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The herald., 1898-03-22
STATE NOTES

San Francisco, No. 70, the new lightship,
was given her official trial trip yesterday.
and. except in few minor points. satisfied
both the representatives Of the govern
ment and Captain Lowell, her commander,
that she was all right.
The Marysville city election yesterday re-
suited in the choice of c. 8. Brooks for
mayor; j. A. Maben, marshal; F. E Smith,
clerk; w. C. Swain, treasurer; Adam Full
ler, L. c. Williams, F. w. Potter, H. Sell
ber, councilmen; Powell, Garden, Boormans
school commissioners.
United States Commissioner Heacock
yesterday presented to United States Dis
trict Judge De Haven his report Of the
sale of the property of the Woodbridge
Canal and Irrigation company to e. c.
Card for 5000. Several persons interested
in the litigation appeared in court and
protested against the sale. The matter Of
the confirmation was therefore laid over
for two weeks.
Immigration Commissioner North and
the special board of inquiry yesterday re-
fused a landing to thirty-three out Of nine-
ty-eight Japanese who arrived recently by
the China and the Doric. The remaining
sixty-five were allowed to land. The un-
lucky thirty-three claimed to be farmers.
visiting California for the purpose Of stud
ying agriculture, but the commissioner was
convinced that they were coolies.
The proceedings in the Hoff murder
trial at San Francisco yesterday were
devoid Of interest, no new evidence being
presented Judge Cook announced from
the bench that Attorney Raymond had
confessed to completely with Lawyer Nc
Intosh in an attempt to sell an alleged con-
fession of Hoff. Raymond asked that the
court take no action until the Bar associa-
ton had acted on the case, and this request
was granted.
Yesterday afternoon at $50 o'clock w.
Frank Pierce, president of the Blue Lakes
Water company, touched the button con-
Meeting Marysville with the power plant
of the Yuba Power company, which pro-
duces its current from three generators
operated twenty-three miles distant in the
Sierra Nevada mountains. The town Is
jubilant over the advent of the company.
which reduces illuminating rates 80 per
cent and affords cheap power for manu-.
facturinU '--.--
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regent has. owing to her birth. such
close and influential relations.
This Is most interesting view Of the
situation, and shows that the money in
terest the bankers Of Paris have in
Spain is not the only consideration that
keeps Paris and Madrid in touch with
each other. However. that can make no
difference to the United States. when
this country once determines that 1t is
right and proceeds to 60 ahead
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The bill to be reported by the senate
committee on Pacific railroads will pro-
vide that the purchasers of the Central
branch must pay the principal andinter-
est of the debt due to the United States.
This is the cheerful information Mr..
Huntington will CLEAN from his morning
paper today. He will probably early tap
the wires of the Western Union Tele-
graph company. Such nonsense will not
be tolerated.
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ALARMING sxxProlGs

Much has been said OF late. by public
men and journals on both sides OF the
Atlantic. regarding the dignified poise
and serenity Of the president since the
disaster to the Maine threw the country
into state Of excitement bordering on
hysteria. and his coolness and compos-
ure during the trying ordeal has been
highly commended. Abroad 1t has been
taken as an inspiration Of the purest
patriotism; at home it has been other
wise accounted for
While doubts of his loyalty have never
been raised, there are those, and not
without reason, who have feared that his
deliberate assumption of an attitude in
somewhat striking contrast with pre-
vailing public sentiment-an attitude
which he has sustained without the
slightest indication Of weakening-was
more due to influences that have sur
rounded him than to any natural i'm
pulse to be unwarrantably conservative.
His most intimate advisers, since cri-
sis became imminent, have notoriously
been averse to a conflict with Spain,
under whatever provocation or pretext.
He has been daily closeted with Senator
Hanna, the recognized representative of
Wall street, who is conceded to have
greater influence at the White House
than any member of the cabinet; with
Levi P. Morton, the acknowledged agent
of one of the greatest money syndicates
in this country. largely interested in
Spanish securities and with Mr.. Nc
Cook, also concerned in such settle
ment of the trouble as shall least dis
turb extensive investments made by
himself and the people he represents;
and 1t is not denied that the single mem
ber of his cabinet who stands for heroic
methods has the least influence with him.
Between the Scylla Of this Wall street
influence and insistence and the Charyb-
dis of popular acclaim, daily growing
louder and more imperative, it is not
strange that the executive. as described
by our dispatches. is almost at the
point Of collapse;" that his condition be-
gins to excite the alarm Of his friends;
that he has frequent spells Of despond-
ency, and is in a state Of nervous terror;
that he has apprehensions of assassina-
ton, and suffers more or less Of remorse
over the loss Of the Maine.
1t is possible that his condition IL not
as alarming as indicated by the latest
= No rAx a a h Ia
il he were to pass through the ordeal
without some evidences Of the physical
as we'll as mental strain he has endured.
His position, under the most favorable
would be far from en-
vable; obviously controlled by an in
luence which he ;is unable to resist. but
which he has CONS to see isantasonistts-
to. prevailing public sentiment and mem
acing to the success Of his adminastra-
ton, it is not strange that his Mental
is regarded as imminent.
The country has become measurably
reconciled to aninane administration of
the state department and the practical
by the president Of the duties
Of the secretary; but if Mr.. Mckinley has
become the victim Of moods" such as
are described by the Washington cor
there is grave cause for
alarm. Fortunately the executives err
unlike that of Germany's ruler,
pursues lines of pleasantness and peace.
It gives promise of sufficiency, If not
an abnormal surplus, Of deliberation.
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Union League Reception

