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(MRS, TUNNELL TO BE A WITNESS It Is Claimed That She Is to Appear for Mrs. : Cooper. MRS. BARTON’S OPINION. Declares That She Knew of Miss Mattie Overman’s Career Months Ago. ALL READY FOR THE COUNCIL. The Various Churches Elect Delegates for the Forthcoming Inves. tigation. Mrs, Barton, 16 Dale place, who figured in the Brown-Davidson scandal in its earlier stages, claims to know the myste- rious witness of Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, by whom that lady confidently expects to prove the charge of immoral conduct now resting against the pastor of the First Con- gregational Church. This witness, according to Mrs. Barton, is none other than Mrs. Tunnell, who dis- appeared the day following the arrest of Mrs. Davidson. ‘‘L kept out of this case during tne ex- citing preliminary hearing,” said Mrs. Barton yesterday, “because I wanted first to see Mrs. Tunnell. I have followed her movements closely and can at any time lay my finger on her, though I have had no communication with her since the day before Christmas. Now, I don’t propose to tell allIknow, or how 1 found it out, but-it is true that Mrs. Tunnell is now the | witness of Mrs. Cooper. Why shouidn’t she come out on the side of truth and justice, even though she did wrong in the first instance in attempting to shield Dr. Tunnell, not considering Miss Overman, of course, is the only living per- who can give all the facts of this in- case. Why shouldn’t Mrs. n hunt her up and convince her ic morality compels her to speak ? tell everything that Mrs. Tunnell swear to. on , “my statement would much wei compani My state- 3 not_strictly hearsay, for what 1 10w of Dr. Brown’s alleged immoral con- duct comes_directly from Mrs. That lady is a dear friend of mine—in fact, we €xchanged confidences. “One day last year Mrs. Tunuell for various kindnesses done her made me a present of a little home up in Galt. wanted me to go up and inspect it, but I didn’t have the money, so she offered to let me have it, promising to bring it next | day. Well, that is the last I saw of her | for four months. She did not even write| to me, and I had come to think that she" pad been foully dealt with. This idea was | ctispelled, however, when one day there | came 2 knock at my door and in walked | Mrs. Tunnell. | “She told me then of her hurried, though lengthy, visit to Tacoma, where she went to nurse Miss Overman through a serious illness. The nature of this sick- ness hus already been fully gone into. Mrs. Tunnell said that Dr. Brown had paid the expenses of Miss Overman and her- self, and had been generous in his gifts her. She hada lotof new clothes, whicl she said had been given her by the pastor. At that time I thought Dr. Brown was & single man until all this scandalous af- fair came out. I knew that men were sometimes guilty of such things, but I was shocked beyond expression when I heard. of his wife. Her name was men- tioned frequently by Mrs. Tunnell, but I always thought she was his mother. “There are hundreds of little things that Mrs. Tunnelltold me, 4ll bearing on the case, but as I expect to be a Witness it is bardly proper to go into detail now. They will all come outin due time, if not through me then through Mrs. Tunnell.” Mrs. Barton will be called before the council to tell what she knows of the case, provided Mrs. Tunnell does not material® ize. In this latter event any statement from ber would be entirely worthless. She will, however, he called on by the defense in the Davidson case to cecount her rela- tions with Mrs, Tennell. Mrs. Barton is the lady whom John Pierce said Le heard declare herself to be Mrs. Baddin, . She srew quite indignant yesterday when asked if the story was true. “The idea is simply absurd,” she said. “I know Mr. Pierce very well, ana I can- not believe that he ever made such a state- ment. I never met Miss.Overman in my life and never saw Mrs. Davidson except in_court. Mrs. Baddin, however, does exist and is a member of the World’s Christian Co-operative Society.” Several members of the council have given it out that if Mrs. Davidson’s trial is in progress next Tuesday the hearing of Dr. Brown’s case will be continued for a few days. This possible course is not at the suggestion of Dr. Brown, but eman- ates from one of the local churches. There is said to bea scheme on foot to secure bail for Mrs. Davidson with a wiew of putting her on the lecture platform. resting Last night thefvarious Cong‘regafiofial_ churches of this City and elsewhere met to select delegates for the coming