The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 11, 1895, Page 5

THE SAN FRAN ’1ISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1895. WAR ON THE COMBINE Desperate Efforts Made to Force Retail Coal-Dealers Into Line. INCREASED INITIATION FEE. The Wholesalers’ Schemes May, However, Meet With Firm Resistance. When cdal men combine consumers must associate. The public of San Fran- cisco is patient and long suffering, but the people will resist when oppression becomes too grievous. The latest thing in the shape of a public cinch is a combination of \\'nul_usale coal- dealers to force ev retailer into a com- pact, which means t e death of competi- tion, to gratify the greed of the trust. A simple narrative of facts will make the proposition clear to the householders of this City. For the sake of convenience and future reference the circular here fol- lo d exhibit A: liar with the nature of the ot necessary to de- information required will ¢ ributed at once and 1 to adhere strictly to the whether you &re & member of r ne : the coal business prior to d complying with section 2 tion may be admitted to mem- sssociation until July 15, 1895, on fee of $2, but after fee will be $200. Re- E. K. CARSON, Secretary. 50 retail coal-dealersin this town, ty-five or forty have not seen fit ibe to the conditions of the un- ct. They can get in now for$2, v 15 (see exhibit A) they will 1$200. Ifthey don’tgetin atall be compelled to pay 50 centsa f coal than the association For example, the dealer be- e association pays $350 fora al—2240 pounds. He must sell ounds fora ton and must charge t quantity. His membership in s n entitles him to a rebate o 0 saton. If adealer steps out of the t d insists on giving 2240 pounds es the American privi- selling any kind of coal coming to ket he does not get the rebate. alers engaged in promoting the ed trust are the Oregon Im- provement Company, handling Seattle coal; R. Dunsmuir & Sons, Wellington; Ch s R. Allen, Southfield Wellington; George Fritch, Dunsmuir Wellington; R. D. Cha: r, Dunsmuir Wellington; J. C. Wilson & Co., Scotch, Brymbo, Australian and tern anthracite; J. Macdonough & Co., Scotch, Brymbo, Australian and East- ern anthracite; Oregon Coal and Naviga- tion Company, Coos Bay. Fortunately for the welfare of California there arc some dealers+vho have too much spirit and independence of character to the decrees of the trust. Moreover, have assurance that ample capital to t coal on their own account will be supplied if the jobbers persist in the de- termination to force every dealer into the association. The offer in exhibit A to let any one in now for $2 and the notice that $200 will be charged on and after July 15 must be interpreted as a measure of force to bring into line every dealer in the City. Dealers who do not care to join the asso- on go to Dunsmuir & Co. and say: e have been your customers for a long time and have always paid you promptly. We want to handle Wellington coal when 1stomers ask for it, and we want to handie other coals, but we will not be bound by the rules of the association to gell only 2000 pounds for a ton.” Dunsmuur replies in his lofty and lordly manner that they must join the association or pay 50 cents extra a ton for coal. The dealers remonstrate, asserting that Dunsmuir has no more right to stipulate that th join the association than that they shall join the Salvation Army, and if he insists on dictating such terms they will resist. The idea of resistance arouses the lion in his nature, and he reminds the protesting merchants that he is an English subject, with money and means to fight all com- petition. The fight will surely come on July 15 if the haughty trust does not recede from its arbitrary and domineering position before that time. Wellington coal and coals from Australia may be great luxuries, but the people of California will throw luxuries to the winds and burn anything rather than submit to grievious oppression. When the Cleveland tariff reduced the duty on coal from 75 cents to 40 centsa ton, the President’s folowers in San Fran- cisco cried: *“Now coal will be cheaper and the poor householder will be happier.” The tariff hardiy got into working order before the British combine appropriated the 35-cent reduction on duty to its own reasury and then put a cinch of 50 cents & ton on American consumers. It should be understood that these com- plications do not refer to steam coal, but apply solely to coal for household pur- poses. An enormous fleet of ships laden with steam coal is on the way to San Fran- cisco from Swansea, Wales, and Newcastle, N. 8. W. Within four months the market should be heavily stocked. Again coal trusts may not be as powerful and cunning as they fancy themselves to be. Compe- tition always exposes the true inwardness of a combination and the people are thus brought to a knowledge of the extent of impositions long practiced on them, An example in this line may be cited. For years the Cumberland Coal Company, con- sisting of three firms—the Oregon Improve- ment Company, J. Macdonough & Co. and J. C. Wilson & Co.