The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1899, Page 6

CISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1899 THURSDAY. JANUARY 19, 1809 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. All Col ns to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. nicatiof PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS... .217 to 291 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL, 16 pages ..One year, by mall, $i OAKLAND OFFICE ..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE.... -Riggs House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ......Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Moptgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untit 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 otlock. 1941 Mission street, opan untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 | Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | | | Kentucky streets, open untl! 9 o'clock. n Yon ‘Lady of Lions.” Ellis streets, Specialties. echase. ~Races to-da; THE UNCHANGED BLACK LIST. A balloting for Senator has} Sacramento and the black list of lators who in defiance of an c opinion vote for the disreputable NOTHER day’ 1at THE POLITICAL GRUBSTAKE. it were not serious it would be amusing to wit- l ness the Democratic horror at The Call’s expo- sure of the system of political grubstaking fol- lowed by candidates for the United States Senate. Under that system love and affection have no place, but go to the limbo of obsolete things along with party loyalty and State patriotism. It recognizes money as the only merit in a candidate, A man may have the accomplishments of the Admirable Crichton, the patriotism of Washington, the profundity of Web- ster and the eloquence of Clay, but these qualifica- tions for the Senatorship cut no figure against an ignorant and accidentally rich man who can grub- stake candidates for the Legislature and thereby se- cure their votes when elected. Perhaps in the beginning this practice was not con- sidered reprehensible. When the late Senator Hearst desired to acquire this great public honor he entered vpon an extensive grubstaking enterprise. Demo- cratic candidates whom he had not seen personally received his check and a request to invest it in secur- ing those ballots declared by Whittier to— * * = fall as light as snowflakes on the sod, But execute the freeman's will As lightning does the will of God.” Several gentlemen returned these checks, and if they succeeded in getting elected were viewed with alarm, while those who kept the checks and were elected were pointed to with pride. This system was the cause of the enacti.ent of the purity of elections law. Under it a legislative candidate appoints a purity committee which audits his election expenses and files the account under oath. The revelations current at Sacramento make it ap- parent that some candidates needed an impurity com- mittee. In the case of Speaker Wrong it is not yet estab- lished that his campaign accounts were audited at all or that the members of his purity committee ever made oath to the required statement. One fact in his case stands out in forcible relief. According to his own statement he paid an opponent for the nomination to withdraw in his favor, and then appointed the same man a member of his purity com- mittee! This money paid for the right of way to the Since Speaker Wright | camp was detected with | pocket no member has followed | There is now reason to believe that | neasure of Burns' strength and Legisl has seemingly been | 1e prospects are that when any change | for the better. [ 1 1e let the people remember that the men | have had so little regard for their own reputa- | n and the interests and honor of the State as to | whose handling of public money has ulted in a shortage and a criminal prosecu- ture SENATORS. Bettman, San Francisco. Burnett, San Francisco. Hoey, San Francisco. Laird, Shasta. Leavitt, Alameda. Shortridge, Santa Clara. Wolfe, San Francisco. ASSEMBLYMEN. Arnerich, Santa Clara. Barry, San Francisco. Beecher, Shasta. Cobb, San Francisco. Devoto, San Francisco. Dibble, San Francisco. Henry, San Francisco. JILSON, Siskiyvou. Johnson, Sacramento. Kelley, Alameda. Kelsey, Santa Clara. Kenneally, San Francisco. Lundquist, San Francisco. McKeen, Alameda. Miller, San Francisco. Pierce, Yolo. Rickard, San Francisco. Eugene Sullivan, San Francisco. nomination was furnished from the exchequer of a candidate for the United States Senate, and, though contributed from that source as part of the Speaker's political expenses, the gentleman to whom it was paid did not find it among the audited