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lADORERS IN POLITICS,
The Question Again Discussed
at the Labor Council
Last Night.
It Was Passed Without Action-The
T. Weekly Reports of the Trades
Unions.

The irritating subject of the San Fran
cisco Trades Council joining the Trades
and Labor Alliance in political move
again came up in the meeting of the
former body last evening. 1t was brought
up by Delegate Phillips, who delivered a
short address, in which he suggested that
the best thing for the workingman to do
to better his condition is to look well to
his acts at the coming election. .3If he ever
expects to be benefited by the laws of the
land he should act with judgment in the
men he selects to create and maintain the
laws.
Delegate Milne said that he had come to
the conclusion that it was not wise act
for the council to refuse 20 join hands
with the San Francisco Trades and Labor
Alliance. at present there are several
bodies OF organized labor, but all are at
sixes and sevens in small matters when
they should all be pulling together to one
common end. He believed that the
matter of afiliating with the Alliance
Council. If it is necessary, he said. even
the Trades Council might be merged into
another larger and stronger labor body.
he saw no hope for labor unless it taxes
up the ballot and stands for its rights.
Strikes and boycotts are a failure and
usually result in those who participate
therein being put behind prison bars. If
organized labor expects to have beneficiary
laws passed the workingmen must elect
the men to make the desired laws.
Secretary Thurman was of the opinion
that politics and trades unions should be
kept apart. The trades unions people
should work In politics, but outside of the
unions.
Delegate Macarthur took some OF the pre-
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Auditing cOmmittee-oharles W. Pope, H. J.

Auditing comm1ttee-CnarleS w. Pope, ID. j.
Donovan, James Ivory.
Registration committee-James ]. Flynn, M.
J. Kelly, NJ. G. Sears, James Meagher, George e
McElroy.
Resolution committee-F. ]. Fallon, R. B.
Terry, A. NJ. Armstrong, Peter Garrity, Stephen
Potter.
Naturalization committee-EdwardJ J. Rey-
nolds, Patrick H. Shanly, P. ]. McElroy, r. C.
Scott, Edward Mcnamara.
w. w. Foote is out as a candidate as
delegate at large to the National Conven-
ton. +. B. Pond would like TO go in the
same way, it is understood, and George T.
Marye would not mind representing the
Fourth District.
Joseph P. Kelly has now fully launched
his campaign for the Democratic nomina-
ton for Congress from the Fifth District.
He-is showing out the blackthorn canes,
of which he brought back quite cargo
from Ireland few months ago. The one
ne gave Buckley is ''lalla." the boys say.
1t has three little vines twining among
the thorns and is ornately jeweled. The
one bestowed on Boss James H. O'Brien
isn't, of course, in it with Buckleys, but
it has a pretty silver shamrock leaf to
help out its beauty. The district bosses
get Just plain blackthorns.
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now. counted as sure. for comprom Use
when. the time comes: n obody doubts that
Ed Lanigan, with his four or five votes,
will reject any bargain. that seems to his
political advantage. Colonel Sullivan HIM
self is candidate for Sheriff and not many
believe. that he wilLfgure on winning on a
ticket fought by a majority OF his party.
and most of the Junta leaders are looking
for political jobs. The wisdom of recog-
nizing the. existence of the bulk of the
party is generally counted on as being
something which the Junta bosses will
clearly perceive when the right time
comes.
The question of how the fierce contest
between the Junta and the Buckleyites
Will come out at Sacramento will not get
much light thrown on it until the dele
gates BEGIN to be announced through the
State. The BuckleXites are quietly doing
all sorts of missionary work through the
State, and they will get their work in on
the delegates as fast as they are chosen.
The Buckleyites are going busiIy. and
confidently ahead. Their additional en-
rollment in the districts will end to-
night, and will add about 1000 names to
the Ii 800 now on the rolls of the Buckley
faction. The enrolment on Wednesday
evening In the eighteen districts was 5Sl,
that of Thursday night was SOL. and there
was corresponding enrolment last night.
nominated on the 18th inst. and the pri-
mary will be held on the 28th.
Joseph Rothschild, chairman OF the
Buckley general ommittee, has announced
the following committees:
Finance committee Maurice Schmidt, John
Mccarthy, James G. Nealon, Thomas Ashworth,
T. J. Ford. sam Newman, William Clack
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The Buckleyites Are After the
New Junta Campaign
Committee.
SWELLING THEIR ENROLMENT
Joseph P Kelly Begins His Blackthorn
= Campaign for Congressional
:. Nomination.

