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The San Francisco call., 1897-02-05

been Influenced by the arguments of those
personally interested in its defeat. In
illustration of his views he related the
following bit of history:
"I know" he said, that the bill has
been opposed by Colonel Thomas F.
Barry. Yesterday 1 asked him wbv he
was working against the bill. He an
swered that he was here in the interests of
the abstract companies. He further stated
that he was receiving pay for his efforts
directed against the bill. When l called
his attention to the fact that he was vio-
lating the law he explained by saying that
he was employed as the paid attorney of
the abstract companies. then told him
that he was violating the law by lobbying
on the floor of the Senate and intimated
that might have him excluded from the
Senate chamber. His only reply to this
was that this was my privilege.
''All this was freely admitted in the
presence of another Senator. II Colonel
Barry continues his efforts against my
bill 1 shall feel com PEELED to call the
attention of the Senate to his conduct
and have him forbidden entrance to the
Senate. Both his conduct and that of
another lobbyist who has been coquetting
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in joint session tonight in the Senate
chamber to discuss and consider legis-
lative matters pertaining TO the metrop-
oils. The features of the meeting were
the appearance before the Joint commit
tee of Mayor Pheian and his address on
the various measures on the files of both
hauses and the debate or the bill provid-
ing for 212-cent fares on streetcars in San
Francisco at certain hours of the day.
While awaiting the arrival of Mayor
Phelan and other prominent. San Fran
ciscans, the Senate San Francisco delega-
tions heard arguments on the bill to pre-
vent buriais within the City after the 1st
of January. 1900.
Charles ii. Hubbs spoke for the Rich
mond District people. He called atten-
tion to the fact that seventy-two valuable
blocks were tied up in the various ceme-
ieries. Within these, he argued, about
5000 burials were made annually, and as it
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AS Yet the Position He Will
Occupy Has Not Been
Designated.
HANNA FOR POSTMASTER.GEN.
ERAL.
It Is the Accepted Opinion that He
Will Represent Ohio in the
o fetal Family.

Judge McKenna of the United States
Circuit Court last night auth orized the
statement that he has been invited to &C
cept position in the Cabinet of Presi-
dent-elect Mckinley and also that he has
signitied his acceptance. He did not care
to give for publication the dispatch in
which the tender of position was made,
nor did he wish to make his response
public.
He considered these communicati
confidential and personal. He had ex-
pected the communication from Canton.
II can say only this" said Judge Nc
Kenna last evening, that no position has
been designated which 1 am to occupy.
That is for Major Mckinley to signify.
Beyond this cannot say"
The definite announcement that the DO
sition has been rendered and that Judge
McKenna has accepted the appointment
Will not come as a surprise to any one, for
the fact has been generally forecast, ever
since Judge McKenna was summoned to
visit Major Mckinley.
The people will naturally be much
gratitied that California has been recog-
nized in the makeup of the Presidents s
official family.
Judge McKenna, on his return from
Canton, spoke very plainly to represen-
tative OF this paper. II have not been a
candidate for position in Major McKin-
Iey's Cabinet" he said, land L am not a
candidate" Further than this, he
modestly forbore to speak.
"We were all surprised" said the re-
porter, "when we heard that you had 80
suddenly gone to Canton"
''Not more surprised than l was to CO."
answered the Judge, quietly.
From this it is made clear that the posi-
tion and the attendant honor which is
naturally conferred by it came unsought.
Judge Joseph McKenna was born in
Philadelphia on August TO- 1S43. He
came to the coast in 1856 and settled in
Benicia, Solano County. He was educated
partly in the public schools and in the
Benicia Collegiate Institute. He studied
law under Professor Abbott of that insti-
tuts and was admitted to the bar in 1865;
elected District Attorney of Solano
County; reelected in 1867. As District
Attorney he moved up to the county seat.
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KNOWN AS RICHARD ASHE.
Butler Served Under That Name
Aboard the Olive bank Four
Years AGO

