The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 23, 1895, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1895. APPARENTLY LICENSED T0 VIOLATE THE LAW A CHARGE THAT DEPUTY FisH COMMISSIONERS ARE BRIBED. PAID FOR PROTECTION. CHINESE FISHERMEN WHO ARE NoT TERRIFIED BY LEGAL PENALTIES. A VISIT T0O THE FISH CAMPS. oF SmaLL FRy ILLEGALLY HT OPENLY DRYING FOR THE MARKET. 635. Fvery person who shall set, use, or con- | tinue, or wio shal, tin sctting, using, or con- | tinuing any pound . set-net, trap, or any other Jixed or permanent contrivance for catching flsh, in the waters of this State, is guilty of a misdemeanor. | Any net shall be considered a set-net when fastened in any way toa fixed or stationary object. Every person who shall cast, extend, or set any seine or net | of any kind, for the catching of fish in any river, | stream, or slough of this State, which shall extend | wmore than one-third across the width of said river. | stream, or ne and placeof such fish- i visdemeanor. Every person who set, usc, or continue, or who shall assist in castin 1sing, or continuing | “Chinese shrimp G ' or mets of similar for the catching of fish, in the waters of guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person cxtend, sct, use, or continue, or have in his possession, or who shall assist in casting, extending, using, or continuing *Chinese sturgeon " or lines of similar character, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Et shall cast, exten character, games and tan games that paid for police ‘‘protection’’ were not interfered with, while those who did not pay the secret tax to the police sergeant were prompily shut up and the owners and customers stoutly prosecuted. The same condition of affairs existed in “the tenderloin’’ and the money demanded of the wretched women came up in evidence at more than one investigation. The police said they could not close the gambling joints because they were run in secretand all approaches to them were guarded. There is not even that excuse in the matter of the illegal fishing, for all around drying stands the small fish would not weigh together over seventy-five pounds. ‘When full grown and fit for food their weight would be a ton or two. As a rule a dozen of these young fish when dried would not weigh an ounce. When mature every one of the fish, with the exception of the tomcods, would weigh overa pound. An inspection of the storehouses gave some idea of the flagrant manner in which the law relative to taking and killing young fish has been violated. In one storehouse several tons of small dried fish were piled ready for shipment to China. Further on another building of the same character was found containing at least two tons of small dried fish and many tons of dried shrimps. Upon the northern slope of the second point the shrimp nets were found drying. These nets are as destructive to young fish e THE DESTRUOTIVE CHINESE SHRIMP NETS THAT KILL THE YOUNG FISH. [Photographed by e “Call” artist.] - person who, by seineor other | th€ bay tons of small fish are dried daily | as dynamite. The meshes are so small that means, shall caich the young fish of any species, | O0 stands, and the sturgeon lines and | no fish can escape them. Even board and who shall no or who shall sell or offer for | h or dried, is guilty of a | yperson jound guilty of a wvio- misdeme lation of any of the provisions of this section shall be fined in a sum not lcss than $100, or be im- prisoned in the County Jail in the county in which | the conviction shall be had not less than 100 days, o or be punished by both such fine and imp; ment. Nothing in this thapter shall prohibit the | charged with suppressing their unlawful | United States Fish Commissioners, or the Fish | Commissioners of the State, from taking such jish | y deem necessary for the purpose of artificial | hing at all times. T prevent the extermination of fish in Cali- | fornia waters. The law is violated with impunity by the | the tribute of the Chinamen, but the fact | of the net. s is the section of the law designed to | body that passes that way. The Fish Commission may explain why this is permitted. Jonn Ennis used to be a Deputy Fish Commissioner. He says, and has said openly and frequently, that the Chinese fishermen paid tribute to the officers methods. As long as the tribute was forth- coming those who paid were given im- munity from arrest, and so extensive is entirely on the profits of this