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The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
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CALL OFFICE. RIGGs HOUSE,


President Mckinney, accompanied by
Assistant Secretary Day, arrived in Wash
ington at 7:45 O'CLOCK this morning. He
was met by Secretary Alger, Secretary
Bliss and Secretary Porter, and driven to
the White House. The President had re-
ceived two kilograms, en- route from
Washington, from Canton reporting the
condition of his mother, but be was
anxious for later news. so Secretary Por-
ter stopped at the telegraph office on the
way from the station TO inquire for any
dispatches thai might be waiting. There
was none, however, so the party pro-
ceeded to the White House, where break
last was had.
In the middle of the forenoon a message
was received from Abner Mckinley at
Canton, saying that the Presidents
mother was resting in about the same
condition as when he Left, sleeping and
unconscio Gus. She might last through the
day, or even one or two days longer, but
was liable to die AT any moment.
Arrangements have been made for the
return trip to Canton tomorrow evening.
The President Mrs. Mckinley and party
of half a dozen close friends and relatives
will leave Washington at Z o'clock on a
special car attached to the regular Penn
sylvania train and arrive in Canton at 10
O'Clock Tuesday morning.
CANTON, OHIO. Dec, 5.-Mother Nc
Kinley has passed the fourth day of her
illness and enters upon the fourth night
with the spark of life still burning dimly.
There has not been u material develop
ment in her case to-day. Her conuition
has continued one of steadily wasting
away. The family watched by the bedside
all day, prepared for the end at any mo-
ment and sometimes feeling that it had
come, as the patient was seized with sink
ing spells sucn as thew yesterday mistook
for second stroke OF paralysis.
The patient has taken no nourIshment
since Thursday. 1t cannot be admins
tered by ordinary methods, and the case
is one in which heroic methods of admin
istering food are not regarded iustifabIe.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06

clear perceptions and ready wit. am for
the indorse ment OF our Pacific Coast men,
and l am surprised and chagri ned that
there are men who get in with their ham
mers and begin to knock every head of a
Californian that bobs up above The line OF
the commonplace.
Andrew J. Clunie-l have nothing but
kind words tor McKenna. He is a good
lawyer and may yet become a great one.
Above all he is an honest manand a clear
headed thinker. 1 do not see whv peopIe
OF our profession want to go out of their
way to knock him out of the prospective
appointment. He would be credit to the
State, and we of right ought to have the
place.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
LOCAL LAWYERS
SPEAK FOR McKENNA,

Ex-Judge D. J. Murphy-I have no
sympathy whatever with this mean fight
against one of the most honorable of our
citizens, just at the moment when he is in
the line OF promotion. l think we should
all rejoice at his prosperity, for it illus
trates how man may still come up from
humble surroundings. l have known
Judge Mckenna well for many years, and
! have a very hign opinion of him as a
man and as iurist. The fight against
him is both unkind and unjust. 1t is the
same old California spirit OF envy and
bitterness that has so long stood in the
light of our people. It would be bless
ing If we ever had anv of that brotberly
feeling and love of unity that should weld
common people in the ties of fraternal
feeling.
Ex-Judge Walter s. Levy-There is not
a more honorable man in the United
States than Joe McKenna. | went TO
school with him and / know him TO be a
studious and clear headed man. | do not
say he is the greatest living lawyer, and
nobody but a fawnIne fattereI would
make such q statement, but / do say thai
Judge McKenna is made OF such stuff that
he will not stop growing. He has a future
before hrm which will make his name
iliustrious and do honor to the State In
one aspect of the case the fight against
hIm shows that he is of some importance
When a man writes great book makes a
great speech or achieves anything in this
world there are envious tongues to decry
his achievements. Even Abraham Lin
coin was denounced as a little man until
everybody saw he was a genius. For one
! am free to say that / think McKenna
has a fine order of ability and he will sur
prise his critics befjre the matter is over
r. NJ. Soto-I d o not think there has ever
before been such fight against man for
the exalted position of Justice of the Su-
preme Court It's In bad taste, and it is
unjust. McKenna is an honorable man,
ana a hard working. clear-headed man.
he is not yet as great lawyer as he will
be, but he has ability enough to come up
to the average of the bench now. think
he is as good a lawyer as Chief Justice
Fuller.
Ex-Dlstrict ATTORNEY Edward B. Stone
hill have known McKenna for many
years and | have bad a mum Der Of cases
in his court. / have also seen many OF bis
opinions and heard them commented on
by the bar l believe in giving him a
chance. He cannot compare with Field,
nor can a single member of the Supreme
Court of the United States to-day COM
pare with such men as Field and Miller,
fancy and Marshall. That should not
prevent McKenna's nomination and con-
hrmatlon. He is an honest man and
capable lurist. The future is before
him. He will grow, because he
Is man OF good health, good habits ami
is still young enough to be useful for
many years. At the recent banquets given
to him In this city he made offhand
speeches that showed him to be man OF
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
TO cHRiSTER The KENTUCKY.
New Candidate for the Honor in the
Person of Mrs. Anna Lyle
BrQdIeY BQrnes.

