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The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
MOVE FOR A GREATER
MERCHANT MARINE
Senator Hanna Submits Project to
the Governors of Western
States.

NEW YORK. May IA Topeka, Kan,
special to the Herald says: Senator NJ. A.
Hanna. chairman Of the Republican Na-
tional Committee, has started a movement
which he hopes will result in the restoIa-
ton Of the American merchant marine to
Its former place in carrying American ex-
ports and imports. The movement, II
successful, Mr. Hanna declares, would
save Americans 5000, ,000, 900 annually. In
order TO make It successful Mr. Hanna
proposes to keep it out of politics. He is
now trying 10 interest the Governors of
Western States in his plan, in order that
definite action in the matter may be taken
at the Mississippi Commercial
Kan. this month.
You viii find among the Pacific Coast
and Gulf States particularly and in a
writes to the Governors. "a strong and
growing desire to see American ships re-
place foreign ships engaged in carrying
our imports and exports, and to which
the people Of this country are paying
$500 600 every year, every dollar Of
which goes to enrich foreigners at Our eX-
pense This is by no means political and
least of all a partisan question. 1t is
wholly an Industrial question, just 50
much so as the Improvement Of our rivers
and harbors is an industrial and CONNER
cial subject
"If you should entertain these views
may ] ask You to so express yourself to
the delegates that you may appoint or
have appointed to attend this session Of
the TransM Mississippi Commercial Con-
gress?'
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
TEN SCOUTS DEFEAT
THREE HUNDRED FILIPlN0S

MANILA, May 1.-THE civilian mem
bers of the United States Philippine
Commission are favorable to the meet
ing with a Filipino Commission which
was suggested yesterday, in behalf of
Aguinaldo, by Lieutenant Rays of the
staff of General Gregerio del Pillar, who
came to General Lawton under flag
of truce with the proposals. 1t is
thought by the American commission
ers that the idea may have resulted
from a recent meeting of the sO-called
Filipino congress at San Isidor Def
mite information on this point, however,
cannot yet be obtained, though the
local Filipino commission, which is In
close communication with the leaders
of the rebellion, is doing its best to
secure peace.
Ten members of General Lawtons
band Of scouts under w. NJ. Young. the
old Indian fighter, entered the town of
San Miguel. about fifteen miles north
of Norzagaday, not being aware OF
what place it was. They found 200
Filipinos there, but the rebels, taxing
the scouts for the advance OF General
Lawton's s army, fled, after firing a few
shots. Young and another scout was
wounded, and have been brought TO
Manila
The Ninth Infantry and Montana
battery Of six guns have been sent to
the front.
The uniform quiet now prevailing in
Manila has led the authorities to relax
the rule under which the city streets
were cleared from Z to $3.50. and this
evening there is the largest and most
brilliant assembly of pedestrians and
people in carriages to listen to a band
concert on the Luneta that has been
known here since the Spaniards left.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
FORMER NEGRO
SLAVES DUPED
Victims of a Gigantic
Fraud.
THOUSANDS GIVE UP MONEY
TOLD THEY ARE ABOUT ToaBE
PENSIoNED.
Willingly Contribute Twenty-Five
Cents Each to Have Their
Names Placed on
the Lists.
TOLD THEY ARE ABOUT TOABE
PENSIoNED.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, May 14.-A Washing
ton special to the Herald says:
Thousands Of colored men in this coun-
try are being induced to believe that
they are to be pensioned by the United
States Government upon being able to
show that they were formerly slaves.
The promoters of this scheme have been
at work for several years and it is
estimated that more than $150000 has
been collected by those having the pro-
ject in hand.
The matter came to the surface
through some correspondence between
a colored preacher and a United States
Senator. The preacher told the Sena-
tor that many colored people in his
State had been assessed to defray the
expenses of obtaining proposed legisla-
ton. The Senator, who is one of the
most influential members of that body.
instituted an investigation, and this is
the substance of what he reported to
the colored divine:
During the last ten years the EX-
Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and. Pen
sion Association of the United States
of America has sent agents 70 every
State in the Union for the .rpose of
locating all former slaves. These
former slaves are told that legislation
is now pending before Congress to give
them these pensions: Persons seventy
years old or more to receive $500 and
SIS a month, persons sixty years old to
receive $500 and $S a month. persons
less than fifty years to receive 81 a
month. All supposed beneficiaries of
the proposed legislation are required to
pay the association % cents as regis
tration fee. It is said that more than
600, 900 former slaves have been regis
tered.
The circular sent out by the associa-
ton calls attention to the bill to per-
sion former slaves introduced in the
House of Representatives on June a.
$780, by then Representative Connell of
Nebraska. In the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress Senator Thurston introduced the
Connell bill in the Senate. The circular
calls especial attention to the fact that
the bill passed two readings and was
referred to the pension committee"
To those who are not familiar with
the parliamentary proceedings of Sen
ate passed to the second reading
sounds like making considerable pro-
gress. AS a matter of fact the Connell
bill, or a similar measure, has been in
troduced at every session of Congress
during the last ten years and sent to
pensions committee, but never con-
sidered.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
MAJOR MARCHAND TO
BE WARMLY WELCOMED
Frenchmen Glad to Find Some Army
Officers Who Deserve
HOmaOe
Homage.

