The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 29, 1895, Page 1

VOLUME LXXVII.—NO. "29. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY:MORNING, JUNE . 29, 1895. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WITHIN PARTY LINES How Silver Men of the West Will Conduct the Fight. COLONEL TRUMBO’S IDEA. Eastern Stubbornness Refuses to Perceive Important Facts. THE WHITE-METAL STANDARD. ‘ Its Conslideration Far More Impor- . tant Than All Questions of Tariff. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 28.—Colonel Isaac Trumbo, who led the fight for silver in the late convention of the Republican League at Cleveland, was in the city to- day. Heis one of the youngest Repub- lican leaders in the West, but there are none more active and who have accom- plished more at his time of life. He is not yet 40, but he has made a fortune, and it is generally agreed that he will be elected United States Senator from Utah this winter. Although a vigorous advocate of unlim- ited silver coinage, the colonel bas in- refused to go outside party lines in making the fight. Threats of bolting in the event of a gold platform being adopted by the coming National Republi- can convention he considers most unwise. *“The Republican party is our party,” he said at Cleveland, “and we shall not leave it.’ It is this unswerving loyalty that enables him to wield so much more influ- ence than some of his brethren, who are constantly trying to form a distinctively silver party, and giveshim a hearing in all Republican assemblies. “The East,” he remarked to-day, ‘re- fuses blankly to see two very serious things. First, it refuses to acknowledge, despite all the evidence to prove it, that as the demonetization of silver brought on the hard times, so will it require the re- monetization of silver to bring back good time: econd, it refuses to understand how deep-seated and universal is the feel- ing in the West in favor of silver. There are practically no gold monometallists, while beyond the Mississippi River all the people especially are determinea that lhe contest in 1896 shall be fought squarely on the recall of silver as a standard money. With us it is superior to the tar- iff, and we have no fear of the Republican Fzoowal Convention next year making a good platform. We are serene in the gen- eral. feith that a vast majority of the American people are in favor of the resto- ration of silver as a standard money, and we are also firm in the party faith that the Kepublican party will have both the wis- dom and the patriotism to settle correctly this great question. The papers that rep- resent us as being willing to bolt the party and rule or ruin do not know us. “The Republican party is our party, and we shall not leave it, but will settle all contests within its lines. Besides that, we have the confident faith that comes to people who are in an actual majority and know it. For we know we are in a ma- jority in the Republican party, and, there- fore, know that whatever shall be doue as to silver in the future will be a gain for us. Weknow that the high-water mark for gold was reached at Minneapolis in 1892. The next platform, if it changes from that, will change toward silver and not toward gold. “The gold monometallists everywhere may as well understand that now. The East has many people, bankers and money-dealers, who are really for a gold currency. There are many other Eastern people, manufacturers, merchants, etc., who think now they are for it too. But when it comes to electing a President for protection tney cannot do it without the aid of the millions of Republicans who are for silver. and they cannot change the ‘Wilson bill to a better system of protection without the aid of the eighteen or more United States Senators who will be for sil- ver. The two questions of silver and pro- tection are intertwined with each other, and will go up or down to- gether. The greedy and covetous idea prevailing in some quarters in the East that this country is to be dwarfed to a gold basis and that the next Republican Congress will revise and increase the tariff for the manufacturers’ articies and. not for the products of the West will be short lived. For the prosperity of this country is not going to be withered down to a gold basis, and the new tariff will take fully as good care, of the Western miner and the ‘Western farmer as of the Eastern manu- facturer. “‘We Western people are broad and good- natured and long suffering, but the next time the interests of the West, as well as these of the East, must be taken care of in all legislation both on silver and protection. We are with you for a Republi- can President and a Republican Congress, but we want both to be of the sort of Re- publicanism that will guard as fully our interests as yours. We are going to make the whole tight under the Republican flag, and we are sure we will win both in the National convention and at the polls. You will need our help to revise and increase the tariff, and we will get your help to re- store silver.” The colonel went to Washington and will next go to the Pacific Coast. SILVER KNIGHITS OF AMERICA. Democrats Secretly Organize to Secure the Double Standard. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 28.—A Wash- ington special to the New York Presssays: Although much discouraged by recent de- feats in Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and other States, the free-silver Democrats have de- termined to make their last rally at Wash- ington in August. To avoid the danger of future division in the party only an ex- change of views will be permitted. The adoption of a resolution in favorof the iree-silver clause is regarded as a foregone conclusion. The chief agency through which the convention is to be manipulated isby means of an order secret in allits work and oath-bound. This organization is called the Silver Knights of America. It has a ritual and passwords. The latter are chunged every six months, and men and women alike are admitted to membership. It is said by those who put great trust in the secret operations of people held to- gether under the solemnity of vows, thatan army is being silently recruited which will make itself felt at the polls. In Ohio, In- diana, Kansas and many of the Southern | States the Silver Knights of America are said to be firmly established. Confidential circulars are used by members to enlist volunteers in the cause. These circulars declare that unless the double standard is adopted labor will be enslaved, thrift be poverished and the liberty of the people destroyed. % “The crime of 1873'" is given prominence and it is alleged that capital has organized in London and New York to subsidize the press, bribe and debauch public servants and propagate the gold standard theory. The necessity for organization among the nent. The circular argues that the forma- tion of capitalistic societies must be met by combinations of like character, only for a aifferent purpose. The order of the Silver Knights of America is to be the machine whereby the ‘‘cohorts of avarice and oppression’ are to be prevented from destroying happiness and liberty. From this glimpse into the innermost recess of the new secret silver society, it will be seen that the conference at Wash- ington in August will be of the usual wild-eyed character. Itiscausinga great deal of worry to the members of the ad- ministration, who see in it a tremendous engine for the destruction of ex- isting Democratic organization. It is impossible for any number of {ree silver Democrats to meet in conven- tion without wrangling. The de- feat of Senator Blackburn in Kentucky, the postponement of the date of holding the State convention in Ohio, the tempor- ary side-tracking of the silver movement in Indiana and Missouri will be causes for bitter denunciation. The only semblance of a victory which the free-silver men have to congratulate themselves upon is that in Tllinois, but even there Governor Altgeld is so identified with the propaganda that there is no comfort in_the situation. The purpose of the free-silver Democrats in assembling at Washington is much the same as was Coxey’s, They want notoriety and advertisement, Depew Is Not to Wed. NEW YORK, June 23.—In an interview Chauncey M. Depew said there was noth- people to fight for siiver, therefore, immi.-- AN ORPHAN'S MANIA Causes Her Arrest for Writing Obscene Letters. ONE PECULIAR VAGARY. No Motive for the Offenses Committed by a Very Pretty Girl. HER WEAK MIND INFLUENCED. Rich Grandparents Who Brought Her Up Are Now In Despalr. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 28.