The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 22, 1897, Page 5

.Qll/ssion of Three Englishmen Whose Expenses } i THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1897. KILLED THEM IN SELF-DEFENSE A'C.ook Anderson’s Poor Excuse for Crimes on the High Seas. . Says the Mate Rushed at Him ‘With a Raised Marlinspfke When He Shot Him. His Version of the Murder of the Schooner’s Officers De: Members of Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NORFOLK, 21.—Rapid | progress the Federal n case, and luded to-mor- | v Dec. w ost entirely con- | ring of the evidence ed on the stand by | O testify in his own behalf. | of the direct examina- | HIGH AND DRY. | The Steamer Santa Cruz That Went Ashore While on Her Way From Alaska to Puget Sound. When Last Seen She Was High and Dry on a Sandy Beach, but Was Expected to Be Got Off at High Water. : in his hand the = ike which had been in- | ’ He was excit- | i much in earnest. | pe 4 A 7 and was with diffi- | e ts of the ex- | ned to the SAD BLUNDER Attended the Funeral of a Stranger Through Mistake. Thought It Was His M timate Friend He Was Bu ying. The Steamer Santa Cruz, That Went Ashore on Her Way to Alaska, Is in No Danger. The Pacific Coast Steamship Com- pany i not very much concerned over the stranding of t! stea e was on her wa t asho: ) es are that ashore in the fog. way at a rate of speed and efore the - | hull would sustain no damage. A d | patch just received says she is almost 70 | high and dry at low water, but as there is a rise and fall of about twenty-five | feet each tide there should be no diffi- culty in getting her off; that is, if the | inrushing tide does not drive her fur- ther ashore. The next news from her should be to the effect that she has ar- rived in safety at her destination.” r the mate ot remember 1 his hands | w came up. He | pistols overboard | ed that he told the Pacific Coast victim of a grewsome, yet laughable, mistake the other day. The denoue- ment almost caused him to fai per mal 1is hom g the summer, anc the bay at ot at both h nd on is call arn_that his frier In fact the doc m that the chanc t he would not live the n e he saw re- . the demise of Th nnouncement con- formation that the funeral e place from the home of the deceased’s sister in the Richmond dis- trict. To the address given Csaptain Brooks dispatched a beautiful floral | piece, and on the day of the funeral went himself to attend the last rites. When he got to the house the funeral cortege was there, but in the parl the captain failed to see of ndreds who had been intimate ends of the deceasex when m life. and mad rill, March and ¥ a1 3arstad few tears over the remains, remarked upon the strangely altered appearance of the corpse, and then followed the remains to the cemetery. The next day a lady who was a par- ticular friend of the man whom Cap- 2in Brooks supposed he had buried on the previous day was a passenger on the ferry steamer n Rafael. her the captain remarked: “Well, our friend has gone at last.” She looked at him in surprise and said: “Oh, you must be mistaken, tain, he was getting better wh. saw him last.” It was then Brooks’ turn to look as- tonished, and he remarked, “Why, attended his funeral yesterday.” Each thought the other was dreaming, and g:el;; parged t!vx(huut an explanation. alf an hour later, in the ferry de; e California and thelr success or| p ...y met the man “vfi‘éeemmne?af’?f; failure as temperance measures a’*_;”: thought he had attended the day be studied by three Enm‘hmf“ that | previously, and the shock was so have been sent from London gr t 'a:-) great that he fainted. The explanation sole purpose. They are Mattl ;'Wfl. was a simple one: Brooks had wasted Dunkley, E. Mason Winters an x' his time, tears and sorrow on the Jtam Burlingame. They are leaders ii | gy;005) of the wrong man. . eat Temperance League of i arpolntutoat o CRolte "W T :?:eazgrBfitalm and have come to DO ptain T Southern California on & mission for t organization. v \51mm says that the league has ,'in receipt of information that the high license laws of Pomona, in rebuttal, | until 19o’clock | rt ad v for ai spEasevoy rgu STUDYING THE LIbUOH LAWS OF CALIFORNIA. cap- Are Being Paid by Lady en I Somerset. POMONA, Dec. 21.—The very unique high license and prohibitory liquor laws that prevall in towns in South- in the examining board of the Cham- ber of Commerce, which was filled yesterday by the appointment of Cap- tain Horace Z. Howard, superintend- g the s n Jaced at their disposal by Lady e pfl!. they have come to see for ,selves and to report to the league. — - at liam Kendell, George Wester; Thomson and C. O. Soderal. Captain Drisko and Lorentz Foard Nelson Chase Now a Pauper. APA, Dec. 21.