The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 2, 1899, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MO Y, JANUARY 2, 1899 MRS, BOTKIN IS BROKEN N SPIRIT Overwrought Nerves Have Given Way. A MAD BURST OF PASSION FAIR NATIVES' NEW HOME WILL SOON BE RE IMPROVEMENTS ON THE RIVERS OF CALIFORN Bars to Navigation Removed. SACRAMENTO STRAIGHTENED al payments seemed remote linquent in settlement, and their affairs will soon be adjusted to the satisfaction of the Controller. A g Spared Because of Youth. SAN RAFAEL, Jan. 1.—On account of his youth and the suffering caused his parents by the exposure of his folly, the firm of Knittel & Williams decided not to prosecute young Edward Mastrup for having opened their safe several times and abstracted sums therefrom amount- ing to $64. Accordingly the lad was taken before Justice Gardner, and, on pleading guilty to a charge of petty larceny, was fined $20. This amount was paid by the boy's . father, who has agreed to refund the money stolen from the safe. il B WEATHER REPORT. (120th Meridian—Pacific Time.) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1, § p. m. The following are the seasonal rainfalls to date, as conpared with those of same date iast season, and rainfall in last twenty-four hours: Last This. Last Stations— 24 Hours. Seasan. Season. PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSION- Eureka ... : 15:& SHE ATTACKS ALL CONNECTED | ; e g:?r;:;:g‘té : 3321 2.38 WITH THE CASE. San Francisco a7 L0 San Luis Obispo. 1.34 1.58 0 Los Angeles. ozt a3 Splendid Achievements of This De- | Yima > 1. 0.81 Every Loophole in the Law Will Be| Taken Advantage Of in an Attempt to Free the ‘Woman. The overwrought nerves of Mrs. Cor- della Botkin have at last given way un- der the strain to which they have been L HMILLS. (Y Miss MAE T B, WILKIN » ,!KW\ partment Receive the Praise of Government Engi- neer Heuer. Special Dispatch to The Call. . SACRAMENTO, Jan. 1—Ed E. Leake, Commissioner of Public Works, has filed with Governor Budd a report 100 .32 San Francisco data: Maximum temperature, 51; minimum, 42; mean, 4. WEATHER CONDITIONS AND GENERAL FORECAST. The storm {s_still central off the coast of Washington. The pressure has fallen rapidly over the entire Pacific Slope during the last twenty-four hours, the lowest reading being 29.28 inches at Astoria Rain has fallen in the western portions of Oregon and Washington and the northern. por- tion of California. Snow is now falling in the eastern portions of Washington and Oregon and in Nevada. The rain will extend into Southern California ) v jon first given Monday. Contrary o ,Cixmd of the work done under the direction of | = The rainfall at Red Biuff during the past out by the cond ! twenty nches. i subjected during the past four months. | ¢ after reach- | remotely cor in which she has been The vehemence of her | her denunciations left her figure of dist to her wants, e past { ternoon Senator ed with was associa in defen: and spent some Botkin entered 1 of the case in was interested in to be taken looking jom. Her attor- v outlined their plan of irst move in which will be rday That is the time : Carroll Cook for the pass- 1d a_motion for a new it is seldom @ n the at- n_w 1 n. These s which have of the trial ter o ¢ommercial honor. It was on this the defense w ked. ] al witness, a pro iiated a ved one of the jurors, and > others were informed of this t out his testimony and TrheHome: 925 OFARRELL JT. T -mul(IIll(IHI‘lnmulu( » 0 U TR RS his department for a period of twenty months, beginning March 7, 1897, ancd ending November 17, 1898. The r-ports of Chief Engineer M. A. Nunse and As- sistant Engineer G. N. Randle, as well as the report of the auditing board, are | made a part of Commissioner Leake's Elkhorn easement, a concrete weir 2000 feet in length and 15 feet in width, has been completed, and Major W.H. Heuer, the Government engineer in charge of the navigable rivers of California, indorses it as the best and cheapest work of its character in the United | States. The report informs the Gov- ernor that the jetty system of removing | Newtown shoals has also been complet- ed. It comprises five jetties, aggreg: | This work