The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 19, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1898. HORDES OF WEARY TREASURE SEEKERS CAMPED AT DAWSON Without Knowledge of Mining, Unable to Get Employment, Thousands Are in a Sorry Plight. BY SAM W.WALL. { CITY, June 24, via Seattle, e upon the heels 1 out of the lakes I e night of June alendar the year to 3 nt the first up- dy tied up at 1t that wintered be- alle e Alaska C y that was ic , had already the flat portion of 1 threatened to carry veral days on Front und the bil- 1 tat faro in thelr ubber boots, the water above their s it had come, Dawson as I v citles. town of s portion the stores of the laska Com- nerican Trad- th a a rth A rtation, together wi First avenue or e portion w: the first rise side both sides of st without a nearly three- the business ts and along er front down ly for a mile nd barges, two | of them with g banners of phers, dentists, nner of peo- the Klondike h sides the tents of > an army in rd of the town (n is another army. cor pa d clo: th boats ¢ ry, has pitched an command a view g hillsides that last spaces are re down ins in all stages them on the plans, but many h a care and neatness -rmanent residence, s places on Front rough board or canvas ith regard to speed ance or permanency, ew quite pretentious r order. These are, tion, saloons and gam- s. They are all aind wide as it is, h people at every hour y-four, and particularly in Ing from 5 o'clock until mid- is at high tension. The great number of new comers is hourly 1 increased by the boats and d the circle of tents widens ons and dance houses now red by the score; the water of Front street embles the ap- air. constructed booth: affic is represented, in (at 50 cents a glass) peanut stanc street boast side- ay is axle deep is littered with 1ge of buildings. Nugget and the Yukon e two newspapers al- wed, while at least half other plants are here or are rear e h sides of but the the road )zen amboat, the Bellingham, n from the lakes, ru successfully, plies hour- A. C. Company’'s whart and carries a crowd ngers at every trip at $1 a amp knows no rest. There are venty-four hours of broad day- and twenty hours sunlight. And there ion on the part ep. The hours 1 in San Francisco— from 6 o'clock of the evening until 6 of the mornin re the pleasantest of the day, t s cooler and the light more subd although for nine hours of that time the sun is above the hori- zon r this reason many sleep dur- ing the warm hours of the day and the streets full of life every hour of the so-called night. There Is one little pause once a week in the hurlyburly. Commissioner Walsh has pronounced a Sunday law. turday, night stops, particularly that of the including gambling. In such spect is this regulation held her friendship, love nor money n ‘procure a drink over a bar after midnight of Saturday or be- ght of Sunday. The big jag of the week is given these few hours in which to recover itself and know the joy of starting’anew. Money or dust flows into town daily and thence finds lodgment across the bars, or over the faro and poker tables. The two commercial companies get a 12 o'clock ver the lce ln’ nissioner or | , on the other side | | big share of it and finally the banks get some. There are two banks here now, operating under canvas, both Ca- nadian institutions. The clean-up on the creeks is some- thing more than half completed and is ering a pause for lack of water, odd that seems, following so soon after a flood. The warm sun of the quick- ly lengthened days turned the snow into water and the whole ran off with 2 rush. Much good dirt was carried away, dams and sluices broke and very considerable loss and damage were suffered. When the water had gone many of the dumps located so high as not to make available the water of the creek were still—and still remain—unwashed. These are now awaiting some expected August rains. Whether or not it is because of the insistent enforcement of the 10 per cent royalty law by Commissioner Walsh, T am not at this moment pre- pared to say, but certain it is there is an air of disappointment in the town | with regard to the gold output. Al- most all now shade down the figures of their estimate as made early in the spring. The total is varlously placed at from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000. Alex- ander McDonald, the largest operator in the district, places it at $20,000,000. In the spring and before the arrival of Commissioner Walsh it generally was | believed that the Government would | not enforce the royalty law. This hope | has failed, however, and the exaction of this big percentage of the output causes widespread disgust and