The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1897, Page 3

. consti THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1897 SANFORD'S VICTORY FOR WAGE-EARNERS Passage of His Bill, Which Comp:ls Wages to Be Paid Promptly. Graphic Word Picture of Misery and Injustice Among the Loggers. Flain Talk That Won the Heart of Every Member of the Assembly Present SACRAMENTO, Car., Feb. 15.—There Wwasnota dissenting voice in the Assem- bly this morning when Santord’s Assem- bly bill 45 was passed. It was Mr. San- ford’s pet measure. and when he had con- cluded bis speech urging its passage he was greeted with a round of hand-clap- z by bis feliow-members. The titie of the bill is as follow An act requi ery corporation in this State to pay es and each of them at the wages to define the duties r and the Distri 1es of this State limit the defenses v such corporation to aims, at the time ot uch absence ore h employ d in case of accept wages at lon n provided as a conditi of employ- nalty for this violation of the by such corporsation, and v fines re- e same. Sanford comes from Point Arena, a wmill distr.ct of Mendocino County, ud, although he is a D mocrat, his bill received the solid vote of every Repub- lican present, and there were fewer Re- publicans absent than Democrats. It was the gentlem tapeech of any length, and, although not couched in eloquent language or embeilished with the power and grace of oratory, was just as effective, for it was a simple recital of the truth, a victure of slave life, not in Sibe- in the redwocd forests on the coast of California. He said that it was the custom of the sawmill corporations to pay their em- ety days, en- er and mill hands to live m orders on the corpo truck stores po riods than om corporations violating tion~’ store: all the extortion yrann ures of similar de; ry elsewhere. It is impossible for the laborer to get the face v; e checks in return for ue them at any compan ders at 15 and nt. ould be paid at theend of the valent,”’ said work from ten d there isnot es in town, for the b and r. Sanford. to fourteen hours a dollar in_ecirc e sawmill dis- tricts in whi —store system pre- vail the smaller stores are being driven away and that the corpo- e three and four prices s the workingman is Mr. Saniord said that the mill compa- nies in Humboldt County paid off their men at the end of each month. The men got better wages and worked only ten ours per day,while in Mendocino County hey work tweive 2 in M 1o County because of this sys- tem wor 11 can never getout of debt to the ations and they are prac- cally in a state of serfdom. If a man asks for money he 1s discharged and his name putupon the blacklist so that he cannot get employment in the same busi- ness anywhere along thecoast. The com- panies get the interest on the ninety days’ use of the money and make an enorm profit out of their stores. “The food given to those poor employes is disgracefully unfit for human bengs,” continued Mr. Sanford. *It is nothing to tee a man who has been so fortunate as 10 be killed by a log or a failing tree to be taken about by two or three Chizamen i buried on the hillside without shingle or stone to mark his grave. His home is a miserable shanty of rough boards with the ground for a floor. In'the center ixa heap.of sand for a fireplace, and directly overitisa hole in the roof for the escape of the smoke. Wooden boxes for tables and chairs and some straw for bedding the furniture. One corner o this dirty hovel is partitioned off with torn and smoke-blackened gunnysacks. “In the center of the hovel sit cooking a pot of beans, while h only balf clothed, crouch and around the fire to keep as warm as they may. They are not sent to school because the; be insulted and Jaughed at by the chil- dren of more fortunate parents. I have come kere to plead for the men working t in the deep aark canyons, where the red- | wood trees shut out the sunlight of God, witere the sound of the ax and the crash of the falling tree mingle with the sullen roar of the ocean the rocks, and I hope that in the interest of humanity tbe bill wiil be passed.” Hill of Humboldt favored the bill, but he thought it should be amended so as to exempt insolvent sawmill companies from paying their employes at all. He madea speech on this subject and wept rhetorical tears for the poor down-trodden insolvent corporations. Mulcrevy of San Frencisco hoped that the bill would pass. He knew of instances where men were paid $2 per day for their and charged $1 or $150 per day for board on Sundays and other days going on. Sierra said that many mining corporations paid their