—controlled the supply of coal used for blacksmithing purposes. Having a monopoly, Cumberland coaliwas advanced from $10 a ton to $11 50 and then to $13 50. The trust was about to send it up to §14, when 2000 tons came on the Washtenaw the other day, consigned to P. B. Cornwall. Yesterday the black- smiths in San Francisco could get all the Cumberland coal they wanted for $8 a ton, and it may be many a long day before it will go The up again to $13 50. coal trust, of which Dunsmuir’s gton is the chief product, is a pow- titution. It has millions of money to sustain it, and is strong enough to whip into line many of the retailers, who have been forced in times gone by to fail in or get out of business. Finding a commu- nity submissive and patient to along se- «ies of cinches, it proposes now to hedge the system of extortion with such iron- clad regulations that no dealer can live that does not come under the yoke. Herein may come a blessing in disguise. The people may conclude that submission has gone far enough and resistance should be invoked. There is an excellent pros- pect that American ships flying the Ameri- can flag will bring American coals in such quantity to San Francisco that life can be endured without Wellington in short tons. CIGAR-MAKERS' APPEAL. Five Substantial Reasons Are Given Why the Public Should Buy Home-Made Cigars. Five reasons are given to the public in the appeal of the Cigar-makers’ Union for home patronage and the recognition of the new blue label. The appeal was formu- lated by President Burns and Secretary Van Guelpin, and bears a fac-simile of the label, a cut of which THE CALL has already published. It is straight to the point and argues that, first, consumers annuaily send §600,- 000 to $800,000 out of the State by ¥urv1):\s~ ing Eastern-made cigars; second, Eastern- made goods are inferior in quality to the home-made cigar of the same price; third, if a California-made cigar costs no more it should have the preference: fourth, by purchasing home products employment is given to home labor, enabling the con- sumer to profit by the patronage resulting from employed Iabor, and fifth, if only the blue-label cigars are purchased the hum- ber of cigar-makers in this State will in- crease to 3000 at least. Fifty thousand copies of the appeal are being printed for distribution WILLIAM POOLE'S IDOWS The First Relict to Contend With the Second for the Property. A Claimant From Ireland Says She and Her Son Are the Only True Helrs. The spirit of a new and hitherto un- known widow, whose claims come all the way from the shores of Ireland, hovers over the dollars which William C. Poole managed to lay away during his lifetime. His presumed widow, presumed because she wasliving with him for thirty-five years | before he died, is now in charge of his estate as his administratrix. The other widow appears in a petition to revoke the letters granted to her whom she styles a fraudulent claimant, and grant_them to herself, who, she alleges, is the only true and proper person under the circum- stances. William Poole, an Irishman, died in this City September 24,1894, leaving an estate afterward appraised at $29, He left no will, and Mary Poole, to__ whom he had been married in New York thirty-five vears before, applied for letters of adminis- tration, alleging at the time that the entire estate was community property. Letters were granted to her October 24, 1894, The first inkling of any other claimants to Poole’s estate came In the filingof a few typewritten lines some weeks ago by Charles E. Wilson, an attorney of this City, in which he states that he repre- sented the only true heirs to the estate, Mrs. Maria Poole and her son Wesley Poole, and he appeared to prosecute their claims. This has been followed with the papér filed yesterday, in which the lady from far away Dublin outlines what she wants, and what she thinks of the Mr: Poole who, she says, is not. Among othe things she says, through her representa- tive, that the said person procured said letters of administration by fraudulent and untrue representations in this: That the said person claimed and now claims to_be the surviving widow of the said Wil- liam Poole, when in truth and in fact she was and is not the surviving widow of the said decedent, nor in any way related to him, and has no interest whatsoever in said estate; that b, sely representing her- self to be the surviving widow of said de- ceased she commits a fraud against the es- tate of said William Poole, deceased; that the surviving widow of the said William Poole is one Maria Poole, who now lives in Dublin, Ireland. In support of their case the attorneys for Mrs. Poole of Dublin, have a letter sent to them by Wesley Poole, and purporting to be a communication from William Poole to Wesley, his son, and mentioning a re- mittance which was