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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1895. INCREASE OF REVENUE How Treasury Officials Hope to Meet the Deficit. THEY RELY ON WHISKY. One Plan Is to Tax All Papers! Used for Commercial Purposes. NO BAISE ON THE BEER RATES. But Last of All Expenses Can Be Met by Using “Borrowed” Money. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 2—The question of raising sufficient revenue is still demanding the attention of the Presi- dent and Secretary of the Treasury. luctance on the part of both the President end Secretary to resort to an additional tax on beer, and it is not probable that either party will take up that proposition in Congres: The recommendation of the President, it is believed, will be that a tax be puton domestic wines offered for sale, upon pro- prietary medicines and cosmetics, and upon notes, checks, drafts, mortgages and all sorts of papers used in financial tran- sactions. It is calculated that this would add about 000,000 a year to the revenue, and it is hoped that the income from whisky will grow, so as to make this amount of new revenue sufficient. About the only reliance of the treasury for an increase of the revenue without leg- islation is in whisky. It is calculated that this fall there will be heavy withdrawals from bond, and that from about Septem- ber there will continue to be heavy with- drawals. If the most sanguine hepes should be realized the increase would be | about $16,000,000. The withdrawals during the past year were about $6,000,000 short of normal, ané the increased rate oi tax wounid add about $10,000.000 at normal withdrawal for consumption. crease ‘may not come anywhere near this amount. Itisa maximum estimate. Yet it is about all there is in sight, or even in the range of speculation, to give hope of substantial reduction of the deficiency of about $42,000,000. There appears ver: tle prospect of anything being accom- plished through legislation. About the only thing that can be relied upon is “sur- The in- | Itis | understood that there is a decided re- | General Neilson said it was strange Cul- ver should have charged that Superinten- dent Flint was implicated in frauds, when it was well known that Mr. Flint had last June been chiefly instrumental in unearth- ing frauds in the service. It is regarded as highiy probable that Culver will be dis- missed soon, although department officials will not say so. e IN BEHALF OF WALLER. Instructions of a Pointed Nature Sent to Embassador Eustis. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 2.—It is understood that within the last forty-eight hours a dispatch was sent to Embassador Eustis instructing him to further press the | Waller case upon the attention of the Freuch Government and to insist that a full copy of the record in the trial be fur- nished ‘this Government. A significant vart of the instructions was that which directs Mr. Eustis to convey to the French Government the fact that this Govern- ment, in the event of further refusal to fur- nish the record requested, would be com- rolled to assume that the sentence of Wal- er is indefensible on the part of the French authorities. S in STOLEN BY SQUAWMEN. Lost Cattle May Cause Trouble on the Sioux Reservation. SPRINGVIEW, Nesm., Aug. 2—j. M. Coble, Deputy United States Marshal, and others started for the Sioux reservation last evening for the purpose of recovering 100 steers. ‘T'he steers were let out for the season by the Reliance Trust Company of Sioux City, Iowa, to a squawman, who, it is said, has gotten away with the last one of them. Some of this same outfit of squaw- men were among the parties who captured Bogeland, Clark, Jackson and Murphy, who stole Amspoker’s cattle some time ago. This bunch of cattle is worth about $5000, and unless returned to the company there | will be more trouble in the Sioux reserva- tion. | plus” cash, which represents part of the | new bonded debt. It is calculated that this ‘‘surplus” of borrowed money is suffi- cient to meet any deiiciency likely to oc- cur in the receipts for two years, and that at the present rate it would take that long to completely bankrupt the treasury. So that if there is no legislative relief the treasury can get along for a while on bor- rowed money. e et DOES NOT MEAN 4 RUN. Cause of the Withdrawal of Vast Sums of Gold. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 2.