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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
A RUSSIAN BANK AT PEKIN
Prominent Merchants and Heavy Cap
italists Interested
1t Is Indicative OF Russia's Determination to
Wrest From England the Commercial
Supremacy Of the Orient

LONDON. Sept. 24.-It is announced
that, with the sanction Of the car. a
Russian bank with ve:y large capital
will be opened for business soon at Pc
kin, with branch at Shanghai. Some
OF the most prominent fnanciers and
merchants in Russia are interested in the
scheme, which has been secretly can
vassed. The charter has just been issued.
The enterprise is regarded as another
indication OF Russias determination to
wrest the commercial as we'll as the polit-
ical supremacy in the far east from Eng
land. Trading emissaries OF Russia have
freely assisted the government of China
with money, and have already penetrated
to the interior OF China where they are
supplanting the British. An article
which appears in the evening issue of the
Globe indicates the alarm with which the
English view the situation. This article
says:
Russia will questionably extort
from China the right of way through
Manchuria for the trans-Siberian railway.
A struggle for supremacy IN Asia is
upon, us. If British influence does not
go under altogether we must be aroused
to do our part. Thanks to our good rela-
tons with Japan we ought to be able to
use that power to our advantage pollti-
cally aud commercially.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
ROSE and HIS CHALLENGE
Did Not Desire to DisapprOve of
Dunraven
NOBODY CARES IF HE DID
The English Yachtsmen Now Quarreling
Among Themselves
The International Yacht Race for Half Raters
Ends in q FIuke-Will Be Re.
sailed Today
NOBODY CARES If HE DID

Associated Press Special Wire
LONDON, Sept. "a. The Times today
says thas there is no ground whatever Tor
the assupmt ton which has been made by
u portion of the American press that Mr..
Charles d. Rose intended by his Ghal-
lenge for the America cup to in any
way convey an impression of his disap-
prevail of the course of the Earl of Dcn-
raven in the matter of Defender alkyrls
races.
The Evening Standard says: The an
nouncement that Mr.. Rose has chal-
lenged for the Americas cup will create
the same dissatisfaction here that it is
said to have produced at New York.
There was every reason to hope that no
British yaohtsman would issue chal-
longe for this trophy until the unfair and
illegal deed of gift had been cancelled.
1t is extraordinary that challenge
should be SO hastily dispatched by gen.
tleman who Is SO little known in yacht
ing circles and it seems to be a reflection
on Lord DunIaven. No one gyudges the
notoriety that is to be gained by the
building of a yacht when the owner con.
fines himself to racing in British waters.
but when it comes to claim to represent
British yachting in an international con-
test any challenge given undo, the exist
ing circumstances, the verdict of English
yachtsmen must be unanimously hostile.
MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi. Sept. a.
Charles ID. Rose. the Englishman who
has decided to Guild new challenge for
the Americas cup, is we'll known i'll
Minneapolis business circles, owing to the
fact that he is one of the Engish direcc-
tors of the Pilsbury- Washburne Touring
Mills. COMPANY and often visits this city.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
THEY MARRIED In HASTE
A Secret Wedding of Two Promi.
nent People
Neither Young Babcock of Coronado Nor the
St. Louis Heiress Is Likely to
Repent the Step

DENVER, Sept pa special to the
Republican from Glenwood Springs, Col,
says:
A secret wedding of two we'll known
society people took place here last night.
Graham Babcock, son of the manager of
the Hotel uel Coronado. San diego, and
Miss b. 7. Meyers, daughter Of the mill
ionaire of the Star Tobacco company of
st. Louis. called on the Rev. W. Percival
With a license and the request that he
marry them.
The Young couple then quietly boarded
the train and left for Pueblo On route to
San Diego. Mrs. Church OF st. Louis,
sister of the bride, was at the Colorado
hotel, but was in ignorance of what was
taking place. When the news leaked out
she went into q faint.
The sudden marriage and the circum-
stances surrounding it have created a
sensation here. it being reported that the
bride was engaged to prominent mer.
chant OF st. Louis.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
IT CAUSED A BIG SENSATION
Illinois Taxpayers Are Accused OF Being
Perjurers
The Bureau of Labor Statistics Takes
the Ground Tina. Taxation Is the
Instrument Of Tyranny

