The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 12, 1897, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1897. bAG LAV FOR THE TEACHERS Action Taken by Santa Clara’s Board of Education. VOTES TO CENSURE |: SUZZALLO. Iy | the purpose of Persecuting an Instruc'or Who ! Offended a Creature of Jim Rea. | of study prescribed | and found in boa | nis relatious 't tioned, came the suggestions. are: Here they 1t has been found that it1s not enough that 8 person should know the rules and principles in courses of instruction s, in order 1o measure Up to odern requirements of a teacher. The ed in the peiform- th te ance of hisd and must be butes than thosa pc machine. He must rememb Ples in a large measure the piace of and that he is to their ample of what they should fore be moral in ail Dbe must be strictly is daily life zeuship; he 1p.ine which impart- e teaching he occu- he parent grow to b Lis taik und conver: temperate; he must X all the qualities of must never forget that e € rces in the s ). lesson suce to and respect ¢ lawsana instituiions of the land; he must remember also that his duties as a teacher and an exampie do not end with the school hours, but roughout ajl of of which he is good he a member. He should, erefore, be careful 10 nvoid every action when school is out which ight cast ais pon the lesson i diseip- which he hus entorced when school was he shou!d especially avoid mingling in neighborhood quarrels or factional disputes, and while it is ais right ena a citizen ive part in the affairs of his State ne should not become a partisan & of forming or abetting factions or ical disturbances in his own com- We nave indulged in these reflections for svggesting o standard of duty and of conduct, to which we cxpect the teach- ts Clita County 10 endcavor to ai- which we always expect the various rustees to rigidly require. 1 the particuiar case before the board, the 3 substantially to be these: ime there has existed in the Al- | viso School.District a factional fight for the | OFFICIAL PLEDGES THRUST | ASIDE. ‘ Two Members Refuse to Indorse the Action Taken by the Mzjority. Epecial Di i to THE CALL - | 11 SAN JOSE, Dec County’s Board of Ed tion undertook to-day to prescribe a code of professional conauct for the teachers under its juris- diction, If the expression of some of lhe‘ — Santa Clara coutrol o! its schools and other public affairs, Suzzallo was clected & teacher there this position trouble oc- 1fle occupying | curred between himeself and anotber teacher, A alsoemp) 1 the Alviso District School, eutirely u ted with the aforesaid fnc- tional figh © tchool Trustees having this trouble betwecn the teachers brought to their attention, deam wise not to re-elect both hers,” and the wisdom action in tnis of Education conc then proceeded to the 0 lection of two male teachers. sal of the two discordant teachers d the matter, and would done £oif Mr. Suzzallo had been 1o Eis proiession or Lad ideal of the teacher as 1 not do so, however. rebellion in his dis- rustees, and he al- he already existing tions bod. By s0 doing he set to } 160 pupL.S a0 example at en- variznce with every precept of respect and ess doubtl mindful of his measured up to the 800ve He cl ti Professor A. H. Suzzallo, Formerly Frincipal of the Alviso Public School. teachers who were present when this tion was taken is to be considered asa | criterion, there promises to sweep over | the county a wave of indignation tha: may bode trouble jor the members of the board in the future. This action was taken incidental to the rendering of a decision in the now cele- prated Suzzallo case of the Alviso d trict. At the session of the board a week ago a decision was deferred, owing to the absence of a full board. The three mem- bers then present—H. M. Bland, E. E. Brownell and L. J. Chipman—announced that in their oninion the charges of un- professional conduct preferred by Trustee Hollister had not been proved by the evi- dence, and that they would not vote to revoke the certificate of Mr. Suzz:lle. How well two of these gentlemen kept what was virtually an official promise is shown in the adoption of the decision submitted by the president of the board, H. M. Biand. at variance with the facts and the evidence were some of the assertions con- tained in the decision that Suzzalio, who was present, confidently expecting an bonorable acquittal, took the floor and charged thos. who voted for the adoption of the decision with misstating tacts, mak- ing assumptions and with violating their pledged cfficial word. In one instance Suzzallo called attention to the assertion made in the decision that he had been re- moved from office, when in fact he bad simply failed of re-election. It was de- nied by the members who vuted for the decision that such a statement was made, but when he insisted that the particular clause containing the false assertion be read, it was found that it read: *“The school trustees * * * deemed it wise o remove both teachers.” Suzzallo was one of the teachers¥e- ferred to. Miss Cornelia Farley, one of the members of the board who subse- qrently voted for the decision at this point, voluuteered the information that this statement had gotinto the report by “mistake.” How the mistake was over- looked in ail the stages of the preparation of the decision and its subscquent perusal by all the members she failed to explain and no one else volunteered the informa- tion. President Bland admitted that he had written the original draft of the docu- ment ard that he had also made the type- written copies of it. To none of the charges made by Suz- zallo wa: re any attempt to reply. The decision opens as follows: The County Board of Edueation of the county of Sauta Clara, having fully heard the maiter of the charges preicrred by Miles Hoi- lister against A. H. Suzzalio for non-profes- sional conduct as a teacber, hereby renders and files its decision iherein The board deerms it sdvisable as a preface to its decision §n the particuiar matier before it 1o induige in a brief review of educational conditions in the county of Santa Clara, and 10 offer & few suggestions upon the subject of the organization and development of our pub- Jic sciiool system and the qualifications and duties of a teacher therein. Foilowing the review on the lines men- regard for the organized forces of our govern- ment, which he wes supposed to tcach and to esempiify. We regara his action in this respect as an act of professional misconduct and for which Lis certiticate as a teacher should be revoked. In view of the fect, however, that no stand- ard of what should constitute professiona 1sconduct has herctofore been definitely laid down, nnd not wishing to visit punishment on the first perso - guiity of what we deem is non-professionai couduct,we shall refrain from enforcing or visiting up;n Mr. Suzzaloa se- vere penalty and will content ourselves at the vpresent time with the reprimand and with ihe admonition 1o him and to every other teacher within our jurisdiction who is emptea to indulge in ilke misconduct that indulgence therein wil. hereafter result in the revocation of the certificate of the teacher whose miscouduct is officially brought 10 our atiention by cnarges preferred. After the decision was read by the sec- retary its adoption was moved by E. E. Browneil. The motion was seconded by Miss Fariey. Suzzallo, after asking and receiving the permission of the board t» speak on the matter which so vitally con- cerned him, opened the debate in trench- ant style. “I thiok if that is adopted,” he said, “without a question it can never stand 1n the face of tho law. The entire decision is based upon faise assumptions. You state that there was a factional fight. You have no point of evidence to show tuat to be true. The prosecution had five or six witnesses, not one of whom had a child in the public school during the year I taught there. On the other hand, what kind of witnesses appeared for the de- fense? There were more than three times as many, who absolutely denied the testi- mony put forth by the prosecution. “If that dec s on is passed you will be upholding a ciass of Alviso residents who are not respected, who have not a child in the pubiic school and whose interests are not those of 1he best people in that com- munity. And you are placing a suspicion on tue character of the men and women f family who appeared for the defense. You are soying that the five or six wit- nesses who appeared for the prosecution are more worthy of belief than the sixteen or seventeen who appeared for the de- fense. You are seiting down in this rec- ord thit every mun, woman and child who appeared for the defense is a per- urer. “In the face of the evidence you cannot make vour decisir)n stand in a court of law. It is ridicuious in view of the evi- dencs given before this board. The gen- teman who made the motion to adopt this deci-ion said at the last meeting of the board that he believed that I was not guilty of unprotessional conduct, but sim- ply that I was unwise. 1f Mr. Brownell votes for that be shows an inconsistency. You must remember that Lhe action of this board must stand the fire of the courts and of public sentiment all over Cali ornia. This precedent does not act on me alone, but on every teacher in Cali- fornia. I think it would be wrong for this board to say that I have been guilty of | unprofessional conduct. ‘The president said with Mr. Brownell that I would be acquitted, that the only difference of opinion was a matter of minor consideration that would be set~ tled when the rest of the board was present, Three of you have already stated that you ere in favor of an ac- quittal.” o Brownell, in a very sheepish and weak manner, attempted 1o make it appear that they had only agreed not to vote for the revocation of the certificates held by