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

'THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDN ESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1898. Ch: man’s successors in the witness chair were attacked vertiginously though 2 all of them bore the unmistakable effects of the | something-like-vertigo tragedy from- which he While they \\‘erP“; rrogatec o their “mémory of es,’ in fact enthu- 1 failure of memory | sequence of combinations, h the Court is| wled They sud- | eed, to an alarm-] etic symptoms of | vithout making s to p s influence or ation. Hence the conclusion that | 8 able condition is a | to spread even before the pres- | ' causes, realitie: ¥ 6ld thing of wh anxious to gai de: anifested, in ing d all th Mr. C € any Drovoc mer to a close. | tewart, manager for the Company, did not develop as other witnesses, for | period of forgetfulness he rsuaded that he did remember bout an agreement where- company against the Pacific as bad a ca \ were dismissed; consequence the Pacific is now selling Tum to the which disposes t of it to the commi: and the Darby & Co. part of the Dundon jination buy of the afc Co.-the piles they sell to the com- yn at the highest s ever pric of or the about the | ed Darby the pile- r effect under- fore unin- \d ex- confidential threatens to | cated instance of | irman stand | after- | Dundon’ totu e the ave the ade did not Te- een done with cer= nt books of the have disap- intended - to ists who are ers of the is articular ct that during an Francisco ny had car- Harbo ash book h > never the Laydon keeper - for got to be for- of his examination, the| 1 st tric 1 admitt accounts under the di-| don. The remain-i nce on the stand was | mental opacity that | ,-at times, of taking | ency. to have been inoc- nd rr One ulated contagion. ~ This | was T former - bookkeeper. He exhibit- a mormal attorney for: the for- litigation, Mr. Strat- | i a categorical distrust | acy of the young man’s memory. Attorne; tinet ce ceedir man Stratton is entitled toa dis- ty after yesterday's pro- objector. . During Hel- days in Congress the of Indiana never ame as a constant, s palmi v watchd d so-mu h persistent and reiterative objector. In fact, Mr. Straiton ‘was one. long € c tion point of ~objecti 1 da “The record is the best evidence,” "'sec- testimon ncompetent, al,” ‘were mere 1ts to a beautiful- tionon thesubject of | ondary Stratton, who i a g ty, sa much so in| short that he might be taken for an e of the gospel instead of ma T at la is to be admired for the c ientious nd eloquent manner in uted. to the record: of accumulating - in h he contr g revelations > placid course of in- tions of -brib- ud are involved, Not only had s to a proper corruption and 1o surface ntial books e in- into the contract transactions of the Dundon-Slade combination with quiry the Harbor from vie had Commission disappeared nd memory; principal w slipped away into invi them the confidential Dundon and Siade, . Darby Lay f had thought- don hims fully obtained perm n from the court to go out of town until Thurs- Fi the. bookkee ve been taken s is supposed to be three weeks ago, and at Modesto, or somewhere. Reed, the | bookkeeper, admitted despite of his state of mind, he attending to all the complicated | business affairs of the complicated | hips. | s the purpose of counsel for the Paraffine Company yesterday to prove that ¢ in moneys were paid by Darby Laydon & Co. to Mr. Patterson, the former superintendent of the Har- bor Commission; that the money re- ceived from the commission for piles never delivered was “divided”; that the books of Darby Laydon & Co. had been ‘“‘doctored,” and that the suits of the| Pacific Pine Company against the| board were dismissed in keeping with | an agreement whereby the Slade Lum- | ber Company and the Darby Laydon & | Co. bureau of the Dundon-Slade pool bought the materials they furnished | thé board under annual contracts from | the Pacific mpany. Though Attor-| ney Stratton insisted that the evidence produced was “irrelevant” and “sec- ondar and many other things in- tended in their consideration to take up a great deal of valuable judicial time, the lawyers of the Paraffine Com- pany accomplished what they set out to do. The first witness on the stand was young Townley, formerly bookkeeper for Darby Laydon & Co. It transpired that he had not been discharged from employment, as alleged, but that he} had resigned to form the firm of Gal- | loway, Townsley & Co. They secured’ a small contract for repairs on the] water front, and gave bond for its per-| formance after. having arranged for | implements and materials with which to do the work. The implements and materials, controlled by the Dundon- Slade combination, were then refused | them; they failed to carry out their contract in consequence, were adjudged liable for a penalty by the commission, | and suit for recovery was instituted against their bondsmen. The pile book which Townley kept with others for. Darby Laydon & Co. cannot be