LEXINGTON. Ky, Dec. There is a
new candidate in the field for the honor
of christening the battle-ship Kentucky.
She IS Mrs. Anna Lyle Bradley Barnes,
niece OF Governor Bradley. Friends say
should Miss Chrystyne Bradley decline to
act as sponsor for the Kentucky after Sec
retary Long appoints her, the Secretary
will ne petitioned to appoint Mrs. Barnes.
She is one of the handsomest young mat
rons in Kentucky, and is the wife of Col
onel Will S. Barnes, the well-known turf
man and disiiiIer
Miss Harriette B. Richardson is still il
the contest. She SAID to-day she did nol
believe the dispatches sent out from
Washington last night stating that Secre-
tary Long had appointed Miss Bradley.
Friends of Miss Bradley say thev doubt il
the young lady viii accept the honor.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
ATTEMPTS TO end
A DOCTORS CAREER
Idaho StoCkman Shoots to
AVenge a FanCfed
Wrong.
EnraRed Because Physician Re.
fused to Call Upon HIS
Sick Son.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL.

Special Dispatch to THE CALL
TACOMA, Dec. 5.-Dan Paul, a promi-
nent sIockman, sent a courier to Cotton
wood, Idaho, on Thuroday morning ask
ing DR.. Turner to call and see his son who
was critically Ill. The courier returned
and said that Turner refused 10 come. CIV
ing as his reason that his business rela-
tions with Paul were unsatisfactory.
Paul was enraged and hastened to Cot
tonwood. Going direct to the doctor Of
flee, after few words Paul drew revolver
and assaulted Turner. The after avoided
bullet in his head by striking the re-
volver with rhis left hand. Turner then
escaped from Paul by jumping behind a
counter and later got out of the building
by back door. Paul gave himself up TO
the officers
Turner's left hand was nearly torn off
and he has gone to Portland for treatment
fearing blood poisoning. He was a mem
of the last Idaho Legislature.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
Will Spare No Effort to Secure
Confirmation by the
Senate.
TRADUCERS FAIL MOST
MISERABLY.
MOST
a cial Announcement Made That
Griggs VIII Succeed to the At
torney-GeneraIsh
Special Dispatch to THE CALI.
CALL OFFICE, RIGGs HOUSE,

CALL OFFICE, RIGGs HOUSE,
WASHINGTON, Dec. s.
If there has been any doubt at all that
Mr.. McKenna would be appointed to the
United States Supreme Court 1t was dis
PEELED to-day when the President made
the official announcement at the White
House that he had selected Governor John
w: Griggs of New jersey to succeed him
as Attorney General. The President will
take no notice of the protests against
Judge McKenna. He will stand by him
to the last. Not only this, but he will se-
cure his confirmation.
The fight being made against the Judge
will only react on his contemplate ira
duCers. Upon every side are heard words
OF praise for McKenna, and many Sena-
tors have called upon him to assure him OF
their hearty support and to express their
Indignation at the methods of his oppo-
nents.
Senator Perkins, who arrived at the
Riggs House tonight, says he will do all
he can to secure McKenna's confirmation.
The attitude of Senator White is some
what doubtful, since he refuses to discuss
the matter. It is we'll known that his
favorIte candidate for successor 10 Field
was Judge Erskine NJ. Ross of Los Angeles,
and he hoped Field would resign months
ago so that Ross could be appointed.
1t now transpires that Ross has also
Joined the protestors against McKenna's
appointment, and this may influence
White, but it is not considered probable,
/tor, although White is a Democrat, he Is
nevertheless a good, loyal Californian,
and there is no good reason why he
should make a night against McKenna
and lose the Justiceship to the State.
1t IS not believed that Senator Roar,
chairman OF the Judiciary Committee,
viii oppose Mckenna. Indeed, the
chances are that the Judge Will be con-
nrmed without much opposition from any
quarter. The CALL correspondent learns
that the appointment will not he made
until the President returns IRON Canton.
He goes back there Tomorrow alter trans
uniting his message to Congress, and the
McKenna nomination will follow imme-
diately after he returns to Washington.
Then, when McKeLna has been confirme ed ,
Griggs will be appointed Attorney-Gen-
eral.
1t is worthy of note at this time that
the Examiner announced audaciously
several months ago that James a. Way
mire would succeed Mckenna, and this
newspaper persistently and stubbornly
reiterated this as news" notwithstand-
ing he fact that The CALL announced
positively that he would not be appoin ted.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
BURNED ON THE BEACH.

