The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 25, 1898, Page 3

0 CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1898. RESENT ITS MOST VILE INSINUATION The New Charter Club Acts on a Boodle Organ Story. Attempt of the Mercury to Stir Up Religious Strife. Men Who Are Fighting to Drive Jim Rea and His Gang From San Jose Are Firm. THEIR SHARP RESOLUTION False and Contemptible Reports of & San Jose Newspaper Dictated by the Boss Boodler. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, March 24.—In its issue of this morning, the organ of the “gang" showed the cloven foot of the boss in an unmistakable and manner. It undertook, under puerile guise of describing an imagi- nary meeting of the New Charter Club, to throw out all manner of base and despicable insinuatio against the Charter Club, its membe and its can- didat was the more rep- Its course rehensible as the men on the bo the public spirit to come out in support ticket, which the Mer upport- | of the Charter Club in this matter| ing, had approached the s in the while the lezal champions of the bosses good government movement, and re- | came to the rescue of these Councll- quested that the campa:zn be carried N -»n.h\‘\'; f«-:rl\dKlrllelle‘«;‘t'i»ho‘sr‘ J'n’w',“l"_‘ N yose tus anc 2 ar= on fplen L sonalitles and | PIVE 7008 “ina we are most deter- told misrepresents that so far ed on absolutely clean and 1 The indignation aroused faith and unwar ted course of the organ led to the adoption of the olution at the meeting of rter Club to-night: nd_contemptible ated against the dculated to foment nd strife among the rs of its ticket, to into parties and against party and i to engender bitter appeals to_the 1 Jose; st pub- ar lished in the Jose Mercury, the organ of th 2 ‘h stings with' its ve the very people whose expense ft fat- tens at the public crib, and has also bec command of the bos following of as, The San Jose :d against the New ual members and buse, vili- st circulated at the y his unsavory This club tes to the honest and not for and pun- purpose of th n 1 ~ap officials in )¢ municipal affairs; now, there- it , That we, the members of the b, do denounc yus ema- cormorants; ly pledge idates to port of all New Char- )f politic unqual -h of our Several strong and pointed speeches were made in support of the resolution and the gang organ was handled with- out gloves. Dr. Wright opened the dis- L “When a paper,” he sald, ands in the way of reform it ought o be denounced. The Mercury is everything that is mean, that is con- temptible, that is unfair in politics. The Mercury ought to be denounced. | Instead of standing by the honest and | decent people of this city it is lending | its influence to the bc who is re- sponsible for the pr t shameful con- ditions in local official circles.” . M. Burnett began by saying that | solution was particularly direct- | ed against the Mercu The article in that paper,” he said, “purported to | give an account of a meeting of the New Charter Club, in which it says it | was decided to ‘throw down’ Messrs. Riehl, Coopers and O'Brien and that | the support of the club was to be cen- | tered on Jarman, Dittus and Krieg for | Councilmen.” [Laughter.] “You will notice,” he continued, “in that resolution that a reference is made to an attempt on the part of the to inaugurate a bitter reli- similar to one that raged here a fe ars ago. The sole object of that article is to engender a | war between people of different reli- glous belic This is an attempt—a ,-cowardly, contemptible attempt— to renew religious strife. They do not sare what may happen as the result of Mercury giou 1 this strife. There is an assertion in this article that nine men of the ap- pointing board are to be elected by the votes of the New Charter Club. It must be remembered that five of our candidates for members of the ap- pointing board are Catholics. Here is another dastardly attempt to wean away Catholic votes from the Charter | Club ticket. There is no use mincing matters, Their soie purpose, I repeat, is simply to arouse this religious an- | tagonism.” | The fact that Mr. Burnett is himself | a Catholic giv: added value to his manly and courageous wor “The Mercur he sald, sserts that | our ranks are thinning rapidly. The | idea is to scare the people. The Mer- cury knows there is_always