inclosed. This is one of the principal features of the case. There is also another, a tale of the romance be- tween a butler in a prominent Dublin and the chambermaid who worked me residence, and how when their attachment was detected, they were ex- pelled from their positions and then fled to America, she from her home and people, he from his wife and son. Mrs. Poole, who lives in this City, says she knows nothing about any other widow, and the first intimation she had that any one in Ireland knew of him or claimed a relationship, was during this litigation. She was married to Poole, so her petition states, thirty-five years ago. Since then they have worked together in various places mostly in San Francisco, she as cook and he as butler, and all his wealth has been accumulated since they were together. In her petition, Mrs. Maria Poole of Dubilin neglects to state the date of her marriage. THE ASSESSMENT LIST. Assessor Siebe Expects to Have It Com- pleted by This Afternoon. The last work is being done on the as- sessment list. Assessor Siebe expects to have the work finished by this afternoon at the latest. “The list will be of about the same amount as last year,” said Mr. Siebe yes- | terday. “There will be a loss of about $2,000,000 on the personal progert list. This, however, will be made up by the im- provements on real estate. . “The decrease in the personal property list is occasioned by the settlement of sev- eral large estates. By the distribution of the Fair estate $1.890,081 in cash and bonds was sent to New York. The Stanford es- tate is also about $200,000 less. There have also been a larze number of other losses that have been counterbalanced by several new estates. ‘““The increase of the real estate list comes almost_entirely from the buildings that have been put up in the last year.”’ GRIEVING OVER HIS LOSS. Jean Louis Ader Said to Be Dying From ., Softening of the Brain. The case of John Lapique, charged with grand ];rcenyhby Jean Louis Ader, the old man whom he was accused of swindlin, out of about $5000, was called in Judgg Campbell’s court yesterday, A physician from the French hospital appeared in court and stated that the old man was in a critical condition from soften- ing of the brain and might die. He had been brooding and grieving over the loss of his imoney, and was practically dying of grief. The Judge, after listening to the state- ment, continued the case till Friday to await developments in regard to the old man’s condition. —————— The Pursuit of Happiness, When the Declaration of Independence asserted man's right to this, it enunciated an immortal trath. The bilious sufferer Is on the road to happi- ness when he begins to take Hostetter’s Stomach Eitters, the most eflicacious regulator of the liver in existence. Equally reliable is 1t in chills and fever, constipation, dyspepsia, rheumatism, kid- ney trouble and nervousness. Use it regularly, and not at 0dd intervals. N\ JAPS FROM THE ISLANDS, A Proposition to Ship Coolies From Honolulu to Cali- fornia. TWO TELLTALE LETTERS. How the United States Contract Labor Laws Have Been Grossly Violated. Deputy Labor Commissioner Dam has ob- tained some startling information concern- ing theimportation of Japanese cooly labor- ers tothis coast. His information is backed up by correspondence that proves that hundreds of Japanese have been imported to this State from Honolulu and thousands more are ready to leave for California as soon as the contractor is sure that work will be provided for the coolies. In giving out the copies of the letters Mr, Dam has withheld the names in order that the Labor Bureau may probe deeper in the matter. The first letter reads: HoxoLuLy, H. I, January 30, 1895. Dear Sir: 1 would be very pleased to hear from you as to the labor marketin San Fran- cisco, and aiso if you could secure work for Japanese whose terms of service have ended at the different sugar plantations here. The Japanese who are desirous of coming to the coast would make excellent fruit-pickers, and a contract could be made after they landed to work for their employers by the season, job, ete., thereby preventing strikes at the busiest time. The Japanese plantation laborer only gets $1250 per month and finds his own food, therefore he would be guite willing to work on the coast for that amount, with his board added, leaving him say $12 cash. If you see your way clear to handle these men I will secure all that wish to come to the coast. In the eventof you sending me a favorable answer, it would be necessary to find a Jepa- nese lodging-house or hotel, where they could stay until you needed them. Please be good enough to drop me a line by next mail. Yours, very truly. _— The second letter is equally interesting and is as follows: Hoxovrury, H. I, Feb. 16, 1895. Dear Sir: Yours of February8 to hand to- day. As the steamship Oceanic leaves to- morrow I rep! The men I spoke to you of in a former lotter will all pay their own passage