Completion.

Coalition^ of WesternTheater s^Nearing

CHICAGO. July 14.—The Tribune to-morrow will say: With a capitalization jof between $1,000,000 and $3,000,000 twelve jof the chief vaudeville theaters between!Chicago and the Pacific Coast are abbut |to be merged into a single property. Theprinciples employed in industrial com-bines are being used to bring about theunification. Stock in the new 'corporationwill be Issued to the individual theaterproprietors in amounts proportional to thevaluation placed on the respective thea-ters. The largest interests involved inthe coalition are those of the Kohl andCastle theaters of Chicago and of.thea-ters of the Orpheum circuit of the West.Tho only vaudeville manager in a cityeast of Chicago to be a party to the ar- ;rangement is M. C. Anderson of Cincin- |nati, controllingHueck's Opera-house andthe Walnut-street Theater In.that city. |

The twelve theaters which will tecomethe property of the combine are:

Chicago— The Chicago Opera-house, theOlympic Theater, the Haymarket Theater, |Hopkins' Theater and, indirectly, the Ma-sonic Temple Roof Theater.

Cincinnati— Hueck's Opera-house andthe Walnut-street Theater.

San Francisco— The'Orpheum Theater,Maurice Meyerteld, proprietor and ownerof the Orpheum Theater Company.

Los Angeles— The Orpheum Theater,

owned by fhe Orpheum Company.New Orleans— The Crescent Theater.Kansas City—The Orpheum Theater. .'

'Omaha— The Creighton-Orpheum Thea-

ter. •

Denial of a vigorous sort was given to-night to a question asking if the unionwas one either of offense or defenseagainst the East.

"The stock company," said Manager J.J. Murdock of the Masonic Temple RoofTheater, acting spokesman, "will beformed on business lines alone. It is notmeant as an instrument for fighting anyone. The question simply is to join anumber of enterprises into a single con-cern. The present managers will remainundoubtedly, but they will remain as di-rectors of the larger corporatfon insteadof owners of ~the separate theaters.

"The coalition of the Western theaterswill mean a saving of much money inoperating expenses. Salaries, however,

will not be cut, and. Ithink the combinewillbe to the interests of the performers.It will give them a continuous engage-ment of a number of weeks."

DISSENSIONS INVOLVERECLAMATION DISTRICT

Contingent of Yolo County Land-Owners Objects to Paying an

Assessment.WOODLAND, July 14.—The land owners

pf Reclamation District No. 108 met hereyesterday. Of the 72,000 acres comprisingthe district more than 60,000 acres wererepresented. Recently an assessment waalevied, to which many of the small landowners are bitterlyopposed. The biglandowners, such as E. B. Pond, the Fair es-tate and others, generally favor the as-sessment. A committee consisting of E.B. Pond, L. R. Poundstone, W. R.Mumma, C. S. Neal and James Baldsonwas appointed, with .instructions to makea report as to the past, the present andthe probable future of the district and tosuggest plans for future reclamation to ameeting of the land owners which will beheld in this city on the 3d of August. , I

The district comprises some of the mostfertile land in the State, but a great dealof it.is subject to overflow, and no suc-cessful plan of,reclamation has yet beendevised. There is a great divergence ofviews among the land owners. ,The smallholders defiantly announce themselves aaopposed to all, reclamation schemes thathave been or are likely"to be proposed,and .annourioe their intention to fight thoassessment -. to the bitter •end. Most •ofthem, claim, that . their land is high anddry and that they are included in the dis-trict for assessment purposes. The litiga-tion is likelyto be expensive and longdrawn out. '-'.,'¦ » •;' .* .

Tynan Jury Disagrees.SALINAS, July %-The second trial ofI

C. Tynan in .the .Justice's Court ended tFriday night..The jury,disagreed, stand- Iing ten for conviction and two for acquit- ital. A few days ago Tynan was'arrestel !for violating - the ? midnight closing ordi- jnance. ¦ ... . -. I

>tf«S ACOMA, July If—To-day's Orlen-- II tal advices give details of a terri-

II"*ble disaster and 'loss of life causedJt - -

by • an.„outburst .'» of7 the' Kloet. - volcano in \ Northern j Java last

month. Torrents of lava and hot mudflowed on towns and there were showersof'ashes and 'stones. Seven hundred na-

tives-and about, a dozen Europeans per-ished.

