The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 15, 1898, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1898. PROVE NAUGHT v AGAINST WEBB Give Testi- mony in Rebuttal at Los Angel Witnesses the Prosecution, | the Case of Though for Each Hely the Defense. he School Director oral Schemes of Boodilers. Dispatch to The Call. Spectal , Jan. 14—School Di- secutors had their in- | - the Board of Ed- ntroduced testimony 1 was In rebuttal, ps themselves, rebutted any tes- W. A. Cheney LOS ANGELE rector Webb’ nse. 1 for the prosecu- the League for Bet- ent, had promised nteresting, but so far accused in anything tal was a fizzle; veritable boomerang for every witness ny only to the good char- rness and integrity of “'alter‘ te Webb. | When th o proceedings opened Secre- | id he had tried to sub- Adams, but the latter had uld not return for ten ally agreed that the It 1 should pay for a transcript of given in the Su- ing the trial of Webb, e put in as part of the this and Directors ett were put on by and testified to their hav- rmed against Adams by that Webb had being suspicious , and had gone so . as to suggest to 1 >n chairman of memb ich he ap- who was ymmittee, of r as he knew. A never been bers of and that he friendly f opin- cases of Miss Mae intendent of Schools first witness puton | e@ T asion * on anott poor to fair.” In giving - teachers’ commit- had rated “poor to of the young had ypointed s one of five or six rated, who had Her case was not ex- her testified that a Among . Childs and one of the witnesses who expected to develop | ting. Mr. Gauchnaur ~ the firm of Fuller in oils. He testi- ¢ Adams, Axtell and in its most im- | stimony as as wards, an- | P! Co., came | ams sald there hing In it for > trade of the | went to Mr. | had authority ng committee d have to be or 1 1 said there in it except 2 per cent to the low prices. He Mr. Axtell. I went and ¥ d to do noth- Mr. Webb. I reported | interview with Axtell and asked him to see v Adams never came to see why he got no rake-off.” | ss-examination of E. A. | for the ified further T 1d me he > purcha defense, | as fol- | = went to Webb, and Webb | wanted nothing but good prices, and that he was not in that kind of business.” | Ed called by the prosecu- | tion, proved one of the best witnesses for the defense that has ta- n the stand during this investiga- Yon. He testified that he was ap-| proached by Adams one day on Main | street about oil for the Board of Edu- | I told him,” continued the witness, | at T was not selling that kind of oods, and T made an appointment for | h Mr. Gauchnaur. Adams | 1bout 10 per cent, from what uchnaur told me. After Gauch- | orted to me what Adams | d T concluded we had better see In the spring I had been that Webb was not inclined an equal show with others. favorably impressed I went to Mr. Webb introduced Adams to Mr. 1 after he had asked fnr’ “Webb =aid he did not want anything | of that kind done. He added that if | anything further of that kind oc- red he would bring it to the notice he Board of Education, and he ask. to let him know. I said som time afterward that I did not believe the charges made against him, as his ith me were always | orge M. Trowbridge testified to had nothing to dc with the of the anonymous note sent to Trowbridge e Trowbridge. 500.” n rebuttal of was not 1, though one of the attor- the prosecution stated that he | to disprove a certain part of signed statement published in s that part in which wished Webb's The Call. Webb charged the Times with having been unjust to him. It w In the course of his testimony this itness said that Webb had never ac- sed him of having written the note. He said further that Webb said to him that he expected to prove his inno- cence, and he hoped the Times would give the same prominence to the proofs of his innocence that it had given to tha statements of his guilt. The wit- YEEEEE) | have handled the account of Durrant’s | thank you for showing us that w. | lario Alvarez, R R R R R e E R R L L L R LR L R R L T THE CALL’S STAND FOR DECENT JOURNALISM R NN NN NN LR RS N NN N R R R R N A NN N NN N NN RN NN R NN RN R AN ARRRARRALRRRRNRINRERS b COURAGE AND RIGHT PRINCIPLE. SONOMA, Jan. 8, 1898. To the Editor of The Call: Please ac- | cept my sincerest thanks and congratu- lations for the courage and high princi- ple manifested in editing to-day’'s Call without these most horrible and de- praving illustrations of the execution which s2emed to be a prominent fea- ture of the other daflies. I rejoice to see a daily of such a kind as yours. Most truly, O. E. HOTLE, Pastor M. E. Church. ONE DECENT MORNING PAPER. To the .Zditor of The Call—Dear Sir: | I want