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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-04
A Pioneer Shipment,

Tacoma Wash, Feb. 3.-The American
schooners EndeavOr and Nokoms have
been chartered to load full cargoes of
-four from Tacoma for Siberia These
will be practically pioneer shipments di-
rect and now that the cZars great trans
continental railroad is about ready for
through traffic. great developments are
looked for in the Siberian trade.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-04
CIoakmakers Strike

New York. Feb. 3.-The strike season
among the East side garment workers
began to-day. when 1,500 cloak makers
quit work in the shops of four contrac-
tors 1t is probable that fully 5000 opera
tors will join the strike by Sunday in pro-
test against long hours and reduction of
30 per cent in the regular weekly wage
scale
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-04
Heaviest in Years.

Salt Lake. Feb. 3.-The snowfall in this
valley during yesterday and to-day was
the heaviest known for many years.
Railroad traffic has not been seriously in
terrupted and all local trains arrived on
time to-day.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-04
Head Cut Of.

Seattle, Wash. Feb. 3.-Charles Shul-
lenberger was killed at the Seattle Iron
and Steel company'S bunkers this even
ing. While riding up an ore hoist his
head was caught under beam and cut
off on a level with his eyes
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-04
Practically Decided.

Washington, Feb. 3.-While no official
award has been made of the bid for the
repatriation of the Spanish prisoners in
the Philippines. it has practically been de-
cided to give the contract to the Com
pania Transatlantica. otherwise known as
the Spanish Transportation company.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-04
Died by Thousands.

Dallas, Texas, Feb Seattle in Texas
have died by thousands from lack of
foo and from freezing during the cold
weather of the last week.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-04
Offices Discontinued.

SPECIAL Dispatch to the Standard.
Washington. Feb. 3.-Montana poStof-
fees discontinued: Adobetown. Madison
county; mail to Virginia City. Gold Coin
Deer Lodge county; mail to Anaconda.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-04
Skilled Labor

Our workmen are the best that
money can hire, thoroughly skilled
and experienced in each depart
ment.
In fine engraving, badgemaking,
jewelry manufacturing and design
ing we are equalled by few and sur
passed by none.
If you watch does not give salts
faction, bring it to us and have it
overhauled by ski'lful and compe-
tent hands. 1t will not cost you
any more and probably less than
to be entrusting it to unskilled
hands.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-04
Killed His Partner,

San Francisco, Feb. 3.-Luigi Piccioli,
a barber, fired five bullets into the body
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-04
Watch AND
....,Jewelry
REPAIRING

Is an art that requires thoroughly
competent and experienced men to
handle successfully.
There are many watchmakers and
jewelers., but few thoroughly COM
petent.
Many good watch and fine piece
of jewelry is irretrievably ruined by
being entrusted to unskilled work
men.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24
BANKING DEVELOPMENTS

lot long ago the United States Investor d-
\ rected attention to the decadence in banking
which is taking place in the country districts
OF the East, and now the New York Times points
out that there has been a movement among the
larger banks Of that city to establish branches in for
eign countries to facilitate expanding commerce.
The two items taken together show tendency in
financial as well as in commercial and industrial
circles toward the expansion Of large institutions at
the expense Of small ones.
In reviewing the decline in the country banks of
the Eastern States the Investor attributes it to a
growing dissemination the part of the managers
of such banks to discount mercantile paper and ten
dency to loan only on collateral security The new
course is regarded as evil to the community since
the average merchant manufacturer in the country
districts has no collateral. Such money as he owns
is invested in business. What he borrows upon is
his standing in the community, his business ability
and his integrity His energy and his work are
over prime factors in building up the community in
which he lives and in giving employment to its labor
When the banks refuse loans his business is crippled
and the locality suffers The evil is made worse by
the fact that the money Of the country banks being
no longer used at home, goes to the cities whe3
capitalists who have collateral make use of it for the
purpose of promoting great undertakings many of
which are wholly speculative.
1t is probable that the drain of money in that way
from the country districts to the great centers is what
produces the congestion of capital in those centers
and engenders that spirit of speculation which OF late
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24
THE MINING ENGINEERS,

