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XXX VOLUME PRICE FIVE CENTS. HONTINGTON 5~ NON-COMMITTAL, Dodges All the Important Questions Propounded by Morgan. CONFRONTED BY FACTS. Bad Memory of the Southern Pacific’s President As to Government Reports. THE CONTRACT AND FINANCE. Had Instructed Hopkins to Take As Little Stock in the Company As Possible. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. , president of road, was a Iroad Cc and Senator Mo his examination e Central Pac Finance Compan the latter comp: 20.—Co e South nained ght it not recall the exac er the debts we roximated $2,C e bookkeeping, s shareinthe he division was. owned 6000 shares c never owned a | said, had roduced the report of the I ioners, Anderson he minority report of | nd asked Huntington ad them, to which' the latter he had. ea Huatington's views | 15 statements made in the report | he read), but received non-com- | 1 replies, Huntington stating that it | vas so long ago that he could not be posi- possibl en a egarding the report of Governor Patti- | , Huntington s he thought from what he knew of it that it was largeiy a copy of the Sam Brannan report. sed the hope that Hunt- gton would read the Pattison report, for Lie wished to ex e him on it to see if | treport had misrepresented him (Hunt- | 1gton) in any way. Huntington remarked, sarcastically, that | he was glad the Senator was looking out | for his (Huntington’s) interests. Morgan said he intended the examina- suld be absolutely impartial in ry way. He was not making a per- sonal fight on Huntington, but was try- to do his duty as a member of the | mittee in getting at the facts in the He then turned bis attention to the | ntract and Finance Company, its or- | on and the awarding of the con- | o that company for building the | ions af the Central Pacific. on said t company wns‘ ed because no one could be found w‘ ke such enormous contracts because of | w ase. tracts t, various sec 1 | 48 TO HUNTINGTON’S | of the substantial business men of this any one. If they had been thus destroyed they probably went to some junkshop. In discussing the report of the Govern- ment in the case Huntington said he had been accused of almost everything but piracy on the high seas. “Possibly,” replied Morgan, *‘that was because there was no water along the line of your property.” “Oh, yes, there was plenty of water there,” said Huntington. Again, when the cost of the construction of the road, as set out in the report, was under discussfon, Huntington said the commission must have got its information through the Sutro-Examiner combine or the Examiner-Sutro combine, he did not know which wasthe head or which the tail. Without further incident the hearing was continued until to-morrow morning. - BEFORE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE. Director Anderson Favors the Sale of the Union and Central Pacific. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 20.—The House Committee on Pacific Railroads to- day heard E. Ellery Anderson and W. J. Coombs, Government dirgetors of the Union Pacific, on matters pertaining to Anderson favored the sale of the Cen and Union Pacific together. He thought the Government would lize more in this way than any other. e two roads, he said, wouid form a line com the Missouri River to the Pacitic Ocean unrivaled for business capacity, and y railroads would be interested in such a road that it would bring a good price. He spoke of the difficulty of adjusting the Pacific roads question and the elements 10 be considered in doing so, and said that vhen the matter presented to Congress. He was un- able to see how any funding bill could be prepared which would suit the House. No such bill could be formed giving the Government a first lien on the Union Pacific which the road could carry into effect, even at a rate of interest as low as 2 per cent. Mr. Coombs Tavored having the Govern- ment foreclose its liens on the Union and Central Pacific roads and sell them at auction. If this was done, those interested would contest for their rights. The Union and Central Pacific, the Kansas Pacific, the New York Central, Pennsylvaria, Southern Pacitic and other big roads wouid all bid for the property. He did not think that the House would agree to any bill extending the debt of the ‘roads. The country could really afford to give the | roads away; but to whom was it to give them? | that road. M WEALTH. | Was Not Wortk a Mitlion When He Began Railroading. SACRAMENTO, Car., Feb. The | statement of C. P. Huntington, as pub- | lished in Tux CALL yesterday, has created | considerable comment in this city, es- pecially that answer to Senator Morgan’s | question in which Huntington declares | that at the time when he commenced rail- roading he was worth in the neighborhood of $1,000,000. Diligent inquiry among old residents of this.el were intimately connected with him in business and social relations utterly fail to support this declaration of C. P. Hunting- | ton. W. E. Strong. who for years was one | locality, in answer to a guestion on the subject by a CALL representative, said: *‘I was well acquainted with the firm of Huntington & Hopkins and wonld con- | sider that $100,000 would then have more than covered Huntington’s fortune. Dur- ing the year of 1862, or rather at the time he entered into railroading, I well remem- ber that the first issue of railroad stock was almost ali purchased in small lots by | numerous subscribers. There were no | laree stockholders for the very good reason that there were no very large moneyed men in Sacramento at that time; that is to ') Ew'a SRR N\ - —— } Huntington—I think | was worth about a million dollars when 1 commenced railroading. His Familiar Spirit—Hush! Collis; that’s too much. 2D P9 0€ TEMRY fenown @t~ the ~time -that - Jim Fisk | wanted the bonds badly, but the knowledge never reached the ears of the parties hav- ing the negotiation of these securities until they had been all taken up by those who purchased them. *I am not in a position to state what Huntington's wealth was at this time, but Iam positive that he was by no means a millionaire, nor should I say that he even approached to cne. He was considered to be a prosperous member of a firm conduct- ing a good business. During the years of 861 to 1862 there were not six millicnaires n all California, and I will say that in my | opinion C. P. Huntington was not one of them.” Many others of the oldest business men of this city make the same statement, their the uncertainty of the liability involved. | say, I do not believe that there was a sin- Lhe contract company was formed where | gle person in this City in 1862 that was the liability would be knoy He had | worth half a million, and 1 do not think tried to place stock of the company in I that there were six persons in the State New York and Boston, and was in thej| that were worth one million. Most cer- wh ] en Mr. Hopkins had telegraphed | as to how much €teck the firm of | intington & Hopkins should take. He‘ ad replied, “Take as little as you can and ‘ much as you must.” In response to Senator Morgan’s ques- tion as to what debts were outstanding when the Central Pacific was completed, side of the bonded debt, Huntington id he did not know that there were any, there might have been. At the tim of the completion of the road, the Con- | tract and Finance Company owed consid- | erably more than ten millions of dollars. It had something like fifty millions of the sha of the Central Pacific, and sold in the neighborhood of twenty-eight millions. Some of these shares sold as high as 85 per cent, and some soid as low as 19. | In the further course of the cross-exami- tion, Huntington said that after the Con- tract and Finance Company got through the construction of the Central Paci had seme money to divide, but no bond Morgan celled attention to the majority report of the Government directors in | which the statement was made that the | evidence appeared to be conclusive lhat‘ the books of Charles Crocker & Co. and of i the Contract and Finance Company had | been destroyed on the order of Stanford, Huntington and Crocker. This was denied i by Mr. Huntington. If the pooks had | been destroyed or ordered to be destroyed, Huntington said he knew nothing of it, and if they had been destroyed it was be- | cause the work of the company had been | completed and finally settled and the | books were an incumbrance, useless to | as tainly Huntington was not one Ancther gentleman, in speaking of the subject, said: “For many years I wasan intimate friend of Huntington, and I am thoroughly conversant with the whole in- of them.” side business of the starting of the schetne | looking to railway connection with the East. After the articles of incorporation had been filed in the Secretary of State’s office, a large number of business men of Sacramento were induced to purchase stock for the purpose of starting the road from this City and carrying it to New- castle, a distance of some thirty miles. *“This was essential, as the subsidies offered both by the counties and the Gov- ernment of the United States could not be handled the promoters of the enter- prise until at least this amourt of roadbed had been completed. *‘There was not one of the original stock- holders that had subscribed more than $15,000 at this time, the