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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-12-31
Non.Contagious.

]. A. King, Esq, Minister of the In
terror. Sir:-In response to your re-
quest for the examination of certain
cattle belon ging to Mr.. w. Vredenbere
at Waimea, Hawaii, said to be affected
with mango; am satisfied after care
full investigation that the complaint is
non-contagious form of eczema, anect'
ing calves and those only which are
kept confined.
I have the honor to be Sir,
Your obedient servant,
J. r. SHAW, D. V. S.
Government Veterinarian.
Honolulu, December 80, 1897.
, 1897-12-16
HOT SPANISH GENERALS.
They Will Enter a Protest Against the
Presidents Message.

Biarritz. France. Dec. 15.-Mail ad-
vices received from Madrid (telegrams
and telephone messages on this subject
being forbidden), say the Spanish mill
tary journals. especially the most i'm
portant. the Correspondence Militaire,
declares that 90 generals have come to
an agreement to engineer a protes;
against President Mckinley's message
to congress. which is considered insult
ing to the Spanish army.
1t is added that a certain marshal was
asked to cooperate. but he merely re,
piled that he would consider the mat
ter. Gen. Weyler answered a similar
request. saying he desired in the first
place to learn the opinion of certain
personages, the law not allowing mill,
tary men to send a collective petition
to the minister of war.
Political circles are much excited a,
rumors of a manifesto to the country
which is said to be in course of pre-
paration The semi-oficial Correspon-
dencia de Espana only indirectly al,
ludes to the agitation.
, 1897-12-16

on account of the arrearage OF work In
the bureau. The work after the pass
ing Of the act Of 1890 was four years be-
hind. The Increase had at last brought
the work up to date. Dockery said the
reduction In the pension force should
be 500 Instead of IS. In his opinion II
the deadwood were cleared out OF the
ofices. the work OF the bureau would
actually be expedited. Todd. democrat
of Michigan. moved an amendment to
the amendment providing hat reduce
lions should be made for the several po-
litical parties in proportion to their rep,
resentation on the pension Office force.
The amendment to the amendment was
ruled out on a point of order and the
original amendment adopted. The com.
mittee then rose ana at S p. M. the
house adjourned.
, 1897-12-16

sold than can be delivered. Wheat Is
scarce all over the world. Not enough
was grown last year to supply the de-
mand America has an opportunity to
make its own price for wheat. 1t has
been considered by many a blessing to
us to supply cheap wheat. even though
our own farmers could hardly make
both end meet on the cost Of produce
ton. Now, perhaps, in view of tn"
prosperity which has come to this ma,
ton from higher prices there will be
less sympathy for those operating to
depress grain values below the values
formally adjusted by demand and sup
ply. In the past immense quantities OF
wheat have been sold on the market
and rcsold, with no demand for its de-
livery. Now. however, the wheat is
wanted 50 badly by consumers tina.
contracts calling for delivery can stand
for ne wind wheat. We shall probably
see the same tight conditions in May
wheat when May m as we now see
in December wheat.
Il now think that this country has
already exported much OF the wheat
which it will soon need for it's own con
sumption and that the full scarcity is
not by any means yet appreciated"
, 1897-12-16
THE ROOTS PLAN.
An Indiana Financier Suggests a Plan
by Which Silver May Be Re-
monetized.

st. Louis. Dec. 15.-Hon. T. F. Roots
Of Connersville. Ind, who was a can
didate for the position Of treasurer OF
the United States and who was chair
man Of the committee which framed
the call for the monetary convention
held at Indianapolis claims that sew
eral of the suggestions in President
Mckinley's message. and Secretary
Cages recommendation to congress on
the currency and banking questions,
were embodied as early as December
Is. 1896. in an article written by him,
and that 1t was approved by Secretary
Sherman. The following is a part Of
the article written by Mr.. Roots:
III greenbacks were reissued only in
exchange for gold as to the national
banks; II a ffty-year bond at two per
cent were issued as the basis of bank
ing circulation; IL the banks are per.
mftted to issue to the par value Of
their bonds: If the taxation on circula-
ton is taken off and banks OF a capital
Of $25. 900 permitted to organize, 1t
would accelerate the formation of banks
throughout the country and we would
not hear Of the banking question for
years to come"
Mr.. Roots further suggests that silver
be made the basis of the national bank
ing circulation. instead of United States
bonds. and at its market value: then
the banks be permitted to issue 80 per
cent in notes against the silver deposit
ed. and that 10 per cent be held to
protect the notes SO issued from the
decline in silver, that a tax of l per
cent annually be levied on the banks
to protect the issue. and that the gov
eminent guaranteed the notes and pay
the banks 2 per cent per mum inter-
est for the silver DC deposited.
These suggestions have been SUBJ
mitted by Mr.. Roots to H. H. Hanna,
chairman Of the executive council Of
the monetary conference, and they will
be presented to the committee on bank.
ing in the house.
, 1897-12-16
BRIEF KILOGRAMS.

