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nv Sffii nf1 Jvfl 4 wte ASsrr fr 1 42 fift TO EXTEND OUR TRADE ABROAD Opsnipg for American Machines and Bailway Materials in Japan METHODS OF REACHING INTO THE PHILIPPINES Closer Relations With the Markets ot Europe Are Urged Foreigners Lack Transportation Facilities sais fba2cisco chboinicoge hokpat setjbmbeb 21 aooft feMfl 5 a a Special Corrcpoodonc of tb Chronicle WASHINGTON September 15 The United States imports more Oriental good than any other country He exports to the East however do not balance the trade scales Consul Harris stationed at Nagasaki Japan suggests that the most expeditious way to increase American trade is through the extension of the American cable system to Japan The inauguration of direct cable communication with the United States would greatly facilitate commercial transactions between this country and Japan 8peaking of the Mltsu Blsli Dockyard Engine and Shipbuilding Works Consul Harris says that the companys orders have been and are now even for American goods placed almost wholly with Great Britain There exists no good reason why their purchase should not made to a large extent in the United 8tates provided direct solicitation be made by our manufacturers HULROAD MATERIALS JEEUEO Owing to the investment of English capital in an electric street tram vay in Toklo and the consequent increase of Interest among the Japanese in rapid transit there is a marked improvement in the market for electric motors The electric bell is sounding the death knell of the picturesque jinrikisha An automobile has been purchased by a silk firm for use In delivering goods and promoters are endeavoring to establish a company for operating a passenger automobile service between Nagoya and Atsuta two cities about ten miles apart in the center of the porcelain manufacturingmanufacturing district Some articles which Japan imports in considerable quantities and which the United States might compete more strongly in proiding are lifting machines drilling and boring machines turning lathes machine tools condensed milk rails fittings or rails iron pipes and tubes belting and hose fur machinery and railway freight and passenger cars Soon after the Japan China war the Japanese Government adopted a measure for the expansion of state railway lines Of the 73S miles of railroad then projected lb miles had been opened for traffic the 1st of April 1902 and more than half of the appropriation had bfen expended Last winter the Diet uas asked for a further appropriation which was granted and bids tor furnishing railroad building ma tetrials should not be delayed METHODS OF PHILIPPINE TRADE Exporters of goods to the Philippine should be careful to comply with the lUttoms regulations of the islands If they expect to secure any trade whatever they must have their catalogues printed in Spanish and the catalogues should always contain the telegraphic address and the telegraphic codes In use As correspondence with the Philippines Involves a Jong delay it often happens that exporters are obliged to cable hence the application of a code to al the articles offered Is an economy Another Important point is the quotation of prices for catalogued goods otherwise the tatalogues are of no more valu thcin a book of illustrations The weights and measures of the article shipped as in customary packages should also giv en Special care is needed In packing The port is completely without protection and the bay is thirty miles in diameter As the sea is frequently very rough discharging operations ar impossible and transshipment is made by means of native boats which are tossed about by the least agitation of the waters The ecent acquisition of large steel tenders has lessened this danger and in a short time boats will be able to ride and discharge directly in an artificial roadstead THE UERMA TARIFF Joseph Langer United States Consul at Solingen Germany reports that the changes as to the new German tariff consist chiefly In tariff rates themselves and the official invoice appertaining thereto These being more specialized than heretofore 11 niccsuatc a mor de vied dc ljration as well particularly as tc textiles hard are machinery etc For instance as to tin the thickness must be given in cotton goods thread and lelitive ight must be peifid Exporters to German ports will therefore need to be most specific in the matter of invoices This will not only simplify the official inspection but fa cllltate it as well FRENCH DUTY ON CATTLE The bill signed by the President of the French Republic on July 31st last increases the duties on cattle hogs and otheranimals and on dried and salted meats Under the new tariff there is an Increase of duty on steers cows 1 bulls young bulls and heifers amounting to 3 86 per 22046 pounds live weight maximum and to 1 93 mlpt mum On calves the increase is 540on hogs 3 285 On fresh mutton pork and beef It amounts to 3 48 5 40 and 4 825 respectively while the increase nn salted pork and beef Is 4 825 and 5 86 respectively FARM MACHINERY ABROAD srie demand for agricultural trpie ments and vehicles and for machinery for manufacturing purpose is growing steadily and will continue to do so hile American ingenuity and shrewdness continue to produce the best and most needed articles In these lines In Germany reaping and mowing machinery and horserakes ate sold In large numbers A few American cultivators tedder nl disk harrows and some American buggies have been purchased but no farm wagon American farming tools and Implements so far as known and