The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 14, 1895, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1S93. DEMORALIZED GUARD, Reorganization Has Brought Woe, Wrath and | Wreck. i THE EBB GOING LOWER.| ° | Company D of the First Will| Leave the Guard En Masse. A TRANSITION PERIOD HERE. But the Heroic Operation Promises a New and Better National Guard for the Future. | The National Guard of California is the | worst military mess on earth this week. It | is just now demoralized and at its lowest | ebb of strength and efficiency. The ebb | and the demoralization will goon and then | it may turn and grow into the best mili- | tary organization the State has known. To one down in the wreck caused by the | explosion of the reorganization bomb that | the commander-in-chief of the State army touched off last Sunday morning it may seem that the guard is rushing to the demnition bow-wows, especially in San Francisco, so thick are the shoulder- strapped howlers, the chevroned kickers and the plain blue growlers, so many are the rumors and threats of resignations and so uncertain is the immediate future re- garding officers, armories, allowances, orders, harmony and soon. On the sur- face the pride and esprit du cqrps of the | guard seem to have vanished. The guard 15 sore. Attention this week has been given to | the small squabbles and personal griev- ances that have followed the heroic action | of the Governor in comnpletely revolution- izing the guard without warning, reliev- ing nearly 150 officers of their positions | ana suddenly destroying twenty com- panies by ordering them mustered out or merged into other companies. But frorm above the dust may be seen the new cgndition of the guard in a gen- | eral way, the mili rificance of the | reorganization and the possibilities of the | State getting ilitary organization with | less of the opera bouffe in it, less gold | braid and more and better shoofers. I e are but few criticisms on the revo- Iutionized plan of organization. Intheory, and ultimately in practice, the guard will be a vastly befter machine for the practi- | cal work of fighting. But such a radical | change could not, of course, be made with- | out causing wrath, wounded pride and dis- appointment. Officers and companies who are hurt are pointing out_the 1njus not taking others better fitted for sacr and the enormous stature of the tools who periormed the operation. The reorganization wipes out of exist- ence five regiments and ¥ companies. In San Francisco the TFirst, Second and Third regiments become the new First. Each reziment in the State is made to consist of battalions, and in San Francisco the three regiments are each co: into one battalion of four companies each, | the battalions composing one regiment of | twelye companies. Soin this C eight officers are lobped off the These fort lieutenant rvice. | ght inciude two colonels, two slonels, four majors, twelve I staff officers, eight captains een lientenants. There are on | paper as ny men as before, and there | are to be still more, but they are all under | the officers left. | No wonder there is trouble. All of these | ofticers think that their military ability and the v_they know they would - field entitled them to remain. Each officer is popular with a large number of men or he wouldn’t have become an officer. The men in cight com- have been shoved along under officers not of their choosing and el the wrongs of their lost com- show on an ma Then there is the matter of consolida- tion. Companies with the poorest records of attendance and efliciency generally are supposed to have been selected for'sacri A company acquires a certain pride identity and bistory, especially if it long record. The enthusiasm with which the men of & company would be- come part of an old rivai may be imagined. Another thing to be considered is tue fact that each company is a semi-social organ- ization, and it is naturally composed of the same class of men or of men who find the particular style and air of the com- pany congenial. Consolidating two com- panies is apt to bring discordant elements together. These things are similarly true of regiments. There have always been wide differences of style, nature, etc., be- tween the First and Third regiments, for instance. So human pature is to be considered in reorganizing a National Guard in time of peace. All this explains why Company D of the Kirst has practically revoited, en masse. The entire company, practically, will get out of the service. Company D is ordered consolidated with Company B. Now Company D is nextto the oldest com- Fun v in the City. Itused tobe the Frank- in Light Infantry, and General Orton was once its captain. Among its relics is a medal won years ago by being the