—Nelson Chase, who kable escape during # the | had a most remar rted his right to a share o i er in | the southeaster that caqslzed (}:p: ves- BIRA he millions, is at last a paup sel. The waves broke clean over the the Napa County Hospital. He pre-| o ..y and they only escaped by a gented a most pitiable sight to-day. A | jro0le They have not given up hope short time ago he came to .\i’ngt:;g:rg' of ns;ma;g’efl:m& Y:t.!:v;ldd:;;l e i al s 0o o = ty and obtained v\!‘); few miles above tur:d to begin all over again. When a. small fe"s’;’.i'é“um he was taken | PRS0 " ame up they had the e Co A being destitute of funds, was | potrimpos afloat, and another twenty- a0 the County Infirmary. | g0 nours of fine weather would have Coca it will be remembered, coD- | ccon her at sea. As it iS NOw, new appii- is uncle. ances will have to be taken up and the tended that Biythe was I Work begun all over again. t and manicure sets in d boxes at subom.s Perfumery, toile gantly decorate | Harbor I's Captain James Brooks of the North ferry system was the | Brooks got over his surprise, shed a | I Merry as United States Consul to Cen- | tral America has caused a vacancy | dlands, Santa Paula and other| o, o¢ the Oceanic Steamship Com- 3 have worked wonders In creat-| .5y The following have recetved ng temperance sentiment and Tegu- | certificates from the Chamber of Com- = liquor traffic. S0, With| porne as captains: O. T. Olsan, Wil- | as | mates—E. Bersing, C. H. Davis, Elmer | returned from the wreck of the ship | Potrimpos yesterday. They say they | f Trade and the | T e bad & confer- Lcycling circles here, has returned after ence yesterday. The board wants/ ce in the new ferry depot and the mmissioners have agreed to accede to their. demand. A committee from the board, accompanied by Chief En- eer Holmes of the commission, vis- d the building. The members of the ard of Trade wanted space in the and nave, but Mr. Holmes pointed that during a picnic rush the ex- v 1 lisappear before their lly persuaded them anine floor, ody. They t would at- vbody in the , and th to give the floor to the hern end hibits by the end atch to the Merchants’ Ex- s that the Chilian bark Port Blakeley for Val- | put into Antofogasta nd another states that the Blal from Delagoa | al wreck on n board were mber laden, | allast. schooner Noyo sailed for | vesterday. She hdd a 2 ght and the steam | NEW CHCLING ~ COMMITTERVEN | Appointments Made by Presi- | | dent Adams of the Asso- ciated Clubs. | California’s Governing Body Is Rec- ognized by French and Ger- man Unions. Charles Albert Adams, president of the California Assoclated Cycling Clubs, has announced his appointment of the following c for the ensuing yea cutive committee—Charles Albert ; Vincent A. Dodd, | vice-presidents; A. Acme; Victor D. Duboce, un- g e b & g 8 8 14 b ki g and local organization— V. Spalding, The Call; Hubert Rees, East Oakland; Joseph S. Lewis, San Francisco. Track racing—Robert M. Welch, San Francisco, L. F. Upson, Sacramento; | Al Col, San Jose; R. M. Thompson, Fresno. Road racing—Chester S. Myrick, San | Francisco; J. S. Shedd, Oakland; Theo- dore C. Do , San Francisco. Rights and privileges—Percy V. | Long, San Francisco; T. B. McGinnis, San Francisco; H. R. McNoble, Stock- ton. Highways—J. L. Maude, San Fran- co; B. Jerome, Oakiand; C. Mich- er, San Francisco; J. L. Woodson, Sacramento; J. M. Waterman, San Jose. Touring—Clarence N. Ravlin, San rancisco; Herbert D. Clark, Alameda. Membership and interclub relations— T. J. Winslow, San Francisco; W. J. | Black, San Francisco; Joseph Jury, San Jose. Rules and regulations—S. J. Mec- Knight, Vallejo; Gus Sachs, San Fran- | cisco; T. W. Flanigan, San Francisco. Mr. Adams yesterday received ad- | vices which show that the association bids fair to be recognized by all the prominent cycling bodies of the world. Coming so soon upon the heels of the recognition by the Canadian Wheel- men’s Association and that of the‘ League of New South Wales Wheel- men, it is extremely gratifying. He has received letters from Paul Ronneaux, president of the Union Cy- clists de France; R. d’Arnaud, presi- dent Union Velocipedique de France; Comte de Villers, president Union des Societes Grauvaises de Sports Athlet- | iques, France, and Theodor Boeck- ling, president Deutscher Radfahrer Bund, Germany, all of which state that | E. | they will recognize all acts of the C. A. C. C. In consideration of a | similar courtesy, and will treat the | California organization as an pendent cyeling body. | The officials who wrote these letters | | are all delegates to the International | Cyclists’ Assoclation, so that their sup- | port can be relied upon when thei Canadian Wheelmen's Association pre- | sents the application of the C. A. C. C. | | for admission to that bedy. | The Imperial Cycling Club gave its | first minstrel entertainment and fourth | annual hop last evening at Native | Sons’ Hall to a packed house. NDI inde- | pains were spared to make the enter- tainment part a success, and