The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 28, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2 LILIVOKALANT TET FIGHTING ANNEXATION| Has Not Abandoned Hope of Defeating | the Treaty. | Ex-Queen Is Not Confin- ing Her Efforts to Se- cure a Pension. Mission of the Hawaiian Del- | egation at the National Capital. DESIRE INDEPENDENCE. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. Demand That the Peopls of the Islands ' Choose Their Own Form | of Government. Call Office, Riggs House, 3 ‘Washington, D. C., Dec. 27. A local paper, rampant for annexa- | Bon and not too careful about its facts, | printed a story to the effect that ex- Queen Liliuokalani, by the advice of her friends, had abandoned all hope of | defeating annexation and would here- after confine her efforts to securing a | pension. This is a lte. The ex-Queen | is an intelligent woman, and has been | given to understand by her friends that | the annexation treaty, as well as the annexation bill, will be defeated | The Star says to-night: “The pres. ence of a delegation of native Hawail- ans in Washington for the past week has attracted some attention, owing to the lack of information of what this delegation really desires to accomplish. It may be sald in passing that the | foregoing information about the ex- Queen was not obtained from these | persons. A Star reporter, who. talked | Wwith a member of this delegation to- | day, Mr. Richardson, was told by him | that the egation will devote its ef- ily to defeating annexa- t we want,’ he said, ‘Is —by that I mean that we annexed to the United not be States, that the monarchy shall not be forcibly res of Hawali s by d, but that the people be permitted to choose ballot their own form of govern- POISONS FOUND : Result of the Chemical Analysis on the Body of One of Zanali’'s Wives. It Is Yet to Be the Drugs Were Used Determined Whether | in Embalming Fluid. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Three distinct poisons have been discovered, as the result of a chemical analysis, in the body of the fourth wife of Charles Zanolli who collected insurance money on the lives of at least seven persons. He Is suspected of being responsible for some of these deaths, and is now in the Tombs awaiting the termination of the tests begun by Professor Wit- thaus, the chemical expert employed by the District Attorney. The profes- sor has found traces of arsenic, mer- cury and zinc in parts of the body of | Jenny Suhmer—Mrs. Zanolli No. 4— given to him for analysis. She died, supposedly from typhold fever, last August. Notwithstanding his discovery, Pro- essor Witthaus does not feel justified ( §ez in making a report to the District Attorney that death was due to pois- 1 oning, for the presencg of arsenic, zinc | and mercury might Be accounted for as the result of the use of embalming | fluid by the undertaker who prepared the body for burial. This must be in- vestigated, and Professor Witthaus will not complete his analysis for at least a week. Zanolli will be brought into eourt agaln to-morrow morning, but owing to the absence of a definite report from | the chemical expert, tne District At- torney, in all probability, will ask that | the prisoner be again remanded. It is the intention to postpone action in the | case until the findings of Professor ‘Witthaus can be placed in evidence, S e ORE STRIKE IN THE GROVER CLEVELAND MINE, Vein Eight Feet Wide Uncovered in a Claim Owned by Monterey | Capitalists. | MONTEREY, Dec. 27.—Word has | Just been received here that a new vein of soft quartz has been struck in the Grover Cleveland gold mine near Placerville, which is owned by Mon- | terey men. John E. Sexton, a mining | expert, has been at the mine somei | time superintending the early stages of its development and has just ar- rived in Monterey to make a personal report to the owners of the property— B. T. Hannon and E. Michaelis. The wvein is over eight feet wide and as- says about $5 to the ton. The ore contains considerable iron, and is very ft. | 90The mine is considered to have de- /veloped remarkably in the five months | { it has been worked, and the expert | pays it has wonderful promise. ow decided to push further develop- ent work with all possible dispatch, nd Mr. Séxton will start at once on his return to the mine. The owners believe they have found their own Klondike nearer home than Alaska. st <57 i Discharged Without Honor. —~%%2i WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—By direc- tion of the acting Secretary of War, Post Quartermaster Sergeant Robert Fallon, now at Fort Spokane, Wash., ‘will be discharged without honor from the service of the United States on re- ceipt of this order by the co! ant o bis station. It is IREE DISTINCT | this evening, but it is understood that | his side, though he had not been hang- | worked hard over McCallum, but could BIDS FOR KLONDIKE SUPPLIES Captain Brainard Is Directed to Adver-, tise for Them. Rations Required for the Relief of Miners on the Yukon. Enough Needed to Last One Thousand Men a Hun- dred Days. SUPPLIES MOST SUITABLE. In Al It Is Proposed to Take in 780,000 Pounds to the Frozen Regions. | tee when it was supposed that | | Clarke would be able to continue in the | but | HORACE F. BURT 10 BE PRESIDENT Will Reorganized Union Pacific Road. Prominent Men Who Will Have a Seat in the New Directory. Their Interests Are So Diversified That the Vanderbilt System W1ll Not Be in Control. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—It is officlally announced that Horace F. Burt, third vice-president of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, been selected for the presidency of the Union Pacific Railway Company. Mr. Burt’s election as president is expected to carry Into effect the policy deter- mined on by the reorganization commit- Mr. management of the property, | Which is now impossible, owing to Mr. Gpecial Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, Dec. 27. Captain D. L. Brainard, who is in Chicago making arrangements to ad- vertise for bids for Klondike supplies, has been ordered to advertise immedi- ately for a prepared list of rations, sting essentially of the army ra- tions, for 1000 people for 100 days, a weight approximating 750,000 pounds. These supplies are to be delivered at Dyea by February 1. i Secretary Alger this afternoon re- | ceived the following telegram from | Captain Brainard: CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—I beliave the nutri- tive value claimed for condensed foods | are somewhat exaggerated; besides these foods are difficult to pack, and the pack- ages add greatly to the weight. I deem the satisfactory food for Alaska to be bacon, rice, sugar, coffee, tea and choco- late, the necessary condiments and a small quantity of butter and condensed milk. "These articles possess proper | nutriment, are easy to pack, and, except | butter and milk, have no_extra weight BRAINARD. 27.—The ac- | for packages. NEW YORK, Dec. tioh of the' Canadian Government | in imposing burdensome taxation on articles transported through the Dominion or purchased there for use in Alaska has drawn attention to the fact that there is no restriction upon the passage of Canadian merchandise through Alaska to the Pacific. This disparity of privilege has been brought to the notice of the administration. and some action will doubtless be taken. In section 26 of the treaty of Washing- on it was Stipulated that the three largest rivers of Alaska, including the Yukon, ‘“shall remain forever open to the free and unrestricted passage of goods belonging to citizens of both countries—Canada and the United States—unless otherwise provided in uture treaties or agreements.” Sev- eral sections of the treaty of Washing- | ton were abrogated by Congress and by proclamation of the President, but section 26 was not one of these, al- though it is held by experts in interna- tional law that when part of a treaty is abrogated the whole falls. Upon the | last-mentioned theory the Secretary of the Treasury will be asked to make a | retaliatory regulation covering articles shipped into the Yuken gold fields and other sections of Alaska. As matters stand, gold taken from that part of the | Yukon gold district lying tn Canadian | territory { across American sofl and by way of is shipped to Alaska American Rivers. It may be possible under section 22 of the Dingley law to impose a direct discriminating tax on such gold, as surely will be done if the General Board of Appraisers reverses the opinion of the Attorney-General. add Bids for Klondike supplies Clifford Sifton and J. A. McKenna of the Canadian Interior Department, who are to consult with Secretary Al- ger on the forwarding of supplies to the Kiondike, arrived in Washington to- | night. They did not see the Secretary they will confer with him at his home | to-morrow, as sickness has prevented his presence at the War Department. P SUICIDES IN A NE| JERSEY PENITENTIARY. One Prisoner Wanted to Die and Will Live, While the Other Was a Joker and Will Die. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Two prison- ers, Frank Barbain, an Itallan, and Harry McCallum, colored, attempted suicide at about the same time in the penitentiary at Caldwell, N. J, to- | day. MecCallum, who atttempted sui- | cide as a joke, is dead. Barbain will | recover. Barbain, who has been il | and despondent for some time past, fastened a strap to, the bars of his cell and hanged himself, but was discov- | ered by a keeper before life was ex- tinct and was resuscitated. Barbain admitted that he tried to kill himself because he was {ll and was tired of 1tving. ‘When the excitement caused by Bar- bain’s attempt to kill himself had sub- sided somewhat, McCallum announced to his prison mates that he would play a joke on the keepers. A few moments later a convict in a cell adjoining Mec- Callum’s heard the latter's cell door rattle followed by a low groan. A shout of warning brought the keepers to the scene. McCallum was found hanging from the door. He had tied one end of a strap to the bars and the other about his neck, bent his knees under him and allowed his full weight to hang on the strap. He showed no signs of life when the keepers reached ing more than a couple of minutes. The body was carried downstalrs and a physician summoned. The physician not save his life. The doctor said that the strap must have pressed agalnst the man’s jugular vein in such a- way as to render him unconscious almost instantly. McCallum was serving a | sixty days’ sentence for larceny and was booked for release next Thursday. A ok Daly Buys Shipmate. LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 27.—Marcus Daly of the Bitter Root Farm, Mon- tana, acquired another brood mare to-day. Gus Eastin has sold to Daly’s agent the dam of First Mate for $5000. The mare, Shipmate, is 9 years old, and was sired by Spendthrift, dam Messmate, by Alarm. She and Lady Reel, also just purchased by Daly, wiil be left in Kentucky until after foaling time, and then shipped. Clarke’s i1l health. The Board of Directors is to include Winslow S. Plerce, chairman; James Stillman, Marvin Hughitt, Roswell Miller, E. H. Harriman, Louis Fitzger- | ald, Henry B. Hyde, Tohn W. Doane, Otto H. Kahn, Jefferson Coolidge Jr., George J. Gould, Oliver Ames, George J. Cannon and Jacob Schiff. Oliver W. Mink is to be vice-president and will be in charge of the New York ofs fice. More than a fortnight ago, when it ‘was announced that Mr. Burt would be chosen to the presidency of the Union Pacific as reorganized, strenuous de- niails came from many quarters. It was alleged that Mr. Burt was so closely ailied with what are called the “Vanderbilt interests” that to make him president of the Union Pacific would be to place that line practically under the same management as the New York Central, the Lake Shore and the Chicago and Northwestern. it was further asserted that this would be a mistaken policy, as it would tend to di- vert from the Union Pacific support which it has hitherto received from the Rock Island, the Burlington, the St. Paul and other great roads that center in Council Bluffs as their principal Missouri River point. It was pointed out that all these roads had terminals | at Kansas City, and could throw a large volume of Pacific Coast-bound business that way. The opinion in New York to-day, so far as can be gathered thus early, is that the new directory has been very carefully made up so as to discount any of the alleged objections to Mr. Burt as president. All the roads seem to be represented, directly or indirect- ly, in the new directory. Winslow S. Pierce is a well-known lawyer, and has had much to do with the Gould inter- ests in the Missouri Pacific; James Stillman of the firm of Stillman & Hub- bard, has large holdings of Southern Pacific securities; Mearvin Hughitt is president of the Chicago and North- western, and Roswell Miller of the Chi- cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, while E. E. Harriman 1s one of the managing | directors of the Illinols Central. Louis Fitzgerald is president of the Mercan- tile Trust Company of this city, and Henry B. Hyde is president of the Equitable Life Insurance Company. John W. Doane is a well-known capi- talist of Chicago and a railway organ- izer; Otto H. Kuhn s of the financial firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., while T. Jefferson Coolidge represents, with Oliver Ames, the Ames and many of the other New George J. Gould is president of the Missouri Pacific George J. Cannon is credited with much work in the re- organization plan; Jacob H. Schiff was one of the reorganization committee, and is in close touch with J. P. Mor- gan & Co.; Oliver W. Mink was one | of the receivers before the reorganiza- tion and subsequent sale of the road to the syndicate. It will be seen that the new board embraces so many whose interests are | opposed to any single or dominant con- | trol in the Union Pacific that to call it a part of the Vanderbilt system would not be true in fact or theory. LOSS OF THE SCHOONER BALSORA L. SHERMAN Went Down So Rapidly That the Captain and Crew Barely Had Time to Escape. BALEM, Mass, Dec. 27.