has been inspected by Major Heuer. He pronounces it as the most | substantial and least expensive work of its character that has ever come un- Sacramento rivers. In a public speech | he declared that he ‘“‘never knew of | better work being done or more honesty | shown in the use of materials; that he | had never seen anything to equal the | work either at the easement or the Jetty system; never so much and such | good work for the amount of money | expended; that the $80,000 expended showed more substantial results than | he had ever witnessed from a similar expenditure. Commissioner Leake expresses the belief that the effect of these two im- provements will be to deepen and cor- rect the channel of the Sacramento river, increase its carrying capacity and greatly facilitate the disposal of flood waters. | Contracts have been let for the con- | struction of all these cuts except one. | One cutoff has been completed, and an- other nearly so. Two others will be completed by the middle of February. The report refers to the testimony of | | ing about six thousand feet in length, r he Condlitions are favorable for continued rain in Celifornia, although there may be a temporary clearing during Monda Forecast made at hours ending midnight, Northern ( high southerly wind. Southern California—Cloudy, with rain Mon- fresh southerly M vered from this yester- report. 2 Mond: ned in her bed all day. | The commissioner’s report states that udy, who have not left her side in accordance with the plans outlinedby | “gir®Ve o Monday; dict of the jury was rendered, | his report of November 16, 1895, the | fresh to brisk southerly wind. ¥ antici- G. H. WILLSON, Local CALENDAR. January, 1899. ecast Official. T i Su.MoITmiwe‘Th“rFr. Jsa Mooa's Phases | 1| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7|mLast Quarier! =l s January 4. R SR A BT e New Mooa. 11 irst Quarter, January 13 Full Moon, January 26. »plication, so the der his observation during fnsxmh:;p)' aled to years service on the Mississippi, is- - 5 J Stat ydro; to the { ouri, Ohio and Delaware, Hudson and | offce ocated in the Merchants: Bxoproiric maintained in San Francisco for the benefit of mariners, without regard to natfonality and free of expense. Navigators are cordially invited to visit the office, where complete sets of charts‘and sail- ing directions of the world are kept on hand for comparison and reference, and the latest information can always be obtained regarding lights, dangers to naviggtion and al matters of interest to ocean commerce. The time ball on the tower of the new Ferry building, at the foot of Market street, is hotsted about ten minutes before noon and dropped at noon, 120th meridian, by telegraphic signal re- celved each day from the United States Naval Observatory, Mare Island, Cal, A notice stating whether the ball was dropped on time or giving the error, if any. is published in the morning papers the following dav. W HUGHES, Lieutenant, U. S. N.. in charge. ——————————————————————— SUN, MOON AND TIDE. o | The report states that the Secretary | United States - Coast and Geodstic Survey— er T rongly | of War has granted permission to make [ p’i"‘“é’ of High and Low it i high value they five cutoffs on the San Joaquin river. e e =omh eutianios s tog Bay Francisco Bay. Published by official au- thority of the Superintendent. NOTE—The high and low waters occur at | the city front (Misslon-gtreet wharf) about | twenty-five mirutes later than at Fort Point: | the height of tide is the same at both places. MONDAY, JANUARY 2. heed to it -xt to the 7 i the oldest navigators that the work al- this was the t 1ony most AR, v ~ ready performed has vastly improved reate that % 7;‘{3" — the San Joaquin River,and their predic- 3 o they thoul 7 S @AY= )‘ « - tion (hi\'-l, iwhnn a%l tt}:le '\‘\;ork‘ now \;Hdgr S s : T contract is completed the river will bs Time| Time Time) | <’ L TO BE DEDICATED TO_DAY' in an almost perfect condition. . 