The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 11, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1896. LOVERS STOPPED 1§ FULL FLIGHT. Young Couple Eloping From | Tacoma Arrested in This City. SAID TO BE UNDER AGE. But They Were Married in Vic- toria and Flaunt Their Certificate. OFFICER COMING FOR THEM. The Bride Is a Daughter of George sympathize with the young eouple and | they were madae as comfortable as possible. PETS IN THE PARK. The Remarkable Influence of a Lady Over the Famous Grizzly, Monarch. The big bear Monarch, in Golden Gate Park, has made friends with one of the visitors to the people’s pleasure grounds, and only one. A number of persons have endeavored to be on friendly terms with him, but they have been unsuccessful. The only one that he seems to be on good terms with is Mrs. M. G. Cobb, the wife of General Cobb, an attorney of this City. Every time she goes there she feeds him with dainties. He knows her, and when- ever she approaches his cage he ambles toward where she is standing and seems pleased to see her. A remarkable fact is that whatever she offers him he eats off her hand, and he permits her to pet his head, something he will not allow any one else to do. i His keeper has often tried to make friends, but Monarch would not manifest | a triendly disposition, and he has taken the precaution when he feeds him to be out of range of ugly paws that bruin will thrust through the bars at times. Many of the people who stand around the cage to watch Monarch as he moves from place to place offer him cake and sweetmeais, but, except in the case of Mrs. Cobb, he reaches for what is offered with one of his Hazzard, a Prominent Democratic Politician of Washington. There slept in the City Prison last night | great paws. & Some time ago Captain Thomson of the police force took pleasure in feeding honey to his bearship. Of this he is very fond, and the captain was of the opinion that by offering him the sweetness every morn- ing he would tame Monarch, but he Edward Cootes and His Bride as They Appeared Yesterday at the City Prison. [Sketched by a “ Call artist.] ia bride and groom—a very young couple— Who had hurried away from theirjhome in | Tacomd without saying good-by to the | folks and who only yesterday morning arrived in this City. The came by the Umatilla, and an officer with a warrant stood at the foot of the gangplank when they, the first passen- gers to leave the ship, walked down it. The couple were Mr. and Mrs. John C. 2. Cootes. The lady was Miss Julia Haz- zard when she left Tacoma last Thursday afternoon. They were arrested on a telegram from Tacoma, which simply requested the Chief of Police here to hold them, an- nouncing that the Chief of Police of Ta- coma would come for them. The couple had registered with the | Seattle as Mr. and Mrs. Cootes, they occupied room 12 on the trip down, had behaved themselves as a young | married couple on their wedding tour | found that while the bear was glad to re- ceive the choice morsel he wou%d not per- mit any familiarity. Out on Stow Lake,in the center of which is situated Strawberry Hill, there is an old | duck with a broken wing, one that was | captured wild and kept by a gentlemen for over tive years in his yard. Some time | ago the cwner, desiring to change his | domicile and having no place to keep his pet, donated it to the park. A reporter for one of the morning papers, who frequently goes to Stow Lake, usually carries | crackers in his pockets, and these he feeds | to the swans, ducks and mudhens. The | duck with the broken wing has come to the reporter, and whenever he goes to the spot from which he feeds the birds, the | duck, no matter where he may -be, will swim over and quack until he is feed. | Sometimes the reporter will pretend not to notice the duck, which will waddle ashore, approach the reporter and snap at his legs uatil he is noticed and given a cracker. FOUND THE TREADWELL. might be expected to, and so when appre- hended by an officer at the landing much | interest was awakened among the other passengers. They were a little startled themselves, but soon recovered, and even when con- | ducted into the City Prison took the mat- | ter philosophicelly, even good-naturedly. Telegrams from Tacoma say that the young people are not of age, and therefore cannot legally macry without consent of | their parents. ‘They were married, hibit a certificate to that effect obtained at Victoria, B. C., on Friday last. The certificate givi he age of the young man &< 21 