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The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
RECEPTION AT BERK ELEY.
Plans Of Students to Greet the
New President.

BERKELEY, Sept. 24.-Before the COM
ing week is over the new head of the fac
ulty of the University of California will
have arrived in the university town Pres
ident-elect Benjamin Ide Wheeler has sent
word to the recorder of the faculties at
Berkeley that he would leave the East on
the 23d of this month and arrive in San
Francisco on Saturday, the Goth. Accord
ing to this President Wheeler is now on
his way to the Pacific Coast, and will
reach here in time to take up his work
Monday morning. October 2.
Upon his arrival President Wheeler will
be made the guest of honor al numberless
public receptions. Three distinctively uni
versity affairs have been arranged for
him. They will be given al different times
by the members of the faculty, the Asso-
ciated Alumni and the student body.
Elaborate preparations are being made
for each affair. AS yet the dates for the
three have not been set. They will be
fixed to suit the new presidents conve-
nience.
The students welcome will be very in
formal. When President Wheeler, accom-
panied by his wife, reaches Berkeley sta
ton next Saturday crowd of the col
lege men will be on hand, but no demon
stration of any kind is being planned.
Carriages will be in waiting, and Presi-
dent and Mrs. Wheeler are to be driven to
their home on Bushnell place They are
to occupy the house left vacant by ex-
President Kellogg. On the Monday fol-
lowing President Wheeler will deliver a
brief address to the student body from
the flagstaff in front of the library build
ing upon the campus AS soon as possible
after that a public reception will be ten
dered him. either In the Harmon gymna-
sium or in the Mark Hopkins Institute of
Art, San Francisco.
On that occasion it is expected that
President Wheeler will outline his policy
with regard to the university.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
THE INJURED IN THE
TRAIN WRECK BETTER

PUEBLO, Colo, Sept A.-All the in
iured in the wreck of Saturday afternoon
on the Rio Grande Railroad near Canyon
City are doing well at the hospitals here.
Mrs. F. A. Wills of Los Angeles. both
Of whose legs were broken, and c. r.
Cook of Millers, Ind, whose shoulder was
broken-these two being the wost seri-
ously injured-are getting along quite
we'll though neither is out of danger.
The passengers who were slightly hurt
will be able to continue their journey in
a few days. The bodies of all the dead
shipped on instructions from relatives
while others are awaiting disposition.
Such investigation of the wreck as has
been made thus far places the blame on
the crew of the freight train. The Coro-
ner's jury will not make it's findings
known until tomorrow
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
SAMUEL STEWART
PASSES AWAY
One of the Pioneers or
the Early Days.
Special Dispatch to The Call.