15‘1. The report cites H. J. Corcoran, the e o e BL D FIORE. e e e o o e = e P steamboat owner and chatrman of the T propriate New Yedr's Sermon. ters of the Golden West, at 9% O'Far- jigg Minnie Coulter and Miss Mollfe. B, jected is completed there will be a wa~ 1 30| rell street, have been busy in the work of Johnson, the trustees, and Mrs. D. T. Wil- 1:08 358 r of the Third ed an ap- sermon yester- t a line from ears,” namel terway on the San Joaquin River al- |5 W( most perfectly straight from Croziers | 2:04/—0.1 9:121. 3.8 s i i yme and - ill be to deep water. | 56/—0.6] 10:11] 4.1 tion for the reception of those who will all the Native Daughters who will make 3 | = enfoy its hospitality. The committeo that the home their permanent or temporary 2 The report estimates that to complete | NOTEIn the above exposition of the tides ¥ NOST ‘> residence. 53 TE the work now under contract will bring | the early morning tides are given in the left has charge of the matter of arranging ; the total expenditure up to $130,000, [ band column and the successive tides of the i leting the arrangements that are kins, who has been selected the matron to place it in first condi- of the home and who will be a mother to 6:421 6.0 % A gentleman who has taken an interest ts of the past war with Spain, and on land and sea my and navy. deaths of Glad- great suf- is not absolute in its lative. Abraham an Methusalem, lived 100 - amount’ of good 1d_age. fright- , while acle of poetic art and his | s itself, no morbid for us to make for we cannot m eternity. It is our h the highest Worrell and ion of William | STARR DARE IS DEAD. | The Brave Young Soldier Dies From a Coward’s Shot . John T. Dare, Ag Your son died las MAJOR HARRIS. | The above sad New Year tidings were | telegraphed to Appraiser Dare yesterday the , Private First United Infantry, who was shot in cold blood at Camp Force, Hunt . Ala., by a burly negro | t s thought that Dare ld, would surviv e for the worst set vaned with the old year. Unknown _to his father, Starr Dare joined the First United States Regulars | When the war broke out and was assigned | who w his wounc to Company E of that regiment. He par- | ticipated in the battle of Santiago and | nains/will be shipped to the fam- fly in this city ——— “The Beginning and the End.” There were appropriate services yester- day in the Church of St. John the srmed deeds of notable valor. | Evangelist. In the morning a Sunday- | school service w. was del Service with a sermon was celebrated at | for the reception, which will be held to- day, and at which the home will be for- mally turned over to the board, has also been busy in the line of the ceremonies that will mark the event, and will make it one of the most interesting in the his- tory of the order. The accompanying illustration repre- sents an exterior view of the home and portraits of the self-sacrificing ladies who have, by their counsel and energies, done 50 much to insure the success of this no- ble enterprise. These ladles are Mrs. Tina L. Kane, the first president of the Grand Parlor_and president of the board; Mrs. Lena H. Mills, present grand president; Past Grand President Miss Mariana Ber- tola, one of the many bright minds of the order; Miss Mae B. Wilkin, the vice presi- in the good work of these ladles, and anx- ious to make the home all that it is des- tined to be, has generously donated to it a magnificent piano, so that there shall be no lack of music on the occasions of social gathering and that whenever any musically inclined will have an opportun- ity to gladden those who are fond of notes ¢l cal or popular. Another donation is one that is calcu- lated to be a protector against the intru- sion of those who may not be desired on the premises. The ladles are proud of the fact that he Is a native production, and he has been given almost as many names as are usually bestowed upon a sclon of a royal family. For short, however, he is called “Jip.” He is as yet a_very small white dog of high pedigree, and of a class :hm is noted for faithfulness as protec- ors. I LEAVES A MONUMENT VULGARITY ing End to the er, San Francisco: | F itk . School Board. RECORDS SHOW HIS DEFAM- ERS’ CHARACTERS. Injunction Served the Purpose In- tended, but the Gang Violated Its Trust to Spite Its The torrent of abuse and s held and an address | launched at Judge Belcher by the gang ered by M. Arundel of England. | members of the Board