The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 8, 1896, Page 4

4 TARDY JUSTICE INEL DORADD. Ellen Robinson’s Murderer Sentenced After Long Delays. SLOW LEGAL PROCESS.| | of an American dispatch-boat, hence the Supreme Court Decides an Appeal Nineteen Months After the Crime. | HAD CONFESSED HIS GUILT, | Death Sentence Pronounced for the Second Time Upon the Con- victed Man. | PLACERVILLE, Car., Feb. 7.—A cold- blooded murder occurring in this county nearly two years ago, and which has never been expiated, was recalled when Sheriff Hilbert retorned from Folsom last night, bringing the murderer for re-sentence. Paulo Kamauny, a native of the Sand- wich Islands, engaged at wood-chopping near Latrobe, purchased a chicken from Ellen Robinson, an old lady 61 years of age, handing her a gold coin and receiving change in return. Leaving her place, he and two companions purchased some wine and drank heavily. About sundown the next day, May 6, Kamaunu, armed with a pistol, started from his cabin to the lonely cottage of Ellen Robinson, called her to | the door, showed the pistol and demanded her money, She langhed. He struck her to the ground, trampled upon her breast and shot her dead. Returning to the cabin, he slept there throughout the night in a drunken stupor, and started the next day for Latrobe, where he bought a ticket to Sacramento. He and a companion were arrested on the train and taken to Placerville, not as sus- pects, but as witnesses, suspicion having attached to others of the crowd. Guilt, however, soon fastened on Kamaunu, who finally made a full confession of the crime to Connty Clerk Bosquit. Thisconfession, plaintiff’s arrest and incarceration in the County Jail, —_—— REFERRED TO THE SIX POWERS. Request of Minister Terrell That the United States Have a Dispatch-Boat at Constantinople, CONSTANTINOPLE, TurkEy, Feb.7.— The Porte, in response to the request of the Hon. A. W. Terrell, the American Minister, that the United States be granted permission to have a dispatch-boat at Constantinople, maintains that the Darda- nelles being regulated by an international agreement the United States should apply for the desired permission to the six pow- ers that signed the treaty of Berlin. Itis stated that Russia is opposeG to the entry Porte’s hesitation to grant Mr. Terrell’s request. The negotiations for the surrender of Zeitoun, which is held by the Armenians, to the Turkish authorities continue. For- eign Consnuls at Zeitoun have informed the beleaguered Armenians that their princi- pal purpose in visiting Zeitoun is to watch the course of events and that they are unable to gnarantee the safety of the Zeitoulis upon any condition. The Turk- ish troops besieging the town are mainly composed of reserves. They are ill fed and many of them are deserting. PARIS, Fraxce, Feb. 7.—Miss Clara Barton, president of the American Red Cross Society, with her party started for Geneva to-day. She will go from Geneva to Vienna and thence direct to Constanti- nople. an egd o LORD DUNRAVEN'S CHARGES. The Pield Thinks They Should Have Been Declared Not Proved. LONDON, Exa., Feb. 7.—The Field to- morrow will confess that the report of the committee of the New York Yacht Club, which investigated the charges made by Lord Dunraven against the Defender syn- dicate, impresses one by its impartiality, but will say it thinks the committee should rather have daeclared the charges not proved rather than disproved. The East Anglian Times claims to know that Lord Dunraven has decided not to enter again in any race for large-class yachts. MAHER WOULD NOT FIGHT Refused to Meet Fitzsimmons Before the Bill Became a Law. The Pugilistic Managers Looking to Mexico for a Scene for the though not admitted as evidence, was a narrative of a blood-curdling nature. In his statement, Kamaunu pleaded in- toxication as his defense. The jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree. Judge Bennet sentenced him on September 18, 1894, to be hanged on November 1, 1894, The case was appealed to the Supreme Court, which affirmed the judgment of the lower court on December 27, 1895, The date of execution fixed by the lowe: court having lapsed by reason of the dela; awaiting the result of the appeal to th Supreme Court, the criminal was brought back last night for re-sentence, which was pronounced by Judge Bennet this morn- ing, condemning Paulo Kamaunu to be hanged on April 10. Sheriff Hilbert de- | parted at noon with the culprit for Folsom. The murderer of aged Ellen Robinson is a hanasome specimen of physical man- | hood. He received his sentence this | morning without a quiver and with the stolidity of one void of every vestige of humanity. LS ANGELES SHRINERS, Nobles From San Francisco Oasis Feted by Malaikah Temple. Fifteen New Candidates Conveyed Across the Burning Sands of the Desert. LOS ANGELES, CaL., Feb. 7.