The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 21, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1898. CIVIL ORDER IS RESTORED IN THE CITY OF SANTIAGO Spanish and American Soldiers Meet in the Cafes and Ex- change Mementoes. New York | Jeft arm has been amputated and to- nes Gor- | night he is in a serious condition. The trades and business houses open- ed their doors for the first time to-day, cleared their warehouses and made ready for the receipt of goods. All the TBA, July 19, tch-bo 20.—Civil WILL BE SACRAMENTO, July 20.—At a meet- | ing of the State Lunacy Commission | to-day the state of affairs at the Ag- | news Asylum, as described in The Call, | was taken up officially by Secretary of SRl stores are open this morning. lebra business. their shops being crowded by clothes, dresses and furniture. Officers tender their medals, spurs and swords, and civil employes their tortoise shell, gold-headed canes of of- fice for a mere song, which are in turn bought at fancy prices by American soldiers, officers or newspaper corres- pondents, as relics of war. ihere have been more machetes sold to our men as souvenirs than were laid down on the morning of tke surrender, and crosses, service stripes and orders are cheerfull~ parted with for American cash. There is no ready-made clothing in the city except blue and white striped linen uniforms, and many of our men are dressed in these Spanish uniforms. They present a strange appearance and are greeted with laughter. The readi- ness and avidity with which the store- kto‘;pers accept greenbacks is remark- able, Many of the Spanish soldiers are anxious to become American citizens and are applying for naturalization papers, 1tly simplifies | depart- | YT JT to arrange | | of supplies over ) | still de- s for her from out- | It will | 1 a day or two. t to-day to repair =vere broken by the | 1 order to divert the nizing plac E drink- from well-filled | ities thought it where | . are be- | are t be solved, —_— KON RIVER Two Steamships Total ns of Santiago are Wrecks. an rule. Exceed- s exist between ers of both armies. iized in the cafes, | THE ALFRED J. BEACH SUNK -rday. The places | oups, invariably | f both u S, g reminisce: Many | officers ex- embrances of PASSENGERS ESCAPE IN THE; SMALL BOATS. iards the nb to | The W. H. Evans Beached at Dixon s v not en | e .t",‘_‘i"n’m,m,f;d'f Entrance, the Noyo Taking Her made by Gen- alToral. Even the | | | | Thirty-Five Argonauts on it is better | to St. Michael. The pawn shops are doing a rushing | all sorts of people pawning heirlooms, | CRAFT LOST State L. H. Brown, who offered the | following resolution: Resolvea, That, pursuant to the | power vested in this commission by law, an investigation of the affairs | of the State Hospital at Agnews be | had, and that the Attorney-General | be requested, under section 12 of the | act creating the commission, to con- duct said investigation. | Dr. Mathews oppesed the resolution, { on the ground that the Attorney Gen-| eral had no more business with the af- | | fair than had the commissioners pres- ent. He maintained that it was a re- ! sponsibility which neither Mr. Brown nor anybody else should shirk. Affairs | were some time ago represented to be equally as scandalous at the Napa | | Asylum, and yet Mr. Brown had intro- | | duced no resolution calling for an in- | vestigation. “Didn't I try to get at the facts| at that time?” demanded Secretary Brown. “You know why we couldn‘t—‘ | we were not permitted to get at the| facts. | “I want now to get at the bottom of the facts concerning Dr. Sponogle,” continued Secretary Brown, “‘and if in | order to do that we have to investigate | | every asylum in the State I am per- | fectly willing to do so.” | He said he wanted the truth of the scandal and would not accept the| whitewashing reports of local boards. A motion was made by Dr. F. M. Hatch, calling for a meeting of the commission in San Francisco on Satur- | day next, at which Brown's resolution was to be considered. Secretary of State Brown opposed this motion on the ground that the State capitol was in Sacramento and he did not believe | in running all over the State after peo- ple whom it was proposed to investi- | gate. They could come to the capitol | | as easily as the capitol could go hunt- | ing after them. He sald that he would AGNEWS SCANDAL TO THE BOTTOM State Board of Lunacy to Take the Affair Out of the Local Board’s Hands. PROBED position nine months he resigned. De! Lassier said