The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1898, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1898 SUDDEN SURGE OF SYMPATHY IN THE HEARSTLINGS Silly Play to Make Sorrow and Suffering of the Unfortunate. A Warrant Sworn Out Against a Man They Knew Was Not Capital Out of the Here and Based Upon an Ordinance Which They Knew Was Long Inoperative. Wh 3 oxaminer and its man- it ‘ Judge Conlan’s court yesterday morn- aging editor do next? The latest feat of the one acting for the other has been to swear out a war- rant for the arrest of H. E. Hunting- ton on the charge of violating a city ordinance requiring all street cars to be equipped with -safety guards, the alleged reason for the action being that the Examiner and its managing editor were moved by the death of little Hulda Johnson to do something to en- force the law, to save liv. and to pun- ish the street-car magnates for the habitual practice of homicide. The alleged reason sounds lofty and noble, the action seems brave and self- sacrificing. It is a pity that both are fakes. At the time the managing editor of the Examiner swore out the warrant for the arrest of Mr. Huntington, he knew that Huntington was on his way East, thousands of miles out of reach. He knew that the ordinance which he charged Mr. Huntington with violating had been amended so as to make it in- operative at present, and, therefore, that it had not been violated either by Huntington or any one el He knew that the officers of the railway compa- nies are not responsible for the lack of safeguards on the cars inasmuch as the Board of Supervi s have taken upon themselves the ponsibility of determining what device. shall be used for that purpose. The managing editor of the Exami- ner knew all of these things, and - he knew another thing: he knew that he was playing a lying, brazen game. to make profit for himself and the fugi- tive Hearst out of the public sentiment aroused by the death of little Hulda Johnson. To «oin money, to acquire a fal pute for humanity of spirit out re- general sorrow caused by the dreadful accident that deprived of life a little child, all this elaborate fraud, _this | shameful fa , - this ' Iying show. of pros s planned out, arranged, put into practice and bla- zoned to the world. There is no courage swearing out a warrant for t of a man who is so far out displayed in arrest town of. that he cannot be injured enough move him to wrath nor back he feels insulted. There is no intelli- gence displayed in charging a man with violating an orc AT erative. There no honor shown- in accusing an absent man -of an offense of which it 1 nown he is not guilty. There is no decency in trying to. turn the bereavement of -a stricken family into “a source 'of = pecuniary - profit: There is no sense in playing before an intelligent public a trick which is cer- tain-to be exposed next day. did Hearst, his managing editor, er any of the ever show courage, intelige: on an. occasion E: profit by ‘a display D [ ness, indecen and low cunning? The managing -editor - who -devised this scheme of posing as-public prose- ¢utor -on the part of the people and the owner of The: Examiner who m ploys him as a means-of insulting San Francisco, are both of them charged before our courts with violatians of law. Hearst is virtually a fugitive from justice. He dare not come to the land of his birth for fear of the law officers. that await him. His managing editor is under indictment for criminal slan- der. This same editor has known be- fore what it is to be jailed. The two are just the kind of men to raise rail- ing accusatio against others when they have a sneaking belief they can escape the consequences. The game has been played for what it is worth. It was blazoned forth with a blare of lurid language under scare heads by The Examiner yesterday and it is closed up and ended to-day. The sensational fake devised to make a profit out of the death of the poor little vietim of the trolley has served but to | {llustrate again the depths f the de- pravity of the demagogua organ, and to cause intelligent pes.. to ask again: '“"hawt will The miner do next? The falseness of the bluff of the man- aging editor of the Examiner is dis closed by the following records show ing the original fender ordinance adopted May 6. 