The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 30, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1896. KENTUCKY LAW 1§ DISREGARDED, Provisions of the Southern Pacific Charter Are Ignored. YOKE OF THE OCTOPUS. Methods Adopted in California Used Also in the Blue Grass Country, 0UT OF THE STATE'S CONTROL. Branch Lines Operated Under Outside Charters—No Kentucky Office Exists. | i LOUISVILLE, Ky.,Jan. 29.—So farascan be learned, thatastute cld “railroad king,” Mr. C. P. Huntington, has left very im- portant points of attack on the charter of the Southern Pacific Company uncovered. | He has apparently neglectea to comply with the only provision of his charter that | has any reference to the State of Ken- tucky, Section 8of said charter provides as follows: The company stall keep an office for the transaction of business, and the clerk or assist- ant clerk of said corporation snall reside within the State of Kentucky; but the said corporation may keep offices at such places outside of this State as in the judgment of its board of directors its business may from time to time require; provided that nothin ein contained shall be construed as granting any Ty or ban eges Th ke effect immediately | This provision has never been amended or repeuled. Itis nly mandatory and not permissive, Presumably such off > would be located road center of the State, where the general offices of the Chesapeake, Ohio and South- | western Railroad, the western division of | the Newport News and Mississippi Valley of Huntington’s transconti arelocated. Thereis no such nkfort no there ever been, | as Tue CALL's correspondent rn, in Lexington or Covington. tis in the city of Louiswille it is not | found. A careful examination of | Louisville directory from 1885 to to find any mention even of such e or such 4 company as the South- ern Pacific Company. Men intimate in Louisville railroad circles for the past | twenty years fail to remember ever having heard of or seen such an office. The directory for 18¢ th Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, ticket office | 3 reet. , Ohio and Southwestern Rail- oftices Union depot, 126 Seventh | fices 403 West Market street. | Transier Company, 126 gives H.'s other offices in | city as follows: road, street; tic Short Ro street. But 1t makes no mention of the South- | ern Pacific office. 1 In Ken! Mr. Huntington follows his general plan of operating his roads in each State under charters obtained in otner | States, so as to avoid being responsible to or under the control of the State courts. His lines from the Mississippi to Newport News are operated by the Newport News and Mississippi Valley Company under a charter procured in the State of Connecti- cut, and whose general offices are in New x City. This company, of which Mr. Huntington | is president, operates the lines east from Louisville to Newport News under the name of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail- road, of which the general offices are in Richmond, Va. It operates the line from | Louisville to Memphis under the name of the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad. with the general offices at Louis- | ville, where General John Echols, the sec- ond vice-president, is stationed. This gen- | eral office, as well as the office of the | Louisville Short Route Transfer Company, | by which the Eastern and Western divi- | sions of his lines are connected, are in the | new Union depot building at Seventh and Water streets, which Mr. Huntington built | some years ago. The general offices of the | Newport News and Mississippi Valley | Company are not located in Kentucky, but in New York City. So the people of Kentucky are as much | in Mr. Huntington’s power as those of | California. They have felt and groaned under the burden for years. The principle of charging all the freight that the shipper couid bear has been persistently followed all along his lines in Kentucky, and enter- | prise has been throttled and the projectors bankrupted. The disposition of the peo- | ple and the temper of the Legislature are certainly hostile to Huntington’s sys. tem, and the opportunity to strike a killing blow to the octopus will hardly be allowed to slip. It will soon pass and will | probably never come again. The Legisla- ture is full of new men pledged to reform existing abuses, and their disposition is to do so. But Huntington’slobby is on the ground, and its members know how to use “argu- ments” to advantage. It is possible that | in a few days more they might have | enough of the mew men committed to them to give them, with the old standbys whom the late election tiaal wave left, a safe majority. Goebel is a strong man and an energetic one, but e has other matters to look after besides this, and even if he had not-he, with such volunteer assistance as he may | have from other members, can hardly hold his own against the powerful influences that Huntington is bringing to bear in Frankfort. With the proper support Goebel can pass bis repeal bill; without it Hunting- ton wili win. AL A ELOQUENT PLEA. BOWERS’ 4n Appeal for California Before the House Committee. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 292-The House Committee on Pacific Railroads re- sumed its hearings to-day, Representatives Maguire, Bowers, 3arham, Hilborn and Jobnson and ex-Representative Geary be- ing present. The Central Pacific attorneys were also on hand. Mr. Bowers talked for an hour and a half and was followed by Barham. Mr. Bowers said: During tue hearing yesterday one of your number as Mr. Thurber, who came before you, whom he appeared for. The answer, if 1 Temember correctly, was, “For the New York Board of Trade,” and I think for some other | ter of money. business organization or its agent, to urge the passage of the funding bill. Anticipating the same question 1 desire to say thatI claim to represent in this matter 150,000 American citizens—the great majority of the people of the Seventh Cougressional District of Califor- nie, & very large proportion of whom ere farm- ers or producers, who make railroads possible, Who furnish them business. I am opposed to the passage of any funding bill, and in this position I am confident I represent forty-nine out of every fifty voters of the district which sent me here. I am opposed: First—Because it is against pubhc policy. Second—Itwould be a premium offered those who have misused the Govern- ment’s bounty. Third—It will in my judg- ment establish a fact beyond any argument that there is to be one code of civil and criminal law in this country for powerful corposations and multi-millionaires and another and differ- ent code for common citizens; that an act which is held to be dishonest and & misde- meanor by a common citizen, and for which act he shall be punished, is to be condoned and rewarded when committed by any of these great corporations or persons counting their wealth by millions—it is impossible to escape this conclusion. Fourth—To my mind no justification can be offered for & funding bill in these cases. It is asked for by those who have profited by abusing the people’s bounty, by speculators and bond manipulators. Flith—Any funding bill will continue in power the grievous monopoly which has for the past twenty-five years held the Pacific Coast in its merciless grip, and which hes been engbled to do this only through the powerful aid of the Government, which has built and turned over to the use of said mo- nopoly nearly 2000 miles of road free of cost, thus enabling it to dictate to every other road and to all the people. Sixth—The funding bill is not & good business proposition—a proposi- tion solely in the interest of parties who have betrayed every trust committed to them, whose every promise has proved false. Seventh—In | view of the past record of the parties for whose benefit the proposition is made, no guaranty can be given that they will prove more faithful to any contract now made for future fulfill- ment than tney have been in keeping their contracts in the past. I am amazed that these parties,in view of their past record, now have the hardihood to ask the Government—without apology or ex- e for their misdeeds—to ask them to con- r outrageous business methods for ears more; that through the strong arm the Government the people of the Pacific Coast shall continue to bear this grievous yoke. 1 know, of course, that no person who is un- acquainted with the workings of this Govern- ment-established, Government-assisted and | Government-protected monopoly realizes what this proposition means; that to those who are not informed it &ppears a mere question of | money. But there is & question above this mere mat- No funding bill gives any prom- ise of recovering any part of a debt; better by | far surrender all claims, make the whole debt | a present to these parties at onee and done | with it. But I assert there isno need to sacrifice any part of the debt due the Government, and in support of this assertion I propose to quote the last report of the Secretary of the Interior. He shows that the average net receiptsfor the past ten years of the Union Pacific were nearly $4,000,000. The annual interest on first- | mortgage bonds, amounting to $1,633,740, is | included in expenditures. That the average net receipts of the Central Pacific were $1,415,206, and that the interest on first-mortgage bonds is included in expen- ditures, thus bringing the total net receipts of the roads to an average ot §5,229,380. Add three millions that the Government would save on interest if it took the roads and it would make & net sum of over eight millions a year above expenditures. The Secretary goes on 10 | | say: | ‘It will be seen that the average netearnings | of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific main | lines during the past ten years had been $8,181,220, while