The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 24, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 189 LOOK FOR A CLEAN MAN. T is evident, to quote from our Sacramento cor- respondence, that “the moral sense of the State is vevereeeeses. JANUARY 24, 1899 aroused” against the candidacy of Dan Burns. It is also clear that Ulysses S. Grant occupies a posi- TUESDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor Address Al Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..... .217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1§74 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE SUNDAY CALL. 32 pages..One year, by mail, $1.50 THE WEEKLY CALL, 18 pages ..One year, by mall, $i OAKLAND OFFICE ..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. .Room 188, World Bailding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Rigge House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.......................Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. 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, cpen until 9:30 o'clock. 618 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. i941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2848 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, opef until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. f the Nile.” d Woman.' lle, ssce's Pardner. »o—Pianka, the ‘‘Lady of Lions.” r Mason and Ellls streets, Spectalties. The Stee, To-day. v evening, January 2T. cital Monday evening, Feb- S was to have been expected the first actual step A ed Pacif ce to face with s ic Exposition has brought the pro- ilurian opposition. From rth until the success of the enterprise is ed, that antagonism will be met at every step 1 will have to be combated incessantly. y experi s of this t nothing can be direct and open hostility to public enter- for some years past they have It is their fashion nder v to declare Ives in favor of progress, but to insist that it ed by dropping the enterprise in bout some other. the Nicaragua country 5. Accordingly ore cunning tactics. great project is opponents of Id be better to construct the canal at at Nicaragua. The object of such tac- ivide the peog 1d to create differences of hat will lead to such wrangling that the project will be abandoned or at least in- which the silurians of the city in their opposition to the Pa- vor of progress and San Fran- opposed to the project that has It is in or of something that T ken, nor is likely to be under- Moreover, it is safe to say that if the sug- taken up, the silurians would then ect to that and propose something else. here are undoubtedly many ways by which the ex- million dollars could be made beneficial There is hardly any portion of m the ferry depot to the Cliff House, 1 not be judiciously expended to the ted scheme w taken toward the accomplishment of the pro- | nce in opposing progress has taught | Canal | object to the construction of a | e across the isthmus, but they main- | tion scarcely better. The people have demanded from the Legislature that it cast aside every aspirant | who is tainted and elect a Senator who possesses the necessary qualifications of intellect, education and c)‘(perience, and who is beyond reproach. Such men ¥in easily be found in the ranks of the Republican party, without discarding some of the gentlemen who have already been nominated in the joint convention. The Call has earned the right to pour this demand into the ears of the members of the Legislature, and | to insist that it be treated with respect and acted upon | with promptness. The State capital is smeared with the unclean drippings from two of the candidates and their agents and followers, and with that part of the | Senatorial conflict it is time for the legislative police | to interfere. On behalf of the State, therefore, and | of overy respectable element it contains, we demand | that Burns and Grant be retired and that a clean Re- publican, who will be just to the public as well as to the railroad, be forthwith chosen as the successor of Stephen M. White. The Republican party makes this demand. The Democratic party makes this de- mand. The merchants, the manufacturers, the farm- | ers, the horticulturists, the miners, the mechanics, the | Iaborers, the industrious and decent elements of our | population make this demand. It is indorsed by all | political, moral, religious and social organizations | that are interested in maintaining the honor, the repu- | tation and the interests of the State. It represents | the American sentiment, transcending parties and | creeds, of a million and a half of inhabitants, who in- | struct their clected agents in the Legislature that they | require their intelligence, their integrity, their neces- | sities and their wishes, and not corporate selfishness | or the counterfeit shadow of a great name, to be