The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 30, 1898, Page 5

DELVING INTO FERRY DEPOT CONSTRUCTION Story of the Tower Bracing ‘Rods. WHERE DID THE IRON. GO? RISDON IRON WORKS BLAMES THE ARCHITECT. | Expert Reid Holds That the Depot Roof, Improperly Riveted, Is Now Going to Pieces. n building non Har chief engineer ey | | | | | ing 2 expert plied readily W umber roofing 1g put a lead ed a reply to th which elic- the roof of B2 i if the expert had ever riveting of eorru- d without a trace of | ted that the inquiry You fall back on the speci- iere is nothing else to fall | H. Taylor of the Risdon | sat along: 5 of Architect the better part of the af- n. .Mr. Reid, the Senators, and spectators were the q ittle controversy or ween thé represe 1 Works Tit hange ; as the e e v verified the accuracy CLOSE FINISH OF AN OCEAN RUN. The barkentine W. H. Dimond and the bark Martha Davis sailed from Honolulu for this port within half an hour of Gate. off Lombard street wharf. ‘h other, sailed over 2000 miles to gether, and vet never sighted each other until The Dimond arrived at 2 p. m. yesterday, and half an hour later the Davis dropped anchor alongside of her they reached the Golden DINOND MO MARTHA DAVIS KEPT COMPANY | tained that they were living at Green and Sailed From Honolulu the Same Hour. SIMULTANEOUSLY ARRIVED DURING THE VOYAGE. Harry S. Scott Out for Chief Wharf- inger—Indorsed by the Lum- ber Merchants and Iro- quois Club The bark Martha Davis and barkentine W. H. Dimond have been having a quiet little race all ves. They left here within a few d Honolulu, and while the Davis Is an eas: winner on the round trip, the wins thé race from Honolulu here by an hour. The Dimond sailed from Hawall at $:30 p. m. on the 10th inst. and arrived red vards of each other. From the time parted company off Diamond Head off the Golden te hted from the other, d ach other for | | racks and_he was force | | Dimond | here at 2 p. m. yesterday, while the Dayis |2 sailed half an hour. earlier and ‘arrived cture did not fit the | half an hour later. Both vessels sailed in d_he did not Know | and came to an anchor within a few hun- search of his daughter, Mrs. Angelo Can- cilla, who eloped from her home in Pit burg on November 2 with Michael T selll, a barber. Mrs. Cancilla is ‘1 of age, and left her husband and ' ree| voung children, taking her eldest girl with | her. Tomaselli left a wife and child be- hind him. . The police in Pittsburg were notified of the elopement, and a description of the runaways was sent broadcast, a reward | ng offered for information as to t whereabouts. Piazza learned that they had come to this city, anl imme- diately followed them. He soon ascer- and he called t.ere and saw his daughter. She promised to return | with him and take her daughter with her, but her father wanted Tomaselli punished, and went to police headquarters. He was upable to obtain a warrant, but promised to be in one of the police courts this morning for that purpose, and mean- time, if Tomaselli attempts to leave the ill arrest him and take him to Dupont streets, city, he the City Prison. He alleges that Toma- | selll not only took his daughter but which belonged to her husband. All he wants is to get Tomaselli back to Pitts- burg, and for that purpose he is willing | to def ay all expenses. [ e .| DID NOT SPEAK EACH o'rnmzi JABBED WITH A PITCHFORK. jal Officer Attacked Savagely by Three Scavengers. Special Officer Trade, who 1is employed by the Crematory Company, was the com- plaining witness against three scavengers vesterday in Judge Mogan's court, two on | charges of battery and one for assault to | murder. | A Spec Saturday afternoon Trade found the | three men dumping garbage at Lone| Mountain and placed them under arrest. | ne of them, Louis Staganoro, seized a | Oicnfork and jabbed Trade on the kneo | Rith the prongs and then broke it over Dis back, ‘The other two pelted him with d to retire van- quished. He swore to warrants for sheir | arrest Monday morning. Staganoro was charged with assault to murder and Caesar and Luigi Devincenzl | With battery. Trade thought that Caesar had surrendered himself Monday to save {s brother and was under the impression it was a case of personation, but Luigi | rrested yesterday and Ne saw that was | | he was mistaken. In the battery cases a jury trial has been demanded, and the | felony charge has been continued for a | | | and each captain thought the other was i we | in port. 2 L A e S wain. T am| The barkentine Irmgard, however, beat here assault on the Risdon | both the Davis and Dimond. She left here : several days after them and sailed from o s l{"j Honolulu three days after them and still tiahat the | made port the first of the trio. O %he!