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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-01-31

Plans are in progress for the settle
ment near Phoenix, Ariz., of a large
Mormon colony. Brigham Young. Jr.,
Of Salt Lake City is now negotiating for
the purchase of the Buckeye irrigation
canal and large area of land adjacent
thereto for this purpose. The canal
heads on the ella river, twenty-five
miles from Phoenix, and 100000 acres
can be irrigated, extending it across
the Hassayampa
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-01-31
CUT THEIR THRoATS.
Suicide of Adolphe Neise and Wife For
merly of Ottumwa.

merly of Ottumwa.
CoLyuLE, WASH, January 30
Adolphe Neise and wife, formerly of
Ottumwa, Ia, were sentenced to TWEEN
~ years in the penitentiary for beating
their lO-year-old son to death. In the
cell, both cut their throats with a
razor. Neise is dead and his wife is in
critical condition.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-01-31

With Germany at his back, President
Krueger ought to be the most formid-
able figure Of the time.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-01-31

tising is coming in f..
very best houses in tho
contracts for the year
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
THE SEAL FISHERIES.

By unanimous vote the House of Rep
resentatives has passed the Dingley bill
relating to the fur seal industry, and it is
probable therefore that there will be sufli-
cient strength to pass it in the Senate.
The bill is a peculiar one, and deals with
the seal fisheries in a most radical way.
1t directs the President to enter into ne
gotiations with the governments of Great
Britain. Russia and Japan for the purpose
of agreeing upon plan OF protecting the
fisheries in accordance with the findings of
the Paris tribunal, and provides that if
this agreement be not concluded in time
to govern the season Of 1896 the Secretary
of the Treasury shall have every seal on
the Pribyloff Islands killed and sell the
skins for the benefit of the treasury.
The bill, it will be seen, calls for thor
ough protection of the fisheries or COM
plete determination of the seals. The
alternative seems like one of wanton de-
struction, and yet is really well-consid-
cred act of legislation. The present ar
rangement for the protection of the seals
is farce, and very costly one at that.
1t affords really no protection at all, for the
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27

killing of seals in the open sea includes so
many females that the young on the
islands die by the thousands of starvation,
and the fisheries in this way are in pro-
cess of slow and cruel extinction.
According to the reports of American
officials there were found on the islands
last season over $4,000 seal pups which
had died of starvation, their mothers hav-
ing been killed at sea while in search of
food beyond the sixty-mile zone. This
means of course that the herd will be
eventually exterminated if present condi-
tons continue. The necessity of the al
tentative of the Dingley bill is therefore
apparent. Either all the nations inter
ested in sealing and bordering on the
North Pacific Ocean must unite to prevent
not only poaching on the Pribyloff Islands
but pelagic sealing as well, or else our
Government should exterminate the herd
at once. thus putting an end to the cruelty
of leaving the young to starve, and at the
same time saving the Government the ex-
pense OF a costly, troublesome and useless
patrol of Behring Sea.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
AN INSTRUCTIVE PARABLE.

The Los Angeles Iapest0r, an exception
ally able paper, devoted TO financial mat
ters, publishes an ingenious statement of
the affairs OF certain great corporation.
The concern, whose assets run to $48 ,000,-
600, called an election of board of direc-
| tors in 1884, and as it did an enormous
business and employed large number of
persons to manage its affairs there was
strong lnducement to secure its positions
OF trust and profit. As there were many
thousands of shareholders, each having
private business of his own separate from
that OF the corporation in which he was
interested, the most of these failed to give
proper attention to the election Of a board
OF directors. AS consequence number
OF unscrupulous manipulators formed an
organization to secure control of the direc-
tory, and of the hundreds of the lucrative
positions which were under their control.
Their Vaccinations, thanks to the lack
OF organization among the decent and in
telligent shareholders, were successful;
the corrupt ring elected majority OF the
board. These men, it may well be taken
for granted, were utterly unfit for the great
trust which they had secured. Both in
character and ability they came from the
ready to blunder through sheer stupidity
and incapacity as to plunder the assets of
the corporation and levy burdensome as
sessments on the shareholders. Our con-
temporary then goes on to give figures
showing how the trust has been shame
fully mismanaged, and winds up by declar-
ing that the corporation in question was
the city of Los, s,lAngeles.
That is graphic way of stating COM
mon evil. 1t is just such occurrences as
these that make needless citizens disgusted
with politics in municipal affairs; but it
will be evident to intelligent persons that
the fault lies not with politics itself, but
with the neglect of politics. Nothing
could be clearer. say, than the fact that if
the large majority of the Republican
party IN favor of clean, able government
for San Francisco would properly dis
charge their political duty there would
never be any scandalous organizations
known as "solid eights," no disgraceful
street work by incompetent or dishonest
street departments; in short, there would
be none of the evils which flow from
organizations effected by corrupt political
bosses and flourishlng on the apathy of
the people.
All so-called independent, mon
partisan or "citizens" parties are clearly
just as much political organizations as
| those of older parties, and are just as liable
to the manipulation OF corrupt bosses as
any other. Sometimes they are the direct
creation of bosses for the purpose of de-
feating strong regular party that is de-
termined to secure decent government
1t is easier to rescue the machinery of
party from corrupt management than to
found separate organization.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27