SUISUN, Sept. 24-A gloom was cast
over this community to-day when Word
reached here that Samuel Stewart had
died at his home, near beaverton, early
this morning. Although his death was
not unexpected it was not thought When
the last report was received last evening
that the end was so near at hand his
ailment was heart disease. The deceased
was a prosperous and successful farmer
and well known, not alone In Soiano
County, but throughout the State. He
was a prominent Mason, being a mem
Der of Susun Lodge No. 80, f. and A. M !;
Solano Chapter No. 43, r. A. M; Naval
Commandery No. 19. knights Templa ar
and the Masonic Veteran Association. He
will be buried in Fairfield Cemetery
Tuesday, the ceremonies to be conducted
by the Suisun lodge.
Samuel Stewart was born In Newark ARK
Ohio, August 13, 1923. He arrived in Cali
fornia in 1S49, first locating. in Sacra-
mento Seven years later he came TO
Solano County, and for forty-three years
lived where he first located. he was
qualities and highly honored by all who
knew him. His death will be punhc
loss.
The death of Mr. Stewart numbers the
third in the list of old residents in this
immediate vicinity within the past four
days. Henry Carpenter OF talrneld. mel a
resident of forty-five years, died Thurs
day afternoon of cancer of the stomach,
after a lingering illness of many months:
and was buried Saturday He was Sc
years of age. John G. Lewis a prom
inent Grand Army man and member OF
the Masonic fraternity. died Saturday and
will be buried under the auspices OF tne ne
his sixtieth year and had been resident
of Suisun twelve years. He leaves q
widow and one son and daughter, the
latter Mrs. Frederic Belasco of San Farm
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
PROFESSOR
WHEELER IS
EN- ROUTE
Has Started for This City to
Assume Charge of the
State University.
PLANS GREAT WORK
Says San Francisco Has 0utstripped
the East and Is Now the Front
YARD" of the Nation.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK. Sept. "a. - DR.. Benja-
min Ide Wheeler, the new president of
the University of California, is at the
Hoffman House with Mrs. Wheeler and
their little son. He starts tomorrow
for San Francisco to begin the fall
work The university will have as
new feature within the next year
college of commerce, in which, Profess
sor Wheeler says, the students will be
educated so they may be prepared to
enter the Consular service of the
United States. He told reporter last
night there was no doubt about the
rapid development of the Pacific Coast,
and hereafter the United States would
be one of the greatest exporting ma
tions, rquiring young men of special
training to compete successfully in
China with the German and English
university men.
In speaking of the aims of the uni
versity, which, as is well known, Mrs.
Hearst is greatly interested in. DR..
Wheeler said:
Sometimes / am asked the question
if we are not OVERRIDING university
work, with Stanford and. the State
University so close together. Certainly
not The State University has 2500
STUDENTS, anu lHey are COIIllHS 81 last
we don't know what to do with them.
During the last year it was necessary
to place some of them in tents. Four
temporary buildings are being used for
their accommodation.
The freshman class this year num-
bers 620 already, a gain of more than
Is per cent over last year. This does
not include the professional schools
and graduate departments. The in
crease in the attendance is so rapid it
is becoming a serious problem what we
are to do with them, as no tuition is
charged. The whole Pacific Coast is
waiting for the State University to
take care of it's boys. People here in
the East do not appear to appreciate
how rapid the development is out
there. Owing to recent natural devel-
opments San Francisco has really be-
come the front yard of the nation in
stead of the back yard San Fran
cisco is about the center of our possess
sions. The work of the two universi-
ties does not conflict. Stanford is a
private institution and possesses Ger
tain advantages by reason of it's being
such. 1t can do as it likes The two
institutions work together and are a
great assistance to each other. Each
has its own field, and while there is a
healthy rivalry there is no conflict of
interests. Every advance one makes
will be of advantage to the other. Ex-
perience has proved that already"
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
BOHEMIANS MEET TO
DENOUNCE SLANDERERS
Gathering in Chicago to Refute Ale
cations That Suicide Clubs
Had Been Formed.

CHICAGO. Sept. PA mass-meeting
of Bohemian residents of Chicago was
held to-day to denounce those Responsible
for issuing a circular recently in which
II was stated that Bohemians are in the
custom of forming secret clubs among
themselves for the purpose of inducing
suicides. The circulars, it is said, have
been sent broadcast over the country.
To-day's meeting was attended by
nearly 1000 Bohemians. and each speaker
in denouncing the authors of the circulars
was enthusiastically cheered. All the
speeches were in Bohemian Frank b.
Zudrubek and James E. Cross were the
principal speakers They addressed the
meeting on behalf of the Bohemian
secret societies. and claimed that the
Bohemians have been greatly slandered
and injured through the issuance of the
circulars The speakers denounced as
falsehood the story that Bohemians or
ganized themselves into suicide clubs ana
held that the percentage OF suicides
among Bohemians was no larger than
among other nationalities.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
DR.. JORDAN SAYS THE
WAR Is UNJUSTIFIABLE
A Strong Nation Has No Right to
Take the Lands of Weaker

