The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 15, 1898, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1898 ORE FOR: FiNE THAN THEY ASKED FOR OAK FINISH LLucky Contractors Rewarded for Putting in the Ferry Building Cheaper Material Than Specified. A Chapter on How a Tower Floor Increased in Value and Another Showing the Way of Changing a Fire-Proof Steel Door to One of Wood. In every department of the ferry building, so far as investigated, there has been found fraud. In some cases the fraud has been so palpable, wonder grows that the perpetrators had the hardihood to even hope to escape de- tection. They either did not try to cover up the evidence of their guilt or they thought the public stupider than 1t From the minute-books of the| Commissioners and from inspection of | the work the guilt of the criminals and the manner of their crime is plain. But the facts, boldly as they stand out now, may yet be brought into more startling | relief. It has been demonstrated contractors have made the sloners propositions which could have no other design than the swindling of the State. Whether the gentlemen | failed to See this, or had a purpose in permitting the State to be swindled, is a matter to be looked into bythe Grand Jury. The contractors have been al- | Jowed to use cheaper materials than called for in the specifications upon | which contracts had been based, and to employ cheaper methods, but the pay has not been reduced, and in more cases than one it has been increased. | In other words, the contractors have been made presents of public money under circumstances which would have permitted them with profit to have made a considerable gift to the State. The and gets another. The stone finally adopted was offered at thousands of that the | Commis- dollars less thun the stone it replaced. | There was no reduction in the figure | when the cheaper grade was adopted. It pays for one sort of floor and gets another which cost nearly forty thou- sand dollars less to construct than would have been the case had specifi- cations been followed. It not only gets no reduction, but actually donates the contractor a gratuity for his kindness in accepting an increased and unwar- ranted gain. It pays for white glazed brick and gets marble, Concerning the relative expense to the contractor there is some question. Others who have figured on the work say the marble is cheaper by fifteen cents a foot. But above the marble, the change having been authorized at the time the marble was substituted, there has been used a quality of brick so distinctly inferior to the style originally contracted for as to mar the whole effect. for Roman pressed “brick, the outer ends, and gets common brick which, laid in the wall, represent $14 a thousand. These are incidents. Where is the money which has been “saved”? In a general way the answer is easy; there has been no money saved. When the Commissioners decided to use pine instead of oak in the interior finish it might have been supposed that this would inure to the benefit of the people, but it didn’t. Such benefit as there may have been found its way into other channels. When Bateman Bros. made a bid, which was accepted, for finishing the interior in oak it may be assumed they knew what they were doing. When it is remembered that oak costs about $85 a thousand and pine only $16, the assumption is fair that a contractor having permission to put in pine at oak figures would have a good enough thing without asking anh addi- tion. But the Batemans asked the ad- ditional pay, and got it. They put in a bid for doing the work with pine. It was an Increase of more than $3000. To give them this would have been an in- formality, as bids must be advertised for on contracts of this magnitude. So they cut down their figures by $800, bringing them to $2995, and so retained the work. Now, people want to know why, instead of getting more, these contractors should not have received substantially less. It is true that by the new arrange- ment there was provided the building of certain partitions not intended in the first place, but there were left out a large number of partitions that had been planned. By letting the mezza- nine story stand incomplete there has been saved to the contractors (not to the State) $11,375. Of this, as the tabu- lated statement shows, a large propor- tion is in the wood contract. Here is the table as compiled by an architect entirely familiar with the worl ADVERTISEMENTS. BABY HUMORS Instant relief for skin-tortured babies and rest for tired mothers in a warm bath with CuTicura Boap, and a single application of CUTICURA (ointment), the great skin cure. The only speedy and economical treatment £0r ttching, burning, bleeding, scaly, and pimply humors of the skin, scalp, and blood. (titicura J2 w1 throughout the world. Porren Dave awp Crrwicat Coniomarion, Sole Proprietors, Boston, U ** How to Cure Rvery Baby Rumor,” malled free. BABY BLEMISHES crido ot CUTIOUEA BOAP, [ T. C. partitions omitted, | tate pays for one sort of stone | | tracts. per thousand, to be used at | 18,330 square feet, value . 