there was inharmony in | the internal workings of the hospital | and he thought it best to get out before | there was a general mix-up and scan- | dal. Unless one was a pet of the ad- ministration there was littie chance for favors, and the continual warring among the various factions was disa- greeable. He said Miss Royse was fair- ly liked, bore an excellent reputation and performed her duties well. He was there nine months and saw Miss Royse every day and never saw her under the influence of liquor, as intimated by Mrs. Fadden in the yellow journal of San Francisco. If she had indulged in | it at all he would have heard it from | some of the girls or men employed as | attendants. | De Lassier said the Tourtillott-Madi- | gan scandal was common gossip about | the institution, and in January last he | called Dr. Sponogle’s attention to it.! At that time Dr. Sponogle called De Lassier into the office and reprimanded | him for talking to female attendants in | the corridors. De Lassier asked why | he was made an example of when he | talked to the young ladies openly, | while he (Sponogle) knew Tourtillott | and Mrs. Madigan sneaked around in back stairways and talked for hours at a time. In answer to this Sponogle said: “You know how that is; he [meaning Tourtillott] is Frank H. Gould’s bro- ther, and you know what position I am n De Lassier says Mrs. Williams bore | an excellent reputation, and was a fa-| vorite with the inmates. He Xknows | Bessie Bailey and Ed Herbert, and said their escapade was really the fault of | Dr. Sponogle. Miss Bailey’s mania was of a mild nature, and the medical di- | rector allowed her to take daily walks | with the female attendants. On these occaslons Herbert was always along, and allowing these two to come to- gether so much was the means of mak- ing them lovers. Sponogle knew they | were together a great deal, because it | was necessary to secure his permission | | to take the young lady out. ST ST L CALL FOR THE INQUIRY | oppose any resolution including Napa | | and other State asylums as subjects for | investigation, because no charges had | NOT YET ISSUED been filed respecting them. He believ- ed Napa was as bad as any of them; “but,” he added, turning to Dr. Ma- thews, “you know what the power was which prevented our getting at the truth. I will not mention it here. [ | know that certain powers wanted to whitewash that Napa affair. The Napa board ignored the charegs. They have even violated the civil service rules there. I think it is rotten now.” | 1d niot come “‘Well, then, why didn’t you do some- | Sk EAYRERE thing?"” asked Dr. Mathews. “Did you | viéonsist only of a1 ever bring in a resolution?"” | AILE e oty Spectal Dispatch to The Call. | “No. You know why. For three| cers. The main | m) on the hills, with ger to get a glimpse of the conquered city 1 SEATTLE, July 20.—The steamer | Lakme, which arrived here to-day from | St. Michael brings news that the river | steamers Alfred J. Beach and W. H. | Evans, which were being towed to the | mouth of the Yukon River, are total | , and Shafter's staff the command- | wrecks. When some 250 miles out from ing ger Of iheir exam- | Dixon entrance the Beach holsted a | CoRCILS | signal of distre: She soon began to | er supply would pipes were ze, and the leak badly. Finally her condition be- | came so bad that her twenty-four pas- | ‘: turned to Dixon entrance and beached been set for moving ¥ the Evans. By the time he arrived at The regiments p on the heights it is certain th ntagious diseases. ded on transports co or the United The passengers were transferred to the Noyo, which proceeded to St. Michael. The Alfred J. Beach was the prop- erty of the Alaskan Mutual Trans- portation and Mining Association of Chicago and most of the passengers ;\'ere from Chicago. Their outfits were ost. The W. H. Evans carried thirty-five people. Those arriving on the Lakme with the largest amounts of gold were two French-Canadian families named L'Heureaux and Ciulleid. They carried two large leather grips filled with dust and nuggets and a strong box contain- ing fully 150 pounds. It all aggregated about $60,000. MAKE ROUNDS K OF THE DISTRICT | SANTIAGO ME CUBA, July 19, \'la| Kingston, Jamalca, July 20.