—Treas- ury officials were surprised this afternoon when informed that a demand had been made on the sub-treasury at New York for a considerable sum of gold for export. The amount exceeds two millions and opens up another gap which the Morgan- Belmont bond syndicate may feel called upon to fill. One million was called for by the Bank of Montreal and upward of a million and a quarter by coffee importing houses. This withdrawal does not appear in the statement issued to-day, as the treasury has not been officially advised of the transaction. figures issued at 2 o'clock this afternoon the reserve stands at $i07,118,251, a loss since yesterday of $118,251. Acting Secretary Curtis says the with- drawal indicates nothing more than a de- sire on the part of American importers to pay their debts as they fall due, the export of gold at this season being occasioned by the liguidation of foreign accounts. The information came to Acting Secretary Cur- tis by long-distance telephone. The ship- ping of gold to the Montreal Bank is not, the Secretary says, an unusual occurrence. The bank bas large credits in New York and this cail for goid is, he thinks, on ac- count of a demand for settlement. Mr. Caurtis scouts at the idea of any attempted run on the treasury gold. THE WALLERS NEED HELP. Assistance for Wife and Children to Be Asked. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 2.—Infor- mation received from Mrs. Waller, the wife of the ex-Consul to Madagascar, who is now lying in a French military prison near Marseilles, states that she is indebted to Mr. Woodford, an American gentleman formerly employed as a civil engineer in the Transvaal but now residing at Tama- tave, for her escape from the island. Mr. ‘Woodford furnished Mrs. Waller funds sufficient to bring herself and four children from Antananarivo, the capital, to Vatra- mandi, on the coast, a distance of 300 miles, thence to the island of Mauritius. Mrs. Waller is now at Port Louis, Mau- ritius, without a penny. Her husband’s attorney, Cammand Kennedy of this city, has notified Governor Morrill of Kansas of the facts, and it is believed that sufficient money will be raised in that State to bring Mrs. Waller and family to America. Mr. Kennedy authorizes the statement that any funds which it may be desirable to contribute to the support of Waller’s fam- ily may be sent to the State Department at Washington, when they will be promptly forwarded to her. —_—-— CULVER NOT BELIEVED. Department Officials Do Not Place Cre- dence in His Charges. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 2—The Postoffice Departmentfofficials were to-day discussing the charges made by Railway Postal Messenger E. S. Culver against Superintendent Flint of the railway mail service. Second Assistant Postmaster- According to the official | | they took their seats in the court. CNIL STRIFE AT OMAHA, There Are Now Two Rivai Boards to Control the Police. Central Station Doors Barred and the Old Regime Remains In Power. OMAHA, Nepr., Aug. 2—The situation respecting the police muddle is critical to- night, yet there is little likelihood of open violence on the part of either party to the controversy. The State appeinting board met at Lincoln to-day and appointed A. C. Foster, W.J. Broatch and Paul Vandevort to be police commissioners for the next four years. The City Council at 4:30 o'clock met in a special session to approve the bonds of the new commissioners and install them in office. Judge Hopewell of the District Court, sitting at Tekemah, wired a restrain- ing order forbidding the council to approve the bonds of the new appointees, and the order was served on the councilmen as The order, however, was utterly disregarded | and the council proceeded fo the business | and determine upon a plac. | any attempt to dislodge them. it had in hand. Itis the purpose of the Mayor and the old board of commissioners to secure the arrest of every councilman who by his vote violates the order of the court, and the Sheriff will proceed at once to arrest them. The new commission did not demand that the Police Department be turned over to them at once and to this fact alone is due the peaceful condition of the city to- night. One of the new members said to- night that no decisive action would be taken until the commission could meet Thus the matter stands. Omaha has two Police Commissions, one acting under the old law and the other under the new. The old commission has control of the police force and will resist The offices in the City Hall are under a strong guard, the central patrol alarm station is barred and bolted and a strong detachment of officers is held at the central police station for any emergency. One hundred special policemen were sworn in this evening in support of the regular force in order that