THAT is Richard Ashe, a native of Ire
land who served aboard my ship as an
a. B. in 1898" said Captain Petrie of the
British ship Olivebank last night when
shown picture OF Lee Weller, or Frank
Butler, the man now in the City Prison
accused of at least a dozen murders.
The Olivebank has been outside for
some days, and on several occasions she
was reported as the Swanhilda, both be-
ing four-masted bark-rigeed ships. When
the news came that Butler had made a
voyage on the Oliyebank, there was rush
to board the ship and secure Captain
Petries statement. After identifying the
picture he said:
81 shipped Richard Ashe in Rio de
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After leaving the District Attorneys Office

After leaving the District Attorneys Office
he practiced law.
In 1875 he was elected to the Assem- bly,
of the State of California for the session
of 1856. In 1876 he was nominated for
Congress and was beaten, the district
being Democratic. Renominated in 1878
he was defeated again by narrow ma
jority.
Upon the State being redistricted he
was nominated by the Republicans of the
Third Congressional District, and was
elected in 1884 TO the Forty Con-
gress. He was reelected successively to
the Fiftieth, Fifty-frst and Fifty-second
CONGRESSES. While serving in the Fifty
second Congress he was appointed by
President Harrison a United States Cir
cult Judge, and has served in that capa-
CITY TO date,
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took twelve years for body to decom-
pose, 1900 bodies were continuously
undergoing decomposition within the
City's limits al the time, to the imminent
danger of the health of the City. He held
further that the revenue by taxation that
might be derived from these blocks. if de-
voted to other purposes, would amount to
about $500 600 annually.
AT this juncture blymen Bettman,
Gately and Dennery withdrew in evident
disgust, saying they had heard all these
arguments before and that they were tire
some. They promised to return when the
joint session was called to order.
DR.. R. C. Taylor spoke of the dangers to
health that existed in the practice of bury
ing people within the City limits.
George Fletcher opposed the bill, be-
cause he said that in his opinion the clos
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unpleasant for this gentlemen, but I feel
in duty bound to protect my bill.
1T has further come to my knowledge
that the alleged facts of the main argu-
ment made on the floor were made by
Colonel Barry, and 1 know that many
misstatements were contained in the
statement furnished by him."
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JUDGE JOSEPH McKENNA Who Has Accepted Place in the
Cabinet of President-E1ect Mckinley.

with my bill will be brought to the SEN
| ate's notice. have DO desire to make it
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LEGISLATION FOR
SAN FRANCISCO.
Representatives of the Metrop-
oils Express Their Views
at Sacramento.
Ill or Phelan and Others Speak About
lily Cemeteries, Corporation OFF,
cials and Cheap Carfare.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Feb s.-From
O'Clock until after midnight the San
FRANCISCO members OF the Legislature sat
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-07
The Unicorn.

The unicorn was one of the tabled
monsters Of antiquity. 1t was accord.
ing to summary of the opinions Oh
several Of the old time writers, a beas'
about the size of q common horse, pu'
with very short legs. The people OF tns
middle ages believed in the existence o.
three kinds of unicorns-the magnificen'
white unicorn, which had q purple lac.
and blue eyes and single horn a yara
in length; the eglisserion, which 70.
sembled gigantic deer and had aver!
sharp horn growing from the middle "
the forehead, and the monoceros, or com'
mon unicorn. The white unicorn s morn
was of three different colors-whi'es"
the lower part, black as ebony ID 'n0
middle and red at the point. CommOu
uniforms were said to have had noru'
about 8 inches in length, but SO s.rons
that they could easily kill an elepnan'
st. Louis Republic.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-07
Copper From Green Water.

