The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 15, 1895, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1895. CHRIST'S SECOND COMING SET FOR. 1885 | and the falli i un- Scheduled to Appear to the| iklteotis, who will bs buried sa that st World on Septem- “Rhont ber 17. hrist will first appear in the clouds abouy September 17 next year. He will precede the time set for the expiration of the reign of the gentile about three years, and that time is set for 1899, When Christ zppear_s those who have refused to accept im will go down to perdition, while those Who have been born again will be lifted up to join him in the clouds. - Iam just as positive it will all occur as have déscribed as 1 am of evervthing. You notice the disturbance in Turkey? That is simply a forerunner of the final | event. It will not be stopped by the | powers, but will go on until Mohammed- anism is no more. The time for its expira- tion is about up, and the Sultan will leave (.pnst.m;unople early in September and kutclg his tents between the Black and the Mediterranean seas. That will mark the beginning, and Christ will come soon after.” GAME LAWS UPHELD. A Jury in Judge Low’s Court Convicts 2 Dealer of Selling Wild Duck Out of Season. . The case of Antonio Fedora, game-dealer in the Clay-street market, charged with violating the game laws by selling a wild A NEW PROPHET ARISEN. A. B. Deming of Qakland Born Again to Warn the World of Its Doom. WHY PROGRESS FURTHER? Armenian Troubles Foreshadow the | Event—Awful Earthquakes on the Last Day. Keep your eye on Constantinople. When e Sultan irkey leaves the capital of | duck out of season, was tried before a jury s domain and sails down the Bosphorus | i Judge Low’s court yesterday afternoon. to piteh his fent between the waters of the | Deputy Attorney - General Jackson ap- Black and Mediterranean seas, then keep peared for the prosecution and Attorney vour weather eye open, for that will be the | I+ D. Riordan appeared for the defendant. Miss Etta Gladstone testified that on October 30 she went to Fedora’s stall and vurchased a pair of wild ducks from the defendant. In cross-examination she said she used to be a dressmaker, but had been emp! since the beginning of October. She told Fedora that she wanted the ducks for her mother, who was sick. Frank Docherty, who accompanied Miss onal for eginning of the end of all a prophet come to herald the of Christ. The prophet he bay in Oakland which many religious impostors t. Like the other *cranks,” ephet is “not without honor in itry,” for susceptible religious kland and San Francisco are peultry stores, testified that he saw her go into the market empty-handed and come out carrying a pair of wild ducks. The defendant in his testimony thought { he had sol@ Miss Gladstone quail, but he denied selling her wild ducks. If she had not told him a pathetic story of her mother being sick he would not have listened to her. In cross-examination he admitted that he had been arrested and pleaded guilty to selling wild doves con- trary to law. After counsel’s address the jury retired | and in a few minutes returned with a ver- dict of guilty. Judge Low reserved sen- tence till to-morrow. | _ There are eight more cases on Judge | Low’s calendar and Mr. Jackson | that R. K. Malcolm’s be first set f Advancement of Science to hold its an- nual session in this City in 1897. Some time ago William H. Hale, pre: dent of the committee, sent a communica- tion to the Mayor stating that the Ame: can Association intended holding a joint meeting with the British and Australian associations and that this City was pre- | ferred as a place for the gathering. The letter to the committee contained the an-'| nouncement that the invitation had been extended to the two other associations men- tioned. YOUNG ELOCUTIONISTS. Simple Method of Teaching Reading ASHWORTHWILL DENYALL Mr. Black and Mr. Ackerman Make Their Opening Statements. THE GUERRERO STREET JOB. yed by the Game Commissioner | Gladstone on her tour of the game and | in the Denman Grammar School. Some of the best work in the line of elo- cution is done in one of the grammar de- partments of the public school system of the City. The principal and teachers of the Den- | man School have solved some of the vexing problems of juvenile education, among which none are more bailling than that of | teaching their voung charzes the art of distinct enunciation. The pupils of the | grammar school on Bush and Jones streets | give patriotic quotations with oratorical | fervor, Yet these resuits have been brought about by no special preparatory | exercises. | There has been no stereotyped training | in this direction that has led to the Den- man earning the title of “tne banner | Judge Murphy Was Too IIl to Go On With the Trial Before Monday Morning. Both Mr. Black, for the people, and Mr. Ackerman, for the defendant, made