The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 29, 1896, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1896. GRAVES OF OLD SAUSALITANS, ‘Remains of a Lost Tribe Found in the Marin fi Hill Town. EARLY DIETARY PERIODS " AClam Era Marked in the Strata * . of an Indian Grave Mound. WHEN THE BERRY CROP FAILED And the New Man of Sausalito Feeds the Shell and Bone Fragments to His Hens. There is in Sausalito an old Indian burial mound, and every once in a while t§nt grass-grown tumulus gives up some of its forgotten dead. Itisnot pleasa.m even in haa darkened. A mussel strata shows itself, and the soft shells are thick in the era marked by the abundance of that food. It was the proverbial feast before the famine that evidently came in the next gen- eration, for the succeeding deposit shows earth without any evidences of the tribal menu. Possibly the vegetable and fruit fad struck the Indians, and the perishable nature of their kitchen refuse precluded the leaving of a dietary record. Or more likely the root and berry crop among the hills failed also, as a number of skeletons found in this strata would lead the archaologist to believe that the famine was then indeed among the mound people. The following era was better for the tribe, for the clams came back. They were large, firm, fat fellows, with scalloped shells, so hard that they never crumbled under the succeeding periods that pressed down on them. There are only a lew skeletons in this strata,and the scientist reading the unerring pages of the time may conclude that the deceased died from overeating. Then came a geological ‘era when the fragments of animal bones appear— when the mammala of the Coast Range came down to the mound and graced the festive board. In the next period mneither shells, bones nor human remains appear. Probably plenty smiled among the berry bushes on the rugged sides of Tamalpais or the esculent grasshopper swarmed bounteously in the wild oats during those summers of the dim long ago. A large number of stone mortars and pestles found here is evi- dence that the acorn output was manna in the wilderness to the tribe. However, the ancient people of Sausa- lito passed down into their mounds and the grass of to-day grows rankly over their dead periods. A grove of buckeye and TAVLOR AFTER HIS COLLEAGUES, The Grand Jury Will Be Informed of the Matter. PAID FOR PROTECTION. The Chairman of the Finance Committee Makes a Reve- lation. BIG DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED. . Hirsch and Wagner Flee From the Wrath of an Insulted City Father. The biggest sensation that has yet been sprung in connection with corruption in the Board of Supervisors came to light yesterday. View .of an Old Indian Burial Mound in Sausalito, Recently Opened by a Street Contractor, in Which a Large Number of Skeletons Have Been Found. (Sketched by a “Call” artist.] Sausalito, where ~peace and pleasure perches syallow-liké on the billside, to bave a rude and savage past sliding down from its sepulchral heap into the busy thoroughfares of the living present. The place where the former Sausalitans laid themselves away to sleep is iu the northern part of the town. A street has been cut through the eastern side of the mound, and many skeletons have been un- egrthed. Little except the skulls have been found in a state of preservation, tue rést of° these rude residenters having passed bagk to the dust of their common grave. . In the perpendicular bank made by the pick’and shovel of the workmen was dis- covered the- place where a body had crumbled and disappeared. Like the baker'of Pompeii lying in volcanic ashes, tlfis aborigine had ieft his mold when he had resosyed back to earth again. . In this bank may be seen the succeeding strata of shells marking the food periods in the life cf the old rancheria. It is the geological commissary. hiktory of the tribe. The Indians evidently had lived on tlie big mound, and the shells and animal bones of their long-ago feasts had been dropped underfoot. They buried their dead .there too, underfoot, and, as the refuse accumulations of generations lifted the living the departed went lower.. The deposits of the centuries widened the space between the quick and the dead. In the old earthy récords can be seen a strata of clam shells, demonstrating that this peculiar bivalve flourished plentifully on the bayshore hard by. The projecting of an ordinary