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The San Francisco call., 1897-05-09
CORRESPONDENTS Column.

Emma D.-Please write only on one side OF
your paper.
Blanch E. S.-Fifty cents Please send
cents for postage also. Vera Chisholm, you
are enrolled as mem ber.
William Sea-Your Easter poem has just
been receivsd.
Max S-Q) Your sugges ton is good one.
(2) A roll of honor is to be publis he'd on the
last Sunday of the year. 1t will contain the
names OF the most faithful workers in C. R. C.
(3) Either Clay or Market street office.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-09

Besides letters published pleasant commu-
nications have bsen received from the fol-
lowing: Charles Killpack, Retha Waldan
&C. r. CO., Pauline Duggan, Eva Navone
&C. R. CO.. Esther Kelley, Max Selig &C. r. C)
G. W. Page, Lizzie NJ Wienke &C. R. c., Theo
Joos &c. r. CO., Emma Dulfer, Blanch E. Stout
&C. R. c.. Mona Herbert &C.. r. C), Vera Chis-
holm &C. B. c., Arthur W. Simpson &C. B. c. }
and Ruhy Weider
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Dear Iditor: I send for my badge SO please
mail it to me. l shall make my letter as short
as l can for I only wished TO send the order.
Papa gave it 10 me for my birthday present. /
was 10 years old the 2Sth of April. And SO
good-by. Your loving friend,
Gr,~,- DIrr
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SolVers.

Answers to puzzles of May have been
received from the following members of C.
r. c.:
Max Selig Theo Joos, Blanch, E Stout and
Ethel Mcclure.
For April 2S-Theo Joos.
For April 11-WilIiam Sea and Alma Sea-
From non-me mbers for April Is Willie
Crooks.
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A Creaking and a Squeaking.
When you hear creaking, creaking,
And real ear-splitting squeaking.
As OF some one vengeance wreaking
On the poor old garden gate,
Theu you know that we are coming,
And you all come running, running
Out to meet us at the garden gate.
But to-day, when we are coming,
No one will come running, running,
None to meet US Will be coming;
None will seek the garden gate.
No one hears the creaking, creaking,
No one smiles at squeaking, soueaking,
AS of poor, neglected barnyard gate.
Would you know the awful reason
OF this seeming heart]ess treason,
OF this sad, heart-breaking season
And the absence of the squeak?
Papa m ade q resolution
To effect revolution,
And when oiled our buggy ceased t,
creak
ALICE L. MELVILLE
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(c) Disorder plus a city in Massachusetts,
(d) musical instrument plus a river
(e) Knocked into pieces plus assistance.
ALICE BELL &c. R. C.).
VIII. (a) What is the meaning Of the word
"Plagiarist?'
(b) Go fer word hunt in 'Plagiarist."
RULES.
Use each letter for any one word only as
often as it occurs in the given word.
No abbreviations will be accepted.
The one who Is successful in finding the
greatest number of words will be entitled to
mem bership in c. R. C.
TX. Crossword enigma.
My is in bought, but not in sold.
My 2 is iE sty, not in fold.
My is in more, not in less.
My 4 is in shoe, but not in dress.
My 5 is in drown, but not in immerse.
And my whole was an English writer Of
verse. H. JACKSON &c. R. CO.
x. (a) What was it the blind man took at
breakfast that restored his sight?
(b) Whichis the heavier, half of the moon or
the whole of it?
Selected by PERCY RICHARDS &c. r. ca
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Exchanges Received.
Youths Companion, Harper's Round Table
and Golden Days.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-09

The trained dog in the next cage says he's going
&c What for %
He says there's too much rel ape about this menagere
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A thought for the Week.
YOUR VALUATION.
1t matters not what you may do
To make a nation or a shoe:
For he who works All honest thing
In Gods pure sight ranks as King.
Select ed.
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Letters Received.

