The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 29, 1898, Page 1

all VOLUME LXXXIIL—NO. €0. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 189S. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PUNISH PIRATES OF NEWS THE FOILED PLOT TO LOOT New York Heraid to Sue |(§ (N(FLES the San Francisco Chronicle. Will See Whether the Copyright Laws Protect the News Ser- vice of a Great Paper in America. Newspaper Copyrigh to-morrow: against the San our special cable dispatches. “In defiance of our protests, ing the Herald's exc press for publicat sive new n thes: e San Francisco. st righted, thelr which the Herald enterpri The Heral fords = tection of its own rights. determination.” L4+ 4L 4444444444444 444100 NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Under the caption, “To Test the Law of 3 the Herald will print the following editorial “In order to test the question whether the copyright law really af- fords to duly copyrighted news in a daily against piracy which it is generally directed suit to be brought in the United States Court Chronicle for its unlicensed appropriation of that paper has persisted in purloin- bodily as soon as it issued from me morning in its own columns, a proceeding the difference of three hours in time between As all our dispatches are regularly copy- 1 appropriation is simply theft of important news obtained exclusively at great cost and by keen now proposas to ascertain whether the law af- redress for larceny of this species of valuable property, and it does this in the interest of honest journalism, as well as for the pro- “The suit is in the hands of able counsel and will be pressed with 4444444444444+ 400+ 4444444444440 journal the legal protection supposed to give, the Herald has in California the BH+H+++ 4444444444400 +++44 44444444449 NEW past cisco YORK, Jan. 28—For the three months the San Fran- Chronicle has been guilty of appropriating the copyrighted cable dispatches of the New York Herald, and will now have to answer for its plifering .in the ®ourts. As announced in the foregoing editorial, the Herald is about to institute proceedings in the TUnited States Court at San Francisco to restrain the Chronicle from continu- ing its practice. As the evidence in the case is both overwhelming and conclu- sive, there is no doubt that the action will be brought to a successful termi- nation. The superiority over all other New York papers of the foreign service and also the general news dispatches of the Herald is well established. The ex- cellence and accuracy of the Herald news have contributed to make it the foremost newspaper of Greater New York, and it Is being continually strengthened by its energetic editors Some ten years ago the Herald fur- nished the San Francisco Examiner with its special cablegrams and other dispatches. The latter service was not satisfac- tory to Mr. Bennett, and an arrange- ment was made with the San Francisco Chronicle, by which the latter was to the Herald service in return vs of the corast. Mr. Hearst’'s paper w cut off from its great East- ern connection, and as a consequence there was much gnashing and grinding of teeth in the office of that public: tion over the loss of so excellent a spe- cial news report. The continuity of the Herald's serv- ice to the Chromicle remained unbroken until the latter part of last year, when Mr. John D. Spreckels became the pro- prietor of the San Francisco Call. The enterprise shown by the new manage- ment of the paper attracted not alone the attention of San Francisco and the people of the coast, but it penetrated to the East. The Herald is always ex- peditious in making the most desirable arrangements for the improvement of its news service in all directions, and negotiations were at once opened with The Call with & view to an immediate affillation. The negotiations were com- pleted in Nevember last. ne as P P00 99 The service | to the Chronicle was discontinued, and | The Call was given exclusive right to it for San Francisco. Although The Call made editorial announcement that it had commenced to receive the Her- ald’s unexcelled cable dispatches from Paris, London, Berlin, Madrid and PPIPPEPIPPIPPPPIIOSIIOPD other European capitals, and also in | its complete Cuban and South Central American news reports, the Chroni- cle continued to print the Herald's news. It evidently disliked the idea of depriving its readers of something to which they had been long accustomed. In this connection it might be inter- esting to state that Mr. de Young, when in New York several months ago, was heard to remark something to this effect: “It is not necessary for me to pay for the Herald’s news, or that of any other paper in New York. My man here can clip the news when the pa- pers appear, and as we have three hours in our favor it can be sent to the Chronicle in time for publication.” Seeking to protect The Call in its ex- clusive right to the service, the Herald requested the proprietor of the Chron- icle to desist from the use of the copy- right dispatches. No notice was taken of this request, however, and the Chronicle continued its practice, boldly reproducing any cable dispatches of importance appearing in the Herald. Mr. Bennett thereupon served for- mal notice upon Mr. de Young that the Herald news was copyrighted and that the Chronicle must cease using it. This notice, like the Herald’s request, was also ignored. And