The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 2, 1898, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDN DAY, MARCH 2, 189YS. TAKE THEIR ORDERS FROM THE BOSSES Offiecial in Expose of Subserviency San Jose. Councilmen Dare Not Act Without Consulting Their Masters. Rev. H. J. B. Wright Cites an Instance of Servile Obedi- ence of Politician VOTERS SHOULD PONDER. Pastors of the Garden City Now Enter the Campaign for Better Government. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, March 1—No more thor- ough and graphic expose of the meth- ods of the local political gang was ever made than that embodied in an address deliyered before the Pastors’ Union of this city by Dr. H. J..B. Wright. His object was to enlighten the clergymen of this city concerning the political deg- radation that the ‘‘gang” has brought upon fair San Juse, and to suggest a method for its eradication. The min jsters present when this address W delivered represented - mearly - every Protestant church in the city, and the effect of this talk will undoubtedly be felt in the election of April 11. Dr. Wright began as follows | haps no city in the United States ze of San Jose has fewer elective offic Under tne former charter there were twenty-four elective officers, under the present charter- the number is re- duced to eight. From' this it will'be seen sibility {s to be.placed , and with this responsi- greater power, upon bility Referring to the framers of the char- ter and present political conditions, he gald: ¢ ‘the -e.ections ‘in‘ San Jose 4 in the selection of ouicers who at the time of their election Helleved | or soon after learned that their duty was o promote. the welfare of a-few politic dses rather than. promote the welfare San Jose. abie ta show you that the > is In the grasp of one of city of San Jo: the most complete, ous gangs of political tricksters that ever se the throat of any municipality. in Saying this I do not wish to be under- ing that every officer in the n Jose is under the Influence wes. But gang rule has been past and:1s now the only rule stood s city of of the b for yea by wh aged, by which the citizens of Ban Jose are - disgraced, abused, insulted &n robbed by a gang of political bosses. Much it not all of this unfortunate con- dition may be corrected by the citizens of this city at the next election by avail- ing themselves of the opportunity offered by the new charter, and when this is accomplished, and-not until taen, will be -permitied to enjoy the benefits an economical, self-respect- ey wing- from business-like tration of the affairs of this mnuicipality Tet me call your attention' to a few s which show of my statement. -A gentleman as bullding e house in a street sewer wishing to t flo ing, who where there was no have sewer connection Tequested the Mayor to. have a sewer bullt from a cross street, about 100 feet away, to the oint where he was building his house. Fhe Mayor, very properly, referred him to the Councilman who is chalrman of the sewer committee. J. P. Fay is the chairman of this com- mittee, and is well known to be com- pletely under the domination: of the gang. Continuing, Dr. Wright said: This Councilman at once referred him to & certain private citizen whose office is not on South First street and who is not & member of the Common Councl, saying, “NWhatever he says about it will be satis- factory to me.” “Jim” Rea First street street. This gentleman went to this boss, and told him what he wanted, and this boss said; “My friend, Mr., M. is in the ad- ij(olnlng room; go In and see him. He nows more about these things than I do. Whatever will be satisfactory to him will be satlsfactory to me.” This subordinate boss asked my friend many questions, and then said: “That will be all right. We'll have your sewer made for you, but we can't do it for two or three weeks yet. Of course, If we should need your help at any time, we should ex- pect you to stand in with us.” In due time the sewer was made, agree- able to the promise of this man who is not & member of the Common Council, but who controls the Common Council. ‘Think of the confidence a citizen has in his power to make the Council do what he bids it do when he says: *“We will make the sewer for you, according to your re- quest, but we can’t do it for two or three weeks yet.” And think of the weakness and audacity of a Councilman who will refer a citizen of this city to a political boss when that citizen comes to a Coun- cllman asking him to bulld a few feet of office is “not on South it 1s on North First sewer, at the same time saying: “What- | ever {s satisfactory to the boss will be | satisfactory to me.” Our schools are nominally under the coptrol of the Board of Education, and I am willlng to concede that this board would like to have our schools good and efficlent. But there is a pall of mysteri- ous power which covers them, and, fear, sometimes makes cowards of them all. 