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i N. 50' XAPA WEEKLY JOURNAL FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1909 PAGE FOUR. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS Jr.j)a?i'VwM2lmmwr; PROFITS OF THE MINT. WHAT THE COURT SAID. Saturday morning City Attorney BIGGEST VOLCANO IN AMERICA AGAIN COSY Special to the Journal.

CITY OF MEXICO, April 20. The volcano Colima, located north of here and the biggest tire ejecting mountain in North and South America, is again in active eruption. Immense quantities of ashes, dirt, have been belched down on several cities, whose inhabitants are fleeing. No loss of life has been reported. The opening up of the crater came after a number of severe earthquakes occurring in quick succession.

These were followed by loud rumblings and a terrible explosion, which immediately preceded the opening up of the mountain and the pouring forth of smoke and fire. GREATER FALLS THAN While Uncle Sam makes the gold coin practically without cost to the owner of the bullion, he makes sufficient pi. hit (called seigniorage) on the' silver coinage and the nickels and pennies manufactured at his mints during the -ar to a great deal moie than pay all expenses of maintaining the mints and assay offices. He buys tlie silver, nickel and copper at its bullion value, which, in the ease of silver, costs about half the face value of the com made from it. It may be of Intel est to know that the actual cost of a nickel or five-cent piece at the present pi ice of metal, including labor and contingent expenses, is about two-fifths of a cent each; and that the cost of a one-cent piece, including metal, labor, is about one-half as much, or one-tilth of a cent each.

In addition to the profits on silver and minor coinage, the government has a source of revenue and profit from charges for refining deposits of gold and silver, charges for the alloy used in making the coin, assaying, making" medals, sale of by-products A from the refining operations, and the coining of money for other governments. The total earnings of the mint and assay service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, was city of while the total tures for the entire service, including S'iven in the foregoing, the demuner salaries, wages of workmen, contin- matter general municipal election to be held on the 3rd day of May, 1909, proposals for amendments to the charter of the to the petition is sustained and the I PORT TOWNSEND, April 19. Word received here from Honolulu to-day is to the effect that the Japanese cruisers in that port will ar-I rive in San Francisco about the 25th of this month, After a short stay they wiU go to Victoria and spend some time in the Puget Sound waters. NEW YORK, April 19 It has been learned that James J. Jeffries, the retired heavyweight champion, is plan-, ning to make a short trip to Europe in June.

About this time the local theatres will close down, and Jeff will fill an engagement in a London show house. From that city he will go to Carlsbad, the famous watering resort, for the purpose of getting in condition. The big fellow is considering a proposition of starting a physical culture school in New York, being besieged with requests to take such a step. NEW YORK, April 20. A crowd, which filled every seat in the theatre in this city at which James J.

Jeffries is showing, howled itself into a frenzy to-night when the retired champion announced that at the expiration of his theatrical engagement (some ten months hence) he would again enter the ring and meet Jack Johnson. The announcement came at the end of the big fellow's stunt, and when he essayed to make a preliminary speech the immense mob would not stand for it, but told Jeff to "cut it out and get down to business. When he then stated that he would meet Johnson, bedlam reigned. Women tore their hats from their heads and threw them in the air and men yelled until they were speechless. Several thousand people outside, unable to gain admission, took up the cry, and the wild scene of joy lasted for several minutes.

In agreeing to fight the big black Jeff imposed several conditions. Ona is that the contest must take place in the United States, and the other that Johnson defeat Stanley Ketchell in San Francisco on October 12th. VALLEJO. April 20. Forbes Brown, the Navy Yard clerk, who started the agitation several years ago which resulted in the number of saloons being cut down to 50, wilt appear before the Board of City Trustees on May 5th and ask that all Vallejo saloons be closed on Sundays.

Brown's promised move, it is believed, will drop among the saloon men like a bombshell, for it they know of Browns intentions they are not saying anything. Brown says that if the Trustees turn him down lie will resort to tha Initiative and the Referendum, which are in force here. That he can easily secure the requisite 13 per cent of the electors and have the question of Sunday closing submitted to the voters, is certain. if it comes to a vote the success of Sunday closing is likely. From the Chicago Tribune.