now Mr. Bennett | @090 0006000900 00000000 has placed the matter in the hands of his attorneys, with instructions to bring a suit against the Chronicle to prevent it stealing news which is gath- ered and transmitted to the Herald at great expense. FOWELL’S ACTS IN HAYTI REGARDED AS MEDDLESOME. While No Complaint Has Been Made to the State Department It Is Said That the Minister Has Been Duly Cautioned. NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—The Herald's Washington correspondent telegraphs: It was learned at the State Department to- day that the course pursued by Minister Powell in Port au Prince, Hayti, in the Lueders incident was not so satisfactory to the authorities as was believed. There has been no action looking to the recall of Minister Powell, but Mr. Powell, I was tld to-aay, had gone farther in the Lueders incident than the department de- sired, and, while no official censure has been administered, he has been given to understand that he must be more careful. It was through the earnest insistence of Mr. Powell that Lueders, the German subect, was released by the Haytian Gov- ernment and placed on hoard a vessel and sent to New York. While the Ger man Minister at Port au Prince was satisfied with what Mr. Powell had done, he regarded his action as somewhat med- dlesome. The mater, however, has not been officially called to the attention of the State Department by the German au- thorities. I %@@@@0@000000000000000 NEWS OF THE DAY. Weather forecast for San Fran- ciseo and vieinity: Cloudy and un- settled weather Saturd probably showers in the afternoon; westerly, changing to southeasterly, winds. Max{mum temperature for the past twenty-four hou San Francisco . Portland Los Angel San Diego .. ® FIRST PAGE. To Punish News Pirates. Los Angeles Water Fight. Loss of the Steamer Corona. SECOND PAGE. 4 ‘Wers Dying in the Desert. To Defend America Cup. Aranguren Was Warned. Germans Murdered by Chinese. THIRD PAGE. Fratricide Clark Is Held. Frenchmen Slain by Pirates. FOURTH PAGE. Ohio Bribery Scan: Christen Kentucky With Water. Flames Fill a Tunnel. A Leader of Desperadoes. Knapp Is Up for Trial. .FIFTH PAGE. Teller Resolution Passes Senate. The San Joaquin Is Low. A Railroad to Klondike. The Jubilee at the Prestdlo. SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. Wisdom for the Unwashed. Fixing the Blame. Democratic Secrets Revealed The Federal Building. The President’s Speech. e No Division of the State. Storles From. the Corridors. Answers to Carrespondents. SEVENTH PAGE A City Hall “'Sinking Fund.” Looked Like an Elopement. News Along the Water Front. EIGHTH PAGE. What the Sports Are Doing. NINTH PAGE. Democrats to Meet To-d: Swiftwater Bill Is Fickle. A Yosemite Valley Muddle. Still More of Welburn. The Fastest Vessel on the Coast. TENTH PAGE. The Commercial World. ELEVENTH PAGE. News From Across the Bay. TWELFTH PAGE. Racing at Ingleside. THIRTEENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths. FOURTEENTH PAGE. Oakland Water Companies Pooling. Bay Pirates Rob a Tug. re o ks kS > @ @ > > > > > & ® > > & » kS ks & @ ® @ > s > > rs kS P00 Q00009P909PP099P0P9009999999000909900 ® P44 4444444444440 4 440440 E‘ | COUNCILMEN MUST ACT Citizens Are Weary of Their Repeated Delays. Want Consideration of the Water Question Expedited. Public Sentiment Will Be Ex- pressed at To-Night's Mass-Meeting. | HAZARD WILL PRESIDE. | | cents a c LOS A plant or place the company in default. | If the company is placed in default | upon the contract, then the city can roceed to build an entirely new plant, | 8o asserts competent legal authority. | On the other hand, if the company | agrees to arbitration it must at once | name its arbitrator and the city fits| arbitrator. The two will select a third and the| three will proceed to make an exami- nation of the plant and fix a price on the bettermer This will consume six weeks or two months. Of course the city’s arbitrator would be guided by the city engineer's valua- tion of $1,190,000. But after the arbi- | trated price is reported it will take three months to vote the bonds, and in this interim the water company’s con- tract with the city will have expired. | So the necessity for immediate action | is at hand and the people realize it; | hence the unquestioned success of the mass-meeting to force the Council to expedite matters. One member of the syndicated press —the Evening Express—has been brought to time by the Newsboys' Un- jon. This paper attempted to bulldoze the newsboys and force them to pay 3 while the regular price to all was 2 cents. The newsboys re- | fused to pay the price and formed a union. For two weeks the boys were as a unit. They declined to sell the Express, and not a paper was sold on the street. The Express business man- Syndicated Press Gives No Notice o the Important Gathering of the Masses. | sheet, but not a man turned up. ager advertised in all the papers for men and boys to come and sell the He agreed to pay them 50 cents a night for two hours’ work, no matter how many | | papers they sold; but no man nor boy Spectal Dispatch to The Call LGS ANGELES, Jan. 28.