SPRINGFIELD. Ill.,. Sept. 24.-The
most sensational report ever Used by the
state bureau was made public by the Illi-
nois bureau of labor statistics.
1t charges that the great. majority of
the wealthy taxpayers of Illinois, and
more especially of Chicago, are perjurers;
that the assesso rs are guilty OF malfeas-
ancc in office; that the present financial
condition OF Chicago is directly traceable
to the corr upt system of taxation. and
that the deplorable condition of work is
due to the liberty-destroylng methods of
taxation which prevail in Illinois. The
stand is taken that it is idle to dwell
upon the wages and condition of the
average wage earners of the state.
The bureau contend that the condition
sis proved by evidence so clear and
abundant that the compilation OF any
further statistics would be wasted effort"
The bureau takes the position that
taxation is the chief instrument of
tyranny.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
Who Held the Bag?

EVANSVILLE, Sept. 24.-The McFar-
line-Smith company is minus thou
sand dollar bag OF gold, and is now en-
gagged in looking for the thief who took
the treasure. On Monday the company
received by express from Sacrameu to a
bag containing $1,000, which was deliv-
cred to Mr.. Anderson, member of the
firm, at the express oifice. He took the
money to the store and laid 1t behind the
counter while he attended to a custo-
mer. Mr.. >Anderson then went to the
place " here he had lett the gold, but il
was not there. thorough search of the
building has failed to reveal the lost coin
and it is supposed that some one slipped
in from the rear while Anderson was
waiting on the customer and distracted
the bag OF gold.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25

The government should not do banking
business, and should limit its~lf to safe.
guarding banking methods, which will
extend throughout the country. The legal
tender notes, born of the necessities OF
struggle for national existence, should
be Withdrawn. The presence of these in
the currency is u menace to business and
prevents the due use of silver dollars
already coined.
1--WE believe the president will permit
no steps backward III tariff reform.
Reckless Republican legislation left to
the Democracy a legacy of i'll. culminat-
ing just as a Republican president left off
and long before any Democratic laws had
been passed, in disastrous crisis now
palpably disappear ing, and in the results
of Dem ocrBtic administration.
Returning prosperity, reviving in
dusrty and increasing wages prove that
thrift reduction, meagre though it has
been, and not tho nostrum of cheap
money, is the true cure for the evils
which extortionate taxation has brought
upon our nation"
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
And in the Choicest SAINTS
Rosa Dialect
OFFICIAL OPINION WANTED
Regarding the Ten Per Cent Reduction
of Taxes
State Board Of Equalization Wants to kneW
Whether q Mortgage Is Worth
Hore Than the Land


Associated Press Special Wire.
SACRAMENTO, Sept. "a. - The state
board of equalization was in fidgety
mood today and Controller Colgan actu-
ally swore in the choicest Santa Roa
dialect. They were waiting to hear FROM
the attorney-general, but tho attorney.
general was in his San Francisco Office,
while the equalizers we're in their own
office in this city. The cause OF the
trouble was this: The board had reduced
the assessment on twenty-six counties 10
per cent. Then man In Tehams coun.
ty wrote to the encouragement to know
whether the 10 per cent reduction should
be taken off the mortgage or off the
land. The attorney general wrote IN
opinion to the effect that the reduction
should be made upon the assessed vxlua-
ton of the mortgages. for these reasons:
First, that they together with all secured
debts, are for the purpose of assessment
and taxation, to be deemed ami treated
as an interest in the property affected
thsreby; second, because mortgages and
other secured debts are not solvent
credits within the meaning of the subdi-
vision site of section 3617 of the political
code.
Now when the board of equalization
was ASKED about this matter they held
that the assessment on the property it.
self should be reduced; that mortgage
was only an interest in property -......-.
Controller Colgan thus explained the
matter to q reporter today. For instance,
If the total assessed value of the property
is $4,000 and it is mortgaged for 5000.
both total gvaluations would be reduced
to the sum of $500 on the basis Of 10
per cent reduction. If the total assessed
valuation OF the property was $4,000 and
the mortgage was $500, both total as
sessed values would be reduced to $500
$500 from the valuation of the property
and only 5000 from the mortgage interest.
The total assessed value of the property
is $4,000 and the mortgage is for $4,000, the
reduction would not affect the mortgage.
only the property valuation receiving tire
reduction. In other words. the assessed
value OF the mortgage cannot be for moro
than the property ~ worth; that is, the
interest in the property cannot be more
valuable than the property itself.
The attorney-gene by telegraph 70
ier-ed the board to Deputy Artorney-Gen
eral Post, and Mr.. Post called upon the
board TO inform them that any opinion
that he might give them would not bind
to get q straight opinion was to get one
direct from the attorney general himself.
The board was very indignant on thus
being sent from Pillar to post, 80 to speak
and at last accounts were waiting re.
ply from Judge Fitzgerald as to whether
he would or could come to Sacramento
and confer with them.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
TO BE RESAILED
The International Yacht Race for Haif-R aters
Ends in q FIuke

