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The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18
MUSIC GAILY MINGLES WITH THE
DULL RUMBLE OF THE
WHEELS.
ALL BRANCH LINES TRAVERSED
PEOPLE FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
STATE VIEWED THE WORKINGS
OF THE SHsFEM.


STOCKTON, CAL, Oct 17.-Seelng is
believing. People from every section of
the State, and representative men, too,
viewed the San Francisco and San joaquin
Valley Railroad lines in Stockton to-day
and the press reports of the operations of
the company were confirmed from a per-
sonal observation.
When the Odd Fellows parade dis
banded on Hunter square 200 delegates,
representing every section of the State.
with their wives and friends, started for
the foot of Hunter street, where San
Joaquin Valley train awaited them. The
Valley Railroad officials here and other
prominent citizens had extended the invi-
tation for the trip early In the day and the
delegates gladly accepted the offer. The
canton band also went along, and the
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18

and will publish tomorrow morning inter
views with fifty leading merchants,
bankers and business men of Stockton,
showing the condition of business at pres
ent, contrasting the same with the cor
responding period of last year and fore
casting the future. The interviews show
that there has been marked revival of
trade and large increase over 1894, and
decidedly encouraging outlook ahead. The
stimulating effect of the San Joaquin Val
ley Railroad is shown clearly in the fact
that nearly every man ascribes the increase
of business to the building of the railroad.
1t is the general opinion that the Valley
Railroad will cause brighter times In
Stockton than ever enjoyed before.
BAKERSFIELD, CAL, Oct. IL. - The
Valley road right of-way committee re-
ceived some data this morning from Chief
Engineer Story to enable it to go to work
securing right of way through the coun-
ty. AS to the depot grounds, his letter
stated. it would be a matter of future con-
sideration. The committee has called a
meeting for this evening in the directors
room of the Kern Valley Bank to consider
m atters
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18

music mingled with the rumble of the
train as it moved over the newly laid track.
The big locomotive Claus Spreckels
hauled the train, which consisted OF five
cars packed with passengers. A run
was made from the material yards on Nor
mon Channel to East street and back over
all the branch lines. The visitors were
also enabled to see the evidences of the
active operations of the Corral Hollow
Company along the channel.
On the Valley road they beheld the gangs
of workmen busy putting the finishing
work on the switches, the long train of
new cars, locomotives and recently estab-
lshed coal depot, where thousands of tons
of coal are being stored for the construc-
ton trains. The material yards were close
at hand and so far as the terminal is con-
cerned they saw about all. People in
every section of the State can now say they
have ridden on the San Joaquin Valley
Railroad and looked upon the grades of
the Corral Hollow line.
Superintendent Wilbur of the road is
busy distributing the rock ball asst received
from Folsom. Last night the ballast-men
had reached the corner of Hunter and
L Idy lOI SITeetS. Iue S(TeeC-CrOSSlQgS Will
also be macadamized by the Valley Road.
Healy, Tibbetts & Co. are at work driving
the piles that are to form the foundation
for the center pier of the company's steel
drawbridge across Mormon Channel at
Edison street. The cement will be filled
in after the piles are driven and the ma
terial for the superstructure arrives from
the Carnegie Company in the East. A
solid foundation was found after sinking
through the hard pan. North Of Mormon
Channel the Valley grade has been leveled
off and is now ready for the rails and ties
All is activity along the line of the new
road. Shipments of material are going
forward daily for the bridge across the
Stanislaus River. Altogether thirty eight
carloads of piles and bridge timbers have
gone forward for this purpose. The writ
of injunction has been served on the Corral
Hollow Railroad Company to prevent it
from building its road across the Southern
Pacific Companys track near French
Camp.
The Daily Record of this city has secured
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18
CASHIER COLEAN'S THEFTS
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS THE
AGGREGATE OF THE NANCY
EMBEZZLEMENTS.
IN HIS CONFESSION He FAILED TO
TELL OF THE BEST NOTES
REDIsCOUNTED