SAN FRANCISCO, March 21-Governor
Daniel s. Hastings Of Pennsylvania was
rendered a reception by the members of
the Union League club tonight. Prominent
men in nearly every profession were pres
ent, and many made short addresses in
honor of the occasion. among them being
United States Senator White and Attorney
General Mccormick of Pennsylvania.
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The parity between the administra-
tions war pledges and it's ante-election
promises is being maintained without
much difficulty. 1t may safely be said
that a move on Cuba will be made when
the mills are opened.
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The house yesterday passed, by a
unanimous vote, the bill reported by the
naval committee for the relief of the
survivors of the battleship Maine. And
in the same spirit will the American peo-
pie unanimously approve of the action
of their representatives.
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The Marquis de Hoyas affects the be-
lief that the United States has inspired
the Philippine patriots to another re-
against the Stars and
Stripes "in the southern states Of the
union" This constitutes the most anus
ing suggestion yet vouchsafed by the
enemy
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with the sincere friendship Of Brazil" "
the Amazonas was transferred to the
United States. We are grateful for Bra
zl's friendship, and we hope to be
pleased with her big battleship.
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Blanco, in his messages to the Spanish
minister at Washington, insists that "af-
fairs in the island are quiet" There
can scarcely be doubt about that state
ment-it is the quietness of death and
of desolation. Dead people are not
usually active or unduly assertive.
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The naval bill, besides providing for at
least three battleships of the first class,
will contain an item for four docks, one
Of which will be on this coast.
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The Pinkertons Indignantly deny en-
ployment in the Spanish interest.
They have done some pretty mean things
for all sorts of people, but they draw the
line on the Spaniards.
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The mobilization of the French fleet
should cause no alarm. Mobilization of
battleships has come to be regarded as
simply a fin de steele fad.
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The Monterey and Monadnock left
San Diego yesterday, but the place is
not left wholly unprotected. 1t still has
the armored cruiser Daily Union.
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On the question of war the presidents
cabinet is said to be evenly divided, four
in opposition and General Alger ram
pant.
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Spain wants Austria to help her let
go of Cuba.
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SAN DIEGO, Cal, March 21-A genuine
surprise was sprung in the common coun-
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A SAD SURPRISE

San Diego Won't Get Its New Water
system
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WILL BUILD
BEYOND THE
NEVADA LINE
Plans for the Utah
and Pacific.
1T WILL REACH THE COAST
CONNECTION WITH THE SANTA
FEE PROBABLE
1T WILL REACH THE COAST
CONNECTION WITH THE SANTA
FEE PROBABLE
President licCune Intimates That
the Completed Line From Salt
Lake Will Be in Opera
ton Next Season.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 24.-After
many years of disappointment Salt
Lake City is about to see it's cherished
project, the construction Of another
railroad to California, carried out. So
often have various promoters of the en-
terprise pretended to be able to con-
struct the road without having the
necessary backing that the repeated
failures had made people distrustful Of
all propositions relative to the building
of the line. But the enterprise now On
foot, that of the Utah and Pacific, has
progressed so far that doubt has been
dispelled and confidence is felt that at
last new road to the coast is assured.
The developments of the last few days
have been of a character to satisfy the
public that the company means bust
ness. When the company was organ
lied short time ago it limited the an
nouncement of its purpose to the state
ment that it would build line from the
present terminus of the Oregon SHIRT
Line at Milford, Utah, southweSterly
to the Nevada State line, distance of
seventy-six miles. Years ago the road
bed for this extension was built, but
the vicissitudes of the Union Pacific,
which then operated the Short Line
system, caused further work on the
line to be abandoned. This line is now
to be used by the Utah and Pacific,
being in such state of preservation
that 1t will need only a small amount
of repairing. The new company has,
therefore, only to lay its rails. The
contract for this tracklaying has been
let and 1t is now certain that work
will begin within the next week The
rails are to be supplied by the Short
Line Company, which is, of course, be-.
hind the project and has the steel on
hand. Ties have been purchased in
Eastern Oregon and Southern Utah.
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during the year. There has been no
perceQtibie rise in the stream, nor is
there any drift floating seward. But
singular phenomenon, first noted on
the McCloud River and now observ
able at Redding, is exciting considera-
bic speculation.
Throughout the present season, the
dryest known in this region, the waters
of the McCloud, clear and cold, have
presented milk white appearance as
though floating full of bright, shining
air bubbles. The strange spectacle has
caused comment and created specula-
ton among the residents along the
banks of the stream, as we'll as among
the hundreds of visitors who annually
spend their summer outings in the pic
turesque McCloud River region.
The best Interpretation of this sing
ular phenomenon is advanced by Rob-
ert Radcliffe. for years an attache of
the United States fishery at Baird He
says that at the base of Mount Shasta
there is an extensive asin filled with
light volcanic ash. During an excess
sively dry season snowfields that in or
binary seasons remain intact are
melted and the waters drain through
the ash into the McCloud River The
fine, light particles, of which the vol
canic substance is composed, are what
give to the water its uncommonly
white appearance.
The present is the first season the
strange spectacle has been observed at
Redding.
A theory. in explanation is advanced
by a few observers here that the white
substance is soda. and few even say
that 1t acts as strong aperient on anil
mails drinking of the waters.
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DIR. P1ERcE,s REMEDIES.

