The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 16, 1896, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1896 A PRIMARY THAT BROKE A RECCRD. This Time It Was the Record of Honesty and Freedom. TWELVE THOUSAND VOTE At the Regular Republican Elec- tion Yesterday Voters Had Their Way. CONTESTING TICKETS FAILED. For Once the Best Elements of the Party Flocked Forth to Vote at a Primary. Nearly 12,000 Republican votes were polled yesterday at what was unmistak- ably the cleanest primary ever held in San Francisco. The election of yesterday marks a new erain San Francisco Republican politics, in that no preceding one has ever been so free from the domination of corrupt bosses or has so fairly, freely and honestly ex- pressed the wisnes of the voters. There was anotner distinctive feature to the primary of yesterday. It was the un- usual number of men belonging to the solid business and vrofessional elements of society who came to the polls to vote. Primaries of the past have often re- pelled these elements by the character of the men who controlled them and the cer- tainty that a vote against the “‘inside’ was thrown aw Yesterday in every district and especially in the Western Addition men who never touch practical politics except on a general election day formed long lines at the poll- ing-places and waited for the privilege of exercising at the fountain of political power and destiny the most important privilege of citizenship. These results followed naturally the en- forcement of the broad, wise and honor- able policy which has been declared by Jobn D. Spreckels, and in support of which the county committeemen and all the strong varty influences have com- bined. The primary of yesterday illustrates the difference in results between the leader- ship of a man of strong character, moral worth and executive ability, who has no petty selfish ends to serve, and the leader- ship of scheming bosses, who manipulate only that their selfish and corrupt ends may be served. The election passea peacefully, bringing no disgr: 10 party or party powers. The interest was intense, but the ballots rapidly dropped from 1 to 7 P. M. at the thirty-six polling-places, unchecked by rows or high-handed proceedings. When night fell there were no loud protestants ng “frand.” re were contests in three or four dis- tricts, and in these districts the interest was naturally much intensitied, but in no case did the contesting tickets develop anywhere near the strength they were ex- pected to sh This resalt evinced how fairly the various clubs and factions had been recognized in the naming of delegates on the regular tickets. The tickets elected in all cases bore the names of loyal supporters of the leader- ship of John D. Spreckels. The delegates chosen yesterday number 122, the number to wnich San Francisco is entitled. Of these 67 are from the Fourth Congressional District and 55 from that portion of San Francisco lying within the Fifth District. The delegation chosen yesterday 1s one of exceptionally high character, and it will fittingly represent the Republicans of this city in the work of naming delegates to the National Convention. This delegation is the first one to gofrom this City to a State Convention in many years not as the creation of aboss and created in a back room, but one named in fact by the people of the districts. Home rule in district politics is a new thing, but John D. Spreckels has this vear succeeded in bestowing it. The delega- tion elected yesterday proceeds directly and wholly from the people, and back of it is massed more than ninety-nine one- hundredths of the local party. The provision of two polling-places in each district was found to have been a necessary one to accommodate the vote that became so heavy, not through stufling the ballot-boxes, but through the provision of a machinery which gave every voter confidence that his vote would be honestiy counted. The votes cast aggregate 11,927. The last returns were received at Republican head- quarters at 11 o’clock last night. The returns from the .polling-places of the Assembly districts in the Fourth Con- gressional District were canvassed by County Committeemen John M. Chretien, Forty-second Assembly District, chair- man; P. J. Walsh, Forty-third, secretary ; Albert Houston, Twenty-eighth; J. N, Browning, Twenty-ninth; Charles Ber- liner, Thirtieth; Charles C. Clear, Thirty- first; R. W. Heilman, Thairty-secon James Gately, Thirty-third; A. A. Louder- back, Thirty-ninth; S. G. Bacigalupi, For- ty-fourth, and T. M. Chandler, Forty-iifth Assembly distri The returns from the polling-places of ——————————————————————————— e NEW TO-DAY. ONLY GURE t.h“o‘l‘ wdlm’caus:t {dt 5Itrikel at the cause o e Clogged, Irritated, Inflamed, St Orercorted vouz. " " s Sold throughout the world. Porres D: : 103% Corroratiox, Sole Proprictors, Bostgn. " O ‘“How to Prevent Pimples,” 64 pages, illus., free. | the