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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-09
SCHOOLS NOT TO BLAME
The Spread of Diphtheria At
tributed to a Pond of
Stagnant Water.
Six New Cases, Spread Over a Wide
Area, r ported at the Health
Office Yesterday.

DR.. Fitzgibbon of the Board of Health
has concluded that the vaults of public
schools are not altogether responsible for
the spread OF diphtheria in the Mission.
He told the board at its meeting yester-
day that be had found a pond of stagnant
water near the corner of Seventeenth and
Temple streets and attributed several
deaths that had occurred in the neighbor-
hood to its evil influences. He asked that
the owner OF the properly be required to
abate the nuisance at once.
He stated that he had heard that some
of the houses had no patent vaults and
that there Lad been some five or six
deaths within go feet of the pond. He
had been called during the morning, he
said, to see three children suffering from
diph iberia in this neighborhood.
Health Inspector Duren said that he had
end Favored to locate the owner OF this
property, but was unable to find him
The Mayor asked that more thorough
search be Instituted for the owner and the
man given time to abate the nuisance.
DIR. FitZgibbon moved that notice be
sent to the owner, and II the nuisance was
not abated within forty-eight hours the
property should be condemned without
further action of the board. This action
was taken.
That the vaults of the schools accused
of spreading the disease are not entirely
responsible for the mischief is shown by
the wide area over which yesterday
cases were distributed. There were six
new cases reported as follows: sol Harr1-
son street, Ninth avenue and K street,
2307 Broad way and three cases at 38 Ser
pentine avenue.
None of these can be traced directly to
the three public schools that the Board of
Health attempted unsuccessfully TO close.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-09
TIE OHILDs MURDER.

John Miller Held to Answer Before the
Superior Court.
John Miller, the carpenter who shot and
killed James H. Childs on Clementina
street last month. was yesterday held to
answer before the Superior Court by Judge
Joachimsen on the charge OF murder.
Miller had been living with divorced
woman named Ryan and she left him.
On the afternoon of the murder he went
to house on Clementina street in search
OF her. She ran into the street followed
by Miller, who fired several shots at her,
missing her. She ran into the house &C.
cupled by the Childs family and James
grappled with Miller, who Ahot and killed
him.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-09
Had Plenty of Money.

Emma Holzberger, little old woman who
lives on the san Bruno road, was crossing
Howard and Eighth streets yesterday after
noon when she was knocked down by horse
driven by F. +. Mckenzie, an agent for tea
house. She was taken to the Receiving Hos
der was dislocated. After having IL attended
10 she asked the steward Tor cents for car
fare to get home. Then she preferred to re-
m ain in the hospital, and in her pockets she
had over $40. Mckenzie was arrested for
battery, but was released on his own recog-
niZance by Judge Low.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-09
Fox Against Hale g. Norcross.

petition has been filed in the Supreme
Court by w. T. Baggett, counsel for n. w. Fox
in suit against the Hale Norcross Mining
Company, asking that the appeal from the
second decision by Judge Hebbard may be ad-
vanced on the calendar. 10 bring it up for
hearing at the term when begins next month.
The court had instructed TO place nothing on
the January calendar which was filed later
than Sente mher ].
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-09
THE RAILROAD COMMISSION.

1t Will Meet To-Day and May Start to
Fix Freight and Fare Rates.
The Railroad Commissioners will bold
meeting this afternoon, the first since
the recent decision affecting its status was
rendered.
~ cannot say what will be done at the
meeting in regard to the decision" said
Com missioner Stanton yesterday. "as l
have not had any talk with any of the
other Com missioners. II will probably be
discussed and possibly some action may
be taken as to whether or not an appeal
will be taken.
snow that the status Of thesSom mission
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-09
The PARENT Murder.

Luigi Palo is free man. He was charged
with the murder of Agostino PARENT by adj
ministering poison 10 him in glass of wine
on November 90 The only evidence against
him was the dying statement of Parenti, but
Yesterday he was able TO prove complete
aiibi and Judge Campbell dismissed the case
against MIN.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-09

has been legally defined it is likely that
we will start IN and fix rates of freights
and fares. Heretofore the commission
was unable to do anything because OF that
injunction, but now that it is free to act 1t
will no doubt aci''
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-09

Rocking cradles for babies were used by
the Egyptians many centuries before
Christ. Among the pictures copied by
Belzoni is one of an Egyptian mother at
Work with her foot on the cradle.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-09
At Sntro,s Baths

sharkey will box four rounds with Austria
liam Billy Smith at Sutro's Baths next Sunday,
at the opening of the international tug-of-war
He says he will show how Fitzsimmons
knocked him out.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-25
AyorHER BRYANirE FoRgERY.

