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16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1S96. POLICE TO GUARD THE TREASURY, Further Precautions Against a Raid by Des- perados. WEAPONS ALL IN PLACE. Electrical Alarm Signals Are to | Be Thoroughly Over- " hauled. SUPERVISOR TAYLOR'S FEARS. He Gave the Order to Buy Firearms | and to Be Prepared for | an Attack. | | he spoke of Johnson as a scrub, a cur and The City authorities have not relaxed | | scrub and yahoo"” cut an important figure heavily loaded buckshot cartridges a dozen times during the day. % He admitted thatthe office had been prepared for any emergency that might arise, but on the subject of the warning was reticent, declining to talk of it on the ground that enough had already been said and that any further publicity might put it into the heads of other robbers to plan a raid. The police were equally reticent, claim- ing that the preparations that had been made to resistan_attack were merely the ordinary precautions suggested by the Market-street affair. CALLED HIM A CUR. Mate Johnson, Formerly of the Excel- sior, Wins a Libel Suit Against the Captain. The definitions of such words as “cur, in a libel suit that was tried before Justice of the Peace Groezinger yesterday. Gun- der Johnson askea $299 damages from J. F. Higgins, because the latter had applied the terms meationed to him in a letter. Johnson was first officer of the steam- schooner Excelsior, of which Higgins was the captain. The latter had a friend named Gilliam, whom he desired as first officer of his ship and though—as testified by other officers of the vessel—Johnson was an efficient officer, Higgins finally sicceeded and Gilliam was installed. A3 changes made under such. circum- stances are not permitted by the Marine Engineers’ Association, of which Johnson is a member, a letter was addressed to Captain Higgins on the subject. In reply a yahoo, though the latter expression was scratched, as though the mariner had in- tended to eliminate it from his communi- . [ L 3: n +“:'Lc A IR N 2L AN ¥ Ly ofs < ~ D J; N EQ q ¥ S X + l_ ¢ = ; @ < e ot S MAster PSS "J S e —_———— i S $ e | LR o . | S % | 3 2 ‘ <3 | <X | +9e ‘The Five Exits Through Which the Robbers Could Have Escaped After Looting Crosses Show the Exits. the Treasury. their vigilance in guarding against any designs that the desperate gang of bank | robbers operating in this City may bave | against the treasury, but on the contrary | are redoubling their precautions. | The matter was discussed on all sides | yesterday and the opinion was unanimous | that had the warnings not reached official ears and preparations heen made, a few cool-headed robbers might have had an easy time in capturing thousands of dol- lars in gold, even though they did not suc- ceed in making their escape from the hall. The Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors evidently thought the matter of a very serious nature, for Chairman | Taylor instructed Clerk Russell to drafta | resolution directing the Chief of Police to | detail & policeman to guard the treasury door from the hour of opening in the morning until the vault is locked up for the night. The coin is considered safe after the vauit doors are closed, as the de- pository is of steel and so strongly con- structed as to be calculated to resist any | attick that safe-crackers might make on it. A similar resolution was passed several | years ago wuen the authorities had reason | to believe that covetous eyes were on the coin sacks, but as the danger passed the patrolman was withdrawn and for some time past the corridor has been without a police guara over the bundreds of thou- sands of doliars carried by the treasury. Nor has Treasurer Widber been idle. A ' system of electric wires connects the office | with the headquarters of the Police De- partment, and for fear that they may have lost their efficacy through lack of usea thorough overhauling has been ordered, and it is not improbable that the appli- ances will be improved by putting in the most modern discoveries in that line, Another change was noticed by those who passed the treasury after closing hours yesterday. For years past the fact that no more coin would be paid out for the day was at once apparent to those who called at the office after 4 o’clock from the fac: that curtains inscribed with tnhe word “‘closed’’ obscured the glass portion of the doors and prevented a view of the treasury being obtained. Yesterday the curtains were not in evidence after4 o’clock, though the doors were locked and a view of the counters and upper portion of the safe was obtainable. Supervisor Taylor said yesterday that he was very glad that preparations had been made for an attack. “‘Soon after the robbery of the Market. street bank,” he said, “'the treasury officials spoke to me about properly arming the piace, saying that all the weapons they hada were their own pocket-pistols, that ‘were not particularly etficient weapons. “I told them to buy whatever was neces- sary for the defense, for it seemed very lausible to'me that such a gangasdid the Market-street