hands only once in three months, and some did not pay their men at all. "There was necessity for such a bill to cover the mining districts. The bill was finally passed by a vote of 56 ayes and no IN SENATE AND 4 SEMBLY. Zn the Former It Is Decided to Make a Junket, BACRAMENTO, CaL., Feb. 15, — The Benate this morning reconsidered the res- olution for & junket to San Luis Obispo to look over the site for the Normal School, and the resoiution was passed. Braunhart's 234 cent carlare bill came up for a third reading. Morehouse declared that the bill was unconstitutional, and wanted it referred to the Judiciary Committee. Braunbart offered an amendment mak- ing the fare 3 cents, which was carried, and the biil was ordered re-engrossed. Withington’s bill reducing notaries’ fees, after some aebate, was passed. Mahoney’s bill, relating to pawnbrokers, was passed, Wolfe, however, giving notice of a reconsigeration. Tne Senate this afternoon passed As. sembly bills as amended, increasing the protection of stockholders in mining cor- porations; limiting the term of the Com- missioner of Public Works, sing it to expire March 1, 1899; authorizing cities to take a census; providing for the disincor- poration of municipal corporations. Beawall introduced an amendment to the wife | hildren, | crowd | are so poorly clad that they would | a5 the billows dash upon | North’s biil providing an extra stenog- rapher for the Supreme Court and fixing the salary. Seawell’s amendment is to cut the salary from $2500 to $1800. Boyce and Dickinson spoke against the amendment. 1t was supported by Braun- hart, Doty and Seawall. While the mat- ter was being discussed the time for con- sidering the Assembly file expired, and the matter went over as unfinished busi- nes Flint moved to reconsider the Assembly bill passed Saturday conferiing the power apon cities to issue street-improvement bonds. The engrossing clerk of the As- sembly had omitted a section of the bill The bill was finally amended by inserting the omitted section. This leaves the bill s origimally passed by the Assembly, but reated with an amendment on the min- utes. In the Assembly this morning the Com- mittee on State Prisons reported favorably the bill to resulate the operation of the rock-crushing plant at Foisom. : The greater part of the morning session was devoted to a discussion of a resolution | to appoint A. W. Branch a desk clerk. It | was developed, during the debate, that | Branch had been doing considerable cleri. | cal work for the House, and the question arose as to why this was necessary, with 158 attacnes on the payroll. The resolution was finally defeated, as also was a resolution to appoint John Milkins a porter. The special committee to investigate furniture, reported that the furniture storeroom of the Capitol was a menace to the building, and recommended tbat the | furniture there collected be removed, and that at the close of the session all furni- | ture be given into the custody of the Sec- | retary of State. The bill to continue the Supreme Court | commission for i1wo years was finally passed, and the House went into commit- tee of the whole to_consider Guy’s bill ap- | propriating $20,000 for the contingent | fund of the House, and, rising, recom- mended that it pass. At the afternoon’s session the Assembly | finally passed the Sanate bill authorizing agricultural societies, under the control of the State, to sell propert: Senate bilis reappropriating $125,000 for | the erection of the Affilinted Colleges | buildings; authorizing the employment of | a specialist in sociological education, and defining duties, were read a second time. The House then went into committee of | the whole, for the consideration of With- ington’s Senate bill creating & commission for the promotion of uniform legislation throughout the United States. Unfavora- bly rerorted. Cross introduced a resolution_requiring | arolicall of the attaches of the House, im- mediately after the Houss is called to or- der to-morrow, and providing for the dis- charge of all ‘emploves absent without | reasonable excuse or permission. The bill went to the calendar. House bill distributing estates of less than §1500 to the widow, which was amended and passed by the Senate, was | concurred in by the House. Adjourned. — - | IMPORTANT LEGISLATION. Changes ERecommended in Reference to the Normal Schools. SACRAMENTO, CAL., Feb., 15.