—Malaikah Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, did itself proud this evening in the royal en- tertainment accorded to Imperial Poten- tant Charles L. Field and' the rest of the straggling Arabs who had inadvertently strayed from their own northern oasis down amid the vines and fig trees of the lovely southland. Covers were laid at Tllich’s for 160 persons, and the feast pro- vided left nothing to be desired. The proceedings of the evening openea | with the ceremonies of initiation into the order at the temple, on the corner of First and Spring streets, where fifteen new can- didates were conveyed over the burning sands. Among those chastened by the fire of the Howling Dervishes was ex- Governor H., H, Markham, The milk and honey began to flow at 10:30 o’clock, the feast of reason and flow of soul and other things lasting until long after midnight. The San Francisco contingent present were: Charles L. Field, E. R. Field, M. A. L. Field, 8. Benedict ana wife, Bert Bene- dict, Miss Ella A. Judson, Miss Lottie D, *Judson, William O. Mendock, William Cluff and wife, E. M. Hughes and wife, L. 8. Haas, J. L." M. Shetterley, J. G.-Wall, Miss M. Wall, L. McDonald and wife, J. Z. Davis and wife, Miss Mary Muir, Miss Liz- zie Mmir and William K. Barmore. A large party of the local Shriners will to-morrow go with the San Francisco party to Phenix, Ariz., where 4 shrine is to be instituted Monday evening. They go in private cars over the Santa Fe system. One of the most enjoyable features of the evening was a banquet ziven to twenty visiting ladies, who accompanied the San Francisco Shriners. —_— DRANKE LIQUOR TO EXCESS. Mys. M. P. T. Holliday Admits That She Has Been Intoxicated. LO8 ANGELES, Caw, ¥eb. 7.—The trial of the Holliday $25,000 damage suit, which has been on in the Superior. Court for some days, will be concluded to-mor- row. The daughter of the late Allen G. Thurman, who is one of the defendants, was to-day asked the question by her own utzox&ney while she was on the witness- stand: ‘At times you drink liquor to excess, do you' not?”’ To this she answered, as tears came into hereyes: “Yes; I re%rot to say that Ido.” This answer create ?m.o a sensation, and, as it was brought out by ber own lawyer, it was a subject of considerable comment. 3 The burden of' the temmonr taken to- day was to show that the plaintiff, Mrs, Fannie L. Holliday, was possessed of a very bad temper; that she had threatened the life ¢ both the defendants, and that she kad ziso said that she would burn | visit is of any special significance. Combats. EL PABO, Tex., Feb. 7.—Maher and party came down from Las Cruces on the afternoon train and. say they will return in the morning. It is not thought their Itis believed the reason the fight did not come off before noon to-day was because Maher refused to fight until the 14th. Owing to Maher refusing to fight when sked to do so there will likely be a hitch about getting his forfeit should the man- agement not be able to pull off the fight on the 14th. Had Maner gone into a fight to-day it would have been to his disadvan- tage, as he had not the training here that Fitzsimmons has. This morning was quite stormy, snow falling heavier than it has before during the winter. Governor Thornton of New Mexico arrived this evening and states he has been in correspondence with Delegate Catron and the Attorney-General and that he is satisfied the Catron bill was presented to cover the necessities as outlined by him. There is no danger whatever of the fight coming off in New Mexico now, as neither Maher nor Fitzsimmons will take any chances. Fitzsimmons is in fine form and it looks as though only an accident would lose him the fight if it should take place between now and the 14th. There is no doubt the way matters stand to-night that Dan Stuart and those in his confidence think they will get a concession from the Mexican officials, but they are having much harder roads to travel than they anticipated. Should they succeed in securing the concession it will probably cost them about all they can make out of the car- nival; for if there is any intention upon the part of the officials to grant the con- cession they are likely holding off for more morney. s Coursing Near Sacramento. SACRAMENTO, OCaL., Feb. 7.—The goursing match between 8an Francisco and Bacramento dogs, which was unfinished on January 12, will be run off near Florin on Sunday. There are six dogs still in it— three from Sacramentop and the others from San Francisco. John Grace of the latter city will judge the races. : % One-Sided Skating Race. TORONTO, O~tarI0, Feb. 7.