The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 16, 1895, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1895. THE EIGHT CALL FOR POLICE PROTECTION. Doors of the Supervis- ors’ Rooms Guarded Yesterday. AFRAID OF THE GALLERY Applicantsfor Admission Cate- chised—Many Turned Away. NO TALK ABOVE A WHISPER. Quietest Meeting In History—Some Good Legislation Slips Through by Consent. An hour before the meeting of the Board of Supervisors convened yesterday after- noon a broad-shouldered policeman took a position at the back door leading into the clerk’s office, through which the members of the board and the privileged few make their way into the board rooms. Another big policeman took a position at the general public entrance to the lobby, another stood at the door leading into the gallery. Two other policemen patrolled the corridor outside the lobby door and two others the corridor outside the gallery, while Sergeant Gillen, in command of the squad, together with a ‘‘right hand man,” took positions in the body of the lobby. It is customary at every meeting of the board for one policeman to be stationed in the lobby and another in the gallery by way of keeping order, and that it is usually merely a matter of form isevidenced by the fact that the man in the gallery sleeps through the entire session. But last week it will be remembered the gallery and the lobby, outraged and dis- gusted as, for two hours, they heard the majority of the board—the Solid Eight— resist every appeal for justice and a plain observance of the law; heard them vote time after time, in spite of repeated ad- monition and remonstrance, in favor of granting to the Market-street Railway Company a franchise which the law par- ticularly stipulates shall be granted to the highest bidder in a fair and open auction, openly jeered and laughed at the humili- ating spectacle presented by their repre- sentatives. Bince that time the whole City had been in a ferment of excitement, and the open betrayal of the trust by the City’s law- makers has been the one thing talked about. One heard it everywhere—in the streetcars, 1n the cafes, in the lobbies of hotels, the foyers of theaters, and as your friend caught step with you in your hur- ried walk down street first question was ““What do you think of the Solid Eight now?” So it was not much wonder that these men felt some anxiety about coming to- gether again in their capacity as public servants, convicted, in the eyes of their constituents, of having violated the law and sold themselves to the corporations— and, with that consciousness, sitting all the afternoon under the eyes of that ter- rible gallery. Chief Crowley on Saturday received a note from Clerk Russell notifying him that the Board of Supervisors would ex- pect the protection of his department at the meeting on Monday. By ‘‘the Board of Supervisors” was meant, of course, the majority—that is, the Solid Eight—these gentlemen: JOSEPH KING, First Ward. PETER A. SCULLY, Second Ward. C. E. BE AMIN, Third Ward. ALPHONSE HIRSCH, Fourth Ward, XE. C. HUGHES, Sixth Ward. CHRIS DUNKER, Seventh Ward. A. W. MORGENSTERN, Ninth Ward. EDWARD L. WAGNER, Twelfth Ward. The four who compose the minority had no anxiety. There was no reason why they should ask the police to protect them from a gallery filled with their own fellow- citizens. They had no fear—nothing to fear. Their members compose the mi- nority JOSEPH 1. DIMOND, Fifth Ward. C. L. TAYLOR, Eighth Ward. A. B. SPRECKELS, Tenth Ward. J. K. C. HOBBS, Eleventh Ward. It was in answer to the note referred to, in behalf of the Solid Eight, that Sergeant Gillen put in an appearance at the clerk’s office early yesterday afternoon and as- signed his men to the duty of guarding every door leading into the Supervisors’ meetin g-room. His instroctions were to question every person who applied for ad- mission to the room and to allow no one personally unknown to them to pass un- Jess they could show some right to do so. 8o strict was the surveillance that several men who had business before the board were refused admittance even while some seats remained vacant in the lobby. News- paper men whom the policemen did not chance to know were required to show their credentials. With all these pre- cautions, however, both the gallery and lobby were well filled by interested cit1- zens before the meeting was celled to order, while numbers were turned away. Those who came with the expectation of hearing any sensational proceedings along the lines of the previous meeting were disappointed. This cordon of police stood guard over the tamest meeting that has been held in the chambers of the board in years. Not a word was eaid or motion made outside the routine as it stood already pre- vared upon the clerk’s files. Clerk Russell and Assistant Clerk Farquharson did all the work. The usual grist of petitions ‘and com- munications were read by the clerk and by the Mayor referred to committees, the reporis of committees were read and adopted and then the unfinished business was taken up and the