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the running expenses of the Junta comes
from all this time is out. Max Pepper has
been patriotically putting it up, and he
has advanced to the McNab-Rainev aggre-
cation several hundred dollars, which he
trusts to the future for payment. The
main expense has been the rent of the
rooms of the State Democratic Club in the
Flood building, which the Junta has occu-
pied for several months.
day or two ago the headquarters wer e
moved to larger suite of rooms on the
same floor, and Max cheerfuliy writes hi s
check for the rent every thirty days. Mr..
Pepper is naturally given added consid-
Grafton in the councils of the 'sinside." !"
This is an old habit of Peppers. He has
in past years advanced thousands to
county and State committees of which he
was chairman.
The Buckleyites are organizing Bryan
and Sewell clubs in the various districts
and expect to enroll several thousand
Democrats in these organizations.
Chris Buckley is regular daily visitor
now to the new and extensive headquar.
ters of the Buckley organization at 20
Ellis street. He meets and enthuses the
faithful in the rear room of one of the
suites occupied, holding levees which the
boys proudly attend or advising privately
with the leaders, who are not only hold
ing the organization we'll together but
are extending and perfecting it.
MPreliminary campaign work keeps
Chairman Afford busy day and evening
in the State COMMITTEES headquarters in
the California Hotel, where leading Demo
Gratis are beginning to drop in and out.
Fusion with the Populists is quietly and
informally discussed more or less, and the
problem will likely be canvassed at the
meeting of the State Central Committee
on Saturday.
No definite propositions are yet to the
front, and the Democratic leaders are not
inclined to say anything definite until
after the meeting of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee in New York.
National Committeeman ]. J. Dwyer is
on his way to New York to attend this
meeting. He has consulted with the lead
ing Democrats and Populists here, knows
the possibilities and difficulties OF fusion
in this State and will advise with Chair
man Jones in New York.
Chairman Afford and others will wait
for the general result of the National Com
mittee meeting and for advices from Mr..
Dwyer before they do much dickering
with the Populists.
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The Volunteer Army.

ALAMEDA, CAL, Aug. 5.-Maior Wash
ington Blackhurst of the Volunteers of
America had full house to greet him last
night in the Park-street NJ. e. Church.
He explained the situation which led to
the dismissal of Commander and Mrs.
Baliington Booth from the Salvation
Army, and contrasted the systems of gov
eminent in England and America.
Elaborating this thought he maintained
that unless Salvation Army officer
adapted himself to the spirit of the coun-
try he lived in he could not succeed in
building up his work. The Volunteers
would therefore be more republican in
form of government, and other innova-
tions would be introduced that would add
to its permanency. The Volunteers would
not be a duplicate of the old movement.
There would be as much difference in
them as existed between the governments
of England and America.
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ATTACKED HER MOTHER.
Tragedy Attempted by a Young
Lady in an Aristocratic
Neighborhood.
Miss Guernsey Yields Knife While
a Guest at the Wright Resi-.
dence.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANc1sco CALL, |

OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALI
90S Broadway, Aug. s.
The aristocratic residents of Jackson
street were greatly SURPRISED few days
ago to learn that a tragedy had been very
narrowly averted in their midst.
Miss Guernsey and her mother, who were
from the East, were staying at the resi-
dence OF John t. Wright, the capitalist.
Miss Guernsey is subject to spells of par
tial insanity and during one of these ii
was reported that she had made an at
tack on her mother with a knife.
The intimate friends of the family said
to-day that Miss Guernseys fee BILE health
was all that saved her mothers life.
''The visitors were staying at the Wrights'
for the benefit of Miss Guernsey's health.
She is feeble minded and frequently re-
quires restraining. A few days ago she
was attacked with one of her customary
spells and she considered that she had
been commissioned to kill her mother
She went into the kitchen and procured a
caseknife and essayed to attack her
mother. Mrs. Guernsey is much stronger
woman than her daughter and was able
to overpower her.
Had the attack been made when Mrs
Guernsey was unprepared there would
nave been much more serious story tn
tell. Her mother took the daughter East
next morning and their departure caused
great relief to their host
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PROTECTION WOULD BUILD UP THE SUGAR INDUSTRY

