The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1898, Page 1

The Tall VOLUME LXXXIIL—-NO. 64. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. STORMCLOUD HOVERS OVER GRAND JURY WILL PURSUE THEM HOTLY Herget’s Charges The Call a Thun- derbolt. in Makes AffldavitThat Has- kins Asked Bribes for Permits. Bcard Will Be Indicted If They | Do Not Provide Car Fenders. POUND CHARGES FILED ervisor Has- Captain Delany and Su kins Will Be Confronted by Their Accusers. There have been so many charges | of fraud lodged against the present | Board of Supervisors that the Grand | little time for any other than the investigation of d crimes committed by the city’s ma The stormcloud of accusation has | now so focalized that the following | four matters are pending and will bc} investigaled in the order named : [ First—Charges now lodged before the Grand Jury to the effect that Su- | pervisor Delany tried to blackmail the Society for Prevention of Cruelty fto Animals. Second—The charges of John Her- get (Young Mitchell) that Super- visor Haskins sought a bribe of two hundred and fifty dollars before he would favor the issuing of permits for a boxing contest. In this con- nection the charge that Ned Lanigan is the broker of members of the board when privileges are for sale will be investigated. Third—The entire board will be brought before the indicting body if they do not decide the fender ques- tion by the 14th of this month. Fourth—The board and the city architect will be brought before the | jury and disciplined for illegal con- duct and gross negligence in the building of the new Hall of Justice. S R Young Mitchell's charges of corrup- Supervisors, published ex- ly in The Call yesterday, were the talk of the city. So far-spreading was the interest in this grave matter that The Examiner, little as it loves The Call, induced | Young Mitchell to make an affidavit that The Call story was the truth and nothing but the truth. But Mitchell also says there is more. He says he has cards up his sleeve and that the | truth has not half been told. | “Let the Grand Jury call upon me | and they will get it all, fof they have "hn right to ask questions. There are | 'thers who can tell an interesting story if they dare come out and tell the | whole case as it is.” | The Grand Jury will bring the matter | up without delay and give Mitchell and | others an opportunity to do all they can to throw light on the methods of the committees involved. The Call's account of the matter will | be brought before the body to-day. In sporting circles the charges made | by Miichell were apparently no sur- | prise, for scores of well known lovers | of glove contests had heard them made, | and there seems to have long been a | general understanding that “something was doing” with the busy members of the Committee on Health and Police, | which is said to have looked strictly | after the welfare of its own members. Seen in reference to the charges yes- terday Mr. Herget said: “I simply repeat my charges and say that I have not made the case as bad as it is. Haskins may make all the denial he wants to, but the facts are as I state them. They wanted, the earth and I simply got tired of being imposed upon. If the jury will call upon some other people whose names I will give them they may get some strong facts to aid them in their in- vestigations.” Supervisor Haskins made the fol- lowing statement relative to the serlous charges against his integrity as an offi- clal: “There is not one particle of truth in the charges against me. No offer of money was made, and if one had been the request for a permit would never have been brought before the commit- tee. This matter dates back to the time when Mitchell put in an applica- tion for a permit in the Griffo-Lavigne figbt. He asked me to put in the peti- Jury bas busine. alle, Z fegeReRuTeoReRuFuPuFoeTuRuPuFaRuTaTuFoLnTodePad | ter ~away from | the footsteps of | was away in Europe. SUP | tion for him, and as I have known him since boyhood I did so, and I asked that the permit be granted. Delany- op- posed the matter because he said he understood that 'Griffo had been in some drunken brawls in.the East and had been ordered out of various. cities. He said we did not need that kind of cattle here, but I did all I:could for Young Mitchell.. T ‘told him I would vote for the petition, but he said that would not do, as it would have to. be reported on by the committee. “I suppose Mitchell was mad because s last permit was nat granted, but | that was largely because of the.fake] Walcott-Lavigne fight. It was not I but Captain Delany who took his mat the ‘committee. and changed the dates because there was a | Another point I want to make | feget=g-2-2-3-3-3-3.F- 5. F-FoF-F- - =1 conflict. “All that I have said is true: There is much more to tell; and there are others who could speak if they dared to tell the truth. I have known Haskins a long time, and I know no‘good of him, either. The whole gang are as crooked as a ram'’s horn. I never visited Haskins’ place but once. If the telephone com= pany keeps a record of its mes- sages It can be shown that it was from there that I tele- phoned to Ned Lanigan regard- ing what it would cost me to get the permit. They threw me down hard. I didn’t kick then, but when it comes to stamping on me aftér I am down I draw the line.”