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The San Francisco call., 1899-08-16
CONSP|RATORS
ARE ALL NOW
At LIBERTY
" Brick Mcpherson
Will Not Answer.
AFRAID OFTHE CONSEQUENCES
HOPING TO DISCOVER WHO
DAVIS rs.
Judge Treadwell Wants the Grand
Jury to Take the Matter Up
and Probe 1t to the
Bottom.

Judge Treadwell has finally thrown up
the sponge IN his attempt TO unra"el Inc
Brick" Mcpherson conspiracy and VIII
allow some interested party to take the
matter before the Grand Jury, where II
can be thoroughly investigated.
The case of Thomas j. Clisham, charged
with obtaining money from Attorney /.
N Thorne, was before the Judge again
yesterday afternoon. The chief conspira'
tor Brick" was put on the stand and
he refused to answer several questions put
to him on the ground that ii would tend
to incriminate him. Prosecuting Attorney
Carpenter wanted the witness punlsned
for contempt, but the Judge decided tnat
the witness was legally right in refusing
to answer the questions ON the ground
alleged.
The prosecution said there were no other
witnesses to be examined. and Attorney
for dismissal, as nothing had been ad-
duced to support the charge.
The Judge said he would have to dis
miss the case for the reason that the Wit
have, done. 1t was deplorable that men
could conspire to swindle innocent people
out of their money and not be punished
for it. Mrs. Carroll had been swindled,
that he had done the business for her as
an attorney, but he had no hesitation in
eharacterizing it as mean. contemplating
piece of business. He hoped the Grand
Jury would take the matter up and probe
it to the bottom.
II shall dismiss the case against Clis-
ham, continued the Judge, ''and also the
case of Smoot Let the case of Thomas
r; Davis, the mythical person charged
with obtaining 800 900 from A. w Nc
Pherson. be continued for a week, as
am anxious to know who he is
Prosecuting Attorney Carpenter sug-
gested that the Davis case be contnUed
till September 20, which would give ample
time TO find out all about the mysterious
parsonage, He also suggested that as
Brick had been released on a writ OF
habeas corpus the case against him
be stricken from the calendar.
The Judge concurred in both sugges-
uons and as Brick" was leaving the
courtroom he called after him. ''Perhn ps
by september 20 we may be able to ge,
that 500 0CQ for YOU"
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favorable eyes upon any more such side
light propositions that may come UP.
In regard to the matter of the Valley
road running into Oakland, Mr.. Walker
said that it was yet far too early to speak
on the matter as the main line itself was
still far from completion. Some time ago
there was considerable talk of the Santa
Fe people starting still another trans
Pacific steamship line from this city to
the Orient. Mr.. Walker declined to dis
cuss the proposition further than TO say
that if his people decided that they want
ed such a line they would have il.
President Ripley will start either to-
day or tomorrow over the line Of the
Valley road toward this city, where he
will arrive either Friday or Saturday: Mr.:
Walker will probably go as far as Bakers
field to meet and make the trip with him.
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ADVERT .SEMENTs.
Mrs. PInkham's Advice. Saved
Mrs. Hayes From an Operation.
[LrrrER TO MRS. rInkHAx no. 64,zssl


"DEAR Mrs. .PINKHAM-Word cannot
express my thanks to you for your kind
advice to me in regard to my health, 1
had been running down in health for
about seven years. l had doctored
with good doctors and taken a great
many patent medicines. My trouble
began when my first child was born.
had very hard time and after it's
birth would have severe flooding spells.
After my second child l had very
good health until last winter when
again became pregnant and suffered
very much and miscarried. l came
very near dying. and the doctor said
must have an operation, which fright
ened me very much, and concluded to
write to you for your advice, and take
your medicine. Was troubled with the
whites, great pain in back and hips,
sometimes when lying down or sitting
was unable to get up. Would have
such pain in groihs could hardly walk.
g 1 can say I have never seen any
thing so wonderful as Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and Sana-
tive Wash. Your remedies have done
wonders for me-: Hoping that many
of my suffering sisters may be led to
take your medicine from reading this
letter, I remain, sincerely yours, MRS.
MARY HAYES, HARDrNsBURG, KY"
Letters like the foregoing should
coux;noa arayxvrn,a that Mag p;nlybor,,o
advice is certain help. 80
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LEMONS DEATH SUGGESTED,
Judge coffey Acts as "A Witness in d
Case Before Him.

