The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 4, 1895, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, ¥KIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1895. 7 9= Nl ....OCTOBER 4. 1895 AMUSEMENTS. PALDWIN THEATER. Trilby.” COLUMBIA THEATER—“The Magistrate.” MoR0sC0's OPERA-HOUSE—From Sire to Son..” TivoLs OPERA-HOUSE- ohemian Girl.” OxrrHEUM—HIgh-Class Vaudeville. GEOVER'S ALCAZAR.— Resedale,” BaY DIsTRICT TRACK.—Races. £7ATE BOARD OF TRADE EXHIBIT.—~575 Market street, below Second. Open daily. Admission free. PICNICS AND EXCURSIONS. CURSION To MON3 Sunday, October 6, n by the Southern Pas ‘ompany. E glv " 0ITY NEWS IN BRIEF. Second Officer Beckmen of the steamer Belgic eft § to his widow. Rupert Schm e sculptor, said yesterday that the feet of local Irilbys were all too smali. SecretarsMcCoy was fined §250 yesterday for his remark one of the Durrant trial jurors. The e Protective Association met yes- terday a ed several measures impor- tant ¢ . reau forecasts for to-day: her, probably cooler in the 1t variable winds. e Club will consider the icipal ownership as to light ks at its next meeting. The next State convention of fruit-growers of ia will be held in Sacramento Tuesday, nd the four days following. -General Fitzgerald has a suit on secure 3000 acres of land under urisdiction which belong to Cali- e Luke G. Sresovich Company. to deal in , has been incorporated with a capital $100,000, of which $60,000 is sub- Brown, pastor of the First Congre- Church, has gone to Syracuse to at- the General Council of Congregational pastors of the various Presbyterian hes are arranging for a conference on the t, similar to the one held at Oakland Iast month, Nick Hall, a well-known racing man, at- tempted to murder J. C. McWilliams, & horse- car the racétrack, last night, with The Pennsvlvania-avenue and Islais Creek Property-owners’ Association will make 8 strong “effort to reopen Islais Creek to navigation. The official board of Grace M. F. Church adopted resolutions opposing transfers and requesting Bishop Warren to appoint Rev. M. F. Collum pastor. Ra ad Commissioner Stanton in an inter- view yesterday made some interesting ana im- portant statements relative to the proposed reductions in freight rates. Owen Clements, & contractor, was examined Dby the Insanity Commissioners yesterday. The went over till proper arrangements 1ade to protect his property. Pacific Company petitioned Supervisors yesterday for permis- e its right of way going put of hird and Townsend streets. Mr d Mrs. Peter Rafferty of Mission street divorcec Ives by contract, but the hus- band neglected to pay the promised alimony case has been taken into the courts. two outsiders and & second ful in winning purses at he winners were: Swift- 211, Detective and Lady Jane. an Co-operative Society is department at Smith's street. A restaurant, dry are in operation under its a sailor fiving at 733 Folsom s wife, Mary, were each sent to Jail for thirty days by Judge Camp- terday for cruelty to their seven-month- oroia delegation in Con- s in the baythatare to navigation, and said that they be- d that appropriations for their removal roc Jommittee of the Board of Super- rs recommended yesterday that the street- sweeping contract be awarded to the City Im- proveme t Company for 495 cents per 1000 ards. ey George W Montleth is engaged in plaint against C. P, Hunting- m with & violation of the inter- imerce ect, in havingissued & pass to Administrator Goodfellow of the Fair ims that the new law, under which L. Fair is endeavoring’ to indirectly his father’s will, was not properiy passed by the Sena Vernon Clarke, & schoolboy llving at 514 Sutter street, was knocked down by an electrie car on Kear t yesterday aiternoon end was snatched from the jaws of death by Po- liceman P. H. Murp The Grand Jury will to-day begin a sharp i into the methods of the Street Depart- Itisk fi work is freely pted, ev intendent was ed of its character. Miss Cunningham, a local newspaper re- porter, is threatened by Judge Murphy with commitment to jail for refusing to reveal to . Durrant’s attorneys the source of certain in- formation she obtained. W. S. Max, a bunko-steerer, who swindied John Finster, & visitor from Indiana, out of p-and-bottom” dice game, was sent to the Cou Jail for three months by Judge Campbell yesterday. Captain Parker and Mate Watts of the ship Crofion Hall appeared In Judge Conlan's court yesterday to answer to the charge of re- fusing to obey am order of the chief wharf- inger. A decision will be given to-day. The Merchants' Association, Half-million Club, the Manufactusers’ Association, Me- chanics’ Institute and other orgenizaticns will soon make strong efforts to have the Wilmer- . ding College established in San Frzucisco. Mr. Mills’ form of agreement was rejected by the mineral lands committee of the Miners' ‘Association yesterda: Edward H. Benjamin was chosen ~commissioner to represent the miners when an agreement is finally reached. Kenneth J. Duncan, once pastor of the How- ard Presbyterian Church, returned irom the Sandwich Islands three d Dimand. He has been dr! anad frequenting saloons. terviewed. The charge of receiving stolen goods from W? Tucker and W. Carey, two young burglars, against John emi, jeweler, 1439 M street, was dismissed by Judge Low. yesterday, &s it was shown that Niemi did not know the articles had been stolen. . J. George Gibson did mot appesr as a in the Durrant trial vesterday, as wes expected. A Deputv Sheriff failed to find him with & subpena. Dr. Gibson’s secretary said that Gibson was not trving to evade the sum- mons ana that he would sppesar in court to-day. Ah Ling, who murderously attacked and robbed his employer, Mrs. Dora Reede, restau- rant-keeper, 432 Geary street, was yesterday held by Judge Conlan to answer before the Superior Court on the charges of assault to murder and robbery in $5000 bonds on each charge. Mrs. Dr.J. D. West, a visitor from Los Ange- les, reported at volice headquarters yesteray that while on the train from San Jose that arrived at 10:30 o’clock yesterday morning she missed her satchel containing letters, money and jewelry. Ehe did not know whether she had mislaid 1t or it nad been stolen. The legal committee of the American Rail- way Union is