accounts of the can- didate! Since the introduction of the political grubstake the vstem seems to have undergone changes and to have been applied to the purchase of right of way in the party convention as well as to the purpose of fighting the common enemy, by opening the eyes of voters to the virtues of the grubstaked candidate. The student of statutes may get a list of suggestions for amendment of the purity of elections law, for the enforcement of the responsibilities of a purity com- mittee, and for getting purity and impurity far enough apart so that one can be distinguished from the other. | As far as known this grubstake is a Democratic in- vention that has been pirated by certain Republican | politicians, though it is by no means sure that the rightful owner of the invention will bring action for damages. THE COYOTE SCALP STEAL. BILL has been introducted into the Legisla- f\ ture appropriating $287,000, with which to liquidate the coyote scalp claims incurred under the statute repealed four years ago. The measure provides that payment shall be made by the State | Treasurer during the next two fiscal years, so that | the entire burden will not fall in any one year. It is enacted that the State Board of Examiners shall ex- amine all the claims and pay only those which seem to it just and proper. While, of course, it is absolutely necessary that the coyote claims should be thoroughly investigated, we do not think the power to make the inquiry should be conferred upon the . State Board of Examiners. That body consists of the Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General, three officials who have plenty to do without this additional duty. In the na- ture of things they cannot give to the subject the at- | tention it deserves, which is a serious matter, since not a single coyote claim should be paid until some- | body is thoroughly satisfied that it is genuine. | It is notorious that during the time the statute re- | ferred to was in force coyote farming in certain por- tions of the State was a profitable industry. It has been charged on excellent authority that many agri- culturists in the mountain counties added coyote WRICHT, Alameda. the record this morning as it stood and the question is now not so much who ing as who will be the first among them 1 of the people and forsake it. yesterday, th 1d to the der will jo tc THE CALL'S NEWS SERVICE. ESTERDAY The Call do y § gave its readers a Y ble proof of the superiority of its news ser- vice over that of all its competitors combined. as the only paper in the city to publish a verbatim the cablegram from Auckland announcing the outbreak of war in the Samoan Islands. These two items constituted the most important s, local or foreign, of the day. No issue of do- c affairs is so interesting or so noteworthy as nento. is fraught with the danger of involving the United | States. Great Britain and Germany in the controversy, | for the administration of the islands is under their | The islands hold a strategic position in h Therefore the news of the s 2 matter of no small concern to the world powers in them are great. occedings cost money. It would be v to fill 2 newspaper with fake interviews with or the Pope, and make a freak s not fake, nor does it spare money for shat he'll do: 1 into an auger-hole; He'il crawl into a gimlet-hole; And pull the hole in, too. Whether the proposal of Speaker Wright to ex- | clude representatives of The Cail from the floor of the Assembly has gone over or gone under is not. clear, but it is certainly gone. Cacsar had his Brutus, Ulysses Grant has had his Green, and Dan Burns mav profit by the example. acramento, and was also the oniy paper Ived in the hearing of the Senatorial scandal | On that subject the people ought to know the whole truth; and The Call gave it, while ern Pacific, and the interests of the three | se cablegrams and full stenographic reports | but The Call is not that kind of | Those who wish to be posted must | scalps to their regular output and made a great deal | of money thereby. It is also well known that large | | numbers of coyotes were killed in Arizona and | Nevada and their scalps brought into this State. | There was at one time sufficient evidence to establish | | the fact that bales of coyote scalps were authenti- | cated in several different counties, being shipped from f one to the other by collusive County Clerks. | Moreover, these claims have all now taken on a | speculative character. They have been purchased at enormous discounts from the original holders and have fallen into the hands of banks and capitalists. The biennial attempt to pay