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The San Francisco call., 1899-02-26

Committee here favorable recommendation Oh
the Warren amendments providing Tor tne con s
strlction of reservoirs under the ChlttenueIl
sllfvey and appropriating S50,OO0 Tor the survey
of one or more sites in every arid and seni-arlo
state If we can get this through the senate
and run the gauntlet OF the conference com
mittee it insures not only the surVey %. u b,,1
in California through the War Department, put
the building of the reservoirs, II the people VIII
only follow wise cotnsels and bury all sectlon-
alisn.
propriations in the river and harbor DILL they
have nothing to do with the GeoIoglcal survey,
and Assembly bill 53S, with the reference 70
Kings River stricken out, should be passed py
the California Legislature. because we are
bending every effort here to get the Geologlcal
Survey appropriation increased TO Slou.o 50
they will have ample funas nos, to;s 20
the State in surveys in California Il
Again, in your letter you say DelleNe IL
is a mistake 10 not pay the commissioner MS
legitimate expenses which he must ns at IL,
Is impossible for him TO 90 all requlreu vi MIN
without expense" s.,
In this you are mistaken because the duties
of the commissioner will be wholly perluhc-
tory and he need not incur any expense what-
seever in their discharge. In my previous letter
mailed to members of the irrigation committees
and to you 1 explained the only reason why II
cerely hope that you will not overlook the 1act
that surveys, although they may lnpounu
votes will not impound water. and that We are
working for the actual construction OF these
reservoirs and must adhere to a broad policy
which will unite not only the Whole state oL
California but the whole West. IN q polcy
which will lay aside all personal anu teat
selishness and work patiently 1or the Sie"'eS'
good to the greatest number -.
The policy of Federal reservoir construetlon
when finally adopted and firmly rooted. Is urItu u
enough to cover every locality ana community
and ALI must participate In its dement's yours
varv truIv GEORGE H. MAXWELL
Mr. Fairweather is engaged In ponder
ing upon the suggestions of Mr.. Maxwell
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-26

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, Feb. 25.-The belief that there
will be important changes in the Sena-
toriaI situation next week is gaining
strength every hour. Members of the
Legislature who are not directly or re-
motely connected with the machine"
or race track elements express the
judgment that Burns cannot win, but
all agree that the colonel will put up
hard fight to make some headway next
week
The assertion that the Southern Pa
cific people are growing uneasy and
apprehensive over the coloners failure
TO develop strength is not idle rumor.
Several agents of the company have
been here to size up the contest and
submit report of observations to Mr..
.Herrin.
Burns did have the impression firmly
fixed in, Herrin's mind that a caucus
would take place after few ballots.
When Dan failed to secure the caucus
at the time promised all the railroad
organs in the State. headed by the
Sacramento Record Union, joined in a
general whip-cracking to force the eau
Gus on the ground that the Republican
party demanded a speedy breaking of
the deadlock. simultaneously county
committee meetings were quietly work
ed up and prepared resolutions adopted
demanding that Senators and Assem-
blymen sign for caucus. Every in
tel1igent and Independent Republican in
the Legislature saw at once that the
appeal emanated from the railroad and
not from the people, and again the eau
Gus scheme failed.
When the history in detail of the
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-26
Two vetoes Sent In.

