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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
SPAIN WAS INDIsCREET.

London Times Praises the Conser-
vntfsm of President Mckinley.
LONDON, March S.-The Times says edi-
torially this morning:
III Spain is PLACID in an awkward posi-
ton respecting the Lee incident, she must
thank the indiscretion Of her foreign Office
She cannot blame President Mckinley,
MIR. Cannon's bill can hardly be ex.
planned by the Lee incident. It is probably
due to the rumors that Spain is purchasing
war vessels.
I'VE do not believe that Spain desires
war. but IL she does. this evidence of
Americas ale-tness offers a most effectual
check. President Mckinley appears to be
adhering loyalty to the policy Of firmness,
caution and pacific circumspection he has
hitherto pursued.
mo doubt he has the support of the So
Der and conscientious mass of the Amer
lean people, but has had to face outbursts
Of popular clamor that a weaker man
might have mistaken Tor the voice of the
country.
1.-THE completely of the Spanish govern
ment in the Maine disaster is a hypothesis
too monstrous and irrational to be enter
tanned, and, except that there is nothing
impossible of arrangement between Spain
and America, while the intractable nature
OF Cuba's disorders cannot but inspire
thoughtful Americans with serious doubt
as to the wisdom of annexation"
The Paris correspondent of the Mail COM
terday (Monday) for the first time was SCI
riously affected by the situation of Spain
and the United States, and that Spanish
stock fell heavily.
French sympathfes, he says, "undoubt-
eddy are with spain. Furthermore France
desires to see acheck put upon the grow
ing political and comEpercial Importance Of
the United Staten
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
1t Will Again BE Taken Up in the
Senate.

senate.
In the Senate this afternoon Mr.. Lindsay
moved to reconsider the vote by which the
Capital Traction Company's bill was pass
ed yesterday afternoon. He will call up
the bill later.
The Capital Traction Company's extern
sion bill was passed by the House late yes
terday afternoon. The following amend
ments were adopted:
At the end of section 1 insert the follow
ing: provided further, That there shall be
continuous service without change of
cars over the 14th street and Chevy Chase
line. the schedules to be approved by the
District Commissioners"
At the end of section insert the follow
irg: Provided, That only one fare Shall be
charged for single continuous ride over
all the lines owned by the Capital Traction
Company.
Insert after the word street in line %,
the following: provided, That the Capital
Traction Company shall be. and it is here
by, required to run every alternate car op-
Grated between it's eastern and western
termini over the aforesaid extension along
F and G streets northwest"
The bill has been published In full in The
Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
POLLUTION OF THE POTOMAC.
Capt. Gaillard's Letter to Senator
Mcmillan.

Capt. Gaillnrd's Letter to Senator
Mcmillan.
Senator Mcmillan, chairman Of the Senate
District committee. today received COM
municatiCn from Captain Gaillard,in charge
of the Washington aqueduct. giving his
views on the causes of the pollution of the
Potomac. He says:
THE watershed of the Potomac above
Great Falls comprises an area of more
than 11.OoO square miles. and is situated in
four states-Pennsylvania. Maryland, Vir-
ginia and West Virginia.
THE pollution of the Potomac is due %
to the sewage and waste material which
fiEd their way into the river from the
towns, coal mines. saw mills, pulp mills
and other manufacturing establishments
in the vicinity OF the river; GU to the
household waste. garbage and stable clean
ings from beats on the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal, and C0 to the surface washing
from the scattering settlements and farms
OF different parts of the water shed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
DIR. A. NJ. CURTIS CHOSEN.
New SurGe0n-in-Chief of Freedmen,
Hospital.

New Surgeon-in-Chief of Freedmen,s
Hospital.
The Secretary of the Interior this after
neon appointed DR.. Austin NJ. Curtis OF
Chicago surgeon-in-chief of Freedmen 5
Hospital, vice DR.. Daniel H. Williams, re-
signed.
This was purely civil service appoint
ment, DIR. Curtis being one Of the three
names certified by the civil service commits
sion. DR.. Curtis was born of colored
parents January Is. 1868, at Raleigh, N c..
He graduated in 1891 from the Northwest
Medical School of the Chicago Medical Col
lege, and served as inferno and house ply
stefan in Providence Hospital from April,
1891. to June, 1892. and was obstetrician
at the same hospital from December, 1892,
to December, 1894. and since that time to
present date has been surgeon of the same
hospital He was also attending surgeon
OF Cook County City Hospital from Janu-
airy, 1896. to 1897.
DR.. Curtis will assume his new duties
April next.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
OPERATORS EMPLOYED.