their opening statements yesterday to the jury whose duty it will be to pass upon the guilt or innocence of Thomas Ashworth, the Superintendent of Streets. The taking of testimony would have commenced in the afternoon had it not been for the illness of Judge Murphy. During the morning session it was quite ATKERMAN TALKING FOR THE OEFENSE AT THE TRIAL OF SUPERINTEN [Sketched by a JUDLE MURPRY as AN ANVALID. DENT OF STREETS ASEWORTH, “Call artist.] | Attorney Riordan protested ag | colm’s case being tried, as his partner, Campodonico, had been already acquitted by & jury. Jackson was insistent ana re- marked that the verdict in che Campo- dornico case was a miscarriage of justice and the jurors should be indicted by the Grand Jury. | .The Judge declined to take up Mal- | colm’s case first and finally it was agreed | to hear the case of Charles Nauman Tuesday afternoon | | | | A. B. Deming, the Oakland Prophet | Who Predicts the Second Coming | of Christ. | Joseph Abbott, a Prisoner in the City Prison, Has a Narrow they did with is standard as \d other eccentric | Escape. ie Athens of Mayor Davies. | ok G e all effort to bring the Re- | 2 23 = onzention to San Franciseo. | Matthew Maume, While Suffering e will never be ther Republican | From Delirium Tremens, At- lent of the ted State | tacks Him. rover Cleveland will never serve a third Matthew Maume of 5 Natoma street, nearly strangled Joseph Abbott to death et the City Hall ington have Ca zel go. Let Mr. | fornia if he wants it. ‘ ng adulterated milk. The milk- |in a cell in the City Prison yesterday ign is short. Postpone adding an- | morning. v to the City Hall. Maume was arrested Tuesday night on Lu:gf(:d‘ )Uf \‘h( ba 1'“?‘;?1-1110': | suspicion of having committed a burglary. D e e qmn broPhet | He was locked up in the “tanks” pending this man | an investigation. the Holy | of having been He had the appearance § drinking heavily, but to have t Mal- | STAMELED 1N h CELL and face which e to the features He has ap- of the Bible, ture as flu- yman the pon his favorite very opportu- cond coming about September 17, icts a sort of tailoring es- Oakland, and when busi- peddies a prepared char- for indigestion, in this »s advantage of the charcoal tours to preach his belief, and a crossing the bay, takes a stand i the seats of the ferryboat and ssengers with his flow of does considerable curb- nd may often be seen at ith a crowd of attentive m. Hie strongest follow- 1,and although he has not creating the impression owned the efforts of former > hag made many converts ie number is swelling con- eming cond ishment nd claims th ntly “[ eve in the second coming of hrist,”” said he, *‘and I have been told by > Lord to go forth and proclaim it to all ‘‘Christ will come to the world about the 17th of September, 1896. I am not yet pos- ve of the exact date, but he will certainly come about that time. : ‘I will tell you how I became inspired. Iw a Baptist for twenty years, but dur- all that time I did not know what it s to be a Christian, for I had not bcen orn again. Some years azo in New York I was converted Presbyterian minis- ter. I was born again, and I now have a lifferent understanding of religion than ons who have not had that experience. I was told to ent my infirmities, for 1 of that nature is the only kind possible to me now, by fasting, humiliation and ver. For four years I fasted weekly from Saturday night till Monday, but the been comm the Lord | nothing was thought to be the matter with md warn t of an im- | him, He is A. B. :‘;‘(’lm“}_fc?: | Early yesterday morning he demolished lose to 60 vearsof age. tall, well | One of the toilet-rooms and made things | lively for the ‘‘trusties’” and officers on | duty. He grew quiet after a while, but was removed to a cell in the prison proper, | where six other prisoners were contined, +#0 that he could be constantly under the | eyes of the *“‘trusties.” | About 9 o'clock, without a moment’s | warning, he sprang upon Abbott and | threw him on the floor of ihe cell. He | grasped him by the throat with both | hands and commenced to strangle him. | The other prisoners yelled for help and threw themselves upon Maume, who was | foaming at the mouth aud seemed to be bereft of his reason. There was a wild rush to the cell, and Maume was drageed off Abbott, who had | turned biack in the face and would have | been a corpse in a few minutes longer if i not rescued. Maume fought like a wild | beast till the handcuffs were put on him. He was then taken to the Receiving Hos- vital and placed in a padded cell. fle was | suffering from a bad atiack of delirium iremens. For several hours after being | put into the padded cell he was a maniac, trying to climb up the partitions with hands and feet till nature gave out and he | lay on the floor of the cell exhausted, Maume at one time held a responsible position in the