Suzzallo, but Suzzallo insisted that they | had agreed to acquit, and cffered to prove it in @& court if given the opportunity. The members of the board whose word was calied into question evaded the issue by declaring that they were not under oath, and that tbhe board was not under investigation. In the end they as- seried that Mr. Suzzallo’s memory was at 1ault, though several of those presentat the former meeting were ready to con- firm Mr. Suzzallo’s side of the story. County Superintendent Cuipman, who is a member of the board, opposed the adoption of the decision. He declared that the board was attempting to go out- side of its jurisdiction. He said that the board had only the ri-bt to pass upon the guiit or innocence of the accused, but had no right to censure. “If this resolution is adopted,” he said, “the County Board of Education arro- gates to itself more power than the Board ol Trustees, and any teacher may be re- lieved of his position by underhanded means, without the privilege of speaking for himsell. You are establishing a zag lew. Upon looking over this resolution it sayors altozether too much oi Russia and Weyler in vuba. It is un-Ameri- can.” W. W, Pettit said that he could not sup- port the resolution,as in his opinion oniy the guilt or innucence of the accused should be acted upon. On a vote being-taken the decision was adopted by a vote of 3 to 2, Chipman and Pettit voting in the negative. After the deci-ion wasdeclared adopted, Suzzallo took the floor to say that it was an insult to the intelligance of the com- munity. Brownell is now principal of the Moun- tain View school, and is said to be an as- pirant for the principalship of the high scnool at San Jose. Suzzallo is a student at Stanford, and is cne of the three se- lected from that university to take part in the intercolieciate debate to be held at Berkeley on February 4. TITLES 10 CAURCH LANDS I ALASEA Claims of the Greek-Roman Bishop Approved by Secre- tary Bliss. Proparty Acquired From Russia Not to Be Disturbed by the Laws of This Coun'ry. Spectal Dispatch to THE CALL. CaLL Orr R 1ovsg, | W asHiNGTON, Dec. 11§ Secretary Bliss has approved an import- ant decision prepared by Assistant Attor- ney-General Vanderventer relating to the claim of the Orthodox Greek-Roman ~hurch to lands in Alaska at Sitk M chael, Unalaskas, Belkfosk and Kadiak. While Alaska was a Russian province the Greco-Roman church erected edifices at different places in the Territory and from the Kussian Government scquired extensive and valuable lands. Arucie 2 of the treaty of cession provided tha. the church property should belong to the members of the church resident in the Territory who should choose to worship therein. Recently Nicholas, bishop of the church in Alaska and the Aleutian Isl- ands, bas complained that the organiza- tion hes been disturbed in the possession o' its property, some of the buiidings be- ing removed by intruders who had in- vadea the lands, and it was in response to these representations that the decizion is made The Secretary holds that any land, right and title to which was acquired from tussia by the church, is not public land and therefore is not subject 1o entry, and that land owned by the church at the time of cession continues to b- owned bv it. Further, the secretary Lolds “‘that in ad- dition to its private land acquired from Russia, the church, under tue laws re- lating 10 Alaska, will be protected i its use and occupancy of public lands as mis- sionary stations, each station being limited to 640 acres.”” Tue conclusion is reachel that the de- variment has no authority by which itcan remove the trespasseys from the private land owned by the church, nor to restore the physical possession thereof to the rightful owners, that being a matter ex- clusively within the jurisdiction of the courts. Legislation is recommended pro- viding for the establishment of a commis- <ion whose daty it shall be to survey and determine the boundary of the churchand private land ciaims in Ala-ka and 10 con- tirm the private titles ovtained from Rus- sia. JANOLLI DEMANDS AN INVESTIGATION He Wants the Bodles of All His Wives Taken Up. Police Belleve He WIIl Confess If Traces of Polson Are Found. Special Dispatch to THE CALL NEW YORK. Dec. 11.—It has been de- termined by the District Attornev that the bodies of the four wives of Zanolli the barber, and those of his mother-in- law, an employe, and his daughter be ex- humed. While the police believe that most, if not all, of the seven persons died from poison, those in charge of the dis- interment will carefully examine the bodies for any wounds or indications of of injury. Permission to raise the body of Jeanie Suhmer, wife No. 4, was given in the Supreme Court to-day. A noted chemist has been engaged to make tbe analysis and determine if poison was used to bring about her death. If the presence of poi- son is proved in the case of Mrs. Suhmer, it is'believed Zanolli will break down and confes:. Zanolli was taken to court this morning and again was remanded to police head- quarters, where the young on of the bar- ber was raken to him. The idea was that at the sight of his child Zanolli woula confess. He broke down and wept. 1 demand,” he cried, hugging the boy with one arm and waving the other, “1 demand, for the sake of this chiid, that the bodies be takenup and that I be proved nol a murderer.” 