The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 16, 1895, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1893 11 WATKINS STEALS A MARCH ON BUCKLEY, A Sudden Call for the Gen-| eral Committee to Meet To-Night. | DAGGETT'S NEW WAR. He and Sam Rainey Are Discov- ered With the Junta in | Their Pockets. | THE JUNTA STRIKES -ROCKS. Maguire Fights Hard; Lanigdn, Harney ; and Others Rebel and Buckley | | Waitse Watkins issued last evening a a meeting of the Democratic gen- | committee for this evening at Metro- n Temple. The first notice the bers of the Buckley faction had of it at the Iroquois Club at 10 o'clock, en they met Mr. Watkins, according to wointment made in the afternoon. Chis- call, or rather the time fixed for meeting, made the Buckley men They claimed that they had been P three days’ notice. -However, steps were immediately taken to send out.| vailable man on their | side shows up to-night. Itis a piece of sharp practice and bull: | dozing on the part of Mr. Watkins,’ | Cnris Buckley last night at the Occidental | Club after the news camein. “‘Every man | their end will" have notice to-night. | a of Watkins masquerading under | ak of respectability ‘and lending| asa tool to such political trick- | A man that would resort to tricks | sort has no-business in decent so- | v was asked ‘what he would do if y of the committee resolved to | “The majority -cannot legislate _the | ty vut any more than could a ma-| jority of the Legislature,” he declared. “If J they do ¢ through their resolution, | however, rinority will reorganige, till up the vacancies, and as the constitution | prescribes, organize precinct clubs, hold a | primary and elect a new general. commit- | tee from the people.” There will be tall hustling and the roar | of battle all day to-day and farinto the | night. The Buckley faction has ~been l hot for a mieeting to-night all this week, | but all the satisfaction they could get was | a strong intimation that it would be called for early next week. The condition of the battlefield is, otherwise than as to this sur- prise, quite the same, and itis full of new | kinds of fighting and interesting develop- ments in what has been a somewhat. misty situation. Day before yesterday the mists cleared sufficiently to those near the inside to re- | veal the towering forms of John M. Dag- | cett and Sam Rainey, the reformer, side v side, in control of the Junta and its ch¢me of reorganization. Then there was an explosion, and yesterday the Junta ap- | peared wrecked atlast to many who were up a tree where they could see something. It is only a day or two #ince some people | interested realized that Daggett'& Rainey constituted a political firm that not only aspired to control Democratic politics, but one that was practically absoiute bossof the Junta and its Deuprey committee; its reform in the interest of political purity and its intense anti-Buckleyism. Thatis the kernel in the nnt. : Daggett and Rainey have pooled -their strength for certain political purposes. The wisest politicians in the party agree that this interesting combination controls 120 votesin the general committee. These 120 votes are all included in the Junta faction. that-is claimed by the Junta to istitute the majority that will:control the -organization.. The Daegett-Rainey strength was thus a controlling faction in the anti-Buckley faction, and when the committee of - fifty, composed of the Wat- kins and Deuprey committees and con Jlled by the Junta leaders, came to make out their list of the men who were to 1 appointed as a new geuneral committee, I rett and Rainey were able to demand what they wanted, because without them nothing at all could be done. Now Dageett wants to lead the Califor- nia delegation of eighteen to the National Democratic Convention, and to carry as many as possible of these votes in his pocket, because he wants not only political power and success, but he is anxious to show the administration that Max Pop- per and other Democrats belied him when they said in Washington that he was an | unpopular appointment. H To do this Daggett'wants the machinery | that elects delegates to the State Conven- tion from San Francisco. Then with the | votes he could gather up all through the | State, especially from the north, his posi- | tion would be a paowerful one. Rainey | 115 to be a powerful local boss, and it is | versally agreed among the best in- that Daggett and | ney when in large control of the local | chine would divide things on this basis. | 1s it was that when the appointment of | e Deuprey committee became privately | 1own it was discovered that in the new | ganization Daggett and Rainey were to | formed Democrats R be all-powerful, with the most of the rest | of the power given to McNab and Braun- | hart. | So, is it any wonder that a mighty howl nas begun to go up? This fierce, new owl comes from within the ranks of the | Junta that was to so harmoniously and de- terminedly charge on the arch-boss, Buck- v, and win all the decent elements of the party to its support. irst to the public ear came the bola and bitter blasts which Congressman Ma- guire gave the Junta yesterday through the columns of THE-CALL, redpudiatmz the programme of the Junta and declaring for a primary election—the one thing toward which the Buckley element had been working. Maguire is openly and aggres- sively in the field agamnst the Junta, though he was stoutly claimed by Gavin McNab up to two or three days ago, and nobody will accuse him of favoring Buck- ¢y. Maguire was being shut out of every- thing and by his arch-enemy, John Dag- gett. Now, Maguire wields a powerful }»ulilical influence. He has a strong fol- owing in the general committee; of which he and his law partner, Joseph Leggett, are members, and he is strong and popu- lar in the party all through the Fourth