1895, and the subse- quent order of July 29, 1895, which ren- ders it inoperative: ORDINANCE NO. 2866. Adopted May 6, 189. Section 2—It shall be unlawful, on and after June 1, 1895, for any per- son, company or corporation oper- ating street cars for the convey- ance of passengers, propelled by means of wire ropes attached to stationary engines, or by ‘steam, electricity or compressed alr, or propelled by any other means, to run, operate or use, or permit or cause the same to be run, operated or used unless each car and each dummy shall have a suitable guard attached to the sides, front and rear thereof, made of suitable ma- terfal, extending from the dummy and car to within a distance of not more than one and one-half inches of the roadway, and so constructed as to prevent any.person from get- ting under or being run over by the wheels of sald car or dummy. Section 3 — Within - thirty days from and after the passage of this order, all persons, companies and corporations * * * shall adopt a suitable device for attachment to their cars = and - dummies, ‘con- structed in the manner required by this order * * * and there- after no car or dummy shall be operated without said attachment, or such improvements. Section 4—-Any person, company or corporation - who' shall: violate any of the provisions of this order shall -be. guflty of . misdemeanor and shall beé punished by a fine not exceeding §1000 or by Imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by such fine and imprisonment. ORDER . . Adopted -July 29, 18%5. Resolvea, That the time within which street railways shall place safety guards upon their.cars and dummies for the purpose .of pre- venting accidents under the provis- fons of order No.-2866 be and s - hereby extended for the period of thirty days from and after the adoption by the board of the par- ticular device or devices to be used. 0000000000000000000000000000O000000000000000000000000000000 ©0000000000000000 to | iry > which is inop- | But when | 0 0000000000000000000000000000O000000000000000000CO00000000000 Attorney Frank Kelly appeared in ing and stated that H. E. Huntington, president of the Market-street Railway Company had: gone to New York, which was known to the managing edi- tor of the Examiner when he swore to | the complaint Monday for Mr. Hunt- | ington’s arrest. The warrant was re- | turned to the clerk of the court to be held till Mr. Huntington returns to the city. These records not only expose the falseness of the managing editor:of the Examiner “in his pretense at prose- | cuting Mr. Huntington, but also show | that the Board.of Supervisors is re- sponsible for the lack of fenders on the | street cars.. The order of July 29, 1895, clearly states that the fender ordi- nance shall not go into effect until thirty days after the adoption by the board of the particular device or de- vices to be used.” It is a common rumor on the street that a fender device has. not been adopted because eight members of the Board of Supervisors are holding out for $300 apiece in payment for approv- ing a particular fender.. So far as these men- are concerned until the ‘boodle is forthcoming the cars may be run free without fenders-and the people left ex- posed to the danger. of being maimed or killed. If this rumor is correct it is only a sum of $4000 that stands between the people and the - fatal accidents that | and Orphans’ Home that is to be bullt | have become so common. Had $500 each been paid to eight men | little Hulda Johnson might to-day be | alive. 1 | While the records show that the Su- | pervisors are responsible for delay in | providing ferders the street car com-:| | panies are not wholly free from blame. | The directors of the Market-street line have now decided to equip their cars | with fenders without waiting for the action of the Supervisors. They should | have done this before. e The . Market - Street' - Railway Decides to Have Fenders. Yesterday the directors of the com- | pany considered the subject of attach- ing fenders to the electric - cars. - The discussfon turned largely upon the re- peated delays of the Board of Super- visors. Time and again the board has been urged to take some definite ac- | | tion—to - designate- some fender or device, but one delay has followed an- other until the patience of the railroad company is exhausted. At the meeting Vining :submitted a | chief ‘counsel of the corporation, in | | which he reviewed all the. communica- | tions sent to the Board of Supervisors v, 1895,until January, 1898, - All the tests made, all the tests recom- mended, and all the agreements to ob- serve tests were enumerated.. The ac- | tion-of the board in rejecting devices recommended by the railroad company was particularly noted. | When asked yesterday what action the company proposed to take in - the matter of providing safety devices Mr. | Herrin sald: At a meeting of direc- | tors: to-day we resolved to put on at| jonce the best device obtainable. Our | | patience In waiting on the Board of Su- | pervisors is exhausted, . We have tested everything the Supervisors have sug- gested. They asked us to introduce the { model of fenders used in Eastern cities, and at our expense we brought such devices here, but still they refused to| adopt one. We now propose to exer- cise our best judgment in-applying a device to save human life and will| equip our s