TX. Cow-horse-dog.
The record-union., 1897-08-06
FURNISHING OF ARM0R PLATE.
THE CRAMPS DECLINE TO UN-
DERTAKE THE TASK.
The Government Will Now Have to
Establish Plant of It's Own, OF
Allow an Increase in Price.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-Charles
Cramp of the shipbuilding firm of
Cramp & Sons was at the Navy De-
partment to-day in conference with
Acting Secretary Roosevelt and Captain
ONeil, Chief of the Ordnance Bureau,
to learn the intention of the department
in the matter of procuring armOr for
the battleships now building. The re-
plies to Secretary Longs invitations to
submit proposals for supplying such
armor as they need for the ships they
are building has been delayed by the
absence from the United States of
Charles Cramp.
He has now made answer, and, as
was expected, declines to undertake the
task. He was not averse, however to
undertaking to supply the small guam
tity of diagonal armor. amounting to
about eighty tons for each ship, at the
minimum price allowed by Congress
$500 per ton-his offer to do this being
based on a desire to prevent possible
stoppages of work on the ships, owing
to particular armor which must be
worked into the hull of the structure.
Meanwhile the Secretary is proceed
ing to carry out the direction of Con-
gress on the lines laid down by Secreta-
ry Long, and he has completed the
personnel of the September board
which is to make an investigation of
the cost of establishing a Government
armor plant. AS announced to-day,
the board will consist of Commodore
Howell, Commandant of the League
Island Navy Yard; Captain McCor-
mick, Captain of the Norfolk Navy
Yard; Chief Perry, from the Monterey;
Civil Engineer Menocal, from the New
York Navy Yard; Lieutenant Fletcher,
from the torpedo station, with Lieuten-
ant w. l. CharH bers, from the Mime
apols, as recorder.
This board will meet Monday next in
the Ordnance Bureau here for organi-
Zaton, and to outline the work 1t is
not to be conjectured how long the in
quiry will last, but from the magnitude
of the task, and the probability that
difficulty will be encountered in secur-
ing the information as to the cost of
plates and the cost of production of
the armor, no conclusion can be reach
ed very much earlier than the assem-
bling of the next session Of Congress-
to which the result must be reported.
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WHEELMEN AT PHILADELPHIA.
TWELVE THOUSAND ALREADY
AT THE QUAKER CITY.
Rain Interferes With the Outside
Runs-Track Races to Com
mence This Morning.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5.-The bus
tie which has prevailed at the
headquarters of the National League of
American Wheelmen since Tuesday
continued to-day, despite the threaten
ing clouds and occasional showers. Up
to noon to-day over l., 1000 members had
registered, with new arrivals coming in
by every train. Since the headquarters
have been opened over 1000 members
have been enrolled.
The scheduled all-day run to historic
Valley Forge was abandoned on ac-
count of the rain. The other scheduled
runs starting at 9 o'clock up to the Wis
siokahon Valley through Paramount
Park got away on time, with large
number of riders, considering the
weather.
Between the showers, which grew
lighter as the day advanced, short runs
were taken in every direction through
the city and suburbs, and refreshments
and indoor amusements We're provided
in every bicycle club house. AT l
o'clock there was every indication of
clear weather for tomorrow. Should
the weather not be too violent the races
viii be run, rain or shine.
The Omaha and Indianapolis delega-
tons are still engaged in a goodna-
tured rivalry for the '9S meet, and keep
ing open house at their respective head
quarters in the Aberdeen and Hotel
Walton.
When the time came for the afternoon
runs through West Paramount Park and
to the Quaker City Club along the up
per Delaware the clouds had disap-
peared, and the sun was shining bright
ly. The clear weather continued for the
rest of the day, and by night there was
every prospect of perfect weather for
the trial heats tomorrow and the finals
in the afternoon. The track, which is of
wood and was built specially for this
years meet, is reported by the cracks
who have been riding on it for the past
few days to be in perfect condition.
There are three laps to the mile. The
track is twenty-four feet wide and
forty feet in the home stretch. The
curves have a radius of forty-one feet.
and there is an elevation of seven feet
nine inches. Arrangements have been
completed to have every finish in trials
and finals photographed, so as to avoid
Disputes.
To-morrow's referee VII be George D.
Gideon of Philadelphia, last years
Chairman of the National Racing
Beard.
Johnny Johnson, who was injured yes
terday while training at the Willow
Grove track, was about to-day, but if
the stiffness does not leave him he will
not be able to enter the races.
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refuse all information. None of the
dead were burned. They were suffocat-
ed from the fire in the adjacent rooms.
The only exit for escape was blocked by
a bathtub set up on end at the head
from an adjacent room, where the fire
was soon extinguished. 1t seems that
it was a wedding frolic, in which Guth,
one of the dead men, was the BRIDE
groom, and the daughter of Landlord
Adler was the bride. Still there is
some doubt about who was the bride,
as this is about nearly all the particu-
lars in the case.
The celebrants of the wedding used
beer and cigarettes very freely, and it
is now supposed cigarettes started the
fire and that beer caused the somno-
lence, which, with the appended bath
tub, was the indirect cause of so much
fatality. 1t seems that while four out
of the seventeen in the room were suf-
located fatally, the other thirteen suf-
fered but slightly.
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ORDER OF RED MEN.
Yesterdays Session of the Council
Devoted to Routine Business.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. days
session Of the Great Council of Red
Men was entirely taken up with the
routine business.
There was a long discussion as to
the duties of the Great Sachem, and it
was decided that all buildings and
other property of defunct lodges be-
comes the property of the Great Coun-
Gil. to be held in trust
In relation to the report of the Com
mittee on Law and Usage, it was de-
cided that lodge benefits for a brother
begin to accrue in six months after he
has been received into the order
The committee appointed to consid-
er the question of a home for aged Red
Men was given authority to establish
a corporation for the purpose, as pro-
vided for by the law.
This afternoon the members of the
Great Council went across the bay to
dedicate the hall at Elmhurst.
The installation of the newly elected
officers will be in order tomorrow aft
ernoon, and will be the last important
duty of the session
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CANNON FIRED INTO A MOB.
Serious Charge Made Against a
Calcutta Regiment.

