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The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
THE
COMING SALE
Hoad adley ConferS with
MCKenna on the
Union Pacific.
1t Is Learned the Reorganiza-
ton Comm ittee Will Be the
Only Bidder.
Plans for Easy Payments In Order
Not to Disturb the Money
Market.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 2.-Ex-Gov-
ernor Hoadley, counsel for the United
States in the matter OF The Union Pacific
foreclosure sale, spent several hours to-
day. in close conference with Attorney
General McKenna arranging the details of
the sale on Novem Der / and the subse-
quent transfer of the governments inter-
est in the property TO the highest bidder.
Both the Attorney-Gene1a and Hoad-
ley were retcent regarding what further
concessions had been made by the reor-
ganization committee. but it is under
stood from perfectly trustworthy sources
shat the committee has acceded to the
Governments contention that its lien on
the Union Pacific road includes the
Omaha bridge, and that it has increased
its cash bid so as to make the entire con-
cession approximately $5,000,0 ,000 This
would make their guarantee offer for the
property, including the fund now in the
treasury, about $50, 900, 600.
So far as can be learned the reorganizs-
tion committee will be the only bidder at
the sale, and in all probability the trans
Ter will be consummated by the payment
of the purchase price by Dece M Der /, or
very soon thereafter.
Treasury officials recog nize the fact tha /
The withdrawal from circulation of S45,-
600, 600 in cash at one time might have a
very serious effect in the money market,
and in consequence are devising a plan by
which the force of the shock may be re-
duced to the minimum.
No determination of the question has
yet been reached, bu; il seems probable
that leas, $50, 900. 600 of the amount NAV
be placed on deposit with Government de-
pository bank until January l, when 1t
will he needed for the redempt of the 6
per cent subsidy bonds maturing on that
date. The remainder OF the purchase
money, it is thought, may b. safely trans
erred TO the trea >ury.
CHICAGO. ILL, Oct 2-The CORE
spondent OF the Post at Washington tele-
graphs that a high treasury official. who
has intimate knowledge of Union Pacific
matters, said this afternoon that he would
not lie surprised if the settlement of dis
puted points arising out of the expendi.
ture of something like 81, oo0 OoO from the
Union Pacific earnings for the subsidy
of Pacific Coast line of steamboats, would
be included in the 81 900, 600 additions al
received by the transaction. In other
words that the purchasers of the property
would make this subsidy item part OF e
81, 900 900 extra which they would give for
the road. BY adopting this course the
Union Pacific would head off the pro-
posed attack next winter of Harris of
Kansas, Pctti2rew of South Dakota and
others.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

many advantages we all concede that
commereia! arrangements should be made
which will result in bringing the Ha-
waiian trade 10 the Uuited States. There
is no difficulty about this. We can there
fore have all the advantages OF Hawaiian
commerce without the burden OF govern
ment.
We are also told that the climatic ad-
vantages of that part of the world are
great and that the seductive Lreezss and
other amiable surroundings make an
nexation desirable. To this it must be
answered that those in search of pleasures
OF this KIND can obtain them as cheaply
without as with annexation. No national
advantage is thus presented.
1t has also been limited that annexation
VIII be very beneficial to the. cause of
labor. | take no stock in this claim. The
man who believes the Hawaiian planter
will pay higher wages merely because we
have absorbed the country is not very
conversant with the intrmitie of human
nature. Without going into the makeup
OF the population in general, it is enough
to say that there are between 20, 600 and
%, 600 Chinese and greater NUMBER OF
japanese in the islands working at rates
aad performing labor which can never ex-
cite the envy of the intelligent white man
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
Creates a Scene at the
Agents Office and is
Arrested.
Sequel to Transaction That
Occurred Here Several
Years Ago.
The Woman Had a Mania to Be
Married. and Once Took a Min
lister to S.ump's Hou e.