'So completely is the Board of Edu- cation under the influence of a certain man, known as our political boss, that 1 assert, without fear of successful con- tradictian, that the Board of Education will _not, under any circumstances, ap- point to, or remove from, our schools any teacher, without the consent of the boss. To show how shamefully true this is, I will relate what a gentleman told me—a gentleman whose veracity is be- yond question. He said: “A friend of mine, living East, who had long taught in a normal school, wished to remove to San Jose and become a teacher In our schools. I interviewed one of the mem- bers of the Board of Education and told him of my friend’s qualification. There- upon this member sald: ‘You are wast- ing time talking to me. Go and see the boss. Whatever he says, goes with me."” 1 went to see a second member, who said: “Go and see the boss. Whatever he says will be agreeable to me.” I went to see a third member, who sald: “I can make no promise until I have a talk with the Why don’t you go and see the * ] went to see the boss, but noth- ing ever came of it. A certain minister, who was once pastor of a flourishing church in this city, went to each of the eight members of the Board of Education Interceding for a younF woman who wished to secure the osition of teacher in our public schools. Jot securing satisfactory promises from any of these gentlemen, and having told some of his friends what poor results he had had, they said: -“Why don’'t you go and see the boss?’ And he went to see the boss, and_the boss said: “That will be all right. Your young lady shall have a place.”” And in due time the young lady was flgpoinled. and Is now a teacher in our schools. It does not miti te the wrong to . that the young lady was competent an the request . as an honorable one, for the whole transaction shows how shamefully 3| rowerful and danger- | ich the affairs:of the city are man- | d | and not until then, will our fair city re and patriotic ‘adminis- | beyond cavil the truth- | subservient the Board of Education is to | one man who is not on the Board of Ed- | ucation. The Superintendent of our schools is lit- tle more than a figurehead. 1 say this | without intending to discredit him, for heé cannot remove or change a teacher or in | any way control a teacher. ex-Councilman told me that when e Council he learned that the man- for our sewers could be bought for | $6 50, and that they were being bought for | such’ a price by other cities, while the city of San_Jose was paying $15 apiece for them. He called the attention of the Council to that fact, and made a motion that bids be advertised for to furnish these devices, and his motion prevailed, all the Councilmen voting for it. In due time bids were received from several par- | tie he knew that some of the bids were very low. When the bids were about to be opened | a certain Councilman arose and said: “If | it please your Honor, when I voted for the motlon calling gor bids to furnish these manholes it estaped my memory that I, | as one of the Sewer Committee, had let | the contract to a certain foundry in this | city for 815 apiece, the manholes to be fur- | nished at such times and in such quanti- | ties as may be needed. .1 therefore move that these bids be not opened.” Every Councilman but one voted for the motion, and the Council continues to pay $15 for a device which can be bought for $6 50. And bear in mind that the foundry recefving this contract is owned largely, if not en- tirely, by one of.our city bosses. The Councilman who arrogated to himself the letting of this extortionate contract is William T. Nolting. The firm to. which it was let is the San Jose Foundry, of which Andrew -S. Mackenzie is manager. = Andrew is a | brother’ of Johnnie Mackenzfe, and the latter s the chief lieutenant of “Jim” Rea. ‘ Under the old charter: the ' policemen | | were annually in danger of being dropped | from the police force. This danger oper- | ated against efficient service, because the | criminals use their influence to have them dropped from. the.police force. | A policeman told me that there is a saloon in this city, in connection with which there is a room the walls of which | | are’ filled with sawdust, so that sounds | cannot be transmitted through them. this room nightly - gather . disreputable | on th | hotes | | | | | characters of both sexes, who sing and drink and dance until late hours of the | night. A telephone with a large receiver | transmits their ribald-songs and vulgar | ation to-friends in remote parts of He further informed that he convel the city. dare not enforce the ordinance against| o this place, -for 1f he did _he would lose his position on the police force. Undér the new charter policemen will hold their positions during efficlency and good behavior, and policemen cannot be discharged for having done thelr duty. Do you ask how all the imposition and interference and subserviency and thiev ery. can be_enforced by a few political ringsters? -1 answer, the leaders in this| disgraceful movement make a study of the situation; - they make a study of| municipal politics. While you and T are | attending to the business of our lives, these men are intriguing and ~devising | means by which to spread a net in which to catch the politically unwary. After ‘relating in detail how primar- ies are - controlled, conyentions packed and a boss ticket forced upon | the voters, he called attention to how all this is prevented by the provisions of the new charter, which provides for all nomfhations for the coming election | being made by petition, He alsa laid | | stress on the importance of electing the right kind of men as members of the | Appointing Board, and the necessity of electing a strong and honest man to | fill. the Mayor’s chair. = Commenting on the result of electing gang men to these -offices he said: In that event our city will be plunged into a gulf of political scheming and cor- ruption from which it can never escape until the citizens adopt another charter. Suppose on the other hand-that at the | next_election “we _elect a -man to the mayoralty who believes that the city's interests are paramount to any individ- ual's, and that they - elect an appointing board which will appoint honest, indus- trious, self-respecting, intelligent and | conscfentious men to -the-various official | boards, then the city ‘will bé assured of an intélligent, economical, wise, humane and respectable . administration. Then | celve what it pays for-and -pay for what | | it recelves. “Then, and not until then, will our citizens be able to speak with pride } of our municipal affairs. i If the political ringsters succeed in di- viding our efforts and scattering our | votes the ring will succeed and . we wiil| fail. | | “The new Charter Club is composed of | emocrats, Republicans and. Populists, of | Protestants and Catholics. - It is com- | | posed of men llving in all parts of the | city, who are engaged -in all kinds of | repuitable business—lawyers, physicians, schoolteachers, hankers, carpenters, sur- | vevors, salesmen, shoemakers, merchants, | | farmers, orchardists, all of whom have | | pledged themselves to do all they can to | | elect men to office who are opposed to | bosses and bossism, and who believe that | | the only kind of men who_ought to hold | | office in the city of San Jose are those | who belleve the city's interests are al-| ways paramount to any individual’s, and | that the city’s affairs should be conducted | on business principles and not on political | principles. He referred to the ticket of the New | Charter Club being beyond reproach, and added: | Al of them are anti-gang; all of them | | are sworn enemles of bossism. In uttering a caution against the methods of the gang he sald: All sorts of falsehoods and misrepre- | sentations will be hurled against this ticket by the enemles of municipal re- form; schemes will be put on foot which will be so plausible that they will de- | ceive the very elect: religious and politi- cal prejudices will be marshaled against the ticket with all the cunning of Satan himself. Other tickets will be put in the fleld, with the sanguine' expectation of dividing the votes of the unsophisticated but order-loving people. | TLet us remember that the New Char- | ter Club represents the wisdom of a large | number of San Jose's best citizens, and that in working for that ticket, talking for that ticket, voting for that ticket and forsaking all others, we will be doing good service for our fair city, and that Sasting our votes for other. tickets will certainly result in continuing in office political ringsters and municipal cormor- ants. —_— 'CORPSES PACKED IN SMALL BOXES Scandal Attending the Sale of the American Cemetery at Jerusalem. | | | Disgraceful Manner of Removing the Bodles to thé English | Graveyard. Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, March 1.—Truth to-day, as a sequel to the request made that its editor take steps to expose an alleged scandal {in regard to the sale of the American Cemetery at Jerusalem by the American | Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, says: “The American missionaries and the | American Consul were represented. The | bodies were reverently exhumed and were removed. But the action of Lord Salisbury | in having the pit in the English Cemetery | in which they were reburied opened in or- | der to recover the remains of an English officer led to the ghastly discovery that | all the bodies bad been broken up and | packed in small wooden boxes, so that neither the body of the officer nor any other hody could be identified. Both the sale of the cemetery and the removal of the corpses appear to lave.-been carried out in an extremely disgraceful manner.” Jerusalem 1s alleged to have been madé in order to replenish the funds of the can Presbyterian Board of Foreign sions and secrecy, it is added, was ob- served because the same was contrary to Turkish -law. . Friends of Englishmen whoss bodies had been burled there are sald to have protested to the State De- partment at “Washington, to the United States Minister at Coasu\nuno le and to the British Foreign Office. Eventually, it is added, they asked Truth to investi- te the matter as they had been unable 0 obtain redre > The sale of the American: Cemetery at |. ri- |, 18- |- SILVER AND GOLD MADE T0 ORDER Inventor Bryce’s Se- cret Given to the Publie. How to Create Precious Metals With Crude Materials. Says His Factory 1s Now Pre- pared to Rival the Klondike. PROTECTED BY PATENTS. Belleves He Is About to Be Recom-= pensed for the Ridicule He Has Suffered. Bpectal Dispatch to The Call. NHELLERRURRRIRRNARY HOW TO MAKE GOLD. & Pure antimony, five parts. Sulphur, ten parts. Iron, one part. Caustic soda, four parts. Place these ingrediéents in a graphite crucible and expose to a white heat of 5000 degrees, from eight to forty-eight hours. Powder the resulting mass and mix it well to incorporate the metal with slag. Combine this with charcoal, one part; oxide of lead, five parts, and caustic soda, four parts. Fuse the ‘whole until a metallic button is ob- tained. Scarify and cupola this metallic mass, and the resulting lead will be gold and silver. Pl i3 8 &8 % g EEEEE PR % % = < RRURBURNE AR CHICAGO, March 1.—Anybody who has the necessary materials and a fur- nace that will produce a temperature of 5000 degrees, or volcanic heat, can stay at home and make his own gold with- out subjecting himself to the rigors of Klondike weather. E. C. Bryce, presi- dent and general manager of the Na- tional . Metallurgical Company, which has a plant at Lowe avenue and Thir- ty-ninth street for the purpose of man-- | ufacturing gold and silver, said to-day | that in consequence of hav ing prooured all rights to thelr process by patents applied for all over thé world the oper- ations of the company would no longer be conducted in secret. The precious metal factory, in which operations were resumed last night, will hereafter be conducted- in -as matter of fact a man- her and as open to public inspection as those of any well conducted manufac- turing establishment. Mr. Bryce sees o reason now why his formula should not be given to the public. Here it is: Take of chemically pure antimony 5 parts; sulphur, 10 parts; iron, 1 part; caustic soda, 4 parts. Place these in- gredients in a graphite cruciple and ex- pose to a white heat of 5000 degrees from eight to forty-eight hours. Pow- der the resulting mass and mix it well to incorporate the metal —Wwith slag. Combine this with charcoal, 1 part; oxide of lead, 5 parts, and caustic soda, 4 parts. Fuse the whole until a metal lic button is obtained. Scarify and cu pola this metallic mass and the result- ing lead will be gold and silver. That the stockholders in the enter- prise are satisfied. 1s evidenced by .the fact that at a secret meeting Monday night, at which Mr. Bryce submitted the results of experiments, they unani- mously voted to continue work and subscribed $20,000 to be used’ for build- ing a rallroad to.the company’s anti- mony mines in Utah. In proof of this Mr. Bryce placed before a representa- tive of The Call the minutes of the meeting. “We have been ridiculed and misrep- Tesented,” said Mr. Bryce, “by report- ers who were refused information about our affairs, which it would have been injurious to have given out. For in- stance, the closing down of our plant in January was published as the col- lapse of the enterprise. The fact is that in winter time, from lack of. roads and other facllities, we could not ob- tain our supply of antimony from the mines in Utah. They are situated in a wilderness, and the nearest town is Manti, sixty miles away. We made a contract with the Higbee-Rugsell Com- pany of this city to supply us, but when the time for dellvery .came they failed us, alleging that their minehad ‘pinched out.’ For that reason we were obliged to suspend operations-until a further supply of raw material to the extent of sixty tons a week could be obtained. With money voted last night we shall make such improvements in our roads and other workings at the mines in Utah that our supply will be uninter- rupted. “Since the close-down we have erect- ed a new furnace of my invention, which will enable us to do our own re- fining and also to treat a large quan- tity of refractory ores which have hith- erto defied our efforts.” “Is your process a commercial suc- cess?” was asked. “A complete success,” was the reply. “By recent improvements we have suc- ceeded in making ore which yields $1500 to the ton in gold and silver. I want to say further that there is not a share of this stock on the market. The total amount realized by the sale of stock has been only $15,440, which has been used In the erection of this plant and in procuring mining claims. I held origi- nally 1170 shares, and have purchased ‘since 630 shares, which cost me $5462. E. R. Kosh of Penryth, Va., who was my original partner during the long ex- -perimental stages of this process, against my wishes and advice, put 200 shares of stock on the market last Sep- tember, and it was this offering which breught upon me, my process, and the whole concern, the newspaper ridicule -which followed. As the commercial process is now fully protected and the Yolcanic heat required can only be at- .tained In my furnaces. which are also fully protected, no further mystery will be made of the manufacture of gold and silver from the base metals.” Will Be Hanged in May. MODESTO, March 1L.—Friday, May 20, {s the date set for the hanging of George Owens, who killed. his wife, wounded his daughter and shot himself in this city last December. The execution will be at San_Quentin.. Sheriff Purvis will take the condemned to San Quentin to-morrow. —_———— i To Cure a Cold in One Day _Take Laxative Bromo Qui druggists refund the Incnl!‘:;n:: '{:(Il’l.fll: nu‘l'.l‘! %c. The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet. WHITTON STANDS BY REFORMERY Not a Candidate for - the Mayoralty of San Jose. [ Withdraws His Name Despite His Friends’ Importunities. No Danger Now of a Split in the New Charter Club Forces. INSURES THEIR SUCCESS. Entire Ticket Strengthened by the Unselfish Action of the Colonel. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, March 1—In the with- drawal of Colonel A. K. Whitton from the fleld as a candidate for Mayor in the coming election, another powerful impetus is given to the cause of good government as represented by the New Charter Club ticket. Long before the ticket of the New Charter Club was made public the friends of Colomel Whitton had been urging him to become a candidate, de- spite his expressed desire to the con- trary. He had consistently. refused to allow his name to be used in this con- nection, but his friends were importu- nate to an unusual degree. Bince the naming of the New Charter Club ticket he has even been appealed to to run as an independent candidate, but all the allurements held out to him failed to tempt him to do that which would have worked to the undoubted injury of the movement for good government. He | realized that in order to give the good | government movement the right kind of prestige the ticket of the New Charter | Club must be elected as nearly in its| entirety as possible. It was not until| to-day, however, that he could prevall | upon his friends to allow him to make | a formal anneuncement of his with-| drawal. | This unselfish and disinterested ac- tion on the part of Colonel Whitton not only insures the election of the Charter | Club candidate for Mayor, but it will strengthen the entire ticket of this or- ganization. Had Colonel Whitton run | | he would have drawn largely from the vote that will ncw go to S. E. Smith. The fact that Colonel Whitton’s | friends were urging him to become a | candidate for Mayor has been used by | ans as a pretext | for stating that there was dissension in the ranks of the New Charter Club. | The open letter‘ of Colonel Whitton | gives the best dental to such assertions, { and is another severe blow to the “gang.” His letter is as follows: San Jose, March 1. | To George M. Bowman, Ralph Lowe and others: 1 deem It due to the electors of this city, who have urged me to become a candidate for Mayor at the coming elec- tion, and more especially to those who. have complimented me by signing a pe- tition for such purpose, to state that I am not a candidate and withdraw my name from further consideration. This I do after a careful review of existing condi- tions. isfled that the elec- | tors this city will find among the worthy and prominent citizens aspiring | to said office one who will make a faithful and efliclent executive and who will ad- minister municipal affairs to the satisfac- ;lj(])n of the taxpayers and citizens gener- y. I desire to thank my friends for their| manifestations of esteem and confidence, | | and may add that I shall always be found in the ranks with those who are in favor of clean politics and correct business | methods in the conduct of public affairs. | Respectfully, A. K. WHITTON. DEATH OF DR. ROGERS, THE NOTED SCIENTIST. Occupied the Chair of Astronomy and Physics at Colby Uni- versity. | | ! WATERVILLE, Me,, March 1.—Profes- | sor William A. Rogers of Colby Univer- sity, a-sclentist of national reputation, died at 10:30 o'clock this morning. He had been sick for several weeks and his deatn was not unexpected. Dr. Rogers was born in New London, Conn., November 13, 1832. He obtained hisearly education at De- Ruyter Academy in De Ruyter, N. Y. He entered Brown University, graduating there in 1857. In 1870 he was appointed assistant in the ob- servatory of Harvard University and seven years later was elected assistant professor of astronomy. In 1886 he was called to the chair of astronomy and physics of Colby University. ‘While at Harvard University Professor Rogers’ speclal work consistéd In locat- ing and mapping all stars down to the ninth magnitude in the narrow belt a little north of our zenith. This work he did under the auspices of the German As- tronomical Society, of which he was a member. His observations on this work extended over a period of eleven years and required fifteen years for thelr de- duction. He retained supervision of his unfinished work at the observatory. REINDEER TO SEATTLE " ON A SPECIAL TRAIN. Elaborate Arrangements Made for Shipping the Valuable Animals Across the Continent. NEW YORK, March’1.—The special traln over the Pennsylvania carrying the reindeer and attendants which were in- tended for the proposed Government Te- lief expedition left Jersey City to-night for Beattle. The train consisted of three tourist sleeping cars, two cooking and eating cars, ten box cars Joaded with pro- visions for the deer and twenty-six stock cars. The train moved In two sectlons. There were 113 persons in the party, Five hundred and twenty-nine reindeer, in ex- cellent condition after twenty-four houfs rest on land, fllled the stock cars com- fortably, each car contained from twenty to_thirty deer. The three sleeping cars and two ca- booses afford ample space for the human end of the expedition, and there is a sup- ply of provisions and fine facilities for cooking and serving meals. The train will ran on special schedule, requiring about five and a half days to Seattle, It is intended to make the trip without any more than the ordin: stoppages of a first-class train unless the reindeer should prove poor travelers on land. , TP TR < Apaches to Fight Spaniards. ATHENS, Ga., March 1.—Much ex- citement has been caused here by the news that thirty-two Apache Indlans were passing through the lower edge of the county, en route for Florida, whence they will proceed to Cuba. The Indians had come on horseback all the way from the Indian Territory. They were fully | Griche, | Francisco, armed, and their chief said they would be taken off the coast by a filibuster, which would land them on Cuban shores, where they would ally them- selves with the insurgents. INTERESTS THE PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST. Pine Mountain and Zaca Lake Forest Reserve to Be Created in California. WASHINGTON, March 1.—The Com- missioner of the General Land Office has written a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, urging that a forest re- serve be created embracing the Pine Mountain region in Califcrnia. He also tra; its a letter of the California del- egation, requesting that the area about Zaca Lake be included in the proposed reservation. Represenative Barlow suggests that the areas be combined and made into one reservation; to be known as the “Pine Mountain and Zaca Lake Forest Reserve.” The Commis- sioner says: “Briefly stated, the principal object of the reservation is the preservation of the water supply of that region, which ig of paramount importance over all other considerations, involving, as it does, the fruit and agricultural indus- tries estimated at millions of dollars, actual and prospective. The region to be reserved is mountainous, and is rep- resented as unsuited for agricultureand of little value for pasturage. The im- portance of taking some action to ef- fectually protect the forest and under- growth from fire and the destructive tendency of sheep grazing in that arid region are especially emphasized. “The creation of this forest reserve meets with my cordial approval, and in accordance with the petitions pre- sented and the personal -representa- tions of Congressman Barlow I have prepared a proclamation for the President's signature embrac- ing the Pine Mountain and Zaca Lake region, to be known as the ‘Pine Moun- tain and Zaca Lake Forest Reserve. The area within the boundaries de- scribed in the proclamation is esti- mated at 1,144,594 acres.” Judge Maguire to-day introduced a bill to pay to Mrs. May A. Swift, widow. of John F. Swift, $2000, this amount being a year’s salary that would have been due her husband as Minister to Japan. It has been customary for Con- gress to allow a year's salary to the widows of deceased Ministers. By direction of the President an army retiring board is appointed, to meet at the call of the president| thereof at Vancouver Barracks, Wash- ington, for the examination of such officers as may be ordered before fit. Detail for the board: Colonel Charles E. Compton, Fourth Cavalry; Major John Van R. Hoff, surgeon; Major | Joshua W. Jacobs, quartermaster; Ma- jor Thomas H. Barry, assistant adju- tant-general; Captain Frank R. Keefer, assistant surgeon; Captain tiugh J. McGrath, Fourth Cavalry, re- corder. Lieutenant-Colonel George B. Russell, Fourth Infantry, will réport in person to Colonel Compton at such time as he may designate for examina- tion by the board. Pacific Coast patents: Solomon Ad- ler, Ban Francisco, bottle locking de- vice; Ernest C. Atwood, San Francisco, truck; Joseph H. Benning, San Fran- cisco, swinging cot; William J. Brady, San Francisco, mud drum and connec- tion; N. P. Duncan, Hanford, attach- ment for sewing machine; Gustave East Berkeley, apparatus for operating precious metals; Joseph A. Maddex, San Luis Obispo, pick; Eric A. Starke, San Rafael, compound ni- trate and process of manufacturing the same; Henry L. Steinmeyer, San Fran- cisco, broomholder and sash fastener; Darwin Wright, Los Angeles, wave mo- tor. Pensions: California—Original—Spe- cial February 18, Willlam H. Cross- man, Winters, $6; Neal Meahin, San $6. Increase—Clement F. | Miller, Oakland, $6 to $12. ‘Washington—Original—Thomas C. I]lubl;gson, Lyle, $8; John Leoro, Seat- tle, $6. SAN FRANCISCO'S LIGHTSHIP A SUCCESS. Commander Reiter Well Satisfied With Her Performance on the Trial Trip. PORTLAND, Or., Ma 1.—The trial trip of the United States lightship No. 70 took place to-day and was an unquali- fled success. The ship was taken to Kalama and back, about ninety miles. Commander George C. Reiter, U. 8. N., inspector of the thriteenth lighthouse dis- | trict, was on board and was well satisfied with the performance of the ship. She will be ‘accepted and sent to her new station in San Francisco in about a week. The lightship was built by the Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works, of this city, at a contract price of $73,000. She is a com- posite ship, bullt of heavy steel frame- work covered with a double thickness of planking, fir and oak. She is 113 feet over all, thirty feet beam, and draws, when fully laden, between thirteen and fifteen feet. She weighs 540 tons. The lightship will cflrr%: four officers and eight or nine men. The quarters of the officers and crew are situated between decks, and are as convenient and cozy as possible, being provided with everytzlng required for the comforts of the band of exiles who moor their bark on the bar. TEHACHAPI VISITED BY A SERIOUS BLAZE. Progress of the Flames Stayed by Blowing Up Houses With Dynamite. TEHACHAPI, March 1—The Little Pinte Hotel and three adjoining dwellings were to-night destroyed by fire, which was caused by the explosion of a lamp in the office of Dr. Lindsay, located in the front part of the hotel. When the fire started the entire town was threatened with destruction, and several houses were blown up with glant powder to prevent the spread of the flames. The wind was favorable, but the conflagration had to be fought by the entire male population of the town, and at one time it was thought it would be necessary to call upon Mojave for assistance. Several families have been rendered destitute by the fire and are dependent upon their friends for clothing and shelter. The exact loss is not at present known, but it will probably ag- gregate $10,000. PASADENA CRANK WHO DISLIKES WHEELMEN. Three Bicyclists Attacked and Badly Beaten by an Unknown Man. PASADENA, March 1—Elliott Morris, a young man employed by C. B. Scoville, was riding his wheel on East Colorado street to-night. Suddenly a man stepped from the roadside and made a run for the wheelman. Before Morris could es- cape he was felled by a series of blows on the head. He fell from his wheel and lay unconscious. When he recovered there was an ugly gash on the left side of his forehead and smaller gashes elsewhere about the scalp. In every case the blows inflicted were serious ones. from a strong arm. 'his is the third case of kind in two weeks. In no case was robbery com- mitted. The police are mystified. fatl Califcrnians in New Yorg. . NEW YORK, March 1.—Hugh Craig and Dr. ene Zeile of San Francisco were among the passengers sailing for South- ampton to-day on the steamer Parls. s g oy Californians in Washington. ‘WASHINGTON, March 1.—T. J. Meyers of San Francisco is at the Riggs House; H::H Qlds of Los Angeles is at the Na- tional Home. POSSIBLE 10 BUILD THE CANAL Result of Official In- vestigations in Nicaragua. Government Commission Ready to Submit a Report. Will Declare the Project for a Connecting Waterway Feasible. . WOULD COST $100,000,000. Full Details for the Construction Not Yet Decided Upon by the Experts. Copyrighted, 1895, by James Gordon Bennett. NEW YORK, March 1—A corre- spondent of the Herald, writing under date of February 12, from Rivas, Nicar- agua, says: - The Canal Commission has finished its work on the division of the canal project between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific, and wilt cross the lake on the Victoria on a spe- clal trip.to-day or to-merrow. The rev- olutionary outbreak delayed the com- mission five days, the Victoria not be- ing available, as the Government was using the steamer for the transporting of troops. The preliminary report on the canal project could be made, should it be re- quested, before the end of this session of Congress. cific reports as to more important fea- tures could not be made. The cost of the canal, based on study and observa- tion made up to the present time, reckoned at about $100,000,000. Arriving at San Carlos, the party will go down San Juan River as far as Ochoa, proceeding from this point into Greytown, over the line of canal. party. The commission = will thorough observations of the topogra phy of the country generally, as well as of that immediately concerned in the canal line. The committee will leave Rivas thor- oughly familiar with the canal line from the spot where it leaves' Lake Allajos River to.its western terminus at Brito. Up to the present date the commission has spent twenty days om the western division, not including five days’ delay. The greater part of this | time, to be sure, has been passed at headquarters in Rivas, but many dsys have been passed at various poiuts along the line. Four days were spent at the site of the proposed dam at La Flor, in acamp about three miles from Brito. While camped at La Flor the commission studied the coast line at Brito. There is no harbor at Brito. There is merely an indentation of:the coast line, but the construction and maintenance of this point nearly all experts who have studied the situation are agreed. The details alone remain to be worked out and the individual opinions of the com- mission are to be welded into one. the commission to come to a conclusion in regard to :the harbor at Brito that it will to reach a conclusion as to the La Flor dam feature of the canal com- pany’s project. The Ludlow Commis- sion of 1895 refused to consider a dam at this point at all, in consequence of unsatisfactory results of the canal company's borings, and suggested an- other route for a canal in this vicinity. It will probably be months before the commission finishes its. discussion of this feature. The views of the mem- bers vary considerably. An interesting compromise of the situation has been suggested. It would be to construct two dams, one at La Flor and oneé at a point just west of the Divide, some miles east of La Flor. The eastern dam would be on higher ground and about forty feet high. By this com- promise two' basins would be created instead of one, and La Flor dam would become a much less formidable under- taking. The tax upon its strength and permeability would be much de- creased. - This suggested compromise, when fully worked out, may possibly become the commission’s solution of the prob- lem of the western division, should it develop that it is feasible in all its as- pects, and should no better solution be found. Final conclusions on this point, however, as well as on other important features of the line, will not be reached until the reports of varfous parties which bear so materially upon the whole canal project have been made. J. W. G. Walker and his party have moved their camp from San Pablo on Lajas, and are now several miles fur- ther westward, with the canal line be- ing cleared inland from the lake for about six miles. The party is work- ing under instructions to determine that the canal line as laid at present is only a line, and cross sections are be- ing run 1000 feet on either side of the line. The canal company’s cross sec- tions were run 400 feet.” The present survey will consequently result in a topographical map showing a 2000-feet width across the western division, save in localities were higher land prevails. Surveys of the coast line have de- veloped the fact that the shore line of lower end runs into the lake five miles farther than the existing map shows it. In other words the lake at this point is five miles shorter than it has pre- viously been held to be. Lieutenant Hanus has also found a thirty-foot channel running three miles nearer to the San Juan River entrance at San Carlos than the present plans or charts show. This would mean a reduction of three miles in the amount of drede- ing to be done from the river to deep water in the lake. Bushnell’s Patriotic Letter. SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, March 1.—At a mass-meeting to-night to raise funds for a monument to the vietims of the Maine Governor Bushneli in a letter pledging $100 said that if it were proved that Spanish treachery destroyed the Maine he was in favor of building a monument on the ruins of Morro Castle. canal is wholly possible, although spe- | al harbor are not regarded as difficult. On | 'SH | | 18 | ner was also objected fo. the | 3 t tabl The line has been cleared and | brgeeeded 1y do. well provisioried camps established for | the Constable was greatly prejudiced the use of Admiral Walker and hijs | against the defendant, make month ago called him a vile name and _,said he ought to hang. Finally Police | { | | | | It will not require nearly the time for | 0T TO SAVE IS OWN LIFE Story Which Murderer ‘Flannelly Will Tell in Court. Will Seek to Prove That His Aged Father Intended to Kill ‘Him. Second Day Spent in Selecting Jurors to Decide the Parricide’s Fate. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, March 1l.—Some pro= gress was made in the Flannelly mur- der trial to-day. .The regular venire of talesmen was exhausted this after- noon, and Sheriff Lyndon was instruct=- ed to summon a special venire. Those called to the box are closely questioned by both sides. Self-defense, with temporary insan- ity as a secondary consideration, will be Flannelly’s plea for life. It is said the prisoner will go on the stand and give his version of the crime. He will claim that he went to see his father to talk over their difficulties. The father disliked the defendant’s partner in the dairy business, and had ordered Flan- nelly to vacate the premises. This was what took the prisoner to his father's house that night. The elder Flannelly refused to listen to his son and ordered him from his house. The defendant stopped to argne the matter with his father, and the latter made a motion as if to get a revolver from under his pillow. Flannelly thought his father, who was in a rage, would shoot him, and to protect his own life he shot. This he repeated twice more, all the bullets entering the victim’'s head. Flannelly then walked down- stairs and mounted his horse and rode to the ranch. There Sheriff McEvoy It would state that the | found him in bed, and in an attempt to arrest him that officer was killed. In the afternoon the monotony of the questioning was broken by an objection made by Sheriff Lyndon securing the special venire of talesmen. The Coro- Constable Ed Haley was suggested, but Flannelly's attorneys made a vigorous protest. The attorneys for the defense were then informed that they would have to file an affidavit in support of their objec- Haley. This they It was alleged that about and a Officer John Haley was agreed upon as an elisor to select the venire. Six jurors were sworn to-day, mak- ing nine in all. Those thus far selected to try the case are: W. D. Eitel, Frank Armstrong, Fred Krumb, A. Barker, John F. Barry, C. C. Smith, Levi May- ock, S. F. Patton and William Buckley. FRENCH .TO SEIZE THE ISLAND OF HAI-NAN. Gunboat Departs From Singapore With Troops for the Occupation. 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