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Mesa free press., 1900-09-28
ALL ALONG THE COAST
Interesting General Information
About California
MENTIONED IN THESE COLUMNS
Selections That Will Be of Great Interest To
Both Old And Young.

An Oaklander has started an endless
chain letter scheme for the benefit of
Galveston unfortunates.
1t is expected that Santa Barbara s
collection for the Galveston sufferers
will reach $1,000 within few days.
Oakland has a twelve-year-o boy,
Edward Jacobs, who has been devour-
ing cigar and cigarette stumps for
some months until the desire for other
food was lost, and his whole system
was saturated with nicotine. The doc
tors think that he will die.
San Francisco, Sept. 15.-After a
two-years' battle in the courts, Minnie
Adams, accused of poisoning her in
FAINT with carbolic acid, was sentenced
by Judge Lawlec this morning to i'm
prisonment for life in San Quentin.
Members of the Fresno Poultry, Pig
con and Pet Stock Association are al
ready at work, planning for the show
in December. 1t is expected that the
exhibits will be much finer than last
ear, as the number of people in the
county who keep high-class poultry has
been greatly increased recently.
The Oakland Board of Health is Sc
riously considering the adoption of
rules stamping tuberculosis as con-
tagious disease, and enforcing quaran-
tine of cases. DR.. J. H. Todd recon-
mends this measure in his annual re-
port as Health Officer, which has just
been submitted to the City Council.
According to the Stockton Mail, the
statement was made in that city, on
Wednesday, by one of the section
hands of the Santa Fe, that the COM
pany was discharging all it's American
employees in the section gangs and
substituting Mexicans at $1.25 day.
The wages paid to the others were
$1.65.
Just sum up things: Ducks and
geese arrive earlier, summer resorters
and white oaks leave earlier, winter
hotels open earlier, winter tourists
come earlier, September very cool
whereas in the dry years it was the
hottest of the twelve months. It's just
got to be wet year. Save your money
to buy an umbrella. a.-Nordhoff Ojai.
The Fire Committee of the San
Francisco Board of Supervisors has
passed the following regulations with
regard to the storing Of crude petro-
leum to be used as fuel: "The storage
tanks shall be constructed of steel or
boiler iron, and shall be placed in the
spot agreed upon with the ire marshal,
and shall be buried underground deep
enough SO that at least seven feet of
earth shall cover said storage tanks"
All Ching, a Chinese inmate of the
Fresno County Hospital, died there on
Sunday of what was first pro-
nounced tuberculosis. He had a num-
Der of large warts on his face that
developed into supposed lupus or tu-
bercular growth. A Chinese doctor,
however. pronounced the case one of
leprosy, and F. E. Twining, the analyt-
ical chemist, was led by this fact to
make a meteorological examination of
the diseased cells. AS result of this
investigation he also pronounced the
case one of leprosy. The superintend-
ent of the hospital denies that the Chi
naman died of anything but consump-
tiOn.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28
LOS ANGELES JOBBERS SUE
Santa Fe and S. p. Accused of Unlawful
Discrimination in Freight Rates.

San Francisco, Sept. 14.-The Los
Angeles Traffic Association has begun
it's threatened suit against the South
ern Pacific and Santa Fe before the
Railroad Commissioners. The COM
plant was filed today, and in volum-
Gus typewriter pages it charges the
two railroad corporations with unlaw-
full discrimination against the jobbers
of Southern California in the matter of
freight rates into the San Joaquin
Valley, which is declared to be in ac-
cordance with an unlawful traffic con-
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28

