The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 5, 1898, Page 8

G TR 8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1898. HE ADMITS THAT HE IS GUILTY | signed by himself, T. J. Parsons (chair- | man) and Henry Lunstedt (secretary | of the executive committee) have au- George Tauchi, Who Shot Mary Castillo, Is in Jail. | and quite a considerable Says That She Fooled | Him and He Was | Desperate. { extent of the law. jubilee celebration were yesterday issued to the Mayors of mnearly 400 citles in the United States by the com- mittee on publicity and promotion. Many of the members of the finance committee who were present at last night's meeting reported that in their districts they had encountered persons who exhibited letters under which they claimed authority to collect funds for the Golden Jubilee. Chairman Coleman told the members of the com- mittee that no one except those who carried the numbered collection books HAS RAISED A HORNET™S NEST Result of the Row Be- tween Judges Low and Campbell. thority to receive subscriptions for the funds needed for the Golden Jubileee. Chief of Police Lees will be asked to investigate these cases, and the com- mittee will prosecute them to the full | Significant Remark Made Yes- terday by Chief Justice All the committees made flattering reports of the reception accorded them, Beatty. amount of money was paid {n. Other committees expect to complete their labors in a few days. The lists so far published do not contain the names of the large corporations which have taken action, and from which returns are daily ex- 2, 8 and 4 May Be Tested. The Natlonal Association of Sta- | tionary Engineers has informed the Jubilee parade committee that it will | The little unpleasantness between Acknowledges That His Trouble Is More Than He Ex- pected. THOUGHT HE TOOK POISON Dr. Fitzgibbon Hurriedly Called to Attend the Supposed Mur- derer. | The long looked for Japanese, George | Tauchi, who fatally shot Magy Castillo, is now in the City Prison. He was ar- rested last evening in a den at 321 O'Farrell street by Detectives Gibson and Wren and Officers Clark and Peshon. For many d: searching b all places v the officers have been hous ships and the murderer might be stowed, bt til last evening nothing bad been heard of hin Louis Fan, who present at the time of the s Y. Yachimi, in whose house { was hidden, were placed In the tanks at the City the detention I 1 a criminal. :ning Officer Hellings es were sup- | 1 murder, but d as soon as Tauchl /f/’, ’,/ /,////l/////////// W Judges Low and Campbell over the acceptance of a bond by the latter for the release of Sidney Kellett may have | far-reaching consequences. Judge Low convicted and sentenced Kellett to one year in the County Jall, being six months each cn two charges for having burglar tools in his pos- enter the parade. The members will | turn out a small traction-engine drawing two coaches, which will con- | tain about fifty of their numb The occupants of the coaches will wear the official badge. Professor Miehling, marshal of children’s day at Golden Gate Park, is forming the programme to be carried out by the schoolgirls under his direc- | session and carrying a concealed tion. ~Over 500 will be assembled—one | weapon. He appealed and Judge company each from the followlng | campbell accepted a bond for his re- S Toh et e Hocific|jéase. The Sheriff, on the authority ton, Franklin, Mission, James Lick |of Judge Low, declined to recognize and Everett. The exercises will be |Judge Campbell's order of discharge, opened by the entire body drawing up |and Kellett's attorney, Arthur Mack, T e, L b T T ) 2 i, Wy Yt George Tauchi and the Place in Which He Was Concealed at 325 O’Farrell Street. ‘When Tauchi was taken to the prison he vomited freely, and Dr. Fitz- gibbon was hurriedly called in as it was supposed he had taken poison, but it v oon seen that he was suffering from an overdose of whisky or alcoholic stimulant. Detective Gibson stated last even- ing that he found the long-looked-for murderer in a closet in the rear of 321 O'Farrell street, and that in his opin- fon he had been there since the crime had been committed. Tauchi first a mitted that he had killed Mary Ca tillo, but afterward stated that he had -merely. tried to frighten the victim with a revolver and it accidentally ex- ploded When brought into the prison he was Intoxicated, but as he appreciated his