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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14
AUCTION SALES.

BY William Layng-This day. January H. at II o'clock,
Horses Bugges, 721 Howard street.
BY A W Observation-Disclosures January IS 1880 a
and 2;30 p. m, Turkish Rugs. 123 Geary street.
BY Madison Burke-Tuesday January IL at II o'clock.
Real Estate at 626 Market
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14
PROTECTING PACIFIC
COAST COMMERCE
UNCLE SAM WILL DEMAND FAIR
PLAY IN ECUADOR.
No Discrimination Favorable to Chile
Will Be Permitted Without Some
Danger of a Rupture.

Some time ago one of the United States
Consuls in South America sent to the
manufacturers of this city a copy of a
proposed treaty between Ecuador and
Chile, which if carried into effect would
work a great hardship upon the COM
merce of this country, and especially to
the interests of this coast. By its terms
many of the articles of commerce were
admitted into each country free of duty.
This would have the effect of killing
growing industry in the line of exporta-
ton of flour, lumber, etc, that is spring
ing up between this district and South
American countries. The local Chamber
of Commerce and the Manufacturers and
Producers Association held special meet
ings and forwarded to Washington me-
MORALS asking the Pacific Coast repre-
sentatives and the Secretary of State to
do all in their power to secure equal
rights for this country in the countries
below the equator.
Before anything could be done the fol-
lowing dispatch was sent here by the
Eastern press:
Consul General de Leon, at Guayaquil,
reports to the State Department that a
reciprocity treaty is proposed between
Ecuador and Chile, and has already been
ratified by Ecuador. He says that the
treaty is favorable to Chile in many re-
United States commerce, and principally
in the direction of flour, lumber and other
California products
This led local shippers to believe that
the valuable trade of Ecuador and Chile
was lost to them. However there is still
reason to feel confident that Uncle Sam
will see that If there are any favors to
be bestowed he will have his share, or
know the reason why. Steps to this end
have already been taken. as may be seen
by this letter received. by the Manufac-
turers and Producers, in response to one
sent to the Secretary of State:
DEPA RTMENT OF STATE
Washington, January T. 1899
Gentlemen-Your letter of the goth ultimo
addressed to the Secretary of State. has been
referred TO this office for attention The de-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14
A Real Patriot.

Pauline is still crazy about soldiers
"How do you know
''At our Thanksgiving dinner she
wouldn't eat any of the turkey but the
drumstick Detroit Free Press.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14

DR.. Siegerts Angostura Bitters. appetizer and
invigorator. imparts delicious flavor to all
drinks and cures dyspepsia.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14

Comnaissary General Eagan has been accused of
many things, but it will be long time before any,
body will charge him with being gentleman,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14
A Sufficisn~ Reason

Bass-I wonder why it is the women
think so much of the military?
Fogg-I don't know, unless it is because
the military are men.-Boston Transcript
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14

KEEP LOOKING young ana save your hair, its color
and beauty with PARKER's HAIR BALsAM-
HINDEKcoRSs, the best cure for corns. Is Cts
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14

Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). SO Mont
gomery street. Telephone Main 1912
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14

Another newspaper has been opened on the
poolrooms There are reasons for fearing hatit will
Go no good. The Call long ago made complete
exposure of the dens, informed the police as to the
location Of each, and there was the end
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14
More Deputies for DR.. Dodge.

DR.. washington Dodge, the Assessor,
made five additional appointments yester-
day, the number including NJ c. Haley,
one time County Clerk. The new men are
Henry Dahe Jr., Z. B. Howerton, Her
man Gutstadt, Albert Morgenstern and NJ
c. Haley. The list of deputies is not yet
complete.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14

Treat your friends to Townsend's Call
fornia glace fruits; soc ID, in fire etched
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14
DEPARTMENT on sTATE,

WHSIIIIIBlUIil JuIudTy q 1888.
Gentlenen-Your letter of the goth ultimo
addressed TO the Secretary of State. has been
referred to this office for attention. The de-
pertment has been already advised by its
agents of the treaty between Ecuador and
Chile. and instructions given for the draft
OF convention between Ecuador and the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14

Special sale to-day of Palace mixed can
dies; 15c lb. Townsend's, 627 Market.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14