1t was learned to-day that all of Zan- olli’s marriages were boua fide, though he changed Lis name in taking on new partners aiter a brief period of mourning. e A Yoted on @ Bond Froposition. LOS ANGELES, D:c. 1.—The election on the proposition of refunding the pres- ent county bonds by tbe issnance of 4 per cent bonds to the amount of §689,000 was beld to-day. In a majority of the city precincts a good vote was cast in favor of refunding, vut in many of the outside precincts there will probably be a majority in oppo- sition to the measure, which may deieat it. The Board of Supervisors will canvass the vote on Monday. ————— ADVANCES made on furniture and pianos, with or without removal. J. Noonan, 1017-1023 Mission SUSPEGTED NEGRO PUT 10 DEATH Alleged Murderer the Smith Family Lynched. POINFER OUE BY: CHILD. of Evidence of the Little One Regarded as Sufficient by the Mob. LISTENED NOT TO PLEAS FOR MERCY. Vain Appeal From the Husband and Father of the Assassin’s Victim. Special Disvatch to THE CALL BROOK HAVEN, Miss, Dec. 11.—De- tails ol the kiliing of Mrs. Brown Smith and her four children in Lawrence County on Wednesday, and the sub-equent lynch- ing of the supposed murderer, were re- ceived to-day, After capturing Charles Lewis, the al- leged murderer, the mob placed him alongside of ceveral other negroes, and asked the little girl who was spared by the murderer to pick out the one who killed her mother. Sheatonce pointed to Charles Lewis. This strong evidence to the mob made it difficult for Sheriff Gazzsll toin- duce the people to turn Lewis over to him for safekeeping. He assured them he would have the negro at Bankston Ferry yesterday morning for triai. As vpromised, he ana his deputies ar- rived there on time with Lewis. Two bundred men armed with shotguns and Winchesters quickly surrounded the offi cers and insisted that they give up their prisoner. Brown Smith, the man whose family was murdered, plealed with tke crowd to be patient and not to rush has- tily into a thing they might regret. He said that while hedid notdoubt hischild’s word, vet she was so young that there might be a chance of her being mistaken. After parleying for some time the mob, under the leadersnip of a few determined men, made a rush for the negro, and -uc- ceeded in geiting him from the deputies after & bard strug.le. Tuey then placed a plowline around the negro's neck, put bimon s horse and drove him uader a tree. The halter was fastered toalimb and the horse driven from under the poor wretch, ieaving him to strangle to death. He denied his guilt to the last, m FENGEANCE WAS SWIFT. Negro Kiddled With Bullets for Assault- inga White Woman. HANNIBAL, Mo, Dec. 11.—Bill Un- derwood, a negro recently released from the penitentiary, called last night at the home of Christian Pabst, a farmer living four miles southwest of here, and de- manded money. Pabst refu-ed and Un- derwood drew a revolver and made him liedown on the floor. He then pressed the revolver against Mrs. Pabs’s temple, and commanded her to bind bher husband’s arms and feet with twine. The poor woman obeyed. The brute then took ber into another rcom and assaulted her. In the morning sue managed to elude him and ran to the house of her brother-in-law, Louis Pabsi, a mile dis- tant. Louis returned with a shotgun. Under- wood met and disarmed him and made’ him walk into the room where his brother, Christian, still Iay bound. Louis sud- denly made a bound for Underwood, and, after a terrible scuffle, obtained the gun, and a moment later the riddled corpse of the negro was stretched on the floor. Mra, Pabst may die. LINGH LEADERS ARE WELL KNOR Fear Prevents a Prosecution of the Men Who Took Uber’s Life. Douglas County Commissioners Will Conslider the Offering of a Reward. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. CARSON, Dec. 11.