The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1895, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1%95. 8 r worth‘$'.:’3fll,79‘2) or $3076 46 a mile. This i: 1813. He cznngefl .in 1850 and for some acter and aroused a feeling of enmity be- RUINED BY GAMBLING, sisesssaraite szt KNIGHTS FERRY FIRE, 1o st vion s s | WAR AT THE CAPITOL, |t s s i = | HEALTH LAWS. Sunset Company’s San Bernardino Manager Arrested. STOLE FROM PATRONS. Bills Raised to Recoup Losses Sustained at Gaming Tables. EMBEZZLEMENT AND FORGERY. Y¥wo Serlous Charges Upon Which C. W. Sebern WIill Be Prose- cuted. SAN BERN Sebern, ma phone Compa: RDINO, CAL., Sept. 23.— r of the Sunset Tele- ice here, at Redlands and at Riversi was arrested to-day, charged with lement. Theamount isabout Sebern is 28 years old, married and came here from I napolis last March, with a first-cla record extending back eight ymt two months ago he was t a ‘“‘sure-thing” gambling lost $35. Subsequently he lost z to win back the first loss. game $400 more try it to Los Angeles last ession to Superintendent K to go to work as lineman or in capacity and p month. Possibly have been accepted, but when gent D. J. Matlock arrived here rned of a more serious offense. is guilty of perjury. When he August bills to the Board of upervisors he raised them from »d the September bi Matlock made a com- int for embezzlement. Sebern was arrested this morning and confined in the County Jail. He offers no excuse, and is willing to take his punish- but would ask leniency on account voung wife, who is in delicate that a number of s to subscribers were also raised ame manner as the county bills, sum in each case is between §1 and The erasure of fizures and the subs tution of others was bunglingly and ¢ lessly done. The total amount thus ob- tained cannot be determined until all the cloped to-da August and September bills are called in | and examined. under both char, Sebern will be prosecuted N STRUCK BY A TRAIN. A Wagon Wrecked, but Its Occupants Es- cape With Their Lives. RNARDI Car., Sept. 23.— Santa fiyer around the A Spring v The tra moving thirty yhour. Charles Martin and Jerry , who were in the wagon, were d at least forty feet and rendered un- us, a few bruises were the ex- their injuries. Their wagon was smashed to kindling wood. RALRDAD SSESSMENTS County Boards of Supervisors Fix the Tax Rate for the Year. SAN B Last n Fe Findings Made in Accordance With the Report of the State Equalizers. SAN RAFAEL, CaL., Sept. 23.—The Board of Supery of M met in adjourned session this afternoon and fixed the railroad tax levy. Therate was placed at $150 on the assessed valu- ors ation, as made by the State Board of Equalization. That board made the fol- iowing findings on Angust 5, 1895: ed value of the North Paci ilroad Company 1n the State fo roadw roadbed, rails and roll in the aggreeate, the ngth of main tr. Marin County, length, 58.50 miles: the apportionment of assessment for Marin Coun 50,0005 the assessed value per mile, ; Assessed value of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad Company for its franchise, roadway, roadbed, rails and roll- ing stock in the State at $1,935,000; the entire length in the State, 165.32 miles; the length in Marin Gounty, 2 miles; assessed value per mile, $11 AppOT- tionment of the assessment for Marin County, $345,285. The Board of ¢ Jowing apportionn upervisors made the fol- ents for Marin County: North Pacific Coast Railroad—Length in school districts, 58.50 miles; in road dis- tricts, 58.85 miles. Assessed value in school districts, $449 assessed valuein road districts, $429,614 San Francisco and North Pacfic Railroad —Length in school i miles; length in road districts, 27. sessed value in school distri assessed value in road districts, $321,875 77; assessed value in city of San Rafael, $23,- 409 14. L0S ANGELES, Car., Sept. 23.—The Board of Supervisors this morning appor- tioned the number of miles of railroad in the county to the different cities, towns, school and road districts, in accordance with the assessment of the State Board of Equalization, as required by law. The| length of the main track of the Southern Pacific in the county is 199.18 miles, assessed at $9358 44 per mile; the Southern California, %6.10 miles, at $6012 67 per mile, and the Pullman 117.48 miles over the Southern Pacific Company, at 5 per mile, and 56.45 miles over the Southern California at 5 per mile. Supervisors bave iigured out the distance traversed by the roads in the cities, school and road districts and appor- tioned to each one the amount upon the basis of valuation fixed by the State board, king quite a voluminous list. % SANTA BARBARA, CAL., Sept. 23.