them, therefore, has be- come a regular raid upon the treasury. Two years | ago money was openly used in the lobby to pass a bill appropriating mgney to pay them, and consid- crable scandal resulted from charges preferred against one man of bribing a member of the Legislature. The Legislature owes it to itself to sce that this bill does not pass until ample provision has been made for a thorough investigation of the claims and the establishment of their genuineness. Any other course cannot fail to result in the actual looting of the treasury. A GROSS INJUSTICE. NDER the decision of the Commissioner of In- U ternal Revenue, that the war revenue act pro- | hibits tobacco dealers from selling in broken | packages, or small quantities, a wrong will be done to an industrious portion of the people which amounts to a gross injustice—one so gross, indeed, that it threatens to deprive many families of their means of subsistence and reduce them to penury. The circumstances are thése: In San Francisco and in every American city of considerable popula- tion there arec a number of persons who carry on the industry of cigar-making in a small way. These | workers are not able to purchase tobacco in large quantities, for the limited extent of their trade and their means do not permit it. Their industry, there- fore, depends upon their ability to obtain tobacco in small quantities as they require it, and as the new law, according to the decision of the Commissioner, forbids the sale in that way, the industry is virtually suppressed by an act of Congress. | The evil is all the more offensive because the eco- ! nomic tendencies of the age are already heavily han- | dicapping the small producer or manufacturer in competition with the giant corporations and trusts which contrél so much capital. The large manufac- smaller cigar-makers by reason of the very nature of our economic system. It is, therefore, a most griev- ous wrong that the law should step in and give such further advantage to the big factories as will suppress the independent workers altogether. It is stated by the Commissioner in his decision, as an explanation of the adoption of the new rule, that “increased rates of tax on tobacco products enforces a more careful supervision over the sale and disposi- tion of leaf tobacco.” As an explanation that may be ample, but as a justification it is worth nothi The United States are not so poor that they havéto im- pose taxes that literally crush out the industries of the people. There are many ways in which the needed revenues of the Government may be raised without resorting to such exactions upon small industries, and if the tobacco tax cannot be collected under the new law with as little injustice as under the old it would be better to return to the former rate. The issue is one which cannot be postponed.. The wrong that has been done should be impressed upon Congress at the present session. As the matter stands, if Congress does not take some action to amend the law and do justice to the small dealers, there will be some suspicion that the big cigar fac- tories have cunningly devised this scheme to drive their small competitors out of business and compel them to scek employment in the big factories as operatives, and possibly at lower wages than the pres- ent operatives are earning. The cigar-makers should not be left to fight the battle alone. The issue is one that concerns the whole community. It is estimated there are upward of 2000 cigar-makers in this city alone, and that there are dependent upon them something like three times that number. The ruin of the industry out of which is derived the maintenance of that number of persons wotuld be a serious affair under any circumstances, even if brought about by-the irresistible development of forces of economic change, but when done by an act of legislation it is an injustice which should not tolerated a day after its effects have been noted. THE ELECTION OF SENATORS. ITH the return of the season of Senatorial W elections there has come a renewed demand on the part of intelligent and patriotic citizens for an amendment to the constitution providing that such elections shall be held by direct vote of the peo- ple instead of by Legislatures. The demand is not only renewed, but is augmented in force. At each successive period the scandal of Senatorial struggles becomes worse and the need of change more distinctly perceived. The advocates of the desired reform increase in numbers and in the energy of their efforts to bring it about. iater such an amendment must be provided in the general interests of the country, and the sooner it is adopted