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The San Francisco call., 1897-08-20
CHANGES FOR GAUGERS
They Must Travel in Accord
ance With the Rules of
the Service.
The Republican Administration In
tends to Do Business on Bust
ness Principles.

Acting Collector of the Port Thomas
yesterday made an order which struck
CONSERVATION into the ranks OF Demo
cratic storekeepers and gaugers, who,
rumor says, are having good time, or
had been having a good time before the
order was made.
Mr. Thomas has issued mandate that
the class OF officials named shall no longer
be exempt from the changes of location
hich the department found many years
ago would be for the best interests of the
service. 1t has been the rule that every
quarter storekeepers and gaugers should
be changed around from one place to an
other, the reason being that it had been
found better that the storekeepers and
gaueers should not be too we'll acquainted
in the communities in which they work,
and that a change of location every quar-
ter would remove them from the inf uence
OF local political pressure and would pre-
vent many abuses which often arose by
reason OF favoritism and consequent
breach of the rules OF the department.
Under the Democratic and free and easy
administration OF Collector Welburn no
changes of any Importance were made.
In fact the changes were simply bur-
lesques. Mr.. Thomas said yesterday that
Mr.. We,burn would change gauger
from the south of Market street to China.
town and tie Chinatown gauger to the
south of Market street. and so on, so that
while the regulations of the department
were apparently being carried out they
were being Violated in the spirit.
Men with families naturally object to
being moved around in this way but no
real hard ship is worked upon them, as the
Government pays all travelling expenses.
But the Democrats are raising an outcry
over the new order, and are saying that 1t
is designed for the purpose of disgusting
Democratic gaugers and forcing them to
resign; then 10 fill their places with black
Republicans and rescind the order.
Mr.. Thomas said that he had assigned
some San Francisco gaugers 70 Los Ange-
les and some from Los Angeles to San
Francisco. He appreciated the fact that
married men did not like to change their
residences even for few months but he
had no alternative. The law should be
carried out. He had not heard that any
of the gaugers and storekeepers would re-
sign by reason of the order.
1t is evident that the Repu blican ad-
ministration intends to conduct the busi-
ness OF the revenue department on busi-
ness principles.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-20
DEATH OF MAJOR KLOSE.
The We1l-Known National Guardsman
Passes Away Suddenly With
ApopIexy.

Major Adolphus F. Klose, the we'll
known National Guardsman, died on
Tuesday from a stroke of apoplexy at his
home in the town OF San Quentin. There
were BUT few of the old Nationals better
known than the major. For twenty five
years he was the shipping clerk for NJ.
Ebrman 81 Co.
Kose was born in Hanover, Germany.
in 1S41, and at an early age he came to
this country with his parents. AS early
al July 90 1865, he enlisted in the old
National Guard, and TWO years later he
was elected to the position OF sergeant,
and in 1871 to the place OF first lie uten ant
of the company.
So great was his interest in military
affairs that in 1878 be secured the position
of rife inspector of the First Regiment,
and little later he was appoin ted rifle in
spector and major O. the Second Brigade
under General John McComb, upon whose
staff he remained for long time. In
1886 Major Kose WAS placed on the re-
tired list OF the Nationals and was an
honorary mem ber. When General Nc.
Comb was the warden at the State prison
at San Quentin Major Klose was under
him as commissary clerk, and while there
he was stricken with apoplexy. Twice he
partly recovered from such shocks, but
the last on Tuesday was fatal. The de.
ceased leaves a widow and one son IL
years of age. Owing to the Nationals
going into camp it was decided not to
hold a military funeral, put the body was
taken to the armory on Ellis street. from
which place it will be buried to-day, the
funeral services 10 be held at o'clock.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-20

field will be rushed. Track is already laid
for distance of fifteen miles south of
Hanford and to within three miles of Joa-
quin Junction, where the Visalia branch
will again connect with the main line.
The route toward Bakersfield is graded
for twenty-five miles south of the point
where track-laying ceased, when WORK on
the Visalla branch was begun. There is,
therefore, only forty miles yet TO be
graded between Hanford and Baker, field,
and sixty-fve miles of track to be laid. 1t
is probable that Bakersfield will be
reached before the new year begins.
Is is learned that all right of way diff
culties in Kern County have been settled,
except in one case. This will be over
come by condemnation proceedings. By
the time the Valley road is ready to re-
sumo work toward Bakersfield. it is be-
lieved that there will not single OBJ
stacle in the way.
Chairman Jastro of the Kern County
Board of Supervisors. who is spending a
few days in this City, said that the people
of that county were most anxious for the
coming of the new road He said it
meant more to the county of Kern than to
any other through which the road would
pass. The county, he stated, was capa BILE
of producing almost anything that grew
on the surface of the earth. Its irrigation
system was costly and widespread, and
the soil exceedingly fertile under the
benign influence OF canals and bitches.
What has heretofore stood in the way of
the greatest prosperity that the section
was capable of are the rates of freight that
are charged by the Southern Pacific. This
is the only outlet that the county has at
present.
With the advent of the Valley road and
tho cheaper rates that will come with it
stimulus will be given to many of the ex-
listing industries and many new one will
undoubtedly be started, he declared.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-20