to express my good feeling to- ward you for the way in which you execution In this morning’s issue. It is a new departure for a morning paper to publish such sensational matter In such a business-like shape, with noth- ing repulsive to the general reader—| no unnecessary cuts and detail. T have | a morning paper which can be decent, and hope you will c in this ai- | rection. Very truly y | CHARLI ELL. San Francisco, January 8, 159 NOT MINISTERING TO MORBIDITY. To the Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: | I wish to thank The Call most sincere- ly for the wise and patriotic manner in | which it subordinated its business in- | terests to the higher interests of the community in presenting the facts of the Durrant execution without accom- panying illustratio: which, at best, would have but ministered to depraved and morbid cravings. Yours truly, WM. H N. Altruria, Sonoma County, Jan. 8, 1898. O'BRYAN | nuuNNNRLs | | | | 3 | 8 MERITS PUBLIC APPROVAL. :; i e = 8 | o Alameda Enclinal. 8: ‘ P $ In fts report of the Durrant execution The Call inaugurated a new % | #2 departure which is as sensible as it is refreshing. It gave -a plain, % | % straightforward account of the gruesome affair, but did not have a sin- %3 | good taste could make {t. its height. nuuNuNLRNLN 54 |8 | certainly a step toward a purer journai- rnnNLNLuuRuULNLRLLLNERNLNEn & gle illustration. The other papers, the afternoon ones in particular, vied with each other in seeing how horrible and beastly they could be in the pictorial line, and it was refreshing to turn to The Call and find a page unmarred with hatchet-made cuts, but typographically as neat as This new move on the part of The Call is an evidence that the picture craze for daily papers has about reached We shall be greatly mistaken if the public does not bestow warm approval upon this new and needed departure. AARAAR BRI LR R AR AR AR . % intelligence of the people and t ecution. the people. foXeRaR T oToPuFeaRetaFugauRagaTuguataRagaRuRatuted FOR PURER JOURNALISM. | COTTONWOOD, Jan. 10. To the Editor of the San Francisc Call: 1 wish to express to you my per- | sonal appreciation and thanks for the ab- sence of sensationalism in the report of the hanging of W. H. T. Durrant. It the hanging of W. H. T. Durrant. It is ism. Sincerel $. R. WOOD, Evangelist. nun | | at “embellishment of the plain facts.” | tures which are calculated to make crime | famous and c red-handed murderers | to pos the heroes of the perlod. We hope to s *all continue to hold up APPROVED BY PRESS AND PEOPLE. ?:U:(b):(fififififififififil:‘fififififlfi):H:U:()}fififi:fifi)&)fi(fififimfifififlflfifififlfififlfifififlg HE manner in which The Call reported the execution of Durrant has found prompt approval from the he press. This is made evident by the to us, and from the commendation given by many of the leading papers of the State. publish this morning in order to make known the extent to which popular sentiment revolts against the morbid sensationalism so often shown in cases of this kind, and the degree of satisfaction with which it notes in The Call the proper treatment of such subjects. The Call told the story of the execution of Durrant as a matter of news, without stralning to make the horror more horrible still by ghastly pictures of the gallows and of other incidents or accessories of the ex- It recognized that in this case from the first day of the arrest of Durrant degenerate journalism had overdone itself in its viclous, foul and demoralizing efforts to make this crime a source of profit to itself by pandering to all perverted tastes and the morbid craving for sensationalism among the lowest classes of To mark out a clear and unmistakable distinction between legitimate journalism and that of the un- speakable yellow, The Call published no picture of the execution. It set before the public a contrast with sen- sationalism and left it to the people to judge for themselves which is best. The people have noted the contrast and have given judgment. whose commendation is worth having. Public sentiment has repudiated decadent journalism. that it does not share the morbid tastes of criminal perverts, nor approve of the shrieking panders of the press who disgrace decency in order to profit by that taste. The Call is gratified by the prompt approval which has come to it, not so much because of the priise given to itself as because of the unmistakable proof it gives that the tone of our people is higher than de- graded journalism would have tMe world believe. The DESERVES CREDIT FOR THE DEPARTURE Oakland Enquirer. “It is by design, and after mature de- liberation, that The Call prints the sto- ry