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SEVENTY-FIRST NEW YORK.
Officers of Regiment Found Guilty
of Lack of Bravery.

ALBANY On. ", April 20.-A hear
ing on the report of the court which in
vestigated the conduct at Santiago of
the Seventy-first Regiment of New
York City was given by Governor
Roosevelt to-day
The hearing developed the fact that
the court Of inquiry found that Major
Smith, who was Lieutenant Colonel Of
the volunteer regiment; Captain Whit
tie, who was Major in that command,
and Major Austin of the staff of Brig
adler General Smith, and who COM
manded a company in that regiment,
were guilty of lack of bravery and cour-
age and of incompetency.
The hearing, which was in the form
of a general discussion, continued for
nearly three hours, and at its conclu-
sion the Governor announced that
While he had not made up his mind
definitely what he should do, still it
was most likely that he would submit
the case of Major Whittle to a military
court to determine his competency and
fitness to remain as an officer of the
National Guard of the State; that he
was undecided what should be done in
the case of Major Smith, because his
duties as Lieutenant Colonel are
matter of pure direction, and that he
would severely reprimand Captain Aus
tin in a general National Guard order
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STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY.
An Organization to be Formed on
More Liberal Lines.

DEL MONTE, April 2O.-The main
result growing out of the California
Medical Society's convention, which
was closed here tonight, is a very pro-
nounced expression among more than
half of the members for another or
ganization on newer and more liberal
lines. This feeling has been growing
for several years past, reaching eli
max after the very bitter fight of last
years convention at Fresno.
The present convention was in the
way of test by the dissatisfied mem
bers of the good faith of the other fac
ton, and has resulted in plans now
nearly perfected, which will crystalline
into another society within the COM
ing month. The election yesterday of
all San Francisco men for officers has
made the countrymen feel that they
have been thrust aside, and the present
movement has their hearty co-opera-
ton.
The plan is to make the new society
representative in point of numbers as
we'll as otherwise, of the medical world
of California. The present society has
membership of only 10 per cent. of the
physicians of the State. Some of the
most prominent physicians in the
State are leading the new movement
To-day's work of the society was de-
voted largely to a discussion of surgery,
some notable papers being read by
leading surgeons. The closing busi-
ness occupied the afternoon and at )
p. m- the society adjourned sine die.
An elaborate banquet of sixty-five
covers at O'clock closed the conven-
ton. Harry Sherwood of San Fran
cisco acted as POSTMASTER.
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The Malay Language.

AS language Malay Isl easily learned
and has much to repay for SC doing.
1t is full of wonders and surprise
among other things is the natural home
OF euphemfsm, where a spade is called
anything but a spade. For instance,
to die is beautifully expressed in Malay
as return to the mercy of Allah. The
language is decidedly rich in poetical
expression and imagery A neighbor is
one whom you permit to ascend the ,ad-
der of your cottage, and your friend is
a sharer of your joys and sorrows. In
terest is the flower of money, spring
is an eye of water, the sun the eye of
day, and a policeman all eyes. A walk
is al stroll to eat the wind, man drunk
is one who rides a green horse. and q
coward duck without spurs. a lat
terer is one who has sugar cane on his
lips. a sharper is a man Of brains. a foel
brain-iacker
In his sxproverbs also the Malay shows
a matchless use of metaphor and I'M
agery his words having the softness ot
the jungle breeze, and at the same time
the grimness of the jungle shades. NO.
where does the nature OF his race or
the peculiar genius of his language
show out better than in these terse,
pithy sayings which the Malay uses to
sweeten his speech or lend effective
ness to it. The real Malay is a creature
of the forest or the sea, whence he
draws his livelihood. and it is but nat
ural that he should envelop his daily
and perhaps dangerous life with home
" philosophy.-R. Clyde Ford, in APP
pleton's Popular Science Monthly.
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The Cravens-Fair Case.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 20.-Mrs.
Nettie r. Craven filed a second petition
in the Superior Court to-day for fam
lily allowance from the estate of the late
James G. Fair. The petitioner, as in
the application filed some months ago,
sets forth that she is the widow of he
dead capitalist She states that no al
loWance has been made her from the
$l2Ot0,OO0 estate of Fair, the income
of which is 5000 a year. She asks
for an allowance of $1,000 month to
take effect from the date of Fairs
death on December %, 1891. 1t is said
that the filing of the petition heralds
the opening of the battle by Mrs.
Craven to establish her relation to Fair
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GENDER.
It's Humors, as ExempIifsed in Va
rious Languages

