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they again raised great uproar, Late
tonight they are playing devils tattoo
on their cell gratings, and the air is nlde'
Gus with all sorts of execrations.
Prison Director Wilkins visited the
prison this afternoon and gave warden
Hale assurance OF approval OF his action.
Telegrams to the same effect have been
received from Directors Fitzgerald,
Hayes, Depue and Devlin. The prison
staff is also unfolding the Warden s
stand. The directors are to unit In
favor of adopting extreme measures. Ii
it were possible to invoke the whipping
post rawhide would be at premium just
now. The convicts know, however, that
thew have nothing of this sort to fear.
Their discomforts will lie along the lines
of solitary confinement ana bread-and-
water diet.
The damage to the dungeons is slight,
but the wrecking of this department may
be the means of engthening the terms OF
those who accomplished it. This is
problem that the prison directors will
consider at their next meeting. The de-
molition of prison furniture is crime
under the law, with no inconsiderable
punishment attached.
There is no immed ate intention of re-
suming work in the jutemill. In fact the
prison is in state of siege whose length
it is impossible to forecast.
Five extra guards were added to the
regular patrol tonight. The prison has
been closed Indefinitely to visitors. All
relatives and friends OF convicts were de-
MED admittance to-day, with the excep-
ton of w. 7. Durrant, who arrived at
noon to see his son. The two held a short
interview in Captain Eigar's Office. and
the incident did not provoke the expected
uproar from the convicts. Instead they
were unusually quiet determined, appar-
entity, to appreciate the solemnity of the
occasion.
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WAEDEN HALE SUSTAINED.
Prison CO,nntission-rs Hars Unbounded
ConEdrnce In HIS judgment.

Prison CO,nntissfon~rs Hars Ulbounded
Confdrnce In His Judgment.
President Charles Montgomery of the
California Prison Commission yesterday
sent the following letter to Warden Hale
at San Quentin:
Hon. ". E. Hale. Warden San Quentin-DEAR
SIR: We deeply regret the present trouble
among the convicts, caused no doubt by the
bad advice of a few leaders OF the desperate
Grim ifIal class. We have unbounded conf
dence in your good judgment and ability to
cope with this trouble and we are sure that
you Will exhaust every reasonable means be-
fore human life is sacrificed. Also We are
sure that when the proper time comes you
will deal mereifully with those who are men,
tally weak and who allowed themselves to be
misled ard become the tools of the designing
and vicious criminals who planned and plot
ted this present serious trouble.
For the really guilty, who planned and de-
signed the trouble, we nave nothing TO say.
The discipline of the prison must be maiu-
tanned at all cost, and our commission stands
behind you in it's maintenance. At the same
time, while our work and sympathy are with
the conviets. we cannot do better than to
teach them in every possible way to strictly
obey the rules OF the prison and show respect
to the guards and those in authority.
In reference 10 the complaint of the con-
vfcts about poor food, our commission has on
former occasions Investigated like complaints.
We are almost daily receiving particulars in
reference to the food and the inside working
OF the prison from discharged convicts COM
ing 10 US, ana we are prepared to say from our
personal observations and the statements
made continually 10 US by ex-convicts That the
present cause of complaint is entirely ground
less. We claim that we are in position TO
certify that the prisoners under your care are
well led and well cared for. ana If they will
only abide by the prison rules they Will have
no Just cause for complaint
II our commission can be of any service to
you in this present trouble, in the way OF ad-
V1S1Qp
executive com mittee will be at your service
upon an hours notice. We are sure that at
the present stage of this trouble and excite
ment kind words and good advice would have
more effect upon the majority than tatling
guns. Kindness has a wonderful effect upon
even the hardest criminals. Resne ctfully
yours. CHARLES MONTGOMERY,
President California Prison Commission.
San Francisco Cal Nav 20
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TO DELAY PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
Germany Continues to Encourage 'he
Porte to Resist the Demands OF
fhe powsrs

