The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1898, Page 3

- QOOOOOOUDIVVVOOOOOODO THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1898. FALLS T0 NEGOTIATE THE LOAN China’s Vain Dicker- ing With England and Russia. Japan Gives Notice That]| She Will Grant No | Extension. i War Indemnity Must Be Paid | Within the Stipulated Time. FRANCE PLANS A RAID.| Evolves an Excuse for Taking = Slice | From the Southern Part of the Empire. Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Feb. 10.—A dispatch to the Daily Mail says the British fleet now o will go to Nagaski. 0000000000000 00C000000 ng correspondent of the : The Japanese Minister, ino, regretfully intimates to ernment, having regard to the contracted in Japan, grant an extension of the time for paj ment of the indemnity. Though no « ement has been ons issued, Brit ing failed. men. Among upon the pay family of a Tonquin, as a reply French action 1 of a loan arnantee 1. The | ations with ms due to nd it is the opin- | ger diplomacy is to declare her inten- ding Port Arthur. If the to be permanent to occupy Tal from competition German firm to at 94 has bes oti- n de- y the Emr e that with ments to the Kiac au the G r about 4200 men. At rival of man squadr: man force wi states that when the e steamer Nanyetsu Maru was ng the harbor of Cheru- man-of-war stopped inquiries about the vements of a squadron of a certain country. all it s trump c: sen playing , in that funds of the n his own name. M. has the current empty v with which to amuse himself. PROTEST AGAINST SCHROEDER’S treasu REMOVAL. rman Catholic priests United States met Ji roeder, a pro- 2000 stit- the of to on Mer. behalf 1 i W vere un-Catho- lic and his dism i shown that they were y things which the | le of the church no longer accepted. | — & doctri Presidential Nominations. . 9.—The President lowing nominations to H. Baumann, to be Moneys at Tucson, ewa the in Oregon e e ————————————————————————————— to | 9.—There was | | dene THROTCH WITH ENDS HIS LIFE ON THE OF A CHURCH Suicide of a Ran the Home He tered in by sending a bullet through his bral road. the head. had made his act other than temporary insanit in liquor affected his mind, There was a strange and unusual | © ‘ CCOOOCOO000000000000CR0000000000000 HOLLISTER, Feb. 9.—On the steps of the San Felipe church, Lionel Chase, a prominent young man of San Felipe, ended his life last night a well-to-do farmer living near that place. the steps of the church this morning. It was a ghastly sight that greeted early travelers on the San Felipe On the steps of the pretty little church lay the corpse of the sui- cide, the right hand clasping a pistol and a gaping wound disfiguring Young Chase was shaved and neatly attired, and evidently careful preparations for death. No cause can be assigned for and had never wanted for the comforts of life. he had become a heavy drinker, and it is belleved that his indulgence death. For the past two months he had been away from home, living in Los Angeles. When he returned last night he did not visit 'his father's house, but, procuring a horse, he rode to the ranch, turned the animal loose in the corral, and then repaired to the church steps. Evidently he had decided to take one last look at the old home and then end his life before the little house of worship. STEPS cher’s Son Near Had Not En- Months. n. He was a son of Newton Chase, His body was found on y. He was about 35 years of age Of late years, however, feature connected with this man's Socccoccoo000CCO00000000C0CO OUENTIN The Legislative Commit-| Completes Its Inspection. tee Senator Simpson Finds a Con- viet Enjoying a Daily Nevwspaper. Penalty for Planting Opium in the Penitentiary Grounds Should Be Made Severe. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Feb. 9.