factories continued to increase, loud COM
plants were heard against system that
favored one class of farmers at the expense OF
the entire population, and, in 1891, the I'M
perial Diet reduced the sugar export bounty
by half, that is, to 29.7 cents per 100 Kilograms
and decreed that such bounty should enurely
cease on the 31st of July, 1897, provided tnat'
in the meantime, Austria, france ana other
bounty-paying countries should likewise re-
duce their bounties on exported sugar Sew
eral attempts have been made to reach such
an international agreement, but without sue
cessful result, and under cover OF this failure
to secure a general reduction or abolition OF
bounties, the German agrarians have rallied
and secured the adoption of the present law,
which restores the export bounty OF 1887 (59.o
cents per 220 .46 pounds) and raises the tax on
sugar for home consumption from 18 marks
C$4 2S) 10 81 marks tS4 99) per 100 Kilograms,
or about % cents per pound.
The increased tax will of course be added to
the retail price of sugar, already very high,
and tend to still further retard the increase OF
sugar consumption in Germany, which is now
only 2S8 pounds per capita, against 1858
pounds per capita in England and II pounds
in the United States. This low rate of con-
sumption will not appear unnatural when 1t
is remembered how large percentage of the
working class in Germany must live with the
in the United States at and cents per
pound, costs at retail ~ cents pound in Ger
many.
But what would become of the sugar in
dustry under the policy of non-inter-
ference advocated by Bryan? Careful stu
dents of the situation see great possibili-
ties in protective tariff, iudicious!y ap-
piled to the sugar business of the country.
They see in il an outlet for the farmers,
a new field for the expenditure of agrarian
energy, and the prospect of new busi-
ness for the country.
1t has been demonstrated that while
California is peculiarly fitted for the beet
industry, it will flourish in nearly every
State in the Union. A protective tariff on
sugar would not only greatly encourage
the industry. but it would raise revenues
in vast amounts for the purposes of gov
ernment. The sum in 1898 alone on i'm
ported sugars would have been 800. 000, 900
had there been tariff of even 3 cents a
pound on the imported article.
In view OF the policy of Germany, of the
cheap sugar of the Orient and of the other
inequalities the American sugar-raiser has
to contend with, a bounty and tariff on
sugar seems the most desirable means of
improving the industry, protecting the
capital already invested, and raising a
large revenue for the Government.
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DID NOT WANT PAY.
TREY l.. Ford Gave His Services Gratis
to the Miners Association.

TREY L. Ford Gave His Services Gratis
to the Miners Association.
At meeting of the executive commit
tee of the California Miners Association,
held Monday evening at the rooms of the
Union League Club, T. L. Ford submitted
a report of his !abors at Washington III
behalf of certain mining legislation during
the recent session of Congress. After the
committee had received and adopted the
report and ordered it printed for circula-
ton among members of the association,
Mr.. Ford was informed by member of
the committee that 1t was desired that he
should retire from the committee-room in
order that certain matters might be dis
cussed. The matter consisted of voting to
pay Mr. Ford $1,000 for his services, par
ticularly as he had been to considerable
expense, beside having neglected his per-
sonal business for several months during
his trip East.
1t was a matter of some surprise when
on the following day President J. II. Neff
Of the association received letter from Mr..
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on the steps leading to the Jessie-street

