The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 14, 1895, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1895. * SHE CAUGHT ONE SCHOONER A DAY. | portions JABEZ HOWES DURING TWO DAYS. COLLISIONS GROW COMMON. DEPARTURE oF HUNTERS, MINERS | AND CANN Nor S FOR THE Collisions between vessels are quite the thing on the bay and along the city front = | THE AVERAGE CATCH OF THE SHIP | | wilderness of commonplace, sat as joned wagon built much on the prairie | schooner model and drawn by two ragged- | coated mules had halted in the clearing | between the two miniature groves of red- woad, which at. this part of the stream perpetnated the pro- of ‘their gigantic ances- tors. The wacon was driven by a tall weedy-looking Missourian and by his side sat one of those angular females, a I)(‘x‘fofl type of the woman of the border. n the rear of the wagon, a blossom in this Ere“y a| girl as the miller’s eyes had ever lighted up- | on. Her cheeks had the healthy apple Bloom | that comes from exposure to the sun and | wind. Her lips were full and pouting, and | the tiny hands were as exquisitely molded | as if they never had broiled a slice of bacon | or fried a doughnaut. ! ‘‘Say, mister,” said the driver of the | wagon, “we have come this way from San | Rafael an’ it’s getting pretty Jate now an’ | we'd like to camp, an’ as you're the owner of this here piece of ground we’d like to | unhitch and put in the night here.” “You're welcome,” said Jim Bodden, | heartily, “and anything my cabin has is | yourn.” The miller helped them to stake out the I mules, and the coon he had trapped that | morning some miles up the creek was a | RESORTING T0 BRIBERT AGALN. M. D. HOWELL MAKES ANOTHER EFFORT TO GET RID OF WITNESSES. SECRET SERVICE NOTIFIED. Laura WELKS, ONE OF THE Gov- ERNMENT'S WITNESSES, RE- PORTS THE MATTER. The fact of another attempt to bribe three of the principal witnesses for the THE JABEZ HOWES CATCHING HER SECOND SCHOONER OFF FOLSOM-STREET WHARF. [Sketched for the ““Call” by W. A. Coulter.] now, and broken spars and rails adorn a number of craft in that local Tuesday afternoon the schooner J. M. Colman col- lided with the Jabez Howes and the big ship lost her jibboom. Yesterday morning_the steamer Walla Walla, while coming into the landing at the Beale-street coal bunker, smashed th rf, tearing away several string and otherwise giving the structure a ve damaged appearance. Yesterday afternoon another schooner— the Robert and Minnie—tried her hand upon the already disabled Jabez Howes. The schooner, which was bound to sea, sailing out on a strong ebb-tide, attempted to cross her bow. The maneuver was wit- :d frotn the wharves and the temerity of the skipper commented on before the catastrophe occurred. The schooner fell off in her efforts.to clear the big broken sprit that was pushed forward in her :nt dragged her down the ship’s spar, with the starboard rigging wrecked and an enormous hole in the mainsail. ; The schooner hung upon the ship chain and she was in imminent danger of sizing, when the tug Alert came to her t towed from her tion and taken to China sin for repairs. The Robert and Minnie is the famous schooner that carried the arms from this | port to Santa Catalina, where they were tfinally transferred to the steamer Itata during the Ct revolution. Captain Cla of the Jabez Howes says that one schooner a day is a pretty good catch, but he is mot cruising for that kind of gam d begs that the small vessels of the bay will keep away from his ship till he get r repaired. The stcamer Al-Ki departed for Alaska vesterday with a large number of prospec- tors and hunters on board, the former to engage in mining on the headwaters of the Yukon River, and the latter to trap and hunt in the forests of the interior. The ship Skolfield sailed yesterday for the north h» a cargo of supplies and machinery for the Alaska canneries. She also carriéd the sections and cquipment of a steamer which will be launched to run between the fishing stations on the north- ern rivers. The whaling fleet is preparing for ifs ummer cruise, four of them, the S Jeanette and Kariuk and the seale: and Mermaid, undergoing extensive re- pairs and refitting. It has been reported that the schoomer George Peabody, formerly a pilot-boat of th rt, but now of Yokohama, was re- cently wrecked on the Japan coast. The crew and a part of her cargo were 8aved. ROM ANCE (F THE 01D MILL A TRAGIC CHAPTER FROM THE EARLY HISTORY OF MARIN Coun THE TOUCHING STORY OF THE RuINED LiFE oF OLp J1M Bobp- DEN, THE PIONEER. Years before Mr. Throgmorton ever ob- tained possession of Mill Valley