| The arrival of the Martha Davis S brought joy to the hearts of the reinsur- | ablers. On the 25th inst., in lati- ) north longitude 132 west, she ihe overdue British ship Scottish | The latter vessel is now out 188 from Hamburg for San Francisco, and 10 per cent reinsurance was paid on her vesterday morning. The t thing s | Captain Blackmore of the ‘British vessel shop draw- | asked was ‘‘How the war getting were sent here, architect apprc aims mow that he em, and as a matter of em.” ~ Turning to the su- ect, Captain Taylor said you have brought:all of this ied that he would have himself. Thereupon he 5 addressed to the Risdon ng attention to the re- the specifications and r insisted thdt the letters fter the mischief was done. tained that as the Risdon, people had that the con- settled in s0. far asthe ron branched off to-roof Captain Taylor. said of the cost by > was an incri - in. -The architect them along?”’ When n Frifs of the Dav ignaled back “All over. Spain whipped e Britisher at once replied “Glad to ar it. Another vessel that got in vesterda after a the French ba from Newcastle, into port such fast ship diganshire, French bark Jules and the finishes ting st s due to- s than fifteen of them are ports, So the Merchants’ 1ge Teporter have a_busytime, he Elihu Thomson, Charles Nelson and Washtenaw will be due from Puget Sound, the Columbifa from Portland, the Arcata and Empire from Coos Bay, the Navarro. and Weeott from Yaquina Bay the Ruth and Cleone from Tillamook, the Aloha and. Point Arena from e the Chilkat from Eureka, the Orizaba ! from San Pedro and the Gipsy from Santa | e e Gruz. As storm signals have been ordered ton coasts, gineer. Chief Er r Holmes remarked '3 2 i i a rough time of it. in explanation that he demonstrated to | A 5 > e board by practical test that the b/ deckhands o jthe driver rods were ne Sar, ) A nE S drowning yesterday. The boat was back- Four v.‘X;nlJ\\. t gaged the atten-| jng 5 > from the wharf, when he stum- tion of the committee. The Risdon Iron rks insisted that they were not obliged put them it. It was contended that the bled and fell heavily against the rall Luckily, when he went over part of the rail went with him and to it he clung like drawings did not demand the windows | gy 3 L anC s and the specifications afforded no. light LG i e S the subject v 5 N ae = s ; ; 1 2 threw the struggling man a rope. He was Mr. Swain said he declded to allow on| soon hauled apoard the Irwih and in a e basis the sum of $600 for windows. Mr. Reid adhered to the ntion of the expert report that the specifications required the Risdon-people to fu windows. 1 Taylor, who was obviously a; to get: away to attend to other af- W somewhat reluctant to leave comprom clean bill of health for. the works, o he framed a_ general »n to M. Reid. -He asked if in_the ent of Mr. Reid the Risdon Iron not: performed to the State. 1| was not quite carried away dishments of the captain, an affirmative answer with a that -some of -the iron was | had its contract | w vlor folded his papers, re-. the iron, though rough, was that 200,00 pounds of iron in ct requirement had been and t of contr rected to Mr. Reid certain regarding window screens in the sreckels building and in the new | of Claus Spreckels. The pur-| to show that Mr. Reid in his capacity as architect was mistaken as to the value of certain metal - contrivances to eld windows. Mr Swain will go on the witness stand to-day to explain why changes were made in t nal:plans of the ferry build- ate by whom the changes | THE TULARE DEPOT. Peacock & :Halliday Awarded the Contraet for the Building of It. : s of importance trans- the board of directors so and San Joaquin the awarding of the e chief b for the s given the work. The depot is to be of brick and similar in construction.to the one at Bakersfield and other points along the line of the | road. JIts construction will be comrhenced immediately, and it will be pushed to com- | pletion within' the mext three months. The depot Wil be of the combination pas- | senger and freight kind, .and will be |- equipped with the most modern railway devices of comfort and convenience. —————— Referees Get Their Fees. A. S. Baldwin,'G. H..Umbsen and Robert J. Mercer, referees appointed to partition the estate of. the late J. P. Treadwell, were awarded $5000 each as compensation