" '. - .Amid'a tremendous' downpour of stones

the European manager of one of the largeestates fled from the stream of lava in acarriage, ,Into which- he had placed hiswife, two children and a nurse. Itwaaa race for life with every advantage infavor of,the lava stream, which came roll-ing down the hillsides in ever-increasingvolume.- In thirty minutes the lava over-took the carriage. The nurse and chil-dren perished and the parents savedthemselves by jumping into a clump ofbamboo trees. - .

The superintendent of this estate andtwenty-Qve coolies perished. Severalscore of great coffee estates were de-

PICKPOCKETS IBT JAPAJTBOB SAN. FBANCISCANS

Money and Tickets Taken FromTourists Are Recovered, by the

Tokio Police.TACOMA, July 14.-Mr. and Mrs. J.

McNald of San Francisco, who aretraveling- in Japan, have learned thatpickpockets are |almost as numerous inthat country as in America. Severalweeks ago while traveling between Yoko-hama and Haneda they were robbed bypickpockets of several small articles, in-cludinga handbag belonging to Mrs. Mc-Nald. In this were six checks for $300,two steamghip tickets between Hongkongand London and Japanese money. Thematter • was reported at two police -sta-tions and the metropolitan police of Tokioat once detailed detectives to investigate.Twelve days later two pickpockets werearrested and all- of the valuables were

Special Dispatch, to The CalL.

stroyed. For fifty miles around tha vol-cano the country was strewn with corpses.

ACCUSE CLERKS OF BOBBERY.

leged Bank Breaking.Fourteen Persons Arrested for Al-

TACOMA. July 14.—Fourteen arrestshave been made at Singapore In connec-tion with the recent robbery of the Hong-kong and Shanghai Bank of notesamounting to nearly $300,000. A small por-tion of the money was recovered. Thoprisoners are bank .clerks and moneychangers and include two women. Therobbery was effected by means of a dupli-cate key to the bank's strong vault, thekey having ,been stolen from the Char-tered Bank of India, which used the samevault. The principal thief escaped toMadras with ?250,000.

Statistics show that 21,000 foreign tour-ists visited Japan last year, spendingabout 20,000,000 yen. The tourist businessis now regarded as an important sourceof revenue, and efforts are being made to

more thoroughly advertise Japan inAmer-ica and Europe.

Many protests are being made becausethe Russian authorities at Port Arthurare opening all letters to and from theAmerican and European residents there.Nothing is permitted to be sent out thatcontains any allusion to Russian militaryaffairs or criticism of-Russian methods.Yokohama papers publish a story to theeffect that an American subject twomonths ago posted a letter to relativesin the United States at the Imperial Rus-sian postoffice at Port Arthur. The letterwas opened and its contents were foun-tto include details regarding a number oftroops at Port Arthur and the naming: ofthe forts. The American was arrested andImprisoned for three weeks, being- finallyreleased on orders from St. Petersburg.Newspapers of all kinds are absolutelybarred ifany copy is found to contain acriticism of Russia or Russian methods.The harbor at Port Arthur is watchedevery ni^ht with searchlights and thastrictest vigilance is paid to occasionalvisits of foreign men-of-war. .

European Manager of a Large Estate in Drives .With HisFamily^ Before the Pursuing Torrent From a Volcano in Erup-tion and the Nurse and Two Children Are Lost irTBoiling Mud

MLAJXAGEB IS SELECTEDFOB MANILAEXCHAUSS

John Taylor, Formerly of This City,Will Conduct the New Stock

'-'¦_¦ r."• Institution.TACOMA, July 14.—John W. Taylor,

formerly a resident of San Francisco,has been elected secretary and managerof the new Stock Exchange. Hewillreceive a large salary for organizingand managing it Itwillbe modeled inmany respects after the San FranciscoExchange, of which Taylor was formerlya member. Present indications are thatthe Manila Exchange willhereafter playan important part In the commercialtransactions of the Orient. Itwillbe thefirst exchange in the Orient modeledafter similar Institutions in America.During the first year the membership willbo limited to fifty. Members willpay $50each to join and an annual fee of $100.Allof the seats have been subscribed for.