This settles it. The woman nail driver
has arrived. Let all men stand back
and do her reverence. Pottstown, Pa,
has the honor of claiming this prodigy
of the ages. Her name is Mrs. Forest
G. e. Mehlhouse. But that is unim-
portant. The important thing, Of course,
is that she is undoubtedly the forerun-
ner Of the finished new woman. Mrs.
Muhlhouse drove six eight-penny nails
into two-inch plank in fifteen seconds,
without bending one or whacking her
thumb. What man could do better? ?
How many men could do as we'll? Moth
ing but this sign was wanting that the
new woman is to be an unqualified sue
cess. Let the joke-makers be silent.
Hail to the woman driver Of nails and
everything else.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28

Murder is murder. Fine-spun So
Geological theories cannot affect the
fact. The man who, being sane, DELHI
erately kills another man is murder
er. Miss Irene Ashby came out of Eng
land to enlighten us respecting social
conditions and the best way to improve
them. She begins by finding a partial
justification for Bresci, the man who
assassinated King Humbert. '"We can
not" she says, "but divorce the terri
bleidea of blood and assassination from
his underlying purpose of trying to help
his fellow men," And again: eve can
not help but feel some pity for the man
and express our utter detestation for a
sociological condition that made the
tragedy possible" This is in part an
affirmation, more or less explicit, of the
doctrine that the end justifies the
means, and it necessarily assumes that
the killing Of Humbert was desirable.
Otherwise sympathy could not be ask
ed for Bresci because he tried to help
his fellow man." 1t is substantially
the same excuse that has been offered
by anarchists everywhere, including
those of Haymarket Square, Chicago.
1t assumes, first, the unftness to live
Of certain persons, and, second, the
right Of certain other persons sum-
marily to inflict capital punishment.
Both assumptions are, of course, mon
strous. The moment either proposition!
Is admitted we relinQuish all idea Of
the orderly operation Of law and make
each man the sole judge Of his neigh
boris right to live. We revert to the
stone age, might instead of right con-
stituting the sole argument. Miss Irene
Ashby might be in better business than
that of promulgating such dangerous
nonsense
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28
Automobiles on the Farms.

The automobile is to be turned to
practical account by the farmers Of
Kent, England. Every year large
part of the fruit crop rots from lack Of
transportation, the railways not being
able to meet the emergency, and the
plan is for the farmers next year to
take things in their own hands, start
ing motor cars round the orchards dur
ing the evening and night and bringing
the days pickings to London by the
early morning.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28

A Philadelphia clergyman says he
has observed that persons who go to
sleep In church are always very wide
awake at baseball game. Very true,
good dominic, but you must not lose
sight Of the fact that the crazy root
ers keep up such a racket at ball
game that it is utterly impossible for
humble Christian to enjoy nap dur
ing services
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28
Seal POacherS Siezed.

Victoria, B. c.. Sept. 16.-The
steamer Beaconshire arrived today
from the Orient. She brings news that
the Russians have seized the Japanese
sealing schooner Seishe Maru and the
boats crew of another sealer. They,
together with three of the crew of the
schooner, were taken to Petropaulov-
sky by the Russian steamer Kotik.
Some American sailors are among the
crew of the seized vesse1.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28

: John d. Rockefellers income is $164,
8S3 per day. The odd cents are not
given. These odd cents represent what
Mr.. Rockefeller eats-crackers and
milk. He has a bad stomach and con-
fines himself to that diet. Money cam
not buy health.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28
Russia Makes a Scoop.

Peking-[Delayed in Transmission.
The Russo-Chinese Bank, which, as
announced yesterday, closed here to-
day and removed to Shanghai, will
confiscate, as part of the indemnity to
be paid to Russia, the Imperial Uni
versity fund of five million taels,
against which the Chinese drew for the
payment of their troops
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28

An Eastern preacher has become a
tramp to gain new impressions. If
some energetic railroad man ever
catches him stealing ride at least one
Of the impressions is likely to be that
of a boot heel
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28
Pimas Will Behave.