which far surpassed ordinary proportions
This marvellous hand and the extraordinary
force of the muscles of the arm, accustomed 10
pianoforte exercise from earliest infancy
formed the foundation of Liszts marvellous
playing from the mechanical point OF view,
though it is true he had to have musical
genius to make use of the remarkable instru-
ment with which nature had endowed him.
L'Eyentail announces that the socialistic
section of the City Fathers OF the town OF Brus-
sells has placed proposition before the Munic-
ipal Council demanding that the opera-hodse
of the Monnaie should throw open It's gallery
gratis three times month. They also demand
that the theater shall give two popular per-
formences entirely gratis during the course of
the season. This demand is not so extraor-
dinary as it would appear to American read
ers, as the Monnaie is subsidized by the state'
and is consequently supported to certain e2-
tent by the taxpayers.
The Beers are beginning to stimulate their
patriotism by singing Africo-Dutch melodles.
Among the national hymns OF the orange re-
public and the Transyaal are "WiJl IateloerS
Zal Staap" (As Long as Table Mountain stanos)'
and "Komt, Breeders, Komt' Come, Brothers,
Gomez What is curious about these hymns IS
that an English composer, Reginald Statham'
has not only written the music, but also tue
words of these patriotic songs OF. the Boers,
and NJ. Reitz, president OF the Orange repuphc'
translated them into Dutch.
The little castle of Fancy, near Bayreuth,
well known to the pilgrims of the WagnerIan
Mecca, has just been sold to q Saxon gentle
man, who intends, it is said, to allow visitors
to the Bayreuth Festspiele access to the park.
Richard Wagner inhabited this castle during
the beginning of his sojourn at Bayreuth. and
he composed a portion OF "The Dusk of the
Gods" there.
new national Hungarian opera has just
been produced with little success at the Ma
tional Opera-house of Buda-Pesth. The work,
which is called "Balassa Balint," was COM
posed by Edward Farkas of Klausenburg, Tran
sylvania. His score is said to show that he is
little acquainted with the progress of modern
orchestration.
1t is Alexander Glazounof, the young COM
poser who bids fair to become the future glory
of Russian musical art, who has been charged
by the Government to write the cantata which
will be performed at Moscow next May on the
occasion of the coronation of Car Nicholas IL
The new opera which Hamish MacCunn has
undertaken to write in conjunction with the
Marquis of Lorne is named after the legendary
Celtic hero Diarmid, and deals with the STIR
RUG events leading up to the death of that per-
sonage. 1t will be unusually spectacular.
Mime. Antoinette Sterling is said to nave told
an interviewer that her coming to America
was "a psychic necessity" and had to be
obeyed though "thousands of pounds in Eng
lish engagements were sacrificed"
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27