—The Board of Supervisors to-day assessed rail- roads within the county limits, estimating the Pacific Coast Railway, with 36 miles of narrow-gauge road, at $168,331. and the Soutnern Pacific, with 27 miles of road, at $252,678, of which over $35,000 worth is within the city of Santa Barbara. STOCKTON, Cav., Sept. 23.—The Board of Supervisors met yesterday as a board of equalization to place according to law the final valuation on railroad property in S8an Joaquin County. The 52.11 miles of track in the county belonging to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company was assessed at $9358 40 a mile, a total valuation of $487,668. A valuation of $17,408 53 a mile was placed upon the 56.75 miles belonging to the Central Pacific Company in this county, a total valuation of $987,937. The Northern Railway Com- pany’s 29.80 miles of track was declared made affidavit to both. | orney will make a com- | on at the Del Rosa | County | palace Car Company, | man Palace Car Company in this county was assessed at $5768. These taxes will be divided among the several districts through which the lines run. SANTA ROSA, Can, Sept. 23.—The Board of Supervisors of Sonoma County met to-day to make apportionment of the railway tax assessment moneys to the townships, road districts and cities in the county. The State board fixed the assess- ment of railroad properties in Sonoma County this year asfollows: San Francisco and North Pacific, 7; Northern (Southern) Pacific, $245,585; North Pacific Coast, $200,000; Gualala River Company, $29,167. The San Francisco and North Pacific Railway Company’s property is valued at $11,704 87 per mile; the Northern Railway Company, $8046 73; North Pacific Coast Company, 30; Gualala River Company, $4166 66. FLAMES AT SAN BAFEL A Twenty Thousand Dollar Blaze in the Marin County Seat. - Disastrous Conflagration Caused by the Carelessness of a Young Man. SAN RAFAEL, CaL., Sept. 23.—A fire, which originated in the furniture-stcre of William Sales, on Fourth street, between A and B, at 9:30 o’clock this morning, re- sulted in the destruction of nearly $20,000 worth of property. The town was saved from a conflagration that would have swept the entire business portion by the prompt and eflicient work of the fire de- partment, aided by the finest water system in the State. A young man employed by William Sales had placed a pot of tar on the fire in a stove occupying a corner of the rear end of the furniture-store and gone into the rear yard to do some other work. He either forgot his red hot fire and his pot of tar or thought the job could take care of itself. Mr. Sales stated this afternoon that he was aware that the boy was boiling tar to patch the roof about the chimneys, but supposed he was attending to it. “I was busy at_my desk in the front of e, said Mr. Sales, “and suddenly | | st s | I saw a puff of blaze and a dense smoke. | ran back and called the boy; thenIran out and gave an alarm. It wa 1 so quick { that I had no chance to do much, the flames spread so rapidly.” By the time the fireboys had reached the place the entire building was ablaze and the flames were spreading rapidly. The | fire jumped across the open “spa ce to Julie street on the north and licked up a small building occupied by John Williams. Mrs. | Williams and her child had scarcely time to save themselvesand lost all their be- longings. | _There were_five streams of water soon | doing ctive work and within half an | hour the progress of the fire was stopped, | confining "its principal damage to Sales’ | store, the Williams dwelling and a barn | owned by T.C.King. These three were | almost a total loss. There wasn’t $40 worth | of material left in the whole three stories | of the store and the front wall alone held g, adjoining Sales’ store on the west, occupied by Malone & Cody, druggists, was_badly burned in the rear | and the stock largely destroyed. | The occupants of the Miller block, on the west of King’s building, suffered some damage by water and breakage, but none by fire. y, the cigar-dealer, and E. H. v, the plumber, in the Sales build- | o _suffered loss by breakage, but | none by fire. The postoffice, in the Miller building, escaped all damage through the prompt- ness of the postmaster ana assistants. Vogel, the baker, also got off free of loss. E. B. Mahone, an attorney, who occupied offices in the east part of the Sales build- ing, saved his library. The fire reached Sales’ barn, in the rear of McMillen’s studio, and Hotchkiss’ cy- clery, which it consumed, but the building which fronts on A street was saved with- out damage. The fire burned and smoldered for two or three hours, but all the damage done occurred within an hour. The losses in detail as estimated by the owners of build- ings and goods are as follows William Sales, I insurance $5000; loss on goods, insurance. T. C. King, loss on store and barn, $1000; fully covered by insurance. Malone & Cody, loss on stock and house- hold furniture, $1000; the stock insured, | but household goods uninsured. 