= ALIFORNIA has for the members OF the In
sttute OF Mining Engineers a welcome more
~ than usually warm The foundation of the
State laid by miners, in the most romantic and
adventurous period of its history it was under the
control OF miners, of the fortunes of the early
days gathered from the mines, and to this day
mining constitutes one OF its most important indus
tries.
The miners who to visit very differ
ent from the adventurous men who to work the
placers in the days OF old They not men who
take chances They men OF science. Their work
the mines is based upon foundation in which luck
and fortune cut but small figure. 1t is constructed
of all that human learning has gained from experience
in mines every part OF the globe and from expert
ments in the laboratories OF the civilized world
They better fitted to appraise the worth OF our
mining resources than any other body OF men in the
country and is because of their ability appreciate
the mineral stores OF our rich commonwealth that we
highly appreciate them.
The members OF the mining institute are not them
selves investors mines to any great extent but they
are the authorities and experts whom the mining cap
itasts consult and by whose advice they guided in
making investments Such reports they make OF
Our developed and OF Our undeveloped resources OF
mineral wealth will be OF vast importance to us. They
idle holiday seekers who are here for pleasure
merely but guests whose purpose is the requirement
OF knowledge as we'll the enjoyment of such enter
tainments may provide and therefore are
doubly welcome to State whose people even in their
of recreation alive and alert to the great
issue OF advancing the material welfare OF their
monwealth.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

has been so marked in the purchase of shares in IN
dustrial trusts Of almost every kind. 1t may also
account for the facts that we have been lending
money to Europe and that the larger bankers OF the
East purpose to open branch banks in foreign coun-
tries for the purpose of finding employment Tor their
capital
What is noted here as merely the beginning OF a
movement toward the upbuilding OF great banks at
the expense of small ones is a tendency which IN
Great Britain has already reached point where 1t
has become widespread evil. About year ago the
London Chronicle published an elaborate series OF
papers on the subject, and in the OF them
stated that while capitalist who wished to borrow
a million pounds could get it at lower rates
of interest than were ever before known, yet the
tradesmen and smaller manufacturers OF the king
dom could hardly get money at all. SO great mad
the evil become that in many the large manu-
facturers were forced borrow money in large sums
and divide it in loans to the retailers who handled
their goods. In other cooperative borrowing
societies formed among tradesmen and small
manufacturers to obtain money for their business.
1t is we'll to have this tendency OF the time pre-
sented now before it reaches in this country anything
like the point it has attained in Great Britain. Our
local industries are too valuable be subjected to the
double danger of being crushed by great trusts and
stifed by, lack of financial advantages. The issue
work Of currency REFORM and should be taken
that time to provide that ample banking facilities be
given to every district of the country.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24
HAWAIIAN LABOR.

