The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1897, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 18YT. e by almost u publican major snimous consent | As chairman | frst pl > the Re of Committee on of toe| Codes he holds t ble posi- | tion on the floor ¢ 8 | The Assembly 1d Means Com- | { evening voted to report ad- | > bill providing for an ap- aid_of the McKinley ashington on in- y w, who appeared | the committee to make an argu- or the bill, was seen a the meas- ure was squelched in committee: He said | the action of the com- | have been & quick way h ovided for the business ne, and | ornia will appre- rce because they under- California s and_oth | z the refusal of a | ee to recommend a tion for the expense. | it has been publighed | among rancisco, Los | Jose and Stock- | ss men of San ked the privilege of the ¢ the Power contest zured that forty ning from that City to Sacra- i cost §050, whereas it would for ine committee to visit o0 seems to Kenyou for Le other day strenuously nket to San . Thie $150 to rt favorably i iIN TH SENATE. Little Business Transacted Beyond the Introdt on of Some Mcre Bills. RAMENTO, Car., Jan. 15.—Beyond | few bills, little busi- | acted by the Senate to-day. | SACE ton and Sea- | ointed by Lieutenant-Gov- | the Code Commission Com- d as follows: ey—Providing for the protec- in mining corpo; ral primary election e normal nending e daty of the nate the lo- c he benefit of z all railway com- h depots, etc of a fine of $100 IN HE ASSEMBLY. tute for the Funding Bill Hol- | Resolution Reported by the Federal Relations Committee. TO, ( Jan. 15.—In the norning the Federal Rela- tiee reported a substitute for ion, de- ious for the Legis- king a holid tate hasthe proper tn exercise in honor of either { or the pas- I Contests was ; ncisco and in the case of Hoey vs. eave ta | Sommittee asked leave to us report, which was ttaches wasordered on the resclution to investigate the organization scandal on Monday next. The bill fixing the minimum rate on public works at $2 per day was read a sec- rant greater liberty to completion of a panel | notion of Emmons, the State Con- | directed to witbhold all war- n for furniture until they can | be inves The H ay out of respect to t Mr. Somers, a former plain. SOME IMPORTANT BILLS. | One Is Intendad to Provide a New County Hospital for San Francisco. TO, CaL, Jan. 15.—After | session the Senate adjourned | over until Monday, and the majority of | | | them took the first train leading out of the city. In truth, there was not much for them to do, the State Printer having completed only twenty-three out of some- thing like 350 bills, so that there was little or noth 1 pt to adjourn over | and gi nter’s cffice a chance to | catch up with the big rush of business. Senator Dwyer's bill (S. B. 60), which has been referred to the San Francisco delezation, will prove to be of great in- terest to San Franciscans. It authorizes | the Supervisors of San Francisco to levy | a tax for the collection of $300,000 to be expended for a municipal hospital to take | the place of the old County Hospital. | Senator Dwyer says that the old hospital js unfit for nabitation, ana would langi ago have been condemned by the Board of | Health for that reason, had the board the power to do so, but it has no authority to condemn a public building. One of the internes is said to be sick with typhus fever contracted by reason of the defective drainage and sewerage. The Siupervisors are authorized in the bill to select the site. Another bill by the Senator provides for the creation of a State inspector for the Hospitai for Infectious Diseases. It is proposed by the bill that the lepers now in the Pesthouse in San Francisco shall be supported by the State, as these lepers come from all parts of the State and from foreign ports. An appropriation of $100,- 000 is asked for to construct and mainiain the institution, which must be built out- side of the City and County of San Fran- cisco. Scnator Luchsinger to-day offered a joint resolution providing for the deep- ening of the straits leading from San| Pablo Bay to the Mare Island Nuvy-yard. The bill bas been referred to the Commit- tee on Commerce and Navigation and will no doubt be reported upon favorably. Eenator Braunhart introduced a bill ex- | a Norma! School | studying | or the party for whose immediate venefi | been printed, authorizes Bo: empting “sypewriters” and bicycles from attachment and execution. The bill will be probably amended by substituting the words “type-writing machines' for “type- writers.” There does not seem to be any | valid reason why typewriters should be exempt from sttachment. This would work an undeserved hardship upon tkou- sands of poor but pretty girls in this State. 