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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-27
MARTIN KELLOGG METcALr.
Receives the Appointment of a Ca
detship at ANNAPOLIS.

BERk ELEY, April 26.-Mart:n KeI-
logg Mefcalf of Berkeley to-day re-
celVed the appointment to the cadetship
at the Annapolis Naval Academy from
the Inlrd Congressional District The
appointment was made by Congress-
Ihan-eiect Victor H. Metcalf, upon 1e-
commentator of the Board of Exam
liners.
Young Metcaif is the son of George D.
Metca1f OF Bushnell Place He is also
d nephew OF Martin ]. kellogg. Presi-
cent OF the University of California.
Whiie in the Berkeley High School he
belonged to the Glass of 1900. and his
popularity among the pupils gained for
MIN the manasership of the High
School track team for 1898. He is not
relative, of Congressman Ntetcalf
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STORM IN NEBRASKA.
Wind and HaiIstones Do Great
Damage at st. Edwards.

. OMAHA, April pa speeitl to the
Bee from st. Edwards, Neb., says:
A terrific windstorm swept lover this
place tonight, doing a great deal of
damage to property and injuring sew
eral persons. The wind was accom-
panied by hail, which covered the
ground to the depth of two inches Some
of the hail stones measured five inches
in diameter.
Two and a half miles south of town
the house. of Mr.. Russell was blown to
pieces. The family took refuge in a
cave and escaped injury. The barn and
granaries We're destroyed, and consider
able livestock killed. Leon Sisson, liv
ing near here, had his barn, granaries
and kitchen torn down. AT the farm
of w. A. McCutchin the house was
wrecked, trees torn up and livestock
killed. Several persons were injured
The storm passed to the northwest,
tearing down fences and destroying
considerable property.
Everybody in st. Edwards went into
caves or cellars. Hail broke most Of
the windows in town.
Meager reports of damage come from
the country, but it is feared that some
lives have been lost.
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Mazet Committee Investigation.

ALBANY On ". April 26.-Majority
ana minority reports from the Mazet
committee We're submitted to the As
sembly to-day. The former asks for
more power in the scope of investiga-
tlon, ana urges that the committee be
empowered to sit ad libitum during leg
lslatlve vacation. The latter urges the
utility OF further investigation, and
prays the Assembly to discharge the
committee. Accompanying the major
lty report was a resolution empowering
the committee to investigate county as
we'll as city officials and departments.
"A vote was then taken upon the
adoption OF the majority report, and it
was adOpted-S5s to g.
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Confederate DECORATION Day.

VICkSBURG, April 26.-The Con-
federate Decoration Day ceremonies to-
day were probably the most notable
which have ever occurred here. a detach-
ment of seventy-five marines and sail
ors from the United States gunboat
The Glue Jackets were heartily cheered
by Company 81, U. G. V They wheeled
into line just behind the old soldiers,
and received a tremendous ovation all
along the line of march, and at the GEM
etery. Several officers of the gunboat
also took part in the exercises.
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SAN PEDRO HARBOR.
THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANS
HOLDING A JUBILEE
In Honor of the Commencement of
Work on the Government
Breakwater.