Information From the Local Tele-
phone Company.
When. in reply to a request recently made
by Commissioner Wight for Information as
to rates, number Of telephones in use ETC.,
the president Of the Chesapeake and Po-
tomac Telephone Company submitted re-
pert, it was discovered that the number of
operators employed by the company here
as not given. Mr.. Wight subsequently
sent one Of his clerks for the missing in
formation. but without success. and yes
terday afternoon he sent another. This
time the clerk returned with the Informal
tion from the company that it employs
forty-two operators here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
Divorce Granted,

Judge Hagner today signed a decree
granting Minnie e. Chapman a divorce
from William H. Chapman Mrs Chapman
is granted the custody of the minor child
o. the couple. The court also directed the
defendant to pay the costs of the suit and
reserved leave to Mrs. Chapman to apply
for permanent alimony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
Police Brighten the Burglars.

Burglars visited the house Of Salvatore
Desio, 305 E street northwest, between 2
and o'clock this morning. but were fright
ened Off before they had time to get any
thing. They effected an entrance by fore
ing open the front door with q jimmy.
About the time they got in the house
Policemen Daily and Downs came along.
The burglars went out the back door and
eScaDed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
WAITING "BOOTS AND SADDLES"
Illinois National Guard on Edge 10
Go to Cuba.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, March S.-Adjutant
General Reece of the Illinois National
Guard said today: I'VE are but waiting
for the boots and saddles to board the
cars for the east. Inside Of twelve hours
the greatest portion of the 800 men anu
officers of the Illinois National Guard could
be en- route to New York for embarkation
for Cuba"
The general stated that 1900 latest pat
tern 45-caliber Springfield rifles had just
been received at the Illinois state arsenal
from Brooklyn navy yard, ready for instant
use.
Recruiting Mt Columbus.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 8.-The recruit
ing officer at Columbus Barracks received
orders today to recruit acceptable men for
the navy and light artillery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
SIR JULIAN'S CALL.
Rumorcd Offer of England to Mediate
Denied.

There was a flutter of interest this morn
ing when Sir Julian Pauncefote, the Brit
ish ambassador. arrived at the executive
mansion with Secretary Sherman. The two
men saw the President for a few minutes
and departed together.
''Oh, nothing particular said Sir Julian.
in answer to inquiries to the purport of
his visit. He fastened away with these
words. saying nothing more. There was a
rumor that he had offered the friendly Off
ces of England to mediate between Spain
and the United States. but Assistant Secre-
tary Day denied the report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08

DENVER. Col. March S.-Active prepara-
tons for moving the troops stationed at
Fort Logan are being made and everything
is put in readiness for a sudden call for
duty. The Denver and Rio Grande railroad
has been instructed by the War Depart
ment at Washington to be prepared to
move the troops upon notice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
Set for Armament.

In the Court of Appeals today the case
of John Wedderburn against Secretary of
the Interior Bliss was set for argument
Friday next
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
Convicted of Both Onense..

William Taylor was this afternoon con-
victed in the Police Court on two charges,
one of assault and the other of carrying
concealed weapons. He will be sentenced
hereafter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
New Omces,

Handsome Office rooms in the new build
ing at the northwest corner of 14th and F
streets are now occupied by the banking
firm of Crane. Paris & Co., who have re-
moved from the Ebbitt House building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

The following are the Opening. the high
est and the lowest and the closing prices Of
the New York stock market today as re-
ported by Corson x Mccartney. members
New York stock exchange. Correspondents
Messrs. Van Emburgh & Atterbury, No. 2
Wall ST.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08

Acting Adjt Gen. Ward was today in
formed that Capt. Clayton y. Burbank, 10th
Infantry. died at Fort Sill, 1. T., at 1
o'clock this morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08

Passed by budget Committee.
BERLIN, March S.-The budget commit
tee of the reichstag today unanimously
passed the entire shipbuiIding program In
cluded in the estimates for 1893.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
Foreign Minister In Disgrace.

YOKOHAMA, March S.-The Corsan cab
met. 1t Is understood here, will impeach the
foreign minister Of Corea for leasing Deer
Island to Russia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08

The special subcommittee OF the House
committee on appropriations dad not pro-
coed with the telephone Investigation this
afternoon, as z1eended. The members Of
the COMMITTEES were Ia the House ali the
afternoon during the discussion on the
emergency appropriation bill The invest.
cation will probably proceed tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08

Government Receipts.
Government receipts from customs today.
1,3tS; internal revenue, $S21 $50; miscel-
IaEeous, $l2,4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08

Furnished by w. B. Hibbs G. Co., bankers
and brokers. 1927 F ST.. members New York
stock exchange. correspondents. Messrs.
Ladenburg, Thalman & Co.. New York. {.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
The Rates.

Mr.. Turpie wanted to know how the rates
in Washington differed from those Of other
cities. and Mr. Bacon called upon Mr.. Pet
tigrew to give the information. Mr.. Petit
grew said the rates here are 100 per cent
more than In other cities where there Is
competition. but about the same as In cities
where the Bell Company has a monopoly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
Hoped for Peace.