of the Durrant execution without any {llustrations, and with no attempt | So says The Call of this morning, and it deserves credit for its departure from the usual custom. Whatever one’s calm judgment of the merit of capital pun- ishment may be, whenever he sees in a. newspaper a picture of a man on a| scaffold with a rope around his neck, | he feels like saying with the poet— ‘ “The gallows tree! Breath of Christian charity, Blow and sweep it from the earth! MANLY AND HUMANE REPORT. Solano County Courler. The Call is to be commended for its de- cent, manly and humane report of the execution of Durrant. Its columns were not contaminated with disgraceful pic- cency. YELLOW JOURNALISM REBUKED. San Bernardino Free Press. The San Franc! 1 did not publish a single illustr: the execution of Durrant. This was a relief to its readers | and a strong rebuke to yellow journal- e e e 4 host of letters which have come Some of these we Call has been commended by all It has shown [eXsFeRuFuFuFoRogaFuguguFeyugugegeyaRegeyugagel j=gegegegegegagegegegegegegegegeegagogegeRgagaegegegeegegeFegaR FeloFoFeFaFoFoFgu- 333333331 NO PICTURES OF THE HANGING. SAN DIEGO, Jan. 9, 1898. To the Editor of The Call: Yester- day's number of your paper was a model. It was not polluted by sensa- tional pictures of Durrant’s hanging, but it kept to the facts, and this is a credit which should be recognized by every moral newspaper reader of Cali- fornia. Yours truly, JAMES SMITH. 8 8 @ ks b e [ 8?82!3888288&838?8859888888&823828 | PIONEER IN AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT Berkeley Evening World. The action of the San Francisco Call | in publishing no pictures illustrating its account of the Durrant execution may be the beginning of new methods in re- gard to such affairs. The paper may prove to have been the piloneer in a very important movement. Illustrations in a daily newspaper are of value only in two cases: when they present something in the nature of a map, dlagram or view alding the description of inanimate things,and when they show, from photographs, the features of a char- acter in whom the public is interested, no matter why. All other pictures are useless because they are as likely as not to be entirely imaginary—many of them are drawn before the event they repre- sent took place. As this is becoming more and more generally known the pub- lic is less and less interested in such pic- tures. . LET THE GOOD BE PICTURED. Hanford Sentinel. The Call did a very satisfactory turn in journalism when, in giving a full ac- count of the Durrant hanging, it re- frained from illustrating the scene with those terrible pictures such as other San Francisco papers printed.. Now let The Call keep on in the good work. Certain Elcturé: of certain events are all right. ut keep those of crime and meanness out of sight. Picture the good. @ PRAISEWORTHY EXCEPTION. | ‘Watsonville Pajaronian. The Call was the only one of the San Francisco papers which reported the ex- ecution of Durrant without the use of pictures and large scare heads. It gave a complete account of the execution with- out padding, and the absence of the pic- tures of the drop, etc., was one of the most commendable departures made by | the San Francisco press. 3288!2!’368988388383823238!28888323838Nfi&&&fi%fi&fi&fl&fifi&g % 3 g AIMS TO GIVE THE NEWS, NOT FILTH. g B < & s b THE PARSONAGE. COTTONWOOD, Jan. i0.~Manager The Call: %3 #2 Sir: I cannot refrain from writing a line to you tv express my thanks 23 %22 to you for the object lesson which you gave to the people of California 23 %23 and through them to the world in your Saturday edition of The Call. %23 % For some time I have noticed and favorably commented upon the ab- 2 #3 sence of all vulgar sensationalism in your paper, but I was particu- 23 % larly pleased on Saturday with the absence of illustrations of the Dur- & 2 rant execution. 2 ” 1 thank you for thus proving that San Francisco can and does pro- % #3 duce a clean, pure paper whose aim seems to be to give news and not # filth to its customers. Hoping that you will receive the support you %8 %23 deserve, believe me yours faithfully, WILLIAM D. KIDD, 2 % Pastor Congregational Church. & % =2 RLERR/R{I{RUURRLLIRURLULRLRLLN n took occasion to remark that he thought it was a cowardly thing for Webb to have insinuated in his signed statement that witness was concerned in the writing of the anonymous letter. “Do you think it half as cowardl demanded Mr. Meserve, s the att on Mr. Webb? I ask u as a man Was it half as cowardly as the attac of the Times on Mr. Webb, when Mr. Webb had no newspaper at the back of him?" This question was repeated twice, but | the