great an attraction in the East this winter as
1t did on his three previous visits. He has
been playing principally at the Philharmonic
Orchestra concerts, and his performances have
exercised as emotional an influence as Anton
Seldps conducting has done. Sauret who
claims that his repertory consists of 438 COM
positions, was brought to this country by the
manager who directed Ysaye's tour last season.
The jubilee performance of the Carr-Beel
Saturday performance will take place on Sat-
urday next. number of society ladies feel
that some apprecia tion is due to the artists for
all that they have accomplished in the cause
OF music in this City. They state that the Carr
Beel concerts have fostered taste for classical
chamber music and have introduced TO the
San Francisco public many new compositions
that otherwise would have been hitherto un-
heard here. In token OF appreciation it is
proposed that the subscribers and other
patrons hold an informal reception after the
concert, in the parlors of Golden Gate Hall, to
greet Mrs. Carr and her fellow-artists and ex-
press appreciation of the promotion of musical
interests in this community. The ladies who
have the reception in charge are Mrs. Charles
Webb Howard, Mrs. David Bixler and Mrs
Oliver Perry Evans.
The List Museum at Weimar has just re-
ceived an interesting present from a member
of the great musicians family. 1t is the plas-
ter cast of Liszt's right hand, made October
22, 1874, on the occasion of his s1xty-third
anniversary. The modelling shows the extra
ordinary development OF the artists hand,
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
ROAD LEGISLATION.

The most important matter to be con-
sidered by the good-roads meeting soon to
be held in this City will be the bills pro-
posed to the State Legislature by the
Bureau of Highways as the result of its
thorough study of roadmaking in general
and the condition and needs of California
in particular. Until Commissioner Maude
made his address recently before the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce we had
not observed that he had given any hint
OF the legislation which the bureau may
propose. Now that he has done this it is
well that his ideas should be thoroughly
known and fully considered.
For general purposes he seems to favor
the Massachusetts plan. This makes
three classes-State highways, connecting
principal cities; district roads and town
roads. He seems inclined, however, iudg-
ing from further intimations which he
gave, to modify that plan to suit the con-
ditions peculiar to California. Thus he
would have State highway starting at
Yreka and running through Redding,
Sacramento, the San Joaquin Valley,
TETON Pass and Los Angeles to San Ber-
| nardino; another starting at San Fran
| cisco and running through San Jose, the
Salinas Valley and Santa Barbara to San
Diego, and eight east-and- west roads
across the State on routes not mention ed.
| He says that feeders for all these should
| be built by the counties. OF course this
| work is not to be done all at once, but
something is to be accomplished each
| year.
This is the general plan. If a better can
ha -
approaching convehtion, at which dele
| gates from all parts of the State and repre-
sentatives of all interests directly con
cerned with good roads will be present
OF course the construction of State roads
| by general taxation will require the ci ties
| to bear the greater part of the expense, as
three-fourths of the assessed valuation oi
| property lies within the cities. AS the
| cities are all in need of better streets and
are heavily taxed for the purpose this
proposition is a serious one. At the same
! time it is true that the welfare of the cities
| Is dependent on the prosperity of the
country, and that the country is now
drained annually to the extent OF 81, ,O0O, ,OO(
| for road work.
AT the same time, by reason of the fact
that the roads are still bad and thoroughly
| inadequate, the country could save 40 pei
cent of the present cost of wagon hauling
If good roads were made, and this means
to say that in addition to the 81, 600, 900
| year which the interior is expending or
roads it is submitting to drain of $39, ,00O,-
600 year by reason of its bad roads
| Against the certainty of an increase oi
municipal taxes for country road construc.
ton is the assurance of an increased gen,
eral prosperity as the result of that taxa
ton. The subject is too elaborate to bt
discussed fully in fe W words, and hence il
should be thoroughly studied before the
| good-roads meeting is held.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Samuel Longabaugh, proprietor of store at
Empire, New, and for thirty-four years a
resident OF the Carson River Valley, is at the
kuss. He formerly brought large quantities
OF WOOD down the river from Alpine County,
Cal, and marketed it at Carson, Virginia City,
Gold Hill and other places.
Inc Virginia and Truckee Railroad, how
ever, he says, Disseminated against him and
ne mao to discontinue it. The road charged
MN $3 70 cord from Empire to Virginia
City, distance of seventeen miles and S3 35
irom carson to Virginia City. The road re-
pateo other shippers, however, and gave them
ABOUT $2 cord the advantage. He hates rail
road monopolles and uses picturesque Ian
guage in reference to them.
81 am pretty well known all over in Storey,
Ormsby, Douglas and Lyon counties" said he
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
THE TARIFF DEBATE.

