The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 5, 1897, Page 16

e THE SAN FRANCISCO CALIL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1897. LIGAT OPON l A SKULKING SCOUNDREL Truth About a Lying Cir- cular Being Mailed to Merchants. INTENDED T0 DECEIVE THE PUBLIC| Based on Untruth and Issued by an 'Organization” Never | in Existence, | liie itself not proverly safe-- pily th re are few people so debased that this peculiar mode of in: ecency would b= suggested to their unclean minds, & fact rendering exposure comparat'v-ly easy. In the mental ‘*‘rogues’ gallery” wuich every student of local events naturally ac- quires, the picture oi the eriminal in this instance has a prominent place. Every cartoonist in town is particularly famitiar with it, doubtless. If, when matters of life and death are at issue there are rascals vile enough to perpetrate so caowardly an act, is it any wonder that sailors bound for a winter's ruise go clad in shoady garh? And can there be marvel, if such rascals escape unwhipped, that raputable people feel ill at ease, deeming property insecure, fair fame in danger of tarnish, an1 even arded? The man responsible for the circular is unfit to associate with aught but jail-birds, on { whose moral plane he would find congen- ial environment. The circular was issued apparently by a business arganization. This organization | does not exist, never did, and nobody can be fouua willing to be responsibie for its standing. A iac-simile of the circular is shown herewith. In orger to ascertain the source from which the contemptible circular emanated arepporter of THE CALL went to the chief of the Letter-carriers’ Division of the post- office and asked f there were such an or- ganization as the *‘San Francisco Mer- cnants’ Committee on K.ondike Outtit- ting.” Mr. Imbrie of the postal service called several carriers and all of them said that there was no commitiee known by that name. The reporter then asked where a letter addressed to such a committee would be delivered. The carriersreplied, “We would deliver the letter to the Alaskan Trade | Committee, as it 1s composed of merchaats COWARDICE PART OF THE CRIME. Reputable Business Men at Once De- tect the Fraud and Suspicions as to Its Perpetrator Arise. To look with respect upon an enemy is possible. But for the enemy who skulks in the shadow, stabbing furtively at the | back of one he dare not face, there is nothing but detestation. The author of a malign lie, afraid to reveal nis evil personality, impelled not by shame but by cowardice to conceal his name and purpose, is an enemy of this sort. It befell not long ago, as the public knows, that THE CaLL bad opportunity to aid an expedition to the Arctic for the 1escus of scores of whalers imprisoned in | the ice threatened with deatth from fam- | ine or from cold. It did its part gladly, and is able to believe did it well. After | sailors had been supplied bountifully ne- cessity arose for buying outfits for the offi- | cers of the Bear. The vessel was at Se- attle scheduled to sail on the 25th of November. On the 23d the commander made known to THE CALn that certain raiment and equipment were needed by | the officers of the vessel. To have obtained these things in San Francisco and get them to the ship in time would have been impossible. There- fore they were purchased 1n Seattle. That was all; surely nothing in the nature of a | crime. Life was at stake. Had the ship been in China the articles wounid have | been bought in Hongkong as quickly. It was no moment for weighing detail. None but a creature combining the | traits of the lowest ord*r of man with | those of the coyote and the rattler would | have found 1n the circumstance a chance | for a howl and a hise. Yet somebody has found it. BSomebody more base than | brave. more cunning than wise, has tarough the medium of a circular, floated | anonymously, attacked THE CALL, using this transaction as a pretext. There will be developments. One of these will hea vigorous prosecution of the criminal | offender for misuse of the mails. And as an outcome, it wou!d not be surprising if | the journalist now secreted in New York might have a friend from the West to | bear nim company. The person responsible for _this circular | 13 more than a mere liar. Not content to | have a falsehood on his own lips, orto | write venomous untruths, or to diciate it, and thus attempt to deceive the public, he | must peeds begin his nefarious work by | making a boy lie for him, play the sneak- | of San Francisco who are interested in the Klondike trade.” D. M. Carman, secretary of the Alaska | Trade Committee, was seen at his office near the ferry. When a copy of the cir- cular was placed before him he remarked that two hours earlier he had received | from George Licbes a copy of the identi- cal circular. It was sent 1o the firm of Kelly & Liebes and by Mr. Liebes for- warded to the committes for investiga- tion. Secretary Carman, speaking of the mat- ter, smd: “Tne circular was not author- ized by the committee. We had no knowledge of its existence wuntil this copy Was received. It is not indorsed by this committee or any member of our organization. It is so adroitly prepared, however, that the inference might be readily iormed that our committee was responsible for it, I shall make it my business to investigate fully and ascertain if possible the source from whicth the circular came. We re- gard the whole thing as a contemnptible trick, in which tne good name of our committee is sought to be used to perpe- trate a fraud.” H. H. Snerwood, chairman of the Alas- kan trade committee, was seen at his residence last evening. When a copy of the circuiar was placed before him he read it carefully and without hesitation asserted that the committee of merchants of which he was chairman had nothing whatever to do with the docu- ment. Hesaid: “Isee that it 1s cun- ningly designed to deceive people and lead merchants of the city to believe that it emanated from our organization. We shall endeavor to find out where the cir- cular originated, and the names of the persons concerned in dts circulation.” The inclosed slip referred to in the cir- cular is a clipping from THE CaLL of No- vember 27, which mentions tuat some of the supplies for the Bear's outfit had heen purcnased in Seattie. As a matter of fact the articles bought in Seattle were purchased to fili a requisition made by Captain Tuttle of the Bear the day before the date set for the sailing of the vessel. There was no time to forward from this city the supplies embraced in the last requisition. Jobm D. Spreckels directed that the supplies for the sear should be procured in San Francisco, and all the goods ex- cepting the articles called for by Captain Tuttle on the eve of the ship's departure were purchased here. LEE CHAU SAN ARRIVES, The New President of the Quong Wo Company Was a Passenger on the City of Peking. Lee Chau San, the new president of the Quong Wo Company, one of the most powerful of the Chinese Six Companies, arrived here yesterday afternoon on the Citylof Peking from China, and was imme- DREADED A SUCIDES GRAVE Vincent Wallace Takes His Life at the French Hospital. ARRANGED HIS OWN FUNERAL. Carefully Planned to Blame His Physicians for His Death, A FANOUS OPERA COMPOSER'S SON. He Was Once a Banker at Guthrie and at Seattle, but His Money Disappeared. The body of Vincent Wallace, son of the composer of the English opera “Maritana,” is lying on a slab in the Morgue—a suicide. was left in bis room was searched care- fully, but it seems the poison was over- looked and it is thought Wallace had con- cealed it in the nightshirt he brought Wwith him ghen preparing for the opera- tion. A searcnh of the garment afier he was found suffering from the narcotic dis- closed a small pocket in it Where the drug might have been bid. Wallace left a l-tter in the office of the Commercal Fire Dispatch Company, ad- dressed to Owen Burns, when he went to the hospital, with directions that it should not be opened uniil the following Wednes- day. It contained instructions astc t disposition of bis body, and gsve informa- tion that all the preparations ior its cre- | maiion had been made. About ten daysa o Wallace went to the undertaking parlors of Sunr & Co., on Mission street, and notified them that he was to undergo an operation at the Frencn Hospital, and that it was not possible for bim to recover. He was a little nervous, and wanted to make all arrangements for the funeral, so that his friends would be relieved of that trouble. He wanted the undertakers to take charge of his funeral nr;i[ to have it as simple us possible. | e told the undertakers that he had been to see Mr. Gibson, the manager of 0.d Fellows’ Cemetery, and had arranged with him for the cremation of his body, | und that Gibson had sent him to them to take charge of the remains and prepare the body for cremation. He asked what the charges would be for the undertakers’ services, and a pr ce was set at $75. He said the monev would be deposited with a iriend, a Mr. Burns, who had an office in the Crocker buildine. The deceased had lived in San Francisco for several years, and he was more or less interested in mining. He went to Cripple Creek during the fir-t outbreak of the ex- citement there, and became interested in several mines, but they did not prove | verv profitable, | | He was well supplied with money, and | | while in the city embarked in numerous | business enterprises with poor success. Recently be has been doing nothing, ana | his friends looked upon him as a man of | leisure with suflicient funds to keep him | in moderate circumstances. His diary, | nowever, discloses the fact that all he had | left of his money was about $300, and it is now believed that the loss of his income | was the cause of his act. i Wallace heid for a time a position in a | Seattie bank as cashier, and previous to that time he managed a bank in Guthrie, | 0. T., and at another time one in Aibu. querque. It is said it was his money on VINCENT WALLACE, WHO /awgv-wko/?f; el DIED BY HIS OWN HAND. ®te0GusntEns SAN FRanCisSCO MERCHANTS comMwITYEE ON BLONDMRE CUTIITYING SAaN. FRANC Messws. Gentlemen The Conunitiee ~engaged = 15CG, Decempen, .0 180g, N an eMurt to secwm ine dulk, ol the Kiondige outfittiag for San Franuiso, dezy leave to» Call your atténlion to, he cnciosed Jhipping from "tne. MORMANG. CaLe of A San Fia €15€0, 4NY: puicnases IS supp November L15¢o newspaper 13th, 1897 wwnores San Fran hes for the At 10 Seattlk By.o1der-of -the Commatdee thief for him. To give the circular an ap- pearance of good faith the schemer had to have a statement clipped from THE CaLL. A poy was sent to newsdealers to secure all the copies of the paper he could, pre- tending that he had been sent frcm THE CaLL office. This incident was the first inkling thata new piece of villainy was afoot, and wonder arose as to the form it would assume. Soon the circulars began to appear, and the motive for the subter- foge was plain. The matter is of far more importance to the public than to Tue CanL Itshows that there are scoundreis biacker than the footpad who menaces the wuyifarer, more cowardly than the wielder of the sandbay, and yet without police interference able 1o atiack citizens and institutions. To be sure the attack is stealthy, and made from 8 point of supposed security—the assail- ant veiled, but thinly, very thinly, Hap- diately landed, pursuant to instructions received from the Department of State at Washington. Lee Chau Ban will be the gusst of the firm of 8ang Wo Ban & Co. at 1006 Dupont street pending the adjustment of the books and affairs of the retiring adminis- tration, to which he succeeds. He is highly educatea and comes from the provinceof Hong Ban. He reportsa great shortage in crops, especially that of rice, caused by hot winds, insects and lack of rain, and that prices in China are higher tan for over twenty years. He is the youngest Chinaman ever sent to this country by his Government to preside over the Bix Companies, being 40 years of age. ————— A Sovereign Kemedy. Dr. Parker’s Cough Cure—one dose will stop acough;never fails. Price 25 cts. All druggists* He came to an untimely end yesterday morning at 2 o’clock at the French Hos- pital himself. The story of his death is a strange one. The *‘pain in the heart,” of which he spoke in the last message which he wrote sical the cause which pain. Perhaps private personal affairs. It has been discovered by reason of the plan conceived of by him at first having failed, because of lack of the favorable Morgue and of the disgrace ‘hat attends tue name of a suicide, and he deliberately took steps to compass his death in such a manner as to lead to the belief that it was caused by an operation for the purpose of which he went to the hospital. To bis friena, Owen Burns, General Manager of the Commercial Fire Dis- patch Company, in the Crocker building, be confided hisintention of making away with himself. He charged Mr. Burns with the sad duty of arranging for the cremation of his body. All that his friend couid say to dissuade him from his pur- pose was in vain. The last entries in his diary, made after he went to the hospital, speak of tie “pain in the heart” and of pinks and violets brought by friends to cheer him. MoxDpaY, Nov. 29, 1897, Two letters from C. Answered. Went to hospital early in afternvon, Registered &.. Then walk in G. erk.’ Very beautiful, penceful and quiet. "Read over Cs letiers. oor oid C. Tore the letters up. What's the use of anything. “Nawthin.” Donald calied in the evening. Nov. 30. Operation for this morning. Have eaten hardly anything since Set. night. Lizzie came with her motner. Pinks and more vioiets. Also letter irom Lizzie this A. M. E 0.and Ownie called up just at dark. More viclets. Am very weak and have bad pain over or in(?) the heart. The pinks and violets will keep me com- pany to-night. It had been his intention to take a fatal quantity of morphine just before the operation 8o that it might be thoughtthat his deatn had resulted from shock conse- quent upon the use of the surgeon’s kuite. But the opportunity did not come, and he swallowed the poison some time during the night of December 1. The operation, while painiul, was not at all dangerous, and when it was discovered about mid- night that he was sleeping with all the symptoms of narcotic poisoning, the alarm was given and the dcctors immedistely set about to brinz him out of danger. They pursued the usual course in such contingencies, whipping his body for the purpose of counteracting the deadly drowsiness and endeavoring to induce na- tural respiration by artific al methods. After working upon him for eighteen hours they restored him 10 consciousness and he told bow he had attempted to commit suicide by taking the poison, which he had concealed about his person. The ordeal of the operation and the ravages of the drug were too great a strain upon his vitality and the death that he planned camein spite of the efforts of the ph’}-mc + The officers of the hospital had been warned by Wallace’s friends that he con- templated suicide and a strict watch was kept on him. The physicians and nurses removed as much of the man’s clothing from the ward as they could without ex- citing tbe suspicion of the patient that his purpose was known and what clotbing !\ which the last two banks conducted the from morphine administered. by | | | meetings of the Theosophical Society, two days before his death, was not a phy- | wearied him of life may never be known, | for be was not used to speak much of his GOLDEN GA opportunity, that he had a horror of the | ir | business. The dead man’s diary shows that he regularly for some months attended the and | that he was keeping company with a yeung woman whom he called Lizzie. The funeral will take place on Monday from Suhr's undertaking parlors, accord- ing to the plans the deceased arranged for. SILVERMA 1230=-1232 IMAR HOLIDAY GIETS | | | | 100 FITCH COLLARETTE:! $5.50 | Good value at £10.00. 5 50c, 81, $1.50, 82 CHILDR | 83 to 820 | | A GRAVE (o) | eager tor the fray. | now on appeal to the Supreme Court. The | spiracy by | property of the vaiue of more than half a | piaintiff for the sum of §24 000, coltecting NEW YO-DAY. TE CLOAK AND SUIT HOUSE — USEFUL —BEBAUTIFUL —POPULAR PRICES. FUR COLLARS and COLLARETTES in endless variety, the latest styles, prices 3I to $50. | S85.50—EXTRA SPECIAL—S$550. Golden Gate Cloak and Suit House, s/icoynraing: Tih G TURNER T0 FIGAT HIS ENEMIES The Real-Estate Agent Sues J. P. Frenna and Charges S Many Wrongs. PIRACY ALLEGED. Weary of Prosecutions, He Will Make Serious Counter Allegations. A HOT TIME PROMISED IN COURT. A Long Array of Witnesses Will Testify Regarding Land Swindles. A suit that promises to develop some of the most sensational imaginable features was tiled in the Superior Court yesterday afternoon. It is the complaint of J. F. Turner, the well-known real estate agent, against Joseph P. Frenna. On is face it is a simple claim for about §30,000, a!leged to be due on a note of hand, which is secured by divers mortgages. In reality it is supplemental to the suit of the same plainuff against Jacob Bertz for the sum of $124,000. There is nothing on the face | of either complaint to show the fires that promise to belch forth before the litiga- tion is ever. According to the plaintiff, these suits are the beginning of what promises to | make a long, bitter and interesiing fight | for his own vindication against the grave charges that have from time to time been made against him in the criminal courts of the State. He has already been cleared of the charge of forgery, winning his case in the Supreme Court. In agrand larceny charge, based on the same facts, the jury disagreed in Judge Cook’s court, ana the defendant is demanding that he be tried again as soon as possibe. He says he is | On a perjury case, growing out of the same facts, the case 1s jury found the defendant guilty, but he says he feels confident he will win. Turner vprotests that he is innocent of every chirge made against him. He says | he isreadv to show in the most positive manner that he is ghe victim of a con- L. 8. Magginson, Joseph P. Frenna and Jacob Bertz, who are charged with laying plans by whieh to place him | in the penitentiary and get from him million doliars. Beriz is a money-lender | and restauiateur, while Frenna is a well- known barber at Sutter and Polk streets, Magginson is a speculator and real estate man. Speaking of the matter 'ast night Tur- ner said: ‘I have submitted the record of my life to a syndicate of millionaires and | business men who bhave some business with me. I have offered to show Chief Lees a complete record of all my acts from the day I first began business. I am going into tnis fight to win. I have kept | away from the newspapers, lawyers, Chief of Police and District Attornev and have fought this conspiracy against odds since 1894. Now 1 propose to show whecther 1 can fight. Somebody else may land in the penitentiary before the whole thing is over."’ The suit filed yesterday alleges that Frenna took a noie and mortgage from the money and making no account there- for. He alleges that all the property thus disposed of was deeded by him to defend- ant in trust. N BROS. HET STREET. SILK WAISTS, SILK UNLERS lowest price-. ALL-WOOL MOKRE two ruffles. DRESS SKIRTS, in silk and wool, 1 popular piices. 1230-1232 MARKET NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. e HANDKERCHIEFS! An Elegant Stock. LADIES’ HEMSTITCHED AND INITIALED HANDKERCHIEFS (pure linen)— $1.00, $1.50, $2.25 and $3.00 per box. Half dozen in box. GENTS” HEMSTITCHED AND INITIALED HAND- KERCHIEFS (pure linen )— $1.50, $2.40 and $3.00 per box. Half dozen in box. LADIE®’ HAND-EMBROIDERED HANDKER- CHIEFS, hemstitched and scalloped (sheer linen) $1.50, $2.25 and $3.00 per box. Half dozen in box. GENTS’ PURE LIN KERCHIEFS— $1.75, $2 25, $3. $4. $6, $7 and $9 per dozen. HEMSTITCHED HAND- LADIES’ PURE LINEN HEMSTITCHED HAND- KERCHIEFS— $1.20, $1.50, § .LADIES’ HAND-EMBROIDERED AND STITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS (all pure linen), in an immense variety of patterns, from— 15¢ to $4.50 each. HEM- We' have also opened an elegant variety of Ladies’ Ladies’ Duchesse Lace Handkerchiefs, Novelty Neckwear, Gents’ Silk Mufflers, Gents’ Silk Neckwear, and Gents’ Hemstitched and Initialed Silk Handker- chiefs. SEE DISPLAY OF AEOVE GOODS IN OUR SHOW WINDOWS 11, 113, 115,117, 119, 121 POST STbhEca. WE CARRY | FURNITURE, SIOVES. CARPETS, BEDDING, ETC., AT LOWEST FIGURES, LATIST STYLES. CASH OR EASY PAYMENTS. All honest people can have liberal credit. We have two acres of floor space packed. We carry everything needed in a home. J. NOONAN 1017-1019-1021-1023 Mission St. 516-518-520-522 Minna St Above Sixth, Telephone, South 14. Open Evenings. —p== CO-PARTNERSHIP FINE AND RARE TURKISH RUGS CARPETS, PORTIERES, ETC. AT- DISSOLUTION ICOCCOCOC) CCCO00000.0000000) REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION ON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, At 12 ., at Salesroom of A M. SPECK & €0., 602 Market St. No. 1—Foreclosure Sale. No. 1828 Fifteentn st: a 2-story house of 8 rooms and stable and ot 30 oy irregular depth of 100 teet; mortzage of §1200. o000 ®) No. 2—Investment at 531 Dolores. A cottage of 4 rooms and Iot 26:6x110 feet at 531 Dolores st., near Higa School. No. 3—Probate Sale. McAllister-st. building lot: lot_27:6 by ir egular depth of 100 fee:, on N. iine of McAllisier st., 358 6-:2 feel K. of Willard. n of No. 4—Foreclosurs Sale. Six elezant FLATS. 606 SHOTWELL ST.; lov 32x122 6-12 teet, with 6 eleant, wel-constructed flats. 4, 5 and 6 rooms and bath each, Teniing for about $75: mortgage $5000. No. 5—Business Corner At 219 Fleventh st.. bet. Howard and Fol- som; lov 23 4-12x82 6-12 feet, with im- provements of stors with 4 living rear rooms and 7 rooms and bath flat: aiso nearly new house at 2 Bowie place; rents 256 No. 6—Referce Salo On Ritch st. near Fourth and Bryaot: sr.nd income property ; lot 50x75 feet, and improvements of store, 6 flats and 2 rear houses: income when all rented, $94. No reserve. “ale subject 10 confirmation of Probate Court. No. 7—Hayes Valley Investment. 406 and 406145 Grove st.; 1ot 30x68 912 feet, with improvements of 2 houses of 9 rooms and bath each, r-nting for $75; mortgage $5600, Hibernia Bauk. ‘Terms of Sale will be announced at auc- tion by FRANK W. BUTTERFIELD, Auctioneer for A. M. SP. L (0000000, 0000000000000 CIO0000000 AUCTION! EASTERN PRIGES TO-MORROW Monday, = = = Dec. 6 At 2 P. M. At the 01d Y. M. C. A. Building, 230 to 234 Sutter St. The famous Silk Rugs of the Turkish Rug Co. will also be offered in thissale. EASTON. ELDRIDE & CO., Auctloneers. 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