the total amount of the mortgage bonds and Government bond issued upon the main line, less sinking tund | | for the main line, is $152,245,551. | “This annual net profit shows the properties | to have earned nearly 6 per cent on the entire | amount which the Government has paid and ’ would pay if it were compelled to discharge the first-mortgage bonds. This being the case, | it would seem tobe a clear business proposi- tion that the Governmeént onght not to lose, | even if it should be compelled through fore- | closure to collect its debt.”” | Again he says: “As the original Government | bonds and first-mortgage bonds are about | due, they might be paid off at their face value, | and as a Government 3 per cent bond is worth more thau par at the presenttime, there would be no difficulty in utilizing & new 3 per cent | bond to pay off or call in both of the other is- sues. | “It will be seen that if such course were pur- | sued by the Government, and this property | aversged in the future the same net profit that | it has during the past ten years, it would earn | sufficient to pay 3 per cent on the bonds which the Government would be compelled to issue | and yet leave & yearly net margin of $3,089,- | 963.” ! Thus the Secretary clearly shows that these roads are paying 6 per cent, and the Govern- ment can get money at 3 per cent, which | would in effect make the net receipts at least | $10,000,000 per vear from the two roads—suf- | ficlent in twenty years to pay the whole debt. | Besides this, there would be over 16,000,000 | | acres of unpatented lands returned to the | puklic domain, worth at least $25,000,000. It | must be remembered that during these ten | years the Central Pacific has been leased t the Southern Pacific and all the trade possible diverted from it to the Southern Pacific. There is no doubt that during the first fifteen years of life of the roads, their earnings were enormous through excessive tolls coliected for freights and fares. It is probable that not less than $300,000,000 was cleared up by their directors during this period, and yet with all those immense profits the owners of these roads refuse to pay one penny of interest on bonds, the Government having paid $105,000,000 for them. The whole transaction was deliberately planned by cunning lawyers to swindle the people, and that the scheme should pass the scrutiny of so many great lawyers and statesmen then in Congress calls into question either their hon- esty as representatives or their capacity as lawyers, Where have there railroad earnings gone? The immense aggregations of wealth now con- trolled by a few individuals, being the result of the earnings of these roads, compounded with the great Government subsidies of lands and bonds, are apparent to every man who has eyes to see. To-day, while these roads have contended that they were unable to pay in- tereston these bonds, we find that every real director and owner (I don’t refer to numerous dummies employed by real owners as direc<‘ tors) have grown enormously rich. Itisapparent that there is a scheme to be engineered by certain parties to urge foreclos- ure proceedings, and have these roads imme- diately sold at prices not to exceed forty mil- lion, and thus get possession of these proper- ties cleared of all incumbrances—a speculation that in the mattcr of profits would discount the Belmont-Morgan syndicate operation. Mr. Cheirman, if there is any one thing that railroad corporations of this country do not went to see it is the experiment of Government operation of a railroad upon an honest basis; the water-soaked, sodden corporations of this country will prevent this experiment being tried if in their power to prevent. They fear the result, and so they attempt to scare the people away from a plain bosiness proposition whereby they may protect and benefit themselves. These corporations know that in other countries government ownership of railroads has proved a great success, and we believe it will be a success in this country. You have all probably read a notice in the papers within the last few days that freights were to be advanced 70 per cent by the South- ern Pac:fic Company, and from $7 to $12 per ton by the Pecific Mail Steamship Company. As you all knuw, the latter company is a part of the Southern Pacific system. Now that company has renewed its contract with the Panama Railroad, giving it substan- tially & monopoly of that road, destroying any competition and placing California absolutely at its mercy, at such rates as the road may charge, and the Pacific Mail refuses to take freight at any price, that the same may be forced over the railroad. Mr. Chairman, it is time to cail a halt. We believe tiat funding bill will be a glittering cheat, but will only glitter till it ripens into law; then the tinsel mask will fall away and there will stand revealed that same old grind- ing monopoly grinning at us and