The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 21, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN F¥FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1899. i SATURDAY ceessssessss«JANUARY 21, 1800 = JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Address All Communicati PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Malin 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS. .217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year:; per month €5 cents. THE SUNDAY CALL. 82 pages..One year, by matl, $1.50 THE WEEKLY CALL, 18 pages ..One year, by mail, $ OAKLAND OFFICE ...908 Broadway ......... Room 188, World Building NEW YORK OFFICE DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. Riggs H C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE civeeieeeno..Marquette Buildihg C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representat! BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open unttl 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ena Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. ! AMUSEMENTS, rance Town.™ ing Day." Vaudeville. “Two Married Men." and -Planka, the “‘Lady of C Mason and Ellis streets, plechase. all or ecialties. ng Park—Coursing to-day. d ck—Races to-day. C k—Races Mond ‘““SACK’ CANDIDATES FOR SENATOR. HE e | :RE is no question whatever that unless we | to relapse into a state of complete moral »se we shall in a short time be compelled to | rent method than that which now pre- The sc ended the selection of these offi- ited States Senators. THE LAST REFUGE OF RASCALS. ESPAIRING of success by open balloting, and D confronted by an indignant public whose de- nunciations are rapidly weakening the nerve of their followers, the railroad bosses, in their efforts to elect Dan Burns to disgrace California in the United States Senate, are trying by every means their power to coax, to bully, to entice and to delude the Republican majority in the Legislature to con- sent to hold a secret caucus whose decision is to be binding on all who take part in it. The scheme is.cunningly devised. the Legislature who has hitherto voted against Burns can be expected even by the bosses of the railroad to openly join the black list gang. If any are to swell his disreputable vote some covering must be pro- vided for them. That covering the proposed caucus is designed to give. If any number of honest men can be induced to take part in it the rascals will have the game virtually in their hands. The honest men will be bound by the caucus to vote for Burns, and | the black shéep will pass in with the innocent and profit by the hypocrisy. As the situation stands Grant is virtually retired from the race. Since the disclosures made by The Call and confirmed by evidence given before the As- sembly investigating committee, the candidate from | in No member of San Diego is discredited, his followers demoralized | The one danger that re- | mains to threaten the honor of the State and the pres- tige of the Republican party is the candidacy of the all the corrupting power of the Southern Pacific Company. So long as the voting can be kept in the open, and | every man remains free to vote as he pleases, that | danger is comparatively little. Burns cannot win in | a fair contest carried on before the eyes of the peo- ple. seclusion, the secrecy and the darkness of a caucus | where, under the forms of party discipline, he may | delude a few honest men and prepare the way for dishonest ones to sneak into his camp. By the disclosures made before the investigating and his hopes dissipated. man from Mexico, backed by His one chance is to shift the struggle to the committee it has been shown that a vast amount of | ut the country during the past three | s particular emphasis to this observation. | ary, in fact, to seek for illustrations present m f; er than our scandal is being manufactured daily | Through the m: of crimi- | rimination, and counter | vhich the Senatorial contest at Sacra- | t nece evils of e, wher antities. 10lesale g and charges companied, we discern one grcflt‘ verywhere and on all sides the ) is regarded as the chattel of millionaires. aign with no other expec- would be compelled to pay for According to the testimony es called before the mbly in\csti-§ ed his money in accord- | ind without regard to The same feature has attended of Dan Burns. It is well known that > of the State in a manner | tion. tes ce at rulir tee, he disg g lidac al and degrading. ssible that this kind of thing should go ! on without ultimately involving the State in an oven.