considering the advisebility of bringing suit against the Southern Pacific Compeny, all its connections and its stockhold- ers for an accounting of what is known as the hospital fund, by the use of which it is claimed the handlers of it have made a profit of about §15,000,000. At the meeting of the Railroad Commis. sioners yesterday quite & number of com- plaints aring ‘on both freights end fares were up for consideration, but no definite ac- tion was taken ou any of them. The cattle- men of Salinas Valley will be given a hearing on Wednesd:x next, and on Monday the amendment adjusting discriminations in grain rates will be presentea and in all probability adopted. K He refused to be in- Excursion to Monterey. . The Southern Pacific Company will run one of {ts popular excursions next SBunday to Mon- terey and vicinity. Five bouts of enjoyable eightseeing and recreation are promised, and the price of round-trip tickets has been fixed at $2. 'The excursion will be under the person superintendence of Colonel William H.Men- l(mx, excursion agent of the Southern Pacific ompany. 'nu‘- u‘lylll will leave S8an Francisco from Third and Townsend streets depot at 7:30 4. M. ; from Valencia-stree tion a1 7:40 A. 3. Residents of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley should take the 6 a. w. Tocal for 8an Fraucisco. Returning, the train will leave Pacific Grove af 4 . 3. 804 «rrive in Bsn Francieco 8t 8:30 B, M. M| ALONG THE WATER FRONT, Lower Wages and Cut Rates Will Cause Considerable Trouble. AN ENGINEER IS INJURED. His Hand Was Crushed In the Machinery of the Pacific Malil Steamer Aztec. The water front seems to be alive with contentions. Union against free labor is apparently the bone over which every- body is quarreling, and the climax may be expected inside of a month. “Lower wages’’ is the cry, and the fight over it will be a bitter one. The Ship-owners’ Asso- ciation has made a cut of from $250to $5 a month in the wages of sailors on lumber vessels and colliers. The Sailors’ Union objects, and while a general strike is not threatened, still trouble is expected. The captains and owners of deep-water vessels are acting on the example set by the Ship-owners’ Association and have cut wages on British and American ships from £4 10 £3 10d a month. To this the board- ing-masters object, and in consequence the May Flint is now without a crew, and will remain so until the skipper pays full rates. To add to the general trouble the steve- dores have wheeled into line. A fixed rate has been in existence for the past year, but Stevedore Whitney has now cut prices from 55 cents a ton to 30 2ents. In conse- quence he has secured all the business of J.J, Moore & Co. The latter firm is the agent for the British ship Lismore, now discharging at Green-street wharf, and while the vessel's owners have contracted with one firm, Moore has another ready to do the work for less money, and conse- quently insists upon the lower rete. The same rule holds good all over the front, aud a lively rate war is expected this winter. The ‘“‘wharf rats” along the front are rowing very daring. Latterly they have en stealing boats and raiding ships which were alongside the wharves with impunity. All these depreaations were committed during the night, but yester- day they begzan operating in_ broad day- light. The barkentine C.C. Funk is lying at Main-street wharf. Shultz Bros., the riggers, had a contract to put a new fore- topmast in the vessel. They brought all their appliances to the vessel in a skiff, but while they were aboard making an cxgmination the ‘‘wharf rats” ran away with the skiff, tools and all. It was one of the boldest daylight robberies ever perpe- trated on the water front, and the Harbor police are now searching for the thieves. The captains of the tug Elizabeth and the British ship Star of France are at outs. The former claims that the latter wis clearly to blame for his vessel being dam- aged, anc wants payment for repairs. The Star of France was lying at her dock, but was in such a position that her stern pro- jected several feet into the bay. The captain of the Elizabeth was hugging the shore in order to escape the tide when he ran into the Star of France and carried away his smokestack and did other dam- age. A lawsuit to settle the difference is now in order. Incidentally the Harbor Commissioners_are involved, as they per- mitted the ship’s stern to overhang the wharf and block the right of way. The Pacitic Mail Company’s steamer San Juan arrived from Panama and way ports yesterday. She brought up quite a num- ber of passengers, those in_the cabin being as follows: J. F. Drury, Miss Flint, Miss L. Kibbler, Captain C. Taylor, J Mrs. M. Miller, Juan V. Aguilar, Sparks, N. M. Flood, Richard Grather, Charles Schumbel, Mrs. Beteta, Daniel Beteta, Bernardo Beteta, Manuel J. Pinol, Jose Saborio and wife, Rolf Beltraneno, Sanford Robinson, J. E. Gabbart, Mrs. A. de Parra, Miss de Parra, Charles de Parra, Arthur de Cima. Mre. A. de Parra is the widow of Consul de Parra, who was stationed at Mazatlan, where he died. She and her children are now on their way home. Mrs. Beteta and her children areon their way home from Guatemala. She says there is no yellow fever in Central America, and thatall the States are remarkably free from epidemic diseases of any kind. Among those who arrived on the San Juan was third assistant engineer John Dill of the steamer Aztec. The latter ves- sel left heré on September 25, and when at sea Dill got his leit hand caught in one of the journals. Two of his fingers were ter- ribly mangled, but very little could be done for him, as there was no surgeon abroad. Four days later the San Juan was sighted, and the wounded engineer was transferred to her. As soon as Dr. J.J. Robinson saw the hand he decided that the fingers would have to be amputated. This was dene in a most skillful manner and Dill’s hand was saved. He went to his home in Alameda as soon as the steamer docked. The Hydrographic Office has issued the following notices to mariners Information has been received from the Mexican Consulate-General, New York, that the Mexican Government bas given mnotice of the exhibition, September 16, 1895, of Tux- pem (Tuspan) light, east coast of Mexico. The light is fixed white, elevated 56 