—After having once decided to grant the State University for but six years the additional l-cent tax it asked for asa continual ap- propriation the Finance Committee of the Senate to-day reconsidered its action | and will report a bill making the increase perpetaal. Appropriations for the Railroad Com- | mission’s legal expense in the suit brought againstit by the Southern Pacific Com- | pany were slto unger consideration. That for $25,000 to vay Judge Hayne, W. W. Footeand J. C. Daly for services performed | in that connection was not acted upon, as | it was arguei by some of the members | thatit mizht not be proper nor judicious to appropriate money for services only | partly performed. It was agreed, how- | ever to report favorably the bill appro- priating $30,000 for expert and legal ser- ices to ve employed in further proceed- ings in the same case. At the meeting of the Senate Committee on Education the bill providing for unify- ing the method of management of the | normal schools of the State was amended, and it was agreed to recommend its pas- | sage. As approved it provides that the principals of the normal schools shall be | nereafier Rnown as presidents and shall | be members of the local normal school board of irustees, and it gives the pri dent of each school the right fo_appoint the teachers, subject to the confirmation of the trustees. Heretofore the appoint- ing power lay with the trustees. It also | provides that the four local members of | | each board shall be appointed by the Gov- | ernor with the consent of the Senate, and that their terms shall be so'hxed hereafter that the term of one member shall expire | each year. Heretofore the terms have been | coterminus and the Governor had the sole power of appointment. - R CARFARES. Amended Bill Comes Up in the Senate. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Feb. 15.—Braun- bart's bill to reduce carfares in San Fran- cisco came up for third reading this morn- | ing, but the anticipated battle overiton the floor of the Senate was deferred by reason of the amendment offered by the author of it providing that fares shall be eight for |25 cents instead of 23§ cents each, as originally intended. When the amendment was being voted on several members known to be opposed | to the measure as a whole voted in favor | of the change. Senator Mahoney asked p-rmission to | explain his vote, and being granted the | privilege stated that while the bill was be- | fore the Committee on Corporations one | of the Senators on that committee sug- | gested the change now proposed by Braun- | hart, but the latter would not accept. it. “For this reason,” he concluded, “I vote {no.” | Senator Wolfe announced that while he would vote against the bill on final passage he voted in favor of the amend- | ment. The amendment was adopted by a vote of 25 to 9, The bill was ordered back | to the printer and will be on the file tor | tinai reading to-morrow, when its fate will probably be decided in the Senate. ST COYOTE BOUNTY CLAiIMS. An Investigation of the Nealp Scandal to Take a Wide rcope, SACRAMENTO, CaL., Feb. 15—George A. McCalyy, formerly bookkeeper in the office of Secretary of ate Brown, was | subpenaed 10-day by the Finance Com- mittee of the Senate to appear before it at | noon to-morrow. re investigation of | the alleged fraudulent coyote bounty | claims will then begin. The examination | will be held bebind closed doors, and | upon what may be learned from McCalvy will to some extent depend the future action of the committee. 1t is also on the cards to subpena the State Board of Ex- aminers, including the Governor, There are some 900 individual claimants | for coyote bounties, though many have sold their certificates to speculators, and to make anything like a thorough inves:i- gation of the entire subject matter would involve more time than is at the disposi- tion of the committee. It is hop-d to se- cure sufficient information, however, from McCalvy and the members of the Board of Examiners to permit the committee to make intelligent and just report on the | bill before them, which appropriates $257,000 for fhe payment of coyote scalp claims. FORE CHEAP Braunhart’s | ——— To Lease School Property. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Feb. 15 — As. semblyman Pohiman 1atroduced a bill 1o- day whicn will enable the San Fraucisco Board of Education to lease the Lincoln £chool property, on the corner of Market and Fifth streets, or any other school property on more advantageous terms than would be possible under the existing law. The bill extends the time from twenty to fifty years. B | Printing Office. | this much good: It FUNDS FOR THE STATE PRINTER Democrats Will Not Eat the Crow Without Some Bluster. Yet the Minority Will Have to Vote for the New Bills Introduced. How the Finances of the Siate Wiil Benefit Through R.cent Disclosures. SACRAMENTO, CAL., Feb. 15.