The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 25, 1898, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1898. CKPOCKETS WERE OUT IN Il FULL FORCE They Had a Gala Day at the Chutes on Tuesday. Numerous People Robbed of Their Money and Valuables. f Oakland Loses His Purse Containing His Savings of Years. of Four 1 Without Finding Any Detectives of the Criminals. and to him ) had been the victims of In his desperation es Gibson, Wren, Reynolds and were hurriedly dispatched to the arch out and arrest the . H. Hynes, who Oakland office at t er he h hi tes lat nd ir )ceasion to his to his , where d ind it Manage: wi ptain Bohen, the manager from about a a carri t hy valued ad been robbed of at $250. He and d to spend the day and a few minutes after tic t office his wife n to the fact that his s gone. He hurried to and told him of his loss. ivanced $100 on the oing to the 10t have lost ng the & would lvancing $150 on eve g the crowd in > impre the city 1 Mann com- he had paid purse in his and a minute gone. Alt complaints arrived they e grounds and they thought but as them when make them- bitterly the pres- 1t the Chutes 1 the “upper ad one. fter years of loss to him is al- He told Detective f the Oakland force of visited police to see if he ance in finding d Hynes. fter Eurekas to Incorporate. iety for the- Protection hold a meeting this of taking steps ssociation. This ontemplated for a at the fines accru- ases it takes into the Police e turned over to the soclety. tate law fines cannot wcorporated bodies. there will not be much con- hall consti- under the incorpora- —_———————— the alleged -CARRIER A VICTIM. look at the bar they put about and ret AWAITING A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER A number of vessels could not get to sea on account of the heavy weather yesterday and quite a number of steamer are overdue on the same account. Several schooners went as far as the heads, but when their captains got a good turned to an anchorage off Meiggs wharf. N N A SOUTHEASTER MAKES TROUBLE Man- | for the Examiner, | n taken from | sugar taken from sco on the Encore, o have been due alt water by reason of wdition of the decks of um & Co. filed a entine to re- milar damage to a cargo ADVERTISEMENTS. Tiching, scaly &nd pafnful ©ily, mothy skin, dry, thin, and falling 10g, scaly scalps, all yield quickly to warm bath with COTICURA BoAP, and gentle anointings with CUTICURA (ointment), the great skin cure. (tticura 4_throughout the world. Porrea Dave axp Cumx. onr.. Sole Props.. Boston O * How t Produce Soft, White Haods,” free. ITCHING HUMORS &t Rin.t bleeding palms, shapeless nails, ger ends, pimples, bl ?Coasters Could Not Get | Out and Steamers Overdue. the Employes of the Mail Company. Nearly a Score of Them Throw Up Their Jobs and Are Going to Dawson. torm along the coast raised con- ble trouble among the shipping vesterday. The wheat laden ship Royal Forth was to have gone to sea, but Captain Cooper did not like the looks )t the weather and remained in port. The schooner Emma Utter was taken outside by the tug Active, but when the captain got a look at the bar he | changed his mind and returned to the harbor. The gasoline schooner Mary | ¢, for Bodega, and La Chilena, for Fort Ross, went as far as the heads, | but returned to an anchorage off Meiggs wharf to await a change in the weather. The steamer Santa Cruz, from Seattle; Columbia, from Portland; North Fork, from Eureka; from Coos Bay; Samoa, from Eureka; Washtenaw, from Tacoma, and Gips from Santa Cruz, were all scheduled to arrive yesterday morning, but were de- layed by the southeaster which raged The schooner Mary Gilbert, al attempts to get for Prince Wil- st outside. which has made s away with passengers llams Sound, finally succeeded day and will land the miners she ha at Orca station, near Cop- taken aw per Riv. The v o mer Mariposa is to sail to- Australia, calling at Honolulu, and Auckland. At the last min- ute accommodation cured in the steerage for fifty ma s, who will ar- rive from Mare Island on the Unadilla this morning. These men will be | Ap drafted to the Bennington and Balti- | more, now in Hawaliian waters, in or- der to bring the crews of the men-of- war up to their full complement. Police Corporal Cockrill had an ex- citing ch after a Japanese on the Mail dock yesterday. The Jap w: placed under arrest for carrying a con- cealed weapon, and while the police of- ficer was calling up the patrol wagon the Jap made a break for liberty. He dodged in and out among the freight lying on the wharf, and was just pre paring to jump overboard when Cock- rill caught him by the coat tail and pulled him down on the wharf. The Japanese has some friends on steamer City of Peking, whom he was very anxious to see. For the last two or taree d he has been bothering Gatekeeper Ford for permission to go down the wharf, but it has always been | refused Yesterday he came down armed with a big navy pistol, and his arrest follov To prevent another attempt at ape the Jap was taken to Prison in irons. s going to be an exodus of em- ployes of the Mail Company to the Klondike. Third Officer Thompson of the City of Peking has resigned and his place has been taken by J. Marino, late third officer of the Aztec. sistant Engineer Venker, also of the City of Peking, and W. B. Swears, ship- ping agent of the Mail Company, are all going to try their fortunes on the Yukon. Miss Clara Strand, the popular stewardess of the Newport, is to open a restaurant in Dawson City, and the Mail Company is now looking for her successor, as the Newpoft is to sail in a few d. . And it is said that fifteen | other employes have the craze and have thrown up their jobs to go to the | Klondike. The Union Oil Company’s tank bay steamer Oleum broke down again yes- terday. She is used in carrying crude petroleum to the gas works, and this is the third time she has broken down since she was turned from a stern steamer into a gasoline boat. some part of her machinery gave out, and she had to be towed to the gas works by a tug. The following graduates of the Mc- Nevin Brothers’ Navigation School have been granted licenses by the United States Inspectors of Hulls and As masters—Emile C. Gen- erieaux, Daniel McClean, Charles Ev- ans, C. M. Wilson, William Kendall, Charles Madeison and George Wes- ates—E. Behrsing, E. Thomp- O. Sodardahl, Christopher S. Pedersin, L. A. Gus- and Hermann G. Hansen. By the examining board of the Chamber of Commerce, as mas- ter, Donald Munchison and John Kir- sten. A Mortgage Is Not a Title. A point of law of interest to all incor- porated bodies was made in a decision of a case in the Supreme Court yvesterday. The Savings and Loan Society of this S. tafson, W. H. Davis city brought action against Fannie Mc- | Koon, executrix, to foreclose a mortgage on land in San Diego County. It received judgment and an appeal was taken, the appellants making the point that the sb- | clety falied to comply with the law in not fliling with the Recorder of San Diego | County a copy of its articles of incorpo ration, as required by section 209 of the | Civil Code. Under this law a corporation holding property in any other county must first file & copy of its articles of in- corporation before it can be a party to any civil action. The Supreme Court took the position that this law did not operate in this case. A mortgage is not a title, and may never be, hence it was necessary for the bank to record a copy of its cor- porate articles. Arcata, | the | Second As- | DODGED THE ~ CONTRACT LAW One Way of President Colnon to Give Work to His Friends. | | | S he | The Klondike Craze Has Struck | Harbor Commissioners Divide t ned to police headquarters, and | Orders to Keep Under the Limit. | split | Jobs Without Big Contracts and Gave Out Asking for Competition. | The plaintiffs in the action of the araffine Paint Company aga State Board of Harbor Comm! oners announced tc the court yesterday morning that they had submitted their case. Then the defense began. There | were no lurid arguments on either side. The attorney for the plaintiffs simply said on the opening of the court: “We rest our case.” Attorney Stratton, who represented the defense, said that he would not at this time ask for a non- | sult, but he would show to the court | out of justice to his clients that the statements contained in the complaint ‘ur the plaintiffs were without founda- | tion in fact. | H. C. Holmes, the chief engineer of the Harbor Board, was called to the | stand. In answer to questions of At- torney Stratton he said he knew of no | spruce piles being used in construction | work on the water front since Com- :mis ioner Colnon was appointed to the | bcard. He explained that piles of dif- | ferent lengths were purchased from | forty feet up, according to the uses | that were required of them. Piles un- der forty feet in length were usually | cut from the sixty feet lengths, and it | was shown from that that the piles d that were not of the required size specified in the specifications were short ones cut from the smaller ends | of the lcng timber To the plaintiffs’ attorneys he said he inspected the work of creosoting the piles, and those he examined were per- fectly treated with the preserving prep- | aration. The immediate work of in- spection was done by inspectors hired by the board, and, though they came upervision, he had to accept rect and that the work was properly performed. He had rejected some piles that were passed by them b se the work of creosoting them was improperly done. In the spe- cifications for the repair of the Green- street wharf twenty creosoted piles a | day are called for. the San Francisco Timber Preserving | Company’s plant was sufficient to turn | out that many properly creosoted piles |in a day. The piles required for the | work were to be eighty feet in length. were to be treated was only from fifty to sixty feet in length. The engineer said he understood that the retort was to be lengthened so as to be ready for l the pil for the job. | The engineer was asked about the re- | pairs now being made to the Mission- street wharf. He said they were | urgent, and told of orders being given | to the San Francisco Timber Preserv- ing Company to creosote 287 piles for | the job. The cost of preserving these | piles will amount to about $4000. The order was cut in two pieces, and the first job given to the creosoters was for 100 piles, and a week or ten days later | P. F. Dundon and his friends were told to prepare 187 more piles for use on the Job. It is claimed that the job was cut | in two and separate orders given for | the work of preserving the piles so as | to avoid the law which requires work |on State structures that amounts to | over $3000 to be awarded only by con- tract on competitive bids. Holmes was asked further about the reports of the creosote inspectors, and | as he did not have them with him, a | recess was taken till the afternoon, | when he promised to have the written | reports in court. | Engineer Holmes had the reports of the inspectors with him when the court opened In the afternoon. They, how- ever, contained nothing that was of im- portance to either side, and the reports | were read in a perfunctory manner. | “Do you know,” .asked Attorney { Cope, “why the order for preserving | the piles for use in the repairs to Mis- | sion-street wharf was not given for 287 piles at one time instead of giving two distinct orders for the piles?” | Attorney Stratton, the counsel for the | defense, objected to this question, but |"the court allowed it, and Holmes re- | plied: | “The only reason I can give is that thé orders were given that way so that each order would be for amounts less than $3000, and according to law the orders could be given without advertis- ing for bids.” The witness sald the orders for the preservation of the piles in two orders instead of one were given at the direc- tion of Commissioner Colnon, and it was done to defeat the $3000 limit law. Harbor Commissioner P. J. Harney said he was not a member of the board when the Slade lumber contract was let, and he knew nothing of the trans- action except from hearsay. He was questioned as to his knowledge of creo- sote as a timber preservative, and he said from his researches in that direc- tion he believed creosote was the best material that could be used. The ob- | Ject of- this-line of questioning, Attor- ney Stratton said, was to show that the Commissioners had used due diligence in acquainting themselves with timber preservatives used In the construction under their supervision. i The engineer said | One of the retorts in which the piles | ASK THAT LOW BE REMOVED Attorneys Campbell and Koch File a Sensa- tional Motion. | They Claim He Had No Right to Hold a Japanese Mur- derer to Answer. | Superior Judge Cook to Hear Argu- ments of Counsel on the Subject To-Day. The attorneys for the Japanese, who some time ago shot and killed Mary | Costello, a white woman, with whom | he had been living, have decided to test | the right of Police Judge Low in hold- | ing the defendant to answer before the | Superior Court and incidentally to have | the department over which he presides | | abolished. | Yesterday afternoon they filed a mo- tion to set aside the information against | the Japanese in Judge Cook's depart- | ment of the Superior Court. The legal facts upon which the motion was based | were that prior to the filing of their | information the defendant had not been legally committed before a qualified or duly elected magistrate, because Jus- tice Low has not at any time whatever been a Judge of the Superior Court, or | a Justice of the Supreme Court, or a Justice of the Peace, or a Police Mag- istrate in any town or city. | That under the act of February 23, | 1893, which supplemented the act ap- proved March 5, 1839, providing for a | Justice of the Peace for the city, Low was appointed, and that said act of February 23 is in violation of section 24 of article IV of the constitution of the State of California in that said act embraces more than one subject; that | the subject of said act is not expressed | in its title; that said act was enacted | i with the intent and for the purpose of | revising or amending another act, and | ‘tha\ the Legislature of this State in | | passing said act of 1893 for said pur- | pose did so by simple reference to the | ‘lltle of the act sought to be amended | @ e |88 |ee | 2 @ 2 3 & @ 2 @ @ @ [ ] @ @ 2 | 8 ] £ &8 and without re-enacting and publish- | | ing at length the act sought to be re- | vised or amended, as 'ribed and | provided by section 24 of article IV of | | sald constitution. On this ground the defendants claim that the Police Court is null and void, and that Judge Low having been elected thereafter is not a committing magistrate. The defendants further claim that at the preliminary examina- tion the depositions of the witnesses were not taken according to law and that the defendant was not instructed as to his rights. The motion will be argued to-day and the attorneys are confldent of winning their point. The Pinta for San Diego. | Captain Turner of the Naval Militia | has been notified that the Pinta, | by the Navy Department to the aivi | of the militia stationed at San Diego, will be turned over to the State within ten a Captain Turner will receive the | vessel and will sail her down to her des- | tination. He will be_accompanied on the trip by John T. McMillan of the hydro- graphic office, Instructor of navigation to | the officers of the Naval Militia stationed at this port. — e Argued and Submitted. The case of Pederson vs. John D. Spreckels was argued and submitted yes- terday afternoon before the United States Circuit Court of AfP? s. 8. M. Short- ridge appeared for the defendant and H. W. Hutton for the plai; On the trial of the case judgment given for the defendant with costs, and the plaintiff took an appeal. RRUIR{UQWU{N ADVERTISEMENTS. ¢ Many persons canno: take plain cod-liver oil. They cannot digest it. It upsets the stomach. Knowing these things, we have digested ‘the oil in Scott’s Emulsion of Cod- liver Oil with Hypophos- phites; that is, we have {broken it up into little glob- ules, or droplets. We use machinery to do {the work of the digestive organs, and you obtain the |good effects of the digested |oil at once. That is why you can take Scott’s Emulsion. soc. and $1.00, all druggists. 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