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The San Francisco call., 1899-09-12
Tug Fearless Seeking
the DereliCt.
L0NGSH0REMEN ON STRIKE
THEY WANT AN ADVANCE OF
TEN CENTS AN HOUR.
An Italian Fisherman Stabbed-Chief
Engineer of the Aurora Drops
Dead-The Steamer Cleve-
land Short of Coal.

The collier Czarina arrived last night
from Puget Sound without her tow. She
lost the big 600-foot raft off the coast of
Mendocino nearly a week ago. and ever
since has been searching for it. The tug
Fearless was sent out to assist her, but
since she passed out through the Golden
Gate nothing has been heard of her. The
general impression is that the Fearless
has picked up the raft and is towing it
into port.
A number Of vessels have reported the
derelict and the ship Oriental and the
steamer Umatilla nearly ran into it. Yes
terday the steamer Crescent City came
in and reported having sighted the raft
and the captain said he thought it was
towing. This was twenty-five miles north
west of Point Reyes and the fog was so
thick that nothing could be seen dis
tinctly.
In his report Captain Seamen of the
Czarina says: Left Seattle on August
26 with log raft in tow. All went we'll
until September at 6 a. m, when the
hawser parted in a heavy sea. We were
then twenty-eight miles west by north
one-half north of Point Arena. Lost the
raft in a. heavy fog. 1 put into Point
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-12
HEALTH OFFICE DEMANDS.
Wells Will Sign Those Held
U Last July.

The employees Of the Health Board, who
had their July demands held up by the
Auditor on account of lack of funds, were
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Gas Company Dis
posed to RetaIiate.
CROCKETT MAKES A THREAT
BILLS MUST BE PAID OR OUT
GO THE LIGHTS.
Refuses to Reduce July and August
Accounts to Bring Them Within
the Appropriation as Per-
rault Suggested.

There is every reason to believe that the
city may again be left in darkness If the
bills of the San Francisco Gas and Elec-
trio Company for lighting the streets and
public buildings are not paid President
Crockett, in a communication sent to the
Board Of Supervisors yesterday reiterates
d threat he made in August last that un-
less the bills of his company are paid the
lights Of the municipality will be shut off
The company is disposed to resort to re-
taliatory measures in order to force the
board to pay the bills.
The communica ton is in reply to one
sent by Chairman Perrault of the Finance
Committee accompanying the bills for
august, which were returned to the com
pany because they were S5S3 over and in
excess of the appropriation pursuant to
the tax levy adopted by the Supervisors,
and calculated according TO the one
twelfth act. Chairman Perrault requested
Mr.. Crockett to scale down the bills so
they would come within the appropria-
ton. Incidentally Perrault stated that
according TO Gas inspector Iupper the
streets had not been lit on one nght when
they should have been, and ne asked that
the charge be stricken out.
In reply Mr.. Crockett refused TO COM
ply with both requests and took occasion
10 refer the board TO his letter of August
y. This accompanied the bills for July,
which had also been returned by the FL
nance Committee because they were $l400
in excess of the legal appropriation. This
is the letter in which threats were made
TO throw the whole city and the public
buildings in darkness unless the bills were
paid as originally presented by the gas
company.
The matter is now in allegiance, and it
is a clear-cut issue between the Supervi-
sOrS and the gas company. Perrault and
his colleagues on the committee have no
intention of backing down from their po-
sitiOn. and say that unless the bills are
reduced so as to come within the appro-
priation they will not be paid; Whether
the corporation intends to make good its
threats or whether it is only running a
large-sized bluff to coerce the Supervisors
into submitting to its dictates remains TO
be seen.
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John Barrett's Lecture.

From ali accounts, Hon. John Barrett,
the late Minister to Siam. will deliver a
lecture in this city on the 21st inst. His
subject will be one with which he Is
conversant-the trade relations
and commercial possibilities of the Pacific
Coast States and the Orient During the
time he was a representative of the
United States he visited number of the
countries In Asia lying along the Pacific
Ocean and his observations have attract
ed the attention of the commercial men of
the world Mr.. Barrett comes to this
city upon the invitation of the local
Yesterday received "a dispatch from the
ex- Minister saying that he would be at
liberty to speak on the date mentioned.
At present he is in Portland, Or.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-12
The Supreme Court Determines Their
Legal Limit.