disap- pointment. Great as the yleld is, there- fore, there is a certain sense of depres- ‘shm in the camv. among the miners, and nowhere is there any disposition to boom properties that are being worked, or to give out inflated reports of the output. Many of the miners have large | indebtednesses to meet and Commis- | sioner Walsh allowed them fifteen days | after the completion of the clean up in | Which to meet these engagements be- fore making their returns to the Gov- | ernment. Royalty has already been | paid into the banks, which are author- | ized to make the collection upon $8,000,- 000, chiefly taken out of El Dorado | Creek. | It is reasonably certain to say that | the clean-up on the lower Bonanza— that is, Bonanza below Discovery, from out 9 below—has been really dls- inting. Bonanza above Discovery has more than met expectation; this is true also of El Dorado. My estimate of Dominlon Creek, as given in The Call of April 19. has been verified and even emphasized by the report of the Government inspectors of the creek—McGregor, Norwood and | Cadenhead. They speak of Dominion Creek as showine the richest prospects of any of the creeks, so far as develop- ment has gone. The creek is surveyed from above Upper Discovery to 120 be- low Lower. The confusion which re- sulted from the recording of the di; | resulted in tying up some of the best | property on the creek, is now about to | be adjusted. Gold Commissioner Faw- gan the hearing of the case this morning. The sworn testimony of every claim owner on the creek will be taken. The discovery will be fixed from this and indgment as betweeen the several overlapping claims will be | rendered and the property thé#s re- sed from embarrassment and set on the road toward speedy development. Sulphur Creek is turning out fully as | rich as its early prospects indicated. | These creeks are still in the prospecting stage and should they fulfill their prom- ise they will be sufficient alone to sus- tain the camp at Dawson for several years. The two river steamers of the North American Trading and Transportation Company, the Hamilton and the Por- teus B. Weare, now at the docks,pre- paring to go down the river, will carry with them about four millions in gold. The total shipment of gold to the outside is most difficult to arrive at, but will not fall short of eight millions. Porteus B. Weare, head of the North American Transportation Com- pany, who has just arrived via Dyea, is making a general survey of the sit- uation, and is much pleased with all the indications. He started up the creeks this morning. So much for that picture. Now for | | Eeng thousand people on the way to Dawson or already crowding its streets feel the touch of the depression that is here, despite the heaps of gold in sight. The throng is depressed because of its own greatness. So many new comers are here that they cannot see how it may be possible to supply all with work. They feel that anything less than overleaping the output must re- sult in a cut of wages at least, if not a lack of work for many. Many of these new comers are of the t helple: haracter, and already grave forecastings are made concern- | ing them anent the long winter that is | coming. Tt is pitiful to see them sit- | ting in their boats along the water | front, at the end of their long and hur- | ried journey, utterly at a loss what to | do now that they are here. The gold commissioner is hourly be- sieged by men asking him to please tell | them where there is a creek upon | which they can stake a gold mine. | Numbers of the more alert new com- ers, men who came into the country with a sturdy purpose to mine, are, af- ter a short stay here, passing by Daw- son and hurrying down to the plentiful diggings on the Amerlcan side, The American side, broadly speak- ing, is enjoying a boom. Every sees the interest in the diggings grow, as the most encouraging reports are brought here. New diggings are re- ported in the old Forty Mile District, said to' be very rich. Big prospects have been found and much prospecting is being done on American Creek. So great ig the rush down there that a number of new towns have been start- ed, the newest among them being Eagle City, at the mouth of Mission Creek, into which American Creek flows. Star City was the original of the place, but it was so badly washed out by the spring flood that the inhabitants moved up the river a little way to higher ground and called the new lo- cation Eagle. A big stampede went down from here a month ago, not only to locate mining claims, but to stake town lots at the mouth of Mission Creek. It is pro- posed to control the old and new Forty Mile District from Bagle City