SAN PEDRO, April 26.-The great iu-
bilee in which all of Southern California
is participating, began here to-day. The
celebration is in honor of the beginning
OF actual work on the breakwater the
Government is building here
An immense crowd gathered in this
niue seaport town to-day, the people
coming from all parts of California. and
even from Arizona, to participate in The
events of the jubilee.
At IL O'Clock this morning ms Anca
les TIME, President Mckinley pressed an
eiectrlc button in the White House. and
lashed signal over the wires of the
fostai Telegraph Company, for the first
oaiee Ioad OF rock to be deposited on
.He preakWater site. The arrangements.
were perfect, and the affair passed off
without hitch. Following this literary
exercises were held, when addresses
were made by United States Senators
George c. Perkins and Stephen NJ.
Whlte, Colonel S. A. Houghton, Thomas
b. G1bbon, George c. Patton. viii A.
Harris and others.
Inc speakers gave a review of the
work done by the citizens of Southern
California, the newspapers. the railroad
companies and the representa- tiyes in
Congress for the harbor project from its
beginning down to the present day. and
several of the speakers also INDUCED in
nights OF fancy in depicting the future
of Southern California under the int1u-
ence of the harbor at San Pedro.
An immense multitude, variously esti-
mated at from $4,000 to 25.O0O PEOPLE
were fed on barbecued beer. beans
bread, CLAIMS and coffee at noon. Sew
eral bands discoursed music While the
people We're being served by 200 wait
ers and an army of coffee boys. Tt was
the largest barbecue ever attempted in
Southern California, and was a success
Tor no one went away hungry Fifteen
thousands pounds of beef, l ,25O pounds
of beans, 25,000 buns, 500 pounds of
coffee and five tons of clans were used
up.
Tonight there was a grand i1Iuminat-
ed display ON the harbor, which could
be seen from all the country around.
From boats moored in the harbor and
from Dead Mans Island skyrockets.
bombs and fireworks We're exploded.
Tomorrow the celebration will be
continued at Los Angeles, when a grand
parade and other exercises viii be
given
CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE
PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, April 26-The Presi-
dent at 1:3O thiss afternoon dispatched
the following telegram from the White
House:
Executive Mansion, Washington, April
Goth:
Charles c. Davis, Chairman Commit
tee on Literary Exercises, San Pedro
Jubilee, Los Angeles, Cal: I am glad
to have the opportunity of joining with
those who to-day celebrate the begin
ming Of the work on San Pedro harbo-.
Accept my congratulations and best
wishes. WILLIAM M'KINLEY."
The occasion of the sending of the tel
egram was the placing of the first barge
load of rocks on the breakwater or.
dered to be built at San Pedro for the
purpose OF opening a deep-water har-
Dor there.
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And the Town Of Wardner Suddenly Turned
Into an Armed Camp.
Non-Union Workmen Forced by the
Strikers to Turn Back From the
Mines on Penalty of Death-A
Shot Fired at a Door Behind
Which Working Miners Were
Believed to Be in Hiding.

WARDNER Odaho). April 26.-The
first shot has been fired, and the place
has suddenly been TURNED into an armed
The strikers were in session all night
long at their hall. AT $50 O'Clock a
company of men headed by President
Boyle. started up the canyon They
halted a short distance from the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan mine Soon after in
little punches came the non-union min
ers to go tc work They were stopped
by the strikers, and Boyle urged them
not to go to work. One or two of the
nom union men tried to push through the
crowd of strikers, but were forced back,
with the remark that the union did not
intend the men to go to work.
Then T. S. Murray, leader of the
strikers, pulled. a big. revolver, which
he leveled at bunch of Bunker Hill
employees.
i tell you what the proposition is"
he shouted. You walk down that hill
again inside of four minutes, or else go
down some other way"
He drew his watch, and as he counted
the seconds the working miners faltered
and started down the hill A half dozen
of them went into Blacks boarding
house. on the main street of the town
They were pursued into the house by
the strikers
What will we do with them" shout
ed somebody
Run them down the canyon" was
the reply.
With that they started the non union
men toward the foot of the town DR..
France, Coroner and physician of the
hospital, demonstrated
I'VE will run you out of town. too"
some one shouted, and one of the strik-
ers struck him in the face.
The doctor stepped aside, and was not
further molested.
The strikers then dispersed and the
non-union men We're invited into a
friendly saloon, and later returned to
the boarding house
Later in a fight between a number
OF strikers and the men from the
Bunker HILL one of the union men fired
the initial shot of the strike. 1t was
directed at door behind which some
OF the working miners were believed to
be in hiding
Tonight no attempt was made to in
terfere with the working force. and
about eighty men went on duty when
the shifts changed
sherlH Young arrived from Wallace
to-day To night armed men are on
guard both at. the Bunker Hill mine
and the mill. They halt all corners.
and demand the countersign.
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Cigars Seized at Los Angeles.