rurdtheir services by Judge Seawell yes- terday. building. of the Tulare | The firm of Peacock & Halliday ot; few minutes was back on the Alviso and the steamer continued her run to Alviso. The fight for the positipn of Chlef Wharfinger, which will soon be made va- cant by the resignation of George W, Root, has begun in earnest. Half a dozen candidates are out for the place, but no | one has been more prominently mentioned than Harry S. Scott, the present Assist- ant Chief Wharfinger. Yesterday the lum- ber merchants and ship-owners on the front sent in a very strong petition ask- ing the Harbor Commissioners to appoint | him to the place, and a similar_one was presented - from the Iroquois Club. He was also indorsed by the Democratic State Central Committee, and, among oth- ers, by Congressman James G. Maguire. Mr. Scott has made a most efficient As- sistant Chief and is a general favorite on the water front. The O. and O. C s steamer Cop- tic salled for Hawalil, Japan and China yesterday crowded with passenggrs and freight. Many of those in the cabin are bound for Honolulu, showing that the travel to the Paradise of the Pacific is growing_rapidly. se and Roderick Dhu, which are to safl in a few days for Hawaii, will have all the passengers they can accommodate, and a number of people who wanted to take passage on them uave been com- pelled to walt for other vessels. The transport Zealandia arrived at Ma- nila from San Franciseo vesterday. The ship Edward O'Brien will go from here to Puget Sound to load coal for Hon- olulu. At Honolulu she will load sugar for New York. The British shfp Balmoral, that was badly damaged off the Horn'in a colli- sion with the British ship Glenericht, for repairs. The transport Tacoma is being got ready to take another load of mules and horses to Manila. Nearly all the animals have arrived from the East and as sooh as the ship is loaded they will be put aboard. On the last occasion the Taco- ma’s donkey engine and condenser were too small. This mistake has been rectl- fied and there is no fear of the animals being short of water before Manila is reached. The torpedo boat destroyer Farragut will have another trial on the bay to- —_— mMOrTow. ELOPED FROM PITTSBURG. An Angry Father Follows a Run- away Couple to This City and Wants the Man Punished. Valentine Plazza arrived in the city yesterday morning from Pittsburg, Pa., in The barks Alden Bes- | | went to the Union Iron Works yesterday | | dumped into the pouch by some posto!flce]‘ | Postoffice building and the Custom House | conducted Independently of the passenger | agent of the Government to investigate | kong and Yokohama for the same pur- week. DEADLY DYNAMITE | IN A MAIL POUCH ALARMING DISCOVERY IN THE SAN FRANCISCO POSTOFFICE. | PR | Believed to Have Been Placed There | by the Lunatic Dwyer, Who Annoyed the Turkish Consul. An employe of the main postoffice found last Sunday in the waste pouch a stick of | explosive gelatine large eough to blow the into splinters. It was labeled “Repaumo Gelatine; 60 per cent Nitro Glycerine. Made by Repaumo Chemical Co., in Wil- mington, Del.” The alarming discovery was at once communicated to Superintendent Cox, who reported the matter to Inspectors | Munro and Erwin. They found thaf the | explosive was of the same kind and make | as the sticks of dynamite sent through the | mails some time ago to Mr. Hall, the Con- sul for Turkey i this city, by an insane young man named Dwyer, whose resi- dence is supposed to be in Butte, Mont. Dwyer left Montana before the officers could catch him, and he is roaming about in some unknown gquarter of the country. The inspectors do not know whether the package mailed with a wrapper and an addre or not. If wrappedand address- ed the wrapper came off in transit and was lost. For this reason it is impossible to Jearn whether the explosive was mailed from this city or some other place. In the waste nouch are dumped waste paper and | newspapers that cannot be forwarced, and the stick. of dynamite was caS:lessly employe, though why it should have es- caped the vigilance of the postal clerks | handling the mail is strange. Mr. Erwin has taken charge of the dead- 1y explosive and will dump it in the bay or explode it in_some isolated spot in the country. He has no doubt that the stick was mailed by Dwyer. ————— D. W. Hitchcock Returns. General Passenger Agent D. W. Hitch- cock of the Union Pacific has returned from a two weeks' visit to Omaha. He says the company’s freight office will be office. General Freight Agent Schu- macher, who