years and that of his bride as 19. The younz woman is the daughter of | George Hazzard, who for several vears has been the secretary of the Democratic State Central Commitiee of Washington, and a | strong and odd figure in the politics of the | State. He is a champion of the Hill ele- | ment of the party and all-round poiitical | rustler. The young man, Coates, was employed as timekeeper for the Tacoma Railway and Motor Company. He resigned his position some days before his intended departure and fortified himself for begin- | ning his career here with letters of intro- duction to Postal Inspector Erwin and | Superintendent Flint of the railway .mail 1 however, and ex- service from John C. F. Gordon of the postal service at Tacoma. 1 When seen at the City Prison yesterday afternoon the young couple were seated gide by side on a bench in the captain’s | office smilingly indifferent to their sur- | roundings, apparently bappy in the pos- | session of each other. | *1 dou’t see how they can hold us here or take us back to Tacoma,’’ said the young | man. ‘“We have done nothing criminal; we are married and that’s all there is to it. | Our "story? Well, we left Tacoma last | Thursday evening on the steamer Floyd | and took the Umatilla at Seattle. On Fri- | day eyening, while the steamer stopped at | Victoria, we went up street to the Metro- politan Methodist Church and were mar- | ried by the pastor, the Rey. Mr. Cleever. I brought letters with me here mth’ the hope of securing a position. We won’t go back unless we have to.” : No, I don’t want to go back,"” said his wife. *I mailed a letter from Port Town- | send to mamma telling her all about it. My father has been in Washington, but is expected home about now. [’'m sure I can’t say what he will think about this, but I can’t help it,” and she smiled as though not greatly distressed about it. Neither would say just why they thought it necessary to run away from home to get married. "They had been avowed lovers for some time, and Cootes says that Papa | Hazzard always treated him very well when be called at his house. | Both the young people seem, neverthe- | less, to havea profound respect for a certain heavy cane with a large heavy crook to it, which the aggressive Democratic leader carries habitually on liis left forearm. I. Newlands, 'a ‘mining engineer and brother of Dr. Newlands of Seattle, who is married to Cootes’ cousin, was with them on the irip down and was a witness of their marriage. He was with them at the City Prison nearly all the afternoon. The oflicers at the prison were inclined to go to Alaska this year than last,”” and l;)oreiprgg ression is genter of activity, and that it will be the Remarkable Career of Antone Marks, the Douglas Island Prospector. Antone Marks, discoverer of the famous Treadwell gold mines and the first white man to proceed up the Yukon after the purchase of Alaska, is at the Commercial Hotel. Mr. Marks is an Austrian who has been thirty years on the American and British frontier. His discoveries on Douglas Island were made before the founding of Juneau. Enormous wealth has since been taken from the Solid Bullion, Michigan, Treadwell and other mines of the Tread- well group by Senator John P. Jones, D. O. Mills and others, who became the pur- chasers. Mr. Marks yet resides on Douglas Island, and thinks it is one of the best places in the world to live. His mustache has grown gray and his hair has become silvered since_he went to these far Northern regions. No history of | Alaska is complete without his part in it being set forth, The vioneer prospector alluded to his tragic experiences last night in searching for gold and rtunning the gauntlet of the Indians. “‘It is some sixteen years ago now,” said he, “that I and a man named Dugan started to go up the Yukon from the pres- ent site of Juneau. We had only proceded a short distance in t- e interior till we were warned by the Indians whom we met that we would be killed if we proceeded. “This was a discouraging thing to us, but it was evident the Indians meant what they said. We were therefore forced to turn back. _““The dangers attending private explora- tion and tie needs of finding out the facts of the interior at length became impressed on the Government, snd a sioop was sent to ascend the Yukon. We got aboard and went as far np as the first ake, a distance of between 400 and 500 miles. ‘“Later T was enabled to proceed further up the Yukon to where some of the dig- gings are now. Our trip was rather hur- ried and we