—YOUNG MITCHELL (JOHN HERGET), in an inter- view. [e3aRcRagaRuFaTatuXugoRecFuRaFaFuRaguRaRuRoRoadsl E=2-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-F-R-3-3-2-3-3-3-3-31 is that I.have not been rubber-necking | around his place, as he states {t, but he | has been coming down here.” The Grand Jury has heen dogging the Supervisors for weeks on the car-fender question and has decided to indict the body if they do not act on the propositions involved in the fender controversy by the 14th of this month, the time specified by themselves as the limit of time re- quired to complete the investigation. It is generally understood: that the raflroad company stands ready to adopt any fender suggested by the Board of Supervisors, and that they will put the designated fenders on the cars as soon as the ordinance requiring them to do so is passed. Committee- men from the Grand Jury have been urging the Supervisors daily, and the lawmakers have made many excuses and many promises. First Dr. Clinton Then somebody else was {1, and next there was a de- | sire to humor every crank who had a scheme. The jurors, however, are ask- ing whether there is an attempt on the part of the board to ‘‘shake down” the | owners of fenders before they pasx a law on the subject. Another matter that is urgent is the completion of the Hall of Justice, There has ben a hitch, they say, be- tween the Supervisors and the city ar- chitect, who refuses to proceed on the plans and under the instructions of the board. If something is not done soon both the architect and the Su- pervisors are to be called before the jury and forced to give explanations that will be satisfactory, or explain to a trial jury after indictment for mis- feasance in office. Assistant Secretary E. L. Wadham of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has made a formal complaint to the Grand Jury of the al- leged attempt on the part of Supervisor Delany to blackmail the society : of. which he is an officer. The charges were framed according to the provi- sions of Section 68 of the Penal Code of California, w‘;$ch provides as follows: Every execu{Jve officer or person elect- ed or appointéd to an executive office who asks, recefves or agrees to receive a bribe upon any agreement or understand- ing that his v opinion or action upon any matter then pending, or which may: be brought before him in his ofcial ca- pacity, and who shall be influenced ther- by, 48 punishable by imprisonment in the | SUPERVISOR THOMAS H. HASKINS. ERVISORS Beg=2=2c3=Fep=FefegegaRedeFeaaTa8.2 “I- do mnot -understand = why Young Mitchell should single me out: for any such false and un- just attack. I have known him a long time and 1 am surprised that he:has: made the charges unless he had been drinking. T saw him a few days ago and thought he had been celebrating, as his barkeeper's wife had died and 'he seemed to feel bad over it.” But I want to say this: Al- though he is a prize-fighter he cannot:bulldoze " or .intimidate me into anything. - If he thinks he can he will be greatly sur- prised."—SUPERVISOR - HAS- KINS, in an interview. IO PSOTE R PR S e T OOOC‘GGQOOOGQOQOUOQOQ Rt bet o pegaieogsgegodegegngetetel o fegeBeRa=g=ReRBeBeBaRageBeguRe 2= | State prison for not less than one nor | more. than fourtéen years, and in' addj- | tion thereto: forfeits his office and Is forever disqualified from holding office in | this State. Secretary Holbrook has also pre- ferred charges with the Grand Jury calling “for an Investigation of the manner in which the pound was con- | ducted under the former administra- | | tion when it was In politics and also | after it was placed in the charge of | the Soclety: for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This will not only show ‘the humane treatment the ani- | mals received .when' the soclety con- ducted it, but the revenue the oclty gained from it. The jury will also be | Continued on Second Page. POOOOPOOPOOOO 00O H0066® | NEWS OF THE DAY. Weather forecast for San Fran- cisco: Cloudy on Wednesday: north- erly wind: Maximum temperature for the past twenty-four hours: San Francisco . Portiand . Los Angeles San Dlego i 54 degreas FIRST PAGE. Cyclone