council. So far as known every church asked by the deacons to participate in the deliberations will be represented. The following are the selections as far as known: Alameda—First, Rev. W. W. Scudder Jr.and . Dodge. Lfi'erkele‘yefflrst, Rev. G. B. Haich and Dr. Thomas Addison, J. L. Barken substitute. ¥n. San Francisco—Plymouth; Rev. W. D. liamé and Deacon &, F. Bufford.. Oskland—First, Rev. F. 8, Freeland, D.D., and Judge J. M. Haven; Plymouth svenue, Rev. J. McLean and Rev. George Mooer, D.D; Rev. Mr. Hatch of Berkeley made the following statement last night after the election of delegates to the council: I state publicly that if any one has any charg:s whatsoever to make against Dr. Brown lelv. hfm be present and make them. The coun- the witness-stand, | ht as that| | i { | | Tunuell. I | adopted by a unanimous vote. | ?flntlc'fivil)y‘ xdeg'flfied;l h chumh‘i in- erests in this ci is ¥ - 5pec|ed by all. 'y and is known and re. —_— THEIR ACTION RATIFIED. The Power of the Councll Commit- tee Confirmed by the Church Members. There was more spirituality displayed at the prayer-meeting of the First Congrega- tional Church last night than for several weeks, and there was an entire absence of that unexpressed but still recognizable acrimony that has characterized these gatherings ever since the reports alleging immoral conduct on the part of the pastor becgme public pioperty. The attendance was much above the average. *‘Charity” was the theme of the Bible verses read by Deacon Dexter, who pre- sided at the request of the pastor, made during the afternoon. It called forth much feeling comment, even the pastor, who occupied a piace on the platform, paying a tribute to the diction and spirit of the passage. When the devotional exercises were concluded, Dr. Brown asked leave to make & motion, saying: The reason I make this motion jas because fome think the motiou of last Wednesday was defective and not because the action of the eommittee could be called into question. But the question has been raised by oneor two of those who have been asked to sit in_the coun- ¢il, and because it is possible for us to quiet all such questions. E Imove that this church ratify and sanction the action of the committee “appointed last Wednesday in sending out letters-missive call- ing a council to investigate certain matters mentioned therein. He added that he had objected to the use of the word ‘‘charges” in the letters, but the committee had decided to retain it. He then signed the letters-missive under protest, but stated that he would now waive all his rights and would simply ask that the committee’s action be ratified, as | he had ho intention or desire to see the matter delayed. A discussion followed on the point whether it was necessary to sanction the action of the committee, but when the motion was finally put it was carried without a dissenting voice. 2 On Mr. Littlefield asking fora report of the action of the committee Deacon Barnard referred him to the newspapers, saying: “The reports of the public prints | are substantially correct, entirely so.” | During the thick of the debate C. P. | Wolcott, who has on several occasions acted the part of the bull in the cuina | shop, more to the dismay of his friends than of his enemies, in angry tones of re- proach, remarked: “I can’t understand how intelligent men could have been so | mislea as to have used the word ‘charges.’”’ This evidently suggested an idea to the pastor, for he imme«iarely took the floor | and said: ‘I sincerely hope we may vote on my motion without unnecessary discus- sion. If there is going to be any differ- ence I should be inclined to raise a more serious question on the lines mentioned by Brother Wolcott in referenice to the word ‘charges,””’ Dr. Brown, after the adoption of his mo- tion, expressed his gratitude to Rev. w. W. Case “for his courageous words of last | Sunday night.” He also thanked certain papers, which he declined to name, as it might be construed, he said, into a special plea, for their present attitude. ‘“During all this storm of accusation,”’ he added, “‘they have said nothing against me.” A question arising as to how the matter was to be brought to the mnotice of the council, Deacon Barnard moved that M. F. Woochams, a young attorney, who was vouched for as.being strictly non-partisan, be appointed to present to the council on behalf of the church all the records bearing on this matter and to make any state- | ments explanatory of the situation that he | might deem advisable. The motion was The meeting then adjourned after Dr. Brown pronounced the benediction. ONLY