The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 30, 1898, Page 1

all Bad Light. DOG-KILLING IN POLITICS. Board of Supervisors Threatening to Re-enact an Odious Impound- ng Law A fight f for life the Prevention , eAccording to the reported state- of Captain Delany of the He:lth and Police Committee of the Board of ments blackmail the soctety out of $500. TFhe ors havs dzcided to resist the unlaw- As a result of :fusal and of the refusal of Secretary impounded animls mand for money. thi: Holbrook to release free of cost, at is being made by the | of Cruelty to CHAIRMAN DELANY, Who Is Accused of Gross Misconduct in Office. | this stand because there is no provi- | ors an attempt has been made to! *he request of Supervisors, | sion that the cost of paying for the care of such animals and the cost of their capture be paid, except in the | regular way by fine of the delinquent. | It has been decided that Mr. Hol- | ! brook will resign as poundkeeper, an | office which pays him nothing in addi- tion to his salary as secretary of the soclety, and that he will be succeeded by Mr. Seymour. It is the general opinion that this will be a compromise | nunas remr= rep T the sociotr days of the past. ! that the board seriously com Bug the pound out of the and placing # tn politics again, as it was in the disgraceful Assistant Secretary E. L. Wadham Pot the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals makes the start- ling accusation that he has been ap- proached by Chairman Delany of the Health and Police Committee of the Board of Supervisors in a way that would do justice to a Black Bart. “By the way, can you put me on how to get 35007 the delicate way the chairman of this responsible com- mittee Is reported to have made known his corrupt and criminal desires. This was also told to Mr. Charles Bauer. uage was reported to the f the society,” said Director ur, “and we decided to on to it further than to pt to coerce or black- soclety.” language reported to have been way to Wadham and to Wadham—is enough the The ised in this others—twice to warrant an investigation into methods of the chairman of this im- portant committee. If the charges are true they constitute the most shameful case of political and official blackmail that has been reported in many years. This language becomes the more serious when it is recalled that a petty spite has existed against the so- clety by various Supervisors ever since Secretary Holbrook first refused to re- cognize the requests of Sapervisors, which are quite numerous, that animals held in the pound be “released with- out cost to the city.” In the old days when impounding an- imals was carried on as freely as rob- bing in the regions of the Alhambra, it @vas a common thing for Supervisors to flood the pound master with these requests to favor every political heeler in the neighborhood. Printed forms showing the shameful extent of this abuse still exist and are used daily, though the secretary, acting under le- gal advice and the interpretation of the clerk of the board, has refused to recognize any such orders. He takes measure, as the Health and Police Committee has recommended that the | impounding of animals be taken away | from the society and put into politi o8 | again. | 1t this should be done there is a great likelihood that there will be a repetition of the disgraceful scenes of the past acts of cruelty and corruption® that caused the society to take hold of the matter some years ago. It is also reported that ex-Pound Keeper Osborne will under no circumstances be appointed to succeed Mr. Holbrook. Under the corrupt system that some of the supervisors suggest there is no | guarantee that private citizens will not again be subjected to the petty black- mall and insults that thrived in the wicked past. There is also no assur- ance that animals will not be stolen, turned out of owners' lots and abused, as in the past, that disreputable wield- ers of the lariat and dog catching bas- ket may again grow fat by corrup- tion. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has gone into the animal question in a thorcugh and sci- entific manner. Their plant for the care and final destruction of condemned dogs has been pronounced the finest in the United States. Rev. Dr. Clark, founder of the Ckristian Endeavor So- clety, visited their plant at Sixteenth and Alabama streets when he was here, and his opinion was that the plant and the methods pursued were incompara- bly ahead of all such institutions in the United States. It is the general opinion of those who have investigat- ed the matter that the methods of this soclety are in every way creditable, and that the Board of Supervisors will | make a great error if they do so rash a thing as to place the care of animals in the hands of ward politicians again. The society does not desire to see its plant become worthless by an order of the Board of Supervisors, made through Jealousy. It absolutely refuses, how- ever, to contribute a cent to the fund as demanded by Chairman Delany. “When I become pound master,” said Mr. Seymour, “I shall abide by thedeci- sion of thedirectorsof the society as to whether it is my duty to heed orders of release issued by supervisors. As the supervisors get so little patronage of | A 5l | Detany. | any kind it might be well to give the poor fellows a chance to release some of the captured goats and dogs of thelr constituents.” But as to Supervisor Delany and that $500. Assistant Secretary Wadham sticks to it that the Supervisor made some very pointed remarks, amounting prac- tically to a request for a bribe, and has a written statement to that effect. Secretary Holbrook backs up Wad- ham, and says there are numerous other people who, if they could be coaxed to talk, could pio something | €ven more definite and damaging upon | “I am perfectly familiar with that | $500 proposition,” said Holbrook last evening, “and have heard of it several times. I was given very pointed hints on numerous occasions that money would be required to hold the pound, and that was some time before Wad- ham reported to us what Captain De- lany had said to him. Wadham's re- port was not, therefore, news to me nor to several officers in the society. As Mr. Seymour will tell you, for he and I consulted several times in refer- ence to the $500 proposition, we decided to pay no attention to the matter, but to <tand our ground and refgse to be held up In this brig- andish manner. eral times by friends of Delany that | the Supervisor was only joking when he said he wanted $500, but that was a serious matter, in my estimation, to joke about. “Delany made the proposition, and nobody knows it better than himself. Mr. Seymour and I have got proof to show if he insists on denying it.” ST DELANY DENIES IT. Says He Did Not “Talk Busi- | ness” With Wadham. Supervisor Delany was seen at his residence last evening and denied that any overtures had been made to the officers of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals regarding the control of the pound. “I know Mr. Wadham,” he said, “and asked him regarding the manner in which the institution was to be con- ducted, but as far as any money talk is concerned, that is entirely out of the question. We are friends, and I sim- ply asked for information, with abso- lutely no idea of any benefit to myself | or the committee. I also know Mr. Bauer of the Westerfeldt Bakery and Samuel Seymour of the S. P. Taylor Paper Company, both members of the society, and have talked to them about this matter, but there was absolutely Continued on Secon: %"l/m Zwa.({/dvda Y E I vy T PP 2 e pdysi o o lovo @ beoeo— * M’Auv' y [CR-PP /M oI5 P e s Fac-Simile o1 tne Statement of Assistant Secretary Wadham of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Accusing Supervisor Delany of Attempting to Extort Five Hundred Dollars From the Society. PRICE FIVE CE | substitution for a briefer and more |QC00000000000000OQ general resolution to the same effect |0 O/ that had been offered by Melville E. {© The Commerclal Clgb of Chi- O gtone. The resolutions as adopted | © cago, an organization composed O | .q4- © of representative business men, © “Resolved, That it is the deliberate P adopted resolutions last night ©|gsenge of the Commercial Club of Chi- /© caling upon the members of O cago that the annexation of Hawail | © Congress from Illinols to vote O would be a source of weakness and |© and work against the Hawalian © ganger to the United States. It would :g annexation treaty. g present almost impossible problems of government. Th= population of which not exceeding 5 per cent are white and the remainder chiefly seml-savages and Orientals can never become assimilated with Americans nor be submissive to the rule of constitutional law. A de- fense of islands 2000. miles distant from | our remotest border would involve, in case of war, a larger navy than is re- quired for the defense of our whole seaboard. No advantage to the United States can be obtained by annexation |000000000C000C00000 CHICAGO, Jan. 29.