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Themselves.

dispatch just received from Iloilo. cap
ital of the island of Panay, at the cleo
ton held on January II Senor Ramon
Melliza was chosen President of the
so-called Visayan liberation for a
term of two years his predecessor,
General Lopez, being appointed COM
mander in chief of the forces of the
revolutionary government.
Business was being resumed there
when the dispatch in question left. and
sugar was entering from the island of
Negros. Ships were loading hemp. The
sugar crop is far below the average,
and shows an estimated deficiency of
about 5000 tons.
Although matured, the crop was not
being harvested, owing to the lack of
labor, but with the subsistence of the
excitement the local authorities were
persuading the natives to return to the
provinces.
Six n: i've commissioners. headed by
Senior Ramon Avancena. a lawyer. ar
rived to-day from Iloilo by the United
States transport st. Paw They have
come to consult with Aguinaldo. A
number of native soldiers who had been
transported were landed on January %
on the island of Panay about twenty
five miles north of Iloilo.
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wrote in blood that ali good govern
ment rests with the viii of the gov
erned people. The strength of our ma
tion is in the manhood and womanhood
of its people. They have been developed
out Of liberty in hope and ambition.
believe that imperialism would be short
lived in this country were it ever estab-
lished. We would not be able to hold
on to it. The whole tide of the war is
toward republicanism. Shall we go
back and stop the progress of the
world?
Il do not mean to arraign the Gov
ernment as if it were responsible for
such a policy. I firmly believe that
there is no greater American than Pres
ident Mckinley. The holding Of the
Philippines is not against the princi-
pies of our nation. The holding of the
Islands is an absolute necessity. Would
it be we'll TO leave the inhabitants in
bloodshed and withdraw the troops to-
morrow? Would we not be held up to
the scorn of history if we should desert
them now? We are bound to keep
them. Whether wise or not, it is now
a necessity. The treaty does not say
that we are TO hold them eternally, but
the American people must not let them
go back to Spain, but must hold them
It'll this nation can place them as they
must be placed, among the free peoples
Of the earth. The pressure upon the
President to compel him to formulate
a policy in regard to the Philippines is
wrong. He cannot formulate a policy
In regard to people of whom we are
ignorant. The Philippines must be kept
like Cuba until wise craftsmanship can
decide what is the best policy toward
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MIDNIGHT CONFERENCE
The Oft-Purchased Legislator
WithhOlds His Decision, but
Is Likely to Follow This
Course.