The Bee reprints in another column
organ, the Omaha World Herald, con-
Tossing that II has been guilty OF per
petrating another campaign forgery
upon the public. The letter which 1t
now admits is a fake purports to have
been written by n New York banker.
Mr.. j. Francis F%orsythe, with Office at
IL Wall street, and addressed by him
to Hon. Il. G.. Bell OF Fort Wayne. Ind,
for the purpose of cnlisting his co-opcra-
ton In the cause Of sound money.
The alleged Forsythe letter bears upon
its face such uumistakable evidence of
forgery that no reputable newspaper
would give it a place in its columns
without taking precautions to verify
its gcnuincness. Yet the World.
Herald, which now admits that from
the first it entertained serious suspi-
cions as to its authenticity, eagerly
seized the opportunity to give the fabri-
cation circulation through its columns
under head lines intended to mislead
its readers and sought TO give further
assurance of its genuineneSs by re-
printing the editorial endorsement of
its twin fake factory, the Denver Even
ing Post. What a piece of arrant pre-
sumption for the World-H Herald now to
say that "we have abstained from ed
itorial m on the letter until 1t
could be looked up as if decent jour
nalism did not require the same careful
scrutiny of news matter as of subjects
for editorial comment. The World
Herald therefore stands s~elf-convicted
of giving place in its paper to u cam
paign forgery willfully and with knowl-
edge that it was in all probability
Il malicious and designing fake. 1T
stands self-convicted of recklcssly Civ
ing publicity to a forgery which it had
reason to believe and did believe was a
forgery, and 1t seeks to excuse itself
from criminality by saying that it re-
Trained from commenting upon it edi-
torially.
But as We have repeatedly asserted,
no one looks for anything different
from the Bryan organ, and the World
Herald may be expected to keep right
on manufacturing fakes and circulating
forgeries throughout the campaign.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-25
tNDISTBY NrST COVE rim.

INDUSTRY MUST COME FIRST
Major Mckinley made some telling
points, in a speech on Wednesday, in re-
ply TO the criticism on his suggestion
that it would be better to open the mills
than to open the minis that "it was put
ting the cart before the horse He
said those making this criticism seem
to think the way 10 open. the wooden
mills. for example, is to start n yard
stick factory, forgetting that you must
make cloth before you can measure ii
and that the weaver must be employed
before the yardstick is required. This
is plain common sense, as every intClli-
gent and practical man must see. In
dustry must come first" said Major Nc
Kinley. Labor precedcs all else. Its
active employment puts money in cir,
culation and sends it coursiug through
every artery of trade. Start the facto-
ries in full blast and the money Will
flow from vault and bank" Everybody
knows this to be true. But these con
ditions would not follow the opening of
the mints to free silver, for the obvious
reason that it would not make any de.
mand for labor, but on the contrary
would diminish the demand by disor-
ganizing and demoralizing the finances
and business of the country. The talk
of Mr.. Bryan and those who echo him
about silver pouring into circulation I'M
der free coinage is mere Claptrap. The
silver mine owners would buy no more
labor and no more commodities than
they need, and nobody could get silver
without exchanging work or products for
it. There is an abundant supply of
money in the country now to employ all
the labor of the country, but a cOnSid-
cradle proportion of it is idle because
it cannot be protitably and safely in
vested under present conditions. The
prerequisite to a return of prosperity
is to put the labor of the country to
work on full time at full wages and
there is no substantial promise that this
would result from the unlimited coinage
of silver, while all experience warrants
the opinion that the effect of that policy
would be disastrous to labor.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-25
WHY PRICES HAVE FALLEN.
a Manufacturer Cites Some Examples
I'm the Case of Vehicles.