illus- trated by their Senator at Washington. Throughout the Union the determination to amend { the Federal constitution so that the Senators of the United States may be elected by popular vote and that treason to the Government may be no longer pro- claimed by corrupt legislators is becoming intense | and irresistible. The present Legislature of Califor- nia has not yet ranked itself with the disgraced repre- sentative bodies of other States. Let it now vindi- cate its own independence and manhood and justify the confidence and heed the admonitions of the mass of citizens by whom it was balloted into existence. LEGISLATIVE INTERVIEWING. | ‘[ ONE curious feature of such scandals as is now | in course of development at Sacramento con- B in the efforts of members to adopt measures which will prevent their recurrence in the | future. Whenever an exposure occurs involving | the reputation of the legislative boodlers, a large | number of back fires are kindled in various directions, | which often teke on a very comical complexion. | In 1801 the last days of the Legislature were about | as exciting, from a scandalous standpoint, as that which is now in session. On that occasion a num- | ber of boodling consultations took place in the State Library, the rooms of which are very convenient for meeting and negotiating, being located about half ay between the Senate and Assembly chambers. | Immediately after the last boodle consultation which took place in the State Library had been exposed, a member of the Senate arose and offered a resolution to investigate the State Library! This was an ex- | ceedingly comjcal method of preventing future scandals. | The other day Senator Boyce of Santa Barbara in- ! troduced a resolution in the Senate making reporters | who interview members as to their preference upon | bills guilty of contempt. Mr. Boyce’s idea evidently is that the reporters are responsible for the scandals { which are being investigated by the Assembly, and | hie thinks that if he can choke off interviewing he will | prevent any future exposures. We are compelled to differ upon this point with the honorable Senator. Interviewing is not the | cause of legislative boodling. It is the effect of it. | If the Senators were all honest men and were actuated | by pure motives in legislating for the people there | would be no occasion for the reporters to suspect | them or to investigate their “views’ with reference to | pending bills. It is only when the reporters hear | that there is a “sack” in the lobby which is being dis- | tributed among members that they become curious | and insist upon knowing how the members stand. pu e.. Ii we are never to undertake any enterpr we have reached a condition where we have no other use for the money, we shall be | s stagnant as the silurians, who have achieved their iny and are dead. = omoters of the great exposition are not likely | urbed by this display of opposition. They | re of the truth of Emerson’s saying, | here are two classes of people in the world; one of | goes ahead and does something and another | 1ds around and complains the thing should | n done some other way.” All expositions have had to meet opposition of the kind the aminer has manifested. It is note- worthy, however, that every important exposition in | this country has been successful, and that as soeon as | the success was assured the silurians who opposed it | have been heard to claim a part, and a large part, of | the honor of getting it up. The results in our case | will not be different from those achieved elsewhere. The Pacific Exposition will be one of those triumphs | that stimulate civic patriotism, lead to the accomplish- ment of other enterprises, and cause even silurians to talk for awhile like good citizens. B e — A German subject desiring to go to j where he could have shelter and food, uttered a series of pic-} turesque insults directed at the Kaiser and got two vears. In this country he would have hurled a brick through a window, and made happy for not more | than sixty days. | A statute to prevent legislative candidates from | pledging themselves to support any particular aspirant | for the Senatorship would be an excellent thing save | for the circumstance that it could no more be eniorced than the law of gravitation could be suspended. If Senator Perkins is to be simply the mou(hpieccE of whatever party controls the State Legislature he might as well come home and let us put a telephone in the Senate. It would be cheaper, and look better. Probably about the luckiest thing which ever hap- pened to the Filipinos was when they repressed their desire to fire upon American soldiers. EIORCI ) : Prt_amotor Hooley is said to be liable to two years’ imprisonment. It seems that he has nothing left wherewith to buy influence. Carlists in Spain are said to be ready for an up- rising. The only