a large | floating vote that can be captured by the side which appears to be certain of suc They therefore seek to con- v idea that we are losing he t strength, when in fact, every day sees us growing stronger in membership, | and in the good opinion cf the people of this city. They speak of our allying ourselves with Dittus and Krieg. Dit- tus and Krieg were able to hold thelir heads high in the Council until they got into financial difficulties. Then the | boss was able to reach them, and they | took their stand with the boss. “The gentlemen interested in the peo- ple’s municipal ticket, put up by the boss, asked us to make a clean fight. We are making it. If the candidates | on that ticket are not responsible for | the Mercury’s course why don’t they take means to stop these contemptible attacks. If they don’t we must hold them responsible, and they must be | considered as no better than the gang ) organ, and the boss who controls it.” | (Applause.) | | | i Adam Riehl declared that he never | for a moment believed what appeared in the Mercury and expressed the hope that none of his friends would pay any attention to its statements. Mr. Brown denounced the Mercury’s article as a mean attempt to divide the forces of the Charter Club and the de- characteristic | the political such re- | A CLEVER Many Womern Ind for Just PI clo SAN BERNARDINO, March 24 projects ever perpetrated in the val well-to-do women of our cities hav will total $1000. The game was pla: her name as Mrs. Goldbers. Hel particularly broadcloths, at the sto: to another. She would find the na upon them with her stock. She r of a German merchant, who, rath: dress goods, had smuggled them to herself by peddling. cloth”), and claimed it was the fav The women bit eagerly, and th numerable deals at $3 and $350 a bought as high as $50 worth of "th bag when the woman, accompanie chase large quantities of broadclot eral deals at $1 a yard. O] ® @ ® ® [0} @ ® ® ® 1@ @ @ ® @ ® ® ® [} ® ® arrested, but she escaped with a $ found out afterward that she had t ferent houses, sometimes pretendin ,metimes speaking broken Englis using plain English. The extent o time of her arrest, otherwise she wo ® | @ (O] (OJOJ [CJOICXOJOJO} PPOOOOOO cent element of the city. He declared that the Charter Club so far from sup- porting or being in any w in svmpa- thy with Dittus and Krieg, had been influential in bringing the suits to pre- vent these men with two others of the Councll, from makin agant ex- penditures of th “The Mercury, minedly opposed to We think they are i behest of the bo: In conclusion he said: dates Club man “The candi- s behind the entire ticket to a The fight is not candidates but principle, and we are seeking the suc- cess of the entire ticket, and anvbody who is watching the fight knoy | are gaining in strength every d | "1t is the purpose of the New Ch Club to meet every false and maliclous attack made on it, or the cause it has | espoused, in the most determined man- | ner, whether made by an individual, an | organ, or an organization. SAN RAFAEL'S ROSE SHOW Ten Thousand Club Will Assist in Arranging the Festival. | | > plac- | Dispatch to The Call. Spe | SAN RAFAEL, March | meeting of the Ten Thousand evening it was decided to ai committee of ladles who have charge | of the rose festival in every possible manner, and for that purpose a pro- | gramme is to be decided upon and will | be submitted to the club for considera- tion next Tuesday evening. J. T. Burke, chairman of the finance committee, stated that he had seen many of San Rafael’s residents; that they were enthusiastic over the pro- posed carnival, and had stated their willingness to subscribe various sums to defray the expenses of the festival. It has been definitely agreed upon that the main feature of the festivities will consist of 2 grand parade in which all the organizations and clubs in Marin County would take part. Towns and villages have sent word through citi- zens that they stand ready to furnish flowers and floats, and success Is as- sured. A fox hunt will also be held | during the two days’ carnival, and the main street of San Rafael is to be beautified with arches and decorations of orange, green and white. At the meeting to-night the club was addressed by City Trustee Henry Bick- | hoff, J. T. Burke, W. H. Anderson. G. H. Boke, H. A. Gorley, Superintendent