The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 28, 1897, Page 12

12 —— THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1897. WELBURN'S FRIENDS CLAIM HE NEED FEAR NOTHING FROM THE GRAND JURY They Say That He Has Been Already Acquitted of All Possible Offenses Against the Government. He Wanted to Be Gov-|against his father. | ment be found, there was no doubt in ernor and Gave Away Appointments. Max Popper and the Democratic Central Committee Got the Plums. TAX LEVIED BY THE PUSH. ‘Weiburn’s Son Has Been Kept Posted Al Against Him. on the Proceedings Osca M. Welburn, ex-Collector of Internal Revenue, still remains absent from' the city, and from this State, so far as any public knowledge of him seems to be concerned. He appears to be In possession of the fabled cap which makes its wearer invisible, and of the mythical seven-leagued which enable their possessor to walk outside of the limits of an ordinary county in a hop, step and jump. Contrary, however, to the prevailing opinion, he is not “wanted” by the Federal authorities or by any other authorities. He is not under indict- ment; no mation has been filed in against him. He has been indicted, tried and acquittel, and there 1S no reason why he should remain in San Francisco—or even in the State—to await the pleasure of Federal or other authorities. The Grand Jury, being unable to ob- tain his attendance as a witness, sub- mitted a question to United States District Judge de Haven as to the right and power of the to compel & person to appear as ¢ the investigation of rRes a t him- gelf. The Jud to this ques- tion was that the Grand Jury could not compel a m r before it and testify reg: s which a charge a based. The jury has adjourned over until January 4, so that Welburn’'s presence or absence is a matter of in- difference. But the meetings of the Grand Jury have not by any means been an in- different subject to Welburn and his to ap ing ainst friends. His son Clyde informed a friend a few day o that he had seen many of the witne who had ap- peared before the former Grand Jury and who were exj to appear be- fore the present body. He said he knew had testified to on the first occasion what they might be expected to testify before the present body, and from what h and his friends had learned they were confi- dent that the present Grand Jury would not bring in an indictment | kept on file in the office of the Col- | take place to-morrow. boots | | | Should an indict- their minds that Welburn, having al- ready proved his innocence of forty- three charges, would be able to dispose | of any others that might be brought, and with equal facility. | ‘What is most disquieting to Special Agents Thrasher and Thomas is the fact that Miss Nellle O'Brien, one of | the most important witnesses in the | present proceedings before the Grand | Jury, cannot be found. | Friends of the ex-Collector profess to be confident that even if Welburn | | should be indicted he cannot be con- | victed. The ex-Collector has influen- tial friends in this State and at the seat of government, his wife being a | niece of ex-Secretary Carlisle, and no | means will be left untried to keep the family name from the disgrace of a conviction. From the time Welburn assumed of- | fice he stood in with “the boys,” and the first scandal that was noted was in connection with the Chinese Regis- | tration Bureau. He had been allowed | forty deputles to do the work of carry- | ing out the provisions of the registra- tion act, and a bureau was estab- lished in Chinatown. But Welburn did | not appoint a solitary man of them. | At that time, 1894, he had acquired the | title of “‘Colonel” by political courtesy | and was ambitious of becoming Gov- | ernor of the State. He was encour- aged In this ambition, and as a neces- sary preliminary he turned over the | appointment of the deputies for the | northern district into the hands of | Max Popper and the Democratic Cen- | tral Committee. The committee had | the appointing, but Welburn had the | shaving, and the deputies in order to | get even and also to obtain a little spending money imposed a tax of 50 cents upon every Chinaman applying for registration. As 42,000 Chinese were registered in the northern district, the per capita tax of 50 cents made a good sized fund. Bert Thomas was one of the first to discover what was going on and ordered an end put to the abuse. Thomas was supervising officer and his word was law, or would have been law had the facts been other than they were, but the forty filed an in- dignant protest to Collector Welburn, asking for the removal of Thomas as supervising officer. Welburn took sides with the deputies, and when