: LOS ANGELES, April 26.--Deputy
Louis Noah of the Internal Revenue
service made a seizure to-day of several
thousand cigarssthe boxes of which were
stamped with the famous counterfeit
stamp which has been giving the de-
partment so much trouble of late. Inc
stamp is a splendid imitation of the
regular eighteen-cent stamp. and was
detected originally through the color
and the lack of care with which the
stars on the stamp were engraved
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Cutting Expenses.

SAN FRANCISCO. April 26.-Tne
State Board of Harbor Commissioners
has resolved to- reduce expenses by dis
charging. number of men now carried
on the payroll whose services it is be-
lieved can be dispensed with. The sala-
ries of those said to have been marked
for dismissal aggregate over 81 900 a
month, and a still further cut is to be
made
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CLAIMS TO BE AN HEIREss.
A Young Girl Under Arrest on a
Charge Of Vagrancy.

SAN FRANCISCO, April IA young
woman known as Mildred Wilson, VINO
was arrested few days ago on
charge of vagrancy, claims to be heir
ess to property valued at hals a million
dollars. Daniel Webster, an engineer at
Mare Island, who raised the girl, says
she was born at Burke's Point, Butler
County, Mo-, and is now IT. years o.
age Her father whose name was Whit
taker, owned nearly the half of Butler
County,, and she and her sister, who
is now living at Cairo, ILL.,, were the
sole heirs to the estate. The girl re-
Gently ran away from her home in VAL
lejo with a soldier, who has gone to
Manila ftr
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A MONSTER COMBINE.
Talk Of All Iron and Steel Interests
Pooling Issues.

PITTSBURG, April 26.-The Com
mercial Gazette" tomorrow will say
that negotiations are on foot for merg-
ing of the National Steel Company, cap
italized at $50 100000; the American
Tinplate Company, $50,000.OOO, and the
American Steel Hoop Company, $685.
UO0.000, into single stock company
1t is said by leader of one of the
interests that the deal will go through
and he states further that the ultimate
object is to combine all iron and steel
interests of the country, which will in
clude the Federal Steel Company, the
American Steel and Wire Company, the
Carnegie Company and the Union Steel
and Chain Company, together with
Rockefeller. A rough estimate of the
capitalization of this vast combine is
placed at $500,0O000O
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PACIFIC GROVE, April 26.-The
Santa Clara Association of Congrega-
tional Churches closed its annual spring
meeting here tonight. The associa-
ton held three sessions during the day,
two OF. them being devoted exclusively
to business. In the evening Rev. j.
Borro of Santa Cruz spoke ON Our
Debt. to the Spirit of Missions" and
Rev. H. NJ. Lumey of San Jose deliv-
cred an address on THE White Mans
Burden
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The Ranger to Go to Manila.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 26.-The
United States ship Ranger has just had
her dock trial at Mare Island, and will
soon be ready to go into commission, a
new ship to all intents and purposes.
She Will be sent to Manila as soon as
she is ready. On account of her light
draught, she viii he valuable addi-
ton to Admiral Dewey's feet.
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TRIAL OF MRS. GEORGE.
The Case Likely to Be Given to the
Jury This Afternoon.

CANTON (O.J, April .26.-7The closing
argument in the trial of Mrs. George
was in progress when court adjourned
this evening. Prosecuting Attorney
Pomerene began his argument shortly
after o'clock, and will probably occupy
the greater part, if not all, of to-mor-
row forenoon in completing it.
1t is now thought the jury will be
charged Immediately after the noon re-
cess on Thursday.
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A Forty-Niner Passes AVA.

