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The San Francisco call., 1898-03-30

statement issued semi-officially by the administration that the Maine might have been blown up from the inside after all, because there had been fire in her bunkers once before. This is re- garded as direct attempt to allay pub lie opinion by discrediting the testimony adduced before the United States board that there had never been any sponta- neous combustion on the ship.
 President Mckinley began his day by demonstrating to the country that the Cabinet is united General Alger $ statement to that effect was prompt con- firmation of the Herald's news. Then the President started in to combat the idea that Congress would be justified in declaring war without waiting to hear fram Spain. He deprecateS such haste and demands time until Spain's reply shall enable him to put the whole mat ter before the country.
 If Congress insists on declaring war in b! b!eak-neck fashion he is willing 1t should take the sole responsibility and leave it to the American people to say who is right. On the other hand, Ii Congress waits and Spain's reply proves unsatisfactory and short of what IS de- manded by right and justice, then he will be as much of a jingo as anybody
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-30
THE QUEEN REGENT
 HOPEFUL OF PEACE,

Copyrighted, 1888, by James Gordon Bennett
 MADRID, March 2e.-Yesterday I stated that to-day was the all-lm- portant one Circumstances have made it Thursday, for this afternoon, after a conference which began at o'clock and ended at half-past D, Senor Sagasta adjourned the meeting for forty-eight hours, at the end of which time he will have, taken counsel with the Queen and his Min isterial colleagues, and then there seems no kind of doubt that the Min istry will give the world peaceful and honorable solution of all the questions about Cuba.
 At the council stated there were present Senors Sagasta, Moret, Gull lon and General Woodford. Bankers and brokers got wind of what was likely to take place, and the Bourse was crowded with financiers dealing upon calculations of peace. Bankers gathered in groups, reckoning that each point up made the situation of the country better and richer by mil lions.
 Among the middle classes the idea of honorable peace has taken firm hold, and great and prodigious will be the popularity of the Ministry when it announces peaceful results.
 I understand that the Pope, through the Papal Nuncio, conveys his approval, and more still, of peace under the circumstances suggested, as Spain Is his pet child. In the palace there is no doubt of the senti- ment, for the Queen Is the warmest advocate of peace and has grieved for three years over the Cuban war. She will support with all her strength the great opportunity which has fallen to the lot of her country to secure peace with honor.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-30
SMALL CRAFT
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The San Francisco call., 1898-03-30
BELIEVE THE MESSAGE MAY
 HASTEN WAR
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The San Francisco call., 1898-03-30

diplomatic representative in Argen- tina. Officials admit that this is the vessel which the battle-ship Oregon and the gunboat Marietta will have to be careful about during their voy- age around the Horn to Key West.
 In herself the Temerario is re- garded as formidable vessel of her type. Her speed is five knots greater than that of the Oregon and at least seven knots greater than that of the Marietta, and she has a steaming ra- dius of 34OO miles. The Oregon is regarded as "big game" both by Spanish and American naval experts and officials believe that if war should break out the Spaniards will make desperate efforts to prevent the American battle-ship from reaching Key West.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-30
EXPLOSIVES BELONGED
 TO SPAIN.

< Copyright 1898. by James Gordon Bennett. f HAVANA, March 29.- have 4 heard to-day from a reliable 4 source that one of the most prominent members of the Court | of Inquiry has said since the re- < port was sent to Washington 4 that the Investigation proved 4 that the mine which destroyed 4 the Maine must have been too | large and too we'll suited to the ' purpose to have been secured or [ made by private individuals, and must have come from a Govern r ment source.
 r This is a most important view < and was not embodied in the < courts report, being outside it's province. It does not mean, nec- f essarily the complicity of the r Spanish Government. but simply < that an employe of the Govern < ment, having access to its com < plicated explosives, may have < used his position to aid the das- 4 tardly plot.
  4 aids assertion that explosives 4 of the nature which must have 4 been employed could not have ' been secured by an ordinary con- 4 spirator or fanatic, but in all 4 probability could have been got < only through the connivance of $ some one whose business it is to ' manufacture, guard or direct the 4 use of Government mines or tor < pedoes. Was gunpowder the ex- 4 plosive? If so, the mine must 4 have been a very extensive one. 4 Guncotton would have cut f through the ship instead of scat 4 tering and rending it as did the 4 explosion which tore the Maine 4 to pieces.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-30
HENRY G. SHAW, President Alaska Prospectors' Syndicate Co.,, Room 32, No. 4 Sutter St.
 SAN FRANCISCO.
RAILROAD TRAVEL.
SAN FRANCISCO and NORTH PACIFIC
 RAILWAY co.

