The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1898, Page 1

The Tall to I hisS raper nute be taken from the Library.*++* s arem s A —NO. 29. SAN FRANCISCO VOLUME LXXXV, , THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, o o 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BURNS HAS BUT | FEW FOLLOWERS Legislators From All Parts of the State Make Reply to a Very Perti- nent Query. Out of Forty-One Answers Received Only Two Express a Desire to Aid the Election of the Southern Pacific’s Candidate for United States Senator. +® R R sSSP 44444440 * THE QUESTION THAT WAS ASKED. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 26, 1898. To Do you favor the candldacy of D. M. Burns for United States Senator? This question Is asked in the Interest of public welfare and without a desire to know your views regarding other candl- dates. WIll you answer at once by wire at our expense? THE CALL. FHEEE PP bR AP I bbb [ J % s % : ¢ | i § z : % § , z O e b o b o | any thought. Have not been informed <+ | that he is a candidate. J. J. LUCHSINGER, Senator Ninth District. TS } OAKLAND, Dec. 26.—Editor Call: Will 4 | weigh merits of each candidate carefully | tion to the Legislature, to which I be- long, s frrevocably pledged to U. S. Grant for that position. LEWIS R. WORKS, Assemblyman Seventy-ninth District. R ANAHEIM, Dec. 27.—Editor Call: For Burns.. Against Burns... Non-Committal.... ‘44 I do 444444 Total.... + | before making a decision. | not favor D. M. Burns for United States + JOS. M. KELLEY, | Senator. T. J. JONES, 2P ERPGEEE T LT e iang Assemblyman Forty-eighth District. Senator, Thirty-ninth District. A S CLEARWATER, Dec. 27.—Editor Call: I do not favor Dan Burns as Senator of the United States. J. M. MILLER, Assemblyman Seven econd District. jitirynds SAN JOSE, Dec. 2.—Editor Call: D. M. Burns is not my choice. I must obey the voice of the people. H. V. MOREHOUSE, Senator, Thirty-first District. R e e JAMES H. BEECHER, Assemblyman, Evidence is at hand to- show that there are but two members of the Leg- jslature who favor the Senatorial can- cy of D. M. Burns ahd are not ashamed to say so. There may be some . | who intend to_cast their votes | “N()\'ATO, Dec. 21—Editor (‘all;w Be- | f s v i | Hevin my constituents ave confidence L — e’t‘h:r,m Ty dotig what in lghiiin the Smiiter | RIFy DikerictTirefarmutio express my- | ashamed to acknowledge the fact or|.; .. ting Senator I am not expressing | self on this matter. I will not discuss prefer to keep still concerning their in- | o € 0P8 5 W ATHBRBON, B o mmatian 1 Wil ns ey tentions in order to be in a position to | ™ SR NI L A vothira Distrie s renke a better bargain when the sack is s e produced after the Legislature has been | pASADENA, Dec. 2.—Editor Call: convened. | Have not favored the candidacy of D. M. Two days ago The Call sent a tele- | Burns for Senator, but prefer to under- gram to each of the Republican mem- | stand situation entirely before positive | f the Legislature, asking them if | answer. C. M. SIMPSON, avored the candiddcy of D. M. | Senator Thirty-sixth District. Burns for the United States.Senate, it . belng ‘expressly stated that the query | SAN JOSE, Dec. 2.—Editor Call: I have was put with no desire to learn the feel- | not decided for whom I shall vote for ing of legislators toward any other Sen- d i 0 3 H. W. CHEYNOWETH, Assemblyman, Seventhy-sixth District—I am in favor of a Senator from the south if it is possible to elect a southern man. I think this an- | swers the question fully. 1 e SIG M. BETTMAN, Senator, Twenty- second District—If D. M. Burns is a can- didate for United States Senator I shall vote for him. bers of g i tieth District—I will not vote for Dan Burns for United States Senator. ik et SENATOR JOHN H. DICKINSON, Senator Eleventh District—I will not say how I am going to vote on the Senator- ship question at the present time. e —_—— F. W. BURNETT, Senator Twentieth District—I am not pledged to Dan Burns for United States Senator, but cannot tell | how I shall vote until I reach Sacramento and size up the situation. I am inclined to believe that Burns will not be a candi- date. SWALLOWED A TOOEH?ICK. Serious Accide;?to_baptam Curtin, the Detective. Captain Curtin, the well-known detec- tive, is lying ill at his home on Turk street from the effects of an operation recently performed to remove a piece of toothpick which had lodged in his sys- tem. About a week ago Captain Curtin enjoyed some fish balls at luncheon, and when later he was taken sick