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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-10

The charter question in New Haven
is becoming almost as complicated as
"the eastern question" and 1.-The great
powers" here appear to be almost as
much in earnest as the great powers in
Europe. There may possibly be war in
Europe and there may possibly be a
new charter in New Haven. But what
ever happens in the latter matter it is
certain that at last it is being treated
of common council Is taking its proper
part in the discussion, and what has al
ready been said and done by it has
been in the right direction. The legis-
lature has been asked to give New
Haven more time for elaboration and
more time has been given. 1t is evil
IDENTIFY needed, for the more the pro-
posed new charter is examined the
more defective it Is seen to be.
All the time that is needed for full
discussion should be taken. There is
10 such need of hurry as some assert
New Haven is getting along fairly we'll
under the old charter and can stand it
two years more if something plainly
and fairly better cannot be devised and
agreed upon. An old charter that can
safely be used for a seat by our mayor
is better than a new one that cannot
even be stood upon by him or the rest
of the city government. A new charter
should not openly conflict with the con-
stitution or the statutes. And it should
commend itself to the general good
sense Of the people who are to live
under it and be governed by it. So the
discussion should proceed until the
whole matter is plain, even if the pro-
cess does tire some who cannot see why
anybody should even want to examine
their well-concocted plans.
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A TENDERFoOTS LUCK.


When Sent as a Joke to a Limestone
Ledge He Finds a Fortune.
Considerable excitement has existed
for a week or more at Sundance, S. D.,
over recent rich gold discovery at
Bald mountain, in the Black Hills, near
that place. The story of the finding of
the mines, from which the discoverer
has already taken enough ore to make
him immensely rich, reads like fairy
tale. 1t is as follows:
One day not long ago man ap-
preached a party of miners at Bald
mountain, and stated that he was look
ing for work. The men told him they
had nothing for MIN to do, whereupon
he asked to be directed to good pro-
specting ground. He stated that he
was not miner and knew nothing
about such work. The men directed
him to a large ledge of limestone about
a mile and half south, and said there
was a good place. He proceeded to the
place pointed out at once, where he Sc
lected a number of samples of the rock
by breaking them off the ledge with a
hammer After working about the
place all day he sacked his samples and
started of 20 Deadwood, where he had
the ore assayed. The assayer was the
most astonished man in Deadwood, fer
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-10
HER OWN CHARLES