job would not stop for a moment if it thought it could safely get away with the money. I told them to go abead and get guns and be prepared for the robbers when they came. _‘“The treasury is certainly very favorably situated for such an attempt, and without preparations having been made before- hand the cbances of success would be good. Now, however, the robbers would probably only go out to the Morgue.” At the treasury the officials were the object of much attention all day yesterday from’ their friends and curiosity-seekers, who peered through the doors and specu- lated on where the deadly guns were hidden. Louis Jacobs, the chief deputy, was kept busy answering questions regarding the preparations that had been made and ex- hibited the sawed-off shotguns with their e i A e W TO-DAY. In Curing Torturing Disfiguring Skin Diseases (uticura | over the amount he would award the | | had accepted a commission from an Eng- Works Wonders Sold throughout the world. British depot: F. Nxw- sEar & Soxs, 1, King-Edward-st., London. ~Porrsz | Davo & CusiicaL Cosr, Sole Props, Boston, Us cation. Practically no defense was made | by Higgirs and on the attorneys for John- son reading Webster's definition of the | words the Justice intimated that he would | give judgment for the mate, but stated | that he would take until to-day to think | plaintiff. REUBEN RICKARD 15 DEAD The Mining Man and Capitalist Dies in Western Aus- tralia. Planning a Railroad From Coolgardie Mines to the Sea—Children in Berkeley. Reuben Rickard, for many years one of the best known silver and lead mining men on this coast, died Thursday in West- ern Australia. A cablegram was received in this City yesterday by Thomas Rickard aporising him of his father’s death. The message came from Thomas Rickard, a brother of | the deceased, and was sent from Albany, | the capital of Western Australia and the extreme southwest corner of the lone con- tinent. It is believed, however, that Mr. Rickard died at Perth,a port about 100 miles to the northward, for at the time of writ- ing his last letter to his son, which came by the steamer Monowai, he mentioned the prevailing excessive heat and its fatal | effects upon many of the inhabitants, and added that he purposed to remain in Perth until the oppressive temperature should subside when he would go inland to the arid Coolgardie mining region. It was in connection with these mines that Mr. Rickara left here on he steamer Mariposa the 14th of last November. He lish synd icate at $10,000 & year to look | out for investments in Western Australia, and he was allowed his expenses and an | assistant. At the tune of hig death he | was investigating the practicability of con- structing a railroad from the waterless | country about the Coolgardie mines to Es- | perance Bay, a point dbout 100 miles east of Albany and probably 250 miles from the mines, the purpose being to transport the | ores to water. | Twenty years ago Mr. Rickard became superintendent of the celebrated Rich- mond Mining Company at Eureka, Nev. Identified with the Richmond silver and lead industry during the years when it | paid large dividends he finally, about five years ago, retired from the business a rich man. Subsequently he was engaged in experting mines for diflerentEng{r’ish com- panies. A little over a year ago he went to Denver to take temporary charge'ofa mine belonging to his brother while the latter was absent in London completing arrangements for the sale of the property. ‘While 1n ‘Denver Mrs. Rickard suddenly died, and it was largely due to a desire to have something to occupy his time that the capitalist decided to resume an active life, and went to Australia. Reuben Rickard was about 55 vears of age. He leaves three children residing in | Berkeley. The eldest, Thomas Rickard, the well-known local singer, and a gradu- ate of the State University, is in the em- ploy of the Parke-Lacy Company of this City. Edgar Rickard, the younger son, is a pou-grnguue student at Berkeley, and like his brother was identitied with the coilege glee club. % Miss Rickard, the only daughter, is soon to be married to Mr. Fisher of Denver, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In fact, Mr. Fisher started from Derver a few days ago. By asad coincidence the invitations to the wed- ding were sent out on the very day that Mr. Rickard died. About six years ago the second son met & tragic death at Berkeley resulting from a colfision on the football field. Arthur Rickard, the-Colorado State Min- eralogist at Denver, is a nephew of the deceased. To his intimate business associates Reu- ben Rickard was known as a man of busi- ness integrity and a man of genial and charming personality, his regara for nis family bzgng a particularly noticeable trait of his character. In the army officers salute by dropping the point of the sword; also by lowering the colors and beating the drums. Inthe navy salutes are made by discharges of .