3 Senator Smith of Kern and San Luis | Obispo counties introduced a bill to-day providing for the appointment by the Governor of five trustees to serve as a | board of trustees of = State Normal School to be established by the bill in the town f San Luis Obispo, where a site will be ered iree of chargze to the State. The trustees have the option of erecting a new building or purchasing an oid one. There is some talk among Senator Smith’s con- stituents ot chasing for the purposes of e Hotel Ramona in San Luis Obispo. The appropriation in the bill is for $100,000, for constructing, furnishing and maintaining the schoof for the next two fiscal years. The Senator is now besieged with let- ving that his constituents in San po County have heard a rumor that the Senator was about to ask for an additional Judge in that county and pro- testing against such a measure. The Sen- ator says that there is no truth whatever n the rumor. Senator Stratton introducel a bill this morning to appropriste $15,000 for a monument or a statue .to the memory of Colone! E. D. Baker in Golden Gate Park. Senator Luchsinger will introduce a bill next week changing the date of State Labor day to that of the National Labor | day, they bemng at present a month apart. One day he thinks is sufficient for work- ing veople in California to be docked in The Sen- ages for a labor holiday. ator introduced a bill to-day reduc- ing the salaries of county officers all around. *“They are now elected for a four years’ term,” said the Senator. “‘and they are receiving as high salaries as they did thirty and thirty-five yearsago. Itis the sentiment of the people in all the counties that the salaries are too high.”” The bill hes been referred to the County Governments Committee. He will also introduce a bill to fee the Tax Collectors for collecting licenses. At present the Tax Collectors receive no fee for this ser- vice, and therefore cannot send cut men to make the collections. In accordance with a resolution made a law by thesignature of the Governor yes- terday, the bills and resolutions of both Louses are now printed on leaves of the same size and style as the journals. This makes the bills mach easier to handle and bind them than the sprawling sheets used 2t previous sessions. e Steppacher, secretary of the Re- vpublican State Central Committee, is over the various primary elec- tion bills, so as to blena them harmoni- ously and consistently into one which shall be acceptable to the City members and country members alike, The expense of holding these elections is a stumbling block. It is his desire to frame a law which shall prevent cooked primaries by allowing all parties in interest to put up a ticket of their own. Senator Arms’ bill amending the act creating a Commissioner of Public Works vrovides that the Commissioner of Public Works shall serve for the term of four years at a salary o! $4000 per annum, pay- able in monthly instalments.! Another bill by Senator Aram provides that at the general election in 1802 and every six years thereafter there shall be coted a Superior Judge in Yuba County and one in Sutier County, each to receive ) $4000a year, half to be paid by ¥ 1T by the State. Another | amends section 1880 of the Code of Civit Procedure by the following: ‘‘And no to an action or proceeding shall be ailowed to testify where the adverse part the action or proceeding i1s prosecuted or defended, is the representative of a deceased’ person, when the facts 10 be proved transpired be.ore the death of suca deceased person.” Senator Eeard’s biil, which bas now visors to ‘‘contract for supp with “water for municipal purposes; ing the city to | purchase, lease or construct water Works nd electric plant, anc all machiery, concuctors and apbpiiances necessary therefor, and to supp! d city with and 1 to the inhavitanis thereof water, heat and power.” When the bill becomes a law the city of Alameda will be the first to take advant- age of it. Another bill by Senator Beard provides that 4 majority of the property-owners on the frontage of any road district lying out- le of the limits of an incorporated city town, and whose population shall ex- pervisors of the county within which said road district is situated to have sidewalks aid or improved. For the purposes of this act the population shall be ascertained 7 taking the great register and allowing five persons for each elector registered thereon in such road district. The meat of the insurance bills intro- duced by Senator Bert is as follows: No corporation, Vi Goveriment foreign to the nited Statesshall transact insurance business in this State, or be admitted to transact such business herein, unlessit sball have made a of not less than $200,000 with the arer of this State or with the proper ofsome other State of the United States. ions of individuals formed upon the 1 known as Lloyds, whereby each associ- underwriter becomes linble for & propor- t of the whole amount insured by a policy, may be authorized 10 transact insur- ance Lusiness, other than life, in this State, in like manner and upon the same terms and conditions as are required of and imposed upon insurance compauies of other States of the United States. Senator Bert’s amendment of the police pension biil reads as follows: Whenever any person at the taking effect of this act, or thereafter, shall have been duly appointed or selected, and &worn, and have | served for the period of twenty years, or more, in the aggregate, as a member, in eny capacity or any rank whatever, of the regulerly consti- tuted police depariment of any such county, city and county. city or town, which may hereaiter be subject to the provisions of this uct; said board shall be empowered to or- aer and direct that such person shall be retired from further service in such police devartment, and from the date of the making of such order ihe service of such person in such police department shall cease, and such person so retired shall thereafier, during his Iizetime, be paid from such fuud & yearly pen- sion equal to one-half of the amonnt of salary attached to the rank which he may have held in said police department for the period of onge year uext preceding the date