The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 26, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1896. WLLAVILTHE PANAMA ROUTE, i Increased Interest Mani- fested in the Tehuante- pec Railroad. ‘ CONSUL CONEY'S VIEWS. He Strongly Favors Control of| the Road by California Capital. HOW MILLIONS WERE LOST-? History of a Big Deal That Was; Spoiled by C. P. Huntington’s Interference. With the announcement from New York | that the Transcontinental Association is | in process of reorganization and all com- | petition was about again to be eliminated | | cause for the sudden change of | statement that C. P. Huntington learned tripled their investment in two years and would have realized a profit of about $7,000,000. This syndicate had an offer from the Mexican Government two years ago to ac- quire a lease of the Tehuantepec road for hinety vears, on condition that they would complete it. At the time the road had been mortgaged and $11,000,000 worth of bends 1ssued, which were bought in Ger- many at 35 cents on the dollar. The idea was to have the syndicate take up these bonds, which bear 6 per cent, the holders being willing to sell at the price paid for them. The Government also agreed to ive the syndicate the privilege of issuing | onds on which to raise money for the ex- pense of completing the -road. These bonds the Mexican Government further agreed to guarantee. In the furtherance of this plan E. J. Molera, the well-known civil engineer, and Consul Coney were commissioned te go to Mexico and report on the road aud arrange the deal as i}sr as lay in their power. While they were busy on their mission they were suddenly and unexpectedly re- called and the deal fell through. The eart has ever since been a_mystery, but one of the parties interested is authority for the of the scheme, had an interview with one of the principals, and that thereafterthe matter was allowed to languish and finally to die. The bonds of this road, which at that time were obtainable for 35 per cent of their face, are now selling for 97 cents and for par, and had the deal been consummated | those interested would now be holding se- curities for which they would have paid $3,850,000, and which are to-day worth nearly $11,000,000, and which would be re- turning an annualincome of more than 15 per cent on the original amount in- vested. It is acknowledged by & representative | of one of the carriers directly interested in the Panama route that the Tehuantepec Railroad was bound to become an im- portant factor and a rival of the | ITHE BATTLE-SHIP OREGON | sitver. She Is Now Almost in Readiness for Her Builders’ Trial Trip. A GENUINE SUCCESS EXPECTED. Built of the Best Material and by the Best Engineers and Mechanics in the World. The trial trip of the Monadnock and the doings of the American navy in various parts of the world have given prominence to the fact that in a few days the battle- | ship Oregon, built at the Union Iron Works, will have her official® trial trip. She 18 now almost completed, and dredgers are at work clearing the way for her free entrance to the waters of the bay. Once again afloat, she will be taken to Hunters Point drydock and there placed in readiness for her trial, A special gang of men will be put to work, and the big line- of-battle-ship’s bottom wili be scrubbed and cleaned until it shines like burnished The steering gear will be over- hauled, ana when the Oregon leaves the dock everything is sure to be in thorouech working order. A more than satistactory result is expected, and the Scotts are rest- | deposits in the bank money enough to ! i and that gon. The Charleston was built after the model of the Japanese cruiser Naniwa Kan, and the San Francisco and Olympia were modeled more or less after European ideas. The new battle-ship, however, is on the lines designed by two young Artherican officers, and in design and build—from rivet to hull, from machine-gun to main bat- tery—she is Americanand American only. | MURPHY’S COMMISSION. Colton’s Version of the Affair Told in a Deposition Read Yesterday. The trial of the suit of the First National Bank against Mrs. Ellen Colton for com- missions for the sale of her house on Cali- fornia and Taylor streets developed some interesting testimony yesterday. Depositions of Mrs. Colton and Joseph A. Baker were read, and in each of them the statement was made that Murphy told Mrs. Colton that the selling of her house would cost her nothing. Mrs. Colton, in her deposition, went on | to say that Murphy had taken from her | Mrs. pay for the commissions which he de- manded. She had & row with him in the office of the bank over the affair and threatened to bring the matter before the directors unless he repaid the money. She said that he himself had told her that the bank could not transfer money from depositors’ accounts to its own