of Schools Robert Furlong and others. ‘All were of tLe opinion that immediate steps should be taken to complete a programme, and it was decided to go | ahead with the work of collecting sub- scriptions to defray the expenses. Mil- itary companies from Santa Rosa and ( other towns will participate in ‘the | parade. MYSTERY OF POWDER EXPLOSION UNSOLVED., One of the Victims of the Marin County Disaster Had Acted Very Strangely. SAN RAFAEL, March 24—The mys- tery surroundirng the cause of the ex- plosion that killed two men at the United States Smokeless Pc 7der Works at Point | n Pedro, about three miles from here, not been cleared by the veruict of the Coroner’'s jury to the effect that it was an accident. There is a growing ten- | dency on the part of those who are famil- far with the facts in the case and who hear. the testimony given by witnesses before the jury to lay the blame upon Charles Nelson. but whether it was an accident or done on purpose is the ques- tion. Nelson on the day of the accident acted queerly, and there Is a belief among the (-u’]pdlo)‘es tha. he was not in his right ming TWO CON BT SISTORIES HELD AT ROME. Bishops Preconized, and the Pope Presents the Hats to Three Archbishops. ROME, March 2.—Public and secret consistorieswere held here to-day. Among | the Bishops preconized were the Right Rev. P. L. Chappelle, Archbishop of New Orleans; the Most Rev. Paul Napoleon Bruches!, Archbishop of Montreal, and the Right Rev. Joseph F. Fitzmaurice, coadjutor Bishop of Erle, Pa. Contrary to custom, the consistories followed one another. The Pope, in the | sala regia, presented the hats to the | Archbishops of Lyons, Rennes and Rouen | in the presence of the' Sacred College, the | dignitaries and the diplomats. The sécret consistory followed in the sala consis- torialle. Only members of the Sacred WORKS THE TOWNS OF THE SOUTHLAND Stories to Pay High Prices She called broadcloth When local merchants heard of the sales about town they had her ‘had not | them at this time. | n this fight at the | all know that the New Charter | - | not been able to secure trace of WOMAN uced by Specious ain Broad- th. —One of the cleverest swindling ley has just come to light, by which e been taken in for small sums that ved by a stout woman, who gave r plan was to purchase dress goods, res of one town and then take them mes of the wealthy women and call epresented that she was the widow er than sacrifice a stock of elegant America, and that she supported “Kaisertuch,” (“Emperor orite raiment of royalty. e swindler succeeded in closing in- ard, or $15 a suit. Some women e stuffs. The cat was out of the d now by her husband, tried to pur- h at the local stores, and made sev- ©® | fine, leaving for Redlands. It was old many different stories at dif- g she could speak only German, h, and, when dealing at the store, f her dealing was not known at the uld have been prosecuted. [SJOIOIOIOXOOFOJOYOXOIOXOOIOIOIOJOXOJOXOXOJOJOXO] [OXOJOJOROJONOXOJOROJOJOJOROROXOXO] 4 | CLEWS T0 THE - TRAIN-ROBBERS | Officers in the San Joa- quin Valley Working in the Dark. | | Believe Bandits Stcle Dynamite to Wreck the Express Car. Not Much Secured When They Took | the Pouch of Registered Mail. Special Dispatch to The Call. FRESNO, March 24—This morning | | Joe Foster, arrested on suspicion of | complicity in the Cross Creek train rob- bery, was released. When put in Jail on Wednesday night by Sheriff Jay Scott Foster was not booked on any ‘(‘hzlrge‘ but merely detained until an | investigation could be made. The | Sheriff concluded this morning that the NINE MAKE CLEAN SCORES Shooters Who Each Kill Twenty-five Birds Straight. Ten, Including Fanning of San Francisco, Score Only One Miss. Mrs., W. P. Shattuck Comes to the Front With a Record of Twelve Straight Kills. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, March 24—The Grand American handicap, annually brought off under the auspices of the Interstate Association, was brought to a success- ful issue late this afternoon at Elk- wood Park, New Jersey. Nine men fin- jshed with twenty-five straight kills and divided the first nine moneys, which amounted to $3713. Twenty-two men killed twenty-four birds each, and divided the remainder of the stakes, the entire amount of the entry money being $5076. As the light was poor and a drizzling rain was falling when the twenty-fifth round was completed the nine shooters Wwho divided the first money decided to postpone the shoot- ing off of the ties until to-morrow morning. This year the Interstate As- Bociation has offered a special prize, a very handsome sllver cup, and this will go to the winner. The conditions of the shoot-off will be “miss and out.” Mrs. W. P. Shat- tuck, who killed nine out of the twelve birds yesterday, continued to-day, and was even more successful. Of the thirteen birds she shot at to-day she grassed twelve, and one fell dead out of bounds. Of the Western delegation who were _conspicuous with drab Sweaters, only one finished straight with twenty-five Kills. This was T. P. Laflin of Rock Island, Iil, who shot from the 28-vard mark. % Captain ck Brewer, the world's | champion, and Fred Gilbert, the cham- pion of America, did not get into the money. Each Kkilled twenty-three. These two rivals were matched to-day, and the contest will take place in Chi- cago within the next few weeks. The shoot will be resumed at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. The fol- Towing made stralght scores of twenty- five birds: . J. A. R. Elliott, Kansas City; ers,” Long Branch, N. J.; U. der, New York; E. D. Fulford, ica, | N. Y.; W. Toomis, Omaha, Nebr.; | “Jim_Jone: Philadelphia; W. Wag- ner, Washington; R. O. Heikes, Day- ton. Ohio: T. P. Laflin, Rock Island, IIl. | The following scored twenty-four: E. M. Cooper, Red Bank, N. J.; A. Doty, Paterson, N. J.; B. A. Leach, Trippe, S. D.; Captain A. W. Money, Oakland, J.; George C. Roll, Chi- cago; J. B. Savage, New Haven, Conn.; Fred Schwartz Jr., Bridesburg, Pa.; J. S, Fanning, San Francisco; Jay Snell, | ter, Mass.; Sim Glover, Roches- | Vi “Walt- Ben- | F. « man had nothing to do with the loot- ing of the train, nor knew anything | about the robbery. | The officers were busy to-day investi- | gating clews and running down theo- | ries. It was ascertained that consid- Ecruble dynamite was bought at Kings- | burg before the hold-up, but it was afterward learned that it was bought by a woodchopper. No dynamite was purchased by strangers. The officers have been unable to find out who purchased large quantities of the explosive which were sold at several places In this city on Saturday and Monday. It has come to light that the powder house of Barrett, Hicks & Co. was broken into on Saturday night, | and the officers are strongly of the | opinion that the burglary was com- | mitted by train robbers to secure dyna- mite to be used in their work. They | are pretty certain the burglars knew | what was stored in the building, and it | is not likely they would have seiected | that place to burglarize if they did not have use for the explosive. That they were ordinary burglars is not believed. The firm claims that none of the dyna- | mite was stolen. They have taken -an inventory and have missed none of fit, | but the officers think they may have | been enough taken to serve the pur- | | pose of the robbers. The officers had | the | Kewanee, 111, Worces as ter, N. T Ligonier, | Pa.; “Robert S k) o8 B. Mosher, E Y oW & ‘Widebrush, “Dtm]s:y, | Buffalo, N. Y “Captain Bunk,” New Brunswigk. N. J.; Allen Willey, Had- | iyme, Conn.; J. M. Thompson, Cohoes, N. Y.; BE. (. Burkhardt, Buffalo, N. E. S. Rice, Chicago; W. P. Shat- Y lis, Minn.; Lee Huckins, tuck, Minneapo! FROST AFTER THE DROUCHT Ice in the Salinas Valley Injures the Fruit Crops. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. SALINAS, March 24—For the first| time in over twenty-seven years ice | one-quarter of an inch thick formed in this section at this season of the year. The heavy frost has injured the fruit crops in the valley to an irrepar- able extent, and the continued dry weather added thereto has killed all burglars any more than they have been | able to get sight of the bandits. There is strong reason why the robbers should | prefer to obtain dynamite by theft, as then the chances of not being seen would be favorable, while, if they bought it, there would be more or less | danger of a description being secured of them and of their identification at- ter a = There is now a reward of $2300 for | the arrest and conviction of each of the train robbers. The State has a standing