intention being to complete the road with the subsidies granted. For a time they were all out of pocket, but as soon as they began handling the subsidies they made money hand over fist. Without doubt they reinvested a large amount of their profits. This was necessary for the purpose of obtaining the required rofling stock, etc., for the opera- tion of the road. If Iam not mistaken, and L don’t think I am, of all the counties which bonded themselves for the promo- tion of this enterprise, Placer County was the only one that received par value for its bonds, all the other counties selling at 75 cents on the dollar. Placer could have sold at a premium if it had only been The Mine at Viedendorp, Near Johannesburg, That Was Blown to Pieces Yesterday. [From a photograph brought from the Transvaal by Dr. 0. L. Jones of Oakland.] " . oa.... the majority seem loth to allow names to be used for publication, for they all unite in declaring that before Hunting- ton became mixed up in railroading and before the demon greed gzined possession of him he was a warm friend. An examination of the original articles of incorporation on file in the office of the Secretary of State shows that Huntington | is accredited with having subscrived for 1150 shares of stock at a par value of $100 | each, and by referring to the assessment | rolls of Sacramento County for 1861 it is | found that C. P. Huntington was assessed for $8530 worth of real estate and $150 worth of personal property. While the firm of Huntington & Hop- kins was paying takes on but$16,705 worth of property in all, it is stated that in 1862 Huntington filed a remonstrance against being asgessed for so large an amount on | personal property, alleging, it is claimed, that he was a comparatively pocr man. That this is true seems to be borne out by ‘the fact that the following year his assess- ment was greatly reduced, as he was' only assessed in the sum of $7125, although an additional piece of real estate is accredited to him, and the amount of his personal properiy was listed at but $100, the firm being assessed at $34,115 in all. Still old residents to whom these fig- ures have been submitted claim that he was certainly worth more than these values at that time, and must have been greatly favored by the Assessor, yet dili- gent search through the records of the assessment list of the county and city property, which during these years were combined, fails to show that he was the possessor of any other real estate or other property of any kind. PRESENTED BY MR. TRACY, Mrs. Foltz to Be Admitted to the New XYork Bar. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 20.—General Benjamin F. Iracy, ex-Secretary of the Navy, presented Mrs. Clara Foltz to-day to the Appellate division of the Supreme Court for acmission to the New York bar. Mrs. Foltz has been a lawyer practicing in California since 1879, and is prominent in legal and social circles in San Francisco. Presiding Justice Van Brunt told Gen- eral Tracy to submit the papers, and if they were regular the motion would be granted. Te e MeDade Supreme President. DENVER, Co1o0., Feb. 20.—The delegates to the Supreme Council of the Young Men’s Institute are now in session. The officers elected are: SBupreme chaplain, Archbishop Riordan of California; su- fornia; supreme first vice- president, Senator Corcoran of Ohio; supreme sec- ond vice-president, J. B. Costello - of Kansas; supreme secretary, F. D. Lyon of Kentucky ; supreme treasurer, W. E. Ken- ney of Qhio; supreme directors—P. B. O'Brien of Illinois, F. J. Murasky of Cali- fornia, F.J. Kierce of California. F. Col- lier of Indiana, H. W. Rives of Kentucky, L. Gaynor of Pennsylvania, ¥. E. Mc- gnupe of Ohic, and Joan P. McEntee of rezon. preme president, J. J. McDade of Cali- | DELAY MAY DEFEAT GOEBEL, That Is Why the Lobbyists Are Fighting for Time. THE AUTHOR CONFIDENT Certain That the Bill to Repeal the Southern Pacific Charter Will Pass. MAJOR HAYS WILL BE BEATEN. One Precedent to Show That He Is Prematurely Confident of Defeat- ing the Measure. FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 20.