Phoenix, Aria dispatch from the
Sacaton Indian agency states that the
trouble there with the Pima Indians
has been adjusted, and that the bucks
who rebelled and threatened violence
if their children were forcer to attend
the government school, have subsided.
The ringleaders were arrested and
will be taken to Jail.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28

s6O,0OO The Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad Company sent
check for $4,000 direct to Gov. Sayers.
BANKERS GIFT.
Chicago.-The Chicago Clearing
house Association has decided to send
$4,000 for the relief Of the sufferers
on the gulf coast.
NEW YORK FUND.
New York, Sept. 1S.-The subscrip-
tions to date for the relieI of the Gal
weston sufferers are: Merchants AS
sociation, $4,000; Mayors fund, $1,000;
New York Mercantile fund, $4,000; Cot
ton Exchange fund, $4,000; New York
Stock Exchange, $4,000; Chamber of
Commerce, $25,000 miscellaneous sub
scriptions, 100000; total, $134,394.
The transport MCPHERSON will leave
this port at noon MONDAY next for
Galveston, carrying supplies which
have been contributed through the
Merchants Association. The steamer
Ell Sud of the Morgan line sailed this
afternoon for Galveston, with large
contribution of food supplies and
clothing for the Relief Committee,
which was contributed through the
Merchants Association.
SPREADING DIsINFECTANTs.
Carts with disinfectants are going
through the streets. The cutters are
being covered with lime. Carpenters
are having all the work they can do.
The storm tore hundreds of roofs off,
and the people who are living in top
less houses are eager to obtain cover
ings, so as to prevent the destruction
of what they have saved if a rainstorm
comes along. Thus far, however, the
weather has been clear and there are
no immediate indications or a down.
pour.
WORK OF RELIEF.
The relief committees are steadily
broadening the scope of their work.
They have established bureaus for the
issuance of orders and rations in every
ward, and though there is multi
tude surrounding every bureau, appli-
cants are rapidly being taken care of.
There seems no present likelihood of
inability on the part of the committee
to furnish all the rations that are
asked for. There is, Of course,
scarcity of fresh beef and of milk, but
bread is being provided in abundance,
as well as hams, potatoes, rice and
other articles.
ENGLISH SYMPATHY.
The sympathy felt for Galveston
throughout the world was again evil
denced this morning when local bank
ers were notified by cable that the
Liverpool Cotton Exchange had sub
scribed $4,000 for the relief of the
sufferers, and that more will follow.
RAILROAD RECONSTRUCTION.
Assurances have been received by
the railroads that they will do all in
their power to reopen communication
and their present plan seems to be to
concentrate all forces on the work of
reconstruction of one bridge. Crews
are coming down the Santa Fe Rail-
road from Arkansas and st. Louis with
full equipment to restore the line. Lo-
cal officers of the Southern Pacific
have had .advices from headquarters
to proceed with repair work without
delay.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28

By abolishing the naval salutes we
would save the powder as well as the
feelings Of those commanders who
think they don't receive a sufficient
amount Of noise.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28

Possibly w. w. Astor is enough Of a
toady to feel that there is some salts
faction in being publicly snubbed by so
exalted a person as the prince.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28

The difference between raising boys
and raising girls is that the mother Of
boys doesn't stop being scared to
death when they have cut their teeth.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28

When a baggage wagon drives up in
front Of mans house and unloads a
lot of trunks, the neighbors think they
have good joke on him.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28

The little busy bee of this country is
not to be ignored. 1t makes $2,0OO,-
600 worth Of honey annually.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28

The city that is satisfied with the
census count is yet to be heard from.
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28
CASH CONTRIBUTIO

Chicago. Mayor Harrison received
$5400 in small sums as contributions
of private citizens to the Texas relief
fund, making the total subscribed here
Mesa free press., 1900-09-28
SICKENING STENCIL.

