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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-06-30
BIG FIRE IN FRISCO.
Oceanic Steamer Wharf and Two Ships
Burned

san Francisco. June "A disastrous
fire occurred on the water front this
afternoon While laying block pave
meat upon the new Folsom street wharf.
occupied by the Oceanic Steamship Com
.paay and recently constructed at a cost
.of $1,000. some workmen upset pot Of
boiling tar and In a few minutes the
whole wharf was in flames The Com
modore, lying at the wharf. was consid-
erably damaged before she could be tow
ed into the bay. The schooner Katie
Mack burned to the waters edge
The damage will reach s4c.Oo of which
'sSsOCO will fall o. the-state for the wharf,
S. 90 on the Commodore. and the balance
on the Katie Mack
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-06-30
SETTLERS TO ORGANIZE.

Boise, Idaho. juno = Information
comes from Camas Prairie 70 tho eject
that the settlers tnrcatea 10 organize
and cSpel tho indians lf they are not
promptly taken carr Of by the govern
meni They are bpring felces and
urAng their horses iato the fields Of
grain
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-06-30
GERsoM DEAD.

New York. June 29.-Henry Gersom. a
well-known Jewish scholar rabbi and
writer is dead at his home In this city,
aged "a years He was an accomplished
linguist and wrote many articles on the
Jews in Russia, He formerly was at the
head of congregations in Atlanta and
Chicago.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-06-30
THE MARKETS.

san Francisco, June 2s.-Hops-S and
l2c.
Liverpool June 29.-wheat-Steady; No.
l standard California, SOS
Portland, Or. June 29.-Wheat-walla
Walla, 81 and CSC; Valley, 69c.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-06-30
HIS DAYS NUMBERED.

New York. June 29.-"old Hoss" Hoey
is reported to be very weak. He was st!n
delrious and he refuses to eat. His
friends fear that he can live only short
time longer.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-06-30

great anxiety am0ag The settlers on
canaa Prairie II the same are not I'M
mc1iAtrly recalled. trouble vii eusue
FRANK sTEUENBEEG.
Governor
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07
OvercrOwded Cells.

1t seems from our local report yester-
day that the police cells were crowded on
Sunday night and the presumption is tina,
the most Of the inmates of the cells were
accused of being drunk and disorderly
The chief of police thinks he hasn't room
enough a the police barracks to take care
of the number of prisoners ne often has
under his charge. There is talk of the
need of more cells
But what the public would like to know
is, why are there so many drunken and
disorderly persons on Sundays? Are the
saloons doing a back-door business on
Sundays? This is a question which the
police commissioners should be prepared
to answer The mayor has practically no
control of the police force, and, hence, he
is not responsible for the increase in the
number of drunken and disorderly persons
on Sundays. it
Are tine police required to make IN effor.
to find out whether or not the saloons
are serving customers on Sundays? If
they are, the effort they are making is a
lamentable failure. They would be as ef-
fective in discovering violators of the Sun
day liquor law If they were blindfolded.
If they are not required to make an Of
fort, why are they not? 1t cannot possi-
bly, be the policy of the police commits
sion to allow the saloons to do business
on Sundays when the working people, be-
ing idle are more likely to spend their
earnings in drink than on other days Why
then do they not take steps to have the
Sunday liquor ordinance enforced? It
would be much the wiser plan to close the
saloons on Sundays than to put the city
to the expense of building additional cells
at the barracks TO accommodate on Sun
days drunken and disorderly persons. It
is to be hoped the commissioners will
think about this matter with the view Of
reaching the conclusion that it would be
better to remove the cause which make
additional cell room necessary rather than
go to the expense of building additional
cells.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, DECEMBER Z 1897

such a state OF affairs as existed in the
Gulf states last fan. The peo-
pie of that section are so
thoroughly dissatisfied with the
local duarantines that they are ready for
any change. They cannot see how it Is
possible for national quarantine TO be as
,burdensome as the numerous local quar-
antines are.
What the President says about interna-
tional bimetalllsn will likely be received
by the country with a smile He seems
to think that there is stin a chance for
an international agreement on the silver
question If he really holds that view,
he is probably about the only prominent
man who does. Nothing that has been
published relative to the visit to Europe
of the Wolcott commission justifies the
conclusion that any European statesman
thinks international bimetalIsm within
the bounds of probability. The Presidents
purpose may be TO keep the question alive
for use in the next national campaign.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07
D-e----
Not as Bad as TubercuIosis.

