area is considered much
larger than they can handle judiciously. s
Probably some difficulty will arise when
the Secretary comes to carry out the por-
ton of the law providing for decrease of 20
per cent in the number of contract schools.
He is not allowed to make contracts with
more than so per cent of the contract
schools with which contracts were made
for the present fiscal year. To decide Just
what schools shall be given up will cause
some trouble, as all will probably desire to
be retained. The Secretary is also author
lied to negotiate with the San Carlos Indi-
ans for the sale of the coal lands on their
reservation in Montana. He will also ap-
point a commission, for which $4,000 is
provided, to secure the consent of the
Southern Ute Indians and pay the ex-
penses of their removal, according to the
terms of the law passed at the last session.
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MAKINGS OF A MILLIONAIRE.
Neat Little Commercial Transaction of a
Fruit PeddIer.

Neat Little Commercial Transaction of a
Fruit PeddIer
1t is the generally held opinion among
the clerks in some of the upstairs offices of
the postoffice building that the "nate little
bit ov a man" who has recently received
permission to peddle fruit here during the
lunch hour has in him all the markings of
a millionaire.
On the first day of his appearance he
brought with him large basket of rosy
checked apples. Northern Spoles,' he
called them and placed one on each clerk S
desk. If the occupant of the desk offered
to pay for the apple he was told that it was
only a sample of the apples that the man
proposed to keep in stock. and if the offer
of the apple was repulsed by some suspi-
cious clerk he was told that the obligation
would be on the peddlers side if the clerk
were to accept it.
Next day there was free distribution of
banana apiece, not scrimpv banana,
either, but good fat banana, almost as
large as a rolling pin, and the presentation
was accompanied by the richest of smiles
and the most delicate of blarneyings i'm
aginable.
On the third day the man brought a
basket of oranges, and with them an apol-
ogy. He had "trapsed'' all over New York,
he said, trying to get oranges of decent size
for reasonable price, but the supply was
limited, owing to the "Floriday frosts, ="
and all he had been able to get was ''thim
little runts, and for these he had to pay
3 cents apiece. But he hoped to do better
when the California crop was fairly under
way.
Then, with the same rich smile, he began
the distribution of oranges, but there
seemed to be a prevailing impression
among the clerks that the balance OF obli-
CATION was little too much on one side
now. A sample gift of apples or bananas
even, fruit that might be bought of any
peddler was all right, but when it came to
running all over town for oranges which
cost five cents apiece, it was little too
much like an imposition on good nature
So the clerks paid for their oranges; some
OF them at the rate of five cents apiece, and
some at three for ten cents, while the chief
clerk gave ten cents for single orange.
Next day the man appeared with a
basket of mixed fruit, and laid an orange
an apple, and banana on the first clerk s
desk
How much2" asked the clerk.
well, said the man with a smile that
would have broken Boucicault's heart
with envy. so rich and winning, yet self
deprecatory was it. "Pd loike to kape on
giving you glntlemln noice little bit of
fruit ev'ry marnen, but I'm poor man. 1t
nd be about ten cents, sor."
1t was 10 cents all round and the clerks
now feel that they are as completely bound
as regular customers of the man as though
there was a cast-irOn contract between
them. One chap, who has very knobby
head and who is considered the rising sta
tistician of the country, has computed that
the man got back thirteen and twenty-six
one-hundredths per cent over his original
investment on the third day and that his
profits now range at seventeen and two
tenths per cent above the legitimate.-New
York Sun.
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HIS INDUSTRIOUS RECORD
Subduer of Western Indians
and One of the Conquerors
of California.
WAS LOYAL TO THE UNION.
AS Commander of the Cavalry in the
Department of the Potomac He
Earned His Laurels.