Special Cable to The Call and the New York
Herald Copyrighted, 1S9s by James Cor
don Bennett.
PARIS. May n.-Pari shad a brief scare
this week owing to the publication Of the
report that Major Marchand, now on his
way from Harrar to Djibouti, had been
assassinated. 1t is true that the report
did not meet with general credence
and was soon denied, yet the
incident served to bring to light the
warm feelings with which Frenchmen
regard the heroic explorer. His return to
France is exciting intense interest
throughout the country. Marchand will
probably reach France in the second
week in June. His mission is due at
Djibouti about the 20th, but already tele-
graphic invitations to receptions and
banquets are being showered upon him.
The Cercle Mihtaire has just received
Marchands acceptance of an invitation
to grand military fete to be held in his
honor in Paris. The general impression OBJ
tained from editorials of the Paris papers
is that Frenchmen, feeling that certain
prominent army officers have not shown to
advantage in the Dreyfus case, are glad
of an opportunity of honoring before the
world an officer of whom they can be
Justly proud. Another officer who is
likely to profit from this state of the
public mind is General Gallieni, now on
his way home from Madagascar, where
his energetic soldierlike administration
has done much for the colony and has
provoked the admiration of his country
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
Monterey's Historic Seal.

MONTEREY, May 14.-An interesting
bit of municipal history was brought to
light in the trial of the suit of the city
of Monterey VS.. David Jacks for possess
sion of what is known as the Monterey
pueblo lands, that closed in the Superior
Court of this county last week. E. L. Will
liams, now of Santa Cruz, gave in the
course of his testimony description of
the first seal adopted by the Ayunta-
miento Common CounciD of Monterey
City and the manner in which it was
used. The seal was a round piece of
brass, without the present lever attach
ment, and was designed to make impress
sions on sealing wax. The seal was
adopted on April 10, 1850. at time when
the present seals for impressing the paper
itself were unheard of. The old seal is
still used by the Monterey city officials,
but is now mounted in a modern ma
chine with the usual lever attachment
and leaden die for making the impression
direct upon the paper.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
ADVANCE GUARD OF
DELEGATES ARRIVES
Knights of Pythias Pour Into Santa
Cruz to Attend the Grand

SANTA CRUZ, May 1.-Santa Cruz is
ready to receive the Knights of Pythias
and Rathbone Sisters, who are to arrive
tomorrow. They will receive the hospi-
tality for which this city is noted. The
local knights have been been at work
and have left nothing undone in the way
visiting brethren.
. The sessions of the Grand Lodge will be
held at the Armory. spacious building
and the sessions of the Grand Temple of
the Rathbone Sisters at the Masonic Hail.
A number of the Knights have already
arrived, but the majority will arrive to-
morrow. They will be met at the train
by brass band and a reception commit
tee with e&-Leutenant Governor w. T.
Jeter as chairman.
In the evening a floral fete will be held
at the Armory, and there will be a recep-
ton and promenade concert. Addresses
and music will be features G the pro-
gramme.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
FEEDER ALTON
DENOUNCES
MERRIAM
Continued From First Page.