saying, “What are you going to do about it?” The man who first gave currency to that question learned in his lifetime that “though the mills of the gods grind slowly they grind exceeding fine.” The American people are slow to anger, but once aroused their power is irre- sistible, and I caution the toll-takers not to press the producers, the common people, be- yond the limit of endurance. Bowers was frequently interrupted by questions asked by members of the com- mittee, but was quick-witted and ready. He not only answered every question, but invited attack. Judge Barham also addressed the com- mittee, opposing the funding scheme and favoring foreclosure. Judge Magulre said to & CALL correspondent to-night: “From the questions asked and the sug- gestions made by the members of the Com- mittee on Pacific Railroads, I judge that the majority of the committee is already predisposed in favor of what is known as the ‘Smith funding bill.” Under the terms of that bill the debts are to be funded for a period of 100 years, with in- terest at the rate of 2 per cent per annum, except for the first ten years, the rate for that time to be 1 per cent. “Idonot think the difference between that bill and the Reilly bill worth discuss- ing. Either bill would continue the monopoly of that company for at least fifty years, unless the States should, for self-protection, build or in some way se- cure a new competing transcontinental road. Of course, the Central Pacific Rail- road Company will not, except perhaps for the first ten years, carry out the terms of any refunding bill. Nobody expects it todoso. But it will pay the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for that period to make the 1 per cent payments required by the Smith bill in order to prevent com- petition with other railroads. “‘Atthe end of that period the wrecked and dismantled road, with neither rolling stock nor tratfic, will be surrendered to the Government, which will then, in fact, acquire practically nothing more than what Mr. Huntington has facetiously called ‘two streaks of dust and a right of way.” As everybody knows the life of the Central Pacific Railroad Company is ab- solutely limited to fifty years, and no contract made by that company will be worth the paper on which it is written after June 1, 1911.” PREPARING FOR A WAR. Manser Rifles to Be Distributed Among the Turkish Troops. Demands of the Macedonian Govern- ment Will Be Resisted by the Sultan. LONDON, Exa., Jan. —Telegraphing from Constantinople the United Press cor- respondent says: An irade has been issued by the Sultan which appropriates for urgent state requirements the sum of £120,000, belonging to the official pensions fund lying in the Ottoman Bank. An- other irade has been issued directing the distribution to the troops of a large quan- 1ty of Manser rifles. These acts are be- ieved to have been regarded as necessary in view of the Macedonian movement de- manding concessions from Turkey. aricocgs e s HOPEFUL OF SUCCESS. Miss Clara Barton and Her Party Arrive at Southampton. SOUTHAMPTON, Exc., Jan. 290.—The American line steamer New York, having on board Miss Clara Barton, president of the American National Red Cross Society, and her staff, who are on their way to Turkey to distribute relief to the suffering Armenians, arrived at her dock at 11 o’clock to-night. A representative of the United Press boarded the steamer when | she reached the dock and secured an inter- view in her stateroom with Miss Barton and Mr. Pullman, ber secretary. ‘When shown by the Press representative the announcement that the Porte had agreed to permit persons nominated by Hon. A. W. Terrell, the United States Minister at Constantinople, to distribute the fund for the relief of the Armenians, Miss Barton said she was very glad to see that the Sultan had accorded such permis.- sion, which she considered a great conces- sion after all that had been said against Turkey. She preferred to say nothing concerning her missior, except to tell the American pecple that the committee of the Red Cross Society had not altered its plans, which were to proceed to Turkey and there decide what to do. Further than this they really had no plans. Mr. Pullman said it was possible that the Sultan would permit the retiei fund to be distributed under the auspices of the Red Crescent Society, which 1s the Turk- ish branch of the Red Cross. 1If this be so, the committee will avail themselves of the privilege. : Miss Barton and her companions will proceed to-morrow morning to London, where they will remain for a few days. They will then proceed for Constantinople, stopping in Paris for a short rest on their way. S htgete Arrive at Zeitoun. LONDON, Exc., Jan. 29.—The Daily News to-morrow will print a dispatch from its Vienna correspondent stating that ad- vices received there from Constantinople say that British and Italian Consuls ar- rived at Zeitoun on the 28th inst. after a terribly fatiguing journey, during which they encountered severe snowstorms. g Nazif Pasha Reinstated. i CONSTANTINOPLE, TurkEY, Jan, 29.