CALL HEADQUARTERS. SACRA-
MENTO. Feb. Ex-Governor Gage to-day
marked his veto on Assembly bills Isl and
2Ss, and George Root; Clerk lor OF the the Su-
preme Court, is going back home MAD.
Bill 2S7. to which 2SS was supplemental,
was designed to allow Mr.. Re Root tos another
clerk and a stenographer. BIZ 2Se raised
one of his deputies to the RANK .sSo Oh chler
deputy and raised his salary SoW per an
mum. Governor Gage merely explains that
there is really no need OF another GleIk h
and typewriter. and that there nave neen
plenty of clerks in times past Wno WeIe
willing to work as common deputies al the
old rate of $500 per annum -, A.,
In vetoing Assembly bill loS. oy AIner-
ich of Santa Clara. the Governor ives
other reasons. He says for one tning lAtt
Mr.. Arnerich's English is not al I,s II s14u-l ,L
be for legislator, and he says also thal.
as Mr.. Arnerich's bill reads. IL WouIu tr
nossibie 10 bankrupt the State in vetT
Short time if its provisions were auhered
to to the letter. ,,+;,,o ,a7
Assembly bill 15s creates quaraIniIlhe II, on
GERS who may establish quarantine reeu,
Iations on infected fruit trees imported
into or exported from this state. As ~ Is
constructed there is no limit TO the powers
of the officers it creates or any LInIt 70
the salaries that may be PAID Inc GO'-
ernor of a consequence Objects
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that he did not propose to take orders
from Dan Burns and the Southern Pa
cific Company even through the med
tum of the committee of one of the
counties within his Senatorial district.
In making this assertion he expressed
the sentiments of others who, like him,
are voting for Grant Senator Boyce
believes that the railroad is behind the
scheme to boom Bard for Senator. He
also believes that Mr.. Bard has no
knowledge of this fact.
The Grant men have refused to have
anything to do with the proposition to
hold a conference of Republican legis-
lators Monday afternoon for the same
reason that they refuse to consider
Bard as legitimate factor in the Sen
atorial fight. They contend that such
conference as the one proposed is ad-
vocated solely for the purpose of max
ing it stepping-stone to secret eau
Gus. All who have the slightest knowl
edge of the situation know that Sc
cret caucus is the only means by which
Burns can hope to win. The Grant
people declare that if he cannot win
legitimately and in the open he shall
not win at all, and for that reason
they intend to oppose every scheme
that has for it's object the holding of
secret caucus.
The call for the proposed conference
provides that there shall be no discus
sion of the merits of any particular
candidate that no vote shall be taken
as to any candidate, and that no vote
taken on any matter brought before the
conference will be binding. To the man
in the middle of the road this appears
on it's face to be the veriest nonsense
that sober and presumably intelligent
legislators ever gave ear to. Still, al
most fifty of them have signed the call
and will, presumably, take part in the
rag-chewing match tomorrow after
noon.
1t is easy to tell in advance what will
be done on the part of the Burns con-
tingent at the conference. Such we'll
known and justly celebrated orators as
Dibble, Johnson and ShCrtridge will be
present in force and will tell the assem-
bled legislators that the only way to
break the Senatorial deadlock is for all
to agree to become parties to- that
time honored and noble institution the
secret caucus" This will be the burden
of their song, and if they can succeed
in convincing any one of their hearers
that the glitter of their sophistry is
pure gold they will have gained a point
for Burns.
Small wonder that the Grant adher-
ents are not in favor of a conference
that can only serve to give to the Burns
orators a chance to tell of the great
things that may be accomplished by
secret caucus.
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A LEGISLATURE OF
A THOUSAND JUNKETS

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, Feb. 25.-Following the excellent
example set before it by the Senate, the
Assembly has gone shy on its working
capital.
Attaches whose appointments were au-
thorized and attaches who are simply
working on a ''shoe string" that is to
say. no authorized appointment at all,
have pocketed the better part of the AS
sembly's cash and more must be had. An
other item of expense that has footed up
no small total has been created by the
weekly junketing trips of the different
standing committees. If some one of the
State institutions has needed a S1500 ice
making plant or a few hundred yards of
new wire fence it has cost $500 or $500 to
send out the Ways and Means and Public
Buildings committees to look into 1t. 1t
has come to be the practice here to bunch
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-26
FAIRWEATHER WAS
LOCALLY JEALOUS
A Letter From Washington Ex-
plains Conditions of State
Irrigation.
HEAnOuARTERS