There is something wrong with political system
which gives rewards pickpockets and other thieves
A Police Court loses dignity when aside from the
bench itself il is made an asylum for crooks
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14

AS the new City Hall is now so old that the roof
OF it fails to change the earthward OF drop
rain, it is time to amend the title
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14

II Agunaldo is really pinng for liberty or death
he will probably find the latter easier to get
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14

The difference seems to be that Brigadier General
Barber had honors thrust upon him, and that our
Colonel Smith, being soldier is left to be sat
isfed with of duty we'll performed
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14

Admitting Mrs Mentel to bail was step such as
the lay spectator had not expected There had come
into the community sort of notion that the killing OF
a husband was serious offense
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14

The Astor Battery did gallant service and is on the
way home. But it did not get to Manila as soon as
the First California which isn't on its way home
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-14

Either there is strong nation behind Aguinaldo
OF the man is close to buzzsaw that he would be
scared white if he had sense enough to realize his
danger.
The evening times., 1899-09-15
WITH WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY
Experiments Soon to Be Undertaken
by the NAVY Depurtment

| Experiments Soon to Be UndertaISen
by the NAVY Department.
Under the direction of Admiral Bradford,
Chief of the Equipment Bureau. tie Navy
Department will soon undertake expert
ments in wireless telegraphy. The success
which has attended the adoption of the sys-
tenn by the British navy has attracted the
| attention of our naval attache at London,
| Lieutenant Colweil, and he has submitted
to the Navy Department. interesting data
bearing on the system. instruments will
shortly be secured and experiments be made
between vessels and the shore. The depart
ment followed closely the use of the Mar
conf system during the recent British ma
neuyres. The operations of the system
and its value to naval work are summed
up as follows by British expert
with wireless telegraphy signals can
easily be made from ship to ship over
gap of thirty miles. No one need be ex-
posed and no large staff is necessary In
some instances a range OF fifty miles can
be attained. The defects of the system for
nayal purposes are two: Messages can only
be sent slowly, and there may be disturb
ing interference with the signals from other
transmitters in the neighborhood
The Juno, for instance, was taking a
message from the Alexandria, when sud-
denly a despatch from Alum Bay, in the
Isle of Wight, which was really meant for
the Poole, began to come in. The latter
had covered a gap of nifty miles.
IAN enemy would be sure 10 set his
trensmitters as 20 interfere with sig
mails, while his receivers would be adjusted
to take in signals from any fleet he was
watching. Thus all messages would have
to be in cipher, and in cipher constantly
changed, for no cipher is undiscoverabIe
There can be no doubt, however. that the
system will be rapidly improved. 1t has
vast possibilities. 1t cannot, of course
remain the exclusive appanage of our navy
but each advance in the art of long-dis-
tance signaling tells heavily in favor of
the superior naval power.
"Our programme in war is to make the
enemy's coast our frontier, so constantly
our ships will be off the enemy's coast
while his, it is hoped, will be kept in his
harbors With this new system signals
asking for help or describing the enemy's
movements can easily be sent backward
or forward between our fleets and their
bases. If hostile torpedo craft try raids
on our coast or are seen near them forces
can quickly be called up to intercept them.
In short, the maneuvres have proved the
great practical value Of wireless telegra-
phy"
The evening times., 1899-09-15
Ofis Hears NEWS.

Although inert as to everything else.
there is one thing intensely active about
Otis, and that is his Imagination. II win
be remembered that Aguinaldo has fire.
Quently taken advantage of this trait in his
conqueror and has found il, as well as Otis
credulity, highly useful. Last spring, when
Lawton had the rebels cornered and gas
about TO give them whipping which would
have ended the insurrection, the willy Tasal
leader saved his army from capture or an
initiation by sending word TO Otis that be
was ready to discuss terms of peace. The
governor general thereupon ordered Lawtc
10 abandon operations and the insurgents
escaped On receiving Aguinaldo's written
message even Otis found it too ridiculous
for consideration, and instructed Lawton
TO resume the offensive, but il was by that
time too late to undo the mischief dictated
from the vice regal palace in Manila.
We are reminded of this episode by the
report, today, that Otis has received infor-
nation of the disruption and scattering of
the Tagal Congress" How he proposes to
meet this new and alarming condition he
does not confide TO the public; but we pre-
sumo that his first step will be to protest
against the removal of DENLY and wor-
cester, who have been ordered home, at
juncture so favorable to a protracted
pedagogic pottering with peace PROPOSE
tions. Indeed We have little doubt that
the interesting intelligence conveyed from,
Manila last night lis directly traceable to
the recall of the beef agent and the school
master. Perhaps it may be efficient in clos
The evening times., 1899-09-15
A REWARD FOR BRAVERY.
The Story. of Second Lieutenant w.
j. Whites Appointment.

