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Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20

Students of social conditions in En-
sion that the humane sentiment of
modern society is productive of harm
IN some of it's phases. The Spectator
recently showed that the comfortable
housing of paupers in London, with all
it's great benefits, has had bad effect
in increasing pauperism. During the
Boer war and the prosperity of the last
year it was impossible to get enough
men in London to do all the work Of
fered, yet the almshouse population
showed no falling off. There were
thousands of new occupants. In the
same way the too lenient treatment of
habitual criminals seems to be having
bad effect, as shown by Robert An
derson, Assistant Commissioner of Po-
lice in London, in an article in the
Nineteenth Century. Mr.. Anderson
shows by official statistics that crimes
by professional offenders have steadily
increased in London since the trans
portation of such criminals was abol-
ished in 1867. While the total number
of felonies has shown a gratifying de-
crease, the number of Offenses by pro-
fessional criminals has grown each
year. Within the last half century the
burglaries in London have increased
ffteen-fold, and professional offenses
of other kinds have shown similar in
crease Mr.. Anderson believes this is
due to the milder punishments which
the general decrease of crime has made
possible. Men who deliberately choose
a life of crime are taking advantage OF
the humane sentiment which permits
them to escape with short terms. They
should be treated more stringently than
the ordinary law breaker. The point
Mr.. Anderson makes is valid. He says
| the practice of sentencing a habitual
criminal merely for his latest offense
is unjust to the community. Such 6
criminal, after serving his sentence, al
once returns to his profession" To sci
such a public enemy at liberty, says
Mr.. Anderson, is as stupid and wicked
as to allow a smallpox patient to go a
large in the community. He urges life
| Imprisonment for such cases. When {
man is seen to belong irrevocably tt
the class of incorrigibles he should NJ
longer be released to prey upon the
D 1blic. If all the well-known criminal:
of this kind were so treated, says Sill
James Stephen, an eminent Englisl
jurist, 1.-The really bad offenders nigh
in few years be made as rare az
wolves"
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
CUBANS RESOLVE TO COME TO
They Will Decide Upon the Plat Amend.
ment

Havana-At the opening of the secret
session of the constitutional conven-
ton Senior Nunez asked that the con-
vention either reject or accept the Platt
amendment, as the resolution adopted
was not formal declaration and was
misleading.
The conservatives considered that
the resolution practically rejected the
amendment, while the radicals and the
radical press maintained that it did
not, and Senior Nunez therefore asked
that yea and nay vote be taken. This
was opposed by the radicals, who have
always avoided taking a decided stand
The conservatives were pleased at
the point, and as a split was threat
ened among the radicals, compro-
mise was offered and agreed to, by the
terms of which a resolution was adopt
ed that the convention should not eX-
press itself either for or against the
amendment, and that a commission be
sent to Washington to secure the best
possible agreement with the President
This commission will not be author
lied to settle definitely the question OF
the relations between the United States
and Cuba, but will report back to the
convention.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
SAID TO HAVE SOLD OUT
Claim That AguinaIdo's Capture Was a
Fake

SALT LAKE CITY, April 16.-Agui-
naldo sold out to the United States
for $4,000, according to E. B. Mort
man, an army contractor, who arrived
here from Manila today He has been
in the islands for six years.
81 had private sources of informa-
ton and knew that negotiations were
pending between Aguinaldo and Gen
eral Macarthur some time before left.
But 1 did not need this private infor-
nation, for it was generally known in
Manila that Aguinaldo had named his
price and could be had any time it was
paid. There was some hesitancy on
the part of Macarthur in paying that
amount when 1 left, and the deal was
consequently hanging fire. The thing
was fixed up for Funston to make a
pretense of a capture. The CORE
spondents sent out long before the cap
ture knew exactly what was going to
be done.
IF the authorities had not known it
was cut-and-dried affair, they would
never have allowed the information to
be given OUT
"Pio del Pillar sold out for $4,000,
was captured. and inside of few
weeks was back with the Filipinos
again. There are $4,000 Filipinos I'M
der arms at present, which will be in
creased to 10000 when the rainy sea-
son begins"
Mr.. Norman formerly lived at Beau
mont, Texas.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
LABOR UNIONS IN POLITICS
New York Organizations to Form a Party