CALL HEADQUARTERS. SACRA-
MENTO, Feb 25.-In his jealous efforts
to get the Government to build irrigation
bitches and impounding dams in Fresno
County AssembIyman Fairweather has at
tracted the attention of the officials OF
the Geodetic and Geological Survey at
Washington.
A month or more ago Mr.. Fairweather
introduced Assembly bill 538, which pro-
vides that a commissioner shall be ap-
pointed to co-work with the Geodetic sur
veyors in making surveys in the San
Joaquin Valley and other arid lands, Tor
reservoir sites, dams and other appurte-
nances to the impounding and storing OF
water. The bill further provided that the
first work should be done in the Kings
River Valley in Fresno County.
Fairweather has made a hot fight for MS
bill and has evidently sent some glowing
mes MESSAGES hbf 10 ,he foIawins reply. copy
of which every member OF the Assembly
received to-day:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. 1S99.-Hon John
Fairweather Assembly Chamber. Sacramento
Cal-Dear Sir: L have received yours OF the
sth inst and in reply wish to say that in II
You make some statements which are incorrect
and as YOU are no doubt making them to your
colleagues, l shall send copy OF this letter
to every member 80 they will all know the
Referring to the proviso in Assembly bill 5SS
that surveys shall be made on Kings River you
iIf we are beaten out of that proviso we will
not see cent in the San Joaquin Valley"
This is a statement that should not be made
The Geological Survey assure US that surveys
will be made Kings River, but it is their
desire if sufficient funds can be made avail
able to begin work simultaneously in the San
Joaquin Valley and in Southern California.
Furthermore, under Senate resolution, they
have just prepared a report as to surveys for
reservoirs (Senate document No I6. Fifty
fifth Congress, third SESSION. and on page 10
thereof Mr.. Newell, speaking OF the San Joa-
quin Valley, says: THE most pressing need
Of reservoirs, however, is probably on the head
water of Kings River.
Again, under this bill, the Governor, through
his commissioner has control of the location OF
surveys and. as Governor of the whole State.
would unquestionably consider the relative
needs of every section.
Under these circumstances, it is questioning
the good faith and fairness of the Geological
Survey and of the Governor to insert such
clause in the bill and you have no basis for
any such statement that quoted above. It's
insertion would of course enable you to make
to your constituents the statement quoted from
your letter to your own advantage, but such
sectional and personal considerations should
have no recognition in framing a measure OF
this nature.
The greatest difficulty we have to overcome
in the regeneration of our irrigation situation
In California is this narrow and selfish disposi-
ton to grab for petty local advantages without
regard to benefits broad scale for the
whole commonwealth l would regret very
much to see this Legislature indorse your very
narrow and mistaken policy.
We have secured from the Senate Commerce
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Important Changes in the Situation Predicted
for This Week.
BURNS LAST DESPERATE EFFORT
The Mexican Is Given Until Next Wednesday to Bring to
Light His Boosted Supporters or Lose Much Of His
Present Backing

Senatorial struggle is written facts VIII
be produced showing that unspeakable
efforts were employed to force members
of the LEGISLATURE to subscribe to the
caucus proposition. The wives ana Sis
terS of legislators were 1mportuned 10
use their influence to bring about the
result. Anonymous letters threatening
exposure of moral delinquencies on the
path of legislators were sent to ladies'
Meanwhile the touts and persons de-
irving a livelihood from the gambling
propensities of the public assembled
here in swarmS and openly predicted
that Burns had won the fight. The only
result of the great hubbub was the de-
sertion from Bulla to Burns of poor old
Simpson.
Tonight the story is circulated and
generally credited that Burns must
drag forth his staked-out men in the
open light of the joint convention.
Wednesday next is the day designated
for the dragging out. In this connec-
ton the statement is also made that
Herrin demanded and obtained a list
of the members of the Legislature that
could be counted on to support Burns
on the final roundup. The Call is in
formed that the list contains the names
of Senators and AsSemblymen who
never will consent to vote for Dan
Burns.
The men who have in their hands the
mana agement of the Senatorial candi-
dacy of U. S. Grant declare that with
possibly two or three exceptions the
legislators who are voting for him now
will vote for him to the end and will
resist any inducements that may be of
fered them to cast their votes for
Thomas r. Bard. Some days ago Sen
ator Boyce, when instructed by the
Ventura County Committee to change
his vote from Grant to Bard, replied
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-26
Two Bills Favored.

CALL HEADQUARTERS. SACRA-
MENTO, Feb Ex-Governor Gage this
morning sent word to the Assembly that
he had approved Assembly bill $40, by
johnson. and Assembly bill 3OS, by Brown
of San Mateo. 49, 40
Assembly bill $40 appropriates $4,000 to
be expended for a sewerage system at
Folsom State Prison.
Under special urgency it was rushed
through the Senate this morning and sent
back to the Assembly.
II was then sent TO the Governor, who
lost no time in giving it his signature.
Bill 30S by Brown. takes the appoint
ment of State Library Trustees out of the
hands of the Legislature and bestows the
privilege upon the Governor.
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-26

the legislators who want to spend Sunday
with their families or visiting in San
Francisco and send them off with the
Committee on Public Morals or some
other equally useful body and pay them
10 cents mile to get out of town. This
is coming to be q Legislature of a thou
costing a small barrel of money.
new definition has evidently been put
on that abused old saw about economy.
To anticipate the deficit two appropria-
ton bills were rushed through their first
readings to-day in the Assembly in almost
as short time as it takes to write It,. One
of them carries an appropriation of $1,000
for contingent expenses. The other $1,000
for clerk hire and like expenses.
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-26
San Quentin Hospital.