found. It would show that the firm so0ld to the commission and received pay at regular intervals for piles never delivered. For example, when 5000 feet of piles were supposed to have been delivered, and for which pay was received, only 4000 were deliv- ered, the pile book would show a gain to the firm of 1000 feet of piles. It was the peculations represented by these figures that Townsley testified were di- SOOKEEPER REED. \/Ho DIDTHE FINE WoRK . vided between the firm and’ Patterson. The presumption is, and both the rec- ord and the assertions coming from the Pacific ‘Pine Lumber Company bear it out, that this system of non-delivery under contract enabléd the Darby Lay- don firm to ‘informally underbid them as a competing company and run down the price. Townsley identified many additional alterations in the ledger and cash ac- count, ail in relation. ‘to the business done with the Harber Commission. The items he testified to- were: . Pat- terson, changed to ‘“‘Matterson,” $220 50; - Patterson, changed to “Mat- terson,” $95; Patterson, changed - to “Matterson,” $90; Burnham, changed to “Durnham,” $10; Holden, changed: to “Holdenson’ $10 (both these men were connectéd with the ' pile-driving de- partment of the commission); " “P. meaning’ Patterson, changed to “B. $124; “P.”” changed to “B.” $95; . Pat- terson, changed to = “Ratterson,” $33 Quite - a collection = of Norwegian ciphers. The long series. of objections by Attorney Stratton ended-in_the fol- Jowing - contention: -and . ruling. when counsel for the Paraffine. Company: at- tempted to gain from the witness ex- plicit information as to the manner of recording not delivered but paid: for: Mr. Cope—Now, will you your recollection, as you have mnot state from the Dile book, what was the course of conduet of Darby the Laydon & Co. delivery of piles and thelr measure- 2 . Stratton—That was objectnd to, if your Honor please, some time ago, upon | the ground that the couyrse of ‘conduct or custom of Darby Laydon & Co. at that time cannot be material in: this case, Mr. Sullivan—It is under the same ob- jection and ruling. Mr. Stratton—I don’t understand that evervthing goes in.. The court has made specific yulings, but that doesn't ‘mean that everything they choose to ask should o in, g)lr. Sullivan—We want ‘to show -the practice of Darby Laydon & Co: . .down to the time this man left their -employ- ment as to the manner of delivering piles and charging for piles delivered. -We pro- posé to show by the young man that it was the practice of Darby Laydon & Co. up to the time he left -the employ of the firm ta charge for more piles than actu- ally ‘were delivered; and we ire - to prove by the witness how that was-done; | the method; how he came to make those | charges. Mr. Stratton—Do you intend to follow that up? Do you say that you have evi- dence at your command that will connect the dealings of Darby Laydon & Co. and + bring it to the personal knowledge of the defendants in this action? Mr. Sullivan—Of course, fraud must be proven by circumstances, if your Honor please, and we intend to prove certain circumstances by this witness, and by other witnesses certaln - other circum- stances, from which the court will rea- sonably infer knowledge on the part of the Commissioners of the fraud. perpe- trated. Mr. Stratton—I ask you that question. The court allowed this testimony in on the statement that you intended to con- nect these very acts with the Commis- sioners at the present time; and the statement was made by counsel, as I take it, in good faith. Now, I ask if a delivery of a less quantity of piles to Patterson, or anybody else, if they intend to bring that to the knowledge or connivance or collusion of the present Commissioners, who are defendants in this action? Mr. Sullivan, we intend if your Honor please, to prove circumstances from which your Honor may infer that certain Commissioners were parties to the fraud perpetrated by Darby Laydon & Co. Mr. Stratton—This is delightful for the press, but I don’t believe it is evidence of any fraud that any inspector or superin- tendent of repairs took $10 in March, 1894. The court—I feel bound to say to coun- sel unless this proof is brought home in some fair way to the defendamts that— Mr. Sullivan—We expect to bring it home, as we state. It Ig very difficult in cases of this kind to prove beyond any question or knowledge. The court—Circumstantial evidence is just as valuable as direct evidence. Mr. Sullivan—We intend to introduce circumstantial evidence. g The court—But the circumstances must all be consistent with the fact sought to be proved and inconsistent with any other conclusion. That is the rule adopted in circumstantial evidence. Mr. Sullivan—We intend to prove— The court—If you make such & case; and !a.g }'ou intend to make such a case— Mr. Sullivan—We Intend te prove cir- cumstances which would be inconsistent on the part of certain. Commissioners. The court—I don't want this to run Into merely a school for. scandal, of course; but 1 dointend