of Education at y night was generally | commented on yesterday, and the com- its session Sature to allow the people to judge between them. While the action of the board in rush- ing through a large number of transfers and promotions in the closing days of its term, thereby entailing greater expens on the school department and further crippling it in its present pitiful condi- tion, is taken by some to_indicate that the injunction issued by Judge Belcher had not served its purpose, the contrary is the ca The injunction was applied for to prevent the board from appointing forty or more additional teachers, entail- ing an annual increased expense of about $200,000. This object was accomplished. Those who applied for the injunction did not dream that the gang members of tue boa would commit such a flaerant br of trust and violate their sworn duty in order to spite their critics, but even if this could have been anticipated it is regarded as extremely doubtful whether the court could have interfered in the discharge of what might have con- stituted the necessary duties of the board had they performed the same hon- | estly and judiciously. It was feared that BELCHER’S- FRIENDS PLEASED | an attempt to restrain the board from performing duties which under certain circumstances or conditions arising might become necessary, would not stand the test of law if brought to an issue, and rather than take the chance of hav- ing the application for an injunction re- fused because more than the law provided was asked, the petitioners decided not to include the question of transfers of teachers, The gang simply saw the open- ing and crept in. It remains to be seen whether the new board will attempt to undo the work of the old hoard. Director-elect Stow said last night that if the new board found that there were more teachers in the d partment than were required the direct- ors would probably find a way to gt rid of the surplus. “‘No business man would think of keep- ing a number of men in his employ when he had nothing for them to do,” said Mr. Stow, “and I see no reason why the School Department should pay teachers for do- ing nothing. I eannot say just what will be done, but if there is a surplus of teachers some of them will probably be SIS MURDER DUNHAM PERISHED Tale of a Mexican Mine Superintendent. FED A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER LATER FOUND HIS SKELETON ON A DESERT. - Confident That His Erstwhile Guest Was the Slayer of the Mc- Glincy Family at Campbell. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1.—Doubt is ex- pressed that Ed Smith, who is held in Burlington, Iowa, is the San Jose mur- derer, James C. Dunham, for whom a reward of $11,000 is offered. This doubt is increased by the information given by A. J. Altamarino Jr., who is the The incident was recalled when Otero received a full description of Dunham from the Mexican authorities at Mazat- lan. This was in Spanish and taken fram those sent out by the California | althorities. The description, including that of the teeth, corresponded with | that of the stranger who had mysteri- ously appeared and gone in the direc- tion of the Gulf of Lower California. thirty miles from the ranch. “‘Otero and his men went prospecting toward the coast a few months later. The dogs scented an object on a sand | dune in the midst of a dreary cacti- covered desert. Investrgation revealed | a skeleton and a few pieces of coat | cloth and the demijohn carried by the stranger. The coyotes had done the rest. “From my many conversations with Otero upon the subject, and from the descriptions given, I am convinced that Dunham is no more, and that Otero was the last man to see him alive. So positive am I of this that Otero has been instructed to fetch in all that re- mains of the body and we shall en- deavor to claim the reward.” DETERMINED TO ENFORCE REFORMS | Empress Dowager of China Sends a Warning to Viceroys and Governors. PEKING, Jan. 1.