any attempt to get control of the depart- ment may be successfully resisted. The new police board met to-night and elected W. J. Broatch president and Paul Vandervoort secretary. It issued an order requiring the Police and Fire departments to recognize it as the legal board, but took no other steps. Judge Hopewell arrived here to-night from Tekemah and issued an injunciion and the case will come upin the District Court before him to-morrow at 10 o’clock. Very likely the new board and council will pay no attention toit. The City Hall is heavily guarded to-night, but no one seems to want to molest it. e oo POPULISTS OF OHIO. They Nominate Coxey of Commonweal Fame for Governor. COLUMBUS, Osio, Aug. 2.—The plat- form reported by the resolutions com- mittee was materially added to by the Populists State convention this morning. The additions include the following: Declaring it treason to issue interest- bearing bonds in time of peace; that the trial of Debs was a subversion of the right to trial by jury,and demanding_that all public monopolies be nationalized; favor- ing State control of the sale of intoxi- cating liquors without profit; declaring in favor of the election of all State and National officers by direct vote of the people; favoring the eight-hour system of State employment. But two names were presented for the nomination for Governor. These were Edward Stark of Cleveland and J. 8. Coxey of Canton. Coxey was nominated, the vote standing 520 for Coxey and 74 for Stark. The convention adjourned until 3P o The ticket was filled out in the afternoon by the nomination of John H. Crofton of Cincinnati for Lieutenant- Governor, George W. Harper of Green County for Treasurer, W. V. Baker of Newark for Attorney-General, E. D. Stark of Cleveland for Supreme Juage and W. A, Floyd of Dennison for member of the Board of Pub- lic Works. George A. Grootof Cleveland was unanimously indorsed ‘l}y the conven- tion as candidate for United States Senator. Reforms in Turkey. CONSTANTINOPLE, TuRkEY, Aug. 2.— The Cabinet has decided thatreforms shall be instituted not only in Armenia but in all the Turkish provinces. - Apollinaris “THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS. “First in Purity.” BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, L) ON EASTERN TRACKS, Failure of an Effort to Close the Glenville Meeting. HEATS BADLY SPLIT UP. Those Who Burned Money on Robert J Recovered the Ashes. Py THEY BACKED SWIFT BEUZETTA. j Colonel Frost, the Noted Turfman, Badly Hurt While Driving In a Show Ring. CLEVELAND, Omro, Aug. 2.— There were four eventson the card for to-day’s grand circuit meeting. One was a post- poned race from yesterday. It was the last regular day of the most successful meeting in the history of Glenville track, and the horses were called at 12:30 o’clock, an hour earlier than usual, in an effort to finish the programme. In the 2:17 trot and the 2:10 pace the heats were so split up and there were so many accidents—such as thrown shoes, etc.—that but one event was finished. Beuzetta won the 2:13 trot in straight heats. She was an even money favorite against the field in the auctions,and those of the talent who burned up their money on Robert J yesterday got the ashes back on the speedy little chestnut mare. The unfinished races and the 2:15 trot will be run off to-morrow. Theattendance to-day was about 7000. Postponed race, 2:17 class, trotting; purse $2000. Bravado, bl. s. Wilkes (COOK)............. Kate Phallamont, b. m., by Phallamont (Colby y Kentucky Marston Peleine....... Fascination. . Nellie A 14 11984 —2:18%%, 2:13 class, trotting; purse $2000. Beuzetts, ch. m. by Onward (Bowérman). Geneva, b. s. (Stinson). Altoa, b. g. (McDowell! Miss Wilson. Grattan BBP Blaki Merm: Eamon ORI n Time, 2 2:10 class, paci Coleridge, b. ., by Paul, ch. g. Ben D, cl Guinette o FooonanSrwmes PR P IR o e Time, 2 o OAKLEY RACETRACK, OHI0, Aug. 2—Four and a hali furlongs, Lasalle won, Ban Johnson second, Cherub third. Time, :55%. Six and a half furlongs. Uncle Henry won, Birmingham *second, Golden Fleece third! gs, Monica won, Japan Commissioner Frank third. Time, 1:0; 8ix furlongs, Lizette won, Ottyanna second, Silurian third. Time, 1.14};. One mile and seveniy yards, Ragner won, {:Xsk?t second, Alethia len third. Time, 14814, Five furlongs, Belle of Fordham won, Mo- tilln second, Fair Lady third. Time, 1:028{. 8T. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 2.