—The meet- ing which has been called to convene at Music Hall to-morrow evening will be one of the greatest successes that have characterized the popular agita- tion in connection with municipal con- trol,operation and ownership of awater plant. This afternoon a committee waited upon Hon. Henry T. Hazard, and requested him to preside. or. Hazard accepted, and will be the chairman of the evening. It is fit and proper that Mr. Hazard | should thus officiate, for no citizen has | the confidence of the pecple to a de- gree greater than has Henry T. Haz- | ard. Twice within recent years the people have elected him Mayor of the city after he had been nominated by a Republican convention. During both terms as Mayor Mr. Hazard gave the water company the hardest fight it ever had in its efforts to encroach upon the rights of the people. He has had expe- rience with the corporation, and he knows how to deal with it. The peo- ple know that he protected their rights once against the grab-it-all policy of the water monopoly, and the fact that he again enlisted in the fight in their behalf will be pleasant intelli- gence to hundreds of overburdened rate payers who are pouring their hard- earned dollars into the coffers of the | water company. | from the local daily press, and they | | | to count for nothing in the future. The Despite the fact that the mass meet- ing was announced yesterday after- noon, the water company’s syndicated threc dailies have as yet utterly failed to give it any kind of mention. The combined dailies realize that this meet- ing will carry with it the voice of the people on the water question, and for that reason they will endeavor in ev- ery way possible to discredit it. Among other things, it is proposed to form a permanent organization from | this mass meeting, to take the fight of | the people in hand and wage it to a | successful conclusion. The plan is to designate a committee of public safety, comprising one member from each ward and three members at large. This committee will be the representatives of the people, and will see to it that the public servants elected to the City Council and to other positions in t he | City Hall, where they have executive | authority, are faithful to the interests | they are sworn and pledged to protect. | It has arrived at that point where it is not only necessary for the Council- men, the City Attorney and others to say that they. are with the people in the water fight, but it is essential that before the people believe them they must prove that they are by official acts and deeds. Windy pledges Yo pro- tect the people right up to the time a vote is taken in the Council, and then casting a vote for the water company policy of delay and Inactivity are going people are unanimously of the opinion that it is high time t. move in these | water negotiations. They are shuf oft | propose now to meet in mass conven- | tion and express their views of the| people who are holding this matter | back in the City Council. It is these conditions and circum- stances which not only insure the suec- cess of the mass meeting, but render it imperative. The idea of appointing a committee of public safety has met | with popular approval on all sides. It is now a known fact that the syndi- cated dailies can safely be relied upon to betray the people into the hands of any monopoly that may come along seeking a special privilege, and this committee on public safety, if the plan is carried out, will be ever on guard to protect the rights of the citizens. For the present the sole topic of dis- cussjon is the mass meeting, and the results that will flow therefrom. It is believed that as an outcome of the ac- tion of the people taken to-morrow night the City Council will be forced to do something on Monday in the reg- ular and legal way toward procuring arbitration as to the price of the water company’'s betterments to the city's would sell it. Finally the Express was forced to treat for peace with the Newsboys’ Unlon, and the business manager agreed to sell the boys the | paper for 1 cent a copy. The proffer was accepte In the battle with the sboys the Express came off second e e WEBB TO SUE FOR LIBEL. Number of Actions to Be Brought Against the Syndicated Press. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28.—Within the next week or two the editors and pro- prietors cf the syndicated Times-Her- ald-Express will be led a merry dance in the courts of ¥+ eounty, by Waner; 1o Webh, whio was st pight acauitted | of all charges brought against him and | prosecuted by the League for Better City Government. It is a notorious fact that these three papers have, with- out any foundation in fact, reason or Justice, declared without equivoeation that Webb was a boodler and every- thing that is corrupt. This they did during the entire proceedings against Webb and when there was absolutely no testimony that even tainted him with the crimes charged, except the testimony of two self-confessed bood- lers and perjurers. Webb was acquitted after a trial in the Superior Court of all the charges that were brought against him, though the case was prose with all the energy and pe: e that could be inspired by private and political ani- mosity. In the course of an interview to-day, when asked what he proposed to do now that the School Board investiga- tion also had resuited in his acquittal, he said: | “I have been waiting for time before | taking the initiative in proceedings in | regard to the many charges which have been published and made against m during the time that this investigation | has been going on. It is unnecessary for me now to restate the reasons why | I was picked out by the