—The bill to repeal the Southern Pacific charter 1s the next measure of importance before the State Senate, and it is possible the bill may be reached to-morrow. The Senate will adjourn sfter the ballot at 12 o’clock until Monday out of respect to the death of Judge Grace of the Court of Appeals, and should the bill be reached before the noon hour to-morrow it will be held open for de- bate during the next week. Senator Goebel said to THE CALL correspondent to-night: “The bill may come up at any time, but I do not expect it to be reached until next week. The opposition is putting up a strong fight to defeat the bill, but I feel sure the measure will passon aye and no vote. Iwould have called it up from the orders of the day for action before this time, but this would have to be done with- out objection, and they have resisted every move that has been made so far, hence I knew my eiforts would be fruit- less. We have ordered evening sessions to consider these biils and this will give us ample time and be valuable aid in basten- ing the measure to a passage.” . Chairman Freeman, of the House Cor- poration Gommittee, which has before it the consideration of tbe duplicate of the Goebel bill, called a meeting of his com- mittee this evening. There was no quorum and nothing was done. He said ne had received notice from Senator Goebel and others that they would appear before his committee and that the bill would not be reported or brought up until they were ready to appear. The fight promises to be the liveliest yet before tne Legislature, but friends of the measure are confident of the passage of the bill and say the only mode to defeat it is by delay. The expectation that the Goebel repeal bill would be reached in the Senate this morning brought quite a. crowd into: the lobby and the galleries, and some; more at home and-less awed by the sanctity of the Chamber, crowded 'into ' the mg, seats under the gallery. ' v Both sides wete ready and wore or seemed to wear an air of confidence. Sen- ators Goebel, Taylor, McChord, Jones, | Lander, Flippin and others, avowed advo- cates of the bill, were ear]y on hand and put in their time before the regular busi- | ness began in talking on the subject with those members who were net so strong in favor of the measure or were inclined to be indifferent. The others were not idle, either, but they | did not seem so confident of success as Major Hays’ assertion yesterday that they would “beat the bill and beat it badly, too,” would justify. Weissinger was, as unual, a little late, considering that he in- tended to ‘‘fight over every inch of the | ground’” against the bill. He appeared rather preoccupied and was not as cordial i in his greeting to Major Hays as their close fellowship on this question mizht seem to demand. The relations between the two worthies in regard to their respective positions on the Senatorial race are somewhat strained | and likely to continne so, as Weissinger | ndorses the commentsof the Louis- | ville dailies on tiie major's unfitness to | represent any constituency whatever. He has somewhat the advantage of the major in this, as he has never been a representa- tive before and consequently has no record open to attack. Their coolness helps the cause of repeal. Hays has already discounted the best effects that his efforts can produce, and ‘W eissinger in his mest heated burst is not going to make the climate of the Senate | chamber uncomfortably warm. Goebel alone can give those two three hours’ start and take a triumphant vote within half an hour after they yield him the floor, to say nothing of what assistance his col- leagues will render. As for Senator McChord heis by birth and education an anti-monopolist. His first appearance in Kentucky politics was ina contest against the Louisville and ‘Nashville | Railroad candidate in his county, and he has never since zone over to the enemy. He has a personal interest in the passage of the Goebel bill and will put forth bis best efforts in its behalf. When his bill providing for the enlargement of the powers of the Railroad Commission was up the other day the Huntington men joined forces with the Louisvilie and Nashville in making an open fight against it, and the Washington County boy will keep up the fight until this bill becomes a law, and to their sorrow, too, as he is a fighter and an able one in whatever way you take him. ‘With Goebel and McChord leading, and actively backed by the others, Major Hays will quite forget, when the vote is taken, just what figure he did put the majority for his side at. Goeble’s strength and his generalship have been evidenced on more than one occasion during this session, but in nothing more than tbe passage of his foreign railroad bill by a vote of 25 to 7. This bill which aimed to bring the foreign corporations within the jurisaiction of the State courts was, it is said, decided upon after a study of the situation on the Pa- cific Coast as shown in the printed matter sent to Frankfort. The roads affected by it were the Cincinnatti Southern, and Huntington’s two divisions,the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Chesapeak® Ohio and Southwestern. A strong fight was made against it by Mr. Weissinger, who