The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 12, 1898, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1898 1limited numbers o 00 pleces or fewer, and only on affidavit proof that actual consume; were the chase: So jealous were the friends of this act to Insure its benefits to the small actual consumers that the num- any one pe! s iimited to 3000 sacks in the | The Senate amended this | to allow of maximum | purchases of 5000 pieces. was designedly hedged in | but the board were | to find a loophole when | not at a los they concluded to embark on the pe- - enterprise about to be described. It will be noted that in section 1 of the act it ie the duty of the State | prison authorities to confine the sale of jute sumers direct, “bu: d for any one in no ¢ dividual or fi ing any one year | for more than 5000 grain bags, except on uest of the Warden and the 2 yproval” of the board. it is provided that “on 15th day of June each and with the consent of a v of the board,” the Warden 1 orders for larger quantities to al consumers.” L L L L LT se two provisions would 1 conflict they are recon- Obviously the power and duty expressed in the first section w} is this: When an applicant appears before the Warden r to June 15 the v himself that the an actual con- in the quantity because it is on mendation that the Nor is the approval of one or a majority of the board suf- fic They must “unanimously” on the assurance that the Warden must sat person n question i APProxin ipplied fc B00C re for consumption direct, be-‘ fore the order of the applicant can be filled. This clause affords the board | the chance of accommodating a wheat | ra ho needs more than 5000 sacks. It was not intended as a cover for con- tracts for sacks in great numbers, to | be delivered at the option of the appli- | cant Greater latitude is given the bosrdi under the clause in section 2, since, ac- cording to this, they may dispose of | more than 5000 sacks to any single ap- | plicant by consent of a “majority” of | the members. But even here they are | required to take every precaution that on other than an actual con- should be favored. On July 1, 1893, the beginning of the | first fiscal term in which the Ostrom | act operated, the San Quentin ware- | house contained a surplus of grain sacks in the number of 1 00. This surplusage increased until it registered | on February 3, 1897, 2,220,000 sacks. The board about that time, under a | pretext seemingly sound from a busi- ness point of view, adopted a resolu- tion nullifying the law. They | resolved to sell sacks in any| number within the limit of 1,000,000, for | future delivery. as wheat and otHer | commodities are sold on change for | ation in margins. One of the | first individual sales under this sion was of 100,000 sacks. Evi- v a coterie of friends, mostly middlemen and farmers estates, were quietly | the illegal departure | part of the board, for! f period of fifteen days a to- 100,000 ks had been con- delivery, any number of | the ations, which came with a“ rush from certain quarters, ranging | from 20,000 to 100,000 sacks. { A ution was made to| cloak the sale of the second million and | meanwh on February 5, the board, | acting by virtue of the power vested |n; them, had fixed the price at $475 per | hundred cks. February 20th, when | 2,000,000 sacks had been contracted for, | they advanced the price to $5 per hun- | dred, and at this rate under resolutions | disposed of 500,000 sacks, at this point limiting each applicant to 10,000 sacks. Two days later they resolved, on the same terms, to sell an additional 750,- | 000 sacks. Two weeks afterward they advanced the price to $5 40 per hundred., and placed the limit of applications ac- | cording to law again, at 5000 in each case. tracted fc second resc It will be observed that the larger or- | ders were accepted at the lesser price fixed t them, and that they chalked | value of the product to the early | on stock still in the State warehouse, | but bargained fordelivery, from $4 75 per hundred sa 0 per hundred. Be- fore these sacks were called for the | board had by private legislation, after | the fashion that corners in shares and industrial products are manipulated, | fattened the value of the total pur- chase to the applicants by $18,000, and pegged up the price to the thousands of small consumers who depend on-local | storekeepers and dealers, from $4 75 to $5 40—just 65 cents per hundred. One not accustomed to figuring margins might be puzzled to see how | such could be the result. Here is the | easy sleight-of-hand manner in which | it is worked out: Two million grain | sacks in the penitentiary warehouse on | February 3 were rated as worth $4 75 | per hundred. A comparatively few per- | sons contracted t6 buy this number at | the price given, but had no call for| them until the period of their use in | the fall had arrived. | March 13 