recently resigned, has been replaced by W. H. Davenport of Los An- geles, who will assume the duties of the office in the future. —_———— To Spot the Fraud. W. M. Rice, United States Commissioner of Immigration at Victoria, left on the steamer Coptic yesterday as the secret the manner in which Japanese and Chi- nese coolie laborers are imported into Ha- and Japan. Mr. Rice will also visit Hon pose. | must islative matters and other public affairs. | NOT IN HASTE T0 GIVE 00T THE OFFICES Governor-Elect Gage Resists Pressure. PUBLIC BUSINESS FIRST APPOINTMENTS CAN WAIT ON LEGISLATIVE WORK. Subject of Yatronage May Not Be Considered Until Early in the Month of February Next. Governor-elect Henry T. Gage did not do any more work vesterday than the law required. He greeted personal friends and supporters, listened to suggestions and took good care not to promise sp clal favors. During the past few days he has resisted great pressure to induce him to gnify a choice among numer- ous applicants for certain places. Touching the subject of appointments | to office he said last night: “I intend to take time to consider the merits of applicants in order to get men capable of rendering the best service to the State. Before I make any appoint- ments other than those immediately con- nected with the organization of the ex- ecutive office 1 shall go to Los Angeles and put my law office affairs in shape so I can reside in Sacramento. Some time will be re augural addr and then i want to rest for a few days before the inauguration. My idea therefore is that the appoint- ments ean be deferred until a month or so after the Legislature convenes. Time be given to consideration of leg- In my judgment the public business should be attended to first.” The Governor-elect did not make choice of a dwelling house during his recent visit to Sacramento, and it is not settled now whether he will board or keep house dur- ing the next s ion of the Legislature. He will probably visit Sacramento again before going there to take office. On the next visit he may be accompanied by his private secrétary, W. I Foley. To-day Governor-elect Gage will meet several State Senators at their request to talk over certain topics having refer- ence to reports of public Institutions. THE FIGHT STILL ON. More Women Arrested in Bacon Place by Secretary Kane. Secretary Kane, for the prosecution, and Attorneys Ach and Rothschild, for the defense, spent the greater portion of last night in Bacon place, the former en- gaged In arresting the inmates of the alley, and the latter seeing that those ar- rested were released on bonds. Twenty-two warrants were Issued by Judge Conlan yesterday, and all of these were served during the night. Twenty were for women who were charged with keeping houses of il-fame, and two for the men owning the property, who were charged with letting tenements for im- moral purposes. All were immediately re- leased on bail, the bonds of the men be- ing $1000, and’those of the women reduced from $1 he warrants, with the exception of one, contained the hames the women had given at the station when arrested previously on the charge of va- grancy. he exception was a Jane Doe warrant for a woman named Lillie, whoge real name could not be learned by Secre- SRS e orneys Ach and Rothschild were hand when Kane and Officers Coleman and Clark, detailed to serve the war- rants, arrived at the alley, and the women were surrendered to the without any trouble. e he five women arrested Monday ni, for keeping houses of lllfame in> Basor place, and the two men arrested for let ting tenements for immoral purposes, ap- peared in Judge Conlan's court yesterday and the cases were continued till morning, when Attorney Ach will sk For a change of venue In all the cases. —_—————— Festival of Holidays. The Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Page and Webster streets, will hold a “Festival of Holldays” for two days—Thursday and Friday, December 1 and 2—afternoons and evenings. There will be a fine entertainment each evening, glven by some of the best talent of this city. The festival will be patriotic in character, as all the American holidays Wil be represented, and a novel and sials ing affair is promised by the management. ADVERTISEME: NS Latest News From L] + . ] + list of “Little Wan.s” which the civilization, among which was a + L) [ : ] | | = This proves that, althcugh The Best Natural | ] =+l I+I+I+I+I+I+I+I+I+I+I+I+I+I+I+I+I+I+I+I+Ij +N+2+ 0+ E+E NN+ R R R R uired to consider my in- | and M. OVEMBER 30, 1898 AN