League for | Better City Government, and by others for punishment and possibly destruc- tion. The Call has already clearly and forcibly presented this side of the af- fair to the people of the city of Los An- geles. “At the very outset of this School | rd scandal the papers of Los An- | geles—the Times, Herald and Express —began their attacks on me, and have | kept them up with but little intermis- | sion ever since. They have accused | me of all manner and character of crimes without one particle of evi- dence to sustain their charges, simply promising from time to time what the | League for Better City Government was going to bring out before the Board of Education, and which time has proved to be nothing but the testi- mony, unsupported, of two self-con- fessed perjurers. “During all this time I have carefully kept all the articles published against me or in my favor. I have these now arranged, and intend to use them and compel the papers that published them to prove the truth of the charges made. I shall consult with my attorneys and shall institute as many criminal pro- ceedings against the editors and pro- prietors of these three papers as I am advised can be sustained. They have already advised me that criminal pro- ceedings can be sustained, in particular against Mr. Spalding, the manager of the Herald, for the editorial which ap- peared in the Herald on January 21. “I shall then bring in addition seve- ral civil libel suits against the Times, Herald and Express, and shall give each and all of these papers an oppor- tunity in the Superior Courts of this county to prove the truth of a single one of the charges made against me, but which I know they cannot do, for I shall there prove as I did recently be- fore Judge Van Dyke and a jury in the Superior Court in this county that T have been guilty of no offense,, and that not a single charge can be truth- fully laid at my door. “The papers will find that it is cne thing to publicly charge a man with the commission of an offense and an- other tc prove it. No paper and no man claiming to be respcctable and acting in e spirit of fairness and right should ever cast a suspicion or make charges against the honesty of anyman unless they have the facts at their com- mand to substantiate their charge and prove their assertions. And unless the 7Times, Herald and Express can prove the correctness of their positions they must of necessity Wwrite . themselves down as unrighteous blackmailers. “These suits will be commenced trom Continued ‘on Becond Page. | dersigned, during the month of May, 1597, | report in writing to City Engineer Dock- NGELES RAIE THE ENCINEER'S FIGIRES One of the Jobs to Loot Los An- geles. Is Exposed in an Affidavit From Ernest Abs Hagan. The Water Company’s Tools Try to Drive Him Out of Town. A COMPLAISANT OFFICIAL. It Seems He Thought He Should Do ‘What the Monopoly Wanted Done. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28.—The ex-| pert clvil engineer, Ernest Abs Hagen, | who made the estimate of the value of the water company’s Improvements on the city’s distributing plant, has | made an affidavit which lets in a great | light on the water company’s methods. | Ever since Abs Hagen's estimate was furnished to the Council the corpora- | tion and those either directly or In- | directly in its employ have not only | been seeking to discredit Abs Hagen | professionally, but they have been | gndeavoriny to drive him out of- the city. A v‘ ~Strong pressure was brought to bear on Mr. Hagen when he was making his figures to force him to elevate them. He, upon his own re- sponsibility, declined to do so, but the figures were raised, and the facts as to, how that raise was obtained are clearly set forth in the affidavit follow- ing. The instrument was made by Abs Hagen last November, and several city | officials who are not in any way tied up with the water company were con- | versant with the facts as he has set them forth. The affidavit furnishes some sensational denouements. It | reads: To All Whom it May Concern: 'The un- was placed by City Engineer Dockweiler in charge of making an estimate upon the value of the present waterworks system of the city af Los Angeles, and to report upon the condition of the same. In pur- suance of su ) instructions he handed a weller, which report, after suggested and nforced alterations, was duly presented to and accepted by the City Council of Los Angeles. and is now on file and known as the *“City Engineer’s Repor Upon the Value of the City Waterworks.” | The undersigned herewith states the | following facts to have become relevant | during the time that he prosecuted this work, to wit: That from the date of be- | ginning, on May 12, 1897, until July 20, 1897, he was in sole charge of the work, ar- | ranged and executed the different items | of the same according to his own best | judgment without any further instruc- | tions, interference or suggestions from | the City Engineer; that the report and‘ estimate as delivered by him to City En- | gineer Dockweller was essentially his | own work; that during the time of ex- ecuting this work the City Engineer, with | the exception of three times, did not put | in any appearance whatever upon the | scene of the work and that during these Continued on Becond Page. WRECK OF THE CORONA ON The Steamsh A REEF ip Strikes Off the Mouth of the Skeena River. Passengers and Shore, but Crew Reach the Vessel and Cargo Will Prove a Total Loss. NANAIMO, B. C, 28.