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The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-16

rom the prison walls one of the suangest characters that ever wore the striped garb of the penitentiary,
 when Cunningham was landed with In the walls of San Quentin prison he turned to the sheriff, who had con- ducted him hither from the southern part of the state, and sWore heavily solemn oath that no word would es- cape his lips during the period of his incarceration Cunningham stood by ms oath through the long, weary years of his sentence, and his tongue never loosened until he stepped with out the prison walls yesterday a free man.
 Whenever it became necessary for Cunningham to communicate his needs or wants to others, he did so in writ ing or by notions After being con- lined in the prison a short time he was thought to he insane and was sent to the ukiah asylum. Here he was con- med but a short time, for it was soon ascertained he was in his right mind and merely acting in a stubborn man. ner. Word was sent to the prison of- ficials and Guard Miller was sent to the asylum to bring the prisoner back. When near Santa Rosa he jumped through a car window. but was capt ured after a hard chase After his re- turn he still preserved an inviolable silence, and was put into what is known as crank alley. Here all kinds of influence were brought to bear upon him to cause him to speak. but with out avail, He also refused to have his hair cut, and when released yesterday morning his hair was measured and was found to be fifty-four inches in length.
 When relieved of his prison garb a smile overspread his countenance. Sev- eral people spoke to him, but he only grlnned, Once outside the prison gate Cunningham made up for lost time He condemned every one around the prison for his confinement. When ask ed how he managed to control him. self and preserve an unbroleen silence for so many years, he angrily replied that he had no explanation to make.-- The San Francisco Chronicle.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-16
TARIFF PROTECTION AND SELF
 HELP

It is a strange circumstance of all the foreign textile fabrics against which the Dingley tariff was aimed the only the only one to show an increase in the amount sent here by the Eng fish manufacturerer is a fabric made from our own cotton and, what is more, made on machinery similar to that in use in scores of our New Eng land mills. This is not due to the fact that these goods did not receive due consideration at the hands of the mak- CTS of the present tariff, because the rates on cotton manufacturers desired and are based, as those of the Wilson tariff were not, upon careful calcula- tion as regards degrees of fineness, both of yarn and weave, and as bar rier to foreign competition were con- sidered most effective.
 Notwithstanding all this we find we are importing fine sleeve and dress cotton Things to the extent of over $2,- 100000 year nearly if not quite every yard of which could be produced in our own mills if the manufacturers would get out of the ruts which were made at time when the requirements of the domestic trade were vastly diff erent from what they are now. and when ready sale awaited the produc- tion of standard goods with enormous profits
 Barring 8 comparatively few enter prisng spirits in the business who are desering of credit, no other branch of industry shows so little appreciation of the changes in the general condi- tions which control trade than has cot ton manufacturing. They are unham- pered by any duty upon their raw ma ter,al and have easy access to the sta pie, together with tariff protection of their own against the foreign made fabrics Take, for instance, the goods just mentioned. This lining pays a duty eight cents per souare yard and 30 per cent. ad valorem. It is made from yarn spun upon spinning-frames or mules similar to those that are used in every fine goods mill in the coun ry; while there are a thousand looms with in a circle of one hundred miles of this city upon which it could be woven as adyantageously as in the English mill
 
 are now making these Things, as good in every respect as the foreign sample; but their owners are not making much ado about it, because having pro- fitable product, they are not advertis- ing it to all possible competitors. They are of the few p-to- date maunfactur- CTS who are keeping the cotton busi- ness of this section from entire col lapse.
 There is a new movement toward fine goods in the south which, when given publicity, will astonish our New England mill-owners, and if the facts soon to be announced do not cause a shaking of the dry bones in the valley of our almost moribund cotton indus try, it will be a matter of great sur- prise to every one conversant with the matter. It all shows that in the ab- sence of adequate enterprise upon the part of those for whose benefit a tariff if framed, protection proves intellectual in bringing about the desired results
 Boston Transcript.
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.Ex dividend.

Active Quotations of Bonds. Reported by Boody, Mcclellan X Co, Bankers and Brokers, 57 Broadway, New York, aud ST Orange Street, New Haven.
 Rid Asked
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Opening Highest Lowest Close
New York ootton Exchango.