resolutions, orders and authorizations upon it were passed in a steady procession without a dissenting voice, the motion being made by the Super- visor interested and followed by the Mayor’s rapid formula, “If there is no ob- jection it stands adopted.” In not a single instance was there any objection. The “new business” file was taken up and rushed through in like manner. Not so much as once was the roll called, and the entire business of the day—a fair ayerage for quantity—was dis- posed of in a little over an hour. There was none of that querulous questioning and interference with every measure emanating from the minority just because it emanated from the minority, which has come to be characteristic of these meet- ings. The members of the Solid Eight sat in their places looking stolidly in front of them, made such occasional motions nluw. and she particularly desires for the K they were required to make and said never’ another word. Under these conditions of general assent one or two very excellent measures crept through. Conspicuous among these was the following: Resolution: That from and after this date no contracts for street work shall be entered into for the City unless first subjected to bids. This is a measure that contractors—the legitimate and better class of contractors— have been demanding for a long time. The twenty words that compose this little measure do away with an evil that has long pestered the City and stood in the way of better streets and cheaper paving. | It slays the ‘‘private contract” evil. Had this little measure stood on the books some | months ago the Van Ness avenue robbery | might have been made to appear for what | it is and possibly have been defeated—al- | though that is expecting a good deal. | Under this resolution every piece of | street work must be advertised, the specifi- | cations made public and the contract | awarded to the lowest bidder. As it is now nearly all the street work is done | through private contract, and the average contractor is not aware that the work is contemplated until the thing is done. The majority of the Street Committee STATE « (ALIFORNIN oo BUREAY Lans reported against the petition of the Point Lobos Improvement Club asking the right to use rock adjacent and available for macadamizing their streets, but which is barred by the specifications, which require it to pass the Rattler test. Chairman Spreckels of the Street Committee, in ap- proving the general report, wrote his pro- test against this action, saying: “I am in favor of the report, excepting on the peti- | tion of the Point Lobos Avenue Improve- ment Club, which I am in favor of grant- ing.” The following was adopted: Resolved, That Supervisors Spreckels, Taylor, Dimond and Hobbs be and are hereby ap- pointed and are respectfully requested to at- tend on behalf of and to represent the board at the State Convention of County Supervisors, to be held in this City at the Chamber of Com- merce on July 24, 1895. A resolution was adopted directing M. M. Dugan, the late head janitor, to turn over his keys and other paraphernalia of office to George L. Murdock, the appointee of the present board. Dugan, it will be seen, is still contesting and clinging. Hugo Goldsmith, the man who took the contract for furnishing subsistence to in- mates of the jails, appears to be losing money on the job. A resolution was Blssed allowing him to transfer it to the acific Marine upply Company. The Mayor submitted the following com- munication refusing toapprove the accept- ance of the work on Hayes street: On July 1, 1895. your body passed resolution 12,555, fully accepting certain work on Cen- tral avenue, Minna and Laguna streets, and also Hayes street, between Fillmore and Steiner. ‘There are no objections to the first three streets named and they should be accepted. But they are embraced in the resolution with the last-named street and hence, under the law, cannot be separately approved. The objection is to the bitumen and concrete work on Hayes street. Itis not done according to contract. That provided for the use of clean sea sand. None was used. The concrete work is inferior in its mixture and laying. For this reason my approval is withheld and the resolution is returned unsigned. Yours respectfully. LPH SUTRO. Among the other routine business was the following resolutions: Rejecting bids on contracts to grade Vallejo street, between Broderick and Devisadero; to construct a sewer in the crossing of Green and Taylor streets; to construct a sewer in the crossing of Clay and Maple streets, and the paving of the crossing of Twenty-second and Tgnnesm streets. Requesting the opinion of the City At- torney as to whether Eighth street, south- westerly from Division, is an open public street. Permitting the Real Estate and Develop- ment Compan%to macadamize Missouri street, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth. Releasing James Tobin from his contract to lay stone sidewalks on Folsom street, between Nineteenth and Twentieth. Requesting the Market-street Railway Company to