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept "a
DIR. David Starr Jordan occupied the pull
pit of the University chapel this morning
and delivered a vigorous address, in which
he touched upon the subject of imperial
ism in his usual terse way. Taking as his
text, 1T needs be that offenses must
come. but woe to him that doth Offend"
he said:
What some people have termed an 'frresistl-
BILE tendency in nations or affairs fades when
stands before 1t. The hero is the
who takes the inevtableness in hand and
makes the necessary sacrifice There is will
ingness upon the part of many to excuse an
drunkard how can l keep SOBER? You must
remember that it was not your fathers whisky
never accepts any excuses, the effect being the
same If done with intention.
Given a fool with money and the world as
we know it,. and it is sure prediction that
the fool and his money will soon be parted
This, however, does not justify the business
of the gambler or the swindler
know great nation that SAID to a little
nation: Give up your weapons gold and lands
to me or they Will get you into trouble" Some
argue that there are feeble nations the
earth that are going to be exploited, so why
should not we exploit them! believe that
there should be ethics among nations as we'll
as among John Brown truly said from
the scaffold that God is no respeeter OF per
strong and wealthy with a boasted religion
If it does not obey His lava.
Through all the ages the slave mas had MS
revenge on his master in that the effect of his
servitude always worked Generalization upon
the oppressor. Men who justify existing
things by such phrases as manifest destiny
or Irresistible tendency are generally either
too lazy to look into affairs or too slothful
to care. Such are the first to cry. My
country right or wrong. Nothing can en-
dure by which set of men exist at the
expense of another.
1t is the manifest destiny" of the British
Empire to possess the land and vineyards of
the Dutch farmers in the Transvaal Just
so sure as the British flag is carried over the
Rand. just so sure will 1t prove the disinteg-
ration of the empire wrote celebrated Eng
lish scholar to me. Another Englishman-this
time soder-says: Courage like Chamber
iains is cheap enough. The tighter affairs
become the tighter will he screw his monocle,
and If the people become tired of him he will
retire to his orchards. while lie victim OF
There is no excuse for assisting the laws of
evolution by crushing the weak, nor putting
a banana peel under the heel of the lame
The basis of society is justice and sympathy
The lion and eagle typify things in national
life that must pass away. Because the An
glo-Saxon race has produced good men have
/ confidence in it, and not because 1t is great
and strong.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
WEDDING AT WALNUT CREEK.
Miss Sarah Bancroft Becomes the
Wife of Donald Fry.

WALNUT CREEK, Sept. 24.-One Of the
most fashionable weddings of the season
took place at noon to-day at Aloha
Farm, near Walnut Creek, the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Bancroft. The con-
tracing parties were Donald Hugh Fry
of Arcata and Miss Sarah Cone Ban
croft. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. l..
Bancroft.
The wedding ceremony was performed
according to the Episcopal ritual. The
Rev Hamilton Lee was the officiating
priest. Mrs. Albert Bancroft was maid of
honor, and the bridesmaids were Miss Miss
Wick, Miss 'Winifred Fry and Miss
Marguerite Sickle The best man was
Herbert E. Punnett and the ushers were
Mrs Robert Field, c. K. Field, Ralph
Wardell and Jack Bancroft. The cere-
mony was followed by lawn party. All
members of the wedding party including
ushers and maids wore white costumes
the color making beautiful contrast to
the green foliage. Mrs. Uriel Lagree
wife of Commander Lagree, Z. S. N,
played the wedding march,
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
GIGANTIC WATERSPOUTS
ARE ALSO REPORTED

VICTORIA, Sept. "a. = Passengers
who arrived by the Cottage City bring
more news of the "anger of Ankow, ."
as the Alaskans call the recent earth
quakes The schooner Crystal, an
chOred in the bay, turned turtle, and
Kanak Island has now gone complete
" out of sight The trees cannot be
seen. At Ocean Grove there are great
burrows in the earth about four feet
wide. Some miners who have reached
Juneau from the west of Yakutat tell
of the finding of marks of number
of gigantic waterspouts, which bored
great holes into the sand and carried
the sand and earth inland, scattering it
six inches deep over acres of ground.
From every indication the force of the
waterspouts and tidal waves must have
been irresistible, and had the tidal
waves swept the coast at high instead
of low tide many villages would un-
doubtedly have been washed away.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
CUBAN NATIONALISTS
WILL BACK UP GOMEZ

