The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 28, 1898, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1898. GRAHAM’S SACK BULGES WITH SAN JOSE’S GOLD LOOT OF THE GARDEN CITY SRONG BOX School Trustee Lets Contracts to Himself Under an Alias. Expose of Shameless Piliering by Which “Jim” Rea’s Un- derlings Profit, SAN JOSE, the ( Board Jul —The affairs of ucation should be given a thorough investigation. Dur- ing the past month irregularities have been discovered in bills allowed by the Trustees. The public should insist upon an open igation and the Grand Jury's attention ht to be called to th acts. s, M. J. Graham and E. H. cond ward, have| rom the school law. Trustee O’'Brien knew | Cruste O'Neil | School Trustee M. J. Graham, alias J. N. White, of San Jose. 1and in the pecu- ! bers of and Professor L. R. Smith from the High School. He came here a green bo »m Nebraska six years ago, and ined employment in the Mercury’s -otyping room. Rea picked him up ran him for School Trustee in the rth Ward, and since then the gang and the gang organ have been back of him in his culpable acts. One of Gra- . White, 7 ,. | ham’s first moves after getting into h Graham receives the | ,mce was to install his wife, Mrs. Ella draws the mon No | Graham, as principal of the Emma n 1 J. N. White is known in del Kindergarten at a salary of 8 1, further, such_indi- month. The following additional n interest in the build- | list of Graham's relatives in the School on which the school Department will show how the Rea & or's roll shows that | gang distributes patronage: t Cottage Grove kin- | ~ D, T. Bateman, a brother-in-law, d s situated belongs to Mary | principal Lowell Grammar School, $120 A in-law of Gra- | a month. h port given to the Asses- M A. McDonald, a sister-in-law, s record of any improve- n Lincoln Grammar School, $78. o | aw, jan- e school shows the | 3 er ¥ Graham and 5 should be c = last Board of > of $12 15 allowed Sup- . M. Stern, the harness maker, for furnishing matches, soap b and lamp chimm to the School De- 1 i : 4 ot part . These goods were bought - he people of Cot- | from Trustee Wemple S ¢ satisfad Wit the 1o: | (o ander i e e en the il put »ol. Graham and Miss | = — fved together and de- T ¢'a small cottage on the | MENDOCINO STAGE rent it to the city for a s ‘antion’’ was inot ROBBED BY BANDITS ! m was sure = uld cons to the re- | Fell a Tree Across the Road and Then a cc Take the Treasure When the Driver Goes for Aid. | UKIAH, July 2i.—The stage running from this city to Mendocino was robbed highwaymen this morning at 1 er $700 w h that it could » a dwelling if some 1 upset the project School Houses s:z-]-«: airs—Kenyon, O'Brien | The holdup took place near anc move the 1e robbers had felled a tree school to . notwith- . Bert Curtis, the driver StavAing ronl B3 Groue and went to a farm house N h which to remove the ob- ? When he returned the express ad vanished. The amount securec robbe is unknown. ; chured successfully covered up al was paid of their presence. It lslfl.Llui old builc sum Grah large amount of coin was in transit. drs v >dge of oth em? | There 1 AOM At present to the identity bers of t 3, under the mame | 9+ "¢ bandits o of J. N nine and one-half months o "Commitiee | PARDONS TWO HUNDRED which ¢ bill each month 1 el aham, Kenyon POLITICAL PRISONERS O’Brien {ll be seen Graha i be ) allow this fllegal | One of the Concluding Act: i Th. tter 15 o H; : A i claim e matter is one awaiian Counci that s be laid before the Grand ol et Jum d.‘”.‘lh}“:‘,.\ Gt (s JONOLULD, The Couneil of The City Charter strictly prohibits | T;]f‘:f" o 2 ¥ and pardoned more v G be Jarties to | than 200 most o o vere | any of belns parties to | Ukt 20, ¢ taking Sart s the ore Miscellaneous | Under pare Deragn o Rl ¢ pardon restores their tion 10, the | civil righ mill-owners in m any contractor or ng labor or madterial for t luu.sv»r mill on Butte kil o e Rl 2 widow and five chil- . section 1876, say — Tragedy on Sherman Island. School Trustee or Bo interested in any c "OCKTON, Jul , board of which he'is et e ser_ partic- contract made in viclation rnoon by on is void ,n 1870 of the same article pre- at “‘any r so acting or