The Merchants Exchange OF San
Francisco has received a telegram from
Nalnamo in which the captain Of the
steamer Cleveland says that his vessel
has been wrecked of the coast of Van
couVer island, No other details.
The house committee on banking ana
currency agreed to a plan whereby the
Lill covering the recommendations of
President Mckinley. the bill or Secre-
tary Gage and the recommendations OF
the indianapolis monetary commission
viii be taken up Immediately after the
holiday recess.
The steamer Susan Is. Thurlow was
wrecked on the coast of Maine and the
captain and six of the crew were lost.
At a party given at the residence OF
w. II. Calin, near Atlanta. Ga. a dis
pute arose and three men were killed
and two women MORALLY wounded.
Victor Silverman of Denver is in jail
at Chicago. charged with abandoning
his wife. Silverman claims that his
wife sold his Denver candy store and
poc~~ted the proceeds.
A.. J. Moore, formerly a Denver rail-
road agent, killed himself in a Chicago
billiard hall. in the presence OF hum
dreds of people.
The Luetgert trial at Chicago Is no,
absorbing the interest that the first
trial did. the court room not being more
than half filled when Attorney Harmon
resumed his opening address for the
defense.
A blizzard prevailed in South Dakota
and parts Of Minnesota yesterday.
trains are badly delayed at WATERFOWL.
5. D.. owing to the drifting snow. The
thermometer has dropped in St. Paul
10 degrees in two hours, being IA de-
, 1897-12-16

grees above at 9 o'clock. Huron, S. D.,
reports 4 below. Bismarck and Winnie
peg, 10 below, Helena. 6 below, Swift
and Current 90 below, and Quappell. 20
below.
Within a few hours yesterday after.
noon the thermometer fell at Omaha
from &c degrees above to S degrees be-
low zero. This severe cold was accom-
panied by a terrific wind and a slight
fall of 10 At many points the torm
has assumed the full proportions OF a
blizzard. Chadron. Neb.. reports trains
blocked and all traffic suspended. In
South Dakota. the storm is general and
points In Northwestern Iowa report a
bowling blizzard.
Carroll d Wright. commissioner OF
the census. says that had the work Of the
last census been carried on under the
civil service it could have been per-
formed for 1886. 452. instead of $1O.-
Ol6.677.
, 1897-12-16
LAST CALL.
Theodore Durrant Must Hang on jan
uary Z.

San Francisco, Dec. 15.-William
Henry Theodore Durrant, the condemns
ed murderer Of Blanche Lamont, was
sentenced this morning by Superior
Judge Bahrs for the fourth time to suf-
fer the extreme penalty Of the law. tho
date of his execution being set for jan
uary I next.
His attorneys made a desperate er-
fort to secure further delay, and pave
the way for another appeal to the su,
preme court, but Judge Bahrs was mex
orable, and overruled each and all OBJ
jections made to the proceedings.
Durrant was in court and carried
himself with his customary GOODNESS.
An immense crowd flocked to the court
room and filled the corridors of the city
jail.
The condemned mans attorneys will
at once battle for his life. They intend
to lay the foundation for another ap-
peal to the supreme court of the Unit
ed States. In all probability one of the
lawyers will proceed to Washington to
make the final technical fight based on
the questions Of federal and state law.
The time for action is short. however,
and even the defense doubts the sue
ces OF its new venture.
Mrs. Durrant visited her son yester>
day afternoon. Both were downcast ana
seemed to realize that the end was
near.
, 1897-12-16
"A CUT IN CLERKS.
HOUSE CHOPS OFF IS IN PENSION
OFFICE. SAVING $3.50 0
ANNUALLY.
The Holiday Recess Will Begin De-
cember 18-An Impassioned Speech
Calling Upon the Republicans 10
Support the Belligerency Resolu-
tion-Appropriation Bill.