used In Germany are well liked but exporters of these goods should make a study of the ajjriculturai memoes ar a dltlons In that country In order that tbejr machines may be modified or ad Justed to suit the same American xrrtniitural machinery has been ex tensively copied In Germany when not nrntftr bv oatent and the Qer man made articles pot haying paid sea freight or autyv are uiuauyneap er than the product from the United States The same fs true in Sweden though the imitation of American agricultural Implements there is net yet so ex tt nsive Consul William Canada writing from Vera Cruz Mexico states that on large Mexican plantations cultivating sugar cane tobacco etc and also it the distillation of rnra or aguardiente which industry fs usually conducted In connection with the manufacture of sugar machinery is used extensively much of it American and some French German manufacturers in this line are I vigorously pushing their wares in this market and keeping uj a sharp competition for the trade Thesraly in tlf rortuern prt of Greece affords a splendid opening for the sale of mowers harvesters threshing machines etc One large consignment sent to Volo the principal tea port several year ago was sold to the Usi pitlcle but a whole shlpscargoof siin ilrr machnery seut out a jar Ijtei is still in the warehouses This is due the fact that the farmers of the country were not properly Instructed In the us of the machines which promptly got out of order owing to mishandling The only way in which American exporters of agricultural and other machinery can build up and maintain a successful foreign trade is by sendin out experienced men to sell their products and each tht pur trs iow to use them DEMAND FOR RtBOER TIRES Raymond Frazier United State Consul at Copenhagen Denmark wiitt that a prominent Arm of vehicle manufacturers in Copenhagen wish to cci respond ith a reliable firm in the United States with a view to purchasing rubber tires for use in the manufactuie of vehicles Very few rubber tired vehicles are in use In Denmark at presert but there fs a growing demand and th trade Is likely to develop very tatisfat lorily Letters foiwarc to Consul Frazier will be promptly delivered SPAIN SEEKS 3IACH1NEH1 Consular Agent Walter Saberton stationed at Seville Spain reports that agreatopcnlngexists InSouthern Spain for agricultural labor saving Implements The farmers are beginning to appreciate modern machinery but unless American manufacturers send capable representatives and appoint suitable energetic agents the demand will probably be supplied almost entirely by English goods Andalusia abounds In mineral wealth but comparatively few mines are worked chiefly owing to the want of capital I am of the opinion that the mining district is well worthy of the attention of American capitalists A new railway is in course of construction from Cala to Seville opening upan extensive mining district and this will have the effect of largely increasing the export of ores from this port The principal imports into Seville from the United States during the years 1901 and 1902 were petroleum jute staves machinery and tobacco STUDYING Fit LIT METHODS Advices from Mexican Consul Conde in England to his Government are to the effect that tle AssoclatlonofLlver pool Truit Merchants hsseTvn expert delegate to tree Hted tates and Canada for the pur po of studying in a ry careful manner the cultivation aVu marketing of fruits in those qountBiee The statements of this expert on the fruit business of Canada areworth attention He says In part Thrprlncl pal fruits raised In Canada are apples peaches pears cherries grapes melons and tomatoes As an article of trade the apple leads easily Ontario and Nova Scotia are the principal fruit iiising provm es The facilities fir the transportation of fruit as soon as picked and packed are excellent A car can be loaded In an afternoon at a fruit center and emptied the next morning In Montreal 400 milesaway Fruit farms contain from forty to 500 acres In the last Ave years the Canadian Government has devoted much time and money to the establishment of fruit experiment stations The Government has also put the law of fruit marks into effect According to this law all the fruit destined for export must be carefully selected classified etc The declaration of the exporter must contain a statement to the effect that the fruit is free from blemish worms and other defects TO REACH MARKETS OF EIROPE It Is reported that a group of Belgian capitalists has formed a joint stock company under the firm name Societe du Grand Bazar de Frankfort Headquarters of the company are at Jlee Belgium and Its object is to establish and conduct a department store In the city of Frankfort The American Consul General at that city suggests bat such an enterprise conducted by a combination of leading manufacturers of the United States would be a profitable institution By this means American specialties as well as leading articles for ordinary consumption could be readily Introduced in th maikets of Europe and would soon become so popular there that the best merchants of other cities and towns would either take the agency for the sale of these American articles or purchase them at wholesale from the American department stores After American articles had thus become well known and in demand the larger and more enterprising merchants of Germany would of their own accord search for the American manufacturers who originally supplied these goods This idea furnishes the most practical method to open and firmly secure