The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1898. CONFESSES T0 THE LUNACY COMMISSIO Agnews Asylum Farce Finally Brought to a Close, Action on the Charges Against Attaches Indefinitely Deferred. 1y 20, —Frank H. Gould ! re the State Com- that he is a candi- He e refrained the Agnews time,” ason I did not terest ed up ot of en- 1 whether the cy will make 10or was ., on the he is still cold, which The Attor- an hour, left to Dr. nd Secretary of the Agnews Board 1 his testimony Dr. Sponogle, rwin_ Frost, harles L. Wil- s transcrib- considered by nis , and her there 1s further into the opini before ti probable rther NATIONAL IRRIGATORS TO MEET IN SEPTEMBER Congress the A o Be Eeld at Cheyenne and ndance Is Expected Che sev- fonal Ir- called t the h its chair- or Joseph M. on the 1st, relgn irrigation ention to be pre: MRS. HARTLEY OF BERKELEY HONORED Elected Presiding Officer of the Christian Woman’s Board of Missions. SANTA CRUZ, July of the entire d Garfield Park have under the auspices of the Christian ard of Missions. The morn- as led by Mrs. J. F. The convention pro- order by the vice-presi- Grant of Woodland. Praise . was led by Miss Mary Durham of ington. An interesting paper was read d on rds, Gold and y Mrs. Ed her of Salinas, wddress full of good points and was given by 'the national Mr sis L. Christian, on of Junior Christian Endeavor & Christian Woman's Board Mrs. Christian also gave before a large congregation crnacle to-night on *“Work in the arid lar fled their in € committee made its re- port : t ers for the coming year were clected. President, Mrs. Mary J. Hartley of Berke vice-president, Mrs. Bue C t of Woodland; secretary, Mrs. T. D. Butler of Oakland - a7 DECIDES FOR MRS. LAOGIER. Judgment in a Suit for Valuable Stockton Property. STOCKTO 2.—Judgment In fa- vor of the was rendered this forenoon Judge Jones in the sult brought by Antonio Dionicla L nego against Mrs. husband, Basilo s brought to re- which belonged e property to the plaintiff many ye held in later years by ‘deed absolute on its face. Laogier under a The contention was set up that the deed was In fact @ mortgage, gl lo secure Laogler for money owed by Zignego. The court in rendering judgment ace knowledged that the preponderance of the testimony taken at the trial was in | favor of the Elmmm, but held that some- thing more than preponderance was nec- essary to overthrow the absolute nature of the deed. One fact aiding him in arriving at this . s explaining rt in the se- | ran his 29.—The sessions | rs ago, but was | GOULD ASPIRES TO BE CALIFORNIA’ S GOVERNOR ATTY. GENERAL JUDGE W. EFITZGERALD 2 e 3 E-_?DQ = HAjQH{y e > £} | matter, unless it be the resignation of the two members of the Agnews Board, who have been at sixes and sevens ever since their appointment, more than two ars ago. These are Gould and White. personal antagonisms have so ted the employes of the institu- tion that the w»resent demoralization has resulted, with its charges and eoun- terc removals, resignations, jealous threats and Investigations. Th stimony given by the various persons who appeared before the com- mission confirmed all the facts and cir- cumstances heretofore published in The | Call. It showed that Gould and White had disagreed over the division of pat- ronage. White charged Gould with having broken faith with him in the matter of the appointment of secretary of the board. On the other hand, Gould charged that White sought te obtain more than his share of the appoint- | ments, and White made ‘a inter- charge of the same kind. White de- | clared that a combination existed be- will come of the |tween Directors Gould, Hale and Cur- | | Judgment was the doubt entertained as | to the ability of the main witness, Mrs Zignezo (widow of the plaintiff, ‘ignego having died since the suit was brought) to remember with accuracy conversations which occurred twen! seven years ago. s g CLAIMS HER SON IS DUKE OF PORTLAND Mrs. Anna Maria Druce Seeks Per- mission to Examine the Coffin of Her Late Husband. LONDON, July 2.