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LOS ANGELES NEWS
Telephone Franchise Acquired by Eastern
 Capitalists Who Mean Business

The annual banquet of the Chamber of Commerce was held Saturday night. Over 300 guests were present.
 The erection of gas plant in the eighth ward has led to a vigorous pro- test from citizens of that portion of the city.
 It is said that the public market site which has caused endless trouble to the City Council during months past may be sold.
 An observation balloon capable of accommodating eighteen to twenty per- sons is to be one of the attractions at the chutes.
 Such is the congestion of the mails al the postoffice that the entire force of clerks has been ordered to report for duty on Sundays until the winter rush is over.
 Residents of Highland Park are clamoring for the purchase by the city of the Highland Water Company's plant or the extension of the city's mains to that section.
 The City Council has unanimously voted to reject all the franchise bids, return the S15S, 400 to the Huntington Hellman syndicate and refer the fran chise applications to the Board of Public Works for re-draft.
 M. Adrian King, who secured tele- phone franchise short time ago has assigned his rights to Frank F. Graves of Toledo Ohio. MT. Graves is man. ager for the Home Telephone Com pany a corporation organized about two years ago, mostly by eastern men, and it is this company that will shoul- der the franchise and build the plant. The men behind the proposed enter prise are said to possess sufficient wealth to carry out the plans for complete telephone system.
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Soundings for the Cable

To take soundings in the Pacific Ocean from near San Francisco to the Hawaiian Islands, thence to the Ladrones and from there to the Phil ippines, for the projected Pacific cable, the Titus, a 120-ton sea-going tug, will leave New York within a few days. Stops probably will be made at Valparaiso and Panama.
 One of the governments most trust ed transport captains, who has a knowledge of the soundings and mathematics, has just arrived from the Philippines for the purpose. of taking the Titus out. He expects to begin taking soundings. about the by the end of May. For ascertaining depth a new device will be used. It is large iron cylinder, topped by a cone containing air, and is heremetic- ally sealed except when the cylinder is immersed. Working on the prin- ciples of hydraulics and gravitation, it is possible to drop the cylinder to a reasonable depth, and the pressure is indicated on a dial attached to the cone. When the cylinder is drawn up. by taking the pressure and the depth and making the proper computations, the total depth of the sea at that point is determined.
 Soundings will be taken every half hour, with the tug going at speed of about six miles an hour. It is not expected that depth greater than 5000 feet will be found on the course.
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SUPREME COURT CHANGES
Secretary Long May Be Elevated to the
 Bench

Justice Gray of the United States supreme Court, who is suffering with a stroke of paralysis is still seriously afflicted. His left arm and leg are completely paralyzed, but his. mind IS perfectly clear. The advanced. age of Justice Gray, "A, naturally handicaps him in the effort to rally from the attack, and it is quite possible that he may be confneG to his bed for an in definite period. Under these cireum- stances rumors of his retirement are current although it is known that he has been averse to leaving the bench.
 There is some talk to the effect that the President might elevate Secretary Long to the Supreme bench as soon as a vacancy occurred.
 When the appointment is made it is certain that the name of Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts will be brought to the Presidents attention. He is a son of the famous poet and essayist and is a jurist of brilliant attainments.
 Another possible change in the per sonnel of the Supreme Court is the re- tirement of Justice Shiras of Pennsyl- vania. Justice Shiras is eligible to re- tirement upon the ground of age, hay ing become 70 years old on the 26th of last month. ~.H
 All gossip concerning appointment to the Supreme Court bench naturally includes the name of Judge Taft of Ohio. When President Mckinley in- duced Judge Taft to resign his position as Federal Circuit Judge to accept the Governorship of the Philippines, it was with the understanding that he would eventually appoint him to the Supreme Court bench.
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formal greeting on board the Kron