There is fun which the vulgar do not
ropean tongues, springing from the
same root. except Basque and Magyar
and Turkish, have been drilled into
uniformity of structure. They give no
notion of the tricks and complications
which savage men devise to express
their simple thoughts. But the reader
must not suppose I am more learned
than himself in this science; it is only
in miscellaneous skimming of books that
a few odd little examples have i'm
pressed themselves upon my memory.
Observe the detail of gender 1t
seems to US that nature itself has regu-
lated that matter once for all. In most
languages, of course, inanimate things
are treated as masculine or feminine:
everybody knows that our own fore
fathers did the same long ago. But, in
any case, made, female and neuter. gen.
ders exhaust the possibilities. You can
not have more than three genders. or
less than two, for the sexes must be
distinguished. So it appears to the
civilized mortal. But an Australian Of
DAILY River contrives to recognize four
While an Algonquin of North America
and a Dravidian of India have two. in
deed, but they are not male and fe-
male. For the Daily River person in
sises that plants shall have a gender Of
their own; the Algonquin and the Dra-
viGian agree that it is the distinction
of living and dead, not that of sex.
which should be maintained The great
Fulah nation also ignores male and fe-
male, making one comprehensive gender
for human beings and everything rela-
tive thereto. and another for all crea-
lures and things outside. Thus, tame
cattle are distinguishedfr from wild. and a
tree planted with intention from one
that springs naturally. Upon the other
hand, those poor. Americans have not
one gender to bless among themselves
with.
But the Australians of the Daily River
actually put gender into their verbs
Humane persons would not credit such
an outrage upon lower authority than
that OF the Rev. D. McKillop in charge
of Roman Catholic mission there.
Only to think of learning such a langu-
age gives one a shiver. We do not hear
how many moods go to a verb, but the
lenses are vaguely and awfully de-
scribed as endless; perhaps the rev.
erend gentleman had not yet succeeded
in counting them. Thirty-five are reck-
oned in the speech of the Basuto KAT
firs-no less do those interesting bar
barians require for conversation. But
they do not call upon them to agree
with the noun in gender as we'll as in
number and person. That is the ex-
elusive demand of the Mullok- Mulloks,
Cherries and Pongo-Pongas, among
whom Mr. McKillop and his brethren
spend their days, desperately wrest-
ling with the parts of speech. Another
contrivance, not exclusive, but more
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gether, Santa Clara County will make
good average showing this year.
ShankIin's Shortage.

FRESNO, April 2O.-Expert Alex
ander who is going over the books of
ex-City Clerk J. w. Shanklin, made his
first partial report to the Board of City
Trustees last night. His report so far
places the shortage of Shanklin at
81, 500. OF Ex- Marshal Woy the re-
port says: "I also find that license
Nc. 80, issued to the ST. George Vine
yard Company for the year from Sep
tcnlber Z, 1896, to September Z, 1897,
was raid to the City Marshal, but not
given ON any of his reports and stands
as a charge against the City Marshal.
The City Clerk had failed to charge this
license to Mr.. Woy''
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All Efforts to Delay the Execution Of the
Condemned Man Fail.
Acknowledgement Ford Decides
That Warden Hale, Whose Term
of Office Expired Yesterday, Has
Power to Act Until His Sue
cessor is Chosen, and the Gov
ernor Has Refused Executive
Clemency.

SAN QUENTIN, April 20.-George c.
Owens, the Modesto wife murderer, will
be hanged here tomorrow at 1920
O'Clock, despite the effort made by his
attorney to delay the execution on the
preteXt that there will be no Warden
at San Quentin tomorrow, Warden
Hale's term OF office having expired to-
day.
Attorney General Ford has decided
that Warden Hale has power to act
until his successor is chosen, and Gov
ernor Gage has refused executive elem
ency Therefore, the execution will rot
be delayed.
The condemned man is extremely ner-
vous- This morninst he wrote a note to
Captain Edgar, asking that no news
paper correspondents be allowed to visit
him What have to say to the world, >
he wrote, Il will proclaim from the
scaffold''
The condemned man has embraced
the Catholic religion. Father Lagan Of
San Rafael spent several hours with
him this afternoon. He will accompany
Owens to the scaffold tomorrow.
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The Mechanism of a Dream

