The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 24, 1899, Page 1

This Paper not to be taken from theé LiBrary. 2t * The VOLUME IXXXV-—-NO.' 55 SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS. IRVING M. SCOTT PLANS TO MOVE ON SACRAMENTO - Preparations Completed to Be- gin a Vigorous Fight for the Senatorslgip, WILL OPEN UP HEADQUARTERS A Big Delegation of Prominent Business Mem From| This City to Go to the Capital To-Night to Assist in the Capture of Votes. Du e been s ng tt | friends of Mr. Scott in this city, work- ing up a boom for him. A few days since ex-Mayor L. R. El- lert went to Sacramento to survey the nd report his observations to friends here. st evening the was reached to open head- quarters at once. The practical poli- s in the Scott movement, both and at Sacramento, believe the deadlock can be broken by their candi- past week leading citizens licited to prominent o promote 1 oremost in rving M decision date. BEIE Ehenesn’ he delegation to visit Sacramento to s Mr. Scott was thor-| advance the claims of Mr. Scott con- « h € secured in- sists of members of the Board of Trade Merchants' “iation, Produce E change and Chamber of Comm . Among the Scott adherents who will g0 to the front immediately are Joseph D. Grant of Murphy, Grant & Co., Wil- | liam Dohrmann of Nathan, Dohrmann s e Se r Davis of Ama- | & Co., Hugo Kiel, John Merrill of Hol- mblyman Dunlap of n | brook, M 11 & Stetson, N. D. Ride- voting for out, the well-known banker, and P. A. ts of oratory | Buell of Stockton. Cay Ming this ion| Ex-Mayor Ellert left the city last S or Davis in placing | night presumably to open headquarters Irving M tt before the | in Sacramento. It is announced that ippears now that | Irving M. Scott and quite a number of R ré have been in l those interested in his aspirations will sta communication with the g0 to Sacramento to-morrow evening. EX-GOVERNOR PACHECO JOINS THE MAJORITY The Late Romualdo Pacheco. AKLAND, Jan. 23.—Ex-Governor Romualdo Pacheco passed away at his home, 528 Boulevard Terrace, this city, at 9 o’clock to- night, after nearly four weeks’ illness. His death is attributed ® to kidr troubl and he was attended by Dr. Liliencranz. In H the hope t vr;m;:o. might inure to his health, the ex-Gover- ® 1 his wife, well-known play writer, a few weeks ago visited ® ild and daughter, Mrs. W. S. Tevis, at Bakersfield. For a ® acheco appeared to be rallying, and they returned to their land home on a week ago last Thursda Mrs. Tevis accom- them. During the past few d: the de >d sank steadily, h every ort was thrown about him. His last hours were ful and = ently unattended by pain and suffering. His loving > and dau w by side at the time of his death. 3 Mr. rn &t Santa Barbara, October 31, 1831. He was educated tutors and for a time was engaged in s, but afterward interested himself in agriculture. He > ature in 1853 and in 1855 was chosen as as in the State Senate in 1857 and 1861 ey t and _was State Tr and again in the Senate in 1868. In 1871 he was elected Li nor and became Governor by the election of nor Booth te the United States Senate. He was also elected to the but his t was ssfully contested by P. D. following he was again a candidate and held a ngress. He was appointed Minister to Mexico here he was very popular and did much to advance *a in that country. eutenant Gove; 2000908GO000669 | Mexican ports, but promised it when DESERTIONS FROM A | they should reach an American port, THE PH“.ADELPH'A | Since arriving here very few have been | permitted to come ashore. Admiral Kautz received official notice A somewhat | from Washington to-day of his | : ¢ promo- prevails ;?;:}"?:sgcommlssmn dating from De- .SAN DIEGO, Jan. % state of affairs on | the Philadelphia, now In the|SemPer 8 . A salute of thirteen guns narbor here. Since the arrival of the | 3 -— vessel mearly or quite thirty members | Government for Hawaii. 5t the crew have deserted and of these| WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The ma. . iighteen have been recaptured. The | jority report of the House Committee : n are in a very bitter frame of mind. | on Territories has been filed. It rec- “They say that they were denied uhoreiomends a territorial form of govern- deave whlile at Central American and 'ment for the Islands. PROBABLY SLAIN FOR HIS WEALTH ' Tragedy in a Mountain Cabin. AGED FERRYMAN FOUND DEAD BRAGGER KILLED NEAR | JACOB | ANGELS CAMP. | | Evidence That the Old Man Was Murdered as He Slept by Rob- bers in Quest of His { . Geld. | | | | Special Dispatch to The Call. ANGELS CAMP, Jan. 23.