silence of the witness was the only answer. No other witnesses of importance were examined, and it was decided to have the further hearing of rebuttal testimony and the beginning of argu- ments go over until the evening of Jan- uary 27 SITUATION VERY GRAVE AT TAVANY Continued from First Page. bor, the post and telegraphic address will be Key West. The foregoing dates for sailing and rendezvous are subject change, due to the completion of reps to vessels at New York or weather. Should the Brooklyn, Ma other vessels participate in the drills on the Florida drill grounds detailed orders will be given. It Is not intended that any of the battle-ships or armored cruisers (except the Maine) shall enter the harbor of Key West except by speclal or the commander-in-chief or in case emergency. SICARD, | Rear-Admiral Commanding United States Naval Force on the North Atlantic Sta- tion. | ACTIVE INSURGENTS CONTINUE TO RAID AND BURN PLANTATIONS. | Ranks of the Rebels Being Swelled, While General Gomez Declares That Blanco Can Never Pacify Cuba. Copyright, 18%8, by James Gordon Bennett. HAVANA, Jan. 14—Insurgents de- | stroyed 1,000,000 tobacco plants growing | under the protection of the forts at | Camajuani, Santa Clara province, on | the night of January 5. They also de- stroyed 25,000 plants within sight (lf‘ the forts of Sitio Grande. The Herald correspondent has made a journey from Havana to Sagua la Grande. He reports that not one sugar mill s grinding. The estate Isabel | near Media Luna, coast of Santiago dp! Cuba, which is strongly fortified, was | attacked by rebels under General Sal- vador Rios. The rebels had field pieces and were doing great damage to the buildings and forts when a Spanish column from Manzanillo ap- | peared. - After a brief fight the rebels retreated, but were not pursued. | Reports from Santiago de Cuba | province state that many. persons are | leaving town to join the rebels. Two | filibustering expeditions have re- cently landed, one near Mayar Abjo and the other near Sancto Spiritus. Both were met by rebels and escorted | inland. | The commander in chief of the rebel | army has ordered the following per- sons, whenever caught, to be court- martialed for murder: Benito Carre- ras, Alejandro Oloarrieta, Eugenio | Layo, Pedro Mora Ledon, Gabriel la Torre, Francisco Garcla, Manuel Can- | ada, Pedro Robau, Felix Cuevillas, Hi- | Ramon Menendez and Domingo Roldan. The last named is a naturalized citizen of the United | States. In a letter to a friend in Havana General Maximo Gomez says: “Let Blanco come to this district and he will have plenty to do. It seems to me that the task of pacifying Cuba with so many combatants to subdue is tm- possible of realization. Two hundred thousand men under the general who did not spare even animals have been unable to accomplish it; much less | claimed French citizenship. | dature can Blanco do it when he has no larger | army or greater ability."” VAN GEISTE SAYS THE INSURGENTS WILL SOON WIN FREEDOM. Devia. y.'Tha Riots at Havana Would Lead | Up tr the Salvation of the ! Cuban Cause. ONTARIO, Cal.,, Jan. 14.—Julius Van | Geiste, a recent arrival from Cuba and an agent of the Cuban Government, ar- rived here to-night on his way to San Francisco, there to proceed, per orders | of the Cuban Junta, to his post of duty. ‘ Three months ago he obtained a fur- | lough from the Cuban army on account of ill-health, and that furlough has ex- pired. When shown the dispatches to-night regarding the riots in Havana, Van Geiste laughed, and with great glee | aid: “It would be the salvation of the | uban cause.” Two yea ago, December 15, 1895, | Van Geiste, at the head of 368 volun- | t left St. Louis. They proceeded in squads to New Orleans. From there they shipped to Del Rio province and | joined the insurgents. Arriving in Cu- ba, Van ( te was engaged as a con- | fidential agent of Antonio Maceo, the | late Cuban general, with whom he had | been engaged in business in Honduras | for a number of years. In this work | he was engaged until his health be- came such that he was compelled to come to this country for medical treat- ment, passing shipping at that point to G While in Havana Van Geiste was ar- rested, and, as he says, he would have been in jail since had he claimed Amer- ican citizenship, but in this case he | As it was, he was released and went to Arizona, staying at Wilcox for four months. Van Geiste is confident that the in- surgents will win out in the long run. He declares that the fear of dynamite in the hands of the insurgents causes the Spanish soldiers to stay very close to Havana. Further, he declares that | if the Cubans were to concentrate their | forces they could take Havana without | rouble any day, “but what would be the good,” says he. “The Spanish | | would retire to their ships and shell the | town. ‘We will not again be trapped. The death of Maceo has taught us a lesson. I was within three miles of his headquarters when he was lured to his death by Dr. Zertucha, and a more de- | spised individual there is not to be found on the island than he to-day. “Maceo.” continued Van Geiste, “was a serious loss to the cause, but Gomez is as uncompromising as he was, and | Cuban independence is not far away.” RUSSIA THREATENS ‘ THE TURKISH SULTAN. P | th Unless Objection to Prince George Is With- | drawn the Czar Will Propose the An- } nexation of Crete to Greece. | CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 14.—The Sul- | tan granted an audlence to-day to M. | Zinovieff, the Russian Embassador, who, | it is asserted, made an important com- munication with reference to the candi- | of Prince George of Greece for | the Governorship of Crete. M. Zinovieff declared that unless the | Sultan withdrew Ris objections to Prince George, Russia would propose the annex- ation of Crete to Greece. | - MRS. CREDE ACTED QUEERLY. Signed Away Her Rights. | LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14—In the trial | of the Creede will case this morning, Mrs. Creede’s attorneys called Dr. H. G. Brainard to testify regarding the effects | of morphine on the system. Dr. Brain- | ard did not regard Mrs. Creede as men- | tally sound when she signed away her | interest in the big Creede estate for $20,- 000. Other witnesses were called to testify | to the pecullarity of Mrs. Creede's ac- tions at the time of the signing of the | tract. | con L JONES STILL AT LARGE. Escaped Prisoner Followed From Stockton to Sonora. STOCKTON, Jan. 14—Deputy Sherifr | George Black, who went to Jamestown | to bring E. A. Jones back and found that his expected prisoner had made himself scarce about the jall during the night, followed the escape to Sonora, where he found that he had been during the day. The fellow had not been rearrested llpl to 8§ o'clock this evening. ] | lines, but the stevedores assaulted him | Witnesses Believe She Was Insane When She | FOR THE The Alice Blanchard, now in the Columbia River trade, is to be put on the between Port Los Angeles and Copper River. steamer will not be sorry to hear this, a warrant held by the Marshal at Astoria. KLONDIKE. Captain Warner of the as for two trips he es peen dodging Some stevedorss with va.lxhe had trouble have charged him with threats to kill. IS DODGING A WARRANT Captain Warner of the Alice Blanchard | Wanted. | Charged With Threats to Kill; by Some of His Steve- dores in Astoria. The Henroost on the Bark Kilmory Rohhed by Telegraph Hill Sneakthioves. Captain Warner of the steamer Alice | Blanchard will be glad to hear that his | vessel s not to remain very long on the Portland route. The Marshal at As- toria wants to see him on urgent busi- ness, but Captain Warner refuses to be | seen. In fact, so anxious Is he to! avold the interview that he passed As- toria on his homeward voyage, al- though there was freight awaiting him ere. Two trips ago, when the vessel ar- rived at Astoria, Captain Warner en- gaged eight stevedores to discharge the | CATgOo. ‘When it came to settling up | he paid off four of them at the usual | rate of 30 cents an hour and 40 cents | an hour for overtime. The other four stevedores refused to accept their pay, saying they were entitled to 40 cents an hour and 50 cents for overtime. A row followed and the stevedores threat- ened to thrash the captain of the Blanchard. The latter went below and getting his Winchester ‘drove the men ashore. He then sent one of the sail- ors ashore to cast off the steamer's and the sailor was glad to get back on the steamer with his life. Captain Warner then ordered First Mate Knea- 1y ashore to throw off the lines and at | the same time covered the fighting| stevedores with his rifle. The mate | cast the lines off and the vessel got to sea. ‘When the Alice Blanchard got to As- toria the last time the constable was waiting for Captain Warner with a warrant for his arrest on a charge of threats to kill. The steamer, however, got away before the warrant was served, and on the way back from Port- land Captain Warner again avoided the constable by putting to sea without calling at Astoria. The Blanchard is to be withdrawn from the Portland trade on the comple- tion of her next trip. She will then go to Los Angeles and will carry min- ers from that point to Copper River. She will leave on the first voyage on February 10, and will be kept in the | of his