—The match skating race between Neilson of Minue- apolis and Hulse of Toronto, atthe Mu- tual'rink to-night, was virtually a walk- over. Hulse, who has not recovered from his Montreal experience, was beaten one lap in the slow time of 3 ST 5 i Conversion of Prince Boris. CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, Feb, 7.— M. Stoiloff, the Bulgarian Prime Minister, is in the city to announce to the Sultan the conversion of Prince Boris, son of Prince Ferdinand, the ruler of Bulgaria, to the orthodox Greek faith. The Sultan, taking his cue from Russia, is bestowing the greatest attention upon M, Stoiloff, T L S The Healeyites Withdrew, DUBLIN, 1reraxp, Feb. 7.—A meeting of the Irish Federation was heid in this city to-night for the election of officers. The meeting lasted seven hours. It is & that there was much wrangling, The Healeyites, who. were outvoted in several divisions, finally withdrew, —_— England’s New War Vessels. GLASGOW, Bcorraxp, Feb, 7.—The Glas- gow Herald -says that the coming ‘British naval programme will cost £9,000,000, with which will be constructed four battle- ships, four first-classs cruisers, four third- class cruisersand sixty torpedo destroyers, LR b German Claimas BSettled. LONDON, Exg., Feb. 7.—The Times wil1 to-morrow publish a'dispatch from Cara- cas saying that a settlement of the Ger- man railway s again been arranged on the basis of the future commuting of the guarantees. st Js i Fire in the Archives. PARIS, Fraxce, Feb. 7.—Fire in the building ocenpied by the Ministry of War to-day guti the rooms in which the archives were kept, but most of the docu- ments were saved. Many of those lost, however, were very valuable, T LR i Treatment of Lepera, 3 COLON, Coromsra, Feb. 7.—The Colom- blan Government has ordered that the their resicence. These threats are pre- sented as justification for causing the pers throughout the republic shall be le treated by the new method discovered by | Dr. Carasquila of Bogota, st Venezuela has- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1896. ROW OF SANTA CRUZ EDITORS, Francis of the Penny Press Found Not Guilty of Assault. HIS CASE DISMISSED. Witnesses Corroborate the Story That Editor Braun Started the Fight, IT WAS TWO AGAINST ONE. The Acquitted Man’s Version of a Skirmish in the Recent Jour- nalistic War. SANTA CORUZ, Can, Feb, 7.—Phil Francis of the Penny Press was acquitted this afternoon of the chargt of an assault with a deadly weapon upon the person of E. W. Braun, editor of the Record. The witnesses for the prosecution were ex- amined several days ago, and the defense took up its case this afternoon in Justice Gardner's court. The prosecuting wit- ness was called for the defense to identify the article 1n the Record which caused the original trouble. He was followed by the defendant, Francis, who testified that Braun made a threatening motion toward him and be raised bis cane and struck Braun as a protection against the attack. The blow felled Braun, and almost sim- ultaneously the latter's friend, E. W. Warren, attacked Francis, and the fight became general, until the two were sepa- rated. Four witnesses who had seen the affray corroborated Francis’ testimony. The case was argued by the lawyers, and Justice Gardner, after reviewing the facts briefly, said there was no evidence to hold the defendant to appear before the Superior Court; therefore he was discharged. The audience seemed pleased, and Francis was surrounded by congratulating friends. In bis testimony, Editor Francis gave this version of the editorial affray: “I was walking down Pacific avenue to my room. When I approached the Reo- ord office I saw Braun talking to Warren. Braun was standing at one side of the door, and Warren at the other. The latter was closer to me. I passed Warren, and as I got opposite Braun, who was standing with his hands in his pockets, he drew his hands out, wheeled and made a step for- ward 1n my direction in a threatening manner. I struck upward with the cane in my band and hit Braun across the right ear, He went down. ‘‘Almost simultaneously Warren grabbed | me by the shoulder and I struck him in the face with my left hand, while 1 clung to the cane with my right. Warren suc- ceeded in planting his fist in my eye. I slapped him again, and letting go of the stick as Braun regained his feet we clinched. The two men attacked me and we fought until separated.” Sl o MONTEREXY BAY SALMON. Fishermen Oontinue to Make Big Catches of the Occan Game. SANTA CRUZ, CaL., Feb. 7.