up and have s balance on hand to keep them until you can place them. As to the number I could get depends on the success which the first ot meets with. If you can place them with men who will treat them kindly and start them as fruit-pickers at £15a month and board I can send about 200 a month. Tt would not do for me to send any more than you would place quickly, because their countrymen who have been in California be- fore them would try and influence them to get higher pay. Another thing, by shipping them up in small numbers it's not likely to create notice, but s big number by steamer might do so. If you see an opening to use these men let me know as early as possible and I will fill your orders. Sincerely yours. The gentleman who received these let- ters is not in the Japanese contracting business, and he explained to Mr. Dam that while he is desirous of assisting in putting down cooly labor importation he does not care to run the risk of having his private business injured by being identi- fied with the Labor Commissioners’ anti- Japanese crusade. It is well known that there are many thousand Jap coolies on the Sandwich Islands, and at the end of the sugar plantation season large numbers are desirous of leaving for the United | States. The writer of these letters is a contractor who has made money, it is said, {in importing Japs from Japan to the islands, and he is anxious to enlarge his field by sending the coolies to this coast to work in the orchards. The man in his writing shows that he is familiar with Tnited States contract labor laws by stating that “a contract could be made after they landed,” the last three words being under- lined. The recent investigation of the Japanese cooly question showed that thousands implied contracts such as the contractor in Honolulu suggests and in several instances the contracts were more than implied. However, the evidence has not been strong enough from a legal standpoint to warrant arresting or attempting to deport those who are landed. This additional evidence of the importation_of Japanese cooly lo- borers into the United States will” add strength to the Labor Commissioner’s pro- posed memorial and petition to Con- gress for a Japan restriction act. LOST HER DOG AND COIN, Mrs. Sadie Stone’s Pet Swal- lowed a Ten Dollar Gold Piece. She Charges Warren Hunter, One of Her Roomers, With Stealing the Animal. Warren Hunter, a printer, is wanted by the police on a peculiar charge. He roomed in the house of Mrs. Sadie Stone, 7 Crook street. Mrs. Stone owned a fox terrier, which had been trained to catch money in its mouth and other fanoy tricks. On Monday night Mrs. Stone was pre- paring to go out to pay her month’s rent, and she laid the money on a table while she put on her bonnet. * Among the coin was a $10 gold piece. The fox terrier jumpeda upon the table, and to her horror she saw it pick up the $10 gold piece from the table and calmly swallow it. She was frantic with grief and indigna- tion at the disappearance of the $10 gold piece and bewailed her loss to her room- ers. Mr. Hunter listened among others to her story, and that night he disappeared and the fox terrier disappeared at the same time. Mrs. Stone appeared in Judge Low's court yesterday and declared that she had ascertained that Hunter had stolen the fox terrier, and she was afraid he would kill her pet to get fi)ossession of the $10 gold piece it had swallowed. She valued her )fit at $25, so she swore out a warrant for Hunter's arrest on the charge of petty larceny for stealing the fox terrier. “T don’t care so much,’” said Mrs. Stone, “for the $10, although I cannot afford to lose it, but I want my dog back and I mean to have it. Hunter was going to leave my house, anyhow, and_he took all his things away with bim. I don’t know where he has gone to live, but I hope the police will be able to find him, and if he ;us ki'l,led my dog I will make him suffer or it.’ ———————— STEAMSHIP OFFICIALS. The Occidental and Oriental Company’s Annual Meeting. The twenty-first annual meeting of the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Com- pany was held yesterday in the executive offices of the Southern Pacific bunilding, at Montgomery and Market streets. Charles F. Crocker was elected president; 8. H. H. Clark, vice-president; H. E. Huntington, D. W. Hitchcock and F. 8. Douty, direc- tors, and D. D, Stubbs, secretary. As the annual report of the company was not ready reading it was postponed. No action was taken in regard to changes or the contemplated improvements, all of which have been reviewed in THE CALL. The Doric will soon be gut upon the docks in Belfast, and after a thorough renovating be brought to San Francisco for the runm ! have been brought into this State upon' between this point and the Orient in com- gemion with the Canadian and Northern acific steamers. NATIONAL CONVENTION. Many Leading Republicans Writing Mr. Estee in Favor of Meeting Here Next Year. Mr. Estee’s mail