vessel. Klondike next spring will go via Cop- per River, and the Blanchard will be ready to carry all who want to go. The Pacific Steam Whaling Compa- ny's Excelsior will get away for Dyea and Skaguay on Monday next. More freight is offering than the vessel can carry, and the passenger accommoda- tion from San Francisco is almost fill- ed. The steamer has been built up ina substantial manner, and will be one of the most comfortable boats in the trade. The friends of Captain Seaman, the popular master of the Czarina, will be glad to hear that he has so far recov- ered as to be able to resume command He nearly died from ty- | phoid fever at Coos Bay, and during his illness Captain McGee ran the steamer. Captain Seaman will take the Czarina out on her next trip. The captain and the crew of the Brit- ish ship Kilmory are contemplating a raid on Telegraph Hill. Chicken thieves from that neighborhood made a descent on the ship and stole all the feathered bipeds. would eat from the sailors’ hands. Not only were they pets; they were also good layers, and Captain Ferguson now mourns the loss of a fresh egg for his breakfast every morning. The schooner Transit, barkentine W. H. Diamond, bark Archer, brig W. G. Irwin and bark Albert had a race against time in Honolulu, in order to beat the customs laws of the country which went into effect on the Ist inst. All flve vessels got away on December 21, and thus escaped paying the sugar | taxes. When they won their race against time the captains decided upon another race, but this time it is a test of the sailing qualities of the vesseis. The schooner Transit is the favorite in the betting at Honolulu, while out at the sugar refinery at the Potrero the boys are backing the W. H. Diamond. The first cargo of sugar to go over- land to New York from San Francisco is now being loaded into the Iredale at | Honolulu. On the arrival of that vessel here she will go to Oakland direct and | discharge her cargo into cars. Bar @ssoclation Officers. ‘The Bar Association has elected the fol- lowing officers for the ensuing year: President, W. H. Fifield; secretary, W. J. Herrin; senior vice-president, A. C. Free- man; junior vice-president, A. Comte The birds were great pets, and | THE GRAND | That Organization of the Scot- tish Rite Has Been Dis- solved. Thereof There Has Been Organized San Francisco Con- sistory No. 1. In Place The Grand Consistory of Masters of the Royal Secret No. 32 Degree of the An- clent and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free- masonry in and for the State of Califor- nia has passed out of existence, and in it place there has been established a particular consistory known as San Fran- cisco Consisto 3 The old consistory was the governing ‘hmly of all the organizations that are | embraced within the Ancient and Accept- | ed Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, includ- ing the particular consistory of Los An- geles, the Knights Kadosh, the Knights of Rose Croix and the Lodge of Per- | fection, and it was the body between these organizations and the Supreme Council, but hereafter these bodies will deal directly with the Supreme Council. The organization of the new body was effected on last Thursday night ction of the following officers: Conlisk, commande: C. W. X : John Leslie Munroe Shetterley, first lieutenant commander; Frank Koenig, second lieutenant com- mander; Charles Ernest Green, chancel Ernest K. Head. minister of state: Wiiliam Schuyler Moses, almoner; George John Hobe, régistrar: Samuel Wolf Lev treasurer: ‘Simon Baum. prelate: Frod- erick Wililam Gustave Moebus, master of ceremonies; Henry John Grauerholz senior expert; James H. Goldman, junior expert; Peter Christian Miller, captain of the 'guard; and John d'Arcy, tiler, The membérs of has been dis the State outside of San Francisco have taken demit cards. At the next meeting of the new consistory there will be & number of candldates presented who will | ask that the thirty-second degree be con- ferred upon them. | —_————— | Full House All the Time. The Michigan furniture sale is attract- ing all parts of city and country to the big furniture house of Pattosien Cs., cor- | ner Sixteenth and Mission; 400 rolis of carpet, 300 rolls of linoleum came to-day. Linoleum will go at 45c yard, 4 yards wide; Brussels carpet 50c. s —,———— ROTTANZI PLEASED THEM. Precita Valley Improvement Club Made Happy Over the Pro- posed Park. The resolution offered by Sugervisor Dr. Rottanzi to build a new City and County Hospital on the Almshouse Tract and turn the present hospital site into a park has so pleased the members of the Pre- cita Improvement Club that it passed a resolution