Strikes Supervisors Harbor Board in a Snarl. A Blizzard at the East. SECOND PAGE. Laborer Whirled to Death. Willlams Soclety Wedding. THIRD PAGE. Ex-Minister Thompson’s Sufclde, Lunatic Finds Mrs. Luetgert. Russian Troops in Manchuria. Little Girl Dies of Rables. Ohfo Bribery Scandal. Desperate Battle With Outlaws. Fire Sweeps a Biz Hotel. FOURTH PAGE. The Latest News From Dawson, Deathbed of a Sclentist, Spain Prepared for War. Prominent Divine Dead. Stanford Faculty Divided. Los Angeles Express Wrecked. Insurance Fake In a Wreck, FIFTH PAGE. Lives Lost at Sea. Annexatlonists Are Disheartened. Jack Stelzner a Winner. A Brutal Mate Arrested. Oregon. Men for Sound Money. Life Saved by a Watch. PRVPVOPPVVPPVPIRPIVPV9POPPVOPPO OV @ ® SIXTH PAGB. ® . Editorial. & = Where Blame Rests. & - The Fool and the Gun. % Boodle Rampant. & The Oakiand Water Combine. & Law and. Expediency. kS @ @ ® K3 @ ® > @ > % » @ ® » > S ‘The News From the Orfent. Storles. From -the: Cortidors. Answers to Correspondents. SEVENTH PAGE. News Along the Water Front, Had to Flee for Bafety. Oakiand's Water Fight. An Insurance Armistice. The' Mission to Have a’ Park. EIGHTH PAGE. Demand. Car Fenders: Detective. Agencles Doomed. Jackson and Jeffries Matched. NINTH PAGE. Congress’ Hard at Work. Los- Angeles People.on .Guard, Crowds at the Miners' Fair. From :Footlights to_Altar. TENTH PAGE. The Commercial World. ELEVENTH. PAGE. News' From-Acroas the Bay. Malones's_Grave Charges: TWELFTH.PAGE. Real Estate Market Review. Racing.at Ingleside, THIRTEENTH PAGE: Births, Marriages and Deaths. FOURTEENTH: PAGE. A Husband's Murderous Act. Want Better City Light: @OOQQO9@9@@»‘@@OO9990@0@’0@0‘@0@@@@0? fo o e R X o R R R R LR Tox S DPeOLIGDeHS b 0060066690008 00000606 | Indicate some loss of life and an SNOW FALLS AND STORMS ARE RAGING New England Coast | in the Grip of a Blizzard. Many Disasters Occur Ashore and at Sea. Vessels Wrecked by -Wind and Ice and Business Paralyzed in Cities and Towns. TRAFFIC BY RAIL BLOCKED In Maine Small Houses Ars Buried by Drifts and From Other Sections Come Stories of Disaster. Speclal Dl:pnui(o The C; e s S TTeN GLOUCESTER, Mass., Feb. 1. The storm at Gloucester was one of the worst in many years, and the damage which lles 1n its wake will foot up $200,000.. About 1000. fishing : - and : other “vessels were wholly or partly wrecked. A dozen of these were. wholly wrecked. Ejghteen lives are said to have been lost, and there may be twelve more which have gone down on ‘missing vessels. There was no rajlroad connection with Boston or_outside towns until 6 o'clock to-night. The carshed of the street raiiway company was blown down and damaged to the + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + extent: of $12,600. + + P e NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—The . storm which began Sunday night swept over New York ‘State with: great fury, and to-day . was ‘¢entral in the New Eng- land States.. Northern' New York is snowbound, and the extent of the dam- age In New England cannot be approx- fmated. - Reports - :bm, Bestor, with which place communication = was re- established to-night under great diffi- culties, after that city had been shut off from New York. for many hours, im- mense amount of damage to property. Business has bheen at a standstill ir many of the smaller towns:; wires are blockaded and railway traffic greatly impeded. The “Up the _State” residents have suffered with cold which ranged as low as twenty degrees below zero. At Albany, Troy, Saratoga and many other places in the State as much as | two and three feet of snow has fallen. | and reports to-night are that the bliz- zard ‘is still raging, the worst storm since the memorable one in 1888. Residents of this city have had to battle their way to business against a gale of wind that at times swept along at forty miles an hour and carried sheets of snow with it. Much delay was caused -to the railfoad mail serv- jce. That from the mnorthern part of the State has been practically cut off. and trains running on the New York Central Railroad were from - four to five hours late. From 10,000 to 20,000 men have been at work with thousands of teams on the streets clearing away the snow, and yet there has been no appreciable decrease in the amount that has piled up in every direction. Portions of Long Isiand suffered al- most as much from the storm as the towns far up the State. The east end of the island has been blockaded by the drifting snow.. The Long Island Rail- road was completely closed to-day. Snow plows, driven by five of the most powerful engines on the road, are now battling with the drifts on the eastern section of the road, which may be clear by to-morrow. BOSTON, Feb. 1.