—Seven fishermen went out to-day, engouraged by a small catch of salmon yesterday, and re- turned with just eleven salmon each. They consider seven times eleven a lucky catch and will go again te-morrow. They discovered new *‘fishing grounds,” to use their term, up the coast about three miles, at what is known as Wilders Beach; but the shark carried off their tackle and they were obliged to return to the locality where the grand catches were made just Pprevious to the recent storm. The fishermen declare that there are more salmon in the bay to-day than could have been anticipated three weeks ago. The sardines are still plentiful, and while this feed lasts the salmon will stay, Rl it Driven in a Big Gale, SANTA CRUZ, CAn, Feb. 7. —The scbooner Penelope was sighted last even- ing coming down the coast and endeavor- ing apparently to make a landing. Itsac- tions attracted considerable attention, as the Penelope was a stranger at this port, It lay off Seabright beach until this morning, when fishermen bearded the vessel and learned that it had sailed into the bay to escape a gale that was blowin, out at sea. The Penelope had thirty sealskins aboard and was on its way to Point Sur, engaged in seal and sea otter fishing, PRI T Fire in a Hotel. SANTA CRUZ, CaL, Feb. 7.—A fire started in the Germania Hotel at 1:30 o'clock this morning and destroyed the upper floor and several rooms full of fur- niture. The lodgers escaped safely. The damage was about $2500. BANDIT RAID AT HEPPNER, Masked Men Compel a Railway Station Agent to Open a Safe. His Plucky Wife Ignores Their Warn- ing to Halt and Spreads an Alarm, HEPPNER, Oz., Feb. 7.—Two masked men held up the Orezon Railway and Navigation Company’s agent to-night and made him, at the point of their revolvers, open his safe and give them the cash, They secured about $50. E The_robbery took place about 9:30 o'clock. The agent and his wife went into the office at that time, and two men walked | in with their faces comucealed by black magks. Coyering.the agent and his wife the outlaws ordered them to hold up their hands. The agent asked them what for. They replied, ““Because we want you to,” They ordered him to open the safé, sayin; they wanted his money and had only a minute to wait. Mrs, Hart, the agent's wife, left the room, notwithstanding they ordered her to stop, and. went_down the track for a brakeman who had left the dinot about ten minutes before and was at the coach getting ready for the night's run. The alarm was quickly given, but so far no trace of the robbers has been found, The depot is about 200 yards from any other occupied building, and the wonder is that @ robbery has never ocourred there before, sesmbenl delecrinituied Russian Press Censorship. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Feb, 7.— {The chief of the censorship department bas forbidden the newspapersto publish anvthing calculated to encourage the illu- sion that administrative reforms of a_lib- eral character are meditated by the Gov- erhment. He says thaton the contrary no change is intended 3 BOUNDBROOK'S FLOOD AND FIRE. ‘One Life Lost and Much Property De- stroyed in the Double Dis- aster, NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 7.—The town of Boundbrook, N. J.. was nearly destroyed yesterday by flood and fire. The Raritan River rose over its banks and flooded the town. Then fire started and spread until about forty houses were destroyed. Owing to the flood nothing could be done to fight the fire, and even the help asked from neighboring cities could not be sent as the railroads were impassable. It was rumored that many persons im- prisoned in their houses by the flood were burned to death or drowned while trying to escape, and the first reports said that fully 100 lives had been lost, but this esti- mate proved to be greatly exaggerated. Dispatches this morning state that the damage is fully $150,000, but only one life was lost. Hundreds of fragile structures were torn from their foundations and floated down toward the ocean in the seething current. The fire was caused by a large quantity of lime in Cook’s lumber-yard, which was slacked by the rising water and ignited the surrounding piles of lum- ber. The flames were fanned by the wind and spread rapidly. The volunteer fire department was unable to use its apparatus, owing to the flooded condition of the streets, and in half an hour the whole business portion ofthe town was on fire. The fire finally died out this morn. ing, after devastating a large section of the town. A large number of families were made homeless by the fire and flood, AAMMOND 1S RELEASED. A Confirmation of the Report Cabled to the State De- partment. Evidence 'Preaen(ed by the Boer Gov- ernment Against the Arrested Reformers. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7.