did not find anything, It was then I began to give attention in earnest to the goid claims on Douglas Isiand. There were five of us in all that made loca- tions, among them John Fry and Jim Berry. The Solid Bullion claim of the group was mine exclusively. Among the other claims we then staked out and de- veloped to considerable extent were the Michigan and Treadwell. The Bullion is a very big property now, as are the others forming the great combination. Mr. Marks is here on a vacation and will remain some time. Among other Alaskans now at the Commercial is Pete Wyberg, who owned and operated a rich placer mine on the upper Yukon. He sold the miune not long since for $45,000, at least that was the price stated at the time. Mr. Wyberg has been East and ha« just returned here. I think more people will he said. “It appears to me there is more interest arations for going. My im- t Circle City will be the important town.” \ SILENCE REIGNS IN THE JONTA Orders Go Forth to Cease All Political Conver- sation. POPPER WAS INDISCREET Chief Sullivan’s Bon Mot Sealed the Lips of the Local Democracy. BRAUNHART'S LAST WORDS O’Brien, Buckley’s Lieutenant, Says Chairman Sullivan Is a Political Job Chaser. The edict has gone forth from Chairman Sullivan and the faithful of the Junta must close their mouths, batten down the batchways of breezy versifiage, muzzle the flow of bons mots regarding their friends, brothers and countrymen, and ob- serve the golden rule twenty-four hours per diem. The following epigram delivered under aggravating circumstances was the cause of it:: “Max Popper is nearly as big a political ass as Sammy Braunhart.”—Chief Sullivan. Mr. Popuer appears to have done the in- discreet thing of administering verbal re- buke to what1s known as the opposition and included Chief Sullivan in that cate- gory. He also enumerated several other gentlemen, who were claimed by him to have been friends of Sam Rainey and Buckley, with the result that Senator Armes, one of the men mentioned, and Chief Sullivan retorted in a vigorous man- ner and caused considerable comment among the Democrats who have threat- ened to purify local politics, even if it costs all the patronage in the City Hall. Chairman Sullivan became alarmed at the way the participants were working themselves up and called a halt just in time to save some of them losing their breath entirely. ‘I really consider that Mr. Popper was indiscreet,”” said he recent. gested that silence be maint: ternal strife was threatened. It is nota good plan to begin such contests at this critical period and Iam of the opinion that it will not occur again.” Other members of the Junta when ap- proached for an interview were discreetly silent and appeared to know absolutely nothing. They looked CALL representative when questioned and refused to even chat about the weather. No more uninteresting body of men ever assembled than was found Saturday night at the committee-rooms in the Flood building. If any outsider asked for a match with which to light a cigar he was sent to Chairman Sullivan for it. Mr. Sullivan certainly has great wflu- ence over his acquaintances, and had succeeded in spreading silence an inch blankly at THE | tions to the contrary deceive no one. are dead, never t0 rise again. SAMUEL BRAUNHART. It would be well for members of the Junta to cut out the closing sentence and aste it in their hats as a prophecy made in the midst of trying and stirring times when men rise to the occasions that in- volve struggling nations and political parties. FISH COMMISSIONERS. They Have Decided to Cease Stocking the Truckee River. The Board of Fish Commissioners met yesterday. The secretary reported that Deputy Al Wilson had made another sue- cessful raid upon the illegal fishers on the Russian Riverand on Friday night secured two large set salmon nets. Commussioner J. Morrison and Deputy Babeock will this week go to Folsom to examine the new fish-tadder constructed on the Folsom Electric Power Company’s dam. The dam is eighty-nine feet high | and the ladder, to permit fish to get over the obstruction in the river, cost over $2000. Itis built of rock and cement, and Lin its construction great engineering difti- culties had to be overcome. A. N. Buckman of the Soutn Fork Ditch Company accepted thedplans for the fish- ladder 1o be constructed on the east side of the American River below Auburn. The commission decided to discontinue stocking the Truckee River in California. The Truckee is the outlet of Lake Tahoe, and all the