the better. Bad as are the open and notorious evils that lie on | the surface of Senatorial struggles in the Legisla- tures, these are by no means the greatest wrongs pro- duced by the present system of election. Back of them are other offenses which affect all the legislation of the session at which such elections are held, and materially vitiate and corrupt the whole political de- velopment of the State. The scandals that are more readily perceived and exposed are those of bribery, either by defraying the election expenses of a candidate for the Legislature or by the distribution of money afterward. Such ofienses are serious enough, since they enable cor- rupt men to advance to high office and prevent hon- esty and merit from attaining the honors they " de- serve, but their evil terminates, however, with the election of the vicious candidate, while there are other offenses that go further. Corruption, in working its snaky way to high office, rarely resorts to the purchase of votes by money. . It uses such bribes only for the lower grade of rascals who are in politics solely for boodle. It has more powerful inducements or compulsions to bring | to bear upon the better grade of legislators, and it is by these it inflicts the greater, more far-reaching and more enduring wrongs upon the State and the people. One of these indirect means of winning votes is that of patronage. For the purpose of promoting the candidacy of a corrupt man his allies in office dis- tribute the patronage of the State among those who will support him. intrusted with public service, and often those who are notoriously vicious and dishonest, are given im- portant positions because they have influence with some member of the Legislature and can control his vote for Senator. Frequently new offices are created for the purpose of increasing this patronage, and the taxpayers are thus burdened not only with incom- petent and base office-holders, but with a considerable number who render no service whatever. Another means is that of offering to furnish votes for certain measures on condition that the advocates of the measures will vote for the Senator to whom the offered votes are pledged. Such combinations are so frequently made it often happens that the legislation of a whole session is determined by the wire-pulling and log-rolling of the Senatorial contest. The evils of these clections are, in fact, so far- reaching they affect the interests of every class of people and legislation of all kinds. Such offenses, in- creasing with the years, have now become intolerable. It is time to put an end to them. Under the present system, to attain a Senatorship a candidate must either have great wealth or be backed by corporations that supply him with wealth. Let us revive the ! spirit of the constitution by amending the letter, and | once more make the avenues to the Senate open to | integrity, ability and patriotism, so that the welfare of the State may be preserved and “corruption win not | more than honesty.” e e When a man is detected leaving a ship and wrapped in forty yards of silk there'is almost warrant for be- lief that he is engaged in smuggling. Possibly, how- ever, the Mallaby jury was prejudiced against cir- cumstantial evidence. —_ One way to weaken that depressing deadlock would be for some of the little candidates to drop out. The difficulty, however, would be to find any candidate who would consider himself in this classification, PR R, Noble efforts to save the charter continue. As the charter is not in danger, and really has no op- position, these efforts may be regarded as spectacular rather than useful. The best case of well-directed economy afforded by any Legislature this winter is that of Tennessee. The solons réfused to vote money to print the Governor’s message. —_— A person who writes an anonymous letter to charge another person with murder will excuse the public if it fail to manifest signs of respect. Even if Spain were to recognize the belligerency of the Filipines the moral effect would be small. Spain once thought herself belligerent. He is a very busy statesman who does not find time to reach for The Call as soon as it gets to the turers of cigars have a hundred advantages over the | Capitol. Sooner or | Men who are utterly unfit to be | VILIFIED A SOLDIER AND A GENTLEMAN Vicious Criticisms of Colonel Smith. THEY WERE LIBELS OF A DISGRACEL CORPO- RAL GIVEN HEARING. Without Question or Verification They Were Published and Cir- culated—Warren’s Deiznse of His Commander. a letter purported to have been signed by “A Member of Company H,” certain statements reflecting on the offi- cers