DETROIT, Mich, March 2o.-General
in this city at o'clock this afternoon.
General Cook was a native of Virginia
and was IS years of age. His career had
been identified with the army since his
admission to West Point when only IA
years of age.
He was also member of the bar of Vir-
ginia, and has written several interesting
works, among which are a volume on Cav
airy Tactics" 'Scenes and Adventures in
the Army" and "New Mexico and Califor-
MA"
General Cook has seen service in every
field where American valor has been dis
played for fifty years. In the Black Hawk
war he was leading officer. He was in
high command in the onquest of Cali
fornia and New Mexico. He dispersed the
Lipans in 1858, and later led raid against
the Apaches. He was commander of the
Department of Utah when the rebellion
broke out in that land.
Upon the breaking out of the rebellion,
unlike most Southern officers, including
his own son and his famous son-in-law,
General j. E. B. Stuart, he cast his sword
for the Union.
He became commander of the cavalry of
the Army of the Potomac and partici-
pated in all the important events of the
peninsular campaign at Gaines Mill,
directly opposing his son-in-law. He
afterward superintendent the recruiting
service, and in 1866 took the Department
of the Platte. He was breveted major-gen
eral for his splendid service in the war
In 1874 he was retired, after forty-six years
of continuous service, with the rank of
brigadier-general. He has lived in Detroit
ever since
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-21
THOSE NEBRAsKA IYNcH1yes.
Prosecution of the Stayers of Scott and
Mrs. Ho{fOn.

OMAHA, March 20.-Attorney-G General
Churchill and the attorneys for the de-
Tense reached an agreement this evening
and all the prisoners will be turned over to
Sheriff Standiford of Cody County in the
morning.
They will be placed under 5000 bonds
each to appear before the District Court at
Butte, Nebr., to stand trial for the murder
of Scott.
1t was agreed in the conference that the
prisoners would waive examination and
the amount of the bond was agreed upon
Acknowledgement Churchill left this even
ing for Atkinson, and from there he will
go to Keya Paha County to look after the
lynching OF Mrs, Holton near Brocksburg.
BUTTE, Nebr., March 20.-County At
torney c. W. Lear has arrested two men
named Hunt and Miller, charged with
lynching Mrs. Holton near Brocksburg.
They are desperate criminals.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-21
Two Saved by Car-Fenders.

Edward Sites Jr., 10 years of age, son OF
Edward Sites, Saturday morning had a
narrow escape from serious injury in con-
sequence of the good services of fender of
car lib of the Baltimore Traction line.
The boy was crossing Fayette street at the
corner of Poppleton. The car was in charge
of Gripman William Geislein, who said
that he tried hard to stop it, but the fender
struck the little fellow and tossed him into
the net. He was carried a short distance
on the fender, when the car was stopped,
and to the surprise of those who wit
messed the accident the boy crawled from
the fender and ran away. He was only
scratched about the right arm and leg.
Samuel ]. Kelso, 60 years of age, was
knocked down by cable-car 10 of the Balti-
more City Passenger Railways line, at
Baltimore and Gay streets, Saturday morn
ing, and was caught in the fender. He was
extricated and escaped with slight cut
on the head.-The Baltimore American,
March 4.
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OTHERS ARE IMPRISONED
Eight of the Unfortunates
Burned Beyond Recog-
milton.
ALWAYS CONSIDERED SAFE,
But Escaping Gas Become Ignited
From Some Unknown
Cause.

EVANSTON, Wyo., March 2O-At 5:45
o'clock this evening an explosion of gas
occurred in the Rocky Mountain Coal and
yon, seven miles from Evanston, with
terrible results.
James B. Bruce, mine foreman and ex-
County Commissioner of Uintah County,
Wyo., and four others were instantly
killed by flying timbers. AS far as found
the others are: William Sellers Jr, rope
runner; James Clark and Edward Cox,
head car-putters.
The other man has not been identified.
All were killed by flying timbers.
From twenty-five to fifty, who were in
the mine at the time of the explosion, have
not yet been rescued and are certainly
dead
o. B. Maltby, Andrew Mason and Jerry
Crawford are badly hurt, but may recover
About $50 men are employed at this mine
and most had gone out.
Among those in the mine thought to be
dead are: Willard Brown, John Fearn
Samuel Thomas and son, old Mr.. Burton
Samuel Hutchinson and William Sellers
Sr. and son.
Inc covering OF the slope and buildings
at the south were blown to splinters. The
mine was considered one of the safest and
best conducted in the State.
LATER-O. B. Maltby, superintendent Of
motive power, has since died, also boy
named Jerry Crawford. Eight men have
been brought out of the mine SO burned
as to be past naturalization, with the ex-
ception of one, James Lamb. All hope Of
rescuing anybody alive is given up.
The deathroll now numbers fifteen.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-21
DoDGEs An INCoRPoRATING TAX.
Bat the Long Island Traction Company
Is i1l n Receirer's Hands