fish in their annual runs go down the river. On account of the wretched condition of the fish-ladders at the dams 1n Nevada they are unable to re- turn to the headwaters. Thus the Califor- nia commissioners have been providing excellent fishing for the people of Nevada, and they are determined not to put any more fish in the river until the people of Nevada see that good ladders are put in the Truckee, so that the fish can travel in the river in both' States. DR. MORSE HAS RESIGED The President of California Col- . lege Is to Retire This Term. ut they Ten Years of Service, During Which the Institution Has Been Built Up. Dr. S. B. Morse, president of California Colleze, sent in his resignation to the board of trustees at the last session of that body, on February 4. The board did not accept i1, but laid it on the table for future action. It is understood, however, that Dr. Morse has fully made up his mind to close | his work with California College with | the present college vear. He was elected | to the presidency in December, 1886, and | will have completed nearly ten years at | the expiration of the present college year. | Previous to 1586 the Baptists of California | had made several attempts to establish a | school, but with little success. | . Since Dr. Morse has had charge three | beautiful buildings have been erected upon the ten-acre campus at Highland Park, and academic, collegiate and musical de- partments have been maintained with a success that has been gratifying and re- | markable, considering the stringency of the times. Besides the purchase of grounds and erection of buildl;ngs, which | are all paid for, President Morse has se- "curcd from the friends of the institution endowment and scholarship funds to the amount of $43,000. Though having the executive labors of | he college upon him, he has taught an 7 ) il DR, S. 7 ) B. [Sketched from life for “ The Call.”] (7 74 MORSE, 4 thick throughout the iocal Democracy— with one exception. That exception .is Sam Braunhart, referred to by Chief Sullivan recently. Mr. Braunhart wae seen early in the day and asked what he thought of Sullivan’s faux pas. At first he was not disposed to be very communicative, but finally reached for a_leadpencil, and in a few moments turned out the following opinion on the head of the Fire Depart- ment, with the remark that he hoped it would go as he had written it. The ma- terial is herewith presented: 1 entertain the highest respect for Chief Sul- livan, both as an officer and as & man. Some one must have misre};munwd me to cause him to speak disrespectfully as to my political affiliations. Too much cannot be said of him in praise of his conduct of the department over which he presides. Iam fully satisfied that he is sick of any attempt to drag the department into politics, and he will, in my >pinion, do all 1n his power to prevent its use for any im- proper purpose. Still, there can be no ques. tion as to the effort daily made by foliowers of Sam Rainey to secure control of our organiza- tion, yet all their attempis have thus far rrovcn futile. They do not number more than 5 per cent of the entire membership of the general committee, and in the primary elec- tion yet to be held their number will dimin- ish below that percentage. Rainey as a politi- cal boss is as dead as Buckley, and’ it is safe to say, beyond a doubt, that both these men have had their day. 2 The Democracy of this City will not again permit itself to be contrclled by men who will not m‘won a ticket they themselves nominate, nor will the party tolerate the use of the or- ganization as a tender to Boss Burns to foist a corrupt municipal government upon our le. The treachery against the party in 1890, 892 and 1894 is of too recent occurrence to be condoned. Buckley and Rainey were both responsible for this arty treason, and though Kainey conspired w&h‘ 1 his forces to defeat the ticket in 1892 he "nmxi failed, and we won the greatest victory in lhe political his. tory of this City. Buckley and Raine; it is due to Chief Sull} Pplished. are now separated and van that this is accom- Were it not for his sturdy and fear- average of five classes a day,.has delivered over 400 addresses and lectures, and has traveled over 30,000 miles. President Morse does his work and faithfully. Durin, nia, since 1861, he has | positions. For five years he filled the | chair of ancjent languages in the Pacific Methodist College; for eight years he was | pastor of the First Baptist Church in Stock- | ton; he was pastor of the Tenth avenue Baptist Church, Oakland, between nine and ten years, and he is now serving his tenth year at the college. Dr. Morse spent 1877 in Euro Orient. He has delivered over 38('5 lectures on his travels. Whether he will continue | teaching or return to the pulpit he has not determined. 