00, no | " D. C. Sutherland, loss on tools and goods, | $300. Miller, loss on Williams dwelling, | $600; no insurance. Jelinsky, loss on cigars, $200; no insur- ance. | ¥ H. Conway, loss on stock and tools, Besides these losses mentioned there was total loss of household goods stored in | the third story of the Sales store owned by | C. P. Ferris, M. Hazlett, Basil Heathcote, H. J. Maxwell, Miss Emma Burns, G Haskill, Mrs. Cowles, Dr. Brance and Miss E. Panier. | “These holdings were variously estimated | at from $200 to $500 each, few of which | were insured. A majority of the owners are out of town, some being only summer residents, while others, a number of them | teachers who reside in San Rafael in the | winter, have not yet returned, so that it is impossible to learn definitely these losses. Livermore’s Big Blaze. LIVERMORE, CaL., Sept. 23.—In figur- | ing up the loss by the fire that destroyed | their warehouse Sunday evening, Ans- | pacher Brothers place the estimate at $30,- 000; insured for $22,000. It is supposed | now that some tramp caused the fire through carelessness. They expect to re- build in the sp SPOKANE’S ¥ INDUSTRY. | Wheels of the Northwest Milling Com- pany’s Plant Started. SPOK . Wasm., Sept. 23.—Amid the screeching of a hundred whistles and the cheering of ten times as many people, the unew sawmill of the sthwest Milling and Power Company was formally started | this morning at 11 o’clock. Mrs. H. Oppen- | heimer, the mother of the general mana- ger, broke a bottle of champagne over the lurge saw, and Mrs. Newport, the wife of the treasurer, pulled the cord that opened the gate for water, and the macninery was in motion. Addresses were made and the opening was an occasion of considerable moment, The mill is built on_the site of the lar, mill burned in 1894. The Northwest Mifie- ing and Power Company is spending $500,000 in erecting this mill, a large box- factory, a fifteen-barrel flourmill and a new electric-light plant, and the moving of wheels in the plant this morning opens a new era in manufacturing industries of this city. —_—— FROM SEATTLE TO GUATEMALA. First Steamer of the New Ltne Will Sail To-Day. SEATTLE, Wasn.,, Sept. 23.—The steamer Transit, loaded with general mer- chandise, will sail from this port for Cen- tral America to-morrow afternoon, being the first vessel sent out by the Puget Sound and Central America Steamship Company, a line the organization and es- tablishment of which has just been com- pleted by J. E. Chilberg of this city. Her cargo. consisting of flour, potatoes, meats and lumber, is valued at $100,000. It is estimated that it will take about six weeks for the Transit to make the trip and it will make no stop after leaving Puget Sound until it enters the port of San Jose de Guatemala. on building, $9000, | | | known Many Buildings Razed by an Early Morning Blaze. RAGED FOR THREE HOURS A Bucket Brigade the Only Protection Against Its Spread. THE COURTHOUSE GUTTED. Origin of the Conflagration a Mys- tery—List of the Burned Structures. STOCKTON, CarL., Sept. 23.—Knights Ferry was visited by a fire at an early hour vesterday and before the flames were checked the best portion of the town was destroyed. Asnear ascan be learned the fire started in the rear of Kasper Vogt’s sa- loon on Main street. The entire town was aroused by the ringing of bells and the fir- ing of guns. The saloon was so far gone when the bucket brigade was organized that no effort was made to save the building, but all movable furniture from this and near buildings was carried into the street. Men swarmed to the roofs of endangered build- ings and poured water on the roofs in hope of staying the progress of the flames, but in spite of their hard work and a plentiful supply of water for the buckets the flames spread rapidly along the block on the side of Main street next