HAVANA Sep. 24.-Cubans who are well
informed as to local politics in connec-
ton with the coming election say that,
though the Cuban League and the Cuban
National party are. nominally united,
many members of the National party are
really determined to push General Max
imo Gomez to the front as soon as an op-
perfume moment arrives
The Patria in an editorial urges the
amalgamation of these two organizations
1T is very important that the coming
elections should be guided and inspired
by one united party, because upon the
tone of the elections virtually, depends
the decision with regard to Cuban inde-
pendence.'
It also asserts that Guarberto Gomez
will hold off until all thought of Maxine
Gomez as a common leader is absolutely
repudiated He is without doubt thorn
in the side of all factions, as he has a
powerful negro backing
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25

and other attractions will be seen every
afternoon and evening.
The latest addition to the art gallery
is the beautiful plans and drawings for
been kindly loaned for exhibition by Mrs.
Phebe Hearst.
Tomorrow evening the League of the
Cross Cadets, under command of Colonel
Sullivan, will be the guests of the man
agement. Invitations have also been eX-
tended to the Catholic clergy and the Off
cials of the church to attend on that oc-
casion. Wednesday night has been set
apart for the Olympic Club, and an ath-
letic exhibition will be given. Thursday
will be Chinese Theater night.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
WEEK OF NEW EVENTS.
Mechanics Fair Management Has
Arranged Many Special
Attractions.

The fourth week of the Mechanics Fair
will begin to-day, and a programme of at
fractions of exceptional excellence has
been arranged for the succeeding six
days. Special features for this evening
will be a Wagner concert by Benefits $
band, supplemented by number of spe-
cial artists and a male chorus; and the
opening games of a balk-line billiard
tournament, which will continue for two
weeks. Only amateurs will participate.
One. game will be played every evening
until the end of the tournament
A stage has been erected in the main hall
where star actors from the Filipino circus,
cakewalk contests, fancy dancers, singing
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
LAKE ERIE SWEPT BY
A TERRIFIC STORM
Four Yachts Capsized and Houses
Badly Damaged in North
ern Ohio

TOLEDO, Sept. 24.-Lake Erie this
afternoon witnessed the worst storm of
the season, the wind blowing at the rate
of seventy miles an hour. Four yachts
were capszed near Maumee Bay and the
crews were rescued with difficulty.
Considerable damage to houses is re-
ported in northwestern Ohio.
CHICAGO. Sept. 24.-During a severe
wind and rainstorm this, evening the
steam barge Cleveland, laden with 100000
feet of lumber. sunk in the harbor near
the mouth of the Chicago River.
Captain Henry Davis and a crew of
eleven men were rescued by tugs with
considerable difficulty. The Cleveland
left Frankfort, Mich, Saturday. She
sprung a leak off Waukegan and, owing
to her water-logged condition, was driven
on reef while attempting to reach the
inner harbor here. The vessel was built
thirty wears ago.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25

II do not care to talk for publication" I"
said Dr. F'inigan tonight but if there
is an investigation and l am asked to
testify / viii tell all ! know about the
matter and | will tell the truth. 1t is alb
surd to say that Teobets sold diplomas,
as the certificates must be signed by
majority of the board but of course he
may have been Influenced
Further than this DR.. Finigan refused
to say anything. but he gave one the i'm
preston that he knew a great deal about
Tebbets' methods.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
DREYFUS SUFFERING
FROM A REACTION

LONDON, Sept. 25.-The Paris corre-
spondent of the Standard says: The ex-
citement of meeting his children has pro-
duced serious reaction in the condition
of Dreyfus, and it is feared that it may
be necessary to send him to Malta or
Madeira.
Regis, the notorious Jew batter and
former Mayor of Algiers, who recently
barricaded himself and a number of COM
the example of Jules Guerin, after hiding
In the suburbs of Algiers, embarked yes
terday for Alicante, Spain.
The Petit Bleu aserts that Colonel
Jouaust, president of the Rennes court
martial, voted for the acquittal of Drey-
fms
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
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: RUINS OF AN
: AZTEC CITY
: DISCOVERED

GUADALAJARA, Mex, Sept.
24.-The ruins of an Aztec city
have been discovered near here.
1t is within easy access of this
city, and a number of arehae-
ologists have already left FOR
the place to make explorations,
The area covered by the ruins
indicates that the ancient city
had population of not less
than $1,000 people. There are
no records establishing the
identity of the city, and it's dis
covery has caused much sur
prise in archaeological circles.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
HAVOC OF THE STORM
ON THE MEXICAN COAST
Public Buildings and Ten Business
Houses at Manzanillo
DESTROYED

GUADALAJARA, Mex, Sept. A.-Ad-
vices just received here from the port of
Manzanillo and other small coast towns
in that section show that the storm
which visited there a few days ago did
much greater damage than was indi-
Gated in the early reports.
In addition to destroying ten business
houses the handsome Custom House and
the national building at Manzanllo, the
extensive and costly harbor improve
ment works at that port were also badly
damaged. A number of houses were de-
stroyed at Chamela and Cacaluta. No
reports Of loss of life have reached here
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
Drowned While Swimming.