foreign markets for products of America not only manufactured articles but products of agricultural Industry as well For many decades past our manufacturers and commercial bodies bent on gaining foreign markets for their products have centered their efforts on Central and South American countries and China and other countries of Asia In his former reports the Consul General declared If these efforts involving a vast amount of time and money had been directed upon European markets the results would have been rar more compensating to our exporters SUPPLYING WAISTS OF GERMANY Speaking of American ventures in Germany the Consul General at Frankfort states that about two years ago an American firm opened a retail store for the sale of shoes in Berlin Later on they established a retail store in Frankfort and another in Hamburg They sell good quality shoes at about 14 25 per pair The importations of American shoes by this single firm selling at retail in Germany will be found to exceed in value bur total shoe exportation to any one of the following countries Brazil Costa Rica China Persia Japan and Asia Minor To day some of the American products such as dried fruits canned meats and vegetables office furniture typewriters icash registers and many articles of Ironware used in the construction of buildings etc are well established and in constant demand in European markets But these are few con red to the great number of articles of American make which could find an equally good marketin Europe when once properly Introduced there Household furniture which is manufactured in the United States much better and cheaper heating and bathing apparatus carpets which are cheap in the United States and dear in Germany kitchen particles which are more convenient and practical than those of Europe or which are not at all known there should find A ready market if prpperlyexpjolted i THE PLAYBILLS FOR THIS WEEK The Chaperons Is a Hit Orpheums New Bill The Pollard Juveniles THE PRINCE OF PILSEN WILL OPEN TO NIGHT Alcazar Has Lady Ursula Tivoli Plays Carmen Central Old Melodrama Fischers Theater Chutes new here but had a long run in the East It Is The OParaders a musical comedy of considerable merit and said to be very funny and filled with new music of a high order Everythlngls being gotten up expressly for the pro ductlon The author Mr Peck arrived In town yesterday to arrange for the production The music is by the new leader at Fischers Robert Hood Bowers The new stage manager to take George Lasksplaceis the well known and popular Charles Jones Mr Iask goes East and probably to England The Central Theater bill to night is the sensational melodrama After Dark and in addition to the excitement of the play there will be many specialties including new songs by Myrtle Vane Marie Dingwall and Millar Bacon a clog dance by Reyna Belasco a sparring bout by youthful experts and a bit of ventriloquism by Professor Al Hazzard After Dark will be very carefully staged New people and new acts are to be seen at the Chutes this week IMYERS STIR MILITARY MEN National Guard Anxious Over Possible Action of Attorney General MORE STRICTURES ON USE OF STATE FUNDS The Chaperons made quite a hit last night with a packed house at the California Theater It is one of the usual musical mixtures wherein the thread of story once in a long time justifies the line spoken by one of the pLple In the play Here is where the plot sits up and begins to take notice It has a great variety of characters and a generally lively stage as most of them have But the company is unusually good all of the prlrciial roles being taken by decidedly clever actors and actresses of that sort of thing The music is jing and spirited with nothing very striking but with no dull numbers The company is really the best that has been seen at popular prices in a long time and the nonsense goes very merrily all through John Sparks a comedlaa with few superiors in Irish characters has the part of an Irish subway contractor not altogether worthy of him but he adds importance to It and makes it amusing Thomas Whlffen has developed into an admirable light comedian He has the character of a Cincinnati pork packer in Paris one of those middle aged gay rakes who have been considered indispensable in musical comedy since The Belle of New York He plays it as if Hogg were a possible man with eas and clean humor One of the funniest bits of German eccentric work we have had Is the agile acrobatic and highlj comic performance by Harry Ladell who was one of the hits of the piece last night He has the vis comlca in very genuine form The work of the principal girls was exceptional good Mabel Hite gave a particularly spirited representation of a crazy girl whodiu funnily idiotic things which were not In themselves very funny and danced and sang equally well As neat a performance of that kind of part as has been done anjbodj was May Boleys playing of the chaperon The suggestion was just enough and Mis Boley made her points and did the business of the role without affectation or effort Genevieve Daj also scored very charmingly with the audience Almost a novelty for those musical mixtures have of late run entirely to the female interest was a strong and effective male chorus head1 ed by an agreeable baritone In Arthui Earnest The costumes were attractive the dancing was good and altogether there Is quite a pleasant entei talnment to be found in The Chaperons which has only one week It Is to be followed on Sunday night by The Texas Steer The Prince of Pilsen is to open tonight