L dreamed once that l was with a doc
tor in his surgery, and saw in his hand
note from a patient saying that doc
tors were fools and did him no good.
but he had lately taken some selvdrolla
| recommended by a friend, and it had
done him more good than anything. so
please send him some more. 1 saw
the note clearly, not, indeed, being con-
scious of reading it word by word but
only of its meaning as I looked al if !.
the one word / actually seemed to see
letter by letter. was the name of the
drug, and that changed and fuctuated
beneath my vision as I gazed at it.
the final impression being selvdroila
The doctor took from a shelf a bottle
containing bright yellow oleaginous
fluid, and poured a little out. remark
ing that it had lately come into favor.
especially in uric-acid disorders. but
was extremely expensive | expressed
my surprise, having never before heard
OF It, Then, again to my surprise, he
poured rather copiously from the bot
tie on to plate of food, saying, in ex-
PLANTATION, that it was pleasant to take
and not dangerous. This was a vivid
morning dream, and on awakening I
had no difficulty in detecting the source
OF its various minor details, especially a
note received on the previous evening
and containing a dubious figure the
precise nature of which I had used my
pocket lens to determine But what
was selvdrolla, the most vivid element
OF the dream? I sought vainly among
my recent memories, and had almost
renounced the search when l recalled a
large bottle of salad oil seen on the
supper table the previous evening; not,
indeed, resembling the dream bottle,
but containing a precisely similar fluid.
Selvdrolla was evidently a corruption
of salad oil" I select this dream to
illustrate the uncertainty of dream con-
sciousness, because it also illustrates
at the same time the element of GER
tainty in dream subconsciousness
Throughout my dream remained, con-
sciously, in entire ignorance as 10 the
real nature of selvdrolla, yet a latent
element in consciousness was all the
time presenting it to me in ever-clearer
imagery. Ellis, in Appleton S
Popular Science Monthly
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CURTIS & CO.'S MARKET, SOS K Street.

highly developed on the Daily River,
apparently, than in any other land or
age, is the infection of the adjective.
Besides singular and plural they have,
as we should expect, the dual, land
they are very strict about the use Of
it. One would say that the resources
Of human speech do not allow the plural
number to be formed unless by change
in the first or the last syllable of the
noun or the interposition of one mid
Way, as in Turkish. But Antipodean in
genuity is equal to the task. These
black fellows express the plural by
change, not in the noun but in the verb.
Upon the whole, there is no such lively
example of the perplexing rule that Ian
guage is more complicated, and more
scrupulous to interpret the speakers
me aning, in proportion to the barbarism
of those who use it. There are excep-
tons enough, of course.-Pall Mall Ga
zette.
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AFFAIRS IN CUBA.
The Situation in Santiago Province
Not at All Reassuring.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, April 20.-The
special committee appointed by the
Board of Trade to inquire into the mu-
nicipal tax situation made its report at
a public meeting to-day at the San Car
los Club According to the committee,
General Brooke's order abolished Ii
censes and all taxes except 8 per cent.
on the incomes from land. AT pres
ent only seven plantations are operat-
ing in the province, and no houses are
being rented in the towns.
The municipal revenues have been re-
duced from $4,000 to $1,000 per month
in Santiago. Public works and schools
must be stopped, 5000 persons are out
of employment, and as soon as the
small surplus is exhausted it will be
necessary to resume the free distribu-
tion of food in order to prevent star
walton. Outlawry is sure to follow.
1t was also shown in the report that
while the actual revenues of the island
are $15,OO0,OO0 a year, Santiago pro-
vince representing one-third of the
area and one-fifth of the population,
and collecting 100000 month, re-
ceived of this total only $4,000 from
Havana, moreover, is not allowed to
collect additional taxes of self-lmp Sad
nature.
HAVANA, April 2O.-Three cases of
yellow fever developed here to-day.
Mail advices to La Lucha' from
Manzanillo says that an American she'll
fired last summer during the lombard
ment of the town by the United States
warships exploded last Sunday, killing
three persons and wounding many ota-
ers. The shell had been fired into a
cafe called the Labyrinth of Gold,'
and workmen were digging it from un-
der the floor, where it had penetrated
deeply. The shell exploded, wreoking
the room.
The Spanish bankers are attempting
to corner silver, with a view of rails
ing its value. They are constantly
publishing reports of heavy shipments
to Spain.
Numerous requests are received from
various districts in the island for i'm
plements and seeds, not rations.
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TRAINED NURSES.
Six Sent to Manila on the New
port by the Red Cross.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 2O-The
New York Red Cross auxiliary for the
maintenance of trained nurses made a
departure in its methods to-day by
starting on the transport Newport six
female trained nurses selected in San
francisco for service in Manila This
society some time ago sent twelve
nurses off to similar service from New
York, the War Department distributing
them, four each, on the large trans
ports Grant, Sheridan and Sherman.
which We're successively sent out With
the first reinforcements from the East
to the Philippines Their ser
vices have already been reported as be
ing of the utmost value in the crowded
condition of the transports en- route, as
we'll as since their arrival
Their dispatches from Manila repre-
senting the need of assistance were
such that the society resolved to de-
vote its remaining funds to the same
purpose. The Chairman of its Com
mittee on Trained Nurses, Mrs White
law Reid, being in San Francisco, the
committee telegraphed asking if she
could not select the nurses here, and
forward them by heshortest route With
the aid Of San Francisco physicians and
Superintendents Of training schools and
hospitals, Mrs. Reid has accordingly Sc
lected here the following: Miss Mai V
Alice Burrell, who goes as Superintend-
ent of the party; Miss Margaret Bert-
ram, Miss Wiihelmina Dockrill, Miss
Mary d. Hambly, Miss Celina Hayden
and Miss Carrie L. Howard
Through the courtesy of Adjutant
General Corbin, the War Department
sent orders that these nurses should be
received on the Newport, and General
Babcock has taken great care to secure
suitable accommodations for them and
provide for their comfort. They all go
under a contract for six months SER
vice in the Philippines, and their ex-
penses and salaries are betrayed by
the Red Cross Committee.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid visited the New
port to-day to see that they were prop
eTly started. The committee hopes to
send good many more, either from
here or from New York.
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MISSOURI RIVER STILL RISING
ALMOST AT THE DANGER LINE
AT OMAHA.
Another Foot Will Flood a Large
Number of Houses in North
east Portion of City.