by an all-American route. By going up Mis- elon Creek and crossing an easy divide, the head waters of Forty Mile Creek are entered upon. As all the rich diggings of this district, together with the newly discovered diggings on its tributaries, are in American territory, it is easy to understand this effort to | place the supply depot on the Ameri- | can side. Many miners are going down to Ram- | part City and the Minook diggings, up the Tanana and the Koyukuk. Cap- | tain W. H. Geiger has taken his little | steamer St. Michael to the mouth of | the river for a cargo and will return and go up the Koyukuk with as many passengers as he can carry. Considerable anxiety is felt concern- ing the boats that are coming up the river, especially the boats of the new companies. The old companies are said to have secured all the best pilots on the river for their service and to have control of the wood cut last win- ter—what of it there is left, for the flood carried away a great part of that which was cut by the Indtans and the | unprovisioned contingent between here |and Fort Yukon. The fact that so many boats on the river between these two points have run aground gives excuse for this an- xiety. The May West has made a good escape. She brought twenty-six very forlorn-looking passengers into port with her. They had been wintering away down the river and put in most of the time worrying the captain. He had guaranteed to land them at Daw- son and to feed them until he did so. He had not counted on being caught in the ice 1000 miles from his destination and he was short of food for the filling of his contract. Some of his passen- s had a mortgage on his boat and y threatened to tie her up here, or at Circle City. Captain Worth, a hale and hearty man at St. Michael last summer, arrived here a haggard and broken-down man, having lost forty- two pounds in weight since his cruise | began. Of all the trouble that the | frozen river witnessed last winter in all its great length, Captain Worth says | his own case was the worst. He would not go through it again for a fortune. The difficulty with the passengers was adjusted here and the boat re- leased to go and work out her indebted- ness. Besldes Captain Worth and Steward Harry Gifford, she brought the following pasengers who had wintered with her: | | H. H. Honnen, John Tyler, James Carr, Frank Hoor, Harry Numan, J. A. Ander- son, Mr. Peterson, Mr. Clark, all of Henry Shoemaker of Grass Val- James Flanner, Helena, Mont.; Mr. New York; Will Lindsay, Port Townsend; John Miller and Fred Heath, Tacoma; Al Mole, Denver; Will Campbell and Will Dwyer, Leadville; Mr. Scott, Mr. Cole, Mr. Robbins, Mr. Schulte and Mr. Dunham, San Francisco; Frank Holt, California; Mr. Todd, Oak- land; Charles Range, Idaho, and Alex Mc- Donald, Michigan. On her return trip down the river she took seventy passengers, the first to seek the outside by way of the mouth of the river this year. Many of them are miners and they took out consider- able treasure, but how much it was im- possible to learn from them here rs ;Jhey greatly fear an attack upon the oat. Captain Ray and others who have been watching people and events down the river this winter are convinced that there is an organized gang of thugs which has been planning for sudden riches in that way and that an attempt to hold-up the boats may be looked for and should be guarded against. The steamer Victoria, having re- turned from her first run to Pelly River, left last evening for the Pelly again, carrying some seventy passengers. They will be met at the Dalton trail by saddle horses and expect to reach salt water in eleven days from this date. The little steamer A. J. Goddard of the Upper Yukon Company arrived two days ago direct from Bennett. She starts to-night on her return. The special war edition of The Call came in from Dyea in eight days. Crossing the mountains, taking boat at Linderman, making the portage from Linderman to Bennett, taking boat again at Bennett and rowing against a head wind almost all the way, but keep- ing at the oars day and night, two men, one resting and sleeping while the other worked, brought this great edition and the Calls were on sale in the streets of Dawson on the eighth dayafter they left the ocean front at Dyea and brought the first big news of the war to Dawson. I arrived at Lake Linderman on the 18th of May, to find it still icebound. I remained there and at Lake Bennett ten days and still the ice remained. I returned over the Chilkoot Pass to get a later edition of the paper than I car- ried in the first instance, and with it left Dyea on the afternoon of June 7 and arrived in Dawson the night of the 15th. The ice had