gashouse, and was looked upon as a clever and well-educated young man. When his mother died she left con- siderable mortey to be divided among the children, and Maume since then has squanaered his share in fast living. SWAN RETRACTED. Took Back His Harsh Words Regarding Grand Juror Leventritt—The Sign Ordinance. | The Grand Jury was represented at the i meeting of the Street Committee of the | Board of Supervisors yesterday by Charles { Sonntag, who came to explain the wishes | of the jury regarding the proposed sign | ordinance. | Jabez Swan was also present to retract the statement he recently made regarding Holy Bpirit appeared to me and told me I | regn ould Plast )t))lr))ly when the Spirit com- | Grand Juror Leventritt’s responsibility for nded me. Since then { have fasted for rent intervals ai various times and iave always had visions during those times by which my course was directed until I was ordered to fast again. “In the last days of October I was com- nded to fast, angd 1 did so. For eight ays I ate and drank nothing, and the ninth day I drank some water. That eveniig the Spirit visited me and told me to end my fast and go to a restaurant on Montgoniery streef, which was named, :I:nddto eat toast and drink some tea, which did. *‘While I was fastiug I had the customary vision, and in it all things pertaining to the final coming of Christ were revealed to me. Ilay on the side of a huge ravine or canyon, and on the opposite side was a great prescipice with perpendicular sides. On the top were xatgered multitudes of people, and those in the fore were being Y'm ually pressed toward the brink by wordes who came crowding behind. “Finally they began toppling over, first a dozen, then two, then fifty, and so it went. I tell you the sight was terrible, awful. I can’t describe it adequately. It meant that on the last day there will be the most | the crusade against the sign-posting busi- ness. He said that he had discovered that | he was wrong about the matter, and he | did not desire to do Mr. Leventritt an in- justice. He suggested that people be al- ]owed to stretch signs between bay-win- dows. 3 To this Grand Juror Sonntag objected, | and the committee finally agreed to com- | promise by allowing signs to be attached to bay-windows, but not stretched between them. Mr. Sonntag advised those who could not find any advertising to toeir taste that could be allowed by the ordinance to patronize the newspapers. The committee decided to recommend the immediate completion of the Mission- street sewer, between Fourteenth and Fif- teenth, the peculiar condition of which wag discovered by the Mission Association for Sewer Improvement a few days ago. MAY MEET IN THIS CITY. Gathering of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Mayor Sutro sent a cordial invitation yesterday to the committee of arrange- irightful earthquakes the world has ever known, in fact many times more terrible, ments of the American Association for the school of readers,”’ vet attention to enun- | | ciation and to an intellizent grasp of the | subject of the reading have won for it that | | title. | Perhaps the systematic instruction in | physical culture given daily at 10 o’clock A.x and 2p. M.is an indirect aid in the | | natural voice development. | The fact that in more than one respect | it isa fine exponent of the wark of the San Francisco public schools, has never been | questioned. BICK FROW THE ARCTC The Revenue-Cutter Bear Ar- rived in Port Yesterday Morning. i Captain Healy and His Officers Will Not Talk of Their Troubles. The revenue cutter Bear arrived from | the Arctic yesterday and wars and rumors | |of wars are in the air. Captain M. A. Healy, commander of the vessel, is the | target at which everybody is shooting, | and outside of the foremast-hands he does | | not seem to have a friend on the vessel. | No one in the Revenue Marine is better | known than Captain Healy. For over, | twenty years he has been making yearly | trips to the Arctic, and among the | whalers is the best-liked man in the | United States. He is a skillful navigator, and during all the years he has been at sea his ship has never met with an accident. The coolness between Captain Healy and his officers began soon after the cutter reached Bering Sea. The officers are: First lieutenant and executive of- { ficer, A. Buhner! first lieutenant and navigator, Howard Emery; sec- ond lieutenants,. C. M. White and G. M. Daniels; chief engineers, John R. Dally and Charles F. Coffin, and first assistant_engineer, J. E. Dorry; surgeon, Thomas Bodkin. Only two of these sided with the commander; as to the others, they only obeyed orders because they had to. This state of affairs has lasted for sev- eral months, so it can be imagined that the Bear did not carry around a particu- larly happy family in the officers’ quar- ters. The ofiicers’ side of the story has