—Sadie Dwyer, a girl 18 years old, was arraiened before United States Commissioner Shields yesterday, charged with sending an ob- scene letter through the mails. Back of this simple announcement lies a story of infinite pathos, telling a tragedy in the lives of two old loving people. Sadie Dwyer is an orphan. Her father died a month before she was born, and her mother died in giving Sadie life. This mother had been a favored child in the eyes of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Dwyer’s parents. They took the little grandchild, gave it their name, and lavished upon it a wealth of affection. For long months it was thought that the little one must die, but patient nursing and careful watching fed the tiny spark of life until the baby thrived. The old couple saw in-the infant the form and features of their dead daughter. A kirndlier, gentler soul than Mrs. Dwyer none could wish to know, and ‘the pride she took in the little foster child was simpleand beautiful. When Sadie was grown into a girl a shadow fell across her life. It was noticed thatsometimes the little mind would go wandering away, and she would prattle of thipgs that no one saw or could see. She would answer the questioning of her grand- parents absently and astray of the sub- ject. The child’s brain was straying into unknown fields. But this sorrow only served to intensify the love her grandparents wrapped around her. She was brought up as their child and dwelt in that belief. Through the long summer days she played about the beautiful yard of her home and gazed upon the quiet, peaceful waters of Rockland Lake that stretched away to the east, and, save occasional lapses, she was as other children. She grew to be possessed of a strange beauty, that was made somber by the restless, shifting light in the blue eyes. She was' kind and gentle. In the winter months they taught her to read and write, and she learned rapidly. The grandpar- ents grew old, their lives tinged with re- gret, but glad, utterly glad, that their child’s child still lived and was happy. So passed many peaceful years. The blow that shattered this serenity came without a warning. A man came to the house and asked for Sadie. The man was Postoffice Inspector Anthony Com- stock. He had a warrant for Sadie’s ar- rest, charging her with sending through the mails lewd, scurrilous letters. Mr. and Mrs. Dwyer were astounded by the in- telligence. Sadie was too frightened to immediately tell her story. She admitted the authorship of the vile epistle, but re- membered only vaguely and indistinctly the time of its sending or its contents. An investigation revealed a strange state of affairs. During the month of May she had indited many similar messages. Some were written to herself. Others were sent to her friends near by and to her dearest associates. Those knowing the malady of their playmate kept the matter secret. In what the deluded girl did there was no motive of spite or fear or jealousy. It was merely a curious vagary of a mind dis- eased. One of the letters was senttoa Miss Bell of Nyack. Sadie had seen her only once and then at a distance. Miss Bell knew nothing of the sender, and gave the queer missive into the hands of the postal authorities, and Sadie’s arrest fol- ing in the rumor that he was soon to wed. | lowed. It wasalleged that the young girl =31 had been influenced by a coarse, ignorant woman, a servant in the Dwyer family. It was said that she abetted the writing and sending of the letters. What motive insti- gated this servant, if that part of the story is true, other than a deprayed instinct, cannot be guessed.’ ‘At the first suspicion of trouble she fled, and so her whereabouts is not known to Mr. and Mrs. Dwyer. Inspector Comstock bas a warrant for her arrest, and he believes that she can be located. z There was nothing for Comstock to do but to take Miss Dwyer before United States Commissioner Bhields. Examina- tion was waived, and Sadie was held in $1000 bail to await the action of the Grand Jury. A bond for that amount was fur- nished by Dwyer. When Sadie was arraigned before the Commissioner a sor- rowful scene was enacted. The girl re- alized the shame her actions had brought upon her and sobbed pitifully while In- spector Comstock briefly told the story, not going into details. Mr. Dwyer, the grandfather, seemed heartbroken at the position of his granddaughter, who had been so dear to him, and his old eyes filled with tears as he signed the bond releas‘ng her from custody. Dwyer is a wealthy man and respected citizen of Rockland Lake, and the disgrace weighs heavily upon him. ‘What action the Grand Jury will take it is impossible to say. The case may bes tried next October, or passed forever, but the cloud that rests upon the lives of two old people will be lifted only when life is done. TWO' CHILDREN MISSING, An Attempt Being Made to Fas- ten Their Murder Upon One Holmes. It Is Belleved He Killed the Little Ones and Carrled the Bodies In a Trunk. CINCINNATI, Onro, June 28.