OMAHA, April 20.-The river is still
rising at this point and is now within
foot and a half of the danger line.
The lowlands on both sides of the river
are partially under water now. Some
houses in the northeast part of the city
are at present surrounded by back
wafer, and another foot will flood
large number, though it will require
much greater rise to reach any of the
manufacturing industries or large
warehouses.
The tracks of the Omaha Bridge and
terminal Company in East Omaha are
under water in places The water is up
tc the newly made grade of the Illinois
Central on the Iowa side, but no dam
age is reported as yet.
Reports from up river indicate a still
further rise at this point. At Pierre, the
river is practically on a stand, register
ing fifteen feet. The Northwestern has
repaired its break in it's tracks at Rous-
saau, and trains are moving again.
All along. the lowlands in Nebraska
and South Dakota from Sioux City
north the water is out of the banks, and
farmers have removed their stock and
belongings to places of safety.
AT { O'Clock tonight, despite the
frantic efforts of Swift & Co. to pre-
vent the water that had backed into
Florence Lake from breaking through
and flowing Cutoff Lake, the water be-
gan to pour over the west bank. The
stream at midnight is about thirty feet
With and over foot deep. Two years
ago the same thing happened, and it
was only by dint of the greatest exer-
tons that the river was prevented from
forming new channel on the Ne
braska side. A rise of another foot will
dc the business, and flood many plants
in the bottoms.
Dispatches from Yankton tonight saw
the river is over two miles wide there,
and great volumes of snow yet to melt
in the Black Hills
PORTIONS OF RAILROAD TRACKS
WASHED OUT.
TOPEKA, April 2O.-Heavy rains be-
tween Topeka and Kansas City late
Yesterday afternoon and continuing into
the night washed out portions of the
Santa Fe track near LIE Compton, and
also piece of track on the Union Pa
clflc near Lawrence. The Santa Fe
track at Lake View was covered with
water at midnight. All night trains
were tied up and badly delayed. The
Santa Fe trains for the West will be
run around the washout by way Of
Ottawa and Emporia.
ST. JOSEPH, April 20.-A waterspout
last night at Forbes, Mo-, twenty-five
miles north of here, washed out mile
OF Burlington tracks and did other great
damage.
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Anglo-American Literary Tie.