Bat the CretU Of the blazing Steamer
Wnded ashore
CHICAGO, Dec. 5.-The s Gamer George
w. Morley of Cleveland was burned to the
water edge on the beach at Evanston to-
night. Her crew of thirteen men got
ashore without difficulty. The Morley
was bound from Milwaukee to Chicago
without cargo, and when off Evanston a
lamp exploded in the engine room, scat
terIng burning oil in all directions Be-
fore the pumps could be started the fire
was bevond control, and the boat was
beached at Greenwood boulevard, the
crew wading ashore. % The Morley was
wooden stea mer and valued at $50 0OO
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
EIPLOSION IN - RATHROO
RO,ipn Building Partially. Wrecked bn
a Roller Disaster.

TACOMA, Dec. 5.-News was received
to-day of the explosion yesterday at Ros-
lyn of boiler useo for h~ating water in
the barber shop and bathrooms Of John
Shaver. Water got low in the boiler. but
it had frequently been as low before and
was not considered dangerous. An at
tendant was preparing TO fill the boiler
when it suddenly exploded with a report
that caused many to think there had bee n
a big explos ion in the Roslyn coal mines
The front of the one-story building was
blown out and the entire structure shaken.
Robert Patterson, who was standing
near the boiler, was blown into the street,
fracturing his leg in two places and in
flicting severe wounds on his bouy and
head He will be SCARED for life. Two
otner persons in the building were scarcely
injured.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
An Insane gomnn Burn. Her,.,c

NICKERSON.K KANs. Dec. 5.-Whfle tenn
porariiy insane, Mrs. NJ. E. Dorr. an ell
der!y woman, to-day saturated her clothing
with kerosene and set them afire. She
was burned to a crisp. Her husband and
daughter, in trying to extinguish the
flames, were seriously and perhaps ia
tally burned
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
Left Btfho,lt a EotLo,cer.

WICHITA, KANs., Dec. Sc. L. Hewes,
the Wichita noun tain boomer, who has
been here three W .eks seeking 10 organ
IZe a party, lett for Oklahoma City to.
night without a follower. At different
tim mas he was claimed to have from 500 to
10, 900 boomers ready to follow his lead
into the country.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
Took the Evenings Receipts.

ARDMORE, IND. T., Dec. 5.-At the
clos of the performance of "Sam'l
of Posen" by the NJ. b. Curtis Company
at the opera-house here tonight, Nellie
IL. Fillmore, the cashier, disappeared
with the evenings receipts. Later she
was arrested and released on bonds. Miss
Fillmorec laims that Curtis owed her ana
that she took this means of paying her
self
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
IN MEMORY OF GEORGE.
Exercises at Chicago Under the Auspices
OF the SinnLe Tie (IsIb.

oT the Single T1S CIub
CHICAGO, Dec. 5.-Exercises in mem
ory of the late Henry George were held al
the Auditorium this afternoon under the
auspices of the Chicago Single Tax Club.
Over 1000 persons we're in attendance.
Mrs. George, the widow IF the late
economist, occupied a box. She came "a
Chicago last week to attend the wedding
OF her son, Henry George Jr., and pro-
longed her visit in order to be present al
the memorial exercises.
Edward o. Brown of Chicago presided
and in opening the meeting paid an eIo-
quent tribute 10 the memory OF Mr..
George.
Addresses were also made by Emil G.
Hirsch, former Governor Altgeld, Bishor
John L. Spaulding of Peoria and Rev. DR..
5. S. Craig of Toronto. Ont
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
Killed 6v a Falling Rock.