Los ANGELES, Sept. 4.-Herman
Bergeroff, the janitor of Turner Hall in
this city, was drowned at Ballona Beach
to-day He had gone to Ballona for a
day's outing with his wife and child. He
was good swimmer and attempted to
swim across the bay, but was unable to
reach the shore, having doubtless been
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
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The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
COLLECTORS HELD UP.
Oklahoma Highwayman Makes 6
Good Haul.

GUTHRIE, o. T., Sept. 24-C. D. Steen,
travelling salesman for an Arkansas City,
Kans. firm, and Frank E. Coe, represent
ing a Denver, Colo, house, were held up
near Clayton to-day by a highwayman
and robbed of $1300.
The travellers had been making collec-
tions and were returning to Guthrie. A
bunch of drafts were also handed over to
the robber, who returned them saying:
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
BUYS LARGE SUGAR
ESTATE IN MATANZAS
Congressman Hawley, Representing
American Capitalists, Makes
an Extensive Purchase.

HAVANA Sept. 24.-Congressman r. B.
Hawley, representing American capital
lists, has purchased the Tinguaro sugar
estate, one of the largest in Cuba, in the
province of MatanZaS. The estate in
cludes 1000 acres, which, with other large
properties along the south coast that Mr..
Hawley is arranging for, will, it is ex-
A large part of the land purchased is
virgin soil, upon which 81 1,500,00O will be
expended, including the cost of improve
mentS
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
MARINE ENGINEERS
THREATEN TO STRIKE
Nearly Four Thousand Men on the
Great Lakes Will Quit Work
Unless Granted Advance.

BUFFALO, Sept. A.-Between three and
four thousand marine engineers on the
Great Lakes will probably go on strike to-
morrow unless the Lake Carriers Asso-
citation grants 121a per cent advance in
wages.
Saturday the National Marine En-
gineers' Beneficiary Association served
notice on the carriers that unless the adj
vance were granted by noon Monday the
men would go out Such a strike. it is
said, would tie up lake commerce as tight
as a December blizzard.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
FEVER IN MEXICO.
Death Rate Much Higher Than in
ANY Previous Epidemic.

AUSTIN Sept. 24.-The State Health
Department here to-day received an Of
fetal report from Vera Cruz, Mex, stat
ing that during the period from Septem-
ber to 8 there were twenty-one cases of
resulted fatally. The death rate from
the disease is much higher than in any
previous epidemic.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25

earth and their tent was blown to shreds
by the strange winds that seemed to blow
from every point of the compass and as
clouds We're pouring down torrents of
water they fed to their boats.
Forcing their boats for twelve miles
through fields of fresh forming ice and
thirteen miles of rough sea, they at
length reached Yakutat Bay In safety
Rumors are af1oat that a portion Of Cape
St Elias and khantaak Island have dis
appeared in the sea. Without doubt
there will be found many physical
changes when scientific exploration of the
Mount st. Elias region is had.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
TO JOIN HER HUSBAND.
Mrs. James Smith Sailed on \ Trans
port for Manila Last Thursday.

Mrs James Smith left for Manila last
Thursday to join her husband General
Jim Smith, formerly of the First Cali
fornia Although the present condition
Of affairs on the islands is scarcely fitted
for women, Mrs. Smith is true soldiers
wife and desires to be with her husband.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
Samuel Darlington Dead.

SACRAMENTO, Sept. A.-Samuel E.
Darlington, prominent business man of
this city, died to-day at Pacific Grove
after lingering illness. He was a senior
partner Of the Pacific Printing House
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-25
FAMOUS EXPLORER DEAD.
William Bonney, Who accompanied
Stanley, Passes Away.

LONDON, Sept. N.-William BorNey,
who accompanied Henry NJ. Stanley, the
African explorer, in 1887, in the expedition
for the relief of Emin Pasha, and who
subsequently received the gold medal of
the Royal Geographical Society at the
hands of the Prince of Wales, is dead.