The Story. of Second Lieutenant w.
j. Whites Appointment.
There is an interesting story connected
with the appointment of w. ]. White, of
Morgantown, w. Va, as a second Iieuten-
ant in the army. White was very anxious
to get in the navy during the war with
Spain, and no other opening being pre-
sented, became an apprentice and was as
signed to the battleship Iowa. He was at
the naval battle Of Santiago, where his
coolness and bravery attracted the atten-
ticn Of Captain Evans and other officers
and he was warmly commended After
the war Captain Evans presented a request
TO the President that he be appointed a
cadet at Annapolis, and this was about to
be done, when it was found he was tCo
old to enter the Naval Academy
Scme time ago commission as major
was offered to c. D. Elliott, of West Vir-
ginia, who was an officer in the war with
Spain. Mr.. Elliott was very anxious to
accept the commission, but before the offer
was received he had made a business en-
gagement, and although the papers had
not been signed, the firm insisted he should
stand by the contract. After negotiating
without success to secure his release. he
decided he could not accept the commits
sion. Senator Scott then requested two
lieutenancies in place of the majors COM
mission, and secured the appointment of
Mr.. White and Daniel G. Mendel
The evening times., 1899-09-15
Minking at Injustice.

The coreligionists of Captain Dreyfus in
the United States, as well as all friends OF
Justice humanity, and decency, VIII take
Judicial notice that the Administration,
through its Exposition officers, its organs,
and its great clerical ally, is doing every
thing possible to whistle down the idea o.
public meetings to express indignation
over the Rennes infamy. and is especially
active in discouraging. and even denounc-
ing, the Paris boycott movement.
The arguments used 10 assist these pur-
poses are specious but they are not con-
vincing to people with independent rea-
soning powers. IL is urged, and with truth
that mass meetings, eondemnatory resolu.
lions. and talk of boycotting are calculate
10 hurt the feelings OF ''our sister repub-
lie" it is also insisted, and without any
truth, that they will injure the cause OF
the unfortunate and outraged victim OF
French perfidy. The answer to this con-
tention is that, but for the same inter
national sentiment and its fearless express
sion, Dreyfus would be dead today, or being
tortured to death on the lie du Diable
But for the rage and horror Of ogtsid,
civilization the murderous gorillas a
Rennes would have condemned and shot
him last week.
Why should the free people of Amcrici
regard French sensibilities as too sacred
TO breathe upon. in a case like the pres
ent? Why should considerations Of TO
liteness shut their mouths in the presence
of the crime of the century? But We are
told that il is wasted sympathy in which
@e are indulging; that free and generous
pardon for an offence of which he is guilt
less will be given the prisoner very short
ly, and that then the affair should be for
gotten.
But innocence and honor do not ask or
require pardon; they are entitled 10 and
demand vindication, President Loubet
and every member of his government know
that documentary evidence which would
completely exonerate Dreyfus, and expose
the traitors who have conspired against
him, can be had for the asking. Do Mes
sieurs Loubet, Waldeck- Rousseau. de Gal
lifet, and their associates imagine for a
moment that pardon win wipe out the
foul blot on the escutcheon of their coun-
try, while such proofs are known to be in
existence and available, and are not pro-
duced?
Apologists for French degeneracy and
savagery claim that the government would
not dare TO use the documents al Berlin
because that would involve, not alone the
exculpation of Dreyfus, but the exposure
of mighty French generals as traitors gull
ty OF selling their country's secrets 10 its
enemies. To French ministers, that may
appear as a sufficient reason for denying
justice with one hand, and protecting
crime and criminals with the other. But
it viii not so strike anybody of sense and
conscience outside of France. While the
authorities of that wretched and dishon-
ored land refuse to right the wrong they
are now trying TO plaster over with cow
ardly compromise, the people of the United
States owe it to themselves to suspend all
relations possible with the guilty nation.
The boycott should go on energetically and
remorselessly.
The evening times., 1899-09-15
A BAN ON CONSERVATIVES.
A Resolution Passed by the CaIifor
mia Health Board