called for the yeas and nays om every mo- tion. Goebel and Bronston made strong speeches for it, the latter charging that ‘Weissinger opposed the bill because he hoped to force the citizens of the State to go to, the United States court at Louis- ville'to reach these foreign corporations. ¢ fight on this bill pretty well indi- cates the triumph of the repeal bill and promises that Bronston will lend his sup- port to the latter instead of fighting it. The presence on the tloor to-day of Judge R. H. Thompson of the Louisville Police Court. who for a long time lived in rather California, led some to think that be was | here to lend his aid to Echolsand Duke i against the repeal bill, as he is very inti- mate and friendly with both of them, but he was here solely and entirely in the in- terest of the House of Reform bill. He1s too patriotic to be for the Southern Pacific Company. There are plenty of others, though, Huntington’s regular and conscripted forces and the Louisville and Nashville Hessians, but their Yorktown is at hana and, as far as the Senate is concerned, the repeal bill triumphs. 's MISSION. Not Hindered in Distributing Aid to Armenians. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 20.—The Na- tional Armenian relief committee to-day received the following cable message from Miss Clara Barton: “Freest entrance granted. Assistants leave for Harpoot, Aleppo and other prov- inces immediately. Must draw funds now.” In response to this the committee to-day sent $25,000 by cable to Constantinople and will send forward other sums immediately. The committee makes the following an- nouncement: ‘‘Large amounts are urg- ently required, It is known that nany have delayed giving owing to uncertainty of funds reaching the sufferers. No further | doubt should be felt, but funds should be | sent at once to Brown Bros. & Co., 59 Wall street, New York.’’ Bl Vet KILLED HER TWO CHILDREN, Murderous Acts of an Insane Mother at New York. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 20.—Mrs. George Kelso of 1438 West Ninety-eighth street this afternoon killed her two chil- dren, Estelle, 414 years of ago, and Rad- ARE OFF FOR THE RINGSIDE, Departure of the Pugilists and Spectators at Midnight. BUT WILL THEY FIGHT? Considerable Guessing as Where the Battle Is to Take Place. MAHER AND FITZ BOTH READY to It Is Believed the Special Train Will Land the Sports Somewhere in Mexico. EL PASO, Tex., Feb. 20.—Barring in- terference from powers earthly or higher Fitzsimmons and Maher will settle the question of their superiority in the prize- ford, 214 years, by shooting them with a | revolver, and then attempted suicide by cutting an artery in her left forearm. Sne was temporarily insane at the time. A physician attended the woman and she was placed under arrest. WS SLOWLY STRAGLED Bungling Execution of the Mur- derer, James Fitzgerald, at St. Louis. Twice Dashed From the Gallows, the First Time to Fall Bleeding and Mangled. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 20.—James Fitz- gerald was slowly strangled to death this morning in the County Jail by a bungling | executioner and his assistants. The rope broke, and Fitzgerald was twice dashed from the gallows, the first time to fall crushed and bleeding, still conscious, on the stone floor of the prison. Until the horrified doctors and bailiffs could summon nerve to approach the man he Jay struggling helplessly be- neath the gallows, his hands and feet bound, his face covered by the black cap and his body entangled in the rope fastened about his neck. ‘When the black cap was torn from his face blood shot from his mouth, nose and eyes, bespattering the bailiffs and doctors who pressed around him. Despite the awfil agony the law’s victim suffered he retained consciousness and was plied with stimulants until he realized fully the hor- ror of his fate. He was then removed to the morgue, where stimulants were again applied. By the time a new rope had been obtained Fitzgerald had as cleara con- sciousness of the terrible ordeal he had undergone and awaited him as any man who had witnessed the dreadful scene. but | ring as soon after sunrise to-morrow morning as the atmospherical conditions | are favorable to the operation of the | kinetoscope. At midnight the party isen | route to the battle-ground, the departure | having been made over the Southern Pacific Road shortly after 10 o’elock., There were not a dozen men in the entire eight coachloads, however, who knew just where they were going to bring up. Every other man had a different tip and each was positive that his was the only simon pure article. There were sur- face indications, however, that