NEW YORK.-For the first time
Isince they were organized the principal
trades unions in this city decided to
go into politics and to start an indie
pendent labor party. This decision was
reached at meeting of delegates from
twenty-one unions, represented in the
board of walking delegates. Philip
Wiensemer of the Amalgamated Soci-
ETY. of Plumbers and Gas Filters pre-
sided.
The meeting was called on account
of the recent decisions of the court of
| appeals declaring the prevailing rate
of wages law and the State stone-dress-
ing law unconstitutional These laws,
the most radical OF their kind that
have yet been passed in the interest of
labor, cost the labor unions many
thousands of dollars in carrying on
the aeitation in their frvor. and their
annulment is admitted to be a severe
blow to labor.
Those who conducted the agitation
NV say that the city officials who were
imposed to be most friendly to labor
did not stand by the labor unions as
| thev were expected to DO. and that their
professions of friendship were not car
ried out in practice.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
Peculiar Hog Case

Stockton, Cal.-Arthur Ennis, son of
ex-Supervisor Ennis of this county,
was found guilty by jury of petit
larceny in having stolen, in company
with Jack Stennett and Paul Davis, a
hog from the Sargent ranch.
The case was remarkable and SEN
sational one in many ways. This was
the fourth trial of Ennis. Stennett,
his companion in crime, was acquitted
of the same charge. He was afterward
acquitted of perjury and later con-
victed of stealing a hog from another
man. He then turned states evidence
and gave testimony which resulted in
the conviction of Ennis. Davis was
convicted on the second trial.
District Attorney Ashley, who con-
Quoted the case for the people, openly
accused A. H. Carpenter, attorney for
the defendants, with subornation OF
perjury, and Carpenter has sued Ashley
for damages in large sum. The jury
was out four minutes today.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
Died on the Desert

PHOENIX, Ariz., April ia dis
patch from Kingman says the body of
Henry Lundstrom, well-known min
ing man, has been found on the desert
near Cottonwood Island. Lundstrom
has been missing for six months.
He had mining claims near Eldorado
Canyon, and had been at work on these
mines when he was apparently taken
Ill and was in search of help when
completely overcome. He had made a
shade with blankets, put the water can
teen to his lips, and died in that posi-
ton, in which the body was found.
Considerable money was in his pockets.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
AMONG The DERRICKS

JUMPING CLAIMS-In Shasta coun-
ty number of oil claims are reported
to have been jumped, the land having
been mainly held by one company.
NORTHERN VENTURA COUNTY
Report has it that the California Pa
cific Oil company is building six rigs in
northern Ventura county, in what
members of the company believe to be
an extension of the Sunset field.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY,. R. New
berry has decided to drill for oil at
Rincon. The well will be sunk near
the old Main place. Men and machin-
cry are on the ground and work will
begin at once. The indications are
good.
HANFORD-It is reported that the
Buena Vista Oil company, operating
seventeen miles south of Huron, has
stopped drilling. Its drill is down 1890
feet.-Hanford Sentinel.
SAN PEDRO-Lighthous Oil COM
pany, whose we'll at San Pedro reached
a depth of 800 feet when drilling was
discontinued a few days since, expect
to make arrangements to have work re-
sumed soon and continued to a depth
of at least 1000 feet. Operatods in the
San Pedro field have not lost faith in
it by any means, though none of the
wells yet drilled have succeeded in
finding good ground.
BETTER WORKMEN-A process Of
elimination has been going on fol
months in the casting out of incompe,
tent workmen. and as result better
results are being obtained through the
oil fields of the state than ever before
A few months since the demand fol
drillers exceeded the supply, and al
most any man who knew a drill from
bullwheel was able to get work drill
ing. All that is practically at an end
the heavy immigration of Pennsylvania
drillers having met the full demand
and today it is said to take a goot
driller to get job.-Los Angeles Her
al6.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20

enced relatives or favorites Of infuen
tial stockholders can be advanced to
responsible managerial positions in the
great railway systems. Promotion in
all the big systems is now based upon
absolute demonstrated knowledge of
every important detail of the trans
portation business. Mr.. Harris, the
new President, and General Manager
William c. Brown are splendid types of
''the twentieth century railroad man"
Each worked his way up from the bot
tom. There is no detail in the entire
range of railroad management from
track building to motive power and
equipment with which they are not ia
miliar. The railway career of the new
President of the Burlington" began
at the age of Is as office boy for the
Hannibal and st. Joseph Road, now a
part of the Burlington" From this
he gradually climbed to the top through
successive promotions embracing near
ly every branch Of the operating de-
partment.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
WILL STILL TAKE FRUIT ON ITS ROAD
Great Northern Is Not to Be Beaten