of the First California Volunteers and Colonel James F. Smith in particu- lar, has aroused the friends of Colonel Jjustice done him and has called forth a storm of protests against which are branded as false and maliciou Frank H. Warren, captain of Company H, who returned yesterday morning from Sacramento, where he has made earnest efforts to have the Legislature memorial- ize Congress to bring the First California home, was highly indignant when shown the article, and he expressed himself in strong terms against the perpetrator of the outrage. Captain Warren was inti- mately associated with Colonel Smith up to the time he left Manila pending the acceptance of his resignation from the | service, which came Tuesday by tele- graph. After reading the aspersions against his superior officer Captain War- | ren said: “I think I know the author of the anonymous communication. It {s one of two corporals of my company who were reduced to the ranks and sentenced to | thirty days in the guard house for ab- senting themselves without leave for | three days. It is a mean exhibition of spliework on_the part of a disgruntled individual and I am astounded that any | newspaper should have printed the scur- rilous letter without having first verified the allegations contained therein. “‘Any one who is acquainted with Colo- nel Smith’s feelings in the matter will recognize at once that he never declared that the boys were in no hurry to return home. { return home as any one in the regiment { What he did say was that if the Gover! ment thought that the services of the reg- iment were required in Manila he, as well as the men under him, were ready and vices. These are the exact feelings of all the men. It is not a fact that the boys from California are sick and dis- gusted with the whole outfit. The ra- tions are good and thelr quarters the best in Manila. In my quarters there was | & cot and a mosquito net attached there- o. “In regard to Colonel Smith's political aspirations I can safely say that he has none, and it is not redounding to his -financial benefit to remain where he is. He could make more money by returning to his law practice in this ecity. which i has suffered on account of his absence. “I consider this unwarranted attack upon & man who has done so much for the men of the California regiment as wicked and unwarranted. Ask any man in the regiment and he will tell you that Colonel Smith has been unremitting in i his attentions to the comfort of those un- der him. “In recommending him _for brigadier eneral of volunteers Major General homas Anderson commends him for his bravery and efficiency. ‘He has com- | manded a brigade,’ writes Anderson ‘with such excellent conduct and judgment a makes it evident that he deserves ad- vancement.’ “Major General Otis added his meed of praise by writing that ‘Colonel Smith is a zealous officer, good soldier, as well as lawyer, and as president of the commis- sion here {s rendering most valuable se | vice to the Government.’ said that he preferred to remain plain | colonel, and how any one could have the heart to vilify him is beyond my ken. “In regard to the officers always get- ting the best of it all T can say is that | !it. In the matter of riding around in car- | riages the privates themselves were not far behind in the enjovment of that lux- ury. Very often if the officers desired to take a ride they found it impossible to gratify their desire on account of the privates, who rode up and down the rin- cipal street, called the “Es(‘nlla.'P in the other seat. ‘I deeply deplore - the unkind said about Colonel Smith and I empha ically deny that he ever wrote or gay ascribed to him of my company.” |AROUND THE ' CORRIDORS Joseph Brewer of Boston is at the Pal- ace. C. L. Walter of Fresno is a guest at the Lick. M. C. Lorrison of Portland is at the California. H. Francis of San Rafael is registered at the Occidental. John A. Fray and wife of Los Angcles are at the Palace. F. E. Curtis, a hotel man from Los An. geles, is at the Grand. E. Waldo Ward of New York arrived at the California yesterday. James McCudden of Vallejo, Charles Erickson of Martinez and Gust Petterson of San Luis Obispo, weéll known contract- ors, are at the Grand. by a disaffected member | Claire Wilcox of Portland are among the arrivals at the Palace. Mr. Wilcox is a wealthy merchant of Portland. ——————— NEW YORK, Jan. 18. of San Francisco is at the Netherland. Mrs. A. Martin, Miss Annie L. Stone and | D. McClees of San Francisco are at the | Normandie. C. Altschul, wife and fam- ily of San Franeisco:are at the Plaza. pratSomi s o esbinharad No Stop, No Charter. The following letter, received yesterday by the secretary of the Railroad Commis- 1 sioners in this city, explains jtself: LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15, 1590, To the Railroad Commissioners, State of Cali- fornfa: I have a compluint to make agalnst the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for vio- lation of the law of this State. On November ! 