EXECUTIVE: MANSION MAY BE PROVIDED Governor Budd Will Aid the Project. PETTY RIVALRY MUST CEASE NEED OF OFFICIAL SOCIAL LIFE AT SACRAMENTO. Important Meeting of Republican Members of the San Francisco Delegation to the Next Assembly. One of the last acts of Governor Budd's administration will have to do with a matter in which every person in the State, men and women alike, are more or less interested. It is the pro- viding of an executive mansion at Sac- ramento for the use of the executive head of the State government. During the past quarter of a century the question of providing a suitable place of residence for the Governor and his family has been agitated, and al- ways with the same result: Fallure of definite action. The people of Sacramento believe, and the people resident in other parts of the State expect, that the Governor should not only be the head of the of- ficial life at the Capital, but he should alsc be the head of the social life as well. It is proper and fitting that the chief executive of a great and wealthy State should entertain in a manner be- fitting his position, and that his per- sonal establishment should be in all respects up to the standard of social excellence demanded by his position in the official life of the State. Conditions as they now exist have forced a majority of the Governors of this State to leave Sacramente out of the question as a place of residence, or, if accepted at all, to accept with the best grace possible the makeshift ac- commodations of the private boarding- house. Official social life has thus be- come a thing unknown in the capital city, and because of it the dignity of each administration has suffered. The administration just coming to a close has been a striking example of this, and none have been better aware of the fact than Governor Budd. He, like many of his predecessors in office, has felt a delicacy about advocating the building or purchase of an execu- tive mansion during his term of office, for fear that he might lay himself liable to the unjust criticisms of ungenerous persons. He, like others, did not care to have it said of him that his advocacy of such an innovation was due to selfish motives. Notwithstanding this the need of a proper and permanent place for the personal establishment of successive Governors is as great as is the neces- sity of the place that has been pro- vided for their official household. Meas- | ures have been set on foot from time to time to supply this need, but in almost every instance the object has been de- feated by petty jealousies arising from the selection of sites or the rivalries of selfish real estate agents and local boom promoters. Governor Budd has intimated that he believes it to be his duty to make this subject a part of his final message to the Legislature. Such a recommenda- tion would no doubt meet with the ap- proval of the lawmaking body, and if | no difficulties were encountered ample provision would probably be made for the practical realization of the scheme. It therefore seems to rest with the resi- dents of Sacramento to assist the pro- Ject by concerted and unanimous ac- tion, for if the same obstacles are en- countered in the future as have been in the past it is quite possible that of- ficial social life in the capital city will be a thing unknown for many years to come. Ten Republican members of the San Francisco delegation to the Assembly held a meeting last night and tran- sacted such preliminary business as is necessary to the proper representation of this city in the lower house of the Legislature. Those present were: Charles F. Keneally, L. A. Devoto, Wil- liam H. Cobb, A. H. Merrill, W. H. Rickard, Henry W. Miller, Henry C. Dibble, L. A. Henry, Fred Lundquist H. Barry. The only absent member was Eugene Sullivan. It was proposed to select the chair- man of the San Francisco delegation, and Willlam H., Cobb and Henry C. Dibble were placed in nomination for the position. A vote was taken and re- sulted in Cobb receiving seven votes and Dibble three. No announcement was made and it was decided to post- pone final action on the proposition un- til Monday evening, when another meeting will be held, and it is hoped the full delegation will be present. REGULARS FOR MANILA. ‘War Department Will Relieve Volun- teer Troops Now in the Phil- ippines. The War Department has decided to re- place the voluhteer troops who are now in the Philippines with regular soldiers. An order has been issued to mobflize the Second, Third, Fourth, Seventh, Thir- teenth, Sixteenth and