3 > C." cefling "tile omitted, . value . S C. furring tile omf value of partitions three oak doors and casings omit- value e Twenty wash basins omitted, val Lavatories omitted, value. feet, Elght Total In addition to the above there were to have been 240 lineal feet of oak par- titions separating the waiting rooms on the second floor. They were to have been twelve and a half feet high. In in their place will appear metal grill work, which is quite apart from the | Batemans’ contract to use pine where there was to have been oak. Of the partitions which the artistic eye of the commission has not abolish~~ there re- main in the first and second stories, | once of oak, now of pine, upward of | 2000 lineal feet. Supposing, for the sake of argument, that the Batemans, from their exten- sive dealings, could have secured their oak at three times the price of pine the change would still have been money in their purses. There seems every rea- son to believe that carried out their contract without forcing the Commissioners into the pe- | culiar position of paying them. extra | for doing it. This is virtually what the deal amounts to. There is abso- lutely nothing to show that the Com- missioners had any right or any proper | | reason for thus favoring them. They seem to have been unduly favored by the simple circumstance that the change in material was made. Not the least interesting chapter in the history of the wholesale robbery that has characterized the actions of the men responsible for the construc- tion of the ferry building is that which covers the seemingly insienificant item of fitting the building with doors. The doors, which are of the kind that raise and lower like the top of an office desk, have been put in by a contractor, who | has received the sum of $5570 for his work. Contradictorv as the statement may seem to be, it is nevertheless a fact that these same, doors represent to the State an expenditure of something over $9000. The extra 3000 and odd dollars have been divided up between the men who are reaping profit from | their manipulation of the building con- This fact will doubtless appear in due time. According to the original plans and | specifications, the doors for the various entrances and exits to the ferry build- | ing were to be constructed of the best steel, besides being fitted with proper counter-weights and other necessary fittings. The doors now in position, in- stead of being fire-proof, are built of Oregon pine. The official sleight-of- hand by which this change was brought about will no doubt prove interesting reading to taxpayers and others. The contract for all of the iron and steel work in the ferry building was se- cured by the Risdon Iron Works, the | contract price being something less than $200,000. The item of steel doors was included in this blanket contract. The Risdon Iron Works does not manu- facture steel doors of the kind called for in the original specifications, so, in order to put in an intelligent and profit- able bid on this particular item, the firm asked for and received bids for the work from firms that make a specialty of that style of work. By this means the Risdon Iron Works people ascer- tained that the doors could be con- structed and put in at a cost, to them, of about $8000. This amount, plus a cer- | tain percentage of profit, formed one of the items that went to make up the | sum total of their bid for all of the iron work. After the contract had been let the Harbor Commissioners, for reasons known only to themselves, conceived | the idea of changing the style of the doors from steel to wood. Satisfactory plans were submitted by Edward B. Hinds of 411 Mission street, and he was new style wooden doors in at a cost of $5570. Negotiations were then opened with the Risdon Iron Works, with the following result: In consideration that the firm was released from the neces- sity of constructing the doors as per to deduct $4000 from the sum of the original blanket contract. As the work would have cost the Risdon Iron Works $8000, this agreement meant a profit of $4000 to the firm. Whether or not this was net profit, only the men who en- gineered the deal know—and they won't tell. Edward B. Hinds, who secured the contract for building the wooden doors now in place, is frank in telling all that he claims to know of the transaction. “I put in the wooden doors,” he said yesterday, ‘‘and received my pay. The contract pricewas $5570. Asforthe doors as they stand, I have no hesitancy in saying that I believe them vastly supe- rior to the steel doors called for by the original specifications. I also manu- facture steel doors and put in a bid to the Risdon Iron Works for the doors called for by the original specifications. 