—| The State Senators who constitute the | Legislature's committee appointed to | inspect the public institutions of the | State held their second day's session | here to-day and agdjourned to meet at Folsom Prison next Friday. The ground that was not covered rday in the questioning was gone over to- day and completed. The following Senators were present: Chairman John H. Dickinson, J. J. Boyce, W. F. Prisk, C. W. Simpson and E. W. Chapman. | During the morning session Senator | Boyce of Santa Barbara took the lead in questioning, and Warden Hale was asked a score of questions in regard | to the variety of things that could be manufactured at the penitentiary d whether it would be a good plan to he Warden explained that at he present time all the shoes, clothing and such articles were made in the prison, but only in sufficient quantities | supply their own demands. The parole system was explained in detail, and the Senators agreed that it was an excellent institution and should be con- tinued. | There are at present 1340 convicts | ed in the San Quentin Peniten- | and 700 of this number are em- ed in the jute mill. Senator Boyce wanted to what - the capacity of the on was, and the Warden stated | that by doubling the number in the cells 2000 prisoners could be housed, | but Warden Hale said that in all the | institutions he had visited in the East | the Wardens were unanimous in the | opinion that no more than 1000 men | could be handled in one prison as they should be and he fully agreed. | The question of opium was fully dis- | cussed, and the Warden explained how | it was that the drug got into the pris- on. He said that it was planted in the | yards and dug up by the convict gar- | s and other prisoners, who carried it inside the walls, where it was ped- | dled out. The Warden recommended that a bill be passed at the next session of the Legislature making it a felony | know | pris- | to smuggle the drug into the prison. | | the Folsom meeting Friday. The only law, sald the prison author- | ity, that they had now to prevent the traffic was shotgun law, and this they | applied now and then. The proposition of establishing an | electric light plant at the penitentiary was thoroughly discussed, but no con- clusion arrived at. A special meeting of the committee will be held in San Francisco before i HOUSE UNSEATS PLOWMAN. Aldrich of Alabama Wins the Con- tested Election Case. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The Repub- lican majority was Increased to-day from | 49 to 50, when the House, by a vote of o 112, unseated Plowman (D.) of Ala- giving the seat to Aldrich (R.) This was the first contested election case | decided by the present House against the sitting memb Those who spoke on were Messrs. 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It is an opportunity of a lifetime to secure this work at over 40 PER CENT DISCOUNT and on the small payments of only $1.50 DOWN and balance $2.00 monthly for eight months. Half Morocco $2.00 on delivery and $3.00 monthly for eight [ o © °; o © No charge. | o o ° o ° ° o ° o 8 o ° ° o AVIN | or not is as yet unknown, but develop- | of Sheriff Martin and his deputies Judge | so frightened by the deputies threatening | shot in the back, except one, who had a ENTORY S DEMANDED Los Angeles City Council! Warns the Water Company. | | Seeks Information That Will| Be of Great Value to the People. Breach Widening Among the Cor- poration Directors—Press Com- bine Duplicity. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9.—The City | Clerk to-day sent to the officers of the Los Angeles City Water Company, un- | der instructions from the City Coun- cil, the resolution demanding a com- plete inventory of the corporation’s improvements to the city’s distributing plant. Unless the report is made with- in two weeks the city, under the reso- lution, notifies the company that it will enter a default on its alleged con- tract with the municipality. The further demand is to be made on the company that it specify in its in- ventory of improvements the time | when each improvement was made. This information will be of great value to the people when it comes to pur- chasing these so-called improvements. The time has come when the people | feel that they should be kept fully posted as to the water plant’s negotia- tions. Something like $2,000,000 of their money is to be spent, and they have every reason and right to be posted as to its disposition. The policy of the water company and its syndicated | press has been to keep them entirely in | the dark, and it is still being pursued. The result is that the taxpayers of Los Angeles are looking largely to The Call | both for information and protection. The Water Company press is now endeavoring to deceive the people by the publication of cheap cartoons ridi- culing the proposition of municipal control and at the same time claiming | to favor it. The people are cognizant of this act of treachery on the part of | the Times, Herald and Express, and they are resenting it in