at the Columbia Theater It has been widely heralded and we are promised a strong cast and the same elaborate setting as was seen In New York and Chicago The sale has been large and there will be a crowded and fashionable audience to night There ill be Wednesday as well as Saturday matinees This evening at the Alcazar Theatei Florence Roberts will be seen lrAn thony Hopes charming play The Ad venture of Lady Ursula Her admirers are particularly fond of her In that kind of role The play will go all thr week with the exception of three special performances of Gloconda on Thursday afternoon and Thursday ana Friday nights To night at the Tlvoll Opera Hous Carmen will be presented with a strong cast To morrow night La Travlata will be the bill and they will alternate all the week The season has so far been a great success GIRL ARRESTED FOR THEPT Minnie Sto kes a outhf ul wanderer apparently without home or friends was arrested on Main street yesterday by Policeman Charles Castor and booked at the Harbor station on a cnarge of petty larceny She is accused of stealing a skirt last March from Mrs Tracey of Ocean View The girl states that she was visiting with the Tracey family and put on Mrs Traces skirt to wear up town The girl Is only 18 years of age and has been a year and a half In the Magdalen asylum Her father is a cattle bujer living at 517 Main street Petaluma and the girls mother dying some ears ago the daughter became a wanderer and drifted with the tide She Is now a simple minded girl more Ignorant than vicious WADING PONDS FOR GOLDEN GATE PARK Commissioners Expect to Make Tide Inlets Through Sand Dunes for Children 1160 BrMdwtr star lab truth street la ti 9tw addnM et Catvnlcfrf brucb effle ta OskUsa The Pollard Juvenile Company ha been most popular at the Grand Opera House when they presented Plan quettes Paul Jones last night to a crowded house The young folks playeu with considerable dramatic effect and gave a wonderfully intelligent rendering of the opera To night It will be repeated To morrow and Wednesday nights the bill will be Dorothy on Thursday and Friday nights and at the Saturday matinee they will sing Pinafore anci their last appearance will be on Saturday night when The Belle of New York will be given James Neill opens a short season or Sunday night in A Gentleman of Francethe play Kyrle Bellew has heen vv starring in Comedy dominated the change of bill at the Orpheum yesterday Falke and Semon were given the principal place on the bill and with their amusing and entertaining musical number clearly demonstrated that they were fully enUtled to it They made a decided hit here several years ago Semon la a clever comedian as well as a musician and is an adept at side play with jokes and snappy clever dialogue Wood and Ray In A Funny Bunch of Nonsense were pleasing and the name describes their skit Charles Ernest a black face monologist scored well with hi singing which was particularly good and better than his comedy He had some good jokes but several were too raw and they were cut out of the evening bill Mario and Aldos feats on the horizontal bars were quite ma satlonal and the act was one of the best in the acrobatic line we have seen in some time Frederic Bond and his company of comedians appeared in a new act entitled Rehearsing a Tragedy which was a rather amusing scene of a rehearsal of Romeo and Juliet faintly suggestive of The Critic James Richmond Glenroy and Arnesen continued their specialties of last week and Rousby repeated hia electrical display The Princess Los oros changed hep selection of songs and the new numbers were particularly well suited to her collarature soprano voice To night begins the third week of The Glad Handw and The Con Curers at FUchera Theater The double bill has drawn large crowds sincaitwas putonT and it will doubtless continue to do so until the end of the montbiiOn Monday night October 6tlv thre will be something entirely new at this house The play is in addition to the plan for substituting a half mile race track In Golden Gate Park for the speeaway the Commissioners have in mind a scheme for making inlet wading ponds near the beach where children may have the safe freedom of the sea water without the danger of the ocean undertow The wading ponds will be made probably just Inside the sheltering sand dunes and will be constantly supplied with clear ocean water by tide runs through the sand barriers Sheltering trees of ornamental appearance will be planted on the vvindwaid side of ttese wading ponds to make them agreeable places even when the ordinary beach is wind swept and untenable Further to insure the safety of the little ones and of the older persons who delight in salt water wading the ponds will be very shallow and with smooth hard sandy bottom so that no serious accidents can happen to the persons hlle using them As yet the wading ponds are an improvement that is being contemplated No definite plans have beei outlined but the Idea is one that will be energetically pushed forward as soon as tle model yacht lake and the new race track shall have been completed Applications have come to the Commissioners from time to time for bathing facilities on the ocean beach and lattarly foi a permanent raft from which to conduct races But all thesy requests had to be refused simply on the ground of safety The answer was that the dangerously strong undjrtow all along the belch below the Cliff House lendeis bathing and aquatic sport thereabouts exceedingly risky With the wading ponds it ij different They will be provided in response