| cannon, striking the colors or topsails, or by volleys of small arms. Ships always salute with an odd number of guns, and galleys with an even number. | their parents. | day,” said he last night. MR, BRETZ WEDS AND RUNS AWAY. The Sequel of "a Secret Sensational Double Marriage. A GOOD-BY AT THE GATE Mysterious Flitting of the Erratic Groom With His Friend From Place to Place. HIS OFFICE PLACE IS EMPTY. It Is Reported That He Will Return to This City From Stockton This Morning. Young, boyish I. Clifford Bretz, whose sensational marriage to Miss Maud Itsell occurred last Tuesday, is still keeping up the sensation by running away and leav- ing his bride in desolation at her parents™ home, Bretz is the son of Assemblyman Bretz, the editor of the Populist paper of Ala- meda, and is chief deputy in the Street Department of Oakland. On the day of his wedding he with Miss Maud Iisell ac- companied Seabury B. Peterson and Miss Ida Itsell to the office of Justice of the Peace Groezinger, where the latter couple | were wedded. Immediately after the cere- mony Bretz and Maud concluded to make it a double marriage, and, procuring a li- cense, all returned to the office of the Justice, and the second couple were made husband and wife. Seabury and-the lady, now his wife, had long been engaged, and their marriage, though a recent one, was the result of a sincere attachment for each other and a real or fancied opposition on the part of But the marriage of Bretz and Maud was a surprise even to them- selves. They caught the spirit of matri- mony from the first ceremony, and with- out a thought of the serious consequences, were tied hard and fast. The four people went to the Cliff House, where they had a wedding supper, and re- turned about 10 thatnight to the residence | of the sister-brides. The twd grooms took themselves to a hotei downtown. Next day Peterson re- turned to the Itsell residence and claimed his bride. Then there was consternation in that family, but there wassomething even more when it was learned that Maud was also a wife. Bretz did not follow his brother-in-law in this as 1in the first per- back just in time to save his position, which would not have been kept open much longer, e Bretz is impulsive though whole-hearted and genial. His intimate friends are not surprised that he should have got mar- ried in the manner he did, or that he should have disappeared so suddenly and unaccountably without his bride. His marriage, though sudden, had been talked of between them. The Monday before the marriage, as the bride mforms a friend, they had agreed that the step should be taken, probably beqause the elder sister was about to marry Peterson. Bretz lived with'his mother in East Oak- land. His father, ex-Assemblyman Bretz, lives apart, Eddie Peck, the best man and enly companion on the bridal tour, has had his ,l)ime experience also. Less than six months ago, though scarcely of age, he was married, and not with the greatest deliberation either, to a Miss Pre- torious of San Francisco, andais the father of twin babjes. He hasnot as yet set up a household, however. The whole affair is a nine days’ wonder toall who have any acquaintance with the parties concerned, MEN FROM THE NORTH. They Are to Assemble This Evening at a Banquet in Norden’s Hall. The first banquet of the Den Norske Norden’s Hall, This organization of Nor- weeians has only been in existence a year and a balf and has a membership roll of more than 120—quite a goodly number in comparison with Norwegian population in thi8 City. Its purpose is principally to. bring about closer relationship of the men from the north who lave made California their adopted home, and it is expected that within another year it will confplete the original purpose of making a benevo- | lent institution embracing the entire State. The officers of the organization are: George Heinemann, president; M. 8. Moe, | secretary, ana K. Olsen, treasurer. A LONG OVERCUE BARK, | News Received Yesterday From the Anxiously Looked For Cadzow Forest. The Two Vessels in Company for Four- teen Hours Off the Columbia River Bar. The long overdue British bark Cadzow | Forest, on which 75 per cent reinsurance | has been paid, was heard from yesterday. | Captain Merriman of the barkentine Gleaner has at last condescended to report that on January 29 last, when about twenty miles off the Columbia River bar, he was in company with the bark from 9 A.M. to 11 p. M. During that.time the Cadzow Foresi was making good weather of itand was apparéntly heading out for sea. The Cadzow Forest was on her way to | Portland to load wheat for Europe. When | off the Columbia River bar Pilot Glassman boarded her and half an hour later the storm came up. The bark was blown out | to sea, and from that day up to the present Mr. and Mrs. J. Clifford Bretz, Whose [Drawn from Brief of the. Hour. Marital Venture Is the Sensation photographs.] formance, but remained away and has not vet come to claim his bride. The mother of the deserted bride is prostrated with grief, and the mystery of the sensational affair thickens. Young Bretz returned home Friday looking much the worse for wear and complained of being sick. He went to- ward his office, but failed to show up there. He was seen on Saturday in this City with his friend