the sake of making larger profit
Your healtl. is of vastly more conse-
quence than his profit Let any substi-
tuting dealer understand that.
There are people everywhere who are
in ill-health. Medicine has not helped
them. They are out of heart and dis
couraged. DR.. Pierce invites such to
write to him, freely and fully. After
careful consideration OF the case a re-
ply is quickly made containing such in
structions and fatherly advice as will
prove of the greatest benefit. There is
no charge for this consultation by
letter.
A GREAT OFFER.
"The Peoples Common. Sense. Med
ical Adviser" DR.. Pierce's great work
on the treatment and cure of disease is
a book for patients, a book for the
It is packed with Informal
tion from cover to cover. This great
book contains zoos pages and over ZOO
is sent absolutely free on
receipt of stamps to cover the expense
of mailing only. Send q cents in one
cent stamps for the edition bound in
paper. or 81 stamps for the handsome
cloth-b bound edition. Address,
DR.. r. V. Pierce. Buffalo. N. Y
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that it can bring to heel the gentry by
whom it has been swindIed
VOLCANIC ASH IN
M'CLOUD RIVER

REDDING, Sept. 24.-During the last
few days the waters of the Sacramento
River at Red Bluff have been muddy
as though the volume had been in
creased by the dirty floodwaters from
up-country water sheds. A rise in the
stream of five or six inches is reported
and considerable drift is floating sea-
ward.
The people of Red Bluff account for
this by asserting that the muddy water
and drift come down from the McCloud
River. They say that at the conf1u-
ence of the McCloud and Pitt rivers, the
latter stream is as clear as crystal.
while the McCloud is turgid and
muddy.
Observation at Redding entirely up
sets the theory held by the people of
Red Bluff. The Sacramento River at
this point is as clear as at any time
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and the first shipments will arrive at
Milford this week. All this insures the
speedy construction of the road to the
Nevada line
There has been much speculation as
to the further intentions of the COM
pany. AS has been stated, it did not
at the outset promise to do more than
build the seventy-six- mile extension,
but now President A. W. McCune says
that 1t is its purpose to go on to a con-
nection with the Santa Fe
McCune is a man of wealth. His for
tune is believed to be increasing at the
rate of $4,000 a month from his British
Columbia mines and other interests
he enjoys an advantage over most of
those who in times past have taken
hold of the project. He has money of
his own to put into the enterprise, and
he has other moneyed men associated
With him in the company. 1t is this
aggregation of capital that first in
spired public confidence in the Utah
and Pacific 1t is now felt that Presi-
dent McCune is not talking idly when
he says that it is dead sure PROPOSE
ton that the road will not be stopped
at the State line, but will be built on to
connection with the California East
ern. Through this connection the com
pany expects to reach Southern Cali
fornia points and eventually San Fran
cisco.
The extension for which the contract
has been let, 1t is believed will be
ironed In three months, and it is ex-
pected that next season the new line
which will eventually extend to Cali
fornia will be in operation.
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DIR. p1ERcEs REMEDIES