of such retire- men 2. Section four (4) of said actis hereby amended 5o as to read as follow. Sec. 4. Whenever any person, while serving as a_policeman in any such county, city and county, ity or town, shall become physicaliy disabled by reason of any bodily injury re- ceived in ihe immediate or direct performe ance or discharge ot his duty as such police- man, said board may, upon his written request, or without such request, if 1t deem it to be for the good of said police force, retire such person from said department, and order and direct that he shall be paid from said fund, during his lifetime, a yearly pension equal to haif of the amount of salary attached to the rank which he may have held on such police force at the date of such retirement, but on the death of such peusioner his heirs or assigns shall have no claim against or upon such police relief or pension fund. e COMMITTEE JUNKETS. Members of the Assembly De- termined to Keep Down the Ex- - pense of the Trips. SACRAMENTO, CAn., Jan. 15. — The Assembly Committee on ,Commissions, Retrenchments and Publis Expenditure met this evening to consider junketing schemes referred to the committee for in- vestization. The chairman, Mellick, and his associates have determined io make a vigorous fight on the floor of the House against this feature of public extrava- gance. The temper of the committee was adverse to all trips, but doubt was ex- pressed whether the Assembly was ready 10 vote against the whole plan of legis- lative visits to public institutions. If no other measure of reform can be secured the committee must sustain a proposition to limit the number of junketers to three on eack committee, and these three to be allowed only actual railroad fare and §3 a s of Super- | ed 500, may vetition the Board of Su- | association, partnership or | day for expenses. Niue committees an- ticipate a junket. There is sure to be a vigorous appeal from land-owners of the Sacramento Valley for the proposed appropriation of $300,000 to deepen the channel of this stream. There is a strong influence be- hind the measure and some active work was done to-day in rallying members to the support of the bills which were intro- duced yesterday. In committee Leon Dennery of San Fran- cisco expressed his sentiments with some animation. Hedid not pretend to dispute the vitality of the measure, but he was not in favor of placing the power to 8ppoint the advising officers in the hands of Gov- ernor Budd. J. R. Price, chief engineer of the Board of Public Works, has unbounded faith in the plan now proposed to secure deep- water navigation sbetween San Francisco and Sacramento. In an interview to- night he said there was no reason why the $200,000 neces-ary to build one of the great modern dredgers should not be ex- pended in California. He is confident that the work can be done at the Union Iron Works. A dredger with ample power to displace from the river bed and transfer to the shore of the stream 8000 cubic yards for the sum named. The greatest obstruc- tion to navigation is the shoal at Rio Vista, where the depth of water does not exceed four feet. The shoal is a mile wide, but could be dredged for a sufficient deptt to float large vessels at a cost not exceeding $20,000. Next Monday Senator Voorheis will in- troduce in the Senate two bills and a con- stitutiona! amendment to exempt the en- dowment of Stanford University from taxes. Similar messures will be intro- duced in the Assembly by Malcolm of Santa Clara. Mrs. Stanford 1s compelled to pay taxes amounting to $30,000 on the property devised to the university. Itis cited as a singular fact that Calitorniais more unfriendly to the foundersof col- leges and institutions of 1eumin§ than any other State of the Union. Rocke- feller’s endowment of the Chicago Uni- versity is exempt from taxes. Cornell’s endowment was not tuxed, yet the State | of Calitornia makes the Stanford Univer- | sity pay taxes on the entire gift of the late | Senator. Mrs. Stanford is so hara pressed for | ready money to meet the expenses of the university that she is compelled to use the means which she had set aside to sus- tain kindergarten schools in San Fran- cisco. Caiifornia, it is argued, has sent | 3000 students to Palo Alto, yet Jirs. Stan- ford is taxed by the State for maintaining this institution of learning to instruct them. | The constitutional amendment will be | so drawn as to exempt from taxation' only | institutions of this character. The ex- emption will not apply to colleges, schools and academies established for pri- {vate gain or institutions conducted by | sectarian societies. The Capltal Deserted. SACRAMENTO, Can., Jan. 15. — The usual places of legislative congregation are deserted to-night, nearly all the mem- | bers having left for San Francisco and for | the near-by counties to spend Saturday and Sunday. There are not more than | balf a dozen at the prize-fizht and about | the same number at the theater. By Mon- {day the State Printer will have s large | number of bills ready and the commit- | tees will be able to get to work. All indi- | cations are that next week will be a busy | one. { e | State Printer Wants Money. | SACRAME Can., Jan. 15.—The | State Printer is out of money, and the | Assembly Ways and Meens Commit- tee this afternoon recommended an mmediate appropriaticn of $75,000 for | his office. | FLOATED OW A WIND CAPITAL. EJudge Grosscup's Sharp Rebuke to Coun- | sel for Stockholders in a Swindling { Corporation. | CHICAGO, Irr, Jan. 14.