— Nazif Pasba, who was Minister of Finance until a short time ago, has again been ap- pointed to that office. SET L ROENTGENS MYMSTEM TESTED, Organs of a Patient Photographed Through the Flesh. VIENNA, AusTrIA, Jan. 29.—Dr. Nues- ser, professor of medicine at the Vienna University, showed this afternoon by means of photographs taken by Roent- gen’s newly discovered system, the pres- ence and position of calcarous deposits in the bladder, liver and kidneys of a subject. . The Mahdi Overthrown. LONDON, Ene., Jan. 29.—A dispatch from Cairo to the Pall Mall Gazette says that a revoluticn has broken out in Khar- toum and that the tribes from the interior have come to the support of the Mahdi's former followers and overthrown him, iy The Miowera Delayed. SYDNEY, N. 8. W., Jan. 29.—The Brit- ish steamer Miowera, Captdin Stott, hence for Vancouver, has returned with her ma- chinery slightly out of order. She will effect repairs and sail in a day or two. Do sl The Thakur of Khanagur Dies. BOMBAY, Ixpis, Jan. 29.—His High- ness, the Thakur of Rbanagur, is dead. He was 38 years of age and a Knight Com- mander of the Star of India, HOWELL POINT LEVEE BREAKS, Fifteen Thousand Acres of Yolo's Best Wheat Land Flooded. THE LEVEES NO BARRIER Crop Prospects of This Vast Body of Land Are Utterly Ruined. NAMES OF PROPERTY-QWNERS. The Backwater Is Higher Now Than at Any Time During Last Winter. WOODLAND, CaArL, Jan. 20.—A break occurred in the Howell Point levee late this afternoon, and a great volume of water is flooding 15,000 acres of the finest wheat land in Yolo County. The back water is higher than at any other time during last winter. The levees were no barrier against the waves driven by the high north wind. Many thousands of acres of grain are now under water, and the crop prospects of the whole body of land are doomed. ‘This levee runs from Sycamore Slough southeast to Howell Point at the county line between Yolo and Colusa, and the district to which it has heretofore afforded protection comprises some of the best farming land in the State. The following is & partial list of the property-holders in the district: Jonn McPike, 2700 acres; J. H. Balcsen, 2250 acres; J. W. Browning, 3000 acres; W. H. ‘West, 500 acres; A. Poundstone, 1300 acres; Robert Cosner, 720 acres; S. W. Boyer, 640 acres. THE STORM AT CHICO IS OVER. Work Will Now Be Commenced in Farn- nest on the Ranches. CHICO, Car., Jan. 29.—The storm that has been raging here for the last three days came to a sudden halt last evening about 10 o’clock, when the clerk of the weather gave us a new deal in the way of a regular old-fashioned hailstorm, which lasted half an hour. No damage was done. This morning is bright and clear and not a cloud is to be seen. Work will commence now on the ranches in earnest. EPT THE Machinery of the New American Battle- ship Gives Satisfaction. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 29.—A Herald special from Washington says: There is a strong probability that Secre- tary Herbert will accept unconditicnally the machinery of the battle-ship Texas. All but $80,000 has been paid to the Rich- mond Locomotive Iron Works, ers of the machinery, and in view of the time that will elapse before the Texas is again ready for sea the firm is anxious to get its money. For more than 2 year the machinery has been completed. It gave satisfactory re- sults during dock trials at the Norfolk Navy-yard, and on the showing thus made the Secretary directed that all but but $30,000 on the contract be paid, the remainder to be settled when tbe official trip of the ship took place. The trial occurred several weeks ago, and a satisfactory run of three hours was had, when the water flooded the engine- rooms and prevented the successful com- pletion of the trip. Then came the orders to put the ship out of commission. An- other trial cannot be run off until about six montns hence, when it is expected that the alterations to the battle-ship will be completed. The Navy Department is making prepar- ations for the trial of the torpedo-boat Ericsson in Long Island Sound when the weather permits. Passed Assistant En- gineer Dryan and Assistant Engineer Beach will represent the bureau during the run., Upon the results obtained dur- ing this trial will depend the enforcement of Secretary Herbert’s decision to accept the vessel preliminarily. WILL AC TEXAS, LA LOVES ALL AMERICANS. Robert Louwis BStevenson’s Friend ceives Impressions in Samoa. LEXINGTON, K Jan. 29. — Judge James H. Mulligan, United States Consul to Samoa, who returned to his home here Saturday night, was given a banquet last night at the Navarre. made an address, the most remarkable part of which was the following: “When I was away off on that little speck of land in the Pacific Ocean and looked across the vast stretch of sea to the storms that were agitating this country I could see no Democrats and no Republi- cans. It was America. The English, the Germans and all the others are against America, no matter what the diplomats may say. ‘I feel that I have learned more in the last two years than I have ever learned before. 