feet above the sea and visible in clear weather 13 miles. It is shown from & tower 54 feet high. Its position is given in latitude 20 deg, 59 min. 40 sec. north, longitude 97 deg. 17 min. west, The master of the steamship Casma reports beving seen breakers situated about three and & half miles south 37 deg. west, true (south- southwest three-quarters west, magnetic) from Santa Cruz Point, Parida Isfand, and states that he was informed by a diver engaged in the pear] fishery that a rock (Grono rock) with a depth of six ‘feet over it and thirty fathoms close to existed in that position. Approximute position, latitude 8 deg. 02 min. 40 sec. north, longitude 82 seg. 24 min. west. s John Marson, a stevedore, living at 325 Green street, had his skull fractured while discharging cargo from the ship George Schofield at Harrison-street wharf yester- day afternocon. The heavy hook struck him a terrific blow on the "head while he was standing at the hatchway, He was taken to the Receiving Hospital in an un- conscious condition, where the operation of “trephining "was performed by Dr. Thompson. is chances of recovery are doubtful. | The Pacific Yacht Club will have its “closing day”’ of the season to-morrow. The yachts will take a spin during the afternoon, and in the evening there will be adance and reception in the clubhouse. A boat will leave Mission-street wharf at 7:30 7. M. for the accommodation of mem- bers, and will return leaving Sausalito at 11:157. M. Noone will be admitted on this occasion without & ticket duly coun- tersigned by the proper officers. Clfitgin Brown of the British ship Dam- son Hill is having a hard tin.e of it in Oregon. When he arrived at Astoria to load wheat his vessel was ordered to Island Sprit, sixty-five miles up the river Columb Grain was piled in until the vessel was at the 21-foot mark and then they found she was hard and fast in the mud. Tugs could not move her, so 230 tons of wheat had to be discharged into lighters. As the tides are now nfaking Cap- tain Brown expects to get his ship off to- morrow. 5 ‘The steamer Lakme has not been char- tered by owners of the Humboldt, asstated yesterday. Max Kalish, the agent, says he is still on the outlook for & good and suit- able vessel. It would have cost too much to put the Lakme in trim fo. a passenger steamer. AMPUTATION NEOESSARY. - Pitiable Case of the Perrett Children at the Hospital, Antoinette and Josephine Perrett, the unfortunate children whose parents, Eugens end Josephine Perrett, aye to be v sentenced on Saturday for cruelty to their offspring, were received at the Children’s Hospital yesterday. Antoinette, whose leg was broken some months ago by her falling downstairs, is an especial object of commiseration. The broken member was never set and is in such ugly condition that it is thought the leg will néed to be ampu- tated. The other cnild is almost an equal sufferer from the same cause. General McComb says & more pitiable case seldom comes to 1he attention of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and he hopes the sentence will not be a light one. MRS. ZEILE’S DIVORCE. The Bride of an Hour Legally Sepa- rated ¥From Her Youthful Husband. Frances Zeile obtained a divorce from George D. Zeile in Judge Hunt's court yesterday. They were married on Sep- tember 11, 1894, though both were under age, but immediately the young man was persuaded by his father to remain at home. The young couple never lived to- gether, and ‘after the expiration of a year the bride began suit for divorce, the char%j. being desertion. C. E. Zeile, the druggist, is the father of the young husband. He testified yester- day that on the day of the marriage his son returned home, abandoning the girl that he had married, and that the mar- riage had been one only in name, There ‘was no other testimony. Mrs. Zeile was allowed to resume her maiden name, Frances Morse. THE MERDLEIND TRGEDY, Mrs. White and Receiver Downs Say Littlefield Was Murdered. ‘ Wylackle John” Confessed to White’s Ex-Wife That He Was a Hired Assassin. TaHE CaLL's correspondent struck the nail squarely on the head when he wrote that the shooting and lynching of Jack Littlefield in Mendocino County Sunday evening last was another chapter in the ‘White and anti-White war. Mrs. White, who is waiting for the Su- preme Court to say whether she is to receive the §$100,000 alimony awarded her by the lower court, confirms this opinion and adds much more that has an interesting bearing on the case. Deputy Receiver George Downs of 1902 Page street supports Mrs. Whitein her view. Attorneys Bag- gett and Linforth also concur. Mrs. White said yesterday afternoon: “The lynching of Littlefield was the part of aplot, and it differed little from many other tragedies of the same nature that bave occurred between the Whiteand anti- White people. W hite gave Littlefield,who was one of his tools, something like $15,000 worth of stock when he began getting his property fixed so as to avoid paying me the $100,000 which the court awarded me. But when the time came for a return of the stock Littlefield concluded that he would lay a little game himself and he refused o giveup. - “When I learned that he had the stock I told a friend of mine from Mendocino that he would be killed. Iknew it as well as though T had heard the assassination planned by the hired tools.” The theory is that Vinton, the man shot by Littlefield, was commissioned to kill the latter, but his intended victim was too quick. He *“‘got the drop” and used it to an advantage which proved fatal to him- self. Mrs. White believes this is the cor- rect version of the affair. “Iknow so much that I cannot think otherwise,” she continued. ‘“You know ‘Wylackie John,” who was killed a few years ago? Well, he confessed to me some time before his death that he had been hired to kill a certain man up there whose name I cannot now recall. He went into all the horrible details, relating how the deed was done and thearrangements made for substantiating a plea of self-defense. Oh, but I know how things are done up there. White runs the whole county ana has his minions in every corner of the county. Personally he is a coward, but is cold-blooded as a nizard.” The_ ‘‘Wylackie John’ referred to by Mrs. White was killed by Mrs. White's brother, who had learned that John was going to shoot him at the first opportunity. Another attempt was made to kill Lit- tlefield some time ago, and he was to have been a witness against his assassin in a few weeks. During the proceedings in the White vs, ‘White divorce case, resulting in a $100,000 victory for the wife, Colonel W. T. Smith was appointed receiver. The position was generally conceded to be anything but pleasant or healthy, and while looking for 2 man of good nerve and intrepid cour~ age George Downs of 1902 Rage street was recommended to Colonel Smith. Mr. Downs knew something of the situation of affairs in White’s little vrincipality and also, as he expressed it last night, ‘‘that he le not to come back.”’ He accepted the position of deputy receiver, neverthe- less, and started on his doubtful journey. ““When I reached Ukiah,” he said, **peo- le crowded to the station and around the otel to see me. I was anobject of curious interest to them. Idon’t know asa visit from the chief magistrate of the land would have called out a larger number of people. ‘When I inquired the meaning of the de- monstration they told me they wanted to get a look at the man who had the nerve to go up into White’s stronghold on such an errand. Before I left there for the mountains, several volunteered the cheer- ful prophecy that I would return ina pine box, if not in a blanket on the bed of a lumber wagon. I appreciated their solici- tude, but was not deterred from making the trip, ‘‘There are some things that I would not like to talk about, holding the position I do, but this much I can say: I certainly believe, and have good reason for the opinion, that Littlefield was murdered 1n- stead of being a murderer. He shot Vin- ton in self-defense; the latter, L am posi- tive, baving been detailed to get rid of bim. Littletield was probably deserving of his fate, as he was one of White’s tools, the same as Vinton, at one time, but made bis last mistake by trying to outwit White. There is no question that White domi- nates nearly that whole county, and it is an open secret that he has hundreds of men ready and willing to do his bidding. Mrs. White is undoubtedly correct in her theory of the affair, but both men are dead, and the dead’s testimony is that of silence.” el o THE STATE FRUIT-GROWERS. Their November Convention Will Be Held in Sacramento, The Btate convention of the 1ruit-grow- ers of California will convene at Sacra- mento on Tuesday, November 5, and will continue in session fourdays. An invita- tion is extended to all fruit-growers, ship- pers, packers, nurserymen and others in- terested in horticulture and kindred pur- suits to be present and take part in the proceedings of the convention. At this meeting various matters of great importance to the producers will be con- sidered, and especially will be the continu- ation of the discussion started at the last meeting on the matter of marketing Cali- fornia fruits in the East. Aristoeratic Anim Professor Gentry sud his 100 superb dogs end ponies will exhibit under canvass at the corner of Beventh and Mission streets two weeks, beginning Monday, October 7. This collection of aristoeratic animals is said to be the prettiest ever seen, and their intelligence even excels their beanty. Matinees given Tueldly!,'l‘hnl’!fllél and Saturdays. The price of sdiaiseion uxe; CRMAIER, 495 Aduith 530, * | BUCKLEY MOVES T0 TOWN The Blind Boss Is Openly .Battling for Political Power. RAVENSWO00D IS ABANDONED. His Initial Strength Foreshadows a Divided Party and Long and Bitter War. Chris Buckley’s open return to San Franciseo politics and the surprising strength he has displayed at the first charge are the topic of the hour among citizens generaily who feel an active inter- est in municipal affairs. It isthe most in- teresting, and, it may be, the most signifi- cant thing that the turmoil of politics has brought forth here for’many a day. The thin mask of virtuous protest, to the effect that his political ambitions are dead, that he yearns only for the blessed peace and seclusion of a country home and that he merely advises in a quiet way with per- sonal friends as any citizen may do, has been cast aside by the sightless king of ex- bosses. Buckley is openly, avowedly and strongly conducting a campaign to regain control of the local Democratic party. 8o vigorously has he started in on his campaign that he has forsaken Ravens- wood to live in the City. Just now he has apartments at the Baldwin, and that hostelry is one of his headquarters. There he sees a select few of his followers and such influential gentlemen as wish to do politics safe from the observation that they would be subjected to at the Occi- dental Club or atv ihe three downtown saloons at which Buckley drops in occa- sionally. Buckley’s presence at the Bald- win has already proved a magnet to draw the lambs to the lobby and the billiard and bar rooms. But the Baldwin apartments are only temporarily taken. Buckley is moving to town. Nearly all the furniture of his ele- gant Ravenswood home is being nioved to the City, and in a few days he will have one of his Bush-street houses ready to move into. Buckley is again a citizen of San Francisco and aspires to regain its rule. And he travels about with little Maurice Schmitt as in years gone by. Besides Schmitt, his nearest factotum is J. J. Maloney, the Trilby of the Occidental Club, liked by the boys, who call him “Feet.)” The old guard clusters about him with touching fidelity—that is, those who haye not become reorganized since the revolution of '91, and since the Wallace Grand Jury made him break the record to Canada. The 154 votes out of 339 which James H. O’Brien, the avowed candidate of Buckley for the’chairmanship of the Democratic | general committee, received night beiore | last, have surprised most people.. That | vote was the first, and was Euf, a partial test of the extent to which Buckley had | already advanced toward the control of | the Democratic machine. The majority | for Watkins was thirty, and the securing | of sixteen Watkins men would have elected O'Brien and given Buckley the works, | n.ox;;u the machine is battered and sadly needing oil. | The Buckley forces claim a practical vic- | tory, and they declared yesterday thata ! landslide