been out of Bennett several days when I arrived there the second time. I passed more than two thousand boats on the way down. At Tagish, where a stop was required by the Northwest mounted police, the bank was fringed with boats for a mile. At the head of Lake Labarge they were tied up for two miles. A strong head | wind was blowing and no man would | start out on the thirtv miles of water in the face of it; so they had been as- sembling there for three days. Suddenly the wind changed and a thousand sails were lifted almost in concert. In a half hour the whole face of the lake was dotted with every va- riety of craft and sail. Soon the line stretched as the speedier got away, and extended as far into the distance as the eye could see. It was a brave, stirring picture, the seemingly unnumbered sails careening before the wind over the swelling sur- face of the water. Somewhere in the crowd, a cornet in | the hands of some one who knew how to play it sent “The Star Spangled | Banner” floating across the lake. Not | a sound broke in upon it from the first | note to the finish. But before that | wonderful echo of Lake Labarge had | finished its repetition a cheer ran down | the whole length of that moving line. Then it came back to the starting point and returned down again. Again | and again it made the circuit, each time with new enthusiasm until the cornist struck in with the first notes of “Hail Columbia.” He was listened to intently as before. and at the con- clusion the scene was repeated, and in this inspiring way Lake Labarge was crossed. And no man who was there will ever forget "‘that scene. Indeed, the same may be said of the whole "un down. | The crush was so great at the canyon | and White Horse that the :procession through those dangerous waters was | almost continuous. The banks on both sides of the river below the White Horse were strewn for a mile with (\i\'recked boats and goods lald out to ry. C. J. Harmon and J. Boyd, both of ?an F;ranciuco. ‘were drowned there on une 6. In Thirty Mile River I counted the wrecks of twenty-two boats. The smokestack of the little steamer Kala- mazoo was protruding above the water just below a certain rock about mid- way down and famous among those who travel that river. This is a strange land. Just now it is a land of summer and sunshine. The banks of the great river are abloom with wild flowers. The sun does not set and the birds do not sleep, but sing always. Following immediately upon a great outflow of ice a fleet of five thousand boats sails down the Yukon in search of gold, and the prow of almost every one of them bears a woman’s name. It is by these signs that they dare—'Sadie,” “Marie,” “Helen,” “Catherine,” “Mary.” Ah, summer and winter, this is one of the great spectacles in the long story of the world. And it is all summed up in the name of the boat. This is the why of this tremendous hazard of new for- tunes. OUTPUT ESTIMATED BY A DAWSON BANKER VANCOUVER, B. C., July 18.—Wil- liam Godfeey, local manager for the Bank of British North America, to-day received an official communication from the branch at Dawson City, which was opened on May 19, it being the first bank to commence business in the Yu- kon district. D. Doig, who was sent up as manager of the bank, claims to have thoroughly looked into mining condi- tions since his arrival and he does not think the output will be much more than $7,000,000 to $10,000,000 this year. He bases his low estimate on the fact that many good mines have not been worked, miners early in the winter hav- ing been driven up to Circle City by the famine. Gold iIs passing as currency, he says, at $17 an ounce. When the mines are thoroughly worked the clean- up will be enormous. Already the Gov- ernment had collected $400,000 in royalty. Manager Doig writes that the Bank of British North America is doing busi- ness in a large tent with a wooden floor. It is constructing a two-story building of logs and pays $9 each for the logs. Twenty-five thousand people were in Dawson on June 28, the day the letter was written. CARRIED INTO THE COURTS Los Angeles Monopoly’s New Move. WAS GRANTED AN INJUNCTION CITY MAY NOT SEIZE THE WA- TER PLANT. Mayor Snyder Will Direct Citizens to No Longer Pay the Company for the Water They Consume. Speclal Dispatch to The Call LOS ANGELES, July 18.