1 have borne my part in the bat- tles of politics, bave spoken bitter words, but when I stood under that mighty crag on that far-away speck in the ocean and helped to lay him to rest whom I had learned to love and who I beheve had learned to love me, Robert Louis Steven- son, I felt that if I ever got back home I would never speak an unkind word to a fellow-countryman, but would do all I could to bind up any wounds that I may have caused.” JUROE SOUL. DRUNK. His Untimely Debauch Regarded as Con- tempt of Court. TERRE HAUTE, Ixp., Jan. 29.—At the opening of the trial yesterday of Dan Keller, his wife and his sister on the charge of murdering Clara Shanks, the court and the counsel on both sides were surprised to find one of the jurors drunk. The jury had been sworn in'the night be- fore but ailowed to separate to arrange their domestic and_business affairs prep- aratory to a long siege in what promises t0 be one of the most famous murder trials over held in this State. Juror Soules, a well-to-do farmer, had been out all night, and, after he had made his devious way to the one vacant seat in the jury-box, blinked for an hour while the ‘crowd stared at him and the Judge and lawyers were consulting as to the best method of proceeding without the danger of mistrial. Finally the defense, by agreement, made a motion to discharge the jury and excuse. permanently Juror Soules.” Then the eleven were resworn and a new juror ob- tained. Soules was placed under bond to answer for contempt of court. ———— Plates for the Oregon Shipped. BETHLEHEM, PA., Jan. 29.—The Beth- lehem Iron Company is pushing work on Government contracts, To-night four tur- ret top plates for the battle-ship Oregon Re- wAS the build- | At the banquet he | were shipped to the Union Iron Works at San,Francisco. e DEMPSEY WILL GO FREE. 4 Pardon to Be Granted the Homestead Poisoner. HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. 29. — At a meeting to-day of the Board of Pardons action was taken on the case of Hugh Dempsey, the Homestead poisoner, and his pardon will be recommended. Demp- sey was convicted and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment for voisoning the drinking water ana food of the non-union men during the famous strike at the Homestead works of the Carnegie Steel Company. g General Ducat Dead. CHICAGO, ILL., Jan. 29.—General Ar- thur C. Ducat, a distinguished officer dur- ing the War of the Rebellion and one of the foremost fire insurance agents of Chi- cago, died to-dav at Downers Grove, a suburb of Chicago. CLOSING CO. RACTS AT. FRESNO. Removing Obstructions in the Way of the Local Valley Railroad. FRESNO, CAL., Jan. 29.—The local Val- ley Railroad committee are rapidly closing contracts for a depot site, rights of way through Fresno and a junction site south of town for Hanford and Visalia branches. A stumbling block of two lots, part of the depot site, belonging to Mrs. H. C. Nicholson, has been contracted for, as well as twenty-five lots on Blackstone avenue, the property of Sach & Lewison and H. P. Hedges. Also right of way through five acres owned by George Selby has been purchased. When these transactions are completed there will be a clear right of way through Fresno and its additions. THE NEWS OF SAN JOSE, Clearing Grounds for the Erec- tion of the Rose Carnival Pavilion. Building to Commence at Once—Hours and Pay of Mechanics and Laborers. S8AN JOSE, Car., Jan. 29.—The building committee of the Rose Carnival are having the grounds cleared for the erection of the pavilion and it is expected that building will commence about February 15. The committee proposes to let the plumbing, tinning, painting, sewering and founda- tion work by contract. work will be done by day labor, and me- | given the preference. constitute a day’s work and mechanics laborers $1 75 to $2. The Garden City Cyclers will dedicate the pavilion on Avpril 25 by giving a first- class entertainment, in which only local talent will participate. —_— DEATH OF A G MAN DIVINE. Rev. C. H. Afflerbach, a Pioneer Minister, Passes Away. SAN JOSE, CiL., Jan. 29.—Rev. C. H. Afflerbach, for many years presiding elder of the San Francisco conference of the until last September pastor of St. Paul’s German Methodist Episcopal Church of San Francisco, died at his home near this city this morning. The deceased was born in Germany 63 years ago, but moved to New York when quite young, and was sent to Cali- fornia as a missionary about forty years ago. For some time he had been in deli- a runaway accident last September, when he sustained severe injuries from which he never recovered. Dr. Afflerbach was looked upon as one of the leaders among German Methodists upon the Pacific Coast. He was a man of scholarly attainments, and has been for many years one of the trustees of the be held in this city on Friday. . A WITNESS ON A SPREE. Given Twenty-Four Hours in Jail for Contempt of Court. SAN JOSE, CaL., Jan. 29.