:: y ohm Daggett is reaching out for the
next Democratic State Central Com mmittee
He wants as much power in that COM
mittee as he can possibly gain and to that
:-end is himself, and through his lieuten-
ants: nosing about finding how some
things stand, and endeayoring to make
" combinations by. which he may control
the. action of as many as possible of the
local Junta Assembly District delegations
tethe State Convention when they come
to name their appointments of State Cen.
!. tral Committeeman.
Daggett wants to be commanding
power in Democratic State politics. He
also looks as much as ever for all the local
power: he can get'in partnership with Sam
Rainey.
- Since the Rainey: :Daggett faction of the
Junta was beaten. out at the last meeting
of. the General Committee and absolute
control: of affairs vested III campaign
committee which Chairman Sullivan has
= named DagSett has been trying to save as
much-as possible and is making new plays.
Daggett is kicking hard on the inside of
Junta affairs He insists on being recog-
~niZed. The eternal friction that has
marked the course Of Junta affairs
:, .keepsup.
: ANY power tnaC Daggett may get IN the
State Central Committee will, of course.
become part of the power of the political
firm of Rainey and Daggett. Sam Rainey
has not returned from Southern Californ ia
yet, but he will be back in good time and
his activity will begin as.soon as the State
Convention is over.
s: Colonel Sullivan's campaign committee
has not met yet. 1t has merely been the
subject. of busy analysis among Demo-
cratic politicians. All possible pulls on
the twenty members are being studied up
by those who need the committee. The
committee willT-nleet next week and do
:: sonnet ing about the primaries it will hold
as its. method of appointing delegates to
:. the State convention. McNab, Sullivan
and Lanigan have not yet decided Just
:. what the committee shall do.
=: The appointment of the campaign com
mlttee, with absolute power, provides the
path by which the compromise with the
: Buckleyites after the State Convention is
sure to be reached. The Buckley1tes are
after the committee now. They need
eleven of its members and expect to get
~them-that is, get them for the com pro-
mise amalgamation they will persistentlv
seek. Nothing will, of course, be really
done in this line until after the State Con-
<vention.
There are individual members who are
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LABOR BUREAU WANTED
Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald Re-
ceives q Letter From the Sacramento
Federated Trades.