from the original owners of the soil the old mill was an object of attraction to those off fora summer day's outing. Picturesque in its primitive architecture and an uumistak- able relic of the past, it was always re- garded as a structure with a history. Strange as it may appear the narrative of the old mill has never been told. Sketches have been made of the heavy redwood beams, the sloping roof, and ‘the solid logs that sapported the wheel, which became a wreck almost before the oldest inhabitant could recall its revolutions. It wasa lum- ber-mill, and the logs, cut far up the valley, were floated down the stream, divided into planks and shipped from old Bausalito by schooner to San Francisco. Such was the practical side of the old mill, but the romantic side began when James Bodden, in 1850, bought out the original flrogec!or, who was a native of Maine, the and of lumber. One fine morning in August Bodden was seated on the banks of the Mill Valley stream watching a few hundred feet of sawed logs and sadly concluding that the lumber business as conducted by him was not going to be a remunerative occupation. The crackling of dry brambles apprised him of the fact that some visitors were ap- proaching. Bodden slouched from the shadows into the sunshine. An old-fash- » was lying in the stream when the | andstill, impaled upon | 1| grove where the res, ‘ welcome addition to the standard meal of fried pork and flapjacks of the travelers. brown-eyed Bessie made the coffee and Jim Bodden and his guests (the old woman included) smoked their pipes, the miller- hermit {felt in looking upon the pretty | graceful girl that there might be some- thing for him in domestic life after all. heart was in the custody of the ved lass. onths after this incident there was an addition built to the miller’s cabin, and the heroine of the prairie schooner was the mistress thereof. Merrily and mu v as the little river, life glided on under the shade of the old mill. Bessie found in the grave and some- | what elderly millera congenial companion. | He showed her the redwood lily, that most beautiful of California forest flowers, and with his traps and gun and her skill in cooking and the novels and newspapers they got from San Francisco and the cul- tivation of a little garden around the mill the days passed pleasantly enough. Jim Bodden didn’t mind if he half d ex- | penses, so pleasing was this dream of love 111;:1( had come to him in the autumn of his ife. But a cloud was gathering over that humble homestead and the bursting of that cloud ruined a happy home. On the Fourth of July in 1852 a merry party drove up to Mill Valley. They camped in the cire | | | | | gotten to bring any milk with them. | one of the party was dispatched to the mill- er's cabin. The miller was not at home. | He was far up the creek arranging for the | floating down of some big logs cut in that Tvoir is now con- | structed for the furnishing of water to peo- ple in the valley. | ~What occurred there and then was never [ known. Yet that picnic party marked a | startling ep in Jim Bodden’slife. Three | days after this visitation his pretty little | wife went to town to buy some groceries, | When she returned the miller observed a | complete change in her demeanor. | “Jim,” she said to him, ‘‘ain’t you tired { of living by this old mill?"” | _ ‘“Bessie,” he said, “‘are you tired of it? | We've been pretty happy here and I hate | to leave the mill for somebody else to run.” | “There are no theaters in Mill Valley,” { she said. | “You're right, there are not,” he said, “‘but we can go and see them from time to | time.”” “I'm a very young woman,” she said, “and I'm tired of this mill.” ‘“‘As you please; 1'll go anywhere you | say,” said Jim Bodden, humbly, and” he left'the mill and the Jumber. And the end was a woman led to destruction, and a big, strong man found dead in a doorway. “Cause unknown.” Still they say that sometimes on moon- light nights a sturdy figure is seen seated on the old mill waiting for the redwood logs to come down with the current. D. O0°C. I e THE RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS. Opinion of the Attorney-General Re- garding Their Jurisdiction. The Board of Railroad Commissioners met in regular session yesterday. A com- munication was received from Attorney- General Fitzgerald in which he stated that “in acting under the section of the consti- tution quoted, your duties in regard to fix- ing rates, passénger and treight, both for railroad 'and other transportation com- panies, are confined strictly to trans- portation wholly within “the _State. n other words, you cannot interfere \in any manner with interstate commerce, your jurisdiction being limited to fixing Tates for such passenger and freight traffic as is conducted between different points within the boundaries of this State.’ General Passenger Agent Goodman of the SBouthern Pacific gave the board a list of passenger rates of its Sacramento and Feather River routes and stated in his letter that he did not believe the creek ferry route comes under the head of river streams. Through General Freight Agent Smurr the Southern Pacific asked that coal oil be reclassified, as the present rating, it is claimed, in less than carloads is not just. Oilis now placed in the third class, according to the western classification, but the railroad company wishes it placed in the first class. So Selling Pools. Louis Scheerer, 1200 Market street, was charged in Judge Campbell’s court yesterdsy with having a poolroom in connection with his pawn-broking business contrary to the pro- visions of the ordinance which prohibits the selling of pools on races outside the racetrack, Charles Fifer, a messenger-boy, who had been employed by the police, testificd that he went to Echeerer’l place and paid $1 pool on the races. He was told to call next day to learn the result. The Judge reserved hisdecision till Saturday. And when the meal was over and the | As soon as the sun was well up the next | morning the travelers had gone, but the | miller’s ns of the old grove, | made their coffee and found they had for- | | prosecution in the celebrated Howell coun- | terfeiting case has just come to light. | The case has been tried twice and both | times the juries disagreed, but Howell has | been reindicted by the Grand Jury, and | his case will be set for retrial some time | within the next few months. | Assistant United States Attorney Knight said | Twas not satisfied with the prior indictment | against Howell and have presented a new bill | before the Grand Jury end have preparcd a | new indictment of fourteen counts which the Grand Jury have reported. This indictment was attacked by the defend- ant’s counsel, Reddy, Campbell & Metson, and 2. S. Pillsbury, by motions to quash demurrer and plea in abatément, and after lengthy argu- { ments the indictment was sustained in all its counts by the United States District Court, Where the case is now on the calendar aywaiting trial. In speaking of the time when the case would probably be tried Mr. Knight said | that it had been setup for trial in Janu- | ary last, but the strike case had been pro- | longed to such an extent that it was ex- | tremely doubtful whether Howell could be tried before next May or June. The bribery scheme was concocted in Stockton, where lives M. D. Howell, the notorious counterfeiter, who has already had two trials and is now ont on bail pending a third trial on a new indictment. The plans were very cleverly arranged, and like the many other attempts made to | spirit witnesses from the city during the progress of his previous trials, they showed | that no small amount of shrewdness and daring were brought into requisition. It seems that a man named Hanscombe, a lawyer of Stockton, who has been repre- senting Howell, communicated with Can- field, who, figured very prominently as a ell’s previous trials. The communication resulted in a meeting between the attorney { and Canfield, and the latter was soon won over and agreed to accept the tempting offer of gold, promising either to dis- appear from the city or remain in hiding during the coming week. As part of the bargain Canfleld was instrueted to go to ta Cruz and offer a bribe to C. E. Oster- another of the secret service witnesses, nd also, with the same object in view, to | t Laura Welks, who was likewise a wit- ness for the prosecution. With Osterbus he was successful, but | Laura Welks failed to succumb to the Jur- | ing offer ot coin. She did not refuse point blank to entertain the proposition, but withheld her answer till another time, and as soon as Canfield departed she went to the Appraiser’s building and reported the occurrence to the authorities. When interviewed regarding the matter | Miss Welks stated that some time ago Can- | field visited her, and in a roundabout way purpose known. Said Miss made his Welks: He called upon me three times. The first time he told me that he had seen M. D. Howell and his attorney, Hanscombe, and that they would put up 81000—which was to_be equally divided among_three of us, Canfield, Osterhus and myseli—provided we promised not to ap- pear when the case comes up for retrial. The money, he informed