with fenders. Should | the Board of Supervisors hereafter pass an ordinance requiring our company to put on some other fender or device we will go Into court -and fight the propo- sitlon on its merits. The Supervisors | will: be compelled to pmove that they have found something better than we |'introduced.” E. P. Vining, manager of the Market- street system, said: ‘“We have been awaiting the action of the Board of Su- pervisors since 1895. In .July of that vear the Supervisors passed a resolu- tion extending the time for equipping cars with fenders until thirty days | after some particular_device or devices | had been adopted and approved by the board. In November, 1897, the Super- visors adopted a resolution referring the mafter to the Committee on Health and Police, with notice that said com- mittee would test devices. We have tested thirty fenders, among them many of the kind that had been ac- cepted in Eastern cities. We tested the | Hunter, Blakestone, Daisy, Baltimore, | Providence, Pettitt, Bodemann, Marke- ley, Reeve, Market street, Blakestead- Barnes-Riggs, Sickels, Coleman, Craw- ford, Boston, West, Jones and others. We have complied with every sugges- tion and request of the Board of Su- pervisors. “We have expended more money in | making tests than it would cost to equip every car on our system with the best device known. We now propose ! 1o select the best fender exhibited, the one which in our judgment will afford | | the greatest protectibn to hunian life, | and equip our cars with the accepted device. We shall wait no longer on the Board of Supervisors.” | Mr. Vining is squarely set against the use of any projecting fender and is armed with statistics from various | roads to showthat theprojectionsharm { | ' more people than they protect. He con- | | tends that hundreds of thousands of ' people daily take the chance of cross- ing the tracks in the face of approach- |'cars. They méasure the distance by a \.glance at the body of the car on an |.even-line of ‘their vision. 3 | A miscalculation is seldom made | 'when there is no projecting object near |'the surface of -the ground. A fender | ahead of the car is frequently un- | noticed and the result is that the per- | son: seeking to .cross. immediately" in i.front of the car is knocked over by the | projecting object. Mr. Vining contends i that the fenders placed on the cable- cars here shortly after the introduc- | tion of the cable system were taken off, as experience ‘taught the .managers of | the lines that the fenders increased | the casualties. Mr. Vining belleves the truck is a good safety device. et 3 >t * Warning From the Mayor. Mayor Phelan has sent the following { communication to the manager of the Market-street -Rallway Company: BAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1, 1898. | aid In ‘the near future to raise money | communication to: William F. Herrin, | for the building fund, so that addition- | that a dropping scoop attachment t01 . _E. P. Vining, Esq., Manager Market- street Rallway Company—Dear Sir: A resolution was lmroduee((ln the Board of Supervisors K:cterda.y calling attention : to the fact that your cars run at a speed in excess of eight miles an hour, which is the limit allowed by law, and also re- questing that the proper efficers enforce the law: 1 have to-day verified the complaint and find, for instance, that _cars No.1010,1012 and 1164 ‘were Tunning on Mission street at the rate of twelve miles an hour. In the ab- sence of proper brakes and fenders, this rate of speed, aside from the violation of the law, adds very much to the danger of the public: I therefore call upon you to so modify your schedule as to require the cars to run within the legal limit and request you to advise me at once of Four inten- tions in the premises and when such a schedule will be put Into effect. I call your attention in this connection to sec- tion:501 of the Civil Code, sections 15, 18, 17, 1390 and 137 of the Penal Code, under | ‘which 1 will be compelled to proceed un- less within a reasonable time, not ex- ceeding one week, that is to say by Tues- day, February 8, you have taken such action as. the law Indlcates and requires. Yours truly, JAMES D. PHELAN, Mayor. MEXICAN CIGARS. Customs Inspectors. Mullen and Richardson Frustrate an At- tempt of Smugglers. Customs Inspectors- Mullin and Rich- ardson, detailed to guard the Orizaba, which arrived from Guaymas and Ma- zatlan at midnight of Monday, had their attention attracted at 4 o'clock yesterday morning by a splash near the stern of the steamer. They found that some one on board had attached a line to the ves- sel's stern-and had attempted to throw it, with a hook at the end, to the wharf, expecting that the hook would be caught on a stringer or that the end of the line would be caught by some one on the dock. . But the