—The Chancellor of the Diocese of London has ordered that | application should be made to Sir Fran- | cis Henry Jeune, president of the probate, | divorce and admiralty disision of the | High Court of Justice, to say whether the faculty ought to issue an order empow- ering Mrs. Anna Marfa Druce to open | the vaults and inspect the coffin which | is alleged to contain the remains of T. C. Druce, who, the applicant sa: really the fifth Duke of Portland. Mrs. Anna Maria Druce claims that the father of her late husband was the Duke of Portland, who was supposed to have | died unmarried, and that her son is the| rightful Duke of Portland. She asserts | her husband's alleged death and 1 under the name of Druce were de- ns, and that he died, after having | n a lunatic asylum, as Dr. Harmer. | - FITZSIMMONS WILLING ‘ TO FIGHT JEFFRIES NEW YORK, July 20.—Bob Fitzsim- | mons sald to-day he was prepared to ar- range a fight with Jim Jeffries, and would also sign articles to meet “Kid" McCoy, if the latter should be successful in his | coming contest with Jim Corbett. “I think,” sald Fitzsimmons, “that Jef- fries is the one man entitled to meet me. He has never been defeated by me, and as he is an aspirant for the heavy- welght championship, 1 will give him a chance at that title If he so desires. i “My offer to fight ‘Kid’ McCoy at mid- | dle-weight 1imit holds good, if ‘“Kid’ beats Corbett. Corbett will be no _more | entitled to meet me if he defeats McCoy than he is at the present day. When he was champion he was dictator. Now I am on top. Unless he defeats Ma- ;wr or Sharkey I shall never agree to fight him.'" - FIEND VANNING'S APPEAL. Case of the Man Who Tore the | Tongue From a Horse’s Mouth. SAN RAFA July 28.—The case of Willlam Vanning, who pleaded guilty in Justice Rodden’s court to a charge of | cruelty to animals, he having torn the tongue from his horse with a bale rope, came before Superior Judge Angellotti on appeal to-day. City Attorney Thomas Boyd for the Marin County Soclety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and District Attorney Martinelll for the peo- ple made brief arguments. Attorney J. W. Cochrane appeared for Vanning. Judge Angellotti finally took the case un- der advisement on the one point as to whether Justice Rodden erred in refus- ing the accused permission to change his plea. IS Almost a Water Famine. SAUSALITO, July 20.—All the hydrant water In town was shut off at § o'clock vesterday morning, and not permitted to run agaln until 5 p. m. Every tank of | the Sausallto Land and Ferry Company | on the hill is empty, and for several days the company has been borlnfi_ new wells, with practically no result. he town is really undergoing a water famine. Day before yesterday two powerful new pump- ing engines arrived, and it was found necessary to-day to send for two more, There is no great danger from fire, as the engine of the narrow gauge railway goum e used to pump water from the ay. 'MEMBERS OF THE STATE iof | programme 1s being arranged . s now, but the alleged “ringster nied this, though the history of events went to show that White's charge was certainly sustained. In the matter of the charges brought sto public notice by Detective Frost, the commission, on the opinion of Aitorney | General TFitzgerald, decided that it | could not go into matters that had not | occurred during the regime of the pres- | ent board, unless specific charges were filed. Notwithstanding that he had asked for an investigation of the utter- ances made by Frost, Dr. Sponogle de- clared himself satisfied with the action of the commis:jon. The Tourtillott-Madigan charges are | presumed to be a closed incident, owing to the farcical investigation to which the public was treated under the auspices of the Board of Managers. | It was brought out in a striking manner that the appointments made by all the members of the present Board of Managers, with the exception of those made by Hale, consisted large- | 1y of relatives and friends, and that | politics had little or nothing to do with the selections. The Democrats became sponsors for Republicans, and vice versa. White further said that much of the turmoll within the asylum was caused | by the lack of firmness on the part of | Superintendent Sponogle and his want | of executive ability. Gould counterad | by charging that-it was due to the ap- | LUNACY COMMISSION pointment of an incompetent and| vicious matron on the solicitation of | White. Gould also testified that White wanted to be a director simply to con- trol patronage, and that White had so declared. Incidentally it was admitted by the | Governor that he had designed Tourtil- | | lott, the half-brother of Gould, for a | place on the water front, but that ow- | ing to differences