the first destination was Del Rio, which is 453 miles distant from this city. Across the Rio Grande del Norte the Mexican terri- tory isin the State of Coahwla and out- side of the jurisdiction of Governor | Ahumada. The nearest military post is Porfirio Diaz, seventy-five miles distant. For . miles around the country is wild and mountain- | ous, while the hills contain a score of level plateaus that would make an ideal spot for | the encounter. Those closest to the pro- moters believe that this is the destination, but there are others who claim to have | authentic information that the intention is | to run to Langley, a station forty miles ‘this side, and then double back to Fort | Hancock, fifty-three miies from here, | where the Mexican frontier is reached in a | walk of a mile and a quartér. | Color is given to this theory by a remark | of one of the managers to the effect that, while it would take seven to twelve hours | to reach the battle-ground, the return | might be made in two, if the engineer was so disposed. | The United Press learns that the Mexi- can authorities were advised several days since that the ring was in progress of erec- tion near Langtry and that the kineto- scopa apparatus was on the ground. The mountainous nature of the country, how- ever, makes the battleground inaccessibie to Mexican troops unless they cross the American side at Eagle Pass, and to do this it would be necessury to obtain a per mit from the War Department. It is not known here whether such permit has been applied for or granted. tr:pt )1llad° crlaol(llgn_ltol::y fi?s‘?‘fif;e:f;eer v\t.i:i | All that is definitely known at this writ- again led to the scaffold. Sick and trem- | ing is that the party is off to Stuart’s “‘safe bling, but courageous, he once more sub- | ground” and that the principals are fit mitted to the binding, and at 11:02 the trap again sank beneath him, this time carrying him to death. Fitzgerald’s crime was the murder of his sweetheart, Annie Naissens, the night of November 24, 1893. HEAVY THE LOSS OF LIFE At Least One Hundred Persons Perished in the Viedendorp Explosion. Much More Damage Done in the Disaster Than Was at First Supposed. JOHANNESBURG, SourH Arrica, Feb. 20.—The explosion of dynamite which occured at Viedendorp, a suburb of the city, last evening, was more disastrous than was at first believed. Eight railway cars loaded with dynamite were being switched from one track to another when the explosion took place. At the spot where the dynamite exploded a hole thirty feet deep was made in the ground, and every house within half a mile was razed to the ground. Forty bodies have been found, and the search is only just beginning. Two hundred injured persons have been taken to the hospitals, where several of them havedied. Comparatively few white persons were killed. The latest estimate places the number of killed at over 100. Most of the victims were poor Boers. and prim for the ring. Th> wires to-mor- row will take up the thread of the story, | whether the strands be tloating in old | Mexico or New Mexico, in Texas or in Arizona. The announcement that definite infor- mation concerning the departure woulda be given out at 5 o’'clock attracted a large crowd'to headquarters, There were Mexicans whose appearance designated them as being of very high and very low degree; well-dressed American sports and a fringe of brawny cattlemen, colored brethren and hangers-out at the local saloons and gambling-houses. At least a third' of the throng looked as though it had not seen the priceof a ticket to the ringside for many a long day. Perhaps Dan Stuart was of the same opinion, for after surveying with a curl of his lip the aggregation that had responded to his call he whispered to one of his associates and left the room. Five minutes later when the office-boy posted the follow- ing on the plate glass windows there wasa break for the open: NOTICE. Those intending to witness the Maher-Fitz- simmons contest will be at the office at 9:40 to-night. The railroad tickets wili cost not over $12 for the round trip. W. K. WHEELOCE. There were snorts and grunts and howls of disapprooation when the closing para- graph was read aloud, and a great many | of the crowd freely gave the opinion that | the affair had been got up solely for the benefit of bloated bondholders and mil- lionaires. Just before the train time Fitzsimmons and Julian were brought to Dan Stuart’s office in a carriage. Julian, on behalf of Fitzsimmons, demanded that the purse be A View of Viedendorp, Near Johannesburg, Where Yesterday’s Explosion Ocenrred. [From a photograph brought from the Transvaal by Dr. O. L. Jones of Oakland.]