STOCKTON, April pa. B. Bennett
one OF the pioneers who reached San
FRANCISCO ON the ship Salem on March
IL 1919, died tonight in this city. He
was one OF the first peace officers of the
state, and framed the afterward ia
nous mining laws of the Columbia Dis
tflct, which for years stood as the model
laws for miners in this State. He was
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-27
Knocked Out in Third Round.

STOCKTON, April 26.-Rufe Turner
of this city knocked out DOC" Flynn of
the Olympic Club of San Francisco in
the third round of what was TO have
been a ten-round fight before the Stock
ton Athletic Association tonight. A
well directed swing on the chin ended
F'lynn's chances of a decision Jack
Mahon and Kid Johnson fought an
eight-round draw as a preliminary.
Mahon was handicapped with bad
knee
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Moore in Jail at Nevada City.

NEVADA CITY. April 26.-Ed Moore,
Policeman Kilroy's murderer, was safe
ly landed in Jail here at 5 o'clock this
morning The officers brought him in
carriage from Colfax, sixteen miles
away. outwitting hundreds of men and
boys, who stayed up till midnight ex-
pecting he would come by rail.
At every station on the Central Pa
cific hundreds of people gathered to get
a glimpse of Moore. Many Irewspa per
men tried to interview him, but he
would not talk
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Jeet me to the charge of being an ex-
panslonlst. | plead guilty to the ir-
dactment- and find myself in most ex-
allied company"
senator Frye then mentioned the sew
eI dd vast acquisitions of territory since
the establishment of the Government
TO show that expansion has always
been the nations policy
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Holocaust in Hungarx

BUDAPEST, April 26-About 100
houses of the town of Guta, in the Com
bin district, have been burned The
charred remains of seven women and
four children have been recovered from
the ruins, but it is feared there are
more victims.
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the first deputy of the veteran Sherlil,
Thomas Cunningham, serving as MS
Under Sheriff during the first term q
that officer. He was born in Brooklyn'
N Y, in 1892. He was never married,
and his only living relative.sis a hali-
sister, whose home is in San Francisco.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-27
Prof. Fryer Going to China.

BERKELEY, April y. = Professor
John Fryer, head of the Department of
Oriental Languages and Literature in
the University of California, will leave
on Friday for a three months trip to
China. Professor Fryer goes in the in
terest of the Chinese Imperial Govern
ment to consult on several educational
matters. the chief of which is the es-
Enlistment of Chinese University at
Marking
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Killed by a Train of Freight Cars.

SAN FRANCISCO, April ga man
having the appearance of a 1aborer was
run over and killed by train of freight
cars on the railroad near the water
front to-night. He is supposed to have
fallen under the wheels in the dark
ness.
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Boys Waists,
Special at SOC.

Gives you choice from our
regular S5c quality of the
Mothers Friend boys 1aunder-
ed shirt waist with detachable
button band with either small
or sailor collar; made of madras
cloth in pretty stripes and
plaids; ages A to IA years
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Banker speyer at San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, April .2s.--Jalnes
Speyer of New York City, President of
the. New York and London banking
house of Speyer & Co.. has arrived il
this city. He will be a guest at an
Ella borate banquet to be given to-mor-
row night at the Palace Hotel by the
local heads of the Southern Pacific to
President C. P. Huntington and General
Hubbard, First Vice President of the
company.
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Mofat Bests PurcelI.

ST. LOUIS, April 26.-Jack Moffatt OF
Chicago received the decision against
Frank Purcell of San Francisco at the
end of twenty rounds here tonight.
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Pardons Granted by the President.

WASHINGTON, April 26.-The Pres
ident has COMMITTED the sentence of
FRANK odell and William Lamoreux.
convicted in Wyoming in 1896, for man
slaughter and sentenced for a term of
four years, In the case of James G.
Martin, William Christie, Horace T.
Iaylor and Burnett G. Haskell, con-
victed IN California of trespass on pub
lie lands and sentenced to pay fine
OF $'Ul and stand committed to Jail
until paid, the President has granted a
paldon.
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VAST RESOURCES
OF UNITED STATES.
Its Wonderful Progress in the Line
of Production.
What Should Be Done for the Development
Of Foreign Commerce.