A FAINT CLEW: The May Smith Murder Deeper _ Than Ever in Mys- tery. Amos Gresham Remembers a Belliger- ent Individual Who Was Look- ing for Trouble, The murder of May Smith in her den | on Morton street is.as mysterious asitever was. : Captain Lees, ex-Sergeant Barney Har- | ter, Detectives Gibson, Cody and Anthony | have raked the tenderloin as with a fine- | tooth comb without satisfactory results. The people who were acquainted with the dead woman, and especially those who | ‘had come in contact with her in recent times, have each and all made exhaustive | statements to the police in regard to their | movements on the night the woman was sirangled, and, while the volume of testi- | mony is greatly augmenting, the situa- | tion, so far as discovering the murderer, is | getting more dense. I‘ Ex-Sergeant Harter has run down the | obstreperous individual who became ag- | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEB]&.UARY 13, 189 PRACHT ON-THE TARIFF, Secretary of the Tariff League Talks on Foreign Man- ufactories. THE POVERTY FOUND ABROAD. Constructing Warships in San Fran. cisco Has Done Much to Win Salisbury’s Respect. Max Pracht, financial' secretary of the American Protective Tariff League, is at the Occidental. He has been for almost a year past engaged in tariff work in Europe, and only returned a few days ago to Ashland, Or., his home. . He is here in reference to matters in con- nection with work in the interest of the tariff. Mr. Pracht was formerly a promi- nent figure in San Francisco com- plemented by courteous respect. With the commercial union of the American re- publies and protection hand in hand with reciprocity there will ‘be peace and pros- perity.” TWO MYSTERIOUS FIRES, William Sullivan’s Saloon on Ninth Street in Flames Twice in N One Day. Fire from some mysterious cause broke out in a saloon owned by William J. Sul- livan, at 424 Ninth street, at 9:15 o’clock last evening, and before the flames could, be extinguished the furnishings of the saloon were entirely destroyed and the building damaged to some extent. A peculiar circumstance connected with the fire is that the saloon was closed just prior to the time the flames were discovered. Upon the arrival of the Fire Department the door was forced open and it was dis- covered that the fire had started beneath thebar in the front portion of the build- ing. Another fact which points toward incendiarism is that early yesterday morning the building was nearly destroyed from a fire which started in one of the rear rooms. There were a number of cir- cumstances connected with this fire which loouked suspicious, and a deputy Fire Mar- shal was placed in charge of the building and remained these until 4 o’clock in the afiernoon, but was then removed. Fire Marshal Towé is now investigating the Max Pracht, Financial Secretary of the American Protective Tariff League. successively sal- mon - packer, Coliector cof Customs nd special agent of the Treasury Department for Alaska, a cultivator of mercial life, then prize-medal peaches on the side and an enthusiastic apostle of the American gos- pel of protection in general. ‘“Ashland is a good place in which to raise children and chickens,’” he said, “but I had not seen my children for over a year and a haif, and during my. absence the great democratic army of {free-trade tramps ate up near ail the chickens, Where was 1? Oh! that is a story of itself. “In June, 1894, I Jeit Oregon to attend the Denver convention of Republican clubs, being chairman of the delegation. was frozen in there by the great and hope never to be repeated railroad strike, worked my way eastward by circuitous routes and entered the employ of the American Protective Tariff League—head- quarters in New York. I at first nad charge of the New England States, but during the campaign of 1894 I was as- signed to special duty in West Virginia and Southeastern Ohio, doing missionary work among the pottery-workers. I had the honor twice of saying a few words from the same platform that proudly up- held the next President of the United States. His name? to be sure. His name is William McKinley. His campaign ended, as you know, in the crushing out of Wilsonism in Wilson’s own State. It was then deterzzined to send me to Europe to study out the theory of free trade on its native heath, and I spent ten montbs in Great Britain, Franve, Ger- many, Holland, Belgium and Switzer- land, and am back now, a better protec- tionist, be that possible, than ever. gressive an the night of the killing when | he was repeatedly ordered to moeve away | from the window