One of the most interesting sights in
the great mining town of Butte is the
process by which copper is caught from
the emerald colored water that flows
from the Anaconda and st. Lawrence
mines. 1t is estimated that this water,
which for four or five years went to
waste, is now bringing the Anaconda
company 100000 a month at cost Of
about 81, 900 month.
AT the present time several acres Of
ground are covered with wooden watts.
These are filled with all the old scrap
iron they can hold. 1t has proved splen.
did scheme for disposing of the tons and
tons of old iron the company has accu.
mulated for years. Old hosting cages,
water pipe, wheelbarrows, railroad iron
in fact, any old thing that consists Of
tin or iron-is appropriated to this serv'
ice.
1t is said for every pound Of iron put
into vat a pound of copper is produced
Where the water first attacks the iron,
the copper absorbs the iron completely
within three weeks. After the precipi'
tation is effected the water is drawn of
and the Shiny copper is transferred to
another tank, where the water is further
drained off. These latter watts hold
about 10 tons Of the copper, which now
has the appearance of clayish sub
stance. This is sacked into packages Of
about 100 pounds. When in this shape
1t is sent to the smelters in this city
The product carries an average OF 80
per cent pure copper. The iron remain
ing in it makes fine fux, and when
mixed with other smelling ore it Is
said to bring the ore up to a value Oh
about $500 ton.
The water from the mines is the most
profitable product of the Anaconda Cop
per Mining company. - Anaconoa
(Mon. Recorder.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-07
Fun Over the Bread.

We had the gauntlet yet to run, as the
firing OF the communists was still heavy
In the neighborhood. The bullets were
whistling so angrily down one of the
streets which cut the Rue de la Bien-
faisance at right angles that a number
OF servant girls who wished to 20 to a
bakers shop on the other side were
AFRAID to venture over. The difficulty
was turned in this way: There were
soldiers on one side of the dangerous
crossing and maidservants on the other.
The maidservants threw their money 10
the soldiers, and the soldiers purchased
the bread and flung it across to the
maids
This maneuver excited good deal of
merriment in spite of the danger with
which 1t was attended. At times a girl
would throw piece of money short,
and soldier would have to fish for il
with his bayonet, and even, amid peals
OF laughter, venture out to pick it up.
To see the men and women engaged in
this occupation one might easily have
thought they were indulging in som,
harmless pastime like hunt the slipper
-Recollections of Paris
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-07
Royalty at the Camera.

When the Princess of Wales visits
the photographer she usually arranges
that her sitting shall take place in the
morning. A special studio is set apart
for the princess and other members of
the royal family. 1t is approached by q
private door, which leads to an ante.
room provided with easy chairs and a
plentiful supply of illustrated papers.
A small chamber is fitted up as dress
Ing room, and here is to be found a
maid from Marlborough House, who has
preceded her royal mistress with a
dressing case containing brushes and
other toilet accessories. The princess
having discussed the position in which
she is to be taken, arranges herself and
the operation proceeds. 1t is etiouette
ON these occasions for the photographer
to address any remark he NAV have to
make to the lady in waiting in attend.
ance, who in turn addresses the princess
who replies through her also. but IL ia
needless to say that etiquette is dis
pensed with by the princess in MANY
cases. London Letter.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-07
Healthful Schooirooms.

An ideal, but, we are assured ouite
necessary state of cleanliness for beaIth,
iul schoolrooms requires that the floors
shall be dampened and swept every dav
with all the windows open, the dnst.
ing to be done the next morning with |.
damp cloth. In addition TO this clear'
ing, DIR. Adams, who is the president -
,ne orange County Medical societies
~. veiieves that at least every other day
'ne hoors should be thoroughly scrubbed
win soap and water. The various wo.
mems clubs throughout the country
whose members are interested in tho
WORK OF the public schools will do we'll
70 nnd out how near the schoolrooms
where their children spend the create,
part OF their waking hours approach
TINS tate.-New York Post
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-07
THE WELSH LANGUAGE.
Remote Antiquity and the Romance of
Its Literature.