CALL HEADQUARTERS. SACRA-
MENTO. Feb. 25.-A special Senate COM
mittee. consisting of five members each
from Finance and Claims. State Prisons
and Prison Buildings and Hospitals.
Health and Quarantine committees, left
this afternoon for San Quentin, where 1t
pital for the use of the State for the con-
struction of which there is a bill now be-
fore the Senate. 1t is to adjoin the State
prison buildings and become part of that
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-26

for printing offices in the prisons and hos
pitais as at the university.
Rowell defended the Regents. He said
they had handled millions of money and
for the thirty years they had run the in
stftution they had never had scandal.
He said there was prejudice against the
university in the Senate and he did not
the printing Office at the college is run
partly by the students and that they turn
out the work at a cost much less than at
the State office. The amendment was lost,
however, and the university office must
suffer
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-26
Senatorial Time Limit Shortened.

CALI HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO. Feb. 25-The scheme in the
Senate now is to save time by cutting
short the burning words that the orators
like to fling around the Senate chamber.
The Committee on Rules submitted a re-
port this morning which recommended the
adoption of a rule cutting speakers from
ten to- five minutes and the authors of
bills who wish to speak on their measures
from twenty to ten minutes. The report
was made a special order for Monday.
The bill providing for the examination
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-26

80 reoistration of plumbers came back
arlu frnn the Committee on Hospitals, Health
and Quarantine with nc, RECOMMENDATION.
- to ~ the session and the bill made many
Changes in the existing laws, it would not
pass upon it. ..z . .,.,
So hie notice of a motion to reconsider
tba - " nasssge of the coyote bounty bill, but
Royce objected. II was set Tor MONDAY,
wbsn II will probably be withdrawn. for
pnvce,s affection was more on question
of procedure than in opposition to the
xUit hdraWaI
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-26
Dase ad bv Her Husband.

Mrs August Hall of 913 Montgomery
street reported at the California-street
police station yesterday that her husband
had deserted her day or two ago, ieay-
ing her penniiess. He worked formerly in
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-26

OLD GROOVE VOTING.

, CALL HEADQUARTERS, SAC
{ RAMENTO, Feb. 25.-But one
Senatorial ballot was taken to-
. day, and it resulted in no change.
Affairs have got quite into their
) old groove again. There were no
lachrymose legislators who needed
|, the salve of sympathy. and 1t
5 transpired that Willie Hearsts
} flight across the Senatorial horl-
zon was merely meteoric. AS
binding effu1gence Willie was
glittering success for a minute,
but he didn't last. Stephen M.
, White, a Democrat, was again the
3 favorite.
The vote was as follows:
BARNES NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
ESTEE ...................... ,
BULLA Observation-Disclosures. 10
BURNS .......................
GRANT
BARD
SCOTT
DE VRIES.
ROSENFELD ..,2
, w f1l1h ....................... .19
TI1ELAN .......................
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Hoods SaadabaaM
2 I:2:lrfg

Hoods Pills cure liver ills; the non-irritat-
ing and only cathartic to take with Hoods
Sarsaparilla.
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Weak Men and Women

HOULD USE DAMIANA BITTERS, THE
- great Mexican remedy; gives health ana
strength To- sexual organs. Depot. SzS Markse
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-03-23
Almost Dissected.

