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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-04

S1NIA. December Further dis
patches from the front say that the
Kurramaolem OF the punitive column
OF British troops. which met with fierce
resistance on its march into the Cham
kanni country. where thirty villages OF
the insurgent tribesmen were burned. has
continued its advance and inf-cted heavy
punishment on the Chamkannis. These
tribesmen held an almost Inaccessible po-
sition on heights. which was stormed in
fine style by the Gurkhas. who captured
the position at the point Of the bayonet.
Many Of the tribesmen were Killed. OF
the British force. Major Nansittart and
two men were wounded and two priyates
were killed.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-04

GILLS-Died. Thursday. December ..
1897. az 10 a. NJ. at the residence of her
daughter. Mrs. A. o. Dcaren. No. I2j
north Twenty-third street. ARIADANA
GILLS, wife OF William III. Gills. in the
seventy-fourth year OF her age.
Funeral from above residence yester-
day afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
Interment At Hollywood.
ROBERTSON.-Di on November 30.
1897. at the home OF her parents. AT
Blackstone Va. ISABEL HENDERSON
ROBERTSON. infant daughter OF Il.
Shore and NJ. l.. Robertson; aged four
teen months and twelve days.
WALSH. Died. at the residence OF her
parents. No. 226 south Fifth street, at
7:5O clock Thursday morning. MARY r.,
the fve-year-old daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs James Walsh
Funeral from St Peters cathedral
Friday evening at $3.50 o'clock.
Interment In Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-04
DAILY and Schaefer Win

NEW YORK. Dec. 3.-The game this
afternoon in the billiard tournament
brought out Maurice DAILY and George
sutton. both of whom up to date had lost
an their games DAILY won the game
900 to 81 AVerages-Daly, s 1861; SUIT
ton. 1881. Highest runs-Daly. 10; SUIT
ton, 90.
II was a new champion against the old
tonight Napoleon Ives against Wizard
Schaefer. and the old champion won.
Schaefer. 800: Ives. 4Ol. Average
Schaefer. Is 5-33: Ives. " 5-33 Highest
runs-Schaefer, IS, Ives. As.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-04
Germany Declines 20 Give Up.

BERLIN. Dec. 3-The Hamburgische
Correspondens saws that the German
government has emphaticaily refused 10
entertain the proposition Of England that
Germany should cede TO Great Britain.
nor nrotectorate over the German portion
OF New Guinea. which Is the northern
section OF south east Papua, established
I'm 1884. under the name Of Kaiser VII
helms Land.
II is supposed here that England is
casting envious eyes upon the newly
discovered gold fields.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-04

the condition that only one-fifth Of the
unequipped rolling stock OF each company
should be equipped each year and the
representatives OF the railroad organiza-
lions protested against an extension in
excess OF one year. Three years is gen
orally believed to be the maximum ex-
tension which the commission will grant.
The commission is evidently i'm great
doubt as 10 its ability to impose condi-
lions on an extension and II may he
that il will grant but a years extension
al q time with the understanding that
against those roads which do not compete
the yearly portion Of their equipment dur
ing that period the law shall become
operative
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-04
GEN. Lrr REPORTS NEW orfTcIALs
In the Insurgcnt Governmental Matter
Of Gossip Not OficiaI.

ofGossip, Not ohicial.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-Consul Gem
oral Lee has informed the State Depart
mert that the insurgents in Cuba elected
and installed at Yaza Porto Principe on
October 10Th the following officers:
President. BartSlo Masso; Nice-Presi-
dent. Domingo Mo dez Capote Secretary
Of War Jose h. Aleman. Secretary Of
the Treasury. Earnisto Font Stearing
Secretary Of Foreign Affairs. Andres
Morens De La Tore; Secretary of the
Interior. Manuel r. Silva, .General-in-
chief. Maxine Gomez; Lieutenant-Ger-
cral. CalixtO Garcia.
II is said at the State Department that
General Lee merely communicates ihis
list 10 the department as matter OF
news gossip in Havana and that 1t is by
no means official.
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OBITUARY.
William Bernard Hamlin. Jr

Mr.. William Bernard Hamlin. Jr. died
suddenly al the Retreat for the Sick
Thursday morning. after four days ILL
ness.
The cause Of his death was appendicitis
IN virulent form. No operation was
performed as the patient was in no con-
dition 10 undergo the strain at any time
after his seizure. Deceased was the Sec
ond son OF Mr.. and Mrs. William u. Ham
lin, and lived with his parents. at No.
us east Grace street The funeral will
take place from 81. James Episcopal
church to-day at II o'clock.
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slnte Commitlce.s Address.