Congressional District, especially with. the Irish and independent elements, and along the water front, where the seamen are his. friends. Maguire’s iriends in the general commitiee are reckoned at between thirty and forty, He and Leggett will be on the floor of the next meeting of the commitiee, with his friends, ready for war. When the Junta startea out to down Buckley Ed Lanigan was one of its lead- ers. Lanigan amounts to something po- litically and aspires to be quite a boss him- self. € 15 universally credited with own- ing three Democratic Supervisors and he owns the Forty-firstDistrict, besides hav- ipea scattered strength throughout the | is going through a course of political ath- | changed | Daggett. | be permitted to take the government of the City. Lanigan found out the other day whom|the Deuprey committee were putting on the list and he didn’t find much there for Ed Lanigan. Then he “roared.” It is known that day before yesterday he pranced into the Mint with fire in his eyes, swearing that he didn’'t propose to let “those fellows” do him up, and he went in to see Mr. Daggett about it, with what satisfaction is not known, but it is known that Lanigan cooled on the Junta several days ago, and that he is now disgustedly abusing it. There are two things to provide Lanigan with political motives. One is h: divid- ual political interests and his ambition to be a boss, and the other is the wishes of Mr. \Welburn, under whom he has a nice job. Now, along with Lanigan’s rebellion comes the apparently well-fonnded report that the Internal Revenue Collector, who letic culture, while probably not person- ally hostile to the Junta has recently is mind and concluded thata primary election would be the right and Democratic thing afterall. Welburn has no -love for Daggett or Rainey, and his only personal bond to the Junta is his friend Gavin McNab, whose strength in turn has come mainly from Welburn and ‘Welburn has recently been say- ing little while quietly coquetting with the Buckley leaders, and it is now claimed that the Junta has lost him, too. If this istrue along with him go several bright district political lights, including Thomas B. Cu- sick, Harry Zemansky, Tommy Chanaler, Mike Finn and others. Early in the game Max Popper was in middle of the Junta fizht for a brief time, but something or other appears to have chilled Max and he is now assuming the calm attitude of an indifferent observer. Major Harney, the Port Warden, has been one of the strong elements in the Junta combination. Since Harney came and beheld the throne which Daggett and Rainey had erected for themselves, he has been loudly cursing Daggett and declaring that the Mint Superintendent has no earthly right to come here from Siskiyou and try to boss the local party. In this view of the situation the Junta appears tc consist of Daggett and Rainey and their 125 votes, McNab and Braun- hart with at least their own votes, and a few scattering votes for trimmings. John 1. Wise, who is in the general committee also, with his son Harry and a number of friends, is now not only opposed to the Junta programme, but is openly affiliating with Bu fi;ley_ Judge D. Sullivan, politically famous the great anti- Buckley reformer of 1892, while not takin an active part in the situation, has pri- vately“told his friends that he, too, was opposed to the Junta programme of re- organization by the appointment of a new general committee by a few men who have no clear title to the party. he immediate issue in- the party is its reorganization by the Deuprey committee or through a primary. What is left of the Junta stands back of the Deuprey com- mittee programme now. They say thata primary election would not be safe, be- causé Buckley would capture it. Opposed to them are two elements of the pariy, each of which is daily growing stronger in visible “strength. One is the Buckley fac- tion and the other is that portion of the party which does not believe in abandon- ing Democratic methods. Many of the latter believe that Buckley will defeat the party if he remains in control, but they believe in primary elections, and so they are helping Buckley to just what he wants at the present moment. So it is John Daggett’s sudden looming into unexpected power alongside of Sam Rainey that has apparently and all at once killed the Deuprey committee and iis interesting programme. Daggett has ut himself where he is a good mark, and lemocrats are swarming to throw bricks at him. His enemies in the party, new and ancient, are saying that is using the mint to control local polit: and is sacrificing the administration interests of vayty to his own interests. They are digging up the past. saying real mean things about that old ‘‘bulkhead’” scheme in the State Legislature of 1860, when he was a Senator, and when some men with money were trying to get hold of the water front, and they are digging up and passing around that interesting section of the platform of the San Jose convention of 1882, which read Daggett out of the party count of his course with attempted road legislation to which the party was iged, when he was Lieutenant-Governor presiding officer of the Senate. This is what the enemies of Daggett are show- ing one another just now: That we are not unmindful of the condnct certain Democratic oflicers and legisiators ho co-operated with the Republicans at the 1 ra session in frustrating the will of the people and antagonizing the true interests of State; that while no amount of care can 1] times .prevent the intrusion into parties of faithless men, who enter with a false pledge upon their lips merely to ruin and betray, yet - party becomes responsible for the conduct such recreant members only when, having covered them, it fails to condemn their course; that itis the duty of a party,1f it is true to itself and the people, t6 expel