One Breton investigator has affirmed
that Welsh was the language Of the
Titans, while another has explicitly
stated that il was the mother tongue OF
Saturn, Jupiter and the other princi
pal gods of heather antiquity" Upon
so obscure "a point we may, perhaps, be
| allowed to retain our doubts, nor are
we called upon TO bow with absolute
Difference to the conclusion arrived at
by more modern Cymric scholar that
the scheme Of Dante's "Divina Com
media is due to Celtic sources. Nc
one, however. would dream of contest
ing that TO the Cymric branch of the
Celtic race we owe the origin of the
Arthurian legend.
We do not know whether it will be
one of the duties of the Welsh university
to endeavor to revive the real, unadul-
terated Celtic literary traditions and to
| purge and purify them from the accre-
tions due to foreign influence. We
should be disposed to say that Celtic
scholarship will be more beneficial and
more successfully employed in collect
ing the indications of the influence ex-
ercised by the Celtic spirit over the
English language, English romance and
English ways Of thought during the
very period when it was supposed to
have been repressed, if not wholly de-
stroyed. Criticism, too, will have album
dant work on its hands in seeking to
separate the authentic from the spuri-
Gus in the alleged writings of the earlier
Welsh bards.
was published the "Myvyrian Arch@ol-
ogy Of Wales" collection of the most
celebrated works in Welsh literature
from A. d. 500 to A. d. 400, under
the editorship Of Mr.. Jones, Mr.. Ed
ward Williams, known locally as Ed
ward of Glamorgan, and DR.. Owen
Pugh. But though ~ poems are there
ascribed to Taliesin, Mr.. Stephens con-
siders that 81 Of them are demonstrably
spurious and that only 10 of them arc
probably genuine-that is to say, be-
long to the age to which they are attrib-
uted, Few scholars, however, would be
prepared to challenge the assertion of
Renan that the sixth century was the
golden age of Cymric literature, though
its first epoch is usually taken to start
from still remoter times and to extend
to the date of the Norman conquest,
but it is not till the chronicle of Cara
doc, somewhat dry record, recalling
in its general scheme the more famous
Anglo-Saxon chronicle. To the same Pc
Rod belongs the chonicle of Godfrey of
Monmouth. But, as though Welshman
by birth, the Bishop of st. Asaph elect
ed to write in Latin, we presume that
his labors, however interesting and i'm
portant, would not be claimed by true |
Welshmen as a portion of Celtic litera-
ture. London Standard
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-07
THE RETIRED BURGLAR
His Most Unexpected Recovery NJ,
Lost Dog. -onI

| LOST Dog.
Speaking of watchdops ,, co..,
retired burglar, 81 never owa ue
watchdog, but did once own q
little mongrel dog that we called July
times Nibs, but mostly Nibsy a , tuIe'
sensitive little fellow, but no watcbS s'S
Yea might have played a brass wv
outside, and he'd never hear II b.. Vaua
anybody that he knew walk acroa. ~
floor, and he'd wag his tail in his sl. we
"Woll, after we'd had Nibsv n0S
Der of years we lost him. He lust dis u'i'
peared one day and didn't come zap
and we didn't know whether ho,d r wv
run over by train of cars Or strav vos
away and got lost, or whether somoS.s %
had picked him up and carried him ~
or what was the matter, but he diS~,,
come back, and we missed him WI
much because we all liked Nibsv w
Nov, maybe you can guess wh.,
happened. One morning early, about y
or half past 2, some months after tho.
as l was moving slowly in the da,l
across a room on the second floor %
house that l had called at some so mil.s
from where lived, felt the LEGS ~ :
small dog thrown against nina :
couldn't see the dog at all, but II NO,
standing on its hind legs and resting =.
fore legs against me, and could teII :.
the movement Of them that he was wac
ging his tail violently. 1t was Nihss
OF course. He'd known my tread sot,
as it was, and woke up to receive me
"Well, You know. glad as I was ~
find Nibsy, I'd rather not have fonnS
him right there, because he was amos.
certain to make trouble for me. He bs
gan to whine with joy the first tbing
and then he gave a little yelp. Tbs,
was just what was afraid of. He didn',
want to make any trouble for me. bnt
that one yelp was enough. A man in
the bed sits up and pulls string and
turns on light and says:
Now, what's the matterP'
"And l puts up great polar bluff
and says. You swiped my dog, and I've
come to get him.
'Swiped nothing, he says. I'll
swipe you in a minute, and he wasn't
slow in getting at it either. He was
getting out Of bed and coming for me all
the time he was talking, and a good
healthy, powerful looking man be was
too. But Nibsy was bright Nibsy
made just one dive at the mans feet
but that was enough to stop him until
I'd got turned and started, and minute
later was going down the road, with
Nibsy coming on behind. New York
Sun,
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-07
The Harp of Brian Boru.