118 v uietly i his life in Califor- eld four important and the ——————— Mardi Gras Entertainment. The decoration committee has made great Progress in the arrangements for the big Mardi Gras entertainment at the Mark Hophins In- stitute, and Artist J. ‘A. Stanton has put in over 400 colored electric lights. He has de- signed a novelty in the way of & fountain for the conservatory, and other original things. The ladies will be interested to know that sents in the gallery of the main hall and all around the sides of the principal rooms have been pro- vided for those who will not care to mask and participate in the dance and who come as spec- lators, SR S Abandoned Their Baby. Shortly before 12 o'clock last night a tall, blonde woman, about 85 years of age, called at the Receiving Hospital, and Dr. Fitzgibbon followed her out to see what she wanted. The woman led him to City Hall avenue, where she suddenly turned and placed a bundle in his arms and fled. She was quickly joined b, & tall man, with whom she ran np&lfy 0! rg Market street. Dr. Fitzgibbon was so surpris that he let the strange couple esca) d pe without a word. On taking the bundle to the hospital he aound l‘:.“ it vug a girl baby about nv‘Z o:' ll!‘x 858 ol F MRS, COOPER She Incurs Sharp Criticism From a Woman Suffragist. MRS. HARLAND’S CHARGE The Church Scandal Complicated by the Introduction of a Pooh-Bah. THAT OBERLIN STORY DENIED. The President of the College Says Dr. Brewn Was Never a Party to a Scandal There. A story published in an afternoon paper charging that Dr. Brown while a student at Oberlin College was involved in a scan- dal similar to the one which now sur- rounds him is bitterly resented by that gentleman. The statement was made on what pur- ported to be reliable authorty that Dr. Brown left college at thé request of the faculty, the blackmail accompaniment be- ing the only difference between the then difficulty and the more recent charges made by Mrs, Davidson. Blackmail was not a part of the Oberlin affair. Assoon 4 s Dr. Brown read the story he immedi- ately sent the following telegram: SAN FrANCISCO, Feb. 10, 1896, President James A. Fairchild, Oberlin, Ohio. Newspapers here accuse me of scandal at Ober- lin. Answer thirty words at my expense. C. O. BROwN. At 9 o’clock last night he received a re- ply, which tells its own story: OBERLIN, Ohio, Feb, 10, 1896. Rev. Dr. C. O. Brown, 1703 Geary street, San Francisco, Cal.: There is not the shadow of truth in the rumor of scandal connected with your life at Oberlin. JAMES A. FAIRCHILD. “Nothing more infamous has yet been attempted than this story published in an afternoon paper of alleged misconduct on my part while a student at Oberlin,” said Dr. Brown. *“That sort of thing is con- temptible, and but for the present dif- ticulties which entangle me I would not pay the least attention to it. The tele- gram of ex-president Fairchild must put the stamp of untruth on the whole state- ment. **Mr. Fairchild was president of Oberlin College for thirty years, is an eminent scholar and is now at the head of the theological department. Certainly he wouid know if I was gmlty of any wrong- doing while a student under him. Mat- ters of that character.do not occur in a small town of 5000}1:0\7]& without every- body knowing it. married in Oberlin and two of my children were born there. Last October my wife and I visited the old home, and our reception was all that could be desired. We also made a short stay at Rochester, the scene of the Bulle- tin’s aileged s ensation. This last charge | is so utterlv groundless as to be devoid of the asual anonymous letters.” Mrs. Hester A. Harland says the state- ment recently made that Mrs. Couper cansed berdismissal or withdrawal from the State Suffragists’ Association is prac- tically true in detail, “I regret very much,’” she said when seen at the home of Mrs. Nellie Blinn, on Posu street, yesterday, ‘‘that my name has been drawn into this unfortunate affair. So long as it has, however, I cheerfully ive the facts as I know them. Mrs. Cooper is chairman of the amendment campaign committee, a committee, by the way, that was created by Miss Anthony and others last year for the one purpose of making Mrs. Cooper think