CALL HEADQUARTERS. ~SACRA-
MENTO, Jan. 2s-Howard E.. Wright
returned to this city tonight. He went
to Winters yesterday afternoon. where
his wife is temporarily sojourning. AT
Winters he was t guest of Hart
North, ex-Assemblyman, who served in
the Legislature two years ago.
When Wright boarded the train at
Davisville this evening to return to
Sacramento he had not made up his
mind to resign the Speakership of the
Assembly. Shortly after his arrival
here he was summoned to the presence
of Colonel Burns. and quite pro-
longed conference followed.
WheH the conference began Wright
was in no frame of mind to listen to
the suggestion that it was in his power
to render the Organization a service
by resigning. Under the pressure OF
argument he was persuaded to view the
situation in the ugly light Of facts.
The result of the interview was not an
nounced for publication. Various YER
sions are af1oat concerning the talk
between the Speaker and the Colonel.
garding the peculiar situation. posi-
lively declined to s. a word concern
ing the course which Burns has decid-
ed to pursue. The fact is Burns told
Wright that he could not afford to sus-
tain him.
II have all can do" said the Col
onel, ''to take care of my own fight.
and at the present time cannot take
your fight on my hands. 1 cannot af-
ford TO be denounced from every pulpit
in the State and 1demned by the peo-
pie for uphoIding everything and every
body
Wright left the Golden Eagle Hotel
Immediately after the interview. He
went to his room to get nights rest.
Actions which sometimes speak louder
than words indicated that he was fully
conscious of the fact that he could not
expect sympathy and support from the
Burns following in the LEGISLATURE.
Wright may decide before morning to
tender his resignation. but before the
decision Is finally announced he will
confer with many of his former friends
to ascertain to certainty what course
they intend to adopt. In his mind there
is a lingering hope that sympathy for
a young man may save him from the
disgrace incident to deposition from the
Speakers chair.
Before the interview with Burns took
place Wright was met at the depot by
several of his close friends. Their
friendship of the past had been so close
and intimate that they deemed it their
duty to advise Wright as TO his future
course. They went over the oround
with the Speaker and advised him to
write letter to the Assembly. tender
ing his resignation and demanding that
it be accepted. It was suggested that
Wright, in this letter. should present
his own views to the Assembly and to
say in conclusion that he resigned be-
cause he could not conscientiously re-
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at Madison avenue and Fortieth street,
who asked him to deliver a package ad-
dressed to Harry Cornish at the Kncker-
booker Athletic Club. This he refused to
do, he said, but agreed to mail the pack
age at the General Postoffice, which he
did. According to his story the man from
whom he received the package answered
the description of one of the men promi-
nently mentioned in the poisoning case
This afternoon Koutnik was taken before
Chief Devery and Captain McCluskey,
District Attorney Gardiner and others at
police headquarters, and after the confer
ence Chief McCluskey said that Koutnik
had practically repeated the story to the
Koutnik was thereupon detained as wit
ness in the case. George w. Koutnik has
however been before the public eye sew
eral times before.
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intensely patriotic eulogies upon lose
Mart, the Cuban patriot and first Presi
dent of the Cuban revolutionary govern
ment. A tablet to his memory was nm
yelled at the house where he was horn
IN street near by, and eighty-two So
cleties. consisting of 25OO persons. with
banners, flags and five bands. marched
the square. "
The procession, whose distinguishing
feature was 500 girls wearing white
dresses dresses ana red liberty caps, started at /
later. The streets were gayly decorated
with Cuban and American flags and
tnough the interest ran high there was no
disorder of any Kind
Marti's widow mother and son led tho
parade. win the first Cuban flag used nv
the patriot, which was loudly cheered
Inc eulogies contained few references
TO the United States or the military ad-
ministration, and the only yitI1neTa tive
received. 4UieiS
The tendency Of all the speeches was
Cuba, which the orators rec"--7ized as a
fact not yet accomplished. They declared
that all Cubans should unite to reach
that great end, 70 make their desires
known to the world and to claim inde9
pendence as right when the proper time
arrived
Senor Gonzales Llorent suggested that
the Cubans should take steps to pre-
serve the house itself in Marti's memory
and should give financial assistance fo
those he had left behind He called rpon
the Cubans to go to work
Juan Gomez, mulatto with consider
able reputation as an orator, made the
best speech of the day He counseled
firmness and determination as means to
obtain tie coveted independence
THE power which has interviewed he
tween the old regime and the one we are
striving for he said, is unfamiliar with
the ways and habits of our race. and nat
uraly IT Will sometimes blunder in it's
efforts to fulfill it's obligations to C,uba
The Cubans must realize this and keen If
in mind. They must calmly indicate n
mistake when it is made and have faith
that the error will be corrected"
Death of Timothy Day.
GAN RAFAEL. Ian ~.
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COLON UNDER A
MILITARY GUARD
It Is Feared That Strikers Will
Attempt to Fire the
City.

COLON, Colombia. jap. 2o.-The strike
coDditions do pot improve. A special train
from Panama brought reinforceDents last
Dight, and to-day the whole city bos beep
uDder military guard. Nevertheless an
uneasy feeling prevails everywhere. for,
though quiet has been restored, fears are
entertoiDed on oil sides that the striking
dockmeD and railway employees are only
awaiting an opportunity to fire tbe city.
This morniDg procoDotioD was issued
forbiddiDg tbe assembling together in pub
lie places Of more than three persons un-
der pain OF imprisonment
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BOYS PLAY WITH
A LOADED SHOTGUN
Son Of a Yolo Rancher the Victim
of Shocking Accident Near
ClarkSbure