be ed guilty of a| nd conviction be | punished by fine or imprisonment and i from office.” » Graham is the avowed.agent ' Rea in all school matters. He was who did the dirty work in caus- ing the di issal of Mrs. A. B. Clement as Assistant Superintendent of Schools sted for the al of the of- crime ha on been commit did not know the pa ars, It was believed the woman did the stab- bing. The wounded man was not a quar- relsome person. It is believed that the man and the woman atiempted to rob reidt and he resisted. The wound believed to be fatal. i N i MILEIBTO 4 The House on Which Trustee Graham Collects Rent From the Citu. CHICO PIONEER POISONED. CHICO, July 27.—John Hupp, one of the oldest residents of Butte County, died this morning from strychnine poisoning. Hupp acknowledzed having taken the : poison, and sald he took it to relieve e trensurs | crampé is al one time one of the | 1 recelve o - | owned val- | SETTLERS WILL KEEP THE LAND Southern Pacific Loses Ejectment Suits. DECISION OF A FRESNO JUDGE LARGE WEST SIDE HOLDINGS INVOLVED. Railroad Company Fails to Oust Ranchers From Lands for Which They Had Received Patents. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. FRESNO, July 27.—Judge Risley ren- dered an important decision to-day in a number of rallroad suits. The suits were instituted by the Southern Pacific Com- pany against Isaac T. Bell and a large number of others who had settled on land on the west side and who were is- sued patents by the Government. Just before the flve years during which they would have had peaceable and undis- puted possession would have expired the railroad company began actions to con- test their right to the land and to eject them therefrom if possible. The suits came up before Judge Ris- ley to-day on demurrers interposed by the defendants and the court sustained the demurrers. This practically is a vic- tory for the defendants, as the points | raised by the demurrers went squarely to the merits of the suits. The history of the cases is an Interest- ing one. In 1866 the Government deeded to the rallroad companies every odd | quarter-section of land along the route of | the road, extending a distance of twenty | miles on ‘either side. The condition to the | grant was that the rallroad company | should have every other section whicl was not occupled at the time. Some of the land which would fall to the railroad company had been settled, | and what was known as an indemnity grant was afterward made, giving the company an additional strip of land ten miles wide, In which the company might select land to make up for the occupied sections in the previous grant. Subsequently, however, the indemnity grant was rescinded. After the indem- nity grant in this particular case was withdrawn by the Government the defen- dants In the present litigation settled upon It, complied with all the provisions of the law upp?nx(nin¥ to filing upon land, and patents were Issued to them by the United States Government. The rall- road company now sues under the Indem- nity, claiming that the cancellation of the indemnity grant was unconstitutional. JAPANESE PRESS ON UNCLE SAM’'S SIDE Favors Our Retention of the Philip- pines and Disliker the Preten- sions of Germany. YOKOHAMA, July 27.—Discussing the Philippines question the Japanese press generally favors the retention of the islands by the United States. There would be no objection to their transfer to Great Britain. Japan’s Interests, how- ever, forbids their passing into the hands of Germany or of any other Continental power. In any event, the Japanese press regards the scheme of an insurgent re- pu’inllc in the Philippines as entirely Im- practicable. SEVENTH CALIFORNIA WILL GO TO MANILA Decisive Announcement Made by Secretary of War Alger in a Telegram. LOS ANGELES, July Zl.—Henry Gage to-day recelved a telegram from Secre- tary of War Alger which stated positively that the Seventh Regiment, California Volunteers, would go to Manila. “The Seventh will go as soon as the transport for it can be secured,” the tele- gram says. It was sent in response to a telegram from Mr. Gage to Secretary Alger. it s e To Make Esquimalt Impregnable. VICTORIA, B. C., July 2.