position he became sober and asked who had preferred the charges against him. He said, “I will tell my story in court and your questions don’t bother me. I liked Mary and wouldn't shoot ‘her for the whole of Japan. Why should I shoot her? She was my best girl, but others tried to take her away from me. ‘After the accident I went to San Mateo, but afterward returned here. At first I did not know that she was dead.” ‘ The police consider his capture a good plece of work. MONEY IS VERY SLOW. Jubilee Management Confident of Better Collections in the Future. | In making preparations for their dis- lay in the coming golden jubllee cele- ration the Soclety of California Pio- | neers is taking more pains than it could were the affair entirely entirely | representative of their own organiza- | tion. At the meeting of the celebra- | tion committee yesterday afternoon the | design for the float in. the jubllee parade was finally accepted. The float, which was designed by Andrews and Cannon, the designers of the jublilee parade committee’s floats, is a repre- sensation of Sutter’'s mill. The sur- rounding ground, upon which are to be living figures of aborigines and miners, will be portrayed. Within the mill will be the identical saw which ‘was in the mill on January 24, 1848, and has since been among the relics owned by the soclety. Embossed invitations to attend the | the | opened and the girls will perform cal- line. At the command “Front— ! applied for a writ of habeas corpus distance!” the ranks will be | bhefore Judge Carroll Cook. At the ar- gument Judge Low contended that the committing magistrate alone had the right to accept a bond for a prisoner’s release, but Judge Campbell laid down the law that any Judge of a Police Court was justified in accepting a bond, provided it was unobjectionable. take isthenics. The subscriptions published in The v, including the returns ast, amounted to $6725. then additional subscriptions as follow have been reported by the finance committee: Judge Cook decided that Low was San Francisco Fire Department, $150; | right and Campbell was wrong. Empor nd Golden Rule Bazaar, $100; | Kellett’s attorney appealed to the $100; Parks & Lacy | Supreme Court, more with the object ALl o of having the question definitely set- e ey 10 | tlea than anything else, and the case John W. Coleman, $100; Washburn-Moen | Was to have come up for argument Manufacturing Company, $0; California | yesterday morning before Chief Justice Jockey Club, $50; S. F. Weeks Company, | Beatty. Meantime Judge Low had ap- $50; Alaska Yukon Tr‘unsponnllu{y: Com- | proved of the bond accepted by Camp- T e T bell and issued an order for Kellett's Waiter & Co., Stein, Stmon & (,&v‘relmue, and he was released. 25; Redington & Co., $25; Langley, Mich- | This put an end to the controversy, s & Co., $: Pacific Tool and Supply | but Attorney Lennon, for Kellett, any, $ alifornia Machine Works, | wanted to argue the point raised. The Willlam {Volff & Co., $25; Rosenthals The Constitutionality of Police Courts | | rled woman, and Fred Da rporated, ton-Holmes Comp M. Blaskower, $25; Ren- $25. W. B. Hooper, $2 Blyth & Trott, St. Nicholas Ho- tel, Baldwin Hotel, $25; Sussman, Wormser & Co., $20; Golden West Hotel, $20; Russ House, $20; K. B. Soule, $20; Maison Riche, $ . Pascoe, $20; Isa. dor Burns, $20; George Fritch, C. F. Doe & Co. am Pump Rosenthal al Works, '$1 "’ Cash Store, $20 20; De Lano Bros., $20; $20; John Finn, $15; Do Manufacturing Company, eder & Co., $10; W. T. Garratt & Co., . Moore & Co.; $10; Hotel Brooklyn Hotel, $10; New . $10; Davis & Schonwasser, ewis Spear, $10; George E. Plum- , $10; White Bros., $10; W. A. Boole, £10; W. Fahey. $10; other subscriptions, $60. Total, $5620. She Loves the Boy. Mrs. B. D. Armstrong, & young mar- a bell boy in the Baldwin Hotel, 17 years of age, appeared in Judge Campbell’s court yes- terday to answer a charge of llving to- ether unlawfully. The woman deserted er husband, J. R. Armstrong, an ex- spectal officer, about six months ‘ago, and has been living with Davis since then in | a lodging-house on Powell street. She said in court that her husband {ll-treated her, and she left him to get something to do to support her two children. Davis, she sald, had helped her, and was in every way a man, although a b in years. The case was continued until to- morrow. —_———— Ta Cure a Cold In One Day. Teke Laxative Bromo Quinin» ‘Sablets. Al