Tiburon Ferry, Foot of MarKet St
 SAN FRANCISCO TO SAN RAFAEL. WEEK DAYS-7:3o 800, 11:0o G. m.; n:fss S:3O 5:fO 6:30 D. m. Thursdays-ExtrA trip sUNDAYs1s:oo. s:so. n:oo a. m.: 1:ss. s:,e
 SAN RAFAEL TO SAN FRANCISCO. WEEK DAYS-6:10. 7:50. S:2o. u:1e 6. m.s Ia:45 s:4O 5:10 D. DO. Saturdays-Extra trips at 1:55 and 6:25 p. n. siJNDAYS-s:lO, s:4o. u:1o G. m.; 1:4o. s:4a BOO 6:25 p. m-
 Between San Francisco and schuetzen Park soyna schedule above.
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DECLARE FOR
 QUICK ACTION Fifty Republican Repre- SentativeS Hold a
 Conference. Decide Unanimously That Fur ther Delay Shall Not
 Be Crooked. Will Meet Again To-Day to Fix Upon the Course to Be
 Pursued.
Special Dispatch to The Cali.
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WASHINGTON, March 29.- There is a story afloat tonight that the plan of attempting to attach a rider to the naval bill tomorrow may be abandoned, inasmuch as Speaker Reed has given an assurance to those re- bellious Congressman that any bill passed by the Senate grant ing belligerent rights to the Gu bans, or recognizing their inde- pendence, will be taken up in the House for consideration tmme- diately after its passage by the Senate.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-30
To Cure 8 Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Promo Qunine Tablets. All drug gists refund the money if 1t fails to cure 25c. The genuine has L. B. e. on each tablex
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-30
ALASKA GOLD BONDS. SECURITY-FOR GRUBSTAKES.

THE ALASKA PROSPECTORS' SYNDz- cate Company offers for sale five thousand (5000) non-nterest bearing bonds of the value of five dollars (s5 0W each.
 The bondholders guaranteed thirty per cent (309o) of the gross proceeds of the product of 35 to 40 prospectors in Alaska outftted by The following table shows the that each $5 bond will realize for the investor on given gross product of any amount from SlOV'- Total Product by Redemption Value of
 35 to 4O Men Each s Bond.
 Sl00.000 s6 %
 200 900 12 U0
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 500. GOO 30 O0
 1000. 900 69 ~
 These bonds are secured by contracts with and insurance policies and collaterals from prospectors to whom the company advances The bonds of the Alaska Prospectors' Syndi- cate Company offer the completest protection to those who desire to grubstake their acquaint-
 
 V A Subscriber to 25 Bonds is Entitled to Nominate One Pros pector.
 Gold mining under the most favorable cir these bonds give those who find the money much more of a show than Is at all usual terms: On allotment, s1, and S1 per week Thonsands of people who would go to Alas ls and for one reason another cannot, are prepared to invest in the chances open to all to get some share of the millions of gold that will be gathered in the gold fields during the next two years. . o offers just such opportunity
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The San Francisco call., 1898-03-30

who al morning. Marcn % 1Ss Klondke outfit complete less than Winre
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-30
Free Ticket to Alaska

On Humboldt which starts on us Tour The next SIX men themse wfnge fuL-pad
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-30
RAILROAD TRAVEL.

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY.
 tPACIFIC sYsTEM.) Trains leave nnd are due 10 nfFAsS @S
 SAN FRANCISCO. Main Line. Foot of Market StreeG) =
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A for Morning. F for Afternoon. Sundays excepted. Sundays only tSaturdays onlJ' f. Monday Thursday aud Saturday nights only. T Mondays and Thursdays.
 Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-08
A MUCH-MOURNED MOTHER.
Col. Shafter Thought Twice in One
Month Was Too Often for
Her to Die.

