The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 21, 1898, Page 9

pm—— THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MdNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1898. TRICK T0 [T UPON THE RACK KILPA CBED Principal of the Busi-| ness School Is L Accused. [ Charged With Unprofes- | sional Conduct and | Worse. His Accuser Raleigh P. Hooe, Who Makes a Vigorous Arraignment. CHARGES ALREADY FILED. | | of the A Text Document Awaiting tion by the Board of Education. urnish some sensational de- nts in the near future. initial skirmishes in the cam al Svening School, now under suspension | pending charges of a very serious na- ; ture. | The formal charge against Mr. Kil- | patrick was filed last Saturday with tlie presidentof the board by Raleigh P. | Hooe, and it is understood that it will | be taken up at the next meeting of the board. | Following is a verbatim copy of the document in question: SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19, 185 Honorable Charles L. Barrington, Presi- Board _of and tion, City of San Francisco: gh P. Hooe, a citizen and County of San Francisco, prefer the following charges . E. Kilpatrick, a teacher 0 school department, (previous suspension by your hon- board) the principal of the busi- school of this city and as pop These charges are based partly on in- | ti i belief and partly by per~| owledge of the matters alleged s 6o )stance of these charges will be nal conduct, specifically enum« WS said E. C. Kilpatrick did Director Samuel L. Waller, a letter written by said ddressed to School Director rr patrick in a matter re the rules commit- under consideration, the said Kilpatrick. = letter, said Kilpat ly pervert the use of t he had a dupli fied to before s as a e delivered the orig- » Director Thomas A. Burns. of obtaining said duplicate for tiie purpose of black- e was to use the hreat to hold over Director d and compel the latter's during his term as school The letter, having been given dly w to Kilpatrick by Wal- 10uld have been delivered to Direc- iomas A. Burns, undisturbed, but if e ick had discovered anything letter which he thought might lead 0 the exp of anything irregular or al in the act of any school director school directors his duty was to have per authori e Board of Education, in or the Grand Jury, then sit- tion in this matter was clear- ional and unworthy the con- £ a teacher in the school depart- nd—That sald E. ng the months of Qctober, November d December, 1897, and January, 1898, re- rted to President Barrington a story at be would-soon have School Director D. F. Ragan under his thumb, inas- much as he, Kilpatrick, was possessed of information concerning an alleged agree- ment between Dr. D. F. Ragan and one D. E. Stanton, a substitute teacher in the Business Evening School, all of which has been stated and sworn to by C. L. Bar- rington before a notary publlc in and for the City and County of San Francisco on the 3d day of February, 15%. Said action on the part of Kilpatrick wgs not per- formed in good faith, as he Intende use his information for the purpose of.| ckmall Instead of furnishing such in- | ation to the proper authority. This upprofessional on the C. Kilpatrick, | Kilpatrick. “;&T hat on the — day of February | ard of nd giving to Substitute Teacher D. . on five (5) d extra salary for | said act Education, {llegally sign a de- ontrary to the rules. ck's, attention was called to this y by said R. P. e: ou and I know t is not right, but Stanton told me t Ragan has sald it would be all ight.” 'urther, sald Kilpatrick informed hird person of this incident, with the {dea of involving School Director Dr. D. F. Ragan in some illegal proceeding. All of which is unprofessional, and such co duct is unbecoming a teacher in the de A partment. during the rofessional his school in year 1897-98, been guilty of un- conduct toward teachers in | plotting and planning to THE WOMAN WHO DID NOT CUT OUT HER BABY'S TONGUE Nicasio Is vexed; she has been represented as harboring a female monster. Nicasio is hurt; she has been accused of leaving that monster's children to starve. Nicasio resents both stories as aspersion of her fair fame. She wishes it distinctly understood that she is neither indecent nor inhospitable. I went up to see Nicasio and her female monster—the mother who was said to have cut out her chil noy her. 1 found Nicaslo an Alpine 's tongue that its crying might no longer an- village of rounded hills and lovely val- | levs, covered with rich grass, upon which the jerseys, making pictures of themselves, pose, forever expectant of the landscape painter who shall trans- fer their sleek, gentlg, deerlike prettiness to canvas. I didn’t find the female monster, ignorant, desperately though. In her place, I saw a