taken | form in the shape of a complaint forwarded to the Secretary of the Treasur; substance of the charges were gi clusively in Tue CaLy last Sunday week, and_in substance set forth that Captain | Healy had been under the influence of | liquor on several occasions, and had been and 4 gentleman.’” On the 18th of September last Captain Healy fell overboard from the wharf while boarding his ship at Unalaska. His head struck one of the piles and he was seriously injured. He has not thoroughly recovered from the effects, but expects to be as hale and hearty as ever in a few weeks. When seen at the Occidental Hotel last night he positively refused to diseuss the sitnation, “If I am to be the subject of an investiga- tion,” said he, “well and good. Then I will be able to talk. IfI am not, ihe least said 1. the soonest mended. Iam known on the Pacific Cosst from San Diego to Cape Flattery and trom Cape Flattery to Herschel Island. If you can find any one ready to throw a stone at me outside of these men who are said to have signed the communication to the department bring him along. T'll stand all he can give me.” ‘“We never had such a mean trip,”’ was | the opinion of the Bear’s crew as voiced by the sea lawyer. ‘‘The officers and the | old man were at outs and they had a reg- ular parrott and monkey time. Captain Healy is getting along in years and the youngsters seem to think he should retire and give them achance. We have some queer sub-officers in this shipand to my mind they are the ones that should be in- vestigated.”’ ‘When the officers were seen they refused point blank to be interviewed. Neither would they give the names of any of the officers who had grievances against the captain. Whatever information they pos- sessed they said they were going to keep for Secretary Carlisle. The latter will surely order an investigation and the whole facts of the case will then come out. During the season the Bear took 155 rein- deer from the Siberian coast to Port Clar- ence. Captain Healy says the herds are doing splendidly-and that the Esquimaux are now proof against starvation. - ——— Goethe-Schiller Fair. Since the close of the festival the Goethe- Schiller Monument Association has moved into its old headquarters at 120 Sutter street. Aliof the business conneoted with the late fair will be attended to at the office. Those holding tickets of the numerous projects in the booths can get information regarding their tickets at the office. It will take almost & week to concludé the business of the fair. | pcol on Spruce street was not wide enou; | guilty of conduct, “unbecoming an officer | apparent that the court was suffering, and in the afternoon, after Mr. Ackerman had concluded his address, no one was greatly surprised when Judge Murphy cpenly de- clared his illness and said that it wasim- possible for him to remain in court any longer. He suggested an adjournment till next Monday, when it is hoped he will have sufficiently recovered to proceed with the trial. The five vacancies in the jury-box were filled without much trouble during the morning hours of court, and there waseven time for Mr. Black’sopening statement for the prosecution. The five jurors needed were secured with very little trouble. J. Dolan of 1012 Fif- teenth street; William R. Jack, 913 Ellis street; Jan.es Badger, 1221 Laguna street; J. J. MacDonald, 1 Castro street, and red Meyer, 1200 Fillmore street, proved satisfactory to both sides, and then the case proper was opened. The accusation against the defendant was ordered read, and the charges of mis; conduct were recounted to the jury. The specific charges were six in number, and referred to a cesspool on Clay and Spruce streets; anartificial stone sidewalk on Van Ness avenue and Union street; a bitumin- ous vock roadway on Ellwood street, off O’Farrell, between Mason and Powell; a stone sewer on Broderick street, between Ellis and O’Farrell ; a bituminous roaaway on Guerrero street, between Eighteent: | and Nineteenth, and an artificial stone sidewalk on Chestnutand Stockton streets. The plea, which had been entered on Oc- tober 30 to the allegations made—a general denial to all—was read also, and then Mr. Black rose to make his statement. It would be shown, he said, that the cess- h, not deep enough, the traps were not 53: | enough down, and the outlet was defee | tive. The people would prove, Mr. Black seid, that Mr. Ashworth knew of the state of affairs regarding the cesspool, and that he fixed it under protest upon a demand from the Mayor’s inspector. | As to the artificial stone sidewalk, it | would be shown that it was made of de- | fective material and had to be torn up and | relaid. The bituminous-rock roadway on Ellwood street was laid with bitumen 114 ‘mches thick instead of 214 inches thick; the stone sewer on Broadway had been | Jaid with “Y” connections at’ every fifty | feet