LONDON, Aug. 5.-The Evening
News" this afternoon publishes a let
ter from a Calcutta volunteer reiterat-
ing the statement that during the re-
cent rioting there the artillery fired
point blank at a mob of 5000 mill
hands, who We're marching to join the
the rioters, with the result that ], 800 of
the natives were killed.
The Secretary of State for India,
Lord George Hamilton, was questioned
in the House on July 9th as to the
accuracy of the native report that :
500 persons We're killed during the riot
ing which had occurred in the vicinity
Of Calcutta as one of the results of
the stringent measures taken by the
Government to prevent the spread
and stamp out the bubonic plague.
He replied that about seven persons
We're killed and that about twenty were
wounded during the riots.
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DIED FROM sUFFOCATIoN.
Four Lives Lost During a Fire al
Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI (O.), Aug. 5.-Three
men and a woman died from suffoca-
ton since 3 o'clock in a frame dwelling
consumed by fire on Elm street. oppo-
site Charles street.
The names Of the victims are: Ezra
House, Arthur Guth, Nellie Bennett,
Roy Carr
The fire started from the explosion of
a gasoline stove. The building was a
two-story frame.
Otto Adler kept an all-night restaur-
ant in the lower story of the house
There We're seventeen men and women
in one room in the second story of this
house. The occupants of the building
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TURKEY ANXIOUS FOR PEACE.
Manifesting a Desire to Expedite
Settlement of Negotiations.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. ;. - The
Turkish Government officials are now
nranifesting a desire to expedite the
settlement of the peace negotiations,
owing to the Strengthened state of the
exchequer rendering it impossible under
the present circumstances to contract
a new loan because of the unhealthy
condition of the troops in Thessaly,
where many of the soldiers are dying,
and for political reasons, the attitude
of Bulgaria, Servia and Montenegro be-
ing regarded as threatening.
The Turkish Minister for Foreign At
fairs, Tewfik Pasha, replying to in
quiries made by the ambassadors of
the Powers, has expressed ignorance of
the destination of the Turkish fleet
which left the Dardanelles Tuesday.
1t appears, however. that the war
ships are not going to Cretan waters
which is probably a wise decision upon
the part of the Turkish authorities. as
it has been stated that the Admirals in
command of the fleets of the Powers
have decided to oppose by force if nee
essary the entry of the Turkish squad
ron into Cretan waters, where precau-
tions have already been taken against
such an eventuality by the dispatch Of
warships to different parts of Crete.
CANfFsA, Aug. 5.-The Admirals in
command of the fleets in Cretan waters
to-day informed the Turkish Governor
of Crete of their decision to prevent the
Turkish squadron which left the OAR
danelles on Tuesday last for Crete from
staying in Cretan waters. The answer
of the Governor was that he had re-
ceived a communication from the Turk
ish Government denying that the latter
had dispatched a fleet Of troops to
Crete, and stated that the Turkish
squadron, concerning whose movements
there had been so much concern, was
going to Sigri, island of Mytlan.
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HANGED HIMSELF.
A Young Negro Commits Suicide
Near Santa Rosa.