An Associated Press representative
traversed the beach for some distance
today, and the stencil at different
points was absolutely sickening. Ev-
erywhere little groups of men, women
and children, some of them poorly pro-
vided with raiment, were digging in
the ruins of their homes for what little
household property they could save. In
many cases those seeking their for
mer residences were utterly unable to
find single remnant of them, SO
hopeless is the confusion of timbers
and household furniture.
The sun., 1900-12-19
MUCH SORROW FELT
OVER DEATH OE
Librarian DOAN
Expired at His Home at Noon
Yesterday Of Con
sumption.
In ILL HEALTH FOR YEARS
Board of Managers of Institute Met
Last Night and Adopted a Min
ute on His Demise. Did
Much Towards Making
the Library Free.

Enos l.. Doan, librarian of the Insti-
tute Free Library, died at his home, No.
1903 West Ninth street at noon yester-
day, of consumption, aged 40 years. He
had been in ill health for a number of
years.
Lately he had grown worse and for q
week past failed very rapidly. He con-
tinued to faithfully attend to his duties
at the library however up to last Thurs
day when he was unable to leave his
home. In a few days he took to his
bed.
His death was a great shock to his
many friends and to the many patrons
of the library.
He leaves a widow and two children,
Worth, aged years and Marian, aged
year.
Mr.. Doan was a graduate of Haver-
ford College and was for many years
connected with the Friends School, this
city, as associate principal and later as
principal and then as vice principal.
For the benefit of his health he spent
some time in Denver and returned to his
duties at the Friends School much i'm
proved.
A year ago from last May, he was ap-
pointed librarian of the Institute Free
Library, succeeding w. f. Sewell.
Board of Managers Act.
At meeting Of the Board of Mana
gers of the Wilmington Institute held on
Tuesday, December is, 1900 the following
minute was adopted:
"The members of this Board desire to
second their deep feeling of sorrow of
the death of their late associate, Enos L.
Doan, they recognize the very great
vaiile Of his intelligent and diligent SER
vice III the Investigations and develop
ment of plans which resulted in making
the library free.
''As member of this Board, chair
man of the library committee and more
recently as librarian, he performed his
duties with conscientious fidelity and
with the best interests of the library al
ways at heart and it is therefore the
desire of this Board to express theil
deep sense of the loss which the library
and the community have sustained"
The minute was drawn up by the
library committee: Ellwood @. Jackson
William Z. Bancroft and Rev. w. Fred
erick Lewis.
The funeral of Mr.. Doan will take
place on Thursday at 11.15 Il. m, from
his late residence, No. 1903 West Nintl
street.
Interment will be made at Economy
Ind.
The sun., 1900-12-19
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER
CITIZENS LEAGUES OFFICERS
Annual Meeting Was Held in Union
NJ. e. Church Last Night. A
Big Membership.

THE anual meeting and election of Off
GERS of the Citizens League was held
last night in Union M. 70. Church. The
meeting was opened by prayer by Rev.
b. II. Moore after which remarks were
made by Chairman George w. Todd con-
cerning the work of the year. j. Il.
Thurlow spoke concerning the soliciting
of membership and reported about 700
members. David Ferris talked at length
on the whipping post and pillory now
existing at New Castle Jail. He urged
that the next Legislature be asked to
abolish them and that the League use
it's influence against the whipping post
and plllory being taken to the new work
house now being erected. Mr.. Ferris
said that for years the New Castle coun-
ty prison had been disgrace to the
State.
The officers elected were as follows:
President, George w. Todd; vice-presi-
dent, Rev. w. l.. S. Murray; secretary,
J. Il. Thurlow; treasurer, Thomas Nc
Comb and executive committee, Revs. o.
G. Buddington, John Shape, William w.
King, ]. p. Otis and @. A. Tindley.
Revs. Z. A. Grise, w. l.. S. Murray
and John Shape were appointed a COM
mittee to cooperate with the Law and
Order Society in regards to Legislative
work. A committee of five were appoint
ed to confer with like committee from
the w. @. Il. U. and Law and Order
Society on the screen law as follows
Rev. w. T.. S. Murray, Rev. John Snape
Rev. William w. King, David Ferris
and Thomas McComb.
The matter of holding public meeting
in the near future and to have some
one from out of the city at the meeting
to make an address was referred to the
executive committee.
The sun., 1900-12-19
GENERAL JURY DISCHARGED.
Judge Lore Wished Them a
Merry Christmas and Told
Them Not to Drink.
Judgment for 1927 go is Secured on
the bond of Coroner Vahdever
on Account of a Re-
pIeyin Case.