SPOKANK, July 14.—

One thousand peo-ple saw the Los Angeles Elks' baseballteam defeat a nine made up of membersof the local lodge this afternoon. Thascore was 4 to 3. Ar large proportion ofthe local Lodge- of Elks, which has 530members, were in attendance and rootedindiscriminately for the home team and;the visitors. The line-up follows: ,.'

-Spokane. • '1*08111011. / Los Angeles. ¦

Roadnlght.. Shortstop HartMcArdle.: Second base LelandConnor............. Catcher '.*. "WeldingMcEIroy. First base.... GuercioLee........ Left field..... HillLenhart Center field RandallMcCallum Third- base AdamsLuhn and

Rosentaaupt Right field NolanDreher Pitcher Bentley

Los Angeles Elfcs Victorious.

;recovered. They were returned to Mr.McNald at Yokohama.

* LONDON, July 14.—The War Office .hasreceived the following dispatch from LordKitchener, dated at Pretoria:

"Broadwood's brigade surprised Reitz,capturing Stein's brother; and others.Stein himself escaped in his shirt sleeves,with one other man only. The so-called'Orange River Government* and paperswere captured."

Lord Kitchener also [ reports thatScheeper's commando (as announced inpress dispatches • early last week) burnedthe public buildings InMurraysburg, CapeColony, and some farm houses in thevicinity.

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According to further advices from LordKitchener, the column under Feather-stone ajid Colonel Dixon has reached Zeer-ust, Western Transvaal. It met with op-position and made some captures. ThoBritish casualties were one officer killedand three* officers and twenty-four menwounded.

"General" Broadwood." says a dispatchto the Daily-News from Bloomfontein,"surprised fleitz due east of Llndley atdawn last Thursday, July 11. He tooktwenty-nine prisoners, including General,A. P. Clownc and General Wessel, Com-mandant Dwaal. First Cornet Pelt Steyn(President Steyn's brother), ThomasBrain, Secretary of Government, andRoches do Villiers, Secretary of the Coun-cil. ¦ Steyn himself fled without coat orboots. General Dewet 13 believed to havebeen present.". Lord Kitchener has advised the Govern-ment—so the Dally News understands—that it is possible to withdraw a largenumber of Infantry regiments from SouthAfrica, amounting virtually to the greaterpart of the unmounted army. Atthe sametime he requests that he be supplied withmore mounted men. The Government Isconsidering- this, according- the DallyNews, and probably will be" gutded byLord Kitchener's advices.

"ItIs also contemplated," says the samejournal, "if the infantry is largely with-drawn, to concentrate the\British troopsalong the Natal railway, between Durbanand Pietermaritsburg and

-between Jo-

hannesburg and Pretoria', thus carryinggold and. provisions for the troops by ashorter route than the Cape Town route.A portion of the line from Cape Town toPretoria may be abandoned."

COETZE HANGED FOR TREASON.

British Put to Death the Companionof Rebel TVTarais.

CRADDOCK. Cape July .12(Friday).— Johannes Coetze. caught withSlarais, the rebel, who was hanged ,onJulv 10, at Middleburg-. was publicly exe-cuted for treason in Craddock to-day.

FORMING TRUSTINVAUDEVILLE

Free State's; FormerPresident Has Naf-

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BRITISH CAPTURESTEYN'S BROTHER

HUNDREDS OF NATIVES PERISHIN FLOOD OF SEETHING LAVA

Illness of Madame Me/lba.LONDON, July 14.—Mme. Melba is suf-

fering from an attack of larynxgitis andher physicians ihave advised her. not.tosing at Coveat Garden this week. :,

Bans." They are members of Company Nand claim to be at home at all hours.The following rules are made public: NoBan shall use candles; feathers are lightenough for any Ban. No Ban shall eatany more electric currants, as there is arais(e)in the prices. . v