formal greeting on board the Kron Prinz.
 The German standard was run to the foretop of the Kron Prinz, and its appearance gave the signal to the American fleet to salute. The San Francisco, Cincinnati, Olympia and Illinois lay in perfect alignment in the order named, and made an attract i've picture with their crews manning the sides, turrets and tops.
 The Prince and his staff were espe- cially interested in the Illinois and Olympia, and offered warm congratu- lations to the read-admiral on the splendid appearance of his squadron.
 The first of the large crowds was met at the Battery, and from there on up to Recreation pier, where the largest crowd of all had gathered, every pier to which admission was not denied was partly filled.
 The last greeting in the run up the river was from the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, which is to be the home of the Prince while in New York. She bore full dress of flags, and her white paint, with its trimmings of gold shone in the brilliant sun. Her tackles wore new uniforms and straw hats and manned the sides. while the officers, in full-dress uniform were drawn up on the deck.
 Prince Henry disembarked at noon, and immediately proceeded on board the Hohenzollern where he received numerous callers. After lunch the Prince paid his official visits.
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in a few places, where the action of water has carved out bluffs. Above those it is again level enough for planting.
 After the earthquake of the 9th inst line of demarkation, the shape of long elliptical curve, and looking like newly-plowed furrow, was noticed along the grain field above one of the low bluffs, from corner to corner.
 The space within the ellipse-fve acres-is sliding away from the rest of the hill at the rate of eight inches a week. The crevice is twelve feet wide at the surface and quite deep. The moving field is part of the Solari es- tate, owned by MT. Kohler of Pasa- dena, and is good soil.
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ENTERTAINING ROYALTY
PRINCE HENRY OF GERMANY THE RECIPIENT OF MANY COURTESlES
Dedicate Day to Martyred Presidents SpiIIinS Blood-May be Revolution United States Warns Russia and China

Rumors continue persistent that the sentiment of surrender is growing among the Boers.
 Enormous ice gorges are forming in Pennsylvania Rivers, and serious dam age is feared from floods.
 A fire in New York hotel Saturday morning resulted in the death Of fif- teen persons and the injuring of many more.
 The House of Representative of the Ohio Legislature has placed itself on record as being in favor of electing United States Senators by direct vote of the people.
 Chinese Minister Wu and ex-Mayor Phelan of San Francisco met in a New York hotel lobby Friday and ex- changed heated sentences over the question of Chinese exclusion.
 That public interest in the Mckinley memorial is on the increase is evil denced by the ever-growing volume of letters and telegrams received at the headquarters of the national assocla- tion in Cleveland.
 Attorney-General Knox has ex- pressed his opinion that the merger of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railways is illegal. A suit will shortly be. instituted in the name of the government against the merger
 Many thousand dollars are being spent by the United States government in the Yellowstone National Park. Roads are being improved and hereto fore inaccessible places high in won derland are being placed within reach of the tourist.
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NO NEW ARMY POSTS
House Military Committee Opposed to
 Proposed Camps

The report of the House Committee Cn Military Affairs shows that a ma jority of that committee is against making appropriations for establishing military camps and posts throughout the country, as recommended by the special army board appointed nearly a year ago by congressional authority. With this committee against the scheme, it can be said it is almost a certainty that the present session will take no steps towards making recommendation for the establishment of those posts. This will be sad news for Southern California, which fared better than any other part of the coun- try in distributing these honors.
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Dedicate Day to Martyred Presidents

At the annual session of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution in Washington there was adopted the fol- lowing resolutions:
 Resolved, that we recommend to Congress that Sunday following the birthday of our late President Me Kinley be set aside as a day of prayer in memory of our martyred Presidents, Lincoln as the master mind, the great hearted emancipator, whom We all re- were; Garfield, and particularly McKin- Icy, man beloved by the people as possessing all the virtues of heart and mind that combine to make one good and great. We suggest Sunday that the memory of these men may year by year be associated with thoughts of our duty as citizens, to live nobler and purer lives"
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Prince Henry Arrives