NEW YORK, n. Y, Oct. Mrs.
Francisco. created scene in Irwin C.
Stump's office in the Mills building on
Broad street this afternoon. She rushed
in and CRIED Where is that man
Stump?" Sconchin Maloney had been
standing guard outside, but it seems be
did not see the woman. Stump escaped
10 the Johnson building, where he sous n,
security in the office of a friend.
"If you don't take your hand off me I'll
kill you" Mrs. Best said to Maloney.. He
finally pushed her out. IN not leave
this building till attend TO my business.
Stump knows what / want, and if he
don't give it he'll get the worst of it." the
woman said.
Ii was learned that Mrs. Best came from
San Francisco three months ago. Since
that time she has persistently annoyed
Stump, going to his office almost daily.
at one time demanding that he marry
her. 1t was explained that many years
ago Stump knew the woman in San Fran.
CISCO.
For ten years he lost track of her. In
the interval he had married. For the past
three months the woman has been calling
at Stump's house and his office, even IL
tercepting him on the street. She re.
fused 10 believe that Stump was married.
Last week Stump lost all patience with
the woman. One day when she called at
his Office he took her by the arm and
showed her to the door. The next dav
she appeared before Magistrate Hedges,
from whom she secured summons ior
Stump, charging him with assault.
When the case was heard the magistrate
immed laieIy dismissed it. Mrs. Best
called on Elliot f. Danforth, chairmap of
the Democratic State Committee. and
asked him to help her. Before she lef, she
houris ed revolver at him. A detective
was sent to Stump's office from police
headquarters. Afterward a policeman
was sent. The officers started to remove
her. She screamed and fought.
Finally they took her to the old slim sta
ton. Aiterwaru Stump went TO the sin
ton and charged her at first with threats
against his life. but changed it to raising
a disturbance in his Office. The woman
repeatedly asked Mr.. Stump, why did
you do this?' The sergeant ordered thai
all complaining witnesses be in the Tom bs
Police Court tomorrow morning at $3.50
o clock.
On his way to his Office Stump said: az
have known this woman about four or five
years. / had charge OF setting up the
affairs OF firm OF stockholders at San
Francisco, which failed about that time
Among the creditors was this woman.
The amount going 10 her was small, but
like many women she felt anxious about
the dividend and visited my Office fire.
quen tly-much more than was neces ary.
Ever since that time she annoyed m
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
STORES CEASE TO SELL AN
PROVISIONS.
Hundreds Leaving Over the Inland Trail, and
Those With insufficient Food Are IN
Danger Of Perishing This
Winter.

hard to overcome. ! have brought out a
small sack of gold for my daughter, May.
1t is from No. Is Eldorado. She is Is
years old, and whenI left home prom
ised her that If she got in to the Normal
School by the time 1 returned l would
bring her little sack of gold. A letter
from her mother, which 1 received in June,
stated. that she had jumped two grades
! and is now in the Normal She shall have
the gold. Here it is,'' said Mr.. Geerish,
exhibiting buckskin sack larger than an
/ ink bottle full of coarse gold.
l. Hundreds are trying to get out of the
country by way of the river and ST. Mi
/ chael, resumed the returned Klondiker.
MANY will get to S. Micoael, but am
| afraid others will leave tn ,ir bones by the
/ way. Typhoid fever has started a grave
J yard al Dawson This comes from hard
ships and i'm poverished blood as much as
/ anything else.
There is no epidemic. but many have
died. There is also considerable dysen-
terry and ONE scurvy. They have sarsa,
pariila and other medicine to fight scurvy
with. Bill Teg ,ett rocked out $40 coo in
thirty days from his claim Oh the Ell Do
rado refore l left He hardly had a dollar
before in his Lie. That is only the scum
of his claim.
The Overland newspaper parties have
reached Dawson. Newspapers cell at 81 a
copy in Dawson. Reports that Kiondikers
are being held up on the river for their pro-
visions are not true, We saw none of it,
but unless the river boats get through all
provisions are liable to be seized and
divided up. No mans stake will be ex-
empt if this 81 should be decided upon. Last
winter there was scarcity of grub at
Circle City and al the grub was appro-
priated and divided equslly. The boats
did not get up the river
What are the opportunities for ladies
in Dawson2 was asked.
"a woman's best claim in there is a
marriage. The ladies are scarce. All
who have gone In there are dong we'll.
Swift Water Bill agreed to give his wife
$4,000 a month, and he has done so. ANY
woman can get married at Dawson as
soon as she wants to, and if she will use
little sense she can marry a man with
money. Ii she is good looking she will
have suitors by the score l expect to
hear of more rich strikes in the Klondike
this winter. Keep away from the Klon-
dixie now. If you are going start in the
spring and take plenty of grub; it will be
worth ne arly its weight in gold by March.
That is my advice" Hal HOFFMAN
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