When Shafter was senior colonel of the
army he was temporarily in charge Of some
western post, and numbered in his com
nland an exceedingly bright, capable fellow
whose cleverness was continually getting
him the noncommission stripes, and whose
escapades were just as frequently getting
him reduced to the ranks. One day this
soldier turned up at Skaters quarters with
a, long face and applied for leave to attend
the funeral of his mother, who had died the
previous night, he said, in the town. The
request was granted, but later on, in looking
over the same records, the colonel discov-
cred that the same man had been granted
leave the month before on the identical pre-
text. Shafter said nothing, but a couple
of days afterward encountered the bereaved
warrior on the parade ground. "Look here,
70 ask you a question. Were you good to
that mother of yours while she was alive?"
"Well, sir--yes, sir-that is, I hope so,"
stammered the culprit, not knowing what
was coming.
II hope 50, too," replied the colonel. GIVE
heard of mothers dying for their sons, but
never of one dying twice in 80 days for one.
You may go in mourning for month-at the
guardhouse."-N. o. Times Democrat.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-08
NOT ESTABLISHED.
Relationship Based on Remote Per.
sOnages Was Difficult to
Prove.

There is young lady not far away who
has little private school and the other day
she overheard the following conversation
among her pupils:
1t was Monday and one of them had evi.
IDENTIFY been much impressed with her Sun.
day school lesson of the day before, for as
soon as another little girl came in, she as
founded her by the announcement: "You
are my sister,"
'I'm not" said No. 2.
"You are" said No. l, "haven't you got a
Father in Heaven?"
"Yes," grudgingy.
"Well, SO have I. Don't that make you my
sister,"
No. was entirely nonplussed at that and
No. correspondingly victorious; SO when
another little girl arrived upon the scene
she thought she would try the same thing on
her, too, and walking up before the new,
conner announced as before: "You are my
sister,"
Now No. 8 happened to be young lady OF
a very determined disposition and she de-
clared just as firmly that she was nothing
of the sort, and the "I'm nots" and "You
ares" flew very fast for minute, until No
] brought out her knockdown argument:
Haven't. you got Father in Heaven?''
and stood awaiting the answer with vic.
torious smile.
But imagine her chagrin and the teachers
amazement when the other sputtered forth:
mo, haven't, and you know it. I've just
got one grandfather up there!" and strode on
to her seat, leaving the enemy vanquished
behind her.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-08
JOHNSON'S REPORT.
The Rurcnu of Engraving and Print
ing Made a Remarkable Rec
ord the Past Year.

Washington, Dec. 30.- Claude NJ.
johnson, director of the bureau of en-
craving and printing, in his annual re-
port says:
During the year there were $685.
ATS sheets of stamps and government,
securities printed and delivered, at cost
of $l,57O,59S. This sum, however, includes
S12, 500 increase of stock. $4,000 paid for ma
chinery and s6,4l6 paid to outside employees
Deducting these extra amounts, the cost
per 1000 sheets this year was AZ cents less
than last. making total saving of $43, 700
The average number of sheets handled by
each employe was $780, which is the bes,
record ever made by the bureau, and an
Increase of Sc per cent. over the year 1888
A remarkable record was made by the
bureau in supplying adhesive stamps to the
internal revenue bureau. In II days after
the passage of the act the bureau had de-
livered lS5.39O,92G stamps. This work was
done in addition to and in connection with
the new bond issue, and in addition tc
supplying increased demands for United
States notes, silver certificates and treas
ury notes. as well as the issue of new
series of postage stamps for the Omaha
Trans s-Mississippi exposition
1t is recommended that the appropria-
tions for printing postage stamps be made
direct to the bureau, and to settle the poin,
that the government and not private estab-
lishments shall do this work.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-08
AN ASTHMA CURE.
A Most Unexpected Result of Get
ting Mixed Up with a Cy-
clone.