Eddy Peck of Ala- meda and a cousin named King. They visited the Cliff Honse, and on Monday Bretz telegraphed to the office at Oakland that he was sick and unable to work. On Thursday Assemblyman Bretz called at the ltsell house seeking for his son. There he first learned that the young | | street deputy had deserted his bride so un- manly. The father assured the distracted mother that he would do all in his power to bring his boy back to a sense of his honor and duty. “I have not seen my son since last Fri- “He then said nothing to me abont his marriage or his hasty disn%pearance. He was blue when I spoke to him and had been blue all the week. I did not know that he was intend- ing to_get married and I don’t think he knew it himself. He had spoken to me about girls and I asked him what he was going 10 do, to get married. *‘He had no money in bank and lived up to hiss means. He has been independent of me since he was 17. He could not have had much money with him unless he got his warrant on I'riday night. I did not know there was such a family in exist- ence as that into whnich my son has mar- ried until I heard of the wedding. “‘He was not engaged to Miss Itsell, be- cause he was engaged to another girl named Cantrell, who lives in San Fran- cisco. I presume he was engaged, be- cause about a month ago he told me he was gomng to marry her. She came here about five years ago from Seattle. My theory is that he and Miss Cantrell had » falling out. He became desperate and then got married on the moment to the other girl. Next morning when he con- sidered what he had done he repented and went off.”” It would seem that the decision to go away was suddenly taken by both Bretz and Peck. They took the 5o’clock train Wednesday for Lathrop. There appears to have been no object 1n their visit to that place, except that a mutual friend, Harry Plummer, is connected with the railroad hotel there. They went there and stayed a day and then on to Stockton, whence the yearnings of a deserted bride, the disquieting disapproval of a superior officer where Bretz is employed, the wone dering inquiry of a father, the apprehen- sion of a mother and the concern of friends seem to have made an impression, and yesterday they teleirlphed triends here ‘that they would take the 5 o’clock river-boat, which was due at its landing- place in San Francisco at 3 o’clock Satur- da%morning. . lien he failed to report for duty his affairs in the office were looked into, but were found to be correct. Superintendent Miller could not account for the young man’s absence, except by the theory that he had got into a scrape that had not yet been made public. His friends declare that he has done nothing worse than to get married, and that being over, he will probably settle down to work. He gets no sign or word came from her. The strange part of the matter is that Captain Merriman finally reached Portland apd | never said a word of having been in com- vany with the Cadzow Forest. He came to San Francisco, arriving here on the 24th inst., and still thought the matter of such little consequence that he again failed to report. hen, however, he discovered that there was 75 per cent reinsurance being paid on the craft he at once told all he knew. In consequence rates took a sudden tumble and now there are dozens who are willing to gamble that the Cadzow Forest was purposely taken off shore by Pilot Glassman and is now beat- ing her way back to Portland. Being in ballast this will naturally be a long ‘and tedious job, but the San Francisco bar pilots say that she may now be heard from at any moment. Captain Glassman’s cruise in the pilot- boat” was to have been hislast as a bach- elor. If he had succeeded in bringing the Cadzow Forest; into port the day he boarded her he was to have been married a few days later. When he was blown out to sea his betrothed was prostrated, but she has hoped against hope ever since. Theamrohahie safety of the ship is-now as- sured, and gladness has come to the hearts- of hundreds of people in conse- quence. —————— JOHN L. SULLIVAN. The Ex-Champion Will Appear at the Columbia Theater. The Dry-goods Men’s Association of the City have made arrangemnents with the management of the Columbia Theater to eive a benefit at that house for the pur- pose of raising a sum of money which is | to be devoted to the charitable purpose of the organization. The members have completed arrange- ments to make the tickets good on Tues- day, wWednesday, Thursday or Friday nights, March 10, 11, 12 or 13, during which time Engene O’Rouerke, the Irish comedian, assisted by a company of well-known actors, will amwnrin the sac- cessful comedy *‘The Wicklow Postman.” One of the features of this performance will be the first appearance in a long time of John L. Sullivan, ex-champion of the world; Paddy Ryan, ex-champion of America, and Parson Davies, the cele- brated backer of famous athletes. The entertainment is stated to be one of the best of the kind that ever toured the con- tinent and is certain to create a sensation when it comes to the Columbia Theater with this coterie of artists