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The herald., 1898-11-12
A Poisoned River

CARBONDALE, Col, Nov. ll.Six section
men employed on the Rio Grande Railroad
have been poisoned by drinking water from
the Roaring Fork River, and two are in
a critical condition. A child, which died
in convulsons, is believed also to have beer
poisoned. An analysis of the water showed
that it contained much arsenic and other
poisonous minerals. These come from the
new concentrator at Aspen, in which zinc
ores are treated, the tailngs being dumped
into the river. Hundreds of people in the
valley who used the river water for domes
tic purposes are ill and many cattle have
died after drinking the water. Ranchers
stream
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Richmond, and again assumed command of
the Seventh corps.
rHnRMoMErERs FOR wARsHrps
Important Work Done by These Bits
of Delicate Worlkmanship

The thermometers used in the boiler
rooms and magazines of war ships in almost
every navy in the world come from the
United States. They are made in an OBJ
scure little workshop in Brooklyn. By their
aid the magazines and coal bunkers are
guarded against accidents by spontaneous
combustion. The temperature in all the
vital parts of the ship is watched constantly
and reported, and, it is hardly necessary to
say, is kept at the lowest point possible.
The factory consists of two rooms in an
apartment house. Two skilled workmen are
all that have to be paid off when pay day
comes around. A thermometer lately adopt
ed by some of the big battle ships, orders
for which are now being filled for several
of the smaller vessels in the navy, is that
which is known among experts as the Hicks
pattern. 1t takes its name after the English
manufacturer who invented it. 1t is SO
complicated in pattern that there is only
one man in the United States who knows
how to make it. He is employed in the
Brooklyn factory, where he has his hands
full. The attractive feature about this in
strument is that it automatically records the
lowest and the highest temperature to which
it has been subjected since last observed
This is accomplished without the use of an
ink marked diagram, but by little floats
which stick in the tubes where the mercury
has been the highest and where it has been
lowest. Such thermometers, however, are
very expensive, as, in fact, are all of those
which are made in the queer Brooklyn fac
tory. Nothing is there made but high
priced instruments for special scientific tests
in which it is necessary to ascertain temper
ature with fractional accuracy. Cheap ther-
mometers, such as are commonly seen in
ordinary use, are made in various places
all over the world. Henry j. Green, the
owner of the Brooklyn workshop, is close
student and is little known to the outside
world. Among officials in the navy and
weather bureau he has probably a wider
circle of friends than any man in Amer
lea, however. Personally he has made many
inventions, and has added much to ther-
mometer science, though he freely admits
that large share of the reputation of
Brooklyn thermometers is not due to him
self. His father, who established the shop,
established its reputation also, and gave its
present owner his practical knowledge of
exact thermometry.
Since the war came the shop has been
unable to supply the demands made upon
it by the United States navy alone. The
orders it has now are weeks behindhand,
and cannot Immediately be filled because of
the lack of workmen who possess recognized
skill sufficient to undertake them. This
is all due to the recent wholesale conver.
sion of merchant vessels for active war
service. Now that the war is over it is
likely that before long the little shop will
resume its quietude-New York Sun.
The herald., 1898-11-12
LARGE APPORTIONMENT
The City Auditor Makes Hole in This
Years Taxes

The eighth and largest apportionment
made by City Auditor Nichols from this
years taxes, in order to meet the city's run
ming expenses was made yesterday. The
amount was S35, 600 making the total amount
OF the apportionments from the taxes OF
lS9S-99 almost Sl35,00O. Under the plan of
distribution the different funds have been
supplied as follows;
Cash, s976360; salary, Sll59.2O; fire,
$4706.S0; common school, S456l 20; library,
Sl06l 20; general park, S40sS0; East Los An
geles park, S4l4.40; Westlake, $2l2S0; Hol-
lenbecll, S2l2S0; Echo, Sl344O; Elysian,
S4S4 40; nursery, Sl2O40; street lighting,
S2270.S0; street sprinkling, S230l go.
The apportlonments We're also made for
interest and sinking funds, and are: Fire
bonds, SAC, brids' bonds, 9S4 park bonds,
1880; tunnel, $52G40 interest and sinking,
1890, Sli6i.40; outfall sewer, 1899, Sl6l4O.
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THE STATE VOTE
Shows Little Change From the Earlier
Estimates