Washington, d. c., Dec. 15.-The
house spent a day in the consideration
Of the legislative, executive and ju-
dietary appropriation bill and SO Of the
112 pages Of the bill were covered and
only one amendment OF Importance
adopted. 1t reduced the clerical force
at the pension Office 95. Involving a re-
duction in salaries OF SIZE, 600.
The civil service question, as on yes
terday, va the chief topic Of discussion
today. and the proposition Of Assistant
Secretary Of the Treasury Vanderlip, to
retire clerks for age was made the text
of a denunciation by Moody OF Massa-
chusetts. and Johnson Of Indiana. both
of whom are defenders of the civil ser-
vice law.
A resolution for a holiday recess
from Saturday. Dec. IS to Wednesday,
January 5. was adopted. De Almond,
democrat Of Missouri, under the lati-
tude allowed in debate on appropria-
ton bills, made an impassioned speech
the majority for not voting
upon the Cuban belligerency resolution
passed by the senate at the last session
His remarks we're given additional inn
portance In view Of the action
of the democratcic caucus last
night declaring for the aggressive sup
port Of the recognition Of Cuban bel
ligerency. He declared he is not mis-
taken in his belief that the American
people without distinction of party.
sympathized with the Cuban cause. The
triumph of tyranny in Cuba he said
would prove a menace to liberty the
world over. and in conclusion, amid a
round Of applause, he appealed to the
majority to give the house an oppor-
tunity Of voting on the question.
The bill under discussion was read
for amendment under the five minute
rule. Wheeler. democrat Of Alabama,
offered an amendment providing that
SO long as the gold standard is main
tanned in this country the salaries Of
all officials shall be scaled Is per cent.
The amendment was ruled out on a
point of order. When the paragraph
relating to the pension ONCE vas reach
ed, Bingham offered an amendment, of
which he gave notice at the opening o.
the debate. to reduce the clerical force
by IS. involving a reduction OF salaries
ArrnAn 49,
, 1897-12-16

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, 1897-12-16
Laramie Furniture Co.
REDuCED.


You are missing some great bargains
II you are not buying your shoes at the
Coop store. Here are a few. prices:
Mems Shoes, former price $3.50; now.
$500 ,.-s
Mems Shoes. former price. 8 500; now,
$3.50.
Mems Shoes. former price. $3.50: now.
$500.
Women's Shoes, former price, $500;
now, $3.50.
Women's Shoes, former price $500;
now. $3.50.
Women's Shoes. former price. $1.26;
now, $1.0O.
Children's Shoes reduced in proper
ton.
Everything In the Grocery depart
ment sold at bottom prices.
Remember. by buying IS worth of
goods you are entitled to 20 pounds Of
Granulated Sugar for$1. At
Sstf. COOP. STORE.
, 1897-12-16
HOT WIENERWURST.

From a Kansas Exchanged
Mar is made Of dust, or at least some
wives think their husbands are.
The wag of a dogs tail is better than
the shake OF a false friends hand.
Don't worry; but If you really must
worry. try and worry somebody else.
The mar who means everything he
says. usually hasn't very much to say.
II some men knew themselves they
would be afraid Of the acquaintance.
The clock invariably strikes the half
hour when you wake up in the night
and want to know what time it is.
Don't take the bull by the horns:
take him by the tail; then you car lie.
go without getting e to help
you.
1t Is said that matrimony is on the in
crease-but then. Of course, that's what
|. is for.
1t is better to be the sole owner Of one
gingersnap than a partner In a whole
bake shop.
Married men as a rule do not lie
from choice-but their wives persist
In asking such fool questions.
At fashionable weddings, 1t is GUS
tomary for a male relative to give the
bride away. But in most cases. some
other fellow could do It more effectually
If he wanted to.
, 1897-12-16
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, 1897-12-16

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, 1897-12-16
WHEAT 4 PUzzLER.
BIG FELLOWS WITH PLENTY OF
MONEY ARE GIVING EACH
OTHER LESSONS.
Phil Armour Has Demonstrated That
He Has Plenty OF Resources-Bui
Letter Will MOI Admit That He Is
Whipped--Their Game OF Nip and
Tuck Is a Merry One.