to. let the plaintiff prove his case if he can. Mr. Stratton—I understand the. ruling of the court was that a great deal of latitude ‘would be allowed in this ‘case. and, " although I made my showing, I understand that ‘the: -court, while not with me at the present time, nevertheless has reserved the right to strike out, and to that extent, and so far as the-law:is concerned, save whatever rights I have. But it-would appear-as though simply to prove these isolated facts and without any intent—at Jeast without. any: state- ment - from counsel that he has evidence which will connect the present Commis- sioners with ‘it, or in some ‘way make it competent—it ought to be introduced, for | the ‘reason that I think:that these Com: missioners, as public. officials, ‘are en- titled to some consideration.in so far as: the public attitude -of this case ls con- cerned.” T don’t intend to try the case in the newspapers, if iyour Honor -please; but, after all,the mere fact that less piles ‘were delivered than were called for by contract, or that $10. was paid to. an in- spector, is taken in the public sense to be somewhat evidence of collusion and dis- honesty on the part of all public officials that may be even remotely connected, by appointment, with those particular per- sons. So, as I say, taking thatintoconsid- eration, I think there ought to be a limit to the evidence. I asked counsel if he in- tended to connect these Commissioners, and in view of the fact that he declined to answer the statement I take it he could not answer. He sald he intended to rhade | the megsnrément of " piles | in reference to | | prove Gonspiraey by such evidence ‘as he | had. “He may claim that the mere fact that subordinate off is presumptive evidence that the princi- | pals- received part:or all-of it -for all I now. The court—I ‘cannot -assume . any ‘such case. - I cannot accept it as true that while the. ‘servant may have been a | wrongdoer . it - must = necessarily - follow. that the master was also.- ‘The doctrine of circumstantial evidence, as stated, is that the circumstances must be consist= ent. with the facts sought to be shown— intended to be shown—and “incensistent with v other rational conclusion.: That is;.a r ‘statement -0f the- doctrine of itial evidence. If the: circum= sought t6 be shown here are con- with the = facts sought. to. be shown— to. wit, ‘that:there was conduct on the part of the Harbor Commissioners that was in derogation of their duty and trust; ‘and tendfng to establish the facts |-here sought'ta be proven, and: it should | appear-that sueh cireumstances are in- { ent with other ratfonal. conclu- hen they may be fairly considered | court; ‘hut unless they do go ‘to that extent then of course :they must he utferly rejected. ‘Rut, as T stated: before, it:is. ot the province of the court, it is i nat its duty, to. stand ‘at the tiireshold and forbid a party t6 make a case. be- | cause at the first view -of the évidence offered it seems to me to be entirely :ir- relévant .and immaterial, standing by itself. Tt is the falr duty_of the court to permit a party to.make a'case if he can, | and -then give the other party.-leave ta strike out all the testimony if it does not mike a case, and thit is what T think should be done heré. You may proceed. | Mr: -Cope—We don’t want to promise. more to. your Honor than we really think could be sustained. The: court- ou. have . the. intimation from the court.that ysur eyvidénce will be rejected if it doesn't make out-a case in | point of law, ; Mr.: Stratton—I understand that. Insert Harbor Commission Then the witness explained how- the logs gained were checked off -~ in. the pile book, and {f that could be produced the ‘sum of all the ' undelivered - piles could be obtained. Garret McEnerney, attorney for the Darby - Laydon ' Company, and- royal keeper of the seals, who had patiently sat -through two ‘sessions, alternately nodding over Attorney Stratton’s som- niferous objections - ‘and - blinking - a watchful eye at: the precious hiero- glyphic account books of his:client, be- gan shortly before recess. to enter a fexwy mild-mannered objections. -himself, These were directed, under the rose; to counsel for the Parafline-Company, and partook mostly of the nature of plead- ing and expeostulation, Mr.:McEnerney and the books:could . not separate them- selves, and Mr. McEnerney, who is a man of action, was anxious to separate cials recelved money. | himself from a ‘situation in which he found: neither entertainment mor in- struction. . The ‘upshot of the matter was that he left court in company with the Darby Laydon volumes of crypto- sr&mc. ¥ i In the afternoon Mr. Chadbourne, a member. of the -board, ‘displaced Mr. Harney, who has been a constant-at- tendant at the side of Attorney Strat- ton;: Mr. Chadbourne was concerned about: the disclosure made by Book- keeper Townley. as ‘to moneys paid the board in 1894, prior to Mr. Colnon's | appointment. One ftem of $300 was identified under the. letter “C,” a pri- vate