—Detect- ive Grier of Philadelphia is in the city. Some'time ago a man named Petizel died in that city leaving $10,000 insurance and three children. A man named Holmes got possession of the insurance and went to Texas, where by speculation he made a large sum of money. He returned to Philadelphia. In the meantime one of the children died and Holmes took the other two and left Philadelphia. In about two weeks he returned without the chil- dren. There was considerable excitement over the affair, as the supposition was that the children were murdered. Holmes is known to have been in this city and he stopped for several daysat the Bristol House, go- in;f subsequently to the Atlantic Hotel. While here he registered under the name of Cook. He had a big trunk with holes bored in it and he kept a close watch on it. The suppositiondis that the children were kept En 14 trunk. He” went to Detroit from this o7t - The theory of the officers is that he mur- dered the children here and then took the bodies to Detroit and got rid of them. He is under arrest at Philadelphia on a charge of conspiracy, and an attempt is being ;]n_nde to fix the murder of the children on m. . —_— ONE PARTNER ARRESTED. An Unexpected Incident in the 'Failure of Brokers. CHICAGO, Trr., June 28.—The failure of Crawford & Valentine, stockbrokers, took an unexpected turn this afternoon when Richard O. Crawiord, one of the partners, was taken into custody on a warrant charg- ing him with failing to account for 310’00%, deposited by Victor Falkenau to cover mar- gins in a wheat deal. Bonds in the sum of $5000 were given. Crawford & Valentine failed about five weeks ago, and at that time Mr. Falkenau had the amount alleged in the complaint in the hands of the firm. - Made a Forcible Collection. ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 28.— Joseph Davidson, a broker, who recently dealt heavily in wheat, was charged this even- ing with highway robbery. Mr. Davidson had a balance with Willlam Hamlin, an- other broker, and went to collect it, using | a pistol for argument. Mrs. Hamlin sep- arated the two fighters and gave Davidson $50, upon which he depurteg. —— Storms at Buzzards Bay. BUZZARDS BAY, Mass,, June 23—The stormy weather kept the President indoors to-day. It rained very hard the greater | part of the day. Secretary of State Olney | will probably join his family av Falmouth | and the Yale boat was driven ahead to a | so that we can’ give Cornell a very pretty | | safe lead at the very beginning. next week. YALES CLEAN SWEEP Completed by the Defeat of Harvard in the Boatrace. GREAT TIME IS MADE. Beginning With a Superior Start the Lead Gradually Increased. TWO-MILE RECORD LOWERED. Men of the Crimson Color Make a Gallant Struggle, but Are Badly Beaten. NEW LONDON, Coxx., June 28.—Yale won the race to-day. Clean and steady oarsmanship shot the Yale shell down the four-mile course from Gales Ferry to the drawbridge, beginning with a superior start, continuing with a steadily increas- ing lead over the entire course and culmin- ating with an aggravatingly easy finish at the four-mile stake. The race completed a clean sweep for Yale in the past college year, the football, baseball, track athletics and rowing cham- pionships for 1895 now standing to her credit. Harvard’s exhibition was not meritorious. The stroke was slow when it should have bpeen sharp, speedy when it was needless, but sagged continually. The coxswain's er- rors, too, were atrocious. They caused Harvard to lose the benefit of the current, and when ‘trade winds”’ might have counted he ran the Harvard shell into the heavy swash of one steamer and jammed its bow into a rowboat alongside at the finish. ‘Whatever merits or faults the Yale crew may have possessed no great opportunity to display them was afforded them in to- day’s procession. Yale was judicious and ran no risk. A single record was broken to-day—the two-mile distance in a four- mile competition. The champion ’88 crew of Captain Stevenson covered the distance in10: To-day Captain Armstrong’s men made it in 10:21. The day was attended with all the usual picturesque incidents. The crowd, which remained small throughodtt the morning owing to a brisk shower, fattened to imposing proportions between noon and 3 o’clack and there is no room to doubt the claim of New Londoners that 30,000 people witnessed the race. Half that number were | visitors, To dispose of the race before the favor: able midday conditions of wind and. tide were lost, the officials of both crews set the hour to start at 4:45 o’clock, fifteen minutes earlier than had been announced. All the excursion steaiers, the observa- tion trains and the press boat Manhansett cleared the dock at 4 o’clock. They were in place at 4:30, the exact minute when both crewsappeared. Harvard rowed across the river to the starting