—An imperial edict, issued last Friday, remarks that China is “passing through a severe crisis in her history.” It reminds Viceroys and Gov- ernors of the numerous edicts that have been issued lately, ordering administra- tive reforms; points out that many of these have not been observed, and com- mands the immediate . institution of re- which will leave a balance in the apvro. priation of $170,000. Commissioner Léake recommends that the jurisdiction of the Commis- sioner of Public Works and the audit- | ing board should be extended so as to include all of the Sacramento River, al- so the San Joaquin, Feather and Tuo- lumne rivers, and Petaluma, Alviso and Napa creeks. As the law now stands the meney appropriated can be ex. pended on only the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers from the mouth of the TFeather to Suisun Bay. The expenditure of a. very moderate amount on the Feather River and onthe Sacramento above the mouth of the Feather would vastly improve the nav- igability of both, and incidentally af- ford protection to a large area of fer- tile country. The expenditure of $30,- 000 would make a deep-water channel of Alviso Creek almost to San Jose. The importance of such an improve- ment cannot be overestimated. The farmers and fruit growers of. Santa Clara Valley would save more than the cost in one vear in the matter of trans- portation. Like improvements on other creeks enumerated would result in material advantages which would not only affect the country traversed by them, but which would be shared by the people of the entire State. If it be- comes_the fixed policy of the State to care for her navigable strams upon the lines of recommendations made in his report, says the commissioner. the Leg- islature should make an additional ap- prooriation of $100,000. The report concludes with the state- ment that it is the belief of the com- missioner that his department has ac- complished all that could reasonably be expected from it. and further that an indorsement from a man of such ex- perience as Major Heuer ought to satls- fy all fair minded taxpayers that the department has been dilizent, thorough and economical in the discharge of its duties. The renort of Engineers Nunse and Randall treats extensivelv of the work done by them on the rivers under the direction of the commissioners. An argument is made sustaining the aetion of the denartment in using a nart of the arnronriation in the construction of needed works on the rivers rather than expending it all on the nurchase of a dredeer. which could not have been ‘op- erated except at great additional ex-.| pense. COUNTIES SETTLE ; WITH THE STATF day in the order of occurrence as to time. The second time column gives the second tide of the ‘day, the third time column the third tide 4nd the' last or right hand column gives the Jast tide of the day, except when there are but three tides, as sometimes occur. The heights given are ‘additions to the soundings on the United States Coast Survey charts, except when a minus sign () precedes the height, and then the number given is subtracted from the depth given by the charts. The plane of reference is the mean of the lower low waters, STEAMERS TO ARRIVE. Steamer. ~ |- From. Mackinaw . Wellington Protection. Departure Bay . Seattls . -|Coos Bay |Honolulu Weeott. Yalla Wal Col Y Steamer.’ Destination. | Sails. | Brer. Corona Columbia, Coos Ba Weeott Acapulco port, with an Diego. -|Jan. 2,11 am{Pler 11 , 11 am|Pler 11 10 am|Pier 13 10 am|[Pler § |Newport | Yaquina Ba; Panama. - Saturday, Decembe; Bktn Gleaner, Sprague, 6 days from ({nl{lll:n- bla River. Sunday, Januar, Stmr Alcazar, Gunderson, 5 hours from Naw- mr Alcatraz in tow. Stmr Alcatraz, Carlson, 65 hours from New- port, in tow of stmr Alcazar. Stmr Charles Nelson,” Anderson, 88 hours frm Seattle. Stmr Gipsy, Leland, 18 hours from Moss Landin, £. Stmr. Albion, Thompson, 40 hours from Port Los Angeles. 