mark of the ‘bookkeeper, and at this" point the investigation was con- fined, by the ruling of the court, to the period comprehending the life of Chair- man Colnon as a member, beginning in March, 1895 The amount named, it was testified, was paid to some mem- ber of the:commission,.and an intima- tion: that “C” meant. Chadbourne -es- ‘¢caped counsel for the Paraffine Com- The :name of another member pany. M r: of that year has the same initial, Coles, hich one of the two members the: “$300 item - was checked - -against witness - can mot -positively ~affirm, though he is certain he was informed the money was for one or the other. George T. Wright, accompanied by, his.client, 8. E. Slade, with more books, sat all ‘day in the jury box. Books everywhere! Mr:.J. J. Keegan, secretary of the Harbor ‘Commission, sat deferentially. in the rear of the court ~With the rec- ords of the board in his eharge. ‘When recalied to the stand after re- cesd it ‘developed - that ex-bookkeeper Townley ‘had acted as assignee for Darby, Laydon & Co. seyeral years ago in actions for. recovery. - The cases were: entitled Darby Laydon & Co. vs. City ‘of Benicia, same vs. Sacramento Bank, ‘same vs. City: and County of San. Francisco. - Dundon was then a silent partner of Darby Laydon & Co. and Supervisor. . For the purpose .of concealing: ‘his' rélations Townley ~was requested to serve as assignee in pros- ecuting the ¢laims. The one against the city ‘of San Francisco was for the re- covery -of about $8800 for work under a contract secured to ‘the firm of “Mr. Dundon, .as Supervisor. {y‘ld'up the payment, hence the suit. n -all - these. cases Mr. . Stratton ap- peared as attorney for Messrs, Laydon and Dundon, or was consulted as such. Townley afterward laid claim to. col- {lection in the guits for commission,and in the case of the judgment obtained against the city of Benicla attempted to: collect. Mr. McEnerney threatened to ‘‘make it hot for him'" if he persist- ed,'and on the advice of his attorneys he abandoned the action. The present hookkeeper for . Darby Laydon & C¢., Mr. Reed, was recalled and admitted that he made the erasures and alterations in the firm books, under . the direction of Mr. Dundon. He did not know. any of the “-—attersons,” but did know. Mr. Pattérson. He sub- stituted the word “advertising” for “service” at the head of the secret ex- penditurepage; -but stuck to it in spite of the rigid examination of coun- sel for the: Paraffine Company and. of | Judge Belcher; that he made the al-| teration of his ewn volition, because he wanted '‘to .combine the two accounts.” He could-not explain ta.the court satis- factorily . why « he had not opened a_separate acceunt for the firm’s ad- vertising, ‘which is trifling; why he did not let the “service” account stand if ‘his ‘desire, as he .averred, was._.to save paper, and place the advertising account under its separate head on the same page; or why he had not indexed the advertising account “after - having erased ' ‘'service.” He:did not know what the “service” account ~meant; never asked; = didn’t want to. know, and yet: could not ex- plain. why ‘he . . had methodically en- desvored ta blind or destroy it. There was . no other ‘bookkeeper; he was the only “one;: -When _pressed “he . did remember there ‘was another account- ant named A¢ L. Finney, who has been absent -sick . for three weeks at ‘Mo- desto -or ' thereabouts. Finney keeps the present pile record, but witness did not know where the previous oneé. was to-be found. He did not know that it ever had an existence. Judge Belcher toasted the witness for a while and theft dropped him. The present. pilebook . disclesed an item, “104 piles by recount,” but ‘-the witnegs could not tell its meaning. He knew. of no record in.existence show- ing: measurement of piles delivered to the Harbor Commission and the meas- urements charged. Reed's positive ig- norance and. forgetfulness made ex- cellent -evidence for _the Paraffine Company's case. Granville W. Stewart of Sausalito, the manager of the Pacific Pine Company, after a long spell of uncertainty as to the :facts about the relations between his' company and the Dundon-Slade combine, admitted that the four suits of his company were dismissed as the result of an agreement. The Slade Company is now buying from the Pa- Mayor Ellert | GRANVIL WHO KNOWS WHY YHE LE W. STEWART. SUITS WERE. DISMISSED. cific Company their lumber and Darby | Laydon & Co. their plles. In fact the | latter company has gone out of the | pile importing business as one of the conditions. -of the settlement. When the question as to who made the com- promise was propounded the witness had another attack of what Chairman Colnon suffers from since he had the stroke of something like vertigo. S. E. Slade was the last witness of the afternoon. He started out by af- firming that' he had no partner in the lumber business, but he did own a half interest in. the unincorporated San Francisco Timber Preserving Company, Formerly the Slade Company was