The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1897, Page 4

W THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1897. WEB MUST ANSWER [N THE COURTS Los Angeles School Di- rector Placed Under Arrest. GRAND JURY FINDS AN INDICTMENT. Chargas Him With lllegal Acts as a Member of the Board. MORE LIGHT TEROWN ON HIS RECORD. Accused of Having Levied Contrl- bution Frcom Even One of His Accomplices. atch to THE CALL. Dec. st in the mat- accused opportunity their Late this afternoon an indictment was returned against Director Walter L. Webb, charg- ing him h being interested in a con- tract which, a member of the board, he was called to vote upon. Director Webb was placed uncer arrest. He was taken betore Suverior Judge Smith and his ba fixed at $301 Bond was promptly nished. Warren Gillellen, president of the to tors an innocence in a court of justics Broadway Bang, and Wilbur O. Dow, a well-known real estate man, wéré h sareties. At the examination held before the Board of Education to-night Building Buperintendent C. H. Axtell gave Direc- tor Webp the benefit of retelling the stor of how the Director suggested to him the feasibility of bis coliecting a month’s pay from thirteen school prineipals, thereby emabling them to hold their jobs. For the firs: tiwme Axtell told under which Webb secured from bLim his written resignation, which bore no date. Director Mclnerney had biught a lot of plumbing material for private use on account of the Board of Education. Ax- tell had et nhim buy it, but McInerney bad paid for it and it was not charged to the board. It was purchased in this way because it cou'd thereby be procured cheaper than by private contract. teil had permitted this to be done Weub came to him and told him that be had done wrong. He said that an enemy of Mc was about 1o make the whole matter publ d $200 would be required to quiet him. Axtell swore that he borrowed ihe money and paid it to Webb. He al<o ve him his resig tion without date, Webb sta that be would use it if be bad to. Axtell told the story of how Webb had promised to stand by him :f he would resign bis place after the first exposure of this matter had been | made. Webb had "advised the employ of t:im to leave that wounid stop all farther exposu Then, he said, he would get him emplo; ment elsewhere Axtell testitied that he had told Webb | that he could not see that it wasto his ad- vantage to give up his job, ana be had declined to doso. He testified ing had a conference with Webb and James W. Hellman, at which time Hellman told him that Attorne; ank Davis had been engaged to look after his interests. 1 meantime $150 of the $200 he haa swed to give to Webb had become due. { testified that he told Webband Heduan about it, 2nd on No- vember 29 Hellman gave him the mouney ana he paid the amouut. On cross-examinatiol he had happened to con Eider P.tman’s church. Thg elder, a for- mer member of the board, shows up as & collector of bribe money and has left this country. He is cannot be found. Axtell swore that he joined Pitman’s Axtell told how t inimself with chuich after tne iatier's eleciion to the | school board, having been previously con- nected with another church of di creed and faith. The first year he contrib- uted $80 to the support of Pitman's church. Since Pitmsn retired from the school board he had not attended the ckurch. There were a number of teachers who attended the Pitman church during the time the elder was on the board and they were iibe; contributors to the or- ganizaon. Axtell denmi.d that he had joined the church to hold his job. Director Adan:s was requested not to be present during the time Axtell was testi- fying, as the defense wiil endeavor to show a conspiracy between him and Ax- tell to ruin Webb. For this reason the de- fense did not wish him to hear Axteil's tes- timony. later he voiuntarily withdrew. GENBRAL EXODUS FRON DAWSON cITY Three Thousand Miners Said to Have Left the Klon- dike Camp. Indlan Brings N:ws That Famine Is Causing Many to Depart, Special Dispatch to THE CALL. JUNEAY, Avaska, Nov. 30, by Steam- ship Farallon, via Victoria, B. C., Dec. 7.