a very decided | way. Among the Water Company direc- tors the breach Is widening and the | spirit of dissension is spreading. The | turn which affairs have taken within | the past thirty days in the matter of municipal control leads some of the | directors, notably Messrs. Minor and Drake, to believe that the company and | the stockholders are not going to re- | ceive the fancy price they had antici- | pated, and they are said to be thor- | oughly convinced now that they can | get no extension of their lease and | franchise. The result is that they are | dissatisfied with the managerial tact and sagacity of the corporation. Whether any changes will be made | in the officers of the Water Company ments are looked for, as there is a very pretty scrap on among the direc- tors. ALL THE VICTIMS WERE SHOT IN THE BACK. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Feb. 9.—When court opened this morning for the trial Woodward spoke to the jurors about re- celving letters bearing upon any point in the trial. He said: “If you receive any letters with refer- ence to the trial, whether anonymous or signed, it is your duty to hand them over to the District Attorney, and you must not allow them to make any im- pression on your mind.” Witness Lewis Kitsuki told how, on ar- ing at West Hazleton with the strik- two deputies seized him and tore his He said a_number of men were Ti el s them with their guns that they ran home and did not march to Latimer. On cross- examination he admitted that the Sherift had told the strikers to go home and that they disobeyed and marched to Latimer. Ellery Bonin, an undertaker of Hazle- ton, who buried thirteen of the victims, described their wounds, saying all were bullet in his forehead. John Andreasky told the same story, as had many others, about the meeting on the night before the shooting, the march to West Hazleton and the march to Latimer. Seltgre o FOR A BEET SUGAR PLANT. SANTA MARIA, Feb. 9.—The Union Beet Sugar Company, a San Francisco incorporation, has just let a contract for a $500,000 beet-sugar plant to be located on the Gold Tree tract, near the Santa Maria spur of the Pacific Coast Railway. The farmers have contracted to plant the necessary amount of beets to supply this large factory. E. C. Burr of the Ala- meda Sugar Company, one of the most thorough-going beet-sugar men, {8 to be manager. The latest improved machinery has been ordered. . The brick and iron work on the building will begin at once. A large lake will supply the necessary water for the factory. Beets grown in this and adjoining valleys have been ::lt_ed and found rich in saccharine mat- T | sional THE SON OF BRECKINRIDGE Aged Colonel Moore Issues a Public Challenge. Angered by an Attack in the Young Man’s Newspaper. | 1t Was Inspired and Probably Written by the Editor’s Father. EAGER TO BE AVENGED. The Challenger Waives His Years and Demands That Satlsfaction Be Given. Spectal Dispatch to The Call LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 9.—Colonel W. C. P. Breckinridge and his son, Desha, have been challenged to mortal combat by Captain Thomas E. Moore of Shawhan, Ky., chairman of the Sev- enth Congressional District Democratic Committee. The challenge {s in the form of a letter to the editor of the Kentuckian Citizen, in which Captain Moore says his attention has been called to a criticism by the Lexington | Herald on his supposed candidacy for one of the commissioner’s places con- | templated in the Bronston bill. “This is only one of their many un- truthful, unmanly, malicious attacks,” says the writer, “dating from the time 1 refused to support their candidate for Congress.” Captain Moore says it has been sug- gested that their frequent attacks were for the purpose of bringing about a personal settlement, and if this is their purpose a news journal is not a proper place in which to settle such matters. “To place myself on equal terms with my traducers I waive age,” writes Cap- tain Moore. *My assailants can place themselves on equal footing with me by making use of their left arm, I be- ing disabled in my right arm. This is a matter between the responsible party and myself. 