CONSTANTINOPLE, TURKEY, May 3o.-
Germany continues to encourage the Porte
10 resist the powers and delay peace neeo-
tiations. In lengthy conference tne dlp-
lomats drafted note to the forte con-
senting 20 advise Greece to sign mili-
tary armistice as condition precedent 10
the peace negotiations and suggesting tnat
the negotiations be concluded speeoliy.
But the German ambassador has again
asked time 10 refer the text OF the nrst
note for the approval of his Governments.
The Turkish Ministers interpret Ger
many's attitude to ndicate the concert Is
becoming increasingly unstable.
1t is believed the Porte will insist upon
carrying on direct negotiations with
Greece and the powers will probably con-
sent, reserving the right to supervise the
negotiations.
BERLIN, GERMANY, May 3o.-The Ma
tlonal Zeitung semi officially says that
Germany will not adhere to any attempt
to induce the Turks to Immediately quit
Taessaly, where they are by right OF war.
Germany would rather be isolated by the
concert.
ATHENS, GREECE. May 3d. General
M les, commander of the United States
Army, arrived at Lamia from Constantl-
nople to-day. He visited the Greek lines
and lunched with Crown Prince Constan-
tine.
The newspapers here comment upon the
special invitation of the Prince OF Wales
to Constantine TO visit London during the
jubilee. The papers regard the invitation
q c q n n tn Grown Prince
in the bour OF humiliation, but do not
advise its acceptance.
LONDON, ENG, May 30.-Gladstone has
written fervld letter to the Liberal can
didate IN the Petersfeld Division OF
Hampshire to fill the vacancy in the Com
mons caused by the death of William
Wickham. Gladstone urges England to
no longer be party to the present policy
OF Eastern Europe. "where," he says,
"the holy alliance, so detested in the days
OF my youth, has been renewed under the
name of the concert of Europe. Russia,
Germany and Austria are at their old
trade again as foes to liberty and justice.
France is tongue tied by her subserviency
to the views of Russia. Italy is paraiyzed
by internal EN- uarrassment, and England,
WniCn ouSnt 10 De actlnB Oh ner own CON.
victions, is content to sit al the table with
the three Emperors and register their de-
crees. The guns of the British ironclads
have been employed to shed the blood OF
Cretans, who were struggling against
Turkish tyranny, and the Hood of a hun
dred thousand Christians has drenched
the soil of Armenia without penalty for
the great assassin who shed it, or security
against his repeating the crime when he
finds it convenient. All this is execrated
by the people OF Great Britain
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DR.. Griffith IL Located.

PITTSBURG, Pa, May 30-Dr. Hanil-
ton CIR fin, the Wali-strees promoted of
many com pan les, for whom many perso,s .
have been looking everywhere, has bee,
discovered at III Wylie avenue, this cit,
Baptiste lie Blanc. He has been her,
since April 81. The police have sent no.
tices to New York and San francisco that
he is being watched. Griffin said he did
not fear his accusers, and could prove ali
his business transactions were honest He
promoted companies capitalized at many
millions.
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PICNIC PAk1Y RUN JATo.

Feur Children Killed and as Many
More Injured by a Train.
DENVER, CoLo., May 30.-Three fami-
lies were decimated tonight by an acci-
dent on the Denver ana Rio Grande Rail-
way, by which at least tour children were
killed and as many more injured. Two
families had been pcnicking and were re-
turning home at 80 when they encoun-
tered the Western express at First and
Santa Fe avenues. The tain was behind
time and running rapidly. The engineer
saw the heavily laden buggy approach,
but thinking the driver would stop he
never slackened speed. The next thing
he knew he had struck the vehicle and
the dead were scattered in Gil directions.
The fathers OF the childrea were with
them, but oscar ped.
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CONSPIRACY AGAINsT GEORGE.
Premier RaHH ant Colleagues Plot to
Orerfhrnfr The DunnsfH.

Premier RaH AMI Colleagues Plot to
OrerthrotD the Dynasty.
ATHENS, GREECE, May 3o.-The King
visited the Prime Minister yesterday, and
after two hours interview sent long
telegram to the Gar urging him to inter-
vene in behalf of Greece.
BERLIN, GERMANY, May 30.-A deeply
rooted conspiracy against the King OF
Greece is learned from Russian source.
There is convincing evidence that Premier
Ralli and colleagues in the Cabinet are
gravely implicated in a plot to overthrow
the dynasty. The Kolnische Zeitung says
Greece will be compelled to pay large
indemnity. reduce her army to 90 600 men
and give up her feet.
CONSTANTINOPLE, TURKEY, May 80
The official censors have been ordered to
suppress any sympathetic allusion to or
anxieties concerning the Greek royal fam
lily or mention improvement in the Greek
funds. The police o; the Galata section
of the city has been ordered to arrest all
persons dealing in Greek securities.
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JESSE GIANTS CONCESSIONS.