— One of the passengers aboard the Karal- lon, which put in here to-night on the trip down from Dyea, Skaguay and Pyra- mid Harbor, states that an Indian had just arrived over the Dalton trail from Dawson, bringing the news that 3000 men were to have left Dawson by the up-river and the overland routes within a fow days after his departure. They were o start in squads of 100, being forced to ieave by the scarcily of provisions on the Klondike, There does not seem to be any doubt that an Indian has arrived at Haines’ Miesion with such a report, and there is no doubt that a large number of Klon- dikess are coming out for the winter, but 3000 is believed to be a very Jarge estimate. The Indian said that no more boats had arrived up the river since the Bella and the Weare got to Dawson. Hav HorrMax, _The Grand | the circumstances | * | because they mean to, but because they | the School Department, as | wantea as a witness and | crent | At first Adams objected, but | DR, JORDAN SIS TP A STANDARD |Plain Talk to the Stu- | dents of Stanford | University. | boatl |POINTS TO GROWING EVILS. Appeals Against the Ten- dencies Which Work Toward Vulgarity. ‘THE STRONG MAN IS THE GENTLEMAN.” Drunkenness, Profanity and the Gambling Sp'rit Evidences of | Weakness. s’ . Epecial Dispatch to THE CALL. PALO ALTO, Dec. 7—Dr. Jordan spoke very pleinly to the students to-night on the tendencies of college life which work and gave the position toward vulgarity of the faculty concerning those signs of growing evils. He spoke in high praise of his impressions of the student body | 0n his return from Washingion, and then yroceeded with the most pi n-dc:nxin[g‘L | iec ever delivered to the stu- de An other things he said: I am no ascetic. 1 believe in the exuber- | anceand joy of youth. Iwas a boy once, and as long as I live I shall hope to be recioned with the boys. But there is one truth that has been very much impressed upon my mind by the experience of life. | It is that the strong man is the gentle- | man. The man who moves the worid s | | the man who is not toucbed by the world’s | corrosion. 1 believe that virtue belongs to the young and the strong—not to the | | prig, the milksop or the invaiid. Itis the nission of the university to bring good- ness out of the abundance of life. The man we dream ot as the Stanford man | wiil stand up against vulgarity, rowdyism | and mean temptation as he stands up gainst the boid dash of his opponents’ | rush line.” | He then spoke of a growing carelessness | among the students concerning the rights | | of others. This tendency was shown in | the too free use of college property and | the abuse of library privileges. This brought him to his severest criticism, | { which pertained to a carelessness of the | | honor of the university. He said: | “luistrue that a Stanford student die- ire he n | | Correct, FILCHED MONEY OF THE COUNTY Which Santa Clara Is Robbed. Deputy Roadmaster Garliepp Guilty of a Flagrant Felony. A Shady Transaction Which .the Grand Jury WIIl Have to Conslider, Epecial Dispatch to THE CaLL SAN JOSE, Dec. 7.—There will be more than the usual number of interesting cases for the next Grand Jury of Santa Clara County to consider. Among them will be u case of flagrant felony, which the called to the attention of oneof the mem- bers cf that body. While the case in question did notiuvolve any great amount of money, it yet showed one of the methods by which, it is generally ad- mitted, the county has been system. atically robbed. Thisis atransaction that dates back a little over & year. It shows clearly that a deliberate and successful at tempt was wmade to hich money from the county treasury by Deputy Roadmaster William M. Garliepp, a protege of Super- visor Sam F. Ayer, and who still retaix his position. In Augnst of last year the following bill MOUNTAIN VIEW, Cal., Aug. 29, 1896 Sante Clare County to F. Lind, Dr. 7o re- pairing bridge; to raking rocks oft Calderon avenue; to hauling lumber and building bridges on Laven road across Permanenta Creek; to filling chuckholes; to hauling gravel from Permanenta Creek and Cleary sireet, August 1, 3, 4,3, 6, 7, 13,14,15,17, 18, 19. 20, 21, '2: . 