min Health Board.
SACRAMENTO, Cal, Sept 15.-Dr D.
D. Crowley created a sensation at a meet
ing of the State board of health yesterday
He introduced the following resolution in
regard TO quarantining consumptives:
Resolved, That the State Board of Health con-
slider the propriety Of quarantining against hu-
man beings and domestic animals with tubercu-
losis entering the State.
DR.. Crowley said: Twenty thousand
consumtives in year enter our State. pro-
mis4iously spreading the germs of their
own disease. The climate may save Cne
in fifty lives or prolong lives few months
or year. but how many others who have
not been previously infected will die from
this reason? We are morbidly afraid of
diphtheria, scarlet fever, smallpox. chol-
era. and yellow fever. We quarantine
these cases because they kill so quickly.
and our people appreciate this. but iinger-
ing tubercular disease that eventually kills
twice as many as all these together is per-
mitted to continue unchecked, knowing the
efforts Of science. Patients | think. ought
not to attend churches or theatres or PUB
lie social gatherings. nor should they oc-
cupy public conveyances. such as railway
cars, without especial provision being
made for them. l do not believe that pa
tients suffering from consumption should
be permitted to enter hotels without rooms
being protected by a health officer of the
community in accordance with the general
laws of the State
The resolution was passed by unani-
nous vote.
The evening times., 1899-09-15
Answered Hi. own Letter.
From the Chicago News.)


A certain young railroad man who has charge
of a department in the auditing branch of his
compsny's business had occasion recently to
dictate letter to the head of corresponding de.
partment OF another road. There was point in
dispute between the two railroads involving
money, and this young official had taken Stub
born ground that the other official was totally al
iault, and advanced what seemed to him unan-
swerable arguments to prove it. short time
after he had forwarded the letter he received n
proposition from headquarters of ihe other rail-
road which be accepted, and in few days he
became the head Of the department with which
he had been in dispute. The first letter which
he found en- file ready to be answered was his
own ON the point in question. There was ONLY
one thing to do He Immediately dictated an
answer to his own letter, refuting and repufiat.
ing its argument and wound up by leated in
sinnation that the writer of it was an urntigated
donkey OF course. tile letter was addressed to
himself aad signed by himself. but in his en-.
thasiasm for the interests Of his new employer
he did net mind little thing like that.
The evening times., 1899-09-15
NOW DUCHESS OF MoNTEFETRo,
Miss Anna Russell Allen. of ST. Louis
Welded in Hamburg.

MISS ANN AusSe1l Alien. OF st. Louis.
Welded in Hamburg.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. ia cable from Ter
lin, Germany, was received here announce
ing that Miss Anna Russell Allen, of St
Louis, was married in Hamburg yesterday
to the Duke of Montefetro The bride is
a daughter of the late Bradford Allen, and
is one of the heirs to the Allen estate
which embraces some of the finest prop
erty in the city. Her grandfather, the late
Thomas Allen. built the Iron Mountain
Railway, of which he was president for
many years, and died in Washington while
representing the present Tenth Missouri
district in Congress. She has brother in
this city who is practicing attorney
On Saturday, September 9. Miss Allen
brought suit, through her brother, against
William r. Donaldson in the St Louis
circuit court for the recovery of $50, 600.
which she alleges was given in trust to
Mr.. Donaldson by her late father, Brad
ford Allen, to turned over to her on her
eighteenth birthday, and Of which, it is
charged, Mr.. Donaldson has made no ae-
counting The Duchess Of Montefetro is
now in her twenty-frst year.
The evening times., 1899-09-15
An Old prOyerb.