he showed the protest to Thomas, which was a very strong hint, Thomas re- signed, and gave as his reason the fact that the associations were obnoxious to him. Another means of taxing the Chinese for the benefit of individuals was in- augurated in Welburn's time and is continued since, and that is the im- position of a fee ranging from $5 to $20 in each case for hunting up original certificates. The original certificates of the 42,000 Chinese who registered in the northern district of California are lector of Internal Revenue of the dis- trict. When a Chinese person loses his certificate or the same is destroyed he must prove his loss by the evidence of at least two white men, and must fur- nish to the Collector a photograph for comparison with the original on file in the Collector’s office. These cer- tificates are not indexed and a long search is required to find any particu- lar one. The deputies and clerks in the office have other duties to perform, and they cannot allow the important business of the office to suffer for the sake of a few Mongolians who have lost their certificates. In this con- tingency appeared the accommodating broker or two of them, to whom the Chinese appiied for assistance, and of course the fee system was at once in- augurated. Those who are familiar with the office of the Internal Revenue Collector say that Captain Youngberg and Broker Jones got the bulk of this business, and that the income derived from this source was large. The prac- tice has been perpetuated to this day and the Government has taken no steps to have the certificates indexed. POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED William Pettit Picks Out W. J. Clark as the Man Who Robbed Him. ‘W. J. Clark, accused of robbing Wil- llam Pettit on Stevenson street early Sunday morning, was positively iden- tified by Pettit in the City Prison yes- terday afternoon. Policeman Naylor got a number of other prisoners to stand alongside of Clark, and Pettit without any hesita- tion picked him out. He was unable | to identify John Collins, the other man arrested for the robbery, but Detec- tives Ryan and O'Dea, who are search- | ing for the third robber, say that they have witnesses who will testify that both Clark and Collins were concerned in the robbery. DIING WISH OF 'ROURKE IEEDED Lindsay Fulfills His Promise Made to the Horse- man. The Body of the Unfortunate Man Will Be Given a Christian Burial. Funeral To-Morrow. Thomas H. Lindsay is fulfilling the promise that he made to James M. O'Rourke in the Recelving Hospital on Friday morning last. On that occasion O'Rourke, faint from the loss of blood in a quarrel of his own promoting, extending his hand to Lindsay, sald: “I was in the wrong, but if I should die you will see that I am not buried as a pauper, won't you?” “I will,” was Lindsay’'s answer. O'Rourke, with two companions, lay in wait to assault Lindsay last Friday morning while he was walting | for a car at the corner of Powell and Ellis streets. They had previously en- tered his saloon and created trouble. Coming on Lindsay unawares they as- | sailed him with bricks and not until he was compelled to shoot to save his | life did he fire. O'Rourke was mortally wounded and taken to the Recelving Hospital. Sun- day the wounded man dled and was removed to the Morgue. ly Lindsay, in accordance with his word, had the body taken to the under- taking parlors of Halsted & Co., 946 | Mission street, where the remains were prepared for burial and placed in a costly casket. The funeral of the horseman will Subsequent- | COULD NOT - GET AROUND CAPE HORN The Overdue Natuna Came Via the Cape of Good Hope. Battered by Storms She Could Not Make Any Headway. Men Injured, Sails Blown Away and Rigging Dam- aged in the Gales. TURNED BACK IN DISGUST. After the Fourth Fallure Captain Fretwurst Put His Vessel About. Much to the delight of the re-insur- ance speculators the long overdue British bark Natuna arrived from London yesterday. She was 225 days meking the run to this port, and ev- erybody thought she had gone to the bottom. In fact 40 per cent re-insur- ance was pald on her several daysago. The Natuna's long passage was due to the fact that Captain Fretwurst finding it impossible to round the Horn gave it up after the fourth at- tempt and came to San Francisco via the Cape of Good Hope. Nothing but bad luck attended the voyagers almost from the start. Gale after gale was run into, and anything like ' fair progress that was made one day would be lost the next. During the battle with the elements salls were blown away, yards were sprung, run- ning rigging damaged and everything movable washed overboard. The cargo started