best drilled company at the State Fair. That's one thing. These companies—B and D— are not_composed of men who would most naturally drift together sociaily. Com- pany B is mainly composed of prosperous clerks with pretty good incomes. Com- pany D is made up of good men from other workaday walks and with less money. All around this consolidation is being pointed out by everybody interested in the old First as a sample of the asininity of some big military men. On Wednesday evening forty-three of the sixty men in Company D met, and forty-one signed a petition 1o be mustered out of the service. The boys propose to get out of the guard and to organize a social society under their old and honored militar, e. Ever since the strike there has been talk, expectation and uncertainty about reor- zation, and now when reorganization has come, there will be resignations on all hands from all sorts of causes, until the rd wiil be greatly depleted. The shift- ing of armory quarters is like to prove an- other source of much disgust and trouble. Adjutant-General Barrett is getting kicked harder than ever for being in a position that ought to be filled by a man of practical military knowledze and ability | for one thing, and by a man who knows the guard for another thing. The burden of the general criticism is that the selection of companies and officers for sacrifice was made arbitrarily, without warning and without due regard to military condition and efficienc Military critics say that the effect of the reorganization and the recovery of the guard from what has knocked the life out of it will depend mainly on the new colo- nels. They will have to check the demor- alization, display ability, become popular and spend time and money in recroiting, pulling together and inspiring their com- mands. To be colonel of .the First Regi~ ment of the Second Brigade mcans some- thingnow. Lieutenant-Colonel Crocker or Colonel Macdonald, between whom the po- ition lies, wiil be the only colonel in the city, and will command 1200 men, more than were in the three regiments before. He will have a chance to shine, to spend money and be a big fellow. : It is recognized that the only thing to do | lieutenant-colonels, | ments of tweive companies and | Officers _are not wasted. i rife. | Howell of Stockton is accused, took the for the guard is to let the kickers go, and’to get in as rapidly as possible new men and new blood. The guard will be in a transi- tion state for months, and when the sores are forgotten and the guard is largely a new organizatioff it is possible that the State will be proud of it. ‘This battalion organization is a new g in the National Guard of the coun- | try, though one or two States have par- | tially reached it with much trouble. ‘Fhe plan was originated by Frederick the Great and adopted with improvements by Napo- 1eon e ConE Ao TeR PR rope it e ments of 1800 men that didn’t have any each regiment com- osedd of twelve companies of 150 men eal The officers were one colonel, “two ajors and one captain and two lieuten- v. Allthe armies of d on this plan of regi- ihree battalions, following Napoleon’s model. As things were in this State there was a field, staff or line Europe are organi: | officer to every ten enlistcd mefi and a bigger proportion to the men constituting the active rank and file. In the reorganization the topheaviness has been much lessened, though there is a licutenant-colonei and a major for each battalion and there is left a larger propor- tion of officers jo shooters than they have any use for in aArmies meant for fighting, But this is doing nobly for a thing mainly composed of politicai and social *‘pulls.” Crities observe that much lus been T tained to placate peopie interested. Ti First Brigade, at Los Angeles, is composed | of one regiment. The under a set of regimental brigade officers all over with gold braid. It is pointed out that the regimental reor- ganization would better have been done away with, letting the battalions report directly to brigade officers. The' same thing is said of tue Fifth Regiment scat- tered over five or six companies and never getting together as a regiment. Independ- ent battalions would exhibit more efliciency and esprit de corps. But it would be a brave Governor who would have gone the whole w There is not noted any change in the habit of appointing the biggest command- ers and staff officers because they are good politicians, but a reform ir that might be t0o much to ask. It was a money pinch that forced this re- organization after all. Foryears the guard went along as a political plavthing, getting topheavy and ;worthless. Reform and re organization proposed by a few got no show with the *‘pulls” in the Legislature. For years the guard cost $150,000 