15, 1895, 1 flagged the southbound train at Honby, due about 5:45 a. m., for Los Angeles, and the engineer refused to ‘stop. Honby is 4 flag station on said road, located about thirty- seven miles north of Los Angeles. It is always the rule to stop at this station on flagging, and besides, having purchased a ticket at ' that point, it was their duty to haul me back. I made complaint at the offices in Los An- geles and was referred to the division super- intendent at Bakersfleld. I wrote to him in- forming_him of the same, and no attention was paid to it. Therefore your petitioner prays that the commissioners Investigate these churges, and if oroved to be true that the Southern Pacific Railroad Company forfeit their charter to the State. Very respectfully, PATTERSON, 10% West Tiventy-fifth street. S e S A New Bank Directors. At the annual meeting of the stockhold- ers of the Germania Trust Company, held {on Tuesday, the following directors were ANONYMOUS | The publication in an evening paper of | in which | Smith to a deep sense of the grievous in- | statements | Colonel Smith was as anxious to | willing to remain and perform those ser- | room for thirty more men. Each man had | Smith always | if they did they were obliged to pay for | open victorias being already hired by the | many cases the vehicle containing only ! two men with their feet perched up on | things | e | utterance to the remarks that have been | Mr. and Mrs, T. B. Wilcox and Miss | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.| —Miss Mabel Cory | 1 . H. Brunner, E. A. Denicke, F. Kronenbers, 1 G Rued, A. Sbarboro, . ne Vith, Tornest . Deenlcke as president and with Ernest A. H. Brunner as cashier. —_———————— NOTED EN AT THE TRAPS. Tod Sloane and Johnny Coleman Will Shoot a 100-Bird Race To-Day. “I have made my fortune in the saddle, but of all sports I think nothing is more enjoyable than shooting,” said Tod Sloan last evening to his friend Johnny Cole- man, who, by the way, {s a smasher at the traps. “Can you really shoot, Tod?’ aueried Coleman in a rather astonished tone. Sloan did not speak for fully five min- utes. He felt stung at being asked such a stupld question, but finally he mustered up sufficient courage to put one to Cole- man. “Look here, Johnny, me boy, if you have an idea that I can’t shoot I'll just bet you a champagne sugper that I can drop more birds any day before the traps than you have ever been known to Kill. Coléman was staggered. The presumption of the little man of pig skin fame challenging him to a pig- eon shoot, and live birds at that, was something unforeseen, unexpected, unc thought of; but Tod meant every word he said, and Coleman had to accept the challenge or de the laughing stock of the gun shooting fraternity. “Well, Tod, old boy, I guess I must ac- commodate you,notwithstanding that you are reported to have bagged more grouse than the Prince of Wales on the Scot- tish moors in a day's sport,’ was the | smiling retort of Bookmaker Jack. The two crackajacks then repaired to the rooms of the Olywpic Gun Club, wher articles of agreement were drawn up and signed by the shooters to meet this after- noon at the shooting grounds of the Olympic Gun Club and shoot at 100 birds each for the supper. Hurlingham rules | will govern the race and the articles | ended up with the statement, “‘May the best man win.” Al Cumming will act as second for Sloan and Sloan will be es- | auired by Kddie Bald, the wheelman. | Referce and official scorers will be select- ed on the grounds, Coleman is a slight favorite in the betting, but it is thought that the friends of Sloan will open up their sacks to-day. THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MATINEE AT THE ORPHEUM SPLENDID PERFORMANCE AND A PACKED HOUSE. Receipts Aggregating Nearly a Thou- and Dollars Generously wo- nated by the Manage- ment. The Orpheum has never before been as | crowded as it was yesterday afternoon at the matinee given by the management for the benefit of the Children's Hospital. | | After the doors were opened at 1 o'clock | the house was half filled in an incredibly | short time, and at 1:30 standing room only was procurable. As to the artist who took part, the | same motive which brought 2000 people to | the show impelled the vaudeville folks to surpass themselves in the exhibition of their marvelous talents. Miss Bee Ross appeared in addition to | the regular programme and proved her- | self a dainty and clever interpreter of | coon Songs. The receipts amounted to $877 85. The | programmes and proceeds of advertising | were donated by Horwinski Brothers, and | | the flowers by Shannahan, the Powell- | | street florist. The flower girls who helped swell the receipts by their engaging manners were Papinta, Querita Vincent, Beatrice Lar- | kinson, Mabel Bowman, Gertrude Hayes, Irene de Voll, Mile. Rosa, Emma Krausi Mamie Davis, Hazel Cailihan and Miss Caldwell. The complete programme was as fol- ws: March, ‘“Margery’’ (Daniels), Rosner’s orig- inal Hungarian Orchestra; Voulett! and Carl marvelous balancers and acrobats; Emm; | Xrause and Margaret Rosa, assisted by their original Dutch Pickaninnies (copyrighted); “‘Belinda Balley’s Boarders,’”’ by Milton Nobles, Esq.: Benjamin Bolus, M. D., age 55, Barton ‘Hill; Baxter Bolus, his son, attorney at law, age 23, Charles G. Stevens; Belinda Bailey, ags 39, Ella hern; Blanca Balley, her daughter, age 18, Lucille Nunn; Boliver Bloges, a “Forty- niner,”” any old age, Charles Willard. Little Ribble and Master Mangels, singing, dancing and up-to-date cake walk; Julius Wittmark; Max Cincinnati, celebrated trick juggler; Querita Vincent, by permission of the Olympia management; the Musical Avolos; Johnnie Carroll and_Addie Crawford, in funny stories | and songs; Papinta; George Evans, monologue comedian and vocalist; the Arbra troupe, in acrobatic musical novelties; Harry F. Orn- dorf¥f, stage director. — e A NORMAL SCHOOL PLAN. |10 Fund to Maintain It. A meeting of the Normal School stu- dents was held yesterday afternoon. The voung ladies agreed upon a plan of pay- ing their own tuition to the school, and will submit their determination to the Board of Education at its next meeting. Each pupil proposes to contribute $5 per | month to the general school fund, and in- tend by so doing to break the econom- ical objectlon which has been brought to bear against the existence of the institu- tion. By placing the money in the gen- eral SChOflT fund it ecannot be construed as being an appropriation to maintain an independent school. A petition is being circulated and has already galfied the signatures of over 1000 residents of this city urging that the Nor- o 1 3 o @ g = ] ® | o o g 5 & ) = = 8 g - g E- mal School be continued until the end of | Yered the school at the beginning of the iterm with the intention of sgraduating, | tunity. | S s mebting will bg held in Depart- | Hall for the purpose of protesting against | the action of the School Board. The par- | vited to be present. Pty ORI | The following standing . committees have been appointed by the directors of ensuing year: Finance— George A. Newhall, H. F. Al- Tibrary—Leon Blum, F. L. Brown, E. R. Dimond. e‘x‘-’ship—A. B. Field, R. D. Fry, George W. SrSitration—Charles M. Yates, R. D.| William E. Mighell, Leon Blum. ‘Appeals—F, Tillmann Jr., A. G. Towne, | “Foreign commerce and revenue laws— ¥. L. Brown, A. B. Field, George Mec- Internal trade and improvements—M. A | Newell, A. G. Towne, F. L. Brown. Pp(ng—wmiam E. Migh- ell, M. A. Newell, United States Weather Bureau—H. Ros- —_————— Commodore Watso: relates a num- Farragut and other naval leaders in next Sunday’s Call. To Revive a Business Section. A meeting of the Central North End held in the Mills building this afternoon at half-past 2 o’clock. The club was re- viving that business section of the city lying east of Kearny and north of Califor- George K. Fitch, Joseph Brandenstein, W. S Keves, W.' H. Howard, George D. appointed and will report plans of opera- tion at the meeting to-day. A Church Organist Sued. R. Warren Lucy, organist of St. Ste- fendant in a Justices' Court action to re- | cover 21 and interest due or a note given that Lucy borrowed $100 from a ia friond and has neglected to pay the bar. June. It sets forth that the pupils en- and should not be robbed of this opor- | ment 6 of the Superior Court in the City ents of the pupils and the public are in- Standing Committees. Chamber of Commerce to serve for the len, Charles M. Yates. Memb | cNear Jr. = Fry. F. Tillmann Jr., Charles M. Yates. Near Jr. Harbor and shi H. Rosenfetd. enfeld, A. G. Towne, E. R. Dimond. | ber of interesting anecdotes about | e Improvement Club Association will be cently organized for the purpose of re- nia streets. A committee, consisting of Shadbourne and Edgar Painter, has been —————— phen’s Episcopal Church, is named as de- in March, 18%7. The complaint