shows that the mem- bers of the National Committee of the Republican party take a lively interest in the question of holding the next convention in San Francisco. Speaking of this ves- terday he said: A large number of leading men like General Clarkson and Senator Carter of Montana all favor San Francitco, but say that as times are hard it may be assuming a grave responsibility to place the convention where it will have three weeks to go and perform the duties of delegates, and, therefore, they are afraid that there will be & strong business objection but Dot u political one sgainst coming to this State. Politically they think it is the thing to do, both for the good ‘of the party and of the country. They say that this much is owed to California and the far West. For myself, I do not give up the fight. Ithink that we have a strong figating chance. Several members of the Nationai Committee have written that they will be out here this fall and will meet our people and see what can be done. Of course you know that as & rule, the gold people of New York and New England are against hola- ing the convention in what they call the far West. Butall the members of tiie committee west of the Mississippi are with us and a num- ber East. 1am informed that Sam Fessenden of Connecticut and Joseph Manly of Maine, both members of the committee, have expressed themselves very favorably toward holding the convention here, but will not pledge them- selves at this early date. General Alger would like to see the convention come here, provided that the business interests of the delegates will not be impaired. Senator Elkins of West Virginia has written that it ought to come West if practicable. BRANHAM AND HIS BIKE, Taken for Brady He Is Re- ceived by the City Detec- tive Force. Frank Flischer, Pursued by a New Woman With *“a Sphere,” Jumps in the Bay. John A. Branham, a schoolteacher from Oregon, spending his vacation on a bi- cycle, was a much-wanted man yes- terday when the steamer Humboldt arrived from Eureka. He -first ap- peared at the steamer’s wharf in that city a few hours before she sailed and bought a ticket for San Francisco. He was dusty and travel-worn from his long ride through the rough country, and the good folk of Eureka said he was Brady, the rob- ber. The information was telegraphed to this City, and one detective met the Humboldt outside the heads, and a cloud of police offi cers awaited her at the wharf. When Schoolmaster Branham came trundling his weary wheel down the gang- plank they were both gobbled up. An examination at close quarters proved Branham was not Brady, and the bike had never held up a train nor train-robber. Branham pedaled himself uptown, using hard language in connection with persons who brought the San Francisco detective force to receive him. Frank Schussler, a hardware-store keeper from East Oakland, ducked himself over- board as the steamer Oakland started on an early trip. A number of life-preservers was thrown to him, but he persistently swam away from them. He was finally rescued by A. P. Ozouf and a deckhand, who lowered a boat from the steamer. Schussler was evidently demented. He fancied that he was pursued by friends. Frank Fischer pitched himself off the steamer Piedmont about 9 o’clock yester- day morning. Ozouf was again on hand as a life-saver and succeeded in pulling the man into his boat. Fischer said he was followed by a new woman who was driving him crazy with her extravagant ideas on the ballot, “the home,”” her sphere and other things. “She got a pistol this morning,” said he, “ang vowed she would kill me. I slipped away from her and boarded the ferry-boat for San Francisco. I thought I had got away from her, but as I stood on the deck I saw her coming toward me. I knew her by the blown bloomers she wore. I would rather die than have her catch me, s0 I could not_escape her but by jumping overboard, so I did.” He refused to give the name of Miss Shaw’s disciple who is rushing him to doom, but said he would escape her by the bay route yet. He was taken to the Receiving Hosgilal to meet Schussler, the other man with a brain on crutches. James Roberts, a man of the sea, was sentenced to two months in San Quentin by Judge Morrow yesterday morning for robbing the United States mails. He stole 50 cents from a letter sent to R. Plouf irom San Rafael, care of the Mariners’ Church. The ship Florence, which sailed from this port March 5, arrived at New York after a trip of 116 days. She carried a cargo of fruit, salmon and quicksilver. The British four-masted ship Drumalis cleared for Europe yesterday with $210.440 worth of cargo, and the ship Wilhelm Tell for Liverpool with 106,199 centals of wheat valued at $95,500. The ship Charmer arrived at New York 102 days from Honolulu with 29 Hawaiian sugar valued at $149,175. is the second cargo, the first being by the ship Kenilworth, which got into New York several weeks ago. The other sugar ships on the way from Honolulu to