a_year. The strike cost the State $i60,000, and brought a hi w ring from the guard. Then reorganization-talk and plans were | . Appropriations were cut down, and cutting down the guard, for which there wasn’t money enough for rents, became imperative. That is mainly why Governor Budd and his military advisers took the bull by the borns at last. 1t is estimated that the reorganization will reduce the cost of the guard per cent, besides vastly increasing its efliciency when the shock over and when it is pulled together. hile the present heroic | ineasure temporal wrecks the organiz- ation, the blessing may be like that of a | big fire now and then. JONS G 7 THE LI Flatly Contradicted the Harsin Story in the Howell ; Case. Judge Morrow Ruled the “Dear Matt” Letter Out of Evidence—Re- buttal Going On. Matt Jones, the man upon whom, at the two former trials, an attempt was made to | fasten the crime of which Martin D. | stand yesterday against Howell in rebut- tal of the Harsin evidence. He gave the Harsin story the direct lie. Jones says he had been employed in Mexicoas a carpenter and bridge-builder for the Mexican International Railway, C. P. Huntington’s line. In explanation of his disappearance from Stockton at the time of Howell’s arrest the Government made an effort to show that he left sud- denly because he owed some money and feared prosecution. He swore Le refused to receiye the box of $180 of counrerfeit money sent through Welis, Fargo & Co. to Stockton by the | “North Beach gang” for Howell when the | messenger brought it to the office, and | that he subsequentiy saw Howell person- | ally accept a package containing counter- eit money. The “Dear Matt” letter, which on How- ell’s first trial was said to have been writ- ten by Fred Marsh to Jones, which Marsh claims to be a forgery, was ruled out of evidence by Judge Morrow on the ground that it was too remoie as evidence and i could not be properly identitied. This | Jetter has been one of the strong poin ts of the defense, and Mrs. Howell had been put on the stand by her husband’s attor- { ney to fasten it nupon Marsh. Her evi- | dence was that she received it from the | Lathrop postoffice in the ordinary course of things. Writing Expert Hickox testi- | fied that this letter and one Marsh wrote | to prove it a forgery were written by the same person. Before Jones was examined a former employe of Howell, George W. Sampson, ! and two other witnesses were examined | to close the evidence for the defense. Their testimony was to the effect that they had received counterfeit money from Jones. One of the early incidents of yesterday was the calling of Judge Baldwin of Stock- ton to the Witness-stand by Mr. Campbell, in an endeavor to show that Matt Jones was an embeezler. According to the defendant’s lawyers, Howell has been prosecuted to a finish, while Fred Marsh, the leading spirit of the gang of counterfeiters, though under indictment has been granted immunity from punishment. From his own state- ment, they say, it appears that Marsh cir- culated $5000 of counterfeit money in the San Joaquin Valley. NOTED RUSSIANS HERE. They Are to Examine Into the Various Mining and Agricultural & Interests. Among the arrivals here yesterday was C. A. Monkovskey of the Imperial Minis- try of Civil Engineers at St. Petersburg. He is accompanied by his private secre- tary, F. Malution. Mr. Monkovskey, in addition to his other position, is chief of structural engineering for Eastern Siberia. He brings letters irom the Governor of Siberia to different officials of Califorma and the East. He will visit the Comistock mines and those of Utah and Colorado and gain what he can of interest to be used in connection with the Siberian mines. The mines there, he says, are all owned by the Government, but_are leased to cor- orations and individuals on a percentage. They are nearly all placers. Last year the product was 2200 pounds of virgin gold. M. Pyastushkevich, a noted horticnltur- ist of Siberia, is with_the two gentlemen, and he will examine into the horticultural interests in this country. They bear let- ters, among others, to M. A. Pangborn of the World’s Fair Commission, Chicago, and he is exJ;ecLed to conduct them abont Chicago and visit other cities with them. They came here on the Peking. e g o ) A Singular Form of Monomania. There is & class of people, rational enough in other respects, who are certainly monomaniacs in dosing themselves. They are constantly trying experiments upon their stomachs, their bowels, their livers and their kidoeys with trashy nos- trums.' When these organs are really out of order, if they would only use Hostetter's Stomach Bit- ters they would, if not hopelessly insane, perceive its superiority, GOVERNMENT MEAT TAGS, A Move