from its T and te denounce &s unworthy of public and lost to all sense of honor, traitors breakers; therefore we do now de- * * * Lieutenant-Governor John M. whose casting vote was ever thrown l'nle’m turn the balauce against the I'he omitted portions refer to three or four forgotten Democrats of that day. J Maguire stuck by his guns yester- day in an interview, in which he said: 1don’t believe in the Junta’s methods of re- organizing the party. I don’t believe the Dem- ocratic party can go before the world &s the champion of popular government and refuse to recognize popular government in the party. The present scheme is for the general commit- tee 1o perpetuate themselves in power by & | mere formof organization. They perpetuaied themselves in power improperly from 1894 to the present time, and they now propose to do it again upon the theory that it is better to do that then to incur the danger of Buckley’s suc- cess at primary, but if they are permitted to do that now, when will that method of gov- erning_the Democratic party cease? Wiil 1t not be just as dangerous to hold a primary in 1897 as in 1895, and arc these methods of seli- perpetuation to be continued indefinitely? Daggett and Rainey’s programme, according to my information, is to have the Deuprey committee now appoint but 250 members and then to have these 250, whom they will con- trol, to appoint the othér 200, and thus secure the ‘“‘works.” But whether that is so or not, 1o junta or clique or combination of men can Democratic party out of the hands of the | voters. Itmay be that a few leading citizens | of this country could give us purer and betier governments, National, State and municipal, | than popular elections give us,and when we are ready to abandon popular elections and ut the government of the country into the B itds of a small class or junta of the people the Democratic party may properly abandon self-government, but as a Democrat having faith in the people end a belief in the right of the people to govern themselves I protest against any scheme of government which does not come from the democratic people. 2 Thnis reorganization movement was begun mainly to get control of the party. A few of the Junta leaders were sincerely opposed to Buckley, but with those who expect to boss it finally that cuts no figure. Cafrving out this programme would tend to disintegrate the arty. Daggett’s present operations are in glrmony with Daggett’s conduct since he first entered politics, and are an_abuse of the Fed- eral patronage Lo _baser ends than any super- | intendent of the Mint of any party has ever putitto. I sce that an infiuential leader of the Junta has been saying thet I am not a good judge of the local situation and its needs, and that if it comes to & fight becween Daggett and myself he will support Daggett. Of course he will. Daggett controls 200 appointments in the Federal service,and the Scriptures say something hbont the vultures gathering where the carcass lies. John Randolph used to say that he could keep six hounds in affectionate obedience with one piece of meat as long as he kept the meat, and then that aiter throwing the meat to one dog he could still hold the five in affectionate obedience if he could make them believe that he had more P’““‘ . 1do not claim to be an expert in local poli- tics, and have not spoken as such; butl do know the difference between Democracy and aatocracy, and I oppose the Junta’s scheme be- cause 1t is not Demoeratic; then it would sim- ply give us Rainey instead of Buckley, if it did N6t give us both of them. Rainey’s present position is still an un- certain problem in some directions, asit generally 18. The doubtful points are what be will do with the Fire Department strength in the meeting of the gen- eral committee and just when he will get ready to finaliy join forces with Buckley, as few doubt he will do when he thinks the right time has come. Yesterday Rainey and John McCarthy, presidert of the Occi- dental Club, held a half hour’s confab on Montgomery street. “Well, I think Rainey will sort of keep his hands off _this fight,” was what Mc- Carthy was willing to say a little later. “Rainey said that he didn’t have a — bit of use for the Junta as far as he was con- cerned, and that 21l he wanted was to keep the Fire Department out of politics.” The general committee is not always the creator, but is a creation of party influ- ences when they are exerted. It is these strong party influences which Buckley has been shrewdiy and_quietly manipulating. Early in the game Buckley smiled sarcas- tically at the Junta and observed that that would be ail right and that the party would get together when, the time came. Now, above what seems to be the wreck of the Junta Buckley is rising more clearly and serenely into view as possible master of the situation. Perhaps it is because he knew how to do politics. The Buckley fellows are now sarcastically observing that the Junta thought it could make the tail-wag the dog in joy. Buckley-and his workers have been sed- ulously findermining the Junta by every art and talking compromise and fair play wherever they think they can make it count. > Among the small political talk going around is the report that since W, P. Sullivan became chairman of the Deuprey committee he has found an ambition to be Sheriff. . Just mow the absorbing question is, “‘Primary or no primary?” If it is called an entirely new and different mat- ter will arise, that is, *“Who will win it?’