The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 19, 1897, Page 1

4 VOLUME LXXXIL—NO THE BEAR NGOOD CONDITION She Is Aimost Ready for| the Trip to the | Arctic. | | \ | | | | | | NEEDS PAINT. | 5 HU aped Off by the Ice Points| in the Frozen Ocean. i VESSEL'S STRENGTH NOT AT ALL AFFECTED. the Men Who Will the cue * ok ok Sk kokok ok Rk Rk kR kk ke % LETTERS FOR THE WHALERS. * g ek 3 ook ek e ek ek ek Ak ok ek YN NN NN N NN NN NN N X XN N N YK MM XK ¥ * x X RS R R R R R RS PR TR T Arctic last | deraole of the | be repaired. | | be in | well ired and aken on, and after d xty € Commander Tut- ible, to h the € [uesday, but the faci ot 1 c z until Sun- not latest. All the n will have detailed fo t essary fu tively been them on will no by Lieutenant David H teen ve office ustworthy man. He will by Second Lieutenant . Bertholif, Dr. Wo med A. Koltchoff. t be aetailed to joun nnot now say."” Tuttle had a lengt g with mand of this exped ned my execut es the Government reindeer sta- | t Clarence. This explorer has | nowledge of the coast id Northern Alaska and is 1 the natives, their locations | s and relief cxpedition thus ed who will sail on the Weinesday are as follows: cis Tuttle, commander;_ lieu- | David ana ants, H. Jarvis and J. H.| Brown; second iieutenants—Claude S. | ne, Join G. Berry, 8. H. Camden, Ll ilet, Elsworth P. Bertho!f; | < nzineer, H. C. Whitworth; first | s engineer, Horatio Wood; sistant enzineers, H. K. Spencer 1. Bryan; surgeons, Dr. J. 8. Call Koltchoff. SAN PEDHv WORK DELAYED. Now the War De;;r;;*tmenf Finds There | /s Ko Appropriation to Pay for Advertising. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.— The War Department has found another excuse for not commencing work at San Pedro. It is now said that there is no appropriation available for advertising, | there have oveen partment SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBE e R 19, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GERMANY IN THE S0UTH SEAS CENTRAL AMERICA AUSTRIANS AGAINST TURKS T SOUTH AFRICA. WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING. SCHOOL EMPLOYES ARE COMPELLED TO | PAY FOR PLACES| Grand Jury of Los Angeles Is Investigating a Scandal That Involves Several Members of the City Board of Education. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 —A as come to light which invoives several members of the City Board of Education ana C. H. Axtell, the superintendent of chool buildings, an officer elected by the board. E. E. Cooper, a janitor of the Sentous-street School, charges that Build Superintendent Axtell obtained $60 from him on the pretext that if the money was paid he could with the aid of it se- cure Cooper’s retention as a janitor, and if it was not paid be would be discharged. | Cooper paid the money, and has made an affidavit to that effect, He alleges that School Directors Mclnerney (Democrat) scandal | selling of T materialiy esin the department will fect tne result of the bond election. [ I | F IR | Chur and Adams (Populist) were the two mem- | bers, as he understood it, to whom the money was to go. Janitor Cooper is not alone in the affi- davit-making business. of the Sentous-street School, Principal Capell of the Union-avenue School and Principal Emory of the Eighth-street School have a!l made sworn statements as Principal Phillips | to Building Superintendent Axteil’s en- | deavors to assess them to secure their re- tention as teachers. For some time past intimations that the School Directors were handling the public | business in a very loose way, but not until to-day did the intimations take positive form. The Grand Jury is in session and a close investigation is being made. Some | twenty witnesses were examined this afternoon touching the alleged assessment levied by Axtell, wiom, it is claimed, acted as place broker for a combine of the | directors. School Director Charles Cassat Davis was seen by a CALL representative to- n and asked about the revelations it had been made. He sbsolutely de- ed to discuss the matter at all. School Director Watter L. Webb, when see id that he could ers He said od Axtell borne a g reputation and had never | not believe the | stories that nad been made pubiic as to | Axtell's collecting money frow the teach- | nd other employes of th: School De- | bad a.ways | takeu any pronounced part in poiitics. | Until the charge was positively vroved, Director Webb sait he