—The track was in prime condition and the attendance large. The third race, on which every one speculated, was a dead heat between Prime Minister, the odds-on favorite, and Loben- gula, the second choice. Prime Minister's owner refused to run off the dead heat and his horse was sent to second place, Loben- gula taking first. Bets were paid accord- ingly. The finish was the most exciting of the meeting, the two leaders finishing the last fifty yards on even terms. Favo- rites were mostly bowled over, second picks taking most of the money. Six furlongs, fmp. Vigor won, Booze second, Martha Griffin third. Time, 1:15%. Five-eighths of a mile, John Boone won, May Galop second, Southworth third. Time, 1:0815. Seven-eighths of a mile, Prime Minister and Lobengula ran a dead heat, George W. Bailey third. Time, 1:29%. One mile, Linnette won, Reeder third. Time, 1:4114. Five-eighths of & mile, Nicholas won, Falcon second, Sixty third. Time, 1:023¢. One mile, Charlie McDonald won. Theodore A second, Leader Ban third. Time, 1:43}¢. BRIGHTON BEACH, N. Y., Aug. 2.—Five fuclongs, Silk won, Humming Bird second, Primingo third. Time, 1:033;, Five furlongs, Gismonda won, Bessie Brown- ing second, Yankee Doodle third. Time, 1:013;. One mile, Tinge won, Sir Dixon Jr. second, Corn Cob third. Time, 1:423;. One and a sixteenth miles, Our Jack won, Aurge‘l)isn second, Hugh Penny third. Time, second, 217 21, Eloroy second, 1:4814. Six turlougs, Dulcie Larondie won, Wellman second, Bucaneer third. Time,1:17. Five furlongs, Bergundy won, Bowling Green second, Jake h}i'yaeyy third. Time, 1:0237. SARATOGA, N. Y., Aug. 2.—Six furiongs, Wernberg won, Babe Purphy second, Semper Lex third. Time, 1:15. One mile and a sixteenth, Arapahoe won, Lord Nelson second, Orinda third. Time, 1:48, Four and a_half furlongs, Crimea won, Mar- quis second, Predicament third. Time, :55%5. One mileand a sixteenth, Brandywine won, Dungurven second, Lookout third. Time, 1513, Four and a half furlongs, Skyblue won, Prin- cgfis Noretti second, Rosalind 1II third, Time, % KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 2.—The at- tendance at the races to-day was light. Five furlongs, Abe Halstead won, Florella second, Mitchell third. Time, 1:0434, Five and a half furlongs, Abana Boy won, Pen Point second, John C third. Time,1:11%4. Five furlongs, King Hazel won, Fannie Hunt second, Blanche Kern third. Time, 1:05. Six and & half furlongs, George Miller won, ilic&u’);lkm second, Immilda third. Time, Sevén furlongs, Little Nell won, Paulette sec- ond, Gateway third. Time, 1:25. INJURED ON THE TRACK. Colonel Frost Badly Hurt by a Cart Overturning. MEXICO, Mo., Aug. 2.—Colonel A. E. Frost, a prominent horseman of this State and Illinois, was seriously hurt at the fair grounds this morning. He was driving Bonnie McGregor, 2:13%, in a road wagon in a show-ring when the vehicle was over- turned and he was thrown out. At first it was thought the colonel was killed, but he revived and is now confined in his room at the hotel. Colonel Frost is proprietor of the Frost stock farm at Roodhouse, IlL., and is known in horse circles all over the country. He resides in St. Louis. T0 WITNESS THE RACES. Plan to Form a Swell Country Club at Newport. NEW YORK, N.Y., Aug. 2.—Patronsof the turf will at an early date be invited to attend a meeting at the Casino in Newport to consider the project of the formation of a club which will occupy the grounds at Morris Park, and will combine all the fea- tures of a country club, as well as the privileges of witnessing race meetings at the track. Among the patrons of the turf who could be found in the city yesterday there was no concealment of the fact that the propased club will owe its organization to a desire on the part of many prominent gentlemen to perpetuate and dignify horse- racing. g The idea to inject a social element into turf features is a development of the re- cent formation of the Westchester Racin, Association, which holds its inaugural meet August 10, and which will renew the F’puhr stakes made famous at Jerome ark and continued at Morris Park. Under its charter the Jockey Club cannot indulge in racing, but the Westchester Association and the proposed new club has the full sanction of tga organization. Unless the club can be formed among wealthy turf enthusiasts, the future of racing in this section is considered ex- ceedingly dubious. The statutes which prevents all revenue from the bookmakers make the continuance of the sport almost impossible, unless the interest of society people of wealth can be aroused and the support of the track assured by them in much the same manner that the opera is maintained annually in the city. Among the well-known gentlemen who may be expected to indorse the limfi“ are these: James R. Keene, Gideon E. uapg, August Belmont, J. Otto Donner, J. J. Sturgis, Colonel William F. Thompson, J. Harry Alexander. J. H. Bradford, Dr. But- terfield, Robert Goelet, Frank Gray Gris- wold, John G. Heckscher, Lawrence Kip, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., H. B. Hollins, Lorillard, A. Newbold Morris, F. August Schermerhorn, William K. Vanderbilt, George Peabody Wetmore, J. Wadsworth, C. H. Kerner and Hubert C. Pell. BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 2.