Standard probably will adopt similar
course. The question of importing miners
to operate them has been considered, but
the proposal has been turned down. NO
imported labor may be looked for. Here
in Wardner a suspension of work on the
Last Chance also may be expected. The
property is working about 100 union men,
and practically none have applied for a
working permit. The Last Chance with
the mines up Canyon Creek doubtless Will
be summariiy closed down by the military
The work of constructing the Bunker
Hin mill is going rapidly ahead. Most Of
the debris has been cleared away, and 1t
has been found that the damage was
much less than had been expected; The
strikers. with all day on their hands and
5000 pounds of powder, were too swift IN
distributing their dynamite, and instead
of blowing the mill to atoms they. still left
much valuable machinery standing. AL,
ready a fac smile of the old seventy.drill
compressor has been ordered and will be
rushed through. About, 12O men are at
work rebuilding the mill. One hundred
are taking out shipping ore at the mine
and thirty are driving the new long tun-
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
IN SYMPATHY WITH
THE ADMINISTRATION

MINNEAPOLIS, May 14-One of the
largest gatherings ever seen in this city
to-day adopted resolutions in sympathy
with the administration Of affairs in con-
nection with the Philippines. The names
of President Mckinley and Dewey were
cheered to the echo several times during
the afternoon. President Northrup of the
University of Minnesota was one of the
principal speakers. He handled without
gloves the college professors and presi-
dents who have recently made themselves
prominent by reason of their criticisms
of President McKinley's course in the
Philippines, and declared that the Presi-
dent was doing, only what could be done
in justice to all mankind
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
TRAPDOORS IN WALKS
DECLARED A NUISANCE
Owners of Property and Not the Ten
ants Are Responsible for Any
Accidents

STOCKTON. May 1.-THE instructions
given on Thursday by Judge Budd to the
Jury in the case of E. A. Rider VS.. Clark,
Henery and Wood, defendants, for $500
claimed as damages, will be of general in
terest to property-owners throughout the
State. The facts are briefly as follows:
Defendants Clark and Henery two years
ago constructed a modern three-story
building on their premises in this city and
surrounded 1t with the latest improved
concrete sidewalk; Upon the sidewalk
they erected two iron doors leading into
the basement, and then leased one of
the stores to a tenant, Defendant Wood,
who had full charge, possession and con-
troll.
e. A. Rider was an extraman in the
employ of the Stockton Fire Department.
Last November, responding to an alarm.
he ran down Sutter street. Wood was
using the doors in the sidewalk, which,
when open, stood twenty-four inches
above the walk Rider did not see the
doors. He ran against them, fell into
the opening, losing several teeth and be-
ing otherwise injured.
Counsel for the defendants submitted
sixteen instructions to the court, all of
which were refused, including an instruc-
tion to the effect that under certain con-
ditions, if warranted by the evidence, the
Jury might find verdict in favor of
plaintiff and against the tenant, Wood,
and might also find in favor of the de-
fendant owners, Clark and Henery, as
against the plaintiff. The court virtually
Instructed the jury that sidewalk doors
when open were virtually a nuisance per
Sc for which the owners of the building
were liable The jury found verdict
against all of the defendants in the sum
of $1,000.
A motion for a new trial will be made,
and if denied, the case will be appealed to
the Supreme Court by reason of the fact
that a great principle of law is involved
affectfng every property-owner in cities in
this State. If the instructions given to
the jury be correct, then the owners Of
doors, will be compelled to cement and
close the doors unless they stand guard
in order to prevent loss by reason of care
lessness or negligence on the part of ten
a Mt
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
TOO MUCH GOLD COIN.
Chicago Banks in Need of Bills of
Small Denomination.

NEW YORK, May "A Chicago .spe-
cial to the Herald says: Chicago banks
are becoming glutted with gold coin. The
United States Sub-treasury has refused
to pay out more small bills for yellow
coin, the banks are unable to exchange
it for gold certificates, and so the bank
ers are doing the only thing left for
in their valuts what they
cannot get rid Of. When the call for
small bills comes in the summer and fall,
the gold will probably will have to go
TO take the place of paper money, unless
the Government printing presses are
started again. One Chicago bank alone
has over IS 900 900 in gold coin stored in
its vaults, where there was only $4,000
900 a year ago, and the hoard is rapidly
increasing This same bank has only be-
tween 5000 900 and 100000 in small bills.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
SELLS VEGETABLES AND
FRUIT TO YUKONERS
Speculator Makes a Perilous Winter
Trip and Clears Large
Profits

TACOMA, May H.-Frank Killen caused
surprise on Puget Sound several months
ago by purchasing twenty tons of pota-
toes, eggs, apples, oranges and lemons
and starting with them for Dawson in
mid-winter. They were carefully packed
in cotton batting, but it was believed the
entire lot would be frozen. A letter Just
received from Killen says he reached the
foot of Lake Lebarge safely having
transported his outfit over White Pass
and down the lakes with horses purchased
at Skaguay. He found such a demand for
green stuffs along the trail that he opened
a store at Leharge and Is rapidly selling
out. He gets S1.50 a dozen for eggs %
cents each for apples and higher prices
for oranges and lemons.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
ANTI-TAMMANY CLUBS.
Chicago Platform Democrats Organ
izing in New York.