line fell short and into the water. The inspectors immediately boarded.the vessel and found on the deck, close to the end of the line, two sacks containing boxes of Mexican cigars. A more ex- tended search revealed in a closet two more sacks of cigars, making 4000 in all. They were selzed by the inspectors and will be conflscated. Three gellons of mescal were found lntér fniihe day: on a passenger who was landing from the steamer. The passen- ger did not know he was violating the revenue laws and made no attempt to conceal the flery juice of the pulque. The stuff was seized. Soe oo THE CONTRACT LET. | Work on the Masonic Widows’ and | Orphans’ Home at Decoto to Be Resumed at Once. The trustees of the Masonic Widows" in Decoto, Alameda County, met yes- | terday and after hearing the report | of -the sub-committee appointed at a | previous meeting awarded the contract for completing the main building to R. P. Hurlburt, and the amount is $45,500. | Shortly after the foundation was pre- | pared the cornerstone was laid with all | the impressive ceremonies of the Ma- | sonic order by the Grand Lodge of Cal- | ifornia and the work of bullding con- | tinued until the basement story walls | were up, when work was discontinued | GOING AHEAD ANY HOW. |for want of sufficient funds to complete | of Police Commissioners of the city and the structure: The Grand Lodge, at its | last-held annual session, came to the rescue of the enterprise by donating $20,000 to it. That, with the amount on hand and some in sight, placed the trustees in a position to continue the work, and therefore the action of yesterday was | had. As soon as the preliminary de- | tails are arranged the work of finish- | ing the main- structure will be eom- menced and continued until the three- story buliding is finished, and, when It is, it will be- one cf the finest of its kind in the United States. The Order of the Eastern Star and the subordinate lodges will lend their al structures, which will be necessary, | may be added to the main one. Among fdeas suggested, one is that under the auspices of the Masonic fraternity there shall be got up a grand fair in the Mechanics' Pavilion in this city, to continue for ten days or more, but as vet nothing has been determined upon. —_——e—e————— OIL BUSINESS PAID BETTER. Experience of P. -.T.i;l‘iorloting of St. | Louis in the Occupation of a Bookmaker. P. J. Torloting, a young. man, who gave up an ofl business in St. Louis to try his luck as a bookmaker, told a tale of woe to Judge Conilan yesterday, which result- ed In the Judge issuing a warrant for the | arrest of W. O. Purcell on the charge of felony embezzlement. Torloting’s tale was to the effect that in the month of Qctober last he got intro- duced to Purcell by a friend, and soon Purcell proposed a scheme whereby they could make lots'of money. The scheme | was to form a sort of copartnership in | the business of bookmaking on the races, and it resulted in Torloting putting up | $1000, J. W.:Terschluse $1000 and A. Schlitt | $500, making $2300 altogether. Torloting | was to be cashier and Purcell would make the books, getllnf his share of the profits. They went to Chicago, but could not do business there. Lexington was tried with the same result, and finally Purcell and Torloting came here. By this time the $2500 had dwindled down to $1750. When they arrived here, Purcell being accompanied by his wife and children, they put up at the Inter- national Hotel; but a few days later Pur- cell Tented the house 2227 Pacific avenue. | Torloting alleges that on Thanksgiving | day Purcell taok the package containing | the $1760 from his overcoat pocket with- out his knowledge, intending to keep it, but Torloting raised such a row that he confessed he had the money. Purcell went to the races the following three days, and produced a statement that he hlt{ a net loss of $1117 50, leaving a balance in hand of $632 50. Since then Torloting has been endeavoring to get from Purcell his share of the balance, but has fatled, and now he wants him arrested. ‘W. O. Purcell was arrested last even- tng ‘on a warrant. the complaining wit- | ness. being - P. J. Torloting. He will-be held awaiting an’investigation. —_—————— EXHIBITION OF ELOCUTION. The Students of St. Ignatius College Give a Successful Entertainment. A ‘public specimen of elocution was glven at ‘the St. Ignatius Hall last even- ing by the classes of the college and un- der the immediate direction of Professor C. B. Neéwton. The entertainment was a success in every ‘detail and the boys and young men who participated in its | success were enthusiastically applauded | by the audience, which. was one of the largest that ever assembled in_the old | hall'on Fulten street and Van Ness ave- | nue. The programme was unusually good | and was divided into two parts. It was as | follows: Music, college orchestra; concert | speaking, “Legend of the Sleepy Hol- low,” pupils of the third grammar class, division ~ 3; dialogue, “Willlam Tell | and Gessler,” ~A. McCormick and W. Moran of. the third gram- mar. class, division A; musie, col- lege orchestra; reading, ‘“‘Between the Gates,” C. B. Newton; concert speaking, “Marmion and Douglas,” pupils of the second grammar class, division A; music, college orchestr: declamation, ““The Christian Martyr,” Louis F. Ryan; song, college orchestra) dramatic action, “The Fall of the Tay Bridge,’ C. B. Newton and pupils of ‘the second grammar rlasses of division B; music, coilege or- chestra; “declamation. ‘“Supposed An- swer of Edmund Burke to Fox,” Stan- fslaus Riley: reading. “Victor Gaibraith,” Professor C. B. Newton. The entertainment was the rendition of college orchestra. —e——————— Wife Beating Alleged. Rosa Feutrler complained to the Morgue officials yesterday that her hus- band had kicked and inflicted a serious injury upon her while she was in a deli- cate condition. Her husband denfed the charge. The woman is dangerously ill. —_————— A Sovereign Remedy. Dr. Parker’s Cough Cure,1 dose will stop cough; naver falls; 25¢; all druggists, * concluded by | a selected piece by the | | and be subject to_the ordinances in case OPPOSED T0 DETECTIVE AGENCIES Spec'ial Police Officers Declare War on Them. They Claim That the Men Infringe on Their Territory. Board of Supervisors to Be Asked to Remedy the Exist- ing Condition. | ROTTANZI IS FAVORABLE. | The Police Commissioners Also Re- quested to Take Some Action. The special officers appointed by the Board of Police Commissioners are de- termined to wage war against the so- called private detective agencies. At the next meeting of the Board of Su- pervisors Attorneys Sweeny and Tread- well, who represent the special officers, will endeavor to have the following or- | dinance adopted: Section-1. It shall be unlawful for any person to represent himself to be a special officer or wear any badge or use any signs, badges or devices used- by | special officers, or any device whereby he may be taken for a special officer, or use any badge which may be construed that the wearer is a special officer, unless he is authorized to do so and is a special officer of the city and county of San Francisco and regularly appointed by the Board of Police Commissioners. Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for -any per- son or persons, corporation, organiza- tion or detective agency to ask for, so- licit, demand, collect or receive or cause others to do so for his or her benefit any money or valuables upon the pretense of guarding or protecting the said person’s property from whom the same shall be asked, demanded, solicited or received, under the guise that they are special policemen, duly appointed by the Board county of San Francisco. Sec. 3. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the above sec- | tions shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, | and upon conviction shall be punished by | a fine of not less than %30 nor more than | $500, or by Imgrlsonmem in the County | Jail not less than fifty days nor more than six months. Supervisor Rottanzi will father the ordinance. He is bitterly opposed to private watchmen representing them-; selves as special police ofiicers, and | will do all in his power to have the | proposed ordinance passed by the Su- pervisors. The Judiciary Committee of | the Supervisors will meet to-day and | consider -the proposed ordinance. It is claimed that the men employed v the several private detective agen- cies have been representing themselves I'as special policemen, and thereby get- ting the business which should fall to the specials appointed by the Board of Police Commissioners. The attorneys for the regularly ap- pointed special officers will also submit tothe Supervisors the following amend- ment to-the Political Code passed by the Legislature in 1883: Upon the petition of any person, firm or corporation to appoint a special officer | to do_special service, to be paid for by such firm or corporation, specifying the boundary or locality at or within which he is to act as such special officer, which | boundary or locality shall be described in the warrant of appointment, provided that no special officer shall be appointed to act in the Chinese quarters, and pro- vided further that all special officers shall report daily to the Chief of Police of emergency, and in no way shall such officers be paid by the city and county. At the meeting of the Police. Commis- sloners to-night Attorneys Treadwell | and Sweeny will give mnotice of their intention to aim the first blow at pri- vate detective agencies. MONADNOCK ORDERED BACK TO MARE ISLAND. ‘Will Be Placed in Reserve and Her Crew Distributed Among Other