New York are the T. F. Oakes, Helen Brewer, Tellie E. Starbuck, Manuel Llaguna an Troop. ‘I'he following candidates for new offices were submitte ¥es(erday by the nomina- ting committee of the Produce Exchange: President. W. A. Holcomb; vice-president, George P. Morrow; treasurer, J. W. Sperry: Directors—W. H. Wright, T. J. Parsons, H. Ep- iuger, A. A. Adler, . Trubenbach, T. G. Wal ln%fln For committee of appeals—R. D. Girvin, H. T. Ellis, Paul Keyser, H. &rlanger and H. Sinsheimer. At a meeting of the Harbor Commission- ers yesterday afternoon the contract for supplying the tugs, dredgers and pile- drivers with coal wasawarded to the Black Diamond Coal Company, the bid being $5.30 a ton, the lowest offered. —————— INSPECTED THE THEATERS, Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald Reports Upon Their General Condition. Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald and Deputy Dam yesterday made an inspec- tion of the theaters, with a view of look- ing into their sanitary condition and other matters bearing uvon the health and safety of the employes of these places of amusement. They made the following report: Standing at the head is the Columbia Theater, which, in sanitary condition, fire exits, etc., is a model. : The California, Baldwin and Alcazar are not far behind in this respeet. The Grand Opera-house is reported to gossess inferior sanitary conditions. The e escapes are good. The Tivoli Opera-house is an old build- ing, and it is dirty. The sanitary condi- tion is fair., The Orpheum could be cleaned to a great advantage. The staicways used by the employes are steep and dangerous to life and limb. Tne Imfierinl Theater, in_the old Union Hall on Howard street, is in a poor condi- tion; but the proprietor has oniy recently obtained possession of the property, and he has been at work making repairs, ‘Wherever the labor officials discovered objectionable features they recommended :ll:“ luentilans be m;d& at tonce. The eater people promise act upon the directions promptly. Py | most sensational character. DUNN'S SAVAGE NEMESIS, His Mysterious Persecutor Relents and Makes a Confession. REVENGE HER SOLE MOTIVE. She Wrote the ‘“Nettle Chase” Let- ters to Allenate His Wife’s Affectlons. To the mystery of the identity of the woman who committed suicide on the night of April 10 last, by jumping over- board from one of the Oakland ferry-boats, is now added another. It will be remembered that the morning after the woman’s fatal leap the Coroner received a letter signed “Nettie Chase,” purporting to have been written by the suicide. With the letter to the Coroner was one inclosed for delivery to C. W. Dunn. The epistle to the Coroner laid the blame for the woman's desperate act to the wrong she stated had been done her by Dunn. In the letter to Dunn, which was with- out separate cover, the writer bade him adieu, and left the unmistakable inference that he had been respousible for life hav- ing become unendurable to her. The full text of these letters and others that had been sent to a Vallejo paper some time previous, but refused publica- tion there, were printed two days after the suicide in_this City. The Vallejo letters gave the intelligence that the writer had shot Dunn, as he had deceived her. The day before these letters were written to the Vallejo paper Dunn, who was_then resid- ing in that city, had, according to his statement, accidentally shot himself. From reading these published letters the general public was led to beliéve that Dunn bad acted the part of a deceiver and that he knew more than he was disposed to tell, notwithstanding his denial of any knowledge of “Nettie Chase,” his failure to identify the handwriting in the letters to the Coroner and himself, and the post- master’'s statement that the letter must have been mailed the morning after the mysterious woman had ended her mortal career. Dunn, who is, and was at that time, a married man, was most_vehement in his declaration that he was in no way impli- cated or connected with the suicide, but public sentiment was against him. He claimed that some enemy had written all these letters simply for the purpose of in- juring him, but his averments were re- ceived only with knowing and incredulous smiles. Yesterday Dunn appeared at the Coro- ner’s office and asked permission to seethe letters that “Nettie Chase” had written to that official and himself, the latter having never been delivered to Dunn. He was given the letters and, with a representative of THE CarL, made a comparison of the handwriting in them with that in a letter he had just received, and whichis of a The hand- writing in all the letters was exactly the same. and they were all written with a lead pencil. The one last received by Dunn is as follows: SAN Fraxcisco, July 8, 1895. Mr. C. W. Dunn: When you informed the coroner that youdid not know the woman who took her life by leaping from the Oakiand boat on the night of April 10th, 1895, and that you