imagination backward through the years will bring to view the early man of Sausalito with a.flint spade gruobing 1n - the prehistoric mugd for the ingredient of - his chowder-pot. Then came a period wken another bill of fare prevailed after the clambake day NEW TO-DAY. Brown’s Jamaica Ginger is made of pure gin- ger. No adulterants —no brandy. Nothing but gingerin solution. An infallible corrective for stom- ach troubles and similar com- plaints. A natural stimulant for the system and nerves. Be sure and get the genuine wDreans s v FRED BROWN CO., Philadelphia. -the school directors an pepperwood trees send their roots down among the. bones, which the street con- tractor disturbs with his pick and shovel. Yesterday a newspaper man, standing in sad contemplation over the tumulus of a lost race, saw a modern Sausalitan trun- dle a wheelbarrow up to the bank and be- gin to shovel the shells and bones into the affair. “It makes good chicken feed,” he ex- plained. “The stuff makes the henslay better.” To what base uses we may all return. POINT LOBCS CLUB BUSY An Improved Condition of the Richmond District Re- ported. Several Committees Appointed to Urge Upon the Authorities Their Co-operation, The Point Lobos Improvement Club, by its continuous agitation of the necessities of that district, has accomplished much in the shape of beautifying the homes of the residents and making good streets out of what had been a waste of sand dunes. This club, at its meeting last night, sug- gested additional improvements, par- ticularly that of insisting that those who ‘have built and who are about to build shall make proper connections from the dwellings into the street sewers. In the absence of the president, George R. Fletcher, Vice-President Luke Battles occupied the chair. William P. Johnson, the efficient secretary, reported the club in active and healthy condition, with a membership of fifty contributing property- owners. The special committee which visited James Winslow, who had received serious injuries by falling down a ship’s hold, re- ported his condition as improving. 1t was reported that the protest of the property-owners against the paving of Second avenue, from Lake street to Point Lobos avenue, had prevailed with the Su- pervisors, and as a consequeénce the work will be delayed for six months. A committee was appointed to wait on request that body to establish an eighth grade in the Rich- mond Senool. A similar committee was_appointed to wait on the Market-street Railway Com- pany and request that corporation to re- pair its track on Seventh avenue. S. Green suggested that a committee be appointed to wait on the property-own- ersin the district for the purpose of urg- g them to contribute sufficient to have the sand cleaned off the sidewalks and the hotes in the streets filled with macadam; also that the contractors living in Rich- mond beinvited to be present at the next meeting of the club and state for what amount they would be willing to perform the work. & It was suggested that some member of theclub who was acquainted with Mayor Butro wait on him and remind him of his promise to_paint his trolley poles along the line of his railroad. ———— Letter-Carriers Watched. The local letter-carriers believe there is snother ‘‘spotter” in their midst. In conse- quence of this there is unusual alertness smong the men who collect and deliver papers and letters. It is said that the disguise as- sumed by the present detective is that of & book agent. He goes from house to house, but slways just in the wake of a carrier. The men are ver reet in speaking of the mysterious individua,, but, just thesame, the word has been passcd aronud the circle that they are being watched. This same book agent ap- peared in Fresno & few days ago, and in conse- 23““‘” complaints are now on file in Washing- n against every man in the service, with one exception, The representative of a big local cor- poration, who claims to have paid money to the agent of the majority in the board for the prevention of the passage of a certain resolution, is, according to Super- visor Taylor. thinking seriously of taking the matter before the Grand Jury. He held a consuitation with Colonel Tavylor, the chairman of the Finance Com- mittee and leader of the minority, yester- day, and laid the facts before him. Colonel Taylor advised him to await developments in the present efforts of the Grand Jury to unearth