n MihuIhctuFeF tItes SOIne examples
In the Case of Vehicles.
p. II. Studebaker in Commercial Advertiser.
! maintain that the true cause of the
change OF prices in America and the world
over has been science and improved ma
chinery, Everything can be produced cheaper
than ever before. When we first commenced
to manufacture wagons steel was worth Sl20
per ton. Today 1t Is worth $50 a ton. Iron
cost 500 a ton then; today the price Is S25.
The freight on the first carload of wagons
We ever shipped to Chicago was Sal; today
II Is $12.
Freight wagons, such as the mine owners
bought from us in 1865 and 1866 to haul
their machinery from ST. Joseph to Colorado,
Utah, Montana and Idaho and for which
they paid us $500, we will sell them today
for 500.
The first car OF farm wagons we ever
shipped to Kansas City was in 1865. We re
ceived for each wagon $124, delivered on the
leVee. Tit freight was SIS per wagon, net
ting us $lO6 at the factory. Today we Will
sell the same wagon at $50. VIII deliver 1t
TO Kansas City for $53. The reduction in
freight from SIS to SO per wagon is not so
bad, considering the wicked railroads did ii.
Our first agent In Galveston, Tex, was ex-
Governor Lubbock, a grand old man. He
paid us $40 for the same kind OF wagons we
sell now for $50, His freight per car was
$500, the wharfage at New Orleans was $24
per car and the Wharfage at Galveston SlS
per car. The freight now is about 1926 per
car. Colonel TTumbull OF Brennan, Tex,
once paid me 81 400 in gold for wagons, and
had to carry II In my gripsack to Calves
ton to get New York exchange. Suppose he
had paid me In silver. 1t would have
about $50 pounds, and would have
had to ship II as freight. / don't believe
Texas will vote for a silver standard, The
people are called a little rough down there.
but they have lots OF good, sound, business
even the cowboys.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-25
THE GREAT SILVER TRUST.
Host RnpRcfOus Combination OF
wealth in the United States.

Most Rnpncious Combination OF
wealth in the United States.
New York World (dem)
The political combination of the silver
mine owners forms the richest, the most
powerful and the most rapacious trust in the
United States.
Other combines are content to control the
market and fix their own prices. The Silver
Trust demands that congress and the presi-
dent shall by law raise and maintain the
price of their product.
The yield Of their mines is about 60, co.
600 ounces per year. 1t can easily be in.
creased. The present price is &c cents an
ounce. The Ontario mine in Utah has paid
over $l3, 600, 900 in dividends, the Horn Silver
81, 0S0, 900, the DAILY $2,SS7, 500, the Bullion
Beck 81, 1O5, 900 and the Centennial Eureka
l,S0O, 900. These are small compared with
the Comstock and other of the great mines
in Colorado and Montana.
The government of the United States
meaning its taxpayers-supplied a forced
market for the entire product of all these
mines not needed for export or for the arts,
from 1878 to 1893-fifteen years. Under the
Bland act they bought and coined POI ,272,-
0lS ounces, at a cost of $30S, 279, 260, an
average of $105 per ounce. Under the
sherman act they bought and stored 16S,-
ga, 6S2 ounces at a cost of $l55 1871 900, an
average of 92 cents, If the government
were obliged to sell this silver at current
prices, instead of coming it and holding up
Its money value by a gold reserve, it would
lose $1l5, 900, 900 on the first transaction and
$if, 000, 900 on the other.
Not content with what the government has
already done for them, the Members of the
silver trust now ask that they be permitted
to take G6 cents worth of their bullion di-
rect to the mint and have it stamped free
Of expense as 81, on their individual
account. This would make it possible for
the trust to control the money supply as no
gold syndicate has ever been able to control
it, and. If they succeeded in sustaining the
price, to mako a profit of nearly 100 per
cent on their product.
In furtherance of this conspiracy they have
secured control OF the senate, they have
nominated a candidate for president by three
parties, they have subsidized or bought
newspapers, and are making false. mislead-
ing and demaPnPic annnals to the untars
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-25

Personal AND OTHERWISE.