an incorporation; now he is it, and they are Slade;. The first person singular | non-incorporated company of Slade & Co. could not tell what had become of its ‘books :of the period prior to Feb- ruary 1, 1895. The others, covering the intervening period, he identified. He also identified two books; journal and ledger, of the San Francisco company, but avowed no cash account had ever been kept, either in book form, in loose or bound paper or as memoranda. Mr. Slade promises to be the most in- teresting ‘case of Cclnoncitis yet - de- veloped at the trial. He will resume the stand this morning. Everything indicates that counsel for the Paraffine Company have some- thing up their combined sleeve that will make this case celebrated, if not no- torious, after the contagion of Colnon- citis has-expended its fury. Pt STORMCLOUD OVERS OVER SUPERVISORS Contjnued from First Page. 1 asked to investigate the reasons of Os- | born’s displacement from the manage- ment of the institution and the appoint- ment of Holbrook to the office. ~Then the Grand Jury will be requested to laok into the action of certain eight of the members of the Board of Super- visors whose votes at a meeting on Monday took the pound out of the hands of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and placed it as a machine of corrupt politicians. Hol- W. H. Manor and Mi Jiams, this mornirg,; the Rev. F and H. W. Manor. - ss Ella Williams Pledge The - the Marriage Altar. | 'WILLIAMS, Feb, ii—At the beautiful country seat of Mr. and Mrs, WEDDING BELLS AT WILLIAMS. ir Troths Before ul cou M M. Goodfellow, six. miles: west ‘of Wil- 'W. Baker performed the cérémony which united in’ marriage : Miss- Ella '\Willlams Promptly at § o'clock the sweet strains of the weddinig march ushéred the party info the parlors of the Good- ifellow home, where the relatives had assembled. Affer the words had been spcken:‘and the couple pronounced man and wife breakfast was served. Then, amid. a show cisco to spend their honeymoon. e third.daughter ot er of rice and good wishes, the couple ‘departed for San Fran- W. H. ‘Williams, alplofieer. large land-owner and’ the founder of the town of ‘Willlams. ' She was born.on the Williams homestead—the present site-of the town—and, after passing’ through -the public schools of this.place, attended Field’s. Seminary in Oakland. She is endowed with a kind and lovable dis- positicn, is charitable to a fault and universally admired by her friends and acquaintances. The groom is a son of the late A. B. Manor, a pioneer, merchant and land-owner. The invited guests were: Manor and F: E. Manor. e Mrs. M. M. Manor, Mrs. 8. W. Willlams, and wife, Rev. H. 'W. Baker and wife, S. H. Pollen and wite, Mr Mabel Goodfellow, Mrs. J.. R.:Moody, Harry _Goodfellow, Major Stephen Allen, ! L. G. Manor and wife, H.. M. Goodfellow Mrs. O. E. M. Howard, - 'Miss Addie Shannon, 2 3 Miss Patrick Haugh, George Persons, J. A. | brook’s complaint is a sweeping one that calls for a complete investigation of the whole matter. During that investigation an effort will be made to show that one of the reasons why the pound was taken out of the control of the society was be- cause the orders of certain Supervisors asking for the release of the animals of their friends without the prescribed fee to the city were not recognized by the Poundmaster, who was responsible to the society for the proper conduct of the institution. Persons whose dogs were impounded because they had neg- lected or refused to pay the necessary license would, when the animals were caught roaming about the streets, go to some one of the . Supervisors with whom they had a political pull and get an order on the Poundmaster de- manding the releage of the dog. Before | the soclety took charge of the pound | such orders were honored. Tt had the effect of giving those so favored im- munity from the ordinance prescribing a tax on dogs. The officers of the So- ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals took the stand that the ordi- nance was made for all citizens alike, | ana they refused to honor such orders or requests, wrath of several of the Supervisors, and it is claimed that it had much to do with:the action of Delany and the rest of the solid eight when they voted | to take the management of the institu- tion from the society and placed it in the hands of the politicians again. Osborn, who was given charge of the pound by the Board of Supervisors at the meeting of the board on Monday, th\s been voted out of the Soclety for the Prevention of Cruelty to: Animals. Osborn still claims membership in the organization, but the =members = will have nothing to. do with him. There is considerable speculation as to what the city will now do for a pound. The corporation owns no place suitable for the purpose, and there is no appropriation sufficient for such purposes. At the beginning of the fis- cal year $500 was set aside for the ex- pense of the pound, but at that time it was understood that the Humane So- ciety would take