The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 18, 1897, Page 1

‘ VOLUME LXXXIL—NO. 174. PRICE FIVE CE THE GRAND JURY OF SANTA CL ARA | AFTER THE ROGUES LORIGAN GRAVELY ACCUSED Is Charged With Pro-| tecting a Corrupt | Justice. HE SAYS IT IS ‘““ALL BOSH.” Suits Brought by the Board | Supervisors to Re- cover Fees. R | TIONS TO COVER ADMIT- TED MALFEASANCE. n of A‘fairs Under Which and Jurors Have Grown h | lowed b, that §72 had been cotlected | Decidedly Restive. |in twen: r cases, none of which ap- peared on the docket of the court, and e e in which no complaints could be found. Ehecial Distatohito ManiCarr In the case of Herringion the repor e shows that $129 had been collected in for- Nov. 17.—W. G. Lorigan, | ty-thr cases, wheremn Beges had also of the Superior Court of | benefited to the same amount; that $120 1ty of Santa Clara, is sccused by a | had been collected in forty cases, for »{ the Grand Jury now 1in session Dwyer had also received payment; is city of having stood between ex- ad been collected as a fee in an of t W. H. Dw insanity case, over which the Justice s ¥ to prevent D Court hus no jurisdiction, as already ex- plained. The method in which the Justices car- ried out their peculiar ideas of reciprocity a candidate for a place | toe Supreme Court of was as simple as it was eftactive. Under ‘ st be stated that | the law the Justice is sliowed $3 by the | s of the Grend Jury believe | county for each case he handles. Kach of ed in the cour<e he pursued, | the three Justices involved in the proceed- an interview | ings before the Grand Jury nad made it a of Tne CaLy, when | practice to take the initial proceedings oy | and then to call in one of the other iwo of missed the accusation in a | the triumvirate to finish the ¢ | Tove law is specific in providing that | under such circumstances only one fee | shall be charged to the couniy, and that were only pre- | it shali be paid to the Justice who eventu- to reform their | allv disposes of the mait muke restitution When Justices Beggs and Herrington d aiready procured | Were called before ihe Grand Jury they admitted that thesedouble collections had on his honor, hedeclared. two other Justices <ice J. D. | been made, but they excused their con- B tice 1. Her- | duct by pleading that they were ignorant g oL omises | of the law governing the matter. It was| They then promised that if the cases that t/ e | @ 8inst them were not pressed by the o Justices and the ex-Justice alresdy Grand Jury they would refund all the A Al Dadibesn By stam = moneys they had thus illezally obiained. o Th ir apparent repentance and this offer TETTEEEEEEEEEEEEEBETY Dayer it was charged e ;L““;;"}. i NEWS OF THE DAY. ine a=d co nd moneys — 3 s which shouid = S e § Dl aranie Weather forecast for San Fran- Sone cisco: Cioudy and unsettled x-Justice Dwyer, it will be remem- weather, with conditions favor- der banishment from the | a Clara. He was arrested on another charge, and nst him wa- said to be con- ot pressed on able for rain. FIRST PAGE. Corruption at San Jose. Turkey Bows to Austria. arga w. ¢ Dwyer should Jarvis Will Relieve Whalers, to return. OND PAGE. A i"’;\fl]‘:[(eg' = How to Grow Fruit. : ; / he Cyclers. ty, on whom would de- | War 2 moee ==ty of DroseruGing aak e ] THIRD PAGE. P 0 the Grand Jury might | Huntington’s Latest Scheme, find indictments. This fact is acknowl- | General Blanco Disgusted. i py some of » members of the Water Under the Desert. Jury to have influenced them in Dixon’s Mystery Deepening. g leniency in this ma 1 FOURTH PAGE. Sports Must Leaye Dawson. Kern County Jail Break. Germans Take Chinese Forts, Knights of Labor Adjonrn. Worden Gets a Reprieve. FIFTH PAGE. Annexation Means Conquest. Adams Dropped by Society. SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. High-Priced Strategy. suying Publ:c Utilities. Gentle Criticism From Yuma. Pioneers and the Jubilee. Music and Musicians, wvember Meteo Yersona and Queries. SEVENTH PAGE. Named the Freeholders, EIGHTH PAGE. se matters have been under investi- the Grand Jury for the past six Attention was first directed to by Charles Keane, who had been the ce Dwyer's court, and who is employ of the Surervisors of r 1 expert. In repor ne submitted to the Grand Ju actions were covered extending over montks trom Janusry 7, 1595, to tion by it e case of Dwyer, this report shows 31 99, collected as fines in five differ- uses, had not been accounted for; | 35 cash bail collected were unac- ed for; that $18 had been collected ned fer six search-warraots is- vicn the charge should have but had been coliected insani cases, over which Justice rts have no jurisdiction, this being a | cxclusively within re for QWWWUUUWUUKUIUWVHHKHHUU bvnnnnmxnfl?