reward of $300; Wells, Fargo & Co., in conjunction with the South- ern Pacific Company, adds $700 to their standing reward of $300, making $1000; while the Government of the United States offers a reward of $1000 on ac- count of the looting of the mail car and the plunder of the registered mat- ter. Messrs. H. P. Thrall and D. Coyne, postal inspectors, arrived here this morning on business connected with the robbery and posted notices of re- wards. Mr. Thrall was questioned with reference to the amount of the haul which the robbers probably made in their loot of registered malil. “Of course it is only guess work,” said the inspector, “but I can say that it was very, very small. We are making inquiries by telegraph. We do not know how much was sent in drafts and money orders, but that doesn’t count, as the orders are not negotiable. Pay- ment on them have been stopped. One registered letter came from New York, and there were others from different Eastern places. The postoffice officials do not know what was sent, and will have to inquire of the senders. When that is done we will know just what the letters contained and exactly what was secured. There was no coin at all, and very little currency so far as we can ascertain. I can only say approxi- mately and for a rough guess that the amount would not exceed $200.” BRITISH YACHT GIRALDA REMAINS AT BARCELONA. This May Be Significant, in View of | the Report that Spain Has Bought the Famous Boat. BARCELONA. March 24.—The Brit- ish steam yacht Giralda has arrived from Ville, France, and remains here. This may possibly be significant in view of the recent statement that H. L. B. McCalmont’s famous yatcht has been bought by the Spanish Govern- | | | | | | College were present. The Pope was in excellent health. ment. No denial or confirmation of this report has been forthcoming. | weeks irrigation will be in general use prospects of more than a third of the crop of grain this year. The outlook is terrible for the farmers and every | one looks for a repetition of the hard times of 1876-77. Cattle are sellingatany price and hay is being held at $20 a | ton, with very little in sight. Heavy | rains might help to a small extent, but | not much. | WOOOLAND, March 24—Farmers | and fruit growers within the district | that is under the Moore ditch system | of irrigation are clamoring for water. | The dam washed out last year and has | not yet been rebuilt, but work will be commenced on it in a few days. Water can be turned on in ten days after work is commenced. The company owns the right of way to about fifteen miles of ditch, but it supplies private ditches | sixty or seventy miles in length. Water is low in Cache Creek, but the flow is still sufficlent to irrigate a large area of grain and alfalfa lands and orchards. STOCKTON, March 24.—Within two on the reclaimed lands unless rain falls before then. At high tide the water of the San Joaquin River is three feet above the less elevated fields of grain, making irrigation possible without pumping. In some places the levees will be cut, and in others siphons will be run over the tops of the embank- ments. A siphon for this purpos: is now being made. It is a foot and a half in diameter. A main supply ditch is run along the inner side of the levee from which lateral ditches a hundred yards apart extend into the field. Far- mers on the islands say with no more rain or irrigation they will harvest from twelve to fifteen sacks of grain to the acre, and with artificial irriga- tion the crop will be the average for the 70,000 acres. The 13,000 acres on the reclamation district is now being seeded to beans and potatoes, with10,000 acres of grain. The outlook for the wine crop in this section is very encouraging to-day. In spite of the dry winter the vines and developing buds look healthy. It is expected that the middle of April will see the bunches begin development and if no late frosts come a good crop may be considered assured. The dissatis- faction expressed here last year against the State association controlling the State output is even more pronounced than last season, as the smaller growers recognize that they must accept the prices scheduled. SANTA ROSA, March 24.