inform the board as to whether it intends to_construct a street railway on Page street, between Market and Fillmore. Direct!ni the Street Superintendent to ascertain the obligation of the Market-street Railway Company in the matter of l})nving Scott street, between Hayes and Fell. For the Cotton Exposition, Mrs. Theodore Sutro writes to THE CALL from Blandford, Mass., inviting the co-operation of California women to make the women's section of the Atlanta Exposition asuccess. Mrs. Sutro ischairman of the committees on music and women’s section important musical composi- tions, books on music or law, or printed essays on women’s work in music or jurisprudence, photographs and autographs of all the womer! composers or singers or pianists of world-wide reputation, or photographs and autographs of women who are practicing law, or bas-reliefs or busts or plaster casts of any of these talented ‘women, Or any matters of importance pertain- ing to the above subjects. Exhibits should be addressed to Mrs. Theodore Sutro, 20 Fifth ave- nue, New York City. STRIFE OVER THE POUND. Chief Deputy Flemming Discharged by Poundmaster Osbourne—Trouble in the Election. Trouble has been brewing in the Hu- mane Society for several weeks. It was vrecipitated by the result of the annual election held yesterday. H. C. Mangels, the wholesale grocer, was elected a director over Fred Osbourne, the wholesale hard- ware dealer, who is also the society’s Poundmaster. Mr. Osbourne ascribes his defeat to the fact that Director John Part- ridge brought ten proxies to the meeting and used them fo elect Mr. Mangels. Poundmaster Osbourne did not attend the meeting and made no effort to defeat Mr. Partridge’s favorite for the place. Last evening Mr. Osbourne called upon Flemming in his official capacity and for- mally notified his chief deputy to consider himself discharged. *“I felt,” said Mr. Osbourne, ‘‘that I could not continue as Poundmaster if I had to have men under me who were un- friendly and hostile to me, and that is why I discharged Mr. Flemming.” Director John Partridge when seen last evening said: “I am not unfriendly to Mr. Osbourne, THE FREE LABOR BUREAU. It Opened for Business Yes- terday and Received Many Applications. SOME ARE GIVEN EMPLOYMENT. Labor Commissioner Fltzgerald Predicts Success for the Enterprise. Six hundred men, willing and anxious for work, paid their respects to Labor Commissioner E., L. Fitzgerald yesterday and registered their names for positions. Yesterday was the opening of the new free labor bureau, and the fact that no fee was to be charged brought out large num- bers of applicants for positions. They crowded the office of the Commissioner, overflowed 1nto the hall and stairway and were kept in check in the street by a couple of stalwart guardians of the peace. Inside the office Commissioner Fitz- gerald and Deputy Commissioner Dam were kept busy registering applicants and granting positions, and at 3 o’clock, whr‘n THE BuSYy REGISTRAR AT HIS DESK SEETCHES AT THE FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU, [Drawn by a “Call” artist.] but T believe that neither Mr. Osbourne nor myself has time enough to devote to the interests of the Animals’ Home. My opinion is that the Pound should be taken in charge by one of the salaried officers of the society, although I have nothing to say against Mr. Osbourne’s administra- tion.” Poundmaster Osbourne has taken no portion of the salary allowed by the City since he has come into the position, but has regular]g turned his salary into the treasury of the Humane Society. Chief Deputy Flemming refuses to con- sider himself discharged. Director John Partridge is in favor of turning the Pound over to the society’s salaried officer. In all probability the new board of di- rectors will have a lively time of it when they meet next_Thursday to organize and choose a new Poundmaster, and at that time the full extent of the inharmony between the old directorate and the Poun employes will be made known. BUCKLEYS FATTED CALF Prodigal Democratic Sons Are Asked to Return and Be Forgiven. A Meeting Is Called for This Even- Ing at the Old Manhattan Club House. Christopher Buckley has ordered the finest fatted calf from his Livermore farm killed, dressed and cooked that his prodi- gal Democratic sons who will return to the folds of the Manhattan, now called the Occidental, Club may be fed and cheered. John McCarthy of the late Gagan Grand Jury, president of the club, and ex-Super- visor P. F. Dundon, its secretary, have is- sued printed invitations calling an assem- blage of Democratic wisdom of the style much in vogue prior to the time when Chris Buckley chased out of the State about ten feet in advance of a Wallace Grand Jury indictment. _The meeting will undoubtedly be remi- niscent, as Taine_would say, of the *‘an- cient re.ime.” No man will be admitted who cannot show where he was originally branded. A fine time is expected if the steam beer holds out, and unless the wise- acres are much at fault there will be a feast of reason and a flow of