From The Hartford Courant.)
III, indeed, is the wind that blows nobody
good. Kate ADAMS drank the poisoned bromo-
seltzer and went to her grave many months ago.
Roland b. Molineux has remained all these months
under suspicion and accusation of crime of
which the law presumes him TO be innocent He
is still awaiting the trial that is to clear him
or doom him. His case may be reached month
after next; he may be kept waiting still longer;
there does not seem to be any definite informa-
ton obtainable. But the Tribune" tells us that
the determination Of the district attorney to
convict Molineux has been worth to Expert-in-
Handwriting Kinsley a steady job for almost a
year now at fifty dollars day.
The evening times., 1899-09-15
An Infant Industry i'm the Black Hills
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.)

SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Aug. 19.-The recent flag.
ging of train by Black Hills boy, and the
generous treatment accorded him by the passen-
gers and railroad officials, have resulted in nari-
gurating n industry among the Black Hill
boys. The other day some passengers, when at
station near where the tagging episode occur
red, noticed . briglItfaced, ragged urchin stand
ing near the track. Hoping 10 get a sight of the
boy who had created 50 much favorable Comment
by his action few days previously in tagging
the train and preventing what might have been a
serious accident, some of the kind-hearted and
hero-worshiping passengers asked the lad who
he was. He promptly replied: I'm ds kid wot
tagged de keeTs T. other day."
Without stopping to verify his claim, they at
once began tossing hip nickles, dimes, and quar-
tiers, and the lad profted greatly by his deceit.
Every urchin who puts in his time at the depots
IN that particular locality to see passing trains
Is now 1.-THE boy who tagged the train" and nn-
siispecting Passengers have ample opportunities
TO part with their spare change
The evening times., 1899-09-15
Niagara Fnns to Furnish Light.

The first contract ever entered into be-
tween the Government and the electrical
power company at Niagara Falls is likely to
be made very soon by the Secretary of the
Treasury. It is proposed to light the new
Federal building at Buffalo by electricity
furnished by power from the Falls. A de-
ficiency appropriation was in prospect on
account of the Buffalo building when the
Supervising Architect of the Treasury De-
partment suggested that a saving CT $50, coo
could be made by abandoning the plan OF
establishing an electrical plant in the build
ing and By bringing power from Niagara
Falls instead. II is expected that the con-
tract will be made next week
The evening times., 1899-09-15
RECEIPTS IN THE COLONIES.
Financial Statements Concerning
Cuba and Manila.

Financial Statements Concerning
Cuba and Manila.
The War Department givs the receipts
in Cuba for August from ali sources to be
the handsome sum of 81, ,557. .970.26 divided
as follows: Customs, 1881. 1851: postal
revenues, s1S,000 internal revenue re-
ccipts, SOS, ,215.76: miscellaneous, $780,
348.79.
The receipts of the Internal Revenue De-
partment at Manila for July were $780,
226.SS, divided as follows: Industrial
taxes. s72. 1856; urbaT taxes, S24, ,S14.65 !;
sale OF Internal revenue stamps, SS.202. 16;
issuance of personal certificates, 1897 so;
issuance of Chinese certificates, $103.60
Total receipts since the date of occupation,
s402, ,o62.T3.
The evening times., 1899-09-15
The Incautious Fish.
ifrom Pnck.1

EYES" said the old fisherman, who was taking
cut the party; there's lots OF people go fshin
that dent know Ecthin' about If. an they don't
catch much fish, but ] think they're the means
OF other people catchin' lots of fish,
ssIfow is fiiat?'' asked one of the party.
+ .'Well, the fish get used to hitin' ut hooks
an, rct gettin caught that they get careless, and
peop.e that Know how TO fish land 'em-"
The evening times., 1899-09-15

The confusion which exists as to what
is likely TO happen next, in South Africa
is illustrated in the headlines of the vari-
GUS New York and Philadelphia papers to-
day. Some of them display war as una
yoidable. Others announce better chanc-
es for peace" and still others consider the
situation as doubtful. The truth is that
nobody seems 10 know what to think But
the Developments of the next two or three
days should shed considerable light on the
situation
The evening times., 1899-09-15
Classifying 1t.

(Frcm the Cleveland Plain Dealer)
''That dog of mine is a poetical cur. When
he howls at the it sounds as if he were
making rhymes
''Doggefei, | suppcse.'