Is in n Receirer'S Hands.
NEW YORK, March 20. - Horace J.
Myers of the firm of A. NJ Kidder & Co.
has been appointed by the United States
Circuit Court of West Virginia as receiver
of the Long Island Traction Company.
The appointment is in the nature of a
friendly proceeding.
In a circular to the directors it is as
serted that a large majority of holders of
the collateral trust notes have agreed to
cooperate in the plan of reorganization,
the condition being that $780, 900 be raised
before March %. 1t is the intention to pay
the obligations TO the receiver instead of
the company.
The Traction Company was incorporated
in 1898 under the laws of West Virginia
and capitalized at $4,000, 600. The Long
Island Traction Company was organized
later in West Virginia for the alleged pur-
pose of evading the paying of the incor-
porating tax in this State on the $50, 000, 900
capital, which was mainly on paper.
The plan of reorganization was precipi-
tated by two suits brought by P. H. Flynn,
heavy stakeholder in the Brooklyn City
Railroad, which is leased by the Long
Island Traction Company. One suit is to
annui the lease of the city road, and the
other is to prevent the Traction Company
from saddling more debts on the leased
property.
Mr.. Jenkins, yice-president, then said
that an assessment of S. share would be
necessary to keep the Traction Company
afoat. 1t is said that the appointment of
the receiver will give the stockholders at
least sixty days more in which to pay this
assessment.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-21
BLONDE HEROES GONE.
NoveIists Complain That Modern Young
Men Are Dark Haired.

Where has the fair-haired laddie gone ?
A lady novelist, writing to a contempor-
airy, complains that the golden-haire
youth is fast becoming extinct, and that
heroes of fiction, to be true to nature-up-
to-date, must be endowed with dark locks.
1t was but week or two ago that
commented on the discovery, made by an
observant schoolmaster, that red-haired
boys were now paratively rare, so we
are presumably reaching an era when the
Soxon type of man will no longer exist.
This is regrettable from a picturesque
point OF view, but there seems little reason
why the novelist should be exercised by
the disappearance of the blonde male from
our midst. It is my firm opinion that if
the matter could be put to the vote it
would be found that the majority of girls
who are, of course, the largest consumers
of fietion-prefer the hero with soft
doggy brown eyes and blue-black hair
to the insipid fiaxen-polled and blue-eyed
lover.
But in any case there is no reason why
the novelist should not give mis- or her
readers what they like, and if fair-haired
men really are SO scarce, and really are adj
mlred, it will be all the more agreeable to
meet with them in fiction, instead of com
monplace dark men such as one encoun-
tiers in real life.-Lady's Pictorial.
>-<-
Too is raised in South Carol;,o
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-21
Only Gentlemen Play the Amateur Game

All amateur poker players are gentle
men. There is no exception to the rule,
and the amateur poker players themselves
are authority for the statement. Two be-
lated pedestrians were on their way home
the other night and as they were passing
house just inside the limits of the semi
business section of Ire city party of five
men emerged noiselessly from the door
way.
"Hello" remarked one of the men on
their way uptown; "poker party"
what makes you think SOP" asked the
other.
Sure thing; one of them is addressing
the others collectively as gentlemen It's
one of the peculiarities Of the game When
a number of fellows meet to play poker, if
they are not intimately acquainted, they
invariably address their remarks to the
whole gathering as gentlemen 1 dom
know why it is unless it is to keep them
constantly reminded of the fact that
'hodouts,' dealing from the bottom of the
pack and other methods of the professional
gamblers are not expected to be introduced
into the game. All | know is that the
members of these gatherings are invariably
gentlemen Just notice it and you will
see l am right. Chicago Herald.
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TO SEE PLANTS GROW.
Experiments by Which Their Growth
May Be Both Seen and Heard.