The sightseer in Dublin who fails tc
visit Trinity college and spend a day
among the treasures preserved in the
great museum belonging to that in.
stitution makes the mistake of his life.
In that museum there are hundreds OF
thousands of relics, but the one in which
most people take the greatest interest is
the harp which once belonged to Brian
Boroihme, or Brian Boru, as he is most
commonly called. Brian Boru was the
Irish monarch who was killed in the
great battle at Clontarf i'll the year
lOl4 A. ID. Brian left his harp and his
crown to his son Donagh, who succeed
ed as king. Soon after Donagh was de-
posed by a warlike nephew and was
forced to retire to Rome. He took his
fathers crown and harp with him, and
they were kept in the Vatican collection
for several centuries, the crown, which
Is Of massive hammered gold. being still
numbered among the pope's treasures
The harp, however was sent TO Henry
VIII, and he presented it to the first
earl OF Clanricarde. 1t was deposited in
the museum mentioned in the opening
IN the year 1872. The harp is 80 inches
high and of good workmanship. the
carving on the oak frame being equal TO
anything that could be done today. II
is well preserved and does not look 10
be an instrument upward of 1000 years
old.-St. Louis Republic.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-07
PEDESTRIANS PLEASURES.
Remarks In Behalf OF the Old Original
Mode of Travel.

II is to be hoped that the good old
custom of pedestrianism will not fall
INTO disuse. The bicycle rider has, per-
haps, gained more than he has lost, but
he has lost something, and that by nc
means unimportant 1t is "a great eco
nomic gain to minimize time and dis
/ tance TO so considerable an extent. The
enjoyment in this way of the air and
exercise and the poetry and exhilaration
of easy and rapid motion is delightful,
but this sensuous satisfaction Is likely
to be obtained at the expense Of mental
stimulus. The bicycle rider cannot tarry
TO study the tint or texture of the flow
ers or breathe their fragrance. He cam
not listen to the songs of birds or the
music of the brooks. His course is over
the worlds conventional tracks, and,
though nature speaks in countless
tongues, he hardly catches so much as
the echo of any of them. The woodlands
and the byways, where Turk the choicest
manifestations of beauty, he cannot
visit On his nightly runs he sees only
the shining road before him rejecting
the light of the moon and stars, but he
cannot lift his eyes to the milky way or
view the still more glorious tenantry Of
the heavens.
1t does not seem a violent hypothesis
that this condition Of things must tend
to weaken those habits of observation
upon which so much that is great in
art, science and literature depends, and
that this will be deplorably apparent in
the next generation unless some counter
interest can be developed. 1t is a serious
question whether White Of Selborne,
a Burroughs or a Thoreau could have
been produced on an exclusive bicycle
basis. Their natural tendencies might
have overcome all obstacles Of environ
ment, but observation is a plant that
starts early and grows by what it feeds
upon, End amid surroundings and influ-
ences like the present they might not so
easily have been indicted into those de-
lightful and congenial labors that have
SO sweetened the literature of our time.
The bicycle interest has come to stay
and to grow until some more potent at
'f"N'Aoh eh"'A SuPPiohe ~. Due w pai- |
ance it and prevent social one sidedness
and mental deterioration we need the |
extension and multiplication of such
organizations as the Appalachian club,
which will soon start upon an outing
not to annihilate space, but to become
acquainted with the wealth which occu-
pies it and in acquiring health and
strength; also to acquire information. 1t
is something to know the world of men,
but it is infinitely more important to
know intimately the world of nature,
for upon that knowledge rests all that
man ever has accomplished or ever can
accomplish. The fastest scorcher may
get to the end of life's journey the soon.
est. but he will not arrive with as much
baggage as the more moderate and OBJ
servant wayfarer. Transcript.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-07
EOiled Again.

"Ah" said Mr.. Knight Starr Wv ~
emotional trsgedian. as he came :. -
sight OF farmhouse. "Mayhap US
worthy peasant will give some reireSn
ment for the inner man. WHAT Nv
therel''
The worthy peasant gazed at the We
gedian for moment and answers
"Yew durn fool, don't yew kno" :
pitchfork from a hoe?" ,,
And having thus spake he aiss .y
peared within his abode. --Cincinn'''
Enquirer.