The appncatonaof Public Administrator
Drfnkhouse to be appointed adminfstrator
of the estate of GeerSe Il. Lemon for the
purpose OF determining the title to a
piece OF real estate d Vallejo and Mont
gomery streets has caused unusual devel-
opnents. In the petition il was alleged
that Lemon died in $50, but when. The
matter came up for hearing yesterday A.
mlnistrato tor was treated T.. to surprise.
When the matter came <up for hearing
Judge sCoffey announced that he sa W
Lemon In the flesh on y steamer plying
Long island Sound in the year 1850. and
was sure that he enlisted as a soldier in
the war. The court said that he. did not
doubt but that Lemon cGs dead. but the
date IN the petition preceded his demise
perhaps fifteen or twenty years. Mr..
Ruef then asked for time. in which to
verify, his date. and. the case was post
poned until Friday The question now 10
be: determined is whether or not Lemon
still lives. and If not when and where
did death come. 80
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A VALUABLE CAPTURE.
Huge Gray Sea Lioness and Her Pup
May Be Sent East

Captain George Butwell, keeper of the
lighthouse at Ano Nuevo. sent word yes
terday to j. P. Babcock of the Fish Com
mission that he had made an important
capture in the shape of a large gray
female sea lion. 1t IS very rarely that
these huge sea animals are caught and it
is doubtful if: there is one now in captiy-
ity. In several of the geological gardens
in the East they have the brown barking
variety and the scientists there have long
desired to secure a few specimens of the
kind caught by Captain Butwel The
lighthouse keeper states that he has seen
the males of this kind Weighing all of
400 pounds. The female he now has
weighs about 500 pounds and she is still
young and likely TO grow. He was for
tunate in getting the seals pup at the
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Fish and Forests His Charge. :

DR.. Tarlton H. Bean. director in chief
of the forestry and fisheries exhibit at
the Paris Exposition, has advised the
California commissioners that Mr..
Thomas Hart of this city will be put on
as a honorary member of his staff to rep
resent California in all matters pertain
ing to the forests and fish of our State.
Commissioner Runyon says that the Sc
portant position was left absolutely in
the hands of the commissioners, and the
recently published story in an evening
the one who would fill the place was en-
tirely without foundation and built out
of whole cloth.
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same time, making the catch the more

same time, making the catch the more
valuable.
The capture was not without much la
Dor and no little danger. Captain Butwell
moose over the big animals shoulders,
the rope passing under one of the flip
pers. thereby preventing it slipping. BY
taking a turn around large rock he was
able to hold his prize from getting back
into the sea. From the first it was a fight
to a finish for the beast had no intention
of submitting Captain Butwell summon
ed two of his helpers and the battle be-
gan in earnest. For nearly half day
the three men worked with ropes. nooses,
nets. etc, before the beast was over
powered The capture was effected with
out injury to the sea lion or her pup,
which is a fine young specimen Weighing
about eighty pounds, although not over
a day old. Mr.. Babcock has communi-
Gated by wire with several scientists in
the East to see if they will take this big
loneSS and her baby.
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special train which will leave the Oakland
mole some time tomorrow afternoon. The
men Will stop for short time at Ogden
on their way home, but the batteries will
hold together until they reach Salt Lake.
ernor and State officials in Liberty Park
They will be given medals issued by the
State. and then the organizations will dis
to each man from Salt Lake to his home.
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of sails. The next day the second mate
went crazy and jumped overheard.
General Shafter and staff visited the
German man-of-war Geier yesterday. As
the party was leaving the vessel a major
generals salute was fired.
Reports from the Okhotsk Sea gives the
catch of the whaler Charles w Morgan
as 1860 barrels of sperm oil and 65 pounds
ambergris, and the California 900 barrels
Of sperm oil, 1850 barrels whale oil and
5000 pounds of whalebone. Captain Smith
reports that on May a boat was cap
sized by whale and Martin Cosgrove. d
native Of Hartford. Conn, was drowned.
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was present. A number of committees
having in charge the organization of the
league made their reports. which were
very satisfactory. 1t is believed that the
league will soon be in working order and
and the inducements offered to the mer-
chants in the country a large amount of
trade that is now going to The East will
be kept at home. 1t was decided that
each of the 175 members shall constitute
himself q committee of one to induce
others of the several industries to join the
lea que
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Pacific Parlor,s Headouarters