of May Smith’s house. | He easily proved his whereabouts between | 11 o’clock that night and 3 o’clock thenext | morning. So he was turned loose just as | a score of others who were apprehended | for being directly or indirectly connected with the case. s At 10 o’clock last night Harter was made acquainted with another clew that may possibly lead to something definite, but which more ;mbubly will result in the same old blind trail., . Amos Gresham, & colored man who earns his living singing in one of the tav- erns on Morton street, remembers that on Sunday night, between 10 and 12 o’clock, a tall, heayy set man of dark complexion dropped into the place. Amos asked him 10 buy the drinks, whereupon the stranger | stated that he had been robbed of some $400 by one of the women on the street, | and he was going up then to take it. away from her. That was the last the colored man saw of the suspect until the next night, Monday, when he and two young men agein stepped into the house. {thn Amos pointed the stranger out to one of the proprietors of the house, he immedi- ately bolted out of the door, and is now being sought. y A French woman named Carmen, on Morton street, adds her tale of woe 1o the long list of cruelties that have happened on Morton street. On the same night quite recently two prize-fighters, one of whom she knows as Green, who had been cil will be ready to receive any information which will be o’i service in mim & conclu- sion in the investigation. This is ‘a matter which affects us greatly as individuals and as & congregation. In elosing his remarks to the church Mr. Hatch made a strong plea for the gnyon of his congregation for the favorable out- come of the case. . The First Congregational Chureh of Oak- land has had no pastor since August. To be able to send their. stated mnp 5 legally they elected Rev. 8. M. Freeland pastor until such time as his successor should be chosen. " Mrs. Cooper announces that she will be represented at the council by an attorney, provided the other side adopts such a move. SACRAMENTO, CAL., Feb, 12.—At the regular weelflg meeting of the First Con- gregational Church in this city ‘M. J, Cur- s was selected as the member of the con- clave, which will convene in San Francisco next Tuesday for the purpose of examin- ing into the charges against Dr. Brown. Mr, Curtis is an old resident of Sacramento and was chosen for his cool, clear-headed- ness and good judgment, He has long giving some boxing exhibitions, entered the den of & neighbor and nearly stzangled her. A few moments later a man in the guise of a gentleman called on Carmen and after a while’ turned into & perfect fiend. It was only that the woman’s cries attracted her neighbors, who called in the police, that, she believes, prevented her from being mutilated or murdered after the style of Jack the Rippe: 3 i e S Sankey and Stebbins Coming. The executive commitiee of the State Bunday-school Association met yesterday afternoon at the rooms in the Y. M C. A. building. President Harry Morton of San Jose presided. There were present H. Morton, G. W. Campbell, 8an Jose; William Abbott, C. B. Perkins, 8an Francisco; T. H. B. Anderson, | C. M. Campbell, S8acramento; J. C. Adriance, | Napa. Reports from secretaries throughout the State showed 8 large number of counties organized. It was unanimously decided to bold the next State convention at Sacramento from April1l to 3. Ira D, Sankey and George C. Stebbins, the famous gospel singers, will conduct the musical programme. Eminent ** A sure cure for the lame, halt or blind American free-traders—if there are any left—would be a tour of Investigation among the working people of Eurape, just such as I made, and if, witha desire to learn the exact facts, there be added the ability to make a judicial summing up, the ver- dict must be for American protection for Americans in America, I was homesick long before I finished my errand and was overjoyed to get back. “Americais good enough for me, and too good for the man who says 1t isn’t. Waat has Europe profited by the opening up of our markets to her manufactures? Well, this is no place for figures, but, in a broac sense, -a thousand fold, we have suffered thereby. The surplus revenue of £4,000,000—-say $20,000,000—which England had to her credit last year—the first time, almost, within the memory of man—rep- resents not all of her share of our own de- ficit, being but the taxes paid by her man- ufacturers, merchants and ship-owners on the increase of business we graciously do- nated them, E “I crossed both ways under the Ameri- can flag going eastward