Assembly districts in the Fifth Con- gressional District were canvassed by County Committeemen Charles W. Man- waring (chairman), Thirty-sixth Assembly District; John Jackson (secretary), Thirty- fourth District; J. H. Thompson, Thirty- fifth; James Alva Watt, Thirty-sevent! Grove Ayers, Thirty-eighth, Jesse Marks, Fortieth, and C. G. Clinch, Forty- first Assembly District. The returns so canvassed are to be certi- fied to the Congressional committees of tle respective Congressional districts, and thereon credentials to the State commit- tee will be issued to the delegates elected. In the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-second districts there were no contests and a heavy vote was peacefully polled. There were lively times at the two poll- ing-places of the Thirty-seventh Assembly District, caused by the appearance of a ticket in opposition to the regular one. The second ticket was largely the creation of Ned Donneily, and was backed by quite a large element in the district. At poiling-place No. 1, on Gough and Fell streets, the fun started early in the day by the appearance of a long line of voters. Nearly every vote for a time was challenged, which engendered much bad blood. While peace was preserved by the police at the polls, there were several rough-and-tumble fights in saloons and alleys near by. The same condition of affairs prevailed at polling-place No. 2, on Ozk and Devisa- dero streets, but with less violence. About 3 0'clock, the opposition practically with- drew from the contest. One of the most amusing incidents of the day occurred early in the forenoon. The opposition lined up a long string of voters together and their ballots began to drop. After a large number had voted the leaders made the mortifying discovery that they had teen handed the tickets that they had intended to defeat. This was a sad blow to the opposition, as it caused them great loss. It was in this distriet that the voting of the best elements of the party was especially noticeable. At the noon hour, and especially at the close of business hours, long lines of business men from downtown were formed and kept up. James Alva Watt, the county commit- teeman, had mailed 1000 ballots to voters and a majority came with their ballots ready to be dropped. The opposition poiled but 132 votes. In the Thirty-eighth Assembly District there were two tickets in the field, the one known as the opposition being championed by 8. L Jacobs and Barney Fromberg. Jacobs desired to be placed upon the regu- lar ticket, but failed to accomplish his end. At first he resolved to run independent, but this bemng impracticable he secured the names of Dr. H. L. Curtis, Barney Fromberg, J. R. McLean, Peter Jordan and A. McElroy. In addition to his own name he put on the names of E. H. Aigel- tinger and Gus Pohiman, who were on the regular ticket. It was expected that From- berg, who is a gripman on a Hayes Valley car line, would poll a large railroad vote, and Jordan, who is a laborer, would draw the workingmen’s vote. Jacobs worked hard at polling-place No. 1, at Gough and McAllister stre:ts, all day, but the regulars were 100 strong. At No. at 1703 Eddy street, the opposi- tion practically gave up the fight before 5 o’clock. Contrary to expectations peace and har- mony reigned in the Thirty-ninth Assem- bly District. The polling-places presented much the same orderly aspect as they would upon & regularelection day. There Wwas not even the faintest suggestion of a contest ateither place, but it was remarked often during the afternoon that the voters were mostly seen at a primary election for | the first time in San Francisco. Large numbers of representative, respectable men cast their bailots. Voting continued without intermission of more than a few minutes during the aftsrnoon. The vote was heavier at Hayes and Polk streets, where the box was filled. At the polling-place at 1019 Larkin street many professionsl gentlemen dropped in and cast ballots while inquiring about the results in other places. In the Forty-second District there was no contest, and yet remarkable interest was manifested in the election. An ex- ceptionally large vote was cast. At 209 Eliis street, polling-place 1, the line ex- tended around the corner of Mason street at 1 o’clock, and when the waiting crowd had voted, business men from the neigh- borhood began to vote. They visited the booth all day long and voted. While the voters downtown hurried away to their business, leaving but a few loiterers at the polls, a different condition | prevailed at the other end of this aistrict at 1339 California street. There a large number of Republicans met and spent the time in discussing probabibities. The primary election in the Forty-third District was distinctively a business-like matter. Just as soon as the polls opened voting began, and a stream of voters passed through the booths until night. At 128 