—What ap- pears to have been a murder occurred at a lonely cabin near Reynolds Ferry, about eleven miles from this place, some time last night. The victim was Jacob Bragger, 72 years of age. He lived alone and ran a small ferry boat | across the Stanislaus River, which is| about 200 yards from his cabin. He was seen several times yesterday by differ- ent persons. Several parties had stopped at his cabin during the afternoon and had drank to a greater or less extent. Bragger had put several of his guests across the river with the aid of his | small skiff. G. R. Stone, who runs the | Reynolds ferry, about two miles up the river, was in the vicinity at 4 o'clock. He says that two men were in the house with Bragger, and both were the worse for liquor. | This was the last seen of Bragger until he was found in his bed dead this | morning by John Wannamaker and Amizo Morrow. These men came to the river's brink and called to be put| There being no sign of life | around the place, Stope, who was work- | ing at placer mining in the vicinity, | took the boat and pulled the men across | the river. They went directly to the | cabin, and, finding the doors unlocked, | ventured in, to find the corpse. | The news was at once brought to this place and Deputy Coroner Prince, ac- ! companied by an undertaker, started for the scene. The body was found ly- | ing upon the bed in a side room, garbed | in a nightrobe and with several marks | upon the head, wrist and knee. The | house was in an orderly condition and | nothing appeared to have been dis- turbed, so at the first glance robbery was not supposed to have taken place. The effects of the dead man were ex | amined and many papers of minor im- | portance discovered. Some of the wit- nesses state that a paper was found upon' which was written something | about finding some mamey. One theory /s that Bragger had hsen drinking during the day and had left the house during the night and stum- | bled and fell,. inflicting the wounds | upon the face and head; but after a ‘varn(ul examination the relative posi- | | tion of the marks do not bear cut this | theory. There was an abrasion upon | the right cheekbone as large as a dol- |lar and one immediately above the | right temple and triangular in shape. | Another wound was to be seen directly |in the center and on the top of the | head. | This mark was about two inches in | diameter and was somewhat discolored. | The wound upon the cheekbone was | not a deep one and might have been made by a fall, but the one directly above it, triangular in shape, showed well-defined lines and was undoubtedly made by some small instrument. Even granting that these two wounds were made in falling, the wound on the top of the head could not have been made by a fall. No evidence could be found that Bragger had even been outside of | | | | the house. The ground was soft from the recent rains, but there were no footprints. Bragger's neighbors say he handled much money and as he had continually indulged in placer mining in the vicin- ity since the early sixties he undoubted- ly had some gold dust. It is believed that whoever committed the crime was familiar with the old man's secret and got away with the gold without dis- turbing the order of the house. Bragger was always known as a harmless old man and no one had ever seen him drunk. This fact disproves the theory that he was drunk and fell while staggering around the place. He had a niece in St. Louis, Mo.,, Minnie Turner, and another niece in Chicago, Mrs. Carrie Sherman. |EARL POULETT PASSES , AWAY IN LONDON An Organ-Grinder Will Claim the Succession to His Title and Estates. LONDON, Jan. 23.—William Henry, Earl Poulett, died in this city yesterday in his seventy-second year. It is prob- able that the succession to the title and estates will be disputed. The deceased Earl was thrice mar- ried. According to gossip he made a wager, when a harum-scarum youth and traveling about, that he would marry the first woman he met on land- | ing in England. Accordingly at Port ’S(-a‘ in 1849, he married Miss Elizabeth Virginia Newman, daughter of a land port pilot. Within a few months she | gave birth to a son, whose paternity | her husband denied. The couple from | that time lived apart, the wife dying in August, 1871. The child, who now calls himself Viscount Hinton and claims the succession, has long been living on the streets of London as an organ grinder |and his pretensions were always sternly | repudiated by the deceased Earl. | About six weeks after the death of | his wife Lord Poulett married Miss | Bmma Sophia Johnson, who