Vessels. If it is a fact that the Navy Depart- ment intends placing the Monadnock in reserve anddistributing hercrewamong the vessels now fitting out at Mare Island, the activity displayed in ac- complishing so unimportant a matter would work wonders if directed occa- sionally In channels where dispatch is a matter of some consideration. The monitor left the city about a month ago for Magdalena Bay, where it was intended to hold target practice. Yesterday the wires werg hot bearing messages from headquarters ordering her immediate reeall. An attempt was made to catch her at various points down the coast, but all of the messages arrived at their desti- nation just in time to miss the vessel they were expected to detain. The Government yesterday contract- ed with the Pacific Coast Steamship Company to have the Orizaba call in at Magdalena Bay on her next trip down the coast and deliver to Captain Clark of the Monadnock orders that will im- mediately bring that vessel back to this port. Inquiry at the various naval offices and at the Pacific Coast Steamship Company’s place could elicit no further information than the admission that telegrams had been received urging the vessel's recall, but for what reason no one seemed fo know. Inquiries at Washington and Mare Island brought the following replies: WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—The Monad- nock has salled from San Diego for Mag- dalene Bay, for - target practice. The department has decided to place this monitor in reserve, as there is need for her crew in manning other naval vessels fitting out at Mare %lfland. VALLEJO. Feb. 1—The Monadnock has been ordered back to Mare Island, and will be placed in reserve. Officers and crew will be cut down to a skele- ton crew to keep her in order and re- air, in readiness to fill up the comple- ment and place her in full commission at a_moment’s notice. Several ships in the East have been placed in a similar position. L Sl A R Asthma and Bronchitis cure Guaranteed. Dr. Gordins Sanitarium, 514 Pine. nr. Kearny, S F.,Cal. LRI ST T Lo Exhibition of Elocution. A public exhibition of elocution will be glven by the students of St. Ignatius College to-night in the college hall, on Van Ness avenue and Fulton street, under the direction of Professor C. | placed his name on the small book. | not made until late last evening, and | of the third grammar class of division B; dialogue, A. McCormick and W. Moran; concert speaking, pupils.of second gram- mar class of division A: reading, C. B. Newton; declamation, Louis F. Ryan; | song, college cholr; dramatic action, Mr. Newton and the pupils of first and. sec- ond grammar classes of division Bj; dec- .| lamation, Stanislaus Riley; reading, C. B. | Newton. s ! LADIES OF CHARITY. They Send. In. Their Report of Work ‘Done During the Past Year. The report ‘of the soclety :of Ladles of Charity of St. PatricR's parish for 18% shows that body to be in a very flourish- ing condition.” The object- of the soclety Is a most praiseworthy one.. The members visit the poor and the sick, and in all deserving cases supply them with whatever is nec- essary to relieve their wants, and if death should threaten them these ladies see that they are supplied with the adminis- trations of religion. ‘No work of charity which the members can becomingly per. form 18 neglected by them, provided it does not conflict with the. work of any other parish soeiety. This soclety {5 com- | gg::d of contributing and active mem- , Following is a full report of its during the past year: ¢ 3 Members on. roll, December 31, 1807, 135; active members, December 31, 1897, 23. ‘Work done—Number of families relieved during the year, 134; number of persons in famflies relieved, 368; number of single persons relleved, 296; total number of per- sons relfeved, 798; number of visits made, 598; clothing given to 286 persons; shoes | given, 97 pairs; employment obtained for | 2 persons. : | Receipts _for * .18¢/—For _contributing | members, $457 05; donations, $15; Chronicle fund, $14; entertainment, ;7 on hand, $3 60.. Total receipts. $639 65. Expenditure for 1897—For groceries, etc., $383; for dry goods and shoes,. $52 60; for rent, $20 50" for fuel, $52 70; for medicine, | $23 90; sundries, $92 30. Total expenditure, | $604 §0.s Caéh on hand January 1, 1898, THINKS TE 1S £ SHO0TH CROOK Arrested by Officer Rooker and Locked Up Until His Rec- ord Is Known. | work It Is. W. A. Davis; Who Is Believed to Be a Sure-Thing Gambler and Bunko Man. Otficer Rooker of the California-street | station did a bit of shrewd detective work last evening, and landed a young fellow who is belleved to be a smooth | crook and all-round confldence man. On Monday evening a man giving his name | as W. A. Davis went into the saloon of | Garcla & Dietz on Montgomery street | and presented a check