Tubercular consumption has reached
such proportions in New York that the
board of health of that city has entered
upon a systematic warfare against it. AS
terrible q disease as yellow fever is 1t is
not as bad as tubercular consumption. In
a yellow fever epidemic only about one
case in ten is fatal. unless the disease is
of an unusually malignant type and then
the death rate is somewhat greater. Dr.
Briggs of the New York health depart
ment said, day or two ago, that one per-
son in every seven in that city dies of tu-
bercular consumption and that one-fourth
of the deaths among working people is
from that disease.
Notwithstanding the fact that one per-
son in seven in New York dies from con-
sumption, there is no panic there and peo-
pie are not leaving the city by thousands
as they did the Gulf coast cities last sum-
mer. Why is it that yellow fever is re-
garded with such terror while tuberculosis
eXcites little or no alarm? tuberculosis
is an infectious disease. The physicians
no longer have any doubt about that, and
it is believed by the New York board of
health that it can be practically stamped
out in that city by proper treatment and
isolation. In harmony with this belief the
New York board of health has been given
$4,000 with which to fight the disease next
year. About all of this money will be
spent in the treatment of consumptive pa
tents who are poor. They will be
taken to hospitals and isolated.
The New York board of health has been
trying for four years or more to get an ap-
preparation to make an experiment in
stamping out the disease. The experiment
will he watched with the greatest inter-
est, because it is the first of that kind that
has ever been undertaken in this or any
other country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07
English Hun,or Analysed.

l really fail to see how the American
pubic can keep house without "Punch."
The English funny paper, says a writer
in the yellow Book Good people. YOU
don't know what you miss l have a copy
here before me, and am in a perfect
frenzy of hilarity. Just listen to this:
"Kangaroos do not live upon hops"
Ha! ha! Isn't that good! Oh, isn't that
rich! You see the point don't you? KAN
garoos jump, and hop is one kind of
jump-and that's where the fun comes In
OF course Punch doesn't give a long ex-
PLANTATION with the joke, such as l have
given. It merely itahcizes the word hop. &"
This would hardly answer with Ameri-
cans, because we are so blooming dense
don't you know; but il sufices with our
quick-wiCted cousins over the pond The
Englishmau's method seems 10 be some
thing like this: He observes the italicized
word and fixes it firmly in his mind A
good way to do this is to write the word
three or four hundred times on a piece of
paper, or a blackboard if a piece of paper
is not at hand. After getting the word
firmly established in his memory he goes
backward and forward through the SEN
tence until he finds. another word that
sounds like the first one That makes a
pun, and then he laughs joyousy. If there
is not another word that sounds like the
memorized one, he hunts for an idea
that is somewhat similar. Very often the
cOrrelatiVe idea or word is a.so italicized
out TINS Is not gOOQ plan Tor the Eng
lish editor to follow, as certain confusion
may arise in The mind of. the reader, and
he may laugh at the wrong time.
But here is another: The husbands
boat for Margate has been revived. The
wifes train is always with us-at the
drawing rooms.
Here the side-splitting correlation is be-
tween boat and train, both of which are
conveyances. This is jeu d'esprit. If
the witty writer had elaborated it, bringing
in a stage coach and one who prepares an
actor for the theatrical stage, il would
have been a veritable tour de force. But
you can't ask for everything
Here is a good one las the editor of the
Drawer in Harper's Magazine would say:
An American sailor has left a legacy of
81 100 to his dog Now, if the animal fan
cies mutton II can probably have a leg
aL-sea."
Just imagine getting up on a morning
when the London fog is so thick the ships
sail through the streets, and reading that
a breakfast. Why, il would make any
day bright and glorious.
Take some tonic and prepare yourself
for Ihis:
"A fall in cycles is alarming some deal
ers. but, after all, they are constantly
falling The only difference in the present
case is that the fall is in price,
They say that the queen reads Punch
regularly.
ever praying God save the queen"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07
Pomp's Defense.