—Lieuten- | 1t Miley of General Shafter's staff | t here this morning with a troop of | Iry, mounted, under Captain Breit, | to make the rounds of the entire mili- | istrict of Santiago de Cuba, and | )¢ the purpose of receiving the formal J. W. McCreary of Spokane had two srrender of the Spanish forces. He | 82cks of nuggets which weighed $11,- goes first to San Luls, where there are | %{J Victor Reux had about $12,000. O. = 5 . Decker, a trader, had nearly $20,000. about 4,500 of the enemy’s troops. Lieu- | y R Gooler brought out drafts aggre- tenant Miley will then receive the sur- | gating $10,000. H. A. Schell is sald to render, in order, f 80) men at Cobre, | have drafts amounting to $40,000. W. S. 200 at Catalina, 2,500 at Guantanamo | Riblets of California had $4000 deposit- 00 at Baracoa. A total of 20,000 | 4 ed in the purser’s safe. niards are expected to yield their | to this one troop of cavalry. Af- reaching Baracoa Lieutenant will be ccmpelled to ride ctraight s the country to the coast, accom- | d by a Cuban guide. He will pro- | : der a white flag for protection, | ,SALT LAKE, July 20.—A special to the -neral Toral has sent memhprs"r”hune from Idaho Falls, Idaho, says: Gene ; e ipan. | A man glving his name as Charles of his staff ahead to notify the Span-| iyern feii under a freight train toonight. -ds of the tcrms of the surrender. Both of his legs were cut off. He says The wound of General Linares is v ' his sister, Mrs. Bell, lives in San Fran- much more serious than reported. His e MAIMED BY CAR WHEELS. Charles Ahern of San FranciscoLoses Both of His Legs. AMERICAN SHIPS SHELL CUBAN PORTS From Havana Also Comes News of the Use of Dynamite by the Insurgents. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett. HAVANA, July 20.—An American ship last Saturday fired 100 shots at a distance at the port of Santa Cruz del Sur without do- ing any damage. Another American ship on Sunday fired 100 shots Cruz on the north coast, near Jaruco. Spanish troops in a battle with a large band of insurgents at Aqua Villas hill killed five insurgents and captured some arms, am- munition and cattle. The insurgents during the battle exploded three dynamite bombs. Two Spanish soldiers and one officer were seriously wounded, and one officer and ten soldlers were slightly wounded. Ninety kilometers out from Havana on the western railroad a bomb was exploded under the engine and armored car of the passenger train coming from Pinar del Rio. The engineer and stoker were Injured. The brigade commanded by the former in- surgent Masso y Para has been carrying on effective operations against the Insurgents near Siguanea and Ciequa. Some battal- lons of Masso's brigade which went recently to Manzanillo are re- ported to have behaved admirably in defense of that place. 3 is carried | sengers took to the boats. They | ans of surface | reached the Evans in safety. In a rs will be practically | short time the Beach went down. g0 in a day or two. No | mhe captain of the Noyo then re- y | American Bay she was all but a wreck. | months we tried to get a report.” | At this juncture a vote was taken on the motion calling for the meeting in San Francisco. All save Secretary Brown voted for it. He sald he would | not be there. When Dr. Mathews was asked what, in his opinion, Mr. Brown meant when he sald: ‘“You know, doctor, why we were not permitted to get at the facts,” the doctor replied: “No one can with any degree of cer- tainty tell what another man means by | | any expression not entirely clear, but it is my opinion that Secretary of State | Brown had Attorney-General Fitzger- | ald in his mind when he made that re- | | mark.” | | Secretary Brown, having been asked | | the same question, replied: “In the} first place, there has always been a | very serious difference existing be- | tween our State board and the local | boards of these institutions. There has | | been a constant conflict, and but two | | members of our board have been ready | | to conduct these investigations when | | our attention has been called to the | | abuses and scandals which have con- | stantly been reported. “What I meant when I addressed myself to Dr. Mathews was that we were refused certain proofs which were {In the hands of the local board at | Napa for several months. The local | | board had reports from certain detec- tives it employed, which showed that | about forty of the employes had been | | guilty of gross misconduct, in many | ‘ instances involving them in absolute, | theft. Before our board was permitted to see these reports, a mapority of the gullty ones had been discharged. Had these obstacles been removed we could have made a thorough investi- | | gation and reported accordingly. As | it was, the local board applied a whole- | some supply of whitewash and covered {up the abuses by discharging a few of | the guilty ones. “In my opinfon the investigation at | Agnews will result in a similar action, if left to the local board. The au- | thority of our State board has been questioned, and until the entire board | | stands together and sustains itself'as a body there will be no use or advan- | tage coming from the statute which | created the State Lunacy Commission.” MORE INSIGHT TO AGNEWS’ CONDITION | SAN JOSE, July 20.