Prince Henry of Prussia, representa- tive of his brother, the Emperor of Germany, at the launching of the lat ter's American-built yacht, reached New York Sunday and was cor dially welcomed as a guest of the nation. The land batteries that guard the outer harbor sounded the first greeting in a ponder ous salute of twenty-one guns; the rifles of special naval squadron as- sembled in his honor reechoed the sen- timent; there were verbal greetings from the representatives of the Presi- dent, the army, the navy, and the city of New York, and a great crowd lined the way into the city to see and cheer the sailor Prince of Germany.
 The great storm against which the days, and which had glazed the At lantic Coast in an armor of ice, had lost it's force, and resigned it's sway to warm sunsine and cheery blue skies so there were no regrets that the royal guest was full day late for the en- tertainment provided for him.
 RearAdmiral Robley D. Evans, commander of the special squadron and honorary aid to the Prince, left the flagship Illionois at $40 o'clock in the naval tug Nina.
 The Nina met the Kron Prinz Will helm beyond Fort Wadsworth, and sailing around on the starboard side of the liner, steamed up the bay. Prince Henry, attired in the uniform of an admiral of the German navy and sur rounded by his naval and military staff in brilliant uniform, stood on the bridge of the liner.
 As the two vessels, with a flotilla of tugs and official craft moved in past Fort Wadsworth, the first of the salutes of twenty-one guns was fired. AS the first gun sounded, the Prince advanced to the end of the bridge of the Kron Prinz Welhelm, and stood at attention. AS he passed the big Ameri- can flag floating over the fortication, he raised his cap in salute, and the members of his suite did likewise. The flag at the jack-staff of the Kron Prinz Wilhelm was dipped, and the German naval band accompanying the Prince played "The Star Spangled Banner" The guns of Fort Wads- worth were not silent before those across the Narrows at Fort Hamilton boomed out their salute.
 Following that ceremony came the
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United States Warns Russia and China

A sensation was caused in diplo
 matic circles in Picking Wednesday when it became known that the United States, through Secretary of State John Hay, had sent note to the Russian and Chinese governments fol- lowing closely along the lines of the Anglo-Japanese treaty of January 30. The note is distinct warning to both China and Russia that the United States will not permit the integrity of the empire to be molested in favor of other,
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PREPARING FOR THE WIRE
SONDlNGS FOR PACIFIC CABLE TO
 BE MADE bY THE GOVERNMENT
Gould to Visit Pacific Coast-No New Army Posts-Fve Acre Land Move Los Angeles to Have New Telephone System

Rural free delivery service has been ordered to begin April 1, at Lompoc.
 The telephone girls of San Francisco numbering 700, have had to undergo vaccination.
 Articles incorporating the Stanford Inn Club have been filed. It Is com posed of students at the university, who have banded themselves together for the purpose of conducting club for social intercourse and to put the means of living within reach of many who could not otherwise attend the university.
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Five Year Arbitration Agreement

At the sixteenth annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association in session in New York, a resolution was adopted, authorizing an arbitration agreement with the Inter-
 national Typographical Union for five years beginning May next, when the present yearly agreement ends. The executive council of the union must pass on this agreement formally before it will be in force, but that body has already informally given it's approval.
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Columbian Troops SpilIing Blood

Arrangements have been made by the Colombian government to secure the services of New York wrecking company to recover from the bottom of Panama bay the government armor- clad steamer Lautaro, which was sunk on January IF by the Padilla of the rebel fleet.
 The government forces under Gen. Castro and those of Gen. Herrera en- gagged in battle Thursday in the vicin- ity of San Carlos, some thirty to forty miles southeast of Panama.
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Gould to Visit Pacific Coast

From Chicago the report that Geo. J: Gould will make tour of the Pa cific Coast next month, and the fact has revived talk of a combination for a new transcontinental line. Every indication points to the belief that a big railroad and financial deal is on by which Gould's Missouri Pa citic system will gain an entrance into San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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May Be Revolution

Troops are necessarily patrollng the streets of Barcelona, Spain, occasion ally charging and dispersing mobs. Shots are exchanged on the grand vista by the rioters and the troops and the latter have resorted to bayonet charges. The casualty list is length ened by every conflict. Industrial and commercial life in Barcelona is paral- yZed.
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FIVE.ACRE LAND MOVE
Grain Field Jared Loose by the Earth.
 quake at Oxnard