instead of at every twenty feet, as the | specifications required, and Mr. Ashworth | had been notified of this defect by the | clerk of the Mayor fifteen days before it was accepted. | The bituminous roadway on. Guererro street was laid on concrete which had about one-half the requirement of cement, | aud the bitumen was laid on the concrete the day after it was put down, and while t was still. wet. Citizens bhad protested against the work, but it had all been ac- cepted. The work was rotten from top to | bottom, Mr. Black said, and was not in | any way according to_specifications, but | the Superintendent of Streets, in spite of the protest of the property-owners, had | recommended its -acceptance to the Street Committee and it had been accepted, al- though later the Board of Supervisors had to reverse the action as the work was too evidently fraudulent. In the last case cited, the stone sidewalk on Chestnut and Stockton streets, red rock was used which would not stand the test, and when the matter was reported to Mr. Ashworth he said it wasa small job any- way, and so he accepted. Mr. Black stated that the contention of the prosecution would be that Mr. Ash- worth willfully and corrugtly accepted the | work which he knew to be imperfect and | fraudulent. It was not necessary nor | would they try to prove that the Superin- | tendent of Streets ever received a dollar for | his misconauct, but the prosecution wouid show that that these acts were injuring the | taxpayers and were benefiting a few con- | tractors, and that Mr. Ashworth knew such | to_be the case. This proved, Mr. Black said, he thought the jury should return a verdict for the people. In the afternoon Attorney Ackerman made his opening address to the jury for the defense. *In every community there is an impression that a thief is not an hon- est man,” he began, ‘‘and Mr. Ashworth is here before you, gentlemen, in_his third term as Superitendent of Public Streets and in the seventy-third year of his honest and spotless life to prove to you that he is not a thief. “The accusations are that Mr. Ash- worth’s doEuties notified him that certain | street work was unsatisfactory and that in spite of that notification he accepted the work. We are here to meet these accusations fearlessly and fully, to prove that in no particular are they true, and that for Mr. Ashworth to have been dis- honest in any way would mean that he had reversed the order of his entire past life.” Coming down to the specific accusations made by the District Attorney in his open- ing statement, Mr. Ackerman said first that they were instigated by Mr. Elder, an mspector appointed without authority, to | whom Mr. Ashworth had rightly denied the privileee of prying into the books of the Street Department. As to the firsy count in the indictment, that a certain cesspool was within two inches of its proper depth, Mr, Ackerman said the work had been approved by a legal in- spector, Mr. Lowe, and that there could have been no intention of anf one to de- fraund, because it would only have cost $150 to have made the legal excavation. As to the second count, that no tar paper had been Iaid under the concrete sidewalk at Van Ness and Union, the whole con- | tract only amounted to $4%, and the cost of the missing tar paper was but $1 35. It was Leld at that time, too, that the use of tar paper was a detrimentinstead ¢f a benefit, since the moisture made the paper rot, and the pavement had a tendency to sag in consequence. However, the work hapfi been approved by a legal inspector be- fore approved by Mr. Ashworth. In the case of the Ellwood-street bitumi- nous pavement being of uneven thinness, Mr. chemmn said_he would show that no material was saved on that job. Inthe center of the street the bitumen was 3 and 3} inches in thickness, which was con- siderably above the legal requirement, and where the bitumen was a trifle below specitications was at the gutters, where it was_necessary to leave a slope for a_water shed. Andif there had been a saving of material, the saving was of such a diminu- tive character as not to have tempted the meanest deputy in Mr. Ashworth’s office. As to the sewer on Broderick street not being equipped with a sufficient number of Y’s, the defense would show that only one Y, costing 35 cents, was omitted, and that at the special request of one of the prop- erty-owners interested, a Mr. Morton. he bituminous_pavement on Guerrero street, between Eighteenth and Nine- teenth—this was the big gun of the prose- cution from which the heavy shot was to be fired—was laid during the term of Mr. Ashworth’s_ predecessor in office, Mr. Ackerson. Mr. Ashworth had nothing at all to do with it. Thomas & Williams were the contractors, and the defense would show that they had paid 10 cents a barrel more for the cement than the legal reqpirement and that the pavement was beiter