All Necessary Facilities for Deep
Draught Ships Must Be Pro-
vided For, and All Our Imports
and Exports Carried in Our Own
Ships and Under Our Own
Flag-A Great Future For the
Commerce of the Pacific.
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odessa says three non-commissioned Of
ficers, an officer and four prNates have
been killed by an explosion which oc-
CURED in one Of the barracks there. In
addition six men We're injured, ~.
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Boys Waists,
Special at 1OC.

Pretty calico, blouse and shirt
waists for boys; the regular csc
kind; principally in dark colors;
all neat patterns, and we'll
made; ages 8 to IA years.
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A solano County Pioneer Dead.

SUISUN, April 26.-William Cook, a
pioneer resident of Birds Landing, is
dead in his seventy-third year.
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Chinese Actors and Performers.

CHICAGO, April 26.-Ching Ling Foo.
the Chinese conjurer, and his troupe,
were discharged to-day from the Gus
tody of the United States authorities by
United States Judge Kohlsaat, who
thereby determined an important point
in the attitude of the United States to-
ward Chinese actors and performers,
Because he is an actor and not a
laborer, it is decided that the alien
labor law does not apply to the con-
jurer.
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Women's Vests,
Special at &c

Is the mark you'll find on our
regular 121ac values in women's
low neck jersey ribbed fancy,
striped vests, neck and arms run
with tape, colors' pink and white
and blue and white.
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Ladies' Hose,
Special at 1SC.

Women's hosiery, which you've
many times paid CSC for regu-
lar; they're fast black, full fin-
ished, 40 gauge, with double
heel and toe; sises 81 to 10.
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Child's Hose,
Special at 1OC.

Children's 15c values in by
1 ribbed fast black cotton hose,
with long elastic legs, double
knee, heel and toe; sizes S to 91a.
Special price, 10c pair.
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Nuslin Gowns,
Special at 04C.

Women's muslin Mother Hub
bard gown, round yoke, of fine
tucks, and lace embroidery in
sertion; lace ruffie around yoke:
sold regular at S5c. Special
price, 64c.
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Illsl22I} Ri E{lll;}5
There's interest here for the whole family

Everyday needs in seasonabe, serviceabe and desra
bic goods Every quoted article Of superior vaue to that
indicated by the special price. Peruse this list and you'll
no doubt ind you've opportunity to get just what you
want, and even better article less than you ex
pected to pay for 1t.
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Muslin Gowns,
Special at 45c.

Women's muslin Mother Hub
bard gown, yoke of fine en-.
broidery and tucks, neck and
sleeves trimmed in embroidery;
regular price, Use. Special price,
45c.
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Wages to BE Increased. +

DENVER, April 26.-On Monday nsxt
the wages of carpenters IN Denver viii
be increased fifty cents day. making
the minimum wages per day So About
500 men are affected.
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BERLIN. April 26.--A dispatch from
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WOnen's Vests,
Special at Sc.

Women's jersey ribbed cotton
knit vests, low neck and sleeve
less, soft and elastic, color
cream, thin and cool for Sum-
mer wear.
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No man means evil but the dsvik---
Shakespeare.
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Muslin Drawers.
Special at 4SC.

OP~Stf SkS tONs
Women's muslin or cambria
drawers, made of best duality
muslin or cambria, trimmed in
wide embroidery with cluster of
tucks above; regular price, SC.
Special price, 4Sc.
Cambria Drawers.
Special at 48c.
Women's cambria drawers,
trimmed in lawn ruff1e, edged
with pinch lace ruffle, and
cluster of tucks above; regular
price, Csc. Special price, 4Sc.