SAN JOSE, Dec. 5.-Coroner Secorc was
called to the Almaden mines to-day,
where he held an inquest on the body of
Thomas II. Pascoe. Pascoe was a minef
and was killed last night by a rock falling
on him.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
III Da,ces Treaty Defeated.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 5.-A special to the
Republic from Guthrie, o. T., says: At
yesterdays election in the Chickasaw
Nation the ratification of the Dawes
Choctaw treaty vas overwhelmingly de-
feated. The adopted and inter
ctizens were not permitted to participate
IN the election.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
Fire Amon0 Chemicals.

CHARLESTON. Dec. 5.-Fire thi, after
noon DESTROYED the acid cham bers at the
Reed Phosphate Works, few miles out of
this city. The mill building was saved
BY the heroic WORK OF the employees. The
origin of the fire is unknown. The loss il
about 500 900, which is covered by insur-
ance.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
= ENGLAND Am pENEzUEIA.
Diplomatic Relation, Beftceen the Il
fOn1lfrIer RenearcH

fOUntrIes Renetced.
NEW YORK. Dec. 5.-A cable to the
World from Caracas, Venezuela, says:
Diplomatic relations with England have
been renewed. The English Minister has
arrived here.
MARQUIS Roias has been appointed the
representative of Venezuela on the tribu.
nal OF arbitration to fix the Guiana bound
ary.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
Persuaded Her TO Return.

BUTTE, Dec. 5.-Joe Johnson, the
muIatto accused o! enticing Kate Neiu. a
white girl, from her home in Sweet
Springs, Mo-, was captured in Missoula
today. He admits having taken the girl
awav from home, but declares he left her
In Butte, having persuaded her 10 go
back to her people.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
PRESIDENT
RETURNS To
WASHINGTON
Will Open Congress and
Then Go Back to
Canton.
MOTHER MCKINLEY'S
CONDITION.
Remarkable Vitality of the
Aged Woman Shown by
Her State.
STEADILY BUT SLOWLY
WASTING AWAY.
1t Is Probable That Her Son VIII Be
by Her Beds tde When DIssolu-
tion Gem s.
Remarkable Vitality of the
Aged Woman Shown by
Her State.
STEADILY BUT SLOWLY
WASTING AWAY.
1t Is Probable That Her Son VIII Be
by Her Bedside When DIssolu-
tion Com s.
SPECIAL Dispatch to TIE CALL.
Observation-Disclosures

CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 6.-At this
hour (1:15 A. NJ. there are strong
hopes that Mrs. Mckinley will
survive the night. She is much
weaker than at any time, but is
resting quietly and gradually
passing away. The whole family,
except the Presid ent, is about the
bedside, expecting the end.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-06
Panels to Paint On.

New panels to paint on in Persian green and
gold outsell all theirs in artists material de-
Dartment of SanDorn, Vail & Co.
Passaic City record., 1897-11-27
LONG BULL IN HIS REGIMENTALs

common plains; to get their wood
from the common forests; to stack
their tents where they pleased; to
hunt or work and appropriate the COM
mon reserve as freely as the fish use
the sea. This was their old time and
natural way of doing things. It
violates every principle of the rights
OF property and was correspondingly
conducive to savagery. It is the
desire of the Government to get them
entirely out of this state and to make
them citizens.
One of the means to this end is to
divide up the reservations that they
have held in common and to allot the
lands in severalty. That is, to give
each Indian homestead, mark it off
by distinct boundary lines, require him
to build house on it, teach him to
cultivate it, and in various ways help
him along until he is able to support
himself and his family upon it. Of
course the Indians have to be sufi-
GENTLY advanced to be willing to do this
before it can be done with any degree
of success. A portion of land is allot-
ted to every man, woman and child
When the child grows up, instead of
finding the land around belonging to
Passaic City record., 1897-11-27
Cheap Electric Light.