the rottenness that is alleged to exist in the ranks of the majority, and at the proper time come forward and tell his story. ““This last act of this coterie of corrupt men is the proverbial Jast straw that breaks the camel’s back,” said Colonel Taylor yesterday while discussing ths ac- tion of the majority. “They have been running things with a high hand so long they imagine they are safe in doing any- thing, but the people have turned on them and the end of the tidal wave that has risen is hard to predict. A business man in this town, a leader in a big corpor- ation, told me to-day that he had paid money to this crowd in the board to pre- vent it from ruining his business and asked me what to do about it—whether to g0 to the Grand Jury. “I told him that there was only one thing to do, and that was to tell the truth, and the whole truth, when the time came. a public insult that ished. “I hava rested quietly under the strain of this thing long enough. Why, 1 never heard of such a thing. These men think they can control this City as though it was their own, but I think they will find to their cost that the people bave been roused at last. The era when men could be robbed and cheated with impunity has passed, and I think we are approaching an era when better men will be elected to office and the affairs of the municipality will be better managed. “Since the board passed the resolution offered by Wagner three of the Supervis- ors have been to me to half apologize for the insult put upon the coramittee of whichT am the chairman. I want none of their apologies, for I know the men. “When thev began to talk to me I told them that I knew they were corrupt and ihat Icould prove it, and that if they wanted to go with me I would take them to 2 man who had paid them money, and that I would show them to their faces that they had been bribed and bow much they sold out for. Of course they did not have time to go just then, nor will they ever have time of their own accord.” 1f Supervisor Taylor concludes to attend the session of the board this morning when it meets as a committee of the whole those Supervisors who voted to take the arranging of the municipal ap- propriations out of the hands of the Finance Committee will probably listen to an arraignment of themseives such as they never heard before. From an incident that occurred Monday afternoon last after the meeting of the board it may be imagined that the session will be a stormy one. Colopel Taylor entered a downtown resort to partake of some liquid refresh- ment, when Supervisors Hirsch and Wag- ner entered. The Supervisor from the Eighth was not present when the resolu- tion of the man from the Twelfth was passed, and Hirsch went over to the colonel and imparted the information of the majority’s action as a matter of news. He had scarcely finished when the Su- pervisor grasped the full import of the communication and saw the direct insuit. Hirsch tairly recoiled before the look he This action of the board 1s infamous, ana | sbull not go unpun- | received and the burst of angry denuncia- tion that poured from the colonel’s lips. Those who voted for the resolution were characterized by as strong epithets as came into the colonel’s mind. He was gradually working himself up to apitch of anger where active hostilities would begin when Hirsch concluded that discretion was the better part of valor and made a hasty exit through the front. Wagner listened with a sickly smile until the crowd began to thicken about them, and then he, too, silently stole away. LISTS . ALL COMPLETED. The FElection Commissioners Have Finished the Bulk of Their Work Before Election. The Board of Election Commissioners finished the task of examining the lists of election officers presented to it yesterday and made the appointments for theThirty- seventh District as follows: Precinct 1—Inspector, Thomas H. Barry; {ndges, Michael Heflernan and Albert J. Setio- Frecinet 2—Inspector, Joserh H. Rourke; judges, Jere Riordan and William T. Haberly: Precinct 3—Insgector, John Donohue; judges, Thomas Roach and John Curtis. Precinct 4—Tuspector, Thomes Berman; judges, 0. H. Davis and Theodore Mayer. Precinct 5—Inspector, Henry McEnroe; juages, T. M. Osmont and Paul W. Fowler. Precinct6—Inspector, Eiward Deady; judees, W. P. Sullivan and James Toomey. Preclncl7—}ns£ector, F.J. McAuiiffe; judges, John Nagle and Henry'J. Hughes. Precinct 