stake, exactly oposite. The stroke was pretty, and every member of the boat was in per- fect form. Yale paddled down the river slowly, as if economical of muscle. The shells drifted slowly into place, and at 4:44 o’clock, without sign of a false startor delay, Referee Rives’ voice gave the de- cisive word and the needle-like shells got out from under the lee bank into the open channel. A prettier start was never seen here. The Yale shell spun steadily to first place and pulled one of the fastest half miles ever rowed by a ’'varsity crew ina four-mile race here. Harvard was rowing in as pretty form as could be desired, and, strange to say, was pulling a slower stroke than Yale. Stroke Langford brought the Yale stroke up to 34 for the opening spurt, but Captain Bullard, evidently acting under directions from Coach Watson, rowed as slowly as 32. ‘While the crimson shell was moving along gracefully Yale was pounding on a lead of over two lengths for Harvard’s discourage- ment at the half-mile stake. Harvard seemingly made no attempt to close up, ‘When the crews got away the water was pacific. The tide was running strongly and a slight breeze favored the crews. These conditions accelerated the speed for two miles, and were perceptible especially during the first mile. From the time the first half-mile flag was passed till the mile was reached, Yale's stroke was character- istic by its evenness. It fell to thirty-three, but the boat went through the water at a terrific rate. At the mile Yale's lead of nine seconds had gone up to sixteen, and the most enthusiastic Harvard supporters conceded the race to Yale, barring acci- dents. The smooth water tempted Cap- tain Armstrong to try for fast time, and he pushed the shell along at a thirty-four 7:40, with Harvard twenty seconds behind, a loss of four seconds past the last hali- mile. Yale made another half mile in quick time, but Harvard exceeded it. Yale ended up the two miles in 10:21 and Har- vard in 10:39, only eighteen seconds be- hind. Harvard had gained two seconds on Yale, and in a fast-mile competition. For a mile Yale’s course, the west side, lay where a strong current was avalable. The Yale boat was kept in this wherever pos- sible. With the conclusion of the ficst half of the race all conditions changed. The wind shifted to the southeast and came up the river strong, a sharp head-wind shattering all hopes of breaking a record. When the crew swept past the navy-yard near the two-mile flag they said good-by to peaceful water and plowed their way staggered by the waves, and Yale gained five seconds more from the two miles to the two and a balf, Yale making the dis- tance in 12:55. Harvard had now dropped 23 seconds to the rear, but was pulling an even stroke. Yale began to splash a trifle, Cross ana Longacre being the prime mov- ers in this, but the boat, nevertheless, kept on gaining. Harvard was due for another spurt, and another gain on Yale was made during the half mile. The three miles were finished by Yale in 15:59, by Harvard in 16:21. All down the half mile of the course the Yale crew rowed a triumphant procession. For this distance the craft in the river jormed an alley, with the channel as the center. First came the steamers, freighted with cheering, enthusiastic passengers. Below them were some of the finest yachts in America. The pennants of these craft waved and smoke from a hundred salutes filled the air. Bass whistles of steamers lent their deafening. noise to the general din and the lusty cheers of thousands of jubilant Yalenians were drowned out. Harvard held her own, too, for the first hali mile of the last of the four mules. Yale was tossing about on the top of the billows, and Harvard was not losing ground. There were just 22 seconds dif- ference in the crews when the last half mile was begun, Shepard, of the Harvard crew, succumbed to an attack of splashing, and the shell was wafted up to the lee of the stéeamer Isabel. The rough water had subsided a -trifie, and the last half mile was made in excellent time, Yale ending the four miles in 21:30, and Harvard 22:05 3-5. The accident to the Harvard shell by en- countering the steamer’s wave made the total distance between the boats about eleven instead of seventeen lengths and the time 35s seconds instead of 25. Not a man stopped in either boat after reaching the finish line. The Yale men, fearing a collision from the boats which were closing in about them, rowed rapidly on for an- other half mile to reach the old Cornell boathouse to disembark without danger to their boat. The Harvard men struck a row- boat, but pulled away and were soon