| SPOKANE, Wash.-The Great North
ern will continue to handle shipments
| of California oranges east over its
road.
If the California roads insist on
charging full local rates on the fruit
| from the orchards to the wharves, it
will be paid.
Fast steamers may be put on to rush
the fruit to Seattle and the railroad
will make even better time than on the
trial shipments in getting the consign-
ments East, so declares Assistant Cen
eral Superintendent P. 7. Downs of
that road. He added:
I'VE can if necessary, make the run
from Seattle to Minneapolis in sixty
hours and deliver the fruit in the Twin
Cities on the seventh day out from
Los Angeles.
According to the California papers
it takes ten days to Chicago by the
southern roads. The second shipment
arrived at Minneapolis yesterday in
fine condition, over twenty-five miles
an hour having been made, despite
orders to hold down speed.
The temperature of the cars was
taken three times each twentv-four
hours between Seattle and MINNEAPOLIS.
by George B. Cox, agent of the South
ern Pacific Fruit Grogers' Exchange.
The highest temperature registered
was 4S degrees above, and the lowest
A degrees above zero, a change of only
four degrees during the entire run
across the continent.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20

The South African war has over
Swallowed for time that great prof
ect of Cecil Rhodes, the Cape-to-Cairo
telegraph. That work has gone stead
lily on. Forests, streams, natives and
wild animals have been conquered.
Three thousand miles of poles, stretch
ing northward from the Cape, have
been erected, and but one thousand
three hundred miles yet remain to be
conquered. Rhodes has also under
taken that greatest project the world
has ever seen-the Cape-to- Cairo Rail-
way-which will soon be pushed to
Victoria Falls. When these great en-
terprises are completed a long step
will have been taken for the civiliza-
ton of Africa. War is great force,
but how can it compare with modern
science-that which is inevitably con-
quering the dark regions and the habi-
tations of cruelty.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
STEAMERS FOR THE PACIFIC
New Company Organized in New Jersey
to Operate from Seattle

Syracuse, N. Y.-The Globe Naviga-
ton company will be incorporated at
Trenton, N. j.. to own and operate
steam and sailing vessels, sailing from
Seattle to Pacific coast, Alaskan and
Chinese ports. The capital, $1,000,O00,
is all subscribed. Three 3000-ton
steamships in Atlantic ports have been
purchased and will sail for Seattle
within ten days. The officers of the
company are: William Nottingham,
Syracuse, president; J. w. elise, Seat
tie. vice-president and reident man
ager; Lyman c. Smith, Syracuse, treas
urer, and w. w. Brown, Toledo, secre-
tary.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
STEALING AT PHILIPPINES
Sergeants Take Flour from the Govern
ment Warehouses
General Macarthur Makes A Report on
Social Evil-AguinaIdo's Wife and
Mother His Only Visitors.

Manila-The trial of Sergeant Mem
son, the first case in the commissary
scandals, began with the startling dis
closure expected. Two witnesses testi-
fed that quantities of flour were taken
from a government warehouse and sold
by three commissary sergeants and
two others, who divided the proceeds.
Finnick, proprietor of an American
bakery, was eliminated and other bust
ness men were also involved. The ex-
tent of the illegal sales has not been
ascertained.
Archbishop Chappelle, the papal del
egate in the Philippines, has been sum-
moned to Rome. He will sale soon and
his return here is improbable.
General Macarthur has forwarded to
Washington special report on saloons
and the social evil in the Philippine
islands.
Information concerning Aguinaldo's
doing is withheld by the authorities.
The wife and mother of Aguinaldo
have been almost his only visitors dur
ing the past week. General MacAr-
thur considers inopportune the sugges-
ton made here that Aguinaldo visit the
United States.
By the treachery of a native guide
Lieutenant Mills of Company G, Forty
third Volunteer Infantry, was almost
entrapped while pursuing insurgents in
the interior of the island of Leyte.
After a sharp skirmish the attacking
insurgents were defeated. Surgeon
Lewis Thompson and Private Prosset
were severely wounded
At Slang, in Cavite province, the
insurgents have surrendered several
Nordenfeldts.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
Appeal for Chinese