SACRAMENTO. Jan. 2s.-At the home
of John Garter, near Clarksburg, his
youngest son, age about 12 years, and the
boys older brother, about 10, did a shot
gun trick to-day which resulted in the for
mer's death. They had for some time past
put unloaded cartridge shells in the gun,
dropped marble in the muzzle, and the
older boy would explode the primer. 1nis
had just enough strength to send the mar
Bile few feet, and the younger boy
would catch it in its flight. They were to
have performed the trick to-day, but the
cartridge In the gun which they sup
posed to be empty, proved to be loaded.
When the gun was discharged the load of
powder and shot took effect In the young
er bows head, shattering it in a horrid
manner. Death was almost instantan-
eouS.
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stealing copper on Mare Island bv .
marine guard at 1.:30 o'clock this morn
ing. His confederate, who was in a hoat
was frightened away by a sentry. Helm
is bay pirate. He admitted his guilt to
that he had stolen from the yard before.
He implicated others. who will be ar
rested. The prisoner was taken to San
Francisco tonight by Deputy SherifP
Geary. He will probably be tried in the
United States Court 49, 0
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n EW YORK, Jan. 29-An immense
throng filled Carnegie Hall to-
" night to hear the benefit concert
l. \ and lecture by the Rev. John P.
Chadwick who ~-aS chaplain of
the Maine. on Our War With Spain,
Its Causes and Results" preceded by
what he saw Of the blowing up of the
battleship. The concert and lecture was
for the benefit of the Catholic Reading
Room for Young Men, and to help es-
tablish a number of such places
throughout the city for the good of
$4,000 seafaring men.
Governor Roosevelt presided Major
General Roe, 18th his staff, Admirals
Erben and Miller, Lieutenant Com
mander Delahanty, General Avery D.
Andrews, Colonel TreadweH, Commo-
dore Philip, CAPTAIN Goodrich and hun
dreds of other officers were present.
Govern r Roosevelt made a brief ad-
dress, after which Father Chadwick
spoke for an hour, living an interest
ing account Of the sailing of the Maine
for Havana, the experiences \ Havana
and the blowing up of the ship He
spoke Of the heroism of the sailors
when the ca astr he occur d and af-
terwards when suffering in hospitals.
Imperialism! What do they mean by
imperialism ?" sai1 he, in the course of
MS address. What does it mean, this
departure fr = the settled policy of the
nation? Must it be that this policy,
fought for ty the founders of our Gov
ernment, is to be laid aside s useless
now? God forbid that imperialism may
IND a foothold in our country. Our
torefathers knew what Imperialism
meant; they had learned it from Eng
land when they fought for liberty. They
fought to establish the proposition and
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an APPEAL TO AMERICA
TO STOP THE CRUELTIES
Special Gable to The Call
1899,

civil
released Tales of suffering
Spanish
born Indians Their parents being powerless
God
what she
from
is
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Six Prisoners Escape.

CANTON. Ohio, Jan. 29.-Six prisoners
escaped from the County Jail this morn
ing They were James Sullivan, charged
with highway robbery; W. H. Cummings
Ralph Carnahan, Charles Reed, Frank
Sailor and James Campbell. charged with
burglary and larceny. Campbell was a
trusty and Saturday night he pretended
to lock the cell doors. Instead he turned
the keys with the bolts outside the
grooves, allowing the men to escape to
the corridor. The bars of the rear win
dow were sawed and the prisoners es-
caped.
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ARCHBISHOP IRELAND
TO BE MADE A CARDINAL

NEW YORK, JAM 2o-A Tribune special from St.
Paul. Minn says Itseems though the periodical
ment that Archbishop Ireland to be made Cardinal
which is made again to-day, has this instance substantial
foundation Current opinion among the best-inforrned
Catholics is that the Archbshops elevation is entirely
probable. The Pope, it is said, will month
several Cardinals fill of the thirteen vacancies in
the sacred college That will be the Minnesota pre-
than surnised. 1t virtually admitted by the
Northwestern Chronicle the Archbishops personal organ
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Dies Laden With Years.

KESWICK, jan 29-Mrs Christian Bell
died at Shasta this morning at the age Of
ST. She was well known from early pio-
neer days. She was the mother Of Judge
Aaron Bell of Redding-
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NEW LIGHT ON THE
POISONING MYSTERY
George w. Koutnik Tells of a Man
Who Asked to Take a Package
to Cornish.

NEW YORK. Jan. 29.-Interest in the
Adams poisoning cases centered at police
headquarters to-day. A story was cur
rent that George w. Koutnik, young
man living in Hoboken,. N. j., had fur
nished one of the missing clews to the
police. He said TO the police that on the
evening of December % he had met man
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A Knife-Wielder Slain.