soul out of which will emanate a reorganized system that will bring joy to thesoul of the heeler. The credentials at the door will be ex- amived by the “Banjo-eyed Kid.” There will be short addresses delivered by “Peg- leg” Daly and Garibaldi Flynn. ax Popper has been Treorganizing a large element of the Democracy to oppose Buckley and Rainey. Lanigan has g«n organizing his forces to oppose Buckley and Rainey, and also to oppose Popper. Buckley thinks it is time to gather his lambs ‘together to oppose everything that is not their kind of mutton, and no more appropriate place couid be found than the anhattan Club building, which he owns, including the furniture. Some people are unkind enough to say that he owns thein- habitants, but the Assessor says only the furnivure, building and lana. the office closed, the crowd was still press- i"vf on for registration. he first man to be sent out to a position was J. Wheateroft, who had gut in his a] plication for the position of blacksmith. John Bantruff of Baden had signified that he needed a helper and Mr. Wheatcroft was sent out to help him. Following him between fifty and sixty men were assigned to positions and then jobs ran out and those who followed were asked all sorts of questions as to their abilities, experience, etc., and were then told to call again or they would be notified when their services were required. The majority of those who applied for work were young men of good ap. pearance, some being clerks, others eu- gineers, drauzbtsmen, assayers, etc. After positions ran out the applicants were asked whether they would be willing to take po- sitions outside of their line of business. the statement being made that fruit-pickers and other ranch laborers would bq required in the near future. In the women's department over 100 members of the gentler sex had congre- gated at opening time, and the clerk in charge had her hands full to keep track of them and answer the numerous guestions regarding the probability of employment. ommissioner Fitzgerald expects to have his new burean serve the double pur- ggse of gathering statistics as to the num- T of deserving unemployed in the City, and at the same time giving employment to as many men as possible. Full and accurate records of all who are given employment will be kept for future reference, and those who prove unworthy will be refused any further assistance. .The following rules have been estab- lished for the guidance of applicants: 1. Applicants are required to register. 2. “Rlen em; loym:gns found g: applicant he will be notified by postal card,and a issued to him stating employment, employer and wages, together with a second blank to be signed by employer, stating that applicant has resented himself and has been sngsied, the atter to be immediately returned to the bureau. 3. When cards are issued for employment the np&licmt must assure the bureau that he has sufficient funds to pay transportation to place of employment, or forego same, as _cards will expressly prohibit the solicitation of funds for this purpose. This rule is adopted to avoid the abuses to which the bureau might be subjected by dishonest persons, mendicants, eic. 4. Employment cards will be non-transfer- able, and the employment of any person offer- ing to sell or exchange for & consideration the said cards will be revoked and that person’s name stricken from the register. 5. The conduct of persons receiving employ- ment through this bureau will Y'"m any future assistance from same. Should any per- son reeeran employment behave in & manner which would warrant his discharge the bureau will refuse to re-regjster him. 6. After applicants are registered they are re- quested to remain away from_the bureau until sent for, as any further and unnecessary re- quests will be unavailing. 7. Disorderly conduct at the bureau is strictly prohibited. 8. Asapplicants’ names will be canceled upon obtaining employment, they are requested to immediately notify the bureau of obtaining same, if through other sources; also upon the expiration of term of employment, in order that they may be re-registered, 9. Applicatits obtaining employment through this bureau are requested to keep the bureau informed of any matters concerning the work for which the Bureau of Labor Statistics is or- ganized which may come within their observa- tion and relating to labor, etc. 10. Any person 'mmul violating any offthe above rules will be stricken from the register ::I:I.bo forever denied the privilege of the Commissioner Fitzgerald says that every man who proves himself unworthy of em- ployment will be read out of the bureau as soon as his real character becomes known, and that he expects to have 10,000 to 15,000 men and women registered in his bureau before the demand for positions ceases. RACING AGAIN TO-DAY. A Well-Filled Card That Should Keep Race-Goers Guessing. Racing will be resumed to-day with a programme of five well-filled running events. The entries are as follows: First race, five-eighths of a mile, selling— Solitario 104, John Capron 