walk any distance. If I walked up NH
or a little fast it seemed as though my
heart would jump out. l had alEloSl
given up all hope, and my money was
all gone. Was scarcely able to make
living. Finally l saw an advertisement
in one of the country papers that 1or
twenty-one 1-cent stamps DIT: Plerce
would send me one of his Common
Sense Medical Advisers So l sent ana
got one and began to read concerning
diseases like my own. After consulting
the doctor himself 1 purchased at my
nearest drug store a bottle OF Ii;
Pierce's Golden Medical discovery anu
q bottle of his Pleasant Pellets. This
was In 1897, and now am happy to say
that l am in the enjoyment of good
health, which I attribute to DR.. K. "
Pierce, and I am so glad OF my health
that cannot say too much. I first re-
turn my sincere thanks to Almighty
Cod and then to Doctor Pierce
uIa oho,ye ;e onIy a specirnen case
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DIR. PIERcE's REMEDIES
DIR. PIERCE'S REMEDIES
THE HUMAN OSTRICH,
ell Me What You Eat
and I'll Tell You What
You Are"

The human ostrich. You've seen him
probably, in the booth at the fair or
circus or on the platform of the dime
museum. He has toughened his stom-
ach to the consistency of leather, and
lunches on broken bottles, tacks or
tenpenny nails with seeming impunity
He doesn't live long, of course, for he
sacrifices life to earn a lazy livelihood.
You would be amazed, perhaps, to be
told that you were something like the
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CHARLES sEwALL, President.
A. H. WRAY Secretary.
Subscribed and sworn to before this 18th
day of January, 1898. JNO. A. HILLERY,
Commissioner for California in New York.
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The above is only a specimen case
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Risks and Premiums.
Net amount of risks writ
ten during the year.
Net amount of risks ex-
pired during the year..
Net amount in force De-
cember 81. 1S97..........
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Advances made on furniture and pianos, with
or without removal. ]. Noonan, 1017-1o23M Mission.
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ing Chinese surrounding him. He went
into the back room TO prepare his in
struments for relieving Jung of the pol
SON and while doing so he heard scuftie
in the room where lay the dying China
man. Immediately after the scuffie a
Chinaman rushed into the back room
flourishing a bloody knife and informed
the doctor that Jung had grasped the
knife and attempted to eisenhower him
self.
DR.. Herschiser rushed to the poisoned
mans side and found cut across the
abdomen which was, however, not deep
enough to have any serious effect. He
could not understand how a man so inert
as the poisoned Chinaman could use the
knife on himself or, indeed, how he could
have come into possession of the open
c!asp-knife He treated the Chinaman
for opium poisoning, but the deadly eff
feet of the drug was TO far advanced.
Henry Chung, a commercial traveller for
a San Francisco firm, testified that he
knew the deceased well and that he was
not given to the use of opium. He also
said that he once saw knife in the
pocket of the dead man. but he did not see
him cut himself nor did he see any other
Chinaman cut him. He said that Jung
Jheung never had trouble with anybody,
but was a peaceable man.
DR.. Herschiser testified that Jung died
from the effects Of swallowing burnt
opium of which there was a large guam
tity in the stomach. There was no evil
dence to show whether Jung took the
poison voluntarily or whether Ii was ad-
ministered to him, and the jury returned
a verdict of suicide.
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serHE POOR MANS WALDORF"

The public for some time has lost sight
of the hotel built in New York by d. q.
Mills for respectable people of small
means, sometimes called 1.-The poor man S
Waldorf" because IL furnishes rather
luxurious quarters for the small sum of
% cents per day for each room. The
project was conceived as a sort of philan-
anthropic to emancipate men of cleanly
instincts and little money from the ne
cessity of resorting to the ordinary cheap
lodging house. At the same time Mr.
Mills declared at the outset that he be-
lieved the hotel could be made to pay
expenses and a small profit on the in
Vestment in addition. and his provision
has been amply justified. The building
cost a little more than 81 900 900. Almost
from the time of opening the 1854 bed
rooms have been occupied nightly. and
away Only six of the ten stores on
the ground floor have been rented up to
the present time. The restaurant was a
considerable source of profit until the ad-
vance in bread stuffs and provisions.
Meals are furnished at 5, 10 and 10 cents
each which is about as cheap as any,
thing in the eatable line can be figured.
The figures of annual receipts and ex-
penditures partly estimated, run as fol-
lows: Restaurant. $26 090;i room rents.
S10g 200; rent from stores, 1920, making a
total of $138, 320. The estimated expenses
are: Taxes on 100000 assessment So
electric lighting, $1,000; l5O employees, at
an average of SO a week S72 900: water
tax. $500 Total, 1872 200, leaving a net
profit of s46,120 on an outlay Of 81 600 900
q safe Al per cent Observation-Disclosures
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