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The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
TWO RACES FOR EACH YACHT.

DORVAL, Quebec, Aug. 2-The Glen
cairn III, the Canadian yacht. and the Con-
stance, the American yacht, started to-
day in their fourth race for the Sea-
wanhka cup. The Constance had already
won two races and the GIencairn III one
The Constance crossed the starting line
at 1:55:S and the Glencairn III at / :55:3I.
The course was triangular one and a
third miles to a leg, to be sailed over
three times, twelve miles in all.
The Glencairn III turned the first buoy
of the first round at 2:10:21, and the Con-
stance at 2:12:23. The GIencairn III
turned the second buoy at 2:31 81: the Con-
stance at 2:34:1S. The GIencairn III com
pleted the second round at 3:34:13, and the
Constance at 3:35: :45. The Glencairn fin
ished first at 4:15:15: the Constance fin
ished at 4:20:54. The deciding race will be
sailed Tomorrow
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
POLITICAL REVOLT
IN OLD KENTUCKY

LEXINGTON, KY, Aug. "A political
revolt in Kentucky was inaugurated here
to-day The anti-Goebel conference here
for the purpose of calling a State conven-
ton and nominating another Democratic
State ticket. or part of one, was in some
respects perhaps the most remarkable po-
lftical gathering ever held in Kentucky.
The conference was composed of leading
farmers and professional men, only few
politicians being in the assembly.
1t was manifest from the beginning that
the feeling was not against the whole
ticket but against its head. and although
other nominations may be made against
those of the Louisville convention the op-
position will be mainly directed toward
the defeat of William Goebel.
The gathering was larger than expect
ed. There We're 720 men by actual count
in the auditorium. Thirty counties were
represented A committee on resolutions
COMPOSED of one from each district and
two for the State at large We're appoint
ed When this committee retired TO draft
resolutions John Young Brown was es-
corted to the platform and made a vigor-
GUS impassioned speech IN remuneration OF
the course of the Louisville convention.
The resolutions committee report recon-
mended the Endorsement of Bryan and the
Chicago platform, denounced the methods
of the louisville convention to secure the
nomination of William Goebel, declared
that the report of the committee on Gre
dentials of the Louisville convention was
secured by shameful and fraudulent tao
tics, denounced 'McKinleyism'' and other
national affairs and provided that the
convention be held in Lexington on
Wednesday, August 16, to declare prin-
ciples and nominate candidates for the
November election. Each county or legis-
lative district was urged to appoint dele
gates to the convention, each county being
entitled to one vote for every 200 votes or
fraction over 100 polls cast for w. ].
BRYAN in 1896 It was further resolved
that Major P P. Johnston is now the reg
ular and legal chairman Of the State Dem
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
CROWD HELD UP BY
FOUR HIGHWAYMEN

BUFFALO. Aug. "A special to the
Express from Corey, Pa, says: A bold
highway robbery took place in this city
at IL o'clock last night, when patrons of
the Pawnee Bill show were returning to
their homes. Four armed men held up
500 people The robbery took place on
Center street.
The robbers had destroyed the arc light.
leaving the road in darkness. and with
drawn revolvers they proceeded to stop
the people and carriages, blocking the
street until at least 500 people were held.
Charles Parton, a hackman, made an at
tempt to drive on. The four men opened
took effect. The people in the rear of the
crowd, hearing the shots, became panic
stricken and made rush for their lives
man named Smith, peanut vender,
was relieved of about $50. From stran-
ger who would not give his name was
taken about $500. The highwaymen were
not caught.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
DYEA BARRACKS
RAZED BY FIRE
Military Stores Go Up in
Smoke.
SOLDIERS MOVED TO SKAGUAY
BLAZE STARTS FROM BURNING
FORESTS.
White Pass and Yukon Railway
Buildings at Glacier Reported
Destroyed by Con-
fagration.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SEATTLE, Aug. News Of the de-
struction by fire of the United States mill
tary post at Dyea on Friday Of last week
was brought to this city to-day by re-
turning passengers on the steamship
Humboldt. Military stores to the value
of $4,000 were destroyed. About $4,000
worth of stores were saved by the prompt
work of the soldiers under command of
Captain Hubby. The fire started in the
brush back on the hills and swept down
on the fort.
The soldiers composing the garrison
have. with their remaining stores, been
moved to Skaguay. and are now quar-
tered in one of the large warehouses near
the water front.
Forest fires are said to be raging all
along Lynn Canal. The Glacier station.
roundhouse. outbuildings and water tank
of the White Pass and Yukon Railway
are reported destroyed.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
POWER FOR CoMsToCK.
Contract Virtually Awarded for Sup
plving Cheap Electricity.