unlawful in- dustry. Ennis will not say who is now receiving return the same to the water im- | other forbidden gear are visible to any- | nails have been found in these affairs. In | shape the shrimp net resembles a large | funnel. The small end is made of closely | woven threads. An ordinary shrimp net | is about forty feet long and twenty-five to | thirty across the mouth. The top of the | net when in the water is buoyed by corks, and the lower lip of the mouth is kept on the bottom of the bay by means of lead | sinkers. The netis either anchored ina | current or dragged by those in the boats. | In either case no fish caught, either large | the traffic that whole villages are thriving | or small, ever escapes. But few are taken from the water alivé, for the weight of sev- ‘ eral hundred pounds of shrimps kill the { most of the fish in the pocket or small end FOINT PEDRO CHINLSE FISHING CAMP AND STANDS OF SMALL F1SH DRYING. [Photographed by a ““Call” artist.] Chinese fishermen—not all the Chinese fishermen, for every once in a while one or two go into the business and find them- selves charged before a courtand fined, | Samples of Young Fish Killed by Chinese—Actual Size. [Skeicked by a “Call” artist.) while right beside them hundreds of other Chinamen ply the same illegal industry unmolested. It used to be in Chinatown that lottery that the industry is thriving ana isas flourishing, if not more extensive, than ever before, would indicate that the bribery, if Ennis tells the truth, is un- abated. There have been many unpieasant things said about the present Board of Fish Commissioners—assertions that pri- vate waters have been stocked for private vleasure with the State fish, and that sort of thing, but these charges pale into in- significance beside the fact that handreds of men are destroying tons of fish daily, openly marketing the contraband mer- chandise, and that no steps are taken to prevent it. It is easy enongh to find these Chinese who are violating the laws of the State. Their fishing camps extend along the bay shore from below Redwood City on the south to where the tidewaters flow in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, and their fishing junks, with their awkward- looking square rigging, can be seen at most any hour of the day passing between the fishing grounds and the camps. The Chinese who are destroying the small and young fish are known as shrimp fishers, and they operate principally along the shoals and mud flats. Each camp isa small village by itself and in many there ere a number of Chinese women and children. A CaLy reporter and an artist visited the shrimp-fishers’ camp, on the McNear ranch at Point Pedro, five miles northeast of San Rafael. This camp is one of the largest of its kind upon the bay, and the shanties, wharves, drying-stands and dry- ing-grounds extend along the shore for nearly a mile. The first spectacle presented upon enter- ing the larger gathering of houses was about ten stands upon which small fish were being cured in the sun. Tiny flounders, tomcod, smelt and perch were in greatest abundance. Upon these Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Roval _ABSOLUTELY PURE ; Baking Powder a The law in endeavoring to protect young and small fish emphatically provides that when they are accidentally taken they must be returned to the water at once, and alive. The use of the shrimp net makes this almost impossible, even if the fisher- men were disposed to observe the laws, which they are not. As soon as the net is drawn with its load of squirming freight it When the hold is full the fishers go to the camp, where most of the small fish are re- moved, salted and placed on the drying- stands to cure. The shrimps and the re- mainder of the fish are dumped into boil- ersand cooked. The flesh of the young fish is cooked to a jelly. Then the whole mess is spread upon the drying-ground, which is rolled hard. These drying- grounds often cover an acre or two. When the shrimps are dry they are put into a small threshing-mnchine, which removes the shells. The meat is packed in sacks for food and the shrimp shells and the substance of the small fish is packed in sacks and sent to China for fertilizing pur- poses. The shrimp-catching season is nearly over, for the winter rains prevent tue dry- ing of shrimps and small fish. Some idea of the destruction of small fish may be had when the size of the fleet is considered. At the Point Pedro fishing