One of the prettiest stories that Mrs.
Darlington Booth told to the prisoners
in Sing-Sing was about her three-year-
old daughter Theodore. Theodore, it
seems, takes a keen interest in her
mothers prison work.
Mamma, she asked one day, where
did you get your prisoners?"
And Mrs. Booth replied:
God sent Them
HAS he got any more?" the wee las
sic wanted to know.
ooh, yes
Theodore gave satisfied little grunt
and said, "Then, mamma, when 7 grow
up I'm going to have prisoners, too
You may have some of mine, Theo-
dora" the mother generously offered.
But the little missionary was not to
be satisfied with any secondhand
charges.
mo, mamma" she urged, you must
please keep all yours. I want my own
prisoners.''-NewY York Press.
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ball. to elderly friend)-"What shall l
talk to my partner about?" Elderly
Friend-"Her beauty" Chappie-" But,
if she doesn't happen to be beautiful"
Elderly Frlend-"No, matter; she'll
take your word for It, Harlem Life,
Gerald-"We cannot escape darling;
but fear nothing Naught but death
shall part us" (Voice of her father
from the rear) 81 was afraid you and
your young man might not find min
lister handy this time o night, Matlldy,
so as Parson Steenthly was with me
when you lit out, ] hitched up and
brought him along Drive slower, dar-
ter, there's no hurry. "-Twinkles.
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the ore ran about two hundred dollars
to the ton,
The tenderfoot did not say word,
but returned to Bald mountain and To-
Gated the whole country and began
shipping powders from the top of the
ground, which have made him indepen-
IDENTIFY rich, The people who at first
We're Inclined to laugh at the man from
the east, as he is called, are now taking
up claims, and the greatest excitement
exists,
The word quickly passed that all the
drift was full of gold, and two new
towns have already sprung up in the
camp. There was a crazy run of pros
pectors, and surveys have now been
made as far west as Bear Gulch and
Niger Hill, fifteen miles away. The
diggers who first broke ground in the
new field have been out but little more
than a month, and it is estimated that
fortune day has been the average,
1t has been a poor mans bonanza, the
mineral appearing on the surface, and
the assays of the quartz taken from
the surface and sent to the smelters run
from eighty to a hundred dollars ton,
with frequent assures producing as
high as three hundred dollars ton.
Ragged top has been passed over
time and again by all the men who
came to Deadwood for a speculation.
1t is in the region close to the town,
which has not been considered produc-
tive Of mineral wealth, but candid
miners are predicting that the golden
low 80 30 ~ JOI
If not dimmed, by Ragged Top. Gold
fever which has been here for two
years, is now raging epidemic. Balmo-
raj and Nerve City are so excited that
day and night are all the same. Bank
ers and business men of Deadwood and
neighboring cities are daily investiga-
ting and bonding new discoveries, The
streets are full of strangers, who come
for day and then disappear down the
gulch or across the cliffs. 1t is the re-
vival of the spirit of 40.
The Dacy mine, the leading discov-
cry to date, is near the summit of Rag
ged Top. The engineer who started the
work dug ten feet under the surface.
The ore secured there assays one hun
bred and fifty dollars a ton. 1t is the
talk of the town that the vein is pro-
nounced practically without limit
There will be practically no cost in
working it. There are others" and
the decisive news about the Dacy has
made Deadwood as of old. The whole
section is filled with stories of fabulous
wealth. and there are assays to prove
that many of the claims are not beyond
the expectations of those who have
rushed into the new field.-Milwaukee
Wisconsin.
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y thereafter and with good results.
We now have three hundred and sixty
missions in the United States, all doing
good work. We educate them in our
church services, and It is very seldom
that we lose a man who has been con-
tirmed, There Is no church that has
such splendid service for these people
as the Episcopal Church. We are char
liable to them; never cold; and so win
them
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NEW rMMIGR4TIoN BILL.

Those who advocate restriction of
immigration are by no means discour-
aged by the sad fate of the bill which
was knocked out in one round by Gro
yer Cleveland. The immigration Re
striction league has already drafted a
new bill, which will be introduced in
both houses of congress early in the
regular session.
The original bill of the league pro-
posed an educational test pure and
simple. 1t avoided entirely the ques-
ton of the employment of alien work.
men in this country, which, as an
amendment aroused such antagonism
in Canada, and went far to defeat the
approval of the bill. The new meas
ure, like the original, confines itself to
the educational test. The league evil
osition. unencumbered by other and
disputatious features, the sentiment of
the country can be united. The man.
ner of testing the immigrants ability
to read and write some language is pre-
cisely that of the vetoed bill. The only
change Is in the first section. which re-
duces the age of exclusion for illiteracy
from sixteen to fifteen, limits the age of
admission foT the illiterate children of
qualified immigrant to eighteen years,
omits all reference to power 10 support
illiterate parents or grandparents who
may be admitted, and also the stipula-
ton that an immigrant bringing in
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-10

That part of the State insurance COM
missioner's report which deals with the
fire. marine, fidelity and casualty in
surance companies has been made pub
lie. 1t is full of interesting and we'll
arranged facts and figures, and indi-
Gates that Commissioner Belts is at
tending carefully and faithfully to his
important work.
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FASHION NOTES.
Something to LooI, Forward To


The rainbow has surrendered its
prettiest colors to the new challies,
which are abundant on the shop coun-
ters and make showing that is like a
magnet to the contents of shoppers
pocketbooks. The goods is usually well
worth its price, for besides it's beauty
in the piece, it makes up eXquisitely in
the new styles. AS much proof of this
as can come from one gown was fur
nished by the dress pictured here,
which was in a challie whose cream
ground was striped and lowered with
light blue. Two bias folds of light
blue satin trimmed the skirt at the
hips, and four similar bands ornament
ed the front of the bodice, Belt, collar
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-10