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. Incomplete
returns received from 1868 precincts in Cal
ifornia out of total of 2407 make the de-
feat of Charles +. Curry (Rep.) for Secre
tary of State probable; also the election Of
Mcfarland (Rep.) and Van Dyke (Fusion)
for Supreme Court Justices.
Van Dykes election is due to the voters
of Los Angeles and San Francisco counties
In the southern county, which is the home
of Judge Van Dyke, he ran nearly 1900 votes
ahead of the vote given in that county to
Mcguire.
Curry's defeat is due to the voters of San
Francisco and Alameda counties. In Ala
media he only defeated Thompson (Fusion)
by 2l5 votes, while Gage has a majority OF
2499 over Mcguire. In San Francisco Curry's
vote is nearly 1000 less than that cast for
Gage, while Thompson has over $500 more
votes than Mcguire. In nearly all of the
interior counties Curry vote is well up with
that of other candidates on the Republican
State ticket, excepting Gage.
Thompson's lead over Curry for Secre
tary of State has fallen off 2403 votes since
Wednesdays count, the former now being
only 1895 ahead. With 53S precincts outside
the city yet to make returns, Curry would
pull out ii he were to continue to gain in the
same proportion. This, however, is some
what doubtful.
The gubernatorial vote in San Francisco
county, with one precinct missing, was
Gage (Rep.), 2S,035; Hartman (Soc. Lab.)
llol; Mcguire (Dem.), 24,375; McComas
(Pro.), 1876.
No change has been made in the COM
plexion of the Congress delegation by the
later returns. Out of seven Congressman
the Democrats name one, DE Vries, in the
Second District.
1t is now practically certainty that Nc
Farland with 1869 majority has a lead over
Conley which cannot be overcome, though
Van Dyke has beaten Van Fleet.
The Republicans have elected all three of
the Railroad Commissioners-Edson in the
First District, Laumeister in the Second
and Blackstock in the Third.
The vote for Mayor on the San Francisco
municipal ticket is as follows: Oliver Ev-
erett, 1911; Charles L. Patton, A,Sl5; Jas.
ID. Phelan, 2S,lS7.
In the First Congressional District 244
precincts out of 440 give Barham (Rep.)
ll,567, Sewell (Fusion) l0,529. In the Sec
ond Congressional District 324 precincts out
of All give De Nries (Fusion) 1925, Ryan
(Rep.) 1925.
In the Third District 237 precincts out
of 265 give Metcalf (Rep.) lS,S67, Jones
Dem.) l2,463.
In the Fourth District with few pre-
cincts missing Kahn (Rep.) has 1925, Bar.
ry Dem.) 1891.
In the Fifth District the vote so FAR as
counted gives Loud (Rep.) 1885, Craig
Dem.) l0,265.
In the Sixth District 1926 precincts out
of 3SS give Waters (Rep.) 1921, Barlow
(Fuson) 1851.
In the Seventh District 34s precincts out
of 500 give Needham (Rep.) l6,3OS, Castle
(Fusion) 1854.
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against the extension of Hoover street, the
estimated cost of which is S5S47.63 In al
most every instance the objection has been
raised, not to the improvement ITSELF but
to the amounts levied as damages and bene-
fits in the commissioners report. They
claim that the commission has been unfair
and that the benefits given to the respective
property owners is wholly out of proportio
to the value of the various pieces.
Mr.. Croswell taking his property as an ex-
ample of unfairness, pointed out to the board
that he was not seeking the extension of the
street, as he did not need ali alley, but would
not object to his neighbors being benefited
if the said benefit was not to be paid for out
of his pocket. 81 am assessed as benefits, y
said he, 1850 in one case and S2l0 in another.
| will be called upon to pay these assess
ments besides giving my land, for some
thing that | do not want. Your commits
son." he continued, Thought wise to assess
Mrs. McGreal who owns a triangular piece
cut bv the proposed street, S75 for an i'm
provement of her property without which
her land would be absolutely worthless. >"
Here the speaker was interrupted by H.
c. Bohrman, who, though protestant is so
on general principles, as he is neither dam
aged or benefited BY the result. Mr.. Bohr-
man took occasion to remark that, in his
Judgment, which he considered equal to that
of the members of the commission, Mrs Nc
GreaPs property was benefited more than
that of anyone on the street. For" said he,
"there is no way of getting to her land at
present unless one employs an airship.'
"Quite right" asserted J. Baruch, who was
among the mourners.
Encouraged by these expressions of ap.
proval, Mr.. Croswell waxed eloquent, citing
other instances where he considered much
wrong had been done and ending his re.
marks with the statement: "It would be an
outrage, gentlemen, to take the action as
proposed by the commission"
The commission didn't see it, or at least
there was no outward sign>to warrant the
belief that it did. The councilmen had Wis.
tied the district Thursday in company with
the commission. There it was greeted by
property owners for and against the i'm
provement. There the board was informed
that no matter what decision the council
reached an appeal would be taken in the
form of an injunction suit to stop the pro-
ceedings. The same arguments have been
presented for and against the confirmation
OF the report and it tN-as'of little wonder that
the board failed yesterday to see the force
of the protestants' last effort to win their
point.
On Monday the commissioners report and
the report of the board favoring the former
and denying the protest, or against the COM
missioners allowances, which is not likely,
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DON'T WANT TRUMPET MUSIC
Board of Public Works Makes Many
Recommendations