—The Los Angeles City Water Company to-day applied for and was granted a tem- porary injunction restraining the Mayor and Council from taking possession of the water company’s plant on the ex- piration of the thirty-year lease next Saturday. The order is returnable on Monday, when an application will be made for a permanent injunction. Should the city fail to answer at that time the water company asks the court to proceed to name arbitrators to fix the value of the company’s plant and to enter judgment for the amount of the value so determined. The injunction proceedings are no surprise to Mayor Snyder and the Citv Council, as they were expected. Tne city will answer next Monday and ask to have the proceedings dismissed. It is understood that on Saturday next the Mayor will issue a proclamation di- recting the citizens to no longer pay rates to the water company for water consumed, but to pay the amount into the city treasury. The water compaliy officials say that if this is done they | will cut off service from consumers failing to pay to their representatives the regular rates. This is liable to cause complications. The City Council to-day laid all the water propositions, including that of Kessler & Co., on the table, exc:pt the one matter of selecting the city’s arbi- trator, who is to be one of three to de- termine the value of the water com- pany's improvements. This action was expected and clears the deck [or some precedure along the lines of municipal ownership. An ordinance was introduced in the Council providing for and creating a municipal water department of the city government. It is quite lengthy and detailed. It provides for the carrying on of a municipal water plant, the col- lection of rates at the present figures and for the maintenance of the sys- tem. This ordinance was presented by the City Attorney and was in the nature of a surprise. A mass meeting of Democrats was held to-night at Turn Verein Hall, at- tended by about 200 people. The ob- ject was to condemn the Democratic City Committee for indorsing the Kess- ler proposition. and resolutions to that effect were adopted. A. R. Burke acted as chairman of the meeting. Consid- erable bitterness was aroused by the speeches. Frank James was in favor of having an investigation made, and, if it was found that any members of the committee had been unduly influ- enced by coin, he wanted them read out of the party. Judge A. J. King made a bitter speech denunciatory of the action of the committee, which he styled the basest treachery. Members of the committee present were accorded a hearing after loudly demanding it, and Earl Rogers defended their conduct. He admitted, however, that he believed the action indorsing the Kessler prop- osition was a mistake. The action of the city committee has hopelessly di- vided the Democratic party in this city. The Republican committee, the Un- ion Reform League and the League for Better City Government have declared against the Kessler schem TO UNITE THEIR VAST FORTUNES BY MARRIAGE Rumor That William Waldorf Astor and the Widow Goelet Are to Wed. NEW YORK, July 18&.—Rumor is cur- reht that William Waldorf Astor and Mrs. Ogden Goelet are to unite their for- tunes by marriage. Mrs. Goelet has just ended her year of widowhood. A first cousin of Mr. Astor, Miss Carcline Astor, married Marshall Orme Wilson, Mrs, Goelet’s brother. Al s S “Soapy’”’ Smith Interred. VICTORIA, July 18.—Word was received from the north by the steamer Tees to- night that the body of *Soapy” Smith was interred a week ago last Sunday. Friends of the deceased had planned to have the body embalmed and taken East, but the vigilance committee at Skaguay had the ody removed In an express ‘wagon to the little cemetery back of town Aol thens Shustgati th mother eavtl.” NO religious service was conducted. 1 CANNOT AVOID AN INOUIRY Charges Filed Against Tourtillott and Mrs. Madigan. Charles L. Williams Formally Accuses the Attaches of [mmoral Conduct, SAN JOSE, July 18.—Formal charges were filed to-day against T. T. Tourtil- lott, secretary to the medical superin- tendent of the Agnews State Hospital, and against Mrs. Madigan, one of the attendants at the same institution. The communication containing the charges was put into the mall this afternoon and addressed to T. S. Mont- gomery, secretary of the board of man- agers, by Charles L. Williams, husband of the young woman who alleged in an affidavit that she was discharged from the asylum on the demand of Frank H. Gould, because she knew too much about Tourtillott, who is a half-brother of Gould, and Mrs. Madigan. This clears the way of all technicali- ties and throws the doors open to the most sweeping of investigations. Here- tofore it has been the excuse of the Gould majority of the board that it would be useless to call a special ses- sion of the board to investigate the many recent charges against attaches of the asylum, because no charges had been formally filed. The issue now has been fairly and squarely presented to the directors, and how they will meet