—The peach crop of Sonoma County was greatly ADVERTISEMENTS. HOW TO CATCH DOLLARS! -The easiest way to make money is to save money, and that can be done in your purchasing. We have demonstrated that for years, and our list of patrons has grown so large that we think it’s time you should join them. Qur many departments wear their prettiest look these days. Everything is Spring, everything is bright, everything is new, and here are a few attrac- tions culled from our many departments for Friday and Saturday’s alert purchasers. N Opposite we show yow the ins and outs of these suits on special sale with ws at $8.88; they're lined according to thelatest dic- tum of the swell New York tailors; the liningds are paneled with rich, h a rmonious blending satins,; it's quite a novel idea ; it's a rich idea. That big generous puff for la~ dies. It’s an awful swell affair, and we’re going tosell alimited quantity in those fine white striped Piques to-day at _29c. Ladies, yow have paid 20¢ for Collars that are no better than these, and we show yow the bigdest assort- ment of the newest fashions inboththe high- banded twurn- down Collar and the stand- ing collar, in all heights, and yow can have Spring Crop of Men’s Fashions! these for - 10c. Our picture above showsyow the ins and outs of the swits we have on special sale. They're a pretty lot and convey all the latest and newest ideas of the master minds of tailoring. The fab- rics are those fine Scotches, the coloringds pretty, in keeping, in tone, in towch with the scason. They’'re §15 goods. satin. for a limited time at Yow would never hesitate to pay $15 for ’em. Some of ‘em are lined with We have taken a notion to fill owr big corner window with ’em, and will offer yow the pick $8.88. | very handsonte Spring Color- Some very pretty Spring ideas for young men, those between | the ages of 14 and 19—some | ings and all carefully tailored | Sarments. . Yow know our Suits for yound men are snappy an’l up-to-date. Were we to say $8 yow would not hesitate to pay it, but for Friday and Saturday we say $5.48. One of the p'ea.ing features of Friday and,_Saturday’s sale in our Hat Department will consist of a lot of very fashion- able Derbys for gentlemen, high- class srades—grades thatyou'll pay $2 for elsewhere. All the newest Spring blocks, Blacks and Browns. These at 95¢G. We have gathered todether a. lot of prewty Blue Suits, the Reefer fashion, with its novel treatment of braiding on the collars and cuffs, and little buckle atthe knee of trousers. To these we have added some Blue Suits for the larder boys, those between the ages of 8 and 15—0h! they’re a pretty lot. Added to these swits we have taken a lot of owr pretty Sailor Straw Hats for the little folks, and a lot of pretty Straws for the larger boys. Now we say for the Swit and his Straw Hat $2.19. The boys’ block of the Alpine in our Hat Department to-day_in all the mew Spring shades, a pretty lot : as good as yowll get in _other stores for $#1 50. To-day and Saturday at 79c. Some new shades in Men’s _Underwear, Shrimp Pk, Choco- late Brown and Blue, Balbriggan goods, aw- Jully sweil _and finely Jinished. Yow'd never ‘hesitate to pay $1 for these garments. n our Men's Underwear seciion to-day at %8¢ Per Garment. L A dream of juvenile prettiness. The above Switin Blue, withits pretty little vest, with its many rows of white soutache braid, with its pretty little buckle at the knee. Shall we say $3.502 You would be satisfied; but, no —for our Friday and Saturday special we say $1.98. A White Dress Shirt Event— Some 300 dozen finely lawnder- ed doods, per- fect fitting, a shirt that ig perfect in all details. Justas a flyer for Fri- day and Satur- day, these at Another lot_of those Golf Shirts for gentle- men that made such a hit last week, in new Spring colorings. That soft shirt. you know, thatyou wear the white collar with. These are all high-grade goods. Double the money won't touch ‘em in other stores. These Friday and Saturday " 39c. Each day finds us adding new fashions to our wash fabric suits for folks. perfect little Some damaged by the recent frost. Apricots and cherries were also injured. i arrived dreams . yesterday. THE FRISCO BOYS, 9, 11, 13 AND 15 KEARNY ST ITWO0 ENTIRE BUILDINGS. Confirmation_ana Communion Suits. ‘We presume you know that we are headquarters on that classof goods. find You'll showing ail prettiest styles right day. this ~ very REET. EIGHT FLOORS.