and several barrels of creosote burst; two of the crew | were injured, and for weeks the cap- | tain was unable to leave the deck and | had to take his meals in the chart- | house. The satlors were put to work to shore up the sliding casks, and ev- ery plece of spare timber on the vessel was used. It was hard work to secure the loose barrels as they were very greasy and hard to keep in place. The bilges was soon filled with the liquid and the ship was permeated with the odor from stem to stern. Some of the creosote got into the drinking water, but not sufficlent to make the water undrinkable. The ventilators were | carefully watched, and on the first op- portunity Captain Fretwurst pro- cured a sample of the liquid and test- ed its inflammability. He found it was | very hard to ignite, and in conse- quence the main precautions were taken in regard to the gases which | generated in the hold from the escap- ing oil. | The Natuna sailed from London on May 16 last with a cargo of creosote merchandise for the South- ific Railroad Company. Vari- | able winds and calms were encoun- | tered until the vessel | Island on August 3. ‘ “Between Angust 7 and 29 we passed | Cape Horn four time: said Captain Fretwurst yesterday, “and we always drifted back again to the east in was off Staten | | gale. heavy westerly gales of long duration. During this time the vessel suffered terribly in the loss of sails and run- ning gear. We made every effort pos- sible to get around the cape, and car- ried every inch of canvas she would stand in order to gain our end, but the winds and waves were too much for us. During the first round the bark lost part of her mizzen stays, the main topmast stays, the inner jib and the fore lower topsails. “On August 23 a heavy sea broke aboard and tore the tarpaulins from the main hatch, damaged the forecastle house and carried the washboards from the poop. The forecastle and cabin were flooded, but no other seri- ous damage was done. The cargo of crecsote in the "tween decks was well chocked up and kept its place during the first gale. When storm after storm followed each other in guick succession, however, the cargo could not stand the strain and the casks in the wings were thrown out of their tiers. These made room for the others to work and in consequence a number of the barrels burst. Every piece of spare wood on the vessel was used to keep the casks in place, but as they were very greasy it was hard to get them back in posi- tion again. The ventilation of the hold was strictly,attended to, but very little could be done below as the hold ‘was full of creosote gas and everything was covered with a thick white frost from it. The sailors could not stay very long in the hold, so you can see that the work of securing the cargo was done under difficulties. “During the next storm we ran into the mate and carpenter were injured. The carpenter was soon about again, but the mate has been confined to his room ever since August 19. He was standing under the forecastle head and a tremendous sea threw him backward. His head struck the anchor chain and he was unconscious for a time. The next day Hugo Koope, an A. B., fell from the lower topsail yard and in- jured both his legs. Everything pos- sible was done for hisn, but he is not able to be about as yet.” The quarantine officer examined Koope yesterday and he will have to g0 to the United- States Marine Hos- pital. There his right leg will be re- broken and reset or else the man will be a cripple for life. Mate Johnson was much_ better yesterday and the doc- tors do not think he was hurt very badly. ‘‘August 22, 23 and 24 the ship was al- most constantly flooded, and the men ‘were worn out with the constant work,” continued Captain Fretwurst. “On August 25 the weather moderated, and as much sail as could be carried was set. It did not last very long, however, and soon the ship was laboring and straining as badly as ever. The creo- sote casks broke loose again, and I de- termined to stand away for smooth water, in order to get the cargo se- cured. This was on August 29 at 1 P. M, In about 57 south 64 west. On August 31 we were abls to apen up the | ship. We found all the tiers of creo- sote casks out of shape and loose, and restowed them as well as possible. As there was nothing else to block them with, we took our worst deck spar and used it. I still had hopes or rounding the Horn, but, finding it impossible, I set back eastward to _run around the Cape of Good Hope. While setting sail I found the panel of the upper topsail vard broke, and had to lash it with chain and wire. . We then proceeded on our way, and had no remarkable oc: currences from that time until