The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 26, 1897, Page 12

2 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TU SDAY OCTOBER 1897 NEW OGS, BUT ALL ADE EAST The National Guard Will Soon Wear Cincinnati Uniforms. LOC Pettibone & Co, Will Furnish Goods at an Exceedingly Low Figure, HAVE BEEN GIVEX THE CONTRACT. But Slight Differences in the Eastern Bid and Those of Local Firms. The appropriation of $20,000 given by the State for purchasing uniforms for the Nationa! Guard of California is doomed to go out of this State. Although many local furnishers and makers of uniforms and other military goods putin bids to furnish the goods at a figure almost at the same price, the Eastern firm of Pettibone & Co. of Cincinnail was given the con- tract, and will, in the natural course of events, receive the amount which had been given by taxpayers to the State for the purpose of procuring uniforms. Local dealers are disgusted at the movement and see no reason for 1it. Colonel Thomas A. Nerney of the State Guard under General James, and who in- cidentally represents Petiibone & Co. on this coast, placed their bid in the hands of the uniform board, and the fact that he is also the military inspector for the same company 1s causing a vast amount of tninking among the military tailors and furnishers, The bid under which Pettibone received the contract is placed at a figure 14 cents lower on blouses and trousers than the Government can supply the Government troops with the same wearing apparel. The bid which was handed in by the East- ern manufacturer did not cover prices for overcoats, caps or leggines, and it is con- tended that the firm will supply the coats and trousers at a losing figure and then place the overcoats with thie men at a high figure, and that way make up for lost amounts on apparel furnisbed in tbe bid. A point which has also causea weorri- ment is the fact that the bids were | have been closed on October 9, | the time of closing was post- poned a week at the suggestion of some one not known to the local dealers. The Government furnishes the United States iroops with blouses and trousers at $5 69, and the Eastern company has given bonds to furnish the same material as per stipulations at $5 55, but rumors are rife that it is 1mpossibie for them to furnish the goods at a fizure lower than the Gov- ernment prices if the goods are properly inspected upon arr The only bid covoring the whole wear- ing apparel was offered by the Pa:quale Company of this city, with prices lower than other local dealers, and also with a price on hats 10 cents lower than that offered by the Eastern firm. The price of woolen goods has mate- rially risen during the past year, which renders it hard to understand how woolen #uits can be furnished this year at prices lower than has ever been offered the Government in years goune bv. The fact of any one particular firm receiving the contract have not incensed the local manu- | jacturers as has the fact that the sums which will be paid tor the uniforms must pass out of the Staie, and also that the said sums were given 1o ihe Stale by the taxpayers. The dealers will possibly look turther into the matter and attemp: to show the uniform board that the Pettibone Com- pany now has trouble to settle with the 0. 0. F. over the material placed in suits ordered by them some time back, and also that the price charged, though small, was too high a figure to suit the organization if the material sent was to be accepted. The old regulation blouses were lined with material ata cost of 23 cents per yard, but the material now used in the costs the manufacturer $1 42 per ich increases the cost of each gar- ment.materially and renders it more diffi- cult to keep the price down to the former standard. Also it is shown that the blouse goods formerly usea cost 78 cents per vard, with the present cost figure at $104. The comparison of bids will show but a slight difference between local and the Eastern firms. Pettibone’s bid only covered blonses and trousers at$555 and hats at $1 10. Pasquale & Co. of this city offered to fur- nisu blouses and trousers at $6 70, over- coats at $9 hats at §1, cape 8 cents, and leggiugs according to specifications at 54 cenis, wnich was the lowest bid with the exception of the prices placed on blouses and trousers by the Eastern com- pany, and their price was placed below that allowed by the Government on uni- forms for the United States