The proposed ordinance by which the
council hopes to prevent the ringing of bells
and blowing of trumpets upon the streets
| for advertising purposes was discussed by
the board of public works yesterday. The
matter was taken up by the council some
time ago and the city attorney instructed to
frame new ordinance covering the ground
This he did, but made it so general that all
kinds of music for advertising purposes
would be unlawful. In discussing the mat
ter Yesterday, the board was OF the opinion
that the new ordinance as presented by the
attorney would prevent the playing of bands.
As Councilman Mathuss has an ear for
music, he objected to such an extreme meas
ure and on his motion the ordinance was
referred back to the city attorney, with in
structions to draft new one referring par
ticularly to the ringing of bells and blowing
of trumpets. This action on the part OF the
board places il in the position OF saying, in
very near the language of the poet, Bret
Harte:
For ads no trumpets announce and al
No pealing blast to make the ads well
come sure,
The whole band must be the overture"
The petition of w. Garmo and others,
asking that Sapphire street, between Bixel
and Boylston street, and Bixel street, be-
tween Arnold street and the north end of
Bixel street, be graded, graveled and curbed
under the bond act, was recommended, with
the provision that it be referred to the city
engineer for estimate of cost, and if the
same exceeds the amount required b. law,
then the ordinance of intention should be
presented.
Tie matter of grading, curbing and side
walking Dewey street, between Eleventh and
Pico streets, was recommended sent to the
city engineer for estimate of cost. Under the
proposed plans, the sidewalk is to be five
feet wide and, the cutters arc, to be of cob
BILE stones.
E. J. Valentines communication, in which
he claims damages, sustained By reason of his
wagon falling into an excavation in the pave
ment on Broadway, was matter that the
board confessed it did not know what to do
with. Mr.. Valentine said he didn't know
what should be done with it, but thought
that the city should pay for the damages.
Mr. Ashman suggested that it be sent to
the city attorney, and this was readily ac-
cepted as a way of escape.
As to the petition of John Y. Francis, ask
ing that the grade of Hobson street, from
Eleventh street to its north termination, be
established, it was approved and will be sent
to the city engineer, with instructions to pre-
sent an ordinance of intention.
In the matter of the petition from c. E.
Davis and others, the board recommended
that the city attorney be instructed to pre-
sent an ordinance of intention for the I'M
provement of Twenty-third street. from
Central avenue to the west line of the George
Dalton ranch, and that the matter of
larger water main on the street be attended
to at the earliest practicable time.
The request of w. J. Kessler asking that
his name be erased from the petition for the
improvement of Grand avenue, between
Court and First streets, was not granted, as
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SEPTEMBER TRADE
Shows Reduced Imports and Largely
Increased Exports

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-THE details OF
the reduction of Sll3000,000 in our imports
and of the increase of Sl23, 900 ,OOO in our eX'
ports in the nine months ending September
80. 1898, are shown by the monthly sum,
mary of commerce and finance Just issued
by the Treasury Department OF Statistics
OF Europe, we increased our sales from $o6S,
sos, ,l59 to S666, ,9e6, $50, while our purchases
were cut down from $685., ,394 1884 to S24O,-
S63.7l4.
To North America our sales increased
from S94. .S62. $50 to Sl0S,93l, ,S37, while our
purchases fell from SS4,5ll, 466 to SI6,O4S,
5l9.
10 South America our exports increased
from $24,S7l ,545 to So, ,323, ,942. while our i'm
pcrts from that part OF the world fell from
$7S, ,e56642 to 63,5l3,S13.
70 Asia and Oceanica our exports IN
creased from S45, ,7S4,340 to $54,495.3 1888; our
imports also increased from sS5.004,S67 to
SsS, 259, 800, this being mostly due to an in
crease in imports of raw silks for use in tn
factories of the United States.
TO Africa our sales increased IRON SILL
934, ,S3S to Sl3, 555,075, while our imports de
creased from SO, lS6. $50 to S6,6I4,S21.
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SOUTHWEST RESIDENTS
DON'T LIKE THE ASSESSMENT
FOR HOOVER STREET
THE BENEFITS AND DAMAGES
Board of Public Works Spends Time in
Hearing Protestants-City Hall
Notes and News