Twentieth Infantry at Omaha for the purpose of equipping them for service in the tropics. These regiments have all been in the Cuban campaign, and are now scatiered through- out the country. They are recruited to their full strength, and number nearly 9000 men. The velunteer regiments which sailed on the first two expeditions—First Cali- fornla, First Oregon, First Colorado and Thirteenth Minnesota—will be relleved as soon as the regulars reach Manila, which will be about the middle of February. The advance guard will reach here before Jan- uary 1. The steamer Scandia, now on the way to this port from anila, will probably carry the first detachment. The regiments will be sent here one at a time and placed on transports without delay. As soon as Conj s passes the bill for the enlargement of the army an additional Devil’s Island. The Special Envoy of the Paris Matin, in his detailed re- port (Oct. 28, 1898), of his visit to ex-Captain Dreyfus, givesthe prisoner sends in monthly to request for 2 bottles BunyadiJinoes Natural Aperient Warer. cut off from civilization for 4 years, the ex-Captain still remembered the name of Laxative Water. force of 10,000 regulars will be ordered to the Philippines. Army officers estimate that it will take at least 20,000 men to maintain order in our new The soldiers assigned to the be_relieved every three years. The only regular regiments at present in the Philippines aré the Eighteenth and Twenty-third Infantry and part of the Third Artillery and Fourth Cavalry. It Is understood that it has béen determined by the War Department to keep General Otis hll clommang of the Philippines indefi- nitely. —_———————— Cuba and the Spanish War. To-morrow evening at 8 o'clock W. H. Jordan will deliver an illustrated lecture before the Young Men’s Christlan Asso- clation at the association auditorium, Ma- son and Ellis streets, on “Cuba and the Spanish War.” Some very fine views will be thrown upon the canvas. Cards of ad- mission complimentary may be secured at the association building or of any mem- ber of the institution. +H+E+ . + 5 + ossessions. slands will | ADVERTISEMENT Free by Mail. The Eminent Physician’s ‘Great Discovery Promptly Cures all Kidney, [ e siel) Liver, TS Bladder and Uric Acid Troubles. It is now conceded by eminent sci- entists that the most important organs | of the whole body are the kidneys. They filter your blood and work away night and day, whether you sleep or are awake. People are apt to believe that kidney disease is a rather rare disease, but re- cent discoveries .have proven that it is a most common trouble. And the proof of this is that most ai eases, perhaps 85 per cent, are caused in the beginning by disorders of the kidneys. 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The best proof of this is a trial, and nothing could be fairer than the offer to send a sample bottle of this great remedy and a book telling all about it, both sent absolutely free by mail to | any address. The great discovery, Swamp-Root, is 5o remarkably successful that our read- ers are advised to write for a free sam- ple bottle and to kindly. mention San Francisco Daily Call when sending their addresses to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. 1f you are already convinced that Swamp-Root is what you need, you can get the regular fifty-cent and ore dollar bottles at the drug stores. ARTHUR TEACHOUT " AS A HIGH ROLLER HOW HE AND A COMPANION HAD A GOOD TIME. ‘He Was Arrested for Petty Larceny, but Stoutly w.aintains That He Is Not Guilty. Arthur Teachout, a boy 14 years of age, was accused in Judge Low's court yester- day of petty larceny In stealing §8 5 from the till in the drug store of Mrs. Laura T, Harris, 1247TA° Kentucky street, Suncay afternoon while her messenger boy, Willle Hardney, was called out for a few minutes. With his ill-gotten wealth Arthur de- termined to have a good time, and Willie and he started out Sunday night for that purpose. They first visited the Chutes, then the Alcazar, and finished up by going to Morosco’s as they did not care for the Alcazar performance. Arthur kept an itemized account of their expenditures, which is Interesting. It includes 50 cents to a conductor, cigars 10 cents, icecream sodas 60 cents, French mixed candy 32, blind man 50 cents, Alcazar $1, candy 10 cents, Morosco’s $1, lemon drops 20 cents, tamales 20 cents, carfares 30 cents, Edi- son’s 30 cents, Willie Hardney 70 cents— came home midnight with $3. Mrs. Harris testified that Arthur had stolen $20 from her on a previous