troops. Litchfield, a local dealer and manufac- turer, placed a bid with a figure on blouses and trousers at $7 90. overcoats $14 95, bats $1 09 and legcings 594 cents. Mart n Gets No Money. Judge Daingerfield has granted a new trial in the case of George N. Martin against the 5 Southe) The jury awarded the p! ges and the court NEW TO-DAY. . RED ROUGH HANDS Ttching, ecaly, bleeding paims, shapeless nails, and painful finger ends, pimples, blackheads, oily, mothy skin, dry, thin, and falling hair, itch- ing, acaly scalpe, all yield quickly to warm baths with COTICURA Boar, and gentle anointings ‘with CUTICURA (ointment), the great skin cure. (Uticura 1 s0d throughout the world. Porras Dava 4xp Cnx. CORE o b0 Eroduce Soft, White Hands,” free. ITCHING HUMORS OFFICIALS PARLEY: BUT - EHE PILES: REMAIN. Chief Wharfinger Root Was Not Appreciated When He Tried to Serve the Court’s Order. Told to Get Off the Earth. He Was All But| N unsuccessful if not inglorious A attempt was made yesterday | to surprise and capture tue stronghold of the Fair estate forces at North Beach. What was worse, | defiance was hurled at Governor Budd and his militia. It was, in fact, an event- tul day on the water front, and when the | sun went down it set upon a retreating squadron of steam craft, manned by the State harbor police, under command of | Chief Wharfinger Root and under the | eyes of President E. L. Colnon of the | Harbor Board. Early in the day there were signs in the Barbor Commissioners’ office of an :m- minent naval battle. From 11 o'clock until 2 an effort was being made to get the three Commissioners together for a | council. The Governor repaired to his private quarters in the Palace Hotel to write a declaration of war. He waited, how-| ever, until Judge Hebbard had issued a modification of his injunction resiraining the Harbor Commissioners from inter- | fering in the contest between the Ras | company and the Fair estate for the pos- | session of that portion of the water front at the foot of Devisadero streei. By noon | the modification was secured. The fol- lowing is a copy of the legal oraer: In the Suverfor Court of the City and County of San Franciser—James 5. Angus, Thomas G. Crothers and W. 8. Good:eilow, ex- | ecutors of the last will of James G. Fair, d ceased, plaintifls, vs. Harbor Board, Peop Gas Manufacturing Company, Albert Miller | et al, defendants. On motion of the attorney for the defend- | ants, and good cause therefor mppenring, | it is hereby ordered that the temporary in- junction and restraining orcer issucd ex-parte | herein on October 16, A. D., 1897, be and | hereby is modified so that permission is hereby given to the defendants, E. L. Colnon, F. & Chadbourne and P. J. Harney, as com- posing the Board of State Harbor Commission- ers, to remove the piles for tne distance of 100 | feel within the premises described in the complaint herein and situated in the City and County of San Francisco, and commencing for the same at the northerly iermination of the | piles now standing on_ Devisadero street, be- | tween Tonquin and Jefferson streets, so-cailed, | and thenc: extending southeriy along sa:d line of Devisadero street for a distance of 100 feet and beiug the same piles piaced in said locality on or about September 25,18 J. C.B. HE Dated this 25th day of October, 1897. The Governor having hastily perused this order immediately wrote and banded to President Colnon the following letter: PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL October 25, 1897. To the State Board cf Harbor Commissioncrs, San Francisco, Cal.—GENTLEMEN: 1 desire 10 call your aitention to the modification of the | injunction served recently on your bosrd fn | regard to certain obstructions on Devisadero street, between Jefferson aud Tonquin streets, in this city, and to request that you now act conformity with the opinion of the Attorne General aiid rempve.said obstructions. Yours truly, James H. Bupp. President Colnon harried at once 10 his headquarters, expecting to meet the other two Commissioners. Governor Buda hav- ing some other business on his hands con- ciuded not to take his ex-officio seat. About half past 1 Commissioner Chad- vourne strolled in. Half an hour later Commissioner HHarney made his appear- ance. The board was calied to order. and after the reading of the minutes the Gov- ernor’'s letter was read. This being passed over 1o the other Commissioners President Colnon offered the