died in | 1876 without issue surviving. In 1879 | he married Miss Rosa de Melville, | daughter of Alfred Hugh de Melville, and their son is generally recognized as the rightful heir. The long-standing quarrel between | the late Earl Poulett and the organ- grinding Viscount has furnished the material for many a London sensation. Only a month ago the claimant to the | succession issued an appeal to the pub- lic to take a philanthropic interest in | the condition of the poor, among whom | he lived and earned his living. | ————— COMMITTEE ALL HEADQUARTERS, SAC- RAMENTO, Jan. 23. — Under the immediate direction o Chairman Cosper and Mr. Mel- lick the Assembly investigating com- mittee to-day resolved itself into a committee for the protection of Dan Burns. The deliberations of the body were a spectacle worth going some distance to see, for it is not every day that the or- dinary citizen is afforded the oppor- tunity of witnessing a legislator in the very act of bowing at the feet of his lords and masters. Tt is no more than fair to the majority of the members of the committee to say that they took no more active part in the proceedings than was necessary for them to insure for them- selves a near at hand view of the self- abasement with which Chairman Cos- per and Mr. Mellick acknowledged the presence of their masters. The kowtows and the genuflections were induced by the presende on the witness stand of such high personages as William F. Herrin, who had the pleasure some weeks ago of announcing, on behalf of the Southern Pacific Com- pany, the Senatorial candidacy of Col- onel D. M. Burns; Major F. McLaugh- lin, who draws a fine distinction be- tween McLaughlin, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, and well-wisher of his party, and Me- 3 1090000 0-0-0-0-0-0 OF INVESTIGATION CHANGES ITS OGCUPATION | the sum said to have been paid to him. OW ORGANIZED FOR PROTECTION OF D. M. BURNS Legislators Bend Their Knees to Their Lords ' and Masters. HIGH POLITICAL LIGHTS ON THE STAND Eulogistic Talks for the Man From Mexico Listened to With Every Evidence of Appreciation on the Part of the Inquiring Assemblymen. | | [ ] poses to wreck it. BURNS THREATENS TO WRECK THE PARTY CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Jan. 23. — Twenty-eight ballots for United States Senator have been taken and Dan Burns has gained but two votes to add to the Burns’ lieutenants and the Southern Pacific Company now declare that if Burns can- not secure the election he will cause a deadlock and California will be left with but one rep- nothing frqm now on to the end. Attention is called to this threat that the members of the Legislature and the people of the State may see for themselves the kind of loyalty Dan ® 4 [ ] ® ® [ ] [ ] % . twenty-four he received on the first ballot. to betray their constituents and enter the Burns camp. ® MEDA AND JILSON OF SISKIYOU. ° @ resentative in the United States Senate for the coming two years. o ° Burns has for his party. If But two men have been found who were willing These are WRIGHT OF ALA- It i$ to be Burns or i it will not elevate him to a position he should not have he pro- Laughlin, the personal friend and political supporter of the man from Mexico; Moses Gunst, promoter of horse racing and all forms of gambling, including that of trying to get a man with a malodorous record into the United States Senate; and Colonel Daniel M. Burns, political boss and pos- sessor of a record that includes arrest on charges of embezzlement, conviction of fraud and the betrayal of the most sacred trust. It was a notable array, 0900000000 0006006600000060000660¢ 000600 * ® ® ® ? ? @ ® ° ® E a new occupation connected with his | mitted having signed a check for $750, employment by the Southern Pacific | Which he gave to Green to give to How- Company. When a man wants to get a |21d Wright, but he denied any knowl. ticket over the company’s lines it is the | ©d8€ of theyother $900 which Wright . |admits having received from Green. proper thing to send a note to Herrin, | ' garlier in the day Dan T. Cole, coiner who in his turn sends a clerk after the | of the San Francisco Mint, Wns.nut on desired thing. The next time Herrin | the witnes: and dand asked to tell meets the man for whom the ticket was | what disposition he had made of t} secured he collects for the same and ‘ f-}"“” Sl {“"; ‘\‘" Green to expend in resumably turns the money over to | e interest of Mr. Grant’s candidacy. Fhe company’s cashier. T}i@qe facts | {Ie S{'m h”l ;""d pa“?] 