me, was to be sent from Stockton by Hanscombe 'to his brother, who lives in Modesto, and from_there it was to be forwarded to this city, and he also told me he would bring my share to me personally, 50 that I would not have to deal with a third person. When he left he said he was going to Santa Cruz to see Osterhus. The second time he called I was out, but he left a card stating that he had seen Osterhus and theteverything was satisfactorily arranged with him, and that he would do whatever Can- field adviked. When he came the third time he explained that everything was settled, and instructed me to be ready to leave the city or to go into hiding as soon as the date of the trial was fixed by the court. T did not tell him that I had informed the secret seryice agents of his attempt to bribe me, as they had instructed me not to do_so, conse quently he went away thinking that I was will- ing t accept the money and would disappear when the proper time came. Secret Service Agent Harris when inter- viewed said: Yes, we were cognizant of the fact that How- ell wes conniving to bribe our witnesses. We were first apprised of the matter by Miss Laura Welks, who at the time gave us the de- tails of the plot. This is not the first attempt of the kind, and more than likely not the last. All through the progress of his two previous trials all sorts of tricks and schemes were worked (o free the counterfeiter, and on_one occasion forgery was resorted to. In fact, everything that brains or money could do has been done to free the man. Assistant United States Attorney Knight, when questioned relative to the attempted bribery, said: Some time ago information reached me through the secret service division that bribery ‘was being practiced or attempted among some of the Government’s witnesses. The matter ha d been investigated, but it was ascertained that no attempt would probably be made to complete the plot until the case is definitely set for retrial. A Fifty-Dollar Dog. On an appeal from the Justices’ court the metter of the death of a Great Dane pup belong- ing to Gottlieb Speirs was investigated by a witness for the Government during How- | Lurv in Judge Hunt's court yesterday. The dog ad been killed by being run over by a milk- ‘wagon belongin Charles Sexton, and Speirs brought suit for $299. The lower court award- ed him %125, but being more conservative the Superior Court jury gave Speirs $50, and he was satisfied. NATIVE SONS’' NEW HALL, Annual Meeting of the Association and Election of Officers —James D. Phelan Re-elected President. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Hall Association of the Native Sons of the Golden West was held Tuesday evening. James D. Phelan was re-elected president, as were also L. F. Byington, vice-president, and Adolph Eberhard sec- retary. The following were chosen a board of airectors: J. Bassilio, John H. Grady, Henry Lunsted, J. B. Stovall, Henry Stern, Frank W. Marston, C. A. Boldman, W. H. Miller, J. R. Kropp, J. T. Greany, H. Euler, T. C. Conmy, J. W. Reinfeld, J. Nelson, H. J. Seitz, W. E. Foley, J. P. Do ovan, G. H. 8. Dryden, F. H. jung, Daniel Suter, J. F. Schroth, H. G. W. Dinkelspiel, J. R. Howell, W. F. Cordes, E. P. E. Troy, H. E. Coffey, L. Nonnemann, R. W. Mart- land, C. H. Buck, J. B. Keenon, L. P. Pow- elson, D. C. Martin and L. M. Bannon. The report of the treasurer showed that during the yearthe receipts of the associa- tion amounted to about $19,000, and the disbursements, which included the ex- pense of the new building and the last pay- ment on the lot, $18,000. Subscriptions to capital stock during the year amounted to $49,000. The concrete work of the foundation of the new building is nearly finished and work on the superstructure will begin im- mediately. THE HUMANE SOCIETY. A Good Showing for the Month of February. The monthly meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was held yesterday. Dr. W. L. Dickenson and Mrs. M. H. Heynemann were elected mem- bers. Secretary McCom reported that 128 cases involving 202 children were reported in February. Of that number 43 cases were prosecuted. There were 34 convi tions, 6 dismissals and 3 are nding. Forty-three children were placed in public institutions, 3 in families and 150 were re- turned to their homes. The matter of the indebtedness of $5000 of R. H. McDonald came up. Mr. Mec- Donald some time ago announced his in- tention of paying that amount to the society, but thus far he has not done so. Secretary McComb was instructed to cor- respond with Mr. McDonald relative to the affair without dela; SAN' RAFAEL DRYDOCKED. A