OYSTER BAY, L. l., Sept. 24.-The
second race in the series OF the best three
out OF five between Spruce ". and Ethel
wynn for the perpetual challenge cup
offered by the Seawanhaka Cornthian
Yacht club, ended as did Saturdays. in
a fuke, because there was not enough
wiud tofinish within five hours.
At O'Clock the boats we're sent away.
Etehlwynn was a little quicker than her
rival. getting over tina line TWO seconds
in advance. Spruce crowded the Yankee
so closely that Ethelwynn was unable to
set her spinnaker Immediately. She did
not altogether lose her advantage, how
ever, and was ahead at the end of til Q
first leg of the first round.
The firss mark was situated two m iles
to leeward, east by north, one-half
north.
The second mark was .wo miles north
west from the first. and the third leg was
from this last point back to the start,
and had a direction south by west, one
half west.
The course was sailed twice over. On
the leeward work on the west leg Ethel
turned the mark one minute eleven
seconds ahead, as the following Official
time shows:
Etheiwynn. 1 1921; Spruce. 1.43:42.
The second leg was a reach and here
again the American boat showed her su.
periority, for when the second mark was
turned she had increased her lead by
forty-six seconds. Now began tho beat
to the starting point, and here the big
Britisher outsailed the Yankee on every
point and passed her. 1t was 3:29:GS
when the British boat turned the mark
and broke out her spinnaker to port for
the turn to leeward ons the first leg of the
second round. Ethelwynn rounded at
3 :36:l0 and commenced her long stern
chase. The fourth leg of the course was q
repetition of the first. eXcept that Srpuce
was leading, the official time at that
point being: Spruce, 4:17:4S; Ethel
wynn, 4 :26 80.
On the reach from the fourth to the
fifth turn Ethelwynn decreased the dis
turning the mark but m. 10 s. behind
The time here was: Spruce. 4:55:I2;
Ethelwynn, 5:00:20.
This gave the boats about an hour to
run the last leg, but as the wind began
to die out it was seen that there would
be little chance of finishing within the
required time. The sound steamer Rich
ard Peck steamed directly between the
contestants and her swell aided Spruce
but retarded Etheiwynn. A big three
masted schooner. the Belle Holiday of
Boston, sailing before the wind, made it
necessary for Spruce to double on her
track. Ethelwynn began to pick up at
this tine and was constantly nearing
Spruce when the time limit expired and
the race was declared off till tomorrow.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
A BIG STRIKE IS BREWING
The Wabash Road Threatened
With a Tie.up
BROTHERHOOD MEN LET OUT
Incompetency Charged, but Unionism Is
the Cause
The Brotherhood 1en Say Competent Men
1ust Be Reinstated. or a Strike
viii Surely Result
Associated Press Special Wire

AsboCldteu fIeSs SpeOldl VITO
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 24.-The Post Dis
patch this afternoon declares that there
is big strike brewing on the Wabash
road, which threatens to tie up the en-
tire system from Toledo to Kansas City.
The paper adds: For several weeks past
the company, through its officials, has
been quietly ferIeting out the members
of the various brotherhoods in it's en-
ploy and ons by one they have been dis
charged. The reason given has usually
oeen lncom potency, drunkenness, bad
records or other causes equally as good,
and the discharged men had no recourse.
1t IS claimed, however, that majority
of the men discharged were released be-
cause they were members of the brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen, Order of
Railway Trainmen, Order of hallway
Conductors or the Switchmen's Mutual
Aid association. These five organiza-
tions en- brace all classes OF nan actually
engaged on the road in keeping trains
moving. and they are said to be we'll Or
ganized. An engineer said today that
the lodges of all five orders at Decatur,
Springfield and Moberly would take the
matter up and dem. nd the reinstate me n t
of all men who are not discharged for
good and su riicient cause.
IF they are not reiDstated," said he.
there will be the biggest strike the Wa
bash has ever known. and we will make
it cost the company more than 1T could
save on non-union men in q hundred
years. The St. Louis lodges will also take
the matter up"
Vice. President Clark and General Man
ager Charles NJ. Hays and General Su-
perintendent Magee are absent from the
city. Mr.. Logan, private secretary to
Mr.. Hays. said the Wabash road employs
both union and mont union men, but pred
fers men whose allegiance is to their en-
subject, but does not anticipate troubls.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
BIDS FOR BATTLESHIPS
Advertisement Postponed That Builders May