comment necessary, if any, is that this particular chestnut is old enough to be retired. The fact that the Keely motor is a fraud is parad- ing now as a discovery, but it is about twenty years behind the times. There is no ‘“change” in the Montana Senatorial | Nor do we think it will do any good to adopt Mr. | Boyce's resolution. If the Senators decline to be interviewed matters will be all the worse, for the re- porters will then redouble their efforts to find out how they stand and will become more suspicious than ever. The way to stop legislative scandals is to quit bood- ling. No honest legislator was ever accused and no honest Legislature was ever successfully scandalized. SAFETY APPLIANCES ON RAILWAYS. NE of the most gratifying features of the re- O port just submitted by the, Interstate Com- merce Commission is the showing made of the good results obtained from the law requiring rail- way companies to equip their cars and locomotives with safety appliances. It is a striking illustration of what can be accomplished by well directed legislation in the direction of compelling railroad managers to exercise due care for the lives of their employes. It appears from the report that the commission granted numerous railway companies an extension of two years from January 1, 1898, within which to com- ply with certain sections of the act, and required them tc make semi-annual reports of their progress in equipping their roads with the safety appliances. Re- turns for the first six months showed that during that time 110,038 freight cars were equipped with automatic couplers and 67,400 were fitted with train brakes, making a total of 795,253, or 69 per cent, hav- ing automatic couplers, and 511,666, or 44 per cent, equipped with train brakes, up to June 1, 1898, On that date 20,175, or 9o per cent, of the total number of locomotives owned by these reporting carriers were equipped with driving-wheel brakes. Returns for the six months ending December 1 have not yet been filed, but it is believed they will show good progress and indicate the probability that all roads will be fully supplied with automatic couplers and train brakes on January 1, 1900, when the exten- sion order will expire. Now for the results thus far obtained. The report says: 4 “Since the enactment of the law in 1803 there has been a decreasing number of casualties. There were 1034 fewer employes killed and 4062 fewer injured during the year ending June 30, 1897, than during the year ending June 30, 1893. In the Spanish-American war 208 men were killed and 1645 were wounded. In 1897 there were 1603 men killed and 27,667 injured from all causes in railway service. In coupling and uncoupling cars alone 219 less men were killed and 4994 less were injured in 1897 than in 1803. The num- ber of such employes killed has been reduced one- half, and the number of injured also practically re- duced one-half.” contest. The whole wad seems to be in large bills. | The good and beneficent results obtained by the law have been noted abroad as well as in this country, and it is stated that application of the seli-coupling device and other safety appliances is now being seri- ously considered in Great Britain, where the ratio of lives lost to the number of men employed in coupling and uncoupling cars is reported to be 1 to 350. The ratio in this country has been reduced to 1 man killed out of each 600 employed in coupling and uncoupling cars. Rarely has a law so completely vindicated itself as i A statute that extends a protecting hand over the nation and saves the lives of workers is one of the highest beneficence, and the framers of this act may well look back upon their work with satisfaction and an honest pride. l has resulted in a revival of the scheme to divide the group into three parts, giving one each to the United States, Great Britain and Germany. The ex- periment with the triple combination protectorate has been unsatisfactory from the start. There have al- ways been dissensions among the commissioners, and were it not for the strong restraining hand of the home governments there would have been fighting long ago. There are two strong objections to the proposed partition. One is that the three powers are bound by the most solemn treaties to protect the independence and territorial integrity of the group, and for them to now divide the islands among themselves would be spoliation. That, however, is a minor point in mod- ern diplomacy. It would be easy to find excuses for breaking the treaty. It could be done in the name of humanity, in the cause of civilization, in the higher interests of the Samoans themselves; or it could be placed upon the ground that islanders living outside of Great Britain have no rights that Great Britain and Continental nations are bound to respect. The second objection is one that cannot be so easily disposed of. It