1 will meet the party alone, unarmed, and arrange with him whatsoever course may be necessary and satisfactory to both parties. To this end I invite private correspond- ence.” Captain Moore has been a thorn In the side of Colonel Breckinridge for nearly a year. Early last spring the Colonel paved the way for his renomi- nation by the Democrats by obtaining promises from a majority of county committees in the Seventh Congres- district. They were to order a primary iw which Breckinridge would easily have won. Captain Moore was made chairman of the district commit- tee by the State convention, and was given power to reorganize the county committee. He did this by removing Breckinridge's friends and naming ultra-silver Democrats in their places. The new committee refused to call a primary, but forced a convention. Breckinridge, realizing he would have no chance for nomination in a conven- tion, refused to go into it, and accepted the Republican nomination for Con- gress. He was defeated. Colonel Breckinridge’s son, Desha. got control of the Lexington Herald shortly afterward, and the Colonel has been writing for it scathing editorials denouncing silver men who opposed his return to Congress. When it was pro- posed to pass a law placing the control of penitentiaries into the hands of a committee, it was announced that Cap- tain Moore would be named as a mem- ber of the committee. A bitter editorial in the Herald last Tuesday intimated that Captain Moore v unfit for the position. It seem this last article brought on the crisis, and the card of Captain Moore was the result. Desha Breckinridge announced in his paper last fall that he and no one else was responsible for the editorial utter- ances of the Herald. In an interview this afternoon, Colonel Breckinridge said that Captain Moore did not mean him, but meant Desha. “The Captain is a bit angry,” the Colonel said, ‘‘but he will soon cool off.” | Desha Breckinridgé left town early this morning on a business trip and could not be seen to-day. His friends | do not believe he will engage in a per- sonal encounter with Captain Moore, owing to the latter’'s age, which is 71| years. The Captain was a gallant Con- federate soldier. A wound in his right arm paralyzed it. He is, therefore, phy- sically unable to cope with the Breck- inridges. Mrs. Loughran Dies at Menlo Park. MENLO PARK, Feb. 9.—Mrs. Annie Loughran, an old resident of this place, passed away early this morning after a prolonged iliness. ~ Years ago she was a Seamstress in the family of George Gore | don, the sugar king, in early days in this State, an accumulated = considerable wealth. She died possessed of a large estate. 8 ~ IWOULD FIGHT ~ [SCENES OF RIOT AT THE LOLA TRIAL Gowned Barristers Obstruct the Busi- ness of the Court. The Judge Calls Upon the Soldiers to Clear the Room. Violent Affray Follows and One Barrister 1s Put Under Arrest. RELEASED SHORTLY AFTER | Soldlers of France Determined to Tell Nothing to the Detriment of the Army. Bpeclal Dispatch to The Call PARIS, Feb. 9.—In spite of speclal precautions, there was a repetition of | the scenes witnessed yesterday, when the trial of Emile Zola and M. Perieux, who are being prosecuted by the Gov- ernment for denouncing the Esterhazy court-martial, was resumed to-day in | the Assize Court of the Seine. | Over two hundred barristers, in their robes, gathered at the public entrance | and indulged in horse play. When the | | presiding Judge ordered them not to | obstruct the passage, the barristers made a demonstration against him. | Thereupon the commandant of the Re- | publican Guards sent a detachment of | | troops to quell the disturbance. | The intervention of the military was | {11 received and led to a violent affray. | The barristers rushed upon the Guards and struck them. One of the young | lawyers was arrested, but after quiet | had been restored he was released. General Boisdeffre refused emphati- cally to testify, under the plea of pro- fessional and State secrecy. M. de la Gorgue, the presiding Judge, consented | that Mme. Dreyfus should be allowed | to testify on the condition that herjevi- | dence be restricted to the Eggerhazy case. | M. Laborle protested against the | | limitation of the evidence of Mme. | Dreyfus and denounced the scenes in court, the biased reports in the news- papers and the attacks on his client as being unworthy of France. General Boisdeffre, replying, ad- mitted that as Minister for War before he had testified at the Esterhazy court-martial he had received from Major Esterhazy a certain document which concerned the Dreyfus case, but he refused to give any further particu- lars on the ground of professional