Attributed to the Cupid- ity of the Chicago Packers. DELAY GRANTED EUTCHERS. The Law Will Not Go Into Effect Until the First of March Next. The new Government tag for all meat slaughtered for export wall not be in use on this coast unul the 1st of March. Samuel C. Hammond, secretary of the Butchers' Board of Trade of this City, has received a dispatch from Secre- tary J. Sterling Morton of the Department of Agriculture at Washineton, D. C., say- ing that the-request of the San Francisco | butchers for a delay had been granted and that means hundreds of thousands of dollars to this coast. The act of 1891 as amended 1n the act approved March 2, 1895, provides that: The Secretary of Agriculture shall also cause the cash, her appeals finally becoming so urgent that Bennett made a hurried visit to Los Angeles ana divers other points. He always promised, however, that the | monev would be forthcoming “in a few | days,” and so that is how the matter has | eased along these last seven months. Yes- terday she grew tired of promises, and swore to the complaint as above stated. Mrs. Stelling _is at present stopping at the Brooklyn Hotel unnder the name of “Emma Sterling.” In talking about the case last night she said: 1 have had quite enough notoriety, and un- til Beunett 1s brought to justice I do not care totalk about his shortcomings. I deny that he wasat any time my agent. though Judge Hebbard decided differently in another case in which he was mixed upin. We were very friendly, and I did not think it necessary to make n demand for the money as soon as he received it. When I did demand the money, he put me off ircm time to time, until now I have grown tired of this gort of thing. When he is arrested I will tell the whole story and not befors. Bennett has not been seen in the City for some time, but is said to be propecting in Arizona. Mrs. Stelling has come in for consider- able notoriety during the past two or three years. Sheisthe lady who created so much excitement in the Mission two years ago by running off with a Castro- street conductor. Later sbe returned to her husvand, only to sue for a divorce a few months afterward. RENEWED A MORTGAGE. Special Meeting of the Trustees of the University of the Pacific. A special meeting of the trustees of the University of the Pacific was held in the THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTION TAG FOR EXPORT MEATS. to be made a careful inspection of all live cattle the meat of which, fresh, salted, canned, | corned, packed, cured or otherwise prepared. is intended for exportation to any foreign country, at such times end places and in such manner as he may think proper, with a view to rscertain whether said cettle are free from dis- | ease and their meatsound and wholesome, and may appoint inspectors who shall be author- | official certificate cleariy stating the condition in which such cattle. and meat are found, and no clearance shall be given %o 'any vessel having on board any fresh, salted, canned, corned or packed beef being the meat of cattle killed after the passage of 1his act for exporta- tion to and sale in & foreign country from any portin the United States until the owner or shipper shall obtain from an inspector ap- ointed nnder the provisions of this act a cer- tificate that said cattle were free from disease and that their meat is sound and wholesom: ized to give an | Y. M. C. A. building yesterdav forenoon L. J. Trueman, chairman of the board, presided, and Dr. Thomas Filben acted as secretary. The principal business of the meeting was the formal renewal of the $30,000 mortgage upon the buildings at | San Jose, which is about to expire. After renewing the mortgage a general | discussion of the financial status of the univers was indulged in, preparatory to the semi-annual meeting of the board, which.occurs in this City January 23. | It is ordered, That all beef offered for ex- | portation, whether fresh, salted, corned or packed, shall be accompanied by & certificate of an_inspector of this department showing thet the cattle from which it was produced were free from disease, and that the meat wes sound end wholesome. And in order thatit may be determined whether all beef exported has been so inspected and found free from disease and _wholesome, "it is further ordered that the meat of all other species of animals which is packed in barrels, cases or other packages shall be legibly marked in such manter as to clearly indicate the species of animals from which the meat was produced. Meat which is not so marked, and is not ac- compenied by a certificate of inspection, will De subject to unpacking in order to ascertain if it is uninspected beef. Notice is hereby given to exporters of beef, | whether said beef is fresh, salted, canned, | corned. packed or otherwise prepared, and 1o | owners and agents of vessels upon which said | beef is exported, that no ciearance can be given to uny vessel having on board said beef until the provisions of this order are com- plied with. In pursuance of this act a check or cer- tificate, as revroduced below. was designed | the secretary of the department to be | used on all meats for export. The law was to have gone into effect the first of last month, but, on petition from the pack- ers in Chicago, the time was extended until the 1st of January. While that ex- tension was satisfactory to the Chicago packers it worked a hardship on the Cali- fornia meat men, as their packing season comes in the fall. All the California meat has been packed ready for Fastern ship- ment and export, and, if the law wentinto effect before its disposal, a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars would be entailed. Hence the action of the San Francisco Butchers’ Board of Trade and its’success- ful issue. The butchers and leading packers of San Francisco are one in the opinion that the law is a scheme on the part of the wealthy Chicago packers to shut them out of the export trade and curtail their shipments to the E Mr. McMenomy of the California Market said yesterday: *It is nothing else but a plan of the big Chicago packers to hurt us. They have barrels of money and can get laws passed in their interest, but I guess their influence won’t extend across:the water. The French Governmeate has passed a law, so I understand, against the sale of any meats, packed or canned, in that country, which are not put up within its borders. But that is a digression. *If the Secretary of the department haa not granted the request of the Butchers’ Boara of Trade we would have lost thou- sands. Those fellows out at Baden had all the checks, I am told, some time ago and were ready to comply with the law in co-operation with the Cricago firms. We could not possibly have helped ourselves. Inspectors have to pass a civil service ex- amination and we could not have equippea ourselves to carry out the law in time to prevent the great loss to which I refer, I also understand that, while this law prevents the exporting of meat that has not been inspected, it does not preciude its local sale. But that cuts no figure. The blow was aimed at our exporting interests, but it fell short, and we are still in the land of competition.”” MRS, STELLINGS CHARGE, Accuses Real Estate Agent A, B. Bennett of Embezzling $1000. The Complainant Says She May Have an Interesting Story to Tell Later On. Mrs. Anna Stelling filed a complaint in Judge Joachimsen’s court yesterday charging A. B. Bennett, a real estate agent, with felony embezzlement. The story of the alleged crime is an interesting one, more from the fact that it occurred nearly fourteen months ago, and up to seven months since Mrs. Stelling and Ben- nett were aimost inseparable friends. It seems that on October 8, 1894, Bennett, acting as agent for the complainant in the present suit, sold a piece of propert; be- longing to the latter to his sister-in-law. The proper transfers were made and the money, $1000, paid to Bennett. The latter Was 10 no very great hurry to turn over the coin to the rightful owner, and shé thinking everything all right allowed the matter to rock along in that shape. When, however, their friendship began to wane Mrs. Stelling made a demand for | The Superintendent’s Ideas Are | Learned by the South Side | Club. Effort to Be Made to Get a Conference on the Question of Paving Fol- som Street. | When the executive committee of the | South Side Club met last night in Center & Spader’s office, 30 Montgomery street, it looked as if that organization was no nearer to the realization of its project to have Folsom street bituminized than ever. The committee of ten which had been | appointed to interview Street Superin- | tendent Ashworth made a report that was |nut very assuring. A. B. Maguire and ‘Papmiu John Rafferty were both mem- bers of this committee. To Captain Rafferty Mr. Ashworth had said there was found only $120,000 avail- abte on November 1 for accepted streets out of the total appropriation of about $560,000,and that Folsom street was prac- tically out of the question. The Superintendent’s idea of what it would cost to bituminize Folsom street, it was said, was about $175,000. Expert Elder had figured it down to $65,000. Mr. Ma- guire thought that if the Street Commit- | tee would cut down some of the other ap- ortionments, such as the $50,000 for work in front of the City Hall and $50,000 for work in front of public squares, it might | save enough to pave Folsom street. At | any rate, reasoned Mr. Maguire, Folsom | street should have the first consideration