the board fixed the price at | $5 40 per hundred, making the sacks still undelivered worth just 65 cents per | hundred more to the applicants who | neither had paid for nor received them. | The total of the inflated value thus | manipulated was 65 times 20,000, or | $18,000. | Between February 20 and March 13, | at $5 per hundred, 1,250,000 sacks were | contracted for delivery. | On March 13, the date of the second raise to $5 40 per hundred, this part of | the warehouse stock was inflated“by 40 | cents a hundred sacks to the )nlendlngj purchasers, or a total of $5000, making | the grand total of $18,000. As the Cal- | cutta rates follow the prison jute rates, | the prices for the season were thus watered to the $5 40 point, which was | the average at which the small farmers had to buy their sacks in the market. Throughout the State certain bankers and storekeepers, by a connivance that is criminal, secure San Quentin sacks to deal in, together with the Calcuttas, which are of inferior quality, Al- though the product of the State Prison mill is by no means commensurate with the demand—in fact, satisfying only a fraction of it—it is of sufficient volume to serve as the chief factor in regulating the prices of the Calcufta importations, which come from the cheapest of cheap labor, and are con- trolled by a combination. The minimum prices on Calcutta sacks range under the quotations for *he State product, and late in the sea~ =3 intending pur- | ‘ =g | | % on might purchase an- | & o o | exclusive of | penditures made on the product. nature of things, a season might come [=R=F-FefoFo-3 R 33 233 -F-F-3-3- R -F-F-F=2-F-F-F - =g =g et o o SEC. 2. Demands for jute goods the goods. some Notary Public or by a Justice of (=R=g=eg=gegeFeuPugegegageug=geRel for example, the season of the extra- ordinary action of the board related, Calcuttas were quoted at $4 1213, when San Quentins were $4 65, $475 and $5. After the State Prigon Boarad set up the price to $540, with a depleted stock, Calcuttas jumped to $57 This law respecting the quotation on sacks is not drawn solely from the ex- perience of last year; it is applicable to other years, and has been noted in the State of Washington, which imi- tated California in equipping its Walla Walla Penitentiary with a jute mill ‘While preeise figures as to the cost of Calcutta sacks laid down in San Fran- cisco are not readily obtainable, it is generally known that the margin of the | importations is such that the import- | ers are at all times prepared to sell at prices fixed on the prison product, or for less. It remains to be seen, fied in pushing up prices arbitrarily as they did—an action beneficial to the | importers and injurious to the farm- | ers. It should be remembered that be- fore they fixed the $5 40 rate they had contracted for the delivery of the sur- plus product. They were virtually ad- justing a price on the output of 1897. Now the law expressly provides that “at no time shall the price fixed be more than 1 per cent per bag in excess of the net cost of producing the same, prison labor.” This is plain enough in lettered intent. Going beyond, it was not the purpose of the jute niill acts to create a convict labor industry of profit to the State. The income to the revolving fund was ex- pected simply to cover the actual ex- In the when the ‘product would be sold for a little less than the actual outlay ceeding season might be fixed was lim- ited to 1 cent per sack in excess of the | | numbers of them, cost of production. It does not seem from an analysis of the jute mill record that any such emergency had arisen. The cost of pro- duction per sack, laid down in San Francisco, in the fiscal year of 1893-4 was 4.68; in 1894-5, 4.88; in 1895-6, 4.41; in 1896-7, 4.24. Thus the average cost of the four terms would be less than the 4.75 price fixed for the 2,000,000 sacks contracted for delivery under the first February resolutions. years was 4.55%. Then came the sale of 1,250,000 at 5, | which increased the average receipts above the actual cost, and finally when | the possibllities of sales were reduced to the running output, the price was marked up to $540. It is represented that the board fixed the latter price after an estimate had been made, show- ing that the actual cost of production was $440. Thus they sought to force the price to the limit textually allowed by law, Instead of paring it down to the minimum intended. Even here they manifestly made out the case to suit their wishes, for their own official | record states that the actual cost of | production, with the bag laid down in | In this respect, | while boosting the market against the | this city was 4.24. farmer, they violated the law to the extent of 16 cents on every hundred sacks; that is to say, they fixed a price 1.16 cents per sack on the product of the last half of the 1896-7 fiscal year In excess of the actual