is based upon the fact that there is no way of making an equal division of the group. There are three large islands, Upolu, Tutuila and Savaii. The first named contains the town of Apia and the great bulk of the population. Which- ever power gets that island gets about all there is of value in the group except the harbor of Pago- Pago, which is ours. It is the question of the pos- session of Upolu when the distribution is made that causes diplomacy to respect the existing treaty. One possible solution of the difficulty seems to be overlooked entirely; that of permitting the Samoans to have the Kigg they desire and to govern their own country. The adoption of that simple expedient would at once relieve the tension of the situation. The Consuls of the three powers could then attend strictly to their own business and quit interfering in that of the others. At present each of them seems desirous of being a king-maker and raises as much fuss and ruction over it as the average ward boss does when he undertakes to make a United States Senator. L the first concerted movement, in this State, for the preservation of the forests and waters. The subject interests our whole population, but is one on which it has been difficult to arouse public sentiment. Last summer The Call began a propa- ganda, and sent experts into the mountains to observe and report upon the various forms of forest destruc- tion, by which the headwater sheds of our rivers are being laid bare and every stream is being made tor- rential, delivering its water immediately, causing floods and waste. The dry year touched at last every interest concerned. The miners and irrigators had no water for their uses. The miner, lumberman, rancher, dairyman, fruit planter, electric power com- panies all discovered that they were touched and hurt in common by anything that increased the aridity of the mountains by stripping their forests. The result has been their combination in this prom- ising movement. They are reinforced by the strong classes which have a secondary interest, the mer- chants, manufacturers and bankers, who through the | tate Board of Trade and other organizations affiliate with the movement and stand ready to back it. The force of the Society for Conserving the Forests and Waters is deposited in an executive committee, | which is under instruction to make a beginning by memorializing the Governor and Legislature to pro- vide for an unsalaried commission which shall ex- haustively examine the subject and report to the next Legislature a bill, or bills, for the legislation needed. This committee is also instructed to ask the Legisla- ture to appropriate $5000 for the establishment in the State University of a chair of forestry, thereby add- ing a school on that subject. ~This being done it is intended that such school shall be instituted in time to have a class in action by the time legislation is completed two years hence and that the students shall be used, under such statute, as the summer patrol of the forests, to be paid by the State. This will put them on the ground, in the midst of the subject of their study, and will constitute a valuable summer school of forestry. In this way the whole subject will be kept out of partisan politics and the State will be trainthg expert foresters, who will ultimately have charge of her forest crop, supervise its harvest when ready for the ax and saw and preserve her forest area for suc- cessive and permanent production. Students who need to work their way through the university and be assured of a career when they finish their course will find in the School of Forestry a most desirable means to that end. Meantime, the whole State will have its attention constantly upon this great economic subject, and will back efficiently every policy whichlooks to the TNE SAMOAN PROBLEM. T is not surprising that the recent flurry in Samoa THE WATERS AND FORESTS. AST Saturday there was sucessfully organized ,W@)}OWWWW ):(0; | F THEIR REPRESENTATIVE. ¢ NOT PROUD 0 § § If ever there was a case of a re] there has been a time since Grant's past week even this small following of General Barnes. of in this district. Petaluma, January 20, 1899. Petaluma Courler wishes of his constituents by his vote for United States Senator, Assemblyman from this district is that man. fifth of the people in this locality favored him, and certainly during the There is not a candidate who has received a vote at Sacramento for the office of United States Senator who is not more deserving and better qualified for the place than Grant, and in this vicinity General Barnes is the choice of Republicans by at least ten to one. The writer has been one of a few Republicans partial canvass of Petaluma during the past few days, and after com- paring notes there was not a single man whom we interviewed who favored Grant, and fully nineteen out of twenty