treasury unless a check was duly given for the money. Mrs. Colton said further that A. N. Towne was the first one she treated with in regard to the sale of the house, terward, when Murphy came to see her, he told her that he would not charge her anything for the trouble he she wasa good customer of the bank 3 Jos’eph A. Baker's deposition was in DUNN SWORN 10 SECRECY Fate of the Sheriff and Recorder Is Trembling in the Balance. HOW THE LAW - IS BROKEN. The Grand Jury Is Now Obtaining Possession of Important Information. When Frank Maskey, the foreman of the Grand Jury, engaged the expert services of Horace D. Dunn, the latter signed a writ'en agreement that he would not impart to any other person than a member of the jury the facts disclosed by the investigations. The expert was also placed under oath to maintain secrecy. The Sheriff and Recorder were not taken by surprise when an expert appeared among them taking notes. It was soon sur- mised, and presentlv ascertained as a fact. that Mr. Dunn was working for the Grand Jury and giving especial attention to fees charged and collected, but not until yes- terday did Sheriff Whelan and Recorder Glynn comprehend that mcre than tne ordinary routine visit of the Grand Jury representative was contemplated. The; learned from THE CALL yesterday that it is the purpose of the Grand Jury toin- quire why two officers of the City and County have taken the responsibility upon The Line-of-Battle Ship Oregon That Is to Uphold the Credit of the . e — American Navy. — ] Builders’ Trial Trip in a Few Days. [Sketched by a “ Call” artist.] from the through freight situation, the gentlemen having in hand the project of organizing a through service between this port and New York, via the Tehuantepec Railroad, have taken renewed and in- creased interest in the scheme. As the gentlemen interested are prominent mer- chants and large shippers, it is claimed that the enterprise if carried to comple- tion will always remain an independent and genuine competitor with the overland railroa”s and the Panama line. A. K. Coney, the Mexican-Consul Gen- eral, is thoroughly familiar with the Tehuantepec Railroad, and is strongly in- clined to favor the plan of the San Fran- cisco parties who are negotiating to secure control of the propefty. Speaking of the matter yesterday, he said: The Tehuantepec Railroad is built from one end o the other. All it lacks are proper ports s0as to give the necessary facilities for ship- ing &t both Coalzacosicos on the one side and Edifnas Cruz on the other. At Coatzacoslcos it will be necessary to jetty the Coatzacoslcos River and at Salina Cruz s breakwater will have to be built. Last year the Government made 8 contract with samuel Brothers of Mexico and New York for the purchase of & million dollars’ worth of rolling stock and material for the road. ‘Amongother things all the temporary eulverts and bridges are to be replaced with new and permanent ones. There are no regular lines of steamers run- ning to these_ports as yet, but I don’i taink it will be very long before there will be. I no- ticed in THE CALL that there are negotiations on foot 10 take up the matter of utilizing the Tehuantepec as & link in a line between New York, thisport and Central and South Ameri- can ports, and even for a line to Eurepe. Nomr:g would give me greater pleasure than to have the people of California take up the project, as that would mean progress and in- Ccreased commerce for Mexico as vell as for California, In my opinion there is no better field for developing the manufacturing and commercial iterests of this State than would be opened up by just such a schemeas that outlined in THE CALL, A The road hs§ been in running order since last April and has been making & good deal of money. In fath it 18 not able to handle all the traffic that offer and that is the reason that this million-dollar cpntract was recently let. With the increase in rolling-stock it'will be in a position to take care of all the business for some time to o Should connecting steam- ers be put on it vill, of course, be necessary to put on additionalrolling-stock. It was learned) yesterday that a few of the best known capitalists of this City were in a deal abQut two years ago to se- cure control of Tehuantepec Railroad, but allowed the negotiations to drop, with the result that tiley are now mourning their neglect to tel ndvxunnga of the op- portunity whereby$hey would bave nearly | Panama road in interoceanic - traffic. This gentleman doubted, however, | whether San Francisco people could be | sufficiently interested to invest the neces- sary capital, which he estimated would not be less than $6,000,000, and most of | which would have to be expended for har- | bor facilities at the termini of the road. | On this peint an interview was had with | a prominent civil engineer, who