experiments by Which Their Growth
May Be Both Seen and Heard.
There are several ways of rendering the
growth of plants both audible and visible,
but the modus operandi in the latest i'm
proved experiments is as follows: In order
to make the growth of very vigorous
plant visible a fine platinum wire should
be carefully attached to the growing part.
The other end of the wire should be at
tached to the end of a pencil pressed gently
against drum which Is being driven by
clockwork. If the growing be uniform a
straight line is marked on the paper, but
the very slightest increase is shown by an
inclined tracing.
slight modification of this arrange
ment renders the growth audible. In this
experiment the drum must be covered with
platlnum-foils of certain width and sep
arated from each other by spaces about
one-eighth of an inch.
These strips of platinum should be made
to complete the circuit of galvanic bat
terry, to which an electric-bell is attached.
In this case the bell is continually ringing
while the plant is growing the height of
the width OF the strips used, and is silent
While the pointer is passing over spaces be-
tween the strips of metal The growing of
corn may be heard direct by means of the
mlcrophone, and there are those who de-
clare they have heard it without any arti-
hclal assistance whatever.-Chicago Times.
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RACING At NEW ORLEANS.

Winners in the Sic Interesting Runnina
EUents.
NEW ORLEANS, March 2o.-Cool and
clear. Track good.
Six furlongs, Johnny McHale won Flash
second, DR.. Work third. Time, :16A.
Four furlongs, Learman won, Sister
Rosalind second, Uncle Lew third. Time,
:501I.
Six furlongs-Henry Jenkins won; King
Craft second, Panini third. Time, :16.
Seven furlongs, Mollie B won, Miss
Galop second, Florence B third. Time,
80.
Six furlongs, Gold Dust won, st. Croix
second, Foxhall third. Time, ZIG.
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about nine or ten months of one year and
three or more of the next regularly. For
trtnately it is a paper which requires no
editing beyond the supervision of the
makeup, and even that is regulated by a
set of rules furnished to the Public
Printer by the joint Printing Committee of
TRANSCRIPT
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-21
THE RAILROAD RESPONSIBLE.
Hattie Frost Receives Damages for. He,
Husbands Death.

BUTTE, Mont, March 20.-Hattie Frost
to-day secured verdict for Sic, 900 dam
ages in the United States Court against the
Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern
Railroad for the death of her husband, an
engineer, who was killed in collision sew
eral years ago.
The accident was caused by the opera
tor failing to deliver an order to the en-
gineer. Judge Knowles made the i'm
portant ruling that the operator was the
agent of the company and not servant,
and therefore the railroad company was
responsible for his negligence.
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Uncle Sam as a Publisher.

Uncle Sam owns the biggest book fac
tory in the United States. One million
books year'is the product AS the aver
age circulation of the books published by
private concerns is less than five thousand
than twenty or thirty books in year the
rate for publication at the Government
Printing Office is high. In addition to the
book business, too, the public printing
Office turns out daily newspaper for
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-21
Utah,s constitutionat Courentiou.

SALT LAKE, March 2O.-The constitu-
tlonal convention spent most of the after
noon in committee of the whole, consider
ing the preamble and declaration of rights.
Amendments to section were offered
providing for The taxation of church prop
erty After lengthy debate the conven-
ton adjourned without reaching any con-
clusion
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CARA YET LYING.

The Mecicon RerolAtionist Is in the
State of Chiapas.
Ell PASO, Tex, March 20.-The report
that Cartarina Cara, the Mexican revo-
lutionist, was killed at Bocas del Terro,
Republic of Colombia, March Z, is positively
denied by Victor Ochoa, another border
revolutionist and companion of Cara,
who is now in jail here on the charge OF
violating the neutrality laws. Ochoa says
be has heard from CARA regularly, and
that he is now in.the State of Chiapas.
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Persisted During a Fire.

NEW YORK, March 20.-At fire this
morning in a four-story house at 1853 West
Twenty-tifth street, John Murtz was
burned to death. Tony Ketchum jumped
from the third-story window, receiving in
juries from which he died soon after.
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RaiIroad D,rec,ors pee1.,,,d

SALT LAKE, Utah, March 20.-The
annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Utah and Northern and Oregon Short
Line Railroad was held here to-day.
James Sharp. resident director, represented
10000 shares of stock by proxy. The old
board of directors was reelected.