Reported over private wire by II c. Fried
 man x Co. bankers and brokers, 10 Wal
 Street, N. T., and T0S Chapel Street, New Haven N. A. Tanner. manager local
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NEW HAvMNLoCALQ QUOTATIONS

Furnished daily by KIMBERLY. Roor & DAY, Bankers aud Drokers. l3j Orange street.
 BANK srOOKs
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Many People Cannot Drink

coliee ot night, It snoIls their sleep, You can drink Grain.O when you please ana sleep like top. For Graln-O does not stmu4ate; it n0urlshcs, cheers and feeds. Yet It looks and tastes like the best coffee For nervous persons, young people and chil- dren, Graln-O is the perfect drink. Made your grocer today. Try 1t In place of coffee l5 and 25c.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-16
SIX YEARS OF SILENCE.

The Well-Kept Vow of Prisoner in
 the California State Prison.
 Edward J. Cunningham was released from San Quentin yesterday, after serving a sentence of six years for burglary committed in Orange county, and with his liberation there passed
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Closing Prices,

Following are the closing prices reported by Prince x Whit2.y, Bankers and Brokers, 52 Broadway, New York, and 15 Center st, New Haven. Bid Asked
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At, Top. S & Fe gen AS, ~. 9TM 9S At, Top, X s. Fe adj, s As. .. 74l4 TIA Brooklyn Ei, 1st IT. Co, cts 6s. 90@ 92 Brooklyn Rapid IT. Co., 2 5s. 106 10BA Central Ky of \. J. g mtg 5s. .113M 114 Ches, R. l. X Pacific ext Js. .105A 105A Ghes. X Ohio gen g 4l&s. ....,. SSA SSA Erie. 1st Con prior lien 4s., 93 937s Manhattan Ky Con. mtg 4S.... 94 % Mo, Kan X Texas list mtg 4s 91k 92 Mo. Kan. < Texas 2d mtg s 4s 65H 66 Mobile X Ohio gen As. .......... 80 S0la N. T., Ont. X West. gen mtg Is .103 103l2 \. Y, Sus X West. gen mtg 5s SS 90 Nor Pacific prior gen mtg As. ,101M 102 Northern Pacific gen lien g s.. 67H t.A Pliia. X Reading gen mtg 4s,. s2M s3 Rio Cir X West. 1st mtg 4s. 20 91 Southern Ky 1st Con. 2 5s. .1024 10-fl St. Louis X Southw 1st mtg Js 80 S1 Texas X Pacific 1st mtg 5s.. .109la no Union Pacific Is. s................10 .100H 101
 Wabash Ky Co. list mtg Is. .111la 1l2 Wabash Ky Co. 2d mtg 5s,.... 901a 91
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The Bulletin Exposed as a LeeCh Trying to Fatten Upon
 Merchants.
Some of the Victims Will Resist, and Many of Them Meet to Consider
 Plans.

for local manufactures. But 1t devel- ops that people who contributed in many instances had done so under the idea that they were to be nothing, but have the pleasure of helping the Bulletin in thus exploit ing valuable enterprises, and then do- nate to that peculiar concern any sum they chose As the matter was first preached it had much the seeming of a charity scheme, with the Bulletin the direct beneficiary and the dear peo- pie getting a theoretical rake-off. The plan in advance had been reduced to an absolute system. No gang bent upon footing a bank ever went about the task with greater deliberation.
 The seed was sown by means of a cunningly devised circular. An agent rich in cheek and fluent as to gab made a call upon the selected victim. He had a piece" to speak, and until he had committed this to memory was not ready to tackle his game. But having committed it there was no escape from him save by flight.
 He told how the Bulletin was intend ing to get out an edition free from any advertising; how donations would be accepted; how moral support was the thing of which he was particularly in quest He paused at a certain place in
 his eloQuence to give the listener an
 opportunity to subscribe his moral
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For truly good paper, not only con- scious of virtue, but inviting others to bask in the radiance of its moral lus- ter, the Bulletin is in an awkward predicament. It has been detected in an attempt to swindle. It has been exposed in a scheme as dark and graceless as ever contrived by the ven dor of gold bricks: a scheme of even more sinister turpitude. A bogus gold brick can at least be thrown at a cat. The Bulletin, under pretense of giving away space of no possible utility. real ly managed to assume the aspect of having sold it. Unblushingly it en- deavored to collect, and over those who demurred it held a threat, some times vague, times couched in the curt terms known to the lawyer about to bring suit. The lawyer is named Jennings, and only brief term ago was mentioned as having been dis barred.
 The spectacle of the business men of the community meeting to confer as to the best method of protecting them selves against the imposition sought to be practiced by the Bulletin is so un- usual as to throw glare of light on the situation. At the point of the focus that discredited sheet may be observed. now defiant, now cringing, again com promising with one of it's victims and begging him to regard the matter as confidential. The tendency to enter upon confidential relations with the operators of the confidence game is not marked. A man whose pocket has been picked seldom considers himself bound to protect the picker.
 The Bulletin boasts of modern meth ods. Robbery and jobbery are his latest innovation. It does not boast of this. Because it will not tell the story of it's own shame, and because few would see the story even if it were to appear in that twilight tomb of news, the duty devolves on another.
 The tale runs thus: The Bulletin es- sayed to produce what it was pleased to name an industrial edition. It en- braced many pages, and, as contempo. raries were kind enough to admit made a showing apparently excellent
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PERSONAL PRoRPETY TAXES.
Supreme Court Upbolds Assessor
 Siebe iD the Rode Case.