—The County Com- missioners of Douglas County will hold aspecial meeting on Monday, when the question of offering a reward for the lynchers of Uber will come up. The citizens of Genoa to a man favor the re- ward, and the taxpayers generally are in favor of legal steps beinz taken at mno matter what cost. District Attorney Negal is classed as a sympathizer with the lynchers and is charged with exhibi.ing bullets taken from the body of Uber, showing them to persons who should not know that he had the evidence. One I the bullets is a veculiar one in shape and can be traced to the rifle that it came from. The people of' Garcnerville protest against the charge that the mob came from that place. They can account for neurly every one in the little town, as the leading citizens were attending an OJdd Fellows' meeting at Harris Hall until nearly midnight. Thev claim the mob came from Millerville and vicinity, where most of the friends of Anderson lived. Neariy all the ringleaders are known, but no one cares to take the responsibility of warning them. Adam Uber, the victim of the lynchers, formerly lived in West Point, Cal, and word comes from there that instead of be- ing regaried as a worthless character bis record there was good. River «onvention Called. BACRAMENTO, Dec. 11L.—The river convention which has held several sessions in this city has been cailed to meet here again on the 21st inst. It is composed of residents of the counties along the Sacra- mento River who are interested in the im- provement of that stream, 7The Super- visor- ot this county to-duy appointed the following delegates: William Beckman, E. B. Willis, J. H. Roberts, R. T. Devlin, V. S. McClatchy, Fred Cox, J. H. Burn. bam, T. C. Perkins, F. H, Harvey and Dwight Hollister, l together insane, BATTLE OF MONARCE UF MONEY Struggle for Supremacy in the Great Wheat Market. CEITERS HAVE THE BEST HAND. Phil Armour Making a Mighty Effort to Cover His Shorts. HAS AGENTS EVERYWHERE BUYING WHEAT. But It Is Belleved the King of Pack~- ers Will Not Get Enough to Break the Price. Epectal Dispatch to TIE CALL. CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—The floor of the Board of Trade in this city is now the scene of one of the greatest, 1f not the greatest, financial and commercial battles of modern times, and the leaders of op- posing factions are recognized as reigning monarchs in the world of money. Levi Z. Leiter, who has to all intents and purposes cornered wheat, is fighting for supremacy against Philip D. Armour, the multimiilionaire pork packer, who for ti.e first time in his history has met a foe- man worthy of his steel. To use a stereo- typed phrase, 1t is veritably a battle ot the giants, FEach is backed by unlimited capital, and each is fighting for what to him is dearer than life. Every resource known to men of resources is being drawn on by each to defeat the other, even to overturning the laws of nature. It is a battle which 1s putting all previous cliques and *‘corners” and deals to shame. Lesser operators on the board can do nothing but stand by and look on in wonder. Whero is the victory going? No one can tell. All the brokers know is the fscts, which are inaicated in what fol- lows. Mr. Armour is *“short” on along line in December—that is, be has sold many bushels which he agrees to deliver this month, but which he has yet to pur- chase. The Leiters, Levi and Joseph, have purchased still more wheat, ail of which is to be delivered to them this month. The amount is estimated by out- siders at from 7,000,000 to 10,000 bushels, and the Leiters stand ready to pay for every bushel of it. Mr. Armour cannot purchase in Chicago all the wheat he has already sold, and which he must tender to purchasers betore December 31. Most of this wheat Mr. Armour sold at 85 cents and less, and he is sorely grieved to know that the market price of wheat is $1 04, and the Leiters, Levi and Joseph, are overjoyed at that bit of news. All the wheat in Chicago put together woull make only 3,600,000 busheis—less than baif of what Mr. Armour needs. ~ So the Grand Oid Man of the wheat market has set in motion all the vast machinery of the trade which his long business career has built up. Like so many tentacles, his fingers are reaching out every where, and always the demand is “sell me wheat.”” Agents are working through the West, buying every pound of foodstuff for sale. Mr. Armour’s eyes look most enviously upon the citv of Min- | neapolis, where there are in store 3,000,000 bushels of No.1 Northern. He can get most of that wheat, but be will have to pay for it. Some of it he already has sue- ceeded in purchasing, and this morning 500,000 bushels of itslipped very quietly into Chicago harbor. Throughout the Western couniry agents are buying wheat, and raiiroads are being choked with business. The vast cereal- gathering power of the Chicago, Milwau- kee and St. Paul Railroed is aiding tne caus Ohio, Indiana and lllinois dealers are selling all the grain they own at a big profit, and it is rumoling toward Chicago in be ving box car«. So great has Mr. Armour’s greed for wheat become that the eastward course of grain has been stopped and now the tide has set buck again toward the West. Five hundred thousand bushels in transit for Buffalo have been ordered shipped back to Chicago, from which port it was cleared only a few days ago. The fields of the vast Southwest are beginning to get reajy to unload their crops in Chicago. The price of wheat is so high in Cbicago to-day that it woula have been profitab.e