FORT SCOTT, KANs., Oct 1.-THE ag-
gregate of the embezzlementfro from the closed
State Bank of this city of ex-Cashier j. R.
Colean Is declared by Vice President j. j.
Stewart to be fully $4,000. This has re-
ne"ed the excitement and shattered the
nopes OF many of the depositors and all of
the stockholders. The amount stolen is
two-thlrds of the paid-up capital stock and
more than the other third will be required
10 collect on the securities.
Colean literally robbed the bank of all
the cash except $4,000 of the reserve fund
ana realized on $4,000 of the best securi-
lies by redlscounting them. The recreant
cashier has made statement to Vice
PRESIDENT Stewart telling from which ac-
counts he took the money, and saws that
most OF 1t was taken since he made
ms last statement Gn Julvl. He con-
1esSed having stolen the following ar.
counts: Kansas City banks (casbl $4,000
st. Louis banks (cash) $4,000 New York
banks (cash) $2500, reserve fund SoOoo do
posts on certificates (cash) S340O redis-
counted notes $l1, 600.
The examination has resulted in tho a.
velopment that Colean in his confession
did not tell all, as $4,000 of the best notos
cannot be found, and some of them oro
known to have been rediscounted in g.
Louis The fact that the robbery was sys-
tematically perpetrated under the verv
eyes of the officers, and that the defalca-
tion so far exceeds the sum first announced
has created CONSERVATION.
Colean will be arrested as soon as he re-
covers sufficiently to be taken to iail He
IS still helpless from nervous prostration
and is perfectly childish.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18
BANK SECURITIES LOST.
CARELESSNESS OF A KANSAS BANK
COMMISSIONER THE
CAUSE.
WHILE TALKING TO A FRIEND HIS
TRAIN AND SATCHEL OF
VALUABLES VANISHED.

KANSAS Cry, Mo-, Oct. 17.-Bank Com
missioner Breidenthal of Kansas has lost
or been robbed of all the securities of the
State Bank of Fort Scott, which failed on
Monday and which he was carrying with
him to Topeka.
He arrived here last evening, and in
changing to a Rock Island train deposited
a satchel containing the securities, $780,
600 in all, in seat. Then he stepped off
to talk to friend. He left the train some
distance, and when he returned to board it
the train was gone and with it all the Sc
curities.
He telegraphed the conductor to put all
his luggage off at Topeka, but when he
reached there an hour later over the Santa
Fe he found only note to the effect that
no such property as he described was on
the train. All last night and to-day he has
been hard at work trying to locate the
missing satchel, but up to late hour to-
night without success.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18
HANGED TO A Pine TREE,
CITIZENS OF GEORGIA OBJECTED TO
A PLEA FOR MERCY FOR
A MURDERER.
SO THEY Took THE CONVICTED MAN
INTO THE WOODS AND
LYNCHED HIM.

AUGUSTA, GA, Oct. IA special to
the Chronicle from Hampton, S. c., says
William Blake Sr., Jason Blake, Prince
Graves and William Frazier were con-
victed this afternoon of the murder of Ray
mond Mears on the 9th of last August.
William Blake was recommended to the
mercy of the court and sentenced to life
Imprisonment. The other three were SEN
fenced to be hanged ON December g. After
the prisoners were sentenced it was evi-
dent that there was dissatisfaction at the
jury's recommendation of mercy for Will
liam Blake. AS the constables were on
their way to the jail with the prisoners,
they were overpowered by number of men.
who took William Blake and carried him
half a mile in the woods and hung him to
a large pine tree.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18
Reversed the Decision.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Oct. II. = The Su-
preme Court of Pennsylvania, sitting here
to-day, reversed the 1ecent decision of
Judge Simonton of Dauphin County, and
declared the act creating the Superior
Court OF the State to be constitutional.
Chief Justice Sterrett and Associate Justice
Williams dissented, however. In his
opini on Justice Dean decided that but six
of the candidates can be voted for by an
elector. Among other things Justice Dean
says that the courts are without authority
to revise the work of the State Legislature
so long as that work is in strict harmony
with the constitution.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18
TARRED AND FEATHERED A JEHU
An Insult to the Governor Was Ngorousk
Punished by Residents of
Colorado

GREELEY, CoLo., Oct. 17.-Scott Mar
shall, a colored hack driver, was taken out
of the city Jail late last night by a mob
who gave him a coat of tar and feathers
and then ordered him to leave town. Mar
shall is an ex-convict and OF an ugly dispo-
sition. The citizens of Greeley learned
that he had insulted the Governors party
on Potato day, last Tuesday, and though
Marshal had been promptly arrested, that
punishment had been deemed too light for
the offense.
The offense occurred when General KIee,
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18
TERRIFIC DYKzMITE EXPLOSION
Several Men Thrown a Distance of Fifty
Feet and Two Were Seriously
Jniured