druggists refund the money if it fa.ls to cure. ¢ - The genuine L. B. Q. on each tablet. | tim | Chief Justice declined ‘to hear any ar- | gument and then Lennon said he would have taken up the constitutionality of | Police Court 4, presided over by Judge | Low. The Chlef. Justice significantly | remarked, “Better not rouse a sleeping lion.” It is sald that Attorney Lennon | will not heed the warning of the Chief Justice, but will take steps to have the | important question tested by the Su- preme Court. It was also said that the fear of having the question brought into court was the reason for Judge Low's action in signing an order for Kellett’s release. Under the charter for the city of San Francisco a Police Judge Court for the city and county was established. After- ward, by amendments to the.charter, Police Courts 2 and 3 were established. Then about five years ago, by a special act of the Legislature, the Police Judge’s Court was abolished and a Po- lice Court created with four depart- ments. It is contended that the pro- cedure of the Legisiature was uncon- stitutional, and that Police Courts 2, 8 and 4, particularly the last named, are not legally constituted. Sult for Life Insurance. Leon J. Rose, Robert Bonestell, Fannie J. Rose, Lulu S. Bonestell and Jennie B. Fish, heirs of Jerome B. Fargo, who died in this eity on January 5, 1896, have com- menced sult against the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association to recover $10,000 ulfigedht?d be gue on al;{e insurance policy held by Jerome 'argo at e of bis death. i 1 TOWNFULL OF EASTERN AGENTS They Pay No Taxes, No Rent and No Attention to Fair Dealing. | License Collector May Reach | Out for Them and Again Test the Law. Resident Jobbers to Combine Against the Class Known as Manufac- turers’ Agents. The San Francisco Directory con- | tains the names of 242 men who are | listed as manufacturers’ agents. The | list embraces some well-known firms | composed of merchants who reside in | this city, pay taxes and license and are demtified with the fortunes of the | community. Others belong to a class | of raiding agents. Falling to get rep- | utable and leading houses af estab- | lished character to handle their wares they have engaged in the business of selling to the trade in any form by | which buyers can be reached. They sell | by sample and catalogue, and in or- der to obtain the lowest rate on freight S0 as to compete with the resident job- | bers, go from one retall dealer to an- other until sufficient orders can be se- | cured to justify the shipment of a car- | load of goods. The car containing | packages for ten or twelve customers | is consigned to one individual in order | that the regulations of the Traflic As- | soclation may be observed in letter | while violated In spirit. It is said by | raflroad men that the transportation | companies have no right to inquire intodetallsregarding the consignmentof the various packages of merchandise so long as the record shows the ship- ment of a carload from one consignor | to one consignee. This system of traffic, which menaces legitimate commerce, is not confined to one, two or three lines of trade, but ex- | tends to all lines of business. The city | is literally swarming with agents. Res- ident jobbers are now determined to take steps to break up the practice. | There is no intention of proscribing | commercial travelers or agents for Eastern manufacturers who conduct their mercantile operations according to the established usages of trade, but there I8 a purpose to ignore the agent who sells directly to the retaller. Yesterday a representative of The Call visited the establishments of Mack & Co., George H. Tay Company and Miller, Sloss & Scott. All remarked | that the town was full of agents who were soliciting orders from the retail dealers of the city and interior towns. “So far as this house is concerned,” remarked Mr. Scott of the last named firm, “we do not buy goods from manu- facturing agents who sell to the retall trade and go about the city and coun- | try soliciting orders for their wares. | No agreement or compact among | wholesalers 1s needed. Simple observ- ance of the ordinary customs of trade | is all that is required. When we find | that an Eastern manufacturer has es- tablished an agency in San Francisco and that the agent msists on selling to retail customers, we simply decline to handle the goods of that