aljeges ance now sued for. —_———— Edward Everett Hale has a sermon in next Sunday’s Call. SUTRO'S HEIRS WILL ENJOY HIS WEALTH Trust Clause Declared Null and Void. JUDGE TROUTT’S DECISION BASED ON THAT GIVEN IN THE FAIR CASE. ST 73 “A Trust to Convey Is Invalid and Besides the 1ntent of the Tes- tator Is Not Clearly Defined.” Yesterday morning Judge Troutt dew clared the trust clause of the will of Adolph Sutro invalid, and in the event the Supreme Court sustains the opinion, or the decision rendered by Judge Slack declaring a similar trust in the will of the late James G. Fair inyalid, the Sutro Heights, Cliff House and San Miguel Rancho properties, valued at about $3,000,- 000, will be merged in the residuary estate of the dead millionaire and will be distrib- uted among the heirs at law to the vast estate as though the deceased had died in- testate. The trust clause was declared invalid in the action instituted by Clara Sutro, Edgar E. Sutro, Kate Nusbaum and Rosa V. Morbio, children of Adolph Sutro, against Mrs. Dr. Emma L. Merritt and W. H. R. Adamson, as trustees, and Emma L. Merritt, her husband, George W. Merritt, and Charles Sutro. Judge Troutt in deciding the case simply or- dered that judgment be entered for tne plaintiffs. He flled no opinion, but stated that judgment was given in accordance with the decision handed down in the ac- tion to declare the trust clause of the will of the late James G. Fair invalid. “The clause is clearly invalid,” said Judge Troutt after he left the bench, “by rea- son that it endeavors to establish a trust to convey. Again, it is ambiguous in that the intent of the testator is not clearly defined, and it is doubtful that with the imited directions of the will of the de- épnsed it could be determined and carried out.” Immediately after the decision was ren- dered a stipulation was filed In the pro- bate department 0f the County Clerk's of- fice dismissing the contest of Edsar E. Sutro to the will. This leaves the way clear for the probating of the will unless Mrs, Clara Kluge, who claims iaat her children are also those of the deceased CnDitAlst. fles a contest and demands that the paternity of her children be de- clared by the court, and that ‘h«‘g‘ be Jowed to enjoy the fruits of Sutro’s years of toil. ANCTHER WAR ON THE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY Chinese Slave Owners Begin - Fight Similar to the Cne Lost a Year Ago. The trial of Ong Foon, arrested on the charges of vagrancy and attempted ex- tortion and blackmail, which comes be- fore Judge Mogan this afternoon, is one in which there is much interest in China- town. For several yvears the Chinese Society for English Education has been a strong factor in the suppression of slave dealing and illicit immigration, and the result has been that the slave dealers’ association has used every means in its power to break up the society. About a year ago these attacks on the society were fully exposed in The Call, and it was then shown that thousands of dollars had been raised among the keep- ers and inmates of the houses of ill fame in Chinatown for the purpose of suborn- ing witnesses in order to break up the Educational Society. Ong Foon is an active member of the Educarional Society and has been instru- mental in numerous cases in sending back to China women who were brought here as slaves. The slave dealers and owners have had him arrested on the charges set forth above and expect to strike through him the first blow of an- other attack on the society. Foon claims to be able to fully disprove all the charges against him, and the society is ready to take immediate action for its protection as soon as the case is decided. At the time of the former attack it was conclusively shown by the police that the Educational Society was the only society in Chinatown which never gave trouble, and during the existence of the organiza- tion no member had been arrested on any charge, and at no time of the day or night had the police ever found the door of the society’s rooms locked. An investigation into the conditions surrounding the present fight shows that another fund has been raised by the slave dealers, but the soclety expresses confi- dence in its ability to meet all charges and attacks that may be made upon it. —_————— Referee in Bankruptey. BEdward Martin of Santa Cruz was ap- pointed yesterday by United States Dis- trict Judge de Haven as referee in bank- ruptey for Santa Cruz County. —_———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsends.* —_—— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. 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