RALEIGH. n. C.. Dec. The Demo
cratic state Committee. in session here
to-day. issued an address, TO the voters
OF the State, declarlns me Democratic
party as the party OF me people reanlrm-
INC The chicago and State platforms OF
last year. declaring that William Jennings
BRYAN is the great leader OF the party.
denouncing Republican mlsrule. ana IN
Democrats in regaining control ~ the
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-04

An Extension of the Time Tor Enforcement
Expected But Under Restrictions.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-The hearing
given by the Interstate commerce COM
mission on the question OF extending the
tire within which the railways OF the
country may comply with the provisions
OF the car coupler and train brake act.
IVES concluded az noon to-day. The
commission intends 10 take some supple
mental testimony under oath before COM
Ing TO decision
There seems 10 he no doubt whatever
that an extension will be granted and
that the extension viii be general in it's
character the hearing having dcmonatra-
ted that any discrimination would fan as
heavily on roads which have compiled
with the law as on those which have thus
far disregarded II.
The general impression among both the
rAilroed men and the labor leaders who
were In attendance on the hearing Is that
the extension granted by the commits
sion Will be compromise. The railway
representatives asked for i've years with
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-04

with Harvard i'm close and spirited for
ensic contest on the question: Resolved.
That the United States should annex the
Hawaiian Islands" Yale defended the
negative side which won-the battle
This is Yales third victory over Har-
ward during the lest ten years.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-04
LIKES WOMEN BIRBERS.
4 Bedford Man So Wen Pleased That lie
CT. H.. SI.n.... IN. On. nn,

Gets Two SLAVES ia One Day.
A prominent Bedfordite stepped into
the Law building barber shop In Lynch
burg recently TO get shave He was
polished of by the lady barber. and
expressed much satisfaction with the
job. lie was so well pleased with the
Job. I'm fact. that before the day was out.
back he came to experience again the de-
lightful touch OF dainty fingers on his
cheek Bedford Bulletin.
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Vale Orators Ahead.

NEW HAVEN. CONN, Dec. 3.-Yale
oratorv carri sd an intercollegiate contest
by storm here this evening. the home de-
baters winning in their tenth meeting
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-04

Lasar is being sued for divorce and in
some way, IT is thought. this latter fact
has connection with the accusation Of
smuggling.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-04

THE third grammar grade boys OF Leigh
School defeated the fourth grammar
grade boys In a game OF football Thurs-
day evening by score OF 70 TO o.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-04
Four More Jurors Secured

CHICAGO. Dec 3.-Four more jurors
were accepted to-day TO try Adolph
Leutgert
Four Jurors yet remain 10 be selected.
About two hundred and twenty-five We
nremen have so far been examined
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because he cannot explain puzzling
charges and peculiarly worded allega-
tions he is threatened, bullied and sent
to solitary cell to reflect, and after
some hours is again subjected to the in
quisition This process may go on for
weeks, and sometimes has continued for
months. Often the Judge tries persua-
sion and secures confessions that are
false, the accused being induced to con-
fess in the hope of clemency.
Thus, says a recent careful writer, the
woman Dose not long ago confessed to
the murder of her father after the Judge
of Instruction had long tortured her
with examinations. Yet few days
later the real murderer was discovered.
The servant girl Chape was recently
charged with stealing a ring from her
mistress. The wordy duel between the
accused and the Judge brought the usual
confession and the miserable creature
was sent to trial with certainty Of con-
viction But on the trial the mistress
appeared and declared it all a mistake;
the ring had been found. Being asked
why she confessed the unhappy servant
girl replied, Because was forced to
do So
At Bordeaux, said NJ. Constans on the
floor of the French Senate not long ago,
man was charged with murder. There
was but little evidence against him, but
the magistrate conceived the idea that
the man was guilty and told him his
head was in danger, but that if he con-
fessed his life would be spared. He
then confessed and was sent to trial
where the utter weakness of the case
against him astonished the French
court, which asked the prisoner why he
had admitted his guilt when it could not
be proven? He replied that he had been
compelled to do it. Thereupon the
court sent for the Judge of instruction
who said he had induced the man to
confess.
Yet this poor fellow was on this con-
fession convicted, sentenced to die, was
saved from the guillotine by executive
interference only and was sent to the
galleys for life.
1t is simply impossible to think of such
system applying in our own land.
Every right sentiment revolts against
it. But it has so long been a custom
with the French people that not even
the Senate has yet been able to shake it.
So, too, in Mexico, prisoners may be
confined and half starved to intimidate
them, and that without any opportunity
whatever to communicate with friends,
and often have no counsel until brought
to bar for trial. Swiftness and certainty
in criminal procedure We want, but not
the celerity and certainty which spring
from cruelty and the assumption OF
guilt, nor from French and Mexican IN
Quisitorial methods.
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of the assemblage left his position to
frame a resolution to that effect to
be incorporated in the platform. The
resolution was voted down, but it re-
mains that it was possible for body
to submit to such incendiary PROPOSE
tions, and not manifest any consider
able concern. Labor has more to fear
sane remedies for alleged ills than from
any assaults upon it's rights from other
directions
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SLOPPY CRITICISM.