care of it on their premises at Sixteenth and Alabama streets. It is now said that with the | $500 and a levy from the urgent neces- | sity fund a pound will be fitted up. It will require about $20,000 to properly equip the place, and it is said if it is run on political methods it will always | be a source of great expense to the city. Persons with Supervisors for friends will be relleved of paying Ii- censes for their animals, while those less fortunate will be compelled to pay the tax. The officers will be open to corruption and no check can be had on them. The foregoing four charges are all grave in character. Those affecting the integrity of members of the Committee on Health and Police are the most urgent at present and will be investi- gated ahead of the others, though no time will be lost in calling the Super- visors to account for their failures in the case of fenders and in the building of the Hall of Justice. It would seem that the storm cloud of wrath and ac- cusation had about settled over the heads of members of some of the more important committees of the city’s law- making body. The fact that the Grand Jury is active may spur the board to act in matters now pending, but noth- ing can stop a thorough investigation of the charges that crimes have been committed in the past. The result of all tnese accusations will be watched with more than usual interest. CONSIDER DOUGLAS COUNTY A DISGRACE. Nevadans Would Wipe It Off the Map Because of the Uber Lynching. CARSON, Feb. 1L—There is a proposi- tion afoot now to consolidate Douglas County with Ormsby, and thus wipe it off the map of Nevada, because ofthe no- toriety the State has received in conse- quence of the unpunished Uber lynchers. A bill will be introduced in the next Leg- islature to do away with the county of Douglas and merge it into Ormsby. It is probable that when this is done the District Attorney of Ormsby County will bring the Uber case before the Grand Jury and make another attempt to pun- ish the lynchers. ——— Dr. Marife Louise Benolt of Lawell, Mass., has been instructed medical in- terne in the New York State Craig colony for epileptics, at Sonyea, Living- stone County. She is the’ first woman appointed as a medical Interne in the ADVERTISEMENTS: Strong and Well Rheumatism and "Other Troubles Followed Scarlet Fever. “I had scarlet fever when I wasseven years old and havehad St. Vitus dance, followed by rheumatism. I bégan tak- ing Hood's Sarsaparilla and a few bot- tles of this medicine made me strong and well.” ARVIE LOWE, Janesville, California. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier. Hood’s Pills cure nausea, indigestion. 2c. That brought on them the | FUL DEATH OF A LABORER - Whirled Around the Big B\_.xllwheel in a © Sawmill Il One Hundred Revolutions a Minute Until He Is Released. Shockingly Mangled, He Suffers Tortures Until Death Comes to His Relief. Bpectal Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Feb. 1.—Richard Hem- broth, a workman at the Tacoma Lum- ber Company’s sawmill, met a terrible fate this afternoon. While at work about the machinery he was caught by a large belt and whirled around the bull wheel, making nearly 100 revolu- tions per minute. His body had to pass_through a space less than fifteen inches wide, resulting in serious inter- nal injuries for the unfortunate man, who was above medium size. In some manner his feet got caughtinthewheel and in a twinkling both were torn off below the knees. An awful scene met the gaze of his fellow-workmen when the machinery was stopped and Hemroth lifted from his agonizing position. Strange to re- late, he remained conscious, and when the patrol wagon arrived to convey him to a hospital he quietly directed that his feet Be sent up by the nextecar. Hembroth thought his life might be saved, but this was found impossible, all the doctors could do being to ease his sufferings up to 6 o’clock, when he died. His wife reached his bedside and ministered to his last wants. He leaves several children and no property. The Signal Co:ps. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 20.—The Signal Corps, Third Brigade, Lieutenant Fred L. Martin commanding, had a grand outing on Sunday, the 23d. Apart from the signal practice and other work accom- plished, the field day was a most profit- able and interesting one, as it demon- strated in a practical way the utility of | the bicycle as a means of conveyance for | the signal service. All the members of the corps were mounted on bicycles and a full signaling equipment was carried. | The corps commissary wagon accom- | panied the boys, and at noon a genuine military meai” was served, consisting of the usual provender of bacon, hardtack, coffee, etc., cooked “Buzzecott”” oven now in use by the Na- tional Guard. | "A start was made from the armory | about 9 o’clock on Sunday morning, the | Folsom wheelway being taken to a point | near the American River, about fifteen miles from Sacramento. 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