Dissatisfied property owners who would
be affected by the proposed opening OF
Hoover street, between Washington and
Bush streets, made desperate and appar-
entity fruitless effort yesterday to convince
the board of public works that the report OF
the commission appointed to assess the
damages and benefits incident to the open
ing, was unjust and unfair. 1t was uphill
work, but the protestants went at it with
a will and might have been talking yet had
not the board assumed an unresponsive at
titude and listened to their pleadings in
frigid silence.
Chief among the rrotestants was NJ. s.
Croswell, who owns several lots fronting on
Darien Place, that would be made consider
ably smaller should Hoover street be cut
through. Mr.. Croswell has figured in almost
every protest, and there have been many,
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Steamer PASSENGERS

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1.-THE steamer
Santa Rosa sailed today with the following
passengers for Redondo: J. Sinclair, Miss
Harmon, Dr. j. G. Beck and wife, Miss
Peters, Mr.. Buckley, Miss S. Nook, c: Goss
w. E. Chillis, S. r. Hardness, wife and
child O. Kaiser and wife, J: c. Greves, Mrs
Sherwood, Mrs. f. c. Small, c. E. Delman
P. Bouhan, D. Soady. y,
For Port Los Angeles: w. G. Rosenthal
Mrs. NJ. F. Cleveland, Miss N. Caine, Mrs
c. F. Lummis, Miss NJ, Mclaughlin, Miss v
Voss, Mrs. A. NJ. Kimball, j, Herman.
For Santa Barbara-W. F. Wheatley, Mrs
C. L. Donahue, Mrs: S. W. Wheeler, D. E
Lieutenant G.. n. Chase, w. f. Joseph and
wife, D. Fitzgerald, John Austen, mother
and sister
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DREYFUS' WIFE
Not Allowed to Communicate With
Her Husband

PARIS, Nov. l2.-Mme. Dreyfus, it is said,
applied at the office of the colonial minister
yesterday friday for permission to send
her husband some warm clothing for his re-
turn home. Her request was refused on the
ground that the government would do what
was necessary. At the same time the au-
thorities read to her letter from her hus-
band to the effect that, having for five
months addressed appeals for revision to
General De Boi.defire without getting any
reply and being wearied and exhausted by
hopeless appeals, he would write no more to
his family or to anybody. He described him
self as i'll and dying and bequeathed ''to the
generosity of my country the care OF re-
habilitating my memory"
Nine. Dreyfus then asked permission to
telegraph her husband the decision of the
court of cessation. This request was also
The herald., 1898-11-12
Election Contests

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. ll.-There will
probably be several contests on the legisla-
tive tickets in this city. Leon Dennery
may challenge the right of Porter Ashe to a
seat in the state senate. Patrick Graham,
Republican, will contest the election of Law
renee Hoey, Democrat, to the assembly, and
Leon Jones thinks he was chosen assembly
man instead of j. S. Wardell, who has a
majority of "a on thS face of the returns.
Two or three city officials also talk of con-
tests, but no action has yet been taken.
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Jules David Dead

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1l.-Julss
David, treasurer of the famous vigilance
committee of 1856, and known as-".No. a."
died at his home in this city yesterday. His
lifelong friend, Nicholas Vanbergen, fol-
lowed him few hours later, and Victor
David, who came here from Chico to see
his sick brother, fell dead upon beholding
his corpse. All three funerals will take
place tomorrow. The three dead pioneers
were all well known on the Pacific coast.
Each had passed the three score and ten
limit of age.
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will be before the council. Should the council
order the work TO proceed number of prop
erty owners, who have interest enough at
stake to warrant, in their Judgment, the
starting OF an injunction suit, have en-
pressed themselves as decidedly in falor OF
such a measure.
The board was to have considered the bids
for engine house sites opened by the council
Monday. AS nearly every real estate man in
the city had offered choice locations, and as
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Roosevelt's Citizenship

NEW YORK, Nov. H.-Richard Croker
said when he heard that some one was to
try and contest Colonel Roosevelt's eligi-
biiity for the gubernatorial chair:
"Tammany Hall has nothing to do with
any such scheme. We fought Colonel Roose-
welt at the polls. The returns say that he
is elected We know nothing of any such
intention ascribed to some anonymous mem
Der of the organization. We are not behind
it and will not stand for it."
The herald., 1898-11-12
Indian Justice