The San Diego Tribune" pays its
own intelligence a poor compliment in
its criticism of delays in the Supreme
Court. 1t is on all sides conceded that
the Supreme Justices are hard working,
diligent and dispose of the business
deliberately and properly consider the
causes submitted. Nevertheless, the
court is, as it has been for years, con-
siderably behind with it's calendar, due
TO the fact that litigation is so plenti-
full, and that there is such an enormous
number of appeals taken.
The Tribune" however, thinks the
condition of affairs in the chief appel
late court unnecessary and mischiev-
Gus and in violation of law" 1t sug-
gests a remedy by citing the constitu-
tional provision that no Judge of a
Superior or Justice of the Supreme
Court shall draw his salary until he
has filed an affidavit to the effect that
no cause in that court remains unde-
cided that has been submitted for de-
cision for the period of ninety days
If the section has been repealed says
the Tribune" it should be promptly
re-enacted; IF it is still in force some
legislation should make it effective"
The presumption should be that in
every well ordered newspaper office
there is a, copy of the Constitution of
the State, and that it shows all and
the latest amendments. The presump-
ton should be that every editor compe-
tent for his duty knows whether a con-
stituti0nal provision has been amended
or stricken out. The presumption of
intelligence is that any well-informed
editor before pronouncing judgment as
cerIains the fact upon which he bases
it.
All these presumptions fail in the
case of the Tribune" We do not re-
peal in the ordinary acceptation of the
term, constitutional provisions. By
vote, the people may amend or strike
out constitutional section The sec
lIOll 1C-eAiSO " ny our contemporary
shows upon its face that it is self
executing, and needs no legislative ac-
ton TO give it vitality. The slightest
inquiry in it's own county would have
revealed to the Tribune" that the Sec
tion it quotes is in force and is exc
cuted, and that its own Superior Judges
do hot draw their salaries until they
file the requisite affidavit and that this
is done monthly.
A little further investigation would
have revealed to the Tribune that
the same is true of the Supreme Court
Justices, and that for these many
moons these tireless jurists have drawn
no salary from the Golfers of the State.
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WHO SHOULD BE MAYOR