erty, while HutchinsoI,'s and Westcott's
large ranches are near neigh hors.
Fifteen acres OF the property is devoted
to the cultivation OF paper-shell almonds,
fifteen 10 French prunes and fifteen for a
vineyard, while the remainder is sowed
with wheat, barley and oats. On the
property is a two-story house, modernly
built, large harm and paddock and other
structures. With the house go also two
teams of horses, three Jersey cows, 45C
chickens, Brewster family carriage and
a driving buggy.
Papinta has a summer home in High
lands, New Jersey, IN charge o. Pc
Dixon, and he will arrive here on Friday
to take charge of the place. All oil
the furniture in one of her New York flats
was ordered shipped and is expected here
in twelve days.
Directly through the ranch runs Walnut
Creek, which is bo!dered on both banks
with huge oak trees. The little actress
declares with many a shake of her head
and wave OF her bejeweled hands that it is
a regular paradise on earth, and that she
intends to call it Papinta Villa.
1.-The idea to buy piece of land in Cali.
forna for my future home first struck
me-" she aid, when l was coming here
from Fresno l am going to fulfill my
various contracts here in this country
next summer and then 60 to Europe.
After l have made a trip throughout the
Orient l am going to return to California
and spend the remainder of my days in
peace and quiet on this beautiful ranch. "
That is what Paplnta says, but her man.
ager only smiles and smiles. That lie
plainly says There's many a slip 'twixt
the cup and the lip"
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-20
A CHURCH FOR
EVERY SECT
Movement on Foot to Es-
tablish an Independent
House Of Worship.
Protestant, Catholic and Jew
Will Mingle Within Its
Walls.
Projectors of the Undertaking En-
deavoring to Obtain Sufficient
Funds.

About two score people met in Byron
Mauzy Hall last evening to discuss the
proposition of establishing an indepen-
dent church. This movement is an at
tempt to organize a church for the people
in the center Of a densely populated dis
trict from which the churches are remov-
ing, and where the Gospel may be
preached with freedom by an ordained
minister. The people who have an inter-
est IN this movement are for the most
part mem bers in good and regular stand
ing in other churches, but the movement
is not In opposition to any other organi-
zation. They are not liberal in the sense
of being opposed to churches. There isno
desire to organize new sect, but to COM
bne in q popular movement for the peo-
pie who otherwise DO not have church
affiliations.
A fund of three or five thousand dollars
per annum is wanted by the promoters to
prosecute the charitable and devotion al
work growing out of such a movement.
1t is not a question of congregations. but
one of financial support. If there be
enough people in this city sufficiently in
teresteu in such a movement 10 support it
with dollars then it will 60 forward.
ANY careful observer of the peculiar
condition OF our City," said Rev. William
Rader, lean easily see the industrial,
social and religious demands for what
should not be called liberal only, but
free, founded for the people. Every
large city IN the United States has a
downtown church. San Francisco is an
exception.
From densely populated district the
churches have been moving to residence
distr cts. Without entering into details,
it is enough 20 say that such a movement
must stand for the practical and, if neces-
sary, the institutional application OF
Christianity"
Plans for The organization OF the church
will be formulated uunng the next two
weeks by com m ttee appointed last even
ing consisting OF Mr. Gump, Mrs. Stimp-
son, Rev. Mr.. Slocum, w. c. Bailey, Rev.
Mr.. Howe and Mr.. Murdock. The plans
decided upon by the committee will be
presented for acceptance to the promoters
OF the project at NEE ting to be held on
Seute m Der 2
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-20
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The San Francisco call., 1897-08-20
BAKERSF FIELD
IT'S OBJECTIVE
The Valley Road Soon to
Rush Work Through
Kern County.
All Right Of Way Difficulties
Have Been Virtually
Settled.
It Will Be One of the Greatest Boons
That Ever Game to That
Section.

It has been formally decided to open
the Valley road for regular business
through to Visalia on September 8, and
the new rates between Fresno and that
town will not be published much before
that date. The event, as already an.
nounced, is to be made the occasion OF a
Joint celebration with that of Admission
day.
The tracks OF the road have been laid to
Visalia, but it will require some further
time to put in the necessary sidetracks,
platforms and switches.
As soon as all the work in and about
Visalia is ompleted the construction force
will be shifted to the Hanford division
and the work on the road toward Bakers
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-20

Griffin Smith
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landing
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The San Francisco call., 1897-08-20
Riyet-Heaters Won.