104, Soledad 104, Mount Carlos 104, Deadhead 97, Vulcan 104, 8t. Elmo 104, Red Dick 104, Arno 101. Sccond race, half mile, maidens, two-year- olds—Lady Melbourne 105, Don Pedro 108, Mollie Bawn 105, Clara Johnson 105, Princess Hooker 108, Lizzie P filly 105, Belle Boyd 105, Grady 108. Third race, eleven-sixteenths of a mile, sell- ing—Ricardo 98, Rose Clark 99, Major Cook 89, Mamie Scott 87, Realization 107, Silver State 102, Nellie G 96, Centurion 98, Bernardo 101. Fourth race, three-quarters of a mile—Nor- mandie 99, Dick Stevens 99, Mulberry 112, Howard 109, Roadrunner 108, Arctic 108, Royal Flush 114, Charmion 101. Fifth race, one mile, selling—Arnette 86, Boreas 91, Commission 99, Little Cripple 106, The Lark 106. . By glancing at to-day’s racing card it will be noticed that none of the horses of the Elmwood stock farm are entered, and there is a possibility that they will race no more during the present California Jockey Club meeting. Charles Boots, owner of the big stable, stated at the Palace Hotel last evening that he had as yet received no official notification of the §250 fine imposed on him by the judges Saturday, but that the first inkling he had received of same was through the press. If the fine stands Mr. Boots said that he would remove his string from the track and race no more until the opening of the new racecourse of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club. Intallator, the stable’s three-year- | old, who comes very near being a cracka- ack, has been racing for cheap purses, and is owner stated that 1t was immaterial to him whether he raced any more at the present meeting or not, but that he would give his horses a rest preparatory to meet- ing some of the Eastern campaigners that will be here this winter. The stand taken bv Mrs. Boots in the matter is considered a just one by the ma- jority of horsemen, as they clearly think e was entitled to the services of Chevalier in the race that caused al of the rumpus. A string of six horses, owned by J. T. Davis of Modesto and trained by E. Flit- ner, arrived at the track yesterday from Stockton, where they have been undergo- ing a “‘prep.” The string consists of three two-year-olds, May Jones, Corinto ‘and Peixoto, Tam o Shanter 4, Degroat 4, and Winchester, a three-year-old brother to Peixoto. James Maddock also arrived at the track with R H, an aged horse, and Colleen Bawn, a two-year-old. THE MECHANICS' EXHIBIT, Meeting of the Institute to Arouse Enthusiasm for the Fair. More Novel and Interesting Exhlibits Wil Be Made Than Ever Before. A meeting of the Mechanics’ Institute was held last night to discuss and arrange matters relative to the annual fair which 18 to open on the 13th of August. The meeting was to have been attended by delegates from the several progressive organizations of the City, but owing to some mistake in sending out the notices only a few of the associations were repre- sented. The discussion therefore wasin- formal. A communication was received from W. G. Doane, chairman of the committee on publicity and promotion, inanswer to a re- quest that a committee of three be ap- pointed to solicit attendance of members and exhibits of local manufacture at the fair. Mr. Doane wrote that it was his un- derstanding the entire matter bad been left in the hands of the committee on pub- licity and promotion, and that the com- mittee was acting in the premises as ra;xidly as possible. There ensued a desultory discussion among the few present as to the most ef- fectual methods to be applied in working up the enthusiasm of local manufacturers. From the reports made it appears that the smaller and newer manufacturing firms are the ones to manifest the greatest inter- est. Theolder and larger concerns seem apathetic and have not yet determined whether they will make any exhibits. Secretary Culver’s report was encourag- ing. He said in many respects the fair would be the most interesting ever held by the Institute, inasmuch as the exhibits would be of an entirely different character. Instead of the bookbinder, for instance, having on display a few machines and specimens of his work, he will have his machines in operation and books will be carried through the process of binding, from the folding of the first sheets to the printing of the title on the cover. Ink manufacturers, iron-workers and all other exhibitors in the mechanical arts will have their machinery in operation turning out their wares before the eves of the daily vis- itors to the fair. Heretofore, says the sec- retary, it has been too much like walking down Market or Kearny street. The stores had simply been moved in part up to the Pavilion. Another meeting will be held Friday evening. AMATEUR ATHLETICS. Ladies’ Night at the Olymplc Club. Limited Round Boxing Bouts Outside. Director Hammersmith of the Olympic Club states that there is no truth in the rumor that professional pugilists will be engaged to give exhibitions with a view of assisting the club from a financial point of view. In commenting on the matter the director said that if the