| whelming storm of obloquy. We cannot, every two | lation influenced, our public of- | kers bribed and cor- ire candidates for United States hout winding up in eternal perdition. well be settled in advance, for it is not ive of such degradation in connec- decent government. est of general public decency Congress an amendment to the national consti- 1 changing the present method of electing Sen- ght be some opposition in the Fed- h a measure, and a few State Legis- resent interference with their preroga- ., but the people 1ld sustain such an amend- (B c opinion could be relied upon to se- n. Out of an elective system rep- es Senators would come troop- ould be an entire obliteration of the r law bece ’ candidates f the most important of local enterprises it undertaken by the North Central Im- vement Association for the purpose of bet- lition ¢ at section of the city sit- level lying north of California street ny. The land in that district is suf- iluable to repay the cost of extensive provements. im- In fact, it is so valuable that its full T never be realized by the owners until it | has been improved. With the owth of San Francisco and the in- crease of its commerce the entire region lying suffi- ciently near the water front to be available for han- dling > stocks of goods and produce will have an augmented importance. Residences may move west- | 1 the retail trade may follow, but from the ature of things the wholesale trade must re- e district along the bay, and until that has roved and brought up to the standard of h are required of modern communi- ercial interests of the city will be heay- conditions wh now engaged in making preparations to in- vite the world to attend an international exposition to be held in San Francisco in 1901. To our own | people much of the interest of the exposition will lie in what it may achieve in developing our industrial | and productive powers, but to the world at large and to a considerable extent among home people the chief | value of the enterprise will be in the showing it“ makes of the possibilities of Pacific Ocean commerce and the advantages offered by San Francisco to those who desire to engage in it. If we can have the whole of our water front and wholesale district well paved, well lighted, well buiit and well provided for handling all forms of merchan- dise, we may certainly count upon attracting to the city a considerable number of enterprising merchants with energy and capital sufficient to undertake a world-wide trade. Such men would not only help to advance the city, but they would seek out new mar- kets for the products of our industry, and in that way aid in the upbuilding of all the interests of the State. In the East and in Europe it has been learned that to hold its own in the struggle for trade every com- mercial city, no matter how well it may be situated, must make its commercial districts attractive and commodious, or trade will go elsewhere. San Fran- cisco cannot reasonably hope to become the metrop- olis of the Pacific if her citizens show less enterprise than those of other ports. The movement undertaken by the North Central Association is therefore one of | importance to the whole community, and it is to be hoped itewill attain such success as to induce prop- erty-owners of other districts to follow the example. 1 | we regard as the highest and most virtuous purposes } i $700? By his own admission he had but one oppo- intrigue, bribery and rascality has been practiced by bosses in arranging for the election 3urns” candidacy was kept carefully hid- den from the public and from the rank and file of the Republican party during the whole period of the re- ‘When it was announced by Herrin it came to the great majority of Republican voters the unscrupulous of Senator. cent canvass. like a stab in"the back. No man’s candidacy for a | high office in the United States was ever before car- | ried on in so cowardly, so vicious and so disreputable | a way. | Against that candidacy the press has protested, the | party has protested and the State has protested. The | vote for Mr. Grant. admit under oath that Green paid him, and paid for him, $1650. Each denies that this money, admitted by Green to have been Grant’s cash, was paid to Wright in the expectation that he would vote for Grant. Now let us put the various statements made by Mr. Green in parallel and contrast, and let the reader judge: GREEN'S TESTIMONY. I told Leake Wright had| (To leading questions “Yeen originally friendly to|put by Wright's attorney, Grant * * * and had|Green answered.) voted for Burns. Itermed| There was no agree- him a political harlot. ment that Wright should He had lunched with|vote for Grant. Grant at the Palace grill,| He never promised to and said if elected to the|vote for Grant. His vot- Legislature it would give|ing for Grant was never him a good deal of pleas-|mentioned. I did not tell ure to vote for Grant.