Advertisement Postponed That Builders May
Argue Against Armor Contracts
WASHINGTON. Sept. 24.-Secretar Y
Herbert has consented to withhold the
advertisements for bids for the proposed
battleship until tomorrow night for the
purpose OF giving those who oppose his
first decision an opportunity 10 present
argument against that part of it which
proposes to req u:re bids On the vessels
with armor. Since the announcement
was made that the proposals would in
clude armor, the proposition received
strong protests from the, armor makers
OF the country, and President L,nderman
of tho Bethlehem works, and Presiden t
Leissman of the Carnegie works, repre-
scented to the secretary that to ask for
bids on the basis proposed would enable
other ship builders to dictate to both the
armor makers and to the government,
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
MORE PROTECTION
Truth Wants Rights Of Enelishmen More
Carefully Protected

LONDON, Sept. 4.-Henry Labou-
cheres Truth protests IN Its issue OF this
week against the apathy of the English
press and parliament at the sufferings
of her subjects during the revolution In
Hawaii, and mentions particularly the
cases of Ashford brothers, who were
Canada barrIsters and who were i'm
prisoned by President Dole's government
on ths timsiest evidence. One of them,
Volney Ashford, writes to Truth suggest
ing that William Greig was sentenced to
thirty years in prison by a military COM
mission in Hawaii out of pique at his
being part owner of Tanning islands,
wnere it had been proposed to land the
Canadian Austrian cable.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
THE NEWS

y TELEGRAPH - Prosecution closes
in the Durrant case-A British seal
ing vessel sei~ed-A mythical pirate
ship-Baseball games and the races;
standing of Western league clubs-Il-
linois taxpayers accused of perjury
Controller Colgan swore-The Irish
Narionalists' conventional Russian
bank at Pekin - Enthusiastic pols
seekers Steamer passengers SOUTH
bound-l achtsmen and yacht races
Organization against the Wright Law
A member of the Los Angeles He'll.
ness band leaves for the Hawaiian
leper colony-Ontario; electric cars
running-The Perris tire-San Bernar.
dino's missing atsorney-Santa Ana
wants sewers Pomona; picnic
party's picnic with storm and tire
Pasadena conviction and fine for il.
legal liquor selling.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25

LONDON, Sept. pa special dspa .ch
which was received from Shanghai today
says that $4,000. 900 taels in silver has
been deposited at Shanghai by the Chi
nese government with which to pay the
supplementary indemnity required b,
Japan as q consideration for tho eyac,,a-
ton OF the Lao lung peninsula.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
INSANE AND SUlCIDED
Couldn't Endure the Disgrace of Having
Hung Jury


Hung Jury
SUISUN, Sept. 24.-James Smith threw
himself in front of the Oregon express
this morning. The engine passed over
his body. killing him instantly. Smith
lived at Fairfield and was juror in the
trial of J. G. Marshall for the killing
of mis- brother-in-l law near Dixon. Mar
shall was not convicted and Smith was
charged with being unduly Influenced
in mis- verdict by Marshall and his
friends. 1t was stated that Smith. just
before the case was given to the Jury. had
called on the attorney for the defense at
5 o'clock in the morning and had an ex-
tended conference with him. This visit
and the way in which Smith held our
in the jury againsta conviction caused
a scandal. Smith was greatly worried
over the matter, and it is thought he
brooded over his troubles until he became
insane.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
British Demands Rejected