to the river. In a very short time eight houses were on fire and burning at a furious rate. A gust of wind carried the flames across the street and it seemed that the whole town was doomed. Every man in the town was at work with buckets, and it was finally decided to make a stand against the flames at McCabe’s store. After three hours’ hard work the blaze was got under control at this point. As near as can be learned the following is the list of the structures which were totally destroyed: The Riverside Hotel, Kasper Vogt's saloon, Robert Beckwith's butcher-shop and the stable in the rear of it, J. Slook’s dwelling, the old Dolling saloon, Jacob Haslacher’s dwelling. The old courthouse was gutted and the east wall fell in. It is thought to be prac- tically destroyed. It was made of brick and wood combined, and as it is a very old structure it is probably past repair. | pectors. Wil- | of Grant Bros., the Valley Railroad con- liams’ saloon, on the east side of the old | tractors, is now located on the Wolf ranch. returned to_California and took up a farm on the San Joaquin River near Hills Ferry. He afterward disposed of this and went into the cattle business. He engaged in this business since 1868 and accumulated considerable property. —_—— Stabbing Affray at Lodi. STOCKTON, CAr., Sept. 23.—A serious stabbing affray occurred at Lodi late to- night. Wade Ennis, son of ex-Supervisor Ennis, was stabbed in the breast by a man sup posed to be William Looms. RAN ASHORE AT EUREKA. Grounding of the Steamer North Fork on a Jetty in the Bay. EUREKA, CAL., Sept. 23.—The steamer North Fork went ashore on the south jetty inside the bay at 6:30 this evening. It came in early in the afternoon and went to Fields Landing and was crossing the entrance to come to Eureka when it ran aground. The North Fork is in no particular dan- ger unless rough weather ensues. Tugs have gone to her assistance, and an at- tempt will be made to get her off at high water to-night. The passengers are still on bvard. Sooe oy MOUNT SONOMA COAL. Prospectors Strike a Vein on the Lawler Ranch. ? PETALUMA, CaL., Sept. 23.—A vein of coal has been discovered on the Lawler ranch, on Sonoma Mountain, eight miles east of this city. Arrangements have been made with the owner to work it on shares by Messrs. Greider and Grass, the pros- Tunnelinf will commence this week, and coal will be taken out as soon as the timbering can be done. It will be hauled to Petaluma for shipment. The coal is pronounced of superior qual- ity, and the vein widens as the tunnel goes in, —— e Burglary at Montpelier, MODESTO, Car., Sept. 23.—The railroad and express office at Montpelier wase n tered by burglars last night. One hundred and eighty dollars was stolen. The money belonged to Wells, Fargo & Co. and the railroad. S e Schoolhouse for Guadalupe. SANTA BARBARA, CarL., Sept. 23.— The Board of Supervisors to-day issued bonds to the amount of $10,000 to provide a new school building in Guadalupe. MOVED T0 WOLF BANCH The San Joaquin Valley Road Graders Working Near the Stanislaus. . Work on the Corral Hollow Line Nearing Completion at Stockton. STOCKTON, Car., Sept. 23.—The camp THE MATERIAL LEY ROAD ON MORMON CHANNEL. TIES, RAILS, ETC., IN THE BACKGROUND., [Reproduced from"a photograph.] NORTH SIDE. STORAGE-YARDS CF THE SAN JOAQUIN VAL- A VIEW FROM THE courthouse, was considerably damaged, and his dwelling-house was also partly burned. E.T.McCabe’e store, where the conflagration was finally stopyed, was con- siderably damaged by the flames. n of the fire is unknown. It is sed to have been caused by the care- ess of some one who slept in the rear | of Vogt's place or the lodging-house above the saloon. The amount of damage is not Insurance was carried on most of the buildings destroyed by the fire. STRICKEN BY PARALYSIS. A Stocktom Citizen Suddenly Rendered Helpless While Sleeping. STOCKTON, Car., Sept. — M. L. Abramsky, a prominent citizen, was found lying helpless in his bedroom to-day, hav- ing been stricken with paralysis. James Hoskins, in whose house Mr. Abramsky is rooming, went to the latter's door this morning and called him to break- fast. Abramsky made some reply which Hoskins did not understand, but he sup- posed that the roomer was merely answer- ing the summons to breakfast and would be down soon. He did not_appear, how- ever, and at 11 o’clock Mr. Hoskins again went to the room. He found his lodger lying unconscious -across the bed, and breathing heavily. His body was quite cold. A physician who was called ascer- tained that the left side was paralyzed. It is supposed that a blood vessel burst in his brain, and it is very doubtful whether he can recover. Remp e Lah LOST AN ARM. A South San Francisco Man in a Rail- road Accident. STOCKTON, Car, Sept. 23.