more or less, but her conduct did not take
a violent turn until recently when she
came East. l have been here about two
years On August q last she wrote me a
note asking for money. wrote 10 her.
politely telling her had ne money for her.
Zone night she cane out to-. my
house with minister whom she had in
duced to believe that 1 was her prospect
i've bridegroom. The minister evidently
came in good faith, thinking that his
services were wanted, but when he found
l was already married he lett. The Best
woman wanted to tell my wife that 1 was
not legally married, and in various ways
tried to make a scene, and did make it
very unpleasant
"Her object was self-evident. But am
not the man 70 be pulled by the nose, and
| ordered her out OF the house
II informed Insrector Brooks of the
case, and he has been engaged in look
ing up the woman's record. 1 did not
wish TO take any legal action against her,
but when l learned that she had threat
ened my life l determined to put stop
TO her visits, even at the cost of publicity
following an arrest. The woman was a
dres maker in San Francisco.
"Her former husband was, / think, a
cigar-maker. She got divorce l believe,
in San Francisco nine years ago. From
the report made 10 me by a detective
agency of that ctyiI learned that she was
born in Maumee. Ohio. forly-fve years
ago.
Mr.. Stump, since coming from Caifor-
MIA, has been the confidential agent OF
James B. Haggin and other California
millionaires
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continued on Second rage
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
VAST WEALTH THERE.
But Hundreds Will Leave the Klon-
dixie to Escape Starvation in
the Winter.

JUNEAU. ALASKA, Sept. 26 (hy steam
ship Farallon TO Seattle, Wash, Oct 2).-
Fred Hoyt, the Yukon maii-carrier, and
companion arrived here three DAYS ago
from Dawson City. They lett Dawson on
August 15 and came over the Dalton or
Chilcat trail. Henry Bratnober. conf
Dental agent of the Rothschilds and be-
lieved also to be a representative of the
London Exploration Com pany, came out
with them. Mr.. Bratnober left to- mig ht
on the Farallon on his way to London.
He said to Colonel Lamb til of Helena,
Mont, a millionaire mining man, who is
also here: Colonel, you and have seen
some wonder ul countries and some won
derful mines, but we haven't seen any,
thing that can bs compared with the
klondike." lie declined TO be inter
viewed, but that express on is summary
Of what he thinks of the K ondike. IL is
understood that he succeeded in purchas-
ing an interest in several Ell Dorado and
Bonanza claims.
Mai-carrer Hoyt says that owing to the
scarcity oil provisions the seasons output
of gold will fall far short OF what it would
BE- # men could be pu: to work to do the
winter thawing and drifting. He SAYS if
the grub shortage had not happened the
output from the KlondIke placers would
figure in the close neigh Dorhood of $20,-
oO0;O0J 1t is now I'm possible to buv a
claim for any sum less than the real value
that the ground contains. Considerable
attention is being paid to quartz, but
owing to the nature of the country pros
pecting is exceedingly difficult. Reports
of new discoveries on Stewart River that
are very rich are now corroDora,eG and
Hoyt said nobody was known who could
tell where they were located. He says
that as many men will leave Dawson as
can possibly get away and that at least
half oe them will come out by the over
lind trails to juneau. He says that there
! is bound 10 be much suffering on the way
out and some deaths from starvation.
Supplies are exceedingly short and the
stores have stopped selling provisions.
Only three letters for Juneau parties
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
ISLANDS OF NO USE
TO THIS COUNTRY.
" We Cannot Make It Easier to Protect
Ourselves by Acquiring Other Territory
Which Needs Protection" Says
the Statesman.