and well-known people. The Dry-goods Men’s Association will have three prices of tickets on sale—50 cents, 75 cenis and $1. . —_————— Not a Scandal. + A large crowd in front of Groom & Ha- gan’s hatstore, under the Baldwin Hotel, yesterday, gave rise to a rumor of scandal, but the excitement was occasioned by the opening of a shipment of fine spring hats. . > 5 The Princess of Wales once confessed that her favorite dish was Yorkshire pud- ding, her favorite art millinery and her ‘favorite occupation minding her own busi- ness. Forening will be held this evening at| 10 TRAVERSE THE A, Atlantic and Pacific Aerial Navi- gation Company Will Make Airships. IT WILL BE LIFTED BY GAS. Captain Charles A. Smith’s Patent Sheet-Metal Double-Tube Machine Has Been Adopted.. A flying machine that will fly ! A huge creation with mighty wings that will flap cumbrously or sail majestically above the City roofs! The dream of theend of the century! And a San Franciscan has solved the problem, he thinks, and what is more to the purpose he has found nu- merous local capitalists who think like- wise. On Monday morning will be filed the articles of incorporation of the Atlantic and Pacific Aerial Navigation Company, H. Turner were u:guefl and submitted to Judge Wallace yesterday. Turner was convicted of forging & Tecorder’s certificate to a deed. Thne motions were based on error in tne court’s charge to the jury and defects in the informa- tion. Turner was to have been sentenced yes- terday. OUT FIGHTING FOR IT. Editor McCraney Talks of Sacramento’s Claims for the Convention—The National Contest. H. A. McCraney of Sacramento, Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court and projector of the new weekly paper, the Sacramento Ledger, soon to be issued, is at the Grand. Mr. McCraney was for a long time editor and proprietor of the Lakeport Avalanche. “‘Sacramento is in the fight for the coming Republican convention,” he said. “We will win 1t, too. Sacramento will send some of its best citizens here to ask the State Central Committee to decide in favor of Sacramento, and it will be hard for them to refuse such men. Sacramento is the best possible place for the conven- tion on account of the advantage she posseses in the way of hoteis. Besides, 'the Assembly room in the State Capitol is the proper place for such a gathering. There are many rooms in the Capitol that can be utilized for committee-rooms. This is one of the most important features to a ‘couventiun, as all' the most important work is done in the committee-rooms. [ | believe the majority of the Republicans of the interior desire Sacramento as the CAPTAIN CHARLES A. SMITH, INVENTOR, AND HIS AIRSHIP. 1From a photograph of the invertor’s drawing.] with a capital stock of from $50,000 to $100,000, of which in the neighborhood of | The | 20,000 has already been subscribed. namesof the promoters of the enterprise have not yet been made -public, but a meeting will be held this evening for the purpose of selecting a nominal board of directors for incorporation purposes, to fix the exact amount of the capital stock and to finish up other details. ‘The purposes of the new corporation contemplate the establishment and main- tenance of an extensive system of aerial transportation for both freight and pas- sengers, the purchase of real estate for terminal facilities and the erection of suit- able buildings thereon. It also contem- 'plates the manufacture and sale of air- ships and the control of patents thereon, and on this the whole matter hinges. Captain Charles Abbott Smith, M.D., a ploneer of the pioneers, merchant, physi- cian, miner, mechanic and inventor, who lives at 111 Polk street, this City, has ap- plied for a patent on an airship ‘‘that will work,” and he has for a suitable consid- eration agreed to transfer the control of this patent.to the corporation aforesaid. So as soon as the incorporation papers are erfected and the patent is received from ("\'ashil\gton the construction of one of the airships will be begun in this City. And this, should it prove successful, will be but the forerunner in a transcontinental line where rizhts of way cost nil. 3 Captain Smith’s airship consists of two sheet-metal tubes, one within' the other, the space between being hermetically sealed and charged with gas. From with- out, as may be noted from the illustration, the machine looks like nothing so much s a huge cylinder cut in the bias at one end and having a cone point on the other. Huge wings, bent to fit the cylinder when closed, are hinged at the top and so arraneed with chains and pulleys that they may be raised or lowered, or even flapped from within at will. An immense fan-like propeller, driven by electric motor or gasohne engine, will furnish the neces- sary motive power, and perpendicular and horizontal rudders will direct it in the way that it should go. ; The inner metal tube of the machine is rectangular and is placed near the bottom of the outer cylinder. In this will be the cabins and thz engine-room, and from it to the sides are openings for iight. On the inner side amidships, is to be a well, through