1 had nothing to do with the actton of the Harbor Commissioners in changing from steel to wood and therefore know nothing about anybody making any money on the side. If any private un- derstanding existed between the Com- missioners and the Risdon Iron Works they could hnve.‘ finally awarded a contract to put the | the original contract the firm agreed | | people T would be the lust to hear of it. All that I know is that I did my work and got my money for it. I made a fair profit and am not anxious to find out how other people make their | money.” Hinds' contract, the amount sub- ! tracted from the sum total of the Ris- don Iron Works contract and all of the proceedings by which the changes were | brought about appear on the records | kept by the Board of Harbor Commis- sioners, and are not disputed by any member of the board. A fair illustration of the manner in which contractors on the ipside are reaping a rich harvest at the expense | of the State came to the surface a few | days ago. It will serve to show one of | the many plans of procedure. The firm | of Bateman Bros., referred to above, has the contract for putting down all of the floors in the ferry building for a ! stipulated lump sum. This includes the | floors of the numerous stories of the tower. Some time ago the Commis- | | sioners decided to leave out six floors | in the tower. Bateman Bros. were in- | | formed of this decision, and after some | haggling agreed to take $119 off the stipulated contract price in considera- tion of being released from the ne- | | cessity of putting down the six floors. This was agreed to. A few days later | the Commissioners again changed their | minds. This time they concluded that | it would be necessary to have built | | one of the six floors before discarded. | | The contractors were again called for | and asked how much they would charge to build the floor. The reply | was that it could not be built for less | than $210. The matter of awarding the contract was taken under advisement. | Six floors at the rate of $210 a floor | would amount to $1260—work for which | the contractors only allowed $119 when | it was a question of allowing for work | | not required by the State. So day by day the chapters are| added to the story. There are more to be told. Perhaps the people are yet to have the felicity of knowing where their money went; of knowing why when they furnished funds for the erection | of a ferry depot on a certain plan the plan was changed, cheapened, and now | | the money is insufficient to even bring | the work to completion on the new | scale, the mezzanine story awaiting the raising of future funds. THE TENDERLOIN WATCHING LOW Holds the Case of the Notorious Tom Ellis in Abeyance. He The “Push” Turning Heaven and Earth to Secure the Defendant’s Release. The case of Thomas Ellis who shot Ar- thur Lawson at 80 Market street, on February 28, will come up before Judge Low for decision on Wednesday. There has been a great deal of interesting evi- | dence, some of which was to the effect that the defendant was in the habit of often beating and threatening to kill Josie Norton, whom he was beating at the time of the interference of Lawson, which resulted in his being shot. Mrs. Howes, propretor of the house, is much interested in the case, because she has heard time and again that there have been desperate attempts to have the case settled out of cvurt. In spite of all attempts of the friends of the notorious defendant the case has remained on the calendar, though there are great efforts 1@ have It squared. ‘When the case was on hearing a few days ago It was noticed by Special Prose- cutor J. N. E. Wilson that the regular prosecutor of the court, as well as the Judge, seemed eager to minimize the of- ’fens& The Judge even asked the young man who was shot whether he would not be satisfied to have the defendant pay a | fine, whereupon the victim of the bul{ 'S | Snots answered that he wanted the de- fendant sent where he would not be able | to do any more shooting. All of the ward heelers want the case squared, and the eyes of the tenderloin | are upon Judge Low. He was warned by | Attorney Wiison that it would be infam- ous to allow the case to be squared, but Ellis has boasted that he will never be cinched in Low's court. | There was plenty of evidence, as sev- | eral witnesses swore that the night | watchman was shot while he was trying to prevent the defendant from killing the notorfous woman with whom he lived. Judge Low has determined to decide the case Wednesday. —_—— In the Divorce Courts. Anna Clara Hohs was granted a divorce from her husband, John F. Hohs, vester- | day on the ground of extreme cruelty. The defendant was ordered to pay the plaintiff allmony in the sum of $10 a month for the support of his minor.child, | the custody of which was given to its mother. Lincoln E. Lewars was granted a divorce from Laura B. Lewars on the round of willful desertion. Gertrude E. urgess was granted a decree of divorce from C. 8. Burgess on the ground of will- | ful neglect. Rosalie Moser was granted her application