The forty-fve young riyet-heaters who went
out on strike at the Union Iron Works state
that they returned to work only after a raise
in wages had been accorded them. The raise
varied from 81 to ST 80 week. They are now
rushing to get the San Juan off the drydoc
working from o'clock until midnight. 1t is
expected that she will be ready to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-20
Thieves on a Ship.

For several days past thieves have been pay
ing nightly visits to the officers quarters of
the steamer San Juan, now under repairs at
the Union Iron Works. A few nights ago thew
broke into the room of Second Assistant En-
gineer II. B. Hayes and stole $50 from a
drawer that they broke open. Another visit was
paid to the room of the third mate, James
Cowen, from which they took $40 few
evenings later the room of Second Mate Sam
uel Crows was entered and several small arti-
cles were stolen. The Po,rero police believe
that the thieves are employees of the works
who are engaged on the cleaning and repairs.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-20
Preparing for the Fair.

grand entertainment and social will be
given a st. Brendan's hall, corner of Fremont
and Harrison streets, this evening. 1t will
be held under the auspices of Mrs. Hogan
and Mrs. Dugan and their many friends Who
have charge of Sacred Heart booth at ST.
Brendan's Fair, September 80. An ex tensive
progr ANNE has been arranged.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-20
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The San Francisco call., 1897-08-20

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The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-25
ALL THIEVES.
A Georgia Judge Sends Every
Merchant But One
Penitentiary or
TO THE CHAIN GANG.
They Were in COIIusiOn With a
Gang of Robbers
And Bought the Goods Stolen
From Railroads.
TO THE CHAIN GANG
Remarkable State of Public
Morals in This Georgia Town.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct. 25.-The
most sensational trial in the history of
the south for the past 25 years has
come to a close. For weeks past the
Bohannon gang of train robbers have
been on trial at Dalton, Ga, and also
prominent merchants for receiving sto-
len goods and being otherwise implfca-
ted in the big robberies unearthed. The
merchants and others have been con-
victed from day to day until every
merchant in town except one has been
found guilty
Today was the day for sentencing the
convicted ones. Tremendous pressure
was brought to bear on Judge F'ite to
make the sentences light, but he refuS-
ed to listen to entreaties and in each
case fearlesSly administered the law
and gave the full penalty. The follow
ing members of the train robbers gang
were sentenced: Walter BOhannOn,
chief,10 years; Tom Kinneman,5 years;
Sam Painter, years; Lutte White, 3
years; Ed Morris, 3 years; VIII Long,
year; Ben Pearce, 3 years.
The following merchants, accOmplices
of the above named, were sentenced:
Ralph Ellison, 1 year in chain gang;
Anderson Gibbons, 5000 and costs and 6
months in chain gang; Captain T. ].
Peoples, $500, costs and 1 year in chain
gang; Selee Conbry, $500 and months
in chain gang; Ed Roberts, $50 and 8
months in Jail; J. H. Bender, $3.50 and
rar, $3.50 and 6 months in chain gang;
G. w. Horn, 5000 and months in chain
gang; w. b McCarsen, 5000 and 6
months in chain gang; G.. McCannOn,
$1OO and costs and u months in chain
gang; Jesse Langsdon, $3.50 and II
months in chain gang.
The revelations at the trial just clos
ed have meant ruin and disaster for the
merchants convicted. The Dalton Gro
Gerry company, of which Captain Pee
pies is the head, had gone into the
hands of a receiver, and he has lost his
position as agent of the Western & At
lantic railway. J. Kirk Farrar is pres
ident of the Farrar Lumber company,
and four days ago married one of mid
die TenneSsees fairest bellies. He is
now away on his bridal tour. The mer-
chants all declare they will carry the
cases to the supreme court. Garrar
bought betting from the train robbers
with which to fit out SaWmillS. Peoples
bought carpets and other goods stolen
from railroad companies, part of which
he used to furnish his residence.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-25