between Gould and | Harbor Commissioner Colnon he was | unable to carry out his purpose. He then suggested to Gould to make Tour- | tillott a burden on the State at Agnews, | and this was done. e Will Confer Here. It 1s understood that Governor Budd and Directors Frank H. Gould and O. A. Hale of the State Asylum’' for the In- sane at Agnews, and Dr. Sponogle, medl- | cal superintendent of the institution, have arranged for holding a conference at the Palace Hotel in this city to-day, at which the Agnews A um scandal is to be taken up and thoroughly discussed. SUMMER CARNIVAL | AT ALAMEDA POINT | Menu of Good Tl;;ngs Prepared for | the Visitors to Woodlyn on Saturday. SAUSALITO, July 29.—The preparations for the summer carnival at Woodlyn, Alameda Point, on Saturday, are being carried forward with great enthusiasm. The proceeds are for the bullding fund the free reading room soon to be erected, adjoining the Congregational Church. The carnival will begin at noon and continue through the evening. A for both afternoon and evening. Among the spe- cial featur A Grown-up Kindergar- ten,” by M °s Ritchie and Hughes, teachers, and thirty pupils, and one of Howell's comedies, by Miss Rideout :lnd' others. The railroad has not only granted spe- | cial trains, but wk is as important, | reduced fares. A s ial train will run from Mill Valley and retrun in the even- ing, and a large busload of Mill Val children is expected in the afternoon, besides parties from San Francisco and Oakland. The celebrated violinists, Miss Hibberd | of Oakland and Mr. Yocum of San Fran- cisco, are expected to play. M Small's choral class will render some selections. Mrs. Bernard Schloh, Mrs. J. C. Smith, | Mrs. Charles Phelps, Miss Teresa Ehr- man and others Wwill render vocal or in- strumental solos. Miss Bartlett has promised to recite. The Misses Whalley and Saunders, who carried everything be- fore them on the Wynnsta by their bright ‘‘Advertisement Song,” will give | other original songs. LA BOURGOGNE COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED Statement of the Manager of the In- ternational Ship Bandage Company. CHICAGO, July 2.—La Bourgogne could have been saved with all her pas- sengers on board, according to P. J. O'Flaherty, manager of the International Ship Bandage Company. In an interview to-day, referring to the decision of the court of inquiry, held at Halifax regard- ing the loss of the French liner, Mr. O'Flaherty said to a representative of the Associated Press: “Advices received from United States | Consul Foster at Halifax say La Bourgogne remained above water for probably about forty minutes, while five minutes woula have sufficed to have ef- fectively closed the hole in the ship’s side with a ship bandage. The findings of the | Halifax court as to La Bourgogne are | incomplete, inasmuch as no recommenda- | tions are made to Induce steamship com- | anies to pay more attention to life-sav- ng apparatus than heretofore. The ship bandages I refer to have recently been successfully tested at the New York Navy Yard.” SANTA FE PACIFIC ASKS FOR REDUCTION Petitions for a Fifty Per Cent De- crease on the Barstow-Needles Branch Assessment. SACRAMENTO, July 29.—The last rafl- road corporation to apply for a reduction of assessment before the State Board of Equalization was the Santa Fe Pacific, which filed its petition to-day. The rep- resentative heard was A. P. McGinnis; the tax commissioner of the Santa Fe | Pacific, which includes the old Atlantic ‘and Pacific and the Southern California. The road from Barstow to Needles, a trackage of 71 miles, was assessed last year at $8000 a mile. Mr. McGinnis asked that the assessment be reduced | and his rights therel to $3000 a mile because the line was op- erated at a loss of $126,000 during the past ear. The board adjourned until next Mon- | ¥ day, at h time its decisions on all matters p; sented will be rendered. | — Marin Officials Sued. SAN RAFAEL, July 2.—Sult was | brought in the United States Clrcuit Court yesterday by Joseph A. M. Pushle against ¥. G. Waterhouse, John J. Puma, Joseph Puma, Sheriff Harrison, District Attorney Martinelli, Frank W. Taft and | C. A. Lauff to recover $4000 and for $2000 | damages for conspiracy. The sult grows out of the seizure and sale by the Sheriff | of ce: n machinery of the Golden Crown | Milling and Mining Company of Bolinas. Pushie claims that -the Sheriff and the | other county officers defendant conspired | to deprive him of his property in the mine | s Echo of a Bank Failure. RIVERSIDE, July 20.