Work of the Syndicnte IN LotCer Catifor-
nia to Be Purely Comntercinl.
HERMOSILLO, MEX, May 30 - The
concession recently granted by the Mexi-
can Government to Jesse Grant and asso-
ciates calls for the development of the diff
ferent resources of Lower California, and
it is stated by a member of the syndicate
that the enterprise is strictly CONNER
cal one. The esta blishment of a gam
bling reservation is not contemplated.
The principal attention will be given to
establishing health resort and sanitari-
um at Tia Juana Hot Springs. It is also
the intention to colon1ze a large tract of
rich land with American farmers.
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WEIRD FIND or spoAGE-D1rERs.
Startled by Yacht In Trim Shape
Thirty Feet Und.r Hater.

TAMPA. FLA, May 30.-A passenger
from Key West says sponge vessel brings
news OF strange wreck twenty miles
southeast of that port, near Fish Light
Banks. The sponge-divers found the
wreck lying in thirty feet of water. She
was yacht in trim shape and schooner
rugged. All her boats were missing and
her masts had gone by the board The
cabins were luxurlously furnished. and in
a stateroom was found the corpse of a
young girl in night raiment. The vessel
seemed intact. save slight injury near
her bows, where the lower tim bers had
been crushed in, but not enough, the
divers think. to cause her to sink quickly.
Holes were found bored in her hull.
Divers are a superstitious class and did
not remain long enough even to get the
boat s name.
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a sWEE1 Ho-n1 i--LIDBNT.
1sc0 Youn0 Men Settled an Old Quarr,
By Killing Each other.

Too Young Men Settled Old Quarrel
by Killing Each other.
SWEET HOME, TEX. May 30-While
the residents OF this neighborhoei were
assent bled at the church several miles
from here yesterday observing Decoration
Day two young men. Will Lewis and Wit
Bosworth, between whom bad blood had
existed, walked away from the crowd and
stopped as if to talk the matter over
calmly. One turned as if to leave when
the other drew a revolver. Both fired
about the same instant and both were
dead when friends got to them. Every
bullet fired by each man took effect in his
opponent Lewis was shot three times
through the body and once through the
arm. Bosworth was hit twice in the
head, twice in the body and once in the
leg.
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SUGAR Trust SETBACK.
importers Steal March aud Secure
Big Government Conxrncf

importers cJeGC March aud Secure n
Big Government Contract,
NEW YORK, N. Y, May 80. - The
American Sugar Refinery Company has
received a setback and as CONSEQUENCE
tons of sugar distributed among the In.
dians. for the next year will be OF foreign
manufacture and also be supplied to the
Government from those not in the trust.
The Government has acce pied the bid of
Gustave A. John & Co. TO supply 1,25O, 600
pounds of sugar that will be sent to the
various Indian reservations for distribu-
tion during the coming year. This is the
first time that the bids of home-producers
have rot been accepted. The importers
had free field and knowing the rate fixed
bv the trust undersold them 16 cents per
100 pounds. The bid of the trust was
81 al, while that of John & Co. was 81 Is
per 100 pounds, making difference OF
nearly a quar- er of cent pound and a
saving to the Government on the whole
supply of $3.50.
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AsSAsSINATED HIS RIVAL.
Sen afionaI Tragedy in the Little Vtttagt
of La,crenc, Miss.

Sensational Tragedy in the Little Vttta0e
of La,crenc, Mtss.
MERIDEN, MISS, May 30.-Particulars
OF sensational tragedy near Lawrence, a
little village of Central Mississippi. have
reached here. Ellis Clark and Del Wolfe,
young planters, mad been suitors for the
hand of Miss Carrie Nimmons. The char
acter of the young woman became sub
ject of public gossip and she was pros
trated. Her brother undertook to un-
cover her slanderer, and being told that
Clark was the author OF the gossip he de-
manded an explanation. Clark stated
that Wolfe was the author OF the remarks,
declining, however, to face Wolfe and ac-
cuse him. Friday night Clark went to the
home Of his rival, entered his room and
shot him, inflicting mortal wounds. Clark
escaped.
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CROPS IN snUTH DAKoTA
Special reports ShotU FnrorabIe Condi
finuS in Mnfn { 0n11fier