to the desire of a large number of persons who seem to wish such an opportunity for themselves and their children When the wading ponds are completed there will be no provision for swimming in them The Commissioners think that the near by Sutro baths offer adequate opportunities for more i greeable swimming Few citizens understand that the entire water front from the Cliff House hill southward three miles almost to Ingleside is under the jurisdiction of the Golden Gate Park Commissioners and is practically a part of the citys great public pleasure ground of about 110J acres Officers Say Frankly That They Would Leave Service it Ideas of Deputy Stur tevant Were to Prevail PREPARE FOR FUNERAL Tom Kim Yung Be Bnried With Highest Honor The relatives of Tom Kim Yung the Chinese officer who committed suicide on account of the disgrace attending his ar rest on a charge of depraved conduct are preoaring for an elaborate testimonial of their regard and respect on the occasion of his funeral The tuneral will be held not earlier than next Wednesday and In addition to imposing ceremonies there will be one of the largest parades ever held In San Franciscos Chinatown The funeral will take place from the Chinese consulate and on account of Tom Kim Yung official connection and the fact that ne died In the official residence the affair will take on much the character of a Chinese state funeral There are many relatives of Tom Kim Yung In this country however and their wishes In re ard to the ceremonies and parade will or the most part be observed There was a consultation at the consulate yesterday afternoon between relatives and the Con sul General with regard to the details The present plan Is to have the parade start from the consulate on Stockton street move to the north along that street through practically the length of Chinatown thence by one of the cross streets to Dupont street and then to the south along Dupont street by the principal mercantile bouses of the section including that of the Suey Hlng Wo Company belonging to the Tom family of which Tom Kim Yung was a member The body will be taken to the Chinese Cemetery and In a few weeks will be removed to China TWO ARRESTS FOR ASSAULT During a brawl yesterday at Thirteenth and Harrison streets Richard Day of 18 Thirteenth street got into an altercation with William Tate a teamster and fired two shots at him Neither of the shots took effect Day was arrested by Policeman Riordan and booked at the Mission station on a charge of assault with Intent to murder The same charge was entered aWhe same station by Policeman Waller against George Wlchman of 2S9 Eleventh street This was the sequel to a mlx up at TwentyTwenty sixth street and the San Bruno road A pleasure party was driving in on that road and on neaching Twenty sixth street the wagon stuck in a hole and the occupants wereapt able to extricate It Two men drivingby in a buggy got out and offered assistance A dispute was started and Wlchman stabbed George Hardy of 486 Eighth street with a penknife inflicting several small wounds in the head Hardy was taken to the City and County Hospital where bis wounds were dressed ACCUSED OP BURGLARY William DaviWUllam Jones and Leslie Dennlson were arrested by Policemen Brown and Holmes last night and their names entered on the detinue book at the City Prison The men are suspected of having committed burglary by breaking into the office the Pacific States Type Foundry at 506 Clay street When arrested Davis had printers tools In every pocket and Jones had a small supply It is reported that Attorney General Webb as a member of the Board of State Military Auditors Is holding up a number of quarterly demands forwarded to him by different company commanders in the National Guard For many years past it has been the custom for the Military Auditors to allow the quarterly demands foi 300 each Deputy Attornev General George Sturtevant it now appears has arrived at the conclusion that the Captains of companies are in the same category as certain other officials of the State and that they have no right to receive more than thej expend during the time stated and that they are not permitted under the law to expend more than 100 In anj one month If this is good law company commanders who have balances on hand will be required to turn the money into the State Treasury and should any one of them find it necessary to have a new shooting lange constructed which would cost more than 100 he would have to go into debt for an indefinite period or go without the shooting range Should Deputj Attorney General Sturtevants views In the matter prevail many resignations of cotn panj commanders will likely follow It Is said that the Attornej Generals office Is now preparing an opinion on the matter Even If the Attorney General should refuse to sign the quarterly demands under the present svstem the Governor might view the matter In a dlrferent light and sign them with his Adjutant General thej together constituting a majorltj of the Auditing Board EXAMINING EXPENSE ACCOlT Adjutant General George Stone arrived from Sacramento last night and stated that no opinion had been given bj the Attorney General up to 330 oclock yesterday afternoon It was true he said that Webb had held up seme company bills and the Adjutant General was somewhat concerned because he feared the guardsmen would place on his office the responsibility for the delay in payment When General Stone asked Mr Webb his reason for wlthhoiding them the latter explained that there were tome items he wanted to look