—The two- masted schooner Ernest T. Lee, Cap- tain Rawding, of South River, N. J., | brought into Salem harbor to-day for crew of five men of the schooner Bal- sora L. Sherman, Captain Plummer, from South River, N. J., for Boston, which foundered Saturday night off Highland light. Captain Plummer of the wrecked schooner states that when about ten miles off Highland light on Saturday evening the ¥essel sprung a leak. She was a mass of ice and the wind had broken in a gale. The schooner’s sails were blown away, and while the crew was endeavoring to work the pumps the vessel's bows sank into the water and before the crew and ecaptain | could save any of their effects she went to the bottom. The men had barely time to jump into the ship’s boat at the stern and pull away. For several hours they finally picked up by an outward-bound vessel. In a short time, however, they were transferred to the schooner Ernest T. Lee, which was bound for Boston. B T Called to an. Eastern Pulpit. PACIFIC GROVE, Dec. 27.—Rev. C. G. Fackenthal, who for the past eight vears has officiated as rector of St. Mary's-by-the-Sea—the pretty little Protestant Bpiscopal Church here— and St. John's chapel at Del Monte, preached his farewell sermons at the two churches yesterday morning and afternoon, and will, with his family, leave in January for Princeton, New Jersey. He will be co-rector of one of the largest Episcopal churches of the University town, and as such will la- bor in a field more in accord with his capabilities than that afforded in so small a parish as the one of which he now has charge. - Suspected 'of a Hote/ Robbery. RENO, Dec. 27.—Sheriff McInnis has arrested a man named Albert Watson supposed to be the individual who held up the hotel at Steamboat Springs on Saturday night. He was dressed in five suits of clothes and carried ashot- gun. He was seen in the vicinity of Steamboat on Saturday, and as he did not tell the same story twice he was | arrested on suspicion. Preside Over the CIVIL SERVICE FORCES DIVIDED Those Working Against the Law Not in Ac- cord. So the Chances Are That the House Will Not Take Action. the Committee and Neither Accepted. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, D. C., Dec. 27. has | England holdings, | drifted around, but were | The anti-civil service forces in the House of Representatives are dlvided, and it does not look now as if they would be able to accomplish anything of consequence. The question is to be taken up soon after Congress recon- venes, however, and there will be a very bitter fight. A majority report from the Civil Service Committee will favor modifi- | cation of the law, and a majority re- | port will favor total repeal. It is un- | derstood that both propositions are to | be voted on, as it 1is reported that | Speaker Reed has promised the minor- ity an opportunity for a vote on the to- tal repeal. The Democrats, as a rule, are expected to vote for the total re- | peal and not for modification. Many | Republicans will vote for a modifica- tion, but will not vote for total repeal. The result of this division will proba- bly be that both propositions will fail | and the law will remain as it is. Meanwhile, however, some modifica- tion of the application of the law is to be made by the administration, accord- ing to private announcements that have been made. President Proctor of the Clvil Serv- | in discussing the | ice Commission, forthcoming report of the Civil Service Commission, said: ““We will call attentlon and empha- | size the scope of the civil service law. From time to time I have seen it stat- ed that it was not the intention of Con- | gress to extend the civil service to po- sitlons outside of the city of Wash- ington. This is the veriest nonsense. The law was plain, very plain, on that point, and extends to all positions in the ctvil service with the exception of | those places filled by the President and confirmed by the Senate, and laborers. Our report wili bring out this very clearly, and will contain extracts from the speeches delivered in Congress during the debate on the bill “A dispatch purporting to have been sent out from this city is to the effect that the President was about to take some 5000 places from the classified service. Has the commission any knowledge of this?" | “No, we have heard. nothing, al- though, personally, 1 believe he has the | subject before him.” PLAY 10 SECURE THE CREDITORS |Conferees Issue a Statement ! on the Affairs of Singerly. How Depositors in the Defunct Chest- nut-Street Bank Will Probably Be Paid. | Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. ‘ PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27.