on the steps leading to the Jessie-street
entrance yesterday morning.
About s o'clock he was attending to his
usual duties sweeping away the dust from
the stairway and hallway, and on opening
the door he saw a bundle on the steps.
Something was tied up in a newspaper,
and thinking it was some debris put there
as a practical joke he was going to sweep
1t of the steps, when it struck him to ex-
anime what was in the bundle.
He lifted it up and was scared almost
out OF his wits when something moved
and gave feeble cry. He tore off the
newspaper and the face of big blue-eyed
baby girl looked up at him. He carried
the baby into the house and hurried to
the landlady with his precious burden.
The landlady is of a practical turn of
mind and at once sent the Chinese in
search of a policeman. He soon found
Policeman Koegel, who took the baby to
the Receiving Hospital.
Matron Kane at once took charge of
the waif and a telephone message was
sent to Mount St. Joseph Orphan Asylum.
In few hours the baby was taken to the
asylum, where so many other tiny unfor-
tunates have found home.
The baby is about two or three days old,
and according to Matron Kane is an ex-
ceedingly handsome, strong infant. 1t
was neatly dressed in good material, but
there was nothing that would give the
slightest clew to the identity of its
parents. From its appearance 1t could
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Having shown how the wool business of
the United States has been ruined by that
form of Organism and free trade seen in
the Wilson revenue bill, the free-trade
measure particularly championed by Will
liam Jennings Bryan in Congress, and
having adduced evidence from the best
sources to show that the lumber indus
tries of the country have been ruined by
free trade, it is now proposed to take a
survey of the sugar question, with refer
ence to Government aid.
1t should be borne in mind at the outset
that the Mckinley bill provided for a
bounty OF 2 cents pound to the producers
of sugar in America. That was a stroke
of policy destined to encourage producers,
but that law was repealed by the Demo
Gratis. Under the present law there is a
small duty (40 per- cent ad valorem) on
sugar, but it is the general opinion of those
who have studied the subject that higher
duty should obtain, and that a specific
duty would be better in every way.
Lest the reader fail to grasp the situation,
let it be understood at the outset that the
consumption of sugar in America each
year reaches the enormous amount of
1000, 900 long tons. The exact figures in
tons were as follows for the years named:
1898, /, 1905, $50; 1894, 2,012, IA; 1895, 1,949,
IA
Now let it be understood that the
Louisiana production is but 317, 900 tons
year, and the total beet crop output is 30,-
OCG tons, and it will be seen how vast
percentage of the sugar used in the United
States comes from abroad. In 1895 the
total consumption of foreign sugar was
1,572, ,438 tons. The beet sugar importations
alone were 2S4, 900 tons. That year there
came in free nearly 1,064 100000 poundso of
sugar. a proper tariff on this commodity
alone would have gone very far toward
paying the expenses of the Government.
In addition, it would have greatly en-
couraged American producers, and led a
number of farmers, already cropping in
vain in search of new industries, to have
gone into the beet sugar business.
To-day there is not proper encourage
ment for farmers to go into the beet-sugar
business. Why? Because, though the
industry pays fairly well there are obsta-
cles in the way in the form of cheap prod
ucts from afar, products that come in free
of duty. The imports from China alone
are about %, 900, 600 pounds year. The
steamers arriving at the port of San Fran
cisco nearly all bring heavy consignments
-. Chinese sugars. These, like all goods
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from the Orient, are made by cheap labor
under conditions wholly un-American.
One of the large Chinese steamers will
bring million pounds of sugar into the
market. If there were heavy protective
tariff on sugar and bounty such as the
Mckinley law offered the sugar industry
might readily be made one of the most
important in America, particularly i'm
portant on the Pacific Coast, where the
climate and soil favor the profitable devel-
opment of sugar beets.
Speaking Of the matter yesterday, Claus
Spreckels said: I'VE ought to have a
tariff on sugar; also good sugar bounty.
This would encourage the sugar industry.
The American farmer must be given a
chance, but he cannot thrive in any
branch of sugar-raising If the Govern
ment does nothing to aid him. In Ger
many the government pays bounty of
4S cents on every 100 pounds of sugar ex-
ported, but the Germans also have high
protective tariff law. What is the result?
Germany is to-day the most prosperous of
countries, while England is in bad way,
and if she is not driven to protection as
policy further ruin must come to her. In
this country there ought to be sugar
bounty of at least $5 ton and duty of
cents a pound, the same as in Germany.
"There is no reason why proper Sc
ries of fostering laws would not make it
possible for American farmers to produce
sugar enough for the United States. We
could do most of the sugar-raising right
here IN California for that matter, because
we have every advantage of soil and eli
mate. Wheat-raising no longer pays, be-
cause the great fields of the Argentine
Republic have ruined prices. The sugar
beet industry, therefore, naturally pre-
sents itself as one of prime Importance to
the farmer and to the whole people, for If
the farmer fails all fail.
"The Mckinley laws bounty feature was
q good thing, and the Republican party's
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IN A NIGHT.