—The War Department is quietly but with all pos- sible speed making arrangements for in- creasing the fortifications at Esquimalt, the ultimate intention being ths absorp- AGNEWS INQUIRY CAUSES HALE AND GOULD Unpleasant Revelations Made to the State Commission in Lunacy. SAN JOSE, July 27.—Neither Czar Gould nor Director Hale are happy over what was developed before the State Commission in Lunacy yesterday. In some mysterious way the dictator of the Agnews State Hospital learned that Director White had told the com- mission some unpleasant truths about how Gould managed, by broken prom- ises, unholy alliances with persons of antagonistic political faith and treach- ery to his own party, to obtain more than his proportion of the patronage of the institution. Director Hale is uncomfortable over the knowledge that Director Upham stated before the commission that the asylum was run by a ‘ring” and that | Hale was a member of it. Hale does | not like the appellation ‘ringster.” Neither does he take kindly to the Governor’s well-intended and " jocular remarks made before an amused audi- ence at the asylum yesterday. Said the Governor: “Your turn will come soon, old smoothy. We will have you in and we will try to take some of that smooth- | ness out of you. Say, I will wager that | if Hale were to run for Governor and he were given six months’ time, he | would have the vote of every man in the State.” It was learned to-day that within the past few weeks Gould obtained—or, rather, ordered—the appointment of two additional employes at the asylum, thus bearing out the claim that he has | been persistently engaged in filling the | institution with his proteges. The ap- | pointees are Harry Conner of San Jose | and Mr. Biggy of San Francisco, a son of Senator Biggy. It is likely that the investigation of the charges against T. T. Tourtillot and Mrs. Madigan will be concluded to- morrow without the examination of ad- TO SQUIRM ditional witnesses. To-day Charles L. Williams submitted the names of some important witnesses to Chairman Cur- now with the request that he have them subpenaed but Curnow declared that Williams would have to look after the attendance of any witnesses he wanted. ‘What Gould cannot get by direct means he manages to get by indirect | ones. One of the plums of the institu- tion {s the positicn of matron. Gould | has had, according to general report | and by the admission of some of the members of the board, Miss Louise Bambauer, his Merced importation, slated for this position. She stands fourth on the list of those who took the | civil service examination for the posi- tion of matron, but that is apparently an insignificant fact with Gould. No appointment has yet been made to flll the vacancy created by the forced resignation of Miss Royse, but Miss Bambauer has been appcinted to the place temporarily under the instruc- tions of Gould. It was not generally known until to- day that this temporary appointment carries with it not only the honors and responsibilities of the position, but the salary also. This s, however, a fact, and Miss Bambauer has been draw- ing the salary of matron ever since her appointment. Under these circum- stances it is_not probable that any haste will b@ made to have the board make a regfflar appointment” to the position, and thus the issue of the civil service examinaiton will be evaded. To-morrow wiil probably see the con- | clusion of the examination of members | of the Agnews board of managers be- fore the State Commission in Lunacy. The testimony given by them before the commission will then be made public, according to the statement of Governor Budd. It is believed that the records will contain much of an interesting, if not a sensational, nature. NOBLEMEN IN HOOLEY'S PAY Exchanged Prestige for Golden Coin. CONFESSION OF PROMOTER. HIRED LORDS TO TAKE PLACES IN HIS COMPANIES. Heavy Payments to London News- papers for “Puffs” Intended to Work TUpon the Credulous. Bpecial Dispatch to The Cull LONDON, July 27.