—The con- ferees selected to formulate a plan of | settlement of the affairs of the Chest- | nut-street National Bank and the Chestnut-street Trust Company, of | which Willlam Singerly, proprietor of the Record, was president, | presented their plan for the considera- | tion of the depositors and creditors. The chief measure suggested is the issuance of Record stock to secure the | creditors. The plan is prefaced by a | statement that it must be clear to all concerned that in no case can credit- ors of the bank, of the trust company, of the pulp and paper company, and of Mr. Singerly himself, realize more than the total value of the assets and rights of these corporations in addition to those of Mr. Singerly individually. No matter how protracted or expensive possible assignments and receiverships may be made, the creditors cannot re- | be incidental to their administration under what would be the most expens- ive form of such administration. The fact, however, not at first sight so ob- vious, though it more and more im- presses {tself upon us, is that owing to the peculiar nature of the properties to be handled a lack of good judgment in their management will result in the | receipt by the creditors of less than the | present and probably of much less than the ultimate value thereof.” It is belleved that if Mr. Singerly will continue to give his entire atten- tion to the development of his great paper the pecullar qualifications which enabled him to build up a property earning, it is stated, In the fiscal year 1896, $310,000 net, and earning also, it is said, in the last seven years an aver- age annual net sum of $243,000, will enable him to do what not merely will be Impossible under changed condi- tions—-namely, to maintain the present great value of the property—but also to increase it. - WILL NOT ENTER INTO | THE SEALING AGREEMENT. | Great Britain Declines to Interfere With the Foreign Relations of Canada. LONDON, Dec. 27.—Lord Salisbury, the Premier, has written to United States Embassador Hay in response to America’s latest proposal in the Ber- ing Sea controversy, her request that Great Britain would enter into an agreement with the United States, Russia and Japan to stop sealing. Great Britain declines to enter into such an agreement. Lord Salisbury says in substance that he has com- municated with the Canadian Govern- ment, which has the foremost interest in the sealing question, and that Canada is unwilling to become a party to such an arrangement as is proposed by the United States. Therefore Eng- land, continues Salisbury, whose inter- est is but slight, would not be justified in acceding to the proposals. Lord Salisbury’s answer emphasizes the policy of England not to interfere in Canada’s foreign relations. —_———— Coughs and colds cured with Low's Horehound Cough Syrup; price 10c. 417 Sansome street. . Two Reports Will Be Submitted by | 1897, ACCUSED OF MURDER AT - SAN JOSE Second Crime With Which Hoff Is Charged. Identified as the Probable Assassin of Emma Hawkins. Officials Belleve They Have Solved the Mystery of an Old Tragedy. |STORY OF THE KILLING. Dissolute Woman'’s Skull Crushed by i & Blow From a Heavy Instrument. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, Dec. 27.—Chiet of Police Kidward is certain that Albert Hoff, the alleged murderer of Mrs. Clute in San Francisco a few days ago, killed Emma Hawkins in the Hensley House in this city on April 23, 1896. So sure is Chief Kidward that Hoff is the man wanted for the murder that he went before Justice Gass this afternoon and swore to a complaint charging | Hoff witk the murder of Emma Haw- | kins. The picture of Hoff has been positively identified as that of a man who occupled a room in the Hensley House for several days preceding the | murder. On the day the crime is sup- posed to have been committed the man was seen washing his hands at a wash- | stand at the end of the hall, and it was under the washstand that the broken caseknife with which the wo- | man was killed was found. Charles Smith, an upholsterer of this city, and G. E. Saunders of 1746 Park | place, Alameda, have positively identi- | fied Hoft's picture as that of the man who was seen at the Hensley House | on the day of the murder. Mrs. Darcey, who was then proprietress of the Hens- Ity House, gave a description of the man that tallies with Hoff. Emma Hawkins, a dissolute woman, was found murdered in her room in the Hensley House on the afternoon of April 23, 1896. She had been struck over to-night | ceive more than the total of all assets | less the cost and expenses which will | the head with some blunt instrument and her throat cut from ear to ear. | There were other knife wounds upon her body. She had been dead about twenty-four hours when discovered. Her body lay upon the floor, and piled | upon it were the bed clothing and mattresses. The room had been ran- sacked for valuables, trunks being broken open and the carpet torn up In places. In the washstand in the hall was found a broken caseknife, with which the crime had been committed. | The police worked diligently on the | case, but aside from obtaining a de- scription of the supposed murderer were unable to find a clew. Ever since Hoff's arrest Chief Kid- ward has been trying to fasten the crime upon him, and he now belleves he has succeeded. The warrant charging Hoff with the murder of Emma Haw- kins was this afternoon forwarded to San Francisco. Chief Kidward to-day received the following letter, which tends to estab- lish Hoff as the Hensley House mur- | derer: . ALAMEDA, Dec. 2, 1897.