for a divorce from her husband, Lewis Moser. The decree was granted on statutory grounds. Philip Code Seriously Ill. Philip D. Code of the firm of Code, El- felt & Co., the well-known packers, is se- riously il at his home, 940 Valencia street. It is said that Mr. Code is afflict- ed with the Tp and that complications have set in. A consultation of his physi- cians was held yesterday morning, and although they entertain the bellef that the crisis has passed, his condition is still such as to cause his family alarm. | | piling up here all night, and I've got [“SPIDER” KELLY IS KNIFED The Pugilist Slashed Out in One Round by Solly Smith. Joe Goddard Steps in and Gets His Nose Spoiled. Imost Fatal Result of & Re- fusal to Partake of a Drink. NO ARRESTS TO BE MADE. The Injury Is Not Dangerous and Kelly Exp:c's Soon to Get Even. As a result of a row kicked up In his saloon by Solly Smith, the well-}(nown sporting man, “Spider” Kelly is now | laid up in bed with a wounded shoulder and Joe Goddard is nursing a badly wounded nose. Smith entered Kelly's saloon about 9 o’clock last night, bringing with him a bad temper and a good jag. He called for a drink, but Kelly, thinking the man already had more than enough, ordered the bartender not to| give it to him. | “What's the matter with you, you| — — —— — —," retorted Smith. The rest of the story is better told by Kelly, as he lay propped up in bed and | surrounded by his friends, who were | doing everything in their power to make things easy for him. “Now, you see, I don't take such sass | from any one, I don’t care how big they are. I come from around the bar, and as soon as I did I see he was a-goin’ to cop me. Joe Goddard stepped in be- tween and got a smash on the nose, but he’s all right and T'll always remember him for it. Then I made a grab for | Smith, so’s be couldn’t pull a gun, for | 1 age he was ugly and laoking for | trouble. The next thing I know I got | this one in the shoulder, but it'll be all right.in a day or two. You don’t catch me turning my toes to the dalsies just yet; I've got too many friends and there’s too much fun a-goin’. | “Some of the cops come up here | just now and wanted me to have him | arrested, but I can’'t see it in that| light. Solly’s a good fellow all right, but he’d just had too much booze and didn’t want to be shut down on. I seen what was the matter with him, and could have killed him after he stuck me even just with the one arm, but I didn’t want to hurt him then. | There'll be plenty of time for that after awhile if he’s lookin’ for trouble, and that's all there s to it. “Say boys,” as a couple of more well known sporting characters entered | the room, “it’s almost worth a fellow’s | while to get hurt, just to see how many friends he's got. Why they have been enough volunteer . nurses to start a hospital with.” Spider was taken upstairs to his room immediately after the row, and a doctor was called in who sewed up his | shoulder and bandaged Joe’s damaged olfactory organ till his face looked like a football mask. Kelly positively re- fuses to have his assailant arrested, and wishes to have the affair ¥ushed up as much as possible. GUARD INSPECTION. Company I of the First Infantry to Go Through the Ordeal. The first of the inspections of the Na- tional Guard in accordance with the re- cent orders of the division commander was held last night in the regimental ar- mory at Page and Gough streets. It had been arranged to inspect companies B and I of the First Infantry, but owing to the absence in the Bast of Captain Fil- mer_of Company B, the inspection was | confined to Company I, Captain Richter, | only. The inspection was by Major Jan- | sen, brigade inspector, and he was ac- | companied by Captain’ Carrington, U. S. | A, detailed to inspect the National Guard of ‘California. Lieutenant-Colonel Duboce and Captain Kelleher, adjutant of the First Infantry, were also present. The roll called for sixty-eight men, and all but one responded at roll call. 'The men in service uniform presented a fine ap- pearance. After the inspection, the men | were drilled by the captain, and then by the lieutenants, and some of the sergeants were called “upon to show what they knew about drilling squads. The drfil was in close order and in extended order, which, considering the little time the men glve to that part of a soldler's duty, was creditable. The inspection will be continued during the week. —_——— OFF FOR THE KLONDIKE. Pugilist Carroll and His Family De- parted for the Gold Fields Yesterday. Jimmy Carroll, the lightweight pugilist, who fought Champion Jack scAuliffe in this city twice, and who has been a pro- fessor of boxing of late years, sailed yesterday on the steamer H-—-mboldt for the go.diields of Alaska with his wife and two sons. Carroll is sangulne of making ?‘snrmne in the newly discovered gold flelds. Jim Jeffries, the heavy-weight pugllist, who is to meet Peter Jackson on Tuesday week, was an interested spectator at the Orpheum Theater last evening. Tom Sharkey and his lady love were also in attendance, but after the boxing act, in which one actor gave an imitation of foul fighting, Sharkey decided that it was time to decamp, and he left, satisfied that the sporting people of this city are not | in favor of rough-and-tumble fighting, which is not in accordance with Queens- berry rules. Jeftries is sanguine of whipping Peter Jackson, and if he should prove success- ful the Olympic Club wili offer flattering inducements for a match between the two young Herculeses, viz.: Jeffries and Sharkey. ————————— Charged With Assault. T. H. Perry, a painter, was arrested last night on complaint of Robert Fisher, and charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Perry went home last night and found a Mrs. Driver, gho had formerly lodged with him, in !*e house in com- pany of Fisher. Perry ordered them out, and on their refusal to go drew a revol- ver. Fisher attempted to take the weapon away from him and had his hand badly lacerated. Perry was locked up in the City Prison pending a hearing. —_—————————— Railroad Commisstoner Hinton. W. M. Hinton, the newly appointed Raflroad Commissioner, took the oath of office in Department 6 of the Superior Court. The form, filled out and properly attested, has been forwarded to the Sec- retary of State. When Mr. Hinton re- ceives officfal acknowledgment from the Becret: that tl oath has been filed as the law requ‘l):el. he will be:‘m his duties as a member of the Board road Commissioners. The arrival of Dr. and Mrs. Baldwin from the Orient, he being secretary of the Methodist missions in the United States, has been looked forward to for some time by the ministers and lay people of that denomination. Dr. Baldwin went to China to assist in the celebration of the semi-centeh- nial of the establishing of missions in that country. He arrived in this city Sunday morning and yesterday he | spoke before a large gathering of the clergy in the Y. M. C. A. Auditorium. In his address he referred to the po- litical position of China and said that now there was talk of Russia getting a slice of the north of the central val- ley of that country. France was taking as much as it could get. England was after a slice in the southern part and Germany was laying hands on all she could. He stated that there was con- siderable danger in this state of af- fairs. He stated that there are threa nations identical and opposed to the disintegration of China, and these three are the United States of America, SEE TS WECTE T oy Q‘o goo o = = em 0.0 0000 dFrae e OO 5ISD Y gJ ‘=T':°D‘°a%° o 3\0 : A o (4] o o ] J a i 0: 0 [ DR RBALOWIN SPEAKING OF THE METHoDIST n'ssxons e CHIRA THE TALES OF TWO MISSIONARIES. England and Japan. The reason of their opposition to this state of af- fairs was the freedom of the ports of China, which affords the best field for development in the whole world for commerce. “Such would not be the case,” said Dr. Baldwin, “if Russia had posses- sion. It is hardly necessary to say why this state of affairs would be when you look at the actions of Russia in all the centuries of the past. It has been the worst nation for the Protes- tant missions. In the dominions where the English flag flles the Protestant missions are sure of a foothold. There- fore it is better that Bngland take pos- session of China rather than any other country.” = As regards the religious condition of China he stated that he found it in the most flourishing state and that there were there 28,000 converts. He said that the essential progress lies in ‘“securing” the womanhood of a coun- try, and the security of Christianity lies also in raising the children i Christian idea. b 2 < 20200000000 4 \}\a\.‘%z/mo o WALLER'S CONSCIENCE HCRTS HIM Grand Jury Told Him He Was Imposing on the Public. His Resolution on Text- Books Will Now Soon Be Withdrawn. Pressing Influence Brought to Bear on the School Di- rector’s Ideas. AND GALLAGHER BLUSHED Slowly Answered Many Questions Regarding Letters, Lumber and Appropriations. School Director Waller has come to the conclusion that his resolution re- garding the introduction of new text- books in the public schools is consider- ably at fault and might work a hard- ship on the struggling public. It is not | determined whether or not it is his con- science hurting him, but it is now known that the Grand Jury whispered some rather unpleasant remarks into his ears last evening at a meeting which seemed to be held for the spe- cial benefit of School Directors who are not in favor with the pecple. At any rate he has promised to withdraw his resclution at the next meeting of the Directors and to henceforth be good in more ways than one. The Grand Jury called Waller in con- nection with Director Gallagher before them for the purpose of receiving ex- planations. The examination was long and thorough, and by the time the two were released from the gaze of their ex- aminers they were sorry that they