Cadets Fear the Surgeon.Captain Joseph Westplear willact as of-

ficer of the day and Lieutenant G. M.Sears will be officer of the guard until 9o'clock to-morrow morning. Nashe Dwyer,formerly captain of Company D, thecrack company of the regiment, visitedcamp yesterday. Dr. Morrisey, regi-mental surgeon, is expected in camp to-morrow. The boys look forward to hiscoming with trepidation, as he has a habitof putting physic In their coffee. Duringhis absence "Jimmy" CDea, regimentalsteward, is caring for the boys. "Jeemes"is quite young, but he will soon hang ashingle out and prescribe at regular rates.He is now amember of the senior class ofthe Affiliated Colleges. Dr. Morrisey willbe met at the depot by the hospital corps.There are very few boys sick. Some havesuffered bruises, but trivial scratches donot prevent them from eatingr well andkeeping their neighbors awake during: thenight. . .

The "Bullglnes" of Company D are F.SulMvan, George Winters, "Bob" McDer-mott and "Billy"Dillon. They eat well,sleep well and have no desire to do guardduty,^ Dr. .Meagher has been asked toprescribe a few nights in the guardhousefor the Quartet.-Leo Li. Drossel of the Hospital Corps isa faithful "worker." He remains awake

nights planning how to "do" his friends.Corporal T. O'Leary. J. Flnsterbusch, Jos-eph Curley and Ed Kenney are known as"Four of C's Bugs." They crawl all overcamp looking for fun and generally findIt. The "Jolly Four" of Company M Iscomposed of M. Hughes, B. Paolinelli, E.Freese and R. Ott. "The Midway" Is aname of a tent occupied by "Dinks"Deasy. "King"Brady. "Jerry" Dolan and"Pee Jay" Kennedy.

Nineteen prisoners cleaned streets thismorning and the hard work they did setan awful example to the - other men .ofthe regiment. The guardhouse will havefew visitors to-night. Leo Glennon, thedlmunltive mascot of Company B, Is be-loved by the regiment. . He travels allover with Company B and is up with thelark and asleep before taps. The tent"Shamrock" is occupled*by the Irish Bri-gade, which Is composed of H. McLaugh-Un, J. L. Flynn,-D. Kennedy and T. Hee-lin. - • s^.--V- .

"Birdie's Camp" is full of chirpers. Theoccupants of the nest are high flyers.They live on "Bandovian avenue.". Theresidents are Charles J. Rousseau, TomRichardson arid George Locoste. .

Diogenes and the Pies.Private De Carterct picked up^a lighted

lantern last night and like Diogenesstrolled round camp looking for his appe-tite. He complains that he can only cattwo pies at a meal. The "C Lions"' ofCompany C are Bid Hall, Jack Wilder," C.H. Morrisey and' Joe McKeenan. A fewnames found in camp are "The BughousoFour." "Iron- Trades ,Council." "HillClimbers," etc. Company M has :namedits street "Paulist avenue." Company Chas named its street "Bannon avenus,"in honor of Captain Phil Bannon. andCompany O has named its street "Bradyavenue," in honor of the popular Missionpastor. .

The dress parade this evening on thecamp grounds was watched ,.,'by a ~b!gcrowd. The 'ceremony. waa carried out toperfection. Lieutenant Colonel McGIoincommanded. . . , .

There are' a number of secret societiesIn the . camp, and they have peculiarnames. J. Fitzsimmons, F. Doling andGeorge Ryan have issued Invitations tofriends to visit the tent of "The Three

The cadets spent the rest of the dayroaming through the country. Many visit-ed the Napa Insane Asylum, while otherswent on drives **o nearby towns andplaces of interest. In the evening theband of the regiment gave a secred con-cert in the courthouse square. The parkwas crowded with people and the musicrendered was greatly enjoyed. ;,To-mor-row evening there will be a dance in thepavilion which adjoins the camp grounds.The Mayor of the city will welcome theregiment and formally turn over the townto the visitors.