—An applica- | tion for a_receiver for the Harrison Inter- | national Telephone Company by the Fort Smith (Ark.) stockhoiders, who sold the | stock of their company in exchange jor | Harrison stock, wds heard by Judge | Grosscup in the Federal court to-day. | The oceasion was taken advantage of by | the court to sharply rebuke the petition- { ers and say some plain things about the { Harrison Company. After reading the | bill Judge Grosscup said he could not con- | sider it in its crude, vague form, as “a | court cannot take cocnizance of town- meeting allegations,’”” adding: “This corporation seems to have been floating on & wind capital of §80,000,000. | Itisnot as solid as water. Why don’t | you ask to get beck your stock? Youap- { pesr here for two men only, not as philan- thronisis for the whole public.” ““We prefer to_appear as stockholders,” replied Judge Erb, the counsel. *This | thing is a gigantic fraud. They elected a { company of men for directors who were | vot fit timber for Presidential cabinets— { men of national reputation—Chasles Fos- ter, ex-Secretary of the Treasury; United | States Senator Elkins; Patrick "Egan, ex- United S ates Minister to Chile; R. C. Kereas of St. Louis and Major William Warner of Kansas City. “These men announced a grard scheme of conquest. The whole world was to be seized as a field of operations. The affair was concocted in sin and fraud.” “In other words,” said the Judge, “you elect to come into court to disclose this tremendous swindle as stockholders.” Permission was given to amend the bill. —_——— RUN DOWN BY DOGS. Prospects Good for a Double Lynching at Adams Park. Ga. MACON, Ga., Jan. 15.—A special from Adams Park, Ga. says: Charles Forsyth and Willis White, the negroes who are believed to be the men who shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Rowland, wife of the Postmaster, while robbing the post- office at this place last night, were run down by dogs and captured near here ! early this mornine. Mrs. Rowland died to-day from the effects of ner wound. The ‘people have begun to gather for the pur- pose of lynching them. The report reached Macon to-night thata mob had taken them from jail and hanged them, but the rumor has not been verified. e The Trwas Going for Her Silver Service. GALVESTON, Tex., Jan. 15.—Secretary Herbert has notitied the committee which has charge of the presentation of & $50,000 silver service to the battle-ship Texas on behalf of the people of the State that he hau given orders for the ship to be ut Gal- veston February 16 for the purpose of re- ceiving the gift, which was given by popular subscription. The last Govern- ment report showe that there is 25 feet of water here and the Texas draws 22)4 feet. Dbty s Neawme Is Granted a Divorce. LONDON, Exe., Jan. 15.—The action brought by Douglas J. Neame for divorce from his wife, Leila Olyve Neame, naming Frank Ellison of New York es co-respond- ent, was ended to-day, the court granting Neame o decree nisi. Ellison, tho co-re- spondent, was onlv a few' weeks ago par- doned from the New York State prison, whero he had been serving a term for as- saulting Mrs. Neame’s father. i S Warships Ordered Home. LONDON, Exa., Jan. 15.—A dispatch to anews agency from Shanghai says the United States gunboat Yorktown and the cruiser Detroit have been ordered to Nag- asakl to join the United States squadron there. Thence, thedispatch snys, the ves- sels will proceed for New York. i e Panama Canal Laborers. | COLON, Corousia, Jan. 15.—The Pan- ama Canal Company is further increasing the force of laborers now at work on the canal. Five hundred more men are ex- pected to arrive shortly from Cartha- genia, of soft mud an hour could be constructed ARMY OFFICERS IN A SCRAMBLE Retirements and Promo- tions That Will Soon Qccur. Thankless Patronage Falls to the Lot of President-Elect McKinley. Eligibles Will Not Hesitate to Press Their Claims Upon the N:w Administration. CHICAGO, Tv. ton special says: general shaking up of the army during 1897, and President-elect McKinley will have the selection of a major-general and brigadier-general within two months after e is inaugurated—March 4, 1897, Among the general officers the first vacancy created, on account of reaching the legal requirement of 64 years, will be that of Major-General Thomas H. Ruger, who will be 64 in April, 1897. A little later—May 8—Brigadier-General Frank Wheaton will reach the retiring age. There will be a vacancy in the adjutani- general's department after January 25, when Colonel Oliver D. Green will be re- tired, and September 11 Brigadier-General Ruggles, adjutant-genersl of the army, will be 64 years of age. In the quartermaster’sdepartment tbere will be a retirement June 11, when Lieu- tenant-Colonel Louis C. Forsythe will reach the prescribed age. Within afew days — January 18 — Brigadier-General Michbael R. Morgan will retire from the head of the subsistence department of the army, and his successor, Colonel Thomas C. Sullivan, will be 64 years of age Novem- ber 4, 1897. Colonel Charles T. Alexander will be ineligible for service in the medical de- partment aiter May 3, apa Lieutenant- Colone! M. E. Waters will reach the retir- ing age November 15. There may be & vacancy in the corps of engineers before the close of President Cleveland’s admin- istration, although ihe chief of engineers, Brigadier-General William H. Craighill, is not eligible for retirement until Juiy 1 of this year, There