it was found that some foreign substance was creating the trouble. An operation was performed and it was found that a piece of toothpick was re- sponsible for the trouble. It was re- moved, and since that time the patient has been recuperating, but slowly, on account of complications following the operation. —_———————— END OF P.STOLESI'S FIGHT. Judge Hebbard Denies His Petition for a Writ of Mandate. “Judge” L. C. Pistolesi is not a Judge, neither will he be a Judge. This was de- termined yesterday by Judge Hebbard, who denied the writ of manda ugh: by the petitioner to compel the Board of Election Commissioners to count the votes for the office of Judge of the Supe- rior Court for the unexpired term. Garret McEnerney, on behalf of the for the unexpired term had been made by the Governor and because the name of the office was not printed on the ballot. Attorney Robinson argued on behalf of Pistolesi, but at the conclusion Judge Hebbard denied the writ and the case was ended so far as the court was concerned. Pistoles! was not through yet, however. As soon as he left the court he went to board, argued that Pistolesi had not been | valldly elected because no_ proclamation | calling for the election of Superfor Judge | MRS. BOTKIN WEPT - WHILE THEY ARGUED Deeply Moved When Both the Prosecu- tion and the Defense Pictured Her Life With Dunning. George A. Knight Makes a Virulent, Aggressive and Personal Plea for the Accused——Pillories Chief Lees and the Police Department—An Orator From Delaware. HE arguments have commenced the trial of charged with murder. T Attorney Gen- in| comment in_ the Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, | closed was that he had so punctured the eral R. C. White of Delaware occu- | pled all the forenoon yesterday in the opening argument for the State and At- | courtroom when he case of the prosecution and had created s0 much doubt that either an acquittal or a disagreement of the jury would re- sult. There was also much comment on his torney George A. Knight performed a | bitter arraignment, of Chief Lees and of like service for the accused woman the afternoon. in | the Police Department generally. He cited the Rosser case and other instances The representative of the people traced | where through the negligence of police in a painstaking manner the links in the | officials justice had been cheated, but said chain of evidence prepared by the prose: he would not permit a vicarious sacrifice | cution. One by one the links by which it | of this defenseless woman to atone for is expected to connect Mrs. Botkin with | the dereliction of the police in the past. the murder of two estimable women in|He charged Chief Lees with suppressing Dover, Del.,, were fashioned into chain which the prosecution has submit- ' defendant, and said the | and destroying evidence favorable to the “his infamous old | | ture for Stockton. He said this trick was as old as time, but that modern de- tectives would not practice such a subter- fuge. They would scoff at a detective in Chicago or New York who would be guilty of such a clumsy trick. He then inuulged in a bit of prophecy regarding Chief Lees, saying: ‘““The monument of this old gray- haired man as the head of the Po- lice Department is about to be completed. Another will soon take his place and this decrepit man will retire. That will be the end of a man who has never borne a &0 reputation in the profession with which he has been connected. This is tne last time the spectacle will ever be pre- sented in a court of justice in this ecity of that man ironing out testi y and thus changing i United States Senator. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, atorial candidate. | Forty-one replies were received, and Senator Thirtieth District. S of these but two expressed a desire on the part of the sender to aid in scur- HENRY C. DIBBLE, Assemblyman, Forty-first District—I have uniformly and | persistently declined to discuss the Sen- | ALTURAS, Dec. 21.—Editor Call: I chn-i " atorial question and will not express an sider it policy to first obtain the desire ing the election of Colonel Biirns. Both |of my constituents before expressing my- | "Plnlr{" on the subject until the Republi- | S here wera from members of the San | s¢1f on the Senatorial question. can caucus meets. L ; : s J. T. LAIRD, —— Francisco delegation. Of the remain Senator Second District. | FRED LUNDQUIST, Assemblyman, ing thirty-nine, eighteen were opposed | S to Burns' candidacy and’ twenty-one| gan JOSE. Dec. 2.