ARDMORE, I. T.. Jan. 29.-In quar-
rel over a trivial matter John Edwards
shot and killed Richard McSwain. Nc
Swain had attempted to stab Edwards.
Both men are prominent, and considerable
feeling has been aroused by the affair.
Edwards has not been arrested
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CUBANS HONOR THE
MEMORY OF MATT
An Interesting Street Parade and
Speeches. at the Unveiling of
a Tablet

HAVANA, Jan. 29-Four thousand peo-
ple-men in their best clothing and women
gaily dressed-stood amid a pouring rain
in Paula square to-day listening to six
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CHAPLAIN CHADWICK
CRIES OUT AGAINST
EXPANSION POLICY
Declares 1t the Duty Of tbe GovernDent
to Hold the Philippines Only UDtil
the People Are Able to Govern
Themselves.

an old and respected citizen of this COM
munity, after an illness of about two
weeks, died to-day of pneumonia. De-
ceased leaves two sons and one daughter.
his late residence, and the ;nterment " ill
be at Mount Olivet Cemetery
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DEFENDS THE MEN
OF FACILE PENCIL
Judge Carpenter Declares the Cartoon1sts
Have Been of Great Service to Him.

Why" said
the Judge this
evening in the
Golden Eagle Ho-
tel, sit is all fol-
ly, this anti-car-
toon law. 1t was
proposed by a
young man in the
Assembly who
has had no ex-
perience with car
tOOnlStS. w ny,
the cartoonist has
drawn me in ev-
cry shape. One
day a man stop
ped me on the
Oakland boat
and he said to
me, L have new
er met you be-
fore, but you look
like General But
Ter of Massachu-
setts. I consid-
cred the matter
and asked him
why he had ar
rived at that con-
clusion. He said
he had made up
his mind from
= what he saw in
the shape of car
toon pictures in
the newspapers.
That man has
been my friend
ever since.
mo, this anti
cartoon bill is all
nonsense. l hope
j, for it certainly
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SAYS FILIPINOS NEED
MOST SEVERE LESSON

MADRID pa
pine Islands said in the lobby to-day
making the
irst
their forces
island of Luzon alone Americans occupied
making
q
barbai and
hment"
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William Dormer, a deckhand on the
Frost He had evidently fallen headfore-
and gone half way through the ice, and
been held In that perilous position until
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BAY PIRATE CAPTURED.
Caught While Stealing Copper at the
Mare Island Yard.

VALLEJO, Jan. 29-John Helm of San
Francisco was locked up here to-day on
q charge of grand larceny. He was caught
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r ALL HEAD
[ QUARTERS.
" S a cramento.
January 29.-
Judge Richard
Baxter Carpen-
!, ter, formerly a
State Senator
representing the
!, district now rep
, resented by Sen
ator Simpson of
) Los Angeles, stat
|, ed to-day that 1t
was the duty of
) the Legislature
|, to aid, abet and
foster the car
) toonist instead of
|, prescribing him
|, by statute and
) placing him un-
!. der the ban.
, Judge Carpen-
, ter, and he has
|, had long expert
) ence, says the
, cartoonist has aid
!. ed him greatly.
: and has at no
time drawn any
5 picture of him
!, which was a mis-
? representation as
; to his well
known personal
) beauty" even
!, though through
; a misunderstand-
|, ing his attitude
, toward men and
measures may 'hs
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Died IN the Ice.

BUFFALO, N. Y, jan ga pair of
human legs sticking up through the ice
in one of the slips in the harbor attracted
the attention of the men on the steamer
Walter l.. Frost this morning. The pody
when chopped out was found to be that of
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MELLIZA Is PRESIDENT
OF ViSAYAN FEDERATION

MANILA, Jan. 2s.-According to a
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should be -
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Death of Timothy Day.
SAN RAFAEL. JAN 29.-Timothy Dav
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7 EW YORK, Jan. 29.-An immense
l throng filled Carnegie Hall to-
u night to hear the benefit concert
\ and lecture by the Rev. John P.
The Somerset reporter., 1899-07-13
MITE BEAUTY.