on the St. Louis and returning on the 8t. Paul,and I would go out of my way to travel on those boats. They aré without exception the staunchest built, most comfortable and easiest ridin, boats that cross the Monroe channel, uhg they made our ship-building friends over the way have a sinking at the stomach, for with but twenty thousand horsepower to the thirty thousand ot the biggest Cunarders, they equal them in speed and in very heayy weather really outhold them. American engine buildersare really the superiors of any in Europe. Given a demand for an engine to superpower theirs at a lower consumption of coal and we do it just as essdv. * The building of first-class- battle-ships and swift cruisers in Francisco and to turn them out in quantities to suit has had really more effect in bringing Salis- bury around to a realizing sense of the beauties of arbitration than all the diplo- matic papers ever penned, and tihe spon- taneity with which the .American people as a people sustained their chief magis- trate when he broadly enunciated an American doctrine after an. Huawaiian blunder, twice emphasized, was an eye- ogener to all Europe and will have a good effect always, : My plan of protection includes the pro- tection of our coast and general domain. I am in favor of building a navy., A million dollars spent on an American battle-ship means the saving of many more millions, otherwise lost in trade, prestige Bunday-sechool workers from different parts of the country will take part. and ulf-rupect. Let umted Enro;n see that united America is organized for de- fense, and bullying insults will be sup- | laid on Ej case, and it is very probable that arrests will follow. SOUTHERN HEIGHTSALERT Several Matters to Be Brought Up at the Next Meeting. A Committee to Ask Mr. Vining to Give Transfers From Sixteenth to Kentucky Street. The Southern Heights Improvement Club will hold a meeting at Raymond'’s Hall, on Twentieth (formerly Napa) street, between Arkansas and Wisconsin, to-mor- row evening. One of the subjects that will be brought up is the necessity of having sidewalks laid on Eighteenth street, from Kentucky up to Mississippi, a distance of six blocks. Since the street railroad tracks have been teenth street that thorough- fare has been paved along the lineof the railroad and. all that is now needed to make this street the best thoroughfare in the Bouthern Heights district is to have good substantial sidewalks laid. The club will circulate a petition for signatures and present the same to the Board of Supervi- sors. 5 E Another matter of great importance to this district is the question of transfers. Lately the Sixteenth-street branch of the Market-street Railway Company has beén put in operation along Solano street to Kentucky street, but the transfer arrange- ments do not give the residents of this por- tion of the City a satisfactory car service, Transfers are issued from the eastbound Solano streetcars at Kentucky sireet south, but not northward to the center of the City, From the westbound cars transfers are is- sued in both directions at Bryant avenuve and Sixteenth street, and at Sixteenth and Harrison, where the line is broken by the steam railroad, transfers are issned to the continuation along Sixteenth and Church streets. The Southern Heights residents are by this means enabled to come to the main portion of the City for one fare, but the route is so long and inconvenient that it is not popular. TIhe club will discuss the advisability of appointing.a commit- tee to wait on Mr. Vining and Tequest that he issue transfers from the eastbound So- Jano streetcars to the Kentucky street northbound cars. . 3 That section of the City has shown a great deal of improvement in anticipation of the running of the electric cars, and some of the landlords report an increéased demand for houses, and sa abled to get better rents. improvements contem both in the building of improvement of streets. . An innovation is to be made by Mr. Vining next Sunday in the matter of street transit which will give. the people of the Potrero and Southern Haifiln.s a chance to ride from Sixteenth and Harrison streets direct to Golden Gate Park. What Mr. Vining proposes to do, be says, is to run the Fillmore-street car out Oak street on Sundays to the park instead of continuing out Fillmore street to Broadway as in the past. His explanation is that there is more travel on Bundays to and from the park than north and south. There will be acar on Fillmore street running from Page street through to Bay, however, to accom- modate north and south bound rravel, here are many ated this year, ouses and in the Mrs. McNally Fined. Hannah McNally, the miser, who was ar. rested for cruelty to children and cruelty to animals, appeared in Judge Campbe:l’s conrt esterday. The Judge sentenced her fino o1 $30 for erueity 10 the Little givik Hhs lived with her in her hovel, and $5 for cruelt; to her horse. Both fines were at once paid. The little girl is now inmate -of the Boys’ and Girls’ Directory. 