which the anchor or grapnel will be dropped, and forward is located the steersman’s window. Every joint between the outer ana inner tubes will be carefully sealed and the space between will be so ar- ranged that the whole may be charged from one valve. The gas is reliea on for lifting power and_the ship will be built of aluminum in preference to any other ma- terial.to prevent leakage. Captain Smith has been an inventor for many years. He has taken out ere now fifteen patents on useful and curious novel- ties and many of his inventions are now articles of common hcusehold use. The old-fashioned bootjack, whose user stuck his boot through a peculiarly shaped hole in a bit of board, and then turned it sothat both the heel and the toe of his footgear were grasped by the *jack,’” is one of them. The button-hook with which my lady fast- ens her shoes was invented in Cahifornia by Captain Smith, who sold the patent to a cobbler for $100. The improved *‘finger-board” still useda on combined harvesters was patented by Captain Smith and yieldea him $11,000 rofit during the first year of its manu- acture. A ditch-digging, pipe-making, pine-laylng machine now used in Los An- geles County was another of his inven- tions. Speaking of his last triamph last night Captain Smith said : “I began studying over aerial naviga- tion about three years ago and have been at work on my machine ever since. Now that my plans are complete a ship is to be built, and it will work. Iam certain of t_hgt, and my experience qualifies me to udge. A g “The proportions? Well, a ship 100 feet long would be about thirty feet high. Its wing spread would foot up 3700 square feet and its rudders about 200 square feet. The gas would furnish the necessary hift- ing power and the proper use of the pro- veller and rudders would enable it to descend without releasing any of the gas. ‘“The carrying capacity of the ship? ‘Well, one such as I have described would easily support twenty men, or say a ton of dend weight.” 2 It is stated that the United States Gov- ernment has offered a honus of $100,000 for the invention of a practical airship if com- vleted within a certain time, and this; the neéw corporation will claim if its venture prove a‘'success. Among the advantages claimed for the machine is the statement that, being made of silver-gray aluminium, it would in case of war be visible to an en- emy onlv at comparativelv short distances by reason ot 1ts color. A motfon to arrest judgment and & motion fora new trial in the forgery case against J place for holding the convention, and their ishes should be consulted. 1 do not know much about the political situation as regards the Presidential nom- inee, but I believe Allison, who is my choice, has many warm friends and sup- porters in California, especially in the southern portion of the State, where there | are many former residents of Iowa who know him personally, and no one ever knew Seuator Allison but what they were forever after his friend. McKinley, too, kas many friends, as has also Tom Reed, any one of which would make a good President. ‘I do not want to see [California send a solid aelegation for any one man, for the reason that if that man should not beffor- tunate enough to get the nomination it would interfere with our getting what we deserve on this coast, namely..a place in the Cabinet. 1 want to see above all else harmony in the party in this State this year, and from the vresent outlogk I be- lieve we are going to have 1t. “Yes, I am going back into journalism, -and expect to have a paper in operation inside of thirty days. I love the news- paper boys too well to divorce myszelf from them just yet. I look upon the nepspaper man as the ‘noblest work of God’ and was never prouder in my life than when I was one of the rank and’ file of that fraternity and owned and edited a country news- paper.”’ JASPER MABflN’S RAZOR The Grand Jury Told How It " Was Used on Hugh Murphy. An Indictment Was Readily Found for Assault With a Deadly Weapon. The Grand Jury yesterday afternoon went into Judge Slack’s court. and pre- sented an indictment against Jasper Madi- son for assault with a deadly weapon. A berich warrant for Madison was issued on motion of District Attorney Barnes. This same case was once in Police Judgze Camp- bell’s court and there dismissed. According to the story told by Hugh Murphy, Margaret Richardson and Dr. A. J. Villame, a razor was wielded with bloody eftect by Jasper Madison, a colored jockey, and it was almost a miracle that Hugh Murphy, an Irish lad who serves as bartender at the “Richmond,” near the Bay District course, did not have his head cut off. The cutting took place January 26 last. The bartender had a dispute with a white customer concerning the sum of $2, which controversy was adjusted to the satisfaction of the interested parties, but it was not settled in a manner to please Jasper Madison and another colored person. Jasper, according to the story, sauntered into the Richmond and said to the bar- keeper, ‘‘Where’s that §2 that the white man left here ?” 