se- | crecy. The general admitted that Colonel Picquart had been transferred to Tu- nis owing to his being favorable to Dreyfus, and the witness added that he; personally, was convinced of the guilt of Dreyfus, while other facts be- fore and after the court-martial, which had come to his knowledge, made this conviction unshakable. This state- ment made a sensation in court. | General Gonz followed and had a violent altercation with M. Laborie, in which the general public joined. The tumult reached such a pitch that the Judge ordered the court cleared, and the municipal guards promptly obeyed orders. The court resumed its session ! five minutes later and General Gonz explained that he had not meant all he said. Thereupon the incident was allowed to drop. General Gonz then spoke of the investigation of Colonel Picquart, whom he had encoumged,‘ but the general added that he told the colonel to avold arresting Major Es- | terhazy, which the colonel wished to | do. | | General Mercier, the former Minister | for War, who was next examined, de- | clared that he believed the documents | extracted from the War Office had been communicated to the newspaper by the Dreyfus family. M. Laborie | immediately asked that Mme. Dreyfus | be allowed to confront General Mercier and deny his statement, but the Judge refused to allow it. General counsel for M. Zola pressed General Mercier to say if it were true that a secret document had been com- municated to the Dreyfus court-mar- tial, but the general refused to reply. At the conclusion of his examination General Mercier was cheered. M. Traireaux, who was Minister of Justice at the time of the Dreyfus court-martial, was the next witness. | After his evidence, which did not con- | vey any startling facts, the court ad- journed. The crowd outside the court | ADVERTISEMENTS. $100.--Monarch The sensatio in bicycle Our line is complete. CHAIN $60.00 outclasses all competitors. MONARCH AND DEFIANCE $50.00 For better values we challenge all competition, Our agency for your city can be obtained by representative dealer. Send for 1898 catalogue. MONARCH CYCLE MFG. CO, Laxe, HALSTED & FUuLTON STs., CHICAGO. EASTERN BRANCH—83 Reade St,. New York City, Chainless—-$100, n of the day construction We cover the ground. WHEELS $40.00 cheered Generals Mercier, Boisdeffre and Gonz, while M. Zola was left al- most unnoticed. EXPECTS TO VACATE ITS CHICAGO OFFICE. Alaska Trade —Eo-z_nmittee Closing Out Its Affairs in the East. CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—The Alaska Trade Committee, which has had its quarters in the Great Northern building since last fall, is closing out its affairs and expects to vacate its Chicago office to-morrow. The exhibits of Alaska products and min- ers’ supplies have been placed in down- town offices of the Northern Pacific and Union Pacific Railway companies. Ex-Governor Sheakley of Alaska, in charge of headquarters, says that he has succeeded in straightening the affairs of the committee and paying its indebt- edness, and will retire from his connec- tion with the concern on the closing of the Chicago office. He is not golng to return to San Francisco_ direct, but will visit for a few weeks in Pensylvania. the State that he represented in Congress be- fore going to Alaska. - DEATH OF A YUBA PIONEER. Thomas Conlin Succumbs to a Lin- gering Illness at Smartsville. MARYSVILLE, Cal., Feb. 9.—Thomas Conlin, one of the oldest settlers of Yuba County, expired at his home in Smarts- ville at 8 o’clock this morning after a lingering iliness ending over several months. . He owned a half interest in the Marysville and Nevada and Nevada City stage line. Since he conducted a livery stable at Smartsville, having previously from 182 engaged in mining. He was several times clected constable of his township. A widow, two sons and a daughter survive him. He was a na- tive of Ireland and 7S years of age. The funeral will take place Friday. — - OLD MISSION ON FIRE. Blaze at San Migue]: but Little Dam- age Done. SAN MIGUEL, Feb. 9.—San Miguel Mis- slon, whose one hundredth anniversary of founding was celebrated last fall, was | Fire | discovered on fire this afternoon. from a defective flue in the wing used as a residence by the priest ignited the tim- bers supporting the roof and evidently had been smoldering away for some time before breaking out. 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