The contract for supplying the mines of
the Comstock with electrical power at a
cheap cost has virtually been awarded to
the Truckee River General Electric Com
pany. The terms of the contract were
satisfactorily arranged yesterday at a
meeting between ATTORNEY w. F. Deal and
President Charles Hirschfeld. representing
the Comstock Pumping Association. and
Attorney Hall McAllister Jr., representing
the electric company.
The contract was awarded to the
Truckee company because its proposition
after a most searching investigation, was
found to be the most feasible. San Fran
cisco and Chicago capital is behind the
cheap-power enterprise which is to make
a modern and profitable mining camp Of
the Comstock.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
FRUIT PRESERVED
IN VACUUM CARS
Project Of a Stockton
inventor.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

STOCKTON, Aug. 2.-The claim that
liquid air as a substitute for ice in cars
will greatly facilitate perfect preservation
of fruit in shipment is met by Stock
ton man with a plan which he declares
is superior in every way. Frank Z.
Covey, who has devised the new system,
is already known in the inventive world.
He has a working model of his plan here,
but is preparing to give it a practical
demonstration on a car now being built
under his direction in Oakland.
Covey has a practically air tight box
about a yard long and foot and a half
wide, which represents refrigerator car.
Attached to this is pump by which air
is extracted and a vacuum formed, as
nearly as possible. Into this box Covey
placed a box of peaches, fruit that was
really too ripe to be shipped. He pumped
the box out every three or four hours.
Twenty-Five days after he placed the
peaches in the box he removed them, and
although the weather was unusually
warm, they appeared identically the same
as when they were shipped" They had
not changed q particle. Rarefied air be-
ing lower in temperature, il was several
degrees cooler in the box than outside.
COvey's invention is based on the theory
that fruit would be preserved forever If
no particle of air could reach it.
To ascertain the effect as to dampness
two wide-mouthed bottles were placed in
the box. one filled with water and the
other empty. vacuum was then ere
dIeQ, ana WIen lnG car was opened
there was no water in either bottle,
Covey will attach a pump to the under
side of the car. with a pipe running UP
through the floor. The pump will be op
Grated by what is known as a ball-and-
socket Joint eccentric and will be run
from the axle of the car. In this way
the air will be kept continually exhausted.
BY means Of a relief valve when the
vacuum shows a certain pressure the
pump will be released from duty, pumping
in air through the chamber and out again.
As soon as the pressure is lowered the
relief valve will close and the work of
exhausting will commence again. The
pump to be placed on the first car for a
test will be Of eght-inch diameter. with a
ten-inch stroke.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
DEATH OF E. R. LOWE.
Retired Yolo County Capitalist Passes
Away in San Francisco.

WOODLAND, Aug. 2.-E. R. Lowe, one
of the wealthy men of Yolo County, died
at San Francisco at an early hour this
morning. He had been in feeble health
for many years, but when he retired at
9 o'clock Tuesday night he was cheerful
and apparently as we'll as he had been
at any time for two or three years. His
death was due to heart failure.
Mr.. Lowe was native of Missouri and
81 years of age. He married Miss Lucy
L. Hodge of Kentucky on December q,
1S47. They came to California in 1852, first
locating in Grass Valley and afterward
in Suffer County. The basis for Mr..
loves fortune was Yolo County real es-
tate which he reluctantly accepted in
payment of a debt.
Mrs. Lowe died in 1898 and Mr.. Lowe
decided to relieve himself of all business
the position of director in the Bank of
Yolo, and distributed the bulk of his for
tune among his five children.
The body will be brought to Woodland
intermPnt.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
SMELLING TRUST A
STOCK-JOBBING SCHEME
Testimony of NJ. C. Chambers Before
the Industrial Commission
a+ Salt Lake

SALT LAKE, Aug. 2.-The sub-com-
rnittee of the Industrial Commission
reached here last night and held two ses-
sions to-day. At the morning session eX-
Congressman G E. Allen OF the Centen-
MALI Eureka mine was examined.
He said his mine used machinery and
he thought everybody connected with the
mine was benefited by it. He did not
think the Utah mine owners could afford
10 pay Colorado prices for mining, be
cause the ore here is OF a lower grade. He
thought the Utah smelters had been bene-
tted 10 some extent by the shutdown Of
the Colorado smelters.
In the afternoon NJ. c. Chambers, su-
perintendent of the Ontario mine, was
before the committee He expressed him
self as believing that the mining interests
Of the State were in d thriving condition.
He was in favor Of an eight-hOur law and
was fearful of the results Of trusts. He
thought the smelling trust was stock
j0bbing scheme and that the capital rep
resented by the trust was more than the
plants were worth.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
RULING TO FOLLOW
DUCHEMIN'S DEATH