because first in the field. Whilesome were inclined to consider Mr. Ashworth as in favor of the improvement, others, including Secretary I. Schwartz, charged him with simply making “‘a polit- ical piay” for South Side votes. A committee was finally selected con. | sisting of G. A. Raabe, A. B. Maguire, G. 8. Center, Georze D. Shadbourne, James D. Phelan, Henry B. Russ, Dr. T. A. Rottanzi, F. W. McEwen, J. B. Shay and 1. Schwartz to try to arrange a conference between Mr. Ashworth, the Street Com- mittee of the Board of Supervisors and the South Side committee, with a view to etting at some definite idea of what could fie accomplished. The new committee was instructed to urge the demands of the South Side with all the persuasion and force of logic it could command. The club wants the work begun by New Year's if it is at all possible. HOLLADAY-HUNTINGTON Engagement of the Bar Association’s Secretary and a Niece of Collis P. Huntington. The engagernent is announced of Ed- mund Burk Hollhday, secretary of the Bar Association, and Miss Caroline Densmore Huntington, adopted niece of Collis P. Huntington, the president of the South- | ern Pacilic, and a sistepof Henry E. Hun- tington, vice-president of the Market- street Railway Company. Miss Huntington is a daughter of the late Solon Huntington. Mr. Holladay first became acquainted with ber when she came from New York to this City with her uncle over a year ago. She accompanied Mr. Huntington on his last visit. The ac- quaintance was renewed and the engage- ment was the consequence. Mr. Holladay is a son of Samuel W. Holladay, who, a short time ago, won the Latayette-square case in the Supreme Court of the United States and secured a title to his home, for which he had been fighting for years. Among his varioug honors that of beng secretary of the Sons of the American Revolution he counts as one of the most precious. He is at present in New York. With the bar he is very popular, and in his profession he has climbed up from the bottom until not long ago he wus made a counsellor of the Federal Supreme Court. | e ———— Thanks From Old Ladies. The board of managers of the Protestant Episcopal 01d Ladies' Home desire to grate- fully thank all individuals and firms who so kindly end generously remembered the home at Thanksgiving. . — The exact date of the birth of John Keats is a matter of some doubt. Certain it is that he was born in the end of October 100 years ago, whether on the 29th or the 3lst is a question that remains undecided. DUURTRUL OF ASHWORTH, INFLUENCE OF BOODLE Supervisors Continue to Juggle With the Pool Ordi- , nance. POSING AS MORAL AGENTS. The Grand Jury Firm in Its Purpose to Get the Inside Facts of a Cor- rupt Bargain. Ths members of the Grand Jury are not all confident that the Supervisors known as the Solid Eight intend to pass any or- dinance to close the poolrooms or the poker-houses. Some of the grand jurors may be deceived by the professions of pro- found concern for the moral welfare of San Francisco, which members of the Solid Eight voice in the juryroom, but other jurors who look below the surface conclude that there is a motive for this moral outburst, and that the motive is to gain time. It is known to the Supervi- sors that Judge Sanderson desires to im- panel another Grand Jury before January 1,1896. Itis known ateo in the Board of Supervisors that Judee Sanderson has cautioned the members of the Grand Jury agaiost finding indictments on insufficient evidence of guilt. Many members of the Grand Jury are deeply impressed with the belief that the pool-sellers are contributing from $800 to 1200 a month to prevent the Board of Supervisors from interfering with the busi- ness of gelling pools in town. There is an impression that some of the money reaches a clique of Supervisors to which Demo- crats and Republicans belong. While tie Grand Jury is morally convinced that cor- rupt influences have been invoked to per- petrate the most dangerous phases of gambling the positive proof, necessary under instructions to find an indictment, has not been secured. In the Grand Jury there are members who believe that the Supervisors have no idea of closing the poker-rooms. It is be- lieved that the Supervisors are making this play to compel the poker-game man- agers to pool their interests and put up money to retain an attorney. The same suspicion attaches to the proposition on the part of Supervisors to pass the Wagner ordinance. It is suspected that boodlers in the board want to compel the bookmakers at the racetrack to put up liberally for an attorney. Behind this thin subterfuge of retaming counsel half of the money used to corrupt State Legislatures and munici- pal Councils is raised and nearly all the jobs are hatched. Since Julius