—A northeast snow- storm, which set in vesterday and raged untfl this afternoon, completely paralyzed all branches of business and street car and steam railroad. traffic, and for a time shut off the city from communication by wire with all places outside the limits of Boston.: The storm- was the most severe this city has exnerienced In':twenty-five years and caused the loss of several lives, besides doing a money damage of hun- dreds of thousands of dollars. Between 1 and 5 o’clock this morning a foot of heavy, wet snow settled over the city and leveled wires in all di- yections. The snow =!ung to the poles and wires, and, aided by a wind blow- ing at the rate of fifty miles an hour, prostrated all telephone and telegraph lines out of -the city. More than half the electric lights of the city went out and in suburban towns the fire-alarm service was crippled. In Newton broken : wires falling across others started a fire in the elec- tric ‘room “of the elegant residence of Charles J. Travelli, the wealthy Pitts- burg steel manufacturer, and .in two hours nothing remained -of the house but a pile of ruins. Mr: Travelii’'s fam- ily escaped in their night clothes with- out saving anything. The loss amounts to -about. $100,000, the house. being val- ved at:$55,000 and furniture and art treasures at $15,000. : A three-masted schooner, believed to be the Charles S. Briggs of Bath, Me., laden with coal, was wrecked off Little Nahant last night.. It is believed there were efght men on board and all are thought to have been drowned. The vessel is & total wreck. The vessel is belleved to have been | wrecked * about 8 o'clock last -night. She struck upon the ledge north of Egg Rock light and was smashed to street. wharf, ~and - against for preservation of piles to be used year. The last-named company appears combination. fore having been taken into court. portant books of the combination hay one pool company, Pine Lumber Company. joy especial advantages and profits State Harbor .Commissioners, F066060066600000 S84 e foBeRcBegeFoFoRoR-R R R-8-F-F-8 -] ST The Paraffine Paint Company brought an injunction suit against the State Harbor Commissfon to: restrain them from awarding. contract for the ‘treatment of piles to be used in the construction of the Green- awarding The ‘company avers: it was the lowest bidder in a fair competition, and that it brings the action to:enforce acknowledgment of its rights, on the ground of fraud and collusion between the San Frtincisco Timber Preserving Company to favor the latter. concerns. doing business under corporative titles ‘with P. F. Dundon, S. E. Slade and Darby Laydon are the managers of the It is shown by the records that contracts awarded them concealgd the manipulation of prices and the payment for materials. Tt is shown that the:State is sufféring losses in consequence of con- tracts persistently awarded the combination. It is shown that the hooks of Darby Laydon & Co. Even then they disclosed the fact that money had been paid regularly to Patterson, the construction superintend- ent of the board, for having done ‘‘secret service” for the firm. should remember ‘all about the business done by the contract pool with the commission have lost their memories as to these matters. It has been brought out that materials have been pald for, to at least without having been delivered. It has been proved that certain injunction actions brought against the board, on grounds similar to those on which the Paraffine Company rests its case, were dismissed under an agreement whereby two high bidders of the pool were allowed to enjoy annual contracts for material they now dispose of as' middlemen after recelving it from the contesting If the investigation went no further enough is now legally ascertained to warn the Governor and ‘the people that a pool of private operators en- “BOSS” DUNDON ORDERED THE BOOKS DOCTORED fageReReR RuRuBoRagoBaRagegag=Rag= | 263606006000 EOOO VY op | op o o2 pe=3 o K33 @§| o o5 contract for the treatment by the board during the ensuing the commission and to be one of a number of private the commission. were doctored be- Many im- e disappeared. The witnesses who o which in their dealings with the Board of pleces. - From the’ moment struck there was no possible chance for the members of the crew to save them- saving of life impossible. one of the ¢rew, a man about 35 years the wreckage. It was frozen to a plank and was much disfigured. In the business district it was nearly noon when many employes reached their places of employment, all subur- ban trolley lines having been aban- doned at midnight and the steam rail- roads being unable to run more than the forenoon. All through trains from New York and the west, as well those from the east, were from four to six hours late, and many