The following was found recently by
Judge Norwood of the city court among a
lot of old papers. The authorship is I'M
known:
stole dem britches, I knowledge de corn,
But 'tWant no crime, shos you born;
IF de motif am right, den whar's de sin :?
l stole dem britches to be baptize in.
Fur my onliest par was clean wore out;
Dey gave up de ghost when l gun to
shout
But 'ligion am mighty and mus pervan.
Tho it Ian a darky in de county jail.
De chain-gangs got me, and de coal mine
But what could 'fenseless culered man
do?
When de judge and de jury lowed 1t was
sin
To steal dem britches to be baptize in?
Tell all de folks howdy and goodbye. too.
I'll meet 'em in heaben when my work is
For my heart is white, do my skin be
black.
I'm gwine to trabel on de shinin' track.
In de Judgment. old Gabriel he's gwlne to
say
"Pomp's straight as shingle and clear
day"
Hen shout to dc world dat ii 'twan't no
sin,
10 steal dem britches to be baptize in.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meetings-Alpha Lodge No. l, A. & A.
s. r.; DeKalb Lodge No. ., I. o. o. r. /;
Savannah Lodge No. 1873. B. P. o. Elks.
Special Notices-Punta Gorda Oysters at
Beckmann's; Notice as to Liquor Licenses ;
Liquor License Application; Two Proud
Endorsements from Unimpeachable Sourc-
es; Georgia Brewing Association; Bids
Wanted W w Gordon. Jr., Secretary
Park and Tree Commission; Ship Notices,
w NJ. Wilson; Ship Notice, Strachan &
Co; Two More Specials, Nos. 10 and Il,
She Metropolitan Clothing Company; DOM
Look Gift Horse in the Mouth, Savan-
nah Carriage and Wagon Company.
Business NOTES.-The Girl from Paris
Scent Cigar
Auction observation-disclosures Sales,
]. D. LaRoche, Auctioneer; Trustees Sale,
by c. H. Dorset, Auctioneer; Admins
traitors Sale, by Robert II. Tatem, Auc-
tioneer; Good Investment by Robert II.
Tatem, AuctiOneer.
Santa Claus in Town Making His Head
quarters at-Leopold Adler's.
Two Great Specials Added to the List
Metropolitan Clothing Company.
Our Word Our Bond-Falk Clothing
Company.
. Coal! Coal! Coal!-T. F. johnson & Co
Lady May Give-B. II. Levy & Bro
Legal Notices-Application of atiardee-
VILE Brick Company to Change Name;
Notice of Intention to Transfer Germania
Bank Stock; Libel for Divorce, Mary Ann
McMurray VS.. Patrick McMurray.
Legal Sales-City Sher!ff's Sale; City
MaTshals Sales.
Railroad Schedule-Florida Central and
Pennsular Railroad.
Medical-Terraline; Pyramid Pile Cure
Warmers Safe Cure; Baco~Curo; Erie Med
ical Company; Ayers Cherry Pectorali
Cuticura Remedies; Hoods Sarsaparillai
Carlsbad Sprudel Salt; Castoria.
Cheap Column Advertsements-1elT
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent
For Sale; Lost Personal Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07

The Nicaragua canal commission, headed
by Admiral Walker, has sailed for Grey
town. The three commissioners are ac-
companied by party of some seventy en-
gineers and assistants. The party will
spend the winter in making a careful sur
vey Of the proposed route of the canal. In
connection with the departure of the com
mission it is of interest to note, from a
dispatch from Managua published in the
Morning News yesterday, that an Eng
fish syndicate has deposited with the gov
eminent of Nicaragua 5000 in gold as the
syndcate's guarantee in a contract with
the government giving the syndicate ex-
elusive steam navigation right for thirty
years on the Silico lagoon. San Juan del
Norte river. and Lake Nicaragua. These
bodies of water are embraced in the route
of the proposed canal 1t is not quite
clear yet what the English syndicate Is up
TO- but it probably thinks it sees a way of
getting something good out of the canal
scheme.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07

Speaker Reed made a phrase the other
day which deserves to be heard frequently,
and with emphasis, during the current ses-
sion Of congress. He Is not in favor of
Hawaiian annexation. Discussing the
matter with a friend he observed EN-
pire can wait" In a recent issue of the
illustrated American the speaker had a
thoughtful article upon the subject of
developing the territory which we now
have before adding to our possessions. 1t
is to be hoped he will use his great infiu-
ence in convincing the administration not
only that empire can wait" but that It
ought to wait for a long time,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07
some Encournging signs.
From the New York Evening Post Und.