81400 of ‘fhe SUIonY n Slle e gy 5|to Assemblyman Jilson of Siskiyvou were brought out in Herrin’s testimony | County, then a candidate for election concerning the issuance by him of two | to the Assembly. He declared that he | News $3 and the Cresce; [ not have excited special | $305 40 that ought He denied, however, having expended the money to secure Lis own election, but generously scattered it about the istrict in the interest of all of the candidates on the Republican State ticket. The inability of the sergeant at arms of the committee to find Assemblyman Dale handicaped the inquiry mto the charge that Dale had been offered a bribe of $3000 to vote for Senator. Bulla as his second choice candidate for United States Senator. Dale was not in his scat in the Assembly chamber during the day and ne -)uld not be found at his home. He was seen down town by several persons, to be unable to meet the ser arms face to face. The laborious work * dodging the main issue will be re- committee sumed by the to-morrow afternoon. WHAT BECAME OF JILSON'S MONEY? A Slight Discrepancy That Makes Things Unpleasant fer the Man From Siskiyon. ADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, n. —Jilson of you is finding that the way of the transgressor is hard. He filed a sworn statement of CALL HE | his election expenses as the law directs and in this statement set forth that he expended during the campaign the sum of $94 60. He swears that he paid the Yreka Journal $13, the Daily Reporter 310, the Etna Advance $5, the Dunsmuir . News $5. He expended $19 for sundr The rest of the money was expended, ac- cording to the statement filed in the office of the Secretary of State, in traveling expenses incurred by him- self in journeys to Montague, Yreka and the fort. Dan T. Cole of San Francisco went on the witness stand to-day and testi- fied that he gave Jilson $400 and held out $100 for himself. This testimony caused some surprise as to the division of the money. If the figures had been reversed, giving $100 to the Assembly- man and $400 to Cole, the division would wonder. What did Jilson do with the $400? The expenses accounted for only figure up $94 60. Here is the sum of to be returned to Grant. It is to be hoped, for the honor of Siskiyou County, that Jilson will not be as tardy in settling up as was Wright of Alameda. Perhaps Jilson figured that the speech seconding the nomination of Grant would be worth $305 40, but that speech was never delivered in joint convention. THE 1901 EXHIBITION BEFORE THE SENATE CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 23.—A communication from the San Francisco Board of Super- visors was presented by Senator Hall to the Senate this morning asking that a statute be enacted to enable each county in the if the Supervisors 80 desire, by a s 1 tax levy, to con- tinue for three year money to provide for an exhibition of its pro- ducts to be a part of the exposition to be held in San Francisco in 1901 to com- memorate the thirtigth anniversary of the admission of California into the Union. tickets t6 Assemblyman Merrill of San Francisco at the written request of Dan Burns. Herrin testified that he complied with Burns' request for the tickets, which were from San Fran- cisco to New York. Some days later he to be sure, and it taxed the ingenuity of the brainy Cosper to find suitable expressions to indicate to all the gen- uineness of his servility. | had exacted no_pledge from Jilson, but that it was understood the money was to be used in promoting the election of all the candidates on the State ticket. The remaining $§100, Cole said. S spent by him in the payment of rail- road fares and hotel bills. It may be as well to state at this point as another that Chairman Cosper is the same person who was, a few days ago, charged with soliciting, through an agent, a $6000 bribe from U. 8. Grant’s political manager on the pretense that he had already been offered $6000 to vote for Burns. The charge still stands as it was made, save for Cosper's de- nial of its truth. The man who, it is said, adted as Cospor’s agent in the transaction has been subpenaed to ap- pear as a witness before the investi- gating committee, but he bhas refused to obey the order and no steps have been taken to punish him for his dis- obedience. The man of whom the bribe is said to have been solicited is said to be suffering from temporary illness at his hotel here in Sacramento, but no subpena has been issued for him and no steps have been taken to secure his deposition. In the meantime the Burns touts are claiming Cosper for their very own and do not forget to count his name when