club counld not get along without invoking the aid of profes- sional pugilists it might just as well close up uhor. A splendid programme of athletic and F{x:nas rt has been arranged for ‘Ladies’ night,” the 23d inst. It will in- clude contests with the single sticks, broad sword, rapiers and foils, and if two experi- enced La Savate kickers can be secured an exhibition of that style of game peculiar to the French wili also be given. Two bouts of boxing and two bouts of wrestling be- tween clever amateurs will add very ma- terially to brighten up the gymnastic end of the entertainment. The conciusion will be fancy swimming and diving by mem- bers of the swimming ciub. i The next amateur boxing entertainment will be given under the auspices of the Pa- cific Coast Amateur Athletic Association— that uAHrovided the officers of the associa- tion will succeed in getting Mayor Sutro’s sanction to hold an exhibition of fisticuffs in one of the many halls of this City. The Pacific Association is very desirious of making a-little money so that its interests athletically can be strengthened by a bank acco'nt. It is of the ppinion that a well conducted boxing tournament between the leading amateurs of the State held in some large hall would result in a Freat financial success. The ofticers there- ore hope that the Mayor will favorably consider the request. The prizes will be $75 and $25, which inducement the boxers are very well pleased with. Emin Starr, the champion welter-weight professional Engilist of Australia, is a simon-pure white man. and not a colored man as has been reported. Starr states that the gentleman he is now matched to fight is a colored pugilist. Must be Inspected To be appreciated, is the verdict of swim- mers and doctors upon the facilities for and care exercised in refilling the tanks at the Crystal Baths on North fiemh with unused salt water. Purity of salt water seems to be the slogan of these baths. LOVE, MURDER, SUICIDE: Thomas G. Woods Kills His| Sweetheart and Then Himself. HMABEL C. KENT HIS VICTIM Jealousy Sald to Have Led to the Perpetration of the Double Tragedy. Thomas C.Woods, a cook on the steamer ‘Walla Walla, shot and killed Miss Mabel Kent at 6:30 o’clock last night and then tired a bullet through his heart. Death ensued in both cases almost instantly. The double tragedy occurred on the cor- ner of Ridley and Elgin streets, and at a| time when the place was almost deserted. The awful deed seemed to huve been done on the impulse of a madman. From all accounts Woods had been forcing his at- tentions on the pretty girl, who had re- pulsed him. Maddened by jealousy, he put a pistol in his pocket and waylaid the object of his love. Miss Kent was a beautiful young woman of 20 years of age, and by occupation a dressmaker. She was returning from her | day’s toiling when Woods met her at Mar- ket street and insisted upon accompany- ing her home. When they reached Rid- ley and Elgin streets Woods was holding | her arm. She broke away from him board’s publications have always been paid out of tge aporopriations. The Governor “'digs up’’ a law that the State Printer must provide all such things. lt_ls figured out in the letter that but $1875 a year is absolutely required, as the sal- aries are paid out of this eneral fund. Other laws which enable the secretary to carry on the work of the board without a single meeting of the members are revealed, and attention is drawn to the absolute powers vested in county boards of horticulture to do quarantine work and order the destruction of pests, trees and infected orchards at the owners’ expense. One idea advanced by the Governor will undoubtedly be acted on by the board. One of the most_vaiuable as’ well as ex- pensive works of the board has been the discovery, introduction and distribution of the parasites which have saved many mil- lions by cleaning orchards of destructive pests. Itis estimated that the ladybug which cleans out the cottony cushion scaie has been worth $3,000,000 to Los Angeles County alone. Since January 1 last the board has sent out free 1500 colonies of the new parasite that works on the black scale. Now the Governor’s idea is that horticul- turists ought to pav for these bugs. He says that at only $2 a colony the board could have taken in $3000 this year. This idea of being. self-supporting and even Inxuriating in experiments, parasites, ex- perts and fine engravings on the profits of the parasite business never occurred to the board before. ¥ The Governor in his letter and in his private talks has expressed deep interest and appreciation conceruing the horticul- tural interests and the valuable work of the board, and offers to personally give $70 a year to the support if the Board of Commissioners will throw off their like charge for traveling expenses. This, he says, would leave about $100 a month still needed. “If the fruit industry, valued at ‘huu- dreds of millions of dollars,’ does not con- tribute this the same can undoubtequ be raised by the sale of pest destroyers.’ So the Board of Horticulture will pull itself together. move to the City Hail prob- ably, work out another method of pruning sell parasites, receive subscriptions an work along heroically and devotedly. ————————— The Affiliated Colleges. Governor Budd will have a conference this afternoon with Dr. McNutt of the board of trustees for the Affiliated Colleges Miss Mabel Eent. at the corner and told him that he must not walk with her any further. The cook then grasped her arm again, and, as she strufigled to get away, drew his revolver, an ,J)lacing the muzzle against her breast, fired. The un- fortunate girl fell dead at his feet, without acry. A crowd quickly gathered and a police whistle was sounded, but before a hand could be laid upon the murderer he turned his weapon ‘on himself, and fell to the sidewalk beside the unfortunate young woman. Clarles G. Finsterbusch, a baker, was a witness to the shooting. He heard Miss Kent say, “No, I won’t walk with you.” and at the same time disengaged her arm which Woods insisted upon holding. ‘Woods immediately replaced his arm, and according to Finsterbusch, drew a revolver from his pocket, placed it against her breast and fired. ; A moment later he fired the shot into his own body. e Mr. Kent, father of the dead girl, said that his daughter came here from Canada in last September, and met Woods for the first time on the steamer Walla Walla on the way down from Victoria. Anacquaint- ance sprang up between the two, which, unknown to Miss Kent’s family, ripened into a too intimate acquaintance. Miss Kent, in last May, tola her father that Woods had insulted her, and her brother Frank wrote Woods a threatening letter. A letter found on Woods’ body from the murdered girl showed that at one time she was desperately 1n love with him, and that they were engaged to be married. Miss Kent addressed him as, “My dear lover,” and wound up the letter with: “Your loving and intended— MABEL.”” A portion of the letter gives the impres- sion that there was more between the two than the world knew, for one paragraph reads: i - “I shall never feel the same girl again, but it is of no use now, as you say.” Miss Kent evidently had tired of the attentions of Woods when she learned the character of his affection for her, and the cook, crazed by her scorn, decided to kill the girl and himself. BOARD OF HORTICULTURE Governor Budd Makes Some Suggestions for Its Guidance. The Commissioners Want to Move to Sacramento®and Do as Budd Says. Now, for the first time since the veto of its appropriation bill, the State Board of Horticulture knows just where it stands and what it has to do since it has been forced to break its habit of drawing $10,000 a year for its expenses. Governor Budd and the executive com- mittee of the board have had a conference and parted with good feeling. The Gaver- nor will now practically run the affairs of the State Board of Horticulture, and the State Board of Horticulture will praise the Governor's wisdom and economy and hope for a good-sized appropriation from the next Legislature. The conference mentioned occurred in Sacramento last Friday when Elwood Coover, Frank Kimball and J. L. Mosher of the executive committee called on the Governor. Bince that time Budd has ad- dressed a very long and vigorous letter to the said executive committee, which is ostensibly occasioned by a resolution adopted April 17 by the State Board of Horticulture, deploring the Governor’s vetd, rebuking him by implication and de- claring that tge lack of any appropriation would work & practical abandonment of all means to protect the largest single indus- try in this State. Since then the Gov- ernor has been charged by many fruit- owers with having dealt _the tate’s greatest interest a blow and has been verbally kicked a good deal by horticulturists, assembled, congregated and alone all over the State. The Governor's letter demonstrates how economy could be practiced by a State commission. The Governor takes issue with the board and starts in on the rent of $135 per month for the fine hage quarters on Sutter street. He has found large vacant rooms in the Capitol building r% Sacramento, the cen- ter of a fruit-raising country, which the board could have, and has got the Labor Commissioner to offer a room free in San Francisco for the quarantine officer. He calls attention to a purchase of $1000 worth of stamps on April 22 out of the old 1& propriation, and says that ought to enough for postage for a year and a half, The estimate of $1800 for drawings and engravings is wholly thrown out, and here the Governor teaches the Board of Horticulture as well as other State boards alittle law. The fine illustrations for the by Thomas C. Woods. regarding the use of granite from Folsom | in the construction of the new building. | Meetings with the other trustees will follow. “The Folsom granite has the finest ap- pearance of any building material I have seen,” said the Governor last night, “and the new additions to the g‘rison are hand- some structures indeed. 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