Kahn, W. W. Foote and Walter Levy received legitimate fees of $1000 each for managing the pool cases in court the business has been conducted without legal obstruction. Yet since that time, according to the testimony of the pool-sellers themselves, $2500 —$500 a month for five months—has been collected to retain the services of an attorney who enjoys the special confidence of the Solid Eight Supervisors. The attention of the present Grand Jury was drawn to the vice of pool-selling by numerous communications setting fort! that this feature of gambling was demor- alizing the youth of the City. Any Super- visor that cares to visit the poolrooms on Ellis street can be convinced of the truth ot these communications. The Grand Jury sought the advice of the Chief of Po- lice and solicited suggestions from repre- sentative citizens of high character and known integrity. Those who conduct the indemnity associations are supposed to know of the temntations which lead to ruin young men holding responsible positions in banks and mercantile offices, and their advice was solicited. They pronounced the poolroom the devil's own school of vice and earnestly recommended the Grand Jury to put a stop 1o pool-selling in town. So an ordinance was drawn and submitted to the Board of Supervisors with an earnest recommendation that it should pass. : One of the Supervisors immediately laced a copy of the ordinance in the Eamls of J. fi Dickinson, the attorney of the pool-sellers. He discovered, so itis said, that it wasdefective asa moral instru- ment, inasmuch as it did not prohibit the selling of pools on foreign racing events. The Solid Eight Supervisors conctuded not to pass it, bat to introduce another order, known as the Wagner ordinance, which ought to be entitled “An ordinance to compel all pool-sellers and bookmakers in the City and County of San Francisco to close up or put up.” With these two orders the Solid Supervisors have since been juggling, and every day vociferating that all kinds of vice should be suppressed by law. Meanwhile the pooi-sellers are doing a thriving business and putting up in regular form $500 a month for counsel fees. Chief of Police Crowley refers to the record of arrests to prove that he has exnausted the resources of his department in efforts to prevent pool-selling. Harry Corbett acknowledges to twelve arrests, but boasts of an uninterrupted career of pool-selling since his house was opened. Chief Crowley even took away Corbett’s license to_sell liquor, but the pool-seller continued the pool business without the bar. Judge Wallace in his decision on the old ordinance indicated how the Supervisors could regulate the business, but the board does not act. The Grand Jury prepared an ordinance, but the Supervisors continue to profess virtue and perpetuate vice. It is this kind of a Board of Supervisors that some members of the Grand Jury expect to reach by moral suasion, and all the time the pool-rooms are in full blast. “Members of the Grand Jury who be- lieve in firmer measures are asked by oth- ‘What can we do? We cannot get ers, positive prool that corrupt influences are used. We are sure that money is paid to defeat the ordinance which we recom- mended, but we cannot prove it and there- fore it would be folly to find an indict- ment.’ "’ Others on the jury who hold that the fight against the vice skould continue re- pl i“Let us do our utmost to get all the evi- dence of guilt within our reach, and then use what influence we possess to help the succeeding Grand Jury get more proof. Let us continue the agitation until hoo- dling Supervisors are exposed to public indignation and contempt; until the com- munity shall point to them as moral out- casts. We are sustained by the people, the press and the moral agencies of the community. If we cannot win now we can arouse a pubiic sentiment that the Board of Supervisors cannot ignore.” The poolsellers are wiser than the boo- dle-blinded Supervisors. They discern premonitions of the storm, and for proper shelter are praying for a license proposi- tion. They want the board now to fix the license at §500 a month, and thus close up the places where boys assemble and where the business is not heavy. It was reported last evening that the Solid Eight had con- sented to the new programme. ~ Chief Crowley admits that the license proposition would be better than no regu- lation at all; but his views that pool- selling in_town should be prohibited are unchanged. The license system would concentrate the business inthe hands of four or five leading men of the gambling fraternity, who would, of course, enlarge their establishments to accommodate the increased business. The Grand Jury will hold another ses- sion Monday afternoon. At that time Su- pervisors