cost of producing | it. ~ Was this done in the interest of the farmer? Certainly not. The evil effects have been traced through some of the wheat raising counties by The Call; and, let it be said, with no malice against the board, and with no deslgn to make them the objects either of defamation or sensa- tional attack. It was found that when it came to the period of the delivery of State sacks the Calcutta prices had advanced from $4 12% to $5 25. The large majority of storekeepers and dealers had both lines of sacks for sale, and in many instances left the selection from either stock to the option of the small purchaser. They were enabled to do this by the high water quota- tion fixed by the State board, approxi- mate to which the importers sold the Calcuttas, inasmuch as the supply of State sacks, controlled by the middle- men, though superior in quality, were represented in cost at the quotations of February and March, namely, $4 75 and $5. In other cases the cost of both Calcutta and State sacks was advanced by adding the freight rate to the $5 40 quotation. In every aspect the action | of the board on February 20 and March | 13, in making up the price, was in- | Jurious to the interests the State jute | mill is supposed to advantage. How in the world could middlemen | get possession of State sacks, is asked? | The Call will cite merely the known | method of a single operator, and in do- | ing so may add that his dealings must | have been familiar to at least one mem- ber. of the board. This man handled last year no less than 150,000 State sacks, procured by him under the pe- culiar dispensations of February and March, as related. His case will serve to {llustrate the immoral and degrad- ing practices involved with the many SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Prison Directors, from time to time, to fix the price, and to give public notice of the same, at which jute goods shall be sold by the State, but at no time shall the price fixsd be more than 1 cent per bag tn excess of the net cost of producing the same, ex- clusive of prison labor ; and it is made the duty of State prison authorities to confine the sale of jute goods to consumers direct, but no order shall b2 filled for any one individual or firm during any one year, for more than 5000 grain bags, except on request of the Warden, and the unanimous approval of the State Board of Prison Directors. in the order in which they are made; but when the supply is short demands shall be registered at the prison in the order of their arrival, and filled from the output of the jute mill in the order of registration; provided, that on and after the fifteenth dav of June of each year, by and with the consent of a majority of the Board of Prison Directors, the Warden mav fill orders for larger quantities to actual consumers, as they may, in their judgment, deem expedient ; provided, that orders of farmers shall take precedencs over all others ; provided further, that 10 per cent of the purchase price shall accom- pany each order, and the remaining portion must be paid upon delivery of SEC. 3. Al orders for jute goods must be accompanied by an affidavit setting forth that the amount of goods contamed in the order are for individual and per- sonal use of the applicant, said affilavit to be subscribed and sworn to before which the applicant resides, provided that any applicant, as herstofore pro- vided for, who falseiv and fraudulently procures juts goods under the pro- visions of this act shall be guiity of a misdemeanor. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. therefore, | whether the prison board were justi- | in money, and to recoup this loss the lati- | tude within which the price of a suc- | In other words | the average cost per sack for the four ; = THE LAW OF FEBRUARY 27, 1893. 2 by consumers sha!l be promptly filled the Peace residing in the township in [=gugeFugaFugaRug-ReyagegugePegegegetaRaFataFaFugaFaFuFaPuRugeRagugageyed fegeg=geg=2=2-F=2-2-2 3 =2uR=2-2:3-F-1 }snn usually go a little above it. In 1897, | abuses of the Ostrom law. He is a storekeeper, like many another benefi- clary of the premature grain sack sales, Many small farmers patronize him, and doubtless recelve favors as debtors. They appeal to him for assistance when they want sacks, or, as has been learned, he advises them early that they should put in their applications. The majority of them, short of funds| at that time of the year, are made de- pendent on him for the deposit of the | required 10 per cent of the purchase | money. He agrees to advance this, and | further pay the residue of 90 per cent | and the freight charges when the sacks | are delivered to him. | But the farmers must commit a mis- | demeanor under the law before they can secure this assistance. One man will need 500 sacks, another 1000. The middleman could not help them out on | such a small purchase. They