j.
There are encouraging signs that the
Hawaiian treaty is at least to be discuss
ed by the Senate. The plan to slip it
through as if it were one of the settled
things which all reasonable men were
agreed about, will fail. Senator Gray has
announced that the important questions
involved cannot be passed over without
debate. Senator Allison has found out
that the treaty is to be stoutly opposed,
and by senators of ability. Our Washing
ton correspondent intimated in his dis
patch last evening that il will not be so
difficult as the anneXatiOnists have pre-
tended to rally one-third of the Senate
against the treaty. one thing is certain
the way TO beat the treaty is to discuss it,
The arguments which can be publicly adj
Yanced for annexation are easy to riddle:
and the very fact that the real motives
which are an5mating the annexationists-
that Is, a new chance 10 make money, to
build a lot of ships. and. above all. to
have the glorious privilege of repairing
them when buit-the fact that these mo-
tiyes cannot be openly avowed. Is one
which makes debate all the more neces-
sary. The only hope of the treaty lies in
silence A few sane and courageous
voices in the Senate will make an end of
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07

1t was to be expected that some sensa-
tional story involving Japan and Hawaii
would find its way into the public prints
about the time of the assembling of con-
gress. The alleged interview of Minister
Torn Hoshi, telegraphed from San Fran
cisco and printed yesterday. fills the bill.
According to the story, Japan viii siren
uously oppose annexation. Meantime it
must be borne in mind that it is quite a
long way to San Francisco, and that many
of the most wild and woolly' storiea
come from that section of the country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07
An OutspOken Republican.
From the Philadelphia Record Dem.) }.

The astute Senator Stephen B. Elkins
seems to have one set of ideas for politics
and another for private business. In re-
Spouse to a question as to what is to be
done to meet the Dingley deficiencies. he
is reported to have said: We seem to
be getting along. Understand me- l mean
the government is paying it's way. If the
Dingley act does not produce a revenue to
equal expenses, we have he money to fall
back upon which was accumulated by the
sale of bonds under the last administra-
ton" Such a strong grasp of economic
principles is worthy the author of the dis
eliminating railway clause in the Dingley
tariff
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07

1t appears that there is strong opposition
IN some sections of the west 10 the eleva-
lion of Attorney General McKenna to the
supreme bench. A petition has been re-
eeived in Washington from Portland Ore
signed by a judge of the United states
district court and number of leading
lawyers, protesting against the appoint
ment Th@paper goes on TO say that the
office should be held only by one who in
learning, intellectual ability and deter
mined character has shown himself to be
among the few most eminent of the legal
profession and capable Of executing the
great trust placed upon him, and of main
tsning the character of the supreme
court.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07

Queer stories about Russell Sage are al
ways finding their way into the newspa-
pers. One of the queerest of these was
printed on Saturday. 1t was to the effect
that Mr. Sage had made his will, and that
1t left the greater part of his enormous
fortune 10 schools, colleges and charities
As MIR. Sage is supposed to be worth any
where from SO 900 to $75OOO,O0O it can
be understood how much interest was
taken in the story. To the Times Mr.
Sage Smiled and declined to say anything
about the matter"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07

II appears from Atlanta dispatches that
Airs. Mobiles is opposed to capital punish
ment for women, and thinks the
Berry bill to abolish capital
punishment for women, except upon
the recommendation of the jury, should
become a law. The woman's unbiased and
expert opinion will of course, be apprecia-
ted by the law makers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07

Charles Blanc, the new project Of the
police in Paris, is not yet Al. The son of
a former senator for the Hautes Alpes. ne
has climbed the administrative ladder
with great celebrity, and a little more than
a year ago he found himself a the head
OF the surete, but a step from his present
post.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07
Pinsree, Man of Ideas.
Louisville Courier-Journal Dem).