Special reports Sh0tU Fnror0bIe C0ndi-
tions in Mamv tountics
SIOUX FALLS, S. OAK. May 80. -Spe-
ciaI reports from every COUNT in the
State show the crop conditions east of the
James River as favorable as any ever
recorded, while west of the James they
are good. though rain is needed. lincoln.
Minnehaha. Moody, Lake McCook, rook-
ings, Hamlin, Codlngton, Sphinx, Hughes
Brile, Douglas and Kinashury repor. the
most favorable conditions. There is fine
stand OF grain. larger acreage than hith-
erto and the best of feeling among arm-
ers. Beadle, Bonhomme. Dawson. H. tch-
inson, Jerauld, San born and Turner re-
port good progress so far, but the ground
oatting dry.
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STOCKTON BEATS RELIANCE.
Not One of the Oakland Mon Gets Past
Third Ease.


STOCKTON, CAL, May 3o.-To-day's
baseball game between the Stockton and
Reliance teams was an exhibition of
clever work that fully compensated the
big crowd gathered to watch it. From
start to finish the game was full Of snap
and ginger, but the visitors were no match
for the Stockton ball-tossers, and never
got man past third base.
lberg pitched great game for Stockton.
During the last three games--in all thirty
innings-but one run has been made off
him. Charles Selma, the old-time base
ball player, held down the initial cushion
for Stockton and played a perfect game.
Walters of the home team did the best
hitting and base-steaiing. His batting
was timely and brought in two runs for
Stockton. There was pretty double play
from Lochhead to Smith and to Selma by
the Stocktons The batteries were: Re-
liance-Krug and Walton; Stockt n
Iberg and Peters. The runs by innings
were as foIIows.
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mysterious fail yesterday which win
probably put it out OF service for the sum
mer. The drop was from the top OF .he
dome-forty-five feet. Fortunately tne
famous lens was uninjured. The accluen.
occurred shortly after Professors Darhaiu
and Ellerman, who had been oosefVinE az
night, had gone home and when the ouiiu- ~.
wreck and putting in a new floor will take
two months
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BUDD FILL TAKE NO ACTION.
The San Quentin Crisis One for Harden
Hate to Meet.

Hale to Meet.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, May 30.-When
questioned by THE CALL representative as
to what steps he had concluded TO take in
the matter of the strike at San Quentin,
Governor Budd said
II shall not take any action whatever.
l shall go to the Yosemite Valley to-mor-
row to meet with the Valley ommission-
ers, and in consequence will be unable to
do anything in the matter until my re-
turn. In facr, the entire affair lies in the
hands of the Board OF Prison Directors
and the Warden, and l cannot see why the
Governor should be requested to mix up
in the affair at all"
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cycrs.t. Arre.ted ut san jose.

SAN JOSE, CAL. May 3O.-Five BIZ
cyclists from San Francisco, who rode
down from Fruitvale this morning with
the intention CT returning home on the
Alviso boat, were arrested to-day for rid
ing on the sidewalks of this city. They
gave their names as Waiter Goldstein,
Frank Lutticker, Walter Davis, E. Gold
stein and A. Ghilemette.
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pectiye increase in the duty ON silver and
lead ore by the Dingley bill has caused an
American company to decide to stablish
large smelling plant here. Instead of
shipping the ore into the United States to
be smelted. it will be reduced to bullion
here.
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Berin, Ser C..sns. Case.

OTTAWA. ONTARIO, May 3O.-The Can
adian counsel for tie Berlng Sea seal
claims case finished their written reply to
the United States argument here yester-
day and forwarded it to Washington. Ihe
argument by counsel will take place a aoout
the middle of next month in Montreal.
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NEW ORLEANS. La, May 30.-Be-
cause O'Neil Habadie was arrested for an
attem pied murder his aged father, John
Habadie, "a wealthy Frenchman, swal-
lowed poison and is dying.
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Queer, isn't it?
Whats queer?" inquired another.
1.-The night falls"
eyes"
But it doesn't break"
mo"
"The day breaks"
''Yes"
"But it doesn't fall"
No.
Queer, isn't it?' And he was gone
Qaenemo (Kans.) Republican.
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Fio,c.r, on Iofcv.fte,s Tomb.

PARIS. FRANCE, May 30.-PorteT. Amer
ican EN- bassador, and a mum ber OF promi-
nent Americans to-day placed flowers
upon the tomb of Lafayette. The party
was met by Lafayette's descendants at the
tomb.
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ON THE DIAMOND.
honai League and the Standing
of fro cluhc

Washiu gton z.
CHICAGO, Ill. May 3O.-Chicago 9, Balti-
more 3.
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Imperial, Win at Santa Crmx.