The Supreme Court decided yesterday
that Justice of the Peace may not
charge more than 81 as his fee in a civil
action for issuing a writ. The charge
hitherto has been So 80 and the change
may result in a dimnution of the force in
the Justices Clerks office.
The decision was reached in the appeal
of the case Kosminsky VS.. Williams. con-
firming a decision by Judge SeaweIl The
original case was brought on mandamus
through his attorneys, Samuel Rosenheim
and A. S. Newburg, to compel Justices
Clerk Williams to accept 81 as a fee for
issuing a writ. The Supreme Court de-
cision was written by Chief Justice Beatty
and was concurred in by all the associate
Justices with the exception of Justice Ga
route who was absent.
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vile stuff and dumped it into the bay.
Had it not been for the vigilance of In
spectors Cans and Barron the rotten fish
would have been taken up town and sold
TO the cheap restaurants.
A telegram received from London by
the Merchants Exchange states that the
chances of getting the Morgan City off
the beach at the entrance to Nagasah
are good. Divers have been engaged to
patch up the hole in the vessels hull.
Mike Reddy, an old timer on the front,
died in the City and County Hospital yes
terday. Mike knew every ship captain
twenty-seven years and was a walking
encvcionedia when It came to ships
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made happy yesterday when Auditor
Wells signifed his intention of signing
them. The order came down from Judge
Hunts court in the case of Vaccinating
Surgeon Mcpherson, who brought suit for
the amount of his salary and won it, The
Auditor holds that the other demands are
in the same category and they will be
paid Oft Of the general fund.
This decision virtually reinstates all
those who lost their positions in the
Health office. The board will meet on
next Thursday evening to restore some of
the decapitated members to their former
places
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CHRIS RYER DIED ON
THE SURGEONS TABLE

n HRISTOPHER B. RYER, one of
the best known liquor drummers
on the coast. died suddenly yes
terday forenoon on the operating
table of the Golden Gate Sanitarium.
Mr.. Ryer returned to this city a week
ago last Wednesday and on Sunday
morning went to the sanitarium to be
treated for a disease of the bladder.
He was advised by his physicians, Drs.
A. @. Dearborn and J. p. lie Fevre,
that a simple surgical operation would
relieve him. and he consented to sur
render 10 the knife. He did not think
1t necessary to notify his family that
an operation was about TO be per-
formed, and the news of his death
came to them as a sudden and over
whelming shock.
Yesterday morning he was placed
upon the operating table and DR.. LIE
Fevre proceeded to administer an
anaesthetic, when Mr.. Ryer went into
a convulsion and expired. The physi
clans reported to Coroner Hill that
they did not believe that Mr. Ryer
inhaled much if any of the anaes thetic,
and that his death was largely due to
sudden nervous depression caused by
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-12
SOLDIERS DAY AT THE FAIR.
Volunteers Will Be Guests of Honor
at the Pavilion Tonight.

The volunteer soldiers now stationed
here will be entertained this evening at
-le Mechanics Fair. The Governors of
The Eastern States who have come here
t1 welcome their returning soldiers will
Ire the special guests of honor Every
man in uniform will be admitted free
he management has flooded the Presidio
with invitations to the volunteers and
undoubtedly the big Pavilion will be filled
mis- evening with the boys in blue. The
band has arranged a special programme
Tor the occasion.
The exposition is rapidly getting into
shape and the attendance is on the in
crease. The Filipino village is one of the
greatest centers of attraction. Yesterday
tie little brown men and their wives and
children moved into their new quarters
and will live in the native huts construct
ed in the Pavilion until the end of the
Fair.
The musical programme for to-day and
this evening follows:
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-12
Fire Among Dried Lizards.