In spite of the fact that Chicago is
generally associated with the idea Of
municipal ownership in the considera-
ton of all questions of public light
ing, it is fact that the city depends
upon central station companies for
considerable current to operate street
lights, particularly in the southern
part of the city. Two of the com
panies, the Peoples Electric Light
and Power company and the Hyde
Park Electric Light and Power COM
pany, have been engaged in spirited
rate-cutting war for some time, and
wherever the lines of both companies
were to be found the people secured
their service at very small cost. The
city controller, becoming cognizant Of
this fact, determined to secure some
advantage for the city, and he has
accordingly asked both companies to
bid upon the city lighting for the
district which they occupy. Western
Electrician.
Passaic City record., 1897-11-27

his own vine and fig tree is to build
school house, equip it well, put good
conscientious teachers in charge of it,
require every Indian of school age to
attend it, and thus push on the work
of civilizing the Indians right in the
heart of the reservation. The Indian
school question has for some years en-
gagged more than any other the thought
of those interested in Indian work.
And "the Schools to the Reservations"
was the policy of the last administra-
tion, and will, I presume, remain the
policy of the present administration.
The Fort Berthold reservation is on
both sides of the Missouri River in the
northern part of North Dakota. It
contains about million and a quarter
acres and is as far from civilizations
haunts as any similar sized piece of
ground outside of Africa. The nearest
railroad train passes by nearly hun
dred miles away The nearest tele-
graph instrument ticks at the same dis
tance. The agency employs few
white men who have married squaws,
and a missionary or two are the only
whites on the reservation.
There are three tribes on this reser-
vation,. the Gros Ventres, the Mandans
and the Arickarees. There is a sub
tribe of Gros Ventres known as the
band of Grow Flies High. They long
ago cut loose from all other Indians.
They had to be brought with troops
from their mountain fastnessess down
to the reservation. They call them
selves "Hoshkis" (huskies), which
means s'bad lands" They still refuse
to affiliate with any other tribe.
It was to this unreconstructed band
that had to make allotments. Grow
Flies High had been deposed as chief
and Long Bull put in his place. Old
Grow now calls himself Chief Medicine
man. He still has great influence and
is said to use all of it for the bad.
The Indian chiefs are great sticklers
for dignity. Grow Flies High has
superabundance. The first time his
band came dowr to have council
with me he assumed marshalship of
them although Long Bull, dressed in
full regimentals, was spokesman. They
halted their horses and wagons within
a few hundred yards of my camp and
Passaic City record., 1897-11-27

in France, where she edits newspaper
devoted to war for justice to Erin and
where the imaginative Frenchmen
have given her the title of the "Joan
of Arc of Ireland" She is convert to
Irish nationalism from the camp of the
Unionists, and she declared upon
reaching America that there was but
one object in life for her-the rights Of
the commoners of her native country.
Miss Come is the daughter of Colonel
Come, who was an attache of the
English embassy in ST.. Petersburg.
She was reared in the society which
would accompany such position, but
as young girl the stories of the life
of O'Connell, the Liberator, came un-
der her attention, and at the age of
nineteen years she had resolved to de-
vote her energy and years to the cause
which had been his. She has been in
active battle for eleven years, has
worked among the lowly in London
and the dungeons and organized many
societies for the improvement of the
Irish peasantry.
Passaic City record., 1897-11-27

The position is taken by DR.. Nc
Burney, in the London Medical News,
that there really is no medical cure
for appendicitis, even though some
cases recover without operation; he
considers, too, that, though appendi-
citis is surgical disease, yet opera
tion may not be necessary in every
case, the fact being that this ailment is
a stoppage of the drainage from the
appendix to the colon, and preliminary
treatment is often worse than useless.
Thus the opium treatment relieves
pain and discomfort, but entirely masks
the symptoms at a most important
time, for it is in the first twentyfour
hours from the beginning of the at
tack that physicians can decide not
only as to the diagnosis, but as to the
result and course probably OF the case.
If, for instance, there is no increase
in urgency in five or six hours, the pa
tient is not in immediate danger if
kept at perfect rest in bed; on the
other hand, if in twelve hours there is.
still no increase in the severity of the
symptoms, the patient should begin to.
improve. But, if the urgency Of the
case has steadily increased in twelve
hours from the time when the diagno-
sis was made, an operation will prob
ably be called for. After two attacks,
a patient is sure to have third, and
each attack renders operation more
difficult and dangerous all the advan-
tages lie with operation between the
attacks, and in an operation during
an acute attack the prognosis is worse.
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