The vote on the emergency tariff bill In
the Senate on Tuesday, taken in connec-
ton with the discussion which followed,
may be regarded as an assurance that the
measure is virtually dead. 1t would be a
mistake. however. to assume that we are
to have no tariff bill at all at this session.
On the contrary. it would seem from the
course of the debate that it is vet possible
for an agreement to be reached in favor OF
bill that would give more protection than
the one which has been rejected.
1t is well known that several OF the West
ern Republican Senators objected to the
House bill because it afforded no protec-
ton whatever to sugar or to wool. More
over some of them did not believe that
the measure was seriously intended even
by its supporters. In fact, Senator Teller
is reported as saying III the course OF the
debate: "There is motion made by the
Senator from Montana to recommit this
bill for defects which everybody who has
read and examined it comedies. / charge
here, and shall undertake to make the
charge good that this bill was never in
troduced here nor has it been supported
here with any reference to its becoming a
law"
The statement of the Senator from Colo
rado was virtually conceded by Senator
Sherman, who said: "The other House
having sent US ever so faulty bill, let us
take it up, and if it is not right let us
make 1t right and send 1t back to the
House, and we will have ready concur
renee" On this showing there seems no
reason why some agreement should not be
reached and bill devised that would
yield an ample revenue for the Govern
ment and at the same time afford some
degree of protection to those industries
that now languish for the lack of it.
The probability of such a result is in
creased by the tenor of the discussion yes
terday. Senat or Aliens strange offer OF
six Populist votes for the tariff provided a
promise was given for a free-coinage bill
will, of course, amount to nothing. Sena-
tor Carter's speech, however in favor OF
an amended tariff is decidedly eneourag-
ing and gives reason for believing that a
more thoroughly protective bill would find
stronger support than the House emer.
gency bill.
The probability that Cleveland would
veto such bill should not be allowed in
any way to interfere with its passage. In
answer to Peffer's statement, The Presi-
dent asserts we do not need anv more
revenue" Sherman said: 81 do not care
what the President says. Every man
within the sound of my voice knows that
we need more revenue" The spirit OF
these words is that upon which all Repub.
icans in the Senate should act. The cur
rent deficiency already exceeds 500, 600 900,
and at the same ratioo increase the total
amount for the fiscal year will be fnliy
$50, 100000. This is the condition that con-
fronts the country, and Congress owes it
to the people to provide a revenue suffi-
cient for the needs of the Government,
leaving it to the Democratic President to
reject it if he dares.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
PERSONAL.

Or. F. D. Hull of Illinois is on visit here.
B. W. Noyes OF Everett, Wash, is in the
City.
Judge o. a. Hoge OF Santa Rosa is at the
Russ.
J. R. Buxton of Centralia Wash, is at the
Grand.
n. E. de Yoe, business man of Modesto, is
in town.
United States Judge Hawley of Nevada is in
the City.
George T. Northey of Sulphur Creek is at the
Occidental.
s. H. Babcock of Salt Lake was among yester.
days arrivals.
DR.. ]. H. Karsner OF oroville was among yes
terday's arrivals.
the Cosmopolitan.
DR.. w. o. Anderson of Eureka, Humbold
Bay, is at the Grand.
J. K. Cries, the pioneer of Ventura County
arrived here yesterday.
George H. Bell, postmaster at Carson. New.
arrived here yesterday.
George A. Smith. a well-to.do landowner oil
Portland, is at the Grand.
Thomas w. Wells the well-known banker O
Sonora, is at the Cosmopolitan.
OF Concord, is here on q business trip.
Alvin Robertson of Grafton, N. OAK, is in the
City, accompanied by several friends.
Il. A. Clarke, one of Tuolumne County's mos,
successful mining men, is registered at the
Cosmopolitan.
Captain George Hansen OF Alaska, who is
down on pleasure trip, is stopping at the
Cosmopolitan.
DR.. Conrad We'll, Police Surgeon, was noti
fed yesterday by the trustees of the San Fran
cisco Polytechnic that he had been appointed
adjunct professor of surgery.
F. NJ. Shaw, passenger agent of the Unior
Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railway, who ha.
been in San Francisco for some days, returned
to his'home in Denver last evening.
Mayor Sutro left yesterday for q few davs
stay at his country residence, Arcadia, nea,
Cslistoga. Several friends went with him
The Mayor felt that he needed little rest.
G. Wharton James Of Pasadena, agent of the
Southern California Hotel Mems Association
arrived here yesterday on business iii con nee
tion with the NEE ting of the National Associa
tion here.
Ex-Recorder Alex Russell returned yesterda,
from business trip, which extended as far
East as Chicago. He is now manager of rub
ber company here, having been recently pro.
moted from salesman.
Hon. Charles w. Friend Of Carson is in the
City. Professor Friend is the head weather
prophet Of Nevada. He has complete tables OF
meteorological observations covering period
of more than twenty-five years, and his ser.
vices to the public are 80 highly appreciated
that the Nevada Legislature passed a law
which makes him chief observer of the entire
Sierra Nevada region. He has an astronomical
observatory, which though small, is complete,
and is credit to the State in which he lives.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
THE COST OF THE CUBAN WAR.