woman, poverty stricken, clothed in an odd assortment of cast- he merry war recently inaugurated | off skirts and waists, living the life of an animal and doing a man’s work. But Board of Education of the | ghe is neither insane nor a miracle of cruelty. County of San Francised hds | of her baby. One reason, perhaps, is that she has no bahby. She did not cut out the, tongue SIXTY POUNDS OF NUGGETS A Second Fortune From the Blue Jay Comes to Town. The Graves Brothers Arrive With $16,000 Worth of Raw Gold. Took It Out in One Month in the Klondike of Their Own Up on Coffee Creek. A record of $16,000 for the labor of two men working for four weeks amid California pines is not calculated to inspire trips to the aurifercus ice flelds of the Yukon. No, the Graves brothers and Henry Carter are not going to the Klondike. They have just come out from Coffee Creek, Trinity County, on another trip to the Mint, and they arrived yester- day on the train from Redding, which brought in the express car about sixty- two avoirdupois pounds of yellow gold fresh from the famous Blue Jay mine. When a prospector comes to town with about all the gold he can carry a mile and-a half he might be expected to feel lucky and haughty and buy a plug hat. The Graves boys and The Machados—the name was erroneously given as Silviera; or it may be | ipoir “young partrier feel lucky and has been no baby for many years. The foundation of the whole awful tale lies in this: d of having cut out the tongue of one of his boys or of having A woman up in Nicasio repeated the tale, and it grew was accuse threatgned to do so. and it grew, like the little peach in t to think of poor Madame Machado as truism than the most brutish mother Years ago the father he orchard, till the western world came of a female lower in intelligence and al- in animaldom. Madame Machado, by the wd, is supremely ignorant of her reputation. She {s wholly unaware that, under the name of Silviera, she has shocked us all. She is as stupid, as gentle, as dirty, as humble as ever. the greatness of notoriety has been She knows not that Her untutored min thrust upon her. could not grasp, I think, the picture of herself which has been photographed upon our mental retinas. cruel, bloody Amazon, a half naked She could not imagine herself a savage glantess, a lunatic. The last emotion in the world that she would hope to rouse—could such a mind as hers be endowed with in- trospection enough to realize the effect of her personality upon others—is fear. You might pity Madame Machado—you would if you had seen her as I saw her yesterday. able squalor in which she and her children live. you to associate fear with this woman. | for the muscles or for the brain of the creature one fears. Poor Madame Ma- You might be seized with repulsion for the almost inconceiv- But it would never occur to One | that this family followed the example of other Portuguese familles andchanged | gmile without great effort, but they | its name with its residence—the Machados consist of a father, Lorenzo Ma- | 1ign will consist of the case of Prin- | chado, his wife, his two sons and his two daughters. The youngest child is 8 C. Kilpatrick of the Business | years old. There is no baby, and—leaving aside newspaper accounts—there were not wearing plug hats when they registered at the Golden West, and they didn’t display any more hauteur than they do around the little cabin at the mouth of Coffee Creek or at McNamara's poker game at Trinity Center. . Their return with another star story of California mining recalls the sensa- ticn cf last August, which made these men znd the Blue Jay mins famous. There. were the eight years of patient E prospecting mixed with work for wages o keep the pot boiling, the long inter- mittent trailing of evidences of a pccket mine in Morriscn Gulch the sudéen finding of thousands, and then the egti'ke a few feet underground of the wcrld's biggest nugget, about fcéur feat long, though it was broken up in getting it out. The boys said they took out $52,000 altogether from one 15-foot tunnel, and then followed the Coffee Creek rush, which resuited, of For, after all, there is a sort of respect | course, in several hundred being dis- chado has neither the one nor the other in quantity sufficient to frighten any- body. If you go up to the top have to do If you're seeking thé constabl hills and valleys, peaceful panorama of specks, the cattle, whi count Nicasio keeps with nature. of the ridge of mountains facing Nicasio—as you'll e—you look down upon a prettily But right in the midst of all this agricultural richness is a piece cf land . asking the latter to aid | covered with a riotously beautiful tangle of laurel and hazel, young redwood, Californian undergrowth. This is when you exclaim