today: There are just Is days left to
make or unmake the December wheat
deal. The chances for fireworks and
old-time corner prices are scarcely SO
bright as they were some time ago.
Letter is learning something about the
possibilities of Chicago as a receiving
market and about the resources of Ar
fmour.
Earlier in the reason Letter gave Ar
mour, who came back from Europe. a
dollar wheat bull, some points on
how to act promptly, but in the last
two days the stock of wheat has been
increased by 1850. 900 bushels. Such a
movement is simply phenomenal. and
represents a part OF the energetic cam.
paign made by Armour and Weare.
The last cargoes of an abnormal Du-
luth-Chicago movement aggregating
3.645. 900 bushels are arriving. The
bulk of this has been contract wheat,
brought down for the special benefit OF
the market made by Mr.. Letter. 1t has
been v%ariously disposed of. Part of it
has gone into the public elevators, and
r. ~ ~
knows just how much contract wheat
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, 1897-12-16

JERSEY LILY BARRED.
Jockey Club Aims a Resolution at Her
and the Prince Of Wales.

Jockey Club Aims a Resolution at Her
and the Prince of Wales.
New York, Dec. ia dispatch to
the World from London says: The re-
port that Mrs. Langtry will be again
taken into society is more than Offset
by a resolution that has been passed
by the Jockey club. which is aimed d.
rectly at her and the Prince of Wales.
The resolution say that for the
future ladies other than the wives,
daughters and sisters Of the members
of the club will be admitted to the in
closures and private stands Of the club
at Newmarket and on other race cours.
es only on presentation of a voucher
signed by a member of the club. to-
gether with the payment of Ell"
Until the resolution was passed a
member of the club had the right to
pass into the Jockey club Enclosures
and into private stands any woman
whom he saw At. There has been a
general impression that Mrs. Langtry
has had the freedom of the tracks, but
until the death of her husband two
months ago she was kept out of the in
closures and private stands of the Jock
ey club.
1t was on the day that her husband
died that her horse Norman won the
great event Of the year at Newmarket
and nearly $500, 900 for Mrs. Langtry,
that the Prince Of Wales conducted her
into the enclosure and within the pale
OF Jockey club society.
This act-it has generally been called
a breach on the part Of his royal high.
nes-made a great stir. 1t was COM
Mented upon most unfavorably. Even
the newspapers deplored It.
This recognition by che Prince Of
Wales gave rise to the umo that Mrs.
Langtry would try to regain her old
place In society and that in this effort
she would be backed BY the Prince Of
Wales influence. Az Q matter Of fact,
1t is doubtful II Ms. Lanstry has any
great desire to get into society again,
and It is absolutely certain that she
could not do so II she tried.
A long-sufering listener, after hear
ing from = youth hi accosnt Of how
he and two companions kept 500 In
dians ct bay for t~wenty-four hours,
- D..
New Ulm review., 1897-12-29
TOO EARLY TO ACCEPT.
Fusion Leaders Discuss John Lind's Dscli-
.#sS.s .ss nation. 4s5. 81

Last week the Review contained an
item to the effect that at reform con
ference IN Minneapolis John Lind had
been offered the triple guberaatGrial
nomination but had declined.
Now comes the Minneapolis Times
and says: e. :& b :.ss% II
Most Of the fusion leaders differ with
The Times as to the meaning of John
Llnd's remarks. They admit that his
language was correctly reported in The
Times, but do not consider that it means
positive denial.
"Mr. Lind did not say that he would
not be our candidate next year, said
one. "He never refused it in so many
words. We appreciate that it is too
early to ask man to pose as candidate,
aud made the reference to him would not
have been that day if it had not been Sc
cret meeting. We expect to bring him out
as our candidate when the time comes,
out of course it won't do for Mr.. Lind
to be considered standing candidate."
New Ulm review., 1897-12-29