THING OF GRACEFUL LINE AND A MODEL OF MARINE BEAUTY IS ‘SHE. Her TRIAL TRiP Was THREE THOUSAND MILES ON a FREIGHTCAR. For over a dezen years the San Fran- cisco bay people have observed a graceful white shape move out from its place at the Union ferry landing and slip swift and swan-like away over the water, passing from view before the wakes from her twin- wheels had dissolved back to tranquillity again. Only the latest arri the fleet North al would fail to pick JAMES G. FAIR JR'S STANDING IN CODRT. THE LAWYERS SAY THAT UNLESS THERE IS A WRITTEN ACKNOWLEDGMENT HE WILL NOT BE RECOGNIZED THE LAaw as To Suce FurrLy Ex- POUNDED IN THE BLYTHE CasE. ‘What do all the lawyers think of James G. Fair Jr., illegitimate son of the late Senator Fair, possible claimant for a few of the millions? They think that it is not impossible that there may be such a claimant. They think that the reputation borne by the late Senator Fair in the several communities in which he had resided did not preclude his having a few illegitimate children here and there. “He lived a long time,” they say, “and in a good many places, and although deeply absorbed at all times in laying up sums of money, still—"’ and then they turn to the legal aspect of it in case one of them, this James G. Fair Jr. that is talked of so much, should put in a claim upon the Senator’s estate, and they say, in current parlance, that it “don’t go.” Of course this James G. Fair Jr. does not come into the case as a complete surprise to anybody. It was all gore over at the time Mrs. Fair secured her divorce, and it is recalled by those intimate with the cir- cumstances at the time how the Senator disclaimed to his wife ever having met Ellen Stevens except once. He admitted that he had seen her once, but declared that upon that, the only occasion, a fence separated them. This circumstance, or declaration rather, it will be remembered, was a matter of general comment in view of the evidence that existed of the Sena- tor’s paternity of the child. But suppose the boy is in existence and sets up his claim ? “The Blythe case, that has trodden all over the ground again and again in the public view, makes it all familiar to every newspaper reader,’” said Mr. Heggerty of Knig}:h & Heggerty, for Charles L. Fair, yesterday afternoon. ‘‘There are two sections of the Civil Code which define the rights of illegitimate children in the presence of their father’s estate. There are also only two. The claimant gains recognition under these or not at all.” Florence Blythe claimed under both, as everybody knows, and, in a manner, won under both. The first of these provisions is section 230, under which Judge Coffey declared in favor of Florence Blythe, and provides that a public ac- knowledgment, the acceptance into the family, etc., legitimizes a child. The language is as follows: The father of an illegitimate child by pub- licly acknowledging it as his own, receiving it as such with the consent of his wife, if he is married, into hisfamily, and otherwise treating it as if it were a legitimate child, thereby adopts it as such; and such child is thereupon { decmed for all purposes legitimate from the | time of its birth. “The other section is number 1387 of the Pacific Coast Railroad | Civil Code and under it an acknowledg- THE SAN RAFAEL ON THE DRYDOCK. [Sketched for the *Call” by W. A. Coulter.) steamer San Rafael from her floating con temporaries even before she picked herself 50 speedily from their company, so well is she known as the greyhound and prettiest thing on the bay. But it is on the dry- dock, when she is lifted clear from the | water, that her beauteous model can best be seen and fully appreciated. Starting from the stem, the lines fall clear away, gradually diverging till they pass over the noble swell amidships to come together again at the sternpost. | Then is learned the secret of the speed that makes this $150,000 boat the racer of the bay craft. The San Rafael is a perfect model of the old steamer Sausalito, burned at San Quentin twelve or fourteen years ago. They were constructed in New York %)v Fletcher & Harrison, the noted boat-build- ers, at an individual cost of $150,000, and were each 205.5 feet in length, 32 feet beam and 9.8 feet deep. The tonnage of the vessels was about 400, and the San Rafael carries a single-beam engine of 750 horse- p‘owfir, with 50-inch cylinder and 11-foot stroke. The twin steamers literally took their trial trips—though at different periods—on a freight train, being brought in sections overland from New York, put together and launched here. X Her master is Captain John