The phenomenon of a moving five acre field, covered with grain, is at tracting much attention in Ventura county. At Springville Hill, five miles east of Oxnard, the land has been jared loose and is slowly but surely making its way toward the valley.
 The hill has an irregular base, from which it's slopes rise gradually, except
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-01-17
HELD MASS
MEETING
WHITE CITIZENS MEET AND CON-
DENIM THE NEGRO POST
MASTER IN ATHENS.
Committee Will Go to Washington to
Ask President to Rescind the
Morton Appointment.

Athens, Ga, Jan. 16.-The citizens
of Athens showed in no uncertain way
this morning that the appointment of
M. B. Morton, colored, to succeed him
self as postmaster here, would be un-
satisfactory in every respect.
The call for a mass meeting to be
held at the city hall was more enthu-
siastically responded to than was an
ticipated. The city hall would not
hold the crowd and the meeting was
adjourned to the opera house.
Mayor J. F. Rhodes presided over
the meeting and T. w. Reed acted as
secretary. Colonel S. J. Tribble intro
duced strong resolutions against Nor
tons appointment which were unan-
imously adopted and telegraphed at
once to Congressman Howard with
the request that ne present them at
once to the president
Mayor Rhodes was then empowered
to appoint a committee of five to go
on to Washington and in person pre-
sent the facts to the president.
Quite a number of kilograms were
sent to Congressman Howard and Sen
ators Bacon and Clay asking that they
request the president to hold up the
appointment until the Athens commit
tee could reach Washington.
From replies received 1t is apparent
that the president will hear the Ath-
ems committee. The committee was
busy all yesterday getting afiidavits
as to Mortons incompetency, and it is
thought that the PRESIDENT win be CON
Yined that Morton should not be ap-
pointed postmaster here.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-01-17
SEVERAL PETITIONS BEING CIR.
cULATED ASKING PRESIDENT
TO INVESTIGATE CASE OF our.
POSTMASTER.
BUT FEW CITIZENS BELIEVE HE
is GUILTY OF THE CHARGE
PREFERRED AGAINST HIM BY
THE DEPARTMENT.

| The only new developments in the
postmastershfp yesterday were num-
Der of petitions being passed around
the city asking the president to hold
up the nomination of Mr.. Smith and
investigate the charges against Post
master Brown.
These petitions were drawn up
and circulated by the present post
masters friends. and large number
of names were signed to them. They
will probably be circulated again to-
day and then forwarded to the presi-
dent.
The petitions state the facts in the
matter as they exist and highly rec
ommend Mr.. Brown as a postmaster
Reference is made in them to the
time when Brunswick was darkened
with a yellow fever epidemic and
while hundreds of our citizens were
leaving the city, Mr. Brown faced the
terrible scourge until he was stricken
and as soon as he recovered. again re-
turned to his post of duty.
Mr.. Browns friends claim that he
has made a faithful postmaster, and
feel that when the president is
shown the afcts in the matter he will
have an investigation ordered.
There are but very few citizens of
Brunswick who believe Mr. Brown
guilty of the charges preferred
against him by the department, and
think it but justice that he should
have chance to prove it to the gov
ernment.
While the people have no objection
to MIR. Smith as postmaster. they feel
that great injustice is being done
to Mr.. Brown and every effort win
now be made to have the matter re
opened.
Nothing official has yet been heard
by any one in Brunswick and probably
will not until the nomination Of Mr..
Smith is confirmed by the senate, if
the president refuses to reopen the
matter
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-01-17
BRANTLEY'S
TWO BILLS
BRUNSWICK CONGRESSMAN is
AFTER APPROPRIATION
FOR OUR HARBOR.
Exact Copy of the Bills as introduced
BY Him in Congress Providing
for the Appropriation.