it remains to be seen. Mr. Williams’ charges not only are clear and specific, but his communica- tion gives a list of eight witnesses, who will, it is asserted, prove “valuable and important.” His action was hastened by the attack made by Gould on all who had dared to utter a word of criti- cism on the present administration at Agnews. Mr. Williams' views on the present situation are best told in his own words. He said: “That was a remarkable reflection of Mr. Gould when he said that those who are out are doing all the kicking and attempting to slander his good brother. The whole object of the dictatorial ad- ministration has been to proscribe those who murmur. ‘Open your mouth against me or mine, and you take a hasty walk down the avenue with your grip,’ has been the programme carried out.in every Instance. “None know this better than those who are filling positions in the State Hospital under the present regime. | This very trouble, this miserable con- dition of affairs is solely due to the ef- forts of Director Gould to compel every one to bow and cringe before him. This is the root of all the mischief. “Director Gould in his interview in The Call says: ‘The reason these so- called scandals have arisen is that in- competent, untruthful and viclous peo- ple have been turned out to make room for competent, truthful and kindly per- sons. It has been one continual strug- gle for the board of directors for more than a year past to counteract the evil influences of persons here, most diffi- cult at times to identify. There is not a statement made derogatory to this institution that is not supported by the statements of people discharged from here because of their incompetency, un- truthfulness or cruelty.” “I shall submit at the forthcoming in- vestigation a number of recomenda- tions which were given where Mrs. Williams is concerned. These are the recommendations I refer to,” said Mr. Williams, as he pro- duced three letters. “These re- commendations are from Dr. A ‘W. Hatch, formerly medical superin- tendent at Agnews, and now a member of the State Lunacy Commission; from Dr. J. R. Curnow, chairman of the board of managers of the Agnews State Hospital, and from Dr. Leonard Stock- ing, senior assistant physician at the hospital. They show that during the seven years Mrs. Willlams was employ- ed at Agnews she established an en- viable record on the very points charged against her by Director Gould. The recommendations are as follows: Office of the Trustees of the State Insane Asylum at Agnews. SAN JOSE, Cal., April 25, 1898. To Whom It May Concern: This is to certify that Mrs. Charles Willlams (nee Barnhisel) has been employed in the State Insane Hospital at Agnews for the past seven years, four years of that time as night attendant or night watch, during all of which time she performed her du- tles faithfully and consclentiously. She showed a kindness and a sympathy that was always attractive to insane patients, and consequently always gave her great influence over them. I, therefore, cheer- fully recommend her as_a good, faithful and capable nurse. ~J. R. CURNOW, Chairman Board of Managers, Agnews Insane Asylum, Cal. SACRAMENTO, May 31, 1898. To Whom It May Concern: The bearer, Mrs. Charles Willilams, was employed as an attendant upon the insane and as night attendant at the Agnews State Hos- pital during my term as medical director of that institution. She was an efficlent attendant, willing an‘g lnd‘f{"lllmm' kind to those under he espectfully, HATCH, M. D, Agnews State Hospital, AGNEWS, May 16, 1398. Mrs. Olivia B. Willlams was an employe in this hospital for more than seven vears, leaving the service but recently. For several years she occupled the re- sponsible position of night watch or nurse. She is a woman of excellent character, intelligent and of a kindly disposition. I always found her truthful, rellable, con- sclentious In the discharge of dutles and very kind and attentive to patients. I commend her to the considerate at- tention of any one to whom she may pre- sent this letter, confident she will prove trustworthy in nn{xxoslflnn she may be placed. \ LBONARD STOCKING, Senior Assistant Physician. Continuing his statement, Mr. Wil- liams sald: “But, as a more conclusive vindica- tion of the character and reputation of Mrs. Williams, I have to-day filed for- CASTORIA For Infants and Children, simile fses sigaature evory o WW‘ O+t + 1+ 4+ 4444+ 4444444444+ 4444444444444 444+ 04444444+ AGNEWS RING FINDS ESCAPE CUT OFF LR R R R R R R R R R R R R R news, Cal.