did not get in until late in the afternoon. Tracks were not only blocked with snow, but masses of broken poles and wires were encountered at many places. To-night the few trains moving are running| without a telegraphic service. The city | arld suburbs are covered with broken poles and tangled wires. Many horses | were killed In the streets by stepping | upon the end of telephone wires which | had fallen across the streets. a dangerous aspect that Mayor Qulncy ordered that none of the electric lights | be turned on except in districts where | the wires are underground. that - she | selves, as the rough sea rendered the | The body of | of age, was found this morning among | two or three suburban trains during | as | To-night the situation assumed such | It will re- | the brunt of it fell on Boston and the | | territory within a radlus of fifteen or | twenty miles. From meager reports re- ceived from the middle and western parts of the State the storm there was | | less gevere. Here about twenty inches of snow fell. LAWRENCE, Mass, Feb. 1.—The storm has paralyzed business and traf- | { fle. Streetcar lines are tied up and | | communication with other towns al- | most suspended. All the mills are seri- ously affected by the storm. Many of | the operatives are out, and some of the | { mills are not running at all. The forty | passengers on the 9:40 o'clock train out | of Boston passed the night stuck fast | in a snowdrift between Ballardsville and Lowell, without food, and did not | reach this city until late this afternoon. | i WATERVILLE, Feb. 1.—Small { | houses have been buffed by the twen- | ty-foot drifts of snow. The Lockwood cotton-mills have closed, the operators being unable to reach the factory. There has been no train over the Maine Central Railroad for twenty-four hours. | TORONTO, Ontario, Feb. 1.—The thermometer registered 10 degrees be- | low zero to-day, with the prospect of | going lower to-night. Reports from most places in the provinces show that the mercury fell from 15 to 25 degrees | below. Strong winds have been drift- interfere with railway traffic. quire weeks to restore the telephone and telegraphic ‘service. Not a single telegraph wire out of Boston was in operation all day, and the telephone wires were in almost as bad condition. far as Worcester was established. wholesale and most of the business dis- tricts of the city were deserted all day. The Stock Exchange was lifeless and transactions were very limited. Shipping in the harbor was damaged greatly, and it is feared that many dis- asters to coast shipping will be report- ed when telegraphic communication is restored. The center of the storm appeared to be in the vicinity of New Bedford, and This afternoon a telephone service as The | pathological STIARK F SN BEHINGTHE DOOR. ACCOUNTANT REED TELLS THE STORY Darby Laydon & Co.s Firm Records Doc- tored by Him. | Significant Revelations in the Harbor Commis- sion Case. Amazing Development of a New and Undescribed Mental Malady. CLASSED AS COLNONCITIS. Proof That the Pacific Pine Com-= pany Suits Were Dismissed Compromise. The peculiar malady introduced by Chairman Colnon of the Harbor Com- | mission into Judge Belcher's court is apparently of a contagious nature. In the lexicon of pathology it has not found place as yet for want of proper diagnosis. It has some of the traits of | an involuntary cerebral infirmity indi- cated by the psychologic term meton- | ymy: that is to say, a heedless and un- conscious impulsion to express the op- posite of what one means to utter. But neither dread nor fear, nor intent to cheat ‘the truth is Involved with this unsentient mental operation. Metonymy is not a disorder communi= cated by one person to another; carried about in old clothing, or conveyed by over-ripe fruits or water surcharged with microbic mysteries. How far the Colnon epidemic may be traceable to these channels of transmission science has not had time to determine. Of the origin of the complaint, of its beginning, Mr. Colnon himself has vouchsafed the best inti- mation on the witness stand. His ex- planation was, a collapse of memory from something like vertigo, the result- ant of which is a recurrence of collapse of memory without the something like vertigo attachment. Ever since the stroke of something-like-vertigo, his memory for “dates, names and se- quence of events,” as Attorney Strat- ton developed by advisomy examination, has been bad, in fact wretched, though his “memory for principles” remains as good as ever. As to the scope of the latter mental facility of Chairman Col- non, the tortursome inquiries of the Harbor Commission case affords no light. It does not appear from the testi- mony up to date that any of the suave SAN FRANCISCO TIMBER PRE::ERVING(