—The re- ported release of John Hays Hammond of California from Pretoria jail, on bail, has been officially confirmed by cable to the State Department. There is apparently nothing new in the diplomatic aspect of Hammond’s arrest, and it is likely that the State Department will await the result of the legal inquiry into the alleged con- cern of Hammond and other American citizens in the reform movement before taking action. Vice-Consul Knight telegraphs Secretary Olney from Capetown under to-day’s date that the preliminary examination in the case of the arrested Americansin the Transvaal is now proceeding and the trial will take place April 21. LONDON, Exa, Feb. 7.—A dispatch from Pretoria, capital of the Transvaal, says that on Wednesday and Thursday the trial was proceeded with of the mem- bers of the reform committee who were arrested at Johannesburg. Police. and other officials testified that the committee was prepared to receive Dr. Jamieson and s followers when they approached Johannesburg from Mafeking, where they crossed into the territory of the Transvaal. In carrying out these preparations the committee imported arms and provisions, dug intrenchments, and armed burglars and other criminals, Some of these armed men hindered.the constables in the per- formance of their duty in the streets of Johannesburg. The Times will to-morrow say it has learned that the conduct of the affairs of the British South Africa Company, conse- quent upon recent events, have been pro- visionaily settied. The Hon. Cecil Rhodes will forthwith proceed to Rhodesia, where he will reside. The paper will add that no public state- ment can be made of the Transvaal inci- dents while the trials at Pretoria and the trial of Dr. Jameson and his followers are pending. The London Gazette prints a long dis- patch sent by the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Sir Heroules Robinson, Gov- ernor of Cape Colony and High Commis- sioner in South Africa. Mr. Chamberlain reviews the cause that led to Jameson’s raid in tbe Transvaal, enumerates the grievances of thie Uitland- ers in the Transvaal, and suggests a scheme of reforms, including the granting of limited autonomy to the residents of the Rand. He invites President Krueger of the Transvaal to visit England to dis- cuss the questions at issue, and says that if he is unable to come he (Chamberlain) relies upon Governor Robinson te prose- cute the negotiations and uphold the Anglo-Boer convention of 1884. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 8.—A special cable dispatch to the Journal from Johan- nesburg says: ‘The condition of consular affairs here is very bad. The quarrel between Acting Consul Knight and Consular Agent Man- 1on is causing serious trouble to all United Btates citizens in the Transvaal, This state of things is, of course, very detrimental to the position -of John Hays Hammond. Whatever isdone in the mat- ter should be done quickly, In such a crisis every hour lost 2dds to the danger, —_— FLOGGED BY THE PREACHER, A New Method. of Punishing a Negro As- sailant in Temncssee. MEMPHIS, Texx., Feb. 7.—The specta- cle of a mob flogging a negro who had at- tempted to assault & white girl, instead of hanging him, was witnessed at Shady Grove, Miss., yesterday. Last Sunday George McDonald attempt- ed to assault the 13-year-old niece of Con- stable A, Adams, who is her guardian. Bloodhounds were put on his trail and the chase kept up until he was captured. The mob took the prisoner to Shady Grove, where he was identified. Then the people held a meeting to decide what disposition to make of him, - Inasmuch as McDonald had failed to ac- complish his purpose the mob decided not toput him to death, but instead to g | him until the guardian of the girl cried enough. He was stripped of his ‘clothes, straped to a log and Rev. George Travis, the colored preacher, administered the flogging, which was kept up until Consta- ble Adams- was' satisfied. McDonald w. then released aud given two hours to take the next train ve S penalty of du:hn. iaam e Pt “d" e — 4 British Steamer Missing. .:;:TIMIO‘EE, Mb., l‘e:.