LONDON, April 20.-At the anniver-
sary dinner of the Literary Fund this
evening, United States Embassador
Choate, responding for Literature, -
emphas d the 'harmonizing and unity
ing power of good literature between all
peoples speaking the same language y
The Anglo American literary tie, he
continued, had never been broken and
never could be. America had sent
England an author who had entered
every home in the kingdom. He re-
ferred not to Mark Twain or to Mr..
Dooley" but to Captain Mahan, who
had taught England more than she
know of her power" In view of the
debt due literary men In the past, the
fund must rank, in Mr.. Choate's opin-
ion, foremost among London's wonder
full charities
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In Fear of a Neighbor.

STOCKTON, April 20-Mrs. Parker,
residing near Linden, complains to the
District Attorney that she is in fear of
Leroy Cottle, neighbor of hers, who,
she declared, had on one occasion fired
at her and her husband. That was some
time ago, but according to her state
ment, Cottle had frequently come to the
Parker place since then, armed with a
shotgun and apparently hunting for
trouble. The matter is being investi-
gated by the officers
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Episcopal See of Porto Rico.

NEW ORLEANS, April 20-Arch
bishop Chapelle was to-day officially in
formed by his eminence, Cardinal Ram
polla, Secretary of State to Leo XIII.
that the Holy Father had graciously
granted the Archbishop's request con-
cerning the Episcopal See of Porto Rico,
by appointing the Rev. James H Blenk,
s. NJ, Of New Orleans to fill it. Father
Blenk was for years President of JEFF
fersol College, and since 1896 has been
pastcr Of St. Mary's Church, Fifth Dis
trict Of New Orleans. He is a mem
bel of teaching and missionary order
in the church known as the Society of
Mary.
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Moore's Dog Returns,

NEVADA CITY, April 2O.-A dog
which fled with Ed H. Moore on the
morning, Of March 31st, just after
Moore. shot Night Watchman Kilroy to
death, returned to the vicinity of his
masters cabin before daylight, and was
positively identified. An attempt to
capture him failed. If he returns to-
night and is caught by the guard, an
effort will be made to have him lead a.
posse to Moore, in case the latter is Sc
creted in the vicinity, as the officers
suspect.
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War Court of Inquiry.

WASHINGTON, April 2O-The War
Court of Inquiry will hold one session
saturday afternoon for the purpose of
nearing further evidence. Major Lee
VIII make presentation in behalf of
General Miles, summing up what he
oianns the inquiry has developed in
stentiation of the Generals original
charges Another night session will pe
held to permit the reading of official re-
ports which still remain undisposed of.
To-day " as spent in going over the tes-
timony
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Congressman Hilborn's Remains.

WASHINGTON. April 2O.-The body
of Representative Samuel Hilborn Of
California will be placed in a vault here
tomorrow after funeral services in the
Congregational Church and Masonic
honors at the cemetery. Members of
Hope Lodge will be the active pail
bearers. The honorary pail bearers will
De Secretary Long, Ex-Governor Per
ham OF Maine, Rear Admiral Hichborn,
Associate Justice McKenna, Judge
Weldon of the Court of Claims, and S.
IL. Kaufman of this city.
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CROP OUTLOOK.
Santa Clara County Will Make a
Good Average Showing.

SAN JOSE, April 2O.-Reports from
all parts of the county indicate that the
hay crop will be good, and that the
grain VIII be short, unless more rain
comes 20 assist the heading. The crops
of pears, apples and peaches will be the
largest known in years. While the
APRICOT crop will not be up to the aver
age. il, viii be larger than was predicted
week ago. The prunes are dropping,
and light crop is looked for es-
p+cia'ly in the foothill section. Cher
ries are rot looking as well as they were
last week, and less than an average
.crop is counted upon. Taken alto
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Mere Perversity.

Oars one of de smallest mules in
dis CITY," announced the proud propri-
etor of an ashcart to one of his patrons
He unde'stan's eb-ry wod 1 say, same
like he wa pusson.'
Hardly, | guess. Tell him to go
ahead a httle.''
Cit up, dar, Sunshine!" and the mule
began to back
Look at that now"
Oats what Use tellin' you, boss. Eff
dat mule don't unde'stan' me pehfect,
how do he know how to do de opp'site
eb'ry time? He neber miss since 1 had
him, boss. Detroit Free Press.
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Accused of MansIaughter.

FRESNO, April 20.-Bert Church. 13
years old, son of Constable Church of
kingsburg, was given a preliminary
examination before Justice Walton yes
terday on a; charge of manslaughter. He
is accused of having killed a seven
year-old boy named Murphy While they
We're at play. The Murphy family is
prosecuting Church, who is said to be
an incorrigible. The court tool, the
case under advisement