must ap- ply for the full limit of 5000 sacks—in excess of it In some instances—and make affidavit that they are actual con- sumers of the given number. He carries | in stock, in fact all his kind do, a sup- | ply of blank forms. The form is as | follows: 5 389, To the Warden of San Quentin Prison: | Sir: I herewith inclose ——for $—, to | cover deposit required by law on — | grain bags at — cents. { Ship bags upon receipt of balance of purchase price by . i Respectfully, State of California, County of , ss. I hereby certify that I am a farmer and grower of grain, residing in | County, and that the bags ordered | above are for my own personal and in- dividual use. : Subscribed and sworn to before mas this day of —, 185—, Notary Public. This affidavit the farmers are per- suaded to sign and swear to, though it is learned, who | are familiar with the law have declined to do so, and the orders are filed with | the board. Each application is signed by the middleman, and he'incorporates | the stereotyped notice “shipping in- structions to follow When the harvest time comes he has all the applications he made forwarded in carload Jots. In this particular in- stance his freight rate amounted to $1 8 thousand. The local rate is $1.621, | and the extra 621 cents he added to the | farmer's account. | The farmer who signed the affidavit | for 5000 or 10,000 sacks, as the case | may have been, while he required only | 500 or 1000 in 1897, paid $5 40 per hun- dred with the 1.621% freight per thou- | | sand added, and the middleman put | into his warehouse the remainder of | the consignment for $4 75 and $5: for | the most part at the former figure. | Many, if not nearly all, of the small | farmers thus imposed upon, are ignor- ant of the law, and, therefore, unaware of the fact that they are tempted into committing a misdemeanor by its very terms. Not so with the middleman, who does not hesitate to make tools of these men, and convert their necessities and ingenuousness to his personal pro- fit. This petty rascality is not common only to one community. It is practiced in many, and demands the rigorous surveillance of the board. The Call believes that the hoard| should revise their methods of dealing | with the grain-sack product, and mere- | ly makes this statement preliminary to a fight it intends to wage until the farmers have a thorough hearing, to the end that a more prudent and con- siderate supervision of the subject may be enforced. Governor Budd has been appealed to by complainants acquaint- ed with the errors and mischief of the present manner of management, and may be -expected to interest himself in the matter. The board will attempt to justify the extraordinary course they have pur- sued, on the ground of'business expe- diency. Maybe their motives were | satisfactory to themselves. They have | hankered and hungered for quite a | while for the unrestrained confrol of the sale of bags, and at one time went so0 far as to advocate the sale of prison sacks In neighboring States. In fact, they incorporated this idea, after the Attorney-General had reproved it for- mally, in that part of their 1894-96 re- port which recommends the repeal of the Ostrom restrictions on their dis- cretionary powers. They might well argue at the time, in support of their position, that the revolving fund was somewhat depleted by a surplus pro- duct they could not dispose of at home with profit, or for cost, yet how could they expect to dispose of it in contig- uous States to better advantage, with the Calcutta sacks still in the market against them? ‘While the Ostrom provision may be | subject to criticism, as difficult to com- ply with, it has not received the trial by the board to which it is entitled. First of all, no tenable reason can be urged why the board cannot sell for cost every sack produced at the prison mill. No profit is required or expected by the people. What is desired above all other considerations is that the | clal rates. small farmers receive the benefit of the act of 1893. The primal duty of the board is to endeavor by every economy to reduce the cost of production and to make the cost, as much as they pos- sibly can, the standard of market quo- tations. 