IN continuation its questions
current interest THE CALL publishes
White
with all phases this and thoroughly understands
s of California and those United generally public
mens the subject with
:
discusses
questions of national defense
labor the political problems that would addition
sons alien voting population finally the
doing
Americans who have visited their islands
This article the
published
Bryan largely speculative dealt
politics
settled Hawaiian
the
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
ShLHATICN ARMY Colony
Commander Booth Tucker Eeody fo
Occupy Land in Monterey
County.

CHICAGO, ILL, Oct. 2-Commander
Booih-Tucker of the Salvation Army ar
rived in Chicago this morning from the
West and lett in the afternoon for New
York. He has made trip through Cali
fornia and Colorado in the in .erest of the
colonization scheme and is very hopeful
oi its suecess. The conn mander says he
expects TO place 800 people from San Fran
cisco on a tract of land in Monterey
County, which will be subdiyided into
tracts OF five and ten acres. Options have
also been secured on land in Arkansas
Valley, Colorado, and he.will soon locate
colon les there. Commander Booth Tucker
believes the farming of five and ten acre
tracts will prove the salvation OF this
country.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-08
NEcks OF MuRDERERs.
Gov. CIOugh Still Has Them in His
Hands.

Some interest has been created by the
way in which the creation of the board
of pardons has left prisoners awaiting
capital punishment hanging between
heaven and earth more literally than
ratively, perhaps. The laws puts
the power to reprieve criminals in the
hands OF the board alone. The law
fixing the capital penalty fer murder
in the first degree prescribes the form
of tie sentence, which is that the pris-
oner shall be confined for a term not
less than four months. and thereafter,
at date to be fixed by the governor,
shall be hanged by the neck, etc. Now
the question arises, what would kecome
OF these prisoners if the governor
should neglect to sign a death war
rant, which would be in effect, if not
in fact,a usurpation of the powers Of the
board. AT the same time the board has
nothing to do with fixing the date fer
the execution of a capital sentence, ana
it appears as. though, with reference to
capital criminals, at least, the governor
has the power to reprieve them of his
own volition without consulting the
rest of the board, for the term Of his
official tenure.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-08
MAY MAKE BOTH HOLIDAYS.
Saturday and Monday on Either Side
of May 80.

: The action Of the governor in declaring
Saturday. May 20, Memorial day in its Min
nesota observance, has given rise to a pecu-
liar complication which may close all the
banks in the state from Friday May %, to
Tuesday, June |. In chapter 81. of the Gen.
eral Laws Of 1895. which until its passage
was House File 15s. it was purposed to cor
rect some obscurities in the laws regarding
negotiable paper, and it amended the section
of the statutes relating to that class of paper
SO that it reads as follows:
BILLS of exchange, drafts, promissory
notes and contracts, due or payable or exc
cuted on Sundays, Thanksgiving day, Good
Friday the first Monday in September. the
first Tuesday after the first Monday Of No
vember of each even numbered year, Christ
mas day, New Years day, the I'D day of
February, the 4th day of July. the Both day
of May, the 18th day of February, or on the
following day when either of the six days
above mentioned falls on Sunday, shall be
payable or performable upon the business day
next preceding said days; and in case of nom
payment non-fulfllment. shall be noted
and protested upon such preceding day; but
such notice of the dishonor, non-payment or
non-fulHlIment need not be given until the
business day next following the days above
specified"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-08
DISCUSS FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Meeting of Methodist WOmen's So
ciety, St. Paul District.