O'Farrell street a very large num- ber of voters gathered at 1. ., the hour for dinner, and again aiter working hours those who could not leave their business before voted. The polling-place in Cali- fornia Hall, Bush and Powell streets, was well patronized, and a heavy vote was cast there. The Forty-fourth Assembly District was a surprise to the inhabitants thereof. It is the usual order of things to have more or less opposition to every ticket, but pre- vious to the call, County Committeeman G. Bacigalupi and others made strong and successful efforts to secure harmony, and there was no opposition to the regular ticket. A larger vote than usual was cast, many going to the polls who heretofore have taken but little interest in primary elections. The Forty-fifth showed no contest, but instead of it a strong feeling against Su per- visor King and Tom O’Brien, which in- creased the vote. County Committeeman Chandler, William Bates and others con- ducted affairs. The delegates ele: both Assembly dist tricts are as follow: FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Twenty-eighth District—Polling district 414; polling district 2, 366; total vote, 750, = Delegates—James H. Daley, W, 8. Russell, Henry D. Miller, Thomas J. Tully, Alberi Houston. Twenty-ninth Distriet—Polling district 1, 811; polling district 2, 245; total vote, 5: Dy Hageman, 'J. T. Cook, D. J. Iy Smith, J; McNamara. irtiet rict—Polling district 1 ; polling district 2, 451; total vote, 670, " 21> Delegates—E. B, Griffith, C. F. Metzner, 1. 8, Cohen, J. Gilleran, H. Benjamin, F.. £. Wal. Iace. Thirty-first District—Polling_district No. 27’.(3 polling district No. z.gzss; total vaula: ‘Delegates—William Smadeke, J. F. McGi D, K. McMullen, J. F. Goodwin, P. Dolan, > " Ty second ‘District—Polling district No. 31,3105 polling district No. 2, 396; total vote, Délegates—Thomas ¢, Duff, John H, Jonn A. Buck, Zach T. Whitten. e Thirty-third District—Polling_district No. 1, 329; polling district No. 2, 410; total vote, Delegates—J. C. Weleh, J. A. C. Dierks, J. E. Koster, Louis Holden, Thomas Kendri S, Charles Brown. The opposition dele, cted and the vote by ricts and polling dis- gates in this district were as follows: W. W. Magary, T. R. McLeod, Egbert J. Martin, N. J. Rogers, George W. Pennington, R. Pengelly. Thirty-ninth _District—Polling district 1, 452; polling district 2, 237; total vote, 689, Delegates—Con 0'Connor, John Tuttle, Mar- tin Stevens, Hugh Fraser, George Cawley, W. J. Herrin, H. Burdell, Sol Miller, H. W. Fairall. Forty-second District—Polling _district 376; polling district 2, 254 ; total vote, 630. Delegates—F. S. Chadbourne, Harry N. Gray, John M. Chretien, Thomas D. Riordan, O. L. Swett, H. A. Kuchmeister, Dr. G. L. Drucker, Milton D, Garratt. % Forty-third District—Polling district 1, 217; polling district 2, 321; total vote, 538. Delegates—J. A. Cunningham, A. W. Martin, John Lackman, M. J. Flynn, Fred Lundquist, Charles Sonntag, David Connors. Forty-fourth District—Polling district No. 1, 398; polling district No. 2,355: total vote, Delegates—E. C. Palmieri, George Waterman, John J. Gleason, D. W. Wessenberg, R. L. Clark, G. Bacigalupi. Forty-fifth District—Polling gistrict No. 1, 2943 polling district No. 2,286; total vote, Delegates—Thomas F. Duffy, Wiliiam D. Wood, William Lennox, James Cari, Emil Bor- zone. FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Thirty-fourth District—Polling district No. 1, 364; polling distriet No. 2, 397; total vote, 761. Delegates—. K. C. Hobbs, 8. L. Lent, Cord H. Wetjen, George W. Elder, E. B. Smith, Harry Beasley, E. W, Eustice. Henry Buttner. Thirty-fifthf District—Polling district No.1, 2045 polling district No. 2, 285; total vote, Delegates—John D. Spreckels, John D. Daly, . I Newkirk, C. M. Depew, D.’ F. Mulville, & X, Torrello. Thirty-sixth District—Polling district 1, 275; polling district 2, 314; total vote, 589. Delegates—W. H, Chapman, W. 8. Thargood, H. Smith, W. Linden, J. M2Carthy, Charles Lempe, A, E. Holmes. Thirty-seventh District—Polling district 1, 769; polling district 2, 444; total vote, 1213. Delegates—C. O. Burton, G. A. Wentworth, John H. Hegler, John H. Gray, A. J. Raisch, James Alva Watt, Fred Eggers, John Gallagher. The opposition delegates in this dis- trict were: P. B. Cornwall, Dr. R. J. 0’Con- nell, K. L. Cook, J. E. Field, Dr. F. W. Waldheimer, 8. 8. Morton, W. G. Long. The received 137 votes in both sub-districts. ‘Thirty-eighth District—Polling distriet 1, 845 polling district 2, 265; total vote, 610. Delegates—John L. Koster, W. S. Ray, An- drew McElroy, E. P. Barrett, Gustave Pohl- man, E. H. Aigeltinger, Richard O’Donnell, W. A. Haisted. Fortieth District—Polling district 1, polling district 2, 442; total vote, 1011. Delegates—Max Brooks, Willlam Wilkinson, W. D. Cole, ke, Jchn C. Nobmann, H. w . Miller, John B. Carson. 