Frank r. Neville. Robert Sands, John
Cannon, Lyman Jennings and T. P. Mar
tin a committee from Pacific <Parior. yis:
tied Santa Cruz last Sunday, and there
secured headquarters at the Pacific ocean
House; also Pacific Ocean House Hail.
where the membership Of the parlor will
entertain its friends and special guests
during the Native Sons three days cele-
bration. 4.
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the Ma
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IL aIacstd A.
Morse, District
The
II felt better life have gained
tha he and
tota
dispatch
to the
ate he was
in
at
The a mag
of
Berkeley He
all his inclination
organized for the Philippine
Manfa
gafnt
distinguished
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Wants $4,000 Damages.

Maggie NJ Hardman filed suit yesterday
against the Market-street Railway Com
pany to recover 80 0G0 damages for per-
sonal injuries. On January %, the plant
If alleges. she was thrown from one
of defendants cars at Market and Third
streets, sustaining permanent injuries
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Cars stop here" this is the sign
The Merket-st Railway wish to define.
Pegamoid aluminium does it for them:
Opposite Cali Bldg" It's a gem
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working for Home Industries.

There was a special meeting of the
members OF the Manufacturers and
Wholesalers League yesterday at 2e2
Market street, and a fair representation
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-16
DID FORAKER SPEAK FOR THE
PRESIDENT.

The President has not denied that SEN
ator Foraker spoke for him the other day
when he said that no one connected with
the administration wanted TO retain pos
session OF the Philippines permanently
that the only purpose was TO hold on 10
them until the Filipinos were prepared
to manage their own affairs. He let it be
Inferred that If it were shown that the
Fnipinos were ready for self-government
now. there would be no delay in permit
ting them 70 have il.
There is 40 reason why the President
should notice the senator's speech even
if the senator did not represent the ad-
min.stration He is not called on to pub
Ideally take notice Of every statement
made on the floor of Congress which re-
fers to his plans or policies. Senator For
aker did not say that he spoke for the adj
ministration What he said, and the way
he said it, left the impression that he did.
AS matter of fact, it is doubtful if the
President ever limited to him that 1t was
his policy not to retain the Philippines if
it should be shown that the Filipinos were
capable of governing themselves. The SEN
ator is not one Of the confidential friends
of the President. Besides. a cabinet Of
fcer is quoted as saying that the Presi-
dent has never intimated that he intended
TO adopt the policy outlined by Senator
Foraker. If Senator Hanna had made the
statement that Senator Foraker did the
whole country would have accepted it
without q question as having been author
lied by the President
It is worthy of notice that the Senate
does not think that what Senator Foraker
said was inspired by the President be
cause the debate is going on along the
lines on which it first started. If ii were
known that the administration intended to
deal with the Philippines as it is proposed
with Cuba the debate would come to a
pretty sudden termination, because the
stoutest opponents of imperialism could
hardly ask for more liberal terms for the
Philippines than those which 1t is under
stood viii be granted to Cuba. AS a mat
Ter of fact. the President has never yet
stated definitely and clearly the admins
tration's policy in respect to the Philip
pines, and it IS almost certain that he will
not do so until he is fully satisfied what
the real sentiment of the country in re-
spect to those islands is. He is not going
to endanger his chances for another term
by making a mistake in respect to the
Philippines if he can help 1t.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-16
BRooMcoRN AS A MONEY CROP.