—A case of im- | portance growing out of the failure of | the Rive ng Company was de- cided by Judge Noyes to-day. O. «. Dyer, manager of the bank, deeded his personal property to the directors in trust to se- cure the payment of $110,000 of the bank' indebtedness, and after that indebtedness | so secured had been paid, the directors | d_the property held in trust to | Mary Dyer, wife of O. T. Dyer. F. O. | Lathrop, one of the creditors of the bank, sought to set aside this conveyance. The court decided for the defendant. e Wife of Liberia’s President Dead. WASHINGTON, July 20.—The State De- partment has received news of the death of Mrs. Ophelia Coleman, wife of the President of Liberia, in_ the executive mansion at Monrovia'on June 28 last. She was a native of Arkansas, and emigrated to Liberia in 1895, where she was married to President Coléman the following year. s S Chinook Takes the Nassau. LONDON, July 20.—At to-day’s racing at the Goodwood meeting, the Lorillard- Beresford stables’ brown filly Chinook won the Nassau stakes for three-year- olds. Eight horses ran. Sir J. Blundell Maple’s Nun Nicer was second and the Duke of Westminster's Orphan third. - Two Cents for Chicago Papers. CHICAGO, July 20.—All the morning pa- pers of this city print an announcement that on and after August 1 the price will be 2 cents a copy. The increased cost of white paper and the enhanced general expenses due to the war are the reasons for the advance. e g Would Annex the Philippines. FRESNO, July 20.—At a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce held to-day a telegram was drawn up to be forwarded to President McKinley favoring the an- nexation of the Philippine Islands, if it can be done with honor to this nation, Death at Larkspur. LARKSPUR, July 29.—Flags flew at haif mast here yesterday afternoon be- cause of the death of Mrs. Mary E. Hop- kins, a sister-in-law of Superintendent Shoemaker of the narrow gauge rail- way. M P AR Curzon May Become Viceroy of India LONDON, July 30.—It is reported that Hon. George M. Curzon, who married May Leiter, may be made Viceroy of India. Thrown From a Horse. SAN RAFAEL, July 20.—Mrs. Willlam Schwarke ‘was thrown from a horse near Schuetzen Park yesterday and sustained a fracture of the skull. The accident is likely to result in death. e sl Costly Lessons The War With Spain Has Taught Us, By Hudson Maxim In Next Sunday’s Call. ADVERTISEMENTS. . You cannot fool a woman more than once. cannot make her believe an article is honest if it is not. The confidence ladies have in us is being greatly enhanced during this Special Sale in our Children’s and we really do what we can to Department, deserve their goodwill. No woman on earth will say we do not deserve her entire confidence if she will but visit our store during this sale and see the garments we are offering for $2.88 which are positively worth and have been sold as high as $8. The effects are a gorgeous array of beautiful designs and smart pat- terns in Reefers, Middies and Dou- ble-breasted Suits, ages 8 to 14, comprising all the latest styles in weaves of Worsteds, Cheviots, Tweeds and Cassimeres. All garments purchased during this sale can be retained a week and, if dissatisfied, money will be refunded. No questions asked. For fear the above assertions may seem elaborated upon, we candidly admit that we are losing money on every article sold during this sale, yet we are thoroughly contented to do so in order to introduce our Boys’ Depart= ment to the mothers of San Francisco. Combined with the above sale will be several hundred All.wool and Worsted Knee Pants, ages 8 to 14, which will be sold during this sale for 68c, former price $1.00, $1.80 and $2.00. No department of the manufac- ture of clothing demands a wider range of experi- ence than that devoted to the apparel of the younger genera- tion. We are now paying to get acquainted with you, and therefore give you a Suit for $2.88 worth $8.00 and offer money back a week after purchase. A Woman’s Confidence lgthe Hardes Thing ] For a Store to Get And the Easiest Thing to L.ose. You We must con- sider the fond mother who judges from an artistic stand- point; the happy father who pays the bill; and last, but not least, the young hopeful himself.