to ship 1t from New York to the lower end of Lake Michigan. Baut still the ery is, “Sell me wheat.”” For, after all has been said, the crushing information is given out that the Leiters are preparing to ship 5,000 000 bushels of wheat 1o Europe, thus decreas:ng the supply to that extent. To add to the woes of Armour the sys- tem of grain inspection in Chicago never was sorigid as 1t is now. And there is reason for this, too. Joseph Leiter's son is a colonel on the staff of the Governor of Illinois. The office of grain inspector 18 one wholly within the gitt of the Gover- nor. A word to brokers is suflicient on that score. The Leiters do not want De- cember’ wheat to advance in price just vet. Itistoo early in the month. They realize that wheat at $1 or more on the Chicago Board of Trade will bring in grain from every section of the country. So when cereals soared to §1 09 two days ago they unl!caded more than any one man or ret of men, oaghtto own, thus checking the upward career. But wuen it gets 1oward the end of the month they are willing to see wheat sell at any figure, $1 50 preferred. It will then be too late 10 flood the Chicago market enough to break the price, and they will have the job of saueezing enjoyuble enouzh and at the same time profitable enough to cause an ordinary man to get heart disease. Meanwhile, Mr. Armour is taking no chances, even with tne elements. He has hired tugs to keep the harbor at Duluth and the Straits of Sault Ste. Marie open. He has even sent boatloads of dynamite to those ice-locked bays and straits to keep open pa:sageways for his wheat- laden boats. The situation is one which would make men of less nerve sweat olood and walk the floor of ni:-hts. Will Armour be able to get enouzh grain to break the market? Many say no, and they back their assertions by the fact that the West and Northwest have marketed almost three-fourths of the crop. North Duko'a, tney say, aiready has parted with 85 per cent of its hoidings, Minnesota with 70, South Dakota with 75, Iowa and Nebraska with 72, and the South- west with 75 per cent of its crops. Some 8O even 80 taras to say those thecrists and extremists who some time ago predicted that America would be importing wheat forits own use before spring were not CASSELLY HELD FOR LY CRINE Must Stand Trial for the Grover Murder at Ione. Evidence Disprovesthe Theory That He Shot to Prevent Robbery. His Victim an Old Acquaintance Whom He Could Eas.ly Have Recogniz:d. Speclal Dispateh to THE CALL. I0NE, Dec. 11.—The preliminary hear- ing of Lewis Cassells, charged with the murder of Fred Grover on Thanksgiving night, was held before Justice of the Peace Combs to-day, and resulted in Cas- sells’ being held withous bail to aprear betore the Superior Court. Warren Kirkendall, who saw the shoot- ing, testified that he stood just across the street from where the crime was commit- ted, and that Cassells stood under the light in front ef May’'s saloon when Grover waiked down the sidewalk toward Cassells. Some words passed between the two men in an ordinary tone of voice. Then Casselis fired and Grover staggered and f 1. Ralph Sutton testified that he was op posite, in Muidoon's livery stable, when he neard the shotand beard Grover fall | to the walk directly afterward.. Upon stepping to the door he saw Cas | ing under street lamp. | Constible Kelley tesiified that Casseils | surrendered himself upon the night of the crime. Cassells claimed at that time that he thought Grover intended to rob him and declared tuat Grover fol'owed him into the street before he fired the | fatal shot. Grover walked onto tue side- | walk and staggered and fell. Keiley took Casselis to the County Jail tbat nignt Cassells expressed no regret over the kill- ing of Grover, though they were inti- | mately acquainted. | every THOUSANDS VIEW ~ THE LAUNCHING Lightship No. 70 Slides Into the Water at Portland. Christening of the Vessel the Occasion of a General Cu ing. Substantial Craft Designed for S:arvice Off the Golden Gate Ear. Special Dispatch to THE CALL PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 1l.—Lirhtship No. 70 was successfully launched from the ways at Wolff & Zwicker's yard at .11:30 o’clock this morning and is now moored at the contractors’ wharf waiting to receive her boiler, masts and spars be- fore leaving for her post at San Francisco. Three thousand peopie saw her enter the water. Not an accident nor a hitch marred the event. An hour before the time set for the launching the drenching rain which had been pouring all the morning ceased, as f for the occasion, and the sun came forih and shone warmly until noon. This started crowds of people across the bridgzes, and soon every available space on e platform about the ship was taker, and the spectators overflewed on theriver panks and into the tcrpedo-boat sheds, crossbeam of which on the side toward the lightship was swarming with men and boys. When floating on the bosom of the river, lightship 70 is not a thing of beauty, although she may be a joy forever to sailors whose lives are saved by the timeiy sight of her beacon or the sound of her foghorn. She is built to be heard and not seen, except by night. Her clumsy-looking, tubby bow will meet and repel the bound- ing billows, however, far better than The testimony of several witnesses at the hearing to-day was that Grovers shoes were not muddy and that he had not | been off the sidewalk. The fatal bullet passed straight through tbe body, com- pletely shattering the right auricie ol the | beart. The physician who made the autopsy testified that Grover could | have moved only a steo or two belore | falling after having received the wound. The defense offered no evidence at the hearing. The case isa peculiar one. No motive for the crime has so tar teen brought out, | and Casrells could not made a mis- take in his man, as the light was plainly burning at that time and people couid be | identitied at that spot from across the street. Besides, Grover wus a man over six feet in heicht and broad-shouldered, and one readily singled out from :hose about him. He was respected, and leit a widow and six small cbildren. Caseelis was remarkably cool and un- concerned during the hearing to-day. ORION CLEMENS DEAD. Brother of Mark Twain Dies Sud- denly at the Age of Seventy-Two. KEOKUK, lows, Dec. 11.—Orion Cle- mens, brother of the famous author, | Mark Twain, died suddenly at his home | to-day, aged 72. | Clemens came to Keokuk during 1855 and, with his brother, the humorist, en- | gaged in the job printing business, He served as Sscreiary and Treasurer of Ne- vada Territory during Lincoin's first term. N:cvada hai bebn a part of Idaho until the gold and silver discoveries which made the big Bonanza mine fa- | mous caused an influx of population into | Nevada ana it was declared a Territory. | Clemens held the office until it became a | Scate, from 1861 to 1865, He came 10 this city again in 1872, since which time it has been his home. B e St. Johns After a Place. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Chauncey St. Johns is in Waskington laying bis wires | to secure the appointment of Deputy Sur- veyor of the Port of San Francisco. | hound, | each will would the fine lines of an ocean grey- and those to whom she gives warninz of dangerous reefs or welcome harbors will hard!y stop to criticize her appearance as a work ot art. The framework of the new vessel is of iron, her keel and the first plank sheath- ing being of Orezon fir. Over thie fir is a seathing of oak, which in turn is covered with sheet copper, a metal which is not a diet suitable to the nourishment of barnacles or other para= sites of the briny deep. The butsarks are of iron, thick and strong enough to bold out when made a target for tue howling tempest to fling mountains of water. A brief summary of her dimensions and equipment follows: Length over all, 125 feet; beam, 28 feet 6 inches; depth, 13 feet 6 incnes; dis- placement, 589 tons. Tne vessel wiil be | proviied with a singiecondensine engine, capable of developing 300 horsepower, driven by a 12x12 steel corrugated boiler. There are a:so two donkey boilers to fur- nish power to the engines for the dy- namos and winch when the ship is at anchor. The large boiler and envine will be used only to move her irom place to | place and to hold her head to the wind dur gale. Two electric lights of 1000 candle-power be piaced at Ler masihead. They will flash five seconds in every fif- teen, and in clear weather can be seen for seventeen miles. Cn deck is a heavy fog veli, and a fog horn with a voice like ths bellowing of a thousand bulls. The ap- pointments of the vessel throughout will be modern in every respect, ana she will be as near to a model home as a ship can be. This is the third Government vessel launcned in Portland. The first was the old revenue cutter Corwin, which was built in Portland in 1876, and the second was the lizghtship 67, built by Wolff & Zwicker, and launc ed 1897. :a Calijornia Postmaster: WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The follow- ing California postmasters were appointed to-day: P. O. M. Hennessey, at Burnt Ranch, Trimity County, vice A. Me- Whorter, removed. J. M. Booth, at Oak- ville, Napa County, vice v, Wardner, re- signed. H. E. Ford, at Wy Diego County, vice Louisa For: Ar is m ® (he LOSS wything that yow lose isfortune. But of all big losses that youw know of, what wowld yow regret most? The one thing that yow fear most. And that is y creatures that yow see land youw pity. Are yo owr vigor. The poor on the road to wealk- w sure that yow are not on the verde of doind there yourself ? Just stop one moment and consider the mat= ter. Are yow as vidorowus as yow were @ year ado? Do yow not see the snots before your eyes? 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