the dance was on a par with previous Imperial affairs of this nature. The Bay City Wheelmen's baseball | nine was downed by that of the Acme | Club of Oakland Sunday by a score of 28 to 15. Reuben Van Zandt, well known in an absence of a year and a half in London. Pursuant to the suggestion made in The Call Saturday, President Adams has announced a change in the date of the next regular C. A. C. C. meet- ing from January 1 to January §, ow- ing to the former date falling on a holiday. Bert Elford, the Rellance Club's pro- fessional racer, is the first to announce an intention of trying for the first cen- tury ride of 1 and will start promptly at midnight December 31 and follow the relay course to San Jose and return, in quest of that hard earned prize. There will probably be a num- r of others make the attempt, as is al each vear. . —_——— One Dose Will Stop a Cough. Dr. Parker's Cough e never faf by all dru ———— BORED TOO MANY HOLES. Burglars Make a Bungling Job in Trying to Get Sets of False Teeth. Large crowds were attracted on Sun day to a vacant store at 1370 Market street. The attraction was about thirty holes that had been bored in the door near the lock, presumably by a burglar. At the top of the lock there was a hole as large as a man’s hand. The police were notified, and are puz- zied to kn d that been nc s at the ess to take so much | time In boring the unnecessary holes. | The Long Waits at Way v Why it was necessary to e belonged to | EVERY THE TRATNS ARE LATE Southern Pacific Puts Blame on Eastern Connections. Stations Characterized as Needless. How the Trains From Ogden Poke Along on Fillmore’s Old-Fashioned Schedule. DANGER IN GOING THIRTY MILES AN HOUR. | Suggestion That the Manager of the Operating Department Should Be Sent to the Old People’s Homa. Poking along on a Fillmore schedule | from four to six hours behind time is the daily record of passenger trains of the Southern Pacific from Ogden. Sat- urday last the train was six hours late, Sunday night six hours behind time, several hours late Monday and four hours la ast night. At the yellow building word is given out that the de- lays are caused by waiting for the Union Pacific at Ogden. Apparently no effort is put forth to make up the lost time, for Fillmore deems it unsgfa | to move trains over the line from San | Francisco to Ogden at a higher rate of speed than twent miles an hour. If the speed was increased to thirty | miles an hour four hours of lost time could be made up. Manager Fillmore | may not be appraised of it, but it is a fact nevertheless, that freight trains | on some of the roads east of the Mis- | souri River are moved at the rate of | | thirty miles an hour. It is distinctly | printed on the time cards of the Bur- | | lington road that freight trains of a | | certain class may run thirty miles an hour when behind time. It will strike railroad men as something remarkable that passenger trains on the Southern Pacific cannot safely run as fast as | freight trains on Eastern lines. | The steamshi from the Ori- | harged here a | , consigned to Eastern | . The tea train was hauled from | mwa to Chicag a load o 1 From Ottumwa to Galesburg the train was | moved at the rate of thirty-five miles { an hour. From Galesburg to Chicago, | a distance of 163 miles, the speed was | -four miles an hour. A copy of the Galesburg Republican of December 1lith, containing a full account of the | | are again breathing easy, Tun, was recently sent to Manager Fill- more. In fact friends of Fillmore have been urged to send him modern litera- ture on railroading. Not long since an overland passenger kept tag on a train from Ogden to this city for the fun of estimating how much time was lost by pottering | around way stations. He found that five hours between the two points rep- resented the time actually consumed in | stops. Waits of five minutes, ten min- utes and delays of nearly half an hour were quite common. Possibly Manager Fillmore fancies | that twenty-four miles an hour is the economic rate of speed in the consump- tion of fuel, but practical railroad men | assert that when steam is raised to 150 | pounds, a force sufficient to move an ordinary train at a rate of from thirty | to thirty-five miles an hour, it costs | but little more to keep to that standard than to maintain 100 pounds of steam. The same applies to 200 pounds of | steam, which may be required when the speed is maintained at forty miles | an hour. But if it should cost a little | more for fuel and wear and tear of ma- | chinery to run thirty or thirty-five miles an hour the money should be in- vested for the convenience of the trav- The old Rip Van Winkle} time cards which were in common use | before the war should give way to the | march of progress in railroading. Pas- | sengers expecting to arrive in San Francisco at 8:45 P. M. should not be | held out on the