§ SLVER SNENS OF WA The Bimetallic League Somewhat In Need of Qne or Both Metals. Rich Friends of the League Who Have Kept Both Moneys in Their Inside Pockets. The Pacitic Coast part of the American Bimetallic League is sounder on paper than in fact. In the delicate irony of its hard luck it is somewhat in need of one or both of the two great, useful and potential metals of trade and commerce. The wealthy friends of the doctrine here are multi-metallic in precept and anti-metallic in . practice. In tue epigrammatic language of ‘one.of the league officers, they are “‘strongly bimetal- lic in the matter of keeping both kinds of money in their inside pocket and strictly mono-metallic inthe faith when the hat is passed around.” In fact, they have demonetized every- thing that is popularly supposed to ‘‘talk’ in business circles and will ‘“make the mare go’’ in the bimetallic league. 8o the organization built on a double metal basis is sounder on paper than in fact. The failure of wealth to concentrate in the coffers of the society is not because its | advocates have preached so zealously against its concentration in Wall street and other places w here the gold bugs do crawl, but because the rich miners of tne Com- stock and kindred lodes have neglected to supply their share of the silver sinews of war in any ratio. The mine-owners of Colorado and her neighbor States raised | funds for the purpose of propounding the vrinciples of bimetallism, but the Pacific Slope, though rich in faith, is poor in the | work that tells. The needed coin contri- | butions have come in reluctantly and the cause lags for want of the two articles that give 1t a title. It is metallic in name only. Consequently it is sounder on paper—but that has been said before. “The friends of bimetallism here have not made their mark financially,” said Secretary Keeney of the league yesterday at his office in the Mills building, ‘‘and we cannot do the work of pushing ahead as we desire. Our general mode of operation is mailing reading matter everywhere and to all localities where we can find inte gent readers. The expenses of this office are not large, however, but postage upon the great mass of matter we handle costs money. We are nota separate political body in the same sense as the three or four great parties, consequently we have no | county organizations, central committees, We belong as yet to them all. So the Vi must be done directly from this office, and contributions must come di- rectly here. “There is no denying the fact that the great silverites on this coast are very slow and show a decided lukewarmness in the faith. The bimetallist leaders East con- | sider California and Nevada able to wage a strong fight for the cause, but they are not doing so, and for the reason I have mentioned. These States are full of rich silver men, who are able but have not given a dollar, either silver, gold or paper, to the work.” George W. Baker, attorney-at-law in the Mills building, a prominent bimetallist, was equally outspoken regarding the atti- tude of the wealthy friends of the league on the Pacific Slope and thelneed of cam- | paign funds. “There has not been that outpouring of | spirit, in a financial way, from the silver | kings bere,” said he, ‘‘that we hoped to | see. We certainly won’t go into bank- " ruptey with two metals in our title. Our name should give us some commercial | standing, unless there is a great shrinkage | of values in it. We ought to extract scme coin from it, especially as ours.is a good one and better than gold. “California is more interested in bimetal- lism than any other State in the Union— even more than Nevada, for all of her metal comes. to San Francisco. This building and most of the great edifices of this City are built with silver, yet the cause languishes, in a measure, because those who have profited most by it. are the least helpful. : ; “However, bimetallism is the voice cry- ing in the wilderness and the cure for all the ills of finance. Kven the two great po- litical parties are for bimetallism in a way. | The Democrats say: ‘Look at our platform and. its free and unlimited coinage of sil- | ver.. What more do you want? And the Republicans say: ‘Look at our silver| plank. What more do you want? A friend recently said to me, in the excess of his political zeal: ‘If you can write better dectrine than that money plank in the Reépublican State platform I wish you would do so.” Itis good, for, as a matter of fact, I wrote it, but we bimetallists are after a greater recognition than that. Our convention meets in Chicago soon, and silver will be a co-king with zold in the | metal kingdom.” Z . But the Pacific Coast part of bimetallism is somewhat in need of one or both of the two great useful and potential metals of trade and commerce. e e Concert at Calvary. A grand concert will be given in Calvary Presbyterian Church, Geary and Powell streets, Thursday evening, November 21, for the bene- fit of the church fund. An excellent pro- gramme has been prepared. Frank Ver Treese Pollock of the Bostonians will sing ‘‘Love’s Nocturne,” by Hope Temvle, and “I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby,” from *‘Laila Rookh.” The other artists will be R. D. Burness, Walter C. Campbell, Adolph Lavs, Mrs. Beatrice Priest-Fine, Miss Jeannette Wilcox, Mrs. J. M. Sibley, Mrs. J. E. Birmingham, D. M. Lawrence, R. P.’Evans, D. B. Crane and L. A. Larsen. S g e S A Sunday-School Orchestra. Central Methodist Sunday-school, Mission street, between Bixth and Seventh, has organ: ized an orchestra of about a dozen pieces, under the leadership of Professor A. Harold Kayton, which will open the school at 12:50 o'clock with an overture and lead ail the sing- ing before the lesson to-morrow. This school has also adopted the kindergarten method in i United States. “arson” in _the Federal laws, the statute the primary department. e public is in- vited to attend. & . CHARGED WITH TRYING TO BURN A WHALER, Three Men of the Bark Gayhead Put Under Arrest. IT IS THE SECOND TIME. Consul Mills at Honolulu Re- fused to Prosecute the Accused. STRANGE STORY OF THE SEA. Captain Shorey (Colored) Says the Three Whites Conspired to De- stroy His