r
Federated Trades.
Labor Commissioner fitzgerald has re-
ceived the following letter from Sacramento
showing the increasing recognition of a
State labor bureaus importance:
E. L. Fitzgerald Esq, Labor Commissioner
DEAR SIR: We wish TO call your attention TO
the fact that this city is great labor center
and that there are many deserving men and
women out OF employment who are unable to
pay the fee demanded by employment agents.
This council is desirous of tablishing free
employment bureau and has the matter under
consideration by the Board of Trustees OF Sac
ramento.
While the board appears to favor the propo-
sitlon the members entertain different ideas
as to the method of establishing it. There is
some talk OF putting the bureau in the hands
OF the Salvation Army, but our council objects
to this method.
We would like TO know if you can appoint a
deputy to reside here and attend TO labor mat
ters in general. Have you the funds to pay a
deputy here, or, ii not, what amount can you
afford for this purpose We can furnish an
office rent free during the daytime.
We believe that with the aid OF your office
we can establish free employment bureau,
and through a resident deputy great good
can be accomplished.
We ask as a special favor that you send a
reply TO this at once, as our regular meeting
and the meeting of the board of trustees is on
Monday, May 4. Very respectfully yours,
FRANK COOKE,
Secretary Federated Trades Council.
''I will advise the Sacramento Trades
Council" said Mr.. Fitzgerald, ''to wait
until they can have a bureau with the
right fund and authority. l thoroughly
appreciate the fact that Sacramento should
have bureau, but we have not a dollar to
spare for founding or maintaining such
an institution"
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face of the Morris woman's assertion, cor
roborated by that of Policeman Robl, to
the effect that she had been choked and
threatened with death, satisfied the Judge,
apparently, and he held the supposed
strangler for vagrancy.
Isabella Morris. the complaining wit
ness, is nearly If not quite a full-bloode ed
negress. In her story in court yesterday
morning she adhered to her first state
ment that Lewis, alias Pritcbard, at
tempted to throttle her and also threat
ened to choke her to death, as he declared
he b ad done with several women of her
class within the last five months. The
arresting officer, f. Robl also overheard
the dire threat ascribed to the prisoner.
Pritchard denied emphatically that he
had touched the negress near the throat
He said: 'When l was walking down
Kearny street early this morning l met
the woman near the entrance to Merchant
street. She called to me. / had been
drinking beer anu took up with the invi-
tation to walk with her. After walking
halfway down the street (Merchant
street, she said she was going to the drug
store to get some medicine and asked if 1
had any money.
81 said, as best / can remember, that
there was nothing said about money when
/ met her. We then got to talking and l
noticed big niger standing on the oppo-
site side OF the street. had no sooner
seen him than he started toward US. ]
thought he was most likely the Toman's
friend, and feared trouble. l took the
woman by the arm rather roughly, per-
haps, and she fell on the steps le aiding to
an upper floor along there somewheres.
She 'hollered blue muder, and the next
I knew an officer was onto me. He took
me and the woman. but for some reason
did not look after the other man.
81 am peddler by trade and have
worked in the Pacific Rolling mills and
also in Oakland. The last work l did wa
on the Mount Tamalpais Railway. l have
been broke for some time and when l was
arrested 1 had just 10 cents in my
pocket.
II must have been very much under the
influence of liquor, because l failed to rec
ognize the woman when she went on the
stand to testify against me this morning. "
1t was learned during the afternoo that
Judge Campbell's act in holding Pritchard
for vagrancy was in compliance with the
request of Detective Bohen.
1t is evident that the case is considered
serious by Captain Lees, but the evidence
is not strong enough 80 far to warrant a
vigorous prosecution, hence the holding oi
the alleged strangler for. vagrancy until
the detectives can look up his record.
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CALIFORNIA TOBACCO.
The MaLufaoturers' and Producers As
ISOLATION Asks the Prison Directors
e, Patronize Home Industry.


The following communication was for
warded yesterday to each member of the
State Board of Prison Directors by the
Manufacturers' AID Producers Associa-
ton, asking that California tobacco be
supplied to the prisoners in the State
prisons:
Nav 1. 1896.
Hon. r. w. Fitzgerald, President state Board of
Prison DIRECTORS, 65A12 Broadlody, Oakland CAL
DEAR SIR: We are advised that it has been the
custom of the Board of Stale Prison Directors
in the past to award contracts for the supply
of plug and cut tobacco to houses or firms that
San Quentin and Folsom State prisons with
tobacco manufactured by convict labor in the
Eastern and Southern States.
We would state that we have in California
numerous tobacco manufacturers who import
the leaf tobacco from the South and make it
into plug and cut tobacco in this State, thereby
giving employment to a great many people,
and in their business use boxes, labels, etc,
made by other California mechanics 1t is we'll
known fact that free labor cannot compete
with convict labor, and in giving orders for
tobacco from Southern or Eastern prisons
citizens of this State are deprived of employ
ment and our manufacturers OF business that
they are entitled to receive from State institu-
tions.
AS we.are advised that a schedule for sup
plies for the State prisons for the coming year
have not yet been printed, but viii be placed
in the hands of the State Printer in a few days,
on pehalf OF the manufacturers and producers
OF California, we ask that's clause be printed
at the foot of each schedule, as follows:
mo goods viii be accepted that are made by
convict labor outside of the State of California
Preference will be given TO goods manufac-
tured in California, price and quality to be
considered"
The object of the Manufacturers and Pro.
ducers' Association of California is 10 foster
and encourage the manufacture and consump-
ton OF California products. and as every citi
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search of health: His death was not un-
expected, as he had been long ailing, the
fatal complaint being an ante-cranal
tumor.
To those best acquainted with him Mr..
Spear. was esteemed as a man of fascinat-
Ing personality and quiet, kindly disposi-
.tion.
He was a past master of California
Lodge No. l. F. and A. NJ; member OF
California Chapter No. 5, Royal Arch
| Masons; member of Golden Gate Com
mandery No. 16 Knights Templar; a
member of Islam Temple. A. A. o. NJ. s.,
and a member of the Grand Consistory OF
California, a tnirty-second degree Mason.
In 1895 he was elected knight commander
ofothe Court of Honor.
A widow and three children survive him.
The funeral will be from the Masonic
Temple at 1 30 P. M, and the interment
will take place in the family plat in the
Masonic Cemetery
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Says He Was Accosted by the
Negress on Kearny
Street.
DENIES TOUCHING HER THROAT
He Was Held by Judge Campbell as
Louis Pritchard for
Vagrancy.