SANTA ROSA, Aug. ). The body of
Henry Johnson, a young negro, was
found hanging TO a big oak tree on the
Cook farm, near here, this morning. He
had been a cook in the employ of H. L.
Trip, a prominent merchant here, and
for some time had taken great inter
est in the Salvation Army. He left a
letter saying:
Newspapers, please say I am going
to kill myself to-day. Although it is ter
rible to do so, l am going to die. l may
be saved in heaven, and may not,
though 1 have been converted, but for
killing myself l don't know just how it
viii be- But if hell 1 have to take,
don't care. Good-by
HENRY JOHNSON"
The only reason assigned for his sui
eide is religious mania.
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is A PAROLE CONVICT.
Geo. Bassett, Under Arrest at Los
Angeles for Highway Robbery.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5.-This morn
ing Warden Hale telegraphed Chief of
Police Glass to hold George Bassett,
one of the highWaymen arrested yes
terday, as Bassett, is out of San QUEEN
tin ON parole. He was released in
April last, and at once came to this
city.
In 1892 Bassett held up Mrs. Joseph
Workman of this city, near her resi-
dence on Boyle flights, and took from
her ears a pair of diamond earrings,
valued at S7O0. He was convicted and
sentenced to ten years in the State
Prison. The police consider him one
of the most dangerous criminals on the
coast.
The record-union., 1897-08-06
LUX ESTATE.
The German Heirs Ask for an Ac-
counting and Advertisements

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5.-The Ger
man heirs of the late Charles Lux have
filed a petition in the United States
Circuit Court for the purpose of OBJ
tanning an accounting and apportion-
ment of his estate, appraised at four
million dollars, the settlement of which
they seek to have set aside.
They alleged in their bill of COM
plant that Henry Lux of San Jose, who
held their power of attorney, has ex-
ceeded his authority. They object to
the powers possessed by the corporation
managing the business of Miller & Lux,
allege fraud, and ask the appointment
of a receiver.
The record-union., 1897-08-06
C.. T. Crocker's Will.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5.-The will
of the late Colonel Charles f. Croker
was admitted to probate this morning.
The estimated value of his estate is
So, 900 600, but it will probably be three
times that amount Henry Il. Scott and
Charles E. Green were appointed ex-
ecutors, and w Easton as guardian OF
the minor children.
The record-union., 1897-08-06
South Pole Expedition.

LONDON, Aug. "a special dispatch
from Antwerp to-day says that the nee
essary sum of money to defray the ex-
penses of the South Pole expedition
having been assured by the vote of a
further credit of 10000 francs. the
steamer Belgica. with the South Pole
exploring expedition on board, will
leave Antwerp on August 18th.
The record-union., 1897-08-06

AITnitt and the Westmoreland Com
pany, and the former ships west only,
the latter east
If the strikers are successful in caus-
ing suspension of the Westmoreland
mines, the march to the Central Penn
sylvania fields viii be taken up. The
miners in this district are in sympathy
with the movement and a convention of
the Clearfield and Jefferson County
leaders was held yesterday. The strike
leaders We're requested to give some at
tention to Central Pennsylvania with a
view to holding a general convention
of all miners shipping coal to the East
ern seaboard.
The situation in and about the De
ATmitt mines has not changed materi
ally since yesterday. The Plum Greek
mines are more closely guarded by the
strikers, and they have succeeded in
still further reducing the number Of
diggers, and slowly but surely decreas-
ing the output. To-day it was stated
that twenty-five men quit work in the
Plum Creek mine. Everything is quiet
to-day. The campers at Plum Creek
secured a dancing platform near Cen
ire this morning, and are now camped
there
Coffee and Sedgwick, injured by
lightning last night, will die. The 9TH
ers will recover.
STRIKERS GETTING HUNGRY.
WHEELING CIV. Va), Aug. 5.-At
Fairmont the tie-up promised by Or
gahizer Rea has not materialized and
aside from a few men at Clarksburg
there are no additions to the strikers.
In Kanawha Valley all but one mine
are working. On the Norfolk and West
ern the the strike has entirely dis
appeared.
Miners day was celebrated by la
boring people generally in Wheeling
and vicinity The Western miners are
getting hungry and have soliciting
committees out with wagons. The peo-
pie are contributing literally, and Sec
rotary Lewis thinks they can hold out
another month at least
COAL MEN ALARMED.
CLEVELAND (O), Aug. 5.-Cleve-
land coal men are viewing the coal
strike situation with much apprehen-
sion. They are deeply interested in the
mass meeting to be held in the Clear
field District in Pennsylvania. The be-
lief here is that there may be an abso-
lutte tie-up. Resumption of work by
several of Cleveland's large manufac-
tories will rapidly decrease the supply
of coal in this city, and much alarm is
felt. The Cleveland Rolling Mill and
the Union Rolling Mill, which have re-
sumed, are using 600 tons of coal per
day.
The record-union., 1897-08-06