camp there are about thirty junks and 150 Chinese employed. It is nothin, y uncom- mon for these junks to be filled twice a day with shrimps and small fish, During every steamer takes to na ied shrimps, dried fish and Iert_lhzing material. The output of every Chinese fishing camp on the bay is as pro- nortionately great ‘as that of the Point Pedro camp. The peculiar feature of the whole busi- nessis the boldness with which Chinese fishers pursue their business of catching and drying voung fish. No attempt to keep their business secretis made. Over 100 drymg-sxandp, all loaded with small fish of various kinds, were exposed, while at one place about a mile from McNear's house half an acre cf ground was covered with baby herring and smelt. _Fora time the Chinese fishers paid but little attention to the representatives of THE CALL, until the artist set his camera for a picture, Then the Chinese began to suspect that their lawbreaking was eing made a subject of inquiry and got uneasy. There was no chance for them to make away with the contents of 100 drying- stands, but several did run behind their houses to hide other evidences of gnilt, They were hiding a number of sturgeon hooks'and lines, articles of destruction ex- pressly prohibited by law. No fish ever struck one of these contrivanges and lived. the season nenrlg China tons of drie is emptied into the hold of the junk. | DELMAS' HOT SHOTS, HE DrcrLARES THAT PoT- TER IS A MERE DuMMY. LUX SUIT REVELATIONS. THE CATTLE KING REFERS TO THE RESPONDENT AS AN EM- BEZZLER. WHO WILL PAY THE EXPENSE? ALLEGED THAT THE BIG FIRM WiLL FooT THE BILLS—SHARP TILT BY THE LAWYERS. At the very last quarter of an hour of the Miller-Lux-Potter hearing at Redwood City yesterday afternoon, Mr. Delmas was compelled to reveal himself to the other side as being an opponent of theirs. It was done with evident regret. Even while stating in set terms that he expected, day by day, as the trial proceeds, to do them great harm, there was stiil an undertone of sympathy in it out of keeping with the harsh text of what he said. Jesse Potter, for whose removal as ex- ecutor of the Charles Lux will the proceed- ings are brought, was on the stand ail day. All the morning Mr. Delmas, as a nice, kind man who is only anxious to learn things, had Mr. Potter turn over the leaves of the big Miller & Lux ledgers, explaining this and that in the interlinked accounts. ‘With every apparent disposition to be obliging Mr. Potter followed in_the labyrinth through which his questioner led, though he was evidently in physical pain and mental embarrassment. But the long series of direct questions of the day before with the revelations they made concerning his financial relations with the big firm had left him little to fear. Anything else that the books had to show could only be corroborative and not worth fighting. So he followed along meekly and obediently, giving what information he could. At the beginning of the afternoon ses- sion Mr. Delmas abruptly left these dry bookkeeping details, withdrew the techni- cal question that was unanswered when therecess was taken, and said: We were yesterday asking about your salary, Mr. Potter. Before the death of Mr. Lux, March 15, 1887, you received, as you said, a salary of $200 & ‘month and continued to re- ceive it for fifteen months after that date, when Mr. Miller conceived the idea that as an executor of Mr. Lux’ estate you should no* be paid a salary by Miller & Lux, and Jou were charged with the full amount you had been | credited for for those months—§1500. 1s that true? Yes, sir. At the same time, however, in order that you should suffer no financial loss by that traus- action, he decided to add $50 & month to your | salary for the preceding years since 1882, { which amounted to just $3125, or #25 more than had been charged to you in the other Is that true? transaction. Yes, sir. Then on the 31st of October, 1890, Mr. Mil- ler conceived still another notion, that you were in fnct entitled after all to a salary as an employe of the firm despite your office s exec- utor, and he credited you upon the books with & sumn to cover all the period for which it had been taken away together with the interest on that overdraft of yours, making altogether $10,922 60. 