PARIS. Aug. 2-The tragic death Of NJ
Alphonse Duchemin through an accident
to an automobile on July IS is likely to
lead 10 an interesting decision affecting
the constructor. NJ. Ibert, provisional ad-
ministrator of the estate of the deceased
summoned the manufacturer and claimed
in the hearing before the civil tribunal
that the accident was due to the faulty
construction of the machine. as the left
front wheel alone replied TO the brake,
causing the machine TO swerve violently
to the left and upset. The court applied
to NJ Caute, an engineer expert, to ex-
anime the condition of the machine.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
The Clara Crow Condemned.

STOCKTON, Aug. 2-The Clara Crow
goes to the boneyard. When the trim
little steamer was launched thirty-1ve
wears ago she was pronounced the crack
craft of the San Joaquin. The boat has
earned fortunes for several owners and
has of late years been used in the upper
river service by the California Navigation
Company. Recently she was taken out
of commission for repairs, but ii was
found that the old-fashioned machinery
had played out and the rebuilding of the
The boat was accordingly sold TO Cy
Moreing & Son, who are engaged in rec
lamation work on Middle River The
+ha wOrkmen.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
Ferry Landing Site Chosen.

LOS ANGELES. Aug. 2.-The several
interests affected by the location of the
ferry landing at San Pedro and Terminal
Island, across the bay from San Pedro.
practically reached an agreement to-day
when the County Board of Supervisors
took up the matter of a franchise for the
ferry. The landing on the island given
by the Terminal road was selected, and
the Third-street landing on the San Pedro
side decided upon. The Southern Pacific
had agreed to give a landing there but
objected to the Fifth-street landing di-
rectly opposite the landing on the island.
Third street was selected as a compro-
mis-
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lively Bidding for Apricots.

VENTURA, Aug. 2.-Ihe dried apricot
market in this county is exceedingly
strong and many sales are reported. Buy
ers are offering 10 cents pound and there
is considerable excitement in fruit circles.
The Johnson-Locke Company of San
francisco has purchased about thirty-tlve
carloads. or $50 tons of dried apricots
This firm made one large purchase to-day
al fraction over 10 cents. There are
about ten buyers in the field. and bidding
is becoming lively. Fifty carloads have
been purchased. The price started at 91z2
cents and is now ruling at 10 cents, with
an upward tendency. Many growers are
holding for 121b cents. The entire crop in
The cnIintY is over 100 carloads.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
POLITICS IN OHIO.
Gold Democrats May Again Vote
With the Republicans.

SEATTLE, Aug 2.-Ex-Congressman j.
H Cultivate of Ohio, now member Oh
the Board of Ordnance and Fortifcations
of the War Department, arrived here to-
day Speaking of Ohio politics Mr.. Outh-
IF the Ohio Democrats reaff1rm the
Chicago platform the Republicans Will
carry the State"
Mr. Cultivate, who belongs to the gold
wing of the party, said that a large ma
jority of that element of the party would
vote the Republican ticket II j. X. NC
Lean were nominated for Governor or IN
dorsed for United States Senator py the
convention.
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ASTOR is SILENT.
Will Not Discuss His Recent British
Naturalization.

LONDON, Aug 2-William Waldorf
Astor has been besieged by reporters since
the official announcement yesterday that
he was naturalized a British subject on
July q.
He absolutely declines to see any one,
but has authorized his agents to say that
he considers the matter purely personal,
has no explanations to offer. is quite pre-
pared for the attacks of the American
newspapers, who attacked him when it
was previously suggested that there was
a possibility of his becoming a British
subject, and in conclusion that any inter
views purported TO be with him are de-
void of foundation.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
Work ON Blue Lakes Dam.

STOCKTON, Aug. 2.-The construction
Of the great Blue Lakes dam in Amador
County is progressing rapidly. Some diff
fculty is experienced in getting men who
are able TO stand the heavy work in an
altitude of over 5000 feet. The arrange
ments for the care of the men have been
very poor and an inducement of 81 25 a
day was not sufficient to get men to sleep
In the open. Bunkhouses are now being
built and fair inducements held out for
labor. There has been some difficulty in
getting the materials over the mountain
n the site
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
CONGRESSMAN ROBBED.
William C. Lowering Encounters
Brace of Pickpockets.