occa- gion, but Arthur denied stealing anything | from her and said he got the money from | & druggist on Howard street, near Erie, | where he was employed. He thought the drugglst's name was McKenna. The only druggist in that neighborhood is Charles Anderson, and on being asked by an officer who was sent by the Judge, he said he did not know Arthur. The Judge will make further inquiries and will de- cide the case this morning. —_—————————— HER BOILERS LEAKIWG. This Was the Reason Why the Mary T. Garratt Was Stopped. The steamer Mary T. Garratt of the California Navigation Company was stopped on her trip from Stockton to this city yesterday by an order from the In- spectors of Steamships. Captain O. F. Bolles, a member of the Board of United States Inspectors of local steamships, who is stopping at the ick, when seen last night relative to the matter, 2 ““The steamer was not stopped because there was any immediate danger but be- cause it was learned that er boilers ‘were leakinf slightly. A letter will be sent by the inspectors to-day to her own- ers, requesting that the boilers be iinme- diately put in perfect shape.” ————————— Escaped Leper Captured. Len Hin, a Chinese leper, escaped from the Pesthouse yesterday morning, but was ca.xtured again last night and sent back. description of the escaped man was furnished the police, and Officers O'Brien and Cavanaugh, who were de- tailed in Chinatown, recognized him at the corner of Sacramento and Dupont streets and sent him to the California street station, from where Station Keep- er Young notified the Pesthouse 1 | | | | | NO CHRISTMAS MONEY FOR THE TEACHERS BROKERS ’WII.L NOT DISCOUNT WARRANTS. Short Funds and Big Supply Bills Shut Pedagogues Out From the Decex.nber Payroll. The Board of Education will hold its regular meeting to-night and the result of it may mean scant Christmas money for the teachers and possibly an extra month of holidays for the school children. The regular end-of-the-year shortage is on, and with $40,000 in unpaid merchandise bills stacked up on the files December warrants are not going to have much of a chance when they turn up at the Treas- urer's window, if December warrants be issued at all. The Directors also have a pian which may develop at the meeting to-night, to stop payment on warrants for November which are payable on December 5. This as well as the December tip has gone out to the brokers, and they nave ughtened their purse strings against all requests for November pay. Those good friends of the plodding ped- agogue, the brokers, have already got the tip and have hung out signs to the effect that they are discounting no December dinners $150, ham sandwiches 20 cents, | sajary orders of the board, no matter what the inducement. They say that the plan of the Board of Education is to honor the bills for supplies in preference to the claims of the teachers and that even then there will be a number of local merchants who will have to pocket their losses. As the gw goes the teachers have no recourse for their unpaid salaries if the Board of Education has exceeded its one~ twelfth of the levy, but it has always been the custom of the succeeding board to pay off the salary claims left by its predeces- sor as a matter of equity. There will ba probably no divergence from custom in this respect, but with the funds available at the present low ebb it may be a matter of months before this is done. The board will try to find a way out of its dilemma when it meets this evening, but the wise ones who make their money on the pressing needs of warrant holders ‘n.re IT“ taking any chances on their find- ng it. J’udg‘n de Haven Refused to Take Him Out of the Guardhouse. TUnited States District Judge de Haven yesterday remanded Thomas H. Dowd to the custody of the military authorities. Dowd enlisted in the California Heavy Ar- tillery last July while under age and with- out the consent of his parents. A few weeks ago he remained absent from 'the camp for three days and was court-mar- tialed and sentenced to thirty days’ im- prisonment in the guard house. Whila serving his sentence his parents obtained a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court, but the boy was re- manded on the ground that the courts could not interfere with the just punish- ment of a military offender. Then young Dowd was court-martial for another offense, and the decision of the court-martial has notexet been made. Hence the court remand the cuiprit. Lieutenant Sprague said yesterday that the young soldier was a “tough” and very unruly.