NIAGARA FALLS, n. Y. Oct. IA
terrific explosion of dynamite occurred on
the Gorge Railroad excavation here this
morning by which two men were badly
injured. A laborer was thawing out some
dynamite in a pail of hot water when it be-
came overheated and exploded, demolish-
ing frame boiler-house and throwing
several men distance of fifty feet.
Harry Chapman was seriously injured
and may die. An Italian boy was also
dangerously hurt
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18
SIX MEN WERE INJURED.
Wreck of Construction Train on TIL,
Long Island Railroad.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Oct. IA con-
struction train on the Montauk extension
of the Long Island Railroad was wrecked
at Napeaque Beach, three miles east of
Amagansett, this morning. Six men were
injured, two of them probably fatally.
The list is: Harry Rhodes, conductor,
badly cut about face and body; Patrick
Collins of Eastport, a water-boy, terribly
cut about the body, it is believed he will
die; Charles Bennett carpenter, skull
fractured; Thomas Bennett, carpenter;
Harry Payne. fireman, and a. James, an
Italian. They were all cut and bruised.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18
Mit,caukee,s Celebration.

MILWAUKEE,, WIS.,, Oct. II. = Mil
waukee's semi-centennial celebration
wound up tonight with grand display
of fireworks ON the lake shore, witnessed
by $1,000 people. The morning was given
over to receptions at the new City Hall by
the city officials at the Pfster Hotel by the
visiting Governors and their wives, and at
the Blankinton House arcade by the old
settlers of the city. An industrial parade
in the afternoon was composed of 300 floats
representing the industries OF the city.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18
The Mttts.aIis Determined.

LONDON, Eng, Oct. ia dispatch
from Beyrout, dated yesterday, says that
there is much excitement in Lebanon
owing to conflicts between the Druses and
Mutualis. A number on both sides have
been killed. The Mutualis, pleading that
it is impossible for them to obtain Justice
from the Turkish officials, have assembled
to the number of 1900 men, all armed, in
the vicinity of Marghiloun to march
against the Druses.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18
The Usual Pullman Diridend.

CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 17.-At the annual
meeting of the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany, held to-day, over $25 .00O,000 of the
capital stock was represented. Directors
George M. Pullman, Marshall Field, J. W.
Doane, Norman Williams and o. S. A.
Sprague of Chicago, Henry G. Hubert of
New York and Henry R. Reed of Boston
were reelected. The usual quarterly
dividend of 81 per share, payable No
vember Is, was declared.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18

reorganization, any outstanding first
mortgage bonds and Omaha bridge bonds,
and to deposit the same under the plan.
and If advisable to purchase also all or
any defaulted coupons and interest as
slgnments on Omaha bridge bonds. The
time for declaring the plan operative is
limited to December 81, 1885, with the
right on the part of the committee to ex-
tend the time to June so, 1897.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18

aid to Governor McIntire, requested the
colored driver to move his team closer up
so that the conveyance containing the
Governors party might drive up. Marshal
refused and let loose volley of vile cpl
thets in response to the. courteous request.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18

For additional Pacific Coast ne,os see Pages and /.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-19
4 GREAT EVENT.