—Every- body expects a battle royal on the floor of the Assembly to-morrow over the matter of the $75.000 appropriation to the State In this matter the Demo- cratic minority made a serious blunder by refusing to grant the appropriation, and when they tried to introduce two bills for appropriations aggregating the same sum they confessed that they had been wrong from the start, and that all their state- ments as to the printing office not need- ing the amonnt asked for were unfounded. They proclaimed with much bluster that the office did not require that sum of money; that to grant the appropriatior would be equivalent to throwing it into the gutter, and then when they found that | their opposition wourd very likely close the office, and, worse than all, that ter- rible realization of horror that Buccaneer Johnston had obliged all the minority’s appointees to walk the greased plank into the briny deep, they were willing to give the $75,000 for the same period as origin- ally asked for, but they offered to eat the §75,000 crow in two bites so that they might not run the risk of caoking them- selves. But even this poor consolation is denied them, for the Republicans, with Dibble as teward, have carved the crow and will serve it cold and clammy to Caminetti and his colleagues outside the back door of the banquet hall. The doors will be thrown open at 11 o'clock and the minority wiil be invited to take seats at the first table. Caminetti this morning by way of whetting his appetite for the indigestible dish, indutged in a few sarcastic remarks regarding the affair, and insisted that experts should be sppointed to examine the books of the State Printer and report upon them to the Assembly. He hoped that since the bookkeeper of the btate Printer and the State Printer himself were not able to explain the ac- counts the expert might be more success- ful. They are in the stocks, and the small boys of public opinion are pelting them | with rejected eggs, deceased cats, old shoes and other articles of bric-a-brac. The best they can do is to call the bad boys bed names. They cannot consist- en'ly refuse to vote for the appropriation 000 divided as itis, for Dibble’s bills re similes of those which Caminetti and Shanaban wanted to introduce. While it i# of no use for them to bray or make any other kind of characteristic noises they wiil nevertheless kick up a big dust to-morrow and the air will be resonant with the brays of buncombe. 1t is likely that the Republicans will cause an investigation to be made of the accounts of tne State Printer. Notthat they suspect that everything is not all rigt there, but for the purpose of reliev- ing Jolnson of the onerous burden of accusation which he has thus far borne too vatiently and too meekly. pect, also, that the facts to be uncovered by the investigation will be of great value to the Legisluture and to the people in fix- ing the responsibility for waste and ex- travagance where it rightly belongs. The discussion has been productive of has turued the searchlight upon deficiencies in State in- stitutions and Las turned the legislative mind to the consideration of proper pre- ventives for these financial ratholes. As a consequence, two bills are now belore the Assembly Committee on Retrench- ment and they will be revorted favorably. The first of these is 834, bv Anderson. It provides that no board, department, commission or institvtion which does not maintain or support inmates shall be al- lowed to create any deficiency. The second bill will be presented in the Assembly to-morrow by Melick. It was drafted by John C. Wray, clerk of the committee. It is designed to prevent embezziements and defalcations such as have been reported irom several State institutions, and which are made possible by the large contingent funds which are not under supervision of the Controller or of the State Boara of Examiners. In some of those institutions this orphaned contingent fund ranges from $10,000 to The bil! provides that all moneys be- longing to the State, received by any source whatsoever by the board of trus- tees or board of directors, as the case may be, or by any officer authorized by law to receive the same of any of the Siate asy- lums for insane, feeble-minded children, and deaf, dumb and blind, of any reform school or normal school, and of any State institution for the care, training, or correction and education of persons other than the State prisons, shall render to the Controller at the close of each month, in in such form as the Controller may pre- scribe, a sworn. statement