Three candidates are now in the field
for the Mayoralty of this city. The
Mayor is the chief executive officer of
the municipality. the position de-
mands, therefore, a man of proved ex-
ecutive ability Comparing the candi-
dates on that single basis, and conced-
ing, only for the sake of argument, that
in other respects they stand upon
level, then far and away the Republican
nominee is the man who should be
elected.
The platform of his party pledges Mr.
Land to the enforcement of the laws
and ordinances without fear or favor,
and as the oath of office demands. To
that pledge Mr.. Land has given his
emphatic assent, and whoever knows
the man cannot entertain a doubt either
of his sincerity or of loyalty to his
word, which in this community is the
equivalent of an approved and unques-
toned bond.
Mr.. Land has made no failures in
life His career has been one of sue
cess. His word has invariably been
kept; he has laid his hand to no work
that he has not to the full accom-
plished it; in his belief in Sacramento
there has been no faltering. Neither
of the other candidates stand before
the community as so successful in busi-
ness. as having so impressed himself
upon the community, or as possessed
of such executive ability and energy.
If it is conceded, for the sake of ar
stand on a level; that they equally have
the city's interests at heart, and that
as to all possible objections that might
be advanced against each of them by
opponents to their candidacy, then the
Republican candidate enjoys the
great advantage of having large
property interests in this city,
of the fact that here he has
here has invested his all and has here
attained the independent state in life
that lifts him above the ordinary temp
tations and influences invariably assail-
ing an executive officer intrusted with
important interests.
Mr. Land, moreover. is a man of lib
eral education, having won his laurels
at one of the foremost collegiate insti-
tutions of the West. He has broadened
his attainments and his views of life
by extensive travel and wide observa-
ton; probably no man in the COM
nluaity has been brought into more
intimate contact with men of all classes
and tempers This schooling of expert
ence has fitted him for executive tasks,
and gives the assurance that the same
ability, shrewdness, untiring energy. in
domitable perseverance and unflagging
industry that have won for him sue
cess in life, will be manifest in the
official career to which he viii assuredly
be chosen.
What this city needs greatly is ex-
ecutive capacity and backbone in the
seat Of authority, and believing that it
viii have that in William Land, the
Record Union" has no hesitancy, after
comparing him and his career with the
personality and the careers of his op-
ponents. in saying that it is the duty
Of the voter who wishes the best for
his city. the practice of the wisest
economy, the conservation of the best
interests of taxpayers, and that the
most progressive and advanced policy
shall be pursued, should vote for the
nominee of the Republican party-Wil-
liam Land.
In the Chicago Labor Convention an
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A cane rush at the University of
Southern California took place the
other day. The result was the usual
one, lot of broken legs, wounded
faces and crushed ribs. II was thought
that there was enough of example Of
the vice of these exhibitions of over
plus Of animal spirit to have enforced
a prohibition of the brutality in South
ern California
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Poor Greece: defeated, humiliated,
her military back broken. her treasury
empty, her ledger full of debit entries,
her Prince in disgrace, her flag drag
gled in the mire-she is an object for
the pity of the world. Is it any won
der that a band of devoted patriots
still clamor for renewal of the war that
they may die upon their country's al
tars?
The record-union., 1897-10-03

The nomination of Hon. Benjamin F.
Tracy by the Republicans Of New
York City to be Mayor of Greater New
York, much complicates the situation
there. It makes the election of Presi-
dent Low doubtful, and gives Tam
many more hope of success. Thus both
of the parties demanding reform in the
municipal government are likely to
suffer defeat because of the unwilling
ness of the Citizens Union, which pre-
sented the name Of Mr.. Low, to effect
any compromise with the Republican
party So history will repeat itself
and prove anew that house divided
against itself cannot stand. In the
strife between reformers the boss eIe-
ment usually wins.
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In the Chicago Labor Convention an
infammable delegate shouted the dec
laration that workingmen should arm
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The Escondido Times" SAYS:


Nobody but fool would attempt to
deny that better times must come to
this country by reason of good crops
and good prices, but, as remarks an
exchange, ''the man who is satisfied
with a prosperity that is wholly due
to crop failures abroad and which will
disappear when good crops come to
other countries again, should encase
himself in plaster of paris and sell him
self for an oyster"
That is all very well, but our good
times are not due wholly to foreign
crop failures" Nevertheless failure of
production and fall of prices from mar
ket failure or other causes, are things
possible and probable. OF course, no
prosperity, but everyone should build
and fortify against the ebbing of the
business and productive tide. Because
there must, in the natural order of
things, be rise and fall in the tide is
no reason for cursing or wrangling as
to causes, but rather for reasoning and
lesson learning. The wise man will
permit himself in times of prosperity to
run to extravaganza no more than in
hard times will he attempt to live be-
yond his means. There is reason in all
things. We have had long season OF
tight times. 1t has not been without
it's benefits, however, because it has
taught how to live economically and
without going into debt. Necessity has
given US lesson in fact that should
not be lost upon us in the time of pros
perity. Now that the sun shines let us
make hay; but let us store it also
against rainy weather.
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THE WEEKLY UNION.

TWELVE PAGES.
Is the cheapest and most desirable Home,
News and Literary Journal published on
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IN BAD TASTE.

Bakersfield Echo: The calling of a
recent mass meeting in San Francisco
to ratify and applaud the decision of
Judge Wallace in ousting the Super
visors was in very bad taste. Such de-
cisions ought never to be influenced by
the whims of the populace The Judges
are there to interpret the law, that is
oil
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D. d. WHITBECk Cashier
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LANES NJ. STEVENSON ..... Surveyor
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PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK.

Sacramento, Cal.
Paid up capital and surplus. $500, 900
DIRECTORS:
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Loans made on real estate. Interest paid
semi-annually.
WIN. BECKMAN, President.
George w. Lorenz, Secretary.
CROCKER- WOOL WORTH NATIONAL BANK,
Crocker Building. Market and Post
Streets, san Francisco.
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DIRECTORS
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Cashier w. KLINE
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