8—Inspector, J. F. Carberr; udges, Thomas A. King and Abraham Morris. Precinct 9—Inspeotor, J. B. Murphy; judges, T.J. Sullivan and J. F. Wertheimer. Precinct 10—Inspector, F. C. Mack; judges, B;’rry‘Ferblefk and W.N.Ibure. Jua recinct 11—Inspector, John Bovey; judge, J.W. McCarthy, 7 Pif Precinct 12—Inspector, J. F. Tracy; judges, Harry Monaban and Frank P. Davis. Precinet 13—Inspector, Charles McAuliffe; udges, Frank H. Maloney and Willilam T. itzgeraid. i o recine —Inspector, Thomas Cleary; judges, William Holladay and Neal C. Toft. Precinet 15—Inspector, S. Zemansky; judges, M. Kiley and George C. Dixon. Precinct 16—Inspector, V. Edward Daly and J. T. Brennan, Precinct 17—Inspector, Frank Skelly; judge, 8. M. Hammond. sud recinct 18—Inspector, C. H. Bryan; judges, Jobn v:'ushland Louis " xgnmeg.y‘ 1o recinct 19—Inspector, Isaac Spiro; judges, Thomas Schumacher and . L. Cook. Precinct 20—Inspector, Charles P. judges, P. J. Higgins and C. O. Burton. Precinct 21—[nspecior, C. W. Quigley; judges, Thomas J. White and Alfred G. Dawes. The following were dismissed from their positions because of non-residence in the districts from which they were appointed: Martin B. Ward, Fourteenth of the Fortieth; Paul Dubols, First of the Forty-fourth; Henry Gerlach, Sixteenth of the Forty-first; Paul An® gellotti, First of the Forty-fourth; J. Marani, First of the Forty-fourth; A. Adams, Fifth of the Forty-fourth; A.J. Garibaldi, Fourteenth of the Forty-fourth; L. J. Hurley, Sixth of the Thirtieth; Thomas . Mulim, Thirteentn of the Forty-fourth, and Richard J. Rice, Eighteenth of the Forty-fourth, From now until the time the lists are all cleared up the Commissioners will occupy their time listening to protests against those of the men already appointed who are charg-d with irregularities. ————— BEATEN BY CONVICTS. They Revenge Themselves Upon Otto Brown for Testifying Against Them. Otto Brown, proprietor of the S8an Fran- cisco Pattern Works, 110 Beale street, swore to a complaint in Judge Joachim- sen’s court yesterday charging “John Doe” and “Richard Roe’’ with battery. He showed a pair of black eyes as evi- dence of the offense. About two years ago Brown’s place was entered by burglars and two men were arrested, convicted of the burglary and sent to the State’s prison for two years. Brown was the complaining witness against them, and the men vowed to get even with him. They had regained their freedom, and Monday night they met Brown on Beale and Mission streets. They at once pro- ceeded to administer e terrific beating to Brown, and left him in a helpless condition. He did not recollect their names, but the police will endeavor to find them from the records. Tobin; judges, Troy; To the Asylum. Edward Welr, the tea-peadler, who has been annoying various young ladies with his atten- }‘(on‘a, was yesterday returned to the Ukiah sylum. George W. Brandon was sent to Napa. He is very violent, and had to be forwarded in a strait-jacket. MARRIED AND RAN FROM MAMMA Hasty Wedding of A. A. Friedlander and Norah Stratton. ESCAPED BY A WINDOW An Angry Mother Clamored Out- side During the Cere- mony. A SENSATION AT THE HALL How a Young Attorney Won a Bride and Escaped the Conse- quences. ‘With an angry mother hammering and clamoring frantically at the door and an open window behind them as a means of escape Albert A. Friedlander, a young Police Court attorney,and Norah Stratton, a pretty young girl, were married yes- terday by Justice of the Peace Groezinger under circumstances exciting enough to satisfy the most fastidious lover of adven- ture. M iss Stratton’s mother objected to her marrying Friedlander on the ground among other things of his inability to support her daughter, but the young people were not to be denied, and as both were of age, he being 30 and she 22, a license was procured and arrangements’ made for the ceremony to take place yes- terday. Somehow Mrs. Stratton learned of her daugher’s intention and determined to frustrate the marriage 1f possible. To this end she went_early to the hall yester- day afternoon and haunted the corridors in the vicinity of the justices’ courts. Friedlanaer asked Judge Conlan to perform the ceremony, but thai astute Jurist learned of Mrs. Stratton’s presence, and was salso told that she meant mischief, so0, scenting trouble, he refused to have anything to do with the matter. Then Friedlander went to Justice Groezinger and negotiated for a