|Leake that Wright had Knowing that he had ex-|broken his promise. I pressed himself as friend-|never told anybody I had ly to Mr. Grant I was|paid Wright money in willing to make a contri-|consideration of his prom- bution to the cause. ise to vote for Grant. It was money that Mr.| Voting for Grant was Grant ‘gave me to spend|never mentioned. in his campalgn. This| At the time I paid him Wwhole $1650 was Mr.|the $900 it was not men- Grant's money. Wright|tioned. The $750 was Mr. stated to a number of peo-|Grant’s personal check, ple that if elected to the|but Wright's voting for Assembly he expected to|Grant was not mentioned. support Mr. Grant. While| Question by Sanford— there was no promise ex-|You would not have ad- acted that he would, yet|vanced the money had it helped Mr. Grant's as-|you not thought he was pirations by securing the|friendly to Mr. Grant, nomination of a gentle-|would you? man who had announced| Green—Yes, sir, I think that if elected he would|T would. ‘Wright came to my of- fice for the $300 volun- tarily. I was told that he was on his way to Colonel Burns to get money to help him in his candidacy. He had said he disliked to go to Burns for money because Mr. Grant was his_preference. This was told me by a gentleman not in politics. I hate to bring his name in. Now, what does the foregoing prove? That Wright announced himself for Grant. He was ac- cepted as an honorable man, openly taking a position to stand by it and take the consequences. He had expected something different, but it was not offered. He then made it known that he was going to Burns for money, and took care that this should get to the | ears of Green, and it did. Wright went to Green’s office and got $900. It was squeezed out of Green by the threat to go to Burns. Wright and Green swear | that they played Damon and Pythias to each other. But Green’s testimony shows that there was no such | relation, else Wright, needing money, would no. have threatened to get it of Burns in order to squeeze it out of Grant. The relation was financial entirely, and who doubts that the consideration was to be Wright's vote for Grant? That Green so understood it is perfectly plain. If he did not, why does he say under oath that Wright was “‘a political harlot” be- cause he voted for Burns? Turning now to Wright's téstimony. He admits getting the $1630, and that $900 of it was used in the primaries in the Seventh Ward in Oakland, in brass only papers that support Burns are railroad organs and the Examiner, which is evidently trying to regain | the favor of Huntington and the blackmail subsidy {* | | of $1000 3 month which it enjoyed a short time ago. Political jobbery, fraud, misrepresentation and open lying have been resorted to by the supporters of | Burns, and the full extent of the abomination is as yet unknown. spect for his constituents or himself will follow slimy track of Wright into the black list gang. The caucus, with its possibilities of secret voting | and rascal trickery, affords the only possible chance } The honest Re- | publicans of the Legislature have only to keep out of | No man in the Legislature having any re- the t for the railroad and its candidate. THE INVESTIGATION. that trap and victory will be theirs. T | T is no pleasure to any one concerned in uncover- | [ ing the feculence of the Senatorial fight that it | tarnishes reputations. The only feeling of The | Call in the matter is regret, dominated by a stern | sease of duty, and the conviction that the interests of a great party, at present charged with the destiny of the State and the nation, require that corruption | therein be met at the door and clubbed back, or the | paty is ruined. The Call's connection with the matter is as open as its motives are free from any taint of revenge. This paper promoted the ambition of Mr. Wright to | be Speaker. To secure our advocacy he voluntarily, | solemnly and repeatedly pledged himseli as to his vote on the Senatorship. He knew our position, and by putting himself in line with it secured a support | which he regarded as valuable enough to be worth seeking. ( He betrayed an obligation voluntarily assumed, | under circumstances that at once raised the presump- | tion that when he assumed it he was already con- tracted to deliver himself in violation of it. After | skirmishing on two ballots he delivered himself to | Burns. Then Mr. Leake, holding still the perfectly | open part in the affair that The Call occupied from | the beginning, publicly reprehended the Speaker’s un- | speakable treachery. This open and public course on Mr. Leake’s part discovered a fellow feeling in Mr. Green, political manager for Mr. Grant, ‘who volun- tarily and without restraint announced that Wright's | support of Burns was in betrayal of a financial ob- ligation