was a verbal agree- ment made, however, when he was pro- moted that he would be content with the office of chief of engineers until the dawn of 1897. Should he retire there will be an opportunity afforded Colonel Jobn M. Wilson, at present superintendent of pub- lic buildings and grounds, to become his successor, and President Cieveland would Jike to make his promotion before leaving Washington. There will be but one change in the cav- alry owing to the age requirement during 1897, and Major James Jackson will be elizgikle for retirement November 2L There will bea chance for several promo- tions in the infantry during this year, commencing with Colonel James S. Casey, who will retire January 26, Captain Henry Romeyn will follow suit June 1, and Colonel Willian: J. Lyster June 27. July 26 will find Captain Francis E. Pierée | eligible for retirement, and the other in- fantry officers who will be eligible com- prise’ three majors—0 is W. Poliock, August 7; Francis F. Lacey, August 8; Clarence E. Bennett, December 22. Two post chaplainships will become vacant this year—Captain George W. Dunbar, March 9, and Joseph H.\G. Irish, August 7. From the foregoing list it will be seen | that President-elect McKinley will have considerable business on hand so far as the army 1s concerned, for every one eligi- ble for promotion will not hesitate about preferring claims upon the new adminis- iration. PRIVATE PENSION * BILLS. Most of the Time of the House Taken Up in Their Consideration . Yesterday. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—Allen (R.) of Utah startcd business in the House to-day by presenting a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Interior for infor- mation as to why patents bad not been issued for land secured by bona-fide pur- chasers from the Union Pacific Railroad Company, the lands having been given the company under Government grants, The resolution was agreed to. The Committee on .Contested Seats de- eided for Price, the sitting member of the Third Louisiana District. Johnson (R.) of Indiana secured the adoption of a resolution providing for ex- pediting the contested election case of | Benoit vs. Boatner from the Fifth District | of Louisiana, so that it might be disposed | of at the present session. Quite a little opposition developed over a resolution from the Committee on Ac- counts for the employment of fifteen fold- ers for two months to refold documents that bad been iniured in the failing of a building during the burricane here Sep- tember 29 last, ana finally the ayes and noes were ordered on the amendment to distribute the places among the States that had no appointments on the roli at present. The amendment was rejected and the resolution rejected without an- other rollcall. The regular order was then demanded. This was the consideration of private pen- sion bilis. An interesting fight developed over a Senate bill granting a pension of $100 ver month to Mrs. Annie Gibbon, widow of General Jobn Gibbon. Tracy (R.)of Missouri offered an amend- ment reducing the amount to $50 per month, This was_ warmly opposed by (R.) of New York, who made eulo- i relerences to the services of General Gibbon. Grosvenor (R.) of Ohio was also against the bill. He said in answer to Willis (R.) of Delaware, who protested against dis- cricination for the widows of distin- guished officers, that 99 out ot every 100 vrivates of the late war would vote to give Mrs. Gibbon the full amount. Wood (R.) of Iilinois opposed the grant- ing of special rates of pension through the medium of private bilis, on the ground that it was contrary to general Jaw. The previous question on the passage of the House bill granting pensions to Gray’s Battalion of Arkansas Volunteers, vet- erans of the war with Mexico, was ordered, on motion of Thomas (R.) of Michigan, but the bill went over until it could be engrossed, under a demand for the reading of the engrossed copy. A House bill to increase the pension of Clara L. Nichols, the present Postmistress of Fort Leavenworth and widow of Brevet- Major-General W. A. Nichols, developed some slight opposition. In committee of the whole the House had reduced the amount ot tie increase to $50, but on motion of Dalzell (R.) of Penn- sylvania the House, after listening toa eulogy of General Nichols by that gentle- man, made the amount $75 aund then passed the measure. A House bill granting a pension to Sarah E. Comly, widow of Major Clifton Comly, was also passed. A unumber of other private pension bills were passed and the House then, at 4:56 o’cluck, took arecess until 8 p. M. At the night session of the House a round dozen of pension bills were passed. The wicows of General Green Clay Smith and George A. Morrow were bene- ficiaries in two of the bills passed, the former receiving $50 per month and the latter $75 per month. The House at 10:30 p. ». adjourned. L oipiaiiuneis FOR A PACIFIC CABLE. General Swayne Argues in Favor of Its Building Being Thrown Open to Competition. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—Gen- eral Wagner Swayne of New York, repre- senting the Pacific Cable Company of New Jersey, appeared before the House Com- merce Committee to-day in supportofa proposition to throw open 1o competition the building of a cable from the United States to Japan via Honolulu. All the cable bills before Congress, he said, rele- gated the details to the Postoflice Depart- ment, thus recognizing the cable as a part of the postal service. The postal service, he held, was not required to be remunera- tive, therefore the stipulation to pay the money of the United Statesin the form of a subsidy to the cable company for a term of twenty years was not strictly asubsidy, inasmuch as the Government’s business is to be carried during t. at period free of charge. There was no inconsistency in that, he thought, as the mails were car- ried in some parts of the country by private parties who were paid for the ser- vice. 2 In answer to queries from the commit- tee General Swayne explained that the other company which desired the contract would undertake to build the cable this year. Hiscompany could not do that. Neither could his company lay the cable to Japan and China within seventeen months from this date. They would not attempt to do it until the bed of the ocean had been properly surveyed. The English 'Government, he asserted. would not ley their cable if the United States enters the field. In this connection he referred to the existing conditions in the Hawaiian Islands by showing that the Hawalian people fes! that they may not long remamn an independent country. He asserted that sooner or later they would cast their lot with some nation, and that nation would probably be the one which would put them in communication with the remainder of the world and thus help them to build up their commerce. In an- swer to a query if the men composing his company were responsible, General Swayne mentioned the names of some of the leading incorporators, among whom were Colonel Spaulding, who had resided many years in Honolulu and he!d a con- tract from that Government to lay a cable to San Francisco. Other members of the company were: D. 0. Mills of New York; General G. M. Dodge, who builtthe Union Pacific Railway; James J. Hill, the Presi- dent of the Manitoba Railway; Abram S. Hewitt of New York, and others. _——— WILL BEGIN IN JUNE. At Last There Is a Promise That Work Will Be Commenced on the New Postoffica Building. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—“When do you think construction of the San Francisco postof ng will be com- menced?” THE CALL correspondent asked the supervising architect to-day. “You may say to the San Francisco pecple that we expect to begin work not later than June 1,” said that official. “Work. has been retarded on account of the report of War Department engineers which we are now awaiting. It will be remembered that agents of this depart- ment caused borings to be made on the lot at Seventh and Mission streets and the board reported that the ground would support such a structure. “Bui you must understand that there are vet some engineering problems to be solved. We turn'd over to the War Department the data furnished us by the experts who made the borings, and the War Department engineers have been engaged in making calculations of the weight that can be supported by such a foundation. The engineers who were assigned the work of making these com- putations have a vast amount of work of this kind on hand, and we will have to bide our time. are received from the engineers, we will advertise for bids for the excavation and the work of laying the foundation of the building.” “Will any change be made in the plans of the building?”’ “We are aware that many ecriticisms were made of the new design, after the Spanish renaissance, as printed in the San Francisco CArL, and we have decided to modify the plans by diminishing the height of the towers. With this exception, there will be no change in the design.” It is understood that the plan of the building, with its high towers, as printed in THE CALL, were suggested by Supervis- ing Architect Aiken, and that one of the draughtsmen of his office prepared the drawings in accordance with Mr. Aiken’s ideas. The supervising architect then took a vacation for several weeks, anddur- ing his absence the plans were approved by Chief Executive Officer Kempér, who was the acting architect and who did not wish to modify the desiga of his superior officer. However, when Mr. Aiken Te- turned and saw the drawing of thae buila- ing, with its monstrous towers and saw the severe criticisms published in San Francisco he resolved to make a change in the plans asindicated. U uk NAVAL AEMOR PLATES. Se cretary Herbert in Harmony With the New Seel Board. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—Sec- retary Herbert has approved the revised steel specifications deviced by the newly organized steel board, of which Com- mander Coffin, Constructor Dashiell and Engineer Freeman are members, and in making them public this afternoon he says the chief of construction and steam engineering, the present steel board and the McCormick board are unanimously agreed on the changes, which also give complete satisfaction lo the contractors. The Becretary is confident that under them steel of a more satisiactory quality will be secured for the navy in the gutura. The report of the board gives an elab- orate technical description of the new tests, which are net more severe, but more practical than those hitherto in use, and purposes that if any plate for the battle- ships Kentucky, Kearsarge ana Iliinois fails in working the cold bending test is to be applied entirely and the platesaccepted and used, or rejected, in accordance with their behaviour, the material that has already been satisfactorily worked into each vessel to be accepted. e Naval Cadets to Attend. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—Secre- tary Herbert has ordered the naval cadets from Aunapolis to attend the inaugura- tion and march in the parade. The boys will not stay away from the ndval acad- emy over night. Age for Retirement. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—Gillett (R.) of Massachusetts introduced in the House to-day a bill fixing the age for re- tirement from the classified service of the United States at 65 years. All offices are Just as soon as the figures | to become vacant when the persons hold- ing them become 65 vears of age, and no person more than 65 years of age is to be eligible to appointment. The act, how- ever, is not to apply to Union veterans of the late war or to their widows. por = b At The Treasury Defloit. WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 15.—The Treasury deficit for the first half of Janu- ary is $6 860,963, and for the fiscal year to date $44,763,360. SGME VERY RAW FAKING. Out of a Four Line Cablegram the Chicago Associated Press Sends Columns of an Alleged Confession. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 15.—A rare specimen of reckless faking was furnished by the Chicago Associated Press on Mon- day in an alleged cable dispatch from Yokohama, a column n length, four lines of which were devoted to announcing_the arrest and subsequent confession of Miss Mary Jacob, formerly Governess in the family of the late Walter Raymond Hallowell Carew, for whose murder his widow is now on trial in Yokohama. With the exception of this announce- ment the entire ‘“‘dispatch” will doubt- less be recognized by newspaper resders and certainly by newspaver workers as a rehash of the mail matter from Yokohama concerning the case which bhas been pub- lished in the American newspapers from time to time since the death of Carew in October. Even so it micht have escaped further notice except as an example of impudence in palming off warmed up mail communications for genuine cable news if the faker had been content to let it go at that. His delight at seeing his creazion in print, however, made him bolder and next day he sent outa para- graph, dated Yokohama, of course, mak- ing the positive statement that the trial of Mrs. Carew had been ‘‘brought to a dramatic close by the appearance and confession in court of Miss Jacob that she was the real murderess.” Even this too, might have passed muster, but unfortunately for the ro- mancer of the Chicago Associated Press, he took a day oft on Thursday when it appears the office actually aid receive a cable dispatch from Yokohama which failed to bear out a single particular the statements contained in the two “cable dispatches’’ previously sent out. The “sub'* Who was presiding over the imignation bureau in the faker’s absence was not equal to the emergency and sent the dispatch out, but he did not make a column of it. It did not require a column to inform the clients of ‘the Chicago As- sociated Press that they had been im- posed upon by the faker; that there was not a word of truth in the statements con- tained in the allezed cable dispatches from Yokohama. Eight lines were suffi- cient to let the cat out of the bag into | which the faker had put him. Few | words were necessary to tell that Miss Jacob had not confessed, ‘‘although an announcement to that effect had been made public” by the faker and also to state as a matter of fact that the trial had not been **brought to a dramatic close, but was still in progress.” PACIFIC SHORT LINE. Road to Be Built From Sioux City to San Francisco — Mitlions Behind the Project. OMAHA, Nesr., Jan. 15.—Donald Mec- Lean, builder of railroads, was in the city to-day en route to Salt Lake. He is the promoter of the Pacific Short Line, the road that is to run from Sioux City to San Francisco. “That road is going to be built,’’ said Mr. McLean.”” -Itis now built from Sioux City to O'Neill, Nebr., and trains are run- ning every day; and, what is more, the road pays. We will begin building the extension early in the summer, letting the bids for its construction in May. “‘The road will be 365 miles shorter than | any other transcontinental line, and it will traverse a country where the grass grows, and not a desert. We cross the { Union Pacificon a trestle just east of Og- den, and after we leave Ogden we £o off to the north, and we come into San Fran- cisco around the tanneries, thus, you see, avoiding the ferry-boat service. “1 bave European backing for $32,000.- | 000, but it will not take this much to build the road. I am confident that it will pay from the start. Asrezards terminals and division points, of course I know where they will be, but do not care to make them public now. for obvions reasons. **‘We c108: the Pacific slope of the Rock- ies at Beckwith Pass and the Atlantic slope at Sweetwater, and traversse tae famous Weber Canyon. We will havea line into Salt Lake and already we have twenty-five miles constructed. “Iam interested with the George Q. Cannon road from Salt Lake to San Diego, and it is on business connected with this that I go to Salt Lake.” g e NOVEL CASE OF DEFAULT. Why a South Dakota Treasurver Was Mhort in His Accovnts. YANKTON, 8.D., Jan. 15.