olSOS ID the NOOe SOSe.
 The Supreme Court has rendered an interesting decision. in which the law is laid down that the Assessor of the city and county has the right to seize personal property and sell the same without allowing the time necessary in such proceedings where realty Is concerned. The matter came up in the case of c. B. Rode and others against John D. Siebe as Assessor. In March, 1895, the Assessor made his returns, showing that Rode and others were the owners of personal property, but no real estate, subject to taxation for the ensuing year. Siebe demanded the payment of the tax and threatened to seize and sell If payment were not made. To prevent the threatened seizure and sale Rode began an action to enjoin the Assessor from taking such a step. The Superior Court re- fused to grant the injunction and an | appeal was taken to the Supreme | Court.
 Rode conceded the right of the As sessor to take the steps permitted by | the statute, but not before equaliza- ton or before the levy for the year or before the beginning of the fiscal year to which the tax belonged, holding that to do so was unconstitutional and violation of the laws of taxation. The | Judgment of the lower court was sus- | tained by four of the Justices. Chief Justice Beatty writing the prevailing | opinion, in which he says:
 But where a taxpayer has no real prop erty, or none sufficient to pay the pay ment of his taxes. the Assessor is re- | quired to collect them at the time of | making his assessment, and in case of | failure to pay to sell sufficient of the property of the delinquent to make the amount of the tax, with costs. AS this | collection must be enforced before the meeting of either the Board of EqualiZa- ton and before the rate for the ensuing | year is ascertained and the levy made. ii | is provided that 1t shall be made accord | ing to the rate levied the previous year and as this may be-and generally is | greater or less than the subsequent levy for the current year provision is made for refunding to the taxpayer any excess in the collection and for the payment by him of any deficiency.
 He also argues that person so dis
 posed could leave the State and no
 pay any tax at all. Justices Henshaw
 Temple. Garoutte and Mcfarland con
 cur.
 Justices Van Fleet and Harrison
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HOUSEWHRMING DEL AYED
The San FroDcisco Club SooD to Occupy It's Elegopt New
 Quarters

The San Francisco Club. recently or ganized and embracing within it's mem bership the very cream of this city s commercial and professional men, ex- pected to take possession of its new quarters in the Claus Spreckels build ing at noon to-day, but owing to un- avoidable delay in the completion of arrangements a short postponement is inevitable.
 The club will occupy the entire floor be not only commodious, but sumptu- ous in the extreme. They will com prise a thoroughly appropriate home for social organization, of which the city will undoubtedly have reason to feel very proud.
 Due announcement will be made oi the fact when the date for occupancy of the new quarters has been definitely decided upon.
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UNDER THE SHADOW
 OF FRESH DISGRACE