the stem or butt end of the tuber The
eyes on the seed end are the first to ger
inmate, and hence are especially i'm
portant when an early crop is desired.
Exposing unsprouted tubers in a
warm place before planting hastens
growth, but if continued until sprouts
form (Which are rubbed off. the yield
may be considerably reduced.
1t is better to place in hill one large
piece than several very small ones Of
the same aggregate weight
The net yield of salable potatoes in
creases with every increase in the size
of seed piece from one eye to the half
potato The half potato affords larger
net salable crop than the whole potato
on account of the excessive amount of
seed required in planting entire tubers
The Somerset reporter., 1899-07-13
For Over Fifty Years.

Mrs. wINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP has been
used for over fifty years by millions OF moth
ers for their children while teething, with
perfect success. 1t soothes the child, seftens
the gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie and
is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. 1t will re-
leve the poor little sufferer Immediately.
sold by Druggists in every part of the world.
Twenty five cents a bottle Be sure and ask
for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" and
take no other kind 1y3s
For forty years DR.. Fowlers Extract of Wild
Strawberry has been curing summer complaint,
dysentery, diarrhma, bloody fux, pain in the
stomach and 1t has never yet failed TO do every
thing claimed for it.
Health 10 so necessary to all the duties as
well as pleasures OF life that the crime of
squsndering 1t is equal to the folly.
~ owe my whole life to Burdock Blood Bitters.
Scrofuous sores covered my body. | seemed
beyond cure B. B. Il. has made me a perfectly
well woman" Mrs Charles Hutton, Beryille,
Mich.
MrC: my wife always says the right thing
at the right time" Mr. Y: what now" c:
"Why, read in the paper the other night that
Krupp, the German manufacturer. had made
20 900 cannon" Y: "And what did she say?"
c; Great gunsl"
The Somerset reporter., 1899-07-13
Maturing Bearing Trees.

1t is great advantage to trees that
have blossomed freely and set much fruit
to give them extra applications of soluble
manures, at the same time applying water
enough to carry the fertilizer where the
roots can get it. Most fruit trees suffer
from lack of water in the soil during the
seas on when they are forming the seeds.
The chief requisite for the shells of all
stone fruits is potash But it requires a
great amount of water in the soil to enable
the roots to use it. Trees get but little
benefit from the average summer rains, as
they only wet down a few inches, and un-
der the foliage the ground is often almost
dry after heavy shower, the leaves absor-
bling and holding so much of it. This
watering Of bearing trees will not, however,
make unnecessary the thinning of fruit
where the setting has been too large. If
one-half the fruit is renewed before the
seeds begin to form, what is left will de-
velop into much finer specimens than can
be secured without thinning. A bearing
tree never makes so much wood growth as
one that is not bearing BY thinning the
fruit each year the tendency to grow foliage
and wood rather than fruit is checked, and
most trees which bear only every other
year may thus be trained to the habit of
annual bearing, thus giving crops when
the fruit is dear as we'll as when it is only
a drug on the market
The Somerset reporter., 1899-07-13
Young America.

A cute little 3-Near-old Cleveland boy
is enjoying the sensation of his first
pair of trousers, relates the Plain Deal
er. OF course the new "panties' are a
"wellspring of joy" to the little laddie,
and he is getting quite round shoulder
ed STOPPING over to inspect his chubby
legs,
A few days ago a closet door was left
open. and Master Leonard peeped In.
In the closet several pairs of his papa's
trousers were hanging, and Leonard
caught sight of them.
Here, mudder. mudder" he sudden
ly called, sis desc my pants or fod-
der'sT"
Some time ago he heard his mother
say to his grandmother that she was
going to buy some postage stamps for
herself and put them away where
Leonard's papa couldn't make a prac-
tee Of borrowing them.
"If | give the letters to him." she
laughed, "he will probably carry them
around in his pocket for a month be-
fore he remembers to mail them"
Master Leonard heard this conversa-
ton, and it didn't please him.
The stamps were purchased and laid
away in drawer. and the sharp little
eyes noted there whereabouts.
That evening he climbed on his pa
pas knees and said
Fodder, if 90 wants any postage
stamps 90 tum right to me. | know
just where mudder puts 'em, an | amt
doin to see 90 cheated"