—As early as last December Frank H. Gould, that would- be apostle of Democracy, had begun to formulate plans to oust Miss Ella Royse from the matronship at Agnews Asylum. This was in order to make room for Miss Bambauer, his Merced importation. Louls E. H. de Sallier, who was an attendant at the asylum, visited Mr. Gould at his office in San Francisco about Christmas time and asked him to support him for the vacancy that existed in the position of dairyman. De Sallier told him that Trustees Hale and Curnow had promised to work for him. Gould then promised De Sallier he would do what he could to get him a place. Gould asked De Salller to keep his eyes open and if he saw any crook- edness going on to let him know of it. He sald Miss Bambauer was well fitted for the position of matron. Inquiry was made as to what kind of a man Berry, a carpenter at the asylum, was. De Sallier does not remember distinctly whether Miss Royse's name was men- tioned In connection with Miss Bam- bauer, but thinks it was. He concluded from his interview with Gould that if he could secure evidence to bring about Miss Royse's dismissal from her posi- tion as matron he would be made dairyman or something better. De Sal- lier told Gould that if he kept his eyes open and reported to him it would be ltthctg ‘tlruth regardless of on whose head ell. De Sallier was seen at his home at San Martin to-day. He was appointed an attendant at Agnews Asylum | SAN JOSE, July 20.—Chairman Cur- | | now of the Agnews Asylum trustees has not yet issued the call for a special meeting to investigate the charges of immorality made by Charles Williams against T. T. Tourtillott and Mrs. K. Madigan. To-day he gave the same stereotyped answer that the meeting would be held the first of next week. | The excuse now being made for not holding the investigation sooner is that Attorney Bowden, who is to represent Dr. Sponogle, is busy in court. ‘ The affidavit made by Detective Er- | win Frost that he was hired by White | to ohtain evidence against Sponogle is ! not taken seriously and it has placed him in a rather peculiar position. It“ is said that at last night’s meeting | Sponogle stated that Frost was trying | to blackmail him and that associated | with him in this was Henry S. Weit- | man, a brother of the first Mrs. Spon- | ogle. It is known positively that Weit- | man was in town several weeks ago. | Now Frost, not knowing that Spon- ogle had formed this opinion of the | reason that »rompted him to make the charges, made affidavit that White had hired him to dig up evidence against Sponogle in order to force the latter to put back Miss Royse. | The statement of Sponogle is being genrally credited and Frost's affidavit has fallen flat and is regarded as the | peculiar eccentricity of an excited man who has had the props knocked out from under the pedestal upon which he | has been standing. ALASKAN VESSELS TO BE USED AS TRANSPORTS | Lakme, Tillamook and AllianceChar- I tered and Two Others Soon to Be Acquired. SEATTLE, July 20.—The Government, as represented by the Johnson-Locke Mercantile Company of San Francisco and Seattle, has chartered several steam- | ers to carry soldlers to Uncle Sam’s new | possessions in the Pacific. The vessels procured are the Lakme, Tillamook and * Alliance, and negotiations are almost closed for the Charles Nelson. The four steamers are now engaged on the Alaska | run between Seattle and St. Michael. A ! deal is on foot for the chartering of the steamship Columbia. i The Lakme arrived in port to-day, and | as soon as she can be made ready she | will ba sent to San Francisco to be turned | over to Major Long. The other vessels will reach here from the north in the | course of a week. These transports have | accommodations for about 3000 soldlers. | iue Ciimate of Cuba. Becanse of frequent rains in Cuba, malarfal | fevers are a common ailment there, just as | they are in many sections of the United States. 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