for 3%, drawn on a Los Angeles bank and signed by a man | named Walker, and asked the barkeeper to cash it. As Davis was not known, the request was refused. Last evening Davis | was at the saloon again, and Mr. Dietz | informed Officer Rooker of his actions of the night before. The policeman shad- | owed Davis, who went into several sa- loons in the vicinity, never spending a cent, and, thinking him a suspicious character, took him to the station and | Subsequent investigation revealed the | fact that Davis had come to this city on | the 27th inst., and registered at the Lick House under the name of W. A. Ander- son. An examination of letters found in | his possession showed that he was in | touch with a number of gamblers of the | “sure-thing” kind.. Among these was the | following from a Frank Strong of Rands- burg, whom Davis acknowledged to be a | gambler: “RANDSBURG, Jan. 17, 18%. | “Friend Kid: Recelved your letter, and | will state it is very dull here. There is | only one chance here to cop anything, and that is to deal bank {n the Verita | Theater. I have got a chance to deal. | The 1st is payday, and I may get a hold | of a hundred for my bit. I sent for my | tools to-day. Crawford will take them | out. - Write and let me know what's at Bakersfield. If there is anvthing I will come; if not I will stay here for two weeks. Don't forget to tell Tim about Moore. May sends regards, and says, don't.-drink. As ever, your friend, “FRANK.” Another letter was from Wallis Clark, who is a well-known tinhorn gambler. Davis is known as being a friend of Clark's at the haunts the two have fre- quented, and it is said by those who know them that neither. would stop at any- thing if there was a chance.of money in | Davis is a well-dressed fellow, and has | a very oily tongue. When arrested he did not have a cent of money on his per- son, but had a number of blank promis- | sory notes and checks on several banks. In a grip in his room were several decks of cards, a set of dice and a box of poker chips. There was also a bottle contain- ing a mixture of chloroform and chloral, which the prisoner says he kept so that | he might Kkill himself if he should wish to do so. The ‘prisoner denfed that he was a crook, and claimed that he was an agent | for the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, and he had some of the com- pany’s circulars in his possession. He gave as his reason for registering under an assumed name the explanation that he did not want his wife to know he was | in the city, for fear she might ask him to | send for her. ——r——— VOLUNTEERS REJOICING. Have Received a Valuable Donation From a Philanthropic Lady. The Volunteers of America are rejoic- ing over a windfall which has just come | to them. An elderly philanthropic lady who has given a great deal to charities and whose modesty has prompted her to request that her name be not known last week deeded the army a valuable orange grove located near Thermalito. The tract of-land includes some twenty acres, ten of which is planted with bearing trees 8 or 9 years old. The grove is valued at between $8000 and $10,000. Colonel Stur- geon, the commanding officer of the Pa- cific Coast Division of the. Volunteers, is in the city and is much pleased at the work the officers have been doing here.. Three new missions have recently been es- tablished, one at Kearny and California streets,.another at Third and Howard and the other on Ninth between Market and Mission. The officers for the establish- ment of a new post at Sixteenth and’ Mis- ston are on the ground, and Post No. 5 will be in running order in a few days. —_———— O'Brien’s Patent Spring, best and eas!- est riding buggy made. Rubber or steel tires. O'Brien & Sons, Golden Gate ave- nue and Polk street. o Dog Team for Dawson. An exhibition of dogs hauling & sled | over the frozen Alaskan trail to Dawson was given by Fred W. Fox and his. com- panion, Al Swanson, at the foot of Market stfeet yesterday afternoon. Eight stout and well-fed dogs of the Newfoundland species were harnesed to a Klondike sled contalning 2000 pounds, a supply for Fox and Swanson during their- .trip to. the frozen north, where they go in the inter- est of the Dartmoor Manufacturing Com- pany with a patented thawer, which will; as s claimed, send heat sufficiently in- tense downward to thaw out the frozen surface to a depth of several feet in the course of. a few hours. The togs were well trained and took to the traces with an evident determination to ‘‘reach Daw- son or burst.” Fox and his companion expect to cross the British boundary inside the next forty days. They carry a complete equipment for the trip Welfihlng about pounds. Should the San Fran- cisco thawer fulfill the expectations of its | inventors a great demand will be created | for hundreds of them in the Klondike