to DBuckley in the party had | plainly begun yesterday. It was pointed | out that Buckley, with no prestige of ap- | parent strength and without the magic at- | traction of heing a winner, had nearly beaten at the outset the combined forces, local, State and municipal, arrayed against him. The majority against him would be easily oyercome. That Buckiey has landed in the midst of | the Democratic camp with a strength that | makes Lim at once a dangerous power, | and one that must be reckoned with, is | plainly apparent. The party that has | bled so long must now bleed again, and | the tussle between the Buckley and the anti-Buckley factions that is now on can- not fail to be a long and a hard one. In the preparations for that meeting of the general committee, called by the anti- | Buckley leaders for the sole purpose of electing a chairman before it was too late, every effort of Buckley’s political enemies was put forth. The Fire Department fought for self-preservation. Sam’ Rainey was sincerely and vigorously in the fight against Buckley, and so was Chief Sullivan, who believes that his scalp is chief among those that Buckley is after. So during the one or two days preceding the convention the red buggics flew about town as though general alarms were in thickly. Eddie Greany and lniian did the best that was in them to hold and drum up the anti- Buckley votes and save the Say.‘ Gavin McNab hustled and schemed until the vote was counted, and Sam Braunhart, who, with P.J. Harney und some others represented slate politics, wielded all their influence. Of the Federal brigade, which is almost entirely anti-Buckley, Dageett of the Mint and Welburn of the Revenue Office busily summoned men to receive orders. The anti-Buckley faction haa the men" with jobs, and the Buckley faction had the men who want jobs. The resnlt sent the lambs forth with conscious strength. ‘It was a practical victory for Buckley,” said James H. O’'Brien vesterday. The small majority by which I was defeated displays the strength that Buckley pos- sesses, and now you'll see them flocking to him. It would surprise you to know how many well-known citizens have congratu- lated Buckley to-day, and who they were.”’ The frankly say *‘Buckley” at the Occi- dental Club now. How successful Buckley’s opponents will be in checking his rising power is one of the problems of the time. They ac- knowledge he is openly seeking power and that his strength is plainly formidable, as far as the party is concerned at least. The party elements swayed against the ex-boss, whether for motives of virtue and decency, selfishness or revenge, say that Buckley could never elect a ticket in this City again, and that if he gainsany control of the party machinery he will simply be fought to the death. Buckley hastwo elements to work with— those who will actively support him and those who will endure him. Of the politi- cal workers—large and small leaders who bave ambitions and ward toughs who want beer and “dough’—many are ex- pected to hasten to join a rising power which will do politics for what there is in it. *“Buck” is trusted to pull over to him an army of these. To some he will offer honors and to some “the dough.” As_to the other element the hifih tax 0 0p- levy is welcomed as a trumpcard. portunity is lost by the Buckley leaders to urge that under Buckley’s rule” the dollar- limit was never exceeded, there was always money in the treasury and the City’s debts were paid.” They exultingly declared at the Occidental Club that many downtown merchants, disgusted with the high taxes and the condition of the treasury, would secretly welcome Buckley back to power. “When Buckley was in you never saw the boys discounting their warrantsats :nrr‘ii7 per cent,” said one of the lambs yes- erday. All'of Buckley’s shrewdness and powers of organization are now at work, and on the other side, though backed by a very lal:?e element of the party who will never endure the blind boss again, there is not barmony and successful leadership. If Buckley gains control of the general committees there will simply be a smash in the party, and theanti-Buckley element will set upfor itself, with a sure promise of being recognized by the Staie Central Committee. Bap TererHONE Busixess.—It is to be feared that a good many people will have their fingers burnt before the telephone business, which is pow about the most -~ risky branch of industry that any one can handle, comes down to a sound and healthy basis. The country is full of ‘‘promoters,” most of whom bave fixed snch low rates for telephone service that the public has been Jed to think that the business is all income and po expense. Persons who are figuring with the new companies are advised to scan closely the telephone contracts presented to them to sign. Some of these contracts bind the parties for several years to take and use a service which must of necessity be infe- rior at the price named, even ii they can give good service at any price. The pro- moter always has plenty of loopholes through which he can retire in his own good time, The mbst palpable of these, which, however, is often successful in new ground, is to leave optional with the newly organized eompany the furnishing of a magnetic transmitter if a non-infring- ing battery transmitter cannot be pro- cured. The former is utterly worthless for exchange work and is as much inferior to the battery transmitter as the ordinary telephone ‘is to the long-distance equip- ment. The truth is that the public has been suffering so long from high telephone rates that now, when good service at moderate rates is in sight, they have rushed to the other extreme and got the idea that telephones can be had for next to nothing, 'Iphis idea has been en- couraged and disseminated by interested persons, who have lost no time in turning it to their own ends. New telephone com- panies have been started that could not possibly do a permanent business at the rates they promise and whose only object has been the sale of stock as soon as the appearance of active demand for instru- ments has been worked up. Other com- panies have put a cheap telephone on the market only to find out that they have left no margin of profit and the loss has come upon the manufacturer, whose bills have been leit