were strongly in favor We understand that Mr. Le Baron was wired strongly several days ago, from both Petaluma and elsewhere, to this effect; but it seems he continues his vote to suit himself, and possibly ex-Assemblyman Price, who is the only Grant man besides Le Baron we have been able to hear e presentative totally disregarding the our We do not believe that name was first mentioned that one- has left. who has made a A REPUBLICAN. PROPLSE A LIGHTING PLANT FOR THE LY Supervisors Favor Public Ownership. WILL INVESTIGATE ITS COST VALUES TO BE PLACED ON LAND FOR PARK EXTENSION. Owners to Submit Estimates of the Value of Their Property and ‘Whether they Desire to Sell. The first move tending toward public ownership of the utilities was made at the regular meeting of the Board of Su- pervisors yesterday. Supervisor Lack- mann presented a resolution which at once found favor with his colleagues on the board. The resolution reads: Whereas, vast and excessive sums are being expended yearly in the purchase of lights for the public buildings and for light- ing the streets of San Francisco; and Whereas, it is apparent that the munici- pality is being charged an exorbitant sum for the lighting of sald streets and pub- lie buildings; and whereas, reliable sta- tistics indicate that the cost of municipal lighting can be materially reduced by the construction of a municipal lighting plant gwned and operated by the city; therefore e it Resolved, That it is the sense of this board that the city and county of San Francisco should construct a plant capable of furnishing electric lights for the streets and also for the lighting of the public buildings throughout the city, and that arc lights should also be eupplied to merchants, business men and all residents and propert owners at actual cost whenever demande: and be it further Resolved, That his Honor the Mayor is hereby authorized and empowered to em- ploy an cxpert to prepare a complete report on the cost, together with a plan for the construction of a plant which will be suffi- clent for supplying lights as above indi cated, and also an estimate on the ap- proximate cost of operating the same, and that said report shall be made and filed with this board within stxty days trom this ate. It was adopted, the Mayor being au- thorized to employ an expert. The Mayor will report what progress he has made at the next meeting of the board. Su- pervisor Lackmann presented statistics showing that the city is paying twice as much for arc lights as is charged else- where. Upon motion of Supervisor Perrault the resolution authorizing the employment of twenty-five extra policemen was rescind- | ed. Lackmann held that the city needed the extra men, and had for a long time. Their appointment was authorized by the last Legislature, and the Police Com- missioners believe they have the power to appoint. Dr. Perrault objected to the in- creased expenditure, saying the $101,000 debt from the old board should be paid before others are contracted. He said all departments of the city government will suffer this year if expenses are to be kept within the dollar limit. His a for economy resulted in the defeat Of the proposed measure. The park panhandle project is being pressed vigorously by Mayor Phelan. A resolution was adopted yesterday calling on all property owners on the line of the proposed improvement to submit to the board before February 4 their esti- mate as to the value of their land and improvements, and also to say whether the; are willing to sell. The board pledged itself to provide necessary reve- nue in the manner provided by existing laws for the acquisition of land for the panhandle and boulevard. The board was not apparently ready to act upon the matter of setting aside ap- ropriations to the amount of nearly ,000. The matter was again referred to the Finance Committee, which had already approved it. The Southern Pacific Company was re- quested to grant a right of way for an outlet sewer for the drainage of Sunny- side district at the intersection of Jarnac street and Circular avenue. The matter of the liability of the Sutter- street Railroad Company to repair Bush street where its tracks were formerly laid was referred to l}ze City and County Attorney for his opinfon and as to what action should be taken by the board to compel the railroad company to make such repairs as the street requires. Supervisor Lackmann introduced a reso- lution to the effect that all city printing be done in union offices. to_the Printing Committee. The bills for street lighting, amounting to about $40,000, which were referred at the Jast meeting of the board to the Street Light Committee, were transferred permanency of our forests and the perpetuity of lumber- ing, mining, agriculture and all the interests which are born into possibility when the seed sprouts which is to make a tree, The