reckoning up the “colonel’s” strength on the umpty-seventh ballot for Senator. The testimony of the witnesses named may be summed up in a very few words.. Herrin, though favorable to Colonel Burns, knew that the Southern Pacific Company had never pald out a dollar to promote his Senatorial candi- dacy. McLaughlin knew Burns to be an honorable gentleman and the proper man for Senator, but was positive that the State Central Committee was doing nothing to assist him to the United States Senate nor was the State pa- tronage being used as a lever to hoist reluctant legislators into line to vote for him. Gunst had heard that Burns contributed liberally to the Republican campaign fund and was certain he would honor the American Congress by his presence in it. Burns, with becom- ing modesty, acknowledged his own honesty and high purpose, ndt forget- ting to mention the fact that he had been forced to become a candidate by the newspapers. He failed to mention the fact that he still owes the State about $30,000 which was stolen through Killed by Moldy Raisins. REDDING, Jan. 22—Eda Neilson, a this city on Saturday evening from hav- mfi eaten a quantity of moldy raisins which had been thrown In the back yard as worthless. four-year-old girl, died in convulsions in |, his office while he was Secretary of State. 5 Quite incidentally it was developed, through questions put members of the committee who refused to be shut off by Cosper and Mellick, that Herrin has met Burns on the street and collected | from him the price of the tickets, a sum amounting to about'$130. A peculiar Mr. Jilson corroborated what Cole had said by admitting the receipt of It is designed to have an exhibit of the products and industries of the State, the United States and other countries, more particularly the Ha- waiian Islands and the Philippine group. The petition séts forth the fact that San Francisco will raise $750,000 by taxation for the exposition. The communication went to print. circumstance connected with this trans- action was that Herrin could not for the life of him remember whether he made collection from Burns before or after the fact of the issuance of the tickets was exposed in the San Fran- ciseo newspapers. Pursuing the inquiry along these lines the inquisitive committeeman de- veloped the fact that Speaker Wright had also applied to Herrin for trans- portation over the lines controlled by Collis P. Huntington. The request made by Wright was not denied. Mr. Herrin gave him a mileage ticket for which, Herrin added, Wright paid in greenbacks. In view of the fact that ‘Wright has not yet returned the $1650 he received from U. 8. Grant, through Milton J. Green, in return for a prom- ise to vote for Grant for Senator, this payment by him of money to Herrin in return for a mileage ticket, sticks out on the face of his recent career like a clam shell on a mud flat. It is barely possible that Herrin may have had a financial dream at the moment he handed the mileage ticket over to ‘Wright, but he is 80 positive he han- dled the actual cash that his statement may be received as truth without en- dangering Wright's reputation for dis- honesty. 1 Another view of the. circumstance | would be that Wright did not know ! where the ticket office of the railroad is | located and that during the course of his search for it he wandered into Her- | rin’s ofiice. Having explained his pre- dicament Herrin saw an opportunity to get some of the Grant money Wright was jingling in his pockets, so he sold his visitor a mileage ticket on the spot. This is, of course, mere conjecture, but if it were true it must have been a great relief to Herrin to be able to sell a ticket and receive the pay for it in his office, thus avoiding the manual labor attached to running about the streets to collect small sums for tickets issued by him, as he did in the case of Colonel Burns. The witnesses whose names have been mentioned were not the only ones who appeared before the investigating committee to-day. Among others was U. S. Grant. He told the committee that all of the funds that had been expended by him in making his canvass for United States Senator had passed through the hands of Milton J. Green, his political manager, and that he had no personal kncwledge of the manner in which the money was expended. He had given the money to Mr. Green from time to time, with the general instruc- tidns that it was to be used in a legiti- mate manner. None of the money so rovided had been expended other than egitimately to his knowledge. 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