1t is by developing the possi- bilities, or at least fairly testing the merits of the Ostrom act, that such an end may be achieved. Two causes militate against the mass of small farmers getting sacks at offi- One, their want of funds for the preliminary 10 per cent deposit and the final payment before realizing | from their crops; the other their ig- norance or misapprehension of the law. Between them and the State the board sheuld serve voluntarily as advisers and negotiators. They should address annually to every small farmer in the State a letter explaining the law and offering co-operation on the part of the board in the matter of securing tem- porary loans for the needy through the many banks that could be persuaded to extend credit, say, for 60 days, at a reasonable monthly percentage. They should refrain additionally from fixing prices or making sales until the prox- imity of harvest would enable the farm- ers to estimate the number of sacks they might need. The whole transaction; the fixing of price on the basis of cost, the accept- ance of applications with deposits, and the delivery and receipt of final pay- | ment, might be made to cover a period not exceeding sixty days in which the farmer could sell at least enough of his sacked crop to liquidate his note. Take for example the experience of 1897. Say a farmer needed 1000 sacks, and he could have secured acceptance of his application in June or July under the February rate, which was ample for the State, as it covered the cost of pro- duction. A deposit of $4 75 would have been required. Now a small farmer is poor indeed who cannot raise $4 75 or twice or thrice that amount. In thirty days he would have wheat to sell, with the proceeds of which he could take up a note covering the 90| per cent final payment and freight. At 1 per cent, or say 1% per cent, for such a small accommodation, he would pay for this assistance less than one dollar. As it was he was made to pay on the thousand sacks he used $650 premium, a distinct loss to him even as a borrower of $550 on that small lot of goods. So it runs through the countless list of minor wheat producers who are the very ones the board should go out of their way to protect and assist in the spirit of the law for which they have shown such regrettable contempt. With these men the board should put themselves in touch by persistent and systematic correspondence,and whenall has been done for them that can be done by the 15th of June each year, then the discretionary power of ac- cepting applications for =acks in num- bers exceeding 5000 may be exercised. RELIEF PARTY ABOUT T0 MOVE Will Sail for Skaguay and Dyea on the 23d ot January. Interesting Letter From Ex- Collector Wasson of Seattle. Special Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, Or., Jan. 11.—The Gov- ernment relief expedition will start for the Klondike on the steamship Oregon which sails from here on January 23 for Skaguay and Dyea. Arrangements were completed to-day with the Pacific | Coast Steamship Company by General H. C. Merriam, commanding the de- partment of the Columbia, for the transportation of the men, mules and supplies. The advance party will consist of sixty men from the Fourteenth In- fantry, and with them they will take 100 mules and 250 tons of supplies. Captain Ruhlen of Fort Riley will have charge of trarsportation. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 1l.—Andrew ‘Wasson, ex-Collector of the Port at Seattle, who i{s now at Dawson City, N. W. T, has written a letter to his wife, who is now in this city, in which he tells of some interesting things about affairs in the Alaskan gold fields. He writes that one day in the latter part of November there was great ex- citement caused by a raft going down in the ice loaded with beef, the men crying out and offering $1000 for a line | to land them, which was not possible. One day he counted thirty-six boats rushing down the river with the ice, but it was impossible to lend any as- sistance. On November 16 the ther- mometer was 25 degrees below zero, with but little hope of it going higher for eight months. The days were short, there being no light except between 10 a. m. and 3 p. m. Wasson sayq: “I am afrald there will be great suffering and loss of life here this winter as provisions are not to be had at any price. Many hun- dreds went down the river to Fort Yu- kon, where the steamers are stopped with provisions, and hundreds are still g0jng up. Many who go out will re- main, while others will return in the spring with provisions. We can expect no relief now ufitil next June or July, when we look for steamers up the river from St. Michael. The condition here is terrible. Wood is $60 a cord and it burns out about as fast as one can put it in the stove. A newspaper of re- cent date would sell for any money. Writing paper and envelopes have glven out. Letters are being written on wrapping paper and sent out to be put in envelopes and stamped. “THE BLACK CARDINAL" WRITTEN BY A PRIEST Rev. John Talbot Smith's Play Will Be Pro- duced at a Prominent Broadway Theater. NEW YORK, Jan. 11.=Rev. John Talbot Smith, a Roman Catholic priest Wwho is understood to be in his clerical associations very close to Archbishop Corrigan, has written a play entitled “The Black Cardinal,” which is to be produced at a prominent Broadway theater. The piece is an historicai drama, and its plot is founded on the struggle between Napoleon I and Pope Pius VII, in five acts. The struggie is full of interest and teeming with dra- matic incidents. — e To Cure a Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Tablets. Al dmmnsnmnammag;hlfitlmmnm c. The genulne has L. B. Q. on each tablet. AFFAIRS OF THE STATE PRISONS Important Meeting of the Directors at San Quentin. Reports Presented and Pardons That Were Granted and Denied. A Banquet Held in the Evening in Honor of Retiring Director E.J. DePue. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Jan. 11.—| The State Board of Prison Directors were officially informed at the meeting held here to-day of the execution of Theodore Durrant last Friday. There | was no comment whatever. Warden Hale simply handed the death certifi- cate signed by Dr. Lawlor to Clerk Ellis, who read it, and the incident was er. There was a full meeting of the Pris- | on Directors to-day, and considerable business of importance was transacted. Directors Wilkins, Fitzgerald, Hayes, | Devlin and DePue responded to their names, and the session continued | throughout the day. Tnis evening a | banquet is being held in honor of E. J. | DePue, the retiring member of the| boardy whose term as Prison Director | expires at midnight after ten years of service as one of the energetic members | of the board. | Director Devlin read the following | resolution, which was approved and or- | dered spread on the minutes: | Whereas, the term of Hon. Edgar J.| | | DePue is about to expire, and after ten | years of faithful service as a member of the State Board of Prison Directors he | is about to retire from the board, and | the board desires to express in enduring | form their appreciation of his devotion | to the public service; Resolved, by the State Board of Prison Directors that the Hon. Edgar J. DePue, by the painstaking attention he has ven to the arduous duties of a director, y the consideration he has at all times | shown for those with whom he came in | contact, by the kind: s and justice with which he "has discharged his duties to the unfortunates under his care, is en- titled te receive the gratitude of the peo- ple of the State. In the board he has unfailingly been courteous to his fellow- members, and by his rigid adherence to duty, his unquestioned integrity of pur- pose and his keen sense of honor, he has at all times won and possessed thelr | deep and abiding respect. In the years of honorable and useful life that still lie before him his colleagues on the board 3 and prosperity. Some ea. hours of t lives, they are happy_ to say, are those that | have been passed in ociation with him as member of this board, and the ties of | friendship that have been formed in | such intercourse time cannot destroy or | change. | Resolved, That this resolution be spread in full upon the minutes of the board, both at San Quentin and Folsom ‘Warden Hale then presented Mr. De Pue with a handsome silver service on | behalf of the officers and employes of | San Quentin Prison. He said that all, | from the Warden himself down to the | extended the hand of good fel- | and wished that both health and wealth would follow Mr. DePue | through life. | Mr. DePue expressed his thanks, and said that though he was to retire, he would assure them that his interest would not cease with his term. In a verbal report Warden Hale stat- ed that the new wharves and sheds or- | dered by the board were completed;l that a change in the running of the | jute mill had been made, as Instead of | mud_drums, a system of funnel-cocks | had been put in, causing an expense of | $700. The following report of the operations | of the jute mill was submitted by Warden Hale: Number of grain bags on hand. Number held for shipment on orders from last year... Number of bags avallable for, sale.. Raw jute on hand in warehouse, will run the mills until about April 10, 1565. Jute contracted for to arrive: 000 bales on ship Ecclefechan, out from Cal- cutta 71 days. 100 bales per December steamer from Cal- cutta via Hongkong. Comparative output of jute mills the month of December: 15933018 cuts grain bagging (25 days), aver- age 12084 cuts. i 1894—3134 cuts graln bagging (25 days), aver- age 125.72 cuts. 18951180 cuts grain bagging (11 days), aver- age 107.27 cuts. 15961120 cuts grain bagging, 575 cuts sugar | bagging 14-shot, 359 cuts sugar bagging 15-shot; total, 2084 cuts (19 days), -average 109.68 cuts.; equai to 2277 cuts grain bagging, 119.84 cuts. 15971441 cuts grain bagging (10 days), aver- age 144.10 cuts. In a report to L. Wadham, expert accountant of San Quentin prison, E. P. Colgan, State Controller (by W. W. Douglas, deputy), forwarded from Sac- ramento the following items shown by the State's books: State Prison Funds .. Jute Revolving Fund Support, etc.... Salaries, etc . Expert Wadham submitted the fol- lowing report to the board: Gentlemen: Herewith please find re- port of my examination of the books and vouchers and quarterly report for the quarter ending December 31, 1897: On January 2, 1888, I counted the cash in the general fund, as well as that be- longing to the prisoners confined in San Quentin, and I am pleased to report that for I find both to agree with the amount called for in the books kept by your clerk. * * 1 have checked the quar- terly report with the cashbook, checked all vouchers with the cash entries, and T am pleased to report that T find vouch- ers properly numbered and filed for every dollar disbursed. I have checked all postings from cashbooks and journals to the ledger. The bankbook was balanced to the 2d inst., which agrees with our account in every pafticular. Cash Account in General Fund— Cash in Bank . Cash in Vault . Total cash belonging to Stats Priscners’ Cash— sh in i Cash in Vault Total ...... o ....