dis- trict before next winter. Liquor for Indians. ! The United States Grand Jury yeuter-‘ day found indictments against Raymond Browne, Alexander Perry, Oliver Calkins and Smith Card for selling liquor to In- B. Newton. The programme will be as follows: Music % “the college chestra; concert or- | County, ng, by the pupils | Valley e n o5 sen o Ceely Mandoctng e o L) une Indian reservation. z JEFFRIES WILL FACE JACKSON The Heavy-Weights Are to Fight Before the Olympic Club. Graney Issues a Sweeping Chal- lenge to Jackson on Behalf of Choynski. Ryan Has Consented to Fight Choyn- ski on the 10th of this Month. The Chinese puzzle does not com-| pare in intricacy with the pugilistic puzzle of the present. The fighters, the fighting clubs and the City Fathers are mixed up in such a heavy-weight stew that it may be weeks before they will discover where they are “at.” Yesterday “Tut” Ryan positively an- nounced that he would not fight Choynski, and he stuck to his ulti- matum until late last evening, when the Empire Club agreed to deposit $1000 | as a guarantee of good faith on its| part to carry off the fight l'zet.weenI Ryan and Choynski, provided that| Ryan would deposit $250 as & guarantee | that he (Rvan) would enter the ring on February 10 fully prepared to meet Choynski. Ryan objected to this in very em- phatic terms and declared the match off so far as he was concerned. At 11:30 o’clock last night ‘“Tut” changed his mind and promised Manager Elling- house of the Empire Club that he would deposit the amount required in the hands of Harry Corbett before noon | to-day. Ryan was wroth yesterday | morning over an article that appeared | in a morning paper which stated that at his training quarters he was knocked out by:Lansing and in a letter | to The Call he said that there was not a word of truth in the article and that it was manufactured out of whole | cloth. He further stated that he was | ready at any time to prove to the sat- isfaction of Lansing that he (Ryan) is his master at the game of smash and miss. Director General Ellinghouse of the Empire Club has announced that the Ryan and Choynskl fight will now take place, as already announced, on the | 10th inst., and that Ryan will journey to his training quarters to-day to com- plete his training. Lastevening the directorsof the Olym- | pic Club matched Peter Jackson to | fight Jim Jeffries twenty rounds on the | evening of March 21 for a percentage | of the house. Jackson will continue to | train at Alameda and Jeffries will re- | pair to Oakland, where he will be handled by Billy Delaney. The announcement of the match was | when Eddie Graney learned that the Olympic Club' had secured the plum he asked if the club had secured a permit, but as Supervisor Delany has assured the club that it could go ahead and make the match the directors feel confident that there will be no opposi- tion to the granting of the necessary permit by the remainder of the powers that be. Graney said that he had been looking for a game like Jackson for some time, and that the colored champion would not stand many rounds in front of Choynski. “T'll tell you what I will do,” remark- ed Graney in the presence of several sports who had dssembled in the tele- graphic room of the Baldwin Hotel: “This man Jackson ‘is.not in the race any more, and I will deposit right now | in the hands of Charley Asher the sum of $250 that Choynskicanstop this great colored fighter in twenty rounds or less and if Choynski fails to accomplish the job why then Jackson can take | every dollar that the house will bring: “Now, if his manager is game enough to cover this money I hope to hear| from him to-morrow.” | Graney deposited $250 with Asher, | and if Jackson will not notice the chal- lenge there may be broader challenges issued in the near future. In case Ryan had not changed his mind concerning his proposed fight with Choynski, the Empire Club in- tended to offer Joe Goddard good in- ducements to take “Tut’s” place, but now everything looks bright again for the Empire Club. Continental League. The usual monthly meeting of Continen- tal League will be held at Saratoga Hall, 814 Geary street, to-night. Business of importance is down on the programme for consideration. ADVERTISEMENTS. THING D:AWSON CITY, Nov. 13, '97. Mr. Tbomas Butler— Dsar Sir; The Mackinaw Clothing and Woolen Blank- ets made by Brown Bros. & Co, are the best on the Klon- dike. Every ome wanis #inow how and where we got oty 8. %08 Claude and Clinton Rice. BROS, BROWNZTS 'LUENZA, y buflding up the wasted tissues and feeding the over-worked nerves in such a manner that after using, HEALTH IS THE NATURAL RESULT. 3 = EVERYBODY LIKES IT. ysicians cribe it. All !M d well it. Ask pf‘:r' “WILBOR'S," and V"!;k‘:’.l:: - ; N. B.—Beware of imitations. 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