called a write-up, this accompanied by a document meant still to give the or iginal impression that the Bulletin was performing a labor of love. Then the edition was printed.
 Hardly was it off the press when the bills for the write-ups began to cause pain and surprise. The merchants thought they had signed something chiefly indicative of their local pride. They found that they had signed some thing which the Bulletin regarded as contract to pay at S1 per line. and that their protest against such extorton was met by a threat to sue. Naturally the merchants were indignant and they held a meeting to consider how best to meet the extortion. The business man ager of the Bulletin was there and tried to make out case. but the job was hopeless. He could not explain why he had been concerned in an effort to bunko them, and they soon tired or i listening to him and adjourned with their wrath uncooled.
 Just what action will be taken next is not determined, but 1t Is certain that some of the merchants will refuse l to pay their bill and will welcome any suit the Bulletin may choose to bring. | The Excelsior Glove Company has compromised for half the amount charged and feels Itself cheated at this. l President Dohrmann of the hrm or Ma than & Dohrmann paid his bill. know ing it to be unjust. Il found was not shrewd enough" said MT. Dohrmann, and I paid the sum demanded, charg- ing it to experience The sum was more than $100
 H. s. Field of Hammersmith & Ffelo declared that the firm would not under 2 any circumstances pay for adVertls ing not contracted for. T think I rather peculiar" he said. flor the Bull letin to try to collect for write-ul supposed to be gratuitous. Our firm has never been in the habit of doini business in such a way, and before w
 submit to the unwarranted bill vii
 stand suit, feeling confident we cal
 conclusively show any court we hal not agreed to pay for the article.
 MT. Schmidt of the Schmidt Labe and Lithographing Company consente'
 to tell how he was taken in. "A maj
 by the name of Spencer came to me,
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THE SOLICITORS "SPIEL." ,"
Here's Wbot tbe Bulletin Required It's
 Bupko Men to Leorn by Heart.

Iamfro the Evening and upon you which don't advertising We bunessat b wholesale goods speak of them eda We consdera of the amouno annual capital invested We illustrate this edition with buildings wholesale establishments the large that ancseois big city financial point but architectural standpont that manufacturing establishments and modous buildings Copies this edition be all Boards Trade and commercial bodies through West We publish edition will business and public spirited citizen this city and that be referred scheme published for the the The idea show what San Francisco and don't accept advertising donate contribute something toward making enterprise would thank for We don't dollar
 dollar To-day simply getting of merchants will something. You this than can.
 (Here show list of firms.)
 simply to do something They haven't them sgnihed the they would anything dollar If do give dollar take it only giving you that is line Your
 dollars It would lnes other We don't the list to-day and de will around and about what 
 Get signature ist) QIERE SPRING THE CONTRACT) Mir. -, you will re- protects you) will bring down you spend. your number randum of the line
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Secre tary.

truly. the story of the Bulletins shame, supported by an array of exhibits" sufficient to convict. It shows depth of degradation to which few papers have ever fallen, and 1t shows a stu pidity dense beyond comprehension. For what shall it profit bunko sharp if he try to skin the whole world. and the world rising up, club in hand, re- fuse to be skun?
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wrote dissenting opinions in which they contended that it is not fair to make the owner of personal property pay his taxes many months anu per hans wear before those who pay on realty. It deprives him of the use of his money, and it would be equivalent to depriving him Of his money In other words, he will have to pay more taxes than the other. They further take the position that such a system will press particularly heavy on the poor who do not own real estate.
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Messrs Hammersmi tn 6 Fi cid,
 ll8 Sutter St. Dear SirS:
 We mai led you copy of wri te-up of your business, whi ch is to appear in our Indus stri al and Illustrated Edi ion, and stated tha a cut of your bui lding had been made and would appear in this edi on wi thout cost to you, and also that you menti oned free Of charge Tn a re- vi CIV of your line of bust mess. Up to date we have received no reply. Please send the manus cri pt by return mail, as we are ready for publi cation
 Very truly yours,
 M> I@z
 Business Manager,
 The Bulletin.
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support. In the piece" given him to learn was a memorandum, spring contract and with regularity which smoke well for his training he never omitted to spring it. But he did this pleasantly, casually, as a matter of form. Afterward the merchant had an impression that there was to be write-up; that some man was coming to collect material, and then the Bull letin would accept the boon of gratuity it had craved. But the man never came The next move was the receipt by the merchant of something
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THE BULLETIN THREAT.
December 94, 1897.