‘ 7‘—'!1,:1:‘ British er Laurestina, which sa fro n, on Teported as mluin::‘ Bbe had a crew os; twenty-five % i Crena a‘fi?n and it is believed went his report is another prephetic paragraph: A THORN-IN - COLLIS' SIDE, Commissioner Pattison’s Re- “port on the Central Pacific. FORECAST OF A DECADE. Impossible Then as It Is Now to Pay the Railroad’s Indebtedness. MISAPPROPRIATION OF FUNDS. Gist of the Congressional Committee’s Report on the Pacific and Aided Roads. The objection to the funding bill which Collis P. Huntington is working so earn- estly to have passed at Washington, D. {2/ may be more serious at the present time, but it was also of some import a few years ago. At that time Congress appointed an in- vestigating committee to look into the af- fairs of the Central Pacific and other roads aided in their construction by the Government, and after an exhaustive hear* ing of all the testimony that the raii- road people had regarding the validity of their right to get an extension of time in which to make good their indebtedness, Robert E. Pattison, chairman of the Con- gressional committee, presented a detailed report of the investigation, the closing sentence of which, backed up by the com- mittee’s deductions from the evidence placed before' it, speaks volumes. This is what it says: At present prices of railroad construction it is evident that {from the properties themselves the Government cannot recover within $108,- 000,000 of the present value of the indebted- ness owling to it by the bond-aided companies. Any extension of the time for payment wouid be useless and would expose o further risk end depreciation the present inadequate se- curity for the debt, ROBERT E. PATTISON, Commissioner. Washington, December 1, 1887. This was nearly ten years ago, and Chairman Pattison foresaw then what would be the issue in years t6 come. ‘In ‘The beginning of proceedings at this time to cause the forfeiture of the chartersof these companies because of their yiolations.of law and failure to keep their contracts with the Government is only go anticipate by a few years the result which will be ineyvitable when the bonds mature in 1895-97. To wait until | then to institute legal proeeedings would not | avert the result, but would further jeopardize | the interests of the Government and increase the amount of the indebtedness. It should be borne in mind that it is'a fact admitted by every officer of these roads who testified before the commission and overwhelmingly proved by the evidence submitted, that the payment of the debt at maturity in 1893-97 can under no circumstances be expected. As an explanation to the President of the United States, substantiating his de- ductions, Chairman Pattison stated: | Had the Pacific roads been built and man- aged upon honest methods, had the Govern- ment ioan been properly applied, these com- Dpanies, regarded es a whole, could have de- clared dividends at the rate of 6 per cent per sunum for eighteen years, from date of actual completion to the present time, upon all the moneys that they would haye been required to pay in to complete and equip the roads; they would have owned 2495 miles of roads free irom all debt and worth $124,600,000, upon an original outlay of less than £35,490,381 44 ; three of them, the Union Pacifie, Central Pa- cific and Central bianch, could have repaid every centof the principal and interest ad- vanced by the Goyernment to date, and could have rediced their charges to shippers to the extent of over $140,000,000, or nearly $8,000,- per year. For $1 tie stockholders would have realized $1 07 1ndividends in eighteen years and $1 11 in land sales. The property would have been free irom debt, und for every dollar that they had invested the stockholders would have had in property over $4; so that in eighteen years each dollar would have yielded $6 18. But they chose dishonest methods. ‘At the outset they divided $172,847,115 of fictitious capital, they dissipated over $107,000,000 which should have been applied to the pay- mentof the principal ana interest ofthe Gov- ernment debt, and they taxed shippers to the extent of over $140.000,000, or nearly $8,000,- 000 & year, to pay for the inflation of the capi- tal of these companies and for the vicious prac- tices that crept into their management. The Central Pacific should have been built | for $16,609,203 76 of stock AIAbscn?lion which should have been paid in conformity with the act of Congress; all debts could have been wiped out, including the Government. debt, principal and interest; the stock would have paid regular dividends at the rate of 6 per cent er annum; and for the outlay of £16,609, 03 76 the company woula to-day own a rail- road worth at least £40.000,000 and unsold 1ands worth $12,500,000, equaling an appreci- ation of over 200 per cent in eighteen years, | while shippers would have been benefited by a reduction of over $54,000,000 in cost of trans- portation. 1In reviewing the payments made for im- proper purposes by the Central Pacific the Pattison report explains: In the accountsof the Central Pacific Rail. rord Company the diversions of earnings amounted to many millions of dollars through contracts made by Messrs. Stanford, Hunting- ton, Hopkins and Crocker, with themseives, for construction, leases, repairs, etc. They constructed 1171 miles of adjunct linesata cost of $27,216,951 0L, - On account of that construction, in addition to a little cash pay- ment, they issued bonds to themselves to the amount of $33,722,000, and stock to the emount of $49,005,800, making a total issue of $82,727,800, of which $52,5639,654 repre- sented inflation. 