—James A. Kidward Esq., Chief of Polfee—Dear Sir: Enclosed please find picture. I recognize the same as being the party that left the Hensley House just after the murder, and cannot be mistaken. In the cause of justice I am at your service when re- quired. Yours truly, GEORGE A. SAUNDERS, 1715 Park street. | —— | BELIEVES HOFF IS GUILTY. George A. Saunders Talks of the Murder of Emma Hawkins. ALAMEDA, Dec. 27.—George A. Saunders, known as “Chippewah George,” sald to-night regarding Hoft's connection with the Hawkins murder: “I lived in San Jose at the time of the Emma Hawkins murder, and had my rooms and office across the street from the Henslee House, where the murder was committed. A few days ago I recelved a letter from Chief of Police James A. Kidward of San Jose, | inclosing a photograph of Hoff and asking me If T had ever seen that face before. I imediately recognized it as | the face of the man I had seen hang- ing around the Henslee House several | days before the murder, and just be- fore dark on the evening of the day on which the crime was committed I saw this man coming down the stairs and out of the door of the Henslee House. “I do not know that this man was the one who committed the deed, but had I been sent out to hunt the man I | would have singled that face out of all the faces In the world. The crimes were so similarly committed that it would make me stronger in my con- victions that they were the work of the same hand. The man whom I sus- pect wore overalls, a brown coat and a slouch hat.” Baunders could not remember the name of the landlady, but he thinks she now resides in Vallejo. He was not positive, but thought that Hoft, or the man who g0 strongly resembles him, might have had a room in the Henslee House. Saunders is. a pleasant, keen eyed man and has had considerable experi- ence in detective work. His only de- sire is to see justice donme, and he ex- pects to pay Hoff a visit to-morrow. S TROUBLE IN STORE FOR THE GENOA LYNCHERS. Many Witnesses Summoned to Give Testi- mony Before the County Grand Jury. CARSON, Dec. 27.—Sheriff Brockliss of Douglas County was in Carson to- day subpenaing witnesses for the Uber investigation, which comes before the Grand Jury at Genoa to-morrow. Judge Mack stated that he would examine for bias all members of the Grand Jury and excuse all who were disqualified or unfit to serve in any way. Four of the jurors signed the anti-reward peti- tion, and will be excused on these grounds. | GENOA, Nev., Dec. 2.—The Grand | Jury will convene to-morrow to inves- tigate the Uber lynching. A large number of witnesses will testify. Ex- citement was high in the valley to- day. An abundance of evidence is said to have been complled against the lynchers. : CHANGE OF VENUE FOR FLANNELLY The Murderer Will Be Tried at San Jose. Judge Buck Throws the Case Into the Santa Clara Courts. Action Taken on the Ground of Deep Prejudice Against the Prisoner. LOATHED AT HIS HOME. Citizens Swear to Affidavits Describ- ing the Bitter Feeling at Red- wood City. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. REDWOOD CITY, Dec. 27.—Thomas. William Flannelly, the parricide and murderer of Sheriff W. P. McEvoy, will not be tried by a jury selected from San Mateo County, but will risk his life with one chosen from the county of Santa Clara. So decided Judge Buck this afternoon. This was the day set for the com- mencement of the trial of Flannelly for the murder of his aged father, Pat- rick Flannelly. The talesmen had al- ready been summoned and were in at- tendance this morning, but their serv- ices were dispensed with until the 1tth of January, at which time C. H. Ray- mond and Harry Winters are to be tried for the murder of C. A. Andrews of Baden. On Friday last Attorney Straus filed seventeen affidavits made by prominent citizens of this place, Menlo Park and Woodside, to be used on the hearing of his motion for a change of venue. The affidavits were all similar in form and substance, with the exception of that of the defendant, which contained the newspaper reports of The Call and various other papers relative to the