—Editor Call: I am were non-committal. reserving my opinion as to who should | A few of the telegrams sent out re-be United States Senator. main undelivered, as the legislators to M. E. ARNERICH, whom they were addressed were away Assemblyman Fifty-sixth District. Forty-third District—I have not given the subject of the Senatorship any attention, | and do not favor the candidacy of any | candidate at this time. I do not know that D. M. Burns is a candidate. shoL M. H. e s from home and could not: be found. BARRY, Assemblyman, Forty- Many who received the telegraphic| VALLEY FORD, Dec. 27.—Editor Call: | fourth District—I have no preference query elther neglected to answer as re- | Have not decided definitely as to Sena-|among the Senatorial candidates. The quested ignored- it entirely, | tor- 1 want to represent my constitu- canilld?lt‘e tr:m the caucus agrees to sup- Leste vl 3 4 2 ort will suit me. I shal Enough replies were received, however, | ®7ts: They differ as to choice. P e. T shall not express an 4 H. M. LE BARON, a of the condition of Assemblyman Sixteenth District. mind of the average legislator as re- | 5 ot gards the candidacy of .Colonel Burns. | RIVERSIDE, Dec. 2.—Editor Call: His leutenants claim that a majority | not favor the candidacy of D. M. Burns. of the members of the Legislature are A. S. MILICE, pledged to vote for him. If this is so, | Assemblyman Seventy-seventh District. | then all but two are either ashamed or e afraid to acknowledge that they even look upon his candidacy with favor. opinion on the subject until I get to Sac- to give a fair idea ramento. B A. H. MERRILL, Assembly man Thir- ty-sixth District—I have nothing to say as to how I shall note for United States Senator. | Ido| e C. F. KENNEALLY, Assemblyman Twenty-ninth District—If Dan Burns needs my vote he can have it. I will be SONORA, Dec. 26.—Editor Call: - A. M. McDONALD, Assemblyman Fifty-eighth District. | The replies received are published % only too glad to give it to him, here in full that there may be no mis- e | — | y LOS ANGELES, Dec. %.—Editor Call: ! understanding as to their purport. A | 295 ANG N .”0‘1.[',1]_,\. 3] 1. A DEVOTO, Assemblyman Thirtieth perusal of them will serve as-a useful Assemblyfan Seventy-fitth Discrict, | DIStrict—I have never heard, either di- object lesson to those who have the in- | rectly or indirectly, that Dan Burns was | P , terest and welfare of the State at| SACRAMENTO, Dec. %—Editor Call: :,,;“,“;’,{:"f‘e‘i,,,{",’.m’aé“é‘;"mi‘fiffiaii'l"éfi:; eart. No. I favor the candidacy of Robert N. SRR B Billajonly s copl e osct alnata on I shall vote. It is a serious question and requires consideration. SR | W. H. RICKARD, Assemblyman Thir- ty-eighth District—I decline to answer the ANTIOCH, Dec. 26.—Editor Call: T am | from the south. ROBERT N. BULLA, not in favor of Mr. Burns' candiddcy for Senator Thirty-seventh District. the United States Senatorship, and shall | = not vote for him if he -becomes a candi- ANGELS CAMP, Dec. 26.—Editor Call: date. C. M. BELSHAW, D. M. Burns s not my choice. T et Asosmlyen T_“,?.""‘ T oot HARYIY B ETO0D, L. A. HENRY, Assemblyman Forty- | Assemblyman Twenty-seventh District. TULARE, Dec. 26.—Editor Call: I favor the candidate for United States Senator QUINCY, Dec. 26.—Editor Call: Prefer whom the consensus of Republicah opin- | not to commit myself for or agalnst any ion in the Legislature shall name as the | candidate. G. G. CLOUGH, second District—I am not ready to an- swer the question. Sy EDWARD I. WOLFE, Senator Twenty- | first District—I do not desire to discuss B2 Ch el Sroper iRyl E. T. COSPER, Assemblyman Sixth District. | the subject except to say that I will go Assemblyman Sixty-fourth District. U to Sarrlumf-nla I’x’nlrnmmysled-—pledged fio ——— LA MESA, Dec. 26.—Editor Call: I do|no man. I will vote for the candidate PASADENA, Dec. 2.—Editor Call: No; | not favor D. M. Burns' candidacy for | who in my judgment will best meet the I will not vote for D. M. Burns under any | United States senator. | demands of ‘the people. possible condition. I am for Bulla, for A. 8. CROWDER, | — he will make a clean, aggressive, safe | Assemblyman Eightieth District. W. H. COBB, Assemblyman Thirty-fifth Senator for California. CEe e | Dist: t District—My attitude on the question of W. 8. MELICK, SUISUN, Dec. 2.