ceremony in his chambers, He did not show up atthe appointed time, but a messenger -boy brought the following note written on a telegram blank: Friend Groesinger: Hold the fort (I mean the court), 1 am coming. WIill be there as soon as possible. A. A. FRIEDLANDER, Meanwhile Mrs. Stratton was stamping up and down the corridor, glaring out of the windows and showing in & general way that she was not in a very peaceable frame of mind. By this time a score or more of public officials, clerks and others, had scented a scene and were standing about the cor- ridors and in the Justice’s chambers, abwlnmng the climax that seemed inevit- able. By some strange chance Friedlander appeared with his fiancee and a lady friend just when the old lady was off guard fora moment, and were in the chambers and standing before the Justice before she dis- covered that she had been caught nap- ing. P'Ife word had reached Justice Groes- inger that trouble was on the tapis and he instructed Bailiff Barney Conlon to guard the door and see that no disoraer dis- turbed the ceremony. Just as the momentous questions were being asked an angry voice sounded from outside. “Open the door. Iwant my daughter.” The demand was accompanied by a tre- mendous thumping on the door that threatened to break the glass, === Attorney Friedlander and His Bride Fs aping by a Window in Justice of the Peace Groezinger's Courtroom Immediately After the Ceremony The Justice 1s Assisting the Lady. n 3 NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. SPECIAL! FURTHER REDUGTION IN PRICES! - Our customers and the public generally are informed that during the present week ° we will offer at GREATLY REDUCED - PRICES the balance of our SPRING AND .’ SUMMER GOODS. 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B “Look out! she may have a gun,” said ! one of the spectators just as a tremendous | blow reverberated through the chambers |* and everybody, including the Justice, | dodged and looked. scared. i There was a quaver in the voices of all three of the active participants in the | marriage as the blows redoubled on the door, and Mrs, Stratton yelled: “Open the door. or I’ll break it in.” Finally, however, the ordeal was over, and the business of getting away was faced. The open window furnished the solution, and hand in hand, preceded by Clerk Morgenstern of Police Court 2, who was present, the young couple mounted the sill, the bride being gallantly | assisted by the Justice. With one frignt- ened bckward glance to see whethér Mrs. Stratton had forced an entrance, they stepped on to the gallery that euncirecles | the inner court of the ball, and piloted by Clerk Tim Sullivan started on theirjourney to a place of safety. 4 *“Don’t leave me, boys,” implored Friedlander when his escorts gave signs of returning, and out of respect to his wishes they remained by his side. Mrs, Stratton was permitted to enter the chambers after her daughter had de- parted, and seeing that the party had es- caped gave utterance to a scathing criti- | cism on “California marriage laws” and started on a hunt for her daughter and son-in-law. They dodged her, however, and the last seen of Mrs. Straiton she was interview- ing a policeman. Mrs. Josephine Baldwin and J. Baldwin signed the certificates as witnesses. The young couple are now staying with a sister of the groom. BETTER SCHOOLHOUSES. Their Annual Overhauling and Repair- ‘ing Under the Direction of In- spector of Buildings Kincald. The public schools will reopen next Monday, and it is safe to say that the nu- merous schoolhouses will be in a greatly improved sanitary condition. Inspector of Buildings Kincaid has kept an extra force of men busy during the vacation making repairs so far as the finances would permit. - All of the primary, grammer and high schoois have been generally overhaule and renovated. Thestoves snda)i pes have been fixed so that the pupils and teachers will not suffer from cold this coming fall and winter. Tue whitening of fiity-nine schoolhouses is well under way prepara- tory to painjing as many of them as may be possible with the appropriation, yet to be announced, for the coming year. At the Redding, the Staniord aud the Lafayette schools the dangerous old stair- cases have been replaced by new ones. New offices and lunch-rooms have also been put into the Redding and the La- fayette schools. 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