unpaid. It is probable that by far the majority of small telephone companies will grad- ually die off, either from infringement suits or because they are built on sand. The fittest of the non-infringers will sur- vive. Already an_ experience has been reported which will be repeated many times in the near future. An exchangein Illinois, opened by a company whose pros- pectus made a brilliant and impressive showing, started business about July 1, 1894. Local capital was induced to embark in the experiment, fixing the rates at $26 per annum for business offices and $24 for residences within the city limits. They ran up a list of about 500 subscribers at these rates. By the last advices the com- pany was about to be wound up. COULD NOT FIND GIBSON. A Policeman Seeks in Vain for the Pastor of Em- manuel Church. Multitude of Witnesses Called to Prove the Good Character of Durrant. Those who attended the Durrant trial yesterday afternoon expecting to see the Rev. J. George Gibson face Mr. Deuprey on the witness-stand were disappointed, for the reason the Deputy Sheriff upon whom was imposed the duty of serving a subpena on Mr. Gibson was unable to carry out his instructions. The subpena was issued Wednesday, but the deputy was unable to locate Mr. Gibson that day, nor had he found him up to the time he was wanted in the afternoon yesterday. The same kind of success was met with during the rest of vesterday and last night, and the pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church has not yet been summoned as a witness. £. N. Lynch, Gibson’s secretary, was seen late last night. He stated that Mr. @ibson had not been trying to evade the summons, but that he had been out each time the deputy called. He stated further that Mr. Gibson would go this morning to che courtroom, there to be subpenaed if his presence were desired. When court convenes this morning the defense will again change its course and once more start in on a new tack. It wiil begin. the examination of witnesses to prove the good character of the defendant. Among those who have been subpenaed to give tfie medical student a good name are Andrew M. and Ainsley G. Davis, pro- prietors of the Golden Rule Bazaar, for whom the accused had been accustomea to work during his vacations, They will say he was an industrious and faithful employe-and showed no indication that he was anything but a gemou possessed of a marked degree of probity. Others who will be called by the defense to testify as to, character will be Frank Dalton, Dr. Thrasher, ex-Supervisor C. W. Taber, P. D. Code and Rev. J. Cummings Smith. Besides these a host of friendsand acquaintances of the accused will be called. ‘or this portion of the defendant’s case the prosecution has a rebuttal prepared, in which all the shortcomings or apparent msdeeds of the accused student’s life will be held up to the light of day. There are three classmates of Durrant who are not at present in attendance at Cooper College, and have not therefore been called to testify as to whether they answered for him at Dr. Cheney’s lecture April 3 or whether they have any recollec- tion as to his presence or absence. They are Students Nourse, Robinson and Smith. Subpenas have been issued for them, and as soon as they can be located they will be examined on the witness-stand. Captain Lees has had a magnified phote- grarch made of Dr. Cheney's original roll- call for April 3, with which to combat the strong point in the evidence of the case for the defense which the rollcall as admitted by the court furnishes. In that rollcall the absentees are marked with an “a" opposite their names. It will be remembered that the original rollcall was taken, the column ruled for March 31 being used, and later transferred to a sheet ruled for April and the marksin the column for March 31 erased. The magnifying photograph shows the erasure to have been very imEerfecny done and that & sign which looks very much like the letter a bad been written'in that March 31 column opposite Durrant’s name. It is quite plain that the sign, the faint outlines of which now appear, was origin- ally a letter a, but the prosecution may not rofit as much by the fact as it anticipates, or it will also be remembered that along the line of the March 31 column Dr. Gray testified he had written “See April 38,” and then erased it like the other marks in the column. Therefore, when the prosecu- tion presents its photograph the defense will raise a very nice point should it be admitted the sign opposite Durrant's name is the letier “a”. It will hold that the letter “a” is the first letter of the word April, the place the smudged letter appears being exactly where that letter would come in the ‘“See April3.” Caj tain Lee’s photograph will, therefore, be likely to be productive of a very compli- cated argument should the prosecution de- sire to offer it as evidence. Our Society Blue-Book Now in Compi- lation—Season 1895-96. The Fashionable Private Address Directory, containing the names, addresses, reception days and summer residences of the leading families of San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, San Rafael, Sausalito, Sante Rosa, Sacramento, Stockton, Menlo Park, San Carlos, Palo Alto, Redwood City, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, ete., with a list of over 15,000 club members and their ad- dresses, the army and navy, permanent guests at the leading hotels, diagrams of the theaters, 1adies’ shopping guide and business reference, in sixteen parts of pages, all complete in one volume. Sent to any address ‘c.o. d.; price $5. A limited number of first-class ad- vertisements will be admitted. Address, Charles C. Hoag, publisher, 179 Crocker build- ing, cor. Post and Market sts., San Francisco. rrections can be made at the stores of Hai well, Mitehell & Willis, 225 Post st. (formerly Dodge’sk or 1427 Polk st. (Eureka Bazaar), * COMPLAINTS OF SHIPPERS Quitea Number Considered by the Railroad Commis- sioners. DEFINITE ACTION DEFERRED. Amended Graln Rates to Be Taken Up Monday and Cattle Rates Wednesday. Although the Railroad Commission had outlined for its work yesterday afternoon the adjustment of the discriminations of the grain rates as fixed by the 8 per cent reduction, it had to give its attention to so many