3. B. Spaulding took for his text the | 4 c ans favorable to the | discharged, and they can ask the courts | SUPerintendent of extensive San Luls | forms in the method of training troops, in thirteenth verse, twenty-first chapter of | o iene. Sissastin 1ack of Hosency 1o cide whether our action is legal or'| 0ld mines in Lower California. Alta. | agriculture, in manufacture and . eve evA and Omega, | regarded on all sides as an appropriate | " Mr. Stow expressed the opinion that the | M2TiN0, Who has recently returned from | thing lixely o copduce to the prosperit - Schr Wing and Wing, Simmis, 8 days from ¥ay Into the Tressury the Money | Coos Bay. SAILED. the Beginning " espe appropriate for the closing of the old and | the commencement of the new vear, when | another volume of life’s history has been | closed. “It is then that we say,” said the “what 1 have written is writ- ten a annot be changed.” There may be leaves in_the hook that we would Dbe ashamed to have the eve of othe read, but God seen them and the: may not be alt d. I what the past year has been to us, with cially | fingle to the corruption which has ren- dered the school department a reproach and a disgrace to San Francisco. of Saturday evening's proceedings, and one only, Is with some degree of satisfaction. | is the action of the board in having en- y | tered on its records the flithy language Is well to think | used by the Judge Belcher. One feature denouncing The Judge's friends say incoming board would endeavor to serve the city and county honesfly and do wnat they could to redeem the department from the disgrace at present ai tuchlnf to it. If any of the new members were inclined to emulate the example of their predeces- sors he was confident they would find themselves in the minority. “‘If Mr. Bergerot is elected president of the hoard,” he said in conclusion, “T shall give him my hearty support to secure a clean administration of the affairs of the the property, said: “On my last trip I stopped at the ranch of Juan Otero, who related the incident of a stranger appearing in that country dressed in a Prince Albert coat and with a brownish beard and strag- gling hair. He carried a wicker-covered demijohn. The howling of the dogs at- tracted Otero’s attention, as the ap- pearance of a stranger on foot in that of the empire. It directs the Viceroys and Governors to memorialize the throne | within a month that these reforms have | been inauguraed. This edict is highly significant as show- ing that the Empress Dowager realizes that the situation is serious and that all hope of the country’s future lies solely in reform. o Portland’s Wheat Shipment. PORTLAND, Or.,, Jan. 1.—Wheat ship- | Collected on Account of State Taxes. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 1—Fifty-two County Treasurers' of California haye completed settlements with Controllér Colgan and paid i1to the State treasury the money collect?d on account of State taxes. It is acknowledged that The Call's timely and thorough expose of the scheme concocted by shréwd attorneys to defeat settlements upset the calculations of the schemers and brought about the desired P cloudy; wind SW: velocity 16 miles. k: Sunday, Janua Stmr Sunol, Jacobs. St Stmr Brunswick, Andresen. Stmr Umatilla, Cousins, Victoria and Port TELEGRAPHIC. JOINT LOBOS—Jan. 1, 10 Townsend. m.—Weather DOMESTIC PORTS, ASTORTA—Arrived Jan 1—-Stmr Geo W Elder, hence Dec 30. TRANS-ATLANTIC STEAMERS. NEW YORK—Arrived Jan 1—Stmr Patria, fm its and sorrows, its sunshine and |po better monument to the character of department. clouds, and that we may begin the new year with better hopes, better endeavors, the present Board of Education could country is unusual unless he is a fugi- | ments from Portland during the year 1838 | ;3justment bet¥een the County Treasur- | SGyiampton. - — e c t E E—Arrived Jan 1—St T Nseruiness. et we por cn9eavors. | 1ove been devised. Judge Belcher - re | Each of the thirty-two cltles in fassa- | tive from justice. The stranger ac-|2mounted to 108615 bushels and 45000 | ers and the Stofe. To-night there is more | from New me Lo Bretacne, 4 1 barrels of flour were shipped to the Orient dlion dollars in th T: Fork moe neriness e Ormga s | gards ‘his calumniators s baneath cons | CHUSELtS has one or more public librarics, :s,%t,gg df?%hgg: lgg}‘ X:&td S:ce{l;; s‘f;fie during the vear. This seasen to gate {'r‘é‘a‘}su‘r’if““’-‘?mnk e, Gall aited tio (JUEENSTOWN—Saled Jan 1-Stmr Umbria, ! = 33 3 S eat 3 o = beginning and the en tempt and his friends say ho is satisfied | 5 suppliod. niciously. The next day he departed. | shipped. o > ° e | Ty S bALE Talllon, A4 ho BroSRest | commar four ReAZved Jan 1-Stmr La Gas-