5 Then, as directors of the Central Pacific, they took Jeases on their own lines for the Central Pacifie for #3,400,828 81 per annum, which was at the rate of nearly 13 per cent, Fifteen months ago three of these directors contracted with themselves to build an exten- sion of the California and Oregon division of the Central Pacific irom Delta to the boundary,| line of Oregon, & distance of 103 miles. In ayment they issued stock to the amount of £8.000,000, and bonds to the amount of $4,- ,000, the market value of the stocks and bonds at the time being $8,340,000. The actual cost of the comstruction was $3,505,609, so that they personally profited py their own | votes by that single transaction to the extent | of 84,834,301, Mark Hopkins is dead, but his | xmfmm-uu maintained for his estate and eirs. In following up the dealings of these direc- tors with; the Central Pacific Raiiroad Com- papy and, its adjunct companies 1 is found that Messrs. Stanford, Huntington. Hopkins and ‘Crocker received over $142,000, in eash and securities through the Contract and Finance Company, the Western Development Company, the Pacific Improvement Company aud dividends of the Central Pacific, Railroad Company. In addition to this sum of $142,000,- 000 they also made |urgegmflu in the opera- tions of fifteen or more other companies, which were directly or remotely sapping tne reve. nues of the Central Pacific Complt?. ‘The total payments by the Ceniral Pacific on account of rentals amounted to $29,912,- 873 49. s ACCOUNTS AND VOUCHERS OF THE AIDED COM- PANIES, The same company also expended $4,818,- 355 67, of whgeh ghe Iynlnunu declined to give any explanation or to &ermtt_olhmw explain. As’ the resources of the company have been diminished to the éxtent of these expendi- ires, and as the road itself will not {Ie! suffi- 0 'L%""{ the Government ciaim, it is apparent that the United States are eventually lge losers by those disbursements, most of which, s shown by the Huntington letters, were applied o corrupt public men and influ- vanced, amounting to $31,869,475 20, and by Darking up its lands in ‘iis asset column. o 828,500,000, when the actual value was $12,500,000, as sppears irom the testimony of the_company’s Jand agent, the company made gzss}mwln ©of an apparent surplus of over A large’sum which has been expended by the Central Pacific for legislation wnPe sted under the head of “‘general expenses.” m« addition of that sum would materially increase the total payments of $2,361,154 88 on account of legal expenses. Regarding the more intimate payments that should have been made the State of California on the ground of taxation, this is what the Pattison report has to say: Three of the bond-aided companies, the Cen- tral Pacific Union Pacific and Kansas Pacifie, have persistently evaded local taxation, and ave thrust undue burdens on other taxpayers by refusing to g;!ennhe lands granted tothem by Congress. long as their land was un- patented it was exempt from taxation, and the extent of exemption may be gathered from the fact that they have failed to_patent 8,872,077 acres which they have sold, and they have failed to even |p£1y for patents on 7,500,000 acres which they have sold. The refusals of the Central Pacific to pay its taxes to the State of California have been so persistent and so flagrant, and extended over 50 long a period of years, that the Gevernor of California on March 24, 1884, issued a procla- mation setting forth the fact that for four years the Central Pacific had refused lo obey the laws imposing taxes upon their {;o{wrty. and calling a special session of the Legislature to devise methods for enforcing a compliance with the laws of the State. The Central Pacific had resisted State taxa- tion on the fround thatithad been constructed under act of Congress of July 1, 1862. When the commission examined Leland Stanford in San Francisco he insisted that the Central Pacific Company was & State and not a Federal corporation. The Central Pacific has selected only half of its land grant in California that has been surveyed, and it has failed to select 180,000 acres in that State that have been surveyed since the completion of the road. Of the grant to the Central Pacific in Nevada 700,000 acres were surveyed at the date of the completion of the road and about 2,000,000 acres are now surveyed, The company has selected about one-fourth of its land grantin that State, 2 Of the grant to the Central Pacific in Utsh, of which 250,000 acres were suryeyed at the date of the completion of the road in 1869, no lands were selected until February, 1884, | nandrly fifteen years after the completion of the road, HANGED [N STATE PRISON, Execution of Bepjamin Radcliff, an Aged and Eccentric Farmer. While Trying to Hush a Scandal He Shot Three Colorado School Directors. CANYON CITY, Coro., Feb. 7.