The future success of the South depends
in a considerable measure upon a salts
factory diversification of crops. There
must be money crops as well as food crops.
The production of food solely would not
meet the requirements. If the farmers of
the South raised all of their provisions,
they would still plant cotton for spending
growers were to go into food-raising they
would devote new lands and old fields to
the provision crops and give just about
as much acreage as ever to cotton. 1t
may be that there is a good deal of basis
for the assertion. If there is a basis for
it then it is necessary, if the cotton acre
age is not TO remain about as large as it
is, or indeed go on increasing, to find other
money crops that are staple. Tobacco is
one of these, which has been tried with
success in states and localities where soil
and climate are favorable. But all soils
and climates will not grow tobacco.
A correspondent of the Morning News
draws attention to another crop, which he
says can be grown for money to good
advantage all over this state, and for
which there is a good demand 1t is
broomcorn. Not only is the demand good
at present, but IL is increasing Desira-
Bile broomcorn Is being marketed at s
cents per pound, while yield of 800 pounds
to an acre of ordinary farming land is
not uncommon. Western farmers" says
our correspondent, ARE accustomed to
producing 1,4O0 pounds to the acre on well
cultivated farms. Broomcorn is as much
a money crop as cotton, and if Southern
farmers will raise 1t they will find a ready
market for it. Under existing conditions
an acre of land planted with cotton might
yield an annual gross income to the
planter of S25. The same acre planted
with broomcorn would grow an annual
crop worth $72. The cost of raising cot
ton is greater than the cost attached to
the production of broomcorn"
These facts are worthy of the attention
of farmers wishing to rid themselves of
the Affection incubus. It is manifestly
folly to devote an acre of land to a crop
which will yield only $25 gross if the same
land could be made to yield So gross with
less expense.
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Personal.

1t is announced that Don Victor Egui-
guren, lately minister from Peru, will mar
ry Miss Glare McParlin, daughter of the
late Gen. McParlin, U. S. a Mr. Egui-
guren is a man of great wealth and in
fuence. He was sent to Washington last
winter to adjust the McCord case, which
had hung fire with the Peruvian govern
ment for so long. The ceremony will take
place in Baltimore aud Immediately after
ward the senior will take his bride to
Peru.
Gen. Marcus P. Miller who is in COM
mand of the expedition to Iloilo, has been
in the army since 1858, when he was grad
uated from West Point, which he entered
from Massachusetts. He is SO years old
and will be retired from his place in the
regular army, in which he is colonel of
the Third Artillery, on March q next,
his sixtyfourth birthday. He was brevet-
ed captain major lieutenant colonel and
colonel for gallantry and meritorious serv-
ices,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-16

Early in December the Home Life In
surance building in New York was burn
ed. The insurance adjustments were com
pleted the other day. 1t appears from
the figures given out and published in
the New York papers that the fire insur-
ance companies took the risk on the great
building-it was one of the tallest sky
ecrapers in the city-at the rate of 10 cents
on 500 for five years. or 2 cents on 500
per year. The total Of insurance carried
amounted 10 $350,OOO, divided among sew
eral companies. For the whole insurance
the companies received $50 year. OF
this $40, the Continental received l4. For
this sum the Continental will have 10 pay
as its proportion of the adjudicated loss
$39, S65 Other companies will pay in like
proportion, of course. In connection with
this matter the thought suggests itself,
why is it possible for companies to write
Insurance for extremely tan buildings in
the heart of a great city-a class of build
ings which the chief OF the New York FIRE
department has often inveighed against as
being higher than the safety line and
beyond the reach of fire apparatus-for so
much less premium than is charged in
cities like Savannah? In this city, for
instance, isolated dwellings pay 10 or more
times as much as the rate charged on the
Home building, while in the business sec
ton the rate is very much higher Is it
not possible, and probable, that in the
smaller cities we are paying the freight
for the cheap rates which the greater
cities enjoy? Is it not possible, and proba-
bic, that it is not so much fire departments
in the smaller cities which keep their
rates at the top notch as the necessity of
supplying the money with which the COM
panies ight'their rate wars in the great
cities?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-16

Charles T. Russell, a New York ship
broker, who had something 60 do with the
sale of the Merrimac 20 the government
gives some information which may go to
show how it was that a vessel which cost
her owners in the neighborhood of 100000
was sold to the government for $780, 600
after some 5000 worth of repairs had been
put on her. The craft was under a foreign
flag when she was bought first An ap-
plication was made for American registry
for her. The inspectors who examined her
eaid she would be worth about $14i,O00
when the repairs and alterations necessary
to entitle her to registry mad been made
When the registry had been secured her
owners claimed that her value had been
increased to $4,000 thereby, and the gov
eminent took her at that price. In other
words, the fact that she sailed under the
American flag made her more valuable by
nearly $780, 600 than she was before. Never
theless, as a harbor-stopper she was not a
bit more effective than she would have
been without the $4,000 added value
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meetng-of Colored Voters First Dis
frict.
Special Notices-Dividend Notice, Savan-
nah Gas Light Company; Invitation to
Taste Huyler's Cocoa, Abercorn Grocery
Company; Notice. Crew Levick Company;
Pansy Plants in Quantity. Wolf & Co..
Florists.
A Harvest Day for Small Feet-Byck
Bros.
Railroad Schedule-New York and Flor
Ida Special. via Atlantic Coast Line and
Plant System; Schedule Plant System.
A Chance TO Make Money-Lindsay &
Morgan.
Amusements-Roland Reed at the Thea
ter Jan l9 in ''The Woman Halter"
FearIine-James Pyle & Son.
Medical-Ayer's Cherry Pectoral; Johann
Hofs Genuine Malt Extract; Hoods Pills;
Cuticura Remedies; Browns Bronchial
Troches
Cheap Column Advertsements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-16
BRIGHT BITS,

Two Opnions.-"Conversati is only
the art of talking back" Not much;
conversation is the art of getting some
body to listen to you."-Chicago Record.
II allus likes ter listen" said Uncle
Eben, when a man sits down an talks
very wise an comfortin.' 1t shows dar
ism muffin de matter wifi is health. -
Washington Star
Educated Filipino-"Yes, sir, it is said
there are 1900 different dialects in use on
these islands," American Soldier from
ConnecticuO-"Wan, 1 swami" Educated
Filipino-"That makes 1901. Chicago
Tribune.
Easily Explained.-Sceptic-" still
believe in spiritualsm, and yet, at the
seance last night, the medium called up
your grandmother and she didn't know
how many daughters she had" Believer
"Oh, wei, grandmother's memory was get
ting very poor a few days before che
died. Judge
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The Best Room.

From the Boston Transcript.
As we stand on that dim threshold, fresh
from the world without,
A damp, mysterious odor is lurking all
about;
The grim old haircloth furniture paraded
out in state.
For some pretentious gathering, seems
anxiously to wait.
IT'S such solemn, sacred place, it surely
seems a sin
Upon the faded carpeting to let the sun
light in;
But on the wall CLINT of it steals through
the shutter slide,
Touching grardfather's portrait there be-
side his bonny bride.
Upon work of rare design the sunlight
sheds its ray
Wrought by two white hands turned to
dust for many and many day;
This Flower piece" encased in glass SEEM
ed to my childish eyes
A thing to gaze and wonder at and sa-
credly to prize
The tall. funeral mantel for a giant race
seemed made;
Beneath it doomed the fireplace, where as
a child 1 played;
Its blackened depths with care are decked
with grasses in a row,
Like feathery ghosts from ashes of the
fires of long ago.
My world was not within its walls, loved
the light instead
Indeed, of its drear stateliness 1 stood in
wholesome dread;
But each loved spot upon the farm in
memory has a part,
And that old musty parlor holds its cor
ner i'm my heart!