—1J. C. 0’Day, a stock buyer of South San Fran- cisco, was the victim of a painful accident at Tracy yesterday, in which he lost one of his arms. Mr. O’'Day was in the act of boarding a caboose attached to a moving freight train when he fell to the ground. He quickly pushed himself from the track, but the rear wheels crushed his arm wuntil the lower portion hung by a shred. The train- men bound up the arm and Mr. O'Day ex- hibited wonderful nerve. He was placed on a car and brought to Stockton by a special engine. During the trip he sat up and conversed with the brakeman. On his arrival here surgeons amputated the in- jured member. The only danger now 1s irom blood poisoning. GEORGE M. KASSON DEAD, He Began Mining at Placerville in 1850. STOCKTON, CAL., Sept. 23.—George M. Kasson, a wealthy farmer of this county, died yesterday. Mr., Kasson was born in Connecticut in | sided in the county long enough to gain | at Chico, the Reavis ranch The forces took up work to-day on a new section and are making good progress. The grades for the Corral Hollow Rail- road within the city limits will be finished to-morrow, and track-laying will begin the latter part of the week. A piledriver is now setting the timbers for the first bridge in the City Homestead, a suburban addi- tion. A force of graders is at work on the line near French Camp, and good progress is reported. . SENTENCED AT FRESNO. A Quintet of Evil-Doers Condemned to the Penitentiary. FRESNO, Car., Sept. 23.—TFive men were sentenced to the State Penitentiary to-day from this county. This is a greater number than ever before received sentence in one day in Fresno. The next greatest number was three, when Judge Holmes sent up the members of the James-Dill- wood gang of thieves about two years ago. Of the five who were sent up to-day only one was an old resident of the county. The others were new-comers, and had not re- residence. The five were John Healey, two years for highway robbery; John Dohs, a seventeen-year-old boy, one year for burglary; William Campbell, tkree years for burglary; George Myers, one year for stabbing Constable Ochs at Fowler Tecently while the officer was taking Fim to-jail; John W. Coffee, recently tried and convicted on a charge of felonious assault, twenty years. RED BLUFF LAND POOL. Scheme to Colonize Hundreds of Thou- sands of Acres. RED BLUFF. CaL., Sept. 23.—A gigantic land pool is being formed here under the direction of W. H. Mills of the land de- partment of the Sourhern Pasific, who has been here for several days past. The pool will include the 80,000-acre Bidwell ranch in Butte County, which belongs to the Phelan es- tate, consisting of 60,000 acres; the Glenn ranch in Glenn Connty of 100,000 acres, the Finnell ranch in Tehama County of about 80,000 acres, and the Cone ranch at Red Bluif, consisting of 100,000 acres. + The land is being pooled for the purpose of colonizing it. —_—— FRACAS AT PENDLETON. Ranchmen Thrashed by Lawyers After a Hard Fight. PENDLETON, Og., Sept. 23.—There was a lively fight this morning between A.D. Stillman and W. M. Pierce, two of the leading lawyers of Eastern Oregon, on the one hand, and Isaac Ruddock, a prominent stockman, and Melvin Green on the other. The difficulty arose in ‘Stillman’s office over a legal transaction, and the battle was won by the lawyers after hard knocks had been bestowed. All except Stillman were arrested for assaultand battery. Clash Between Colgan and the Board of Examiners. SECURE AN INJUNCTION. The Controller Must Explain Why Expert Lewis’ Salary Is Not Paid. OFFICIALS AT SWORDS' POINTS. Attorney-General Fltzgerald and His Fellow-Incumbent in a Wrangle. SACRAMENTO, Can.,, Sept. 23.