$2,929 78 Avaflable funds for the balance of the forty- ninth fiscal year are as follows. General Approj State_Prison Fund ... Jute Revolving Fund Cash 'in' Hand ...-en.. 4% »| 32,997 184 Total Working Capital Trial balante of genaral Iso r prison ledger are completed, on file and correct. 1 am pleased to report that your books are correct and in proper order. L. WADHAM, Expert Accountant for the Board. San Quentin, January 10, 1868 Thomas Murray, a convict serving a ten years’ sentence for burglary com- mitted in San Francisco, had his cred- its restored and will be released on February 1. E. J. Espinoza, serving ten years for manslaughter, committed in Santa Barbara County, lost his credits for using a knife. The directors restored part of the forfeited credits, and Es- pinoza will also be released on the lst. “Nigger” Brown, the hero of innum- erable stabbing dlurl, put in an ap- lication to have his credits restored, ut this was refused by the board. Andrew Stannard’s sentence was commuted from Seven years to three and a half by the board. Stannard was | or driven to seek shelter. convicted of grand larceny County. David McKean's application for a parole was granted. He was convicted of burglary in San Francisco, sentenced to two and a half years, and his term will expire April 7. “W. F. Baird's application for a par- ole was granted. Baird is confined in Folsom prison under a six years’ sen- tence for forgery committed in Madera County. James W. Flood, the embezzling cash- ier of the Donohoe-Kelly Bank, asked the directors for a recommendation for pardon, but the matter was put over for one month. In the cases of Charles Osgood, B. F. Staley and George Chadwick, all serv- ing long terms for participating in the famous white cap cases of Lake ~oun- ty, the board returned their applica- tions for pardon to the Governor with- out recommendation. At the banquet this evening at War- den Hale's residence, in honor of E. J. DePue, the following guests were pres- ent: Prison Directors E. J. DePue, James H. Wilkins, Robert M.. Fitzger- ald, Daniel E. Hayes, Robert T. Dev- lin; Supreme Judge W. C. Van Fleet, Hon. W. W. Morrow, Superior Judge Frank M. Angellotti of Marin County, Hon. F. H..Gould, Warden Charles Aull of Folsom prison, Warden W. E. Hale of San Quentin, Clerk of the Prison Directors J. V. Ellis and Hon. B. F. Smith. SEMINOLE INDILNS 0 THE WARPATI Continued from First Page. in Kern who have relatives and friends at Eari- boro and other points in that section are Jbesieging the telegraph office for news, but the agent has either left Earlboro station to gather further in- formation or perhaps has been slain If the Earl- boro agent cannot be reached soon by Wire a train will be dispatched from here at midnight bound for the scene of reported massacre under orders from Judge Springer and having on board all the available Deputy Mar- shals under command of Captain Gra- dy, while the Secretary of War will be | wired to order troops from Fort Reno, The general offices of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf road have ordered out a special train from Shawnee hear- ing volunteers armed with Winchesters to intercept the Indians at Eariboro and prevent further bloodshed. SRS PITCHED BATTLE BETWEEN INDIANS AND SETTLERS. Conflict Near the Maud Postofiice in Which Several Families Are Exterminated by Redskins. WICHITA, Kan., Jan. 11.—A special | to the Eagle from Shawnee, O. T., says: The train from the east to-night brought to this city a car containing every woman and child of BEarlboro. The passengers confirm previous re- ports and say a pitched battle between the Indians and settlers took place this afternoon near Maud postoffice, result- ing in the wiping out of several fam- iles. At later dispatch from Shawnee says: A message call for men and arms has just been received from Earlboro, a town of about 100 inhabitants, nine miles east of here, saying that nearly 300 Indians have declared vengeance on the town and are moving forward declaring that they will burn the place. Grave fears are entertained for the set- tlers on the border. A special train was made up from here and 150 men, barmed