Larger than Niagara is the cataract of the Iguazu falls, almost at the intersection of the three frontiers of Paraguay, Brazil and the Argentine Republic. The river takes its name I rum a Spanish vvoid meaning great aters. About 12 miles from its mouth the bed drops suddenly down a rocky perpendicular cliff some 213 feet high, lienee there is a waterfall of that great height. At this point a delight-iul little island, beautiful with vegetation, divides the river into two arms, magnate, who says that he will make so that the total width is about two the trip for est and recreation, miles and a half. The Brazilian arm here, out to be filtered.

The land owners will then be enabled to use the immense supply for irrigation, which will make the land now valued at $25 an acre easily worth $1000 an acre. All the men implicated deny the charges. NEW YORK, April 20. E. H.

Har-liman announced to-day that he will spend the Hummer in Europe. This led to many rumors as to the health and retirement of the railroad of the river forms a tremendous horseshoe here and plunges into a great chasm with a deafening roar, while the arm on the Argentine side spreads out in a sort of amphitheater form and finishes with one grand leap a little over 229 feet. Below the island the two arms unite and flow on into the Parana river. From the Brazilian bank the spectator, at a height of 280 feet, gazes out over two and a half miles of some of the wildest and most fantastic water gent expenses and the loss in operations, amounted to $1,935,843.24, leaving a total profit of $8,987,057.74. Of this income for the term above stated the seigniorage on the silver coinage was $8,713,413.33 and the seigniorage on the minor coinage for the same period was $1,533,029.42.

Director Frank A. Leach in National Magazine. NAPA JOURNAL SWELL PAPER. Vallejo Times, Apr. 21.

Without a word of announcement, the Napa Journal yesterday appeared as a swell eight-page six-column paper, the same size as the Daily Times. Live with advertising, a first-class telegraph service and columns well filled with local news, the Journal is a credit to the City of Napa. Mr. J. E.

Walden, who has been at the helm of that conservative and reliable journal for many years, and his hustling city editor, F. It. Starke, are both to be congratulated upon theii enterprise. And the Napa people want to got beli.nd the Journal and make its owner ft el that he lias done light in giving his readeis the best. IIOTALING -MAY SELL RIGHTS.

The San Rafael Independent says that it has been rumored in real tate circles in Sacramento and San Francisco for some days that Richard Rotating has closed a deal for the sale of his rights of way for the Napa and Richardson Bay road to the Northern Electric and an Eastern syndicate. Mr. Hotaling has been East for some time and it is stated that he is now closing the deal with the Eastern connections. The rights of way up to date have cost Mr. Hotaling over $800,000 and many were under the impression that the Western Pacific was back of him on the deal.

GOVERNOR SIGNS -MORE BILLS. WASHINGTON, April 20 By a vote of 33 to 45 the Senate to-day refused to concur in the census bill appropriation, which provided for an immerse sum of money to be used in taking the next census. It was openly charged that the taking of previous censuses were attended by wholesale graft. The further argument was advanced that the bill was practically the same one vetoed by the President last year. SAN FRANCISCO, April 20.

In the Calhoun case, Fred P. Nicholas, the bundling cx-Supervisor, finished his testimony to-day. Nicholas testimony is looked upon as not being very strong or convincing, and it is generally thought that j. the piosccutions ease is a weak one. shower of beauty that all the more i It will take a gi cat deal ofstrong cor-adds to the liot of tropical hues al- oboi ative evidence to convict the ready there.

When a high wind is! railway President. blowing the roar of the cataract can The general impression is that Cal-be heard nearly 20 miles away. A 1 houn will not be convicted, rough estimate of the hoisepower rep- resented by the falls is 1 4,000,000. LOS ANGELES, April 21. The Few sightseers ever catch a glimpse i Grand Jury, which has been investi-of I the great Iguazu falls, because it gating the alleged police graft in the takes six days to make the pictui esque red light district of this city, ad-journey of about 1,250 miles fi om journed this afternoon, after indicting Buenos Aires amid the fair, fertile ex-Chief of Police T.

II. Broadhead scenery he can ever hope to see. Waters stream, seethe, bound, froth and foam, throwing the sweat 0f their agony high in the air and writhing, twisting, screaming, and moaning, bear off to the Parana. Under tlie blue vault of the sky this sea of foam, of pearls, of iridiscent dust bathes the great baokgiound in a i OFFICLAL PAPER OF NAPA CO. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By 3.