society wisely puts its purpose constantly be- fore the people in the motto chosen for its banner and legend for its seal, in the old Arab proverb “The tree is the mother of the fountain.” ‘While Dr. Mallaby succeeded in avoiding payment of duty on a lot of silk, and escaped conviction, al- though indubitably guilty of smuggling, he lost a $10,000 position by his fraud, and will have to do a lot of figuring to find where he comes out ahead in the deal. -There ought to be an interesting story in connec- tion with a suit just dismissed after having been in the courts of San Francisco thirty-one years, and the story would naturally have a moral pointing to the profitableness of litigation. ‘While the Kaiser is an impressive figure, the con- tract for impressing the United States and Great Britain both at once is a large one, and to live up to the specifications would require war-lording of high degree. The rumor in Paris of a Bonapartist revival may be counted an evidence that for once the Parisians are incapable of devising a novelty and have to amuse themselves with any old thing. to the Finance Committee for further consideration. The bills for the furnishing of the Stan- yan-street police station, amounting to $5500, were laid over one week until an opinion can be received from the City and County Attorney. The Superintendent of Streets was em- powered to employ an expert to assist in making assessments for street work is- sued by the Superintendent of Streets. His compensation will be $150 per month, 1. L. Bevans is the man who has been recommended for the place. The City and County Attorney was re- quested to furnish the board with an opinion as to the obligations devolving upon the lessor, Dr. D. F. Ragan, in the matter of making repairs to the building recently leased by the city from him for the purposes of a police station at 507 Stanyan street. Mrs. E. M. Casey, matron in the City Prison, was discharged and Mrs. N. W. Wright was appointed to the vacancy. Mrs. Wright was formerly in charge of the insane ward at the Receiving Hos- ital. e The petition of the Mugual Electric Light Company_ to_erect pbles on public streets outside the fire limits was referred back to the Stret Committee. A resolution was introduced defining the duties of the Water, Gas and Electric Light Inspector. Supervisor Perrault had some quiet fun with it, showing that it was a physical impossibility for one man to fulfill all the requirements as proposed. Voting for Senator. The case of Charles F. Kenneally, As- semblyman, charged with manslaughter in causing the death of Michael Quane, an old man, was called in Judge Mogan's court yesterday, and by consent was con- tinued until February 6. Kenneally's at- torney explained to the court that he was in Sacramento engaged in voting in the Senatorial contest. It was referred | THAT DREADED LIST OF THE "UNASSIGNED" Teachers Waiting for Roll Call. A BIT OF LATE-BOARD HISTORY;: | DESTROYING THE REPORT OF A | FAVORITE'S UNFITNESS. | Issuing January Warrants to the i Teachers—When Will the Pay- ing Time Come Around to Them? The question of whose name will adorn the dreaded ‘“‘unassigned list” is worry- ing by day and keeping awake o’ nights | many a teacher in this city at present. | While nobody outside of the official who occupies the School Superintendent’s desk yet knows to a certainty who compose the fated number, it is well known that lhu‘ “list” unseen is growing. First it was | thirty, then forty, sixty, seventy-five, one | hundred; now there can be no doubt that the correct number will reach one hun- | dred and twenty-five teachers that will | be consolidated out. | It is with some difficulty that many of | the principals have been made to believe that the Superintendent meant what he said when he ordered them to send in data relative to their classes and pupil | enrollment. In some cases they hesitated to give the information that would make | changes in the classes of favorite teach- ers, and in others the loss of classes might mean the regrading of that school. An eighteen-class school ranks a $200- prineipal, with two vice principals to sup- port the dignity of the position. From this it is quite easy to eee how a princi- pal may bring himself to regret any movement that might affect his financial and educational grade. he day school teachers are praying | that the impending stroke will come down on the evening educators first, as the | scattering of those classes into their own | will lift them to the fifty-standard and salvation. | From their recent visits through the | evening schools the visiting Directorshave | received much practical education them- | gelves. They have found schools that were only schools in name; where pupils lounged into the class rooms only for | the purpose of finding a place to idle away | a couple of hours of the early or dull part of the