into When requested tospecify what there was objectionable in them all the questionable claims he coula recall off hand were one of J7 for repairing uniforms and a few for beer and other refreshments after drill I think It Is a legitimate rise of the State money to pay tailors for mand1 ing uniforms and to provide ref esh ments for the men declared General Stone An hour or two of hard exertion In drill and that after a days work ought In my judgment entitle the men to a lunch and a refieshing drink I had not heard that the companies were to have restraint put on their handling of the meager allowance of 100 a month If the AttorneyAttorney General holds that all bills are to be contracted anU paid within the month limiting the total of expenditures to 100 and that if they are less the residue must reev rt to the State Treasury It would work a great hardship on the National Guard if his advice was obeyed Bills frequently aggregate more than 100 in a month and it is onlv by saving from other months that the large accounts can be met A big share of the cost of the annual encampments is provided for by laying aside a certain amount out of the monthly allowances through the year 1SOT YET DECIDED According to last accounts AttorneyAttorney General Webb had not decided to Issue the opinion prepared by bturte vant To upset usage of thirty years and to Invite the wrath of the militia of the State are the problems confronting him and he is giving the matter the most thoiough Investiga tion It would be ridiculous to enforce Sturtevants opinion declared BrigadierBrigadier General Warneld The National Guard la in need of encouragement rather than discouragement We would all be justified in quitting I am certain that Sturtevant Is In error as to the law was Colonel Bur gins opinion on the reputed opinion I want to see the opinion Itself before I will believe that any lawyer has placed such an Interpretation on the statutes Major Bush of the First Battalion of artillery could see no occasion for placing any more obstacles in the way The appropriation of 100 a month for each company is small enough he said and if any more strings are to be added to it well give up the service I have received no definite information however as Webbs plans VflriflAan ftii tAl MiMtnr dffafl ir i Margaret mm oon treasurer Bister hbtji Xavler board of directors Mrs Zoe Bad cune airs wary CTOWieyJirs aiary any Car thy JMlss Sallia Keenan Mrs Vent centla peniv Missj Josephine MolJoy Mrs Garret WMcEnerneyMiss DevlW Miss McGovern Mlis Agnes Mahoney And Mies Evelyn Sresovlcb On motion of Dr Kate Brady a choral commltttf was appointed to consist of Miss Mc Oovera Miss McQrady Miss ONeil MIss Merle Miss Murphy Miss Donnelly and Miss Marian Prltchard with Miss Marie Glorgianl chairman A banquet was served at 2 oclock in the afternoon in the college refectory which was tastefully decorated with huckleberry boughs growing plants and cut buds and blossoms The menu was excellent and enjoyed in the midst of a hum of conversation for many had not met for years or since they said goodbye to school days and classmates With the Ices fruit and chocolate came toasts punctuated with class songs Miss Mol ioy toasted the sister superior touching in a most acceptable wayonthe tender bond of affection and devotion that had been woven by the superior between each pupil and the college where she presided Mrs McEnerney toasted Sister Mary Xavler taking for her inspiration the lines The shadows murmur when the deep is still Other sneakers were Miss Geary and Miss Donnelly Sister superior read a letter of congratulations and well wishes from Sister Superior Mary Bernardlne of the College of Notre Dame of San Jose One of the brightest features of the after dinner good things were the telegrams cablegrams and Marconlgrams which owed their humor to Miss Josephine MollOy At 4 oclock a programme of music vocal and Instrumental an address and original poem wer given Miss Glorgianl played several numbers Miss Carl Som ers sang Miss Clara Baker delivered the address giving as the well fulfilled mission of the Sisters of Notre Dame Rusklns Educate Your Youth and Your Nation Will Prosper A concerted selection for pianos was given by Mrs Fenn Miss St John Miss Sresovich and Miss Annie Oliver The afternoon closed with benediction In the chapel after an address by Rev Crowley i tfi IiS Msffar i TEXANS WILL BE A RECORD VOYAGE New York Vessel to Steam From Taeoma to Philadelphia Without Stopping 1 L3iJiv r3ai TZLt rJ 375 rW7i 4 4 CHICOilNCENpiARYfi CHARGED 3 Jts 2a SSF mtigmmmmf rakeaIjtoGrfodyBflbreJ jBlremen iieave ma rura 4 Zta cS i Gs CHICO September 20T business people of Chlco were given a scare this evening by a nre which broke out suddenr in four places In a twp story brick buKd log located in the central part of tfc bOw iess district and occupied by A He srlff as a coffee and lodging house The flrs was extinguished so quickly by the local Fire Department that the evidence of Its incendiary origin was not destroyed acd Helwlg was placed under arrest before th hose lines were taken from the interior of the building Helwlg has nothing say regarding the charge of arson IcOgcU acatnst him by Chief Murphy The lire was started in two places the secofidk floor and two places on the lower floorand it Is know that Helwlg was in thebuLdtng alone at the time of the Are He had recently become angered at thewner of the building on account of being denied a lease His property in the buKaing waa fully insured and this policy ws in nig pocket when he was arrested