—First game—Bostons 10, 12, 8; Philadelphies 8, 4, 2. Batteries— Nichols and Ganzel, Carsey and Clements. Second game—Bostons 6, 12, 2; Philadelphias 7,13, 4 (10 innings). Batteries—Sullivan and Tenny, Carsey and Clements. Umpire—Emslie. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 2.—Washingtons 13, 10, 3; Baltimores 4, 8, 9. Batteries—Boyd and McGuire, Esper and Clark. Umpires— Keefe and Hunt. PITTSBURG, Pa., Aug. 2.—Pittsburgs 5,9, 6: Clevelands 10, 14, 2. Batteries—Foreman snd Merritt; Young, Clarkson and Zimmer, Um- pire—0’Day. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 2.—Louisvilles 9, 15, 1; Cincinnatis 8, 11, 3. Batteries—Cunning- ham and Warner; Dwyer, Parrot, Veughn and Murphy, Umpire_Jeyns. NEW YORK, X. Y., Aug. 2.—New Yorks 6,9, 8; Brooklyns' 11, 14, 2. Batteries— Rusie, Clarke and Farrell; Stein and Dailey. pire—Burnham. CHICAGO, ILL., Aug. 2. between Chicagos and S OVE UTLAW SHOT DOW United States Marshals Killed Isaac Black in Okla~ homa. Um- —No game scheduled Loui During The Running Battle In a Cornfield the Notorious Yeager Escaped. WICHITA, Kans., Aug. 2.—This after- noon two United States Deputy Marshals, John W. Muir and M. Hildreth, assisted by Adam Hargis and A. M. Hil- dreth, brought the dead body of another bandit to Alva, Oklahoma. The body has been identified as that of Isaac Black, noted as one of the most daring and in- trepid of the Yeager gang. For several days these men have been in hot pursuit of Yeager and Black, and vesterday evening they tracked their men to the house of a widow named Emma Jones, fifty miles south of Alva, near the village of Cantonment. The house is Jocated in the center of a cornfield. The officers discovered the outlaws eating sup- per. When the two men started to leave the house the officers called upon them to surrender. Jnstead of doing so they reached for their guns, whereupon the posse began firing. Black was shot through the head, and Yeager ran into the corn amid a hailstorm of bullets, leaying the dead outlaw where he fell. The officers pursued Yeager, who had a fleet horse und rode rapidly south. Hun- dreds have joined in pursuit of Yeager, determined to rid the country of him. Justice of the Peace Humphrey held an inquest over Black’s body, which was identified beyond question. Upon his per- son was found some song-balladsand a pic- ture of a pretty woman and $1 50 in money. To-day a photograph was taken of the dead outlaw, who will be buried to-night. Black was shot on May 26 in a skirmish with the officers and there was a severe scalp wound where he had been shot last week. Yeager or Black—it is not known which— shot a farmer. named Al Richardson through the shoulder last Saturday morn- ing not far from where last night’s tragedy occurred. The wound is not considered dangerous. WEALTHY MEN CONVICTED. The Taylor Brothers Must An- swer for Killing the Meeks. Terrible Crime Committed by a Banker and a Farmer to Silence Two Witnesses. CARROLLTON, Mo., Aug. 2.—After be- ing out two hours and a half to-day the jury in the Meeks murder case brought in a verdict of guilty against William and George Taylor. The verdict finds them guilty of murder in the first degree. The crowd began to applaud vigorously and William Taylor half rose in his seat with a look of terror in his eyes. The Judge and Sheriff rapped for order, but the crowd applauded and the Judge, rising on the bench, shouted to the Sheriff to ar- rest any man that applauded. Then be- gan a rush for the doors, and dozens of men ran to the telegraph office to send dis- patches to the people of Browning and Milan. The crowds gathered in the court- house square and on the streetsand dis- cussed the verdict. But one ballot was taken by the jury. . William Taylor 1s a banker at Browning, Linn County, Mo., and his brother George is a farmer near Browning. Both are mar- ried and wealthy. The crime for which they stand convicted was the murder of Gus Meeks, his wife and two children, in May, 1894. Meeks had shortly before the tragedy been released from the peniten- ttiary, and was an important witness for the State in the prosecution of the Taylor brothers for an alleged fraudulent cattle transaction. On the night of the murders Meeks and his family were taken in a wagon by the two Taylors from their home on the pretext of sending them from the country. The next morning the half- burned bodies of Meeks, his wife and two of their children were found in a straw- stack on George Taylor's farm. Little Nellie Meeks, aged 9, survived her injuries and gave the nErm. The Taylor brothers fled, but were captured. marnt e Offer of a Noble Woman. BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 2.