The defeat OF Mr.. Binford and the vic
tory of Mr.. Maupin in the county Of Hen
rico is one of the most notable events
now occurring in the state Of Virginia.
Mr.. Maupin is a new man in the county,
and six months ago he was almost en-
urely unknown to the people there. But
he declared at the outset of his canvass
that he was opposed to ring rule and ma
chine politics Of all sorts. and that he
would not spend Il dollar or allow a dol
lar to be spent for him in the contest.
Mr.. Binford, on the other hand, is an
old citizen of the county and well known
10 the people. In the conest between
General Lee and Mr. Martin he voted for
General Lee also, and thereby represent
ed his constituents most acceptably.
This was an act which met with tho most
people of the county. But when The
Times was exposing the frauds at Smith
ers' precinct. Mr.. Binford appeared in
the newspapers over his own signature
combating The Times and fighting the
battles OF the election officers at that
precinct. This caused the people Of the
county to identify him with those who
had made the state OF affairs In Henrico
that brought about the Smithers' pre-
cinct case and the overwhelming victory
for Mr. Maupin on Tuesdey was intended
by the people of the county as a con-
demnation by them Of Mr.. Bnfords sup
posed sympathy with the smlthers' pre-
cinct case.
From what We have recently heard we
believe the popular judgment has done
Mr. Binford injustice. We are disposed
to think that his defence of the Smith
crs' precinct officers was personal only,
and that lie is opposed to dishonest cleo
lions and would have voted, II elected to
the Legislature, for such amendments
Of the Walton law az would have secured
us honest elections. But the people never
draw fine distinctions. They considered
the fact that he had been the defender
of Smithers' precinct ana that identified
him, In their minds. with what took place
there. and he had 10 suffer for the COM
pany in which he was found.
But the actual result is glorious. 1t Is
an expression of opinion by the body Of
the people upon honest or dishonest
elections. The people have intended 10
say by elect ig Mir. Maupin, that they
abhor trickery, dishonesty, ana fraud in
clean politics and honest methods.
Tuesday was q great day for Henrlco.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-19
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1926.
ODAY's MEETINGS AND EVENTS.


Va Fayotte Chapter. Masons. Masonic
Temple
Virginia Lodge X. OF F.. Gatewood's
Hail.
Aurora Lodge /. o. o. T.. Elletts Hall.
Henderson Lodge. !. o. .. r., Toney q
Hall.
Manteo Tribe, L o. II. NJ, ks-sc's Hall.
Pawnee Tribe /. q. X. NJ, Odd-Fellows'
Hall.
A. W. Glinn Council. Jr. o. L. A. NJ.
Relvidere Hall.
Davis Council. Jr. O. L. a. NJ, Eighth
and Hull streets
Iron Moulders' Union. Eagle Hall.
Henrlco Council. II. A., Powhatan HAL
Mccarthy Council. Il. A, Lee Camp Han.
Cynthus Grove. u. A. o. ID. Cersley's
Hall.
Liberal Grove, u. A. O. D.. Druids' Hall.
Monroe Grove, l.. "A. %. D.. Belvidcre
Hall.
Stationary Engineers. Jr. o. L. A. NJ.
Jefferson Lodge. 1. o. G. T., Boze's
Han.
Soldiers Home Lodge. 1. o. G. T.. Sol
diers' Home.
Howard's Grove Lodge. I. o. G.. T., Good
Tcmplars Hall.
ST. Patrick's Beneficial Society, Twenty
sixth and Grace.
Richmond Lodge. Elks. Concordia Hall.
West-End Beneficial and Social Society,
Laube's Hall.
Stuart Horse Guard. New Armory.
Richmond Senate. No. 1852. knights An
oient Essenic order. St. Adams Hall.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-19
sENoR FOMBON.i's 1RREsr.
Not Likely That the venezuelan Minister
VIII Take Any Action.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1S--Souor Fom-
bona. the attache of the Venezuelan
Legation. who was convicted and fined
in New York FOR insulting a woman on
the street, has returned to Washington,
and there is now talk Of a protest to the
State department by the Venezuelan
Minister, Seror Ardrade based on the
arrest Of the attgche.
There IS 80 doubt expressed that Fom-
bona wac guilty Of the offence for which
be was fined. The Revised Statutes, how
ever. make IL appear that the magistrate
who fined him. the policeman who made
the arrest, ard the young woman who
made the complaint are liable to fine
ana imprisonment for the part thoy play
cd ia enforcing the law for the protection
of American citizens, male and female.
against % member of "a foreign legation
temporarily I'm the country. Sections 1868
and 1864 OF the Revised Statutes say:
Whenever any writ or process is sued
out or prosecuted by any person In any
court Of the United States, or Of State,
or by any judge or justice, whereby the
pe,son or any public minister Of any
foreign Prince or state, authorized and
received as such by the President or any
domestic or domestic servant Of Gny such
members is arrested and imprisoned, or
seized. or attached, such writ or process
shall be deemed void. Whenever any writ
or process Is issued out IN yi0la ton Of
these preceding sections, every person by
whom the same Is obtained or prosecuted,
whether as party or as attorney or soh-
citOr. and every officer concerned In exc
cutting IL, shall be deemed Il yiolator Of
the laws OF nations, and n disturber Of
the public repose. and shall be- Imprisoned
for not more than three years and fined
in the discretion Of the court.
These sections, ii Is contendel, cover
the case OF FOmbOna, who stands next in
rank 10 the Secretary OF the Venezuelan
Legation. Senior Andrade said this after
noon that he had not yet given the mat
ter his serious attention, and was not
prepared 10 say what he would do. He
has had a cOference with Senior FOmbOna,
however. and has also called upon the
Venezuelan consul at New York for
report OF the affair. Although he will
not talk for publication. Senior Andrade
is said TO feel that the dignity OF his
country has been insulted in these pro-
cccdings.
State Department officers refuse 20 take
the matter seriously. II appearing 20 them
extremely improbable that the Ncnezue-
Ian Minister will care 10 jeopardize the
cordial relations now existing between
the United States and his country partic-
ualrly at the present time. when Nenezue-
Ia is seeking the aid Of the United States
in the matter Of her b0undary dispute
with Great Britain. by demanding salts
faction for the arrest Of the attache.
Should he take official notice OF the mat
ter the chief result would probably be to
direct attention to the license afforded by
"the laws of nations"
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-19