Grand total -.........-.$1 81, 966, ,049, 849
The best evidence that a substantial
prosperity abides with the farmers of
Kansas is attested by the stimulation
of every branch of business. The bank
er, the dry goods dealer the hardware
merchant, the grocer and all others
testify that prosperity is here. Go into
the towns and villages of the state
and these men, engaged in the various
lines of trade, will tell you that the
farmers have paid off old bills, aban-
doned the credit system, and are pay
ing cash for such articles of merchan-
disc as they need. In addition to the
purchases of farm machinery of modern
and labor-savin character. they are
adorning their homes with pianos, buy
ing surreys for their families, and ad-
ding substantial improvements in the
way of buildings about the farms, all
of which give evidence of a prosperity
that has come to stay.
In his address before the last meeting
of the state board of agriculture, ex-
Governor Felt briefly told the story of
Kansas and the achievements of her
people. He said:
kansas is not poor; she is rich. A
state whose population has gone from
1O7. .206 in 1860 to 1 1,334, 734 in 1895, is not
poor and cannot be made poor save
by her own people OF that population
one million dwell outside of the ninety
five towns and cities having over 1000
population. Our increase since 1887 is
As per cent: increase in acreage of
winter wheat over 200 per cent; in
crease in acreage of corn, so per cent.
increase of acreage in tame grass, 120
per cent; increase of acreage of all
field crops, over 100 per cent. Kansas
cannot be poor when in thirty-fve
years she has built 5000 churches, at
a cost of 81. 600. 600. Kansas is not
poor: she pays less than S120 600 to sup
port paupers; but she has built in thir
ty-five years 8 900 public school houses,
and owns IS. COO 900 worth of public
school property. No people can be
poverty-stricben whose homes have S.,
600 600 in private Libraries, and where
more magazines and newspapers are
read at farmers f1resides, than under
any other sky. Let US pause to count
our blessings. Let us glory in our
achievements and not mourn for our
losses. Our great university, normal
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-25
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The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-25
BARRELS FULL OF FISH.
Remarkable Catches Made OFF Ia
coma's Wharves With Hook
apd Line

Tacoma. Oct. 25.-The northern part
of the Commercial wharf, reaching 100
feet and out of the track of freight
and passenger traffic passing over the
wharf was lined yesterday with eager
anglers after the fat, ling cod
The smooth, white fish were hauled
ashore with hook and line, by even the
most inexperienced fisherman as fast
as he could bait his hook and cast it
into the water. Three men, each with
a line, landed a three bushel sugar bar
rel full of the fish in two hours. 1t
was estimated the catch would weigh
300 pounds.
One of the trio who made the big
catch would cast his line wait half a
minute or so and say, There, I have
one" but he would not lift the squirm-
ing fellow from the water until a sec
Ond victim took the hook.
You see," said the angler cit is
easier to land two at a time than to
pull the line out and throw it back for
each fish,
Some of the people helping themselves
so plentifully to ling cod are sailing
them for the winter, and as the fish
cost them practically nothing they will
enjoy many free rich dishes of this one
wealth of the sound before summer
comes again.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-25
GALLANT's SAD REWARD.
Saves Lady and is Seriously Injured
by Hat Pin.

New York, Oct. 25.-Joseph L. Mum,
prominent lawyer of Orange, N J.,
may lose his life as his reward for saw
ing lady from falling from a street
car.
On the day following his act of gal
Iantry he noticed that his hand had
swollen during the night He picked a
slight wound which he had received
when he caught the woman, and was
surprised to extract therefrOm tiny
piece of sharp steel wire, the remnant
of a hat pin.
The swelling subsided and the hand
was apparently restored to its normal
condition, but a week later the inf1am-
nation reappeared. AS before, Lawyer
Mum resorted to his own surgery, and
for a second time was able to extract a
piece of the irritating hat pin. The
hand did not show signs of healing as
readily as before, and when the mem
ber had swelled to nearly twice its nat
ura1 size, he called in DR.. Feidler, who
told him there still was some foreign
substance in the wound Further in
Vestigation proved it to be the pointed
end of a hat pin. Its removal was ac-
cOmplished by a surgical operation, but
the constant reopening of the angry
wound had so stimulated the irritation
that the physicians fears of resultant
blood poisoning were soon realized.
Counselor Mum grew rapidly worse un-
til it became necessary for him to take
to his bed, where he still is, in a pre-
cariOus condition.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-25
YIRGINIA'S FLAG TO FLY.
Resolution in Virginia to Place the
State Emblem on the Schoolhouses.

Richmond, Va, Oct. 25.-At the meet
ing of the Grand Camp of Confederate
Veterans of Virginia here Saturday,
Col VIM. H. Stewart of Portsmouth,
one of the best known men in the state,
offered a resolution that the history
committee of the organization consid
er the advisability of hosting the flag
of Virginia on every public school build
ing in the state.
The resolution created a lively scene
and animated discussion. Major Nor
man V. Randolph, one of the most en-
thusiastic ex-confederates in the state
and a wealthy and prominent citizen
here vigorously opposed the resolution.
THE flag of the union" said he, be
longs to me just as much as it does to
Boston or a New York man, and
would hate to see it taken down from
our public school buildings and have it
substituted by the Virginia flag"
The resolution will be referred to the
history committee for consideration.