NEW YORK, May 14-The preliminary
steps toward the formation of an anti
Tammany organization which William J.
Bryan is expected to recognize as the real
Democratic party in this city were taken
tonight. A committee of twenty Chica-
go platform Democrats was appointed to
district in Manhattan, and the auuounce-
ment was made that an organization by
Assembly districts already had been made
in Brooklyn.
Politicians who have been awaiting the
results of the recent visit of Mr.. Bryan
to this city, anu of the later visit of for
to-night's action the sequel to the Bryan
dinners last month. The starting of a
systematic movement to form a new par
natural result of Mr.. Bryan's refusal to
attend the $40 dinner of the Democratic
Club and of his presence at the 81 dinner
of the Chicago platform Democrats.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
ORDERED TO ALASKA.
Company of Colored Soldiers Goes to
Northern Posts.

VANCOUVER, May H.-Company L,
Twenty-fourth Infantry (colored), from
Vancouver barracks, left this evening Tor
Seattle, from which point 1t VIII leave Tor
Alaska on the 18th inst. Fifty-siX men,
under command of Captain Henry w. Ho-
vev viii take station at Dyea, relieving
Cantain r. T. Yeatman and Company H,
Fourteenth Infantry, and forty-.nine men
under Lieutenant j. c: jerks VIII proceed
gardus Eldredge and Company B, Four
teenth Infantry. These companies of the
Fourteenth Infantry will proceed to join
their regiment in the Philippine Islands
Lieutenant Colonel w. Davis, formerly
adjutant general and acting inspector
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
FOR ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Endowment Of Chair by Catholic
knights of America.

WASHINGTON, May 14-The Right
Rev. Monsignor Zonaty, rector of the
Catholic University of America, received
a telegram on Saturday night from Kan
sas City, informing him that the Catholic
Knights of America at their convention
had voted unanimously to endow a chair
at the Catholic University. This is likely
to be the chair of English literature
This action of the Catholic Knights has
been received with great satisfaction at
the university, as it is the second chair
endowment this year. the Knights of Co
lumbus having agreed to endow the chair
Of American history. This makes in all
seventeen chairs endowed since the estab-
lishment of the university.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
GOLD FOUND BURIED
ON A MISER'S LAND

SUISUN, May H.-A few weeks aso
William Cook, pioneer resident of Birds
Landing, surprised his neighbors by Join
ing the ranks of the Benedicks. He was
rs years of age and his bride 50. A rev
days after the ceremony Cook co1trac;,Ittesou ;,tts q
a severe cold and soon passed array. The
day before his death he made 2 Will be
queathing his entire estate to ms VIE. VIE.
Cook had for many years been mlser,
and at the time of his demise he was
thought to be worth $25,OO0. Mrs. Cook
has applied for letters testamentary on
the estate. Before his death COOK IN
formed his friends of q box ne hao ,S,i- Sc
was found to contain notes for $4,000 and
s12O in cash. He left a ranch valued s at
$4,000, the total value Of the estate SO Ia Isf
Sooi1 mnst have had another secret place
wherein he deposited money.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
GOLD DISCOVERY IN
OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS
Prospector Finds Ore Yielding Twen-
. ty Dollars to the Ton in
Metal.

TACOMA, May H.-For nearly two
years A. L. Mattison a miner Of Port
land, Or, has been quietly prospecting IN
the Olympic mountains, which have been
searched unsuccessfully heretofore for
mineral veins. Mattison went deeper into
the mountains than earlier prospectors
and has been rewarded by uncovering
mining excitement in the Olympic penin-
sula. His nearest locations are in Elwha
Valley, twelve miles southeast of Port
Angels. He has penetrated lodges with
drifts and tunnels, obtaining ore running
$40 to the ton. One ledge has a width Of
200 feet, carrying gold, silver and copper
ore. Mattison has just taken numerous
samples to San Francisco to be assayed.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15

ARE READY
FOR PEACE
Cintinued From First Page.

concealed in the bushes on both sides
of the Rio Grande three miles above
Calumpit yesterday afternoon and were
received with heavy volleys at short
range A sergeant belonging to the
Utah Battery was killed and one pri-
vate wounded.
Opening with their rapid fire guns,
the Americans killed twenty of the ma
tives and wounded several others, fill
ing the jungle with a hail Of shot for
half an hour until the enemy fled.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
ENLISTING PORTO
RICAN SOLDIERS
A Full Battalion Soon Will Be
Wearing tbe american
UDiforn.