1s that true? Yes, sir. 2 How did this proposition about the salary come about, did you know it was to be given you? es, I knew it. It was arranged with Mr. Miller and M chols. ho suggested it? It first came from the lawyer's office—Mr. Mastick suggested it. You remember the lease of the Las Animas ranch by Mr. Miller to the firm of Miiler & Lux for $45,0007 Yes, sir. As executor of Mr. Lux’s estate and repre- senting the interests of the heirs you assented to_that, did you? Yes. We had a little dispute about it. What was the dispute about? He thought I was charging him too much for therent of Buri-Bur, Mrs. Lux’s ranch, and not allowing him enough for Las Animas, which was his. And how was the dispute settled ? Bfi{llcd to the increased rental? es. You con- Miller credited you on the books with your back salary—that $10.922 60—did you consent to the terms of this iease to the firm of Mr. Miller's Las Animas ranch at $45,000 a year? Well, that lease has nothing todo with my salary. Why do you say so—why do you couple them together, then? Because you speak of one in connection with the other. There was a brief consultation between Mr. Delmas and Mr. Campbell and Expert Accountant Reynolds, who * has been buried for months in these books and knows every uncrossed *‘t”’ or undotted *i"” between their covers, sits constantly at the elbow of Mr. Delmas ready to expiain every eccentricity of the accounts. Then Mr. Delmas said: I understand that there isa contract for this rental of Las Animas, bearing date ten days after that restitution of salary. Can’t we have that contract? “You can haye anything we have, Mr. Delmas,” said Mr. MCEnernef. *‘This i8 the first we knew you wanted it. it isnot here.” You left the'employ of the company May 31, 1893? You began borrowing heavily from Mr. Miller during the next few months, did you not, Mr. Potter? The books will show. Mr. Delmas began reading the account running from June to October 10, 1893, a period of five months, the borrowines in which footed up $13,36913, at the rate of $125 a day. Some other borrowings from Henry Miller during the succeeding month were inquired into, making a total of $18,839 25. From November, 1893, to November, 1894, the borrowings were found to toot up $29,091 08, Then Mr. Delmas resumed with kindly concern: How did you dispose of these large sums of money in so ehort a time? Did you en‘gnge in some business? No, you were {00 ill for that, you said. “I spent it,” said Potter, simply and frankly, a8 though he was speaking of the purchase of a box of strawberries. You did not speculate with it? No, I spent it on my own pleasure. Then Mr. Delmas began to go into the details of the account. There were livery bills and doctors’ bilis and horse-training and boarding bills. There was one bill of $1100 to the proprietor of a roadhouse, the Fourteen-mile House, otherwise known as Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Mr. Potter said he went out there frequently and boarded there for a time, the bill was all right. . Did you k;ep an{ 0rrowing and spendin, asked. L No, sir, Again Mr. Delmas asked the witness to explain the nature of his expenses not revealed by the book. I spent the money for my own pleas- ure,” said the witness again. Then_ there was a note for $11,000 given to Mr, Miller October 17, only a few days ago. Mr. Delmas wanted to know about it. Mr. Potter explained that he had taken Up another note with it and three due bills from Mr. Katz. One of them was for $1000, dated four weeks ago; another for $1000, a week later, and another for $1000 a week ago, . “How did you spend that much money in so short a’ nme‘.‘?’ :‘For my own pleasure.” ‘Now, Mr. Potter,” said Mr. Delmas, be- coming 'the least . bit severe, ‘‘don’t you account of these g of money? was Now how long after the date on which Mr. | know that you borrowed that money to Eny the expenses of this very proceeding ere in court ?"’ There was a distinct pause of about five heart-beats and then Mr. Potter said very mildly: +‘No, 1t was not.” It was not, you say ?” *No, it was not.” ““Was it required, then, to pay the ex- penses of some other proceeding in the matter of this estate ?” All the lawyerson the other side cried an objection.” Thé right to inquire about anything in law outside of this case be- came the fruitful subject of discussion. It devolved upon Mr. Delmas to show to which he was drifting. ““I don’t object to indicate here the scope of this inquiry,” he said. ‘“We will show that the proceeding is preliminary to others that may get deeper into the affairs of these litigants, but we wish to show. and we think we can show, that this re- sgondent