than most of the work in the City | and as good as the best. Mr. Ashworth only approved the pavement after the | Street Committee of the Board of Super- | visors had examined it and commended it. | The last count was the broken sidewalic on Chestnut street, near Stockton. This was passed upon by a legal inspector be- fore Mr. Ashworth approved it, and when it broke Mr. Ashworth compelled the con- tractor to repair it. Mr. Ackerman said in conclusion that the jurors might hold him to the proof for all his statements and that he would show that the prosecution was mean and malig- nant in spirit. Judge Murphy, at this point, declared that he was too ill to go on with the trial at present, and suggested an ad journment tili next Monday. Both Mr. Black and Mr. Ackerman at once agreed to this, and an adjournment was teken till Monday morning. ’ THE POINT LOBOS CLUB. Officers Chosen for the Ensuing Year—A Grammar Class Wanted. The meeting of the Point Lobos Im- provement Club last evening at Mohr= mann’s Hall, corner of Fifth avenue and Clement street, was well attended and a great deal of local interest was manifested in the work of the organization. New officers were elected as follows: G. R. Fletcher, president, succeeding T. G. Parker, who presided last evening; C. E. Ray, vice-president; W. P. Johnson, sec- retary; Chris Mohrmana, treasurer. The appointment of the executive com- mittee was postponed until the next meet- ing. A committee was appointed to wait upon the Board of Education and request that a grammar class be added to the Richmond School at First and Point Lobos avenues, consisting of Luke Battles, T. G. Parker, James Winslow, C. E. Ray, R. M. woods. A committee consisting of Messrs. Ray, ‘Woods and Parker was appointed to con- fer with the Park Commissioners and the railroad company and ask them some ointed and_pertinent questions concern- ing the non-fulfillment by the railroad of the provisions of its Point Lobos-avenue franchise. MORE COMPRIE T0 0, National Guard Officers See No| Other Way Out of the paid “for this new quarter. What may happen after that money is expended { don't know. ‘Buf let me tell you this, of the captains in my reziment who is kicking most about this thing is the very one whose company [ saved from dis- bandment a few months ago. However, there is more harmony in the regiment than in many others, and even in the event of a reorgamzation the Second is in no particular danger.”’ Trouble. Captain Filmer of the First Infantry £ had received his full allowance from Sac- —_— ramento, and hoped to get it again when the quarter end The company captains ANOTHER REORGANIZATION, | Of the First could not get along with less Views of Men in the Service Upofl the Financial Allowance Dif- ficulty. ‘The story published in THE CAvLL yester- day about the projected reorganization of the National Guard of California for a sec- | ond time within half a year has occasioned | Guard officers pre | companies. | not suffer severely, but some sort of a | of the Second. | it and the service needs it.”’ | than $100 a month and are a unit in object- ing to any decrease. Lieutenant-Colonel Geary of the Second | Artillery declared that the only way oui | of the mess appears to be u reorganization and the disbandment of about fourteen San Francisco, he said, should rehabiliment of the force in this City | might be made to advantage. “If a reorganization is in prospect, it is an excellent thing,” said Captain Poxton “I¢ looks very much like A number of other prominent National ed that an immense serious concern in militia circles in this | @Mount of trouble and confusion will soon City. The threatening attitude of the superior officers at Sacramento is believed to indicate that business is meant, and that a severe shaking up of the National Guard institution may be looked for within a period measured by months. It was realized some time ago by well-informed officers that a storm was gatherine. Rumors have been rife in the abiding- places ot the local citizen-soldiery that trouble is in abundant store for San Fran- cisco’s National Guard, and the Board of | Auditors have confirmed every suspicion. | Considerably more concern is manifested | in this final phase of the reorganization | matter than in the first stages of the affair. | For three or four months the captains of companies have had it in for the regi- mental commanders. The regimental commanders have been surprised and an- | noyed at the belligerent attitude of the captains. Piled upon this grave disturb- ance of regimental harmony is the more ominous attitude of the Governor, acting as commander-in-chief oY the National Guard, and the generals who are associated | with him in the administration of mili- tary affairs. The rupture between cap- taius and colonels and colonels and gen- erals will bring about more trouble than was ever dreamed of