BRUSSELS, Aug. 2-Wiriam c. Love
ring, member of the United States House
was robbed on Saturday last while on his
way from Ostend to this city. Mr.. Love
ring. while in the station at Ostend, was
iosfled by two men. but he took little
notice of the occurrence at the time On
arrival in this city however, he discov-
cred that his pocket-book, together with
s13 900 in valuable papers and notes Tor
fS5 sterling. had disappeared The mat
ter was placed in the hands Of the police.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
Rural Mail Delivery.

STOCKTON, Aug Especial Postal
Agent w. E. Amin arrived here from
Salt Lake to-day to confer with Congress
man de Vries in regard to the establish
ment of rural mail deliveries in the Sec
ond District Mr.. de Vries has made a
sneciaI effort to secure some of the bene-
fits of the recent law extending the car
rier service to country sections and be-
iieves he will be able to obtain the serv-
ice for certain suburban districts of Sac
ramento and Stockton. Congressman de
Vries will accompany Agent Amin on his
trip of investigation and will try to har-
monize local rivalries in order that the
district as a whole may obtain the largest
possible benefit.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
YELLOW FEVER IN CUBA.
Four American Civilians Stricken at
Santiapo

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Aug. 2.-Four
cases of yellow fever have been reported
in the last four days, the victims being
American civilians. One case occurred in
the Cosmopolitan Club.
General Wood believes there is little
danger of an increase of the disease, as
nearly all the people are immune through
having had the fever or are isolated out
side the town. The quarantine restric-
tions of the port and municipality are
strictly observed. General Wood and his
staff are in the city.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
N1cARAGUAN CONGRESS MEETS.
President zelaya Commends the
Treaty With the United States.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua. Aug. 2.-The
Congress of Nicaragua assembled to-day,
senior Gomez. President of the body, pre-
siding. President Zelaya read his mes
900 onening the session. In IL he com
ToeySde The treaty made at Bluefields on
A1riI % with United States Minister
Merry and asks Congress TO take meas
US 70 prevent The threatened deficit in
The finances Of the country.
President Zelaya says the decision or
General Alexander. the arbitrator OF the
disnute as 10 the boundary line between
Nicaragua and Costa Rica, is favorable
+o Nicaragua
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
TWO MEET DEATH IN
THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
Oscar Rice and John Kennedy Pay
the Penalty of Their Crimes
ar Auburn
at Auburn.

AUBURN. n. Y, Aug. Oscar E. Rice.
a white man, and John Kennedy, a negro,
were put to death by electricity in the
prison here to-day. The two executions
took place within twenty minutes. Rice
was supported to the electric chair in
state of collapse. The executions were
successful.
Oscar z. Rice stabbed and slashed his
wife with a pocket-knife on March %.
1895 The woman ran into the roadway,
where she fell. Rice threw stones at her
while she lay helpless and then cut ms
own throat His wound was not serious,
but the woman died.
John Kennedy stabbed John Hummings,
colored, nine times on October 3, 1898. Inc
murder was caused by jealousy.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
Alma Towards Arrest.

There appeared in yesterday mornings
Call a short item to the effect that q.
woman named Alma Howard was arrest
ed for shoplifting at the Emporium An
error was inadvertently committed by
the police so far as locating the place
where the theft occurred is concerned
The woman was arrested in another es-
tablishment in the block above the En-
porium.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
RISK THEIR LIVES TO
RESCUE A COMPANION
Two Brave Young Women Of Los Angeles
Save a Friend From Death in
the Surf.

Aug Carpenter and Katie
Wells to-day
to
in the effor o say
who Angeles citizens
in
in
but
to
Ridgway,
to the ife raft
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
Railwaz Men in Conference.

PORTLAND, Aug. &C. S. Mellen the
president of the Northern Pacific Rail-
way; c. II. Hartman, chairman of the
board of directors of the Union Pacific,
and A l.. Mohler, president of the Ore
gon Railway and Navigation Company
held a conference in this city to-day.
While the officers concerned are reti-
cent regarding the subject of the confer
ence. ii is understood that Ii related to
trackage arrangements between the
Northern Pacific and the Oregon Railway
and Navigation Company.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
TREATY AGAIN ATTACKED.
French Paper Claims America Has
AL the Best of It

PARIS. Aug. 2-The Republique Fran
caise to-day renews the attack on the
FranCO-AmeriCan treaty, declaring that
The reductions obtained on French prod
ucts are insignificant, while France, it
adds, has granted considerable conces-
slons, entailing large Industrial sacri-
fees. especially, for example, on ma
chinery, in which nowadays America dis
plays great superiority.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
cAP1TULATED UNDER ORDERS
Defense of General Pareja Before the
Court Martial

MADRID, Aug. AT to-day's sitting of
the court-martial before which Generals
Toral ana Pareja are being tried on
charges of having surrendered to the
Americans before exhausting all means
OF defense at their command General
Pareja's counsel read kilograms ex-
changed with the commander in chief
showing that Guantanamo was capitu-
lated only on orders from a superior off,
Ger and that the town was without either
provisions or means of defense The
other officers advanced a similar defense
The judgment of the court-martial was
Safarrefi
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
RAILWAY REoRGANIzED.