—Editor Call: I shall | United States Senator Is to stand non- Assemblyman Seventieth District. | vote for Morris M. Estee for United States | committal until I see what men have the — | Senator. ALDEN ANDERSON, best chances. I will then throw my in- MARYSVILLE, BPec. Editor Call: | Assemblyman Nineteenth District. | fiuence to the man I deem best qualified. No. W. M. CUTTER, | DR | If a better man than Burns has a chance Senator Sixth District. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27.—Editor Call: | I am for him. If a less desirable man I o In reply to your wire with reference to | am for Burns. VALLEJO, Dec. 2.—Editor Call: Have | the United States Senatorship I have to —— not given the candidacy of D. M. Burns | say that the San Diego County delega-| SENATOR A. E. NUTT, Senator For- Form no. .. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. ts liability., which have heen assented to by thesender of thefe ¥ TRANSM d EL1IVERS messages only oo conditinas T ot Aot s oy T peALIG & mESES DUOK (O 1he ew{Dg: tathya {OF COMPAFiOI und the Compas) will ot hoid usel? lisble I transinission or delivery of Unrepeited Me Ixyond the amount of tolls paul therevn. bur iy soy case where the clalm ts oot prese: wor The wessage is filod with the Conipan; nission.. S Con UNREDEATL D v 230A 0 I"-":rl-;;ml.&lrlifl‘m! by request of the sendor. under the conditions pamed above. THOS. T. ECKERT, President and General Manager. RECEIVED st san Francisco, Gala LATHROP, Dec. 26.—Editor Call: My people donot favor the candi- lacy of D. M. Burns and under no circumstances will I vote for him for United States Senator. A. E. MUENTER, the Delaware tragedy. for the life of Mrs. Botkin. Attorney General R. C. White of Delaware occupied the forenoon yes- terday presenting the case for the prosecution. chain of circumstantial evidence which connects the prisoner at the bar with George H. Knight pleaded throughout the afternoon His bitter arraignment of Chief Lees, the police department and the witnesses for the prosecution created much comment in the courtroom. The arguments will be completed to-day. He traced, link by link, the the office of the County Clerk and took his oath of office. His reason for doing this is not plain, but it is the opinion in the County Clerk’s office that even though Pistolesi_has been denied the honor of being a Judge for a few days he is, nev- ertheless, going to enjoy the form of go- ing into office and let his imagination do the rest. WRIGHT HAS MADE NO APPOINTMENTS HE DENIES ANY ONE IS SLATED FOR ANYTHING. Anderson Not Promised a Chairman- ship, nor Has He Been Seek- ing Any. Howard E. Wright, who will be Speaker of the next Assembly, is incensed over an insinuation contained in an expose of a supposed scheme to be run through the next Legislature. It is declared that As- gemblyman A. Anderson of Solano is “glated” as chairman of the Committee that Wright has his committees already fixed. “My committees are not decided upon,” said Mr. Wright, in speaking of the para- graph, “nor will they be until I get to Sacramento and am elected as Speaker. I have made no promise to Mr. Anderson, and 1 will make no promise to him, for the elections or for any other committee. He has sought no favors at my hands, and I have offered him none, and it is untrue that he or any one else is slated for that chairmanship, or, in fact, for any other. I have considered my committees, but I will make no promises or appoint- ments until the Legislfllure opens. Mr. Anderson needs no defense at my hands. He has a‘lreadr served a term in the Leg- islature and his record is above reproach. In making up my committees his qualifi- cations will certainly be considered.” ‘Assemblyman Anderson, who was in the city last evening, confirmed all Mr. ‘Wright had said about the statement that he was ‘“slated” for the Committee on Elections. “I have had no conversation with Mr. Assemblyman Twenty-sixth District. ‘Wright regarding his committees,” he aid, “I have asked no favors of him and he has extended none to me.” S d it leads to the inference | o ot | he attacked the work before him after ted as its case. All the strong circum- stantial evidence that has been brought out from a host of witnesses was care- fully gone over and the salient features presented to the jury for its considera- tion. The close of the Attorney General's ar- gument found the accused woman in tears and apparently unconsolable. No one disturbed her for a time until her sister finally went to her and spoke com- forting words. Throughout the afternoon, while her representative was pleading in her behalf, she sat apart from her rela- tivy and riveted her eyés upon the broad shoulders of her defender. Many