The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 27, 1895, Page 14

14 TR TH SAN FRAXCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27 FATHER YORKE REPLILS T HIS CAITICS, His Controversy No Longer With Rev. Donald IM. Ross Alone. ANSWER TO DR. CASE. The Minister Called On to Make Good His Previous As- sertions, OATHS BRANDED AS FALSE.| The Priest Says the “Curse of Ex- communication” was Taken From An Obscene Book. The Rey. Father Yorke submits the fol lowing in reply to the recent communica- of Major Sherman, the Rev. Dr. W. W. Case and G. A. Hubbell. December 26, 1895. isco (Cal!—DEAR A. Sherman of To the Editor of the SIR: Osakland h own b not the com siness and to allow dated Decem! ent as er 25, he letter to you, be any information ed.” In an i 1 he said tw n one side ¢ blished L d noth. other of the m have read noth ing o this This morning he declares Rev. P.C. Yorke “ newspaper discussion, desiri f 11 with the pub! e evidence to be j ion of the authorized own sia and eme: e , what I want to know is an_has read nothing nd if he is unac- f the case, how does g the evidence to n with Mr. Ress? herman once more know that I am be presented in my “Alow meé to rem is \alking ‘beg to request b Business. The d | n to mind his | s in which I | to do with Mr. hat Messrs. Bo- | organ, Quitzow, [ ping the thunder dy is to be sought | | ours truly. PETER C. YORKE. iptr Poser! The. Rev. once more tation and hi commenuta: ten points. e of his decayed repu- damaged quotations. In my his speech I took exception to Ishowed that his cousin, J. H. ed for blackguardism in Brazil. d that Spein is neither in- low in the scale of nations. (3) I | calied Archbishop Hughes to answer his latter- | ers as Lie answered them of old time. proved by the facts of history and the of orians that the Catholic | had nothing to do with the murder of | m Lincoln. (3) I produced John Wes- wn revilings against the American col- | the putlic might be able ween him and the Jesuit, (6) In the matter of quo- gave the of the Shepherd of the Valley against Dr. Case sttributed to it. to produce the work of tained the alleged extract | ¢ ) I asked for the number | and date of the hypothetical New York Tablet v accusation that he had vamped the quotation from Father Hecker by suppressing sentences, omitting paragraphs and putting into the mouth of the author sen- | timents he abhorred. 3 e v charge th od an auswe testimony ch b tions, I litor of the She e excerpt which ied * ics bound to obey the civil law malice ajorethought substituted “no,’ In answer to these ten charges Dr. Case com: on Christroas day with & communica- | tion weighted at the end with cant about | ight and truth.” With masterly insince e ignores seven of the points on which he was | shown to be untrutniul, and with the aid of | many words and much_balbucination he tries to defend himself on the three guestions of Gury’s Compendium, Archbishop Hughes and | Father Hecker. | (1) With regard to my charge that he falst- | fied Gury, he repiies: “If his copy of Gury’s Compendium, as he claims, reads ‘yes’ where mine reads ‘no,’ then | the Jesuitical trick is proved, as charced, of | ing two different editions of their unsavory xthooks—a genuine edition for the training of the priests end licentiates and an expur. | gated copy for the laity. My citations from Gury are correct in every particular.” Concerning _this_answer I_will merely say that it is worthy of Dr. Case. It well becomes & man who has allied himself to the venders of the Jesuit oath end forged encyclical. I wonder what do the Methodists of San Fran- cisco think of this minister of their religion, Urged by vanity and an_itching palm, he has plunged into a warfare where the only weapons are lies. Cornered in his mendacity his only Tefuge is to prevaricate the more. Stand up before your peopie and let them look at you, Dr. Case. Hireling of & foreign conspiracy, When confronted with the evidence of your mendacity, your only course is to bespatter the character of those who convieted you. Disgrace to your cloth,when your lie bad found | you out you would libél bettér men than you. When treed at last, and no hope of escape at hand, true to your nature you would over- whelm us eIl with that factor which is con- genital to the unclean beasts of your kind. But, Dr. Case, neither billingsgate nor cant will avail you now. You are not speaking to the bats and moles of a proscriptive society: you are speaking to the American people, and principally to members of your own church, whom you dishonor. Before them you stand on trial and to them you must answer. The charge against you is that you have falsified a | textbook of the Catholic Church. You say | your ¢itation is correct—produce your author- | ity. You say there is an edition for the priests | and an edition for the laity—produce your | proofs. The Gury which is Iving at THE CALL | office is the selisame copy which I used in my college course, and I am both a priest and a licentiate. Before all the citizens of this State | 1 challenge you to produce an edition of Gury | which asks the question, “Are ecclesiastics | | | | repl e el bt Dr. Case of | | | bound to obey the civil law?” and which an- | swers it, “No.” will avil No_quibbling about Jesuitry Produce your book or for- your people as & man who prostituted the livery of Heaven to serve father of lies. In his Sunday lecture, Dr. Case declared, 1s 820 Archbishop Hughes was eadh and ears in politics. He did eli in his power at that early stage of our history to destroy the public school system in this country.” I answered this charge, but quoting Archbishop Huehes challengs, iwhich replies to all his calumniator: present and to come. Dr. Case meet this chal like'w man? Did he face the old lion of York and come out with his names, his dates and his places? Let the people mark it well. He dodged into the bywass of history and tried to escape in the obscurity. “Archibishop Hughes,” he ories “ewas 0pp to our public sch stem.” The ignorance of the Little Read Patriots in matters of spejling, grammar and geography is paralleled by T ignorance of this country’s history. "If, Dr. Case, you wish to demonstrate that You £re an iznoramus you should not do itin such & way that every high school must | one of them who dc bishop Hughes ou ever stand befors has th € whatever to say 1o | stem.” His great agita. rried on in 1841, and no vesiige of “‘our public school system” in the city of New York. | The first ion for common in the State was made at the suggestion Governor Clinton in 1795. In 1800, however. the measures taken had failed and the schools were declining. In | i schools i | Dr. Case of three crimes: | ious weed which grows on rank | oatns. < | ducing new charges to manifesting h vas passed which gave State aid to 1 schoo Puplic § ed a private cor paid a fed ) 8 veur, ed to gei control of all the ated for education. It 1y 4 =hly Protes- 0oks used s schools were to Catholie -y were fille :dals and cal ve long 1 and wh gated rulous old Agenis hildren into compelle cite Prote rotestant Bibl Rishop Hu for his man] re of the Pu ch some preachers ire abohished it sof the law relating xtended to New York raved and roared the L in 1842 and the prov to common schools were City. The following card, published 1841, explains Bishop f[n«_’lh s’ P Bishop Hughes, unable to reply misrepresenta ovember 1, jon: the many not inter- e religious rights of any denomination tisfy him. esent system is not of this description: insists on giving what is termed the « tity of rel m the grave to re The American public school system, s our public sehool system as well a8 stem. Our peo- ple 1y the peo- e They demana n return that it shall contain no features of- fensive t them or to_their children. This de- ution of California readily which Dr. Ca: Gentile have a right 1o _these pr permi: tarian Bibles. The enemies of the public schools are not the Catholics, but they are those sensational preachers wno would introduce their sectarian practi We Catholics believe in teaching re- ligion to children, but to do so we build our own_schools and pay for their maintenance. On the contrary, a set of sniveling hypoerites, who have no hools, and no achers can be e, g prowl Jam round our public schools with Ki Bible in their pockets and their handkerchiefs to their eves boo-hooing about Rome and searching for some chink to insert themselves = | end their doctrines within grabbing distance of the public purse. (3). With regard to Father Hecker, I accused (a) he suppressed s (b) he omitted paragraphs; into Father Hecker’s 1 ntime he quoted to refute. ase’s own 1 ves my contention true. He tries to escape sponsibility by putting the blame on th editor and the paragraphing. It is none c my business to allocate the blame. Dr. ¢ extract was printed to leave the public under the delusion that Father Hecker attributed the alleged troubles of the church to her hierar- chical_constitution, He might as well quote the Bible to prove that Ingersoll 1s_correct. Bible says “There isno God.” Dr. Case’s tactics would suppress the introduction, “The fool saith in his heart.”” Such, Mr. Editor, is the lame defense which Rev. W. W. Case has made for_three of his propositions out of ten. We couid not expect better things of him. In the beginnine he slandered the sisters, and_crawled out of it by denying his spoken word. In hfs letter he slandered them again by saving they had sub- jected themselves to thralidom, and he re- Tused to substantiate his assertion by slander- ing the respectable business men of his own church. He calumniated the very conviets in our prisons, who have not the opportunity of defending themselves, and when 1 convic him by facts and fignres he fled irom San Queatin to Folsom and from Folsom to Whittier and from Whittier to silence He appersed the intelligence of the Catholic community and disparaged the greatest minds of ancient or modern times by lampooning the essional, which the very heathen recog- nize as an to morality and the most learned enemies of Christianity have denomi- nated a safeguard to society. He traduced the priests of this City, who have proved by long | and laborious lives of service to the people the earnestness of their convictions, and he ac- cused them of mercenary motives, who owe their burial and their graves to the charity of their brethren. He maligned the parochial schools by attributing to their influeuce an incredible percentage of the prisoners in our penitentiaries, and when I proved the con- trary he had not the manliness toacknowledge his error. It would take too much time, Mr. Editor, to review the ramifications of the ex berant mendacity of Dr. Case. Like the nox. i soil, every day he puts forth new shoots and he gives to every wind_the baleful seeds of slander, calumny BV and lie: Postscriptum No. 2—Mr. G. A. Hubbell is to the front this morning with & new collection of He prefers to show his fertility manli- ness by substantiating old ones. In my last let- ter I branded him as eleven different kinds of a liar. His reply merely gives me an opportu- nity of adding a few more kinds to my list. In the beginning I would state that the A. P. A. seems 10 be very unfortunate in the selec- tion of its champions. When men come before the public to make accusations against a great church they should at least hear the semblance of good faith. Itis hard to beiieve that G. A Hubbell credits himself the authenticity of the latest creeds which his scissors have in- flicted on your readers. The vile nature of the alleged curse of Pius IX on Victor Em- | manuel is $o patent that no man of integrity | could bring himself to opine it true, Itisa | terrible thing to contemplate a condition of | mind which would attribute such a concaten- | ation of malediction to a human being. 1 pre- fer to believe that G. A. Hubbell is acting in | bad faith. Coward that he is, he fears to meet | like a man the sworn denial of his preyious | oaths. He wouid blind the public by produc- | ing other and greater monstrosities. 1do not intend, Mr. Editor, to aid him in his attempt. | Let him first purge himself of the charge of forgery which has been fastened on him by | When he at- | the affidavits of three witnesses. empts to do this we can meet this moral leper without instinctively raising the ery: clean! Unclean! For the sake of your readers, however, allow me to state that the nature and the authorship | of this obscene curse have within my own memory been exposed three times on this | Pacific Coast and in the public prints. Isend you a copy of &n old book published in'1813 by William Durrell & Co., New York. It is the first volume of Sterne’s works, and contains that | unclean novel known as “Tristram Shandy. On page 197 you will find word for word the curse which™ C Hubbell has not been ashamed to print! From lere and not from “Romanism the Danger Akead” comes this curse. It is the smanation of the brain of Lau- rence Sterne, as vile & mean as ever drew the breath of life, but not more vile than the ig- noble crew who use his obscenities to defile the graves of the dead. Let me quote from Thackeray, who_ never showed any leanings toward catholicifm, an appreciation of the charactcr of this concocter of false and indecent oaths: In writing to Eliza (a married woman, Mrs. Draper) Sterne says: “Well have you supported that character, my amiable, my philosophic friend; and indeed 1 begin to think you have as _many virtues asmy uncle Toby’s widow. Talking of widows, pray, Eliza, if ever you are such do not think of giving vourself to some wealthy nabob, because I design to marry you myself. My wife cannot live long, and I know not the woman I should like so well for her -ub- stitute as yourself. *Tis truelam 95 in constitu- tion and you but 25, but what I wantin vouth I it and good humor. Not e'la, Scarron his Meni- saccnarissa. Tell me in u approve and honor the d honor the proposall tonon or Wailer hil answer to this that proposal.” Approve The coward was friends this while with sneering allusions to this poor foolish Eliza. Sterne was at this time at the Mound “Coffee-honse” with a sheet of gilt-edged paper before him offering that treasure, his heart, to Lady P:—, asking whether it gave her leasure to see him unhappy, whether it added to her triumph that her eyes snd lips had turned & man into & fool? quoting the Lord’s Prayer, with a horrible baseness of blasphemy as & Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Roval Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE c and_Protestant, Jew and | doors with sec- | : Christian_fortitude to make | | & sacrifice for the sake of princ in pro- | o riting guy letters to his | | proof that he had desired not tobe led into temptation. There wasaiso » No.3 to whom the wretchid worn-outvld scamp was paying i e year fer having come in Bond sireet with his y" to leunch upou the n, eager as e -t jor prai-e and plea:nre—as vain, as Kod, as wit as fal-e, h at cogih ¢ fecble wretch, ard on the 18(5 of NMarch. 1768, that bale cf cadaverous zoodds was consigned to Pluto. Meckeray’s English Huiorists” rme _and of Thackeray’s works. Pub. Boston: < & Lauriat, 1882 ] Such, Mr. Editor, is the authority which G. A. Hubbell brings agajust the Catholie church. e Go d<mith, v ir trust in such informants must not be un- » thom in moral character. Indeed if we igu which the A.P. A has swe can oniy say that no lie too obscene, no charge too indecent, ation wo vile to be rejected by those who sre so low that wallowing in dlth does not iucrease (heir unclesn ines: in couciusion, thereiore, let me add to the long list of {alsehoods of which G. A. Hubbell stands gecus, Falsehood No. 12—G. A. Hubbell lies when he says that any Bishop in these United States inst us takes an oath to persecute heretics. Falsehcod No. 13—G. H. Hubbell lies when hesays Cardina! Baronius wrote clesiastical Annals” i 1198, Cardinal Baronius was not born until 17 s, wisenood No. 14. G. A. Hubpell lies when he sa; that (he curse printed in THE CALL this iug was pronounced by Pius IX o Victor anuel, or that it was not invented by the author of istam Shandy” and first 10 the world by that unprin¢ipled blackguard, or remains of man- him any spa T Let liness, let him meet these accusations. him meet them not by producing new cale | umnies, but by clearing himseli of the charges which I have made. I hereby brand him again 8s n conscious liar, and I leave him on his pedestal of shame to the scorn of all decent and truth-loving mer BHCEYS 10 DEVELOP GOLD MINES Action Taken by the San Fran- cisco Stock Exchange Board. This Generous Acit Will Stimulate Business in Mining Properties of the State. The executive committee of the San Francisco Stock Exchange Board has de- cided that hereafter it will encourage the listing of gold mines. They recognize | the fact that in their long list of Com- | stock and other mines the stock of which they have been buying and sell- “ ing for years the California gold mines are | hardly represented. It is safe to say that | there are not over five of these on the lis.. | | In speaking on the subject yesterday Joseph Marks, a broker, said: “Of course the gold mines of this State | in many instances are close corporations, | but there are scores of rich gold mines Frequently they are | | that we never hear of. | held by men who are not in a position to de- velop them. These could be listed, andin- stead of paying periodical assessments to worked. out or depreciated silver mines the veople could piace their dimes in the gold | mines, where there are prospects for re- | turns upon the properties being developed. I do not know of any move better cal- culated to advance the gold-mining indus- try of this State than the one the exchange has made. We have decided to do away with article 3 of our by-laws, or rather to suspend it for twelve months.” The article reads like this: The fee for placing mining stocks on the regular list shall be $500 each, and no stock shall be bought or sold at any of the sessions of the board unless the same shall have been approved by the stock-list committee and reg- | uiarly listed. This board reserves the right to suspend the calling of any stock at any time by & two-thirds vote of the members present. All mining stocks remaining on the list over one year shall pay per annum in ad- vance; and the sa nusl fee shall become upon which said fee shall_remain unpaid on the third Tuesday in February s stricken from the list by a majority vote. No stock so s'ricken from the list shall be re- pieced except by the payment of a fee of $500, | as hereintofore provided, and reference to the stock-list committee. “Qur action now invites the listing of all meritorious mines free of charge for one vear, after which the regular $100 fee will | be charged,” continued Mr. Marks. “We do not mean by encouraging these gold mines to be listed that the board will float the property or anything like that, but we will handle the stock on the market buying and selling it as a commod- ity. This will bring to the front and de- velop mines that have remained dormant all these years for lack of power and money to work them.”” The first step after suspending article | I1L of the by-laws was the appointing by | president George I. Ives of a committee to take the necessary steps tc secure the listing of all desirable and valuable mines. | Joseph Marks was appointed chairman. With him are M. J. McDonald, R. F. | Morrow, A. J. McDonell and Charles E. Paxton. | EXTENDED THE TIME. Regents of the University Will Receive Afiiliated Colleges Plans Until January 31. A special meeting of the building com- mittee of the Board of Regents of the University of California was held at the | office of General Houghton, 303 California street, Tuesday afternoon, pursuant to the call of the chairman, J. West Martin. It was decided, after much discussion, to extend the time within which plans and | specifications for the proposed- buildings | of the Affiliated Colleges may be received until noon of the 31stof January. The time limit set in the advertisement which called for the plans and specitications was noon | of the 17th of January. | It was ordered that duplicate schedules of information as to the required charac- | teristics of the buildings and the quality of materials to be used in their construe- | tion be prepared for the benefit of the | architects intending to enter the competi. tion, and be filed, one copy with the secre- tary of the Board of Regentsin Berkeley and one copy with the law firm of Rein- stein & Eisner, 217 Sansome street. ———— KNOCKED DOWN BY A CAR. E. A. Seaberg Narrowly Escaped Death | on Market Street Last Evening. | E. A. Seaberg, a seaman, residing at | 606 Linden avenue, was knocked down and seriously injured last evening by a Castro-street car on Market street, near Powell. Mr. Seaberg and his wife were on a car going toward the ferries and on reaching | Powell “treet they alighted and were on their way to the sidewalk when a car com- ing in the onposite direction struck Sea- | berg, knocked him down, and before the car could be stopped he was dragged quite a distance. It was several minutes before he could be released from his unpleasant position. A nomber of men who witnessed the accident picked Seaberg up and carried him 1nto a convenient drugstore, where his face, which was quite badly bruised, was dressed. Although suffering severely from the | shock and his bruises, Seaberg retu-ed to #0 to the hospital, so a hack was procured and he was driven to his residence. ——————— Ching Too Can Stay. ‘The Chinese ex-convict Ching Too, taken be- fore United States District Judge Morrow for deportation, and who set up the plea that he was born in this country, secured a favorable decisio _from the court yesierday. Judge Morrow heid that he conid not be deported be- cuuse native horn. A decision in the case of Wong Kim Ak, the Chinese citizenship test case, is expecied soon. e o i L L PATENT back, flat opening ledgers, journals, account b made by the Mysell-Rollins Company, 22 Clay street, are all right. ) Tam tempted to belicve that men who put | it iven | due on the first day of January, and any, stock | all be | | | ! | 1 | i | | 1 Discovery of the Buried Booty Leads to Their Capture. HIDDEN NEAR THE CLIFF. [NGLESIDE STREETCAR ROBBERS CAUGHT, this I placed my men in hiding in that viein- ity—in bouts, in the pumping tower and about Cliff House. Just after dar) thie bench. The two men came walking up walked directly to pier 7 and then sto] . My men were watching them through fieldglasses, but it was too dark to disiinguish just what they were doing, so we closed in on them. When they saw us coming they clambered up on top of the pier and ran out to the end of 1t. There we overtook them, foreing them to old their hunds above their beads. The officers, to reach them, had, iowever, to cross & considerable open space, and, meanwhile, | they had thrown their guns info the ocean. Edward Willis of the Olymp: Pumping Plant Found the Money. | THREE DESPERADOES IN JAIL, One of the First Men Captured Sup- posed to Have Peached on His Confederates. Three of the robbers who held up the Mission-streev car on its way from the | Ingieside track Wednesdav night were | captured near the Cliff House last night | by Captain Leesand posseand a portion of the treasure was recovered. The robbers had made their way from When we got to them, however, the big one threw up his hands very quickly. The little one, being full of gin, was somewhat slower, but not t0o s.ow, for we had reversed the prop- osition on them—last nignt they bad the Win- chesters; to-night we had them. Gardner, Middlemass and Welsh have been ideniified as having been at the racetrack last evening after the bar was closed. They tried to getadrink, but were not successiul, as itis rule o € associaiion that the bar must remain closed when the races are over. Gardner's trunk was found in his room, on Fifth street. Middlemass and Welsh had a room in & iodging-house on Stockton street. do not care to give the numbers, for special Teasous. They, of course, deny that they were impli- cated in the hold-up. "Welsh says that he and Middlemiss startea to come out of the track | atter the races were over.. Welsh says he gave Middlemiss 10 cents to pay for their fares. Both were drunk and Welsh got intoa row with the conductor, who threw him off the car. Middlemis says he hailed several cars and has no recollection of what car he got on but he iound Welsh on it. Welsh contradicts M dlemiss and says he did not see him after leav ing the track till over an hour later when he | met him in the saloon 863 Market street. Garduer s he was not at tne racetrack that day. Middlemiss and Welsh say that | Gardener was in town playing the poolrooms, but I have reason to believe that Welsh and | OFFICER JOSEPH. the scene of the hold-up to the beach nearthe Olympic Water Company’s pier and there buried the sack containing the | stolen coin. | The discovery and subsequent arrest | was directly attributable to Edward Willis, the superintendent of the water com- pany’s pier, who found the sacks embedded in tie sand under the pier. At 8:25 last night the patrol-wagon, loaded with officers armed with Winches- ters, left for the beach, a number of officers. through Detective Gibson, having been lo- | cated there during the day. There the robbers and a portion of their booty were found and returned to the | City Hall. It was one of the boldest hold-ups re- corded in the criminal annals of the Jast | half-year, and the speedy capture reflects | credit on the Police Department. The news of the capture ot the two rob- bers caused the greatest excitement at police headquarters. Captain Lees was ex- plaining by a map to a lot of newspaper men the routes thatthe robberscould have taken after the hold-up, particularly the Almshouse road route, where Lieutenant Burke discovered the marks of wagon | wheels leading from the Ingleside hotel | for about a mile. | This was about 8:20 o’clock and the cap- | tain was called to the telephone. Ina | minute or so he came along the passage at a rapid gait shouting, “We've got them! We've got them!” He immediately or- dered Sergeant Colby to get the patrol wagon ready, and throwing on his over- | coat he passed out of the office downstairs | to the wagon, followed by an eager throng. | To all he would only vouchsafe the in- formation that “We've got them,” but he would not say how many or where they | had been captured. He and Sergeant | Colby drove off in the wagon. | After two hours the Captain returned in | a hack accompanied by Detectives Gibson, ‘ and Cody and with Middlemass in charge. A few minutes later the patrol wagon arrived with Gardner. | | | He was escorted | | by Detectives Silvey, Crockett, Reynolds, | Graham, Wren and Campbell, each armed | with a Winchester. i The news of the arrests seemed to have | spread rapidly, as a crowd had congre- | gated in the corridor, and there was such | an_eager desire to get a glimpse of the | prisoners that a policeman had to be de- tailed to keep them from crowding into the office. Secretary Leake of the Race- track Association and Police Commis- | sioner Gunst were among the first to ar- rive, and the latter was delighted at the creditable and quick work done in captur- ing the robbers. e gk b CAPTAIN LEES’ STORY. How the Highwaymen 'Waro Cap- tured on the Beach. Captain Lees’ story of the capture of the three robbers runs as follows: About 7830 or 8 o'clock this morning Edward Willis, the superintendent of the Olympic Water Works, under the Cliff House, started to | inspect the piers according to his daily custom. Under the seventh pier e noticed’ & strap stickingout of the sand. He pulled on it but | it didn’t come up, and when his utmost efforts were insufficient to dislodge it he scraped | away the sand and found a leather pouch | something like a mailbag. It was fifteen | inches long by nine or tec inches wide, and it bad been cut open at one end. Willis notified me by teiephone of his find and I sent out Detectives Gibson and Cody. Willis meanwhile had removed the pouch io the engine-house, where he reburied it. On examination it was found that the pouch was full of small bags. These were | filled with coin end labeled, though some of lhe' labels had been washed off by the sea- water. The markings on the bags and the amounts of money each contained were these: Registr No. 3, $38 35; registry 5, $38 40; registry 6, $36 45; ruglmi'l,ws 95; registry 8, $3015. The bag marked re%mry No. B aiso con- tained an old fashioned clasp purse containi, g #3835 in $5 gold pieces, One unmarked bag held $4130 and another $4345. The total amount recovered was $663 15. There is said to have been one more purse which contained nearly $1000 in gold and greenbacks, but of this we have no knowledge. This list 1 iave given was made in the presence of Mr. Wiliis. The pouch was found at the seventn pier out into the ocean. Therefore it must have been buried at low tide. The only time after this momin{ whencany attempt would be_made to Tecover It was at low tide to-night. Knowing | | | | | 1 Gardner were at the races together. Twelve pool tickets were found on Middlemiss, shor ing that he had been playing the races'yester- aay. “The prisoners? The shorter of the two men is named Joseph Middlemas. He is 25 years old and comes from Eureka, Humboldt C unty. | His father used to work on old No. 4 engine in | this City when it was stationed at Battery and | Bush streets and I was its foreman. He was also with the New York Mutual Life Insurance | Company at one time. Ido notknow whether or not the boy has been in trouble before or | not. “The taller man is Harry Robert Gardiner, | aged 32 years, of Eureki. When he was | searched we found a badge of the Eureka Fire | Department upon him. I do not know his | record. “The officers who effected this_capture were Detectives and Officers Cody, Gibson, Silvey, Reynolds, Crockett, Wren, Graham and Camp- bell. Myself and Sergeant Colby were also on hand.” | The third man is Patrick Welsh, a barber, who claims to ave resided in Port Costa until four or five days ago when he came to the | ity, and has been playing the races. It is | nown that he and_ Middlemass were at the races on Christmas day, and Middlemass says he was drunk that day. as if by coming in contact with a_barbed wire fence. Both his handkerchief and Gardner’s handkerchief are bloody. z There are a lot of circumstances that I am not at present prepared to give for Eublicny which make it morally certain to me that these are the men who held up the car. Welsh was found to-night at the saloon 863 Market street by Detectives Silvey and Crock- ett. When 1 was out at_tne beach I learned enough from Middlemass to give me a clew as to where Welsh was to be found, and I detaiied I} Welsh’s hands are cut | more ammunition or new guns. Just ihen Fitzgerald fell down and I thought he was hi but he had only stumbied. Then we went back to the track But there were no guns or ammunition to be found there and we had to make the best of Iam certain I hit the man who fired at me d afterward winged me, and I thinkI lile to that fact. - When the fellow shooting was climbing up the hillsite his partner, or one of them at least, came into view from the direciion of the held-up car. He wes sprinting it, and if the last shot from my revolver had not shown him our loeation he would have been on top of us in a minute. As it was he made a detour. Before doing so, however, he may have taken a shot at us. Do I think there were two, three or four? From all that 1 saw and all that I heard before aud since, 1 am inelined to agrce with tne motorman and conduetor thas therewere four. The man who did #fle firing at Fitzgerald and me with his Winel ler was tall and wore a long ovcrcoat and stiff hat. The short fellow, who came after, wore g light overcoat. Idid not think I was hurt so badly asI am luntil the business was over. Then it was I i learned for the first time that I had been winged in the shouider, The first shot passed through the inner side of my right leg, near the thigh, narrowly miss- ing the large artery. They say a fraction of an inch wouid have removed meé ‘rom the force forever. | By way of illustration Mrs. Josephs held | up to view her wounded husband’s trou- | sers, and the clean-cut holes made by the deadly 44-caliber bullets were forcibly in evidence. The physicians think Josephs will be be able to leave his bed in ten days or two weeks, and all agree that his escape from mortal injury was almost miraculous. CLARKE’S INJURIES. It Was Found Necessary to Ampu- tate His Foot. After being removed from the Palace to the Waldeck Sanitarium, Cashier Clarke’s injuries were critically examined and it | was decided that his foot must be ampu- tated. There was no alternative, and the unfortunate cashier underwent the opera- tion. : As given in T CaLy’s almanac Thurs- day morning Mr. Clarke’s story was in every point corroborative of that of Mr. Bronner. Clarke is doing as well as could be ex- pected under the circumstances and speaks v;r_‘_’ modestly of his connection with the affair. HARDSHIP TO SEALERS. Losing Good Time, They Say, Waiting + for the New Regulations From the Treasury Department. There is a general complaint among the sealers of this port over the tardiness of the Treasury Department in sending the sealing regulations for 1896. All the fleet is practically tied up, await- ing the regulations, except those which had already put to sea, namely: the Jane Grey, owned by C. Nonnenmann; the Ep- pinger, owned by John Erickson and oth- ers, and the Alton, owned by A. P. Lorent- zen and others. The sealing regulations for 1895 did not arrive until as late as January 25, and owing to this fact a number had to sail last season without first securing the special licenses necessary to permit them to hunt in the “award” area. Custom-house Broker W. H. Thornley said yesterday in alluom%)to the matter that a great hardship was being caused to the sealers because, while they are waiting for the regulations, they are considerably out of pocket in having to pay idle hunt- ers. The pay of the hunters in many in- stances goes on whether the craft puts to sea or not. The vessels in which William Bendt and | J. F. Cunningham are part owners are tied | up. Senator Perkins has interested him- self in the Winchester and Bowhead cases, and_expects the co-operation of Senator ‘White in an effort to have the Treasury Department release these two schooners. REPUBLICANS MEET. A Strong Organization Formed in the Forty-Second District. The Republican voters of the Forty- second Assembly District held an. en- thusiastic meeting last evening at B’nai B'rith Hall, 121 Eddy street, for the pur- pose of organizing a central club for that district under the auspices of the exec- | utive council. The meeting was called to order at 8 o’clock by General S. W. Backus, who briefly outlined the purposes of the meet- ing and called for nominations for the temporary officers. H. V. Scott was nom- inated for temporary president and Frank B. Veasev for temporary secretary. On motion, O. L. Swett, C. S. Curtis and H. C. Schaertzer were appointed a com- mittee on permanent organization. They reported in favor of making the temporary officers the permanent officers of the club, also that there be an executive committee of fifteen and a constitution and by-laws. The report of the committee was unani- mously adopted. J. C. Skinner was elected treasurer and J. Victor was elected sergeant-at-arms, the president was em- powered to appoint the executive and finance committees, and J. C. Skinner and C. 8. Curtis were elected delegates to the executive council. The following were appointed as en- rolling committee: A. R. Smith, C. 8. Curtis, J. V. Victor, G. A, Jewett and R. Muller. Mr. Field, a member of the Republican executive council, made an address which aroused the thorough enthusiasm of those present. VICTIMS OF THE RUNAWAY. he two detectives to go for him. Captain Lees did not commit himself to any theory. He believes, however, that the robbers had a team in waiting and that they took the road to the beach. l(lil speaking of the men Captain Lees said: All this talk about Eastern crooks is non- sense. Every time an unusually bold hold-up occurs some imaginatiye newspaper writer im- | mediately jumps at the conclusion that we | have had an immigration of Eastern crooks, safe-crackers and representatives of the light- | fingered gentry. We have a great sufficiency of bold and clever criminals on the coast with- out depending on importations to do this kind of work. It is & matter of record that when these | much-mooted Eastern crooks reach the coast they find that the competition is not_only ac- tive, but that the detective surveillance is | | equally as antagonistic to their nefarious pros- | perity. We have spotted them so easily that | the prospectors of the craft have sent word to | their co-workers that the harvest was not ripe ana to save railway fare. Another man, one named Johnson, was also arrested at 863 Market street, but he was let go after an hour’s investigation, which failed to connect him in any way | with the crime. OFFICER JOSEPH’S FIGHT. How He and Fitzgerald Exchanged Shots With the Road Arents. Officer C. J. Joseph was taken to his home at 336 Shipley street late yesterday afternoon, Though suffering considerably from his wound, he was able and willing to talk of his experience of the night before. Said he: Before I begin about myself T want to give credit to Mr. Fitzgerald, the green hand. He is one of the nerviest green men on the force I ever saw. There is 10 backdown in him and he is game all the way through. In fact, I think if either heor I had not wln*ed one of the rascals I wouid not be here to talk to you at this minute. He stood by me as long as his ammunition lasted and I heard the hum of his bullets as thev sped on their way toward the retreating robbers. But to get back to the facts as T know them. The first shot was heard b( Fitzgerald and me before we left the track. When we ran out the gate another shot was fired, and we rushed aown the road in the direction of the car, which we could see was stationary in the road. A crowd was gathered round and great ex- citement prevailed, as we could easily surmise from the gesiicv'ations and loud voices as we approached. When within several hundred feet of the car a man came running along the road toward us. Asan officer T could not fire uniil he fired first, though I knew he was running away to escape the consequences of his act, whatever it may have been. I ordered him to halt. He continued on his course, and at the third com- mand turned and opened fire on me with his Winchesier. That was all 1 neeaed, and 1 turned my own gun loose. Ithink I was hit at the first fire, though I could not be sure. After several shots had been fired I felt a burning sensation in my leg, close up to the thigh. Ail the time the fellow whe was doing the shooting at us was making his way up the bank. After our revolvers were emptied I realized that 1 was hurt, and told Fiizgerald that we had better get back to the track and get some Mrs. E. R. Dimond and Mrs. Joseph Tobin Are Much Better. The many friends of Mrs. Edwin R. Dimond and Mrs. Joseph Tobin, who were injured in a runaway accident on Pacific avenue, near Van Ness, on Wednesday afternoon, will be greatly pleased to learn that the nature of the ladies’ injuries is not as serious as it was at flrst ex- ected it would be. Dr. Charles Rosenthal, the family physician, states that they have recovered from the shock, and he expects both ladies will be able to be'about in a week or ten days. There was special cause for rejoicing in the family when the physician examined Mrs. Tobin’s iacegesberday and announced that the cuts and bruises can be healed without disfiguring her. When she was taken to General Dimond's house, 2222 ‘Washington street, the injuries caused the belief that she would be permanenti: disfigured. The cuts on her hands wifl not be noticable in a few weeks. Mrs. Dimond’s injuries were pot so serious. She, too, sustained several cuts about the head, face and hands, but they will soon heal. The family received many in%uiries from solicitous friends yesterday, and all were much relieved to learn that