—The Com- missioners of Yankton County claim that the retiring Treasurer, D. E. Lloyd, is $17,000 short in his accounts and will at once bring action against bis bondsmen to secure that amount. The case is a novel one in many respects. The deficit comes from the fact that Lloyd neglected to collect versonal property taxes which the law of 1893 provides shall be collected. Lloyd says that the collection of these taxes would necessarily entail a good deal of expense, and that as the law made no provision for recompensing him for this exira expense he had allowed it to go by default. The voard is advised oy the County Attorney that the Treasurer's bondsmen are responsible for his per- formance of this daty, and they will not accept his final report nor release him or his bondsmen until some satisfactory ad- justment of this matter is made. The case will probably be taken into the courts. —_——— 4 SLIPPERY SWINDLER. Dr. Ehoades’ Efforts to Escape From the ZLaw's Ciutoh CHICAGO, ILL., Jan. 15,—Dr. Frank C. Rhoades, alias Count de Juster, who is wanted in several cities on verious feloni- ous charges and is locked up here, after being released once, obtained a writ of habeas corpus to-day and he will make another attempt to get out of the clutches of the law. Heis wanted first at Denver for embezzlement and forgery, and Gover- nor Tanner has honored the requisition of the Colorado Governor, which will operate egainst his escape. Cornelia S. Newbury, a Denver widow, acoused him of getting $1800 from her to form a business partner- ship, but he left Denver as soon as he got the money and came to Chicago, where he married “another woman. He is also wanted in Brooklyn, N. Y., for bigamy and forgery. e Eeceiver of a Kailroad. ALTON, Ir., Jan. 15.—7J. F. Barnard ot Council Bluffs, lowa, was to-day ap- nointed receiver of the St. Clair, Madi- son and St. Louis Belt Railroad under a decree trom the United States Circuit Court at 8t. Louis. The company has offices in this city, E. F. Leonard being resident and E.” J. May local superin- endent. It owns the steel bridge across the Mississippi here and valuable ter- minals and holds the only key aside from the Eads and Merchunts bridge tributary to trans-Mississippi traffic to compiete the original scheme of the belt line, which will then, it is tbought, pass into the hands of the Burlington system. i bl FISHERMEN IN PERIL. Carried Out on Lake Michigan by Drifting lce—Many Rescued, butr Five Are Probably Lest. MARINETTE, Wis., Jan. 15. — About fifty fishermen were upon the ice at Green Bay to set their nets this morning, when a heavy wind sprung up and the ice began to move out. Boats were sent to their rescue and all but five ol the imperiled were brought ashore in safety. The names of the probable victims are: Ed Hoffman, Ne!s Matson, Charles Neelan, Manuel Holgren and Johnson. Three of them have families. The men were unaware of their peril while the ice on which they stood drifted rapidly eastward. They were several miies from the break before the resouing parties in two boats started after them. One boat returned with no news. No aid can reach the drifting prisoners to-night. All of them live at Menekaune, where the piers are lined with people waiting for news. The ice was believed to be safe, because a team passed over it to Sturgeon Bay three days ago. Hundreds of people will be deprived of their only means of support by the loss of the nets which were placed on the broken ice. There is one hope of safety for the occupants of the ice floe in the fact that they had skates and may reach the opposite shore. The fishermen say the only chance of their cos laborers is in reaching Green Island. SR War on the Arbuckles. TOLEDO, Onuro, Jan. 15.—H. O. Have- meyer, the sugar king, accompanied by Herman Sielcken, arrived in this city to- day, and according to statements made by them the sugar trust intends to change its tactics in the fight being waged against Arbuckle Bros. Sielcken announced that the plant of the Woolson Spice Company would be quadrupled, that an immense sum of money would beexpended on it, and that the irust would become Ar- buckle’s greatest rival in the coffee busi- ness since purc! the Woolson mills. Astronomer Swift's Medals. ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 15.—Professor Lewis Swift, formerly of Warner's Co- servatory and Lick Observatory, recerved word from London this morning that the lioyal Astronomical Society of England has awarded to him the Jjackson gold medalin recognition of his services to the cause of science in the discovery of comets, nebule and other wanderers in space. ' Professor Swilt now has four gold medals, and one sitver, given him by the French Government with which came 500 frangs in cash, and four bronze medals. et e Investigating the Leadville Strike. LEADVILLE, Covo., Jan. 15.—Gover nor Adams arrived here to-day with Major-General Brooks of the National Guard to make a general investigation of the strike situation, ia the hope that some way may be found to arbitrate the differ- ences between the miners and the mine- owners, Adjutant-General Moses has or- dered 500 uniforms for citi s of Leaa- ville who have enlisted in the State militia since the camp was guarded by the troops, and this action is taken to mean that the non-resident militiamen are to be withdrawn. —_— Another Nebraska Bank Suspends, FULLERTON, NEg., Jan. 15.—The Citi- zens’ State Bank of this city closed its doors this afternoon. 8. H. Penny, presi- dent, and F. M. Lagrange, cashier, say that depositors will be paid in full. No statement of assets or liabilities will be given out until the Bank Examiner has Completed his work of che: z up. Nerves Will be strong when fed and nourished by pure, rich biood. 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