Meeting of Methodist Women's So
ciety, st. Paul District.
The Woman's Foreign Mission So
ciety of the st. Paul District of the
M e. Church held a well attended and
interesting semi annual meeting at
Trinity church, Merriam Park, yester-
day. Mrs. Shepherd, the president of
the district organization, presided, and
the meeting opened with devotional
exercises, led by Mrs. Gregg. Reports
were presented from the officers, show
ing a f1ourishing condition in the aux
iliaries in the district, which includes
those in st. Paul and suburbs, and
Saltwater, Faribault, Mortified and
Red Wing. A paper on the Mission.
airy Spirit" was read by Miss. Olive
A. CalkinS. .-.l tss
The afternoon session opened with g.
prayer service, in charge of Mrs. At
kin. Mrs. G. S. Winchell, corresponding
secretary of the Minneapolis branch
gave a brief talk. in the course Of
which she said the Methodist WOman's
Foreign Missionary society had sent
the first woman medical missionary 10
Korea, to China and to India. Miss
Martha Sheldon, one of their mission
aries, made the first translation of the
Bible into the Bhotyas dialect, the
speech used along the border of Thibet.
Rev. E. H. Richards, missionary in
East Africa, then delivered an inter
Csting address and afterwards an
swered a great many questions about
his work and the people among whom
he has been living for the past sixteen
years. He said that the first work to
be done among these people was med
ical work, but that the lack of a hos
pital was felt greatly, that, because Of
it's absence, the work was being great .
ly hampered. 1t was not always pos
sible to secure quinine and drugs that
were needed for the terrible fevers of
Africa. He had always compelled the
natives to work for what was given
them, even though their work was not
always useful. They resented innova-
tons, such as clothes, but, after a
time, became reconciled to them. It
is possible to reach their hearts By
music, and, after the medical work, the
best way to reach them is by teaching
them songs. They learn these songs
without understanding them, and then
afterwards learn their meaning.
The climate of that part of Africa
where he has been working is not near
ly so bad as generally supposed. Of
fifteen missionaries sent to Natal in
1880 but one has died.
DR.. Richards sang, by request, 1.-THE
Sweet By and By in one Of the 1853
languages of Africa.
DR.. Richards will preach at the First
M. E. church tomorrow morning.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-08
DEFICIENCY IN THE FUND.
Myth About Money for Additional
Gasoline Lamps.

The board of public works yester-
day prepared a report which was to
have been considered at a joint meet
ing of the committee on streets from
the board of aldermen and assembly,
called for last evening. Evidently the
members of the committee had an ink
ling of the report, as at the time speci-
fed in the cali none Of the councilmen
was on hand.
The object of the session was to ar
rive at an afnicab1e settlement as to
the distribution of a number of gaso-
line lamps in the various outlying
wards. In order to arrive at the ex-
act number Of gasoline lamps which
could be split UP the board of public
works was requested to inform the
committee just where they were at in
this particular. The report prepared
by the board, evidently after an inter-
view with Comptroller McCardy, was to
the effect that instead of there being
any money which could be used in
putting in service new gasoline lamps,
there was likely to be deficiency in
the fund The board reported that $40,-
$50 had been placed in the tax estimate
for 1897. for gasoline lighting. Only so
per cent of this amount was, however,
available, owing to the sum having to
be raised by the sale of certificates of
indebtedness. This would reduce the
amount to $50, $40, although an addi-
tional s413.70 would be credited to the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-08

fund by reason Of gasoline lamps which
had been discontinued in the Eleventh
ward and gas substituted. The total
amount available for gasoline lighting
at the present time, according to these
figures would be 1872, 853 On the other
side the report Of the board was that
the cost Of maintaining the $3.50 gaso-
line lamps now in service would be
$37, 705. To this would have to be added
5000 for the painting and repairing Of
lamps and posts, and $1,047 charged up
for the replacing of the gasoline lamps
with gas in Aid. Shepards ward. AS it
stood at the present date the gasoline
fun was $6798.30 short, and for this
reason there would be no chance to dis
tribute any new gasoline lamps.
President Copeland was of the opin-
ion that the shortage would be made
up in the next six months by the re-
ceipt of taxes, but, while this was
probable, there was at present no ex-
ira money in the fund, and the alder
men would have to wait for distribu-
ton from tax receipts before any addi-
tiCnal gasoline lamps could be ordered.