Vessel. A most startling charge hias been made by Captain W. T. Shorey, who is colored, of the American whaling bark, Gayhead, against three of his men. The three men are white. Out of acrew of twenty-two men there were only five white men, the others being colored, or half-castes. The charge made by him is that they artem pted more sperm whales, and when she arrived at this port four days ago she had a cargo consisting of about 7700 pounds of bone, 580 barrels of bowhead oil and 130 barrels of sperm oil. No attempt was made to arrest the men until yesterday afternoon at Laflin’s office, . % The statement made by the men is more startling perhaps.than ‘the accusation of Captain Shorey. They allege the most high-handed proceedings at Honolulu. They never received any hearing at_ all, they say, at Honolulu, yet they were kept two days in jail on acharge of arson. Then, when they were taken back to the ship, they were ordered by the captain to turn to,” but they feit' they had: been unjustly dealt with and demanded the privilege of American seamen of see- ing the American Consul. For that, they say, they were charged with disobeying or- ders and put in jail. Not only that, but were kept in the Honolulu jail for ten days altogether, without any kind of hear- ing or investigation whatever, at least they were given no opportunity of defense. ‘When finally taken out of jail the three white nien were handcuffed” together and compelled to go to sea, despite their de- mands to see the Consul and protests against such treatment as they had re- ceived. ‘The .three men, each handcuffed to the other, so their story goes, were put in a whaling-boat of the ship and rowed off to the Gayhead, seven miles out, in a twelve- knot gale, by fourteen of the ship’s crew, who were nearly all drunk. This is told in just so many words by both Ekerenkut- ter and Bresling. Bresling also said at the County Jail Jast night that Captain Shorey, while off the island of Guam last summer, had Gehrmann locked up in a small locker down in the ship’s hold for twelve days, WILLIAM GEHRMANN, THE THREE SEAMEN NOW IN JAIL. Sketched by a WILLIAM BRESLING. WALTER EKERENKUTTER. “Call” artist.) |to burn his ship while in the harbor of Honolulu on March 3. Captain Shorey went before. United States Commissioner Heacock the day after the vessel arrived and swore toa complaint, and yesterday the men were arrested by Deputy United States Marshal Moffatt when they went to the office of James Laflin at 104 Mission street to draw what was coming to them. Their names are Walter Ekerenkutter, William Bres- ling and William Gebrmann, all under 30 years of age. Ekerenkutter says he is a native of this City, and that it was his first sea trip. He is the youngest. The other two men have spent several yearson the deev as whale-hunters. All three were identified before the Com- missioner late in the afternoon, and he set their preliminary hearing for Tuesday morning, fixing their bail at $1000 each. Not being able to procure bonds they were lodged in cell 41 of the County Jail. Their prosecution is attempted under section 5367 of the Revised Statutes of the | This offense is not called simply reading: ‘‘Every person, not being an owner, who attempts to burn an| American vessel belonging to a citizen or citizens of the United States,” ete., and the penalty is from three to ten years' im- | prisonment at hard labor. Acdording to the stery told by Captain Shorey the three white men are accused of conspiring together during the’ vessel's stay at Honolulu to set it on fire and de- stroy his cargo, and that on the night of March 3 fire broke out, another white man, Jerry Sheehan, discovering it. Shee- | han was on the port watch at the time and observed smoke issuing from the fore- castle about 10:15 p. m. He at once gave the alarm and First Mate W. L. Baker ordered all hands to turn to immediately and put out the fire at all hazards. The | captain was on shore at_the time, and the vessel was about four miles out from the dock, being just inside of Diamond Head. All the men formed into: line and by passinz buckets of brine along the line:| they succeeded in extinguishing the fire'| in about four hours, saving the ship, but | at great damage to the cargo. | Just whai motive prompted the threé | accused men to attempt to burn the ship | and cargo he does not know, he says. His I witnesses are another colored man named Sidney Rigby and a hali-Malayan, who is | called McGill. Both Captain Sherey and | Rigby are natives of the Barbadoes Is- | lands. Rigby was a sort of boatswain. . The Gayhead left this City on December 19 last for a cruise in the South Seas and along the Asiatic Coast. She first touched at the Isabella Islande and about a week | before the_attempt to fire the ship she | put in at Honolulu for some supplies. By | that time six si)erm whales had been caught and the oil was stored in the hold. e was surprised when he returned to the ship the day !ollowiufi the fire and learned from First Mate Baker, who is white, the report of the narrow escape of his vessel. Rigby told him that Ekeren- kutter, Bresling and Gehrmann had con- spired together to burn the ship, and had accordingly placed some inflammable oakum in the hold and set fire to it. Cap- tain Shorey, in course of time, went ashore and informed the Honeluln police of what had bappened. He also made a report to Consul griil]s. The vessel was nigored alongside the dock the nextday and the captain pointed .Qut the tlree suspected men to the Hawaiian police, and they were at once arrested and put in the anolul‘x jail. ! There was no egrosecutiun. however. Consul Mills refused to have anything to do with the matter for some reason and about two weeks after the incident the bark put off from Honolulu with the same men on board as part of the crew and con- tinued on her