The camp was open to visitors duringthe day and hundreds of friends and resi-dents passed through the streets of thecamp. Company L's crack baseball teamplayed an exhibition game with an ag-gregation of Napa ball players. Thecadets won the day by a score of 15 to10. The teams lined up as follows:

Company I* Positions. Napae.Heelan Catcher JuarezFlynn... Pitcher RussellGrieves First base HeadDwer Second base PetersonFenton Short stop '....ShanahanHussey Third base TooheyKennedy Left field .FlahertyHollihan «Center field DeanThilgren Right field Grappey

The Rev. Father Slattery, pastor of thechurch, welcomed the regiment on behalfof the Catholics of the city. He said theMayor would welcome the organizationat the public reception to-morrow

'even-ing. He took occasion to give the youngmen advice as to their conduct while inNapa- He appealed to them not to vio-late their pledges and not to disgrace theregiment by conduct unbecoming soldiersof the cross.

"Welcomed by the Pastor.

Dr. Evan; basso, A. A. Watson; so-pranoe. I^rs. Ritter. Miss Riordan, MissMamie Matthews, Miss Florence Dwyer,Miss Welch; contraltos. Miss Maud John-son, Miss Levina Johnson and Miss BellStrohl; organist, Mrs. Charles Reams.

CALLHEADQUARTERS. CAMP

POWER. NAPA. July 14.—Promptly at 6:20 o'clock thismorning the camp was arousedfrom slumber by the first call of

reveille, blown by a lusty-lungred buglerwho evidently delighted In awakening hiscomrades to another day of activity.There was a piling:out of tents and with-in a few minutes the company streetswere scenes of bustle/ and life. Thosewho were unwilling to turn out weredragged out by the heels. Ten minuteslater reveille was again sounded and thecannon would have boomed at the rais-ing of the flag had not some practicalJoker made away with the breech-lock.Mess call followed Quicklyand the cadetsmoved over to the open-air dining placeand filled up on substantial food.

The cadets busied themselves for thenext hour preparing for church. The un-fortunate lads who were placed in theg-uardhouse the night before for comingIn after taps had to sweep streets anddo other menial ¦work.

At 8:15 the first ceremony of guardmounting occurred. Andy Gaughran, atone time drillinspector of the San Fran-cisco Police Department, directed thispretty ceremony. The new guard was in-spected according to rule and during theceremony the band played waltzes andpplrited marches.

Shortly before 10 o'clock the regimentformed and marched to St. John'sChurch. Itwas the intention to have thecadets present sabers at the consecration,but the small size of the church wouldnot permit of this stirring scene. TheRev. Philip CRyan, chaplain of the regi-ment, celebrated the mass. Fred Miholo-vich and Thomas Dunne, members of theHospital Corps, acted as acolytes, andSampson Manaton beat the drum at theconsecration. Special music was renderedby the choir, augmented for the occasionr>v visitors to this city. The followingcomposed the choir: Soloists. Miss Mil-dred Francis and Miss Flora Mehl; tenor, I

SCENES AT THE MILITARYENCAMPMENT OF THE CADETS OF THE LEAGUE OF THE CROSS WHO ARE AS-SEMBLED ON A TENTED PLAINAT NAPA AND ENJOYING A BRIEF SEASON OF SOLDIERLY ACTIV-ITYIN THE FIELD.

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THE SAN' FRANCISCO GALL; MONDAY, JUL7 15; 1901.

Cadets of the League of the Gross Begin Their Season of Mili-tary Field Service on the Tented Plain, at Napa and DisciplineIs Combined With the Merriment of Vigorous Youth

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The above words tell the story of this sale. But for the sake of those who want taknow the "whys and wherefores'* we willgo more into detail.

First of.all, the clothes are union made, guaranteed, money-backed and actually re-duced as we say. We made them specials for our Summer Saving Sale.

The suits are cheviots, in light weights and patterns; the prices were reduced from$8.50, $10.00 and $12.50 to $6.65.

The overcoats are cheviots, in tan, olive and brown, well lined, reduced from $10.00

. The trousers are worsteds, in swell patterns of checks and stripes, in all sizes from 30to 44, price reduced from $3.00 to $1.85.

See the clothes— -examine them- 1- buy if you choose

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