por was reached. We were off Good Hope on September 19, off New Zealand on October 27, and on that daté ran Into a strong westerly gale, which did no damage. From New Zealand to port had light variable winds."” The Natuna does not look like a ves- sel that has suffered very much, nor does she bear any outward marks of her four attempts at rounding the cape of storms. On July 28 she was in com- pany with the bark Kilmeny, which ar- rived here on October 22, and has since loaded and sailed again. vessel had a very hard time of it, but still she got around the Horn and made | the run to San Francisco in 153 days from Swansea. When she was safe in port the Natuna was off the coast of New Zealand battling with a westerly No sign wag seen of the British bark Taymount, now out 240 days from Liverpool and on which 65 per cent re- insurance has been paid. The arrival of the Natuna has put hope into the “SPILLING T i Sy HE MAIN TOPSAI L The long overdue British bark Natuna encountered such heavy weather off Cape Horn that Captain Fretwurst was compelled to put his ship about and come to San Francisco via the Cape of Good Hope. Both wind and weather were against the vessel and it took some very delicate handling on the part of captain and crew to get the Natuna squared away on her new course in such a terrific gale, In the picture the wind is “spilled’’ out of the main topsail and the vessel is gradually wearing around to the course she is wanted to take. The latter | GREAT HO YALUE RECEIVED. At 20c. At 35¢. ING, special sale at 36c a yard. At 50c. ured effects. yard. At 50c. At T5¢. SERGES, cloth shades. at 75c a yard. At 50c. Murphy Building. Market and Jones Streets. | R R RS RS Asces R s e e e s S e R e e e e S e S S S S SIS SIS $ | | NEW TO-DAY. ++4+ THE AFTERMATI o OUR=—7—"" LIDAY SALE Below we present a list of Special .Bargains in our Dressfl(i'oods and other departments that can not fail to prove most attractive to buyers who appreciate a rare opportunity to secure COLORED DRESS DEPARTMENT. 125 pleces 39-INCH MOHARANE DRESS GOODS, two light colorings, extra value for 40c; reduced to 20c a yard. 107 pleces 37-INCH ALL-WOOL SCOTCH CHEVIOT SUIT- in checks and mottled effects. 77 pieces 42-INCH FRENCH NOVELTY DRESS GOOI?S. fig- Regular price 90¢; on special saze at 50c per 69 pleces 46-INCH FINE ALL-WOOL ENGLISH NAVAL SERGE. Former price 75¢ ; on special sale at 50c a yard. 45 pleces 52-INCH FINE ALL-WOOL COLORED STORM Former price $1 25; BLACK GOODS DEPARTMENT. 100 pleces 36-INCH BLACK PIEROLO CLOTH, In thirteen different designs., Excellent value for 65c; on special sale at 60c a yard. 44 ++44++ MORE THAN Former price 50c; on on special sale Murphy Bullding, Market and Jones Strests, underwriters, however, as think that the missing vessel is still afloat and on her way to San Fran- cisco via the Cape of Good Hope. Other overdue vessels on which re- insurance has been paid are the British ship Craigend from Philadelphia for Hiogo, Japan, 85 per cent; and the steamer Pelican from Puget Sound for Taku, China, 40 per cent. The British ships Glenfinart from Swansea and Newcastle, England, also reached port | yesterday. The Glenfinart had a very | encountered some westerly storms that kept her a month in that very unda- they now the Cypromene from | rough time of it at the Horn, and she | sirable locality. On October 17 she passed around in company with seve- ral other ships and then set all sall for San Francisco. The Cypromene was only twenty-two days from 50 to 50, | and during seven of those she was in | | a succession of gales that blew the | sails out of the bolt ropes and dam- | aged the standing rigging. The ship Laomene, now out 184 days, and the “rompton, 171 days from Newecastle, England, have both been beaten into | port by the Cypromene. The cham_:es are that they also got some of the Na- | tuna’s Cape Horn weather. | The British ship Pyrenees from New- | castle, Australia, has a different kird | of a tale to tell. She made the run in fifty-three days, and Captain Bryce re- ports favorable weather until this coast was reached. For the last six days he has been 300 miles off shore, | unable to get in owing to the light | northeast win that prevailed. The ships Kate Thomas, Cambuskenneth | and Conishead all left Australia be- | fore the Pyreneés and have mnot yet been heard from. The Kate Thomas is now eighty-three days out. | The American ship H:onrv B. Hyde, | 144 @ays from New York. also arrived | 1last n.ght Found Dead In Bed. in his bed at 147 Fourth street yesterday morning. Death is supposed to have been the result of natural causes. NEW TO-DAY. 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