GENERAL CORBIN VISITS SENATOR KEARNS OF UTAtf us i fcr rr TACOMA September 20 The steamship Texan of New York sails from Taeoma to night on what shipping men declare to be the greatest long distance voyage on record The Texan has loaded 4100 tons of fuel coal and will not stop her machinery barring accidents until she reaches the Delaware breakwater Possibly Captain Morrison sas It may be necessao to top steaming one night while going through the Straits of Magellan Her voyage will be on the 13900 miles thus eclipsing the famous voyage of the battleship Oregon from the Pacific to the Atantic during the Spanish War The Tejoin hods the steaming record from New York to San Fracisco of forty seve days five hours Captain Morrison expects to average 276 miles daily and to reach Philadelphia In fifty and a half oas from Taeoma The Texan carries a cargo of sugar wine and canned goods loaded at San Francisco besides the canned salmon and miscellaneous freight loaded here FIVE MAUI PLANTATIONS FORM ONE CORPORATION He Reaches Salt Lake on His Tour of Inspection of Western Pests and Garrisons SALT LAKE September 30 Major General Henry Corbln A arrived here to day and during his stay will be the guest of Senator Kearns General Corblne visit is for the purpose oi Investigating conditions at Fort Douglas where big improvements involving an expenditure of nearly 1000000 are under way The length of the Generals stay here is uncertain on account of the illness of his son Richard who came West with a party of Wshicg ton correspondents aud while here waa stricken with malarial fever Before returning East General Corbln will Inspect several Montana posts and the garrisons in the Puget sound country 2 3 iih1 fA 1 BALDWIVS STORE ROBBED PASADENA September 20 The safe in Baldwins store at Santa Anita was blown open last night The robbers first broke Into the blacksmith shop got bolt cutters cut the bars of the window put nltro glycerine in the safe wrapped it and then caused the explcs on Thf tore was partially wrecked Thf Lb is mi aliout 460 In cash three gold waui Hf god chains a revolver and some stamps Ihe authorities believe It was the work of professional safe blowers An Important Water Right Deal Is Consummated After Delay of Many Months HONOLULU tT September 13 Flv plantation companies on the island of Maui have been Incorporated with an aggregate capital of 450000 fully paid up to take over the water rights of the Kihei Plantation Company The deal has been in course of negotiation for many months the Kihel plantation endeavoring to dispose of upper lands which were not available for its use Baldwin Is the president and largest stockholder of each company Alexander is the next largest owner and vice president This is considered one of the most important plantation deals consummated for a long time as It re establishes the credit of Kihei plantation and puts it on a basis on which it Is believed It can soon pa dividends and at the same time will bring about 5000 acres of land Into sugar cultivation very soon It is also looked upon as the beginning of the consolidation of all the sugar plantations of Central Maul HAWAIIAS OPIUM LAW ATTACKED BY CHINESE ALUMNAE SOCIETY MEETS AT COLLEGE Notre Dame at Old Mission Scene ot Pleasant Eeunion of Graduates and Sisters The College of Notre Dame Mission Dolores Was en fete yesterday for the Alumnae Association had assembled there to celebrate the anniversary of its organization The entire day was given over to the favored guests of the Institution and was made interesting enjoyable and gay by the assemblage of particularly bright women who proved a source of pride and pleasure of their alma mater The morning was devoted to business affairs and these were conducted with earnestness and to accentuate the desire nrthe organization to conduct all its bus ness and rulings acordlng to the best and most judicious memoes was resoivea during the session that aI business pertaining to the association must be carried on with parliamentary precision On motion of Miss Josephine Molloy Sister Superior Julia Teresa was elected honorary Dresldent and adviser of the association The other officers elected weret President nirSv ttaie ijawiur utbi yicc uicsiueui Miss JCNetl second vice president Miss Regina Cleary third vice president Dr Kate Brady recording secretary Miis Constitutionality of Provision For blddlus Sale of Drug Hues tloned in Test Case HONOLULU September 13 in the Circuit Court a test case is being made of the constitutionality of the Hawaiian law forbidding the sale of opium as a poisonous drug Following the organization of the Territorj the former law prohibiting the importation of opium and making It a penal offense to have opium in possession was found to be inapplicable to the new conditions and was declared unconstitutional As a result opium was sold openly opium joints were opened everywhere and the use of opium began to make great headway among the Hawaiian Efforts were then made to control the traffic by appljlng to it a law forbidding the sale of poisonous drugs except by a regularly examined and licensed druggist A Chinese who was fined under the provisions of this act appealed to the Circuit Court and his attorney has made a test case out of It to determine whether or not th law is constitutional FIIIPIISO DWARFS REACH TACOMA TACOMA September 20 The sttamsbP Shawmut which arrived from Manila today has two passengers who are certain to excite a large amount of interest Tfcey are Filipino dwarfs from the northern part of the islands en route to