manufacturer. The jobbing merchants of San Fran- cisco, In my judgment, are able to protect themselves. The Call, in ex- posing the system by which these man- ufacturing agents are conducting bus- iness, is rendering the mercantile com- munity service of great value.” ‘While License Collector Bonnet is willing and anxious to assist the local merchants in the fight for their rights, he is handicapped by the existing laws. The decisions of the higher courts are against the imposition of a license tax on drummers and agents representing firms outside the State. All that he can do is impose a merchandise license | tax on agents who are found selling goods In broken packages. The Su. preme Court of the United States has decided that a license tax on drum- mers soliciting sales from sample i unconstitutional, and therein the whole trouble exists. There are several hundred agents of Eastern manufacturing concerns in this city, and as they clalm that they only solicit sales from samples there is no way of imposing a tax on them. In a few Instances they have been de- tected selling their “samples,” and a merchandise license tax has been im- posed on those offenders. While the License Collector is certain that many of the agents have the goods shipped to them and sell them direct, he Is unable to secure the necessary proof to compel them to pay a merchandise tax license, “The great difficulty,” sald Chiet Deputy Fay of the license office yester- day, “is to catch these Fastern agents selling from broken packages. They claim that they only sollcit orders from sample, and that under the law they are exempt from paying any license tax. If any large quantity of goods is found In their possession, they claim that the goods were shipped to them to dellver to customers who made purchases from samples. It is only when we catch them selling to a dealer. from broken packages, that we can enforce the payment of a merchan- dise license. We have of late caught several agents selling direct from thelr so-called samples and forced them to pay a license the same as any other retall or wholesale dealer. TUnless we catch them selling goods from a bro- ken package, they claim that the goods they carry have been shipped to fill orders given from samples, and we are powerless to act.” PARKER LODGE INSTALLS, The Officers Are Pu;llcly Inducted Into Office for the Ensulng Term. John Ferrett!, deputy district grand master, last evening installed the of- ficers of Parker Lodge of the I O. O. F. at a public meeting of the lodge and in the presence of a large number of ladies, as well as visitors not members of the order. The new officers are: Joseph A. Wells, N. G.; F. Prohaska, V. G.; J. F. Nichols, S.; G. E. Davis, T.; J. L. Geary, W.; George C. Crow-. ell, R. 8. to N. G.; 8. Szanski, L. §. to N. G.; W. W. Whan, chaplain. After the ceremony ths nohle srand. who was re-elected, was on behalf of the lodge presented an ivory-headed cane in recognition of his sersices during the past term. After that there was the following prograrame: Tenor solo, Dan Balley; cornat solo, L. Erscnbach; soprano solo, Miss Allce Gussefeld: se- lections, Professor Chapin, J, K. Carey and Bert Van Cleve, and special dance, Miss Mattle Luce. The even. ing closed w th a dance and the serv- ing of a -oilation. —— A Word to the Wise. The public in general should keep an eye upon the Pattosien Company’'s Fu "l"‘l::;‘ '?l!lnre. cor. lfitrl’ and Mission see a_surprise next Saturd remember next Saturday! v and brocades, and $1.00 for, now at Black Brocaded Duchesse Gros de Londres, the | same you have been paying 75 cts, 85 cts 60 cts per yard. —_— L that | This week our Silks and our Corsets are joined---hand in hand they stand forth the second of a great series of great ante-stocktaking bargains. Colored Fancy Sllks, stripes, checks, figured | Corsets—S$1.00 corsets, and Roman stripes, have been selling for 85 cts, 90 cts, $1.00 and $1.25, we now offer for 70 cts per yard. $1.50 corsets, for 85 cts each. Corsets—$1.25 corsets, $1.50 corsets, $1.75 corsets and $2.00 corsets, for $1.10 Each. These are corsets from our regular stock, marked down, as in the case o | simply to close out before stock-taking. $1.25 corsets and our silks, 125-127-129-131 KEARNY STREET, S. F. CORNER SIGNS CAUSE TROUBLE Auditor Broderick Holds Up Several Large Demands. Finds No Law to Compel the Municipality to Pay Bills. Property-Owners May Also Be