is but_the nominal figure in them and that Henry Miller is himself the principal in these suits; that he is furnishing the sinews of war for this re- spondent in this case and for the conduct oi others; we will show that the very selection of the attorneys for the other side was made in Henry Miller’s office. I hold that it is competent to inquire into these things here and now.” Judge Buck decided that inquiry might be made with this regard as to this case and for that of the Miranda W. Lux estate. The question was put and the witness answered “No,” Mr. Pillsbury rose to explain that coun- sel on the other side was also_counsel in the other case, and the evidence taken here could and no doubt would be used to work their own enas in the other suit. “We have had an illustration of that right here” he said. ‘“Judge Spencer was counsel for the witness in the suit for an accounting. We have heard the testimony he gave in that suit in answer to questions by Juage Spencer, his own counsel, read here to your Honor for the purpose of im- peaching their own witness—practically setting a trap in one case for him to spring it in another, leading him down through the valley of death to his own destruction. We protest against it.” Mr. Delmas, to enlighten the court, gave aresume of the pending litigation between the parties, the suit for the contest of the will of Miranda Lux and the suit foran ac- counting of Miller & Lux and the relation- ship of the lawyers in them. Then he turned upon Mr. Pillsbury with regard to his reference to Judge pencer, with a sharp denial of the insinuation. He said: I have known Judge Spencer for many years. He was on the other side in almost the first lawsult that I had the homor to try in the courts, and I have been associated with and opposed to him in the trial of causes very many times since. His good fame is fixed in the his- tory of jurisprudence in this State. Whatever may be said of his methods in the conduct of & case it is the first time thatI have known a lawyer to have the temerity to say of him in the courts of this State that he was not abso- lutely faitbful to his client. He then went on to say that if Henry Miller was permitted to carry out his scheme he could shape the litigation to his like and ultimately control the great es- tate, the neirs to which had been waiting for years for their own, even the widow of the aeceased, he said, the titular heir to millions, having died in absolute want. The court allowed him to put his ques- tions, and he asked Potter if Henry Miller, now so friendly to him, lending him iarge sums of money to spend on his own pleas- ures, had not at one time called him an embezzler, said he was no good, and de- clared that if he had his deserts he would | be 1n San Quentin. Potter said he never knew of it except through Bishop, the attorney. The examination of the witness will continue to-day. SUSN BRYANT'S ESTATE, IT CONSISTS PRINCIPALLY OF CLAIMS AGAINST HER UN- CLE, IRA P. RANKIN. MR. RANKIN’S Two LiFe POLICIES TO COVER HIs INDEBTEDNESS TO RELATIVES. Miss Susan F. Bryant's estate consisted principally of claims against Ira P. Rankin, individually and as executor of the will of Caroline A. B. Rankin, and the will of Edwin Bryant. These claims are secured by two insurance policies on the life of Mr. Rankin. Miss Bryant died on November 5, 1889, and by her will filed Monday for probate, the property is bequeathed to relatives. The will is'as follows: SAN FraNcisco, April 10, 1889. 1 give ana bequeath all my clothes, orna- ments and jewelry to my sister, Ellsworth, for her to distribute s Igive to my uncle, Ira P. Rankin, $500, as & token of my respect and love for him. 1 give to Susie Ellsworth §500 for her name. ATl the rest of my money or estate 1 wish to be equally divided among my nephews and nieces, namely: Oliver B. Ellsworth, Edward A. Ellsworth, Henry G. Ellsworth, James Ellsworth, Susie Ellsworth, Carrie R. Ellsworth, Harry Ross Bryant, Caroline Amelia Bryant, Oliver J. it is my last will and 4 nt. is is my last will and testame: e SusaN F. BRYANT. My property consists of five hundred dollars left me by Aunt Carrle, an interest in father's estate and twelye hundred dollars in Oliver Bryant’s hands in Cincinna! SUSAN F. BRYANT. Ban Francisco, April 10, 1889, Z Edwerd A. Ellsworth, a nephew of Miss Bryant, has applied also for letters of ad- ministration on the esiate of Oliver Bry- ant, who died at Cincinnati in 1881. The two