the St Louis Exposition The ciwarfs are a brother and sister 27 and 2S Inches la respectivel fully developed the man 28 and the woman aged 31 CHICAGO BOYS IN TROUBLE VENTURA September 20 Warrants have been issued for the arrest of John Hogan and Arthur Loomis two bellboys from Chicago on a charge of grand larceny The complaint was sworn to vvrigtit ot aatlcoy wno alleges mat mey stole a valuable gold watch from him LOS ANGELES TAX RATE LOS ANGELE8 September 29 The State and county tax rate for next yat has been fixed at 1 20 the same as last year but with the 70289502 increas in tre assessment for 1903 4 the levy will raise r723791 19 more than that of 1902 83 BOOKKEEPER COMMITS SLICIDE SAN DIEGO September 20 A special to the Union from Ensenada Lower California sajs that Joaquin Alvarado aged IS bookkeeper for LabaUa and a nephew of Alvarado shot and killed himself to day LIVED ALMOST A CEHTIRY KALISPELL Mont September 20 A Schagel is dead in his hundredth year He had but a few days to live to reach the century mark and was preparing to celebrate that event when death came FIRE DESTROYS A GEVBRAt STORE PRICE Utah September 20 Fire tO cay completely destroyed large general store of the Emery County sdercanti Compan here The loss will amount to about J60000 with Insurance of 125000 11 SAYS CHARTS AHE DEFECTIVE HONOLULU September IS Captain Curd master of the British ship Juteopolls which called here last week for provisions says that the charts and sailing directions of the Pacinc In the vicinity of the Carolines are very defective He blames them for his great loss of time The ship started from the Philippines to New Yerk but put in here after 129 days to provision and start again CELEBRATED ADMISSION DAY HONOLULU September 13 Californias Admission day was celebrated here by a large banquet at which Cclonel Thomas Fitch Henry High ton and Judge Robinson formerly of Oakland were among the speakers Judge Gear responded to the toast of The President Governor Dole not being able to attend A movement was inaugurated to start a local association of Native Sons of California THIHK STEAMER WAS SCUTTLED Honolulu September The small steamer Mokolli owned by Wllders Steamship Company sank at her moorings Jn Honolulu harbor on the evening of September 8th She had been laid up for many months being too small for the lnterisiand trade now It I believed that she was purposely sunk by the opening of her sea cock and the police are investigating She was In comparatively shallow water and has been raised WILL RETIRE FROM PUBLIC LIFE HONOLULU September 13 Governor Dole in an interview states that he expects to retire from public life when his term as Governor expires which will be on June 14th next He says that this has been his Intention for a long while His plans for the future he says are not very definite but in a general Tvay he expects to resume bis law practice THE SOLACE AT HONOLULU HONOLULU TC JHOI September The Navy transport Solace arrived here yesterday from the Philippines en route to San Francleco She has 430 marines on board and anumber of oSlcers returning home iShetWiil cop and leave for San WOTf aa1 HIU1VUUI IWAt KA C1IILEAS CELEBRATE Unlon spuare Hail was crowded Friday night with a throng of enthusiastic Chileans who gathered to celebrate the ninetyninety third anniversary of the independence of their country The programme was under the direction of the Cosmopolitan Chilean Society and Included speeches by the Consul of Chile Juan Attorga Perelra Mayor Schmltz and Franklin Lane the reading of the act of independence by Carlos de Berna and several musical numbers Including solos by Miss Elena Roeckel A ball closed the entertainment AMERICAN B1ACHINES ABROAD American telegraph Instruments click In Siberia and in Italy while our telephones are helloed through by the Chinese East Indlamen and Egyptians 3 js 3 1 MISCELLANEOUS TWO TIPS And Both Winners z5 jifi SIj ss A man gets a friendly tip now and then thats worth while A Nashville man says For many years I was a perfect slave to coffee drinking it every day and all the time I suffered with stomach trouble and such terrific nervousness that at times I was unable to attend to business and iU seemed hardly worth living I attributed my troubles to other causes than coffee and continued to drench my systemWith this drug Finally I got eo bad couldS not sleep my limbs were weak and trembling and I had a constant dread of BVUIO TC mb meaicmes iriea ituieu iu ueip mo jtiurr una uujr a liiciiu Mjtu uic iruav vqwu had done for her husband and advised me to quit coffee and try Jt but yHW not do eo Finally another friendraeir ma on the street one day and after tolkw i in about my health he said YoUytry t4 Poatnm Cereal Coffee and leave eoffasi gg alone aauing inai ou nervous irouoiesi had all disappeared when he gaveup coffee and began to drink Postum js This made such a great Impression oaT me tnat resoivea xry iu sitnaugn it iu II confess I had little hopes However it started In and to my unbounded surf prise in lees than two weeks I waVllko another person All of my old troubles are now gone and I am a strong iieajthyv living example ot the wonderfulre build log power of Poetum It Is a flnedrinjt as well as a delicious beverage and 1 know If wilUcorrect all coffeeUlsiIv know what a splendid effect it had ool mo to glye up coffee and drink Postunt5 4 Name given by Postum Co Battle ft CfreekOIIcb i gi Look in each package for aeopyt theufamoHUtlebo6kvnadEt6adla4 tijyeliyilleft sartK lfit a fi sfe 443 JSr Sa 5a8 ffi fifcjfi ST8 r4i 4 Jl.