An Island Disappeared and Changed
the Boundary of Two States.
An island in the Missouri River broken
into fragments and washed away was the
unusual spectacle Atchison (Kans.) people
witnessed yesterday morning. For years
an island of 800 or 700 acres has been one
of the attractions of Atchison. 1t was as
fertile as a garden, and was known all over
the West for the excellence of the celery,
asparagus, sweet potatoes and melons il
produced. 1t had the appearance of q
veritable oasis In a desert, and it's green
shrubbery, generous shade trees, velvet
lawns and cool springs were perpetual
Joy.
Upon this island shooting club had a
home. and the baseball enthusiasts had
their grounds and grand stand. Alto
gether it was most pleasant resort. In a
single night this island was dissolved into
fragments. The big June rise in the Mis-
souri River struck it, and o day it is only
Renaissance. What was Kansas loss,
however, was Missouri's gain. With the
obliteration of the island the current left
the Missouri shore and struck hard against
the Kansas bluffs. The result of this is
that the Missouri banner has been planted
a mile westward and hundreds of acres of
rich bottom land have been added to it's
domain, while Kansas mourns the loss of
its green island and pleasant park.-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
The Speaker and forty members consti-
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FARMERS HAVE A
SUGAR BEET FEVER
Eager TO Go Into the Guilt
vation Of the Profit
able Crop.
SPRECKELS REFINERY.
1t Has Given a New Impetus
to Life in Salinas
Valley.
BIG PROFITS IN THE BEET.
1t Cures the Land and Makes 1t
Capable of Big Things in
Other Crops.
BIG PROFITS IN THE BEET.

The farmers of Salinas Valley are en-
thusiastic, and growing more and more go
every day, over the prospect of the quick
establishment in their midst of the big
Spreckels beet sugar refinery.
The COMMITTEES in charge of the work of
securing pledges of land from the farmers
for the production of sugar beets is having
an easy time of it. The necessary 10000
acres of land has been more than pledged
already.
Claus SpreckeIs has returned to the City,
and is busily engaged with his engineer
and architect in completing the details of
the big factory. The arrangement OF the
interior is made under the personal direc-
ton OF Mr. Spreckels from plans secured
during his recent long trip abroad, made
for the special purpose. Plans were
originally drawn in Paris, very hastily,
just before Mr.. Spreckels departure for
his home.
The exact location of the refinery has
not yet been determined finally, but it is
probable it will be built on the outskirts of
Salinas. near the Spreckels railroad.
In his address to the business men of
Salinas at the banquet last Saturday night
Mr.. Spreckeis said that the big refinery was
but the beginning and that other large en-
terprises would follow, and referred Incl
IDENTIFY to the wharyes to be built at Mon
terey Bay to accommodate the shipping of
sugar. All this has so swelled the citizens
OF Salinas and the farmers OF Salinas Val
ley with hope and pride that they think
and talk OF nothing else. The farm ers are
citing incidents of the revenue that is to
be gained from the cultivation of sugar
beets. 1t is said to be one of the most
profitable crops that may be put in the
ground. James Borden is said to have re-
allied from the cultivation of 200 acres no
less than $4,000 in one year.
Jacob Clausen rented TO some Indians
his tract of hundred acres at $50 per acre.
Being asked if that was not pretty steep
fgnre for rental lie said that the Indians.
his tenants, had realized $21 per acre,
which he thought was profit enough. in
other words the crop had netted SAL an
acre.
A number of such instances are being
cited. The secret of success OF Salinas
Valley is the very simple one of rotating
crops, and thatis no secret at all, for it is
necessary to success everywhere. 1.-The
land of the valley is very FOUL" said Will
liam Vanderhurst. "The principal crops
are barley and wheat. of which they pro-
duce such poor quality as to be unable
to find market for it out of this country.
1t has been shown, however, that it will
produce the very best quality of sugar
beets. More than that. After growing
crop or two of the sweet root the land is
cured and the quality of barley and wheat
thereafter produced is of the very best.
1t will be seen that the farmers have more
than one reason for Joy at the coming of
the big sugar factory. 1t gives them a
market at their door wherein no account
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Golden Gate Driving Association.