indorsing the movement, and also condemnatory of the zoo bugaboo which was attempted to be foisted on the innocent taxpayers at the instigation of a handful of real estate sharps. The Superintendent of Streets was re- quested to place a sign board in Bernal Park deslgnatln§ that place as a park, with the hope that at some future time not too far remote, the city will be gen- erous enough to fill it in and sow a hand- ful of grass seed over its surface. The grading of Alabama and Folsom ~CONSISTORY | gelist is DOCTORS ON DIPHTHERLA Is the Use of a Swab Necessary or Injurious ? Dr. Mahoney to Test the Con- stitutionality of the Ordi- nance. He Is Charged With Not Applying to the Board of Health for a Swab. Dr. Thoma8 L. Mahoney intends to test the constitutionality of the recent ordinance of the Board of Health mak- ing it compulsory in suspected cases of diphtheria for the attending physician to procure from the health office a swab to be placed in the patient's throat and sent to the office for bacteriological ex- amination. Dr. Mahoney attended a case of diph- theria and reported it to the health of- fice, but did not apply to the office for a swab, as he considered it unnecessary. He was arrested for violating the or nance and the case was called in Judge | Conlan’s court yesterday. He was de- fended by Colonel Smith, and Garret McEnerney appeared for the prosecu- tion. Handel H. Zobel, assistant secretary of the Board of Health, was called and testified that Dr. Mahoney had report- ed a case of diphtheria but did not ap- ply for a swab for bacteriological ex- amination. Dr. Buckley was then called for the defense and was asked, “How is diph- theria diagnosed?” This was promptly objected to by McEnerney, and an ar- gument followed, Smith contending that he was entitled to introduce evi- dence to show that the introduction of a swab into the throat of a patient was a detriment and caused the disease to spread. The disease could be diagnosed without a swab, which was simply done by the Board of Health for scientific research. On the other hand, McEnerney con- tended that the unreasonableness of the ordinance could not be impeached by evidence, but must be determined upon the evidence itself. The judge overruled the objection, and Dr. Buck- ley answered the question that the only way to diagnose the disease was by tha | evesight. He would not use a swab un- | der any circumstances, because it ag- gravates the disease and leads often to the death of the patien Drs. Kuhlman, Per and O'Connell testified practically to the same effect. Dr. Kuhlman said that in New York in | 1894 out of 511 cases of diphtheria treated bacteriologically in only 50 per cent was bacillus found. The defendant testified that he had long since abolished the swab and used a spray instead. The introduction of a swab might jeopardize the life of a child. For that reason he did not send to the health office for a swab. It took him about three minutes to diagnose the case. For the prosecution Dr. Spencer, bac- teriologist for the Boerd of Health, tes- tified that nearly all the advanced phy- sicians of the present day used the swab for a diagnosis of the case. The object was to primarily and fundamen- | tally check the spread of the disease. He differed with the doctors for the de— fense as to the injurious effect of using the swab. Dr. O'Brien,- Health Officer, Dr. J. M. Rosenau and Dr. Clarke cor- roborated Dr. Spencer. It was decided to argue the case on Tuesday and it was continued tili then. —_— Local Physicians WIIl be interested in the editorfal in this week’s Town Talk upon Profsssor | Schenck’s wonderful discovery. The Saunterer tells some good storles, and the other departments are not a litile inter- | esting. Town Talk’s musical department i« conceded to be the best in tha eit: There is a storiette by “The Rounde; that will set everybody a-guessing. ® The Hilton Revival. | The revival meeting at Howard Pres- | byterian Church, corner Oak and Baker reets, conducted by Major George A. Hilton, continues with Increasing inter- est. Many have publicly expressed a de- sire to lead a Christian life. The evan- deeply In earnest and often moves his audience to tears with his | tender appeals. Yet his addesses are not stilted. Often he provokes a smile by some apt characterization of hypocrisy | or amusing reference. His great power | lies in his peculiar ability to make plain the great truths of the Bible. The meet- ing will_continue every evening during the coming week. At 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon he wili hold a mass-meeting for men only at this church. 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