taken aboard their launch, To-day marks the conclusion of the five years Yale-Harvard agreement, and much doubt exists regarding a renewal of the contract in view of the cordiality of the athletic relations at present existing be- tween Harvard and Cornell. The official time is as follows: Yale, 21:30; Harvard, 22:05. The time taken by milesis as follows: One mile, Yale 5:04, Harvard 5:20; two miles, Yale 1:21, Har- vard 10:39; three miles, Yale 15:59, Har- vard 16:21; four miles, Yale 21:30, Har- vard 22:05. Bob Cook, the Yale coach, was seen after the race. He said: “The Yale crew rowed a wonderful race. In fact in proved irre- sistible.” Cook was asked if Yale would row Cor- nell. He answered: ‘If they win at Hen- ley and come back-and want to meet us I think we shall. 1 think we can get this crew together and train the men in a week | encounter.” * — FOURTH —_— i e o et o e AND BRANNAN STREETS [Sketched for ihe ¢Catl?” by Campbell) A { ' AS THEY APPEAR stroke, completing the mile and a half at | into a choppy, rough sea. Harvard seemed | GROSS FRAUDS FOUND Sensational Report of Sacramento’s Grand Jury. GIFT TO THE RAILROAD. County Supervisors Accused of Misappropriation of Funds. THE CHARGES AGAINST DUNN. It Is Claimed the Evidence Was Not Enough to Hold Him — Bart Cavanaugh Indicted. SAORAMENTO, Car., June 28. — The long-expected report of the Grand Jury was handed to Judge Johnson of the | Superior Court this evening, and it has equaled the expectations of all who have been predicting that it would prove sensas tional. | Thirty-two accusations have been found, |and the most of them are against the | Board of County Supervisors, which body | is accused of gross frauds and the misap- | propriation of funds. The principal point made against the county board is that, unwarranted by law, it caused to be paid to the railroad com- | pany the sum of $15,000 as the county’s share for the building of a bridge across the Sacramento River. Itisclaimed that the | evidence brought before the Grand Jury in | relation to this deal was to the effect that board paid over this money without any assurance as to what kind of a bridge was | to be built. It is said that there were no plans and specifications, and that the rail- road company could have erected any kind of a flimsy structure and complied with what contract there was. Eugene Gregory, at one time Mayor of Sacramento, and one of the most promi- net citizens, is said to have had a band in | engineering through this gift to the rail- road company. Several months ago Mr. | Gregory went East, but to what part of | the East it is said none but his most inti- | mate frends seem to know. It is presumed that he had an inkling of the action that the Grand Jury was to take, and, although | the firm of which he was the head has, | since his departure, made an assignment, | Mr. Gregory has not been heard from. Another sensational charge is in the im- | plication that the Board of S8upervisors has | stood in with county officers to allow depu- ties extra money out of the county treas- ury, when the law provides that heads of departments shall pay them out of their salaries. p Bart Cavanaugh, the Republican ‘‘boss,” has been indicted on five different counts, each of which comes under the purity of election laws. Itis alleged that the evi- dence showed he was guilty of having used money at the polls in the interest of rail- road candidates. One of the matters that the Grand Jury claims to have investigated is the Biggy- Dunn matter. In its report the jury says it has looked into the charges and has failed to find sufficient evidence to indict. Just how far it looked into this affair can- not be learned. Itis said thata number of those who have been attacked by the Grand Jury have sought counsel in the matter, and that the courts will be called upon to determine as to whether or not itisa legal body. The proposition is that H. M. La Rue, who was foreman of the Grand Jury and who isalso a Railroad Commissioner, cannot legally act in both capacities. The report goes on to state that the Board of Supervisors has in many instances in the discharge of its official duties, under the pretense of policy and expediency, willfully and knowingly violated the plain provisions of the law in appropriating large sums of money. It says: “Upon examination of their records we find that on the 5th of Decem- ber, 1893, the board passed a resolution | appropriating $30,000 to the Central Pacitic Railroad to aid the construction of a new steel bridge across the Sacramento R Lt W e STV WIS 554 AN -~ AFTER THE 'BIG (g A ey it il ,.’ [ Rt s FIRE. {