SHANGHAI, Sept. al. is reported
that China has rejected tina British de-
mand for the Punishment of the ex-vIce-
roy OF See Chuen. An imperial decree
which has been ISSUED appoints Ii Hung
Chang and all the mem bers of the tsung
II yamen TO formulate an extra treaty
between China and Japan.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
This february Record

BERLIN, Sept. M.--Dr. Henry Adolph
Berdelben, who was one If the surgeons
who attended the late Emperor Freder.
lex IN his last illness. is dead, at the age
OF II years. DR.. Berdelben was the chief of
the medical and surgical staff in the wars
of 1866 and 1870. He was associated with
DR.. Virchow and DR.. Muller in several
medical works
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25

STOCKTON. Sept. Ex-Governor Budd
and party arrived this afternoon and the
cruise OF tho Polliwog ended. The gov
ernor feels fine, and was on the tree Is
shaking hands with old friends. He will
leave here at noon tomorrow to meet the
congressional delegation i'll Sacramento
and will then take up his official duties.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25

STOCKTON, Sept. 24.-The grading for
the valley road in this city was finished
today. Flat cars are expected here this
week, when construction trains will he
made up. The track has been LAID from
the material yard to the eastern city lin
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25

WASHINGTON, Sept.2i. Next
can boundary com mission will meet at
the state department on October 18th
next. AS Lieutenant d. d. 0allard one of
the members, has been assigned to duty
in Washington in connection with the
aqueduct work. it is assumed that the
commission has nearly competed its
lahore.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
POOR OSCAR

TIC EX.ESthetes Assets Are MI and His
Debts 1851
LONDON. Sept. a.-In the hearing of
the Oscar Wilde bankruptcy case today,
counsel for Mr.. Wilde stated that his
debts amounted to 1851 and that there
was no assets. Several friends, it was
stated, had subscribed sufficient fund
to pay all the claims against Mr.. Wilde
except that of the largest creditor, who
is personal friend of the debtor. The
examination was adjourned until No
yember -
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
ABOUT THE CITY.-Meeting Of i

ABOUT THE Meeting of the
board of supervisors and the business
done-Third and last time; saloon
keepers to be- again warned-Ths
building record for a day The law il
very plain; two city offici1ls who
NAV be made to GOA peace treaty
offered proposals made to the city
administration-A select COMMITTEES
TO handle license mattcis-China-
town did not want Detective Fred
Smith; he was persona non grata-.
Items from the oil field-Mrs. Or
mandy on t.ial; she is charged with
passing counterfeit money-Martinez
held to-answer to the charge Of rape;
held in $1,000 In the polite world
The parks; some Of the plans Of SUI
perintendent Meserve The bull
lighters for Sundays ARRAY arrive
The very mystic rious death Of an In
fant; who were its parsnts9--A $50
awaiting Il claimant--The fight bills4
for tomorrow night; unavoidable
changes.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25
Forest Fires Abatinv

SANA CRUZ, Sept. "a. Cool breezes
have had dampeuing effect m the for
est fires, which have gone down cons,d-
erably. Unless heavy wind should
spring up, all danger Of further spread
ing is past.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25

HAMBURG, Sept. 24.--The Boerstn-
halle declares that the recent conference
at Paris between the Standard Oil COM
pany and tho Russian petroleum firms
led to no definite results.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-25

WHERE YOU nAy 90 TODAY
ORPHEUM.-At p.m.; vaudeville.
BURBANK.-At Spm.; The Einissss.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-10-15

pnitsksn of ny tho native oiiieurs, vao
could not understand why tue foreign-
efs present pushed these delicacies
aside, refusing to touch them.
II 10 well known that such jurlspru-
dence IL common In Mongolisu oouris
Of Justce ,and 1t ia evident enough that
It bars tue accused wTo,ches from
proving their innocence. For II they
are accused, they are doomed inss'
much as confession and death are about
the only escape possible from wore
than death.
In the present Instance there Ia not
the slightest guaranty tina, the tor
tuted and condemned prlsoueis alo tue
rioten. They may b. psrsons guilty
OF no other crime than hGvln inourted
the dlspleaturc Of the manJsrins, aud
being on that acooun, considered
proper substitutes Tor the real GRIM
inals. But II IL high tins the
foreign rrpresen natives In China see 70
II that the jui.lcs they demsnd In the
name OF civilization IL not thus IA
gravity outraged.