—At the annual| banquet of the Commercial Club, which | was held to-night at the Auditorium, | Professor von Holst of Chicago Uni- versity dellvered the principal address | of the evening, his subject being the | “Annexation of Hawail.” His remarks, | which were greeted with every mani | festation of approval, were as follow: | “What is the criterlon for deciding | | the question, ‘Ought Hawaii be an- | that cannot as well be gained by | nexed by the United States? Not the | treaty. Hawali is a friendly power, wishes or inter »f the islands. It is | 8nd no reasonable request for coaling not only the right but also the im- | OF telegraph stations would be refused | perative duty of the American people | US. The United States are dealing with | house in this city, which is owned by I have been told sev- | to be guided solely by their own inter- | est. “The great fertility of the islands no- body gainsays. But tiis is the less reason to annex them. bécause all the economical advantages to be derived from them are secured already. “As to the military side of the ques- tion, Captain Mahan, our leading naval | authority, has exploded the naive no- | tion that the islands confer by them- | selves control over a body of water. To be of military value we must have an adequate navy, and to be adequate our mavy would have to be much larger when Hawalili Is ours; for it would have | to protect not only our coasts and our shipping but also Hawail, which would | surely be a principal object of attack | in @ war with a first class naval power. | | Now we are practically invulnerable. | Is it rational to acquire without any | need a spot at which an enemy can hit | | us infinitely harder than anywhere | else? We would annex not a source of | strength, but of weakness. And it | would be a step that could not be re- | traced. To make the best of a bad job | | would be all that is left to us. | “That we act under compulsion, be- cause some other power—probably | efther England or Japan—would take the islands if we refused the gift, is an { ssertion which is not and cannot be ubstantiated, as it has never before been substantiated, though the cry has been raised every time we were after some territory. We can at least afford | to think enough of our power, as well as of our dignity, not to let the ery, ‘England,” have the effect upon us that the red cloth has upon the bull. Ever since 1825 the declaration of the | United States that they will not ‘allow' | or ‘permit’ certain territories to be taken by any other power has proved a sufficient curb upon the covetousness of the leading states of Europe. Tmes‘ it then permit of any doubt that their | | peremptory ‘Hands off!" would now be | respected? “An even graver consideration than | those mentioned thus far is that the| annexation of Hawali would not mean | the annexing merely of Hawaii. We | would annex temptation, and it is be- | cause of this that annexation is 80 | enthusiastically urged upon us—the temptation to annex other outlying territories and the temptation to pass behind us the warning counsels of | Washington in his farewell address, and enter upon a new era as to our | international policy. | | “Weighty as all these objections are | they dwindle into insignificance com- | | pared with the two that have thus far not even been alluded to. In the Dec- | laration of Lndependence the nation | has officially based its existence upon | the principle that governments ‘derive | their just powers from the consent of | the governed.' If ahnexation is ef- | fected in the manner proposed this | fundamental principle will be tram- | pled under foot, the unanimous ratifi- | cation of the treaty by the Hawaiian | Senate notwithstanding. For the over- whelming majority of the population | has virtually had no voice in institut- | | | ®© @ ® S @ » ® |® ® > ® ® & @ ® > @ @& kS ® * ® ® ® @ b4 ® ® ® ® @ @ @ ® @ @ ® S S @ B @ ® @ & @ ® ing this government; though now the lawful government, it actually repre- sents only less than 4000 out of about | 110,000. Even if the remaining 106,000 | & were to pray as ardently as the 4000 | & for annexation we ought to shut our | & door against them, because according @ to the unanimous emphatic testimony of the small minority, posing as the Hawaiians, the 106,000 are utterly and permanently