—The public exami- nation in the bankruptey court, to-day into the affairs of Ernest Terrah Hooley, the company promoter, for whose prop- erty, on his own application, a receiver was appointed on July 23, attracted a blg crowd. The debtor attributed his failure chiefly to his partner, a man named Rucker, he crippling the business by drawing out £500,000 within two months. In detailing the flotation of the Dunlop Tire Company, Mr. Hooley said the names on the directorate cost between &£80, and £100,000, including those of Lord Al- bemarle, £12,00, and Earl Delawarr, In connection with the flotation, Mr. Hooley also sald he lost £62,000 on ‘‘press calls,” these being shares intended for people connected with newspapers, whose names have not been divulged, though it is expected they will be made public later. In the course of his testimony Mr. Hoo- ley detailed the payments he made to the newspapers, including, as alleged, the Pall Mall Gazette, the Financial Post and a number of smaller papers, When Mr. Hooley was questioned about £10,000 pald to Harry Marks, editor of the FI- nancial News, he denled that it was con- nected with the insertion of “puffs” in the paper named. As a matter of fact, the supposed profit of the flotation of the Dunlop Tire Com- pany, amounting to £1,700,000, had been “sweated” away to under £200,000. Mr. Hooley further asserted that he paid many thousands of pounds for intro- ductions to Lords Ashburton, Warwick, Norbury and others, and he testified that the Earl of Winchelsea received $10,000 for acting as chairman of one of the bi- cycle tube manufacturing concerns. The testimony is creating even more of a flutter in the west end of London than in the city proper. The revelations con- cerning such men as Earl Delawarr and the Earl of Albemarle have been received with astonishment. Nu- merous instances were disclosed by Mr. Hooley In which a peer bearing a proud title would charge the promoter a sum ranging from £500 to £2000 for an intro- duction to another peer. Thus, Mr. Hoo- ley ~sald, Earl Delawarr received | £200 for 'an introduction to Lord Gre- ville, while Lord Deerhurst (who mar- ried Miss Bonynge of San Francisco) was | paid £2000 for an introduction to Lord Ashburton. OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST Prospects for River and Harbor Im- provements — Vacancy That Is Only Temporary—Pensions. ‘WASHINGTON, July 27.—The reports of Colonel Suter, Major Heuer and Major Lewis on improvements of rivers and harbors in California have been received by the War Department. Surveys of the Bacramento and Feather rivers have been completed, but owing to the fact that the engineers and draftsmen engaged in the work had to be taken away on account of the present war, they are somewhat incomnlete. The board had six meetings only to consider matters submitted by the Commissioner of Public Works. It is be- lleved by the board that the unexpended balance of $50,451, together with the $280,- 000, will be sufficient to maintain fairly good navigation until June 30. 19%0. The; estimate the amount for completing wor on Oakland harbor at $521,00, and the amount to be used between now and 1900 $130,000. For the Napa and Moxelumne rivers there Is balance enough on hand to be used until 1900. They estimate that the completion of work on Humbola: Bay will cost $143,000 additional and $20,000 on the Ban Joaquin River. Commander Bradford, chief of the Bu- reau of Equipment, savs that if the va- cancy in the Branch Hydrographic Of- fice at San Francisco should h~ filled it would be but iemporarily, as the officer heretofore In_ charge has been detailed for duty at Manila, and will be restored to his former position when his services in the Philippines are concluded. All va- cancies of this character wul be filled but temporarily If at all. Pacific Coast pensions have been grant- ed as follows: California: uri~inal—Charles Meyer, dead, San Francisco, $12: Robert M. 'S bastian, dead. Los Angeles, ..2 (20 yea service): Charles Thompson, Vallejo, $2150. Original widow. etc.—Fannie Ast- bury, San Francisco, $. Oregon: Original—Charles Hickethier, Cedar Mills, $6. Additional—Louis Ben- ninger, Isabel, $6 to $8. ‘Washington: Original—Cnarles G, Se- mon, Spokane, $6; Melchisedec Hann, Kelso, $6. Increase—Thomas C. Naylor, ‘Wildwood, $6 to $8. G. C. 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