= ONTRACT labor is being landed in Hawaii by
| hundreds in addition to the thousands that have
- been received since the islands under the
Jurisdiction OF the United States.
The British tramp steamer Victoria was taking on
a load OF contract laborers at Madeira when the
American Consul Mr.. Jones, served notice on the
men that Hawaii had been annexed to the United
States and under the laws OF this country their con-
tracts are void. This deferred about half OF them
from embarbing The charter party OF the steamer
filed protest against the Consuls action, and pre-
sented it at Washington through the British legation
The result was an investigation by Our Government
which resulted in reversing the Consul and there
IS claim for damages against the United States by the
agents OF the ship
The laws OF the United States forbid contract la
Dor. 1t is a form OF involuntary servtude and that
IS forbidden by the constitution in the United States
or any place under their jurisdiction" The Consul
seems to have labored under the impression that the
constitution and laws are to be respected and
forced by the public officers chosen and for
that purpose Surely it is time to take observa-
ton and find political latitude and long-
tude. With poygamy and slavery under Our flag and
jurisdiction in the Suus and involuntary servitude by
contract labor fourishng in Hawaii, and eight hun
dred thousand dollars day being spent in war
not declared by Congress, there seems to be some
support for General Merritts declaration that the
country has outgrown the constitution
Recently the lightship, anchored off the heads to
guide vessels into the harbor Of San Francisco
brought inside the bay without notice to mariners 1t
is the season of fog off shore, and ships arriving tried
TO find the lightship Some of them nearly struck
above Point Bonita and some narrowly escaped
wreck below Point Lobos. They missed the familiar
lghtship and sailed ahead with feeling Of safety
in the belief that they still far off shore. The
constitution Is the lightship which guides our ship
of state. If Is withdrawn, by what is the state to
be guided2 There are shoals and rocks and bars to
be avoided What shall mark them and by what shall
the ship be steered?
The Republican party doe, not wish to be made
responsible for the present plan of navigation by
dead reckoning" 1t will certainly protest against
responsibility for what may follow. 1t will refuse tc
be put in the attitude of indorsing poygamy and
slavery and contract labor. 1t is this aspect which
generally disquets the party, while it loyalty sup
ports the administration in doing all that lies within
its constitutional power to end the painful situation
in the Philippines, but the party has its future
and usefulness aHi its duty to the republic to con-
slider
When Consuls are turned down for deciding thai
the laws Of the United States must be respected anc
our Government incurs claim for damages by void
ing its own aws+ there arise responsibilities which
the party will refuse to bear
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

while It will not sufficiently atone to
tbe Japanese for the lack of alteration
of tbe loyelfness of the ladies of Japan,
Il casts a shade of suspicion upon the
feeling which prompted the yearning
FOR church bells, and inclines to the be-
l,ef that what the wanderer really
Ionped for were the festal bellies.
There is one thing further to add upon
the issue. The statements OF the Japan
Mail on any subject are not lhoorseo
nv the japan Herald. Indeed the Her
aid. in reviewing the course OF the Mail
on general matters, says:
"If we are entitled to form Juug-
nent based on what seems his present
alteration of mind destiny IN oeallhs
with the editor of the Mail may event
uo1lv determine his being an out-and-
ont crank: but for the present he ap-
nears TO be in that indeterminate and
a,nbiouous condition which lies be-
+rean the border land of sanity and
tbe reverse, though as yet there IS no
euficient reason for immurlng MIN IN
the walls of a lunatic asylum
OF course the Mail man has his opln-
ION of the Herald, and expresses 1t with
eoual vigor. The question whether
Ianan is or is not a better pleasure
land than this remains, therefore, open
NOT only to debate but to altercatlon
and TO invective. The only conclusion 10
he drawn with sureness from II all Is
that while the English-speaklng resi-
dents of Japan are willing to dispense
with telegrams they delight hearuly III
~ 1i,,a Journalism that takes the SKIN
off the other fellow in every ISSUE
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24
Northern Pacific Railway.

Upholstered tourist sleeper through to st.
Paul every Tuesday night. No change. This
car is nicely upholstered IN leather and is
tremely comfortable in every respect Pullman
sleeping cars OF the latest pattern on every
train Tickets sold at lowest rates to all points
East T. K. Stateler. Gen. Agt.. 65s Market St,
San Francisco
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24
ADJUSTMENTS.

orpheuu-vaudeville.
TIvoli-"Othello."
Goiunba-"Marie Antoinete" Monday evening. septem-
California Theater-"A Yentleman," Sunday, oc
tober l.
Alcazar-'Too Johnson"
Grand Opera -house-''The Drum Majors Daughter
Chutes, Theater-Vsudevile every
evening.
Olympia Mason and Ellis streets-specialties-
Bahs-SWimnling Races. etc
Park-Basebau to-day.
Clrcus-Sxteenth
hlbit.
Coursng Park-CoUrsing To-day.
Glen Park-Grand performance to-day.
Oakland Racetrack-Races tomorrow
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

Husband (as wife shows him new bath
ing suit)-Surely, you haven't got the
face to wear that?
Wife (sweetly)-Perhaps not, but I've
got the fgure.-Puck.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24
Cheap Rates.