Let us not misrepresent Gov. Pingree.
Perhaps he only bought that lake of boil
ing asphalt to make sure of proper provig-
ion for the diabolical plutocrats in case
Bob Ingersoll's theories should be correct.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07

Should Speaker jenkins have further
trouble in keeping a quorum of represen-
tatives in the House, it might be a good
idea for him to invite the chief fireman of
Savannah to visit the capital, and bring
with him his hammer and nails.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07

Senator Billy Mason of Illinois, gives
promise of adding greatly to the gaiety of
the nation during the session of congress
now Just begun. The senatd& is opposed
to executive sessions of the Senate except
for the purpose of considering matters of
foreign policy, or other weighty state
business. He says it is a farce and a hum
bug to hold secret sessions for the confir-
nation of postmasters and other small
officers, and he is going to try to bring
about the abolition of the executive ses-
sion for such purposes. He also wants a
closure rule, by which debate can be linn
tied, ard will endedvor to UPSET that
mighty power known as senatorial cour-
tesy. When "Bnly" gets 20 bucking
against these Senate traditions, and the
lofty dignity of that most august DELHI
erative body there is going to be some
fun. r4f
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The mirror does not show US as We
really are. No matter how plain face
seems it is much more beautiful than il
appears in a mirror. No one can assume
a natural expression when looklhs IN
glass. The eye must be in certain posi-
ton, and as that organ governs the face
only a look of attentive examination IS
seen. All the other expressions never ap-
pear. II is a mechanical impossibility for
the mirror to show the exact tone and
tint Of the eyes and hair.
Some sixty patents have been granted
upon different mechanisms for showing
the route and destination of street cars
by night and day. None have been fOunu
satisfactory until the present time.
new sign has been invented 10 be placed
over the heads of the car crew, and d.
rectly accessible by them. The lamp
lightning the end of the car Eliminates it
at night and by daylight the white letter
ing on a dark background can be seen LOT
a long distance. The signs are inter
changeable.
The query was pronounced to the Lon
don Chronicle the other day as to where
all the imported kangaroos tails came
from? An answer seems TO be found IN
an official return just presented TO the
parliament of Queensland. In that one
colony alone during the year of 1896 there
were destroyed. besides 2SS, 65S kangaroos,
So, 65S wallabies, species of dwarf KEN
CARGO. AT this rate the most characters
tic OF Australian marsupials-the "amOos-
in cuss" of ARENAS Wards hardly like
ly to last long, and that choice delicacy,
kangaroo-tail soup, which the aldermen of
the city of London are just beginning 70
appreciate, will, as an Irishman might
say, disappear from the bills of fare before
il has found a place on them. But kan
garoos consume a considerable quantity
of grass, to the detriment of sheep and
cattle, hence the energy displayed IN
shooting and trapping them.
Works have been established at Girls
tiana for utilizing sea weed for the pro-
duction of algin acid, soluble in alkalis
and suitable for sizing paper and hnlsh-
ing textile fibre, says an exchange. Inc
sea weed is first liXiYiated in swater, and
the iodine obtained by a secret process
from the solution, the resulting stuff be-
ing capable OF being used at once as an
inferior glue The precipitated acid IS
good substitute for glue, starch, and also
for soap, which will take up to 50 per cent
of this acid, and bleached and CHARMED
the fucus acid resembles, and is 10 be
equal to gum arabic solution. In the new
process discovered by Kreftng, the fucuS
or sea weed is treated with sulphunc
acid which extracts the lime, and then
with cold soda solution, which binds the
new acid to. soluble soda salt; the hbre
disintegrateS, and can be filtered on ana
out of the filtrate sulphuric acid preelpl-
tates fucus acid which contains no nitro
gen.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07
what ..Mary Ann" Did with 1t.
From the Wilmington IN. @. Star Dem.)

Hon. Tom Watson rises to ask what
Marion Butler has done with the populist
party?" Tom shouldn't ask silly ques-
tions. Marion has utilized the populist
party to climb into the United States
Senate. Don't you see?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07

The governor of Georgia and the mem
bers of the legislature have doubtless been
under the impression that they We're the
persons reforming the convict system; but
it appears that they are mot in it, except
as the agents Of another. The New York
Herald did it. The Herald's crusade
against the cruel treatment q. Georgia
convicts under the lease systenHHwill pro-
duce good results" says our modest and
unassuming contemporary. Presently we
shall have the New York papers running
the universe. They seem even now to
think they are doing about all of it,