William Stoiber. the newest Colorado mill
lionaire, has his wife for a business partner.
1t is believed that Mr.. Reed Is more
proud of his state than Mr.. Sewall is of
his.
Philadelphia has not been progressive
enough to increase her tax in fourteen
years.
Tho only w~orkingmen who will make
moro money under free coinage will be
those employed in the mint.
1t Is noted as a remarkable coincidence
that George w. Legge, treasurer of Pike
county, Ohio. and George X. Legge, treas
urer of Pike county, Arkansas, defaulted
ana fled almost simultaneously within n few
days recently.
Few poets have more of the poetic aspect
than Bliss Carman. His finely cut features,
well shaped head and wavy hair are sufi-
GENTLY Byronic for this practical day, while
in eccentricity Of attire he is fully up to
the poetic standard.
According to London Truth, Queen Vic
toria's physical condition is such that she
never stands on her feet for two minutes at
a time. She Is wheeled from room to room,
and at all court and other functions sits
constantly in a low chair.
Since it's experience with Mrs. O'Leary's
pet, one would expect Chicago to be shy of
COWS; but 1t proudly comes forward with one
having five legs and three horns-evidently
an attempt on natures part to keep up with
the demand for Chicago freaks.
1t is generally known that the chief of the
sultan's private police is a Frenchman. NJ.
Bonnin was formerly a very able Paris
detective, who was sent on a mission to
Constantincple. While there he gave some
special to the authorities, and
Abdul Hamid took him into his service on
highly remunerative terms.
When United States Minister Mcdonald
goes back to Persia he will take as a pres
ent to the shah a handsome heavy gold seal
ring, with a large intaglio onyx stone, with
hand chased mounting. Within the loop
are inscribed the words in the Persian Ian,
guage, "To his imperial majesty, the shah
in-shah, from United States Minister Nc
Donald"
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-25
BRANDING DEMOCRATS,
of Candidates with
Bogus Credentials

hoS" us
New York Sun Cdem.)
Mr.. Bryan, a Nebraska populist who was
recently travelling through the south boasting
that he would bolt the democratic nomination
and platform If it did not suit him, uttered
this solemn denunciation at Richmond last
Friday:
Il want to warn you who are in contem-
plation of desertion from the democratic
party at this time that the man who in the
face of such an enemy either goes to the
rear or is found in secret conference with
the enemy is a traitor, upon whom the
brand shall be placed, and he shall not
come back again" v
This is the same Mr.. Bryan who within
a few weeks has avowed his own previous
intention of deserving the democratic party
II it failed to support a policy which no
democratic national convention had ever
favored, and which was utterly opposed to
the financial belief and practice of the de-
mocracy:
More than a year ago, when we were
engaged in the struggle to bring the demo-
cratic party to an endorsement of free coin
age, the question was put to me whether,
in case OF failure, / would support the lem
ocratic nominee IL he were nominated on a
gold standard platform. | never believed
that such action was probable in the demo-
cratic party, but when those who questioned
me were not content with probabilities, but
asked again whether in the case of that
event / would support the nominee, I said,
as you will remember, that under no circum-
stances would my vote be given to the man
who would in the executive office use his in
fuence to fasten the gold standard upon the
American people"
That was the language of Mr.. Bryan in his
speech accepting his nomination from the
silver party. He would have left the dem
ocratic party IL 1t had remained faithful to
democratic principles. He had left the real
democratic party already. He was a silver
man and a populist. Doubtless he is a good
judge of the qualifications of a regular sill
yer man or populist. OF the democracy he
has no right to speak. He is not a dem
ocrat. And neither he nor any other enemy
of the democratic party will ever be able to
put a brand upon loyal democrats for being
honest and adhering to the democratic faith.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-25