to the teeth, left for the scene. The whole country is aroused. GUTHRIE, O. T, Jan. marshals arriving here from Maud re- port a reign of terror in that section of the territory, following the recent Iynching of two Seminole Indians, which has provoked the Seminoles to threaten vengeance. A dozen families are reported to have left their farms in the vicinity of Maud. One deputy brings a report that two white men were captured by feminole bucks yes- terday and put to the thumb torture. United States Marshal Thompson received instructions to-day to send a force of deputies to the line marking the border of Oklahoma and the In- dian Territory to co-operate with the Indian Territory officials in quelling the threatened outbreak. T A PR SEMINOLE CHIEFS DECLARE THERE IS NO UPRISING. But Nevertheless the People Along the Oklahoma Line Fear the Vengeance of the Indians. DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 11l.—A special to the News from Oklahoma City, O. T., says: There is an uprising in the Seminole Nation and one hundred armed Indians have killed twenty-five citizens of Pottawattomie County, this territory. The Indians are seek- ing to avenge the recent burning of Lincoln McGeisy and Palmer Simp- son, two Indians of the Seminole tribe, who were accused of murdering | Mrs. Leard of Maud postoffice. A spe- cial train load of armed citizens has gone to Earisboro, ten miles from Maud, and excitement is higher than ever known before In the Indian Ter- ritory. Another special to the News from Wewoka, Ind. T, says: To-day United States Commissioner W. T. Fears and F. F. Wisdom, chief clerk to Indian Agent Wisdom, accompa- nied by O. P. Linn, the national physi- clan of the Seminole Nation, went to the farm of Henry Taylor, a Seminole Indian, where the bodies of Lincoln McGeisy and Palmer Simpson, the NEW TO-DAY. “Has Left Her Troubled With Nettle Rash, but _ Hood’s Sarsaparilla Cured It. “I was troubled with nettle rash. I was induced to take Hood's Sarsapa- rilla, and after I had taken a few bot- tles of this medicine the disease entire- 1y left me, and I have felt nothing of it since.” MRS. A. R. BIGGS, Angel's Camp, California. SARSA- HOOD’S BARiita 18 the best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier. —_— P T T HOOD'S PILLS cure all Liver Ills. 2 cents. 11.—Deputy | two Seminole Indian boys who were burned at the stake by a mob, are buried, and opened the temporary grave where the charred bodies were resting. Only the trunks of the bodies re- mained. The legs and arms were en- tirely burned off and the bodies were unrecognizable. A common trace chain was around the neck of each and secured by the padlock. The chain was removed and brought back to Wewoka. It will be used as evidence in the inves- tigation. Commissioner Fears is thor- oughly investigating the matter. Wis- dom is here to report what takes place to the Interior Department. The re- port that the Indians are rising is wholly false and without foundation. It is rumored that the people along | the Oklahoma line are much excited and fear the Indians will cross the line and endeavor to avenge the death of their brothers. This, however, need not be feared, as all is quiet and serene in the Seminole nation. Yet a feeling has been created by the cruel and hasty action of the mob. Second Chief Hullsutter has directed the band chiefs of the Seminole nation to urge the Indains to be quiet and not commit any reprehensible acts. Sen- sational reports as to an Indian out- “break are not to be relied upon. | THREE HUNDRED ‘ GATHER ON TRIBAL DANCING GROUNDS. | pt Seminoles Gathering in Force Near Earl- boro ard Settlers Are Fleeing From an Expected Massacre. OKLAHOMA CITY, O. T., Jan. 11.— Word reaches here to-night that 300 Seminole Indians have gathered at the tribal dancing grounds, three miles south of Earlboro, O. T., and that many settlers of that section of the terri- tory are fleeing from an expected mas- sacre. All sorts of wild rumors are in circulation here, including a story that twenty-five persons have been slain by the Seminoles, but up to a late hour to-night no positive news of any actual attack upon the white settlers has been received. MUSKOGEE, I. T, Jan. 11.—United States Marshal Bennett received a tele- gram to-night from one of his deputies at Maud, O. T, in which the deputy gives a report in circulation there that the Seminole Indians are on the war path and that a band of some 200 In- dians have massacred twenty-five per- sons. Marshal Bennett has made ar- rangements to depart in the morning for the scene of the reported uprising. He is very popular with the Seminoles and hopes to be able to quiet them. SANTA ROSA FORGERY CASE OF GREAT INTEREST. | s G. W. Patton, a Prominent Contractor, on Trial for Signing the Name of Another Person. SANTA ROSA, Jan. 11.—The trial of G. W. 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