volvcd In producing IL corresponds TO the
labor involved in producing gold
dollar. All Of that Is very simple. while
VIC have but ono standard OF value. But
II we have another standard of value put
ting In its work al the same time. and
the second standard Iesg desired and re-
uuiring less labor for its production than
the first. then we get into inextricabie
confusion when we talk of the value
of an article. for men never know by
watch one of the standards its value has
been measured.
III there was a constant, ncvcr-ending,
and equal desire for all things, then the
labor involved in the production OF each
would DO the basis upon which we would
determine the comparative value OF each
for the purposes of exchange.
But the desire for all articles depends
upon the quantity OF each that may exist.
Wien one article, therefore. has come 70
exist I'm a greater quantity than can be
consumed, II t. compelled to -clnQuish
part of the claim for value that the Ia
Dor required for its production entitled
II TO. Bat the labor required for its pro-
duction Is the starting point FOR deter
mining the value of all things. This IS
liable 20 modification through quantity
but IT is The point at which we begin.
Upon the matter Of the appreciation Of
the value OF gold, this, of course. is a
matter Of opinion and one on which We
can never get absolutely definite informa-
ton. The Judge thinks gold has appre-
Gated in value We do not We think
the increasing supply of gold has been
about what increasing population and
spread of the use of 1t have required.
But IL is all matter Of opinion at last
The Judge is partly right in what he
says OF the way silver and gold held
together in value for long time. For
two hundred and fifty years prior 10
1870, the relative production OF each was
nearly TIE same, and there was not
much variation IN their comparative
value. But we will call the Judges at
tention 10 a few facts which ought easi-
ly TO explain why silver has so greatly
deprecated in value as compared with
gold within the past twenty or - years.
From 1879 10 1872. silver stood at So per
ounce end above, and during these eighty
years the total production Of silver was
81. 731. ~. 600. or an average Of S34,143,625
year. In the twenty years from 1872 20
1882. the worlds total product of silver
was s2,Si6,O 900 or an average of $ll7,-
SO4S5O. This immense increase IN the
output OF the silver mines would seem
to furnish every needed explanation Of
the fall in silver's value and yet We know
personally of a silver mine In Montana
that has gone on paying a regular dyi-
dend of % per cent. per annum in gold.
and is now doing IL. ever since silver fell
so that the silver dollar was worth only
fifty cents. We shall have something fur
Their TO say Of Judge Hughes letter, be-
cause 1t contains almost all the fallaees
of the Populists.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-19

LONDON, Sept. l8.-Private letters
which have been received from the
Congo Free State say that affairs there
are in a condition verging upon anarchy.
Encounters between Belgian forces and
natives, which have been represented In
official dispatches as resulting IN Bel
CLAN victories, are said 10 have been. In
fact. serious reverses.
1t is reported that two Englishmen
travelling in the Congo Free State have
been murdered and eaten by natives. A
Belgian expedition under Lieutenant
Franquir was attacked by natives on
February 18th. The soldiers hastily
formed themselves into hollow square.
upon which the natives rushed with
such overwhelming force that the Bel
CLANS were put TO Iout within ten min
utes.
Shortly afterward 1t became known. ac-
cording 10 the correspondence alluded to,
that A native chief. named Ndoruma.
had massacred Captain Hansens and the
whole OF his escort. numbering sixty
people.