Ex- empt From an Old Law. Auditor Broderick has decided that the city has no right to pay for the street signs at the crossing of thor- oughfares, and will refuse to pass de- mands, amounting to over $500, to pay | for such devices that were recently | presented by Superintendent of Streets | Ambrose. During the time that the “Phelan” Board of Supervisors was contesting with the legal board for the possession of the city government Mayor Phelan dug up an old law enacted in 1883, which provides that owners of all cor- ner property must designate the names of the intersecting streets on which their property is situated by means of signs placed at the corner. By virtue of this ordinance hundreds of property-owners in outlying dis- tricts were compelled to go to the trouble of putting up signs at their own expense. Recently Mr. Ambrose concelved the idea of having the business streets of the city similarly designated, and a man was employed to do the work. Such corners as the Intersection of Grant avenue, O'Farrell and Market streets were provided with . artistic signs at an expense to the taxpayers of $9 per corner. This particular loca- tion happens to embrace the Phelan building, owned by the Mayor of the city and county of San Francisco. ‘When the bills, amounting to $600, were sent to the Auditor, he took up the statute-books, municipal reports and other volumes of legal lore and found only the ordinance of 1883 to provide for corner signs. There was nothing to show why the private prop- erty-owners ' in residence districts should pay for their own signs while the merchants downtown received theirs at the expense of the municipal- ity. Thereupon he began the composi- tion of a letter to the Board of Super- visors explaining the why and the wherefore of his refusal to audit the demands. “I fafl to see the legality of these demads for several reasons,” said the Auditor yesterday. “In the first place it appears like speclal legislation to compel property-owners on a corner to put up signs while those in the mid- dle of the block are exempt. One has as much right as the other, and the Board of Supervisors that enacted this ordinance evidently recognized this point after its passage, for the gas companies were required to desig- nate the name of streets on their corner lamps. These 8 by 36 inch maroon and silver signs are all very pretty, but I do not think that tbe municipality or property-owners can be compelled to pay for them. This matter was called to my atten- tion some time ago by Judge Low, and since then I have been looking care- fully into the law. Unless I can find some better authority than I have at present no demands of this kind will be signed. Unless some check 1is placed upon this matter it would be easy to run up bills against the muni- cipality of $8000 to $10,000. To Save Trouble. Maurice Hartnett, 149 Fair Oaks street, was taken to the Recelving Hospital Monday night and placed in a padded cell, as he was crazy from drinking too much liquor. He made his escape about yesterday morning, but re- 9 o'clock perfectly sober and quiet. He sald he had gone to take a bath and have somethis came back as he did not one into trouble. Dr. Well told &0 bome. WAS IT MURDER OR A SUICIDE? The Question That Causes 3 | Coolness Between Po- lice and Coroner. Diametrically Opposite Stories Told About the Position of the Body. Both Sides Are Firm in Support of Their Theories in the Matter. Did John H. Dow kill himself or was he murdered? This is a question that is being fought out by the detective force on the | possible to have a mysterious case one side and by the Coroner’s office on the other. There is expert police testimony to prove positively that it can be nothing but a case of suicide, and then again there is expert medical testimony to show that it must have been a murder. Captain Bohen says there are no de- says also that the hand, as well as the pistol, was bloody. The captain fur- ther cites numerous instances where men have been shot through the brain without being rendered unconscious, and says that the small balis from a 22-caliber pistol would not produce death instantly. He further cites the fact that there was a considerable lapse of time be- tween the firing of the first shot and the two later ones. The detective the- ory is further strengthened by the statement that Dow was financially embarrassed and in ill health. It h developed that while