—Mrs. Mary A. Livermore publishes an open letter to Mrs, Gardner, the missing Nebraska delegate to the Christian Endeavor convention who disappeared mysteriously in this city, urg- ing her to visit' the writer at her home in Melrose. The letter concludes: ‘Don’t hesitate to come where you will be well cared for and this little break in your life shall be wholly repaired.” 7 NEWS OF THE COAST. Trouble at the Capitol Over the Employing of Experts. REPLIES TO MR. COLGAN. Attorney - General Fitzgerald Says Their Appointment Was Legal. MAY NOT END THE MATTER. A Belief That Severy and Lewls Will Have Difficulty in Drawing Their Salaries. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Aug. 2.—Attor- ney-General Fitzgerald has answereda the two letters of Controller Colgan in relation to the legality of the appointment of Fred A. Severy as printing expert and Thomas A. Lewis expert to the Board of Exam- iners, but indications are that this does not settle the matter, and although the Con- troller says he has not made up his mind as to what he will do, tiere is no doubt but that Messrs. Severy and Lewis will have to bring the matter into court before they get their money. This controversv is one of the absorbing topics of conversation about the Capitol to-day, and it is said that if the Controller is correct in the stand he has taken in the matter, the elevator-boy and a whole lot of janitors are drawing their pay illegally. This, however, the Controller denies and says that they are matters of necessary expense and it does not require a statute to create the office, while these experts are not necessary and are endowed with ex- traordinary powers, and it does require a statute to give them office, a mere appro- priation in the general act not being suffi- cient. Attorney-General Fitzgerald’s answer to Mr. Colgan in regard to Lewis is contained in the following letter: SAN FraNcisco, July 30, 1895. Hon. E. P. Colgan, State Controller, Sacra- mento, Cal.—DEAR SIR: Iam in receipt of your favor of the 26th instant concerning the ap- pointment of Thomas A. Lewis as expert to the State Board of Examiners and requesting an opinion from me as to the legality of such ap- pointment. AsI understand youf letter vou question the authority of the board to appoint an expert, as, in your opinion, there isno “statute creating the office of expertto the Board of Examiners” nor “any law authoriz- ing the appointment or employment of such an officer.” In this I think you are mistaken. The law imposes a large number of duties upon the State Board of Examiners, among others those of counting the money in the treasury, ex- amining the books and acccunts of the Con- troller and Treasurer and auditing all claims against the State. Accounting of money and examinations of books require the skill of an expert accountant, Further- more, for the proper auditing of claims it frequently becomes the duty of the Board of Examiners to make extended investigation into the conduct and manage- ment of State institutions. This also requires the skill of an expert. Then; too, “in the mat- ter of approving and rejecting claims against the State, the Board of Examiners acts judicially,” and, “where an appointment is essential to the proper exercise of judicial duty, the court concerned has authority to make it.” For the proper exercise of the duties im- posed upon us by law, the employment by the Board of Examiners of an expert is absolutely essential. This necessity was recognized by the Legislature when they made an appropria- tion to pay the salary and traveling expenses of an expert so employed, just as in number- less instances the Leglslature has recognized the necessity for the employment of porters and other attaches of the minor State officers, where employment rests on the grouna of ne- cessity only, and has made appropriations for the payment of their salaries. I am, therefore, of the opinion that the law vests the State Board of Examiners with an in- herent power to appoint and employ an ex- pert, and