CARSON, New, Nov. 1.-two Indians
were killed and one mortally wounded near
Sheridan last night. About year ago a
Mahala left her husband, after being
whipped by him, and recently took up with
another man. Yesterday the deserted man
shot her and her brother, killing her in
stanty, and the brother is not expected to
live. After the shooting a number of In
dians caught the merderer and beat his
brains out with an ak.
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The War Inquiry

WASHINGTON. Nov. ia telegram
from General Dodge, chairman of the wal
investigation commission, announces that
he will reach Washington tomorrow. II
is expected that all the members will be
here by Monday. and that the work OF the
commission as a whole will then be re-
sumed with vigor. Several witnesses will
be examined here, and it is expected that
after a weeks work in this city the COM
mission will proceed to New York. Gen.
Shafter will probably be among the wit
nesses heard in New York.
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The Kaiser's Visit

MADRID, Nov. l2.-The Duke Almodo.
var de Rio, minister of foreign affairs, re-
that Emperor William would arrive It
ceived a telegram this evening announcing
that Emperor William would arrive at
Carthagena on November IL. The authori.
ties were apparently greatly surprised when
they heard of the visit and it is probable
that they had no previous notice of it.
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rship of which still rests with the Southern
Cider Punch

Peel lemon and pour half pint of sherry
on the peeling; to the juice of the lemon
add cupful of sugar, little grated nutmeg
and quart of cider. Mix this together thor
oughly and then add it to the rind of the
lemon and the sherry. Let it get perfectly
cold on the ice, or, if you are short of time,
ice it when serving. If you wish to make
this punch bit more insidious you can
easily do so by adding to it wineglass os
brandy.-Boston Evening Transcript.
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the number exceeded $50, the clerks Office
had been unable to arrange them in shape
to present to the board. The members of
the board expressed themselves as pleased
that the matter had been postponed, as they
expect lively times when real estate agents
commence dancing attendance
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An Idaho Fire

WALLACE, Idaho, Nov. 11.-Gus Enze,
night clerk, and Joe Moore, waiter, in the
New York kitchen, were suffocated in a
re in the Idaho hotel last night. They
occupied rooms in the hotel. The hotel
and livery stable adjoining, owned by Glen
Mcdonald, and John Camerons saloon and
lodging house, Tom Reynolds saloon and
lodging house, all two-story buildings, were
entirely consumed by fire.
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Chinese Concessions

LONDON, Nov. IA special dispatch
from Shanghai says that the British Minis
ter at Pelling, Sir Claude Macdonald, on
learning from the American Minister there
that the concession to build the Hankow
Canton Railroad has been granted to an
American syndicate refused to support the
application of the Anglo-Eastern syndicate
for the contract.
1t appears that the American concession
was signed by the Chinese Minister at Wash,
ington in April. The China Department. OF
the Foreign Office advised the Anglo East
ern syndicate to apply for it, which was
done October 10.
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Justifiable Homicide

KINGMAN. Ariz., Nov. 1.-THE coron-
er's jury found the killing of James Ryan
by Joseph Lynch to be justifiable homicide
The deceased and John Lynch had quar-
relied. and deceased fired shot at John
Lynch, when Joseph Lynch, to save his
brothers life. ran behind the saloon bar
secured a shotgun and shot Ryan, killing
him instantly. Whisky was at the bottom
of the affair.
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Santa Ee Extension

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. n.-At the
meeting of the Santa Fe railroad to be held
at Topeka, kas., on December s, they will
act on matters connected with the extern
sion of the company's system in California.
In addition to the needed authorization for
the purchase Of the stock Of the San Joaquin
Valley road they will be- asked to approve
The leases now held by the Santa Fe on the
line between Mojave and Needles, the own
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Deaths on Shipboard

NEW YORK, Nov. ia dispatch to the
World from Madrid says:
There were only two deaths on the steam
ship Granilla which lately brought thou
sand Spanish troops sent home from the
West Indies. The story sent from here to a
news agency and cabled to the United
States that one hundred people died on the
ship during the voyage is baseless.
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Libeled for Damages

PHILADELPHIA, Nov ll.-Deputy
United States Marshal Foster, shortly be.
fore midnight, seized the British ship Gro.
martyshire, on libel filed by the Transat.
lantic Compagnie Generate for 81, 800, 900, to
recover damages for the collision between
the Cromartyshire and the French passen-
ger steamer La Bourgogne.