At special meeting OF the Golden Gate
Driving Association, held at Police Court 3,
new City Hail. Tuesday evening, August a, the
following were elected board OF directors: =:
DR.. G. w. Leek. president; J. G. Ohlandt, vice.
president; C. F. Kapp, treasurer; W. J. simp-
son. secretary; DR.. l. Barker Dalziel, =. W.
Thompson, FL. F. Patrick, Fred Meyer, William
Hamerton, John T. Dare, T. B. Broderick, John
McGrath, ]. c. kirkpatrick, L. E; Clawsou,
George Raubinger, W. McMahan; Thirty-three
eral entries made for the trotting races which
will be held September 8. A committee was
appointed TO wait on the Park Commissioners
and ask for the repair OF the speed track. The
next meeting will be held tonight at 20
o'Farrell street, to which all horsemen are
invited.
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only have been a short time on the steps
before being discovered by the Chinese
servant.
The police will make strong effort to
discover who the parents are, and, il
found, an example will be made of them,
as the abandonment OF infants has been
too frequent of late. 1t is believed that
the fact of no arrests having been made
and the consequent immunity from pun
ishment is responsible for this increase OF
crime.
A few months ago a newly born baby
boy was found in the yard of the same
house wrapped in a piece of cloth. 1t, too,
was sent to the Mount st. Joseph Orphan
Asylum. No trace OF its parents could be
found
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DR.. KuhIman,s Case

DR.. Kuhlman was brought before Judge
HUNT yesterday morning on writ of habeas
corpus, ne being in the hands of the Sheriff ON
an order OF Coroner Hawkins for contemnt.
Sudss ud I huns nxed the doctors bail at $1,000
A. NJ. for hearing. et ~
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Went Into Conu,,.,

John Polkingham, painter. living nm cetas
street, drank something out Of q bott,a los :
evening and went into commissions. He was
taken to the City AMI County Hospital and is
In a falr way to recovery. He refused to saw
what was in the bottle. " Say
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Ford, in which the latter declined to accept
any ompensation. In his letter he says:

No one could appreciate more highly than do
the sincere and worthy motives that gov
erned the committee in their attempt 10 mus
recon pense me for the time which had the
honor to devote to the cause which we all have
at heart. While profoundly grateful for the
kindness thus intended to be shown me, and
deeply moved by the kind expressions of per-
sonal regard so freely rendered me by yourself
and others at that meeting, must neyerthe-
less decline to accept any pecuniary compen,
sation for the humbl services nave rendered
the California Miners Association.
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IN the artists material department of San
born, Vail & Co. you can buy floor paint, wood
stains. house paint, gold paints, liquid glue
and sterling polish put up in small cans for
family use at very low prices.
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It Was Neatly Dressed and
Wrapped in an Old News
paper.
SENT TO THE ORPHAN ASYLUM
The Police Can Find No Clew to Lead
to the Identity of the
Parents.

"A Chinese servant employed in the
Hillsdale House, corner of Sixth and Jes-
sic streets, found an abandoned baby girl
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NEW TO-DAY.

The Speaker and forty members consti-
| tute a House of Commons.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-09-12

and help to make the evening a pleas.
ant one. socially and financially.
Born-On Sept. 6. near Sheridan, to
he wife of Frank Hart. Il son.
Judge and Mrs. Gould. of Twin
Bridges. were in town last week.
Mrs. NJ. Stark. of Twin Bridges. was
up last week buying a supply Of iurni-
ture of Thos. Deyarnon for her hotel.
DR.. Miller has received word from
Pete Clifford that his oversight is i'm
proving. and hopes are entertained Of
still greater Improvements.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Duncan were
guests of Thos. Duncan of Virginia
City. last Saturday and Sunday.
There has been considerable sickness
here. but most of the eases are now
better. Fred Ellinghouse, Mart Elser.
and Mrs. James Duncan being on the
list,