following resolution : Resolved, That in pursuance of an order of the Superior Court, modilying the injunciion | issuea October 16, iu_coniormity with written insiructions {row the Governor, the chlef | wharfinger is hereby direcied 1o take such | men and appiiances from the depariment of | repairs and the depariment o1 tugs s may be | necessary to pertorm the work and remove the | piles for a distance of a nundred fect, menc:ng for the same ai the northerly ter- mination of the piles now standiug on Devis- | adero street, between Tonquin and Jefferson streets, so called, and thence extendlig souti erly aiong said line of Devisadero strect for a distance of 100 ice:, and being the same piles placed in said locality on or about September 25, 1897, and the superintendent o1 urgent iepairs and the superintendent of tugs are hereby instructed 10 co-operate with the chief wharfinger in the carrying out of these orders, Colonel Chadbourne was opposed toany immeaiate action by the board. He wanted first to see the opinion of the At- torney-General. After giancing at it he suggested that the proper place for the fight was in the courts. It wasreally a conflict between the gas company and the Fair estate, and they ought to be left to fight it out. 8 President Colnon thought the interests of the State oucht tu be protected. Coionel Chaduourne replied 1hat in his opinion any demonstration against tiue piles would be illezal. e tbhought the Governor was not ex-rcising good judg- ment in the matter, but since he had practicaily directed that an aitack shou'd BARD. ! pocket | with a defending horde. be made he wouid not vote against that course. He would, most assuredly, follow the Governor in any attempt ol the State to vinaicate her rights. The secretary thereupon called the rolt tpon Colnon’s resolution. name was calied fir: “Pass me for the present,” saia that gentleman. “1 want to see how thLe others will vote.” Then Colenel Chadbourne’s name was called anda he voted “aye,’ his brotner Commissioners greeting his voie with laughter. Harney voted aye and Colnon made the adoption unanimous. The meeting immediately adjourned, and preparations for doing battle were at once made. Chief Wharfinger Root, who was present, was directed to rally all the wharfingers and with the tugboat Gov- ernor Markham and piledriver 2 pro- ceed to the point of attack and pail up those offending piles The necessary or .ers to clear the deck for action were communicated to Philip T. Brown, Superintendent of Tugs and Dredges, and to L. E. Long, Superintend- eut of Repairs. Cbief Wharfinger Root placed in his Judge Hebbard’s oraer aad all hands repaired to the water front to em- bark with their fighting men for the scene of hostilities. At 3 o'clock the Governor left for the Howard-strest wharf o tow pile-driver No. 2 to the front. There were on board the tug, attired in their haud- The president’s some uniforms, Chiet Wharfinger Root, | Assistant Chief Wharfinzer Scott and Wharfingers Edward Buckley, Edward Shiort and Geo. H. S. Dryden, Storekeever H. W. Peterson nd Superintendents Brown and Long. At the Howard- strest wharf these were re-enforced by Wharfingers Alexander Rosborough, Robert Stafford, James B. Hvslop, Ed- ward M. Buckley and State Harbor Po- liceman I T. Mooney. The piledriver, | aving been duly lashed alongside the tugboat, the formidable-looking engine of war was turned in the direction of North Beach. On the way down Chief Wharfinger Root pulled out Liis war map and conferrea with Superintendent Long in regard to their plan of action. Asked what he intended o do, Root saia: *Ishall simply do my duty, and if we can get near those piles we shall pull them out.” At 5 minutes to 4 o'clock the invad- ing craft came into full view of the army | of occupation. Thus far the movement s:emed tuil of promise. The enemy seemed to be inactive. Ounly one man among them was in sight from the water, and he stood on a pil~ of rocks careleasly bandling a shoigun. Otherwise the place bad the appearance of a deserted camp. The Governor Markham, with the pile- driver, was approaching ciose to the shore, when suddenly a columu of white vavor shot up from the enemy’s vidette hoat, | which in_this instance was Lhe piledriver Tamalpais, lying directly across the line of piles which was the object of attack. The vapor was from. her steam whistle. A rapid succession of shrili toots had a magical effect upon the scene. Men on shore were seen scurrying from every direction toward the Tamalpais. The adjacent rocks suddenly swarmed The time for something dec sive to happen seemed im- minent, The armed mercenaries of the Fair estate had rallied 10 a man to repel the Huarbor Commissioners’ craft. Meanwhile the gallant wharfingers had clambered overthe side or the tug and formed a hol- low square on the piledriver. haps of war then began to obstruct the course of true strategy. Captain Jake Petzinger, at the wheel of the Governor Markham, found obstruc- tions in hi< watery path. Colonel Baker was the first. In this case Colonel Baker was a scow schooner loadea with charcoal and making for the rear-by wharf of the Fulton Iron Works. A large barge loaded with empty rockcars was the next. This was moored right along the front of the 100 feet of trespassing piles. There was no way apparently of wetting to close quar- ters, and wh Root’s expedition was lookingz for an opening the Tamalpais kept its whistle screaming. The Chief W harfinger, accompanied by his assistant, stepped into a rowboat and was pulled o the foriifications. They dispiayed no flag of truce, but rode calmly inihe face of grim fate. Boarding the Tamalpais the whartinger pulled out—not a gun, but his court papers—and asked for the man in charge. The biz crowd, consisting of about sev- entv all told, looked suilen and put its 140 hands in its hip pocket: ing man came forward ana said he wa: the joreman of the gang. He loosed at Judge Hebbard’s modification in Root's hands ana begged to be exciased from reading it verbatim, as he Lad no author- ity except to protect the property in the absence of the superintendent Living- stone. Would the emissary from the Har- bor Board kindly postpone any belligerent movement until he could The whistle wire was acain jerked for several minutes. Koot conciuded to make the best of his opportunity by investigating the nature of the defenses. No attempt was made to frustrate this audacious spying upon the works and Root and Assistant Scott saw that they would require two or three more towboats to attempt any effectual attack, Markbam | The mis- | | They saw a great iron chain running over from the Tamalirais 1o the rocks. They | about twelve tons of rock. { | shut them out from the piles. They saw admit of any successful assault by the piledriver. Returning to his own craft Root held a conference with Superintendent Brown, | duce or destroy them. And now the real humors of war began | | todevelop and expand. It was half-past | 5 o'ciock. Another hour and aarkness would surely siay anvthing like active | hostilittes. Root and Brown boarded the | Tamalpais, this time to m-et H. L. Liy- ingstone, foraman for the contractors, and | Charles A. Warren, the senior partner of | the firm of Warren & Malley, the con- tractors. The first inning was with Livingstone, who, after reading Judze Hebbard’s or- der, said ne could nos recognize its legal- We've got vur orde: he paid. | e've cot possession and mean io stay | here. We shal! kili anybody who dares to | dispute our right.” “I propose to do my duty,” ssid Root, | he quietly siroked his mastache. All richt, go abead, and we’ll fight. Why didn’t vou bring Jim Bndd and his | militia bere? 1 should like tosee them,” | scowled Livingstone. Root and Brown proceeded to take an- | otner look around, in which occupation | they were rudely interrupted from the shore. It was the voice of Contractor War:en pitched to a rcaring “'Key."” *‘Get off my property! Why don't you | chuck those men overboard? Throw that 1at man off” (pointing to Superintendent Brown). ‘“They have no business there. | I wil tolerate nointerference. Geu off my | property, I say. Why don’t you throw | that fat man in the water?’ were the vords the breezs waited. Nobody raised a hand. The crowd of hired fighters displayed no weapons. The lone shotgun man never bulged from his | post on the rock pile. Brown cast an eye about him for a safe line of retreat, and concluding that discretion was the better part of valor slipped over the side of the Tamalpais into his own rowbo: Chief Wharfinger Root, steppine on a narrow plank from the stern of the piledriver to the snore, made straight for the roaring voice. For the third time he drew from his breastcoat inside pocket the type-written | | order of court. It was a paper bullet, but it did not stop the loud to-rent of denun- ciation rushing from the mouth of the tall | contractor. I don’t give a ——,”" roared Warren. “1 shall obey nothing busan ordsr.of cour:. Get out of here, I tell you, or biood will flow. Any man that touc a line here will be killed. ‘But this is an order of court. Read it,” d Reot. Warren took the paper, read it through and handed it back, at t ing, ~'It don’t amount to anything. no QVM Get out, I repeat.” **We shall move that barge and pile- driver,”” was Root’s rejoinder. *You will, wili you?’ shouted Warren. | “You had better make arranzements for your funeral. I wox’t move those boats { and vou shall not move them.” “Well, I'm only here to do my duty, and that's all there isaboutit,’* said Roo “That order,” roared Warren, *is only | an order permitting vou to remove piles. | Itdoesn’t say anything about removine | barges. Move anything elseat your peril,” | and Warreu chuckied and laughed as he said: “I've got you there. I knew all about thai oraer. It's no good. Get oft my property or I'll have you thrown into the pay.” Koot was falrly nonplused, discomfi ed, cast down. He knew he could not do unything more, and by tu fully made up his mind “that witbout any | opposition it wou'd take one or two days ! to haul the obstructions out of the way. | After giving a twist to his warlike mus- | tache he moved toward the narrow plank, as though to cross it to the Tamalpais; Warren roared again to the crew ol his pile-defense boat: “If that man crosses that plank chuck bim overboard. P’ye bear me? Why don’t you throw all those peopie who have no business down there into the water 3 Root turned to the fierce-looking con- tractor and said: “Can I not zo back to my boat?"” “Not over my property. here! *Well, all I must say, you are very ac- | commodating,” replied the Chief Wharf- inger, as he and his assistant walked away in the opposite direction toward the Fulton lron Works and down to tie muddy shore below, where they hailed | their boat. | And then Warren began to chuckle acain and laugh great laughs, sand wich- ingthem with comments on the stupidity of the Harbor Commissiouers. ‘Those fellows are no account,” he chirroped. “‘They don’t know anything. I Get out of saw a big snchor buried under | that the enemy was 100 well prepared to | dvnamite just | cover of Why, they bave no jurisdiction here and I shall not recognize their j n within 150 feet of the line of that ses- wall. Somebody will get killed 1if they uadertake to play any more monk They saw the | shines here.” Then, turning to Living- car-laden barze wedged in the gap that | stone, his fighting iientenant, he said, “Why didn’t you touch off some of that to show what we had on d for them.” The sun was making a great red streak in the horizon across the Golden Gate as the bloodless battle was brought to this the resuit of which was that Brown ac- | inglorious ciose. In the gloaming another | companied him back 1o the fortifications | craft with steam up appeared in the cove. to view them and discover how best to re- | It was the launch Amy, and on board were President E. L. Colnon and Com- missioner Harney of the Harbor Board The news of the uav’s disasiers was con- veyed to them by Root. It was resolved | to withdraw the State’s piledrivers and | The SCHODLHOUSE Garfield Primary | Raided by a Band of Thieves. all the attacking force under the friendly the darkness. Commissioner | Harney was appointed & committee of one | to go ashore at that point and drive post haste to the P.lace Hotel to report the | situation 1o the Governor, and ascertain | from him what his furtner pleasure was | | concerning the conduct of the company. The attacking fleet then put about for the home run. Sadness and silence feil upon the blue-coated warriors and Presi- dent Colnon refuved for a time to be com- forted. A-ked for his opinion on the day’s doings, he replied that he was a man of peace—that he had conscientious scroples against the unnecessary effusion | of blood. What chance, anyway, couid a | number of unarmed wharfingers have when opposed by a bloodthirsty gang of men armed with snot- guns? Somebocdy would have bteen killed had Root proceeded o extremities. What would then have bzen said in disparagement of the Board of Harbor Commissioners. No, the board had exhausted its powers in the matter. It was now for the Sheriff to take a band in the game. It was that officer’s duty and rot chat of the Harbor Board to enforce the decrees of the courts, and so | saying the humane president of the Harbor Commission changed the subject and called attention to the glorious pano- | rama of bay and shore which San Fran- cisco offered, as the lights on the hills | and the lizhts on the glistening waters studded the darkness. At the Clay-sireet wharf word was con- veyed to President Coluon that Major Harney had telephoned from tne Palace Hotel for Colnon io keep all his forces on hand. They were so kept until 7 o’clock, when orders were issued dismissing them. The Fair people were caught napping when the modificarion matter was belore | Judge Hebbard in the morning, and none | of the attorneys for that interest were | present. It was not until late in the | evening when taey learned of the tactics of their opponerts, and then ths brains of i the legal lights who look after the inter- | ests of the estate were put to work | They succeeded in checkmating the | torces of the State. and prevenied them from taking any fuither hostile action looking to theoverthrow of Warren & Mal- ley’s forces by getting an oraer from Judge Hebbard setting aside the previous order modifying the injunction and fixing the hearing of the restraining order for to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. The following is the order: It is hereby ordered that the order made and filed herein :his day modi'ying the temporary injunction and restraining order issuea nerein on Octoter 16, 1897, is hereby set_uside, and the applica 100 of the defendants for a modi- fication of said temporary injunction and restraining ord-r is set for hearing before this court, Department 4, 0% the 27th duy of Oc- tober, 1897, at 10 o'c ok A. ¥ J. C. B. HEBBARD, Judge. The action of Mayor Phelan in appear- ing before Judge Hebbard and asking for a modification of the restraining order was criticized in strong terms by the ad- herents of the Fair interests. Said one of them last night: “Taking sides with the gas company does not speak well for the Mayor. The company claims that the State owns the water frontage th:re and if that is the case there are no sireets and the Mayor in asking for a modification of the restrain- ing order is virtuaily siding in with the gas company and taking away from the ey miliions of doliar’s worth of property. ‘Judge McKenna decided that the Lag- | islature dedicated those streets to the city in1858. We claim that the streets belong to the city and that the blocks belong 1o | us. Mayor Phelan appeared before Judge | Hebbard to snow that the city wanted the modification. That doesn’t look as if he Was s0 very much interested inthe city.” The rival forces may now rest easily as the court has taken the matter into his hands. | ? | New Southern Pacific Bridges. The Southern Pacitic Railroad Company will start work to-morrow upon the stone founda- ons for a new steel bridge 77 feet in length over Butte Creek, near Dunham station, in ! the Sacramento Valley, and upon the stone foundations ior two steei bridgzes near the great Vina rancn, one of three 60-foot «pans over Deer Creek and ths other of three 30-foot spaus over Pine Creek, in the Sacramento Val- ley. The company has very recently com- Ell“” a long steel br.age over the Tuolumne ver near 5lodesto, and near Loai a large forcz of men is now at work upon the pillars m: are to support a big steet bridge over the kelumne River. | Property of Pupils and Teach- | hour on Friday list and the time of open- | | 2 small cyclone had been at work inside. Desks, both of teachers and pupils, had | believed that more than one man was | that he was wanted there for grand lar- | for a writ of ba | Dunne for his release. | Wednesday, ers Carried Away or Destroyed. | Desks Broken Open and the Princi- pal’s Room Robbzd—The Polics Notified. Vandals, bent as much on destroying property as robbery, almost wrecked the interior of the Garfield School on Tele- graph Hill some time between closing ing yesterday morning. When the janitor opened the school yesterday for the admission of the pupils be found the buildiug looking as though been broken into and the contents either destroyed, thrown about the floors or car- ried away, windows were shuattered, and even the clocks had suffered. The time- pieces had either been taken down or set back several hours, the hands being bent as though the vandals had used consider- able force in tampering with them. The malice of the marauders was shown in their treatment of the school drum. The head wes cut clear across with a knife, so as to render it useless, Not one room es- =aped damage of one kind or another. The office of the principal, M Mary A. Scherer, seemea to have received spe- clal attention from the thieves, and every drawer and pigeon-hols in the desks showed evitence of having been carefully searched. i The robbers obtained entrance to the *choolyard over the bick ferce and thence made their way 1uto the building through a window, the sashes showing evidences of the work of a jimmy. The loss to the pupils and teachers will be considerable, and the city will be put to an expense of several hundred dollars to repair the dam- age done the building and appurtenances. Miss Scherer notified the police of the matter yesterday morning, and an effort will be ‘made 10 locate the vandals who did the work. Several children in the neighborhood toid the authorilies that they had seen a man climbing the fence on Sunday and gave a description of him tbat may lead to his arrest. From the amount of damage done it is concerned in the affair, and suspicion at- ur(;-hel: to ;enumber of tough characters who have been frequenting the neighbor- hood of the schooi of late. Ao WILL BE TRIED HERE Martin Berry, the Seattle Tailor, Booked for Grand Larceny, Martin Berry, tailor, who was arrested Saturday night on a dispatch from Seattie ceny, got his atiorney yesierday to apply as corpus before Judge To circumvent that movement he was last night booked on a cha: 'ge of grand larceny committed in this city. He is ac- cused of siealing a numbsr of g ies’ jackets, capes and :kirts valued a $266 from Martin Linza, a merchant in this | cnlyl; on ‘{ply “lf The police also allege that Berr: time ago swindled an Oakland m{r:::l: out of $800 worth of =oods, ————— A Good Riddance. Jesse R. Grant, alias William Morris, the ex- conviet, who tried a flim-flam game with some skeleton keys in Judge Conlan’s court last HER ANGHOR GOLD PLATED The Whaler Thrasher Gets “Color” in the St. Law- rence Bay. One Man Rescued From the Nevark Killed and Another Is Crazy. Eight Seamen From the Various Vessels of the Winter Fleet Reported Frozen. The Arctic steam whaler Thrasher, which started on her homeward voyage October 9, reached here last night and was piloted to her anchorage off Powel!- street wharf by Captain D. H. Haskell of the Gracie 3. Mate J. J. Thatcher tells a story of gold in the waters up north. He said: ‘““When we took in our anchor at the north head of St. Lawrence Bay we found the paim the bill piated with gold. We dragge: some and the gold worked into the poces of the iron, and any one who don’t believe the yarn can see the yellow metal in the holes.” The Thrasher has on board 5000 pounds of whalebone and 350 barrels of oil. Captain Cogan reports that when in 71 degrees north latitude and 174 degrees west longitude the vessel was in the midst of a large number of whales, and a large catch would have been made had he not had the misfortune to break a shaft and lose the propeller. One of i1he foremast sailors taken from the whaler Nevark, which was lost some time ago, was killed during the voy- ags. The men were cutting in & whale when the tackle parted and struck him. | Another man rescued from the same ves- sel went crazy during tne trip down. On October 3 the vessels Alice Knowles, William Bayless, Karluk and Jeanette were seen going to the westward, and the last seen of the Karluk she was chasing away. The tender Jennie and eight whalers ex- | vected down this fall are caught in the iee TOOTINGOF A and will not be able to get out this year. The only vessels of the Arctic fleet which can be looked for are those sighted by the Thrasher, which were going westward. The others are caughi in the ice near Herschel Island, Itis revorted that eight men from the crews of the various ships of the winter fleet have been frozen to death. DEPPE HELD FOR MURDER. Judge Conlan Decides to Send the Case to the Superior Court. H. N. Depre, the saloon-keeper who shot and killed Joseph Zammitt, a fire- man, in front of the truckhouss on Mar- ket strect, near Tenth, was yesterday held to answer before the Superior Court by Judge Conlan on the charge of murder, It was urged on Deppe’s behalf that Zammitt had boasted aboat his intimacy with his wife, which had so preyed upon bis mind as to drive him nearly insane, but the Judge cume to the corclusion that his only course was to let a jury decide on the facts in the case. 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