SANTA CRUZ, CAL. May 30-The
Imperials OF San Francisco defeated the
Santa Cruz ball team this af ernoon at
Vne de PEan Park hv score of tn3 It
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But the Famo.s Lens Escaped.

WILLIAMS BAY. WIS. May 30.-The
elevating floor of the Yerkes telescope had
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MONCLoVA, Mex. May so.-The pros
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was a close game. not only in the score
but in the playing.
Daily camera., 1897-04-19
GERMANY'S POLITICAL POLICE
An Odfous Institution of the Bis
MARKHAM Regime.

m8rCklan heSlhe.
One boast the German is never weary
of making in regard to his government
as compared with that of the United
States, namely, that the Officials OF the
fatherland are distinguished, il not for
enterprise, at least for honesty. In
the main this is true, but there are eX-
ceptions. The late Chancellor Bismarck
had no sooner got his imperial ma
chinery in running order, 25 years ago,
than he introduced as part of his gov
srnment one of the most odious fea-
lures of Russia, namely. the secret po-
!tical police. He set aside large sums
of money with which to pay informers,
spies ar=A a class of wretches, unknown
in America, called agents provocateurs.
The business of these last gentlemen
was to organize disturbances among
socialists, in order that the government
might have an excuse for making arrests
of such as the great prime ministerWas
pleased to call "enemies of the empire y
or such as we would call enemies to the
Bismarckian policy.
The fruit which this tree has borne is
very bitter A recent trial in Berlin
disclosed the painful fact that this Sc
cret police, intrusted with the most
delicate of all political tasks, has been
using its powers for the purpose of ad-
vancing the Interests of court clique
as opposed to the constitutional gov
ernment of the country. Bribery, for
gerry, perjury, have been used in the
hopes of damaging Baron Marschall,
| who is head of the German foreign
| office, and man wholly above the vul-
gar intrigues that flourish in the at
| mosphere of a court. But perhaps the
saddest feature in the case is the side
light it throws upon the German press.
| Our own papers are not models of puri-
ty. but it would be difficult to name a
New York paper capable of doing such
dirty work as is expected of so-called
official and semi-otlicial papers in the
| land of Schiller and Goethe. When we
| in America read that the German press
atatCks this man or praises that one, it
does not mean that the editors of these
different papers have reached an inde-
pendent opinion in regard to their rel
ative merits, but it too frequently does
mean that they have been instructed by
the political police, or some other organ
of state, that they must say this that,
or the other.-Harpers Weekly.
Daily camera., 1897-04-19

TURKEYS DECLARATION OF WAR.
The declaration of war by Turkey
startled the world in its Easter morning
devotions. The result now hangs tremb
ling in the balance. On the one hand
Turkey, cruel, lustful and revengeful,
veritable duplication of national degrad-
alton is the more powerful nation
Greece on the contrary, as modern
state, can scarce lay claim to national
characteristics. Not governed even by
a native ruler, unimportant in trade and
commerce, insignificant in numbers and
resources the chances seem to seriously
weigh against her. Turkey in her de-
claraton of war disclaims desire for
conquest. Greece, under the guise OF
projecting Christians, seeks to add Crete
to her territory. Thus by the Greeks
the question is caused to turn upon
religious pivot, the cross against the
crescent So far as the European ma
tons are concerned, the nations that must
eventually decide the contest, the ques-
ton might as well be discussion con
cerning the moon.
The outcome of the war, because OF
the limited resources of both the nations,
cannot be great length OF time in doubt
The European powers will most likely
prevent the complete victory OF either
one over the other, because cf monied
interests. But in the event of European
broil, which seems extremely probable,
the two nations now in conflict will play
the part of Jones and pay the price OF
the fiddler. This price will be no less
than the partition of their territores
! among the other powers Thus will the
| land in controversy come under the rule
| of Christian nations and the cause OF
| Christianity ~ be finally triumphant. Oh
course it may not be just to the two
nations, but who would object when the
general cause is helped?
Daily camera., 1897-04-19
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university.

The freshman class at Golden contin-
ues in the latest style and is about to
have its rights as belligerents recognized
The freshmen at Denver university also
is posing before the faculty for disturb
ance. With our own university fresh
men engaging in brawls such as last
weeks affair, the class of 1000 can be
we'll entitled to the claim of being "howl-
ing freaks"