had appeared in response to a rather de- manding call. Some good, however, was accomplished, as with the with- drawal of the resolution submitted by Director Waller the public can use its hard-earned savings for other pressing purposes. Gallagher followed in his turn and was kept on the rack for over an hour. His looks were at fault if he did not wish he was at home snugly tucked away in bed. The questions he was asked by the various members of the Grand Jury were hard to get around, and in the second place it is not alto- gether assuring to appear before a body of such determined men when it is known that they hold the law in their hands. “Is it not a fact that you have sent various letters to Mrs. Fow- ler asking her as a special favor to let certain numerous applicants for cer- tificates to pass through without an ef- fort on their part?” was asked the ex- amined, and he meekly replied that he did not deny it, but, however, the fin- ishing touches of the remarks were not heard. “Why is it that the School Depart- ment recently audited a bill for $600 to favor Patrick Swift for lumber, and why did a bill accompany the other de- mand calling for $248 for hauling the lumber?”’ Before the question could be answered a listening party offered the uncalled for information that it was possible that the lumber was hauled a plank at a time, and although the jury looked rather pleased no comment was made on the answer; but Gallagher stated in reply that he was not fa- miliar with that portion of the work- ings of the department, and neither could he explain the workings of that portion of the School Board which al- lowed twenty teachers to handle only fifteen classes. Mr. Gailagher was questioned con- cerning a number of appropriations, but he was apparently vague on the subject and stated that he was not in a posi- tion to be questioned or give answers in that line as he was not chairman of the Committee on Appropriations. He then went on in rather a lengthy way and explained that he had always been opposed to Director ‘Waller's meghods, and particularly to his resolution which would, without doubt, work a | hardship on the public, but that he was well pleased that Mr. Waller had de- cided upon withdrawal. He refrained from mentioning the influence brought to bear upon the Director’s conscience. In answer to the question put by one of the members of the Grand Jury, | “Why are the salaries of the teachers | not paid regularly he replied that | there was not sufficient money in the funds at their disposal, but that he had received the assurance that within a short while money would be plentiful and the teachers would not then have to teach in vain. The dose may be re- peated. The Grand Jury will not meet on | Thursday next in honor of the celebra- tion of St. Patrick’s Day and out of re- spect to one of their members, J. H. O'Brien. who is one of tae leaders in the coming celebration. NATIONAL BANKS EXEMPT. The License Collector Gets an Opin- ion From the City and County Attorney. City and County Attorney Creswell has advised License Collector Bonnet that the general license order of the Board of Supervisors does not apply to national | banks, and that he cannot legally en- force the payment of licenses by such in- stitutions. The main arguments ad- vanced by Mr. Creswell are as follows: “National banks are instruments em- ployed by the Government of the United States in the execution of its powers, and Congress power not only to provide for the incorporation of them but to limit the power of the State in the taxa- tion of them. Until the act of Congress of June 3, 1864, the power of taxation of national banks was denied to the States. The forty-first section of this act ‘sub- ects the shares of national banks in the ands of shareholders to taxation by the States under certain limitations set forth’ therein. A taxation in any other way Is unconstitutional. The license tax pro- vided for by order No. 158 is not a tax on the shares of a national bank in the hands of shareholders, but is a tax on the occupation or the privilege of conducting the business of a national bank. ‘The ex- action of a license tax as a condition of doing any particular business is a tax on the occupation and a tax on the occupa- tion of doing a business is surely a tax on the business.’ A municipality derives its power of taxation from the State, and if the State cannot impose a license tax on national banks, a municlpality can- not. The right of a national bank to con- duct its business is not dependent on a license granted either by the State or any municipality thereof.” — e LOW AREAS THE CATUSE. The Windston;;vDue to Secondary Areas in the Southwes:c Quad- rant of Large Scope. The strong winds of the last week, but more especially of Saturday night and yesterday, are the result of the disturbed atmospheric conditions that have been prevalent along the northern coast. Mr. McAdie, the local weather forecaster, yes- terday said: “The storms have been due to one or two low areas coming along the northern coast, a peculiar feature of which has been their rapid prolongations to the south, and as a consequence secondary low areas have been, formed from Oregon down through Eastern California and Western Nevada, and these have fought their way east. “On Saturday there was a sudden fall of pressure in Eastern California and ‘Western Nevada, which was the result of a southern prolongation of low area, which gave us our own low area, causing the southwesterly winds that changed to northerly winds, which blew down the valley on Sunday. Similar conditions ex- isted yesterday, only the low area extend- ed over a much lalger territory, reachin, from the Pacific Coast to the' Missour] Valley. Secondary lows with westerly squalls In the southwest quadrant of the big low existed over California yesterday, with the wind blowing at the rate of twenty miles on the coast and eighteen SHEEILLY SHORT IY 1S ACCOUNTS Expert Morgan Renders His Report to the Yosemite Commission. The Entire Amount Is Made Good by the Discharged Treas- urer. It was ascertained at the meeting of the Yosemite Valley Commissioners which erday morning in Commis- oflice that tne eehan, the former treasurer ¢ of the commus- sion, amoun 42, the whole of which has been made good and paid. The following report was read by Ix- pert Morgan, who had been appointed to examine Shechan’s accoun “I have made an examination of the cashbook, vouchers and papers handed me by you, from July, 18%, to January, and tind: rst—That all appropriations forward. ed to your late secretary anu treast by the State Controller, as evidenc -0® U99Q PABY ‘90O ST W04} SIUIWIEIS counted for and accredited to taeir re- spective funds. sioner shortage of - “‘Secona—That all moneys received through the guardian of the valley, Miles ‘Wallace, for rents, privileges, sales, etc., as per his reports, and ail moneys sent direct to or handed the secretary trom renters or others, have been duly accred- ited, which is shown by the total amount agreeing with the total amount due from such parties for i.e time indicated. “Third—10at against these fundsvouch- ers uave been issued and checks drawn, and they are on file, with the exception of the following, which have not vet been presented: Voucher No. 100, in favor of John Deynan, $70; No. 107, in favor of the same party, $u3 12; No. 109, in favor of Frank Rohliff, for $76; No. 134, 134, in favor of Deynan, No. 13, in favor of Kran< Rohliff, for $68' §; ana No. 160, in favor of John 'Deynan, for $64 96, making a total of $448 07. To meet these outstand- ing checks there is a deposit' with the Columbian Banking Company of this city in the sum of 07, as shown by the balance in bankbook. “I further und that between the 1Sth day o¥ November, 1867, and the 3lst day of December of the same year there was received by the said secretary and treas- urer, John F. Sheehan, from the State Treasurer the sum of $4029 42 to pay cer- tain claims previously allowed by the board; that the cashbook shows all such claims to have been paid at various times after the receipt of sald money and before the 1st day of January, 1Sbs. “As a matter of fact, however, such claims were not paid until the latter part of January, 1888, nor was money to pay the -ame deposited in bank until'on and after the 19th day of January, 1863, as follows: On January 19, $19; on January 21, $3500; on February 3, $305 50; and on February 14, ».3 92; making in all $4029 42.” A communication from the American Forestry Association was read before the meeting, in_which it accepts the Invita- tion of the Yosemite Commission to hold its summer convention in the Yosemite Valley, which will probably be held in the latter part of July. Upon the recommendation of the guar- dian of the valley, it was ordered that some action be taken toward removing the unsightly buildings around the hotel. Special railroad rates were granted by General Passenger Agent Goodman of the Soutnern Pacific to Native Sons and their families, who will make the Yosemite the Mecca of their summer vacations. —_——————— Caught in the Act. @ Willlam Green, a well-known crook, was arrested by Officer O'Grady last night and locked up on a ckarge of burglary. He and two companiohs were caught in the act of rifing F. E. Terry’s hair dress- ing establishment, at 2422 Mission street A crowd started in parsuit, and at Nine- teenth and Misison Officer O’Grady joined miles in the city. in the race and captured Green. ADVERTISEMENTS. SHARK I 809 Market Street, C SECOND FLOOR FLOOD BUILDING. Consultation---FREE. WITH AIN. D > Olfice Hotra—9a m. 010 5. ms SUSdayS 910 2 ARG orner Fourt RECEPTION ROOM—NO: 7 2t o demonstrate _our Painless l(l:&ode:'we L.u devote One Hour each day e OEE EXTRACTIONS—10 to 11 A. M. The e s always ahead In Advanced Dental No student emploved. A Physician Always in Attendance. / SKILLED OPERATORS. LADY ATTENDANT. PHONE DAVIS 654. R. T. E. STRONG. p.my v ad »