3 Murphy, with Irish courtesy, responded, “Go way, there’s no money here.” ‘“You're a thief,” shouted Jasper Madi- son. Murphy started out to resent the accusa- tion, when Jasper Madison cried to his comvpanion, “Hit him with a spittoon, Erastus.” Erastus reached down and grabbed for a cuspidor, which he poised to fling at the barkeeper. As {he bartender, who had reached the end of the counter, stooped down to ayoid the missile Jasper Madi- son, crouching low, whipped out a razor, and slashed the Irish lad with terrible effect. A paper collar offered some ‘resist- ance to the sharp blade, but it was cut through, and the neck of Hughie Murphy was laid open to the jugular vein. The resistant collar was all that saved the life of the’ bartender. Seeing the spurting blood, Jasper Madison and his companion Erastus fled, but the other men remained to console Murphy. “That man’s done for; he’s hurt,” said one. : “Let’s take him to the French Hos- pital,” said the other. So they wrapped Murphy's neck in a towel and took him to the hospital. Murphy came about all right when the gash was stitched at the hospital, but on taking account of -his possessions found that the good Samaritans who had helped him to the hospital had also helped them- selves to his watch and all the money in his pockets. —————— The Chicago and Northwestern Railway dusts its cars with a blast of compressed air from a hose nozzle. the dis THE PESTHOUSE LEPERS, A Fund to Purchase a_Japanese Remedy for the .Unfor- ; tunates. CHINA ANNIE AND HER MUSIC, The Fifteen Patients That Are Decay- ing in the Dreary Molokai of San Francisco. | Several days sgo Supervisor Benjamin received a communication from FKrank Bindt, a leper now at the Twenty-sixth- street Hospital, betier known as the Pest- house, asking that the celebrated Japanese remedies be procured for the lepers here. The writer stated that the medicine was overy of Dr. Goto of Yokohama, where it was used with great ‘success in the treatment of tne leper patients there. “Beveral years ago,” said Bindt yester- day, “the son of Dr. Goto, also a physi- cian, was employed by the Hawaiian Government at Molokai, where he used those remedies with much success. Some time ago 1 was enabled to obtain the medicine, which helped me wonderfully. It is from an herb and is used both in- wardly and with sulpbur. as a bath. There is no other article known that will benefit a leper. *From my experi ence with the medicine 1 that the discolorations on the body will disappear, and the pain and itching of the affected parts will cease. About $200 worth of the remedy would last the fifteen lepers here for several years. “I hope something will be done along this line that will help us poor wretches doomed to drdg out our existencein a liv- ing death.” . Bindt and his brother have been at the Pesthouse for nine years. Both of the young men are natives of the Hawaiian Istands. The dreadful plague does not show upon them except in the contraction of the inner cords of the fingers, giving the hands that clawlike appearance most noticed in the leper. Supervisor Benjamin’s reply published in THE CALL of last Tuesday, was that the City bad no fund from which to appro- priate money for the remedy. But he was in full sympathy with the unfortunate people at the Pesthouse, and would do all in his power to raise the needed funds for the medicine. He stated for publication that any money sent him for that purpose would be used judiciously. Yesterday a $10 note inclosed with the request that the sum be used for the benefit of the lepers, was received by the editor of THE C, The money was given to J. P. Keating, steward of the Pesthetise, who will confer with Supervisor Benjamin regarding its use for thie lepers. No name was signed to the generous donation, hut it is doubtless a good start in the right direction, and any further funds will be placed in, the proper hands. Fourteen men and one woman are de- caying in the Molokai of San Francisco. They have no medicine and there 18 no treatment for them here. When they get very bad, us they alwaysdo in course of time, they wrap rags around their fingers, legs or arms and go on decaying. The place of their living sepulchre is fitting, if not humane, for a more dreary lace than the Pesthouse never existed. ike otber of S8an Francisco’s institutions it is a disgrace, a ruin and an eyesore. The buildings have seen their best days, in fact have seen all their da¥vs of usefnlness. The rain trickles in throngh every square foot of the roof, and the wind blows where and when it listeth through the big cracks in the walls. Steward Keating keeps the wards, grounds and the persons of the patients clean, lets them have plenty to eatand all the amusement dying people can extract from life, but he cannot rule the weather nor stay the ruin that is creep- ing over the place. But the condition of the miserable Pest- house of this City is an old yarn that has been told in all 1ts weary details for years. Even Chinawoman Annie, the organette . player of the leper ward, has a cheerful- ness that is dreary from its surroundings. 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