in praise of its wild, fresh beauty, you're likely to be an- | “Yes, it's great for pretty; but it ain’t nothin’ for makin’ a | | swered, as I was, livin®.” The prettiest and the most uncultivated bit of “Portuguey” land, the heart of the forest, has been leased by Lorenzo Machado. hundred acres of brush that an old resident of Nicasio, who's as shrewd | *It would make a jack-rabbit weep to be told that tour as he is kindly, remarked: he'd have to run over the place.” We grove along through a beautiful, winding path that borders on what will be Nicasio Creek in summer. intending to call upon the female monster. We turned up into the Machado domain, A lean, | But no one was at home. all dotted with those slow-moving | ich are the entrles on the credit side of the bank ac- | madrone and | And it is of these three or | | appointed and,disgusted andafew find- {ing prospects which may tura out to be | valuable. ‘When the Graves boys went back they bought new buggles and watches, and for some reason or other best known to themselves they didn't do any more work in the Blue Jay until last month. Meantime John Graves had put up a sawmill, where Coffee Creek empties Into the Trinity River, | about sixty miles from the rallroad, wild black berries and all the pretty tangle that forms the and has been getting out lumber, while “Portuguey” land, you will be told. And | Richard Graves and Henry Carter re- sumed operations at the mine. The three hold placer claims on Morrison Gulch amounting to over ninety acres, |and on this ground they have two quartz clalms; one the Blue Jay. A blind ledge of refractory ore was ‘ound, and accompanying it a peculiar vein of soft matter, bearing black man- | Banese, talc, etc. This soft vein is full | of pockets, and the gold has been taken | in chunks of all sizes from it as the | tunnel has followed it. ““When Dick and Carter went to work black dog barked and tore at its tethering. A lot of blackapigs fled squeal- | agaln about five weeks ago they start- ing and grunting down the untidy lane. in | present consciousness that she’s it which only a hen can possess, scuttled away | where none pursued. The skeleton of a horse lay in graceful -abandon in the| little heaped-up yard behind the house. A little lower there was another— A disconsolate hen, with that ever- | ed a tunnel down on a level with th creek, fifty feet below the other one,” said John Graves yesterday. “They | found the first gold before they had got | In three feet, and they kept finding it remnants of the unburied carcasses of the horses Machado brought with him | strung along as far as they went, and y. either the | to, months ago when he came to Nicasio and lost in his shiftless misfortune | the tunnel is in forty feet. The biggest of not having provided shelter for them. Against the side of the house—a | Plece is worth about $300, and it is all taree-roomed unsubstantial shanty—a sheep’s skin was nailed, the raw side | 8izes from that down to dust, which attracting the visitor’s nauseated attention—and the flies. And in the corner a few feet away lay the skinned, ghastly carcass. Ugh! what a horrifying thing living is when one is brought face to face with the rudiments of it! Through the open door one might behold Madame Machado’s kitchen, which is also her drawing room and banqueting hall, and, incidentally, her stable, too, for a big bale of hay half fills the place. Oh, of course, there is no disgrace in poverty—when poverty is not also filth and neglect. Then we sought the Machados further down the creek toward town. The whole family of six was engaged in making a clearing. Lorcnzo Ma~ chado, a brigand of a man with bushy black beard and a face that does not | vacation in the city and cash their raw contradict the stcries one hears about his passionate temper, his cruei, execu- | gold. The Trinity County nuggets will tive rage; and further on the pitiful female monster, in her pitifully fantas- | tical, ragged clothes; and the two little girls, their bodies—not badly nourished | bodies, apparently—covered with the impossible collection of garments one can to | see only on the stage when melodrama is at its whiningest. “So poor,” murmurs the poor apologetic female monster. “No clothes.” They lack stockings, these children of the brush, and their bare, tough lit- part of said| tle brown legs have the polish and the endurance of the savage’s. But they're not wild animals. They do not scurry away at one's approach, though they patrick did, at the rooms of the | chatter to each other in Portuguese about one and one's probable mission, like | the Plutes or the Chinese, with that sardonic, cackling laughter that makes one take an impersonal and not very flattering view of himself. The boys have intelligent