that she was the supreme power in the movement. The State Suffragist Association, now twenty- seven years old, could just as easily have done all this, and in fact it was its right. But Mrs. Cooper was a new convert and evervbody knows that where she cannot lead she certainly will not foliow. ‘“Well, I was made State organizer of this campaign committee with full power to act as the occasion might demand. It was Mrs. Cooper’s duty as chairman to inform the country pressof my coming and to generally boom the suffrage move- ment, this being the only way in which an organizer could work rapialy and success- fully. Well, I started on my mission, and to my surprise found that no one had heard of the movement except in a hazy sort of way, and knew absolutely nothing of the local organization. I was compelled to make a house to house canvass, and in order to get notices of the suffragists in the papers was forced to introduce myself to the different editors. I was very success- ful in organizing, but it was slow work— so slow in fsct that it was painfully evident I could not cover the fiity-seven counties by next November, and Mrs. Cooper’s absolute neglect of the duties assigned her caused this, and I was not long in finding it out. “Knowing that if I was not assisted through the press, the movement would fall short of expectations, and that I would be held responsible, I determined to enter a protest. I wrote to the presi- dent of the State Association stating the case frankly and plainly. Mrs. Cooper had not done her duty by the move- ment, and did not hesitate to say so. This angered the committee and the president beyond endurance. Mrs. Sargent, by the way, is like putty in the bands of Mrs. Cooper. Ina few cays there came a reply to the effect that they would permit no criticism of Mrs. Cooper or her actions. This letter was evidently prompted by the chairman of the amend- ment campaign committee. I replied to this letter, asserting my right as a member of the association to criticize any .one found not working 1n the interest of the suffrage movement, yet who posed as a great leader. I was not greatly surprised when a letter came to me, announcing the sudden determination of the campaign committee to abandon the work in which I was en- gaged. It was very plain to me that Mrs. Cooper had brought this about, so rather than submit further to thar sort of thing I immediately tendered my resignation. Mrs. Cooper was right when she said I did this, but she was careful to conceal the conditions that brought it about. She was not correct, however, when she said that I resigned because of ill health. 1 have not been weil for ten years, but I attended faitbfully to the duties imposed upon me, and have letters from the State president congratulating me on my brilliant work. My resignation was forced by Mrs. Cooper, and she knows it, but under ihe circum- stances no one can blame her for attempt- ing to shield herself by concealing the facts. _“There are reasons why Mrs. Cooper sought to do me harm, though to out- siders they may seem mere tritles. Kor instance when Miss Shaw was here we agreed to pay her $50 u nignt for six lectures. omething happened so that she did not deliver the lecture, but Mrs. Cooper made a motion that it be paid her just the same. I fought the roposition and saved the society $50. f also had trouble with Miss Cooper, the Pooh-Bah of the association, over the appointment of an assistant in Santa Cruz unty. It ha &ened that the lady was | ob)ectx)nsble to. Miss Cooper and she took it upon herself to tell me so. I replied that if she would attend to her own busi- *“This young woman, doubtlessa most estimable person in the opinion of those who understand her ways, assumes more than belongs to her, and is continually eiting herself dishked on account of it. %said she was the Pooh-Bah of the asso- ciation. Probably I would have hit nearer the mark had I said she acted in that capacity to her mother. *“I could give many other reasons why the Coopers do not like me, all pointing to the fact that Mrs. Cooper did seek my resignation, and got it. For the present, however, I will let the matter rest here.” Mrs, (Jooper continues to be flooded with letters, anonymous and otherwise. Yesterday she received one of the former character from Tacoma, charging her with being the mysterious Jane Elizabeth Baddin. It readsas follows: TAcoMA, Feb. 7, 1896. Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, San Franciseo: 1 see by the dispatches this morning that you are keeping up the fight in good shape. Yes, 1 suppose if you should hold your peace the very stones would cry out. This is very thin—so thin that & man could see through it; but have hed a new revelation. It has lately oc- curred to me that you and Mrs. Davidson have conspired together for the purpose of extortion, and that you are the mysterious Mrs. Baddin, and that "you are only carrying your part of the programme, and that you are only doing it for fear that she (Mrs. D.) will give you away OT turn against you; that you are only doing what you promised to do.” Well, if am_right in my prediction, you will soon be with Mrs. Davidson, where 'you ought to be, and when You are there together I suppose you will each of you have your bibles with you all the time. Oh, why should such hellhounds be permitted todog such a noble man of God as Dr. C. O, Brown? OLD CONGREGATIONALIST. This letter was mailed in Tacoma Feb- ruary 6, but bears the date of the 7th inst. The fact that the letier is in the same handwriting as those written 1 this City causes Mrs. Cooper to suspect that they were from the same party. This letter, with others, has been turned over to Post- office Inspector Irwin, who will make a thorough investigation. “Iam surprised at the stand taken by Dr. Case,” said Mrs. Cooper yesterday. “Itis all right to ask for suspension of judgment, but the way he attacked the press was ill-timed if nothing more.” Letters-missive were sent yesterday to all the churches expected -to take part in the council. Dr. McLean has been virtu- ally agreed on for moderator and George B. Hatch of Berkeley for scribe. HOW THE LAW IS BROKEN Gamblers Resort to Sharp Prac- tices to Get Ingleside Results. WERE ALL AT SEA YESTERDAY. Wrong Jockeys Were Posted Up, and Scratched Horses Had Odds Laid Against Them. With every poolroom in the United States cut off from communication, the downtown poolroome continue to do busi- ness, and the question arises when and how do they place the commissions they receive. Should they not be arrestea for violating the Ellert ordinance? The Pacific Coast Jockey Cluh is prose- cuting with relentless vigor its war against the poolroems, with their contaminating influences and evils. In its struggle to purge the California turf of these parasites that have brought the noble sport to the verge of ruin in so many different sections of the country the new racing association is entitled to the respect and support of all true lovers of racing. A law is in force that pro- hibits these crime-breeding dens, but, through cunning evasions, fraud and deceit, their keepers have managed to evade it, and justice is allowed to drag. These joints were first opened under the name of “‘commission houses,” simply a “blind’”’ to_dupe the unwary and unso- phisticated and relieve them of their dol- ! lars. Thousands of dollars have found their wav into the strong-boxes of these disreputable dens, and not one cent of it was ever placed at the track—the loophole through which they are allowed to exist. This has been proven and shown up in print since the | wartare waged on them by the Pacific Coast Jockey Club. ‘Wher the new jockey club opened up its new course at Ingleside it refused to let the rooms have a wire from the track, such as had been furnished by the California Jockey Club. Not to be outwitted their ecrafty proprietors had the results rewired from one of the poolrooms in the interior of the State, Then the club shut these rooms off. Nothing dauntea, the sharvers tried to smuggle information from the track through the aid of boys, men and even women. Failure followed in_their wake, and they were temporarily obliged to close down. With the reopening of the Bay District track it was again clear sailing for them. During the interim the eriminal element was drawn upon, and men with criminal records were promised big rewards by the gamblers if they could propose plans by which the desired information could be got from Ingleside. Consequently when the new track reopened for the meet- ing at present in progress the poolroom men had their campaign all mapped out. Buta hard blow was struck them at the outset, for a cunningly concealed under- ground wire wasdiscovered and destroyed. As the meeting progressed, however, the poolrooms were in receipt of the betting and results, and fora time the manage- ment was at a loss to discover the method by which they obtained the news. The officials of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club held a meeting