would regard Ax- teil as an innocent m n. Janitor Cooper had a misunderstanding witn Buperintendent Axtell and was about to be removed, but his aflidavit 1s re-enforc d by that of seven school- teachers. A number of these teacners were seen, but they declined 1o be interviewed. They admitted that they had before the Grand Jury in regard to the matter, but further than this they wouid not talk. The exposures sensation, nsin two weeks a bond elsction isto be Leld, when the question wil! be decided as to whether the city shall issue bonds to the amount of §339,000 with which to erect new school-houses. If the bonas are voted .he School Directors would have the exclusive disposition of tnis money. The developments as to the testified | | made have created a | L( | Hotlister E Holl % | E E E é | E E E E w9 at the Anpel City. LES, Nov. 13.—Miss Mary nning, daughter of Mrs. Mary ning and the late General nning, was married to Wit Weda )S AN ister eas keman Norris at St. Paul's Episcopal | The cere- Rev. John Gray, ), at high noon to-day. y was performed tor of St. Pai NEWS OF THE DAY. Weather forecast for San Fran- Friday cloudy, with fogs in the morning; fresh southwest- erly winds. FIRST PAGE. Bear in Good Conditon. Corruption at Los Angeles. Truckee Wrecked at Coos Bay. San Jese’s Big Scandal. SECOND PAGE. Football P.ayers Ready. Pugilist Gniffo Badly Hurt. THIRD PAGE. Dixon’s Poisoning Mystery. Coach Rolls Into the River. Wiil Make Gold in Public. Secretary Bliss’ Report. Weyler Has Reached Spain. FOURTH PAGE. E wood Cooper on Olive Oil. Was Drevfus Blackmailea ? Guinan Will Stay Free. FIFTH PAGE. The Baseball Worla, Judge de Haven, Elevator-Boy. Paulists Want D Removed. Searchlights for Suicides. SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. The Parting of the Ways. Non-Pariisan Freeholders. Junketing Prison Wardens. Congress and Diplomacy. Our Mayor from Oakland. A Tyvical Saffron “*Scoop.” The New Buoy Light. Personals and Q teries, SEVENTH PAGE. Au Exhibiton of Dolls. S:orm-Driven Vessels Outside. Hunting for Baden Robbers, The State’s Golden Jubilee. Charges Azainst Jerome, EIGHTH PAGE. Commercial Intelligence. NINTH PAGE. News From Across the Bay, TENTH PAGE. Races at Oakland. ELEVENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths. TWELFTH PAGE. sharkey Won the Fight, Rottanzi Unearths a Scandal. cis E E : 2 2220099092999292222222220222292002222222922222992222222292R8222222 00 228R22020822222008 'STRANDED AT | UM MARSHFIELD, (r, Nov. has reached here that the steamer Trockee, bound frou Tillamook to San Francisco, lumber hden, stranded this morning on the North Spit of the Umpqua River. G. W. Freeman, superintendent of the thirteenth lizhthouse district, who was a passenger on the siage down the beach | from the Umpqua this afternoon, says that about 5 o'cloct this merning the keeper of the Umpqaa light heard a dis- tress whistle, but on was unable to distinguish anything. At dayhight the Truckee was in sight, headed soutk, evidently disabled. It was blowing hard from the southwest and the Umpqua ber was breaking ciear across and was nothiag but a white strip. A 7 o'clock the captain hoisted bis flag and headed for the bar. passed through the oater line of breakers | successfully. ‘T'nhe captain, trying to hold her in the channel, boisted his pennant, but the wind was toc strong and it was carried way., The square sail was also | hoisted and was immediately carried overboard, throwing :he vessel on the ex- treme end of the North Spit. All this time the crew was throwing cargo over- board. The Umpqua iife-saving crew twas promptiy on hand and made three unsuc- ce«<ful attempts to reach the steamer. When Mr. Freeman left the scene at resting easy, with her head inshore and her stern to the wind. The sea was very rough and was breaking all around the stezmer, but did not appear to be break- ing over her. | The Truckee went on at high tide this | morning, but as the evening tides are the | heavlest, it may be possible that if she | did not go to pieces to-day, after dis- charging her deckload of lumber, she may be forcel in over the bar. News rezard- |ing the wreck is very meager, and there will be no more information from there | b:fore to-morrow evening. The Umpqua River is twenty miles up the coast and has no wire communica- tion. | The stagedriver says that he has never | experienced such a s:orm on the beach as that of to-day. The Truckee nas a register of 342 tons and is owned by the Truckee Lumber Company of San Franei-co. - — THE STORM. Heavy Raln and Blg Winds Along the Oregon and Washing= | ton Coast. Spectal Dispatch to THE CALL | "PORTLAND, Nov. 18.—For the past twenty-four hours a furious wini and | rain storm Las prevailed over the entire North Pacific Coast. The wind to-day reacked a velocity of fifty miles per hour and the rainfall for twenty-four hours has been about three and a 'half inches. The | weather has been warm, which has melted | TRACK OF 18.—News | sunt of darkness | The steamer | 10:30, there nad been no communication | | with the Truckee, and she was apparently THE MOUTH OF PQUA RIVER \Homeward Bound From Tillamook, the| Steamer Truckee Is Lodged on the North Spit by Wind and Wave, the snow in the foothills, causing a rapid | rise in the streams. Tne storm played | havoc with trees, billboards, awnins, | signs and electric wires in the city to-day, { and the telephone and electric service was | seriously interrupted. | A message from Yaquina Bav says a heavy storm is raging there. The cus- imm-house was biown down and the rec- ords of the office lostin the bay. The telephone wires are prostrated and consid- ’erable damage has been done to small | craft on the bay. | SEATTLE, Nov. 18.—A heavy wind and | rain storm has prevailed over the Puget | Sound region for the past forty-eight { hours. Up to 6 0’clock to-night the rain- | fall had exceeded four inches. Ow:ing to the crippled condition of the te'egraph and telephone services, only meager re- | ports have been received from adjacent points. The reports received indicate | that if there is not a sudden Jrop in tem- perature serious floods will result, The White and Black riyersare rising rapidly, | and will soon be out of their bounds. The Duwamish, Snohomish, Skagit and Stillaquamish are all raging torrents. OLYMPIA, Nov. 18 —In the last three | days, ending at 4:30 o’clock this after- noon the rainfall was 5.3 inches; for the last twenty-four hours endingat the same time the fall was 282 inches. This record is very unu-ual. A landslide on the Port Townsend Southern Railway at Tullwater somewhat delayed trains to-day. No damage s reported in this locality. ASTORIA, Or, Nov. 18.—One of the worst siorms ever known has prevailed for thie last thirty-six hours. At the cape last nightand this morning the wind was blowing at the rate of seveaty-four to | eigkty-four miles p-r hour. The gale was | from the southwest and the mouth of the river was obscured by a thick fog. The | storm increased in fury afier midnight and reached a hurricane at 7 o’clock this | morning. Little information can be ob- | tained from Nortn Beacn, as the wire is | down, but the steamer Ilwaco returned | and reported no great damage done there. A man was ssleepon a wood scow which drifted away from its mocrings and has not yet been found. The Biitish ships Kinrosshire and Nor- ma dragged theiranchors and were blown on to the sands. Aboat five miles of the postal telegraph line is down. The s eamer State of California, which was due Tuesday from San Francisco, has not yet arrived. As no vessels have ar- rivea or departed since the storm com- menced there is no anxiety as to her safe- ty. Itis believed that she has been .ff | the mouth of the river for twodays anu is simply waiting for the storm to sub- side. TACOMA, Nov. 18 —Chinook winds and rains are playing havec throughout Western Washington. Telegraph lines are down in all directions, rivers and smu.l streams are swollen, railroads are suffer- ing from washouts and flooded track«. The Government telegraph wires went down between Port An :eles ana Tatoosh, Cape Flattery yesterday, and have not been raised. All. telegraph wires reachine from Tacoma to Eastern Washington along the line of the Northern Pacific wentdown near Lester yesterday afternoou, but have been raised again. The wires on the Grays Harbor and the South Bend went down yesterday. Trains are delayed by wash- outs on the branch lines, STRIKING All Upon the Grave bers of the Y RPPEREERRRRRRRRRRY ) » 4 & SAN JOSE, Nov 18.—Judge @ #® Lorigan to-day ordered the ¥ : Grand Jury to appear bafore : # himon Monday. It is believed @ # that this move is made tor the ¥ ‘= purpose of ascertaining who has : & been dispensing the secrets of @ ,: that body. < % B ABASAAAERA GBS SRS EE L SAN JOSE, Nov. 18.—On every street | corner downtown, in every pluce where | men congregate, in the public offices, in places of business and in the privacy of their homes the peovle of San Jose to-day discussed the story of the sensational pro- | ceedings that bave characterized the ses- sions of the Grand Jury relutive to charges against the three Justices of the Peace of Santa Clara County and the part played by Judge Lorigan. It was apparently a new sensation to the local residents to see news of this char- acter told on the basis of cold facts, with- out coloring 2na without faver or fear. The expreasions of the best class of peo- ple, represented by bankers, mercaants and men of means and sdanding in the community, were ali of one tenor, and that favorable to THE CaLL. Itis admitted in sorrow, and also somewhat 1n trembling, that San Jose occupies a unique and un- enviable position. Its most substantial citizens acknowl- edge that it is probably the most ring- of its size in the medic and unsystemaiic attempts have been made to break the power of the “gang,” as it is termed in the local idiom, but withont even a show of success, The charges have usually been o the kind known as ‘glittering generalities.”! No book. Itis the knowledge that these condi- tions have and do militate against the caused the citizens who are striving for good government to give hearty welcome to the entrance of THE CALL into the fight to free San Jose from the thrall of the bosses and corrupiionists. To-day there are men of wealth and position, and pre- sumably of influence here, who, while more than willing to see matters changed, donot come into the open and announce | dens, ridden, boss-ridden, bcodler-infe ted ciry | United States. Spas-| specific offenses were bronght to lightand | no particular offenders were bronght to | best interests of the Garden City that has | THE HEAD CENTER OF CORRUPTION Effect of “The Call's” Fight for Honesty at San Jose. GANG THAT RULES THE CITY HAS TURNED UGLY. Superior Judge Lorigan Will Not Talk at Charges That Have Been Made Against Him by Mem- Grand Jury. themselves as being opposed to the ele- ments that now control the municipality of San Jote and the counly of Santa Clara. They say it would be certain ruin to their business interests, Crossing the bosses bhad been tried before by individu- ais who thought they were powerfu! and wealthy enough to withstand the insidi- ous influznces and torces of the “gang,’” but in each case the brave spirit has been sent into the street or driven from town. | This last is the baleful boast of the hench- men of the boss-in-chief, James W, Rea, or, as he is better known in his habitat— Jim Rea. Wkten it came to the knowledge of the gang that the Grand Jury proceedings were to be published in TnEe CavL, Johnnie | McKenzie, one of the State’s Game War- whose meost onerous duty is to draw his salary, approached one of the representativesof Tne CarLand intimated broadly that a mistake would be made if Judge Lorigan's connection with the quashing of tbe indictment found against Judge Dwyer was published. “The gang,” he said “has never been beaten out, and THe CaLy will make a bad break if it jumps on the boys. We never let up on 8 man when he jumps the traces. As an instance, lookat the signs on the Ruckers’ store. A view of these signs show that they announce the reiirement of the Rucker brothers from the furniture and carpet busine:sin San Jose. Within fifteen minutes after the train broughi THE CALL to this city to-day the news spread like wildtire of the character of the article on its front page, and despite t e large supply of extrs papers that had | been received here by nightiall nota copy | was to be had. Even tne closest fricnds of the men accused of corruption had no word of complaint to utter as to the facts set forth. Lorigan’s position excited nearly as much sympathy as indignation, but the hi:her sense of morality and jus- | tice prevalled. It was beld that, at all hazards the purity of the bench must be protected. It is tie undivided opinion that the Grand Jury sadly and seriously failed to perform its auty in not indicting all three of the accused Justices of the Peace— Dwyer, Herrington and Beggs. It is charged that in permitting these men to escape trial for their self-confessed feio- nious actions the Grand Jury was come pounding a felony; that its members had no moral or legal right to make restitution JUSTICE OF THE PEACE J. D. EEGGS.