The case of N. b. Danforth VS.. Paul
Isenschmid and Emil Hertel, trading as
Hertel & Co., was tried in the Superior
Court yesterday. William S. Hilles
represented Danforth and j. w. Ponder,
John G. Gray and S. S. Adams, Jr.,
represented the defendants. The claim
was for goods furnished to the amount
of $2S5.11, with interest from November
IA, 1899, making total of $303.64.
MI. .Isenschmid had filed an affidavit
alleging that he was not connected with
the firm in the time in which the goods
were furnished. The witnesses for the
plaintiff were Mr.. Danforth and Frank
j. Williams, who testified to the sale of
the goods. The W illnesses for the defence
were the Rev. Paul Isenschmid, one of
the defendants, and his sou, Samuel
Isenschmid.
1t was not claimed that the goods were
not bought and delivered, but that the
Rev. Mr.. Isenschmid was not liable for
the debt. He testified that he was not
in the firm when the bill was contracted
and an agreement was put into evidence
corroborating this statement.
The jury found verdict in favor of
the defendant.
This was the last case for the general
jury and it was dismissed and the jurors
paid.
In discharging them Judge Lore wished
them merry Christmas and smiling told
them not to drink whiskey during the
holidays. This amused the jurors very
much and after court adjourned one of
the jurors inquired if they could drink
beer.
Judgment for costs was entered in
favor of the defendant in the case of
James Gravey VS.. the J. Morton Poole
Co. ii. III. Ward represented Gravey
and ]. III. Whlteman, the ]. Morton
Poole Co.
The case of the Pusey & Jones Co. VS..
Arthur L. Douge went to a Superior
Court jury yesterday morning on the
charge of Judge Spruance. A verdict for
$S29.99 was returned, that amount in
cluding the claim of $73249, with inter-
est, which was for machinery furnished
for the Kinetic motor.
| The case of Cahill's administrators VS..
the Jcssup & Moore Paper Co. was con-
tinued to next term.
An inquestion was held in the case of
Jackson Il Sharp VS.. Myron L. Juston
and an award made of $1,S55.0S. f
| Judgment was entered against the
bond of Coroner Vandever for $S27.60 by
VIM. Brown. The latter had the goods
of w. jerks Fell on his farm at New
port levied on by the sheriff.
Fell had them replevined through
Coroner Vanaever. The matter came III
in court and Fell lost. Brown now
secures judgment on the coroner.
The sun., 1900-12-19
Associated Chariti s.

Contributions to the Associated Char
tiles will be thankfully received by the
members of the visitors committee at
the Unitarian Church, on Friday, De-
cember 81, between 9 a. m. and p. M.
The donations may consist of provisions,
of all kinds of toys, books, and clothing
for distribution among the poor of the
city. On account of sickness at the build
ing occupied by the association the dis
tribution of supplies will take place at
the church on Saturday and Monday.
Mrs. M. A. Clark of No. 602 West -treet
will receive contributions Of money OF
such contributions also may be left at the
church.
The sun., 1900-12-19
Gloucester Boat In Distress.

st. Johns, N. f., Dec. 1S.-The Allan
line steamer Corean, Captain Stewart.
reports that while off Sable island on
Saturday she sighted the Gloucester fish
erman Anglo-SaXon, with a crew of IA
men, flying a signal of distress. She had
been dismasted in Wednesdays hurri-
cane. The Anglo-Saxon was on her
beam ends for six hours, and all Of her
provisions We're spoiled. The crew had
been without food or shelter for IS hours
when sighted by the steamer. The Co
rean supplied stores sufficient to last for
ten days and the requisites necessary to
enable the Anglo-SaXon to rig up IL jury
mast and make for some port on the At
lantic seaboard, her crew having decided
to stick to their shin
The sun., 1900-12-19
Robbers Secure Thousands.