whaling cruise. During the summer months she sailed around amon, the South Sea Islands, particularly the Ladrones and Philippines,and finally went over to the Asiatic coast. She caught quite a number of bowheads and several | though the heat was almost unbearable, | inan endeavor to make him give some | kind of a confession about the attempt to | fire the ship. The island of Guam is one of the La- drones, and it is to this island that the Spanish Government sends many of its political exiles. As to himself Bresling says he was practically shanghaied away irom San Francisco when the Gayhead left here, and he says lie was never given a | He charges | chance to sign her articles. refusing to let him come ashore here to | ship properly, and accuses the captain of | nxotl permitting him to sign articles at Hon- | olulu. Waile the men were in jail at Honoluln on the charge of disobeying orders, they | state, an attempt was made to scuttle the ship by boring holes in her. This could not have been done by them, they say, be- | cause after the fire a careful examination 1 of the vessel was made and there were no holes in herthen. The captain was ashore when the discovery of the holes occurred, 0. They also give a report of a free fight that took ;flace on -board the ship, as they afterward learned, while they were in jail, in. which the principal combatants were Second Mate Garvin, the fourth mate, Ca- brall, the cooper and one of the boat- steerers. Evidently from what Ekerenkutter tells, the Hawaiian authorities did not attach much importaunce to Captain_ Shorey’s charge of arson there. He said last night that Marshal Hitchcock of Honolulu told get away from the ship no effort whatever would be made by the police to stop them, and that when he told Hitchcock he in- tended to see the Consul, Hitchcock re- plied: “If you can’t get away from.the you are not much good.” The lay the men shipped on from here was on shares. Each wis to receive a part equal to one one-hundred-and-seventieth. The cargo will probably be marketed for between $25,000 ana $30,000. However, they say they do not know.what amount | may be coming to them, becanse their due- bills are pretty high. - They; were charged exorbitant prices, .| for a shirt, $5 for an oilskin, and_so- It was to ascertain what their due- Dbilis would be, they said, that they went to Mr Laflin’s office, where they were ar+ rested. R “I.do mnot know why we should be charged with this crime,” said Ekerenkut- ter last night in his cell Breslm% cor- -Toborating his every word, “for [ was down below sick when the fire was discov- ered; aud Rigby was there, too. We were watching a game of poker. Rigby is asort of a tale-bearer, and once when we were in the Arctic seas, to show you what kind of & man he is, he beat two white men for trying to escape from his ship. “We never made any attempt to leave our vessel and did not anticipate any ar- rest here, for we did not try to get away. Captain Shorey treated us fairly well all during the cruise after the fire, but I un- derstand he signed a_ guaranty at Hono- Julu to treat us well. He and Consul Mills Lad some hot words at Honolulu because the Consul refused to prosecute us. We could easily have zot away from the ship at China Bay if we had wanted to.” Shorey was formerly captain of the bark Andrew_Hicks. The Gayhead was not listed with the fleet until this year. LADIES’ SOCIAL. Protective Benevolent Order of Elks. Every year on the Sunday previous to the grand carnival ball that is given by the members of Golden Gate Lodge No. 6, 2 | Protective Benevolent ‘Order of Eiks, a ladies’ social is given to the lady friends of the members. The twelith of these socials will be given to-morrow afternoon at the the agent of the bark, J. A. Magee, with | him if he or any of the other men tried to ; ship without bothering with the Consnl‘ they claim, for whatever they wanted—§5 | | Thompson 2 hours 56 minutes. lasted for about seventy moves. The Twelfth That Will Be Given by the “golumbia Theater and for the-occasion a varied and excellent programme has been prepared. 5 A number of well-known' artists have volunteered. J. O. Reis, the exalted ruler, will be the chairman and Leo Cooper the master of ceremonies. Miss Estelle Clay- ton has been chosen as honorary chair- lady. - The.” executive committee under whose supervision the entertainment will be glven is composed of C. 8. Hoffman, J. J. Gottlob, L. A. Morgenstern, J. H. Shee- han and T. C. Leary. : e The following is the programme: Overture, Columbia- Theater orchestra; -in- troductory, J. O. Reis, E, R.; duet, cornet and trombone, epeat Again,’ Misses Pearl and Maud Nobl ussian danee, ““La Czarina,” Miss Anna Shean; C. Hawthoriie (by permission of J. H. Haverl maonologue, “When Jack Comes Late” (arranged by Leo Coopet E<q.), Miss Edna Elsmere; interinezzo, “Cayalleria Rusticans,” Piceirillo’s mandolin quintet=Messrs. Castognetto; -Abrams, Mans- field, - Bates - and - Piceirillo; * vocal. - solo, «stella” (J. Faure), Miss M. Nevada Heffron: “The Twentieth Century Comedian,” Burt Shepard (by permission of J..H. Haverly); song and dance, Rice” (by permission of J. H. Haverly); “Solos - and Duets” . (a musical . sketch), by the Misses Morrisey and Lefontaine; the Press Club_quartet, I, Coflin, R. F: Tilton, W. J. Batehelder, S. E. Tucker; the Ammons Clerise trio (by permission of Gustay Walters); it is not necessary to announce this number, it will speak fer itself; closing, all Elks will appear on the stage and join in the closing, “Auld Lang Syne.” THE KNIGHTS OF CHESS Thompson Wins From Samuels in the Contest for First Prize. Quiroga Wins From Palmer in Their Tie Match—Score of Two Games. i During the week there has been un- wonted enthusiasm displayed in local chess matters owing to the struggle for suprem- acy in the tournament at the Mechanics’ Institute. Chess-players are aware of the extraordinary sensitiveness displayed by the devotees of the royal game regarding their reputation as players; therefore, when tournaments take place such as the present it intensifies the rivalry, as there is a great desire for the prestige which is gained by the winners. Senor Quiroga and S. Palmer brought their match to a conclusion on Thursday night, Palmer resigning the game and the match. The score at the finish was: Quiroga 2, Palmer 1, and one drawn. Ex- actly the same score occurred in the match between Samuels and Thompson, the lat- ter being declared winner of the first prize. The contest between Samuels and Thomp- son was, of course, the chief drawing card and was watcped by their friends with great interest. Samuels won the first ame, the second was a drawn battle, and hompson won the two following games. The fourth and deciding game was a pro- longed struggle, lasting about six hours. The time limit was twenty moves per hour, and when sixty moves were completed b; each side the clock showed that Samuels consumed 2 hours 374 minutes and The game The second and third prizes will go to Qui- roga and Samuels, but they will first have to play to decide who shall have the supe- rior prize. Valentine Huber, who is par excellence the Nestor among the chess-players of the Pacific Coast, received a Japanese paver via a friend in Germany, who had noticed in its columns a record of a game of chess which had been played in San Francisco by Huber and Quiroga against Thompson and Halwegan. ~Herr Huber was amused and surprised at the Ferezrlmtions of this glan;c, hich had literally encircled the globe. chesg, as it was played nnder the following peculiar conditions: Herr Huber invited a party of chess friends to dinaer. Dur- ing the évening it was proposed to have some chess, which resulted in Herr Huber and Senor Quiroga being pitted against G. Halwegan and G. R. Thompson with the understanding that the moves were to be played independently by each player. This mode of playing proved highly inter- esting, and the record with notes by Senor Quiroga was published in.a local paper and from there copied -into the Japanese paper. This incident strikingly illustrates the universality of the royal game. The following games were the first and third of the seriesin the competition for the first ptize in the senior tournament: FRENCH DEFENSE. White—Samuels. Black—Thompson. 1. P-Ka 4 K55 o QR-K ) KR2 3 Resigns (a) This is not 'thé usual continuation in this opening, perhaps Kt-B3 would be better. Q excellent move. played the opening moves carefully. (¢) A weak move. Q-Q3 loks better, as the text J allows Wlite to develop his pieces to greater b advaniage. (d) KR-K sq would be better on general princi- Pples. (¢) Q-KB7 gives White the better game. Mr. Heineman thinks that by this line of play White at least wins a Pawn. (/) This: was White’s sealed move, the import- ance of which Black failed to perceive. (9) Giving the game away. FRENCH DEFENSE. —Samuels. Blagk_Tnompson. White. 2 24, K-Kusq PK8 25. B-K sq P-K7 2 R-B5 White canuot save the Queen. A more favored combination s BxKt, BxB, ’If White had moved his KKt Black might awn. would have been 5, (2) have played Q-Kt3, winning a (c) Weak play. B-Ed or K better. (d) Here White shéuld have gl;yed BxKt ch and then retreated his Ki to with a good game, (¢) This Bishop seems to be the Nemesis ot Black’s game, OWing to its erratic peregrinations. White should have captured the black Kt at once, () The last move was & preparation for this, the next plunge which Lhe royal dame takes proves fatal. - (7) Againin the way. (#) Now White s forced to lose the R or the Q. 3 st o Bt Lecture on Browning. Professor . Melville B. Anderson of Stanford \University will deliver a lecture to the students of the Columbia Theater School of Dramatic Arton Fridey afternoon next, November 22, at half-past 8 o’clock, in the Columbia Thea- ater. The subject will be “The Poetic and Dramatic Art of Robert Browning,” and the ad- mission will be by invitation only. t was not an ordinary game of | Both contestants have ittle Mildred; ‘“Inimitable Billy | STUDYING OVER A SALOON, A Groggery Under an Infant Class From the Hearst : School. BETTER QUARTERS DEMANDED, Residents Near Fillmore and Herman " .-Streets: Make an Indignant % "Protest. About thirty families living in the neighs borhood of Steiner and Herman streets are complaining.bittezly over the action of the Board of Education in placing the re- ceiving class,composed of children of tender ages, over a saloon. Several weeks ago the crowded condition of the Hearst Gram- mar School on Fillmore and Hermai: streets caused the educational authorities to send the receiving class to a two-story building on the northeast corner of Her- man and Steiner streets. The schoolroom is in the second story of an old building that would burn like tinder in case of a fire in a high wind, and the exit is anything but safe for little childrer in the case of such an event. But worse ‘than fire are tlie next-door neignvors of the little ones. The ground floor is occupied asa corner saloon. The inch-board walls and the equally thin ceil- ing of the saloon permits all the barroom language of the place to be heard by the little ones. The patrons are mostly the laborers con= nected with Contractor Buckman’s grading camp. It is asserted by those who live in that locality that Buckman runs the sa- loon and that he expects his laborers to patronize the bar liberally. Theresult can easily be imagined. g The loud language and songs divert the attention of the pupils, who should be re- moved from such surroundings. Daniel Jones, a real estate man who lives near by, and whose little six-year-old girl attends the school over the saloon, is one of the indignant parents. Last even- ing he