Dow owed several small bills he had suf- ficlent money on hand to liquidate them, and so far as his ill health is concerned, hown that he was thinking se of going to the Klondike next sprin: Thus are the divergent theories strengthened, and about the only. tan- gible matter that has come out of -the conflict of opinion is the fact that it is death made deeper mystery by im- perfect care of the corpse when it is discovered. It has been shown that if Captain Bohen’s assertion regarding the position of the right hand is true, then some one must have handled the body and placed the hand by the side of the dead man and covered it up before the Morgue officials reached the place. Mrs. Dazel seems to incline to the suicide theory, but says that she will express no opinion. She tells a straight story regarding her going from the shooting gallery shortly after midnight | Friday night, and says that the pistol which was used had been carried in Dow’s pocket for several days prior to the killling. She says she sees 'no reason to think it was a murtler. She has been released by the police, but paid a long visit to Captain Bohen velopments in the case which would | vesterday afternoon, and all inquirers cause him to change his opinion that | Were referred to her for particulars. the wounds in Dow’s brain were in- flicted by the shooting gallery man. Detectives Gibson and Crockett are so thoroughly convinced that Dow in- flicted the wounds that they have de- cided that there is nothing further for them to do. At the Coroner's office there is as positive a feeling In favor of the mur- der theory and in substantiation of this position the autopsy is said to have conclusively shown that after the first ball entered the skull it would have been impossible for Dow to have re- loaded the pistol twice and fired two other balls into his head. It was shown that two of the bullets fractured the skull and all three of them lacerated the brain tissue to such an extent that unconsclousness would have followed efther. The Morgue officials say that when the body was found it was covered with the bed clothing, and the right hand was under the cover and resting naturally on the leg. They say also that there was no blood on the hand nor on the pistol. Captain Bohen says that when found the body was not covered up, and that the right hand was hanging down at the side of the bed, almost touching the pistol, which lay on the floor. He She says that Dow was an expert with the pistol and could fire and reload it with great rapidity, and thinks it would have been easy for him to have fired the three shot: INDIGI‘IHNT POLITICIANS. The People’s Party County Com- mittee Pass Resolutions. At a meeting of the People's Party County Committee last night the fol- lowing resolution was passed regarding the last election: Resolved, That this committee has con- tinued and unqualified confidence in t| integrity and devotion of our said candi- dates, Thomas V. Cator, W. N. Griswold and T. H. Hatch, to the principles of the People’s party, and that we are satisfied that none of them would frame a charter in the interests of the corporations. And we also protest against the idea that a city of this size shall at the opening of the twentieth century make a charter ‘which does not provide for the initiative and referendum and ownership of public utilities and public employment of the unemployed. 3 —— Miss Frank's Lecture. Miss Ray Frank will deliver a lecture to-morrow afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Leon Sloss, 1516 Van Ness avenue. The address will be entitled “The Gift of the Gods. NEW TO-DAY. “BUREKA—We have found it1” How Ridiculous! ltistos;e;bw:w’ man fumbling among his papers with a cigar or tobacco in his mouth. He cannot see, he cannot bear, he can- not think. He is stunned by nicotine and his mental edges are slowly blunting while he nervously sucks or chews away! The sit- uation would ge laughable if it were not pitiful. His business capital—health and money are slowly oozingawayand clearer business brains are tak- ing the advantage. SUDDENLY and wrench But Don’t Stop Tobacco the nerves, permanently injuring them, take An absoluteand ki vegetable cure for the poiton Dot e ote fortobacea ol take BACO-CURO, it will oty m"m"‘n{ the desire. Wo give & Written Guarantes [ :‘i—--—l:- B0 or 81 3 box, thres h-—-.a-.:n Dreggists, o - BURKEA CHENICAL AXD MAFG. 00w, Li CROSSE, Wis, any