of the money received during the month and at the same time, on the order of the Controlier, pay the same 1into the State Treasury. This money shall be paid out after approval by the State Board of Ex- aminers, The contingent fund of all these institutions shall be handed over to the Controller immediately after the act goes into effects Turning_to another, a loftier, aye, a holier subject, it may be truthiully said that the morals of the peoble of the State could not be placed in the hands of a com- mittee more qualified by nature, training and disposition than tke Assembly Com- mittee on Public Morals. - Bettman of San Francisco is cbairman, and, while he has not yet taken noly orders, his piety—of the early kind—blazes from his scarlet necktie and throws a rich sunset glare upon the rest of the committwe. Then there is Power of San Francisco, anburn-haired and ascetic; Ryan of San Francisco. who knows 1o evil; Allen of San Francisco, born without original sin; Goff of San Bernardino, a gay captain in the army of the N. G. C.; Har- ris of Los Alamos, who never “‘went down the line” in his life, and Cutter of | Marysville, who lacks nothing save the miter and the sheoherd’s crook. They held a meeting to-night in the Assembly Chamber, and exhibted a knowledge of poolroome, bunko games, book-making and buckei-shops that was truly amazing, and would lead the spectator to believe that in the dim and foregone past they had been sinners themselves and had re- formed. Tt was a wonderful, a blessed spectacle indeed when Emmons of Kern appeared before them, and urged the committee to report favorably upon his bill for the sup- pression of biicketshops and pretended speculation in grain on margin, His face suffused with righteous indignation when Bettman spbke and he thundered: “When the gentleman says there is no opposition to his bill he is mistaken, for tome of the best jeople in San Francisco have been before the Senate committee protesting They ex- | againstit. Who were they? Sir? They were Mr. Taylor, late Republican. candi- date for Mavor of San Francisco, Mr. Lau- mester, alco late candicate for Mayor of San Francisco, sir. Mr. Geberding, sir, and Mr. Friedlander, sir. That’s the kind of people who were against the bill, but perhaps you did not know that tney were in town. They are going to appear before this committee, sir, and then we will con- sider the bills.’ Emmons, considerably taken aback, was boid ‘enough to inquire what objections had been urged against his bill by the dis- tingnished gentlemen who had addressed the Senate committee. “Because,”” replied Bettman, *‘they said it interfered with their business.”” Emmons announced that he had re- quested Adolph Spreckels and Sam Leake to appear before the committee next Thursday night to show cause why his bill to restrict horse-racing should not be reported favorably. ¥'he committee decided to report favora- bly upon the bill to prevent the compress- inz or bandaging of the feet of infants as is done tbe Chinese. Also upon the bill to give more power to the officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. e CAMINEITI DENOUNCED. By Bis Utterances, He Is an Enemy of Labvor. SACRAMENTO, CaL, Feb. 15.—At a meeting of tne Sacramento Council of Federated Trades held here this evening the following resolutions - were unaui- mously adopted: WHEREAS, A mascmeeting of organized labor was held in the city of Sacramentaon the 10th day of February, under the auspices of this federation, to protest against the action of Governor James 1. Budd in vetoing the bill for the relief of the State Printing Office, and against his demand expressed in the message accompenying said veto tnat the work there periormed should in future be *let out by contract to the lowest bidder”; and Whereas, on the following day, to wit, on the 11th day of February, 1897, of e floor of the Assembly of the Legisiature of California one A. Caminetti, an Assemblyman from the county of Amador, in discussing said veto messege, Look occasion 1o violently denounce said labor muss-meeting and those participat- ing therein and o venemently refer to the efforts of wage-earners o protect themselves against their enemies as the “tyranny of la- bor”; therefore, 5 Resolved, By the Counctl of Federated Trades of tne city of Sacramento, that s@id denuncia- tion on the part of said Caminetti; that the slur ¢ 8t upon this federation and upon organ- ized or generally by said Caminetti, be taken official notice'of by this federation and that the same be made & matter of record in the archives thereof. Resolved, That said Caminett! by his action in the Lezislature, and by his intemperate ref- erence fo trades unionism asa “tyranny” has clearly shown himself tobe an enemy of laber, and he is hereby deciared 80 to be. Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be furnished, under seal, to sister federations and to labor organizations generally throughout the State for their information and future guidance, and also to the press. St g Woman’s Suffrage Favored. SACRAMENTO, Can, Feb. 13.—The Assembly committee on judiciary to-night | decided to report favorably on tte woman suffrage amendament and the Torrens land transfer bill. TARGET PRACTICE OF A FLEET. Admiral Bunce’s Ships Fire Their Big Guns and Charleston Is Shaken by the Concussion. CHARLESTON, S. C., Feb. 15.—The feature of the day in the blockading of the port of Charleston by Admiral Bunce’s fleat consisted of some heavy gun practice by the entire squadron. Shortly after 1 o’clock the ships moved into thefr blockading positions, and, put- & out floating targets at distances rang- ing from 400 to 1000 yards, began to get their main bstteries into action. The line of action was the same as that which the fleet has observed during other block- ade work, the Massachusetts to the north and the Maine, Amphitrite, indiana and Columbia running away to the southward a distance of 3000 yards apart. The tarzets The practice began at 1:15 in the after- noor and continued without interruption The main batteries of the s are Massachusetts, four 13-inch, eight Sinch and four G-inch guns; the Maine four 10-inch and six 8-inch guas; the Amphitrite four S-inch and four 8-inch and tweive 4-inch rapid-fire guns; the Indiana four 13-inch, eight 8-inch and four 6-inch guns, and the Columbia one 8-inch, two 6-inch and eight 4-inch rapid- fire guns. The gunson the individual ships were in action one at a time and while the ships were anchored. Once the Massachusetts fired her 13-inch gun at intervals of two minutes and at one time the battle-ship Maine got under way and fired several shots at her target. The guns were loaded with service carl- ridees, and shells were the main projec- tiles used. The booming of the guns reverberated for several.miles along the coast, and in the city the concussion could not only be heara bat felt distinctly. The shooting was nearly all line shoot- ing, and while the range of the targets was not got with accuracy the practice was apparently successful. Many of the projectiles struck short of the target and plunged iato the ocean. The Vesuvius left tire harbor this morn- ing at 10 o’clock and rejoined the fleet. Later in the day she returned to port again ana remained for a few hours, The Marblehead sailed for Mayport, on the Florida coast, shortly before 4 o'clock this afterncon. The Terror, Puritan and other shis, possibly, are expected to join the fleet to-night or to-morrow. Tuesday morning the Muine will go to Port Royal to be coaled. The fleet remained quietly anchored to-night in the position it occupied during the gun practice. No maneuvers of any kind were attempted. It wasa night off after the lively work of the men in the turrets. - DRAMATIC DOUBLE SUICIDE. Young Couple Driven fo Their Death by the Wife's Family, CHATTANOOGA, Texx., Feb. 15.—A double suicide came to light in Hawkins County, Tenn., to-day by the finding of the bodies of Miller Ripley, aged 25, and his young wife. The couple had been missing since Saturday night, when it ap- pears that they burned the residence of Henry Sutheriand, a brother of Mrs. Rip- ley. From her brother's bome they went to the Holston River and drowned them- selves. A note found in Ripley's coat pocket requested that the bodies be buried in the same coffin. The request will be complied with, The cause of their act is supposed to have been ill-feeling between Ripley and the Sutherland family. Rip- ley was highly connected. They had only been married a few days. Two vials of laudanum were found near them, and they had cut the bell-rope from the church for the purpose of tying them- selves together. Senator George Removed to Ris Home, WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 15— Senator George of Mississippi, who has been ill at the Garfield Hospital here for some weeks, has recovered sufficiently to be removed to his Southern home at Winona, Miss. 7 A Ostrander’s Nomination Confirmed. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 15.—The denate to-day confirmed the nomination of John Y. Ostrander to be Commissioner used were the ordinary | floating triangles of seven feet to the side. | | | S s B T | atternoon. 