—The rumors of war between the Attorney- General's office and the State Controller’s office which have permeated the political air have given way to a declared conflict and the first step in the battle was taken to-day, when an alternative writ of man- date issued from the court of Superior Judge A. P. Catlin was served upon State Controller E. P. Colgan, demanding that he shall either draw a warrant in favor of T. A. Lewis for salary alleged to be due that individual from the State for services rendered as expert to the State Board of Examiners or appear in court on the 27th day of September and show cause why such mandate of the court has not been complied with. During the session of the last Legislature a bill known as No. 526 was intreduced in the Assembly. One of 1ts clauses provided for the employment of an expert to the tate Board of Examiners. The latter board is composed of the Governor, the Secretary of State and the Attorney- General, the duties of whose offices consume all of their time, and the fact that they have to sit as a Board of Examiners}is looked upon by them as the imposition of an extra duty for which they have no time to prepare. It issupposed to be the duties of an examiner to inquire into and become thoroughly conversant with the needs of all State institutions, the functions of its different officers, the salary roll and all contracts for supplies, and the method in which these supplies are utilized. The members of the Board of Examiners feit that, owing to the multi- plicity of the duties devolving upon them in their separate offices, it would be im- possible for them to find time to acquire that intimate knowledge of the methods of conducting the numerous State institu- tions necessary to the wise exercise of the function devolving upon them as a Board of Examiners. As a remedy for this evil, they caused to be introduced in the Legislature the bill creating the office of expert, whose duties it would be to personally visit all the State institutions and acquire that knowledge which the board deemed necessary for a proper discharge of the duties incumbent upon it. A clause was inserted in the general ap- propriation bill providing for the payment of a salary of $2000 per year in monthly in- stallments to the expert. The general ap- propriation bill passed and received the Executive’s signature, but Assembly bill which provided for the employment of the expert, died en route, and failed to be included in the statutes of the State. Notwithstanding the fact that bill 52 failed to pass both houses of the Legis- Iature the board, taking as a basis for their authority the clause in the general appro- priation bill which provided for the pay- ment of a salary of $2000 a year to an ex- pert, engaged the services of Thomas A. Lewis and dispatched him on a tour of the various State institutions. On the 31st of July of the present year Mr. Lewis presented a bill to the State Board of Examiners in the sum of $166 6624 for one month’s selary, and on the 16th day of the following month this bill was audited, approved and allowed by the board, and was then presented to State Controller E. P. Colgan for the purpose of procuring from him a warrant on the State treasury in payment thereof, but this warrant Mr' Colgan refused to issue on the grounds that there must be cther authority than the clause inserted in the general appropriation bill; or in other words, that bill 526 should | have been passed before the State Board of Examiners was empowered to create the office of an expert; that the failure in the passage of that bill left no clause either in the code or statutes to show that the Board of Examiners was empowered to employ an expert, and he left the plain in- ference that the Examiners should have performed personally the duties they had relegated to Lewis. In all matters of disputed law or when any intricate question which involves any of the State officers arises, it is customary to refer theth to’tie consideration of tne Attorney-General, who renders an opinion which is usually conceded to be un- answerable. But in this case the matter having been referred to the Attorney- General, it places him in a very delicate position, as he is literally calied upon to render an opinion upon one of his own in- dividual actions as a member of the State Board of Examiners. Should he have rendered an adverse opinion as to the legality of the action taken by the board in the employment of Expert Lewis, he would have thrown discredit upon his own action. As the mat- ter stands, he has not done so, but has ren- dered his opinion that the employment of an expert was perfectly valid. The ques- tion now arises: Is the Attorney-General's opinion worthy of credence; is it legal for the Attorney-General to pass upon hisown actions? Considering the question on these grounds Controller Colgan has absolutely refused tc issne any warrant in favor of T. A. Lewis, and has' placed the matter in the hands of his attorneys, Messrs. Robert Devlin of this city and Judge J. A. Bar- ham of Santa Rosa, and will contest the validity of the Attorney-General’s decision in the