Mr.. Hopkins Qll.), after stating his
great confidence in the President, express
ed the hope that there would be no war
Thirty years of peace, he said, had not
obliterated the ravages of the civil war
A generation had come and gone since the
hostile armies faced each other in hostile
array The horrors and b!oodshed of il
all no tongue could describe no pen could
portray. We did not want its horrors re.
peated
Let us give to the President" said he
the power and funds he asks trusting 10
Rim TO maintain our honor and dignity bur
let US pray that war Will not overspread
the horizon We are too powerful to PLAY
the bully. too Christian TO want only 10
engage in war. My heart goes out to the
struggling patriots in Cuba. 1 will hail the
day when they achieve their Independence
but the eyes of the world are upon u.s. and
let US do nothing that may come home to
plague us in that nature. Let US not be
historic Let US show the world that mo 4.
Grafton and nrmness are more than hustle
and bravado; that a wise conservatism will
do more than Jingoism to obtain the inde-
pendence of Cuba"
"MilIoRs for Defense
Mr.. Cooper crex.). in q speech OF two
minutes, recalled the eloquent words, mil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
Mr.. Boute,Ie,s Statement.

Mr.. Boutelle tMe.). chairman of the COM
mittee on naval affairs. said that while no
argument was necessary on this measure,
he desired 10 say that he had been in
structed by his committee to express the
hearty Endorsement of that committee His
only regret. he said. was that this appro-
priation was not allowed to stand abso-
lutely alone as proclamation to our
country and TO the world that Congress
stood ready to vote millions TO arm the
executive 10 uphold the dignity of the flag.
He had personally. he said assumed the
responsibility of conveying to the Presi-
dent from day TO day the assurance that
In his judgment Congress would uphold
him. and the moment IL might be required
would vote any sum of money necessary to
sustain him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08

Mr. Cooper Crex.). in q speech Of two
: minutes, recalled the eloquent words, Mil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
The Montgomery's Commander.

Commander Converse, who has been Sc
lected for this delicate mission to Havana,
Is described by his associates at the Navy
Department as a man of high ability, un-
doubted courage and rare discretion. quail
tiles he may be called upon to display dur
Ing his indefinite sojourn in the uncon-
genial harbor of Havana. He is a native
OF Vermont, and was appointed an active
midshipman at the Naval Academy Sep
tember %. 1851, graduating four years
later. His first -service was on the steam
sloop Canangagua on the European station,
and he was afterward attached to the
steamer Frolic, on the same station. up to
1860. Coming home. he was on torpedo
service for two years. at the conclusion of
which he served successfully on the Col
orado Lackawana and Hartford, on the
Asiatic station. After three years more
service at the torpedo station, Newport,
he went on q cruise In the Marion as ex-
ecutive ofIlcer. In 1880 his health failed
him, and he was on sick leave for two
years. at the expiration Of which time he
made years cruise on the Lancaster, on
the European. station. Subsequently he
served three years at the torpedo station.
and was then assigned to duty as an In
The San Francisco call., 1898-09-10
JUDGE BELCHER REPLIES TO MR. MONTEITH.
THE VON ARNOLD CASE.

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The San Francisco call., 1898-09-10

ems de Haan of Amsterdam, are among the arrivals on the Coptic and have taken apartments at the Palace.
 Prominent among the arrivals at the hotels are Dante R. Prince of Fresno. Henry G. Turner of Modesto c. A. Camp bell of Red Bluff T. W. Ward of Visa lia, B. W. Gilmore and wife of Los Ange- les and C. K. McClatchy of Sacramento.
 Ensign P. N. Olmsted. U. S. N. who was on the battleship Indiana and wit messed the destruction of Admiral Ger veras fleet at Santiago, arrived in the city yesterday. He took the first train for Mare Island, where he will be sta- toned for the present.
 Judge Alfred s. Hartwell of Honolulu. J. K. Farley of Koloa Kauai, H. T.; Paul c. Ffedler and wife of Yokohama, Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Griffin of Shanghai Mrs. Walter Bramhall of Yokohama and M A. McGillivray of Chieng Mai, Siam, ar- rived on the Coptic last evening and reg istered at the Occidental
The San Francisco call., 1898-09-10
AROUND THE
 CORRIDORS.