Louis Pritchard, alias John Lewis, the
alleged strangler, is now plain Louis
Prichard the vagrant.
1t was by ruling of Judge Campbell that
the charge against him was transformed
to the low offense.
When Pritchard appeared in Judge
CampbelPs court yesterday morning to oe
arraigned on charge of attempting to
strangle a woman of the half-world he in
formed the court that he had been out of
work for several weeks and that he did no
choking.
This statement of the prisoner, in the
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-02
GUSTAVUS SPEAR DEAD.
The Well Known Auctioneer
SuccumbS to a Tumor on
the Brain.
Came to California When a Mere Boy.
Was a Member of Many
Secret Orders.

Gastavus Langford Spear, for many
years member of the well-known auction
firm of Edward Spear g. Co. of this City,
died Thursday night at Santa Rosa, and
tomorrow afternoon the funeral services
will be held here with all the observances
OF the Masonic order, of which he was a
prominent member.
Mr.. Spear was born in Boston, Mass,
April "a, 1S49, and at the age of IA came to
this State, which he made his permanent
home. In later years he lived at Ills
roadway, still the family residence.
A year ago ne moved to Santa Rosa in
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NEW TO-DAY.
One as good:
as another.

It is easy to say that
one preparation is as
good as another, and It
IS easy to waste money
by buying something
you know nothing
about and receiving
no benefit. When the
body IS weak and you
want giveit strength,
when health is failing,
what wisdom is there
IN experimenting with
a Substitute, when Tor
a few cents more you
can buy the original
article? For more than
twenty years Scott S
Emulsion has been the
standard Cod-hver Oil
emulsion. It contains
more pure Norwegian
Cod-Gver Oil than any
other emulsion IN the
world, and viii stand
the. test of time. as
being a. perfect, insep
arabic emulsion, You
can't afford to take a
substitute for It It. .:..." ... /. s. +.
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Charter Mass Meeting.

This evening F. w. Dohrmsnn, president,
and ]. Richard Freud, secretary of the Mer-
chants Association, will address the citizens
OF the Mission upon the new charter.
The meeting viii be held under the auspices
OF the Mission improvement Association at its
hall, corner Twentieth and Guerrero streets.
The main provisions Of the charter will be ex-
plalned and the results that will follow its
adoption will be made clear
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vious speakers to task for daring to voice
sentiments not authorized by their unions
and he spoke with much emphasis upon
the subject of the ability or inability OF
the masses to govern themselves, as in this
country.
The Subject was at last dropped without
action. Several other matters interested
the council
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FIREWORKS TONIGHT.
weather Permitting, the Chutes Will
Look Like Daylight.

"eather permitting, the Chutes Will
Look Like Daylight.
The wind was so high at the chutes yes
terday afternoon that it was impossible to
initiate the balloon, and after an hours
endeavor the big airbag, full of no: smoke,
was Hoped on its SIDE. and an apology
Tonight. il it does not rain. there will
be a grand display of fireworks at the
Haight-street grounds. Some Of the pyro-
technic novelties will be kicking donkey,
q reproduction of the Niagara Fails and
couple of luminous trolley-trippers. The
exhibition will begin at a quarter past 8,
and will last for half an hour.
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Was Not Robbed.