times during his address she apparently had difficulty in restraining her feelings. Tears came to her eyes only to be brush- ed aside as though she had determined not to give way to her feeclings. Neither of the speakers minced their words when speaking of the illicit relations main- tained by Dunning and herself for a considerable period. The methods of the opposing counsel were entirely different. Attorney General ‘White made no pretensions to oratorical ability and did not present a heroic figure. Attired in a simple suit of brown, the manner of a provincial la: T. His voice, when pitched in a high key, would frequently break, and at other times would sink lower and lower unt!l the conclusion of a sentence would be lost entirely to his attentive auditors. He alluded frequently during his address to “the mass of intelligence I see in the jury box before me.” Attorney Knight did the same thing, but in a different manner. Mr. White asked the jury to decide the case according to the evidence and not to be swayed in their judgment by the eloquence of the opposing counsel. He said the law, both human and divine, ‘was that “whoso sheddeth man’s blood, his blood shall be shed.” George Knight made a much more {m- pressive appearance before the jury. Cast in heroic mold, he accented this by dress- ing in keeping with the occasion. He was fashionably clad in a Prince Albert coat of the latest design. He made an impassioned address, quoting the Bible freely toward the close of his remarks. He was eloquent and forcible, and the ATTORNEY G-Eo. A-KNIGHT gl mmmuflw ; (il i AR Y TR RN ke AR i ANy WA AT MM .‘l\nl”l i e ; g ‘“ i g Ilu.v‘v“ N gray head has been seen day after day in the City of Paris, where he has been looking for evidence with which to bolster up his case.”” He dwelt on Chemist Wolf of Delaware finding only lump arsenic in the candy submitted to him, while Chemist Price of this city found only powdered arsenic. Lees then took ten lumps, he said, that had been in his pos- session, and upon these being analyzed both kinds of arsenic were found. The thought of this seemed to overcome him, and all the comment he could make was, “What do you think of that?” He spoke | of the ironing of the wrapper by Chief Lees as an “infamous thing.” That no Chief of Police ever had undertaken to make a change in the original piece of evidence. He alluded to him as “this old sunbonneted, decayed, senile fossil, who could take a flatiron and blot out from a portion of the evidence something that might prove the innocence of my client, but he would not dare take a knife and detach anything.” The speaker explained his anger at po- lice methods by saying that he stood by a defenseless client and saw the men of the department doing things not in keep- ing with justice. e returned to the charge on the aged head of the Police Department later. This time his anger was aroused at _the idea of the bit of seal being found in Mrs, Bot- kin's room some time after her depar- | peal to the jury for mercy; it was only | Justice he had asked for. and said he { had raised his voice against the infa- | mous practices of an infamous police de- partment. The speaker descended to vi- | tuperative abuse in h | witnesses for the prose | tified to matters vital to the case of his client. Mrs. Harris. who throughout the trial has been his pet aversion, he called “'a cat—a degenerate female with | & pecullar mentality like that of the | Sweet Pea girl, whose only desire was to gain notorfety at any cost.” He pald his respects to Expert Ames thus: “If ever a brutal wretch lived on this earth it is that old pen-harlot Dan Ames. There is a man who would have no compunction in swearing away a hu- man life. So infamous have these pen ex- perts become that the lawyers of the East | are taking steps to protect themselves | from these men they call hired lars for pay.” E Mr. Knight dwelt long on the alibl | proved for Mrs. Botkin, in which it was shown that she was in Eureka when one of the anonymous letters was postmarked in this city. He then questioned the box of candy ever having gone across the | continent, and suggested that possibly Dr. Bishop had inserted the poison after his patients had died in order to take the handling of the- ution who had tes- attention of the public away from ° | himself. He was disgraced in his |own city for allowing two pa- tients to die under his hand withous knowing what had caused their_deaths. The_doctors had permitted Mrs. Dunning to die and did not know what was the