Figures showing the cost to Spain of the
Cuban insurrection are given by London
newspaper, and they are certainly startling.
The Government borrowed $1O,00O,000 last
year from the Bank of Spain to be used in sup
pressing the revolt, and that sum was all ex-
pended in three months. English capitalists
were next asked to extend their aid, but it is
not known what was the result of the applica-
ton. short Eime ago the Bank of Spain was
asked TO make a second loan and another $10,-
O00. 900 was secured on Cuban bonds but the
bank intimated that its accommodations would
go no further.
1t is estimated that apart from the destruc-
ton of property in Cuba the cost of the war to
spain up TO the close of 1895 was $50 900 900
Now funds for local use proposed to be
obtained by the Spanish Bank OF Cuba issuing
currency to the extent of S24, ,00O, 900, and
that insutution's deposits of coin are to be re-
enforced by demands upon Cuban capitalists
by Cautain-General Weyler. The financial
situation seems TO be equally as desperate as
is the military situa tion.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
Miss Rena Atkinson, a Portland Girl
With a Career of interest.
lSketched By "CdU" artist

had discovered her. The lady has had many
curious experiences, East as we'll as West, and
also in Europe, but naturally she is much at
tached to her old home in Oregon.
Her mother was one of the brave little band
OF New England women who made the long
trip from New York City around the Horn a
short time after the close of the Civil War on
the Continental, of which her brother, A. g.
Mercer, was the owner.
She settled in Portland and there married
John f. Atkinson, a printer by trade.
About 1872 Rena Atkinson, the young
woman who is now the prima donna OF the
Carleton Opera Company, was born. AS a
mere child she displayed natural musical
ability, and her parents did deverything in their
power to encourage her. She had very sweet
soprano voice, and used it well. 1t is not hard
to see how she became bound up in the never
failing love of music. Her surroundings were
musical. music pervaded the household and
every effort was subject to close and scholarly
criticism. Unfortunately her father met with
business reverses, and so the family moved to
Denver. In that city Rena attracted atten-
ton in music, and through kindly influences
was given many advantages.
/ It finally became evident that she would
probably make mark in her chosen sphere;
so about four years ago her father moved to
New York City, where she was given every
posSiplc duFdubhSc tihO AhoSo ohilliul
vocal instructors. She has sung such roles in
grand opera as marguerite" "Mignon,' ''La
Traviata," "Gioconda," and others all calling
for artistic treatment and special vocal ability,
and has achieved distinct success in each
opera, and received warm praise Her voice is
sweet. mellow and pure. Miss Atkinson sings
with delightful ease. 1t is greatly in her favor
that at the outset she avoids artificial methods
OF expression. She vocalizes not only grace
fully, but naturally.
Her debut in the operate profession was
brought about by w: T. Carleton, whose atten-
tion was directed to her by John Mcguire,
years ago manager of the old California Thea
ter and afterward the pioneer manager of
Montana, he having known the Atkinsons in
Portland. Mr.. Maguire's death, 1T will be re-
membered, recently occurred. Carleton at
once heard her sing and Immediately engaged
her to sing in a series of operate perform
ances, and gave her the advantage of his long
and varied experience in the best schools OF