569; filler, Bert Thomas Eager. The opposition delegates in this district received 76 votes. They were: A. A. Brown, C. B. Sessions, James Spanton, H. A. Callender, Cornelius Holmes, 8. C. Irv- ing, M. A, Lee, Archie MacKillop, R. L. Thomas. Forty-first District—Polling district No. 1, 164; polling district No. 2, 274; total vote, Delegates—0. D. Baldwin, Wallace Bradford, J. D. Boyer, I F. Kyad, Edward Fox, Charles Wilkinson, George T. Phelps, R. A, Grier and Charles Burdett. _In the Thirty-third Disrrict the opposi- tion to the regular ticket received 44 votes, and in the Thirty-eighth 53 votes. ST, PAUL N THE GLASS, Two Magnificent Windows for the Chancel of St. Mary’s Church. The Most Elaborate and Artistic Ef. fort Ever Made Here—Beauti- fying the Interior. The Paulist Fathers have begun the reno- vation of St. Mary’s Church on California street, and expect to so completely trans- form the external appearance of the old building that it will be an ornament to the City. For the last two or three days a force of men have been at work on the two large chancel windows. The old plain glass windows have been removed and frames adapted to stained-glass lights placed in the open spaces. Already a magnificent window, presenting a historical picture, is being erected on the Dupont-street side of the chancel, and it is hoped that both the new windows will be in place by Sunday next. These windows are said to have the larg- est single stretches or stained glass with fizures ever made in San ¥rancisco. The subjects represent on one side the conver- sion of St. Paul on the road to Damascus, and across the chancel St. Paul preaching in Athens. In the first window the cele- brated painting by Rubens bas farnished the motive, while for the latter the equally well-known masterviece of Rapheel has been chosen. While the grouping and at- titudes of the principal fignres have been carefully preserved the landscape and other accessories have been freely treated to conform with the requirements of stained-glass art. The windows each measure eight feet across by twenty feet in heigat, They are divided ‘into three compartments by nar- row mullions. Each center compartment measures four feet four inches in width in the glass—much beyond the usual width of stained-glass windows. The work has all the appearance of having been executed in the best style of modern stained-glass art. It certainly isa long stride forward for California, for nothing like it was ever before attempted here. In the older win- dows of tbe European cathedrals color ef- fects alone were regarded, while at present the drawing and design are as carefully studied as in an oil painting. Such care has been bestowed on the two windows for the chancel of St. Mary’s. The whole work has been executed in San Francisco, in the works of John Mallon, by a resident artist trained in the schools of France, and been produced under the supervision of Bryan J. Clinch. In the picture of St. Panl preaching the background has been changed from an Italian village to the Acropolis of Athens, the classic ouilines of which harmorize well with the group of life - size figures in front. St. Paul stands erect, with one hand raised, and around him are gathered the Athenians, whose expressions and postures are elo- quent of attentiveness, mingled, perhaps, with curiosity, while something’ approach- ing awe, or at least a gleam of realization, is depicted on more than one of those up- turned, eager countenances. The Paulist Fathers purpose at an early date to fill all the windows of their church with stained glass presenting subjects of equal merit. These subjects will be drawn from the missionary history of the Catho- lic church, and one will be used for each window. At present the subjects selectea are: St. Patrick preaching at Tara, the seats of the Irish Kings; St. Boniface f‘rea'ching to the pagans in Germany, St. ouis Bertrand as a missionary among the Indians of North America, St. Francis Xavier in Hindoostan, St. Augustiae, the illustrious Bishop of Hippo, St. Francis de Assisi. Other subjects of a similar char- acter will be represented in the remaining windows, but they have not yet been fully determined. The Paulists are also preparing for the renovation of the exterior of their church. All the weather-worn, decayed stone work will be repiaced with galvanized iron, and the cleaning and painting process will be extended to the brickwork. ‘This will prac- tically make the time-worn edifice a new and handsome church building. —_———— The Fastest Boat Yet. The Desperate, torpedo-boat destroyer, designed and built by J. Thornycroft & Co., ran a preliminary trial on March 17, obtaining a mean speed on four runs on the measured mile of 31.035 knots, or 3534 statute miles. The speed was taken by British Admiralty officials, and is the highest on record. The Desperate is the first of the new class of thirty-knot de- sstro_vers that has been tried.