28, 20 1wen(y-five days at 3 Wx. M. GARLIEPP, Deputy Roadmester. As will be noticed, this was approved by Garliepp. It was assigned the same day it was made out to S. Weilheimer of Moun- tain View. County Treasurer it received the approval Rea, who constituted the Auditing Com- mittee of the Board of Supervisors. Su- vervisor Reais a brother of Jim Rea, who is credited with having strings on nearly last Grand Jury iguored, though it was | of Supervisors Sam F. Ayerand George E. | One of the Methods byl every public official and employe in the county of Santa Ciara. How ihe county was defrauded by means of this claim is clearly shown ina affidavit made by Lind as soon, he says, as he became aware of how he bad been used as an uncomscious instrument in this felonious transaction. The affidavit is as tollows: Fred Lind, being duly sworn, says { That on the4ih day of Augusi, 1896, I re- | sided in the town of Mountain View, county of Santa Clara, State of California; thet at the time aforesaid William M. Gariiepp was & resident of the same place. On #nid 4th day August I was employed by | seid Willlam M. Garliepp to work fn his | orchard; that on the said 4tb, also on the 5th. | 6ih and uatil noon of the 7th of August, I | mashed clods. O the afternoon of said 7th I picked Bulgarian prunes, and with Mr. Gar- liepp's only team hauled said prunes to 3r, Goodrich at West Sige. On the 8th, Sunday, rested. | With Mr. Garliepp’s team on the county { road and so hauled scventeen days continu- prunes to West Side, one half day I went With sald team to \West Side and Santa Clara for empty boxes, and one duy I raked rocks on Calderon aveuue. That during said month of August 1 used Mr. Garlicpy's team only fifteen days, hauliug for the county. That on the 28ih of August Mr. Garliepp asked me to sign d | ege is 54 and I re A county claim (the amountiof which I do not know) and he would go to San Jose Saturday, th, and get the money for me. On s rday he pain me at the rate of $1 30 y for seventeen days’ work. Lam ready (0 testify to the foregoing matt; at auy time when called upon to do s eside at Mountain V FRED LIND. 29th er ors iew in suid county, 3 sSubscribzd and sworn to bet~re me tais day of 5 uber, 1896. B. E. BURNS, Notary Public in and for Santa Clara County, Caiforuia. Notwithstanding that all these facts were made public, no attempt has ever been made by Supervisor Ayer or any of the members of the Board of Su- Deivisors to punish the malefactor or to recover the money thus fraudulently ob- | tained from the county. When Garliepp was seen at Mountain View he admitted that all the statements made in the atfi- davit of Lind were absolutely correct ex- cept one. He declared that Lind knew he signed aclaim for $87 50. Tuis is Gar- iiepp’s version of the affair: “I worked for the county ten days in May, 1896. The fands in the county treas- ury were exhausted for the quarter end- ing June 30. and so I could not get my | mouey. When I made out Lind’s biil 1n | August I included ten aays extra, so that was presented to the county for payment: | [ Before being paid by the | | £ | | I could get paid for my work in May, 1 knew this was wrong, but it is done all the time. Idid the work and Iought to| get paid for it. Iexplained this to Lind at the time he signed ihe bill, and he telisa | falsehood when he says he did not know what amount he signed for.” | During this same montn of August Gar- | liepp bad a bill against the county for | nineteen days’ work. He failed, however, | toexplain why he had not incluaed the ten | days due him for May in his own account | instead of putting it into thatof Lina. | But even if Garliepp’s version of the transaction istrue be has committed a felony under section 72 of the Penal Code, | which is as follows: Every parson who, with intent to defraud, presents for allowance or payment to any | State boara or officer or to any county, town, | city, ward or village board or officer author- ized 1o allow or pay the same, if genuine, any alse or fraudulent claim, biil, account, voucher or writing is guilty of felo When Judge Lorigan made bis ineffect- | On Monday I began hauling gravel | ously, excepting one half day I heuled French | | Superior Court. | eary. I nal attempt to personally investigate the last Grand Jury he urged that body to ex- | pedite its busiiess, as he wished to call in {a new Giand Jury on the first of this | moatn. The Grand Jury was discharged on the 23d of November, but no call has yet baen issued for the new inquisitorial boiy. People are wondering why, Judge ‘ Lorizan was asked a few days ago when be intended to issue the call for 1, but he | »e id he could not tell. It is undersiood that there is some ques- | tion as to how the next Granda Jury can | be impineled. Since the last one was | called “there has been a change in the | county judiciary which may affect this | matter. The last Legislature gave Santa | Clara County an additional Juage, mak- | ing three in the county. Where there are less than three Superior Judges in a | county it is necessary to call only one Grand Jury each year; where there are more than two the law provides that two grand juries shall be called. In the Grand Jury box there are still re- | maining thirty-one available names for Zrand jurors jfrom the lists submitted by Judges Lorizan and Hyland in January | of this year. They are as follows: Isaac Bingham, orchardist, Evergreen; Seth | Warren Churchill, real estate agent, San | Jose; E.W. Conant, orchard , Willow Glen; Walier A. Clark, real estate agent, Mountain View; Georgs 1. Dunlop, real | estate agent, Gilroy; Joseph Deacle, or- | chardist, East San Jose, Carl @ F. Freitag real estate agent, San Jose; T as Fowler, rancher, Gilroy; | R. D. Fox, narseryman, Orct ) iibert Hall, orchardist, More! Kellogz, orchard Santa Ciara Lion, merchant, Saa'Jose; Isanc Liosett, capitalist, Coliege Park; Hary 3 Markres, orchardist, San Jos Aner William Muncy, blacksmith, Mduntain View; Samuel T. Moore, merchant, G roy; Bernard Mayer, druggist, May fie.d ; | Charles J. Martin, capitalist, San Jose; | H. 8. McClay, orchardist, Evergreen: | | L. Natlin; orchardist, Willows; | A« Normandiu, merchant, San Jos E. N. Parr, ' orchardist, Campbeli: George B. Polhemus, farmer, Burnett; C. W.Proctor, orchardist, West Side; Thomas J. Sinnot, farmer, Milpitas; John Henry M. Townsend, orchardist, Orchard ; George Taylor, hotel proprietor. Mountain View; Charles R. Williums, orchardist, Willow Glen; Charles H. Woodhams, orchardist, San Clira; J. F. Westlake, orchardist, Suratoga; Edwin Wilison, stock-raiser, San Ysidro. The question is whether the new Grana Jury shall be selected from the foregoing names, or whether it shall ve selected froma a list of names to be submitted by all three Judges of the Santa Clara County It is believed that the new Grand Jury will not be called earlier than the 15th inst., at anv event. Santa Cruz Fruit, SANTA CRUZ Dec. 7.—The Psjaro Valley Fruit Exchanze has asked the To Adverti | I S00N T0 BAVE THE BOULEVARD Sacramento County Will Not Delay Its Con- struction. The Model Highway to Be Completed During the Coming Year. Chairman Miller of the Campalgn Committee Tells How the Fight Was Won. Epeclal Diapatch to THE CALL. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 6.—It can hardly be said that the “smoke of battle” has cleared away in speaking of the Folsom boulevard victory. Those who opposed | the project were without arms and the victors won without wasting ammunition. “Now that the fight has been won,” said Frank Miller, chairman of the campaign committee, ‘it might be of some interest to tell of the manner in which the cam- paign was conducted. In the first place the campaign committee partitioned the city into small districts and commenced operations with a canvass of these subai- visions. Avout two weeks ago we re- ceived returns from 150 willing workers. These returns showed us what we could expect, and I must say they were flatter- ing. Out of 1000 interviews, for instance, we found in the neighborhood of 100 per- sons on the wrong side—an average of 10 to 1—while ull we required was2tol. A skilled clerical force were then put at work and those favorable were listed by ais- tricts. These lists, in addition to serving the committe e on election day, enabled us tosend toeach man whostood on our sidea postal card