the injuries will not necessarily prove serious. ARE NOT OVERWORKED. Mercantile Toilet Company Denies Con- nection With Electric Laundry. The proprietois of the Mercantile Toilet Company, mentioned as being connected with the Electric Laundry, deny that such is the fact or that their employes are worked more than ordinary hours. In an interview yesterday B. B. Galland said: *‘None of our employes work earlier than 7 o'clock A. M., nor later than 6 o’clock P. M., except twice a week, when they remain until 8:30 p. M. This is an arrangement made for their own con- venience, as it permits them to leave on Baturday afternoons at 4 o'clock They are given one hour for lunch, and on the two evenings that they work here one hour for dinner. The only time that we worked later than 8: o'clock was on Christmas eve, when we ran until 9:30 P. M., in order to get our work in such a state as would allow us to give our em- plovesa boliday on Christmas, which we id. “Our building is new, and the sanitary arrangements are modern in pattern and excellent in character.”” JAMES G, FAIR'S MONEY. All of the Adult Collateral Heirs Have Received Their Coin. ONE MORE MOVE TO MAKE. Seven More Minor Legatees Are to Be Gathered In Before Dividing the Estate. The distribution of the millions of dol- lars left by the late James G. Fair-within a very short period of time is now a well- assured fact. Aside from the direct heirs there are some fifty-six collateral heirs and other legatees who have had to be atten ied to so as to prevent tedious and expensive litiga- | tion. Even the direct heirs at first had griev- ances, imaginary or otherwise, which have been wiped out, and now they are on such an amicable standing that they have de- cided to at first gather in all outside claims and to then cut up the late ex-Senator’s vast wealth according to their ideas. So as to bring the complexity of the case into a nutshell that 1t might better be dealt with Attorney John A. Percy placed himself in communication with the thirty- six adult beirs resident in Towa, compris- ing the brothers and sisters of the deceased millionaire and their adult children. They rested their claims with him and a settlement was speedily reached by which the $640,000 aggregate legacies in the will was immediately paid over; also about $200,000 more for interest and as an induce- ment to some of the heirs who felt they had not been properly recognized. Thirteen more minor heirs, also in Iowa, were made wards of Attorney Percy last Tuesday in the Probate Court and their aggregate claims, amounting to about $100,000, will soon follow the same line of settlement as in the cases of the adults. This leaves seven more minor heirs, five of whom are in the East and two in S8an Jose. As soon as they are gathered in the fold the direct heirs will divide the vast estate on the lines drawn in the will. The trustees, under the will of the dead millionaire, will of course maintain their position so long as they are supported by the courts. TEey have shown no disposi= tion of abandoning their trust. A Switchhouse Burned. During the process of making up & train at the Southern Pacific yards on Townsend street last evening, several cars attached to a switch engine jumped the track and overturned & small switchhouse which immediately caught fire from a lamp which exploded on the inside of the house. An alarm of fire was turned in through box 182,but before the engines ar- rived the fire had been extinguished. The damage will amount to about $10. — e His Skull Fractured. Battie Baldocchi, 6 years of age, living witn his parents at 51724 Vallejo street, was playing last night with some other boys on Turk street near Mason. One of the boys threw his ha into the elevator shait in the rear of the Owl druestore, and in reaching for it Battie fell into the shaft and fractured his skull. NEW TO-DAY. Who does not know women and young girls who are continually in tears? 'Who always see the dark side? Who have frequent fits of melancholy with- out any apparent cause? But there isa cause. It is to be found by the in- telligent physician in some derangement of the complicated and delicate feminine organs of generation. The woman who f understands herself, feels that she cannot always be complaining; she can- not always have the doctor in the house. The young girl suffers, bodily and men- tally, in silence. The trouble usually comes so gradually it is attributed to some outside ¢:4mse.ed T;xaeire is undue weariness, unex n, unreasone able tears and fiz:gtf temper. All these symptoms are simply protests of the silent, long-suffering nerves. The trouble shows in %axk circi:s below the eyes, a downward curve of the mouth, a sallow, brownish-yellow neck. Unregarded, the trouble grows. A few years of tortured invalidism, probably insanity, before merciful death comes. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is the fruit of years of study. It is the product of an investigating mind united with a generous nature. When an intelligent person gives years of study to a subject there must be some 0 result. 3 * Favorite Prescription” is a com of extracts of herbs that mm strengthening, soothing medicine. Itacts directly upon the distinctly .feminine organs. stops drains lining membranes by healing diseased parts, thereby curing also the inflammation that is always present. *Iwas in a critical condition. . Often I was in despair. I expericnced a great improvement by lalnpnlé one bo):ae of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre. scription. I have taken six bottles, and I am re that it will not only cure ulceration but all Lo b ly o, of females.” ‘Yours Ghirardelli’s “GROUND”’ CHOCOLATE IS HEALTH GIVING— "MONEY SAVING=———= 1T 1S IMITATED BUT HAS NO ‘‘SUBSTITUTES S ¥ | PRV, v