September 20 to October inclusive, the San
ia Fe Route will sell tickets to Chicago at very
low rates. Occasion. cornerstone laying
Government building and fall festivities Get
full particulars at 62S Market street.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

ACTORS sALARIEs-A o. r.. City.
Henry Miller, Robert Manteu and other
actors Of that grade when playing as stars
for managers who engage their services
are paid $500 to $3.50 per week.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

Insurance Clerk-Here is a woman that
wishes her pet cat insured.
Managerial right, out tell her shell
have to take out a policy on each one OK
the cats lives.-Chicago News
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24


COLONEL FREEMAN-H. H. B.. Mar
tinez. Cal. Colonel H. B. Freeman, com
manding the Twenty-fourth Regiment Of
Infantry, U. S. A, is at this time in com
mand of the military post at the Presldl0
of San Francisco Companies A, Z, Il, +,
G, H, and K of that regiment were on
the 1st of September at the Philippine
Islands; Company B was at Vancouver
Barracks, Wash; Company ID at Fort
Harrison, Mont; Company L at Dyea,
Wash.
TELEGRAPH WITHOUT wIRES-M..
Avalon, Cal For sending and receiving
by the wireless telegraph system there is
required spark coils, storage batteries or
dynamo connections, besides nearly all
of the instruments used in ordinary teleg-
raphy. If the power for operating the
spark coils could be obtained without
storage cells, the cost of a plant would be
about $3.50. An ordinary telegraph oper-
ator can neither install the apparatus nor
adjust it to the nicely required for oper-
alton The system is new, hence costly
in experiment The adjustment of a COM
plete plant will cost as much for skilled
labor as the plant itself. The greater the
distance the more complicated the ad-
justment becomes.
RIFLES-A. ]. G.. City. This depart
rnent has not been able to ascertain that
the United States Government is pre-
pairing for adoption in the army new
rifle" The Government has had some
tests made with the Mauser revolver, and
It is possible that it is that which you
have reference to. The tests of that small
arm have proved very satisfactory. The
licher rifle, pattern of 1888, caliber 81.
box magazine FIVE rounds, weight IS. in
itial velocity 2;O34 Russia, the Mouzin
rounds, weight S.S, velocity 2.001. Japan,
Murata rife of date not given, caliber
.315, magazine eight cartridges, weight 9,
velocity 1850 United States, Krag-Jor-
gensen of 1892 caliber .300 side box, five
rounds, weight 9.S, velocity 1000.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

MINING CLAIMS-C. r.. Angels, Cal.
Mining claims in California, after being
natented and final payment made to the
fJnited States like other property become
subject TO taxation in the manner OF the
county in which located.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

THE GOVERNMENT NAME-P. w. r.,
Tracy, Cal. The Government name OF the
island in San Francisco Bay commonly
called ''Goat Island" is 1erba Buena
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

THE vTLAINE-P W. R., Tracy, Cal
The River Vilaine, in France, is nav1gable
from lust above Rennes by vessels OF
sixty tons for fifty-four miles.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

Since the political management of William F. Her
rim has proved unsatisfactory to his employers some
of his friends might suggest a theatrical magnate
that William possesses certain qualities which might
qualify him to become successful stage manager
Or perhaps he might shine better in a circus.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24
POSTAGE on SUNDAY CALL.
SUNDAY CALL wrapped reddy
for maiIing-postage &c to oil
points in United States, Canada
and Mexico, and 10 to oil for
eign points.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS,

FOR HONDURAS. H. B., City.
Steamers leave New Orleans for Puerto
Cortez, Honduras, c. A, every Thurs-
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

Jimenes was received in San Domingo with some
thing like an ovation, but it appears his followers did
their shouting before the right time. An opposition
has arisen and as the army has not received from
Jimenes the pay counted there is danger it will
on the revolution.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont
gomery street. Telephone Main l042.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

It IS about time to establish close season for
Southern Pacific accidents. The killing threatens to
reduce the population too much.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