5-inch rapid-fire guns; the New York six | DED FATHFIL 70 HIS SLAYERS Portland Citizen Killed Be- cause He Kuew of a Murder. Kept Hs Pledge to Remain Silent, But His Life Was Taken. Evidence That Frank Nagle Was Not the Victim of a Railway Accident. PORTLAND, Ox., Feb. 15.—Despite the Coroner’s jury verdict of “‘death by acci- aent” a singular mystery envelops the death of Frank Nagle, the shoemaker, killed here last night by a railway train. Had the jurors noted the ab- sence of any mutilation of Nagle's body beyond the crushing ot the head; had they dweit upon the absence of wounds on Nagle’s body, beyond a slight abrasion of the skin on the right side, and had they but had as witnesses before them the men of Port- land, well-known citizens and clergymen, who knew the avenging spirit that had been following Nagle for years, the verdict of the jury might have been different. Nagle was a doomed man. It was neces- sary that his tongue be silenced. About three years ago Nagle went to Matt Foelier, the Chamber of Commerce tobacconist, telling him that the night before he had heard some men talking in front of his shop. Being up at the time, through curiosity, the shoemaker had, he said, made his way to the front and listened. The Getails of a horrible mur- der were brought to his ears. In his trembling haste to get away from the murderers he overtipped a small work seat, which he had been accustomed to use. The noise of the falling bench and tools caught the ears of the murderers on the outside. In an instant the front deor of the cobbler’s shop was broken in and the three men who had been conversing rushed in. Nagle was too quick. Asthe murdering gang tripped over the tool-strewed floor of the shop he made a plunge through arear window and escaped in the dark- ness. That night he slept at the house of a friend, saying nothing as to the cause of his unusual visit. Nagle returned to his Water-street shop next day, and as soon as he commenced | the straightening up of the disordered place three men entered. What passea petween the shoemaker and his visitors only Nagle and his conlessor know. From tbat day to the day of his death— yesterday—Nagle had been in constant fear of murder. He moved from the shop on Water street to a new location at 691 Jolinson street, but this gave him no sense of secarity. “Don’t wonder,” he would say, “if some morning you find me dead in some out- of-the-way corner with a bullet-hole through my head or read of my mangled body being found strewn along a railroad track. So help me God, as the priest will tell you, I've kept my word with these men as to secrecy concerning what I over- beard, but they keep haunting me until it seems at times as though my mind would give way. I have no rest.” “It seams to have transpired about as poor Nagle expected,” said Mr. Foeller, speaking of the shoemaker’'s death this “To say that he was carried by the engine and beneath the pony-tracks for seventy-five yaras seems out of the question,when the slight mutilation of the body, beyond the fearful crushingof the head, is taken into consideration. Not a bruisc appears, aside from a mere scraping of the skin on the right thigh, which might result from any fall. Remember, it was dark, anda the first that Engineer Rhodes saw of the dead man was when he was suruck by the pilot. The result of that shock was but the crushing of the upper portion of Nagle's skull. All the other parts of the dead man’s body are uninjured.’’ Detectives believe that the murder Nagle had reference to was that of George W. Sayres, for which “Bunco” Kelly is serv- ing a life sentenc SMITH WINS AT SANTA ROSA. Decision Rendered in a San Francisco and North Pacific Rail- road Cass. SANTA ROSA, Cav, Feb. 15.—An im- portant decision was rendered by Judge Dougherty to-day in the case of Sidney V. Smith vs. Andrew Markham. Smith al. leged in Lis complaint that on the 24th day of February, 1893, he, Andrew Mark- ham and A. W. Foster agreed to purchase from the executors of the Donahue estate 5000 shares of the stock of the San Fran- cisco and North Pacific Railroad, and ugree to pay at the rate of $20 25 a share upon delivery. The executors tendered and offered to deliver the stock on May | 14, 1896, but Markham refused to join with Smith and Foster and fulfill the contract. The action was brought to compel Mark- ham to take his share of the purchased stock. Defendant demurred to the complaint on the grounds that the contract was void under section 26 of the State conswtution, which declared void all contracts for th future delivery of corporate stock on mar. gins. ‘The decision of to-day overrules the demurrer, and says that “;the contract un- der consideration was not for the stock of the North Pacific Railway on margin, nor upon option. 1t was no deal in fucures, but a purely legitimate business transac- tion,”” and that *it was not the intention of the powers of the law to void contracts of this nature.” R STOCKTON ¥FORE(LUSURE SUIT. Holders of a Mortsane Seeking to Re- cover $350,000. STOCKTON, CaL., Feb. 15—One of the biggest suits ever brought in the San Joaquin courts was filed to-day by Gunni- son, Booth & Bartnett, San Francisco at- torneys for the California Safe Deposit aud Trust Company of that city, as trustees for the bondnolders of the Stanis- laus and San Joaquin Canal and Irrigation Compsany. The suit was brought to fore- closé a mortgage of $350,000 on the property of the canal company. Only $100,000 of the bonds were issued, and interest on these has 1ot yet been paid, hence the B A The Deadlocs at Salem. SALEM, Or., Feb. 15.—The presidirg officer, after calling the House to order to-day, stated that he had three letters from members who were sick and unable present, thirty-one in all. The Mitchell- ites were not ready for their big ‘‘push’” to-day, but great preparations are being made for to-morrow. Other reports say that the stayouts will come in and make permanent organization and g0 on with egislation. If nothing is done to-mozrow nothing is likely to be done this year. KILLED NEAR BAKERSFIELD. Albert Ccoper of Kern Accidentaliy Shot While Hunting With Two Cempanions. BAKERSFIELD, CArL., Feb. 15.—Albert Cooper, an 1S-year-old son of Engineer | George Cooper of Kern, was accidentally | shot and kilied yesterday afternoon fif- | teen miles ont on the Asphalto spur of | the Southern Pacific. | Cooper and two companions had gone | thither in the morning on a handcar to | spend the day in shooting small game. On their way back they stopped to get some water. Cooper and one of his com- panions returned first to the conveyance | and took their seats. the car. The animal stepped on the guns that were lying on the bottom of the car, causing one to explude. took effect in the great artery of the right side of Cooper’'s abdomen, causing death within fifteen minutes. Young Cooper was an employe of the Southern Pacific, and, in consequence, a special train was sent out to bring his body into town. time Southern Paci engineers. .- British Tars to Land at San Diego. SAN DIEGO, CaL, Feb. 1 ance with information received from Lieu: tenant Commander Ingersoll, U. S. ternoon telegraphed to Secretary of the Navy Herbert, asking for special per- mission to allow the crew of the British gunboat Comus to march s an armed came up he attempted to place a dog on | around and followed him with a gun. and other officers, Mayor Carlson this af- { at Elk River. during the water carnival here on the 22d. This is the first time in several years that suck permission has been requasted. but the officers and men are very anxious to march. AN - HAPPY VALLEY INCERDIARISM. Trial of John T. Smith on a Charge of Attempting to Destroy the Duke Residence. SANTA CRUZ, CaL, Feb. 15.—The trial of John T. Smith, who is charged with setting fire to the residence of W. H. Duke 1n Happy Valley last spring, was begun in the Superior Court to-day. Smith was employed as a farmhand by | Duke, and the night before the fire warned Duke’s family that enemies were prowling aboat with evil intentions. The fire was started in the gable of the house, just under the roof, and within easy reach of the window of Smith’s bedroom. The end of_the house had been covered with coal oil. Smith was at the barn when the flanies were discovered. He de- As the necond one | clared that he saw a stranger prowling He was joined on the road by neighbors, who were induced to help him hunt the sup- TRe contents | posed firebug. The position of the fire, which was, of course, extinguisted, and the accuracy of Smith's description of the alleged firebug, led to- tne arrest of Smith. At the pre- liminary hearing before Justice Gardiner Smith was held to appear before the Su- Hi« father is one of the old- | perior Court. e Elk River Baby Burned to Death. EUREKA, Car, Feb. 15.—Lulu Chris- —In accord- | tie, the two-year-old daughter of Mr. and | Mrs. Herbert Christie, was burned to | death Saturday at the home of her parents The little girl was playing alone, when her mother heard screams. | She ran to the child and found its cloth- | ing in flames. She tore the clothes from the littie one’s body, but relief came too force in the big military and naval parade late, and the child died a few hours later. 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