{mmvtnvvmmvmqu matter entirely and risdiction of the Superior Court; the j Desertea a Sinking Ship. ad been collected for fees in | Oakland Races. ty-two casass, which fees had already Five Schools Closed. 1 collectea by Justice Beggs; that $120 S g et N . had been similarly obtainea in forty 5 NINTH PAGE. cases zfter the same amounts had been | Phelan Building Odors. internes Must Not Talk. California’s Jubilee. The Baitimores Won, TENTH PAGE. Commercial. ELEVENTH PAGE. News From Across the Bay. North Beach Socieiv Agitated, TWELFTH PAGE. Another Ferry Suicide. THIRTEENTH PAGE. Birtns, Marriages and Daaths, FOURTEENTH PAGE. A Robbers’ Raid at Baden. Many Useless Teachers. wxuumxmmuq the same cases by Justice | He cted in inzton. this report it is charged that on reh 1, 1896, F. Wilsun swore to twenty- nplaints against different persons, that these complaints were not entered on the docket of the court, nor | w28 there any record of the warrants be- z returned. In the case of Beggs the report shows that §246 had been ccllected in eighty-two cases where the fee had also been collect- ed by Dwyer; tha: § nhad been collectea and retained in forty-tbree cases where Justice Herrington had also relieved the | county in the same amount; that $63 had been collected as fees in twenty-one cases of drunkenness, for which no fees are al- 3 | | 3 | a a a a a a § 3 ‘ JUDGE W. G. LORIGAN. of restitution induced the Grand Jury to take a lenient cource, and no indictments were presented against them, though it admirted by a member of the Grand Jury that there were good cases against all of the accused. This determination wasarrived at by the Grana Jury about two months ago, but none of thellicit fees have been refunded to the county. On Monday a suit was in- stituted by the Board of Supervisors to recover from Beggs the moneys which he has zdmitted under oath he is not en- titled to. Itis alleged by one of the members of the Grand Jury tuat this snit was allowed to be brought in order that Besgs might appear 1o the pubiic to have been mis- | taken and not culpable in the matter of | collecting aouble fess from the county. . But according to the expressed deter- ! mination of one of the grand jurors the | end of this matter is not yet for any of | the Justices. He claims thateven though | restituiion be msde an offense has been committed that renders the offender sub- | ject to impeachment and to ouster from office, and that the Grand Jury should take action. He added the only thing that might prevent the jurv frem acting would be the fact that the offizer who 1s sworn to prose- | cute cases of this kind is a brother of one of the persons against whom the charges are made. He declared if the jury felt | theindictments would be prosecuted in ‘ the proper spirit, there would not be the ‘ least hesitacion in returning them. i | After long ana careful deliberation of the various offenses Iaid at the door of Justice Dwyer, the Grand Jury, by a | vote of 13 to 3, about six weeks ago deter- | mined to return two indictments against { him. The District Attorney, B. A. Her- | rington, was called in ard the papers were | duly ma'e our, but owing to the lateness of the hour were not presented to the | court that day. ‘ The following day, so it is alleged by | one of the grand jurors, Judge Lorigan, | without invitation and in violation of the law, entered the Grand Jury room, claimed that the indictments were not legally well founded, and insisted that they be not presented. In the course of | bis remurks to the Grand Jury he is said to have used the following or language something to the same effect: *1 want it understood that this Grand Jury is not going to fly in the face of my advice; I am not to be stultified by any | action of this Grand Jury.” 1t is further ailezed by a member of the Grand Jury that three or four days before the indictments were found the matter had been submitted to Judge Lori- gan, and he had informed that body that Dwyer was indictable for felony. One of the indictments against Dwyer | was basedf on the fact that he had failed to account for $4 30, collected a< costs or a fine from Josephine Hodges on June 19, | 1897. The other was founded on the fact | that Dwyer had failed to pay over $25, de posited in court pending the decision as to its ownership, to Attorrey Gabriel tor the latter’s client. According to the idea of the grand jurors who had voted to bring in the in- dictments these offenses constituted a felony. Judge Lorigan, however, as un- derstood by some of the gracd jurors, claimed that as the amounts were under $50 only 2 misdemeancr had been com- | mitted. According to t' e ovinion of some of the grand jurors the amount involved cut no | figure, as they held that the offense com- | m:itted was tne unlawful relention of | moneys belonging to the county, and this is felony reca:dless of the amount. Act- ing, however, under the empunaticinstruc- tions of Judge Lorigan, one of the jurors made a motion to wiithdraw the indict- ; ments, and the motion was carried by an almost unanimous vote, Some of the membe; for the withdrawal, it is stated, voted | I simply through a | feeling of disgust, and because thev feit | that under the circumstances it would be | useless to attempt 10 do any:hing else. In an interview had with a member of the Grand Jury to-night, he stated that the matter of allezed corruption in connec- tion with the sewer contracts wou'd be tak- en up, in all probability, on Monday next | and that the Mayor and the iour Council- men would be investigated in referencs to their course in these and other matters, concerning which rumors of bood!e ha ! filled the air for some time nast. L e e “Unser Karl,” Bret Harte’s late est story,” will appear in “The Sunday Call.” TIELDS 10 AUSTRIA'S DEMANDS Turkey Now Willing to| Accord Complete Sat- isfaction. *t*ifififi***i'*t*l‘i*tt!tfiti*t*t*‘;t**ttiki*fiitt*tk MERSINA TO ESCAPE | EOMBARDMENT. indignities to Brazzafelli Which Amends Will Be Made. for THE SULTAN ANXIOUS TO SETTLE. Complaints Made by Off.cials of the Oriental Raiiroads Will Also Be Attended to. Special Dispatch to THE CALL LONDON, Nov. 17.—A special dispatch | from Vienna says a telegram hes been re- | caived there from Baron de Culice, the Austrian Embas-ador at Constantinople, | saying that the Sultan has declared nis} willingness to give Aus:iria full satisfac- | tion for the Mersina incidents and in re- gard to the disputes in connection with | the Orienta! Railroad growing out of the | transportation of Turkish troops during the recent war between Turkey and | Greece. | A dispaich to the Times from Constan- tinople confirms the special dispatch from Vinna, which says that the Sultan has de- clared his willingness to give Austria- Hungary full sausfaction for the Mersina | incident and the claim of the Oriental | Railway Company. VIENNA, Nov. 17.—Austria demanas that tbe Turkish Government order a salute to the Austrian flag; tbat the Vali of Adana, in which aistrict Mersina is sit- uaied, be dismissed from his post, and that the Muiossarotof, as Lieutenant- Governor of Mersina, be removed. Brazzalelli, who was the agent at Mer- sina, the port of Adana, of the Ausiria- L ovd Steamship Company, was expelled | from Mersina last month because he was suspected by the Turkish authorities of having intrigued against the Government of the Sultan. He appealed to the Aus trian Government. The latter made rep- resenta.ions on the subject to the Porte, and evertually Brazzafeili was allowed to | reiurn to Mersina. But when, the Aus- trian merchant aitempted to land the local minor officials, with the knowledge of the Vuli of Adana and the Muics- sarotof of Mersina, it is claimed, allowed Brazzalelli to be so grossly maltreated | that he was compelled to appeal to the Austrian Consul for protection. The lat- ter promptly interfered in behalf of his | compatriot and was himself repeated.y 1osulted. In reply to the strong note of the Aus- trisn Government demanding an ex planation of the outrages it developed shat Brazzafelli bad incurred the suspi- cions of the Turxish authorities by be- frieflding fugiiive Armenians and by giv- ing the most deserving cheap passaves from Mersina on board the vessels of the Austrian-Lloyd Sieamship Company. Austria, in addition to the demands meniioned, will insist upon the Porte fur- nishing her with definite assurances re- specting other mattess, notably the com plaiuts made by the officials of the Aus trian company operating the Oriental | Railroad, which have frequently been | brought to the attention of the Turkish | Government. | | | | PORT OF MERSINA. Importance of ths Placy That the Austrians Threatened to Bcmbard. Mersina is the chief seaport of the former province of Cilicia, and is now in- cluded in the Vilayet of Adana. It is ad- mirably situated near the westernedge of the Sihun and Jibhun rivers, and the greater part of the trade of those fertile valleys passes through it. It is connected by a railroad thirty-six I LAND EXPEDITION WILL BE LED BY LIEUTENANT JARVIS Ak Ak Aok e ke Aok ek ko ok ok ok ke ek ko e “THE CALL” COVERS THE FIELD. In addition to the staff of ¢ THE CALL has now completed Lieutenant E. P. Berthof, who Captain Shoemaker, chief of the the overland expedition from the The telegram herewith is se «“To Jobn D. Spreckels, Propri Herald upon the overland expedi point reached by the Bear to the 1 :*i**fit*fitiiitt‘kt TRk e e R ek ok R AR A kA kR R ROk Rk ok ok ke miles long with the ancient city of Loesus snd witn Adana, the capital of the Vilayet and the principal city of the whole sec- tion. | ARl ! POWDER IN THE COAL. | £ 55 { Gross Carslessness or an Attempt | to Glow Up the Monitor Amphitrite. NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 17.—What was | either a desperate piot to wreck one of | Uncle Sam’s big ships or a criminally | careless blunder was brought to light when trimmers, while filling the buakers ef the monitor Amphitrite at Lamberts | Point, Monday, found a twenty-five- | pound keg of blasting powder in the coal being put on board. One of the men hap- pened to see the keg as 1t passed him on the way into the hold aud warned the trimmers to see what it was. Had it reached the dark bunkers the chancesare it wouid never have been noticea till some stoker had turown it into the fire- box and the resultant explosion had i | wrecked the botler, if not the entire ves- sel. Its presence is a mystery, but the most plausible theory is th at it was left through some one's carelessness at the mines in a car and brought to Lamberts Point. The officers ot the Amphitrite re- fuse to discuss the matter. GWES MORE THiN A MILL ON. | Having Suffered Many Business Mis- fortunes Henry Sherry Assigns | His Lumber Properties. OSHKOSH, Wis, Nov. 17. — Henry Sherry, one of the greatest lumber oper- ators and manufacturers Wisconsin ever knew, a man who had interests i.: nearly every northern county, has given up the | ight against business misfortunes and the shrinkage of assets and credit, due to bard times, and assizned all his vast properties for the benefit of his creditors. Mr. Sherry estimates hisdebts and tnose of associate companies as less than one | million dollars. He estimates that lnsi assets and those of the as<ociate companies are sufficient to pay all the liabilities if | judiciously bandled. He expects to pay dollar for dollar. -— MURDERQUS SEAMEN INDICTED. | Crew of a Burned Schooner He'd lori Killing Captain and Mate and | Burning the Ship. NORFOLK, VA, Nov.17.—The Federal Grand Jury, after investigating the charges against the crew of the schooner Olive Pecker, returned indictments against Jobn Anderson, the cook, for the murder of Cuptain Whitman and Mate Saunders, and for destroying thevessel atsea; also against William Horsburgh, John Lind and Juan de Dios Barriel. as accessories after the murder of the cap:ain and mate and also destrcying the vessel. Martin Barstad and Andrew March, other mem- bers of the murderous crew, are heid as witnesses against theindicted men. touch with Jthe rescuers who will sail north on the Bear by securing the services, as correspondent and photographer, of the rescue of the imprisoned ‘halers. ¢¢ WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 17. is with great pleasure I accept your offer to act as special corre- spondent and photographer of THE CALL and the New Yoik shut in by the ice at Point Barrow. be furnished exclusively to THE CALL and the Herald. orrespondents already engaged, arrangements to keep in close has been specially detailed by revenue marine, to accompany cutter across the icefields for If-explanatory: ietor Call, San Francisco, Cal.: It tion from the highest northern place where the whalers are My report and pictures will * * x * x * x x * x x x x x x x * x «x x * x * * * x * x * * x X x * x * x x * x x * x * : $SESPS BERFHOER! ¥ x x SENATOR ELKINS MAY SEEK REVENGE pose the Confirmation of McKenna as a Justica. Colonel Boyd of Norih Carolina Urged for the Position of Attorney-General. Special Dispatch to THE CALL CHICAGO, Nov. 17.— A Washington special sa; There is a rumor which 1s given credence among tliose who ought to | be posted on such matters that Senator | Blkins, father of the famous seciion 22 of tbe Dingley bill, which prescrived ais- | criminating duties on imports under cer- Niliou-, wili be revenged upon Attorney- | General McKenna for the part he played | in rendering ihe afore-mentioned section inoperative. When the latter's name is sent to the Senate for confirmation as Jus- | tice of the Supreme Court to succeed | Fiela, so the story goes, E'kins will op- pose the confirmation, and is said to have such back.ng trom other Senators under | railroad iufi ience as to preventit. Sena- tor Elkins poses as the firm friend of the President, and the latter's {riends nardly believe he will take the risk of breaking with the executive by attemptine to de- feat the contirmation of one of his Cabi- net for appointment. The i ostile atti- tude assumed by the West Virginia Sena- tor, nevertheless, is causing considerable uneasiness in quarters friendly to the Ai- torney-General, Section 22 has kept Judge McKrnna in hot water ever since 1t was referred to him early last August. NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—A special to the Commercial Advertiser from Asheville, N. C, sa this State, just returned from Washing. ton, says that if Attorney-General Mec- Kenna is promoted to the vacancy on the United States Supreme Court bench cre- ated by the resignation of Justice Field, there is a very strong prospect of the pro- motion of Assistant Attorney-General James E. Boyd of North Carolina to the office of Attorney-General. Colonel Bovd is the North Carolina member ot the Na- tional Republican Committee. He was at first urged for the position of Attorney- General, and since be has been serving as assistant has made a reputation for him- self. Senator Pritchard, the Republican Senator from this State, who is on espe- cially good terms with the President, on account of h's strong adherence to the latter’s tariff views, and other North Caro- linians are pushing the claims of Colonel Boyd for the Attorney-General’s office. e S A rwift Torpedo Destroyer. LONDO Nov. 17.—The new torpedo destroyer Crane had her offic'al trial in Stokes Bay io-day. She made 32.49 knots per hour. It Is Said That He Will Op- : A prominent Republican of | BERTHOF L, b0 - WITH HiW i iAcro'sS the Ice Pack to Save the Whal- ers. “THE CALL” COVERS THE FIELD. 1 Representatives of This Papar | Will See the Party ! Through. | DAY OF RESCUE DRAWING Very Shorty Now the Bear WIiI | Turn Her Prow to the Seas | of Winter, Special Dispatch to THE CALL. BOSTON, Nov. 17.—Lieutenant Jar- | vis has been appointed to the command | of the land expedition for the Bear for the | relief of the imprisoned whalers at Point Barrow. The orders detailing him for this service were received from Washing- ton to-night. | Lieutenant Jarvis is now on waiting orders at New Bedford. The new com- | mander has had long and honorable ser- | vice in the Arctic regions on the revenue cutter Bear and other ships. Lieutenant F. G. Dodge, who was first assigned to the command of the expedi- | tion, has been ordered to rejoin his cutier, the Dexter, and not to make the Arctic trip. He arrived at his home in New Bedford last evening, to prepare for his | departuce for Seattle, and was met with orders revoking the previous order. It appears that as soon as his wife | heard his plans she feared that he was | physica# unable to undertake the trip, 1 and appealed to the family physician, Dr. J. C. Shaw, and he agreed with her. | A message was sent to the Department at Washington, and while the lieutenant | was hurrying from New York to make ready for th: journey the answer flashed back relieving him from the expedition. | Lieutenant Dodge is greatiy disappointed, for he had been only too anxious to make | the journey. He realizes what perils are | likely to be encountered, but is of the opinion that the expedition will succeed. iR 'TWO MEN TO GO OVER THE ICE FIELDS | WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.— The | Treasury Department has decided to send | two men on the relief expedition in addi- | tion to the regular officers of the Bear. | One of them is Lieutenant Jarvis, who has had considerable experience in Alaska | and the Bering Sea. It was he who su- | perintended the placing of the reindeer at | Port Clarence and Cape Prince of Wales when they were brought over by the Bear from Siberia. Chief Shoemaker this | morning decided to detail Lieutenant Jar- | vis to head the overland expedition from | Norton Sound to Point Barrow. Captain | Tuttle was informed of this and Lieuten- ant Jarvis was ordered to report to the captain. He will leave New Bedford, | Mass., to-morrow night. Lieutenant E. P. Bertholf has been de- | | | | | THE“WIEN THE AUSTRIAN FLEET OFF MERSINA | THE FRANCIS JOSEPH )’