San Diego-Gaston Straus, the San
Francisco attorney who notified Col
lector Bowers that he would appeal
from his decision ordering the deporta-
tion of forty-three Chinese who came
here on the Belgian King, is in this
city examining the reports upon which
the Celestials were ordered returned.
His appeal in each case will be pre-
sented to the collector, and should Mr..
Bowers adhere to his former decision
that none of these Chinese are entitled
to land, then Attorney Straus will
carry his appeal to the secretary of the
treasury
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
Judge Follows Policy

,edding-Superior Judge Sweeney
has overruled the Supreme Court OF
the state The unusual ruling came up
in a case to enjoin the board of super
visors from letting a contract to con-
struct a fence around the court house
grounds. The contract was let without
competitive bids.
In announcing judgment on the case,
Judge Sweeney said that, while the
state law, as interpreted by the Su-
preme Court, upheld the action OF the
supervisors in letting the contract
without advertising for bids, he did not
consider it good law, and declared it to
be against public policy.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS
A Rancher Killed by Train Near San
Jose
A New Oil Refinery for Los Angeles
San Bardoo's Street Fair Liquor
Dealers Win

A half inch of snow fell in Straw
berry valley on Easter eve.
In the Salt River valley. Arizona, the
bee men are anticipating Il big yield Of
honey.
W. E. Hodges, general purchasing
agent of the Santa Fe, is on his way to
Southern California.
Pasadena's Americas CLUB will ap-
pear in La Fiesta in Los Angeles.
Hay cutting has commenced in Or
ange county.
Fifteen hundred feet of the break
water superstructure work is now COM
pleted, and rock is being hurried there
as fast as possible.
San Bernardino's fair will be a rec
ord-breaking advertisement for that
town if present plans materialize. Over
$500 is offered in premiums.
The Santa Rosa took away 5000
boxes of oranges and lemons from San
Diego one day last week. They go
east via the Great Northern.
Up to April LIST Riverside had sent
out 3089 cars of oranges and Sc cars of
lemons, as against 1858 cars of oranges
and 1O2 cars of lemons at the same
date last year.
Frank R. Porter has applied to tho
Long Beach authorities for fifty-year
street railway franchise. His terms as
sure no competition during the term o.
the instrument.
The Pacific Rural Press states That
buyers are early in the field this y;er
for the deciduous fruit crop. At Hay
wards the cannery men are offering SIS
per ton for apricots, 500 for pears, :
cents per pound for black cherries and
cents for Royal AIMS.
The Pacific Coast Steamship COM
pany announces an average reduction
of about 50 a ton upon freight rates
between Los Angeles and points on
the Pacific Coast Railroad company
running from Port Hartford to Los
Olives, in San Luis Obispo county.
LIQUOR dealers won out in their Santa
Monica fight, as the trustees decided tc
issue licenses. Wholesale permits will
cost $500 a year, hotel licenses for es-
Establishments of over seventy-tive
rooms $500, restaurant licenses the
same. The usual prescription liquor
license concession was made to drug
stores.
A new refinery is to be established
| in Los Angeles. Asphalt, lubricatins
oils and distillate will be manufacturer
and all the by-products will be utilized
to good advantage. Prof. Densmore
and Prof. John l.. Stabler, chemical In
structor in the University of Southern
California, are the founders and prin
cipal hackers of the new enterprise.
James H. Mediation, rancher, was
killed by narrow gauge switch tral1
at crossing near San Jose last Satur
day. An engine was pushing six cars
ahead of it to the brick yard, and the
foremost car hit Hatton's buggy
throwing him out. He was picked W
and brought to the city, but died az
the train reached the depot. An in
quest was held and the verdict ascribet
death to accident and no one il
blamed. Mediation was quite deaf, ant
this may have had something to dt
with the accident, as the evidence be
fore the coroner's jury showed that the
train signals were given for the cross
ing.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
CARRIE NATION IN PATROL WAGON
Hatchet Wie!der is Arrested at Kansa
CITY

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Mrs Carrie
Nation was arrested in this city on the
charge of obstructing the street, and
wagon.
She was released on a cash bond of
Sc, and will be tried in the police
court.
Mrs. Nation lectured in Kansas City,
Kan, and came over to the Missouri
side. She started on a tour of inves-
tigation among the downtown saloons.
A crowd of thousand men and boys
followed her, and at Twelfth and Wal
nut streets, where there are saloons
on three corners, she was arrested be-
caue the crowd following her blockaded
the street. She roundly lectured the
saloon men whom she visited.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
Farm Cattle