2 The buttons seen on ladies’ coats in Lon- dou are made into quite a feature, being %nrie and handsome, often very costly, in ac they are en- | ARE LOSING THEIR DUPES, A Noticeable Thinning Out Among the Hangers-on in the Poolrooms. ARE BADLY DEMORALIZED. False 0dds, Wrong Jockey and Betting " on Races A'lready Run, Fast Becoming a Failure. The-poolrooms were again in a sad state of demoralization yesterday. Their inac- curate reports and false odds of the day previous had a dampening effect on the motley crowds that gather in these dens and contribute their beggarly pittance to the crafty proprietors who boast of their pu'l and refer to their customers as *jays.” Tired at last of trying to beata game made doubly hard by crooked reports, misquoted odds and wrong jockeys the jays are fast thinning out. Many former patrons of the poolrooms were seen bet- ting their money at the racetrack yester- day, and one man remarked that in future when he wanted to be “stood up’’ he would remain out late nights and give some sandbagger a chance.. The rooms made frantic endeavors to get the results from Ingleside yesterday, but with no better results than on the preced- ing days. sFifty-one minutes elapsed be- fore they received the result of the open- ing event. Three wrong jockeys were posted, and as a sample of how the odds are “pinched’’ Pecksniff, a 40 to 1 shot at the track, was held at 4 to 1. i Mistakes ih the race following were of much more frequent occurrence. Jockeys were chalked up on two scratched horses, and on five of the other starters the wrong riders were given. Myron was not scratched until one hour and forty minutes after his entry had been made void at the track and fifty-one minutes after the race had been decided. Huntsman, a 40 to 1 shot at the track, was held at the short price of 10. The winner, Monitor, was 2in the rooms and 434 at the track. The result of the race was not known until one hour and twenty- three minutes had elapsed. It was forty-three minutes after the third race had been run before the roomslearned of the winner. Four wrong jockeys were marked up, and three scratched horses had jockeys up. The race was run at 3:19, and the scratches were not received until 3:45. The winner, Kowalsky, was piloted by Chorn, while the ‘‘commission-houses” had Hewitt up. Ten “leppers” went to the postin the hurdle race and of the riders the rooms had nine wrong. Jockeys were up and odds quoted against the two horses that were scratched. Janus and Hal Fisher were not marked off as non-starters until 6 minutes after the race had been decided. The scratches on the event and the win- ners of the second and third races were an- nounced at the same time. One hour.and thirty-two minutes was consumed in ob- waining the result. The odds quoted were ridiculously lower than those laid at the track. - The “commission-houses’ were evidently not aware that Pittsburg Phil scratched his mare Derfargilla, for they had her an 8 ta 5 choice for the fifth race. At4:31 the race was decided and at 5:10 the mare was scratched in the various gambling dens. The odds laid against the actual starters [ were charmingly close, with a decidedly strong taint of the pawpbrokerage busi- ness about them. Thelma, a 20 to 1 chance at Ingleside, had but 4 laid against her chance. A decidedly strong tip mustalso have been out on Genette Edwards, for while 200 to 1 was chalked up against her at Ingleside the odds downtewn were 10 to 1. Ferrier, a 20 to 1 shot atthe tragk, had but 2 to 1 before his name on the scalpers’ boards. The jockeys were also badly mixed up. The odds on the last race were posted at Ingleside at 4:45. Up to this time the gambling resorts had learned the results of but three races. Red Gilen, Ed Kearney and Basso were all’ held at much closer rices than were laid at the track. Of the orty-seven jockeys posted at the track to ride in the different events the poolrooms were in error twenty-four times and had riders up on nine scratched horses. With all of the criminal element they have had recourse to the plans of the amblers appear to have met with defeat. §‘heir repeated and open violation of the law can hardly