shooting of Patrick Flannelly and Sheriff McEvoy. The affidavits set forth that Patrick Flannelly was an old resident of San Mateo County and that his death has caused much bitterness of feeling to- ward defendant; that the relatives of defendant are known to have rendered no assistance to defendant in the pre- paration of his defense, which fact has prejudiced his defense; that during the altercation at the ranchhouse at the time of the arrest Sheriff McEvoy re- ceived wounds from which he subse- quently died, and that this fact, con- sidering the popularity of the Sheriff, has tended to prejudice the people against defendant; that there have been threats. and demonstrations of mob violence against the defendant, especially on the night of the death of McEvoy, when it was necessary to re- sort to a ruse by turning in an alarm of fire to get the defendant away from the people and send him to San Jose. Upon the convening of court the courtroom was filled to overflowing, there being hardly standing room left. The defendant was present, looking as well as he ever did, the only thing no- ticeable about him being a slight ner- vousness. Attorneys Straus and Riehl of San Jose represented him in the pro- ceedings, Louis P. Boardman, another of his counsel, being detained in San Francisco on legal business from which he could not absent himself. Straus Informed the court that he de- sired to have Flannelly swear to an af- fidavit for a continuance, on the ground of the absence of his counsel, Board- man. The affidavit was sworn to and read, but Judge Buck denied his mo- tion, stating that he had seen Board- man in this place this morning. After disposing of this motion, Straus com- menced the reading of his affidavits for a change of venue, but was interrupt- ed by District Attorney Walker with the objection that there had been no written motion for a change filed and served, as required by the statute. The court sustained the objection, but gave the counsel a half hour in which to prepare the requisite papers, the Dis- trict Attorney waiving time and ser- vice. The motion having been prop- erly made the attorney commenced the reading of the affidavits de novo and continued until the noon hour. In the afternoon the remaining affi- davits were completed, and, the Dis- trict Attorney presenting no counter affidavits, the court granted the mo- tion, ordered the trfal of the case to the county of Santa Clara, and re- manded the defendant to the custody of the Sheriff of that county. Those who submitted the afidavits were: Thomas Flannelly, John Poole, B. A. Rankin, Claude Fox, Dan Mullen, Leon S. Bean, William Bement, T. H. Beebe, H. S. Sears, W. Z. Price, E. M. Hanson, J. C. ller, John Solen, J. F. Greer, J. E. Dougherty, J. H. Wilson and George Holden. CHARGES OF ROBBERY OF THE GOVERNMENT. While There Appears to Be No Foundation for the Story It Will Be the Subject of Congressional Inquiry. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—The Herald’s ‘Washington correspondent telegraphs: Charges that the Government is usu- ally robbed of from six to eight mil- ilon dollars in payments to railroads for transportation of malls will be the subject of Congressional inquiry. When the House Committee on Postoffices and Post roads frames its appropria- tion Dbill the principal officials of the Postoffice Department will appear, and I understand this subject will be most carefully investigated. At the Post- office Department it is asserted that there is little or no foundation for the charges. Second Assistant Postmas- ter-General Shallenberger, who has charge of such matters, is not jn the city. —_— Use of Wood in Warships, SHINCGTON. Dec. 27.—Assistant Secretary Roosevelt submitted to See- retary Long to-day his report with ref- erence to the continued use of fireproof wood on naval ships. Mr. Roosevelt urges that wood be abandoned for deck purposes and that wood of any kind be employed as sparingly as possible in future construction. The Assistant Secretary favors the use of cork, but, where wood is absolutely needed, he suggests that fireproof wood be used. P SOUTHERN CRUISE POSTPONED. It Is Believed the Spanish Situation Might Be Aggravated by Hurrying Vessels to Cuba’s Vicinity. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—A Washington special to the Herald says: The de- parture of the North Atlantic squad- ren for the ‘Gulf of Florida has been postponed until January 10. The de- partment officials say it is Impossible to sooner complete repairs to vessels in the New York yard. In some quar- ters it is hinted that the delay is due to the belief that the Spanish situa- tion might be aggravated by hyrry- ing vessels to the vicinity of Cuba. 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