has been } over the ground, and who made a thorongh | investigation of this phase of the matter, | This gentleman stated that all the work of | making smitable harbor approaches would not cost more than $3,000,000. On the | Coatzacoalcos side it will be necessary to | jetiy the mouth of the Coatzacoalcos River | 80 as to scour its bed, and make it ac- | cesible to vessels of deep draught. Itis | estimated that this can be done at a cost of $1,000,000, so as to give a depth of not less than twenty-five feet for sixteen miles up the river from its mouth. There are two ways, this gentleman | stated, in which the requisite accommo- | dations for shipping can be secured l on the Balina Cruz side. One is to | construct a break-water so as to pro- tect the roadstead of that port from | the trade winds, and the other is to dredge | lakes Superior and Inferior, about ome | mile east of Salina Cruz, and then cut a passage from one of them to the ocean. This would give a land-locked harbor that would be equal to anything on the con- tinent. The cost of the breakwater would be about $1,000,000, but what the cost of the second project would be the gentle- 4 man was not pregared to state. It is further claimed by those interested in the scheme, that the operation of steamers in connection with the Tehuan- tepec Railroad will notonly providea com- petitive route between New York and San | Francisco, but will enable San Francisco | merchants to enter the heart of Mexico bi | rapid and cheap transportation, and wouls | also enable gheaper rates to be made o all | parts of the United States from San Fran- | cisco by operating a line of steamers from Coatzacoalcas to New Orleans and up the Mississippi to the head of navigation. Cruelty to Children. Joseph Ault, the ex-foreman of the Standard 0il Company, who was arrested on Tuesday for cruelly beating his little daughter and was released on his own recognizance by Judge Conlan, appeared in Judge Low’s court yesterday, The case was continuea until Saturday and Ault was ordered into custody. He was afterward released on $1000 bonds. Judge Campbell yesterday sent Mrs. Maggie Patterson of Clementina street to the Count; Jail for three months and Mrs. Ellzlbetl Rousch for five months on the charge of cruelty to thelr children. ing on their oars in anticipation of a big bonus. If a faithfully built ship ever earned a premium it will be the Oregon. The very best material has been put into her, and | the best engineers and machinists in the | United States have superintended her con- i struction. As she appears to-day she is the personification of power, not hand- 1 some in outline, but beautiful in her | strength. Asa fighter the Oregon shows | her power in every line and curve, and | her frowning cannon give warning pefore they begin to bark. Judging by her batteries, she is one of the most powerful ships atioat. In her main batteries she has four 6-inch guns and eight 8-inch. The latter are trained fore and aft, while the 6-inch gunsare amidship. Then there are four 13-inch guns in the towers, and these can be used on all occasions. In her secondary batteries the Oregon has sixteen 6-pounders, four 1-pounders and four machine guns. For small arms she will have 300 rifles and 170 revolvers. In her other defenses she will have seven torpedo tubes and ten auto-mobile torpedoes. Nearly all of the armament is now on board, and the chances are that the preliminary trial will | be held next week. & The Massachusetts, Indiana and Oregon are alike in every respect, but the Union Iron Works, the builders of the latter, ex- pect to beat the record of the others. Par- ticular attention should be paid to these vessels, as in the case of war they would be the main reliance of the United States both for offensive and defensive purposes. The good qualities of the Oregon are ap- parent to even the superficial observer. She is superior to anything afloat or de- signed iu the world, and the only adverse criticism that can be made is in regard to the coal supply at normal draught. *“But,” said a naval officer yesterday, “in order to obtain the two vital qualities of heavy armament and admirable protection some thing had to be sacrificed, and that some- thing was coal. Sut it must be at once re- membered that the Oregon is a coast-line battle-ship. She is not liable to make Jong yoyages at sea and will therefore not be apt to stray far from the home coaling sta- tions. Nevertheless, on a pinch she can carry 1800 tons of coal. There is nothing foreign about the Ore- corroboration of Mrs. Colton's statement of Murphy’s tender of services: IN THE HOME OF PEACE Final Resting - Place tfor the Remains of the Late ° Abraham Gunst. A Large Thromg of Mourners Ac- company the Body to the Grave on a Special Train. The remains of Abraham Gunst, father of Police Commissioner