voluntarily assumed to Grant. It was then apparent that Mr. Wright had been in three camps. | He had obligated himself to Burns, to Grant and The Call. The first two obligations were contractual in | theit nature, and it immediately appeared that in | Grant's case the consideration was money. In The Call's case Wright incurred obligation solely.by | solemn representations that put him in line with what | of the party, and the best interests of the State. The | consideration in the case of Burns remains to be re- vealed. An analysis of the evidence, under the rules of logi or according to the principles laid down in Green leaf, or by the natural method taken by the plainest man in sifting truth from falsehood, leaves Mr. Leake's testimony absolutely unimpeached. The Oakland Enquirer calls it “cold-blooded.” Pray what has the Enquirer to say of Wright, who in- voked his domestic relations in evidence of his oppo- sition to Burns, and, violating that fireside duty to | his good name, shifted responsibility upon the Jus- | tices of the Supreme Court, promptly to be proved a liar by the full bench? The Speaker admitted first the receipt of $750 from Green, but it was to pay a debt and was to be re- turned. When confronted by the evidence he re- membered $900 more paid out, he says, in his pri- mary campaign. At the same time he swears that the | only peril tay him in the primary campaign was the | opposition of Pringle and that he got rid of that by paying $200. What was done with the balance of nent and got the right of way in the primary and con- vention by paying him $200. Turning now to his relations with Green, Both bands, printing, canvassing, etc., and that he “won out” in that ward for the delegation by six votes. Now he had no opponent for the nomination but Privgle, and later on he swore that he paid Pringle $200 to withdraw as a candidate, and he withdrew. This left Wright without opposition in his district, as shown by his own testimony, and therefore the expen- diture of the whole $900 in his primary campaign was unnecessary. He admits under oath that he took $1650 from Green, that he knew Green was Grant’s manager, and he admits that he told Mr. Spreckels and Mr. Leake, to secure the help of The Call in his Speakership fight, that he was not under obligation to any individual or corporation. It would be interesting to know just what the Speaker considers an obligation. He took a large sum from Grant, and the assistance of The Call, which he solicited, but felt free of obligation in each case! Grant and The Call were antagonistic, and both antagonized Burns. It will be interesting to know the nature of the obligation to Burns which led him to violate the other two. It is perfectly well understood that Green knew he was putting Wright under obligations to Grant, and that Wright knew it. The transfer of the large sum of $1 was the only needed evidence of a contract which required no further record in text or in words. Morally and in equity the offer and its acceptance completed the transaction, just as much as though a written agreement was made before a no- | tary. Green's testimony that he learned that Wright | was on the way to Burns for money means that he learned he was on his way to put himself under obli- gations to Burns that involved his vote for Senator, | and by intercepting him he secured the obligation for Grant. 2 The coarsest of practical politicians understood this | petfectly, and there need be no difficulty in seeing it on the part of those who are not practical politicians. That The Call has perfect confidence in its case is certified by our publication of every word of the tes- timony. Heretofore the style of report by investi- gating committees has been: “Your committee has heard all the testimony and the people have not.” In this case the people, the final jury, are hearing the testimony exactly as taken, in the columns of The Call, and we submit to their judgment. B Theodore Roosevelt has joined the number of army officers who confirm the report of General | Miles that the beef furnished the troops in the West | Indian campaign was foul and vile. If the contract- ors continue to insist that it was good they should be compelied to prove their faith in it by eating some of it with the green beard on. The public will take notice that while other papers of the city have published but a digest of the pro- ceedings of the investigating committee at Sacra- mento, The Call publishes them in full. For readers who wish all the news all the time, there is no sub- stitute for The Call. S ol With Depew in the Senate and Choate in London, New York will be happily relieved of her two most voluble after-dinner speakers, and there is now a good chance to sell pools as to which will be first to make a bad break by talking too much. Since we are to have the world invited to attend our exposition in 1go1, let us chuck the spurs into the Hall of Justice contractors and get the building done in time to make it part of the show. When the Philippine Commissioners get to the islands and look the country over the best thing they can find will be a way to get out and take the soldier boys with them. 2 In the meantime it will be noted that Mose Gunst continues to act as Police Commissioner. The boss is under the weather, but his lamb is out of the wet. It begins to ook as if the only way to suspend a poolroom would be to hang the man that runs it. Regardless of ultimate results, it may be remarked that Matt Quay is not having a happy time, GENERAL BAMBERGER NO MORE. AHHEST[D N G second year, staff. workers in the cause of the South. $2,000,000 worth of property. had the power to keep him there. dinary hand. #-E-N-8-8-8808EEEEEEE-aan i Passing of a Quaint Character, Former Secretary of Jefferson Davis. ENERAL SOLOMON S. BAMBERGER died at the residence of his sis- ter-in-law, 1824 Fell street, yesterday. The deceased was in his sixty- He was a native of Furth, Prussia, and parents to the United States when very young and with them settled in Kentucky, where he received his education. At the breaking out of the Civil War the young man joined the cause of the South and enlisted as a private. His fine education took him out of the ranks and advanced him along the lines of promotion until he was made a brevet brigadier general on the celebrated General Joseph E, From there he was transferred to the staff of President Jefferson Davis and through his hands went Davis' extensive correspondence with his co- It is sald that Bamberger drew the plans of the famous Bull Run battle-field, for which he thanks from the general in charge of the division. At the close of the war Bamberger left for home with a solitary, 10- cent piece in his pocket, although when he enlisted he had a share in over On his arrival in San Francisco, in 1878, he at once recognized the coming power of Chris Buckley and lost no time in form- ing an alliance with him. The blind boss recognized the worth of the gen- eral and at once took him into camp and confidence. boss was a steady position in the City Hall at a good salary as long as he However, the waning Influence of the boss did not throw Bamberger out in the cold, as his superior penmanship had been recognized by others, and he found employment almost steadily up to the time of his death. His last work was done for Auditor Broderick in fixing the rate of taxation in the books of the Tax Collector. One remarkable characteristic bestowed by berger was the formation of his eves. He had what is known as a myopic eye, by means of which he could distinguish the smallest of objects. great was this gift that when he chose to write would become invisible to an ordinary microscope; vet each character when seen through a powerful glass would be as distinct as if written in an or- The general never married, though at one time he was engaged. He has a brother in this city who formerly held a position in the Custom-house. came with his Johnston's received special His reward from the nature on General Bam- So infinitesimally the lines o E-E-N--E--8-E-E-E-N-E-E-E-E-a R S SHE LOST HER WAY, BUT FOUND GOAT ISLAND Lorenz and William Ran on the Beach. The fog was thicker on the bay yester- day than it has been in months. The ferry boats were all late, and some of them made the wrong slips. Some of the bay schooners got lost and had to come to anchor, while the Lorenz and William brought up on Goat Island with all sail set. The captain and crew wall:ed ashore and made their way over the hills to the light station, where they procured a boat and thus reached Oakland long wharf. Once on this side they secured the tug Millie and returned to the strand- ed schooner. The tug worked on her all the afternoon, but failed to get the Lor- enz and Willlam off, About half of the load of tanbark went overboard and was lost, but the vessel is not much damaged and will come off to-day at high water. The United States dispatch boat Iro- quois sailed for Honolulu late Thursday night. A number of dispatches arrived from the Navy Department in Washing- ton, and as soon as these were put aboard the Iroquois got under way. She ray have instructions for the Oregon, now due at Honolulu, to proceed to Samoa, or she may follow the Bennington to Guam and order the gunboat to the new scene of trouble. The schooner Mizpah, from Coquille River, lost 15,000 feet of lumber and one of her boats during a storm on January 9. This was probably the lumber which the Czarina passed through on her last voyage here from Seattle. All