unfit for self-government, which is more than the life breath, which is the very structural principle of this republic.” | { | and must always meet political ques- tions of sufficient gravity to tax the powers of the highest intellect and mest devoted patriotism. It would be a mistake, if not a crime, to add to our perplexities the government and de- fense of an allen people living in the mid-Pacific, with whom we have no common interests. “Resolved, That our Senators and Representatives are respectfully re- quested to cast their votes against the ratification of the pending treaty of annexation. “Resolved, That the secretary for- ward to our Senators and Representa- tives a copy of these resolutions.” Resolutions were offered immediately following the address upon the ques- tion delivered by Professor von Holst. —_—— INSPECTED THE FISH EXHIBITS. President and Mrs. Dole Entertained by United States Commissioner Brice. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—President Dole spent the afternoon in an inspec- tion of the United States Fish Commis- sion. The party included the Presi- dent and Mrs. Dole and Mr. and Mrs. Laukeau. United States Fish Com- missioner Brice showed them the ex- hibits and the workings of his depart- ment. This evening Miss Witherby, a niece of Mrs. Dole, arrived from Castine, Me., Mrs. Dole's birthplace. She will spend several days as the latter's | guest. The plans for the coming week | include a dinner every evening, begin- ning with that to be given by Mr. Cas- SOUGHT BY CREDITORS. Left Many Debts Behind Him in New York When He Went to Ohio Where He Is Accused of Bribery. NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—General H. H. Boyce, formerly of Los Angeles, Cal., who was accused before the investi- gating committee in Columbus, Ohio, with having been concerned in alleged bribery in connection with Senator Hanna's election, has disappeared, and a crowd of angry creditors are making efforts to find him. Boyce was the lessee of the Von Hoffman apartment Mrs. Margaret Todd, and for several days persons trying to collect bills have | been calling there inquiring for Boyce. | Boyce’s creditors include all the em- | ployes of the apartment house as well | as Mrs. Todd, who has taken charge of | the property and placed a manager in | control. Boyce lived in Los Angeles | about ten years ago and was manager of the Morning Tribune, now defunct. WRECK OF THE STEAMSHIP THE CITIZENS ASSEMBLE Y CONVENTION Denounce the Serv- ants Who Have Be- trayed Them. Score the Syndicate Press Whiech Has Sold Out Their Interests. Return Thanks for Help Ex- tended to a City in Dire Need. P VOLUME LXXXIIL—NO. 61. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JANUARY 30, 1898—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. T [\ & Tetl)lmlg Rff-)asons\?xven e R L L LR f A rofessor Von : JUAND ! i 2 VOICE OF LOS ANGELES. 2 Y T 3 . % 8 / % | &% LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20.—These are the resolutions voicing the 8 5 | % popular sentiment on the water question: R 8 Speech of the Noted Edu- | % Resolved, That, inasmuch as the subject matter of water Is one of % T 28 vital importance to each and every citizen to the end that an entirely 8 FE tTLRES cator Before the Com- &8 adequate and complete system may be obtained at as early a date as 3 t J s 2 possible, under municipal control and operation, it is therefore deemed % = mercial Club. % advisable that permanent organization be secured to represent the citi- £ 23 zens directly in this all-important matter, and to co-operate with the £ £ Council to bring about the result without any unnecessary delay. There- % s . %8 fore a committee is hereby named, to be known as the “Citizens' Com- % Supervisor Is Charged rTak‘_"g Btithe Is’ands, Would | mittee on Municipal Ownership,” said committee to consist of one mem- $§ With Attempting { Violate the Declaration of £ ber from each ward, the chairman of this meeting to be ex-officio a % > Independence. % member of the committee, and to name such ccmmittee within a rea- % Blackmail. sonable time. -8 —_— % Resolved, That we extend our thanks to all public officlals who % B e 2 have thus far in this struggle upheld the rights of +1e people and re- £ |MANY VALID OBJECTIONS. | % mained true to their trust and their pledges, and we extend our thanks % > Startling Disclosures by | 2 to all newspapers, whether published here or elsewhere, that assisted % H £ % the people in this contest. E3 Officers of the Pub- | &8 ] : Posseasion of the Far-Away Territory | & R B R S RS SR S R RN R R RN N SR RS RGN G lic Pound. Would Be a Source of Weak- | ness, Not of Strength. | | clared {tself against annexation call|tle on Monday, and the. Presidential < : upon the Senate to vote against the an- | banquet Tuesday. Chairman of the Committee on nexation treaty. They were introduced ——— Health and Police in a Epectal Dispatch to The Call before the club by F. B. Peabody, in | GENERAL BOYCE IS BUY THE WATER PLANT. Permanent Organization Effected to ‘Work for the Deliverance of the Southern Metropolis. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20.—The people of Los Angeles, without regard to poli- tics, assembled to-night in mass-con- vention to express their views upon the water question, and they did so in un- mistakable terms. Not only did they, by a unanimous vote, record their sen- timents upon the manner in which the City Council had proceeded in regard to the matter, but they also gave ex- pression to their feelings as regards the syndicated local press—the Times, Ex- press and Herald—which three daily KALA LADEN WITH SUGAR. Strikes on a Reef in Hawaiian Waters, and Is Lost, Together With Her newspapers have steadfastly taken up | the defense of the water company in the contest which is now on with utter | disregard of the rights of the people. And as soon as the muzzled and man- acled local press was mentioned by a Cargo. VICTORIA, B. C, Jan. 20.—The steamer Warrimoo arrived to-night from Australia and Hawali. She brought eighteen miners from Aus- tralia, on their way to the Klondike. The Warrimoo brought from Hawaii | news of the wreck of the steamer Kala, | with a cargo of sugar. She ran on a | reef. The steamer and her cargo are | a total loss. The cargo was valued at | $11,500. It was covered .by insurance. | The loss on the steamer was $25,000, | fully insured. The Kala belonged to | the Interisland Company, and the | sugar was consigned to M. S. Grin- baum & Co. X Mark Kennedy, a freight clerk of the steamer Kinau, was drowned through the overturning of a boat on the rocks | at Papaikou. SEVERE EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS IN MEXICO. | Copyrighted 159 by James Gordon Bennett. OAXACA, Mexico, Jan. 29.—Advices received here to-day show that severe earthquake shocks in the southern part of this State on the Isthmus of Te- huantepec caused considerable dam- age. It Is reported that several lives | were lost in mountain towns. Re- ports say that the ocean is still great- ly disturbed all the way from Acapulco to Salina Cruz, and there are indica- | tions that a new island is being formed near Salina Cruz by volcanic erup- | tions. e —————————————————————————————————————————————— | PEPO00P 000020000 00000 NEWS OF THE DAY. ‘Weather forecast for San Fran- clsco: Falr on Sunday; fresh north- erly to westerly winds. Maximum temperature for the past twenty-four hours: San Francisco .54 degrees Portland .44 degrees degrees degrees Los Angel San Diego . FIRST PAGE. Serious Charge Against Delany. Chicago Men Oppose Annexation. Los Angeles Citizens Speak. SECOND PAGE. Sacramento Prize-Winning Dogs. Bob Armstrong Easily Whipped. THIRD PAGE Dark Page in Hancock's History. Spaniards Feel Friendly. To the Pole Under the Sea. Two Women Murdered. Feud Leads to Crime. FOURTH PAGE. Train in the Ditch. Saflor Sues for Wages. Lost a Sack of Nuggets. Loot of San Jose. The Corona May Be Saved. FIFTH PAGE. Soctallsts Strong In Germany. England Working for Peace. France Over a Voleano. SIXTH PAGE. 3@@00@0@0000@6'&@ @g@-’?@@@@’b@@ ®® Editorial. v 006000000 00090800000000 | 2 i NEWS OF THE DAY ELEVENTH PAGE. Robbed of All His Coin. Church Servies To-day. FOURTEENTH PAGE. Racing at Ingleside. Births, Marriages and Deaths. FIFTEENTH PAGE. News From Across the Bay. SIXTEENTH PAGE. Democrats Concoct a Scheme. Attempt to Murder and Rob. Captain Ede’s Latest Deal. Escaped From a Padded Cell. An Actress and the Klondike. SEVENTEENTH PAGE. The Race to Capture the Soudan. EIGHTEENTH PAGE. What Shall We Do With Our Boys? NINETEENTH PAGE. Man Who Earns Fifty Cents a Second. TWENTIETH PAGE. Annual Sale of Convict Labor Florida. Snap-Shots of Vessels Sinking at Sea. . TWENTY-FIRST PAGE. Country Where Everybody Travels on Stilts. TWENTY-SECOND PAGE. The World of Books. - TWENTY-THIRD PAGE. A New Game Bird for California. TWENTY-FOURTH PAGE. in @ @ @ & @ @ ® @ ® ° ® S & k3 & b3 | POPOPPPPPOEICVOOPPDIPIV OOV O OPOH 6% & @l | 1zatlon to conduct the water fight speaker this evening the audience broke forth in one loud 2cclaim and the cheers and the applause were long con- tinued. The citizens who had assembled real- ized the truth of the assertion that they could neither expect nor hope for aid in the water fight from the local press. Therefore, when they heard the truth from a public platform, they were not slow in approving of its re- lation. The mass-meeting which was held to- night was one of the most successful non-partisan gatherings that have ever been convened in this city to discuss a great public question. It is one phase of the battle The Call is mak- ing to assist in obtaining for the peo- ple of Los Angeles their full rights in | the matter of a water-distributing plant, without permitting her citizens to be robbed of two million dollars in the interest of the fifty-twoe stockhold- ers of the water company. To this end the mass meeting was deemed advisable. It was felt that | there was nothing to be done by taking fruitless straw votes. The Call, acting for the people of Los Angeles, and in order that the citizens might be en- abled to express themselves upon the great question, in order that a perma- nent organization might be formed to conduct an organized battle for the people’s rights, lent its voice to them in calling a mass convention when the local press was paid for silence. All that was hoped to accomplish and more has been brought about as a re- sult of the people congregating to-night at Music Hall. The permanent organ- in their interest has been secured, con- sisting of one member from each of the nine wards of the city. The people have also taken a very decided stand which, if anything on earth will move {it, will have a tendency to cause the Council to take action along the line of preparing to buy the ! water company’s plant at the expira- tion of the contract. As yet the Council has done nothing in this mat- | ter. The meeting also decided that it was against public policy to permit the water company to make unnecessary improvements to its plant now which are non-essential and which are made solely for the purpose of endeavoring to compel the Council to make a re- valuation of the company’s improve- ments to the city’'s plant-at the expira- tion of the contract. Mayor Snyder, Councilmen Grider and Hutchison and The Call and the Record, although not specifically men- tioned, were all thanked for the ser- The Teller Resclution. The Prevalence of Cant. The Fight for the Rivers. The Rallroad Commission. The Falr and the Klondikers. Whales as a Madel. ““With Entire Frankness,” by Henry James. SEVENTH PAGE. Morosco's Novelty. Oakland Water Companies’ Plans. Says the Beer Was Drugged. EIGHTH PAGE. Mr. Loud Is Amused. Silver in the House. , Forum Club Reception. NINTH PAGE. News Along the Water Front. Suicide of C. W. Willey. S ® @ ® @ @ @ g @ ® ® ® bd ® @ @ @ & @ ® @ bd ® @ b4 ® ® bd @ 04 b L e @ bd [ @ ® L4 L4 bd ® @ Events of the Week in Soctety. TWENTY-FIFTH PAGE. Latest Novelties In Fashions. TWENTY-SIXTH PAGE. Boys’ and Girls' Page, TWENTY-SEVENTH PAGE. ‘The Drama—Notes and Comments. TWENTY-EIGHTH PAGE. Coast Personal News. ¥ TWENTY-NINTH PAGE. Santa Monica, an Ideal ‘Summer Re- sort. X THIRTIETH PAGE. ‘Teachers and Schools of Californta. Fraternal Department. THIRTY-FIRST PAGE. ‘The Commercial World. THIRTY-SECOND PAGE. As to “Vocational \Education.’ Glenbeigh Ate Poisoned Meat. News of the Mines. & | vice they have rendered the people in @ | this matter. The vast throng that gathered at | Music Hall this evening was a most | Intelligent audience. It was made up | of all classes and included some of the | first citizens of Los Angeies. As proof | of the assertion that all deemed the subject that was to be discussed one | ot vital importance it is only necessary | to relate that many citizens brought | their wives with them. The enthusi- | asm, while it was kept within orderly | bounds, was certainly deep, and the men realized that they were brought | together for a business purpose.” This purpose they accomplished. As presid- ing officer ex-Mayor Heury T. Hazard was warmly received. Mr. Hazard's The resolutions by which-the club de- PP0000908900900990000000800000000060 @ * & ® @ ® @ * ® S} . P00 9000099000 00000000 P09000996¢909000009000 0 | ® Q0090900000900 90906000 . two terms as Mayor have convinced