T. Mec- Kenzie, one of the oldest steamboat men on the coast, and in his hands this marine beauty and bay racer is the matchless craft her designers intended. ! ment in writing makesthe chlld legitimate so far asa right in theestate is concerned.” The language of this is as follows: Every illegitimate child is heir of any person who in wriling, signed in the presence of a competent witness, acknowledges himself to be the tather of such child; and in all cases is an heir of his mother and inherits his or her es- tate in whole or in part, as the case may be, in the same manner asif he had been born’ in lawful wedlock; but_he does not represent his father or mother by inheriting ani; part of the estate of his or her kindred, either lineal or collateral, unless before his death his parents shall have intermarried, and his father after such mnrrilfe acknowledges him as his child oradopts him into his family, in which case such child and all the l?igilimale children are considered brothers and sisters, and on the death of either of them, intestate and without issue, the others inherit his estate,and are heirs as hereinbefore provided, in like manner as if all the children had been legitimate; sav- ing to the father and mother, respectively, their rights in the estates of all the children in like manner as if all had been legitimate. The issue of all marriages null in law or dissolved by divorce are legitimate. “It will be remembered,” said Mr. Heg- erty, ‘‘that Judge Coffey decided that lorence was made legitimate by the let- ters written to her by her father, addressed 1o her as his daughter, and which General ‘W. H. H. Hart testified to having seen him address and sign; that the Supreme Court was divided on this point, bat a majority were agreed that she was legitimized under section 1387. \ g $5 7 “Now, as to this James G. Fair Jr., it is quitefclear that he fis outlawed so far as { erant Manager Hugh Craig’s request to | guerrilla contest. ! managers are necessarily fighting in the | | open, while their opponents are under the | cover of people who play one side against | T o S acknowledged, taken into the family with the wife's consent nor treated otherwise as asou. Ifthere is a written acknowledg- ment signed by witnesses it bas yet to be heard from. The papers signed by Ellen Stevens releasing James G. Fair from further claims will not serve the purpose. The paper must be an acknowledgment signed by him. It is not likely there are any such papers, and James G. Fair Jr. has therefore no standing. ~Now, asto the talk of there being a Wife of the late young Jimmy Fair and a ¢hild by him about to enter the eontest, it is folly “in full flizht, and needs to be shot. All right; I'il do it. ' Mrs. Fair left a will giving to young Jim when he should be- come 35 years of age $500,000. A provision went with it that if he should die before attaining that age then this sum should go to his wife or child, had be either. Is not $500,000 worth asking for? Then, if there 1s a young Mrs. Jim Fair and son, why have they not come forward to ask for it? That will and its provision have been printed time and again in the newspapers, and a wife would not be in ignorance of it, and, ignoring what is placed in her hand, Some one says that some such woman is going to contest this will. Ought not such folly to be killed? I have done it.” THE PARK MUSEUM. It Is to Be Opened to the Public on the Return of Commissioner Scott From the East. The museum in the Fine Arts building of the late fair in the park will be opened in about three weeks. The objects to be | displayed are all in place, and the execu- ! tive committee of the Midwinter Fair is only awaiting the return of Park Commis- sioner Scott to turn it overto the park authorities. As yet none but those in charge, under Colonel T. P. Robinson, are allowed in the building, and the contentsare a_secret as far as the public is concerned. Howeyer, it is stated that the collection isin place and nothing is delaying the opening but | the absence of Mr. Scott, who is in Wash- | ington. | On his return John Rosenfeld will take | his seat in the commission. 