road until midnight or | 1 o’clock in the morning. The waits at | way stations should be diminished and | the speed between stations slightly in- | | creased. Railroad men of knowledge and ex- perience continue to smile at Fillmore’s proclamation that he would not walt at Ogden for Eastern connections. The waiting continues and will continue as | long as Uncle Sam has anything to say | in regard to contracts for carrying the | mails. The Southern Pacific notion | that it makes no difference whether an | engine is run forward or backward | shows that some of the men In the service of the corporation have only a | superficial knowledge of raflroading. Because locomotives running from Oakland stations to the Mole and re- turn are constructed to run efther end | first leading officers of the company | contend that engines of the ordinary | type of build, such as are in use on the line from Gilroy to Castrovil run backward or forward w equal | speed, without increasing the danger of derailment. Practical railroad men say that in running an engine back- ward the danger greatly increased. s not only be- hind time in Fillmore’s par lar de- partment, but is behind the age in its general management and equipment. The time from San Francisco to Sacra- mento—four hours—o be re- duced. Making due allc nce for the ferriage between this city and Oakland and from Port Costa to Benicia, four | hours time should not be taken to run ninety miles. The sleepy old company | needs a shaking up. Live, up-to-date railroad men are needed in the operat- ing department of the raod. Hunting- ton should send Fillmore to the Crocker | O1d People’s home and get a new man- ager. COLONEL FISHER SAFE. With Two Companions He Is En- camped at Tagish, Near Skaguay. of Lieutenant-Colonel er, who have felt con ety as to his whereabou as informa- | tion was received yesterday morning | that he is safely camped near the | custom-house at Tagish, some sixty miles from Skaguay, and has men and plenty. of prov The friends Will E. Fi erable an: | venlent to the Mr. Fisher was among the first to start for the Klondike region, but until yesterday nothing was heard from him, and a report had been circulated that he was dead. A letter was r celved yesterday by Ned Bosqui, who was also one of the first of the argo- nauts, stating that Mr. Fisher is safe and sound in his camp, having made no attempt to cross the White Pass and go into Dawson City, as he deemed it safer to stay outside until the winter hardships are ov: According to Mr. Spinney’s letter, the people at Skaguay view with sus- piclon the men who are coming out from Dawson in the winter, and they consider that there must be some thing more than a scarcity of food to cause a man to risk a thir trip in such weather. Th the managers of the two big companies at Dawson offer to supply any one who will leave town with enough food to reach Fort Yukon and with supplies there for the winter. ————— CHARITY’S GREAT CAUSE. Little Sisters’ Infant Shelter Asks for Christmas Gifts—Hospi- tal Association. One of the most worthy charitles of this city is the Little Sisters’ Infant Shelter, located at 512 Minna street, and the managers of the organization have made an appeal to the public not to forget the little ones of the home during the Christmas times. Twenty-four years ago a number of school girls formed a resolution to be of benefit to humanity, and the plan adopted was to care for the small chil- dren whose mothers could not take care of them during the time when at work. Many a mother found the help of the Little Sisters of great help, for they could go out to work as they would not otherwise be able to. Many a mother has “forgotten” to return for her child, and these waifs have become the charge of the home, which has never received any money from the city or the State. The approach of the holidays makes the management wish to give their lit- tle folks some kind of a good time, and hence the request of those charitably osed to ¢ forward and help a little in th: By notifying Mrs, E. S. Fennimo: 2628 Steiner street the matron at South 17— led for. tion of San xture and organ- ss principles. In its scope harity is similar to the day and Sunday clubs of Eu All of the hospits departments for the poor are entitled to membership, and a number of own institutions have already affiliated. About 300 boxes have been p positions con- public. The police have promised to give special heed to these | boxes so as to see that they are not molested by those disposed to be de- structive. William E. Brown is the president and Phil Lilienthal is the treasurer. —_———— Wills Filed for Probate. By the will of Pincus Berwin, which provides for the disposal of an estate valued at $25000, Rosa and Bertha Ber- daughters of the testator, are be- a uing from his Society $100. 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