A striking picture of the official cor
ruption that prevails in China is af-
forded by some diplomatic reports sub
mitted by the English Foreign Office to
the houses of Parliament at Westmin-
ster. Among other things it is shown
that so great is the stealing that, were
the imperial government to abolish the
rice tribute from the provinces of King
su and Chekiang alone, it would effect
an economy of more than 100000,
now costs over and above the revenue
that it yields.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-10

Umbrellas for lending are the latest.
They cost $3.50 per dozen, and so the
borrower has no temptation to keep
one, or, if he should do SO, the cost is so
slight that the owner is not grievously
inconvenienced.
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Travelling through Osceola, Missouri,
on his way to better country, with his
possessions in big wagon, disgrun-
tied citizen displayed on the sides of the
van this device: "In God We Trusted;
in Missouri We Busted"
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS in THE CRY. 10
CENTS A WEEK, bnCENTs MONTH, 50 FOR
tx MONTHS, 81 A EAR. The SAME TERMS
BYMAII
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James Farley, who worked for Abra-
ham Picard, in the latter's stables at
Rochester, New York, recovered judg-
1nent against him for having been bit
ten by large mastiff, which was kept
at the stables with the plaintiffs con-
sent. The Court of Appeals has af-
frnaed a reversal by the General Term
Of the Fifth Department, holding that
when an employe of a person keeping
q dangerous dog continues to work for
his employer, with knowledge OF the
character of the dog and the place
where he is kept, ne takes the risk of
being bitten, and his employer is not
liable for the damages he may sustain
from being so bitten.
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VIEW HAVEN. CONN.

THECARRlNGToN PUBLISHING co.
OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
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Toads are regular articles of trade in
the markets of Paris, gardeners buying
them by the dozen for insect hunters.
They are said to be the best policemen
that can be put into hot-beds and cold
frames, devouring everything in the
shape Of worms and insects, from the
smallest green fly to- the largest cut
worm and May-beetle. The little tree
toads are quite as valuable, leading In
teresting lives in the branches OF trees,
and shrubs, singing when the sun
shines, croaking dismally in cloudy
weather, but always attending to bust
ness at night.
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A. j. McLaurin is now governor of
Mississippi Sylvester McLaurin is dis
trict attorney, DR.. McLaurin is promi-
nertly connected with the State board
of health, r. L. McLaurin controls the
levee system Of the State, Walter Nc
Laurin is warden of the penitentiary,
w. X. McLaurin is district judge of
the vicksburg circuit Wallace Nc
Laurin is inspector of minerals of Idaho
and Sydney McLaurin, the youngest, is
private secretary to the governor. These
eight brothers have figured in Missis-
sippi politics for the last ten years.
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French scientists and explorers have
been discussing the question Of the re-
foresting of the Sahara and some of
them entertain very hopeful views. M.
I.argeau thinks that the whole atmos-
pheric conditions of the desert can be
changed and universal cultivation made
possible Others. not so sanguine, de-
SPAR of the more arid plateaus but
state confidently that in the depressed
portions trees, such as the tamar1sk,
acacia, eucalyptus and poplar proves
TO be the tree of all others most capable
of resisting the influence of the desert.
Under the shelter of the trees all kinds
OF vegetables and fruits can be grown.
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General Hadley, the head of the Epis-
copal Church Army, recently organic
ed. says It now has thirty-four labor
houses where the poor and broken
down man may apply for help and shell
ter. and where the criminals and pau
pers may go, from which they may OBJ
tain start in the world The tramps
and poor men viii work if you give
them a chance il the proper way.
Thirty-one bands have been established
for parish work. We go into families
and we visit every house and stir the
people up, and as a result church SER
vices will be held in that place regular
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The Pacific States Type Foundry Home
Industry furnished the Calls new dress.
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REPRESENTS MILLIONS.
Rapid Rise Of a Farmers Boy
by Pluck and Industry.

