The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1896, Page 14

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1 nn Cue ATHER YORKE T0 THE PEOPLE | The Chancellor Defends Him- | self Against His Critics. OF THE A P A ORIGIN Some of the Causes That Ledi Up to the Great Con- troversy. WHOM THE PRIEST BLAMES. Rev. Charles W. Wendte Writes of the Catholic Church and Civil Government. The Rey. Father Yorke, chancellor of the Archdiocese of San cisco, ad- dresses the following card to the public: p: By an act u m arraigned be- i the San Fran- tor of riot and s of “editorial olence. Through foure 1 am aescribed as_promoting & controversy which is arousing ill feeling in the community and provoking collisions between citizens who ought to live in peace and harmony. The sccusation is so grave that 1 cannot afford to pass ivover in silence. 1owe it to my fellow zens and to myse ect the charge. In ne way and in_one way only can the charge be met. Imustset forth without malice and without fear the facts in the case. Let them le bear the blam ve ch now for 1 is the outcome of an yerr has been Vari- s ‘and read through the pose of antagonizing et soci of liations ha e Pt e out T the g ot their sole »f the Catholic ck 1 and from polit I ed i In the spri was considered adyisable by its w life nown ur nd Their main w0 n anticipation of the ap- Accordingly & man who he Catholic church f s was hired to v by a female like unto prosching e hiad been ca were cc d by postt was an_insult agains nolics hold dear. The sidewal crammed with against Catholic and Catholic d with pamphle > and went, but his work was 1 preachers of the ¢ day, shrilled litan s The lodges were holdir and were initia; to seven al controve , then was the v r him 1 his voice. But John F Young was not sincere. When I write the: words I know I am maxing a grave charge, and 1 rorough realization of make v hen any on his . P. A. against arch of 1894 camp: was —the period of pulpit period of political work. zitation extended from was opened by J. astor ot the First Baptist . 2. O. Brown of the First Con- and was carried on by March le, Foster, Case and others. aper which did more than any o advertise this campaign was the Fe Chronic morning its columns wer months every Monday d with the false obscene slanders fiv accusations and with the which characterize the utteran he ora- tors of the A. I have made a careful measure ie space devoted by John P, period to repr ng the pulpit attacks on Catholics, and I find that it amounts 10 nearly ten colums of solid print. 1 heve confined my measurement to the Mon- day edition. 1fIhad time to search the other editions carefully this large total would be very much increased. During all this time, when the town re- sounded to denunciations of Catholic priests, Catholic nuns, Ci > citizens John P. Young steadfastly refused to allow a Catholicto speak in defense of his creed or of his people. When in the month of April the Rev. C. 0. Brown was printing his manuscript in the Chronicle, and thus spreading all over the coast the most serious charges against the loyalty and patriot- ism of Catholics, I called on Mr. John P, Young with & letter. Iconsidered ita hard. ship that week after week these charges shonld go unrefuted. I knew that they were utterly unfounded and I set forth the reasons for my belief in writing. 1offered itto Mr. John P. Young and he absolutely and peremptorily re- fused to publish it. Atthat time I did not take any further means to secure publication for my letter. I was averse (o appearing in a public coniro- Only & conscientious convietion of y urged me to writeatall. When I had satisfied my conscience by making an honest attempt 10 contradict falsehood and misrepre sentation, and when that attempt was frus. trated, I conceived that I had done all that duty demanded and I took no further steps. Still the crusade against Rome went on. On August 13 the Chronicle published a sermon by Dr. Brown, which took up nearly a column. In that sermon occurred stetements about riests and nuns which Protestant historians ave branded es “filthy and disgusting calumnies.” Dr. Brown described the “monasteries as scenes of bacchanalian revels,” and declared that “what had happened in the nunneries is without the pale of description before an andi. nce like this.” This was more than I could stand. A second time I wrote a refutation of these slanders, and a second time the refuta- tion was refused insertion by Mr. John P. Young. When in the month of Augustof this vear the A. P. A. began its campaign for 1896, the Bar Francisco Chronicle proceeded again to advertise its doings. During the month of August it published the speeches at the Metro- politan Temple to the extent of 67 inches in small print. In September it published 9314 inches, in October it published 1041 inch in November it published 93 inches afid in De. tember 67 in In all, during the past five months, it has printed over twenty columns of the vilest and falsest and filthiest accusations against the Catholics of this country, and at the end of it all, Johr: P. Young has the unparalieled effron- tery to come before the public of San Francisco, and the Chronicle has thus far hone: odoits auty 1o the unity fre derives 1ts ‘support, cing as man acles in the way of & riven hich it oby of religious intolerance in the States as possible.” If it be honesty to zive oneside of an argument and suppress ‘he other, then John P. Young is honest. 'If it ve duty to gather up infamous charges against tlazgé and law-abiding portion of the com. nunity, and to commit them to cold type and © send them out to do their work of defama- ¥ion, then John P. Young performed his du for the | | was wo! | | of But if it be honest and manly and right to treat both sides with equal justice,either to | give all the arguments or to i none, either | 1o open the columns to Catholic and the A, P. , o to close them against both,then John P. Young is neither honest nor manly nor just. Both times that I calied on John P. Young to offer my refutation of the A. P. A. calumnies | he assured me that if Catholics would hire a | hall and disprove these charges from the piat- | form he would treat us as well as he was treat- | ing our adversaries. When, therefore, the new campaign against Catholicism ovened in the | Augustof 1895 and the Chronicle was adver- tising it to the extent of two columns every Monday morning I made no more calls on Mr. Young. I determined to see what his word h. Accordingly a hall was hired which, on two casions, was filled to the doors. John P. Young stood by his promise by giving a report the procecdings to the extent of a few inches. Hence it was thatwhen, in November, | T wrote a letter questioning the authenticity | of certain quotations read at the Metrovolitan T ple, 1 did not go in person to see Mr. Young. I instructed my messenger to Carr the documents to the other papers, and if they also refused I authorized him to insertitat regular advertising ra The document was retused, of course, by Mr. Young, but was pub- lished by the Exmminer, and the result has been that the public has learned that there are iwosides to the question and that Catholics can give a reason for the faith that is in them. This is a full account of the facts as I know them which have led up to the present condi- tion of affairs. For them the editor of the Chronicle, John P. Young, is_responsible. Surely 1 am not bound to stand dumb when I hear everything that is near and_dear to me insulted. Surely 1 am not compelled by any law, human or divine, to refrain from defend- ing’my character when my character is at- tacked. Have Catholics in this community any rights as against the Chronicle and John P. Young? Must we allow column aiter column of slander to be launched against us becanse that journal or its editor professes to imagine that an answer will stir up strife. They are to blame who first gave publicity to the chiarges, not they whose good name could be kept cleat only by refuting them. If from is controversy there shall arise anything to re this City or to tarnish its fame the re- sponsibility lies at the threshold of John P. Young. But I can safely say that the Chronicle’s ap- prehensions of riots and burnings are as base- less as its charges against In the days of the Knownothings two cities were threatened with mob violence— Philadelphia and New York. Iu Philadelphia not a voice was raised against Knownothingism and the saintly Bishop Kenrich publicly urged his flock to say 1ing and remain within doors, > burning churches, the looted convents, shot down in their own homes, result of this policy. In New York abatted the con ors with When the K oth ings minary to t issued “his manifesto. “The laws of New York expect each citizen to defend his property and his rights.” In two hours the call for the mass-meeting was revoke 2w York was delivered from the disgrace of mob rule. E conspirator is a coward, and cowards are careful to attack only the defenseless and weak. There is no danger that the present contro- versy will pass bevond words. It will continue and end as similiar controversies have con- tinued and have ended in the past. It will do out as much good as other controversies do d aboutas much harm. But if the evil 1 outweich the nadvantage, and if the ntion shall tarnish the fame of our City, the blame isnot mine, The blame lies with those who advertised the slanders in the beginning and who then refused us an opper- tunity to speak 10 our own behelf. The blame lies with those who were too cowardly ignore the conspiracy altogether, t0o unj 1o give both sides equal rights. = The blam lies before God and man_on_the shoulders of the Chronicle editor, John P. Young. PETER C. THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH. Father Wyman Reviews Points Pertinent to the Controversy. The Rev. Father W, n, superior of the Paulist Fathers, a scholar and preacher of t YORKE. recognized ability, delivered a sermon at Mary’s Church last evening that is pertinent to the great religious contro- versy now being carried on in THE CALL. His subject was the ‘‘Apostelate of St. John, the Evangelist. Father Wyman said: St. John was rightly called the beloved dis- of the Savior. He was one chosen to wit- the manifestation of Christ’s glory in his transtiguration on Mount Tabor. He was the favored apostle at the last supper, and was worthy on this occasion to recline on our Savior's bosom. At the crucifixion he was the only one of the twelve who remeained faithful to Christ, standing at the foot of the eross. To him Christ committed his blessed mother as he was leaving this earth. Every true man Joves his mother above every one else, and the act that Christ when dying recommended mother to the care of St. John is enough to show tnat John was his beloved disciple. When the apostles early on the resurrection morn heard the good tidings that the Savior had risen, St. John eagerly ran with St. Peter 1o the sepulcher, and such was his love and ardor for the Lord that he outran Peter and arrived first at the tomb. Peter, however, en- tered the sepulcher alone, John in his humility giving place to the Prince of the Apostles, In the work of propagating Christianity St. John took & most important part. He lived to a greater age than any of the other apostles. He founded the se 1 great churches of Asia, and during his lifetime ruled over them, in- structing them in the doctrine and discipline of Christ. At the request of the Bishops under h: wrote the first of his epistles in the New ment, and in which he teaches the necessity of adhering to the doctrine which he had first received from Christ, as at this time there were those who disputed the divinity of the son of God, He wrote at the request of the Bishops of the churches which he had founded the celebra: fourth Gospel of tne New Testament. Unli the other evangelists, he begins by declaring the divinity of Christ. He also speaks of the vocation of the A tles, and calls special at- tention to the fact that Christ changed the name of Simon, the son of Jonas, to Cephas, which means Peter, because, no doubt, Peter was to be the foundation of that visible church in which was to be preserved for all time the doctrine of Christ’s divinity and the full and complete message which the Savior had deliy- ered to the world. St. Jonn fs the connecting link between the apostles of Christ and the hierarchy of the church. He lived to see the authority of St. Peter's second successor, St. Clement, exer- cised and obeyed by the church at Corinth. By some of the most learned among Protest- ant historians of the early church the origin of Episcopacy is traced to St. John. Among these I may mention Professor Harnack of Germany, who, although & rationalist, has aone great service to Christian science by bringing the controversy respecting the origin of the Catholic tem of dogma and discipline within limits which almost border upon the apostolic age. He has shown at what an early perfod Catho- licism universally prevailed and he says that the Catholic systém of dogma and discipline is implied 1n the acceptance of the creed and the Bible as authoritative rules of faith, In short, the controversy as to whether or not Catholi- city represenis apostolic Christianity is re- duced 1o the question as to whether or not Christ was the son of God, made man, and re- deemed the world by bis death upon the cross. This fi\mstmn is sufficiently and easily deter- mined by a careful study of the teaching of St. John the evangelist. THE LIBERAL VIEW, Dr. J. L. York Gives His Ideas Great Controversy. Dr. J. L. York lectured at Scottish Hall, 105 Larkin street, last night. He said: Iam glad that the San Francisco CALL, the best paper in our City, has opened it coiumns wide 10 the contest 10w raging between the two branches of the Christian church that the people may know the facts. Pour in the light—all Iies hate the light—and nothing but the light of history and modern science can burn up the chaff of religious superstition and pretensions and false claims of Christianity. My reading and investigation has long ago convineed me that the church of Rome is the cnurch of history and thoroughly based upon the New Testament scriptures, and when she fails to substantiate her claims as the custo- dian of scripture and traditions of Christianity her system of dogmatic theology is dead, and along with it must go the diluted forms of Christianity, which Protestantism, from Lu- therism to Unitarianism, has built up in the uame of Christianit _Asa Protestant Christian and believer in the of the stament, no one can successfully deny Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report Royal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE and refute the claims of Romanism. And if I believed that Christianity was the only trie religion 1 would get inio the old mother church as {ast as my legs could carry me. If the New Testament is true the Apostle Peter was the transmitted head of the church, and, consequently, the Popes of Rome are in direct succession 10 Peter, else the church of God must have died on Peter's Lands, with no power 1o perpetuate itself. To a Protestant | Christian believer in the Immaculate Concep- | tion, trinity of God, heaven, hell and the | devil, and the Bible as the will of God, how can any such person or church deny or refute the claims of the Catholic church to spiritual power? The Protestant and Roman churches must live or die together, so far as their creed and theology are concerned. To Protesiant Christians this is an open | question. But to Liberals and Freethinkers it | is no longer a question of debate. We takeour | place on the side of reason, science and com- deny as untenable the false ns of Christianity. As Liberals and Freethinkers we have no in- fallible bible or Pope,and simply deny the whole system as of pagan origiu. From our standpoint the greatconflict raging between Father Yorke and the Protestant Church has a deeper and wider significance than some people attach to it, and really in- volves the question of the truth or falsity of Christianity. If Christianity is true why should any sane T ulate it, but the moment she attempts to do 0 the cry of the church will be: “Hands of you are franscending your sphere.” The que tion then arises, Who is to determine what is the respective sphere of the church and the state? “The chyrch,” answer our Catholic {friends. But then, on this supposition the church might accomplish any end, no matter how worldly or injurious to the community, by simply declaring it to be a spiritual necessity, and the state would be compelled to submit. Thus the Second National Council of the Roman Catholic church at Baltimore, in 1866, declared that “‘in prescribing anything co! trary to the divine law (i. e. as interpreted by the hierarchy) the civil power transcends its suthority, and hasno claim on the obedience of the citizen.” Now our American principle of self-govern- ment teaches us to the contrary and tells us ‘hat the church must not ouly be separated from the state, but also in all temporal con- cerns must be subordinated to it. Based upon the idea of the sovereign power of the people, the state, as_the expression of that sovereignty, is the highest competent authority in American life. It follows, then, that the state carnot allow another power BlOll%,\l}le of it vested with superior or even equal right, and absolutely independent of its authority. 'The state is the supreme power in | the land, and whatever disobeys its laws and so opposes the public interest aud will must give way. To be sure, the state allows its citizens a man be a member of the A. P. A, and struggle to keep the church out of politics and schools? 1f God has a book what right has any man to keep that book out of the schools | of our country? Don’t we want God's truth everywhere to a dying world? Whavs the | matter with us? 1f Christianity is true m)ll‘ God is the author of it why should not his church take his religion into politics, Govern- mentand schools? And thus the science of poli tics and Government would become the sci- ence of God and his churc! his is the logic of Christianity. And what on can any honest, sincére Christian to placing the name of God, Christ and the Bible in the constitution of our country, a Christian country? Why should we shut out God, his wora and his priests, from the control of state and schools? And next week there will pre- sented to both houses of our Con an amendmentto our organic law recognizing God and the Bible. And thus for twenty-seven vears God has been knocking at the door of Congress at the hand of his church and can’t get in. These sincere Christians desire (ht‘!‘ glory of God, and to this end they want Telig- | ious Legislatures, Sunday laws and thumb- screws for the unbeliever. And while we commend their sincere and honest zeal and loyalty to their conviction we deprecate their judgment and logic in the in- terest of religious superstition aud quackery, which has no foundation in truth. The wholé question fnvolved in the conflict between Ro- manism_and Protestantism is the truth or falsity of its claims. If it be from God and the truth let it control both state and school, but if it be of men let it be kept out from all human concern, and the ¢ consistent reason why we should oppose infusion of the chureh into the it eannot in the light of this d. menstrous claims upon world. the intellect of the erals and freethinkers we war against tem and not against the good name of nd women on account of their religious | To my mind nothing but freethought and enlightenment of the mind can heal the maiady. As unbelievers in all forms of supernatural religion we place the Protestant on_ the same common ground with the Catholic mother, and all other religions, and that both of them, while entitled to protection in their religious | belief, are dangerous as a ruling power and | cannot be trusted with the liberties of the peo- ple, simply because they are not true to nature and not adapted to human government. THE CHURCH AND STATE. Rev. Charles W. Wendte Writes About Civi Government. The Rev. Charles W. Wendte writeson | the *‘Doctrine of Civil Government and its | Relation to the Spiritual Power as held by | the Catholic Church.” The following syn- | s of his letter is taken from the Ex- aminer: What is the Roman Catholic doctrine? Briefly stateq, it is the supremacy of the church and the subordination of the State to it. Thisis called the system of theocracy. The | classical example for it is the system of the | Papacy and the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church. Since the time of Gregory V1l the Catholic church has taught that there can be no sovereign political suthority, nor any independence for the individual, beyond the limits fixed by the ecclesiastical power. The State has indeed a qualified independ- | ence within its sphere, but what that sphere | is is determined by the church, which thus be- | comes the ultimate authority in all questions of civil and political import. To quote the langurge of an American Roman Catholic, | Bishop Gilmour: “The State is for the body, the church is for the soul. But the soul 1§ superior to the body; hence the church is above the State.”” This reasoning is supported by appeals to the Scriptures, to tradition and 10 other sources of religious authority. The church baving thus the divine right to rule, it | fellows that its head, the Pope, is the sovereign | of the world, and sll civil governments must | submit to his dictation. The code of Gratian, as compiled about 1150, and ever since accepted by all the Popes part of the canon law, to which everybody owes obedience, declares that the Pope ‘‘alone | gives power and effi in the first instan to every law” (Geficken 1, 24). Thomas Aqui- nas, the greatest among the doctors of the church, teaches that “the power of all tem- | poral princes derives its strength and eficacy solely from the spiritual power of the Popes.’ | So says the Catholic church historian_Doellin- ger in his “Fables, etc.”, p. 153. So Bellar- mine, another eminent papal authority, de- clares that the Roman Pontiff “hassupreme | power to dispose of the temporal matters of all | Christians,” and 8s a necessary cousequence | of this power “he can change kingdoms, tak- ing them from one ruler to bestow on another,” transferring the obligations of allegiance with- | out consulting the people. Pope Innocent 111 claimed (see Janus, p. 133) in one of his ecclesi- astical epistles that “Christ has committea | the whole world to the government of the | Popes.” [Dr. Wendte quotes many like authorities | to the same effect.—Ed.] True, in common practice, the church_has | often modified her demands. She has been compelled, by the iogic of necessity, Lo recog- nize and treat with civil Governments as equals, It is characteristic of the Roman clergy always to avail themselves of their immediate opportunity, no matter how it may contradict the logic of their principles, In the many earthly dilemmas in which the Catholic church has found herself, she has, | from motives of self-preservation, held her | reme theories somewhat in abeyance, and | cepted the situation. But the doctrine of | Papal supremacy was not surrendered thereby. | 1t was only suspended and kept in reserve, 1o | be again ‘advanced at a more favorable oppor- tunity. Thus the present Pope Leo XIiI, in is encyclical of June 20, 1888, declares: “Although in the extraordinary condition of these times the church usually acquiesces in certain modern liberties, not because she pre- fers them in themselves, but because she | judges it expedient to permit them, in better | times she would use her own liberty.” We can | readily imagine what this means—that if the Catholic hierarchy ever obtained control of | our National life, they would, in ordance with their well-known and freely-expressed principles, put an end to iree speech, a fre press, iree schools, a free church and a free Government. Are we not warranted in beliey- ing this? Recent Popes nave denounced by name these essential institutions of our nation, calling them “the liberty of perdition,” “impious, ebsurd and erroneous doctrines,” “detestable sentiments pregnant with the most deplorable evils, of all others most to_be dreaded in a state.” Indeea Pope Leo XIII, in the encycli. cal already quoted from, emphatically con- demns thé supposed right of & man to choose his own religion and calls it a “degradation of liverty,” and Pope Pius IX, in his allocution to a consistory of cardinals, September, 1851, sald: ‘‘We have taken this principle for basis, that the Catholic religion with all its rights ought to be exclusively dominant in such sort that every other worship shall be banished and interdicted.” It would be easy to heap up similar declara- tions of purpose from the minor clergy and Catholic press. Thus the eminent theologian. Dr. Brownson, in his ‘“Catholic Review,” af- firmed that “Protestantism of every form hLas not and never can have any rignt where Cath- olicity is triumphant.” Some years ago Bishop Gilmour of Cleveland laid down in a pastoral letter to his diocese the Catholic philosophy of government in the following words: “Nationalities must be made subordinate to religion. We must learn that we are Catholics first and citizens next. Catholicism teaches that God is above man, the church is above the state.”” This is cer- tainly explicit and emphatic enough. So Car- dinal Newman, in his famous controversy witn Mr. Gladstone, maintained that the Brit- ish Ministers should have gone to Rome to ascertain the civil duties of a British Cath- olie subject, and that *‘no_pledge from Catho- llcslw?s of any value to which Rome was nota party.” To be sure, the church strenuously denies that the State has any right to interfere with her property arrangements, no matter how they affect the welfare of the community. This is what the Roman Catholic church says to-day to the American state, as she heaps up millions on millions of property, usually exempt from taxation, held absolutely by one person, the Bishop, and by him only as ihe representative of & foreign riler; thusforming a continuous and dangerous monopoly in our midst. The American state may sooner or later have toin- terfere to regulate this great and growing evil, as the governments of Europe have had to reg- ops! |HUNTING THE FORGER. | to see if he could not get the lad, who is | himself. | doing and that he was staying with her | leaving the electric cars on Mission street | Miss Cunningham walked toand along the | conscious from the shock. large measure of individual liverty. It grants certain indefinite privileges to the family and to other associations of men for specific purposes; but only 50 far as these do not oppose the pub- lic will and welfare. So the church also en- joys @ certain independence in admivistering ier temporal affairs, but_whenever she over- steps the limits of her freedom and acts against the general good, or does anything to abridge the civil rights' of the members of her own communion, then the state has a right to_in- terfere and make her superior authority felt On the other hand, in the sphere of purely speculative and spiritual interests the church is sovereigm and absolutely free. Here the state confesses its limitations and leaves the | LOOT OF ARMY CLOTHING Alarming Wholesale Thefts Discovered at the Presidio. | ACCUSED ACCOMPLICE FLEES' | John Hogan, a Saloon-Keeper, Said to Have Bought $20,000 Worth of Soldiers’ Clothes. The army authorities at the Presidio | have discovered an alarming systematic | looting of the quartermaster’s department | and succeeded in tracing it to certain keepers of wayside saloons outside the | reservation gates. One of the men impli- | cated has disappeared, it is authoritatively stated, with a goodly fortune, amassed in the course of some years through his traffic with soldiers who stole or purchased | clothing at the post ‘o sell outside for beer money. Out where the steamcars of the Union- THE SALOON NEAR THE PRESIDIO DONE IN SOLDIERS tched by a WHE E A WHOLESALE BUSINESS W A4S STOLEN CLOTHING. “Call” artist. | spiritual prerogatives of the church unchal- | lenged and unquestioned. = This, then, is the true American doctrine—in | spiritual concerns the absolute independence of the church, in temporal affairs the subordi- | nation of the church to the state. | W. WENDTE, ‘ | itarian Church. | Wylie G. Lytle, Dean’s Whilom Offite Boy, Returns From a Trip to Sacramento. | Wylie G. Lytle, the boy employed as | office boy by Forger Dean,tke man who so cleverly beat the Nevada Bank out uf; 20,000, returned to his residence, 100 Fell street, last night and dissolved the mys- | tery as to his whereabouts. He had been | to Sacramento with an ambitious private detective, who had an idea that the forger was in the capital city, and who paid young Lytle $3 to accompany him, in or- der that the man might be identified and the reward claimed without delay. Dean | was not there. W. W. Lytle, the boy’s father, who has a cigar-store on Market street, near Van Ness avenue, resented a story by a *‘Mrs. Davies” of 100 Fell street, who claimed to be young Lytle’s foster-mother, and who | charged the father with neglecting his | boy. Lytle says the woman’s name is | really Telfer. He says also that she has | only known his boy five weeks, and he claims further that she is influencing the | boy to evil. He declared further last night | that he intended to apply to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children only 18 years of age, from Mrs. Telfer’s control. Young Lytle, on hearing of his father’s intention, at once consulted Captain Lees. He said the chief of the detectives told him he was old enough to look out for The boy admitted some of the | things bis father said, but declared that Mrs. Telfer was innocent of any wrong- of his own free wil ——————— A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. Miss Carrie Cunningham, a Reporter, Badly Injured by a Fall, | Carrie Cunningham, a reporter on | aminer, met with a serious accident last evening that will keep her confined to her home for several weeks. She had | been directed to go to the House of Cor- | rection and interview Mrs. Mary A. David- son of the Brown scandal notoriety. After railroad track toward the lane leading to the prison. In the darkness she failed to noticea culvert or cattle guard, into which she fell with great force. For a time she was un- Upon recover- | ing she cried for help, which soon came to | her aid. A little luter Sergeant J. B.| Martin took charge of the young lady and | removed her to a drugstore on Twenty- ninth and Mission streets, where she was attended by Drs. Grozinger and Clinton. The physicians found that Miss Cunning- ham'’s injuries were numerous and severe. Her breastbone was broken and her jaw dislocated. Besides these the lady’s chin was cut, the wound being four inches in length. Her lip was also cut through. Miss Cunningham was removed to her home at 733 Bush street. Aside from the injuries, the shock to the young lady's nervous system was very severe. ————— Population of Great Cities. The French statistician, M. Bertillon, has compiled some interesting facts re- garding the vopulation of Paris and other great capitals. Only 30 per cent of its present population” was born in Paris, and this percentage has remained practically the same for the last thirty years. he native population in St. Petersburg is 32 per cent; 41 in Berlin, 45 in Vienna, and, contrary to the general opinion, 65 in Lon- don — the highest of all large cities. Of all Eurooean capitals, Paris has the greatest number of foreigners, more than 181,000, exclusive of 47,000 naturalized foreigners. Among these are 26,863 Ger- mans, while in Berlin there are only 397 French. London has only 95,000 foreign- ers; St. Petersburg, 23,000; Vienna, 35,000 and Berlin, 18,000, , In Paris the number of foreigners in- creased between 1833 and 1891 from 47,000 10 181,000. In point of numbers there are more Belgians (45,000) in Paris than peo- ple of any other foreign nationality; then come the Germans, 26,863; Swiss, 26,000; Italians, 21,000; English, 13,000; Luxem- bourgians, 13,000; Russians, 9000. Sl e s | needs for the year. street Cable Company’s extension run | through dreary sand-dunes and beside waste marshlands there stands a row of saloons. Thespot is lonely in the extreme —not a dwelling, save a few small cot- tages, being near. Close by is Harbor View Park and the poorly patronized Sea- side Gardens, but no evident source of sup- port for the row of drinking-places. And yet the proprietors of these same lonesome saloons between the sand and sea marshes | make a good living. The way from the Presidio post houses is devious and not at all one that would be readily followed by men, for it either lies bartly along the marsh and partly over a hmg trestle, or through long stretches of yielding sand. Then, too, there are several more inviting saloons nearer the gates, anc 80 1s it agreed that the soldiers could not support these saloons. The business from elsewlere would not half keep one of the places open. After some Presidio officers began to re- alize that more clothes were taken by the men than allowed in the rules, or indeed than the soldiers could wear, those facts caused suspicion to be directed toward the row of saloons. A council of war, so to speak, was held and orders were given from pmfwer quarters to watch the saloons and soldiers frequenting them. It was not long before the truth came to light, and then little by little the scheme | through which the Government had been defrauded out of vast sums of money u folded itself, and as it grew and grew its dimensions and character astounded the officers interested. For years this swindle had been carried on day after day on a perfect system that evinced forethought and direction by men of considerable busi- ness ability, and while unf'thing like an exact estimate of the total amount thus taken surreptitiously from Uncle Sam could not be made. approximate figures range from $30,000 to $50,000. The wearing apparel of soldiers was made the medwum of this fraud. Clothing is furnished the army on laree contracts by the year by some of the most extensive firms in America who can afford to sell in immense quantities at prices said to be even lower than those of ordinary jobbers or wholesale merchants to retailers here in San Francisco. ‘The Government supplies the soldiers with a standard outfit each year, which usually is more than can be worn out by one man in that period. The list includes, besides uniform and overcoat, suits of woolen underclothing, stockings, shoes, ete., all of good material if not of the finest quality. Besides this allowance, the sol- diersare given the privilege of buying extra clothing from the quartermaster's stores at all times out of their own money and at cost prices, which, it must be re- membered, are lower than prevailing wholesale figures. At the Presidio this regulation was taken advantage of with great success, as recent developments proved. It was found that soldiers had first of all got rid of clothes allowed them, keeping only enough to barely satisfy their own These garments— shirts, woolen = underwear, shoes and stockings—disappeared from the post and passed through neighboring saloons to civilians around town. And then the sol- diers fell back upon the reserye supplies persistently. They bought shoes, stockings and woolens every month, and even overcoats were purchased with astonishing fre- quency. At last the officers in charge made an investigation and discovered that the clothing was nowhere to be seen. The men, so it is stated, had sold the clothes to the lonely saloons for what would appear to be comparatively trifling prices. lfi)nderclothing sold for 25 or 50 cents a piece and at a profit at that. : The investigation resuited in a warrant being sworn out for the arrest of John Hogan, proprietor of the Beer Garden saloon at arbor View, charging him with receiving stolen goods. Hogan was examined by the Federal Courts Commis- sioner and "his bonds were fixed at $2000. Since then he disabpeared, after present- inf his saloon to Tim Walsh. t was stated that Hogan used to fill cases with Government clothing and cart them downtown, where the articles were sold by him at a handsome profit. In this way it is said he received fully $20.000 worth of stolen goods and cleared at least $10,000. Walsh stated last night that Hogan haa gone away about six weeks ago and he could not’tell whither. A neighbor who knew Hogan intimately said: ‘“‘Hogan used to do a big business in soldiers’ cloth- ing.” “The other saloon men were in the same swindle.” “‘But they did not do so much of it as Hogan,” was the reply. BANK stock paper saves the eyes. The My- sell-Rollins Co., 22 Clay, manufacturers. * ogan’s friends claimed he had gone to the “old country,”” but would say no more about him, NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. EMBROIDERIES AND- LLACES! - EXTRAORDINARY = VALUES! 