—Benja- min Radcliff, the Park County murderer, was executed in the State penitentiary this evening at 8:05 o’clock. The execu- tion was witressed by the authorized offi- cials only. Radcliff gave up hope when the Board of Pardons failed to commute | his sentence to life imprisonment and de- clined to talk of his case. On May 6, 1895, Benjamin Radeliif, an aged and eccentric rancher, smarting un- der country gossip regarding his orphaned daughter, set out on 'horseback with a shotzun to secure redress. He claimed that he was on his way to file suits for slander against the instigators of the slan- derous gossip, and that he stopped at the schoolhouse in the Tarryall district, Park County, to see about the education of his children. A school election was being held thatday and a quarrel quickly arose between Rad- cliff and the Bchool Directors, one of whom was alleged to be foremost in the scandal gossip about Miss Radcliff, which resulted in Radcliff shooting in cold blood | L. E. McCurdy, Douglass Wyatt and Sam- uel Taylor, He then mounted his horse and rode into Fairplay, where he gave himself up to the Sheriff. Fearing lynching, the Sheriff removed his prisoner to Buena Vista, in Chaffee County, where he was convicted and sen- tenced to death. The Supreme Court de- clined to reverse the decision and the Board of Pardons, in spite of the insanity plea of acquaintances, declined to inter- fere with the sentence of death. SIOUX INDIANS RESTLESS, Will Hold a Council at Wounded Knee to Express Their Dissatisfaction. The Gathering to Conclude With a Feast at Which Dogs Will Be Served. | | LINCOLN, Nesr., Feb. 7.—Reliable re- poris from Northern Nebraska and South Dakota tell of afeeling of unrest among the Ogaliala Sioux Indians. There is no fear of any hostile demonstration, but in order to give vent to their feelings a coun- cil will be held at Wounded Knee on the 10th of the present month and a delega- tion selected to visit Washington and con- fer with the President. The principal complaint is that they do not get their annuities in cash, as they claim was promised them. The system of issuing blankets, clothing, ete., is very un- satisfactory, as they are given out regard- less of the needs, size or fit. Itis thought that old Red Cloud will head the delegation, as he has expressed a desire to shake hands with the “Great Father” again and then return fo the agency and die. The council will zonclude with a feast at which 186 dogs will be served. — FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED. Fears for a Party That Went Down the River in a Houseboat, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 7.—The fate of Henry P. Hamley and party, who started down the river in a houseboat last Octo- ber, is ‘not known. Hamley’s party con- sisted of his ‘wife, sister-in-law (Sarah Grifiiths), Philip Goss, Fred Loomis and Bob Miller. They carried dry goods for sale at the landings along the banks. Be- sides carrying goods Hamley, who is re- puted to be worth about $40,000, usnally carried about $6000 with him on such 1ps. The houseboat Carrie was found cap- sized just above Natchez, Miss., last Tues- day. It is feared that murder has been done, and it is pointed out that Phili Goss, one of the party, has a police reconf s Bluejackets on the Train. HOUSTON, Tex., Feb. 7.—A special train on the Southern Pacific passea through- here this evening having' on board, in command of Lieutenant Rober, the officers and erew of the battle-ship ‘Teas, which has been taken out of com- mission and is now in drydock at the Nor folk, Va., navy-yard for repairs. The train contained eight coaches. The party, consisting of six officers and 165 men, are en route to Mare Island Nayy-yard, Cal. This is the first move- ment of the kind attempted, as the Gov- ernment usually transports its sailors by ence ation. The nce-sheet of the Central Pacific for 1886 should have shown a deficit of over , 000,000 in rofit and loss aceount, but y omitting from the debit side the accumu~ lated interest which the Government bad ad- way of tha Isthmus of ‘Panama. The run between here and New Orieans was made in a ligtle less than seven hours. 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