"Did the climate out there benefit your
asthma? asked man on the boulevard of
his next door neighbor who had just re-
turned from new resort in the northwest.
''Say, it makes me short of breath to
think about it. I was sitting out in sort of
an arbor the first afternoon after reached
there. was in the shadow of trailing
vine through which the sunbeams sifted
in mellow light. The air was balmy and
freighted with the odor of roses"
"Must have been delightful"
Simply charming! Suddenly there was
a sort Of gigantic zip athwart the heavens,
darkness enveloped the earth like pail,
and before I could cover three rods to the
hotel on the dead run, there were six inches
of snow on the ground. I never put in a
wheeler night than the one that followed" /"
Mighty sudden, wasn't it,"
"Yes, but that's the way things go out
there. One morning 1 started to the near
est town, carrying twig of cherry bios,
SONS and wearing white tennis suit Out
on the trail it turned cold quicker than you
could wink your eye, and would have
frozen if a native hadn't wrapped me up
in horse: blanket, big wire nail serving
as shawl pin"
"..Got through all right, did you?"
"Yes, providentially. A cyclone struck
me, turned the blanket inside out and blew
me for mile. don't know what did it,
but I'm free from asthma. Detroit Free
Press,
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-08
CHRISTEN THE WISCONSIN.
The Big Battleship Is Successfully
Launched mt Union Iron Works,
San FranciscO.

San Francisco, Nov. 2S.-LThe battle
ship Wisconsin was launched at o:21
O'Clock Saturday morning. Thousands
of spectators witnessed the ceremony
Long before the hour appointed for the
launching the visitors crowded the
yards of the Union iron works, the adj
joining housetops. and the hills. The
launching party, which included promi-
nent visitors from Wisconsin and this
state. was given a place upon the large
platform which had been built around
the PROV of the vessel.
Miss Elizabeth Stephenson. of Wis
consin. had been given the honor of
christening the battleship. and little
Miss Lucille Gage. daughter of Gov.
started the vessel on the ways.
Saturday evening the management of
the Union iron works entertained 200
distinguished guests at a banquet here
in a private dining-room of the Palace
hotel Speeches We're made by Irving
NJ. Scott. general manager of the Union
iron works; Gov. Budd. Gov.-elect Gage,
the latter a native of Wisconsin; F;
Lieut. Gov. Baensch. of Wisconsin;
United States Senator Mitchell. of Wis
consin. and others.
The battleship Wisconsin is a sister ship
Of the Alabama. and also the Illinois
Its dimensions are as follows: Length
on load water line, 36S feet; beam extreme
72 feet 2la inches: draft on normal displace-
ment of ll,525 tons. 90 feet inches: maxi
| mum displacement, all ammunition anG
stores on board. 1895 tons; maximum in.
dicated horsepower (estmated), 10000
probable speed. 1G1a knots; normal coal
supply, 500 tons: coal supply, loose storage
1,2G0 tons: full bunker capacity, 1,4O0 to 1.50(
tons. Complement of officers, 40; seamen
| marines, etc. 449.
The main battery will consist of four 13.
inch breech-loading rifles in Hichborn bal.
anced turrets, oval in shape, and placed
in the center line of the vessel, and IA six.
| inch rapid-fire guns. The secondary bat.
terry will consist of 16 siXpounder rapid-fire
guns, four one-pounder rapid-tire guns
two Colt guns and two field guns. She will
carry four torpedo tubes.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-08
TO BE MUSTERED OUT.
Peace Treaty Promises the Release
of Many Volunteer Soldiers-Troops
Mt Manila Ask to Re Sent Home.

Washington, Nov. 29.-The war de-
rartment, in view of the assurances tha.
d peace treaty viii! be signed, is arrang-
ing to muster out more troops. 1t is
probable that from 10000 to 10000 vol
rnteers will be mustered out us soon as
selections of regiments can be made
There has been quite a demand for the
return of volunteers from Manila but
no troops will be brought from the
Philippines unless they are replaced by
others. Many of the volunteer reg-
ments in Manila have asked, through
the governors and congressman of their
states, to be returned to the United
States, but the war department has not
been able to make any definite promises
pending the peace negotiations. With
the acceptance of the American terms
by the Spanish commissioners, any fur
ther possibility of renewal of hostili-
ties with Spain is at an end. and the
cnly necessity now for troops is to gar
rison the island and preserve the peace
Of our new possessions. 1t is probable
that the 10000 or 10000 men mustered
out will include large number organ
lied for service in Cuba, and the force
at Manila will be reduced whenever
Gen. Otis reports affairs in quiet state
in the Philippines.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-08
Blizzard in New York.