A fire in the basement of 722 Dupont
street yesterday afternoon did $4,000 worth
Of damage to the stock of dried lizards and
other drugs Of the ChOy Jee Tong Com
pany. whose drug store is at No. 725 Du-
pOnt street. across the street. The base
ment was used as a storerOom for the
company 1t is not known how the fire
originated.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-12

of the firm Of Hart G. Company both tes-
titled that Captain sHall frequently spoke
Of Rulofson as his son and both believed
that that relationship existed between
them. Daniel H. Everett and Thomas w
Benham testified TO like facts after which
an adjournment was taken.
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To Review the Blythe Case.

George w. Towle, representing the
Blythe Company. filed yesterday in the
United States Circuit Court petition
for a writ Of review in the famous Blythe
estate case. The case was decided in
favor Of Florence Blythe Hinckley about
a year ago by the Supreme Court of the
United States The petition asks for
that case
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-06
He'll Stay With Them.
~ HOSE who find in Secretary AL
gers senatorial ambition way
Whereby the cabinet can rid it.

~ HOSE who find in Secretary AL
gers senatorial ambition way
whereby the cabinet can rid it.
self of Alger without throwing him out,
are reckoning without the right dates.
1t develops that Alger wants to get into
the senate--of course
The other day, when he was in De-
troit, Alger was asked by a newspaper
reporter what there is in the talk about
3 his wanting to be senator. Alger spoke
right up; he said that he would like
very much to be senator but that lie
would not get into a scramble for it,"
He then took care to add that he had it
from Mcmillan that he, Mcmillan
would not be a candidate for another
term. The manifest purpose of Alger
was to forestall Mcmillan in any event,
and thus conveniently get the present
incumbent out of the way.
This interview was taken up very
promptly by several republican news
papers which have ranked with Secre-
tary Ayers severest critics-neWspa-
pers which have insisted that Alger is
heavier handicap than the admins
tration can pack. Some of these news
papers inconsiderately rejoice because
the president will probably be rid of
Alger before the next presidential fight.
These newspapers talk in woeful for
getfulness of the run of senatorial cleo
tions. Senator McMillan's term does
not expire until March, 1901
1t isn't in Ayers dream to quit the
cabinet until the end of the Mckinley
term; that expires on the same day
with McMillan's senatorship. Alger re-
signs nothing. He has vowed that he
will not leave the cabinet, of his own
accord as long as he is under fire. He
Is safe-he will be under fire to the
finish But Ayers plan is to go on
and on forever; he proposes to step out
of the cabinet at sixty minutes past
eleven O'Clock on a March day in 1901
and begin his senatorship at IL o'clock,
high noon, on the same day.
Alger intends, in short, that, while
he lives and has a pull with embalmed
beef contractors and that whole race.
the republicans shall have him with
them.
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The Other Question.

yHAT will she do with it? That
M is the question which many
newspapers in this country are
asking in regard to the twenty mill
ion dollars the government at Wash
ington has handed over to Spain.
The money is paid, all right-it was
given over the other day to the French
ambassador at Washington and, on
SPANS behalf, he gave the proper re-
ceipts. Spain may spend the money for
ships or bull fights or for interest on
outstanding indebtedness or she may
build palaces or buy bread for the poor
with it, To the people of the United
States it is little odds what Spain does
with this money; it is the pittance she
has to show for the possessions she
has parted with and the lamentable
weakness which, in a short war, she
revealed to the world.
The more important question for the
Americans is this: what do we get for
these twenty millions of money? We
bought a war herewith; we purchased
from Spain with these twenty millions
the fight she was having with her Phil
ippine subjects. Spain couldn't make
these turbulent, uncivilized islanders
become submissive Span:ards; we paid
Spain the aforesaid millions for the
privilege of undertaking to make sub
missive Americans of them
OF course, the twenty millions are
merely a starter. The Mckinley adj
ministration has made up it's mind to
scourge these Tilipinos into line, if it
takes the last man and the last dollar,
and the latest unfolding of the admin
stration's plan is to the effect that
the American citizen who doesn't sit
by and be good and keep still while
the whipping is going on, is liable to
find himself yanked up, for treason or
sedition or something of the sort, al
most any of these mornings
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~ WELL-kNOWN London publ
cation called the Joint Stock
! Companys Journal. discussing
the copper situation remarks that the
black cloud that has depressed Cornish
mining for SO long a time" appears to
have given place to brighter prospects.
I'VE are not surprised" says this
journal. ito hear that old mines are
starting up and new ones set at work
On English authority, this activity in
Cornish properties is due quite as much
to the belated introduction of modern
machinery as to the prevailing good
prices for copper. although the Joint
Stock Company's Journal asserts that
the present price of copper is enabling
one of the great mines in the western
part of the Cornish peninsula to realize
a profit on tailings carrying only two
per cent of copper
The newspaper mentioned does not
give the name of this mine, but it
gives an alleged history of it that reads
more like a Cornish legend than a bust
ness statement. The records, it is
claimed, show that the company orig
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press, Mr.. Reed is out of politics for
good and all. The newspapers in that
part of the world take him seriously
and they have summed up his career
in public life as if it were closed
chapter They know that, at any rate,
Reed is going to quit New England
possibly that prompts these newspapers
to regard him, as coed as dead already.
Indeed, one would think that these
newspapers have the right of it, so far
as Mr.. Reeds farewell to political life
is concerned Mr.. Hanna is the War
wick of republican.sm: if Mckinley
lives, Hanna will procure his nominal
ton next year-and he certainly is like
ly to live.
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They Keep Guessing.
& PEAKER REED is still much
~ talked about in the newspapers.