0UT OF THE BIG COMBINE. THE NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE COMPANY LEAVES THE MAN- AGERS’ COMPACT. i | | | JUDGE MCKENNA’S DECISION May PRECIPITATE A GENERAL RATE WAR, The New Zealand Insurance Company parted company with the Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific at noon yes- terday because the compact refused to employ salaried agents in Alameda and | Santa Clara. As matters now stand with regard to insurance troubles the following com- | panies are out of the compact and are free | to make whatever rates they please: Pheenix of Hartford, with a paid-up capital of $2,000,000; the Home of New York, capi- tal paid up $3,000,000; Continental of New York, capital paid up $1,000,000; North- western National of Milwaukee, Wis., paid-up _capital $600,000; Williamsburg City of Brooklyn, N. Y., paid-up capital of 1 $250,000, and the New Zealand of Auck- land, capital paid up $1,000,000. They | present a formidable array against the board’s vosition on rates, and are making over the Pacific Coast. “But we are not out of the board for the purpose of slashing rates,” said Manager | Craig, after stepping from the president’s | chair of the Manufacturers’ Associgtion. *‘On February 27 I sent in my resignation | to take effect at noon to-day if the board | would not grant me at least temporary re- lief in the matter of employing agents. | The board i d that 1 should pay my | men com n in Alameda and Santa | Clara couties and other interior points, but | my company’s rule is to pay them sal- | aries. I had nooption in the premises, and | so I am free now to protect my business.” | “What does that mean—to protect your | business?”’ was asked. | “To meet cuts_in rates as much as 40, 50 | or 60 per cent. If attacked we shall stand \ by our patrons and protect the interests of our shareholders.” The Board of Underwriters held a meet- ing yesterday and adopted a resolution ac- cepting Mr. Craig’s resignation. Another | resolution suspending rates everywhere | along_the coast was presented and dis- | cussed with animation. The house was | divided on the question. One party com- | plained that the board members are en- | | gaged in a fight not advantageous to them- | selves through the very nature of the | The solid body of board | the other to get reduced rates. It was| finally determined to postpone action on | the resolution until Judge McKenna ren- | ders a decision in the injunction proceed- | ings of the Continental Uompany against | the compact. | The prevailing belief among insurance men is that if the injunction is continued against the compact this resolution will be { adopted and a general war in rates must} follow. | Rates are ;;ructica]ly suspended in Los Angeles by all companies, owing to the | disturbance caused by one city agent sell- ing his business to 2 non-board conipany. In Alameda and Santa Clara counties, where the New Zealand does an extensive business, a fierce rate war is expected to take place that Craig’s business may be cut to ptieces for his withdrawal from the com- pact. B — THE FIESTA. Movement to Send Northern Floats to Los Angeles. “The Merchants’ Association of San Francisco,” said President Dohrmann yes- | terday, “is endeavoring to have people of | this city and the northern part of the State | represented at the Fiesta in Los Angeles. ‘We would like to have a number of floats prepared to send there. The only expense to those contributing them will be the get- ting up of them and transportation to the place. We will see that these will be placed where they will be most effective. It is our idea to have views on floats of Yosemite Valley, Shasta, prominent bits of attractive scenery of the northern section of the State, some of the prominent resorts, | to let the 20.000 or more visitors expected to visit the Fiesta see that the north has attractive features as well as the south. The purpose of this is to draw the atten- tion of strangers to this part of the State. Ifor one believe that such a display will be followed by beneficial results. The as- sociation is now sending out a number of letters to persons who, we think, will take an interest in this matter, and until we hear from them we cannot tell what will be done. We may ask the Union Iron ‘Works to fit up a model of one of the war- ships built there for a float, and the news- pgfmrs to build one each, but the floats will not bear so much on the industries of the State as on ‘the attractiveness of the northern portion of it.’’ —_—————— Profanity and Pain 00 often go together. Refrain from swearing if you are suffering the tortures of rheumatism, and seek the aid of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which will expel the rheumatic viras from your blood. Kidney and malarial complaints, dyspepsia, con- stipation, nenralgla and biliousness are all relieved by this sterling and comprehensive family medi- | things more exciting from day to day all ! | cine, which should be kept always on hand for emergencies. NEW TO-DAY. 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