by Pluck and Industry.
William F. Herrin, the subject of this
sketch, was boyn near Jacksonville, Or,
on August z, 1854. His parents were
1arm folks of moderate means, and
such prosperity as they enjoyed was
the result of industry and prudent and
economical habits. They were of the
people who regard labor as dignified
and the criterion of true responsibility.
Young Herrin grew to be a large boy in
clothes made by his mother, and at an
early age he was known in the neigh
borhood as an industrious, practical
and useful boy, apt and handy at
making or mending, characteristics
which have ever since distinguished
him
At the age of 16 years he left the
farm for the Oregon Agricultural Col
lege, where he maintained himself
throughout the course by the most
rigid economy upon what he earned in
the harvest fields during the long sum-
mer vacations and at odd times. From
there he entered the law school of
Cumberland University at Lebanon,
Tenn, where he graduated among the
leaders in his class of forty law stu
dents.
He came directly to San Francisco
from Lebanon, arriving here under 21
years of age, with no capital beyond
his diploma and that which was within
MN, and without a friend or acquaint-
ance in the city, and without even a
letter Of introduction. One evening,
about two weeks after his arrival,
young Herrin, for lack of another
agreeable place, visited the San Fran
CISCO l9W lihra IL
gentleman came in to run out authori-
ties on law point he desired to pre-
sent early the next morning in a case
then on trial. The young man made his
acquaintance, convinced him of his
ability to brief the point that night
and thus secured his first employment
as lawyer. The elderly gentleman
was Clarence r. Greathouse, then one
OF our leading lawyers. He was so well
pleased with young Herrin's work that
on the day after their first meeting he
TOOK him into his office at a monthly
salary of about $50, and it was from
this humble beginning that Mr.. Herrin
mas, IN the twenty-five years which
nave followed, attained the rank and
distinction he now enjoys.
AS law clerk first and lawyer after
ward he remained with Mr.. Greathouse
for about two years. BY this time he
had attracted the attention of Senator
Stewart as a self-reIiant, Industrious
young man, of unusually good sense
and sound understanding for one of his
years, and he was given junior part
nership in the firm of Van Clief &,
Stewart. Several years later Mr.. Her
rim married Miss Annie Van Clief.
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his being in any sense society man or
to cultivate the details which qualify
one as a gentleman of fashion, and he
retains the same inartificial, direct
(blunt if you please), sincere character
istics with which he left the farm, and
his words now as then are never
equivocal.
Mr.. Herrin's busy ways have not at
all depressed his elasticity. He keeps
himself alert of the times and knows
what the great world is doing and
thinking about. He is strongly op-
posed to publicity, and it is notewor-
thy that the biography writer's have
never been able to get him into their
books.
Very early in his practice he be-
came able to select his cases and
never accepted a case unless after
examining it he believed the cause
to be just, and at all times pre-
served his own conscience as a distinct
entity from his clients. His appear
ance at court IN ease has come to
be an assurance that, at least in his
belief and opinion, the cause is mer-
itorious. AS he is a man of large
business experience, good practical
senSe, sound understanding, subtle
genius and withal an unusual apti-
tude for mastering the most intricate
combinations of facts and seeing at
a glance their true bearings in the
light Of the law, his judgment that
cause should prevail is generally af-
firmed by the courts. In the presen-
tation Of cases he has regarded rea-
soning as a philosophical process and
endeavored to convince by certain
ND 10 nd
has never permitted himself the use
Of loud words, dogmatic assertions,
the assumption of superior knowledge,
sarcasm or invective. No matter how
exciting the cause, how exasperating
the taunts or language of others he
has always preserved an unruffled ex-
terror and maintained his compoSure-
and has never been known to lose his
self-posseSsion, even in moments of the
greatest anxiety, tumult and conster-
nation; nor could it ever be discover
ed from his department during a trial
whether his case was prosperous or
perilous-except, possibly, that ne sails
his bark more boldly in rough than in
smooth waters.
One of his most distinctive faculties
as the administrative legal head of the
vast enterprises with which he is in
trusted is the ability to master general
policies and at the same time appreci-