When N. Diers, saloon-keeper at Fifth and
Folsom streets, woke up yesterday morning III
discovered he had made a mistake The prev
ious evening he had charged an unknown
woman with having robbed him of his
jewelry ct Carr's saloon, on McAlister and
Larkin streets. He recalled, however that he
had left his watch and other valuables at an.
other saloon, where he recovered them He
hastened to withdraw his charge and 10
apologize to the keeper of the maligned saloon.
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IN addition to the large line of ready-framed
Pictures closing out at half price we have
many new Pictures in the sheet coming in and
new holdings; beautiful designs for framing
at moderate prices. Sanborn. Vail & Co., TAI
Market street
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Minister willis Improving.

Hon. Albert S. Willis, United States Minister
to Hawaii, who arrived here over a week ago
and has since been sick because of severe
cold which resulted in a touch of pneumonia,
was much improved yesterday. He was able
to sit up for time and was quite cheerful,
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zen OF the State is interested in and will be
Denehted by the success of our efforts, we feel
sausheo IT is but necessary to call your attep-
tlon TO this matter to have our request granted
yours very truly, I. r, MEAD, Secretary.
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nose is broken. his left arm is fractured in
two places, and he is otherwise injured
The dog escaped.
Mount ophir, Is, 800 feet high, is!the tall.
est in Sumatra.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-10-16
"Tho ChinOOk.S

This noval entertainment was
given Tuesday evening at Gross
opera house and all present spoke
very highly oft. 1t Is something
entirely different from anything
before given in the city, but is
certainly a success, and the closest
attention was given throughout the
evening. Miss Thompson is fine
elocutionist who reads with skill and
with feeling. The story she reads is
a pleasing sketch of love and ro-
nance with an interesting plot and
plenty of comedy. The pictures are
excellent, and make the characters
and story very real. much more SO
than one would perhaps think could
be done, before having seen Miss
Thompson's play.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-10-16

WIN. Fl. LAIRD.
S. T. MCNIGHT,
WIN. IRVINE,
H. G. AKELEY,
F. WEYERHAEUSER,
GEO. H. ATWOOD,
ARTEMUS LAMB,
b. +. NELSON,
EUGENE SHAW,
n. L. MCCORMICK,
L. &. COLMAN,
Board of Directors.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-10-16

When wear begins to exceed repair
in your body you are going to fall
sick. The signs of it are loss of flesh,
paleness, weakness, nervousness, etc.
You think you eat enough, and yet
you feel that you wear out more
tissue, energy, nerve-force, than your
food makes for you. The difficulty
is that you do not digest enough.
And this is SO serious it Is worth
sitting down seriously TO think
about. If you can't digest what you
eat, take few doses Of Shaker
Digestive Cordial. The effect of it
will be to increase your flesh and
make you feel stronger. You wont
fall sick. Proof that it is in control
OF your repair apparatus. It's easy
enough to test this for yourself.
Take q few bot lies Of Shaker niges-
tive Cordial.
Sold by druggists at 10 cents to 81
per bottle.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-10-16

The Democratic county convention
declared in favor of an "ecOnOmicaP'
admfnistra ton OF county affairs.
The voters OF that party who are in
earnest in that declaration will vote
for the straight Republican ticket
Both parties have a second on that
point. In 1893 the Democrats run
the county in debt over $4,000. In
1895 the Republicans took charge 81
the county and at once sho wed that
they could run the county within it,
income.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-10-16

The voter who opposes the Re-
publican county ticket this year
votes to reject the Republican
officials who have given the county
the best admlnistra ton it ever had
II such county management is re-
iected it indicates that the voters do
not appreciate and will refuse to
endorse competent and faithful
officials. If the Democrats should be
placed in control of Morrison county
again the officials could reason this
way:
"The people do not like to have
county run within it's income. In
1898 we Democrats ran the county
10000 in debt. and the Republicans
run it for less than the income, but
the result lie that the people have
placed us Democrats in power again.
Between the tive plans the voters
like extravaganza and mismanage-
ment the best, and it is for our
interest to run the county in debt
again."
They would Biological in saying SO,
and logical in doing SO. County
management is a business matter.
Vote Tor good Republican manage
ment.