steam schooners running between San Francisco and Eureka will in future carry mail. Hitherto there was only a mail once a week by steamer, the other times it being sent by train i Ukiah and thence by stage to FEureka. The roads of late, however, have been almost impassable, and, in consequence, letters that should have reached Humboldt a month ago are only getting there now. In future the steamers will carry the mail. The wrecked Noyo Is damaged more than was at first suspected. Divers went down and examined the Hull esterdar, and they report that there is a Yarge hole in the port bow, the keel is fione, the en- tire_bottom on the port side is badly chafed and will have to be replaced, and the rudder and rudder-post are gone. As soon as a thorough examination has been made the divers will patch up the holes and the vessel will be pumped out and placed on the drydock. Captain George M. Anderson is now in command .of the ship Lucllle, and Cap- tain O. Erickson of the steamer Alblon. Frank J. Kuofke, n{rlvnte in Company A, First Nebraska Regiment, U. 8. V., was arrested by the police and turned over to the military authorities yester- day. He is said to be one of a gang of twenty. who broke open boxes on the transFort Ohio during the voyage from Manila and stole a number of relics and $300 in cash. Ruofke admits taking the relics, but says he thought they belonged to_the company as a_whole. The mall steamer Rio de Janeiro ar- rived from Hongkong via Yokohama and Honolulu yesterday. She brought up a large passenger list, which includes the names of a number of soldiers homeward bound from Manila. Captaln Glass of the Charleston returned and after a short va- cation will take charge of the naval sta- tion now being established at Goat Island. T. H. Goodman, general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific, and his hiece, Miss Hosmer, came back from Honolulu on the Rio. Miss Hosmer is a very sick ‘womah, and had to be carried ashore in a ltter. The State of California is to be laid u for repairs, and the George W. Elder wlfl e ;englvncs her temporarily on the PomnulCnutornln has outlived its AROUND THE CORRIDORS J. A. Hyde of Salt Lake City is at the Palace. C. C. Chase of Denver is a guest at the Occidental. H. M. Leps, U. 8. N,, is a guest at the Occidental. Captain C. E. Hooper, U. 8. A,, {8 at the Occidental. Arthur Lee and wife of Richmond, Va., are at the Palace. Banker T. B. Rickey and wife of Carson are at the Palace. Dr. H. C. Johnson of New York Is regis- tered at the Grand. Attorney C. A. Storke of Santa Barbara is a guest at the Grand. John E. Budd, a brother of ex-Gover- nor Budd, is at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Howison of Toledo, Ohio, are at the California. T. H. Ramsay of Redwood, manager of the Vina Ranch, is at the Grand. H. G. Bond and wife and Marshal Bond of Santa Clara are at the Palace, Colonel James Jackson, U. 8. A., of Portland, is staying at the Occidental. H. B. Duncan and E. B. McCormick of Pittsburg, Pa., are registered at the Occidental. C. E. Tinkham of Chico, manager of the Sterra Mill and Lumber Company, is at the Grand. T. H. Goodman, the general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific, returned from a pleasure trip to Honolulu yester- day. Judge C. N, Sterry of Los Angeles is a guest at the Palace. Judge Sterry is the counsel for the Santa Fe in Southern Cal ifornia. Edwin Hatfield Garthwaite, M. E., a Californian graduate of the State Uni- versity, and later of the College of Mines, Freiburg, Germany, who was called to South Africa by John Hays Hammond in 1895, as manager of the Nigel Deep mines, has just been appointed by Cecil Rhodes superintending engineer of the South African Chartered Com- pany’s mines at Buluwayo, Rhodesia, South Africa. This is one of the most important mining positions in the Char- tered Company’s gift, and is a tribute to the skill and abllity of Mr. Garthwaite. On the occasion of Mr. Garthwaite's re- tiring from his management of the Nigel Deep mines last month the company gave a banouet in his honor and pre- sented him with a handsome silver table service. % CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—Eugene Korn of San Francisco i8 at the Fifth avenue. —_———— DISGRACED BY JILSON ETNA, Siskiyou Co., Cal.,Jan. 15, 1899. Editor Call: I was chairman of the last Republican County Convention. I do not think there were five men in that convention that favored Burns for United States Senator; they were near- 1y all for General W. H. L. Barnes. I spoke to Major A. &. Myers, who was a delegate and who has a State repu- tation as a mining man, as to the ex- pediency of having the convention vote to instruct Jilson to vote for Barnes. He said it was not necessary, as Jilson was all