Hope, Ind, Dec. 1S.-Kennedy's bank
was burglarized by three men, who de-
stroyed the vault with a heavy charge of
nitroglycerin and secured, it is said, $15,-
600 So quietly was the job done that
the robbers secured their plumber and
Were entering a carriage, which they had
in waiting in darkened part of the main
street on which the bank was located,
when their actions were observed by the
operator in charge of the telephone eX-
change. The alarm was quickly spread,
and posse of citizens began at once to
scour the surrounding country. No trace
Of the robbers has yet been found.
The sun., 1900-12-19
POLICE COMMISSION ACTS.
Charges Were Preferred Last Night
Against Sergeant Lucas and
Officer Welsh,

At the meeting of the Police Commits
sion last night a report was received on
the investigation which was made into
the fight alleged to have taken place be-
tween Sergeant Lucas and Officer John
Il. Welsh.
AS result charges of conduct
unbecoming an officer We're prepared
against both.
Sergeant Lucas is off duty under the
care of physician. Officer Welsh has
been suspended.
A special meeting will likely be held to
hear the charges.
The sun., 1900-12-19
WATER COMMISSIONERS.
Wilmington Bicycle 90. Makes Ap.
plication for a Meter.

AT the meeting of the Water Com
missioners yesterday afternoon an appli-
cation was received from the Whining
ton Bicycle Club for Il meter to be placed
in their new building on Washington
street between Eighth and Ninth. The
matter was referred to Chief Engineer
Bond with power to act.
The weekly pay roll of $9OS.2S was pas
sed. The balance in bank is s27,S93.S2.
On account of next Tuesday being
Christmas the Water Commissioners will
hold their regular meeting at o'clock
next Monday afternoon. All the EN-
ployes will also be paid off on that day.
The sun., 1900-12-19
PLACED In A HOME.
Agent Stout Found Three Children
Who Were Not Properly
Cared For.

Agent Stout of the S. p. G. 9. visited
the home of Esther button, colored, of
No. 16 Girard street and investigated a
case of alleged neglect. He found three
children whose ages ranged from to 5
years, who We're not properly cared for.
They are the children of Mrs. Annie
Young, colored, VINO is in New Castle
Jail, and who had left them with Mrs.
Dutton until her term expired. Mr.
Stout brought the little ones into City
Court and they were committed to his
care by Judge Cochran. Yesterday after
noon he placed them in the Delaware
Home and Industrial School, No. 11O7
Walnut street.
The sun., 1900-12-19
Two OFFICIALS GIVE BOND.
Clerk of the Peace-elect Quigley
and Coroner-eIect Frick Ready
to Enter Upon Their Duties,

The bond of Winfield s. Quigley, who
will succeed Jefferson b. Ford as clerk
of the peace on January 1, was ap-
proved by the court. The amount is
$4,000, winch comprises the $4,000 re-
quired under the old law, and 100000
which was added when the clerk of the
peace was given the collection Of State
money.
Mr.. Quigley's bondsmen are John e..
Taylor, Robert McFarlin, Edgar NJ.
Hopes, Benjamin A. Groves, Alfred ID.
Warner and Stephen Downey. Before
Prothonotary Victor B. Woolley he took
the oath that he would perform his
duties faithfully.
The bond of John l.. Frick, who will
succeed A. d. Vandever as coroner was
approved. The amount was for $500.
Mr.. Frick's bondsmen were Ira G. Nc
Laughlin and James j. Wilson.