other matters in the nature of com- plaints received since the last sitting that the grain rates had to be entirely ignored. Assistant Secretary Kelly read a com- munication from Fred Hutchins of Wood- bridge, in which occurs the following: The reduction of $9 per carload of wood, freight charged between Valley Springs and Woodbridge, made by the Southern Pacific Company, 18 very gratefully received by the people on the line of the railroad between the above-named places. In reply to the answer of the company to our request for a material reduction 1n other freight rates and in passenger rates, Mr. Good- man sets up the very small amount of business done by the road, not noticing the fact set up in my letter that' most of the frelghting an assenger business on the line of the railroad s now done by teams, The merchants of Wallace, Clements, Lock- ford, Comanche and \\'oodbrid%e haul 95 per cent of all their freight to and from Stockton by norse and mule teams, and the wheat and barley is taken to Stockton in the same way. 1am also informed that 80 per cent of all the people who wonld travel on this railroad if senger rates were not prohibitory now go y the country roads. I submit to your hon- orable board that the passenger rate charged, 6 cents per mile, is beyond reason. Mr. Good- man may rest assured that so long &s the rate is maintained at that figure so long will the road want business. 1 believe that no evidence can be more con- vincing that the freight and passenger rates over this road are ouirageously high than the fact that the vast majority of this business is done with teams. Acttention is then called by the writer to the low cost of operating this road, and he continues: The people living on the line of the road be- lieve theat the passenger rate should be reduced to 3 cents per mile, and that at this rate the road would do four times the business it does now. Iassert it as a fact that no one travels by this railroad unless forced to. Freight rates should be reduced so that teams could not compete with the railroad. It isa sorry spectacle to see horse and mule teams hauling freight on roads paralleling this rail- way. Comment is needless. This was ordered filed for futare action, and a letter from John Northup of Co- manche was read. The writer expresses dissatisfaction with the rate of $4 per ton by the carload on grapes from Comanche to San Francisco, and in the course of his communication further says: Their statement that their rates are already as low as $4 per ton in carload lots don’tdo us any good. We don’t want any sueh rate for this reason—we can’t pick and pack 10 tons of fruitin one day. A rate of $2 per ton in car- load lots—or for that matter, if they would carry a carload for nothing—would do us no good. It would take an army of men to load a car in one day. Then ageain you would swamp the man you sent it to. We have stopped shipping fruit to Oakland and San Francisco on account of high rates and low prices. Our last week’s shipment of grapes ran us in debt. No. 1 Tokays only brought 15 cents a box,and they costus 1 centsto lay down in_ Oakland, aside from the cost of picking, packing, hauling to the rail- road, cultivation and care of the vineyard, taxes, ete. It is plain that the railroad is taking more for freight than the traffic will bear. All I ask is a fair show to live, and I believe that $4 40 a ton would be & reasonable and fair rate. Thistook the same course as its prede- cessor, and then came a letter that raised two_interesting questions. 1t was from E. E. Edwards of Los Angeles, and reads: Your favor of the 26th inst. at hand, inclos- ing copy of letter from Mr. Wade, general man- ager of ianta F6, to the Board of Hailroad Com- missioners, and in reply I beg tosay thatin my letter of the 3d inst. to Mr. La Rue I per- haps did not state correctly the distance from Los Angeles to the Needles, but gave the dis- tance from this city to Yuma. y_object in writing was to ascertain if the Board of Com- missioners had fixed a maximura rate for pas- senger travel in this State, and if 50, what was the limit? The distance fromLos Angeles to Yuma by rajlroad is 249 miles. The fare is $1075, a fraction over 4 cents per mile. From Banning to Yumsa is 163 miles over the Yuma desert, which furnishes but little business or loca! travel, and yet the rate charged by the South- ern Pacific is only a fraction over 4 centsa mile. For the luxury of living on Mojave desert, the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad charges the residents thereof over 6 cents per mile, and Mr. Wade in his letter says they have the right, with the approval of your honorable body, of chsrging 10 cents per mile. This is news to me as well as a surprise. Under the present rate it costs a resident of The Needles to go to his county seat to = his tax and return home by railroad $28 80. The rate is exorbitant and unreasonable. Will you kindly tell me whether the rate now charged by the Atlantic and Pacific Rail- 10ad, Over 4 cents per mile, is within the limit fixed by the commission for railroads in this State or whether there is any limit? In the informal discussion which fol- lowed the reading of Mr. Edwards’ com- munication it was learned from Secretary Newman that there was nothing in the records of the commission fixing a maxi- mum passenger rate per mile, as the varied topography of the State would not permit such action with any degree of fairness. Then arose the question of the jurisdic- tion of the commission relative to the roads mentioned.in the letter of Mr. Ed- wards. The secretary stated that when he last had occasion to write the Atlantic and Pacifit people requesting them to file a copy of the rates within the State with the committee, a reply had come in which it was stated that the rates were forwarded, but not as admitting the right of the com- mission to demand them, but as a courtesy. The letter added that it was considered that the California Board of Railroad Commissioners had no jurisdic- tion over any part of the lines of the At- lantic and Pacific Railroad Company; even those portions of them operated witbin the State.. This brought the discussion to a stand- still, till it was suggested by Chairman La Rue that the matter be referred to Attor- ney-General