that the appointment or employ- ment of Thomas A. Lewis as such expert was within the scope of the inherent power pos- sessed by the board and was a valid appoint- ment. Inote that you say that you are “aware that in the general appropriation act of 1895 pro- vision is made for the salary of an expertto the Board of Examiners and for his traveling expenses,” but that you are also “aware, and the records of the last Legislature will show, that the bill creating the office of expert, auth- orizing his employment and fixing his salary, failed of passage.” In this youare laboring under a slight misapprehension as to the facts. The bill to which you refer was one making many material changes in the duties and powers of the Board of Examiners and inci- dentally providing for the employment of an expert. That bill was defeated because of the changes it proposed in the duties and powers of the board, but the Legislature, recognizing the inherent power vested by law in the board to appoint an expert and perceiving the necessity for such an appointment, made provision for the payment of his salary and expenses in the appropriation bill subsequently’ passed. Re- spectfully, W. F. FIT26ERALD, Attorney-General. Inthe case of Severy the Attorney-Gen- eral says, in a letter to Controller Colgan: SaN FraNCISCO, Aug. 1, 1895, Hon. E. P. Colgan, State Controller, Sacramento, Cal—DEAR Sir: In teply to your favor of the 27th inst., concerning the appointment of Fred A. Severy, as printing expert to the Board of Examiners, under section 679 of the Political Code, and requesting an opinion of me as to whether or not said section is still in force, I am of the opinion that as the Legislature has not seen fit either to repeal or amend section 679 of the Political Code, that it is still in full force and effect, and the appointment referred to by youis a valid one. As the Legislature in abolishing the office of State Printer and the system of State print- ing by piecework and establishing the State Printing Office and creating the office of State Printer did not do away with the office of printing expert to the State Board of Ex- aminers, it must be presumed that it was the belief of the Legislature that there were still duties for the said expert to perform, and that, therefore, the svction permitting his ap- pointment was continued in force. The mere fact that no appropriation has been made for the office during the years mentioned by you does not indicate an intention on part of Legislature to abolish the office, as the section carries an appropriation for his salary. Re- spectfully, W. F. FITZGERALD, _ Attorney-General. MURDER OF A HUSBAND. Avrvest of @ Couple in This Country for a Crime in Germany. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 2.—Although unlike the case of Maria Barberi, a matter which came before United States Commis- sioner Lyman yesterday on a request for extradition papers to send Mrs. Mathilda Heinze and Oscar Heilman to Germany, there to be trled for an alleged crime, has points of similarity. Asshown by the evi- ROYAL Baking Powder. Highest of all in leavening strengthi.—v. s. Government Report, dence, most of which was taken abroad. the woman lived with her husband, a wealthy cattie-dealer, and her three chil- daen in Sarnowki, Germany. Oscar Heilman, who had been in the army, was his clerk, 1t became rumored that the clerk’s relations with his employ- er's wife were not what they should be, and this reaching Heinz's ears he told the clerk he would not be needed after the end of the year. The clerk, talking to a barber a few days before last Christmas, asked about strong poisons, and in a few days purchased arsenic from a druggist in a neighbofing town. The cattle-dealer be- came ill December 9, 1894. His wife was seen to give him some kind of a white powder, mixed in water. She told her doc- tor, whom she called in, that her husband had fallen on his head and was never well thereafter. The man died on the last day of the year. After the burial rumors were heard that he had been })oisoned. His body was ex- humed on January 15, and before the autopsy the widow and Heilman disap- eared. They met in Breslau, and sailed rom Bremen together in the Wittekind. Arriving here with the woman’s five-year- old child, they went to live on One Hun- dred and Eighth street, where they were located by United States Marshal Bern- hard, after the German officials had cabled to their representatives here, but before he could arrest them they had disappeared, and were found some time later in Phila- delphia, where they were arrested and brought here. After a short explanation the Commissioner adjourned the case until 2 o’clock on Monday, when he will proba- bly make known his decision. A g B Strike of the Tailors. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 2—The back- bone of the tailors’ strike is broken. A majority of the contractors in the city have already signed the new agreement proposed by the strikers and about 7000 s!ri[:ers in the vicinity are thus enabled to resume work. Meyer Schoenfeld stated to-day that the strike had practically been decided in the tailors’ favor and could at the most last but a few days more. PERSECUTED N ECUADOR, Stories of Cruelty Told by the Returned Benedictine Sisters. Convents Surrounded by Mobs of Insurgents and the Inmates Threatened, NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 2.—The story of the five Benedictine sisters, who re- turned from Ecuador to St. Walbergas Convent in Elizabeth on Wednesday, hav- ing been driven from Ecuador by the out- rages the church is being subjected to there by the Liberal revolutionists, was told by one of the party yesterday. They are: Mother Superiors Quer Ciceri and Alping, and Sisters Edwarda, Beatrice and Agatha, with three secular German priests, Fathers Keller, Tipp and Nobis, who were compelled to leave Ecuador for the same reason. They arrived here on the Pacific Mail steamer Columbia, on Thursda{. Sister Edwards, who was seen at the con- vent vesterday, said: “We, like the three Sisters Genovar, Jo- sephine and Frances, whose story was told in these dispatches, left for Ecuador nearly eight years ago to establish schools there. e three sisters were assigned to Bahia de Caraquez, from which place we have just returned, giving up a school with over seventy pupils. We, however, were more fortunate than they and did not suffer per- sonal violence, although we were con- stantly insulted and were often in fear of Lour lives. Every band of marauding revo- utionists which passed the convent cried: ‘Down with the cassocks!” and similar hostile demonstrations. They accused the church of being friendly to the Govern- ment. “Two weeks ago the convent at Roce- fuert, which contained ten Benedictine sisters, was surrounded by & mob which demanded entrance. It was refused, where- upon the leader commanded the men to fire on the convent and its inmates. At this moment a friendly Ecuadorean ap- peared, and running between the men and the convent directly in the line of fire, appealed tothem to desist, informing them that none but women were in the building, During the delay thus caused a number of our sympathizers gathered and demanded the dispersion of the mob. In the confu- sion which followed the sisters made their escape. “Such outrages became so frequent that at last we felt compelled to leave in order to save our lives, as have all the other sis- ters and priests in Ecuador. The seven- teen sisters remaining in the country when we left are expected on the next steamer, but no_more missionary work will be at- tempted in Ecuador until the revolution is over. The better class of the people seemed greatly to regret our leaving, and we are sure of a cordial welcome should the Liberals be defeated. At present, how- ever, they seem to be in the ascendancy, having gained possession of nearly all the seaport towns and being prepared shortly to make a decided attempt to capture uito, the capital. ¢ Q"Th’e Cnpta‘;n of the Port at Bahia de Caraquez and the Administrator were compelled six weeks ago to take refuge in the house of the Oblate Fathers, where they were sheltered for several days. This, of course, gave the revolutionists additional reason for thinking that the church was friendly to the Government, although in reality the church is strictly neutral and would as readily shelter a revolutionist were he similarly persecuted.” n The three priests who returned with the sisters went to the Alexian Brothers’ Hos- ital in Elizabeth, and were there be- g-iended. They are Germans, and cannot speak English, Their story is very similar to that of the sisters, except that they re- ceived bodily ill treatment. The fathers were called from Germany three years ago by Bishop Schumacher to do missionary work. Father Keller was assigned to work in Jipijapa and Father Nobis in St. Ana, while Father Tipp, who had been but lately ordained, had not yet received a post. According to their story their lives were repeatedly threatened, and one priest, who is still in Ecuador, was shot in the hip, while another was seriously stabbed. Pt Murder of an Editor. ST. 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