Chicago Times Herald; No wonder Euro
pean farmers approve Of the Bryan, propa-
ganda. 1t would. II applied. help them
much more than American farmers.
st. Paul Pioneer Press; IL Bismarck is
such a pronounced bimetallist. how did 1t
happen that Germany demonetized silver
while he was at the head of affairs in that
empire?
indianapolis News: Is not Mr., Bryan lay
ing special stress on our ability to make
a financial system independently OF any
nation on earth? And now are we to go to
the leading absolutists in the world for light
on the money question? Bismarck Is a be-
lever in the divine right OF kings and a
strong government. lie has no sympathy
with free Institutions. His political creed
is the essence of "paternalism and govern.
mental interference.
Globe Democrat: Germany, speaking for
Bismarck, intimated that 1t had no objec-
ton to a little free coinage experiment on
the part Of the United states. And why
should it have any objection? Germany
had a good deal then and has some still, OF
the stock Of silver knocked out by her de-
monetization law of twenty-five years ago.
and free coinage by the United States would
give her a chance TO dispose of this silver
at an advance on existing prices.
indianapolis journal; The controlling idea
In this letter, in fact the only one, is the
desirabillty Of international bimstallism. In
1871 Bismarck favored the single gold stand
ard and was largely instrumental in bring
ing about the decentralization of silver by
Germany. There is no evidence that he would
favor the reconciliation of silver by
Germany alone, but he intimates that elf
the people Of the United States should find
IL compatible with their interests to take
Independent action in the direction of BIZ
metallism,' he would have no objection 10
seeing them try the experiment. Probably
not. The best place for a boil is on the
end of some other mans nose, and Bis
marck does not care to see his own coun-
try attempt the hazardous experiment OF
defying the commercial world by trying to
maintain a double standard under conditions
that would make it not only impossible,
but suicidal.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-25
HINTS OF THE SEASON
RHYMES OF THE TIMES.
KnirhIs nG

knights Of the Golden Rod.
Columbia calls Nebraska: let her hosts
fall into line.
Shall our honor be the sacrifice on their
free silver shrine?
To forbid 1t at the ballot, let her patriots
combine,
Knights OF the golden rod.
Nebraska ne'er has faltered when our
country needed aid,
When Abra'm Lincoln called for men, her
soldiers ne'er delayed;
Before the hordes of disorder let us be
u~ndismayed,
knights of the golden rod.
Let Mckinley and protection be the
slogan OF our band,
With reciprocity abroad, sound money still
must stand,
God grant prosperity once more may bless
our native land.
knights of the golden rod.
A. Il q
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-25
A ROUND OF CONTRADICTIONS.
The Popocratic Candidate Playing on
One String.

Philadelphia Ledger.
1t is not to Mr.. Bryan's discredit as an
orator that his speeches present little
variety, for he has only one topic and makes
from four to a dozen speeches a day, but
1t is somewhat tiresome, in trying to follow
him, to come upon the same old round of
contradictions. When he is with farmers
or laborers he rings the changes upon his
cheap dollar argument. 1t Is his mission
to do away with the dear dollar the gold
men have been boarding and substitute
therefor a cheap silver dollar. But when
he is with the silver men he tells them that
by establishing free coinage silver will be
increased in value to S1.29 per ounce, that
parity will be established and maintained.
If this should be the case what would be-
come of Mr.. Bryan's cheap dollar? The
silver dollar will then be worth, according
TO Mr.. Bryan, just as much as the dear
gold dollar, and the farmers and laborers,
who, according to this same authority, have
been suffering from dear dollars, must con
tinue to suffer. 1t is hardly worth while.
however, to take Mr., Bryan seriously. He
talked himself out of public confidence In
his New York speech, and has been losing
ground ever since, so that six weeks before
the election its result is discounted. and the
Fall river and other mills are to be started
up on the assumption that Bryan will be
overwhelmingly defeated and that the
finances OF the country Will be maintained
on a safe basis.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-25
ANDREW ,JaCKSON pOppLETOv

The death of Hon. Andrew Jack"o
.Poppleton makes another inroad upon
the shrinking list of surviving Omaha
pioneers and removes Il figure pr0mi-
nent in all the turning points in Omaha's
history. Coming to this city when it
was but n struggling village, Mr.. Pop
pleton by his ability and untiring energy
Immediately forged to the front and
maintained his place at he head Of our
representatives of the legal profession.
With an abiding faith in Omaha he vas
active in the formation and promotion OF
many of our public institutions. AS a
public officer he has left a record which
his children may look back to with pride.
In view of the elaborate tribute to his
memory written by Hon. James NJ.
Woolworth and printed in The Bee it is
to review in detail his long
career. 1t is the loss of citizens like
Andrew Jackson Poppleton that shock
the community and leave a void that
only time can I'll.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-25
1t is explained that the world-uerald's

1t is explained that the World-llerald's
editorial praising the old soldier and
of the ranks was not written by the
same person who penncd the editorial
printed in 1892 inQuiring how much
longer it would take to exhaust the
generation of pensioners. The senti-
ments of the responsible man Of tie
concern have not changed since it pub
lished the brutal slur upon the ycter-
ans four years ago.