—When the appealed case of C. H. Corey vs. Crane, Henry & Co. of Los Gatos, to recover $100 on a bank check drawn by J. W. Morrell, an employe of the detendant firm, was called for hearing In Judge Lorigan’s court Morrell failed to put in an appear- ance and a bench warrant was issued for him. He was brought into court in an in- toxicated condition and Judge Lorigan sentenced him to twenty-four hours in jail for contempt of court. The case was con- tinued until to-morrow morning. e A VICTIM OF APOPLEXY. An Old Resident of Mountain FView Found Dead. SAN JOSE, Car., Jan. 20.—Christopher Masa, an old resident of Mountain View, died suddenly yesterday afternoon of apop- lexy. He was found dead in =a sittin, posture on a wood pile. Coroner Secorfi was notified and an inquest held. Masa was a laborer about 53 years of age. He | was born in California and has lived at Mountain View for the past twenty years. A SUING FOR A STREET. Zhe Town of Los Gatos Brings Action in the Superior Court. BAN JOSE, CAL., Jan. 29.—The town of Los Gatos to-day began suit in the Superior Court against E. S. Whitney for possession of that part of Whitney avenue between Stacia street and Nicholson lane. In the complainy it is alleged that Whitney avenue was used as a public highway from December 1, 1889, until December 24, 1895, when plaintiff took possession of the street and obstructed it to public use. Plaintiff asks for restitution of said premises and $500 damages. ALt Released on $1000 Bonds. SAN JOSE, Carn., Jan. 29.—Theodore Murray, who has been confined in the County Jail here for ceveral days on a charge of defrauding the Los Gatos Bank out of $500, was arraigned before Justice Beggs of Los Gatos to-day. He entered a plea of not guilty, ana his examination was set for March 10. He was released on $1000 bonds. Lo g Suspected Robbers Jailed. SAN JOSE, CaL., Jan. 29.—Hy Wilson and Russell Harris, the men who were arrested at Gilroy yesterday on suspicion of having robbed the Five-mile House on the Monterey road, Saturday night, were brought to the County Jail this_morning by Deputy Sneriff Gardner. When ar- rested they were trying to dispose of some of the stolen property. et Judgments Against a Canning Company. SAN JOSE, Cavn.. Jan. 29.—Judge Lori- gan to-day rendered the following judg- ments against the Los Gatos Canning Company: Sisson, Cracker & Co. of San Francisco, §9440 45; Eagle Automatic Can Co.,$1198 04; F. H. Green, $1957 95; Lon- don and San Francisco Bank, $879829, A decree of foreclosure and sale was issued. SIS Runaway Prisoner Captured. SAN JOSE, CaL., Jan.29.—Joe Lamboda, who escaped from Constable Coschino Monday evening while being taken to jail to serve 100 days for misdemeanor embez- zlement, was captured last evening while in higing in a house on West Santa Clara stret The rest of the | 45 glgeq and a ride over it is a treat seldom 7 7 Thecb. | chanics and laborers of this city will be | el Eight hours will | | German Methodist Episcopal Church and | cate health, but his death was hastened by | | University of the Pacific. His funeral will | THE TRUCKEE ICE CARNIVAL, Excursion Trains Will Run Next Saturday and Sunday. MANY PEOPLE EXPECTED The Toboggan Slide in Fine Con- dition and the Fun Will Be Fast and Furious. GOOD SLEIGHING TO LAKE TAHOE The Round-Trip Figures Nominal—A Healthy Quting That All Will Enjoy. TRUCKEE, Car., Jan. 29.—Excursions have been arranged for Saturday and Sun- day, and the Ice Carnival Company have assurances of hundreds of people coming 10 witness the many winter scenes of this mountain town. The toboggan slide is in good condition once more, and will fur- nish rare sport for the excursionists. Itis conceded by people who have experienced it that this alone is worth a trip to Truckee. Secretary Burckhalter of the carnival company retlurned to-day from San Fran- cisco and reports that there will be at least three carloads of people up here at the end of the week, and the company are preparing to entertain them on an exten- sive scale. The most enjoyable and inter- esting attraction will be a sleighride to Lake Tahoe, which will be the first excur- | sion party that has visited the lake and seen it in the solemn and impressive grandeur of its winter robes. Teams, have been employed for several days past breaking the road to Tahoe and to-night the road was clear from Truckee | to the lake. It1sas hard asiceand smooth offered to people in this State. for the round trip will be placed ata nomi- nal figure, All the sleighs have been | bountifull ided with wa , and | will be paid from $250 to $3 per day and | OUntHully