Hirsch, Wagaer and Skully, who have not yet expressed to the jury their abhorrence of vice, may get a moral in- ning. Kloss’ Death Warrant. Judge Bahrs has signed the death warrant of Frank Kloss, and in so doing set the date of his execution at February 21, the day which Judge Murphy fixed as the time for the hlngh’!fi of Durrant. Kloss was convicted of the willful murder of William Deady, whom he fatally stabbed in a saloon on Hayes street. EKNIGHTS OF CARDS. Lively Tournaments of the San Fran- cisco and Trist Duplicate ‘Whist Clubs. Yesterday’s tournament of knights and ladies of the card at the San Francisco Whist Club and the Trist Duplicate Whist Club proved exceedingly interesting to the large number of participants. The pro- lessional zest of the game was not cis- turbed by even so discordant a sound as the dropping of a bonnet-pin. The aiternoon score for the Rideout trophy was as follows: Saturday Night Club, 6 Tamalpais Club, 6; Tris Vailejo Club, 6}¢; Entre Nous Club, 1} scholizia Club, 10; Golden Rod, 7 Club, 8; Owl Club, 3; Peninsular Commuters Petaluma Club, 7%4; San Francisco ; Sutter Club, 7; (Dup.) Club, 5i; Club, 5; (ladies) Club, 10. The ladies’ pairsv&wlnyed at the rooms of the San Francisco Whist Club were won by the Oakland Club, with the following score: EAST AND WEST. Mrs. Murdock and Mrs. Coffin Mrs. Rideout and Mrs. Ja; rs. Stewart and Mrs. H rs. Rich Mrs. Atw Mrs. dowe and Mrs. Darling. Mrs. Reynolds and Mrs. Blake. Mrs. Prindie and Mrs. Reed Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Keith.. NORTIT Mrs., Palmer and Mrs, r. Bryant and Mrs. Reis’ rs. Partridge and Mr. La Nort: Mrs. Schell and Mrs, Hobson. 143 Mrs. Randoiph and Mrs. Wel 142 Mr. Waldron and Mrs. Howe. 140 Mrs. Relser and Mrs, Andrew: 185 | Mr. Lawrence and Mrs. Belden, 153 Total.. Average. THE BIG MINING SUIT Testimony” as to Bullion Trans- actions of the Hale & Norcross. Why the Ore Mined in 1892 Was of Such an Unusually Inferior Quality. John Barclay, foreman of the Nevada mill and repair man for the Mexican miil, was the principal witnessin the Hale & | Norcross case yesterday morning. He told how the ore was milled and how much of the metal remained in the battery after it had been crushed. He aescribed the process of crushing and showed how sume of the pulp remainsin the mortar until, at the end of every month, the iron box is cleaned out. This deposit, he said, is one of the causes for the difference between the car-sample assays and the battery assays, and is also sometimes responsible for the low figures of the battery assays. The remainder of the day was devoted mainly to the reading of depositions. Thomas R. Crane was one of the witnesses who appeared by deposition. His testi- mony related to transactions between the Hale & Norcross mine, of which he was secretary, and the Bullion Exchange and Carson mint. T. R. Hofer, cashier of the Bullion Exchange, and G. W. Notewear, clerk in the Carson mint, also appeared by deposition to identify the complicated affair which marked the relations of the three institutions. - 7 William Pierce, foreman of the Hale & Norcross mine, appeared in person. He testitied &s to the workings of the mine and how the ore was being taken outat present. He also told how the ore was taken from the mine in 1892, and he said the reason the assays were so low was that the ore was mixed with rotten wood and refuse of all kinds. The men were working over old drifts, and it was necessary to send tons of refyse ore to the surface in order to follow the vein. For this reason, he said, the] ores milled that year were worth very little. The attorneys in the case expect to be finished by Wednesday next, because on that day Mr. Baggett will start East for Club, 7%; San Francisco (gentlemen) | New York. On-his return the case will be set for argument. - - RENDEZVOUS SUCCESSFUL. Goodly Patronage, Fine Evening Pro- . gramme, and The Freak. The second day of the Rendezvous of the Boys' Brigade fullilled, in point of numbers and artistic arrangement, the promise of the first. Luncheon was served to 376 persons yes- terday, and the booths did an e_quully thriving business. Miss Kate L_lsenbyd Miss Minnie Smith, Miss Maud Smith an Miss Addie Brown were in the lead in the | order named in the voting contest for the most popular lady, and General Russell, | Captain Weymounth, Captain Kingsbury and Major Moore were leaders for the honors of the most popular officer. A delightful programme was presented to a large audience last eveniug. & This is California day, and this evening a most attractive programme will be ren- dered. The official organ of the Rendezvous is the Freak,a daily, whose competitor is the Rattle: NEW TO-DAY. 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