—The | steamer Danube arrived at Departure Bay late this evening, bringing news of the wreck of the steamer Corona, with 245 passengers aboard. The Cor- Jan. ona struck a rock near the mouth of the Skeena River and at once com- menced to sink. Lifeboats were low- ered and the passengers were conveyed to the beach of the Skeena River. The steamer Al-Ki went to the rescue. She s now on her way south with the un- | fortunate gold seekers. The Corona struck the rock on Tues- day morning, bow on, and is now lying | with stern submerged. It is feared that the Corona will wreck and the whole of her cargo will be lost. The accident occurred just outside an island that is off the mouth of the Skeena River, and it is said the course taken by the Corona was not the usual one. Most vessels pass up between the mouth of the river and the island, but the Corona was put on a course out- side the island and piled up on a reef when under full headway. She settled down within forty minutes, giving tim for all the passengers to be safelytand- | ed, but very little of their effects and | none of the frelght could be landed. | The Corona was commanded by Cap- | tain Pierce, who never: before had charge of a steamship. He has com- manded a deep-sea sailing vessel for several years, and until recently was in charge of the ship Sea King. Since the Corona has been on the Alaska route he had been second officer under Cap- tain Carroll, until the latter resigned. when Pierce was promoted to the com- mand. This was his second trip as captain. The Corona had two pilots on this trip, one of them being Captain William Thompson, an experienced navigator. It is not known here just how many | passengers the Corona had on this trip, but she was uncomfortably crowded when she left here, many sleeping on the floor. The wreck of the Corona recalls th loss of the‘steamer Mexico, also belong- prove a total Xlng to the Pacific Coast Steamship | Company. She was lost just as the rush was setting in last fall, and this wreck also comes at a most inoppor- | | tune time. The Coronm, like the Mex- | | 1co, 1s said to have been fairly well in- | sured. About the same time word was re- ceived from Victoria announcing the | loss of the Corona, Superintendent J. F. Trowbridge of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company received news from W. P. Rithet & Co. of Vancouver, B. C, of the stranding of the 300-ton | freight steamer Coquitlan, owned hyi the Union Transit Company of Van- | couver. Whether the Coquitlan was | beached or what her exact condition is ‘Wrangel on the steamer Corona. | Vovages north has not been determined here to-night. The pastengers were saved. DAWSON THE DESTINATION OF NEARLY ALL OF THE CORONA’S PASSENGERS. History of the Vesse! Which Succeeded the Wrecked Mexico and Shared Her Fate. SEATTLE, Jan. 28.—The Corona was considered one of the finest appointed vessels in the Alaska service. She was command of Captain Pearce and had two pilots, Thompson and Coffman, experience on the route would seem to make their pres- ence on the steamship almost a guar- antee of safety. The wrecked steamer sailed from Seattle for Dyea and in whose | Skaguay, Alaska, on January 20 and passengers, 130 being first from Puget Sound ports. In Seattle alone were sold seventy first class and seventy second class tickets. Her freight was about 700 tons of gen- eral merchandise and 200 tons of fuel. The following were the officers of the ill-fated Corona: Captain Pearce, Chief Officer Thomas Hogan, Second Officer Marshall, Third Officer Cann, Chief Engineer Martin, First Assist- .ant Engineer H. Miller, Second Assis- tant Engineer R. Robertson, Purser ‘Valentine. Among the passengers on the Corona was a party of six from San Jose, Cal., led by John Stanley and A. Ehrman. They were under contract to build a wharf and warehouse in Skaguay. As a side issue the six took an ordinary cutter sleigh and about thirty smaller sleds for use in transporting freight and passengers on the Skaguay road. The party has sixty mules in San Francisco, which will be shipped to Skaguay as soon as transportation can be engaged. A most complete printing outfit was aboard the Corona, shipped to Dyea. Tt was being taken north by E. W. Pol- lock, formerly of Mount Vernon, who intended to issue in Dyea the only daily newspaper in Alaska. The cy- linder press is the largest yet taken north. Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. F. E. Foster and Mr. and Thayer sailed for Fort They 11 Jocate on the new townsite called Goldike and will commence construc- tion work at once. T. G. Wilson left on the Corona and intends to push on to Dawson without delay. He figures on reaching there in March, and after spending a couple of weeks expected to start on the return trip. He has en- gaged Indian guides and has a num- ber of dogs. He intended to follow the course of the river. Several others aboard the Corqna inzended starting at once for the Kilondike. It is safely estimated that three-quarters of the passengers are bound for the mines. On the 1st of September last the Corona came to Seattle from San Fran- cisco. Early in the previous month the steamer Mexico was sunk in Dixon Entrance, which made necessary the presence of a vessel to take her run. were made by the steamers Willamette and Homer be- THE STEAMER CORONA.