—New York un. ———— Next to a singing bird there is no little thing in animate nature s0 companionable to human beings as a growing plant. —————— Ladies’ Southern ties, $1 45, all shades, every toe. RBysn & Ryan, 10 Mongomery avenue, * BLUSHING BESIDE MARTIN AND JERRY Kelly- Mahoney Delegates Shamed by the Farce and Fraud. RESIGNATIONS LIKELY. Few Reputable Republicans Want to Be Tools for Two Corrupt Bosslets. LOCAL POWER IS THE GOAL. The Contest in the Fourth Is the Effort of Kelly and Mahoney to Break In. Kelly and Mahoney’s own Congressional committee of the Fourth District has | before it a job not provided for in the | election call 1t issued. it will have to make appointments to | fill several vacancies in its delegation to Sacramento before convention day, accord- ing to indications that began to appear yesterday. There are among the men who were put on the ticket by Martin and Jerry many reputable Repubiicans, who are now blushing to see their names paraded as tools of two disreputable tricksters whose record is so completely infamous. They wince, t0o, at the programme of going to | Sacramento as creatures of the most stu- pendous primary fraud ever perpetrated in any city. Knowing that not more than 300 legiti- mate votes were cast for them at the rump primary on Tuesday, they do net proudly stand forth as representatives of the Re- | publican party in its highest work and | hold up to view the seven thousand and | more votes with which the returns were openly stuffed. Three hundred legitimate votes and 7000 voted by Martin Kelly and | Jerry Mahoney do not afford the .sort of | credentials that some of these self-respect- | ing gentlemen are ready to take and play | that the two politicians who have most | disgraced the party in recent years may | accomplish their own ends. Kelly and Mahoney raw do not stay on many Re- publican stomachs just now. The fact that the whole movement was | born in fraud and was given its start by | two forged proxies in the hands of Kelly | and Mahoney is another thing that lessens | the pride with which some of these men | view their position. Then Kelly and Mahoney placed on | their ticket several names without consult- | ing the men who bore them. One of these, | Dr. J. E. Artigues of the Forty-fourth | District, discovered this use of his name | after the bailots were printed and ordered his name scratched from the ticket, which was done on election day. Republicans yesterday were generally too much interested in the regular primary to bestow much thought on the farcical one of the day before, but comments were | usually accompanied by a laugh and the opinion that the amazing extent of the stufling and the boss-ship of Martin Kelly and J. H. Mahoney would relieve the con- testing delegation from being taken very seriously at Sacramento. The most interesting fact connected wiih the Kelly-Mahoney primary is the one that the world’s election-stuffing record was broken. In Mahoney’s(Forty-second) district the sixty votes tallied by the aid of a few repeaters were openly increased when the polls closed to over 600, and by the same simple process of chucking in enough ballots to make the box look full, and tallying the desired number of votes in all the eleven districts, the 7000 was easily proclaimed. The delegation with which it proposed to go to Sacramento and institute a con- test in the Fourth District is wholly the creation of Kelly ana Maboney, and this fact will not be forgotten. Neither will it be forgotten that the entire motive of these worthies is to get hold of something in municipal and legislative politics which they can use, and their use of politics is of one well known sort. Martin Keliy is now out in the political cold. He has no patronage to dispense, no officials to tax, no Supervisors to sell and nothing to swap with. He is on short grass, being financially “busted.” Now Kelly is playing about the skirts of the party trying to get recognized. Even | partial success in the State Convention would give him prestige, political cred- itors and other sources of strength by which he would try to geta hold on the local political machine. Senator Mahoney likewise makes poli- tics his business, and like Kelly he wants something to do business with. Martin Kelly, forlorn but ambiticus, busied himself about the meeting of the State Central Committee a few weeks ago in partnership with Mahoney, who was a member of the committee. On the night of that day a meeting of the State Central Committeemen of the Fourth District was called by Mahoney and Kelly for an hour or two after the call was sent out. at about 8 p. M. Kelly and Mahoney had their wires and plans all laid and a Congressional committee fixed up by Kelly and Maloney was nominated by Mahoney. This committee was appointed, accord- mg to the record, by five of the eleven committeemen. This was a minority; but three ot the five votes were proxies, and two of these, secured and handed to Mahoney by Kelly, were afterward found to be forged. Aflidavits to this effect were made by Gustave Melsing and John Mar- tin, whose names were used. By this fraud, perpetrated amid the trickery of a meeting nastily called at night, the Kelly-Mahoney Congressional committee which conducted the primary of Tuesaay was created. Three or four days later a majority of the State Central Committeemen met and appointed the regunlar Congressional com- mittee which delegated to the County Committee the conduct of the primary of yesterday. The fraudulent committee has been wholly dominated by Kelly and Mahoney, and the delegates were named by them. 