said: When the change was made and the class quartered over the saloon but little attention was paid to it, as it was the idea that better juarters would soon be found. But it looks as though the quarters are permanent, and I for one am highly displeased with haying my lit- tle girl placed in any such surroundings. It is a shame thet little boys and girls should Dbe obliged to almost enter @ corner saloon in order to get into their classroom. On more than one occasion my little girl has been irightened almost to death while on her way to school by & couple of drunken brawlers fighting and bleeding on the street at the very door of theschool. It is about time for the matter to be looked into and a change effected. Another indignant parent who does not care to have his name mentioned, echoed the remarks of Mr. Jones, and added that the citizens in that locality should hold an indignation meeting and protest against the outrage. He said: Contractor Buckman has a construction camp back in the hills near here, and neariy all of his men patronize the saloon under the schoolroom. My little boy haspicked up more profanity since he has been in this school than all my other children ever knew, and several of them are well along in years. -1 don’tsend him 10 school to learn cuss words, but what can be expected when he has to_pass several times & day through a gang of foul-mouthed quarry- mmen? 1t j6 time the matter was looked inio and & change made. Director Clinton last evening stated that the class was placed in the building by the classification committee, and a% the time the change was made he for one was not aware there was a saloon under the class- room. He will look into the matter at once, he said, and take steps to remedy the evil. Don’t Want the Station. The matter of locating a police station on Washington street, between Van Ness avenue and Polk street, was up before the Health and Police Committee of the Board of Supervisors \‘eswrdn}; Smperiy—owners in the -locality having filed a protest egainst the proposed station. Ex-Supervisor Denman end others who signed the protest claimed that it would be a nuisance to residents in the neighborhood and that they would rather have the coalyard and Chinese washhouse now located there than a police station. The matter went over for a week. —————————— Throwa From a Car. James Mahoney, employed as & guard at the County Jail, was carried to the Receiving Hos- pital yesterday suffering from a dislocation of the right kneecap. Mahoney, according to his statement, was on a car bound for the Mission road on official business,and when rear his destination asked the conductor to stop the ‘car. The injured man ¢laims that this was not done, for when he attempted to step off the momentum was sufficient to throw him several feet, resulting in the injuries above named. NEROS PROSTRATION Mrs. Dixon Was Discouraged aud Cared Not Whether She, Lived or Died. But Brighter Days Came, Bringing Hope and Happiness—A Grateful Woman's Narrative. From the Advocate, Gilroy, Cal. A reporter of the Gilroy (Cal.) Advocate was in conversation to-day with Mrs. Laura Dixon, an inteliigent lady, owning one of the most attractive homes in that city. Tncidentally she spoke of her good health, which she recovered in a remarkable way, after years of suffering from_ Lervous prostra- tion, the efiect of & long siege of la grippe. ¥or Vears sho liad been under the care of phy- sicians and had swallowed innumerable doses of loathsome medicine, from which she had received no apparent benefit. Her debility continued year after year, causing much dis- couragement both to herself and her husband. She was unable to enjoy food or to take proper exercise, for during thie time she led a listless life and cared.not whether she lived or died. The different doctors employed gave her no rellef, and she finally concluded to dismiss them and try life without their experimental preparatios! S «In looking over & newspaper,” and we use her own words, *‘I noticed an aavertisement of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, for sale by a local druggist. I thought I would try them, and so sent for a fifty-cent box. To my delight I found speedy relief and was encour- aged to continue their use; for, weak as I was, and redyced in flesh aiter the sickness ol filr!,.lfflt confldent it would take months -beiore 1 could hoqe to get my former health restored. Dr. Willlams’ Pink Pills were doing me more good than all the remedies I had tried, and I took them regulariy fora whole summer and winter, gradually growing stronger until I found myself a sound woman. “351)' cure was permanent. I have never en- oyed better health than in the past year, and attribute my present good health to the ton. ing-up of nfi!syuem by the use of Dr. Williams’ ve pills. eu “I can heartily recommend these pills to all who may be suffering as Isuffered from the rostrating influence of la grippe—the after ef- ects common 10 many of its victims. I feel as- sured that if I had known of these pills in time, T could heve saved myself the outlay of hundreds of dollers and from the loss ot vital- ity and other losses and inconveniences. “If you think my testimony about Dr. Will- iams’” Pink Pills would be likely to .induce other sufferers to try to get relief irom them, I will cheerfully vouch for the truth of this | statement.”” MRS, LAURA DIxox. -Subscribed lmli)s;vgugg to before me this 10th e, A. D. 1895, day ot June, A, D L asiroRD, Notary Public, In and for Santa Clara County, California. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills coutaiu all the ele- ments necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are for sale by all druggists, or may be had by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Com« pany, Schenectady, N. Y., for 50 cents & box, or six boxes for §2 50.