ate and direct their details. Free from
indecision and timidity, with unusual
directness and ability to concentrate,
wholly intent upon the business at
hand and intolerant of depression, he
concludes and acts with great rapidity
so swiftly that affairs of magnitude,
in the consideration of which days are
usually consumed, are disposed Of by
him in as many hours.
He knows, moreover, how to select
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daughter of his partner, Judge Peter
Van Clief, who is well remembered by
our bench and bar as a pioneer of
sterling character, lawyer and jurist
of marked ability. Soon after the mar
riage Judge Van Clief withdrew, and
the firm of Stewart & Herrin kept on
until about 1888, when the firm of New
lands, Allen & Herrin was formed,
from which, in 1898, Mr.. Herrin with
drew to accept the Office of chief coun-
sci for the Southern Pacific Company.
Mr.. Herrin's course from his small
beginning as a law clerk at a very
small salary, but little more than TWEEN
ty years ago, to a prominent place with
the leading lawyers of the West, has
been of gradual but unbroken upward
progress. He is now the counsel for
the Bank of California, Spring Valley
Water Works, Market-street Railroad
Company, Sharon estate, Southern Pa
cific Company and other institutions,
representing aggregate investments in
trusted to his care and protection of
not less than 5000, ,O00, 900. To this height
of confidence and responsibility he was
not raised by accident, artificial condi-
liOllo 44OA lAC PONCA VI 4IlAQSAl1cl
friends, but by the natural growth of
confidence out of an appreciation of his
worth and character.
He has been engaged in many of the
most important cases that have arisen
in California and Nevada during his
professional life, and it has been
his pleasure and fortune to have
been intimately associated almost
from the beginning of his career
with such lawyers as Samuel NJ
Wilson, Hall McAllister, John Gar
ber, r. S. Mesick, w. H L.
Barnes. Reuben H. Lloyd. the able law
yers of his o-partnerships, and many
others. Endowed with those virile
qualities which commend men to men,
OF admirable temper, elf-possessed,
patient, calm and simple, free from
immoderation in politics, religion
and all matters, host of friends have
grown around him, and he enjoys his
own affections for them as much as
theirs for him. Probably there is moth
ing of which he feels so self-satisfied
as that with each new client he has ac-
quired an additional friend-unless it
be that he has never lost a friend on
this side of the grave. Although of
social and companionable disposition
his life has been too busy to permit of
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and organize men so as to accomplish
the maximum in results at the mini
mum Of effort-in other words, he
knows how to multiply himself in 9TH
ers. He is essentially a man of action,
not of words. The one word force.
broadly considered, indicating as it
does that harmony of mental powers
which results in the control of self and
others, suggests much as to the means
OF MS steady rise to prominence. If
asked he would probably say that he
has accomplished all through patience.
tenacity and work-and, after all. what
more could be said.
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DESERVED SUCCESS.
Lawyer and Legislator Whose
Services Have Been in the
Interest OF the Pa0roIa

Lawyer and Legislator Whose
Services Have Been in the
Interest OF the People.
Prominent. among the Native Sons
who have achieved success in the legal
profession is the name of H. G. w.
Dinkelspiel.
He is the third son Of the late Moses
Dinkelspiel, who was the Republican
member of the San Jose Normal
School Trustees. He attended Hastings
Law College, and was admitted to
practice on reaching his majority. In
1895 he was elected Assemblyman by
a majority of 900, the largest received
by any candidate in the city.
He was nominated by the regular
! Republican Congressional Convention
of the Fourth District for Congress in
1895, but withdrew for the sake of har-
mony.
He is a prominent member of the
Union League Club, president of
the Concordia Club, president of the
Library and Reading Room Associa-
tion IN. S. G. W., member of the
Masonic order and the I. o. B. B.
His law partner, Senator Henry G.
| Gesford, is one of the best lawyers
ana foremost men OF the state, ana 1t
may be noted that the firm has just
taken offices on the eighth floor of the
Claus Spreckels building, the new
home of The Call
Mr.. Dinkelspiel is regarded as the
leading Republican candidate for
| Congress in the Fourth District owing
to his popularity and splendid record
in the Legislature as the friend of the
people.
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Industry furnished the Calls new dress.