New York. Nov. 2s.-When the people
of New York awoke Sunday morning
they found the blizzard that ragged when
they retired was still in progress. The
storm, which began with a soft. sleety
STOW on Saturday at noon, increased
greatly as the day wore on, with heavier
snow fall, the wind blowing gale at
midnight. There was slight abate-
ment of the wind Sunday morning but
the snow still fell and drifted high and
the temperature dropped rapidly. AT
ten o'clock a. m. there was breaking
away in the west, and finally the storm
ceased altogether and the severest bIiz-
zard since the memorable one of March,
1883, came to an end. The wind blew IT.
the rate of 50 to 60 miles an hour during
the height of the storm
1t is known that total of eight lives
were lost Saturday night and Sunday
and that 16 persons were injured
through exposure and freezing. The
aggregate loss to street railroads in
New York city is put at $11o 1000; to teIe-
graph and telephone lines, $4,000.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-08
HEALTH OF THE ARMY.
Reports from Hospitals Show That
1t Has Greatly Improved With
in the Last Two Months.

Washington, Dec. IA great i'm
provement in the health Of the army
has taken place within the last two
months, as shown by the last reports
to the surgeon general from the field
and general hospitals. The hospitals
at Chickamauga park have been emp
tied and abandoned. The same is true
of the division field hospitals at Camp
Hamilton, Lexington, Kentucky and
Jacksonville. Fla. The hospital train
which has carried nearly 1000 sick men
from the various camps to general hos
pitfalls is now lying idle at Washing
ton. The general hospital at Fort Nc
Pherson, Georgia, has only 200 patients
remaining and reports 423 vacant beds.
The Josiah Simpson hospital at Fort
Monroe has 400 vacant beds. The gen
eral hospital at Fort Myer, Virginia.
has $50 vacant beds and only 1862 pa
tients remaining. The hospital at Fort
Thomas, Kentucky, which recently re-
ceived the sick from Camp Hamilton.
reports 37l in hospital and 103 vacant
beds.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-08
MONTH OF BIG GALES.
Peculiar Meteorological Statistics
Reported for November by the
Chicago Weather Bureau.

Chicago, Dec. meteorological sta
tistics and tables compiled by Forecast
er Cox, of the weather bureau, show
that November has had peculiar COM
fination of normal and abnormal at
mospheric conditions. The gales that
pounded boats to pieces on the great
lakes during the early part of the
month were the severest recorded in
the archives of the weather office. and
the day of Indian summer which pre-.
ceded the cold wave the 22d and the
sudden change between the two were
among the most remarkable phenomena
CT several years observations.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-08
PAYS DEPOSITORS IN FULL.
Creditors of the Peoples Bank of
Philadelphia Do Not Lose n
Dollar-A WeIl-Ke ept Pledge.

Philadelphia, Nov. 2s.-Thomas w.
Barlow, receiver of the Peoples bank,
has notified the depositors of that in
stitution that the remaining ten per
cent. due them will be paid on and after
December 5, 1898. This payment will
close every uncontested claim against
the bank. including the deposits of the
city and state. The Peoples bank
closed its doors on March 25, after the
cashier, John S. Hopkins, had commit
ted suicide. When the bank closed it's
doors the liabilities were about 81 ,50o,-
900, while the assets were less than
$1000,00O. At the time of the suspen-
sion President McManes pledged him
self to pay the depositors dollar for dol
lar, and the announcement of Receiver
Barlow shows that he has kept his
word
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-08
Crew of Ten Men Lost.
An Awful DiNnAter.

Stockton, CAL, Nov. 2s.-The most
disastrous accident in the history Of
Stockton occurred Sunday morning at
4:20 o'clock near Fourteen Mile Slough.
When part of one of the boilers Of the
liver steamer T. C. Walker. which left
San Francisco about six o'clock Sat
urday night, was blown out, killing six
and dangerously wounding II persons.
while probably IS or 20 were more OF
less badly hurt. The T. C. Walker is
owned by the California Navigation and
improvement company and ran be-
tween San Francisco and Stockton. The
dead are:
John Tulan. captain Of the T. c. Walker.
w. A. Blunt. the agent in charge of ship
ping Of sugar beets from the Moss tract to
the Crockett factory.
Watson Henry, OF Stockton, engineer OF
the =. c. Walker.
Mrs. Watson Henry. wife OF the chief en-
gineer.
Ferdinand Law. Of Seattle.
Jerry Daley, fireman.