M. A. Gunst, were laid to rest yesterday afternoon in the Home of Peace Cemnetery. Services were held by Rev. Dr. Voor- sanger of Temple Emanu-El at the family residence shortly after the noon hour and the funeral cortege wended its way to the Sonthern Pacific depot, where a special train was in waiting at 2 o’clock. The mortuary train consisted of an en- ine, the casket-bearing car, wherein sat e immediate mourners, and two coaches for the friends of the deceased. At the cemetery Rev. Dr. Voorsanger again_conducted the religious ceremony according to the Jewish ritual and the tomb was covered with hundreds of floral pieces. ‘The Police Commissioners were not pres- ent, but the department was represented by Captains’ Wittman, Gillen and Healy, Lieutenant Esola, Bergeants Charles Mc- Donald and Blank. The palibearers were: Morris Schweit- zer, Henry Swinsheimer, Henry Ach, Al Liebenthal, Al Esherg, Charles L. Asber, Louis Haas, M. Katzenstein and L. Gug- genheim. Death of a Noted Angler. W, W. Noble, & well-known angler who was particularly interested in the fly-casters’ tour- nament which was held at Stow Lake about four years ago, died on Tuesday at the French Hospital, the result of an operation for appen- dicitis. He seldom missed & whip at the r‘:pex- mill Creek on the opening day of the season. The funeral will take &l:fll to-dsy. Noble was born near Inverness, Scotland. PiLes, burns and my similar miseries quickly relieved by Mitchell’s Magic Lotion, * NEW TO-DAY. MUNYON'S Cold and Gough Cures, Promptly Effectual in Curing Grip, Colds and Cough and a Sure Pre- veutive of Pneumonia and All Lung Diseases. Colds lead to coughs, coughs to Pneu- monia and Consumption; therefore, it is | all important to (‘Bw\'k a cold before it | reaches the lungs. Manyon’s Cold Cure will positively break a cold inside of | twenty-four hours if taken as soon as the | cold manifests itself. 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Extra We offer this week a Special Pur- chase of LADIES’ HOSIERY. 25¢ 500 dozen Ladies’ Black Cotton Hose, with double soles and toes and high-spliced heels, worth 40c pair. Our pric g ..... . Pair 00 dozen Ladles’ Black and Tan Cotton Hose, with double soles and toes and extra high spliced heels. Sold everywhere at 50c. Our price, Pair Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. NEWMAN & LEVINSON, 125, 127, 129, 131 Kearny St. Bran ch Store 742 and 744 Market St. She Is Now at the Union Iron Works, but Will Be Ready for Her themselves to decide upon the constitu- tionality of the fee bill which was passed by the last Legislature. This law, approved March 28, 1895, is entitled “‘An act to establish the fees of county, township and other officers, and of jurors and witnesses in this State.” It is the law of the land until the Supreme Court decides to the contrary. The Grand Jury understands it to be the law. County Clezk Curry, to whose office it applies, recognizes it as the law. Among the visitors at the City Hall vesterday were Frank C. Jordan, Clerk of Alameda County; Thomas S. Bonneau, Clerk of Marin County, and G. G. Halli- day, Clerk of Solano County. They fol- low the new law in their respective coun- ties and find that it works admirably, They consulted yesterday and exchan ged views as to the interpretation of some pro- visions not clearly understood, The Grand Jury regards the attitude of the sheriff and Recorder of San Francisco as remarkable. The tlimsy excuse is given that the law is not respected because pri- vate attorneys tell them that the protec- tion of official bondsmen require the old repealed law to be observed and the new law ignored. The Graud Jury proposes to ascertain how the bondsmen figure in the case, and in what way their personal interests con- flict with a groper execution of laws passed by the peog e for the guidance of public servants. Incigentally this will lead to a Grand Jury discussion as to whether pub- lic offices are created and maintained for the people or for the men who figure as sureties on the official bonds of the office- holders. The opportunity for the Sheriff to make money in bis office is not so readily af- forded by the fee bill of 1895 as it was under the law which’ the last Legislature re- pealed. The act approved March 28, 1895, under the subdivision pertaining to the Sheriff's charges, contains this paragraph: “Yor keeping and caring for property under at ment or execution such sum as the coury may fixri provided, that no greater sum than “$2 per day .shall be allowed to a keeper when necessarily employed.” The old law, which the Legislature re. pealed because it permit exorbitant charges, allowed $3 a day for keepers. It is said that the Sheriff covld place eight or ten attachments under the care one keeper and collect $3 for each tachment. 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