in the process of re- | organization a few months ago. “You may take my word for it,”’ said | Major Jansen of the First Infantry yester- day, “the captains of companies in this | City will never submit to a reduction such as was agreed to by the colonels. They could not do it if they would. In my own regi- ment it costs $50 for the monthly rental of quarters. Added to thisexpense is the | cost of gas, water and various incidental | necessities. The cost of maintaining a company never falls lower than $59 a ruonth. with §75? It was an absurd 2proposition irom the beginning. The colonels made | the arrangement without sufficient author- | ity, and the cai)mins are perfectly right in | objecting. Will some companies be thrown | out? Most assuredly. No other course is | open to the reorganizers. If they should | side with the colonels, and insist on & §75 | allowance, the companies will leave the service anyway. That will break up the | regimental organization, and a few colo- | nels will have to go. On the other hand, | it the board alfows $100 allowances to | stand a few companies must be disbanded in that case. That will also break up the | regimental organization, and_the colonels will again have to go. However they | settle the difficulty it will be disastrous for the colonels.” | “I am not permitting myself to worry over the thing,” said Colonel William Macdonald of the Second Artillery. “Iam not aware that anything serious is going | to happen, but if ‘my regiment should be selected . to. suffer any reduction in size I | stand ready to obey orders. General Bar- rett told me that full allowances would be | lowances. : | Lo hint of withdrawing from their stand | for the full measure of funds. resalt from the rearrangement of the al- At present the captains give MISPLACED CONFIDENCE. Two Scions of Spanish Aristocracy ‘Wanted on the Charge of Embezzlement. Mrs. Celia Ortega, 630 Minna street, swore out a warrant in Judge Low’s court yesterday for the arrest of Santiago Aja and Francisco Aja on the charge of em- bezzlement. The articles embezzled are a lady’s gold watch, chain and locket and a diamond ring of the value of $150. Mrs. Ortega said that Santiago Aja had lived in her house for four months while he was receiving instruction as to run- ning a locomotive on the Southern Pacific Railroad. He belonged to an arisfocratic Spanish family, but had no friends here. We took alite an interest in the young man,” said Mrs. Ortega. ‘‘Recently he went to Mexico and returned, bringing with him his cousin Francisco. They stopped ut a hotel on Kearny street, but visited us trequently. On Sunday they called, and during their t Santiago | said he was going home and wonld like to take a present to his sister. He admired my watch and chainand said he would like to see if he could not get them dupli- cated, which would be a nice present for his_sister. I pave him the articles, as [ had every confidence in him. Francisco then said” he would like to take a present of a diamond ring like mine to his cousin, s0 I let him have it. “They promised to call Monday night and show me their purchases, but we have How could the captains getalong | not seen them since. I went to the hotel | on Kearn; y street and found that they had. not been there since Sunday night, so L suspected they had betrayed my confi- dence.”” The police think that the two scions of Spanish aristocracy have left the City, taking the articles with them. Zoees Beaten by Eleven Men. Frank de Martini, 70 West Mission street, swore outa warrantin Judge Conlan’s court yesterday for the arrest of eleven scavengers on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Sunday nigat, while on his way home, he was attacked by eleven of his fellow-countrymen with rocks, coal-cinders, wine-glasses, dumb- bells and pieces of iron. He had seventeen wounds in his scalp stitched and dressed at the Receiving Hospital. ——— Bush-Street Temple. The first of the season of Friday evening lece tures will commence this evening at the Bush- street Temple. A special musical programme has been arranged by Cantor Meyerson. Rabbi Fryer's lecture will be “Caricatures; a Commentary on Shakespeare.” The public is cordially invited to attend. NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING The Truth From the Great Wholesale Makers. —m Boys’ and Children’s Clothing at Cost. [.ook Ahead We believe it’s policy to sell our Boys’ and Children’s Clothing that way, for it ensures us their patronage after they grow older and bring their fathers and brothers to us, that is why we think it wise to Look Ahead! WHAT “COST” MEANS JUST A FEW PRICES ON BOYS’ SUITS— BRO Wholesal P i Proprieto 121-123 ] OUR WHOLESALE COST PRICE 2.00 THE RETAILERS’ PROFIT PRICE $3.50 5.00 8.00 10.00 3.00 4.50 6.00 BROS. & CO. e Manufacturers of Fine Clothing, rs of the Oregon City Woolen Mills, SANSOME STREET.