The body of John Mortenson, the
young man who, committed suicide at
North st. Paul, was found awaiting
dissection at a Minneapolis medical col
lege and the discovery caused de-
cided sensation, among the friends of
the unfortunate man. The undertaken
who had charge of the remains was
notified that the body must be pro-
duced for interment at North st. Paul
cemetery or the consequences will re-
suit seriously. An investigation will
be made by the friends, who will try
to ascertain how body could be sold
for dissecting purposes after provision
has been made for a proper burial.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-03-23

EMMY, ''and thou thyself, see it.
Behold!"
So saying, he wound up his musical
box under cover of the skirt of his
loose robe, and then, feigning to. pick
up stone, he placed the box-whose
gritty surface made it look exactly like
one-on the bowlder beside him and
called out to it:
"Give forth music!"
The first notes of, ""Die Wacht. "a m
had scarcely foated. on the air
when they were drowned by howl of
dismay from the robbers, who turned
and fled as if lion were chasing them.
One let fall his gun; another broke his
head against a rock a third fell
sprawling into ditch; fourth upset
one of his flying comrades and tumbled
over him. Never was there more COM
plete "stampede," and so long as Prof.
Altenstein remained in that part of the
country no one ventured to modest him
any more. Golden Days. @@,..&
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-03-23
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Col. John T. West.

In excellent health to all outward
appearances, and in the best of spirits,
with absolutely no premonition of the
sudden summons that was at hand,
Colonel John 7, West dropped dead be-
hind the desk of the West Hotel in
Minneapolis, the evening of March Is.
Il Col. John T. West was born in Phila-
delphia in 1s47. q He spent the greater
part of his boyhood in, Baltimore.
Three years after the war broke out,
when but a.-lad Of II, he joined the
confederate army and servedsun the
close Of the war. T.. h. -. ...@s.-.,
Colonel West came to Minneapolis in
1875. A short time afterward he be-
came: the proprietor of the Nicollet
House, which. he conducted withssignal
success. In the early eighties Colonel
Vests uncle, the late Charles w. West,
began the construction Of the palatial
hotel that today: ranks as one of the
very finest in the whole country. -:
=. Associated, in. the building of the
hotel was Colonel John T. West. Upon
him 'devolved the completion and main
tenance of this magnificent structure.
In November, 1884, the splendid edi6ce
was completed. Since then, down to
the day of his death, Colonel West has
conducted y y the hotel ae ! that bears his
name. ;j
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-03-23
Eiremen'S Tournament.

The executive committee of the
Northern Minnesota Firemen's Tourna-
mcnt association have formulated rules
to govern the June meeting of the as
ISOLATION, to be held in East Grand
Forks on the 21st and 22d of that
month. The races provided for are the
association hose race, hook and ladder
service list, ladder climbing contest,
coupling contest, combination hook
and ladder and hose race, service wet
test and hub-and-hub race.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-03-23
Not q Good Indian.

O-Ge-Te-Be, a full-blooded Sioux In
dian, and a superb physical specimen
of his race, is a prisoner at the Henne-
pin county jail, awaiting trial on the
charge of murder. O-Ge-Te-Be is a
Mile L.tcs Indian. He got drunk re-
Gently With several of his particular
friends, and when one of them was
asleep gratified his passion for ex:lte-
ment by taking club and deliberately
beating Che head of the sleeping man
into jelly.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-03-23
Waiter in q Dilemma.

It was in one of the large downtown res.
taurants that the short little woman and
her tall husband went to dinner one night.
"Will you have oysters?" asked the man,
Changing over the bill of fare.
tried in vain to touch her toes to the floor.
"'And, John, want hassock."
John nodded and, as he handed his order
to the waiter he said: eyes, and bring a
hassock for the lady,
zone hassock?' asked the waiter, with
what John thought more than ordinary in
the waiter did not 90. but ut brushed the table
cloth with towel and rearranged the ar
ticles on it several times, while his face got
very red. Then he came around to Johns
side and, speaking soto voce, said: HSay,
mister, I haven't been here long, and Pm
not on to all these things: Win the lady
Chronicle
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-03-23
Arms Are Shipped.

Captain Bobleter made shipment of
1900 stands Of arms, received the day
before by the edjutant general from
the Rock Island arsenal. Each COM
pany in both the Second and Third
regiments Of the guard will receive 60
guns. Shipments were made as fol-
lows by the military storeleeper: Sec
ond regiment, Company A, New Ulm;
Company B, Faribault; Company C,
Winona; Company D, Fairmont; Com
pany E, Winona; Company F, Spring
Valley; Company G, Austin; Company
H, St. James; Company I, Albert Lea,
and CompanyK, Waseca. Third regi-
ment, Company A, Duluth; Company
B, .Anoka; Company c, Duluth; Com
pany d, Zumbrota; Company F, Fergus
Falls; Company G, Duluth; Company
H, Olivia. The guard will not be pro-
vided with suits until provision is made
by the legislature for their payment.