Supreme Court of the State. In the meantime the refusal of Mr. Col- gan to issue the warrant in favor of Expert Lewis has aroused the ire of Attorney- General Fitzgerald, and a number of letters upon the subject have been re- ceived by Controller Colgan from that personage, some of which have been of such a caustic nature that they have provoked replies of a like char- ——————————————————— IROYAR Baking Powder Absolutely Pare tremely bard to pacify. This correspond- ence has been going on for at least a month, and the feeling engendered has grown very bitter. ‘When the claim was first presented and refused consideration by Mr. Colgan that official stated his reasons to Attorney-Gen- eral Fitzgerald and requested an opinion on the subject. Upon receiving an opinion avorable to the payment of the claim Mr. Colzan was still unconvinced. He then wrote to the Attorney-General and stated that inasmuch as he (Fitzgerald) was plainly arraigned against him in the case, and as he (Colgan) was taking the side of the State in opposition to the payment of the claim against it, he thought that he was entitled to counsel. Had the Attorney- General not been against him in the matter he would have been the counsel in the case; but the State should not be deprived of counsel simply because the opinion of the Attorney-General would not allow him to act in the capacity for which he was elected. To this Mr. Fitz- gerald replied that no special counsel fees would be allowed in the case; that too much of the State’s money bhad been squandered in that way, especially through the office of Mr. Colgan. He quoted a case of one fee of $7500, and stated that he intended that the practice should be stopped. Mr. Colgan, in replying to the Attorney- General, said that wherever he bad ex- pended money for counsel he had in so doing saved the State thousands of dollars, and called attention to the case of the Indian war bonds. He claimed that this was not the first time that his opinion had been in conflict with that of the Attorney- General and when differenees of opinion between the two had been carried to the Supreme Court the latter generally found him (Colgan) to be correct. He quoted a number of Supreme Court decisions in cases where the State Board of Examiners had allowed claims. The Attorney-Gen- eral had told him that the claims were valid, but he (Colgan) Had held otherwise and the Supreme Court had upheld him in his opinions. el A ey WEATHER AND CROP REPORT. The Week Favorable for Crops That Are Now Maturing. SACRAMENTO, Car., Sept. 23.—The State Agricultural Society, in co-operation with the United States Weather Bureau, James A. Barwick, director, issues the following weather and crop summary for the past week: As compared with the normal tem pera- ture there were heat deficiencies reported as follows for the places named: Eureka 2, Fresno 10, Los Angeles 3, Red Bluff 10, Sacramento 8, San Diego 1, while at San Francisco normal conditions as to tempera- ture prevailed. There was no rainfall re- ported from any station as having occurred during the week. . The high northerly winds during the latter part of the week were very benefi- cial to the fruit and raisin aryers in Cen- tral California. The week can therefore be classed as one favorable in its climatic conditions for the crops now maturing and being gathered and dried. SR g g A4 BODY I THE RIVER. Indications Point to the Murder of an Unknown. SACRAMENTO, Car., Sept. 23.—Mrs. Morse and daughter of Grand Island saw a body floating down the river near Isleton to-day. They went out in a boat and se- cured it and telephoned to the Coroner, who had the body broughtto this city. Itis that of a dark-complexioned, handsome man of some 33 years, with thick, dark hair and mustache. He had on a new pepper-and-salt suit, white shirt and striped underwear. About the neck was a white silk handkerchief. Across the fore- head is a scar and over the right temple is a fresh bullet wound. Deceased wore a pair of square gold cuff buttons. The indications are that he was mur- dered and then thrown into the river. No one has yet identified him. e S FOR KOVALEV. WITN. A State’s Prison Convict Said to Have Neen the Weber Murder. SACRAMENTO, Car., Sept. 23.—Kova- lev’s attorneys claim to have received a let- ter from an Ouakland detective informing them of an important witness for the de- fense in the Weber case. This witness isnow doing a term in the State prison for burgiary eommitted in Oakland. 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