MONTEREY, Mexico, Aug. 2.-The
Mexican Mineral Railway Company has
been reorganiZed and the new corporation
proposes to Immediately extend the line
Southwark to the City of Mexico. The
road is now almost twenty-five miles long
and runs from this city to the San Pedro
district
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
NEW COLORADO RAILROAD.
1t Will Pass Through Belt of Vir-
gin Timber.

DENVER. Aug. 2.-Contracts have been
awarded for the construction of a branch
of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
from Cato to Pagoda Springs, about
thirty miles.
The new road is known as the Rio
Grande Pagoda and Northern Railroad
and passes through a magnificent belt of
virgin timber, where extensive mills are
already being set up and started.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
To Wed a Suisun Belle.

SUISUN. Aug. 2.-The engagement was
to-day announced Of Miss Mary Emma
Robbins. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. r. D.
Robbins of Suisun and John Grant SUIT
ton of San Francisco. The young lady's
father is local banker and extensive
land owner The marriage will take place
on September Il.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
Newsnaner Changes

VENTURA, Aug. 2.-Within a short time,
not later than September 1, ]. H. Mason
will retire as co-publisher of the Ventura
Free Press, the Republican organ in this
county. Mason has leased his half inter-
est to D. A Webster, at present publisher
of the Santa Paula Chronicle. The paper
will be conducted by Willis & Webster
r. A Dague will again take charge of the
Santa Paula Chronicle. The Ventura
Daily Signal announces this evening that
hereafter the paper will be issued semi
weekly, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
Venezuelan Boundary.

PARIS, Aug. IN Malet-Prevost, the
secretary Of the Anglo-Venezuelan Arbi-
tration Commission in his presentation
Of the Venezuelan case before that body
to-day devoted his argument to showing
that up 10 1914 Spain had effective control
OF the coast from the Orinoco TO the Ese-
CuibO-
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
Death of Capitalist Lowe.

Edmund r. Lowe, capitalist was found
dead in bed yesterday morning at o clock
at his residence, 211S Post street. He had
been attended by a physician for some
time, and an inquest was waived. Mr..
Lowe was 81 years old.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03

Are promptly relieved by the great HUDYAN-
These pains permanently cured by Hud-
yan.
Why does HUDYAN cure? Hudyan cures be-
cause it Ieutralizes the foreign acids that are
in the blood. and by gently stimulating the
liver and kidneys to increased activity these
acids are filtered from the blood and eliminated
from the system. This is why HUDYAN is a
permanent cure for rheumatism, for this con-
diticn is termed rheumatism
Pains in the shoulders Gig. u, pains in the
elbows Zig o. pains in the back Gig. 81,
pains IN the knees Gig. ~, pains in the ankles
dig 81 pains in any Of the joints or muscles
indicate rheumatism. Hudyan is the infallible
remedy for such cases.
If these acids are allowed to remain IN the
blood they will in time destroy the oeucale
beart STRUCTURES Gig. 81. That is why heart
disease is so often a complication of rheuma-
tism. -, -, ,z -.
are in the blood, and so prevents serious heart
complication. ,,z ..,,
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
MEN AND
WOMEN
ADVISED
FREE.
Call or Write.

HUDYAN is for sale by druggists-5Oc
nackaee or six packages for & 80.
If your druggist does not keep HUDYAN
send direct to the HUDYAN REMEDY CO.
cor. Stockton. Ellis ana HarAet ses.' san
YOU MAY CONSULT THE HUDYAN DOC
TORS ABOUT YOUR CASE FREE OF
CHARGE CALL OR NR1TG
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Mrs Davis went to the Iroquois. this
e'I-.nir7ey ~ Tbey- occupied a box at Shea s
TheateT f4eltng as gu guests Of J. Ambrose Butler
The dashboard of the carriage VIII be be
renaired tomorrow morning and the
Journey westward will be resumed about
o'clock in time to reach Dunkirk by
night.