December 94, 1897.
 Gentlemen: We will be pleased to have you call and see me i'm reference to your writing mp which appeared in our Indus trial Edition and bill for which you have re- fused 50 pay at this writ ing. We trust that you will give this matter im- mediate attention, as. ii will save you consider able trouble and incOn- yenience. Truly yours.
 THE BULLETIN,
 Per T. F. Boyle,
 Business Manager.
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Pacific Amm Onia BOttling Co. Herman & Co. Hammersmith& A Field. Bernhard Mattress Co. Indianapolis Furniture Co. Geo. HI. Young. J. q. Nolan & Co. Siebe Shoe Co. E.. F.. George Shoe Co. Goodyear Rubber Co. C. Hermann & Co. The Howard HI. Hogan Co. H. Grandjean. Nau. SadIer A Co. Hartter, Hayes & Co. M. Ehrma ann. HoItum Bros. q. M. Mann.
 Wilmerding-LOewe Co. Henry Campo & Co. Spruance. Stanley & Co. G. Cohen Co.
 Hey. GrauerhOIz & Co. SeegeIken & Buclxner. st. George Vineyard. Horn & Co.
 kuIlman. Salz & Co. FOntaua & Co. Nathan, DOhrnann & Co. Anglo American CrOckery and Glassware Co. Pacific Folding Paper BO1 Factory.
 -. P Taylor & Sons. Schmidt Label & LithO Co. Union I.ithOgraphing Co. Garcia & Maggini. L. Scatena & Co.
 Luke G. SresOvich A. Co. ID. F.. Allison & Co. .J. HvancOvich & Co.
 J. Zenther & Co.
 q. R. SplivaIO & Co.
 Such is briefly, but alas and alas
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the ASSEMBLY ROOM OF THE MILLS BUILDING, ROOM 7,
END FLOOR

If you have any grievance in this respect you are requested to attend send repre- sentative; also any papers copies of con- tracts pertaining to these matters that you may have your possession. Kindly understand that this meeting is called wi tn a view of ad justing the differ ences ami cably, and that expense whatever wi Il result from your attending it, the serv- ices of the officers and employees of this Asso- citation always at the command of cur mem bers.
 Respectfully yours,
 Te@A5 A~s,1A
 Secretary. (CONF I IDENTIAL).
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TdeyIsse Rafa ssH.
OFFICERS AND vsseeross.
oMe,e&antSoasoociiot;ior, Mas BaadS,s. 7ta Foo-. Rooms 7. . sads San Francisco. Cal.
 Dec. 30. 1897.

Messrs. Ma than Dohrmann 6 Co.
 Dear Sirs:
 On the Is tn of December the Bullet tin" issued speci al e ia al edi ion, in whi ch a number of business notices of mercantile houses were publ shed.
 Thirty-six houses, who members of this Assoc iation, have requested this office to call meeting of all those who, like them selves, complaine that the terms upon whi ch agreements for these notices were obtained are different from those whi ch made the basis of the charges for the same.
 Tn order to discuss this matter such a meet ing i s hereby called for
 TOMORROW [FRIDAYl AFTERNOON AT 5 80 CLOCK
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A NEW YEARS RESOLUTION Is Going Away, Though Not to the
 KIondike.

This is the time to make New Years resolutions and carry them out, and that is what Charles Lyons is doing. He has decided to sell off the whole of the stock at his store, 1212 and 1914 Market street
 above Taylor, and transfer the business of that house to his other two stores. The goods at above address, 1212 and 1214 Market street, are offered for sale at about half the usual prices. and must be all sold out at once. Suits to order at $9 75
 usual price S20; trousers to order, s 75. worth double the money. This is true business. and by purchasing now you make a fine investment. There is a s20 900 stock of all kinds of goods too numerous to mention, all to be slaugh- tered, as Lyons will not take anything away from the store when it closes ups
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CONF FIDENTIAL i.

and avoid notoriety, he said: While dislike the notoriety that this matter will probably cause me, do not feel justified in paying the extra s6; 1t IS more for the principle of the thing than the money I care; and I intend to fight them for this reason if for no other. v
 When asked if he knew of any other merchants of the city swindled in like manner, he said:
 There are scores of them right around my own establishment. but one in particular, C. H. Evans, of the firm of c. H. Evans & O.. doing business at 1S1 and 1S7 Fremont street, who was swindled out of S45."
 The following firms were either rep resented at the meeting which consid- cred the Bulletins confidence game or are among those reported to have been worked by the bunko men: