LANDER, Wyo.. Jan. 9.—The Arapahoe Indlans are In a starving condition.

Abraham Johnson, chief deputy clerk ofthe Supreme Court Under the Root admin-istration, was chosen secretary to thecommissioners yesterday. The positioncarries with It a salary of J200 a month.Johnson is both well known and wellliked among the members of the legal fra-ternity and his succession to the officemade vacant by the death of D. BernardWoolf is received with great favor by

all who have dealings with the court.

Secures Fine Position.

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 9.—Phebe A.Hearst passed through Kansas City inher private car to-day, returning to herhome in San Francisco.InMrs. Hearst's party were Dr. Joseph

M.Flint, chairman of the medical depart-ment of the Urtlverslty of California; Mrs.Hearst's niece, Mrs. Apperson, and hercousin. Miss Lane, both of San Francisco;

Orrin Peck, a well-known Californiaartist, and Mies Margaret Sherlock, whofor the past ten years has been in chargeof Mrs. Hearst's settlement and kinder-garten training work inWashington, D. C.

MRS. HEARST AND PARTYON WAY TO THE COAST

ARRIVED. s

I ' Friday, January 9.Stmr San Mateo. Rosa, 100 hours from Ta-

coma.Stmr Central ia, Ericsson, 60 hours from

Aberdeen.BAILED.

Friday, January 9.Stmr W H Kruirer, Ahlln, Eureka.

OUTSIDE. BOUND IN. 12 MIDNIGHT.Br bark Invercauld. bark Gatherer and asquare rigger.

DOMESTIC PORTS. .GRAYS HARBOR—Sailed Jan 9—Schr A JW'Mt, for San Francisco.SEATTLE:

—Arrived Jan 0

—Stmr City of

Puebla, from San Francisco: Br ship M EWatfon, from Victoria; Br ship Wendur, fromAntwerp.

i Sailed Jan 0—

Stmr Senator, for San Fran-

1' clsco.OCEAN STEAMER.

LIZARD—

Passed Jan lfr—Stmr La oj.«jh-pagne, from New York, for Havre.

Late Shipping Intelligence.NEW WESTERN HOTEL

A Corner, Sausallto Harry Morton. S LakeH S Turner. Seattle J Thornton, Salt LakeJno Smith. Alameda Wm D Carter, S JoseC W Wadhams wf,city W Callatchan, San Jos«Joseph King. Safc'mntoJB Cole. PresidioJno Doyle, Sacramento IBert Samuels. PresidioC E McLellanJ Oregon 1Anthony Hall. PresidioMrs Thompson, Oregon Jan Herrln, Callstoga

Mrs Richardson. Oregn pR Murray. CallstogaW Thornton. Los An Miss Stanton.CallstojtaA Tyler, Los Angeles {Eva Johnston, Ca'etogaLouis Ruffa, Vina IMm E James and fam-A Burquls. Nokomis. 111!. "J'. San MateoA Walles, Pt Richmondj'no Griggs and son, Losa H Brown, Lily,8 Dl GatoiF S Rarnk, Lily,S £>'H Williams. PortlandHenry Fisher, Presidio! \Vm Davis. OaklandW H Gardener. PresldlolCharles Orme. OaklandA M Cation, Walla Wai MrH B Scott. S Barb'raM Scott. Walla Walla L iS Mansfield. S BarbMrs James Smith and Geo Harrington, Xlles

daughter. Walla Wai M J Walsh. NilesJames Barlow, Butte Wm McCulloch, NilesWm Clark, Butte

'LE Bullock.Haywardr

George King, Salt Lake John Bourke. Presidio

HOTETj ARRIVALS.

BELLEFONTE, Pa., Jan. D.—FormerGovernor Daniel Hardman Hastings diedto-day of pleuro-pneumonia, after an ill-ness of four days. The Improvement Inhis condition early last night did not con-tinue. Toward midnight there was a fallInhis temperature ar.d the action of theheart grew weak. Oxygen waa resorted

to, but all efforts to improve his condi-tion failed.

Former Governor Hastings of Penn-sylvania Succumbs to Pneumonia.

DEATH COMES SUDDENLY.

OAKLAND.Jan. S.—The mansion

of Mr?. P.pral Chabot, at the cor-ner of Eleventh and Madisonstreets, with ail its art works andtreasures, was extensively dam-

aged by a fire this morning that threat-ened for a while to totally destroy thebtructure. To the prewnce cf mind andbravery of Miss Julia Rohan, one of themaids of the household, is due the:redit of not only ravin? the old manorfrom destruction, but the rescue iromburning of little Miss Claire Knight, thebaby daughter of Mrs. Robert S. Knight,a daughter of Mrs. Chabot, who is now_n a journey south with her husband.

Miss Rohan was in a third-story be<3-room with tho Kr.ight child and had justfinished dressing h»-r winn she dettctedthe odor of smoke. She locked out of the

The Supervisors' Joint Committee onJudiciary and Fire had under considera-tion yesterday the appointment of aboard of examiners to examine Into thequalifications of stationary engineers forthe Issuance to them of certificates. Thenames of A. H. Ewell. from StationaryEngineers' Union No. 64 and Hoisting En-

| ginecrs' Union No. 59; Charles Harcourt.;Boilermakers' and Iron Shipbuilders' Un-ion: Samuel N. Grubb of the Steam Fit-ters' Union and George Bryant of the In-ternational Association of Machinistswere submitted for canslderation. The

Icommittee postponed action until nextFriday.

CONSIDERS SELECTIONOF EXAMINING- BOARD

In the meantime one of the members ofj the household rang in an alarm of fireI through the telephone. There was some1 loss of time on account of thi3, but thej Fire Department got to work quicklyj rftf-r Us arrival. The flames Had begun

to eat their way into the obscure places,making it hard for the firemen to get atthem with the chemical stream. At lastit was necessary to resort to water, asthe fir* was gaining headway, and before

! the flames were finally subdued the houseIwas badly damaged.

There was really more damage by waterj than byfire. The lireonlyburned a portioni of the "lumber room" and the roof, but

thiwater flooded all the upstairs roomsen the north side of the house and leakedthrough upon the floors beneath. Costlycarpets and frescoes that Mrs. Chabot

I had recently spent $6000 upon were utterlyjruined. Altogether, according to rough1 estimates, the damage will amount to

$15,000, which Mrs. Chabot says will befully cove-red by insurance.

None of the masterpieces that hungupon the walls, nor the art works in

chiseled marble, nor the very delicatefurniture were touched by the water, for

; they had been removed In haste by theiwilling hands of neighbors, who went

Into the smoke rushed the three bravewomen, followed by a corps of house ser-vants, whom the alarm had gathered. Ina Jiffy tho most treasured things were se-lected and parsed one after another toeager and willinghands ranged on thestairs. Among the things caved ¦were thewedding dresses of Mrs. Knight, Mrs.Dieckmann and Mrs. Dunn, a lace wed-ding veil of priceless value on account ofitc associations, many of Mrs. Chabot'sParisian gown? and costly furs. A Per-sian r.ug valued at $1500 was rescued, butnot before it had been burned In one ortwo places.

It was 9 o'clock and the family wereall at breakfast. Mrs. Cbabot and herthree daughters— Mrs. J. P. Dunn, MrsJ. H. Dicekmann and Miss Claire Chabot—

were chatting over their coffee -whenthey heard the maid screaming out thealarm of flre. Allexcept Mrs. Chabot ranupstairs to the rescue of the valuables,representing the accumulation of a life-time ajid years of travel, which werestored in what had been dubbed "thelumber room."

room nnoV discovered that the smoke hadpartially filled the hallway. Hurriedlyprusping the child and covering its mouthwith a shawl, so that It would not FUffo-c?.te, she rushed down the stairs and gavethe alarm. A moment later child andnurse would have been imprisoned in anattic from which escape would have beenimpossible.

President. William G. Morrison; first vicepresident, James E. Power: second vice presi-dent Daniel B. Dwyer: third vice president.Arthur Liebscher; recording secretary. A. S. J.Woods; financial secretary. George P. Feely;

treasurer James Donohoe; sergeat-at-arms,William McLeod: executive committee— RobertKerrlson and Joseph Rudee.

The committee of arrangements report-ed everything in readiness for the annualball, to be held at Native Sons' Hall,Saturday, January 17. An excellent or-chestra has been engaged, and now thatthe. holiday rush Is over at the postofflce

the clerks feel that they have seme en-joyment coming to them.

At the last regular meeting of*San

Francisco Branch No. 8, United NationalAssociation of Postofflce Clerks, the fol-lowing officers were elected for the en-suing year:

WITHINthe shadow of death,

Burton Prince. ?on of aprominent Santa Rosa bank-er, who shot himself Thurs-day, lastnight denied thestate-

ments made inan interview with an act-

ress named Madge Dixie, who claims thewound was inflicted with suicidal intentand that the cause of the attempted sui-cide was the fact that she had refused

to marry him. ..Prince shot himself at 1112 Eddy street,

a house which had been engaged by hisparents for a short stay in the city, andthe circumstances surrounding the shoot-ing seemed to Indicate that it had oc-curred accidentally. The bullet enteredthe abdomen, and after the occurrence

the wounded man walked two blocks toa neighboring drug store before he wasable to summon medical assistance. Hewas taken to the Central Emergency

Hospital, where an examination disclosedthe fact that the bullet had penetratedthe liver and had inflicted a fatal wound.

To Dr. Leonard, the attending surgeon,

and to other attendants Prince maintainedthat his wound was accidental, and hegave a circumstantial account of how hehad drawn the pistol from a dressing casedrawer while he was searching for cloth-ing. The fact that none of the othermembers of the family was at home at

the time of. the occurrence explained hisnecessity for going to the drug store foraid.

ACTRESS ADDS HER STORY.When Prince's Injury became public in

the morning papers a young woman stop-ping at the Palace Hotel, who gives thename of Miss Madge Dixie, a type of thebrunette beauty, well gowned and at-

tractive and who claims to be an actress,

announced that her rejection of matri-monial offers from the young man causedhim to attempt suicide. She said she met

him in this city about eight months ago

and after a short courtship agreed tomarry him. She then left for the Eastto resume her theatrical engagement*and returned last Monday to San Fran-cisco for the purpose of carrying out herengagement.

Miss Dixie said yesterday in an inter-view at the Palace Hotel:Iam DOKitlve he attempted suicide for two

reasons. In tho first place since Ihave beenin San Francisco this time Prince has be«ndrinking very heavily and on Thursday morn-ing when Itook a. drive with him in GoldenGate I'ark Itold him that he must mend hisway? and sto:> drinking or Iwould refuse tomarry him. Itold him that Ithought it ad-vlsahle to end our engagement owing to hisreckl^s ways and that I would go to Chln.iand Japan for a few months. He seemed to

take the matter very much to heart and aaidseveral time?, "If you leave me Iwill kill

POSTOFFICE CLERKSELECT NEW OFFICERS

Dr. A. W. Parsons, a wealthy medicalpractitioner of Mexico, who haa beentouring the world for the last eighteenmonths, is at the Palace.

W. H. Eustis. United States commis-sioner of locations of public buildings.has returned from Honolulu and Is atthe Palace. He says that the new poat-office at Honolulu will be located on theBishop lot, across the street from tht}

Young building. He is en route to Wash-ington to make his report.

Dr. Z. Levin, who for the last sixmonths pursued professional studies atLondon and Berlin, has returned home.

Elliot Stone, a wealthy resident of NewYork, who is touring the coast, is atthe Russ.

Louis F. Breuner of Sacramento, presi-dent of the Chamber of Commerce of thatcity, is at the Palace.

A. F. Easton, a mining man who makeshis headquarters at San Jose, is at thoGrand.

W. F. George, an attorney of Sacra-j mento. Is among the arrivals at tlieIGrand.

Hervey Lindley of Klamathon is at thePalace.

W. Hunt, a lumberman of Fortuna, isa guest at the Russ.

A. Elliot, a mining man of Sumpter,Wash., is at the Russ.E. T. Clowe, a real estate dealer of

Woodland, is at the Grand.E. N. Baxter, proprietor of the Hotel

Wawona, is at the Occidental.Frank H. Short, the well-known at-

torney of Fresno, la at the Palace.

PERSONAL MENTION.

A fashionably attired young womanwho gave the name of Mrs. Brown andher residence as 615B Mason street wasthe victim of a most daring purse-snatch-ing experience Thursday evening on Ma-son street, near Sutter, about half-pa3t6 o'clock. While coming down Masonstreet and directly In front of her resi-dence she was violently shoved by threeboys ranging In age from 12 to 16 years,and a purse which she carried In herhand by a chain was snatched from her.The wallet contained $15 In gold and about$5 in silver. The force used in grabbingthe purse caused the chain to break andthe silver was scattered on the sidewalk.The youthful robbers picked up about $3and fled along Mason and down Sutter.

Officer Charles Fennel was notified, butupon his arrival no trace of the culpritscould be found. Mrs. Brown stated thatshe was unable to get a good look at theboys and consequently could not give adescription of them. Inquiry at the ad-dress given elicited the Information thatno person by the name of Brown livedthere, but Miss Jackson, daughter of An-drew Jackson, the well-known miningman. who occupies the flat, stated thatshe was well acquainted with the youngwoman who wag robbed and admittedthat the name given waa fictitious.

Some of the neighbors state that MissJackson told them that her sister-in-lawwas the victim of the robbery, but Mr.Jackson stated emphatically last eveningthat he did not have a daughter-in-law.In the event the police capture the younghighwaymen itis understood that the so-called Mrs. Brown willnot prosecute, ow-ing to her desire to avoid notoriety.

In further confirmation of IVs statements th-»father pointed out that his son had been inthe city only a week and that every night hehad spent at home, with the exception of two.when he had gone to the theater and returnedbefore midnight. On the Thursday morningupon which Miss Dixie said Prince had threat-ened to kilt himself, both the father andbrother said he had remained in bed at thefamily home until after midday. Regardingher statement as to being entertained at din-ner by Samuel Freedman, an uncle of Prince's,several days ago, the father stated that heknew of no such man and neither he nor h!swife had any 'relative of that name.

In contradiction to this latter statement,Samuel Freedman. residing at 1111 Post street,

said yesterday that he was a distant relative otthe Prince family »nd that several months a*uthe youns man and MIm Dixie were passing

the horse and were Invited in to take dlnnei.Neither Mr. Freedman nor the other membersof hU family have seen the young womansince. He said she appeared to be a culturedyoung woman and made a good impression, buthe denied that Prince told them he was en-gaged to marry her.

BOLDLY STEAL A PURSEAND MAKE THEIR ESCAPE

"Were you ever eniauej to marry a womanby that name. Burton?" persisted the father.A similar answer was given and the youngman lay back -xhausted by the effort.

My son lived in Santa Rooa nearly all hialife. lie was born In Petaluma and went toschool in Berkeley. Outside of one trij» toPortland, he ha» never been away from homeIn his life, with the exception of a few tripsto Sun Francisco. This woman's claim that hewas engag-ad to her and that his death wasdue to her rejection of him is utterly un-founded. Her statement that she called at ourresidence Thursday or at any other time 1*absolutely unfounded. She says she was deniedadmission by a servant, when as a matter of

withholding any of her letters is absurd, asneither Inor my wife have ever seen a letterof hers or heard of the woman.

DYING MAN MAKES DENIAL.To confirm his statements the father led the

way to the cot of his dying son."Do you know a woman named Madge

Dixie?" he asked. A feeble shaking of thehead answered him negatively.

RECOGNIZES ENGAGEMENT.When Iarrived last Monday Iwent to the

Palace HottI and took rooms there. He sentup his cp.rd and for several days he enter-tained me royally. On Wednesday Iheard thatbe was out of town and went to the theaterwith another man. He heard about It andwhen we were out driving in the park Thurs-day morning he upbraided me for my conduct.

The only one of fcis relatives who recognizedour encasement was his aunt, Mrs. SamuelFreedman. who lives on Post street, and whogave us a dinner the last time Iwas on thecoast.

At the Central Emergency Hospital lastnight the father and brother of thewounded young man hovered over his cot,watching every labored breath with theutmost solicitude. He was In a semi-stupor and the approaching end appearedinevitable. When the father was inform-ed of the statements of Miss Dixie Inre-gard to his son's infatuation with the ac-tress and her theory of the cause of hisdeath he scouted the idea. He said:

myself." Ilearned also that he owed consid-erable money and was worried by It.

Hlr DQrents do not like me because Iam inthe theatrical orofesplon. and though theyknew Iwas enicaged to their s>on. they wouldnever have anything to do with me. 1 feelture now that they blame me for their son'sdeath, when an an actual fact Ihave writtentime after time to the boy asking him to braceup and trr to lead a more resular life. Thismorning- 1went to call at the Prince residenceat 1112 Eddy atreet and tried to see theparents. They would not see me and the serv-ant who answered the door said that they didnot care to meet m.- at all.

Jose O'Kane, a Portuguese laborer, washeld up, brutally beaten and robbed of$C0 and a gold watch and chain shortlyafter 1 o'clock this morning, on Jacksonstreet, near the corner of Sansome.

The police are looking for his assail-ant, whom he describes as a heavy set,smooth faced man, wearing a light brownovercoat.

FOOTPAD CRUELLY BEATSVICTIMON PACIFIC STREET

Metcalf returned to his house Imme-diately after his first fight with the fireand telephoned to Marshal Kerns. Whenthe officer arrived with Constable ParkerMetcalf retired, leaving the two on guard.Later Parker returned to his beat andKerns, after waiting for two hours, waastartled to see flames again appearingfrom the porch. Kerns was unable to putthe flre out alone and attracted Metcalfby shooting his revolver. The shots alsoawakened the inmates and Mr. Folgerinquired from an upper window what thetrouble was. On learning he went down-stairs and into the kitchen and withKerns began to fight the fire. Metcalfagain came to the scene and a still alarmwas turned in to the Marston Fire Com-pany. The woodwork had to be cut awayas the flre was burning between the walla.

Knowing that Professor and Mrs.. Mil-ler were away and thinking there wasno one in the house Metcalf raised noalarm, but fought the fire until hethought he had it extinguished. Twohours later it broke out again, havingsmoldered between the walls for thattime.

The fire was discovered at 2 o'clockthis morning. It was started on an in-closed porch at the rear of the houseand in a corner where the back dooropens into the kitchen. The firebug pro-cured kerosene from cans standing on theoutside of the house and entered theporch through a screen door, which, al-though usually fastened, had been leftunlocked by the Chinese cook, who wasout, and who had left the door open toadmit himself on his return. The oil wasthrown over the kitchen door and thewalls of the porch. The entire contentsof a five-gallon can was used. Anothercan. half full, was left untouched on theoutlsde of the house.

The flre had burned away the kitchendoor facing and was eating its way upon the lngide of the room before Metcalfsaw it. It was the light shining throughthe kitchen window and into his bed-room window that attracted him. Hedressed partially and rushed to the place.A man, evidently the incendiary, hidingin the shadow of the building, leaped outand fled into the darkneso. Metcalf wasunable to pursue on account of the fire.He saw the man indistinctly, but hethought the fugitive was a Chinese.

BERKELEY, Jan. 9.—

An incendiary at-

tempted early this morning to burn the

residence at 1 Bushnell place, now occu-pied by Professor Adolph C. Miller of thepolitical economy department of the I'ni-ver?ity of California. That he did notsucceed is due to George D. Metcalf, anOakland attorney, who resides next door,

and who was awakened by the light ofthe rapidly growing fire flashing throughhis window. His timely discovery prob-ably saved the lives of the only two in-

mates of the house, Mrs. Joseph Folger,the mother of Professor Miller, and herhusband.

Sets Fire to the Residence of Profes-sor Adolpb. C. Miller.

trooping to the rescue. After the excite-ment had died away these things werefound piled in heaps In the rooms on the?•outh side of the house, where there wasno damage.

The Chabot manor is one of the oldestin the I.akesloo district, the most fash-ionable of Oakland. The Chabots havelived In it for twenty-two years, the lateRc-ml Chabot having acquired it from theMcGilvary family, who built it.

WORK OF INCENDIARY.

PLACE WHERE FIRE STARTED,AND MRS. CHABOT'S GRAND-CHILD WHOM NURSE RESCUED.

Professor Martin Kellogg. Professor T. K.Bacon, Professor John Fryer, Professor GeorgeC Edwards, Professor William E. RItter,' Pro-fessor Frederick Slate, Professor W. J. V. Os-terhout. Professor Frank Soule. Professor El-mer E. Brown, Dr. "W. 'P. Montague, Dr. J. K.McLean. Dr. Hiram Van Kirk, the Rev. F. L.Hosmer. the Rev. George K. Swan, the Rev.H. J. Jewett and the Rev. George B. Hatch.

The speaker closed his address by givinga sketch of the school at Tuskegee and

the work it has already accomplished.The training got there-the teaching: ofmen to work with their hands— he de-clared to be the solution of the raceproblem. "When the negro learns to savehis money," he declared, "and gets mort-gages on the white men's farm he willnot be driven from the polls when hegoes to vote. The black man must belifted up to take a place among the menof the world and the race that lifts himwill be made more Christ-like throughthe effort."

Among the men on the platform werethe following:

At Hearst Hall Mr. Washington wasgreeted by a large audience of the collegetown people. Dr. J. K. McLean, presidentof the Pacific Theological Seminary, in-troduced the noted colored educator. Inthe course of his address Mr. Washingtonsaid:

The negro is the only race that ever enteredAmerica with a pressing invitation. Your racecame here against the wishes of the Americansin 1402. My race came on invitation and hadIts passage paid In the bargain. Now somewould settle the race problem by having uhdepart to the land of our fathers or to the Phil-ippines. For one. Ibelieve the problems mustbe worked out here between us. We werebrought here and we have worked faithfullyforthis country, and Ibelieve that we have somerights as citizens. Ibelieve there Is patienceenough, humanity enough on the part of bothraces to have us work out our problems hereside by side.

SPEAKS AT BERKELEY.

"And what's a mulatto?" "A mulatto."answered the second Irishman, "is a half nlK-ger." "Well, be Jabers. If a half nigger cantalk that good, what won't a whole niggerdo?"Isaw the time when Iwas In mental slav-

ery; when Ihated the white man. but thankGod Ihave outgrown It. If there Is anyslavery which degrades humanity it is thatmental slavery which causes one race to hateanother. When we free ourselves from thisslavery the race problem will have beensolved.

The nejtro knowe how to earn, but he mustyet ba taught how to save. The developmentof his intellect, too. possesses great possibilities.When Fred Douglass, the colored statesman,was In the midst of one of his eloquent periodsIn a speech during the slavery days two Irish-men In the audience were enraptured by hi*talk. "%Vho is that nigger talking?" ask*done Hibernian of the other. "That's no nig-ger; that's a mulatto," replied his friend.

The first school that Iestablished near Tus-kcge« was In an old shack that let In morerain than it kept out. Often when a boy wouldwalk up to recite he would raise an umbrella.When 1 announced thtitIwould teach the dig-nity of labor and instruct my colored pupilshow to work Iwas told that It was foolishto try to teach the nigger how to work, thathe had been worked for 250 years and wanteda rest. Then it was that Iexplained whatIhave ever believed, that being worked isdegradation, but that working is civilization.

On.1 day Ioverheard two miners talking ofa school called Hampton, where colored stu-dents wore eligible. 1 determined to go thereand made my way to Richmond, arriving inthat city without a dollar or a friend andnearly famished. .My first night In UlchmondIslept in a hole under the sidewalk, but didnot slumber Founaly because pedestrians weroconstantly walking across the top of my bed.A few days after, when Iapplied for admlsslon to Hampton. 1 had 50 cents capital. Iwas eyed suspiciously and finally given a trial

at cleaning cut a classroom. Iswept the roomthree tlme3 and dusted It as many times more.When Ihad tinished the teacher, a shrewdYankee woman, who was an expert on dust,

rubbed her handkerchief over the desks, lookedat it and said to me, '"You'll do." That wasmy entrance examination.

In 1)*81Iwent to the Black Belt In Ala-bama, where it has been said that only blackrnen and mules live. It is nearly true. an<lin fact Ihave felt kind of lenely since Ileftthere. Shortly after arriving there Imet anold nigger who had been a slave. He wastelling me of a sale in which he took part.'•How many were sold?" Iasked him. "Themwere five sold that time

—me and my brother

and three mules," he replied. "But the good

white man has freed the nlggera and Iguesshe will free the mules #oon."

It Is very seldom when confronted with anaudience composed of pupils that Iam not re-minded of difficulties that Iencountered whenfirst Iwent tD school. One of these was thatIhad but one name. Booker. Boys of my ownatte at the school that Iattende-Ntwttted meabout this shortage. Some of them had threenames and gloried in each one. Imi^ht havegot on In the wor'.d Just the game with onename, but my teacher thought it would beeasier traveling: for me If Ihad two nameslike other people. She asked me what Iwouldlike to t.e called and Ireplied, "Call me Wash-ir.gton—ISookor Washington." That waa theway IChristened myself and founded my ownlamily line, something that few have done. An-other difficulty of my flrst achool days that Irecollect *vaa thut Ihad no hat or cap. My

schoolmates so often called attention to mybare head that one day Idetermined to Induceniv mother to buy me a cap. She had nomoney wherewith to purchase it and said thatKhe would not go into debt to secure me a caj».

Lut isoulii make one. This she d!<3 out of tworags. The moral Ilearned from that Incidentwae "Never Kfct Into debt if you can avoidIt.".- Ihave worn different styles of hats andclips s-ince thHt time, but have cherished thememory of none like that of the rag cap mymother made for me.Iwas born on a plantation in Virginia in

1^5K or lsr>'.». Iain not certain of the year. Myfather Inever knew. All that Iam sure of Isthat Iwas born somewhere and ut some time.

1never slept ina b?d until atter 1 was 12 yearsold. B'-'fere that the bare ground was mycouch. Iwas raised principally on corn breadon weekdays and corn bread and molasses onSundays. 1 remember that when two spoons-full of molasses were put on my plate Iwouldallow it run over the plate, figuring that th«more plate was covered by molasses the moremclasseu Ihad. At the close of the CivilWar.

slaves on the plantation were ordered to be ut

the master's house. Iremember hearing a pa-per read that paid we, were all fre<\ Later Iwent to West Virginia and worked in the coalmines for a time.

Oakland Office San Francisco Call,1118 Broadway, Jan. 9.

Booker T. Washington made a day of itin Alameda County to-day. In the after-noon the distinguished negro addressedthe teachers and students at Mills Col-lege and a number of invited guests. Dur-ing the evening he spoke before 15uO peo-ple at Hearst Hall, in Berkeley, the lec-ture being given under direction of ihcPacific Theological Seminary.

The lecturer's itinerary includes an ad-dross Sunday evening at jthe First Con-gregational Church In this city, and fol-lowing that he will talk to the coloredpeople of Oakland at Germanla Hall thesame night. The students of the Univer-sity of California will hear Mr. Washing-ton Tuesday morning.

Before a large gathering in Llsser Hall,at Mills College, yesterday afternoonMrs. Susan T. Mills, president of the col-lege, presented Mr. Washington. In thecourse of his address he told of his ob-scure birth as a slave, of the many trialsthat beset him during youth and earlymanhood, when he was undauntedly ex-erting every effort to improve himselfmentally, *yid of the establishment andprogress of that great educational Institu-tion for the people of his race, the Tus-kegee Institute in Alabama, of which hewas the founder and is now the head. Inpart the speaker said:

TfiLLS OF SCHOOL DAYS.

Previous to adjournment Fred C.Wheeler of Los Angeles was elected Stateorganizer for the federation. The posi-tion Is a new one created by the consti-tution adopted at this convention. Wheel-er Is a member of the Brotherhood ofCarpenters, was twice president of theLos Angeles Council of Labor and has formany years been prominent in labor cir-cles.

Indorsement of Mayor Sehmitz by reso-lution came up again for discussion dur-ing the afternoon session when an amend-ment to the, resolution previously turneddown by the convention was Introduced.The amended resolution indorsed MayorSchmitz's attitude duriner the recent strikeof the street car employes in San Fran-Cisco, and was much more conservativein tone than the original measure. A hotfight was waged on the floor of the con-vention over the proposition, some of thedelegates arguing that such definite sup-port of San Francisco's Mayor might beconsidered as simply a political boost andoutside of the province of the federation.The supporters of the resolution contend-ed that the Federation of Labor shouldstand by Mayor Schmitz. Inasmuch ashe was an ardent exponent of the prin-ciples of union labor and his election asMayor of San Francisco had been a greatstimulus to labor organizations all overthe country. While the debate was stillin progress President Davidson looked athis watch and. finding that the hour hadcome, adjourned the convention sine die.No chance was given for a vote on tha

.resolution, which by many was consid-ered the most politic solution of the prob-lem.

LOS ANGELES. Jan. 9.-After a stormy

afternoon of discussion over the questionof politics In labor unions and the In-dorsement of Mayor Schmitz of SanFrancisco, the convention of the StateFederation of Labor adjourned sine dloat 5 o'clock this afternoon, to meet nextyear in Fresno. The only two cities thatfinally contested for the honor of havingthe next convention of the federationwere Fresno and Bakersfleld. As soon asthe sentiment of the delegates appearedto be In favor of Fresno the BakersftVldcontingent withdrew, and the vote wa3made unanimous in favor of Fresno.

State Labor Federation Hasa Lively Final

Session.

Booker T. Washington SaysMental Slavery Degrades

Humanity.

Fire Breaks Out in Chabot Home and Julia Rohan Carries LittleMiss to Safety Just in Time and Gives Alarm, Which Resultsin Preventing the Great Damage Which Was Threatened

Large Crowds Are Ad-dressed in Alameda

County Cities.

A Resolution PraisingMayor Schmitz Dies

in Convention.

Beautiful Woman, Claiming to Be an Actress,. Declares HerRejection of Him Caused Despondency, Which Is De-nied Indignantly by the Family and Also by Dying Man

NEGROEDUCATORTELLS OF LIFE

DEBATE BRINGSNO INDORSEMENT

MAIDSAVES BABY FROM FLAMESAND MANSION FROM DESTRUCTION

YOUNG PRINCE'S WOUNDHAS AIR OF MYSTERY

THE SA'N FKANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1903.

ACTRESS TVHO SATS BURTONPRINCE SHOT HIMSELF BE-CAUSE OF HIS LOVE FOR HER.

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ADVERTISEMENTS.

And OverworkCaused Nervous

Prostration—

Com-pletely Worn Out.

Dr.Miles*Nervine CuredMe.

Dr. Miles*Nervine willcure nervous pros-tration. Itwill brinp sweet sleep and rest;it willrelieve the mmd of the tendency toworry;it willmake the nerves stron? andthe patient well. Ithas cured thousands. Itwillcure you. Tryit to-day.

"Some years agoIwa3-stricken with nerv-ous prostration caused by overwork andworry. Iwas in such a weakened, exhausted,ran down condition that I'was unable to domy housework. Ifelt too weak and tired toeven make calls on my neighbors. Fre-quently when out drivingIwould become soexhausted that it seemed that Iwould diebefore Ireached home. Iwas also troubledwith sinking spells at night which leftme soweak that Ithought Icould not live untilmorning. Iwas inthis deplorable conditionwhen one day Dr. Miles' Nervine wasbrought to my notice. Ihad little faith inproprietary remedies but determined to givethe Nervine a trial. After the second closeof the Restorative Nervine Iwas able to sitat the table and eat a meal, something Ihadbeen enable to do for many days. «Ihavesince taken a number of bottles of Nervine.Iconsider myself cured. Iam doing myown work andfgive Dr. Miles*Nervine creditfor my general good health. My object inwritingthis is to recommend your medicinebut Icannot write as strongly as IfeeL"

—Miss ApdieB. Varble, 405 E. Marioa St,Guthrie, Oklahoma.

AH druggists sell and guarantee first bot-tle Dr. Miles* Remedies. Send for free bookon Nervous and Heart Diseases. AddxeuDr. Miles Medical Co.. Elkhart, Ind.

POSTUM CEBEAL.

A COMPARISONIn Money and Food Value.

¦¦<TorTe*» J.ad t»p*>n used in our family for jytare, ar.d we all drank it except Hus- jband, who gave it up some years ago be- j¦ irusc it Injurfdhi? health," writes a lady ifrom Granville, Ohio.

"Last year we sp^nt the summer in jihr- northern Among our table jrappUeHi ur.kr.own to my husband, Iha.d j

tak?n alor.g several packages of Postum jFood Coffee, but itwas stored away ar.dforgotten for weeks, during which timewe u^ed coffee.

•"Ore <3ay my husband said: 'Iwish it¦rere possible to get some Pcstum. Iwould like to try it.' Two_ hours later,

at <Jinner, Iserved him a cup. brewed ac-ccrding to the- directions on package. Hissurprise was complete; the taste pleasedhim and he drank a second cup. Fromthat hour we continued to use Postumwith gratifying satisfaction, and not an-•.hor cup cf coffee has ever come to our

table."My husband found that it did not pro-

duce the distress that forced him to re-nounce coffee and that it strengthenedhis nerves and stopped all his stomachtrouble. Its effect on me was no lessgratifying; though Ihad drunk coffee butsparingly, Ihad suffered considerablyfrora it.It disordered my nerves and dis-turbed my liver. Postum corrected theseevils and proved a sedative and mostwholesome food.

""We were both interested in the com-parative cost of coffee and Postum. We!:ad always paid SS cents a pound for cof-fee. A larpe package of Postum costs 25cents and weighs one pound and a quar-ter. Though v> drank Postum more free-ly and frequently than we had coffee, wefound that the large size package ofPostsm lasted as long as two pounds ofcoffee, a difference of 45 cents in favor ofPostum. Ina year this saving of moneyv.-as considerable, and this fact recom-rm-rids Postum to all people who believe::i economy.

"Even a person prejudiced in favor of< offee would admit that Postum properly1 r. wed is as pleasant to the palate asiho Tx-Ft cofte-e.« Iknow that some peoplehave b^n dissatisfied with Postum be-cause they did not make it properly.

"Another advantage of Postum thatrrakes it vastly superior to coffee forfamily use is that it can be given freelyto children, being a real food and not aMin:u!ant like coffee. It willnot harm thernopt delicate child nor create a habitwhich leads only too r-asily to indulgencein s-timulants of a stronger nature."Ibelieve that ifevery one knew that

PcFtum is so much cheaper than coffeepnd fo much better for one's health theywould use it instead of a drink which,l.eirg a stimulant entirely without foodvalue, 1b eo very harmful." Name givenby Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich.