The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 9, 1898, Page 4

& HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESD ARCH 9, 1898. BRIBERY CHARGES AND @ FREE FIGH LIE GIVEN AND BLOWS ARE STRUCK | | Sensational Incidents in the Dredging Scandal. McGrath and Attorney Gett Pummeled by the Muscular Manager. Commenced ation LIVELY SCENES THERE TOO Explanation of a State the Tardy Pay- er Lame ai Cone w h S—A free “ounty Treas- as a result of ct between tion District, nd the Ge the + sett, <0 hava for over 4 year. McGrath did n early th saw B , andthe fact e the Board was i Seeing over the $440 that he still agi ¥y was im- around and getting the that of upery row 8 r Pre Witter of pany and announced to pay the balance had collected more at iden ider he was res f the $1440 that he ago on the al gent of h e be paid McGrat t owe the dredging comp id rather pay the imed than to have any trouble. Witter, stepped in. {cGrath dem com ,_bu give it, and then Mc to accept a receipt for a talk and when to admit that M ed the a f the com- th shouted, “You are a | were hardly out of his | mouth when Harris’ right fist shot out, and McGrath reeled against the wall from a terrible blow on the jaw. Harris followed him up and Attorn nted McGrat to interfere. He w tr ed to a dose and went down just as McG: recovered and attacked Harris. Quick as a flash, Har put knee on the prostrate Gett's neck and | catching McGrath as he advanced put | his head In chancery and proceeded to pummel him sound Witter and At- torney Hiram Johnson jumped in, and separated t combatants at t ture and prevented further hos McGrath's jaw was bleeding and Har- ris had a bad cut on his hand. The investigation before the Board of Supervisors developed another sensa- tion, President Witter of the company and Attorney Gett only being pre- vented from indulging in a personal encounter by the intervention of a Deputy Sheriff. All the members but Morrison were present. Vitter was testifying regarding certain matters connected with the contract between the Sutter County Island people, the Supervisors and the dredging company, when Gett took exception to his statements and shouted, “You are a — lar, sir.” Witter was on his feet in a second and started toward Gett, exclaiming, “You are the arch fiend of liars. You | are at the be m of all this trouble.” Deputy .Sheriff Kelly stepped in and prevented Witter from reaching Gett and the investigation went on' District Attorney Ryan conducted the investigation, which he said was | not so much for the purpose of investi- gating the bribery charges as to ascer- tain whether or not the dredging com- pany was entitled to any money from the county. The members of the board however, were more curious than the District Attorney, and when P. H. Mc- Grath was called to the stand, after the reading aof the contract. they began to probe. They asked McGrath why he had held out the $1440 so long. He replied that he had been ready to turn over $1000 at any time, but there was an_account between the county and ADVERTISEMENTS. Pears’ What a luxury Pears’ soap is! The cheapest soap in all the world be- _sides, | ris. | when called to tt | ing that conversat had paid his N the $1000 certificate of d to Manager Har- deposit was har He was asked wh he had paid the $440 a few hours previous. “Because I did not want be har- assed by a blackmaller,” he general smile went around sembly room. Continud eve: Curtis wanted the hear- rvisor Morri ervisor ing postponed until Sup son could be present, but I and it was decided to car: . Attorney G nd ed having received of the money collected by 2 th. He rev of the transaction, and expressed the opinion tthat the dredging company, having | done the work, was entitled to receive | its pay, either from the county or the tic the company, , reiterated his Presider charge that M that McGrath nen who had s at Attorney $500. Manager Harris that on February 17 he t in the Capitol build- Grath stated that he had ¥ to pay certain Super- eir influence and that $440 ol n that if $600 of the $1000 we had re d from him was properly used we would probably be able to get our other claims allowed. It developed during the hearing that Mc- Grath had filed a second claim against the county for § of which the dredging company 2. This was never paic Henry Elliott, trustee of lamation District No. 349 and county, and Sur- veyor Bovd were also examined regard- ing the character of the work done by the dredging company. Grove L. Johnson represented the dredging company and at the conclu- sion of the testimony requ d that the question of the legality of the s claims against the county be referred to District Attorney Ryan to examine the records and report to the board. _This course was adopted with- out a dissenting voice and the report will probably be made to-morrow. CAVED UPON IN THE MOUNT SHASTA MINE. Frederick J. Hartman Is Horribly Crushed by a Mass of Falling Rock. REDDING, March S8—Frederick J Hartman, a native of the old town of Shasta, was caved om in Mount Shasta mine about noon to-day and sus- tained injuries from which he died within an hour. The mine is located near Shasta. He was at work in a thirty-foot shaft and was caught and horribly crushed by a mass of falling rock. He retained conscio: s up to the moment of his death. Deceased was the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Hartman of Shasta, and about 30 years of age. He left a widow and t small children. BURNED TWO SCHOOLAOUSES. Incendiarism in Christensen District, Bhasta County. REDDING, March §—Some unknown person has evidently decreed that there shall be no school in the Christensen dis trict of this county. the schoolhouse was and totally consumed. The fire was at- | tributed to incendiarism. The trustees at once secured the Flanagan residence for school purposes, and the refurnishing was | just completed. At an early hour this morning it was found In ashes, with all its contents. Trustee Simons was here to-day and says that it is rumored in the district that the teacher employed has enemies who have vowed that he shall never teach school again. Officers have been detailed on the case, and a sensa- tional exposure is anticipated. ——— HENRY CLIFTON DEAD. Santa Barbara Pioneer Passes Away in Chicago. SANTA BARBARA, March 8.—Word has been received here of the death yes- terday in Chicago of Henry Clifton, one of the piloneers of Santa Barbara. When TUnited States Marshal Covarrubias was Sheriff of this county Clifton was hig Under Sheriff. Lately the deceased been manager of the Veronica Springs. He leaves two daughters, one of whom resides here, the other in Los Angeles. THE BESSIE K IS ALL RIGHT Reassuring News Comes by Steamer North Pacifie. Slight Mishaps to the Cottage City and Other Craft in the North. Busy Place—A Perilous Rush Up Ola Fort Wrangel Is a Very the Stickeen. SEATTLE, March 8.—There no longer seems to be a doubt about the safetv of the gas schooner Bessie K, which left San Francisco February 8 for Skaguay direct, and which was re- ported last week to have been lost about one hundred miles above Vic- toria. The sidewheel steamer North Pacific, which arrived in port this afternoon, reports having passed the Bessie K off Shelter Island at the en- trance of Lynn Canal on the afterncon of March 3. The North Pacific found the big steamer Cottage City of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company’s line at Juneau. badly used up from her double brush with Alaskan rocks and sandbars. She was said to be leaking badly, but intended to continue the trip. The steamer Whitelaw, which was on the rocks in sight of Juneau, was SUICIDE IN RENEGADE A SATSALITO BOATHOUSE Bernard J. Hildebrand of This City Shoots Himself. - at Washin Cou Was Head Bookkeeper for the Firm of Mon- tealegre & Co. No Motive for the Deed Known by His Employers or His Family. | THE ACT PREMEDITATED. sellers. A Note Left by the Young Man in ‘Which He Makes Disposition of His Effects. driven out of the one place, had ta Spectal Dispatch to The Call — | SAUSALITO, March 8.—Bernard J.| Hildebrand, a young man employed as | head bookkeeper by Montealegre & | Co., importers and commission - mer- chants at 230 California street, San| | Francisco, killed himself at an early hour this morning by placing a revol- 'ver in his mouth and sending a bullet | | through his brain. The deed was done | in one of the rooms at Peter Claudi- apas’ Yacht Club House near the ferry depot, and no reason is assigned for it. | The body lies in the Morgue at San Ra- | fael, and Coroner Eden will hold an inquest to-morrow morning at 11 o’clock. Hildebrand was not over 26 years of |age, end had been in the employ of ! Montealegre & Co. since 1887. Yester- day afternoon he was sent on an er- rand, a sample of sherry being intrust- ed to his care for a customer. This ! morning- the bookkeeper failed to re-| turn to work, which caused considera- | ble surprise until about noon, when a telephone message from the Coroner’s office at San Rafael was recelved, | stating that Hildebrand had killed | himself. | Yesterday afternoon Hildebrand ar- rived in Sausalito and frequented a number of saloons, taking a few drinks. He said he was waiting for a friend, and inquired as to the time the boats left for the cit About 7:30 in | the evening, after missing the last boat, he visited the saloon known as the Cottage Bar, where he obtained $1 |on a silver watch from the proprietor, giving In return a bill of sale. | Shortly afterward he left the place, | and about 9:3. o'clock he went to bed It Will Be an All-Amer- in Claudianas’ place, having rented a room for the night. Early this morn-| joan Route, Which Is Important. pose was made. spirit and letter of the law in Yolo. Q0000000000000 00000000000000000000000000 ©oQ0C0oC0C000C000000 SHORTLINE | 0 DAWSON 1S FOUND Up the Copper River and Over the Range. | | i a pistol shot, and | and's = apartment | -dressed on the bed in a pool of biood, which was gush- ing from his mouth and a hole in the back of the he: g - In the pockets of the young man's | Valdes Glacier Now in a Con- clothes were found numerous articles, | dition to Permit of Easy inciuding a gold watch, fountain pen and 65 cents in small change; also a Travel. slip of pa . which showed that the deed was p ditated. The writing | was in a steady, legible hand and ran as follows: . My gold watch to my Ernest and_mjy shotgun and a r ticket for my s desk. D. my cuff but |SURVEY FOR A RAILROAD. brother goes My clothes to Gustav. in will be found in my | er. 342 Market street, has | The Arizona Company Thinks It Has He paid mie §I8 on them. | Found the Gateway to the B. J. HILDEBRAND. l Hildebrand was a past president of | Alaska Mines. Golden Gate Parlor No. 29, N. S. G. W, | which will t charge of the m after the Coroner's inquest 1s held. A. A. Hildebrand, an architect resid- | e T e e e 1 onc| SEATTLE, Murch 8.—A letter under of the family can give any reason for | date of February 27 has been brought | the boy’s rash act. down by the steamer Alliance from H. | Hildebrand was engaged to 2 young | B. Allen, who writes from Orca, lady whose home is tn Tomales, in the | near the mouth of the Copper River. | northern part of Marin County, but | He says that within the past week the | there has been no known trouble be- | y)5.5 Glacier has improved so greatly | tween the two. The lady s at present |\ condition for travel that a general | employed by a millinery firm on Mar- | movement to the interior has begun. | T 5 g ¥ Ten days ago an exploring party trav- eling light returned from the interior | Special Dispatch to The Call. BOOKMAKERS ARE SHUT OUT Victory of The Call in Its Crusade Against Gambling Schemes WOODLAND, Cal.,, March 8—T he Board of Supervisors to-day by unanimous vote adopted an ordinance with stringent provisions which will effectually stop the bookmakers operating at Washington, Yolo County. The above dispatch, brief and pithy, tells a story which will be hail- ed with delight by all citizens having the public morals at heart. For months a fight against this nefarious traffic, which has cast a blight upon fair Yolo and dragged the reputable citizens of Washington into compantonship with the unsavory crowd who follgw the races for the money which they can get out of them by methods which have long since ceased to be questionable, has been going on, and in their strug- gle the better element of Yolo have always been backed and seconded by The Call, which lost no time in exposing the methods of these pool- About a yvear ago the bookmakers, driven from Sacramento, took up their abode In the little town of Washington, just across the river. For a time their presence there was unknown and unnoticed by the good people of the hamlet, who, intent upon their own business, time to pry into the affairs of others. After a time, however, the pres- ence of a number of well-known “sports” excited the suspicions of the residents, and it soon became an open secret that the little hamlet was in reality but the dumping ground for apparently enjoying immunity from the law. County was just as strong as that in Sacramento, but it did not seem to be enforced, and accusations of boodling were openly made. It was generally understood that the law against gambling in Yolo was enacted at the instigation of Frank Daroux, clique of gamblers, for the sole purpose of crushing out B. W. Cava- naugh, the leader of another faction, and that so long as the officials were properly “fixed” the law was a dead letter. . The matter was recently looked up by The Call and a startling ex- It appeared as though a person might do anything he pleased in the gambling line by the judicious use of a little money. The authorities, hitherto so lax, finally became aroused to a sense of their duty and their action of to-day Is simply the result of a long agitation fog a betterment of public morals and will, it is hoped, put an end to bribe-taking and open and flagrant viojations of both the TRIAL OF CLIRK, THE FRATRICIDE Commenced at Napa by the Selection of Jurors. gton, Yolo nty. Five Are Secured Dur- ing the First Day’s driven out of Sacramento from Proceedings. Men Who Have Read the Con- fession of the Brother-Slayer Not Wanted. TACTICS OF THE DEFENSE. Will Attempt to Show the Accused Was Induced to Commit Murder by His Victim’s Wife. had little Sacramento. _The gamblers, ken refuge in the other, and were Spectal Dispatch to The Cail. True, the law in Yolo —_— | NAPA, March 8.—The trial of Georgs | W. Clark, the confessed murderer of his brother, Willilam Clark, at St. He- | lena in January last, was begun to-day before Judge Ham. A special panel | of 120 jurors was present when the court opened. All but five of them an- swered to their names when the reil | was called. The five absent sent in ex- | cuses, pleading sickness. About a doz- | en others were excused from jury duty on statutory grounds, and then the | work of selecting twelve impartial and | opinionless men from the remaining | Jurors to decide the guilt of the ac- | cused man commenced. | The defendant was represented by | Attorneys Henry Hogan, C. J. Beer- | stecher and E. L. Webber. Theodore A. Bell, the District Attorney, ap- | peared for the prosecution, and he was | willing to accept almost any ome of | the panel as jurymen, but the defense | was more particular. They challenged all who had read any of the newspaper reports of the homicide and formed an opinion on what they had read. Dur- ing the day one man was found who had not read any of the reports of the murder. He had been working in the foothills where papers never reached, and he had no companions to discuss | the crime with even -if he had known | it was committed. He, however, was excused on a peremptory challenge by the prosecution for the reason that a person who cared so little for what was going on about him would not be a proper person to be intrusted with the iife of a fellow-being. | Clark, the accused murderer, nestled {up close to his attorneys while the proceedings in the court were in prog- | ress. He showed little nervousness in | his demeanor, but during the day when | the attorneys referred to the death | penalty in challenging the jurces the prisoner would gulp down the lump the leader of one ©0000000000000000000000000000C00000000000 ccooccoccooeooOOC0C PREPARING T0 PROTECT THE BALLOT San Jose New Charter Club Is on the Alert. Watching Every Cunning Move Made by “the Gang.” that seemed to continually rise in his | throat. More than half the panel was ex- of Nothing Will Be Left Undone to Thwart the Rascality of the Boodlers. { hausted during the day, and out the jurors examined five—W. A. Leo ard of Napa and Joseph Gyte of Youn | ville, both farmers, C. P. Bales, G. Herron and George Haml | accepted as suitable to try th case by | the prosecuticn and by the defense. PLANS FOR THE CRUSADE | Tim Frawley to Wed Ada Lewis. WASHI March §—Tim Fraw- R he Tt o | 17 + Dramatic Company © 7icglstration to the Final| . iived here to-day and announced his Count of Votes There Will Be engagement to Miss Ada Lewis of San | Francisco, now playing with the “Widow Ceaseless Vigilance. The wed- es” Company in Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, March 8.—There is no dis- | position on the part of the New Char- ter Club to underestimate the energy and cunning of their adversaries in the coming campaign. It is thoroughly realized by the champions of good gov- ernment that no trick or device of prac- tical politics, as carried on by the “gang,” will be neglected by the lat- Men and wo men dig ané delve their lives A few weeks ago | fired at midnight | passed twenty miles north of that point and going north. The North Pacific left Skaguay on March 3 and on the afternoon of that day passed the gasoline schooner Bessie K. Every one had given this little craft up for lost and the rumor that came down from the north last week that she had been wrecked during the big storm was generally believed. Pilot Campbell | Vain Appeal of a Mother for says that the Bessie K was off Shelter | Island just at the entrance of Lynm Support for Her Little | Canal. As they passed her the breeze Children. | freshened up. The gasoline engine was shut off and her sails spread. The | passengers waved in answer to the | North Pacific’'s whistle and nothing seemed to be wrong with the Iittle craft. The Whitelaw passed the North Pa- cific about twenty miles above Juneau. A short time before she had floated off the bar on-which she was fast for sey- eral days and was proceeding on her northern trip. The North Pacific brings the first news of the tugs Rescue and Willows, which left here several weeks ago witn lumber barges on which a number of passengers and cattle had been quar- tered. The Rescue had arrived at BELEW'S WIFE The Murderer Thinks More About His Own Neck Than the Bread of His Family- Special Dispatch to The Call. SUISUN, March 8§ —Frank Belew this afternoon had his first interview with his wife since he has been arrested and Jailed for the terrible crime of murder- ing his brother and sister. Mrs. Belew was accompanied by the wife of Photographer Bird, principal witness against the fratricide. Mrs. Belew first visited District Attorney Devlin, and, after remaining with him nearly an hour, asked permission to visit her hus- band. The request was granted, and | the ladies were accompanied by Under | Sheriff Robinson. Belew was surprised to see his wife, !and his face became deathly pale. After the usual greeting, Mrs. Belew | proceeded to interrogate her husband regarding his motives for committing the horrible deed, but her gquestions only elicited replies frequently given to similar questions—that he did not know | Skaguay with everything in good order, but after a very hard trip.. The Wil- lowa was in some sort of trouble, but had safely anchored about twenty miles north of Juneau. The Cottage City, the | Pacific Coast Steamship Company's | new steamer, was lying at Juneau when | the North Pacific touched there Thurs- day night. She had been ashore twice, so the passengers told Pilot Campbell, and was taking in consideradble water. | Captain J. C. Hunter, however, in- tended to finish the trip and expected | to leave the next morning for Skaguay. “‘Old Fort Wrangel is one of the busi- | | est places on the nerthern run ;‘::t | why he poisoned his brother and sister. | now,” said Captain | Mrs Belew then explained that the | noon to the Cal? mnesg;:ze;e;}‘i‘!“"rll::; | obJect of her visit was to Induce him to is an awful jam of freight and pros- | dispose of his share of the combined | pective Klondikers at that point. The ¢State of the murdered brother and sis | three big warehouses are full up to the | t€7: toward the maintenance of his roofs, and there is mo prospect of |SMall children. Belew listened atten- things loosening up for some time, The | UIVelY, and it was obvious that the Stickeen is running ice at a great rate, QUestion of standing trial, with a pos- and the light river steamers have not | Sible sentence of life imprisonment, was vet attempted to make the trip up to | °f more importance to him than the Telegraph Creek. The steamer , | maintenance of his children. Belew which went up from here some time €Xpressed a desire to talk privately to g0 to run up the Stickeen, is making | his wife, but - the Under Sheriff ob- trips up the river ten miles. She has | jected. been found to draw too much water for Belew received Mrs. Bird with a look summer work on the river. Klon- | of indifference, his eyes betokening dikers, eager to get over to Lake Tes- | the hatred he feels toward the Bird lin, are taking all sorts of risks to get | family. When the time arrived for up the river. While we were there I | parting, saw four or five Columbia River fish- | acted strangely, and Mrs. Belew was ing boats start up the river loaded with | much affected when she bade the pris- outflts and with their owners aboard. | oner good-by. { CALLS UPON HIM ket street. after a four days’ absence. They made | the trip from the timber on the ov.her‘ gide of the range to the head of the| bay in fourteen hours. Contrary to the general idea, the Valdes Glacier is but fifty feet above | the sea level at this end and has a| | gradual rise to the summit, seventesn | miles distant, averaging about 100 feet to the mile. The descent on the other side is but a trifie more of a grade. | | According to recent reports it is about | | one week’s trip over an easy route to the southern end of the Sickle bend of the Copper River, where it is easily navigable for small craft. About four miles to the eastward of the Valdes Glacier, at the extreme | head of Valdes Bay, the Valdes or Lit- | | tle River comes down from the moun- | | tains. Following up the course of the | | river on an easy grade for about thirty | miles a narrow, high ridge is encount- | ered, which precludes the passage by trail to the other side of the range, but it is the route already partially sur- { to protect the purity of the ballot from | the registration of votes to the final| count of the vote cast. This prelimi- i nary work means considerable expense. | Besides there is literature to be written, | printing to be done, halls to be hired | for public meetings, and all the other | incidental matters pertaining to a hot- | 1y contested campaign. In order to raise funds to meet these | €xpenses a canvessing finance commit- tee was appointed to-night, and” the gentlemen appointed will begin work | to-morrow. Every citizen interested in the cause of good government will | be given the privilege of contributing, | and it is anticipated that no difficulty | will be experienced in collecting a gen- erous fund. It is believed that no resi- dent, even if not a considerable tax- payer, will refuse to contribute his mite to a fund which is to be used for the grand and noble purpose of ransoming one of the fairest cities of California from the bondage of a ring of corrup- H | | veyed which has been selected as the | tionists and boodlers. best to the interior by a railway com- | pany incorporated at Phoenix, Ariz., ! last fall, whose representative, Senator | E. E. Greenlaw, has been on the ground since December 15 looking after their | interests. They propose tunneling | through the ridge, reaching there by a | stretch of country gently undulating, | through which railway construction | | will be comparatively easy. It is | claimed that Valdes Bay, being over | | 200 miles nearer Dawson than Dyea, i gives an immense advantage over the | latter point from which to begin rail- | way construction. The fact of its being | an all-American route and muchnearer ! to all points on the Yukon below Daw- | son is a strong argument in its favor. | The contour of the southern coast of | Alaska seems to many to indicate the | | fact that ultimately Prince William Sound will be the initial point of the nt development of the district. ‘While no definite strikes have yet been | made on the Copper River, every indi- | vidual prospector is enthused with the | idea that he is in the van, and if not | able to make the first big find will be ' in the company of those who do. Many | are looking also for copper, specimens | of which have been brought from thein- | terfor by the Stick Indians and in =& couple of instances by white men. Be- | Archer, J. B. Registration is going on at a rapid | rate. It is estimated that about 1500 | changes will have to be made in the register. At the proper time the New | Charter Club will have experts go over | the register and see that only those | qualified to vote are allowed to remain | thereon. On the day of election they | will have watchers at every poil place. Any one detected in an ill act in connection with the election will be vigorously prosecuted, and it is probable that rewards will be of- fered for the arrest and conviction of offenders. Ten of the New Charter Club nomi- nees filed their petitions to-day as fol- lows: W. G. Alexander, M. Kinny, L. | Auserais, A. B. Hunter, | C. H. Allen, J. J. Southeimer, T. Ellard Beans, J. H. Campbeli and T. J. Riley. Their nominee for City Treasurer, J. F. Colombet, also filed his petition Three independent candidates for mem- | bers of the Appointing Board filed pe- i | | Every indication points to the fact that the New Charter Club ticket is daily gaining in popular favor, and that the entire ticket from top to bottom will show a majority when the count of votes is completed. fore next fall it is safe to assert thal the Copper River district will furnish -good news to a walting world. me———— Republicans Sweep Seattle. SEATTLE, March $-—The resuit of to-day’s municipal election was a vie- Purses made of the skin of the frog | tory for the Republicans, who elect the Treasurer mlnmthm“th?:fin“mr.wm. and a ladies. ther ex- | majority Council. Mayor Hume tremely thin, yet very durabdle. majority is about 700 i ) ter between now and the 1ith of April. | may bave, gooc The New Charter Club is perfecting = health. What its precinct organization and preparing | does it profit 2 man to heap up riches if in doing so he ruins his health and his capacity for the enjoyment of wealtk. There is no suct thing as happiness without health. Al the gold in the world will not make z man happy, who feels in his veins anc sees in reflection of his own face, the | slow but sure advance of man’s deadliest | enemy, consumption. If a man will lukert:;;iig’a!amn, himself and the right y he may protect himself inst this relentles Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medica is not only a sure preventive but an absolute cure for i It cures oS cent. of all cases. It acts htEblood,dn!fil' ¥ on the lungs t drives out all disease germs and im purities. It is the and flesh-builder. A enemy. . Bell, of Wise. Monongaiia Co. W. Va. ~ My d-wh:g‘xs cold and we hac the but et Do lasting reliel Oh. how she suffered ! 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