Washington special to the Herald SAYS
organized battalion of Porto tcans
Sans uniform will be performing duty in their nv
The
command and General Henry di
SAM
twenty-five in
recommended
little work and
great of island
that than
though of the towns have
of the withdrawal OF
Rca and the fact that there re-
Eleventh Infantry bat
of the 400 Porto
American force
the
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
Benefit for Parson Harris.

NEW YORK. May 14.-Rev. James H.
w. Harris. formerly of Oakland, Cal,
was given a benefit at Wallack's Theater
this evening. The gathering, was small
pear. At the close Mr.. Harris, clad in
Clerical garb, thanked the audience for
its attendance and expressed his sorrow
AT the fact that all those announced had
NOT taken part
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
Flowers Memory Honored.

ALBANY, May 14.-Governor Roosevelt
tonight issued proclamation on the
death of Roswell p. Flower. After -eulo-
gizing the Ex-Governor, the proclamation
asks that all flags on public buildings be
displayed at half-mast until Wednesday,
the nth. and that the citizens of the State
unite in appropriate marks of respect to
his memory.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
Ashore in Lake st. Peter.

MONTREAL May 1.-THE Allan line
steamship Gallia went ashore this after
noon in Lake st. Peter. The steamer is
tugs and lighters sent down to her are
expected to get her off early tomorrow.
There is a large number of passengers on
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
REFUSED TO BUY DRINKS.
Father of Two Well-Known Baseball
pJauarS Murdered

CHICAGO, May H.-Henry Reitz, a jani-
tor at the Jefferson School, at Elburn ave-
nue. and Latin street, refused to buy
drinks with two men whom he met in
saloon to-day, and as a consequence
short time later he was struck a fatal
blow by one of his companions. He was
found Unconscious by two policemen, and
died in few minutes without making any
statement. ReitZ was the father of Henry
P ReitZ, second baseman of the Pitts
burg bali club, and of Edward r. Reitz.
second baseman of the Sacramento (Cal)
hall cIIlh
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
Did Not Murder Her Husband.

GEORGETOWN, Colo, May 1.-THE
trial of Mrs. Jane Fish, accused of having
murdered her husband, Gaylord Fish, by
chloroforming him while he slept, ended
in her acquittal. The murder charge was
made by the Woodmen of the World,
from which order Mrs. Fish sought to coll
lect Insurance on her husbands life.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
Peace Congress Rules.

LONDON, May 14.-A dispatch to the
Daily Mail from St. Petersburg says: Ac-
cording to the programme prepared for
the forthcoming conference at The Hague,
one vote will be permitted to each dele
cation on every proposal submitted to
ballot, and this will be cast by the chief
representative Of each country.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
sandstorm at Visalia.

VISALIA, May 4.-A sandstorm of
unusual violence broke over this city at
o'clock this afternoon. The skies were
darkened and the wind blew threatening
" 1t was the worst storm of the kind in
several wears.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
Jeffries Umpires a Ball Game.

NEW YORK, May 14-Over at Wee
hawken, N. j., to-day 1000 persons saw
the West New York Field Club team de-
feat the l-ColIegiate nine by a score of
to 3. Jim Jeffries rendered decisions
on base plays, and it is needless to say
that his rulings were never disputed.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
Maniton Park Hotel Burned.

COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo. May IA
The Manitou Park Hotel and Casino,
which were to have been opened for the
season June 1st, have been destroyed by
fire. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
Falls Over a Balustrade.

CHICAGO, May 14.-Donald Mclean,
Western railroad promoter, fell over the
balustrade on the fourth floor of the
Palmer House this afternoon, landing on
the stone tagging two floors below. His
injuries resulted in death. Mclean was
&c wears old.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
Weak Men and Women

SHOULD USE DAMlANA BlTTERS -rAL,
- great Mexican remedy; gives health and
strength to sexual organs. Depot, s2s Martatc- c
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15

general of the Department of the Colum-
ment. the Eighth cavalry in Cuba.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
FALSE REPORT OF
CLEVELAND'S DEATH,
Rumor GuiDs Currency That tbe
Ex-President Died While
Fishing.

TOLEDO that exPresi-
while Middle Bass Island
and telegraph offices here
impossible to from the island to re-
with
Presto senioy health
J. - telegram
special from sandusky
He then we'll