1t is not true that the cattle business
to be profitable must be conducted on
the broad ranges of the western plains,
says Texas Farm and Ranch. That is
one profitable system of cattle raising,
but there is another which yields fully
as great profits for the cattle invested.
Raising cattle on the farm has in all
countries and all ages been found prof
table, and more so now than ever. By
raising cattle on the farm the farmer
has a good market for all the feed he
can raise, saves labor and expense of
transportation and avoids much loss
from waste and the hocus pocus of
commerce. And one of the main fea-
lures of stock farming is that it can be
made to continually improve the fertil-
ity and value of the farm.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
MULE CASE DECIDED
The Beers Cannot Prevent !hifmen.s
from New Orleans 10 South
Africa

New Orleans Parlange, in the
United States Superior Court, handed
down a RECESSION dismissing the suit
brought by the Boer representatives
here to prevent the shipment of mules
and horses out of New Orleans to the
British army in South Africa.
Judge Parlange holds that the trans
actions between citizens of the United
States and the British government
were conducted under the order of pri-
vate citizenship and that the courts
had absolutely no jurisdiction to inter
fere.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
Marble Arch to Be Demolished.

The celebrated marble arch, one of
London's most notable landmarks, is
shortly to be demolished, though the
reason for such an act has not yet been
published. This interesting object was
built by George ". at cost of 100000
as an entrance to Buckingham palace,
where it did duty in that capacity for
many years. But as the gateway to the
palace the arch was q failure. 1t had
the effect of dwarfing the royal resi-
dence, and visitors who went to view
the royal house from the exterior saw
plenty of gate" to quote an old de-
scription, "and very little palace" Ac-
cordingly, in 1850, it was removed to
its present position in Hyde Park. 1t
T. not a solid structure, but contains
several rooms.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20

Demos is a funny bird! The people
of Servia detested Milan when he was
King and would like to have seen him
lynched. They resented his brutal
treatment of Queen Natalie and hated
him for what he was-a roue, a card
sharp and a general all-around black
guard. Yet when his son, King Alex
ander, displays GOODNESS about his death
and has him buried outside of the king
dom he had disgraced the same popu-
lace becomes highly indignant at such
unfilial conduct and storms the palace,
with intent to do injury to the undutiful
child. The vagaries of the mob almost
equal those of the petit jury.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20

Are angels men? asks E. B. Trescot
in Temple Magazine, and he points out
that all the angels one ever reads of
are men. To this the London Academy
replies that while in literature angels
are men, in art, they are women-the
reason for the difference seeming to be
literary and artistic demands. Neither
of these journals, however, states the
fact that all the angels one meets in
daily life are women, nor does either
note the passing fancy that all the min
istering angels in current literature are
women. Wings on angels seem to
have been the result of an evolutionary
process, for the earliest angels of whom
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20


then what splendor of color, what va
riegated beauty and delicacy of tint
has been found in these heavenly be-
ings, whom Dante was pleased to call
birds of God" AS the word angel
signifies messenger, it was natural that
this order of beings should take on
wings, which indicate speed. Hermes.
the Greek messenger of the gods, with
winged feet, is shown also with wings
on his golden sandals, on his broad
brimmed hat and ON his caduceus. or
staff. He does not take on a birdlike
form, with wings on his back. The
modern idea Of an angel is associated
with kindness, sympathy and healing
devotion. Hence the modern angel has
no wings. She does not fly. She STAYS
by, ready to assist. Perhaps the real
type of the modern angel is best seen in
the trained nurse, who ministers to the
sick with patience and intelligence. and
who fulfills her mission without 1utter
or rustic.
Holbrook argus., 1901-04-20
British Troops Likely to Run Into I'm
expected Commando

LONDON.-The Amsterdam CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail reiterates
the statement that secret recruiting
has been going on in Holland for the
Beers. He intimates that this has been
done on a considerable scale since last
January, and that new recruit have
been sent to the Transvaal by way of
Swakopmund in German Southwest At
RIGA.
The correspondent adds that British
military officials will probably first
hear of this movement when they run
into an unexpected commando in
Northern Cape Colony.