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Ayhens, first and second vice-presidents, respectively, of the World’s Christian Co-operative So- ciety, make the following joint-written statement, from Nevada City, Cal., relative ich appeared in THE CALL of April 12, under the heading “‘G. W. Wilderman’s Deal” : G. W. Wilderman came to Nevada City Feb- ruary 6 to expert a mining ciaim purporting to be owned by John and J. R. Tilton of San Francisco. On arriving at Nevada City G. W. Wilderman_ called at the County Recorder’s office and learned that both properties h been sold for the taxesand bought in by t State. Upon further wvestization they learned of & mine superintendent, who had superintended | | |One Million Doliars LOTTERY BOND SWINOLE Extorted From the People of This Coast. The Business so Manipulated That the Victims Can Have No Re- course to Law. One miliion dollars’ worth of foreign bonds at a low estimate are held by the small storekeepers, working girls, clerks in stores and others of limited means on this coast through the false attractions of a lottery attachment, which is made a prominent feature in consummating their sale. Every bond sold by the agents of these he | firms, ‘several of whom have their head- | quarters in this City, returns a net profit of 300 per cent, though the purchaser is the last work done on the mine seven years | given the impression that he is paying no since, that both properties were forfeited to the Unitéd States Government end were open to location. with two other men s witnesses and located both claims for said World’s Christian Co- opetative Society and sampled the ore of the same. He made nine tests of the ore ana failea to find & color of gold. Z Wilderman also contracted a deed in escrow for a valuable gravel mine near Ne- vada City; consideration, $12,000. Paid $600 on same in stock of the corporation, the balance of the paymentto be made from 10 per cent of the gross earnings of the output of the gravel mine. The deed of eserow was placed in the Nevada City Bank. Wilderman, knowing the present directors were wholly insolvent and inexperienced in mining, and three of the directors being women, and the directors having already voted and advertised 10 move the general office of the corporation to Nevada City, on March 30, requested five of their number in San Francisco to resign and elect five competent and experienced men in Nevada City in their stead. This they refused to do. Consequently G. W. Wildsman tendered his resignation ns president and director and | N i | bonds drawn each month are at once paid Grass Valley miners and mining superintend- organized a corporation of Nevada and ents, styled “The Peoples’ Co-operative Invest- ment Company.” % We claim no property with the aforesaid corporation here, for we have no connection with it in_name or property: and as to the deed here in escrow the owners want it re- turned to them or complied with. If the San Francisco corporation would only attend to its legal business and had any money to do so it would be much better for them. They are only making a laughing-stock of said corporation. - Vice-President P. J. Ayhens came up to Ne- vada City, paying his own expenses, to inves- tigate on the same line 8s_they propose to have Attorney Collier do. He found every- thing honest and legitimate so far as President Wilderman was concerned. The statement as to Tilton representing th Cleveland mine as being worth $3,000,000 i 8 wild assertion. The property has been the laughing-stock of this county for seven years. e ‘What Ii Depended On, One day Tom Logan, an Oregon lawyer and an inveterate wag, was arguing a case before Chief Justice Greene of the Supreme Court of what was then the Territory of Washington, says the Northwest Maga- zine. Opposed 10 him was a backwoods lawyer named Browne. Logan continu- ally referred to the counsel on the other side as if his name were spelled*‘Browny,” to the evident annoyance of that genile- man. At last the Judge interfered, re- marking: i ¢ “Mr. Logan, this gentleman’s name is spelled B-r-o-w-n-e, and_is. pronounced Browne. not Browny. Now, my name is spelled G-r-e-e-n-e, but you would not pro- nounce it Greeny, would you?"’ “That,” replied Logan, gravely, but with a merry twinkle in his eye, “‘depends entirely on how your Honor decides this case.”” e s —————— Nearly 20,000 horses—aged, infirm, weak from overwork, starving and fatigued—are said to be fed to leeches annually at Bor- Kelly and Mahoney as though the dele- deaux. | more than the face or market value of the | | same. are usually | Consequently G. W. Wilderman went out | those having their money value expressad | The bonds handled 1n francs and florins, and the victims are people who have no knowledge of the monetary difference between the florin and franc of Europe and the aollar of this | Europe. These bonda are sold in groups of four or | five, comprising as many different securi- ties, and the purchaser, in order to induce him to fall a readier victim, is permitted to pay for them on the installment plan, the amount paid each month ranging from $2 50 to $20. according to the aggre- gate amount of the purchase. The bonds are the legal issues of cer- tain Governments of Europe, who find it necessary to resort to this questionable means of lottery bonds to raise money enough to meet the emergencies of the present, and the payment of them is de- termined by a monthly drawing. The off, the holder receiving their face value, and perhaps an additional sum as a prize, the later feature having been incorporated by the respective Governments in order to | bring about the sale of the securities, as these seldom bear interest, or if they do the interest rate is a very low one, and the interest-paying bonds offer less attraction in the shape of prizes. Groups of these bonds are sold for amounts ranging from $0 to $1000. A sample group that is quite commonly sold in this City is made up as follows: A Ser- vian bond, with a face value of 100 francs, whose actual market value on the Vienna Exchange is 34 florins; an Austrian red- cross bond, with a face value of 10 florins and a market value of 18 florins and 65 kreuzer; a Holland white cross, face value 2 florins and market value 5 florins; an Ltalian red cross, face value 10 lire and market value 11 florins 50 kreuzer; a Ser- vian bond of 1888, face value 10 francs and market value 4 floring 25 kreuzer. These have a total face value of §28 80, fignring the florin at 40 cents and the franc and lire each at 20 cents, aliberal allowance ineach case. Onthe same basis the market vaiue of these five bonds is$29 36. This group 1s sold for §115, on 1nstaliments of $5 a month, thus netting the agents $85 64, or nearly 300 per cent profit. In order to effect the sale a plausible story is usually told to the effect that the arawing for the bonds sold is soon to take place and that the holder is almost certain to win a prize. But the waiting to some stretches away into the weary months, and when they are in a discourazed mood over what they believe to be their bad luck they are approached by a new emissary of the bond-dealer and ‘in most cases are induced to exchange their bonds for secu- rities which are represented to be more desirable, either by reason of more fre- quent or larger drawings, or by baving larger prize attachments, the victims, of course, paying an additional sum for the | new bonas, | until they a and this process is carried on re drained dry or realize that they are ‘being swindled. Here is an instance that occurred in this her holdings int About four years ago a young lady e o : typewriter purchased a $60 group of bonds. “These she was subse- quently induced to exchange for a $200 group, paying, of course, the difference. | Then she became the possessor of a $500 group. The actual cash value of her hoid- | Ing to-day 1s about $100. Recently she was in need of a sum of ready money and at- tempted to negotiate her bonds with the agent who had sold them to her. The best she could do was to obtain the offer of & | loan of $70 on them. Hereatter her sav- | ings, she says, if put into bonds, will buy Uncle Sam’s, even if they bear only 3 per cent, and are devoid of lottery attractions. Another imposition on the unwary is worked through the club certificate scheme. | Ten or iwenty persons are induced to | purchase jointly as many groups of bonds as there are members in the club, a certifi- cate being given to each to the effect that he is entitled to a one-tenth or one-twen- tieth interest,as the case may be, in the entire number of bonds. It is represented | that the chances of winning a bi prize is | thus increased for all intereste , and for | this advantage an additional premium is placed on the bonds. In fact, however, | c er, the chances are no greater in proportion than if each had pur- chased his group separately. Then any member of the club may withdraw his in- | terest from the club by paving up the full amount of his share of the joint Eoldings. and thus deprive the other members of the club from any participation in what he may chance to win. | . 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