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. ). = Judge
Campbell this afternoon held Theodore
A Figel to answer to seven charges of
embezzlement and two of forgery, and
fixed his bail at $4,000.
The record-union., 1897-08-06
St. Michaels. The Cleveland is the last

ST. Michaels. The Cleveland is the last
steamer this year to connect with the
Yukon River boats from ST. Michaels.
Twelve of fifteen more steamers are
yet to leave for Alaska this season,
with prospectors for Yukon, but all will
go to Dyea, and take the land route
over the White Pass and canoe down
the river. Among the passengers on
the Cleveland were Captain P. NJ Ray
and Lieutenant Richardson, L. S. A,
who will be followed next spring by
sixty soldiers from Fort Russell.
The record-union., 1897-08-06

The clean. upright. paper is read
thoroughly. The Record Union
reaches the best homes.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1897-11-13
THE QUARANTINE QUESTION.

In its issue OF October 23rd the New
York Herald takes up the advocacy of a
national quarantine, and discusses the
situation from Commercial, social. and
sanitary" standpoint, concluding by de-
manding even an international" control
OF the commerce from the quarters where
yellow fever is endemic. But the Herald,
like all other authorities adopting its
views, ignores patent facts and misunder-
stands present conditions so utterly as to
impeach any argument IL makes on the
subject.
1.-THE Commercial view" IL already
takes is evidence Of what may come. That
national control" has already been made
to serve political and commercial ends,
has already been proved by the Picayune
and the States, of New Orleans, as quot
ed in these columns.
That system utterly failed to keep out
the disease, but even while doing So
wrought great loss to the States of the
Gulf Coast. This Is simple matter of his
tory which cannot be lost sight of in any
fair treatment of the subject. Why
should not the same system produce the
same result? An International system is
still entirely in the ART need not be
discussed at the present stage Of the
argument. The lives our people and their
business depends on our safety from yell
low fever. Granting that the authorities
at Washington found it possible to pro-
tect us as our State quarantine has done,
who can tell what Commercial" influence
might not be brought to bear and infu-
ence the trade Of the rich countries south
of us through quarantine regulations?
The future OF Florida largely depends
on our control of that trade: Our situa-
ton makes this State the natural point
of transfer and exchange for the produce
tons Of this country and those OF the is
lands as well as the growing States of
South America. Slight discrimination
against us would turn this increasing
commerce from Florida to the great cities
of New York, Philadelphia and Balti-
more. With a national quarantine sys-
TEN how could we withstand the ''com-
mercial' and political influence that might
be exerted against us by the great States
of New York and Pennsylvania? The
fear is well grounded in the experience
of the passive speak but of what we
have felt.
The Herald boldly asserts that "the
quarantine system, as carried on by the
different States, has been a lamcntable
failure" The Herald should know that
II is unfair to quote Louisiana. MISSISSIPPI
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1897-11-13

pi, and Alabama in this connection. for
these States have practically no system.
Florida alone has quarantine in caDa-
BILE hands, defended by State law, that
has been safe and effective in the face of
all the difficulties entailed by inadequate
appropriations, lack of means of commu-
nication, and the necessities OF daily in
tercourse at short range with the central
point of endemic disease. An argument
based on such palpably false ground is
convincing only TO ignorance or prejudice
The Herald says it has long advocated
a national quarantine. Then there is
less excuse for its ignorance-part Of that
time might well have been spent in get
ting at least the facts in the case under
consideration. That it should remain in
ignorance of the practical immunity Of
some of the islands very near to Cuba is
small matter compared to its refusal to
see the merits of our system-the ruin to
us that might follow the introduction Of
quarantine under Commercial" or po-
litical control-the price to life and prop
erty that confronts us day and night
Times Union and Citizen.
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WEYLER WILL BE TRIED BY
COURTMARTIAL.

Madrid, Nov. 6.-The Spanish govern
mcnt, as result Of the deliberations of
the ministers over the utterances OF Cen
eral Weyler, former captain general Of
Cuba, has come to the decision to try him
by courtmartial, no matter where he lands
II he confirms the accuracy of the press
reports of his utterances.
Commanding officers at all ports OF the
Spanish kingdom have been instructed to
demand of General Weyler the momeLt
he can be communicated with, the exa, t
terms of the speech he delivered in reply
TO manifestations at Havana upon the
occasion Of his embarkaton for Spain.