at the club’s rooms in the Palace Hotel last evening, and Secre- tary Leake gave out to the press some of the methods the desperate gamblers had resorted to. .On Thursday last a man was caught signaling, while confederates in & neigh- boring building took down the resuits by means of a powerful field glass. A portion of his code of signals was the following: Number one, hat off in right hand; num- ber two, right hand to right ear; number three, left hand to leit ear, and so on to up to the number 15, the numbers representing the different horses could be signaled by imple movements of the arms, or touch- ing certain portions of the clothing worn. Ou Friday C. J. Kuerdal, whose residence is 'in Alameda, and he once served a term in the penitentiary for forgery, was arrested while signaling from - the grand stand. Anfi his method was a revelation in the art. A black leather book, similar to the “dope” books kept by many racegoers, carefully indexed, with large black numbers pasted on the leaves, was held in such a position that the confederate, by the aid of a glass, could easily discern them. Each Jockey riding at‘the track was given a number, Tod Sloan, who evidently did not stand well with the clever inventor, being givan the number fifty-eight. The oads ad another part of the book, and +by means of an index could be found in an instant. Another smaller book, with similar numbers, was iull{ indexed to signal the scratches. Both books are curiosities in their way and show genius on the part o their in- ventor. Kuerdal admitted ihat Messrs. Schwartz, Driscoll and Corbett employed him, and “that he received his pay from Jerry Driscoll. A new idea was hit upon, and daturday the rooms had the betting and results rewired from the East. Yesterday the track management cut off the Eastern rooms, and the downtown rooms, taken off guard, were all at sea. The odds at the were posted at1:32 p. M. Braw Scot bad odds listed against him while he was not a starter. Artist, also a non-starter, was quoted at 10to 1, to be ridden by Ballari. Bergen was marked up to ride Olive, while Garner brought the mare in a winner. The race was run at 2:03, while the rooms received no scratches until 2:18. Lizzie H and Edgemount both had jockeys up and had odds laid against them, and neither was a starter in the race. Korty-two mounts elapsed be- fore the result of the race was obtained. In the second race the jockeysand odds were also badly twisted]. and the rooms waited thirty-nine minutes before learning of the winner. The third race, a handicap, was certainly a good joke on the ‘‘commission fake,” The rooms posted their odds at 2:56, while the betting at the track did not begin until 3:04. Geraldine, witi Doggett up, wasa 7 to 5 favorite. She did notstart in the race. The event was decided at 3:32, and the rooms were in ignorance of the winner until 4:21. Geraldine was scratched at the time they learned of the result. In the fifth race there were ten starters and the rooms bad the wrong jockeys in eight instances. Forty-five jockeys rode in the different races, ard in forty-four instances the pool- rooms had wrong riders, counting scratched horses. Seventeen jockeys were up on 'horses that were scratched. And so0 on_through every race there were the most glaring errors. In despair “Charley” Kingsley, who runs a room on California street, wired the other rooms thatonly one race was in, and to pay off by the odds in the morning papers. He also stated that the fourth race might be declared off. This latter was a piece of news to the track manage- ment. One of the evening papers stated that the Jockey Club suspected a *leak” in the office of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The officials of the club con- tradict this most emphatically, and say that the telegraph company has acted in good faith throughout. The returns from the East were received over the wires of the Postal Telezraph Company. And behind this thin gauze of jobbery, sharp practices and connivery these tri sters hope to have tweive Supervisors pass a law allowing them to continue in the commission business. 5 less stand against Buckley these cronies would 5 ness she would cause less troublein the |on the opening race at 1:34 ». . be plotting together as they have in the past. association. The poolrooms marked up their odds They are both in politics, and their protesta: ALASKA INDIA UD. Life of a Tribesman Sacrificed Accord- ing to a Redskin Tradition. 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