The Sheriff OF Santa Clara County admits he
not find Dunham nor the skeleton whose discovery
was reported, but he claims to have found the spot
where the bones lay, and counts that cew.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

Now that an actress has shot stage manager for
calling her amateur" it is pertinent to inquire
whether the professional ethics OF the stage would
have justified the manager in shooting her if she
had been an amateur.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

Cal. glace fruit SOC per ID at TOwnsend's, =
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

1t is only fair to both writer and to
Japan to add that considerable uualifi-
cation is given to the statement that
Japan has neither music, drama nor
lovely women. He admits they have
such things, but maintains they might
as well be without them so far as the
foreigner is concerned 'The music of
Japan" he says, SIS beyond our com
prehension; 1t makes no sort of appeal
to us. The drama we recognize to be
of the highest class, If histrionic skill
alone Is considered. To the European
or American, however. 1t Is merely a
curiosity"
AS for the women. 1t is added: 1--WE
do not want to be uncomplimentary to
the Japanese fair sex when we speak
OF the absence of the light of woman's
ioveliness. The words are chosen care
fully. 1t is one thing to see a few
pretty faces and graceful costumes al
most lost in the somber monotony of a
dlngy crowd; it is another and a totally
diiferent thing to see the varied beauty
that glows at a fete in Europe or Amer
lea, with all the dazzling adjuncts that
our luxurious civilization provides"
| lne defect OF that statement is that
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

CHICAGO NEWS STANDS.
P. Q. News Great Northern hoosS
Fremont House, Auditorium Hotel.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

WASHINGTON ID. c. OFFICE .WeIue eten Hotel
j. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

NEW YORK NEWS STANDS.
=, waldorf Astoria Hotel A Brentano Union sQuars
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

A Denver poet who has been casting
a prophetic eye into the dim and dis
tant future tells us in the rhyme Of
something less than dozen stanzas in
the Denver Post what will happen a
century from now; and it is gratifying
to note that the prospect is promising
so promising, indeed, we need not worry
over imperialism, trusts. womans
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24

NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE,
PERRY LUKENS Or R............ % Tribune Building
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24
THE BY-ELECTIONS.

"HE condition OF parties in the States which vote
next November is such as to excite the interest
of partisans and to rouse the thought OF political
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-02-03
A SYSTEM OF CUTTING
The Need Noticed Three Years ago and
Worked on Constantly Since
Success Now Assured

a
Worked on Constantly Since
Success Now Assured.
Frederic A. Keif has withd avn from the
thriving firm of Keif u Son to go ON the
road teaching new system CT coat and
vest cutting which ne has invented.
Besides teaching the new system he will
sell copies of the book witch he has just
got out under the title of "The Keif
Method of Coat and Vest Cutting"
The new system which is fully explained
and illustrated In Mr.. Keit's book Is the
outcome of three years of study and work
on the part of the author after realizing the
great need for better system in coat and
vest cutting Under the prevalent system
the possibilities of error are great as is
abundantIy shown in the repeated ''trying"
and cutting over" of these garments 1t
was these possibilities of error which Mr..
Keif noticed over three years ago and his
attention being called to 1t Q began his
search for method which would avoid
them. The result is the new system which
he Is now ready to introduce, a system
with fully eight easily recognized points of
superiority and one whici reduces the
chances of error over seventy.five per cent
In cutting these garments. The system has
already been tried by limited number of
experienced tailors including one or two OF
the best In Detroit. All who have tried II
are highly pleased with its successful work
ing aud admit |. to be something both en-
tirely new and the most important addition
to the cutting trade ever made.
The book itself, the Typography aud
printing of which have just been completed
in THE TIMES JOB rooms, is finely gotten up
and is printed on heavy enameled book
paper. 1t is illustrated with nineteen finely
engraved plates and half tone engravings
and the explanations are full and clear.
The author has the confidence in his book
and system to guarantee 1t without re-
serve.
Mr. Keif left yesterday for Detroit where
he will begin the work of introducing his
system.