faces, with that native smartness which is as much part of their vhen his, | stock In trade as it is of the animal’s, whose unprotected struggle for exist- ooe, he, Kilpat- | ence their lives imitate. Lorenzo Machado’s wife is lean and lithe. Her face is thin and brown, her eyes are bright and black; her black, straight’ squaw- like hair straggles down on her thin shoulders from under her queer cap. “Cannot spik Inglish,” she manges to murmur deprecatingly, and then she calls “Manuel! Manuel!” And Manuel comes to interpret. Four children, he says, in the Machado family. And his mother holds up four knotted, gnarled, worn fingers in corroboration. He tells his mother the story of the mutilated tongue, and one by one she calls the children to her and has them put out thelr Fourth—That he has, from time to time | tongues, and it looks like an absurd, piteous family party of mocking invalids, presenting tongues to the doctor in command. No, there is nothing in that story of the Machados. But there is a dark ,:;,\., them removed In an illegal way and | side of the family life, which one would believe is darkened sufficiently by detailing said plots and plans to other | guch bitter poverty. There were tales of that black-bearded husband and person Fifth—That prineipal in the management of the Busi- ness Evening School has been unprofes- sional to the highest degree, inasmuch as he has maliclously circulated false and scandalous reports about certain class teachers, to the detriment of these teach- , and that at no time, either in writ- | officer of the board, any assistance seeking an honorable transfer of any | cher from his school. | th—That he,. during 1897, acted in an unprofessional way | requesting a pupil in_his school, one John Savage, to act as his spy and fur- rish him with adverse reports as to the conduct of Miss G. G. Donovan, a class | teacher in his school, etc. | RALEIGH P. HOOE, | Hotel Savoy, city. | Subseribed and sworn to before me t 19th day of February, 1898. CHARLES W. WELCH, Secretary Board of Education. arges received by me Febru- CHARLES L. BARRINGTON. :’ | Hooe, who is assistant secretary arc of Education, was seen at | ms at ti.e Savoy Hotel last night | the charges formulated and him, but he very positively de- | to discuss the matter pending »n of the board, which meets to the subject as a committee of next Wednesday afternoon. clined the whe At the present time there are about lighthouses and beacons erected 1 maintained by the Newfoundland vernment. There are also fog sig- nals and bell buoys at the most dan- rous points around the coast. Those arnings cost about $45,000 a year. —_————— R Headache Quickly Cured. Dr. Davis' Anti-Headache never fails. 2%5c.* —— — to butter. his general conduct “" father's cruelty, which compelled Nicasio to remonstrate with the man, whose | pleasure it was to use a penknife or a sharp-pronged fork to enforce his com- | mands. Twice the Machado boys have taken to the forest; once they were | beaten and the second time when they feared a beating. But Nicasio doesn’t propose to be famous for Machados. She pins her faith Madame Machado may drive the cows and chop up brush and toil or in person, did he request in the | With all her family on the ranch. She is not the only woman in the valley regular way, of the proper committee or that does as much of the work on the farm as the husband does. But Ma- chado and his temper, Nlcasio is bent upon watching. She will pityingly and helpfully tolerate poverty. that the eye of Nicasio is upon him. The monster of Nicasio, if there be is a nfule monster. “He’s no a man,” Nicasio. ‘“He's a dav She will disgustedly tolerate untidiness. the month of | will not tolerate brutality and indecency. And Machado may as well know | But she one, and if the tales one hears are true, says another Portuguese who has earned the respect of “Dav,” it may be well to explain, is Portuguese English for devil. Nicasio's constable had a talk with the “dav” yesterday. He sat sociably | down amid the brush, while Machade desisted temporarily from his work. And | there the “dav” recelved not his first lesson on the ethics ‘of living, as inter- preted by the voice of law and decency. It's all a bit of the old-world poverty and wretchedness set T ! the new world, And the only consolation one may take in the story of the manner of these people’s life is that knowing no other, newest pa harrowing down An the no better, they do not realize what they suffer and what they are denied. MIRIAM MICHELSON. WANTS A FULL COUNT. Auditor Broderick Anxious to Know About “Special” Treasury Deposits. Auditor Broderick sent a communica- tion to Mayor Phelan last Thursday in which he suggested that in future might be well that the special deposits as well as the fixed funds in the vauits be counted at the monthly inspection. It is the custom of the Tax Collector, License Collector and County Clerk to deposit large sums of money each day, it the same being received as speclal de- nosits, and placed in the nnn‘\)el of tlfn. officials that head these departments. Settlements with the Treasurer by the officials mentioned are made once a month and it might be possible for a serfous discrepancy to oceur between the time the monthly accounting takes place and the date on which the coin is counted. ————— Go to O'Bfien & Sons for modern style, high-grade surreys, phaetons and buggies | was panned out at the creek. The | quartz in the ledge is four feet thick, and that I reckon to be worth $1000 a | ton on the average, but we haven't | worked any of it yet. Will put up some i sort of a mill this year and will sink a shaft from the tunnel. We've got as good a Klondike as we want.” Bars, a padlock and a watchman in a cabin guard the Blue Jay tunnel while the lucky owners take a week’s g0 to the mint to-day. TIALL ERECTED IN A SINGLE DAY The Members of Two Improve- ment Clubs Accomplish a Great Feat. Cortland Avenue Residents Desire to Have Streetcar Ser- vice. The members of the Cortland-avenue Improvement Club, assisted by the mem- bers of the Preci.. Valley Improvement Club, who generously gave their services, succeeded yesterday In accomplishing a feat in building that has never been ex- celled even if it has been equaled. Be- tween sunrise and sunset they started and completed the Cortland-avenue im- provement Club Hall. This nandsome building stands on Fol- som street, between Cortland and Jef- ferson avenues. It is 25 feet broad by 70 long, and has a plitched roof. The dis- tance from the main floor to the ceiling is 13 feet 6 Inches. The entire buildinw was completed and plumbing put in, and when this had been done, the flag, which had been donated to the club, was floated from the lc{) of the hall in testimony of the accomplishment of & feat of w{lch forty men, who worked like beavers, have every reason to feel proud. The obect in erecting the hall is to get the city to take some steps toward run- ning the Folsom-street cars over nbernal Helghts or else out Cortland avenue, in order that the people of that sect.on may have some sort of railway connection Wwiws the city, which at present they have not. The district contains 700 voters, and they think ‘that 1t is only proper .nat their convenience should be looked after. The architect of the hall is Henry Mey- ers, and he superintended its erection, while the glumh ng was put in by George Smith. The following are the officers of the Cortland-avenue Improvement Club: Carl Thornberg, president; J. K. Johan- sen, vice-president; W. 'ord, financial secretary; Willlam J. Bell, recording sec- retary. and M. Bogue, treasurer. The fol- lowing members pose the expcutive committee: M. Fer John Lennon, V. Wrenn, C. H;lg{‘en and F. Newbert. The labor of erectin, but the building ltsels i# valued by the club at $1000. The members of both clubs were furnished with an elegant and sumptuous dinner by_the following' ladies of the district: Mrs.” William J. Bell, Mrs. . Morris, Mrs. J. McLester, ) Murphy, Mrs. P. Trainer, Mrs. John Gal- lice and Mrs. John Dunmore. —_———————— To Cure a Cold Iin One Day. Quinine Tablets. AN at low prices. Corner Golden Gate ave- nue and Polk street. . Take Laxative Bromo druggists refund the money 1f it fails to cure. %c. The genuine has L. B. Q. o0 each tablet. the hall was free,| NEATH THE FOLDS OF OLD GLORY. There was a brilllant gathering at the reception given Saturday afternoon by the wives and daughters of mem- neers at the hall of the association in Pioneer Building on Fourth street. The hall was beautifully decorated. The fragrant spring blossoms that fill- ed every nook and corner seemed.to carry out the striking contrast between the hoary piloneers and the fair young women—daughter and granddaughter— who looked after the comfort of these men who made California’s history, and assisted in receiving their guests. From everywhere the folds of Old Glory hung gracefully, either with car- essing touch draping the picture of some prominent Californian or lending its inspiring touch to convert a bare and awkward corner into a thing of beauty. In the main reception-room the wives of ex-presidents and officers of the society received the guests. To the side, in this main reception- bers of the Society of California Plo- | room, was a table spread with all the good things of the season. On the other side of the hall was the tea room, with its dainty Chinese tea table and its corps of pretty young misses-whose duty it was to dispose of as many cups of tea as the pioneer and his guests would permit. On the upper floor was the punch room, and here Henry Heyman and his orchestra of selected musicians ren- dered a delightful programme. The ladies of the reception committee were all attired in elegant reception gowns. Much costly lace was worn and many jewels glittered. The ladies of the reception commit- tee were: Mrs. J. H. Jewett, Mrs. L. L. Baker, Mrs. H. L. Dodge, Mrs. Niles Searls, Mrs. S. H. Willey, Mrs. H. N. | Tilden, Mrs. Lucius A. Booth, Mrs. John | D. Tallant, Mrs. Louis, Sloss, Mrs. P. B. | Cornwall, Mrs. E. M. Root, Mrs. Leon | Sloss, Mrs. C. D. Cleveland, Mrs, A. R. | Cotton,' Mrs. Wm. H. Pratt, Mrs. Wm. | Wives and Daughters of Members of the Society of ~ (alifornia Pioneers Receive. Z. Tiffany, Mrs. H. B. Russ. They were assisted in their pleasant duties by the Misses Agnes and Isa- belle Lowry, Miss Mabel Ayer, Miss Alice Greenwald, Miss Gerstle, Mrs. Fanny Lent, Miss Lilienthal, Miss Wethered, Miss Dutton, Miss Maud Younger, Mrs. Frank Wilson, Mrs. nsome, Miss Eugenia Ware, Miss ’Callaghan, Miss Fanny Harris, Mrs: O. P. Evans and Miss Harrington. The musical programme of the after- noon was as follows: March, “‘Stars and Stripes. Forever'’ Overture, ‘“Jubilee'". Waltz, “Artist's Life’ Introduction to third act Wagner Serenade Selections, Intermezzo Russe Waltz, ““The Blue Danube' Selections, “‘Cavalleria’ Popular Alrs Soldier's Life Valse from by National Airs NATIONAL " CUARD NOTES tInspector’s Reports That Have Been Long Delayed. Hope That the Wonderfully Made-Up Red Book Will Be Revived. . Question of Ceremonials—The Signal Corps, Third Brigade, Moving. Troop C's Skirmish. Ever since the reports of the inspector of the National Guard of California, Captain Carrington, U. 8. A., have been filed with the War Department and duplicates with the adjutant-general of the State, the officers and men have been anxiously looking for the publication of the reports, which were flled many months ago, but they have not yet ap- peared. Some time ago Adjutant-Gen- eral A. W. Barrett was asked for copies of the reports for use in the National Guard department of The Call, and the answer was that there was but the orig- | inal copy and that there were no funds to have coples printed. It was then sug- gested that as the guardsmen were anxious to learn what the inspector had said about them, that a representative of The Call would visit the headquarters at Sacramento and make a copy of the reports, but that proposition was not ac- cepted, yet there was an implied g:omlse that a typewritten copy would fur- nished, but though many weeks have passed, the typewritten copy has not ap- peared. The men will be inspected again shortly, probably in April, and it is most likely that it will be without a knowledge of any faults that the inspector may have discovered and noted in reports. Had they a knowledge of any faults he may have noted, the men would be willing to act on the suggestions and correct the errors pointed out. The hope is expressed in the guard, now that Major-General John H. Dickinson has assumed command as division com- mander, that, being a lawyer, well versed in military as well as other law, he will direct attention to and urge the neces- sity of a revision of the Red Book, which is the vade mecum of the guard when it is as it ought to be, and not as it is, a mass of contradictions that are so con- fusing as to be utterly useless. There is need for some attention on the subject of ceremonies In the guard. In the matter of ceremonies there are as many ideas as to what is the correct thing as thereareheads of departments. Some time ago there was a funeral, at which one of- ficer and his staff agpeared in full dress, another officer and his staff appeared in fatigue uniforms, and still another officer and his staff appeared in Prince Albert sults and dress hats. Had the reception by the officers of the U. 8. 8. Marion not been postponed there would probably have been another exhibition of lack of uniform knowledge in ceremonials. prominent officer of the naval militia be- ing asked if it was expected that all offi- cers of the guard should appear at the re- ception in uniform, the reply was: “Of course, in full dress uniform.” “But” suggested the seeker after knowledge, “if I am correctly informed, the officers of the naval militia will not on that day wear .full dress uniforms but service uniforms.” “Well,”’ responded the naval officer, musingly, “‘that’s true, they can’t wear anything else, because they haven't got any full dress uniforms. “Then,"” continued the gany addressed, “‘the prop- er caper would be for the visitors to ap- pear In service uniforms, for the invited uests who wear uniforms, unless in the glplomntlc service of a foreign country, should not appear In uniform different from that worn by the officers exsending the invitation.” *“Now,” added the naval officer, ‘‘let us see what the Red Book says on that point.” That wonderfully made up book was consulted and after it had been examined from first to last, the two men looked at each other and each simultaneously exclaimed, “‘Nit!" During the past week there has been but little discussed in National Guard circles except the disaster on the Maine and the possible outcome should the re- sult of tfie examination clearly -demon- strate that the blowing up of the vessel was not an accident. The spirit of the members of the land and the sea forces of the guard is one that shows that every man {s ready to stand up for the Con- stitution of the United States and to de- fend *“‘Old Glory.” Should: there be ‘any necessity for a call for men those of the National Guard of California will be among the first to respond. No general orders have been issued for a parade of the guard on the 22d inst., but Colonel Guthrie has ordered a fleld day for the Second Infantry in Sacramento 6n that day and Troop C at Salinas will have a skirmish drill. SIGNAL CORPS, THIRD BRIGADE. ‘Washington’s birthday the signal mgnpl of the ird Brigade will smrc’:;m on a bicycle run from Sacramento with full signaling a&ulpment- and engage in an afternoon’s signal practice. These runs are very popular with the members of the co! . h‘?&.’wr“ %aswi'&en s corps, tyum- :n"d Edward H. ey, member, who had been residing in San Francisco for several months, has re- turned to Sacramento and made that lace his home again. H - to Tarlor, a _member of isted for another Harvey, another e goes back: he corps, and as he has always been an actlve member of the corps his comrades are glad to have him with them again. The corps is waiting an orportunlt{ to make another record. It is likely that the members will try the Mount Diablo and- Marysville Buttes line again. The distance betweéen points is ninety miles. TROOP C OF SALINAS. The members of Troop C, located at Sa- linas, have s a in the line O e it Which 16, pro- 8] - entertainmen K they being liberally pltrnmod by the N people of Sallnas and vicinity, who in more ways than one have demonstrated their friendship for the troop. Last Wednesday the troop, fifty strong. dismounted, preceded by field music, went to the residence of Trooper T. F. Wohler and there serenaded him and his bride, as the trooper regently became a benedict. Following ate the names of the com- any who scored 45 at the third quarterly tate shoot at Sherwood Park: Lieuten- ant F. Vierra, First Sergeant W. H. Har- vey, Trumpeter L. O. Malley, J. Lehman, E. Hawkins and John Harvey. The troop has extended to a -limited number of the business men of Salinas the use of the gymnasium, baths and parlors. The troop has one of the best equipped gymnasiums in the State. On \Vash]nfitnn’s birthday the troop will be out for skirmish drill in Sherwood Park. Captain M. J. Burke commanding the troop has 9000 rounds of ammunition for the use of the men in field movements. THE NAVAL MILITIA. There will be a large number of persons disappointed at not having an opportun- ity to be present at the reception on the Marion that had heen arranged by the officers of that vessel for to-morrow, but | under the circumstances attendant on the destruction of the Maine and the great loss of life it would not be meet and prop- er to have an official reception at this time. This recall of the many invitations will not interfere with the entertainment that is to be given this evening on board of the vessel by the men of the two divi- sions located at this port. During the past week the armory was removed from the old headquarters on East street to the ship, and during the same time the vessel has been wired, so that this evening she will be lighted up with electricity. Last Tue!da{ slons were drill NOW THEY CAN'T FIND THEIR MAN The Police Had a Smooth Crook, but Let Him Go Uncharged. the men of the two divi- led by the junior officers. W. A. Davis, Wanted for Passing Bogus Checks, Is Not to Be Found. The police are now very anxious to find W. A. Davis, a smooth crook and all- around confidence man, and if captured he won’t be released as quickly as he was when landed in the tanks on the lst inst. The charge against Davis this time is that of passing worthless checks to a con- siderable amount, and a warrant is in the hands of Detective Dinan, who expects to be able to find his man, as he is well known at his various haunts in the ten- derloin. Davis came here from Los Angeles the latter part of January and registered at the Lick under an assumed name. He tried to Ea.ss_a bogus _check on . Frank Dietz at his saloon on Montgomery street, and Officer Rooker of the California- street station took him in and placed his name in the detinue book. e - officer then began to hunt up Davis' record and found that he was well known to the sporting fraternity as a ‘‘sure thing” and “short card” gambler, and it was subse- quently learned that he had defrauded a number of hotels, among them the Win- sor of this city, but none of the hotel keepers cared to prosecute him. While Davis was in the City Prison, where he was held for two days,the Sheriff of Mon- terey County sawhim and identifled him as the “‘Eastern tourist” who had passed a number of bogus checks while sojournin, in that part of the country. The wife o Davis visited him at the prison and pro- tested his innocence of any wrong do- ing, though she admitted that she. knew he was a gambler. Dayis himself didn't deny the latter charge, but freely told of his work with the cards and dice, and gave a minute explanation of how he loaded dice and “fixed” cards with the various. tools found in his possession. Despite all the evidence tending 1o show. that Davis was .a pretty clever bunco man, for some reason known to the upper office he was released without having any charge placed against him, and hence he is not to be found when wanted. The police are reticent as to the number and amount of the checks passed by Da- vis, but one was passed on Billy Abbott, the saloon keeper on Grant avenue. This is said to have been for $120 and drawn on the Hibernia Bank of this city. Abbott when seen last night acknowledged that he had been duped, but refused to give any information on the subject. —_————— Will Hold a Klondike Social. ‘The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Simpson Memorial Church will hold a unique so- cial_in the church rarlcru on the evening of Washington's birthday, Tuesday, the 224 1inst. awson City in minfature will be produced in ‘the lecture-room, and tents will be erected for the accommoda- - The Best Teasof Japan are the best E.:rsemolfl the warld‘i OWn an J bg; an im- rroved m:g whllr.h . Insures uri . and retains :fi tht}e' strength and flavor of “the succulent| leaves and buds. morwing and by at m'gb{-'e" m“ o allsfim el N Jaynnue officl; 2 1l “good * tlon of miners, who it is hoped will be present in large numbers. “‘Old Glory” will be raised by Miss Barbara Freitchie, and Whittler's original episode will be re- cited by a distinguished . elocutionist, The Mayor of Dawson City will hold a levee at Camp Golcher, and it is promised that the entire evening will be brimful of Interest. ————e———— SHE MEANT BUSINESS. Lou Jones, Alias Gallagher, Fires Two Shots at Her Lover. Lou Jones, alias Lou Gallagher, a young woman of the “tenderloin district,” was arrested early yesterday morning by Policemen Cook and Bush and booked at the City Prison on a charge of assault to murder. = Lou has been keeping company with ‘Willlam -Gallagher, and about 3 o’clock yesterday morning they quarreled in their room in the Eagle loflfinphuuse, 0 Third street. Both had been drinking, and in her drunken fury Lou got possession of a re- volver and fired two shots'at Gallagher. The first bullet went through Gallagher's coat collar and made an abrasion on his neck. As she was finng the second he struck up her arm and the bullet buried itself in the tellln% Cook and Bush heard the shots, and, running into the house, placed Lou under arrest. Gallagher was taken to the Re- celving Hospital more frightened than hurt and Dr. Winterberg attended to ihe abrasion on his neck. It is doubtful if he will prosecute Lou, as he tried to make odt that it was all a mistake. - A short time ago Lou was arrested for grand larceny, but sne managed to beat the case. She declined to say anythimg about the shooting. Pl An Unknown Man Asphyxiated. The smell of escaping gas on the top floor of the Revere lodging-house at 675 Mission street led the bedmaker to ascer- tain the cause, which resulted in finding the dead body of an unknown lodger, with the gas jet turned fully on. The un- fortunate stranger all the appearance of being one of the many tramps wh- und their way Into San Francisco to dle His garments were of the poorest quality, and were such as are worn by common laborers. His footwear was reduced to the merest semblance of what were at one time shoes. An old straw hat, a light frock coat and a pair of cotton overalls constituted his wearing apparel. There was nothing on or about his clothing b; which his identity could be ascertained. He seemed to be about 35 years of age, and was of small stature, with blonde hair. His body was removed to the Morgu —_——— Arlett’s Benefit. Owing to a cold wind blowing vesterday but a small crowd attended the benefit baseball game given to Jimmy _Arlett. 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