prevent justice from clos- ing the crime-breeding dens in the near future. AT THE UNON LEAGE It Was “Ladies’ Night” at the Clubrooms Last Even- ing. The Bill of Fare Was a Banduet. Musical and Literary Entertain- ment and a Dance. It was ladies’ night at the Union League Club at the Palace Hotel last evening and the fair .guests were honored with a | banquet, a musical and literary bill of fare and a dance. At the close of the firsta number of toasts were offered, ' One to the lady guests was responded to by Hon, B. B. Carpenter in a vein so gracefully com- plimentary to the sex that each one pres- ent felt herself the special object of the speaker’s yotive oratory. The musical and literary features were given by S. Homer Henley, John C. Flood, Miss Lillian - O'Connell, the California Quartette and Company F. Miss 0’Con- neli recited “The Relief of Lucknow’’ with a cornet and drum accompaniment, which played “The Campbells Aré Coming” as the young lady prettily and vividly de- scribed the approach of Havelock’s gallant Highlanders hurrying to the rescue. The remainder of the evening was passed in dancing. The following were the lady .guests: : s. John Haynes, Mrs, Edmund Tauszky, ugf 5.7 Heany, Mie Dasi. T Cols M Eugene Breeze, Mr8. J, Richard Freud, Miss Dol- lie Fritz, Mrs. A. G. Booth, Miss Carrie Gould, Miss Flora Keanc, Mrs. M. E, Fritz, Mfs. W, M. E. Fisher, Mrs. J. ¥. Coope, Mrs. C. H. Mrs. S. G. Lewald, Miss Maud H Lewis Cougill, Mrfs. W. H. McNeil, Jessie Seal, Mrs. Paris Kilburn, Mrs: Sam W. Batkus, Mrs. O'Connell, Miss O'Connell, Miss B. Paxton,Miss Marion Forrest, Mrs. P. Hewett, i Ignis i £, Pepeng e 1 e iss Nettie Sexton, Mrs. g 3 ?l'rr-. W N, Schenok, Mrs. Petor B. Smons Mrs. W. D. Sanborn, Mrs. Reed Jones, Miss Teresa Cooney, Miss Mabel Estee, Mrs. C. S. Laumelister, Mme. B. Ziska, Mrs. W, P, Bartlett, rs. Edgerton, Mrs. C. M,Jennings, Mrs. J. H. owett, Mrs. !B‘t”ltl'elthar,lfl!l Starkweather, Mrs. A, L. feld, Miss Joseph Litchfield, Mrs. George R, Wells, Mrs. C. J. Cornish, Miss R. Jennings, Mu.An._n F. Cooney. The following gentlemen were present: T, Cole, Ju Garoutte, John Haynes, x«?fi'&na Ta”\gflzky?.g. e aeg!dy, TR F¥:nd, A. G. Booth, W, H. McNeil, Colonel L. H. Captain OConnell,’ J. H, Jewett, T. A. Parsons, ngal Crittenden, James Mc! Paris Kilburn, C. J. Church, Colonel Frank A. Vail, Colonel' W, M. E. Fisher, H, H. L Sa m fleld, Colonel J. €. Currier, Col. Georga Stone, J. C.'Hebbard, General Jotin T. Sheehan, A. L. Beghee, Willlam Saxton, Colonel George H. Pippy, A. E. Buckman, W. T. Y. Schenck, Colonel J. G. C. Lee, Colonel W. D. Sanborn, Colonel Reed Jones, C. M. Jennings, C, Cooney, yueh, 'W. Backus, R. E Steele, General R. H. War- | 3. M. Estee, Jeff E. Doolittle, John W. Car- many, C. 8. Laumeister, Fred L. Plinget, T V. Hellman Jr., Hon. R. B. Carpenter, Dr. A. L. Lengfeldt, Joseph Litchfield, H. F. Kim. MORE AFFIDAVITS. Three New Ones Have Been Filed by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. * Copies of three sdditional affidavits, which the Southern Pacific Company will ettempt to make a part of the record in the suit it has brought to enjoin the Rail- road Commission of California, have been served upon the defendant. One of these'is made by ¥. S. Douty, sec- retary of the Pacific Improvement Com- Jpnny. The salient points of it are as fol- ows: Sald company (Pacific Improvement Com- gnny constructed that portion of the Central acific Railroad commencing at Delta and run- ning thence hence to the mortherly line of the State of California, a distance of 107 miles, under coutract with said Ceutral Pacific Railroad Company. The actual amount paid in_cash for and as the cost of original construction of said railroad * * * \yas the sum of $4,340, 410. * * * All of the materials, labor, ma- chinery and appliances used in said construce tion were obtained at the lowest market rates, and strict economy was observed by said Pa- cific Improvement Company in every respect in and about such construction. In the affidavit of W. G. Curtis affiant states that since the hearing before the Pacific Railway Commission the cost of the Southern Pacific Railway has been in- creased by the construction of better- wments to the value of $564,379; that since the original construction of the Southern Pacific Railroad of Arizona the relocation and rebuilding of portions of the road and other betterments have added $3,020,000 to its cost. He further states that betterments have added $1,035,000 to the cost of the Nortbern Railway since its construction; that the San Joaquin Vatley Railroad, now a por- tion of the Central Pacific Company’s lines, cost not less than an average of 30,000 per mile. He adds that all labor and material were obtained at the lowest market rates. - George T. Klink, formerly a clerk and accountant in the office of the late E. H. Miller Jr., made an affidavit in which he said: * * * The cost of the Government-aided Central Pacific Railroad line from San Jose to its eastern terminus near Ogden to June 30, 1870, * 3 construction of said line there has been ac- quired by said Central Pacific Railroad Com- vany the following described lines of rail- roads: Roseville to Redding. 