& PEAKER REED Is still much
~ talked about in the newspapers
He is political puzzle just now
people are guessing whether he has
really concluded to go into private life
or whether he has figured it out that,
in anticipation of What may happen
next year, it is better for him to be,
during the next tWelvemonth, outside
the bTastWorks, by his voluntary act.
Mr.. Reed, when he was in a position
of great political power, tried to con-
troll for himself the presidential nomin-
alton and he made poor stagger at il:
Mckinley was nominated on the first
ballot On that ballot Speaker Reed
scored sac votes. OF these votes New
England furnished e.. The bulk of the
balance came from states that are
hopelessly democratic-Texas for IN
two, Louisiana four. Virginia one, and
so on. Hanna hit Reed a sledge-ham-
mer blow in 1896; yet at that time Mr.
Reed held an office which, in regard to
the things which in the modern phrase
are summed up as the political pull"
is second only to that of the president
himself. In view of that experience,
Mr.. Reed may fancy that he can be
stronger if he takes next year the posi-
tion of a rank outsider.
On the other hand, if one is to go
by the testimony of the New England
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SATURDAY, MAY G, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.


n n ORE court matters. This morn
V ing the Standard prints in
full summary the case made
up against John 3. Welcome. in which
the petition is that he be barred from
Montana.
The complaint filed yesterday brings
in concrete form to the attention of
the public several matters that are the
heritage from the Standardization
scandal of January and February, in
the legislature, Of Montana. Names of
members are given, the charge being
that Welcome, representing Clark, had
dealings with these members of a char
acter that warrants the steps which
the supreme court is asked to take
1t was matter of. common rumor
weeks ago that action such as is now
proposed would be taken against J. B.
/; Welcome. 1t transpires that during the
thine that hasaintervened, practically
since the legislatures adjournment, he
has been absent from the state; the be-
ginning of proceedings against him fol-
lows Immediately upon his return to
Montana.
There are men and newspapers in
\ Montana that have been expressing the
7. wish that the charges which have been
current respecting some of the men,
bers of the legislature be sifted and
sounded. Apparently the process
started in the supreme court will
crafty this Widely-eXpressed wish and
bring a good many incidents of the
senatorial affair, one way or the other,
TO a show down
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ACROSS THE POND.
Race Will Be Reported to Ireland by
Wireless Te1egraphy.