did not know any one named Nettie Chase, I ‘was the only person besides yourself who knew you spoke the God's truth.” I am_the woman who has been persecuting you for the last year. T wrote those letters to the Vallejo paper say- ing I shot you. Iwrote those letiers to the caroner last April and signed Nettie Chase. I will not tell you who I am now tfor fear you would kill me or have me_arrested for the in- jury I have done you. I thought I would get revenge, for you arrested my husband three years ago in Utah for a crime for which he was nnocent, but on circumstantial evidence you caused him to sent_to prison, where he now You simply wanted to raise yourself in the es timation of the Government, so as to hold your position as & U.S. detective. 1 swore to get even with you, and came to California. Ever since I made the publicbelieve that you caused | “Nettie Chase’’ to commit suicide I have been a miserable woman. I could not sleep good. My conscicnce troubled me so, that I conclnded to confess all to you. How vou must have suffered when being sccused of this and yet you are innocent. I first heard of you “when a friend from Vallejo told” me you were there. I went to Vallejo a few days aiter you were accidentally shot.” That was a good chance for to get re- venge. I wrote a letter to the paper sayin 1 shot you because you had deceived me. I'sai you had caused two other girls to kill them- Selves in the Jast two years. These were all lies, but I wanted to make people believe them 50 your wife would leave you. They did not publish the letters so I wrote two more. Then they did not publish them so I came to San Francisco. On the morning of April 11th I | was up early and seeing about a girlleaping off the Oakland boat the night beford, I knew I could get revenge, so I wrote the letter to the Coroner at 8 A. M. and took it to the post office. That is why the post master said it was mailed between 5 and l{)AA M. or 8 or 9 hours after the woman jumped overboard. I had a friend write another letter next day to the coroner and sign L. B. she said you had went to Dr Schmidth on Market st to see about taking Nettie Chase there. These were all lies but the papers published them and every one thought them so. All the revenge I wanted was to make your wife leave you, but I could not as I see vou both on July 4th and stood within six feet of you. T can see you have suffered by your weary look and sad face, o I will not persecute you any more. Iknow you have worked hard 1o find out who wrote these letters signed Net- tie Chase for you have been closc onto my trail, T do not know who the woman was who jumped into the bay, or any one named Nettie Chase, but it was the first name that entered my mind. Iwill write to the coroner of San Fran- cisco soon and explain all when he will publish the letters and you will be cleared. I would not do it but I cannot rest. Something seems to say 1 have done wrong. I feel for you, but what must your wife have suffered. Icannot sign my name but the names I signed to the other letters which were A WRONGED WOMAN and NETTIE CHASE. Dunn, when questioned, said he bad no idea who the woman is. He had made quite a number of arrests while in the em- Elo_v of the Federal Government in Utah, ut could not recall any case in which the wife of an offender had made any threat against him. He stated that a man named Griffiths, whose conviction he had secured, Was now serving a sentence in_that Terri- to_r,,v. but to his knowledge Griffiths had no wife. Continuing, he said the object of the letter-writer had entirely failed, so far as causing any trouble between him and his wife, as the latter was entirely convinced of his innocence, so far as the ‘Nettie Chase’ suicide is concerned. On thenight, and at the time when tbe suicidal jump was made by the mysterious unknown, and when Dunn was reported to have been in her company, he and his wife were in a ccht-tain restaurant on Market street in this ity. Another peculiar circumstance in this connection, and one which aided the mysterious persecutor of Dunn in keeping him in a long-continued disturbance of mind, is that the body of the woman who came to be known as Nettie Chase has not been found, thus preventing its identifica- tion. Folsom-Street Improvement. The following self-explanatory commu- nication and resolutions were received yes- terday by the Southside Improvement Club, J. Schwartz secretary : At a regular meeting of the San Fran- cisco Road Club, held Tuesday, July 9, the following resolutions were adopted : Resolved, That we heartily indorse the action of the Southside Improvement Club in its agi- tation for better streets and highways, and in its endeavor to have Folsom street declared a boulevard and liberal lpxlro%rllttonu made for the same, and that it be further Resolved, That we attend the next meeting of the club in a body and co-operate with it in furtherance of its plans. 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