provided with warm rugs, an excursionists need have no apprehension of cold or discomfort. Ben Campbell, who has charge of the hotel at Echo, was sur- prised to see men coming in there at this time of the year. Usually he sees no white men from early winter until spring, and with the exception of a few Indians he is the only inhabitant within a radius of fifteen miles. The railroad has volunteered to come to the assistance of Truckeeites and it is learned from Trainmaster Akers will show an inducement to excursionists in tke form of exhibiting the mammoth rotary snow- plow in operation, which augers its way through huge drifts of snow and out of its funnel-shaped stack throws clouds of beautiful snow high into the air. In addition to this there will be the or- dinary pushplow rotary flanger and the headlight vlow. All in a1l there will be such a host of at- tractions as will be a surprise to the most skeptical. For those who wish to indulge in the pastime of tobogganing while at the lake a natural slide 300 feet long has been broken for that purpose. Here the tobogganists may slide down the hill between the lofty pines and stopa short distance from the edge of the water. Skating contests have been inaugurated, and many experts will perform on the glittering ice. Visitors will have an oppor- tunity of witnessing the harvesting of ice from tbe ponds and see it drawn up into the immense houses by means of an end- less chain and blocks which run down into the water. HIS ANTICS WERE QUER, Testimony of Witaesses in the William Christ Trial at Sacramento, The Man Was Unnaturally Cool and Seemed to Be in a Dazed Condition. SACRAMENTO, Car., Jan. 20.—Almost all the witnesses who testified in the Christ trial to-day claimed that they had noticed that defendant’s actions were not those of a rational being, and, although testifying for the prosecution, they one and all had observed the same peculiar air and manner in which Christ had acted when in the presence of the dead body of his wife. Dr. Haight, after describing the appear- ance of the room in which the woman lay, said: “I told Christ to run back to the house and get some ammonia, but Christ said he did not think it was necessary, as his wife was dead.” ‘Witness then said that he examined the body and found that life was extinct. He then asked Christ to give him his revolver and Christ did so. ‘Witness then told the story of the killing as related to him by defendant. Christ seemed to be perfectly cool. He stooped down over the body once and said, *Oh, my poor wife.” He said this in a very culiar tone. He explained several times ow the shooting was done. Once witness saw Christ step across the body of his wife, instead of going around it. On cross-examination, witness said that Christ was unnaturally cool. He seemed tobeina sort of dazed condition. His manner was altogether out of the ordinary. ‘Witness did not believe that Christ real- ized what he was doing when he stepped over his wife’s body. At the time witness took the revolver from him_he did so because he feared that Christ might take his own life. Christ was perfectly docile, and gave up his pistol without a murmur. A number of other witnesses were put on the stand, but their testimony elicited nothing new in the matter. It isthought that the prosecution will conclude their testimony to-morrow. s g & TO COMMAND THE BEAR. Captain Tuttle Ordered to San Francisco From Port Townsend. PORT TOWNSEND, Wasn., Jan. 29— Captain Francis Tuttle, one of the best known and most popular commanders in the revenue service, who for the past six months has been stationed here superin- tending the construction of the new reve- nue launches, to-day received orders to proceed at once to San Francisco to as- sume command of the United States steamer Bear, the commander of which is at present undergoing court-martial at the Bay City. Itisthought here the appoint- ment is only temporary. » R ONLY A SHORT TALK TR Greai Winter Clearance Sale —oF— $80,000 WORTH MEN’S AND BOYS’ Fine Clothing WILL BE SACRIFICED UNTIL SATURDAY NIGHT AT 11 O’CLOCK. NENS SUITS ent down to $1.95, $5.90, $i1.45, If we don’t save you 50 per cent on each Suit or Overcoat you buy of us during this Great Clearance Sale we give you the best Suit of Clothes or Overcoat for NOTHING. BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S SUITS FROM 8145 to $4.95. SOLD FOR DOUBLE THE PRICE. H. SUMMERFIELD & CO, 924,926,926, 530 MARKET STREET Srecial attention paid to Mail Orders. Money returned if goodsnot satisfactory, You want your clothes to fit, don’t you? Won’t have them unless they do. Just the same with your office chair. It should fit. Some chairs are large, some small ; toolarge—bad; too small—worse. Better come and pick one out. Plenty to choose from; prices and quality are right —we make them right. $9 like picture, quarter- sawed oak. Carpets . Rugs . 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