Fitzgerald for his opinion, and the secretury was so instructed. Next was considered the complaint of the cattlemen of Salinas Valley. The secretary was instructed to jnform the complainants that their charges of dis- crimination would come up for hearing on next Wednesday and to invite them to be resent. He was also instructed to request g’om the Southern Pacific Company the schedule of livestock rates between Sole- dad and San Luis Obispo, and between San Francisco and Soledad, and the livestock rates for similar distances over the com- pany’s lines in the San Joaquin and Sacra- mento valleys. These will be used for the purpose of determining whether discrimi- nations exist in the Salinas Valley and to what extent. The San Diego Property-owners' Union's appeal to the board to compel the Southern California Railroad Company to restore its washed-out road between Temecula and Oceanside came up for consideration. The railroad people claim it would cost $90,000 to reconstruct the damaged road, and that there is not enough business in sight to warrant the expense. The matter was left to Commissioner Clark to investigate, as he expects to be in that portion of the State in a few weeks. On the suggestion of Chairman La Rue a motion was adopted mnkm§ a requisi- tion on the State Printer for ni‘}road maps of California, 1000 of them to be mounted. Every precaution is to be taken to have every railroad and every station shown on the new map, and the thorough co-operation of the different railroads wiil be asked. Among other things it is hoped to show the entire route of the San Fran- cisco. and San Joaquin Valley Railroad, and also the various electric roads recently constructed within the State and which run outside of municipal limits. It was then decided to adjourn till Mon- day .at- 1 o’clock, when an amendment adjusting discrimination in the newly adopted grain schedule will be presented and in all probability adopted. AvtoMaTic MARINE Fo0G-SIGNAL.—A new design of automatic marine fog-signal has been fitted to an East Indian liner. The object of the apparatus is to meet the legal requirement of a whistle or bell which will sounds signals automatically in case ‘of fog. On the bridge of the vessel is mounted a switch, which is used by the officer in charge for turning the electric current to either the whistle or the ship’s bell; the latter, of course, being sounded if the ship is at anchor, and the former when she is under way. The stated interval between the sounds is made b, a clockwork adjustment placed in the charthouse or other convenient position. Batteries are used for the generation of the current, the circuit being completed at the necessary intervals by the clockwork, and current is thus obtained for all the purposes of the device. As the whistle is blown or the bell sounded a record is made on a continuous band of paper by means of a pen, The paper is marked with divisions, and, as it is wound at uniform speed by the clock- work, it gives an automatic indication of when the fog-signals are sounded. AN EXTRAORDINARY EVENT-— FAMILY EXCURSION TO MONTERIEY —INCLUDING— Hotel Del Monte and Pacific Grove. 5 O v, I, ——GIVEN BY THE— SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY And under the personal superyision of its Excur slon Passenger A\gem\.,hn. WM. H. SNTON, SUNDAY - - - - - October 6 $2 Round-Trip Tickets $2. FIVE HOURS of sight-seelng, rest and quiet enjoyment at these celebrated seaside Tesorts. EXCURSION TICKETS Will be placed on sale at613 Market st. (Grand Hotel Ticket Office) October 2, 3, 4 and 6, and at Third and Townsend streets depot and Valencia- street station on the morning of the excarston. Train leaves San Francisco “om Third and Townsend streets aepos at 7:30 4. M. : from Valen- cla-street station ac 7:40 A. . Residents of Osk- land, Alameda and Berkeley should take the 6 A-M. local for San Francisco. Returning, leave Pacific Grove at 4 7.2 Arrive San Franclsco at :35 P. 3. NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. Y | AND C INCORP D MEATRE Y\ PROPS. EVERY EVENING (EXCEPT SUNDAY), MATINEE SATURDAY ONLY! Immediate and Unquestioned Triumph! Paul Potter's Dramatization of TRII.EBY:! Interpreted by A. M. PALMER'S COMPANY, A Complete anc Beautitul Presentation. %5 SECURE SEATS EARLY and Avoid Possible Disappoint- ment at the Box Office. A5~ Seats ready for the entire engagement. GROVER’S ALCAZAR. ELABORATE PRODUCTION A GREAT CAST! Prices—10c, 15¢c, 25¢, 85¢ and 50c. Matinees To-morrow and Sunday. Matinee Prices—10c, 15¢c, 25¢c. Monday Next, ¢“MY SON=IN-LAW.” MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theaterin America WALTER MOROSCO.....Sole Lessee and Managet EVERY EVENING AT EIGHT. SECOND WEEK: Z Of the Illustrious Author-Actor, MILTON NOBLES! In His Own Romantic Drama, “FROM SIRE T0 SON!” EVENING PRICES—25c and 50c. Family Circle and Gallery, 10c. Matinees Saturday and Sunday. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE MEs. ERNESTINE KRELING Proprietor & Manages THIS WEEK ONLY— Balfe's Beautitul Ballad Opers, TELE BOHEMIAIN GIRL.! GREAT CAST! New Scenery! Correct Costumes! NEXT WEEK Verdl’s Grand Opera, LA TRAVIATAL Popular Prices—25¢ and 50c. ks day Next—The Famous, Original e ST ORI AN Seats Now on Sale. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. Tuesday Afterncon, October 8, at 3:30 o’clock, ~—SHAKESPEARE-MENDELSSOHN— MR. GEORGE RIDDLE — WILL BEAD — MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Accompanied by a Symphony Orchestra under the direction of ME. ADOLPH BAUER. Reserved Sea wiwee.....50 and 75 Cents On sale at Sherman, Clay & Co.’s. ORPHEUM. O’'Farrell Street, &tflmkwn ‘and Powsil TO-NIGHT AND DURING THE WEEK, Introduction of Celebrated European Artlsts Surpassing New Bill. JOHN HIGGINS, SISTERS MILLAR, LOUIS FIALKOWSKI, —AND— A STAR VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. Reserved seats, 25c; Balcony, 10c; Opera chalrs and Box seats, 50c. RUNKING RUNNING 2 "l RACES! CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB RACES, FALL MEETINGI! BAY DISTRICT TRACK. Races Bonday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Fridsy and Saturday— Rain or Shine. more races each day. Racesstart at 2:00 Five or P. 3 sharp, McAllister and Geary street cars pass 1 the gate. ROSEDALE!