The following are exact copies of
the bills introduced by Congressman
Brantley for the improvement of our
harbor
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled, That $125,70O be,
and the same is, hereby appropriated,
to be paid out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated,
to be Immediately available, and to
be expended under the direction of
the secretary of war and the super
vision of the chief of engineers, for
continuing the Improvement Of the
inner harbor of Brunswick, Georgia,
in accordance with the report sub
mitted in House document No. 40,
fifty-sixth congress, first session, Of
which sum $4,000, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, shall be used
to maintain the present depth of wa
ter in Academy creek to old Altamaha
canal the same being a part of the
inner harbor.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representative of the
United States of America, in Con-
gress assembled, That c. P Goodyear,
his heirs and assigns, shall be paid
for fifty feet excess of width over
the contract width of twenty-four
feet depth at mean high tide on the
outer bar of Brunswick, Georgia, OBJ
tanned as shown by the report of
II. L. Marinden, the officer detailed
to make survey of such work, made
to the secretary of war on the fourth
day of December, 1899, in the same
proportion as he was paid for 100 feet
widths of succh depths, namely, $780,
900, ard that for a fifty-foot excess of
width Of twenty-five feet depth at
mean high tide, shown by said report,
he or they shall be paid in the same
proportion as he was paid for one hun
ired feet widths Of twenty-five feet
depths, namely, 25,000.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-01-17

printed in New York that King Ed
ward when Prince of Wales, had de-
clared nobody of the Wetmore name
should ever be admitted to royal
presence, or words to that effect.
This declaration, so the story goes,
was because the senator's wife, a
very handsome woman, had some
years ago declined to meet his royal
highness, who likes to meet handsome
and attractive American women. The
senator did not like today's publica-
tion, which insinuatd that Willies
lovely junket would be cut off, but he
was assured by Secretary Hay that
he need not worry. The fact is, the
officials hee have no idea that King
Edward would, under any circum-
stances, take notice of a small secre-
tary of embassy and they believe
there will be no intimation from
Great Britain that Willie is persona
non grata. The senator, when he
learned this, went away, his face
wreathed n.smiles.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-01-17
SCHOOLS ARE CROWDED.

No More Children Can be Accemmo-
dated in Preparatory Department
At the meeting of the Board of Edu-
cation yesterday, it was announced
that all grades of the preparatory
school and two grades of the gram
mar school were crowded and could
accommodate no more pupils unless
some now attending should drop out.
In view Of that fact, the board advises
all parents who have children attend
ing school, not to let them drop out
as their places will be given to other
children.
The board also decided to adopt a
new plan concerning teachers. Next
June a normal class, consisting of six
teachers over II years of age, will
be organized From this class, all
supernumeraries and new teachers
will be selected. For instance, should
one of the teachers in active service
drop out, a teacher from the Normal
class would be selected to fill the
vacancy, while another member
would be taken into the class.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-01-17
NATIONAL BANKS AND LAND.
A Bill Introduced in Congress Amend
nq the Law.

Washington, Jan. 16-Representa-
tive Lewis today introduced a bill to
amend the national bank act so as
to permit national banks to loan on
real estate an amount equal to so per
cent. of their capital and surplus on
the basis of one-half the marketable
value of the real estate exclusive of
all buildings and improvements there
on.
Mr.. Lewis as a member of the COM
mittee on banking, has always taken
an active interest in all matters com
ing under the committee and has been
a strong advocate of state banks,
but he says so long as it is evident
national banks are here to stay, the
laws restricting their operations
should be so changed as to permit the
people to get all the benefits from
them they can He thinks that the
provision which prohibits the loaning
upon real estate is a hardship upon
farmers and others holding real es-
tate which is the best security.
A farmer, he argues, can get money
upon land when railroad and other
stocks are valueless as collateral, but
as things are now the southern or the
western real estate owner can borrow
only in a way that involves his pay
ing high rates of interest, and two or
three commissions to people handling
eastern money. Mr.. Lewis thinks
the enactment of his bill would work
to the relief of the farmers and own
ers of other real estate in the south
and west.