which was on the night preced- ing election mailed to him and which bore hisnumber on the G reai Register, together with a designation of his polling-place and a request for him to vote. Supervisors to donate $500 toward an exhibit of Santa Cruz County fruit in | France, Bulgaria, Russia, Norway, Hun- Sweden. Denmark and Austria. For that sum an exhibit could be be sus- tained for one year. Much time would be | spent in Russia, as it is believea it offers the largest field for California fruit. The | | Supervisors took the matter under advise- | ment. me | honors his university when he dishonors himself. Not many do this, but there are | [ some. And there are some who do it not | | g0 along with others. When a Stanford man enters a saloon, 8 gambling-room or | | a place of evil and carries with him his | colors, his college or his name he brings | disgrace upon himself, his college and his | Those men who go onm the cocktail route will be shocked when they see you there.” He added that while the faculty would not follow a student to such places or | punish him for what bhe did, it would | never be indifferent to a student’s mis- | fortunes nor 1o the university’s discredit. | He remarked that “‘the | that wine can drive aw. | wine itseif nas caused.” i to the use of | ] | | LA R R LA A ARG A AL kA nly melancholy ! v is that which He referred “not | uors as medicinesor table | ing,” as he termea it, and the use of | liquors as a source of joy and good fellow- | ship. ‘I detest that happiness which wine or | beer can promote,” said he. “That {ree- | | dom which shows itself in laxity of life 18 | 1o me the most delestable form oi slaver He spoke of profanity as a svmptom of a | dull, unretined or degraded nature, a lack’ of richness of spirit, and said the bravest | of men were sofi oi tongue and quiet of action. “There are some among us whom we know to b sorrv scamps, but they have | | worn the cardinal so long that some of us | may have learned to lova them in spite of | the evil they do,"’ said he. | Hethought batting should bs put under | the ban with cheating, for ihe one who | wins got something for nothing, and the | one who lost got nothing for something. i To conduct athletics with a view to suc- | cessful betting was 10 give the death blow { to all that was good in it. He deplored the growth of college politics, and said | that as siudents were more rcckless than grown men, doing dishonorable things because thev had not experienced the | evils of transgression, so were their poli- | tics at their liveliest' more corrupt than | those of professional! politicians. From | the ranks of college politics politieal | | bosses were too ofien recruited. He | touched on college hazing, and denounced | the restraints put on personal liberty | thereby. His talk will be food for sertous | reflection for many days in college circles. SLAVE GIRL KIDNAPED. Abductors S{eal—a~l’aluablc Maiden : From the Fresno China- town. FRESNO, Dec. 7.—Chinatown is excited | over the kidnapiug of a 17-year-oid Chi- | | ness girl, who had been puichased by ber | owner ata costof §1100. She was stand- | ing on the sidewalk in frontof her place | of abode last night, when two strange | Chinese drove up In a carnage. One | jumped out, and, picking her up, threw | ber into the vehicle beside the other ab- ductor, who then plied the whip and sent | the horses cff on a run. Officers have been searching the country to-day,butup to to-night the valuable maid had nat been recovered. At noon to-day | Sheriff Scott received a telephone mes- sage from Firebaugh, in the western part of the county, that a Chinaman and a Chinese woman dressed in the clothin. of an American woman, had been seen driving near there. A number of officers have left for the west side 10 take up the pursuit, | | | | | g Freano’s Era of Prosperity. FRESNO, Dec. 7.—The return of pros- perity is an assured fact in Fresno County. | This was provea when County Collector | Moodey closed his books to-day on the collection on the first installmentof taxes, His receipts during the past month have been $357,194, nearly $41,000 more than he tovk in during the ssme period in 1896 This big increase was not due to any spe- cial payments, but Tepresents the oetter financial condition of Kresno Couniy tax- payers generajly, LR R RAA A LR R TR TR LRk kLA L R RAL LA A A R A AL A R R kL AL A R R AL AL A LR LR AL AR condiments, but to perpendiculer drink- | &= = - m them made. i and Three-button Cutaways. TIONS. See them in our windows. DOWN THEY GO TO $8S.8s. They’re all woo.. cut well. “*With these lisis at 1he various polling places our forces were able to keep tab on those who voted and send for those who did not put in an appearance. The liver: men and hack-owners through the city very loyally tendered us a free service in this respect, and if there was a favorable voter for the bond issue who did not reach the polling-place last Saturday it was not | due to a lack of accommodations in the wav of vehicles nor because he was not sent for. The fight throughout the cou iry was conducted on the same general lines as in the city.” Commiszioner Luhrs explained how tha $75,000 was to beexpended. S8aid he: “It will probably take one month telore we realize the cash on the bonds we shall is- sue. The drafting of the bouds, their ap- proval by the Attorney-General and sale will take about thirty da Alter that we shall commence operations atonce, and will certainly bave the entire twenty miles of road completed by January, 1899. We shall divide the road in districis and commence at various points simultane- ously and complete thewm all in conjunc- tion, The werk will be let out by day labor, for in this we think we can do it better, more rapidly and cheaper than by contract. *The road will have to be first graded and excavated to receive the rock, then thoroughly rolled to a bard, smooth sur- face. The drains along the side will have a perfect grade and the building of the stone bridges will commence just as soon as we can obtain the granite from Folsom. Of course all our work will be under the supervision of the State Board of High- ways, and you may depend upon it when that road is turned over to the S:ate there will be few highways in the world to compare with it.” : P. A. Cohn of Folsom said: *“There shall not be one dollar of that appropria- tion wasted, and L can say with my col- league, Mr. Luhrs, that when we turn that road over to the State California will have at least twenty miles of as completo and modern a roadway as there is in the world.” The progressive people of Sacramento— and be it saia to the everlasting credit of the city they number ten to one silurian —are jubilant over the result, and areim- ratiently waiting to see the grand work commenced and hurried to its comple- tion. Pacific Coast Fensions. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Pensions have been granted as follows: California Original — Orlando Dascomb, Creek, $8; $6; Supplemental — Robert M. Gamble, Angeles, § Horace E. Dakin, San Diego, $10; Los Increase—Samuel Bennett, San Francisco, $10 to $12. Reissue—Wil- liam Nibel, Veterans’ Home, Napa, §6. Mexican War sarvivor—William Mitchell, dead,Gold Kun, $8. Mexican War widows— Charlotte A. Mitchell, Gold Run, $8. Oregon: Original—Samuel 8. Miller, Baker City, $8. Original widow, etc., Sarah Wood, Lake Creek, $12. Washington: Original—Albert Nichols, Castle Rock, $6. Original widow, ete.. renewal, Mary Leach, Iarmington, $8. —_— Engincer Loses an Arm. VALLEJO. Dec. 7.—Gustave Linder- man, chief engineer of the Von Schmidt dredger, came near losing his life yes- terday afternoon d was maimed for life. While decending a ladder to correct defects in the working of the machinery he lost his footing and was caught ina revolving gearing, which crushed his arm 10 a point above the elbow before the machinery could be stopped. The limb was finally amputated about s'x inches below the shoulder. Mr. Linderman is a prominent member of the Marine En- rineers at San Francisc NEW TO-DAY — CLOTHI It’s just a pl Made well Made to FIT and made to WEAR. THIS is the guarantee upon which we hav SHOULD YOU Again we lead—taking time by the forelock—anticipating Stocktaking, our stock to reasonable proportions. DOWN THEY GO!!! 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