right. Now, in view of Jilson's action, I feel keenly the disgrace he has placed upon the grand old party here ! in Siskiyou. He has not only disgraced the party, but the county. If it is true that the executive and | Jjudicial branches of the State govern- ment are for Burns and they succeed in forcing him upon us against the Wwishes of more than 99 per cent of the Republicans of California, I say in all candor that the Republican party of usefulness, o . WILSON, A THE CITY HALL FOR MURDER Ong Foon Still in the Law’s Clutches. NOW WANTED IN SANTA ROSA THE MURDER COMMITTED OVER SIX YEARS AGO. Charges of Attempted Extortion and Blackmail Against the Badgered Heathen Dismissed by Judge Mogan. i The Chinese slave dealers seem deter- mined, according to the police, to get rid of Ong Foon, the prominent member of the Chinese Educational Society, for after the case of attempted extortion against him was dismissed by Judge Mo- gan yesterday he was promptly arrested on leaving the courtroom by Sheriff Grace of Santa Rosa on a charge of murder, sald to have been committed by him in that city on November 2, 1892. He was booked en route at the City Prison, and was taken away by the Sheriff before his friends knew of his arrest. In the extortion case the defense put on the stand Mrs. Lake of the Methodist Mission, Mrs. Clara Anthony, a teacher of the Chinese Educational Soclety; Clar- ence C. Edwords of The Call, Charles Shafer, cigar dealer, 26% Washington street; Dr. John E. Gardner of the Chi- nese Bureau of Immigration and Attorney M. M. Foote, whe all testified to the ex- cellent character borne by the defendant. Dr. Gardner said it was entirel: v~ ugh the defendant's efforts that the slave traffic had been practically abolished. Wong Ah Dong, the landlord of the house where Ah Ling, the complaining witness, lived, was a slave dealer and the keeper of a house of ill fame. The defendant denied the charge, and said he was employed as assistant book- keeper at 771 Clay street and was algo an interpreter. The Judge said he did not believe the complaining witness nor ihe two other witnesses for the prosecution. The guilt of the defendant was not proved and to bring such a charge against him on such testimony was a travesty on justice. For these reasons the case would be dis- missed. Ong Foon had just stepped out of the courtroom when Sheriff Grace. placed his hand on his shoulder and told him he was under arrest for murder. He produced a Justice's warrant, which called for the arrest of Ah Fung for murder. At the City Prison the Sheriff said that Ong Foon, according to Wong Tung, one of the witnesses for the prosecution in the extortion case, was Ah Fung, who mur- dered Ah Loy, a cook, in Santa Rosa on November 2, 1892, and he had procured the warrant for his arrest. That was all he knew about it. Ong Foon, or Ah Fung, denied that he was the man, and sald he had never been in Santa Rosa. He was astounded at such a charge being brought against him. Lieutenant Esola was at the City Prison at the time, and said that Sheriff Grace had called upon him Thursday night and told him of the murder charge and who his informant was. The murder was first said to have been committed in Sacra- mento and then in Santa Rosa. The lieutenant warned the Sheriff not to be too hasty in arresting Ong Foon on such information, as It might get him into trouble. Esola and others believe that the arrest is a put-up job to get Ong Foon out of the way. g NOW IN SANTA ROSA JAIL. Ah Fung Charged by Sheriff Grace With Deliberate Murder. SANTA ROSA, Jan. 20.—The crime for which Ah Fung was arrested, and for which he will be tried, was the murder of Ah Loy in Santa Rosa on November 8, 1892. Two men quarreled over money matters, the result of a dispute concern- ing a game of fan-tan. Fre Saurdered man was in_the employ of Judge R. M. Swain as cook and house servant at the time, and while returning to Chinatown on the day of the murder was shot while standing on the porch of a store on Second street, this city. When shot Ah Loy dropped dead in his tracks, and the murderer, throwing his weapon over a fence, darted into a store and out of the back door, disappearing in_the di- rection of Santa Rosa Creek. He has never been located until his arrest to-da: Information of his whereabouts was re- celved at the Sheriff's office here a few days 'ago, and the prisoner is now safe in the Sonoma County jail to await trial. The Associated Charities. The annual meeting of the Associated Charities was held yesterday, and the ¢ing officers were elected for the e J o ar: President, Oliver Eldridg Jice presidents, B. P, Flint, Major Hoo) or and J. N. Burnett; secretary, Miss Vir- ginia Fitch; treasurer, W. 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