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.50 Advertising and Furnished on Appli-i apa gafl)j Issued Every morning (Monday Excepted). Terms of Subscription. Per Year, by mail or carrier. 16.00 Per Month, by mail or .50 Governor Johnson of Minnesota has igned the anti-cigarette which makes it a misdemeanor to manufacture, sell or give away cigarettes or scigarette papers within the State of Minnesota. If wealthy offenders find it as hard to get into heaven as the people of Ban Francisco are finding it to put some of them in prison, the future certainly does not hold out much encouragement for them.

Senator Aldrich informs an expectant world that the inheritance tax law can never pass the Senate. Perhaps not as tlje Senate, is, now constituted. But after a few more States have adopted the Oregon plan the Senate ill not be much longer ovvn--ed, controlled and wielded by a Senator named Aldrich The Commoner. A Washington dispatf says that the Senate has not yet confirmed the ap- pointment of Robert Devlin as United States District Attorney to succeed himself. Barclay Henley and E.

P. Perrine have wired the Judiciary Committee that they have filed -charges against Devlin and these have jaot yet arrived. It is supposed Per-zrine's charges are the outgrowth of by Devlin in the 1 land Jraud cases. AV. J.

Burns is en route to Washington from San Francisco, And it is believed he has been summoned East in connection with extensive frauds or the charges against Deyliti, Many of the leading Republican papers concede that the levision of the tariff by the House was a farce. All of which reminds us that Mr. Bryan, as early as August 21, 1908, in a speech at Des Moines, warned the country that there is no piospeet of relief jfrom a Republican President and Congress. Said Mr. Biyan: We would not expect a juiy to do justice 0 the defendant if it was composed entirely of the relatives of the plaintiff; neither can we expect a Congress to do justice to the masses if it is composed of men who are in sympathy with, and obligated to, the which have for a generation been enjoying special privileges.

Woodland Democrat. I The actual trial of Patrick Calhoun began Thursday. Michael Murphy, a veteran Sergeant of the Police Department, was passed shortly before jioon as the thirteenth juror in the case. Murphy, who was retired on a pension eleven years ago, expressed a slight leaning toward the prosecution but had no disqualifying opinions. Both sides A themselves as satisfied with the jury.

The selection of Juror Muiphy ended Sl period of jury seeking that has no parallel, in the criminal litigation on the Pacific Coast. The trial was commenced 0(i January 12th and sixty-Uve days were devoted to the process of qualifying the thirteen jurors finally sworn. It was necessary to summon 2,430 talesmen in the thirty-four special venires and Juror Murphy was the nine hundred and twentieth citizen actually interrogated by the attorneys. Secretary of State Cuiry has Issued the report of motor vehicles registered in California for the month of March. From the number of motor cars registered and the transfers it is seen that last month was the banner r2Q days In the history of the automobile In California.

Seven hundred dnd fifty owners of motor vehicles took out registrations, while the registrations of 104 were transferred. Not since 1905 has there been such a heavy registration. The nearest ap-proach to this registration was in May of last year, when 637 motorcars were registered, while the year previous. in the month of May there were 613. The records for all other months were below these figures.

Former United States Senator David Turpie died at his home In Indianapolis, Wednesday. Tur-pld defeated Benjamin Harrison for the Senate' in 1887. He was, born In Hamilton county, Ohio, in T829. expressed On Wallace Ituthei ford received fiom Sacramento a copy of the Appellate Court's opininn handed down on Fii-day in the petition of Jos. A.

Miglia-vacca for a nut of prohibition to prevent City Cloik II. H. Thompson from placing tlie proposed charter amendments, the Initiative, the Referendum and the Recall, on the ballot to be used at the May The opinion is a somewhat lengthy affair of about five typeuiitten pages and covers all the points raised in a thorough manner. The decision was written by Justice Hart and concurred in by Justice Burnett and Presiding Justice Chipman. The summing up of the case in the concluding paragraph is in tlie following language: Our conclusion is that, all the proposed amendments submitted at the prior election, held on the 20th day of January, 1909, having been defeated by the electors, the respondents are clearly within their rights, under the plain terms of the Constitution, in the of the submission, at the alternative writ herein issued discharged.

SENATOR TILLMAN CALLS ON TAFT. WASHINGTON, April 20. Senator Tillman, of South t'aiolina, paid his first visit to the White House to-day in seven years and received a cordial greeting from President Taft. His appearance to-day in the executive offices created a sensation. The Senator walked to theWhite House unaccompanied, but left with Senator Beveridge of Indiana, riding to the Capitol with the latter in his automobile.

Booker T. Washington was waiting to see the President when Senator Tillman arrived. The South Carolinian was immediately shown in 1 to 1 ait office. The call was purely of a socia nature, I came, said Senator Tillman, to see if the office-seekeis had fried any fat off the President, but they have not Hied a pound. Asked why he had never visited (he White House in the past, Senator Tillman replied: I waited until a gentleman got in.

A NAME IN THE SAND. Alone I walked the ocean strand; A pearly shell was in my hand, I stooped and wrote upon tlie sand My name the year the day. As onward from the spot 1 passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast And washed my little lines away. And so, methought, twill shortly lie. With every mark on earth from me; A wave of daik oblivion's sea Will sweep across the place Where I have trod the sandy shore Of time and been, to be no more, Of me my day the name I bore, To leave no track nor trace.

And yet, with Him who counts the sands And holds the waters in his hands, I know a lasting record stands Inscribed against my name, Of all this mortal part has wrought, Of all this unthinking soul has thought And from these fleeting moments caught For glory or for shame. Hannah F. Gould. A MATCHLESS AGE IN SIGHT. The American people use up the enormous total of 700,000,000,000 ma lUITllUUS lUlcU U1 atches a year.

It is th general be- lief that matches are the by-product of planing mills and other wood working factories, but as a matter of fact the best grade of two-inch lumber is used for matches, while sash, doors sftid blinds are the by-products of the match timber sawmills. In a single year the manufacturers cut 225,000,000 feet (board measure) of pine in the Great Lakes region, and one of the 150 odd factories used up 200,000 feet of sugar or yellow pine logs every day. The deduction is that in common with other industries of the United States depending upon existing forests the match-makers are within sight of a shortage in the wood supply. When the present timber holdings have been depleted, says the Technical World, they of course cannot be duplicated in a generation, and the people of this country may have to get along with fewer than twenty-five or thirty matches a day each, as at present. In their Insistent way they will probably demand that the practice of Germany an4 France be followed, that forestefe plant and grow Umber especially for matches.

SllSUN, April 20. A young man by the name of Eugene McAuliff in the employ of the Southern Pacific Company at Lignus, was missed this morning. The last known of him he was engngod in repaiiing a bridge at point and was using a small boat. The lio.it was found there with his, dog in it, and it is suimised that he had fallen overboard and drowned. A search will be made to find the I body.

His relatives, who reside in San Francisco, have been notified, by the Sheriff. LOS ANGELES, April 20. A great scandal was unearthed here to-day in connection with the municipal W'ater works. It is charged that a number of local millionaires have entered into a deal hereby they expect to clean up several million dollars on the project of bringing water from Owen river to this city. These men of wealth, it is claimed, have purchased a large tract of waste and almost valueless land about 20 miles from this city, whore it is proposed to turn the water, on its way who is charged with taking money fi om the keepers of dens of vice in return for police protection.

Although there was considerable circumstantial evidence which tended to implicate a number of other prominent city officials, the Grand Jury reported that it was unable to secure proof sufficient to warrant indictments. However, the District Attorney was advised to pursue the investigation with tlie assistance of the Police Department. LONDON, Api'il 20. More than 25,000 well drilled, equipped and rationed men surround the city of Constantinople, ready to move at a moments notice. Despite all contrary reports the Sultan is still in his Palace and will not leave the city.

It is now believed that there will be no bloodshed, as the Sultan is practically ready to grant all demands made by the young Turks. WASHINGTON, April 17. In a speech delivered here to-night Secretary of the Navy Von Meyer advocated that the Navy be increased to twice its present just as soon as possible, and urged that 16 first-class battleships be permanently stationed in the Pacific. Secretary Von Meyer said that if the United States had had a sufficient number of vessels of the calibre and size of the Oregon at the time the Spanish war there would have been no war, and that the trouble would have been ended in a single engagement. SEARCHLIGHT, April 17.

In a fight 'over mining claims this afternoon Frank Orr and Arthur Dow were shot and killed by James Noble, Armed with revolvers Orr and Dow attacked Noble, who after being fired at, ended Orrs life with a shotgun. Dow started to run away and after a short distance wheeled to shoot Noble, who again emptied his shotgun. Both men were killed Instantly, I Tfi I i 3 A plains of Santa Fe and the savage luxuriance of the virgin forest, passing through the territory of the missions and the ruins of the Jesuit churches and convents. GAMBLERS GO TO MEXICO. SAN DIEGO, April 20.

That a race track at which pools ill be sold is to be established just across the line in Mexico near Tia Juana appears to be made certain by a telegram from the City of Mexico received here last evening. It is signed Harry Brolaski and reads: Concession granted to me. Leave to-morrow. The concession which is understood to have been granted by President Diaz grants W. C.

Creveling, Harry Brolaski, Isidor Cohn and Carl H. Low the exclusive right to conduct a XJUW L1I.V3 cauuoivc racing plant and sell pools in Lower Governor Gillelt has given ills signature to the following bills: Senate bill 1146 (Hare) To vent the propagation of disease by the BILLS SIGNED BY THE GOYER-NOIt. Governor Gillett has affixed his signature to the following bills: A. 650, Collier Relating to the protection of wild birds, other than game birds, their nests and eggs. A.

577, Otis Relating to interlocutory divorce judgments. S. 624, Stetson Limiting the interest of salary loan brokers to 5 per cent a month. S. 416, Wright Providing for the issuance and sale of bonds to improve San Diego harbor.

S. 333, Willis Creating the office of State Dental Surgeon. S. 566, Caminetti Relating to commitments to schools of industry. S.

835, Willis Prohibiting the use of salmon roe for bait. BRYAN EPIGRAMS. Love is the weapon for which there is no shield. There are no self-made men. We are what we are made by others.

If I can touch one human heart for good, I have not spoken in vain. The man who stops to calculate how much gooH will come to him out of the good he does, will never, do any good. A noble life can not be built upon an arithmetic. You can not escape difficulties by avoiding religion. Man has a mind and a soul, and the mind is greater than the man and the soul is greater than the mind.

Love and peace accomplish far more than force. Mystery doesn't bother us in the dining room, it is only in the church. People who worry most about what they can not understand spend the least time living up to what they can not help but understand. Professor Starr says Roosevelt cannot live In Africa, but It must be remembered that Mr, Roosevelts career consists principally of doing things which other people said he couldnt. Washington 4 Attorney James A.

Nowland tv as down from St. Helena Monday. improper sanitation of crematories. Senate bill 1225 (Thompson) Providing for the formation of irrigation districts. Assembly bill 16 (Johnson) Preventing minors under 18 years from visiting any race track, poolroom, cock or prize fight.

REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. What is the devil going te do with his business when the coal supply is exhausted? A girl feels its just cheating her to write her a love letter without a postscript. Its queer how much we thihk of our life here when about the most it appears to be is reheaising for our funeral. A man running for office has such a naturally candid manner that when he bumps into a lamppost he tries to shake hands with it. Kansas having made a law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor for any purposes whatever will now be expected to find some harmless remedy fyr rattlesnake bite.

Washington Star. No can describe the feelings gf a deaf mute when he steps on a tack in the dark. HORN. i STEWART In Napa, April jpth, 1909; to the wife of William Oscar Stewart, a sdn. California.

Plans have already been prepared for a track and club house to cost $125,000. The grand stand will accommodate 10,000 people. There will be stalls for 3 50 head of horses. The California Press Association, the State editorial organization, will make its annual excursion this year to the Yosemite Valley. This was the decision of the Executive Committee of the Association at a meeting held in Berkeley Tuesday.

The excursion will leave San Franciscp on Thursday morning, May 13th, and arriving at El Portal spend the night there. The next morning they will proceed to the valley, and there spend a week viewing the wonders of nature. It is estimated that at least one hundred editors and their wives will take the trip. The average woman cant hit the Side of a barn with a brick, hut when It comes tq trowing hints she hits the target every jflme. SUB8RIBp for the journal.

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