Congressman Lewis of Washington
was interviewed in Minneapolis the other
day and expressed himself as follows, re-
lative to probable Hawaiian or Cuban
legislation during the present session of
Congress:
The annexation OF Hawaii will be one
of the first measures to be taken up.
The annexation fight, as you know, is
being led by Senator Davis, but. it will
be beaten. Two-thirds of the senators:
cannot be secured to ratify the treaty.
1t will come to the house in the form of
joint resolution. A strong lobby is
being maintained on both sides of the
question. I don't think it can pass the
house at this session. am opposed to
it. It is a mere graft upon the govern
ment for the sugar trust, and an engraft-
ment upon our political system contrary
to the principles Of our republic.
.sNothing will be done for Cuba. The
Spanish security holders, who are to
take their pay from Cuban taxes, have
too strong hold. A protracted fight
on a bankruptcy law is now apparent.
The credit class, however, are 50 strong
in their influence that no measure, allow
ING more than one year to debtors to se-
New Ulm review., 1897-12-29
Current !.
Opinion .
Sen. WoIcott on Sectionalism. Trouble
Between Foraker and Hobart.
The Hawaiian and Cuban Questions As
Viewed by Congressman Lewis.
Gift Making-its Uses and Abuses. Planks
Of fPopulistic Reform.

Senator WOlcOtt in an address at New
York last week said:
'For more than generation we have
waited for the day when parties would
divide solely on national questions ard
when the old differences growing out of
the war and race problem would be bur-
led. The time came. The parties met
on broad economic question and, To-,
we emerge from the contest threatened
with another bitter sectional division.
"The far west, largely the child of the
east, joins hands with the south. The
new alignment IS not only debtor against
creditor, class against class, but in a
land prevaded with equal devotion to
what its people believed 10 be the truest
welfare of the whole country, great ma
jorities in one section face equally great
majorities IN another.
''The west is not decadent; its views
are of men idustrious and and genuine,
and their beliefs are honest. They would
scorn any sort of evasion of an obliga-
ton. They are patriotic men. They are
Americans; to proportion greater, far
greater than in the east, native born A.
merican citizens. The views they cherish
are held with practical unanimlty.
$50 universal feeling as that which
pervades the great west cannot all be
wrong. You Cannot dispose of a con-
viction held by millions of intelligent
people by calling it craze, and some
day you may find it worth your while to
look for the truth where it is usually
hldden-somewhere between extremes.
"Somehow it IS not really cogn1zed
in the west that ability to reorganize II
western railroad and swell its stock and
securities several millions every time it
is foreclosed, necessarily indicates an
equal ability to determine the wisest
economical policy for the farmer who
lives along the right of way.
''Men who would no more dream of
entrusting their banker with the duty OF
of formulating their financial views than
they would of entrusting the man of
whom they bought shotgun with the
command of the armies of their country,
are naturally inclined to fear that io this
part OF the moral vineyard there is a
tendency to assume that the possession
of great wealth means necessarily the
possession OF great wisdom.
"Contentment cannot come to this
land by sections, and it can never come
except under conditions which bear
equally on the whole people. Only the
other day cabinet officer came over
here to enlighten one of your great CON-
mercial bodies, and, with a gifted Chica-
go imagination, quoted Walt Whitman,
told you how our fathers, when George
the Third was king, dashed the cup from
their lips and talked about obstruction
at Washington, having reference to the
senate. 1t is rather new use of the
term to call man, who does not vote
as you want HIM to, an obstructionist,
and in the last hundred years the balance
and check upon hasty legislation which
the deliberation of the senate have fur
nished have been of infinite adv antage
to the country"
New Ulm review., 1897-12-29

A man cannot run
away from Death.
If he would con-
quer it he must
stand and fight
with the weapons
of common sense
and science. Thou
sands of men and
women try to es-
cape Deaths most
active AGENT ron.
New Ulm review., 1897-12-29

From Washington comes the an
nouacement that Gov. Clough will he an
active candidate for the senate in 1899
to succeed Mr.. Davis. Also that ex- Con.
gresham j. B. Gilfillan of Minneapolis
will shy his castor into the ring. E
New Ulm review., 1897-12-29

Van SAINT has declared himself tt, be a
candidate for governor. The genial
Capt. is evidently afraid the rest of the
people might overlook ''hls insignif-
canoe" and forget to groom him. And
then, you know, there is nothing like
attending to these things for yourself.
New Ulm review., 1897-12-29

us with an assured understanding that you
can c. save money by buying your Boots, Shoes,
Eubbers, German Socks, Canvas Leggins, etc.
from us; High prices have long since been
relegated to the rear. We have set the mace
New Ulm review., 1897-12-29

tor low prices,
and by dint of
sound judenent
and an intelli-
gent conception