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LU Better than Broths and Bouillon ‘‘The ordinary soups, broths and beef teasare worthless” say eminent physicians, COCOA is the most nourish- ing and easily digested liquid food known to science. Dyspeptics are compelled to drink it instead of tea and coffee. Ghirardelli’s cocoA is made here—not long in get ting ‘o you, therefore FRESH- EST; therefore STRONGEST, most NOURISHING, most ECONOMICAL. AR ATPAFAH CLEARANCE SALE forn THE NEXT 60 DAYS As I have ordered direct from the manufacturers a full and complete assortment of the la- test designs In SPRING and Sum- MER GooDS, I therefore offer my entire stock of WOOLENS now on hand at PRICES never before offered in San Francisco. GUARANTEED GENUINE ENGLISH CASSIMERE PANTS TO ORDER : FORMERLY REDUCED To $10.00 $6.50 ALL WOOL SUITS TO ORDER : FORMEELY REDUCED TO $25.00 $17.50 All other GARMENTS REDUCED n like proportion. You will do well to avall yourself of this o) me a call efore buying elsewhere 0" "0 BIve JOE POHEIM. The Tailor 201 & 203 Montgomery St., cor. Bush, 724 Market St. and 1110 & 1112 Market st SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. RIGGS HOUSE, Washington, D. C. The Hotel ‘ Par Excellence’ Ofthe Natiomal Capital. First class in all l‘ypblfl' ments. G, DEWITT. Treas. American plan, $3 per day and upward. HAY FEVER CAND s CATARRH PPRESSION, UFFOCATION, ESPIC'S CIGARETTES, OR POWDER. Paris, J, ESPIC: New York, E. FOUGERA & CO. Sold by all Druggists. NOTIGE FOR BIDS. Notice Inviting Sealed Proposals for the Purchase of Lincoln Water Works Bonds. The Trustees of the town of Lincoln having by ordinance of said town entitled an ordis nance providing for the issuance and sale of bonds for the town of Lincoln for the construes tion, acquisition aud completion of a waters works system for the said town of Lincoln for fire and other municipal purposes, passed and aporoved the 17th day of December, 1895, ordained that there shall be issued by the said town of Lincoln forty bonds of the denominae tion of $500 each, bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum, payable annually, | and also directing the Town Clerk of the town of Lincoln to give notice inviting proposals for sale of said bonds. Now, therefore, notice is hereby given by the Board of Town Trustees of the town of Lincoln to sell said bonds aforesaid as they may deem necessary. The said bonds are to bear date the first Mouday in January, 1896, and are to be numbered consecutively from one to forty, both. inclusive, the first bond 10 be made payable on the first Monday in January, 1897.and the re- maining bonds consecutively are to be made payable on the first Monday in January ineach succeeding calendar year, until and including the year 1935; the said bonds are to be made payable to the bearer at the office of the Treas- urer of the said town of Liacoln, in the said town of Lincoln, Placer County, State of Cali- fornia, and to each of said bonds there is to be attached interest coupons equal in number to the number of yvears which the bond in ques ion has to run before its maturity. Sealed proposals for the purchase of said honds will be receivea by the clerk of the said town on behalf of the Trustees of the said | town at his office in said town atany time | from the date of the first publication of this | notice up to the hour of 7 o'clock P. ¥. of the 31st day of January, 1896, and that thereafter said bonds will be sold by the Board of Trus tees of said town to the highest and best bid- der for cash in gold coin of tne United States. The Board of Trustees of said town hereby re- serve the right to accept or reject any and all bids. No bid will be considered that is for le than the face value of said bonds. Said bonds will be delivered in the aggregate amount made up of forty serial bonds of the entire issue of $20,000, numbered from one to forty, both inclusive. The purchase price of said bonds must be Ppaid on the delivery of the bonds at the office of the Town Treasurer of the said town of | Lincoln. The purchaser or purchasers of said { bonds, to whom the same are awarded, must give an undertaking with at least two sufficient sureties, in the penal sum of 10 per cent ot the purchase price payable to the faid town of Lincoln, and conditioned that said purchaser shall within ten days after receiving notice on the part of the said Board of Town Trus. tees to deliver said bonds, take up and pay for same as delivered; and that a failure to take | up and pay for same within the time herein specified shall be a breach of said undertak. | ing and shall constitute such breach of itself, | and the sum mentionea in said undertaking | shall be held and considered as liquidated { damages; and said undertaking may be sued upon immediately in the name of the town of Lincoln, and the amount specified therein recovered as liquidated damages. A deposit in the United States postoffice of said town of Lincoln of a notice of readiness to deliver said bonds signed by the said clerk of the saia town and witn the seal of sald town aflixed, ad. | dressed to the purchaser of sald bonas a) his place of business or residence as stated in his bid for said bonds, prepaid, chall be deemed and taken to be notice to the purchaser from the date of such deposit, and there shall also be embodied in said undertaking the pur- chaser’s assent to the form and sufficiency of such notice. Dated December 31, 1895. % F. L. SANDERS, Town Clerk. NOTARY PUBLIC. HARLES H. PHILLI A Chomas 'Notary Fabile, 634 R aite P Siy oppo- jiie P aisce Kol eace 1630 Fallens T | | |