London, May 5.-According to a
statement made to the correspondent
of the associated press to-day by the
secretary of the Wireless Telegraph
company, the first attempt to transmit
Atlantic messages by the Marconi Fys-
tenn will be made during the contests
for the Americas cup. Stations will be
established at Sandy Hook and else
where along the course laid out for the
great yacht race from which the entire
contests will be visible Messages re-
cording the progress Of the races will be
transmitted from the stations to a
point on the Irish coast in the neighbor-
hood of Waterville. The secretary of
the Wireless Telegraph company added
that Sir Thomas Upton and the author
tiles of the United States and Great
Britain had been notified of the pro-
ject.
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inally put up G400 to work with, but
before that very modest sum was OK
pended a splendid load of copper was
cut, producing to the lucky adventures
something over 100000 in dividends
and the property has since returned
considerably over 100000 in profits
AS evidence of the pertinacity with
which Cornish miners will seek for the
metal-bearing lodes, it is added, some
of the richest tin in this mine is found
nearly a mile under the Atlantic ocean,
and the lodes are still being worked.
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Vacated the Order.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Helena, May THE supreme court to-
day heard arguments upon the motion
filed yesterday by William Wallace, coun-
sci for the Boston &, Montana, to have va
Gated the order made Wednesday modi-
flying the injunction previously issued
preventing the Montana Ore Purchasing
company from developing for purposes of
evidence Johnstown ground underlying
the Pennsylvania. William Wallace ar
gued in favor of the motion and E. c.
Day opposed it. The court granted the
motion. which leaves the injunction as is
sued March s. Counsel for the Montana
Ore Purchasing company gave notice that
on Monday the court would again be ask
ed to modify the order. at which time the
Boston & Montana counsel will be on
hand to oppose il,
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TrimbOrn Still Missing.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

Special llSDltCh 10 TIE Standard.
New York. May 5.-Joseph Trimborn,
manager of the Montana brewery al
Great Falls. who disappeared from the
Grand hotel last Sunday and left a wallet
containing $500 with the clerk had not
put in an appearance in Hoboken, where
his wife is waiting for him. up to tonight
Trimborn came East a week ago to meet
his wife who arrived from Europe on the
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse of the
North German Lloyd line last Tuesday
Mrs. Trimborn is stopping at Bushes ho-
tel. Brooklyn. and has been hysterica1
ever since she learned that her husband
was missing.
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q ECRETARY ALGER is said to
~ be considering scheme for the
determination of Aguinaldo and
the Aguinaldists submitted to him by
a North Carolinan named Alternately
IF the United States government or
any private individual with the cap
ital and the patriotism will furnish
me with transportation expenses for
eight hundred men and will equip us
as I desire l will go to the Philippines
and in less than thirty days of actual
fighting l can capture or kill Aguin-
aldo and thereby rout his forces and
uproot the rebellion" says the bold Mr..
Alternately. His scheme is to organ
ize eight hundred picked "moonshiners''
from the mountain regions of North
Carolina and Tennessee. He says they
are fearless. hardy. accustomed to Sc
we're summer heat and always ready to
fight at the drop of the hat or sooner.
Each, according to Mr.. Alternately, is
capable of doing more execution than
twelve regulars and volunteers. It's
a remarkable project, but there seems
to be considerable moonshine about it.
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Phases of Heresy.

Z L is to be regretted that the prosecu-
ton of certain charges of heresy
against the Rev. George Studley,
pastor of the Willard Memorial Metho-
dist church of Chicago, has taken an
irregular form. Yet Chicago being the
scene, some novelties and innovations
were to be expected. Mr.. Studley in the
course of his preaching has advanced
certain modern ideas regarding hell
and damnation, with which some of his
congregation are not in sympathy.
Among those who dissented was John
frankly told his class that Mr.. Studley
was a broiled live lobster, or words to
that effect. The reverend gentleman
at prayer meeting the other night de-
clared that Brother Wright had grossly
slandered him and demanded his ex-
pulsion. Hot words were exchanged,
and Brother Wright, Selling chair,
made a rush for the pastor. Brother
Taylor, president of the Epworth league.
interposed, and engaged Brother
Wright in a catch-as-catch-can wres-
Ting match, in which Brother Wright
came out victorious. Meanwhile the
sisters screamed, the brethren shouted
and the Rev. Mr.. Studley put on his
hat and walked home. The end is not
yet and to-morrows exercises at the
church, which was founded by the gen
tie Frances Willard are exciting great
curiosity. The gross irregularity of all
these proceedings is apparent, but, as
on the Bowery, they do such things and
they say such things in Chicago that
no one need be surprised at anything
that happens there however unique.