Warren Sexton, an Oroville attorney, Is at the Grand.
 c. T. Bliss, big lumberman of Car son, New, is at the Palace.
 Louis Deane, one of Nevada's leading cattle men, Is at the Russ.
 Joseph Paseholy and wife are among the arrivals at the Grand.
 Alfred Steckler, New York merchant, is registered at the Palace.
 W. H. Taylor, prominent merchant of Livermore, Is at the Baldwin.
 D. H. King and wife of Portland have taken apartments at the Palace.
 Edgar T. Wallace, prominent in mining circles of Yreka, is at the Palace.
 A. Bettens, manager of Byron Hot Springs, Is guest at the Baldwin.
 J. H. Dockweiler of Los Angeles, we'll known in legal circles, is a guest at the Grand.
 Dr. w. s. Taylor of Livermore arrived in the city yesterday and registered at the Palace.
 Thomas E. Brady, prominent mining operator at Great Falls, Montana. is stay ing at the Palace.
 H. N. Savage, well-known civil and hydraulic engineer, of National City, IS registered at the Grand
 W. W. Jones and A. B. Wright. of Stanford University, are among the holi- day arrivals at the Grand.
 J. W. Henderson, a prominent banker of Eureka, and his family have taken apartments at the Lick House.
 Bessie Bonehill- -Seeley, who will star at the Orpheum next week, arrived from the East last evening and took apart ments at the Baldwin.
 Colonel Macfarlane. c. Walters and daughter Mrs. A. Allayne Jaynes and F. A Hartmann, all of Honolulu, are among the arrivals at the California.
 Miss M. Browne and Miss Ethel Root arrived in the city yesterday from Santa Paula, growing city of Southern Cali fornia, and took apartments at the Lick. Percy Elder of London, Dr.J.V.F Forrest, resident of India; Hart Buck of Hong kong, B. F. Heinlein of Yokohama, Bier
The San Francisco call., 1898-09-10

pay for car fare

COST OF A PATENT-W. S., City. The fees for securing a patent is the same whether the invention is a small one or a great one. The application must be made in writing to the Commissioner of Patents at Washington, D. C., and the applicant must file in the patent office description of the same in full clear con- else terms. He must also furnish draw ing of the exact size of the invention, if the nature of it admits of the furnishing of such a drawing. If the Commisssioner requires it, the applicant must furnish pany the original application for a patent, and $20 for the patent. There are but very few persons who can properly attend to the requirements of the patent office The simplest way for an inventor to se- cure patent is to engage the services of a reputable attorney, whose fee for a small invention" ought not to exceed S3o
 FALLING STARS-G. E., Pacheco. Cal. Astronomers divide meteors into several classes-aerial meteors, as winds. tornadoes. etc.; aqueous meteors, as fogs. rain, snow, hail, etc.; luminous meteors as those due to the action of elements in the air, as rainbows, halos, parahelias, mirages. etc; electrical meteors, as teors, as shooting or falling stars star showers. bolideS or f1reballs, aerolites or meteorites, etc. According to Professor Newton, the term meteor in later days has been generally limited to the last group or 1gneous meteorS. It is univer- sally admitted that igneous meteors are caused by small bodies which have been travelling about the sun in their orbits. come to the earth,s, atmosphere and, in general, burn up. Shooting stars in tra- yersing through space are Consumed. There Is no connection between shooting stars and the end of the world.
The San Francisco call., 1898-09-10
CALIFORNIH'S YOUNG BLOOD.

THERE Is a lesson in the celebration now in
 progress at San Jose. The enthusiasm of the
 Native Sons and Daughters of the great com monweath IS not all due to the social instinct nor the inclination to have good time. Underneath 1t all IS current of pride in the State, confidence in future full of promise, and jubilant note for past oi honorable achievement.
 It must be remembered, also, that large propor- ton of resident Cafornians were born outside the confines Of the State that here representatives of every State and Territory who have chosen to make their home by the sea- and the place of their choice, has it become the place of their affection. They loyal to it those who in this old Spanish domain first saw the light of day They cannot participate in the formal celebration as fully the members of the order who turn it into gala time, but they with the natives in spirit
 As Californa's younger generation is proud of the State, is the State proud of its and daughters and among all who here abide there is felt thrill of appreciation at the fervor with which Admission day IS made an imposing occasion, significant and inn pressive. We congratulate the participants in San Joses festal season. Much of the material develop ment of the State must depend upon them. Theirs will be the duty of shaping its destiny and making the most of its resources. To-day they play; but life is made up of work, and when the relaxation is over they return to sterner vacations with zest re- neUed
The San Francisco call., 1898-09-10

duplicated, even to the criinnation and recrmina- ton, as to remind men who choose to do their own thinking that natural conditions in the tropics do not change.
 It is fact in gynecology that male and female, born in the tropics of Anglo-Saxon parents and reared there to adult age if they escape the effects of the climate long, are to each other barren and impotent. So completely has nature set bounds to the habitation of that she cuts race off ut terly when it attempts foothod in the tropics
 Behold, then, the folly of that dream of colonial empire, settled like continental possessions by Americans to create Greater United States and put
 star spangled belt around the earth at the equator