—Sirs: valuable and important witnesses. ptial. Mrs. M. D. ment at the hospital. Yours sincerely. FORMAL ACCUSATION FILED WITH THE ASYLUM BOARD To the Honorable Board of Managers I have the unpleasant duty before me of calling the attention of your honorable body to matters that knowledge from what I consider a thoroughly reliable source, which go to show that two of the employes of the Agnews State Hospital under your charge have been guilty of what, to put it in the mildest possible form, was a course of conduct highly improper and open to the gravest suspicions, while at the same time it was a flagrant violation of certain rules and regulations of the Agnews State Hospital. The two employes referred to are Mr. T. T. Tourtillott, secretary to the medical superintendent of the hospital, and Mrs. K. Madigan, head attendant in one of the wards of the hospital. The acts complained of in connection with the said Mr. Tourtillott and the said Mrs. Madigan are that the latter at unseemly hours of the night on various occasions was found in the room of the former; the said Mr. Tourtillott and the said Mrs. Madigan have beendiscovered together in other apartments than their own in the Agnews S;ate Hos- pital at late hours of the night, and that the said Mr. Tourtillott was discovered in an attempt to surreptitiously leave the room of the said Mrs. Madigan about 5 o'clock in the morning of a certain day in February. Such conduct being subversive of good morals therefore decidedly injurious to the welfare and good reputation of an institution charged with the care of some goo women, I feel it incumbent upon me to place these matters before your honorable board, coupled with the request that you immediately begin a thorough, sweeping and conscientious investigation of this matter and such other irregularities and offenses in connection with the administra- tion of affairs at the Agnews State Hospital as may be developed in the course of the investigation of the charges herein specified. For the purpose of aiding you in this matter I herewith submit a list of the names of people, who, according to my best information, will prove These witnesses are: T. T. Tourtillott, secretary to the medical superintendent at the hos- Mrs. Kate Madigan, attendant at the hospital. Miss Ella Rorse, formerly matron at the hospital. Mrs. Z. B. White, attendant at the hospital. F. P. Kerns, outside night watch at the hospital. Miss Rose Ryan, assistant attendant at the hospital. haplin, formerly an attendant at the hospital. Mrs. Olivia B. Williams, formerly night watch in the female depart- PO LR RS R R R R R R P R PG SANTA CLARA, July 18, 1808. Agnews State Hospital, Ag- have come to my that and discipline and unfortunate men and CHARLES L. WILLIAMS. R R R R e R R R R R R R RS R R R R R L o b b o g © mal charges against Mr. T. T. Tour- tillot and Mrs. Madigan. I have de- signedly made the charges broad and sweeping in order that there may be no excuse for attempting to cover up anything or attempting to shield any- body. “I wish at this time to place myself right in reference to my action in seek- ing to have my wife reinstated at the asylum. My action was called into question at the last board meeting by Dr. Curnow. He asked me why I again desired to place my wife in a position where she would be subjected to in- sult and distasteful treatment. I am now free to explain that I simply wished to put the board on record, and this I have accomplished. Had Mrs. ‘Willlams been reinstated she would have resigned immediately. What we sought was a vindication of her com- petency and character and mental con- dition. It will be remembered that Mr. Gould claimed that she was suf- fering under mental hallucinations when she alleged she saw the misdo- ings of Mr. Tourtillott and Mrs. Madi- gan. I think that we will be able to fully establish all that we desire before we are through, if we get anything Hke fair treatment. “I have no hesitation in saying that it has been Mr. Gould's policy in deal- ing with my wife any many other asy- lum employes to tear them down with the erroneous idea that by so doing he builds himself up. “If I find I cannot get fair treatment before the board, I shall carry the mat- ter directly to the Governor, as I am determined not to allow my wife to rest under the imputations that have been cast upon her.” HEALDSBURG INCENDIARIES. Two Men Accused of Having Started a Conflagration. HEALDSBURG, July 18.—A cottage owned by Mr. Wheeler in North Healds- burg was burned to the ground last night at about midnight. The fire was of incen- diary origin, and Samuel and Robert Sin- clair are now in the eity jail charged witn the crime. The property formerly be- longed to the Sinclair family. The are rested men claim to have been swindled it. 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