152 miles, which cost for construction in cash $3,895,500; Red- ding to Delta, 38 miles, which cost in cash $3,051,816 11; Delta to State line, 107 miles, which cost $4,340,410; total, $11,287,726 11. There have also been 'acquired by said com- pany the San Joaquin Valley Railroad, the San rrancisco, Oakland and Alameda Railroad and the San Francisco Bay Railroad, s He then states that the San Joaquin Railroad’s estimated cost'is $4,560,000 and that the 8an Francisco, Oakland and Ala- meda Railroad and the San Francisco Bay Railroad cost $1,560,127 85; that the bet- terments to the Central Pacific Raiiroad from July 1, 1870, to December 31, 1884, amounted to a total of §16,675,252 78; that from April 1, 1885, to November 30, 1895, the Southern Pacific Company had made betterments to the Central Pacific Railroad amounting to $2,697,828 65; that the Cen- tral Pacific Railroad Company has ex- pended for improvements on its several raiiroad lines between the years 1892 and 1895, not included in the foregoing state- ments, the'sum of $1,801,847 36; and that the entire cost of the. existing railroad property of the Central Pacific Railroad Company is at least $87,306,530 96. THE MERCENARY. Days When Veteran Soldiers Were Worth Their Weight in Gold. The mercenary fighting man is a person who seldom receives his due reward during his lifetime or his just meed of fame after his death., The characterisone so alien to the age in which we live, it belongs so en- tirely to the days when fighting was the only occupation of a gentleman,that it has forfeited alike our study and our sympathy. Voluateers we understand, but mercenaries we do not. The world apparently -has grown to think that fighting as a profes- sion—the bare trade of arms, unconse- crated by any sentiment of cause or coun- try—is not a noble thing, and snould not, ‘however ably and gallantly followed, be adjudged the highest praise. 'Ilossibly the world 1s right; but we sus- pect that change of system in the training of fighting men has had far more influence than mere abstract humanity in creating this opinion. In these days of short ser- vice and swift wars the olda type of nro- fessional fighting man has become extinect. In every country the recrnit is forced through a soldier’s education at high press- ure, and returned to civil life as speedily as possible, that he may earn money to pay for the education of others. No man, unless he be an officer, devotes his whole lifetime to the military calling, and conse- quently the few mercenaries (the name is too ignoble for them) who are known to us in these latter days are without excep- tion officers—Gordon, for instance; Valen- tine Baker and Hobert. It was not so of old, when the rule was once a soldier al- ways a soldier, and- the only school was war. Then few men dreamed of rising to command except through the ranks, and many gentlemen preferred to stay all their lives in the ranks, or at highest to carry the engines of their companies. Veteran soldiers were worth their weight in gold, and though by no means innocent of rapacity followed their caliing from sheer devotion to it, and thought themselves unlucky if they died in their beds;.—Mac- millan’s Magazine. ———————— Naval Tactics, Admiral 8. B. Luce, U. 8. N., states in an arficle on “Naval Warfare Under Mod- ern Conditions,”’ printed in the current number of the North American Review, that naval tactics have madelittle progress as an art since the days of Lissa. “No one has yet risen to state authoritatively how the line of battle should be formed,” he writes. It is imperative, he thinkg, that the nayy should be prepared for war in time of peace. Military strategy is called into play only during war. Naval strategy adopts some of its most important meas- ures during peace, in anticipation of war. e e ‘Several Indian Princes are expected to make the tour of England this summer, but at their own expense. NEW TO-DAY. S ECUTTER . 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