estates are made identical by the con- trol which Mr. Rankin held. ‘ Mr. Rankin was in 1870 appointed ex- ecutor of the Edwin Bryant estate, holding the position until he died on October 1. Oliver Bryant obtained a sixth interest in the Edwin Bryant estate. At the time of Mr. Rankin’s death Mr. Rankin owed $12,000 to the estate of Ed- win Bryant, as shown by the nephéw’s petition for fetters of administration. This $12,000 indebtedness, it is further related, was secured by two insurance poli- cies on Mr. Rankin’s life, the policies hav- ing been taken out with the intention and understanding that the insurance money should apply to the llqudunon of the debt and of other indebtedness to the Bryant heirs. : Susan F. Bryant was a daughter of Oliver Bryant. Her relatives who are legatees under her will are Hattie B. Ellsworth of Niles, a sister; Oliver D. Bryant of Cincin- nati and Edwin Bryant of Terre Haute, Ind., brothers. ——————— Probate Court Notes. J. B. Fargo, administrator of the Cornelius King estate, over which there is a contest, rendered his first annual account yesterday. He has received $218,918 27 and ‘paid out $27,911 61. Tgnatz Reitch left a $3000 estate and no will, His relations are nearly all in Bohemia. The Albert J. Lewis will was admitted to p;‘obue yesterday. Mrs. Lewis is the execu- u x. * Tiie Kate Lincoln will has been appraised at $14,531 99. A Mining Incorporation. The Clara Gold-mining Company was incor- porated yesterday with a capital stock of 8500000 and_ tne following amounts sub- scribed: Francis H. Coy and Henry Harris of Grizzly Flat, El Dorado County, $150,000 each; Elmer E.Simpson of San_Jjose, $1000; Charles M. Cross and Willlam M. Abbott of this City, $500 each. Catseay e THE health of most women and men isin the underwear they wear. Jaros Hygienic Under. wear— nough said. Morgan Bros., 229 Montgy'+ ——————— The Thomas Bell Debts. Creditors of the Thomas Bell estate have pe- titioned for the sale of property to pay the debts. The execntors have £673,500, the debts amount to $350,817 87, with interest of 0,000 or more, and $32,940 s aue on the amily aliowance. Judge Coffey has ordered a hearing on Tuesday, November 26. —_—— THE cold preventer & health-kecper. Jaros Hy- gienic Underwear. Morgan Bros., 229 Montg'y* SUICIDE OF MRS, GREEN DESPONDENCY OVER HER Hus- BAND'S DEATH THE CAUSE OF THE DEED, LETTERS OF EXPLANATION LEFT TO THE CORONER AND TO HER CousIns. Mrs. Nellie Green, a widow aged 34| years, committed suicide by poison at her residence 435 Ringold street, yesterday morning. The deceased had been despondent for a long time past on account of her husband’s death and her inability to obtain perma- nent employment, and had frequently | spoken of suicide, though her talk on that subject had not been taken seriously. | The body was taken to the Morgue, and an autopsy will be necessary to determine ;.l:e nature of the drug she used to end her ife. In the two letters left by the deceased | she speaks of using laudanum, but a box | of “rough on rats” was found in the room, | and it was believed that she used that | poison to accomplish her end. Mrs. Green left two letters in the room where she died, one addressed to the Cor- oner, the other to her cousins, John and Nellie Green. The letter to the Coroner wasas follows: SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16, 1895, To the Coroner—DEAR Sik: I write this to save you trovble as well as the Cityexpense. I take my life with laudanum poison, the cause being crazed with grief at my darling husband’s death, sickness and without friends or means of support, If I had one good friend to look to | me I would never have done such a thing. The number of my husband’s grave Is 57, tier 2, Cyress Lawn Cemetery. With respects, NELLIE GREEN. The letter to her cousins read as follows: 8ax Fraxcrsco, Oct. 17, 1895. Dear Johnny and Nel Please_forgive and don’t think hard of me for what I have done. I could not stand it any longer. I am broken- hearted and crazy with grief and would not die 8IONE Srangers You‘bo(h wgill forgive me, and may God bless you both and your family. You have both been kind and good tome. Keepall my things. Take good care of my darling’s picture for my sake. M Johnny, please see that I am buried with Jim, if you possibly can. 3 Give my earnings to Tricksey. Forgive your broken-hearted cousin. Johnny, see thatm. poor old father sees me buried. 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