evening. Discipline lax be- cause, principally, severity would only drive the pupil from the class, a result to be deplored by the teacher and principal. Such condition, of course, does not agply to all, as the visitors found, but where the school was topheavy with instructors and short on the instructed. leaf from the history of the Old’ board has come to light by the publicn-! tion of the fact that a report was made | to that body at its last meeting touching the ability of Miss L-dia Carroll. She is the vice principal of the Mission High School, and was charged by Principal O’Connor with being “deficient in scholar- ship” and ‘‘unable to impart knowledge to her pupils.” O’Connor requested the board to assign her to some other school, declaring that she would never leave and was of no use to the school. Miss Car- roll is the niece of ex-Director Hammond, then in office, and was elected to her posi- tion last March, having just graduated from the High School and her experi- | ence as a teacher covered only a few months when given_ her position in the Mission School. As Hammond’s vote was needed at the last meeting of the board to pass one of its outrageous measures, the report and complaint were destroyed. O'Connor, however, kept tally on the matter, and the present board will hear more from him on the subject. Regarding the matter of removing a teacher for incompetency, it is a question as to whether it can be brought about. The burden of proof is on the department and the mere say so of the principal or complaining witness will not pass with the Superior or Supreme court should some dismissed teacher take it into his or her head to fight such case. Years may roll over such litigation, boards may come and boards may go, each succeeding body inheriting the suit from its prede- cessor. Once a teacher, always a teacher, may be the rule unless the school direc~ tory succeed in establishing the ]frece- dent, as it is trying to do, of abolishing a teacher by scattering the classes. Yesterday was warrant day—and it used | to be equivalent to pay day, but that is | another story—for the teachers. With the injunctions hanging over the pay- master there i no telling when the coin will appear. There is fervent talk of a | resort to mandamus pressures for the | payment of this month’s salaries, and a | few more troubles will be added to those already piled up. One of the matters which the School Directors have been discussing since they assumed office is the chaotic financial condition which has confronted them. They were bequeathéd an indebtedness of over A by their predecessors. | Auditor Asa R. Wells submitted a finan- cial statement to them yesterday that shows they will have $543,238 62 with which to run the department for the ensuing six months. Mr. Wells' report follows: SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 21, 15%9. H. M. Holbrook, Chairman Financé Com- mittee Board of Education—Dear Sir: I here- by certify that the following is a true and correct account of the school fund as appears by the records in the books of the Auditor's office: 5 General total appropriation..$1,217,140 Less back salaries.. 000 ———$1.117,140 00 Amount audited to date . 573,851 88 Balance in fund $ 543,268 62 Amount avallable 1- 31, 1899 Amount a ber 31, 1598 Mission High School, total ap- o propriation Extra ...... Amount audited ........ Total in fund up to date..........5 47,601 T Respectfully, e ASA R. WELLS, Auditor. "Off for Havana. Postal Inspector Erwin will leave for Washington next Saturday evening to re- celve instructions ?repara.tory to talung 2 | which occurred on the 1ith inst. ARMED FORCES ARE GUARDING NEVILLS' MIKE Not at His Bidding, However. SEEKS RELIEF IN THE COURTS MILLIONAIRE WOULD ENJOIN + HIS PARTNERS. | He Asks That the Title to the App Property Be Determined and That His Associates Make an Accounting. Capiain William E. Nevills, lionaire, has been driven from h ing properties in Calaveras County by armed force, he avers, and this miniature army still threatens his life and will carr, its threat into effect if he venture cross the border of the disputed ter: tory. In consequence Captain Nevills ha appealed to the courts, and through th power hopes to recover his own and re der his mining partners, William H. M tin and John Ballard, hors de combat, or at least force them to arbitrate. Suit was filed yesterday by Captain Nevills, through his attorneys, Riordan & Lande and A. H. Ricketts, for an junction, its purpose being to pre Martin and Ballard from interfe meddling with, working or removing « or metals from the Rawhide and App mines, and for an accounting of the prof- its from the mines named during the pe- riod since the dispossession of Nevills, Inter- esting developments are expected, and also some trouble, though how much re- mains to be seen. 3 On the filing of the action for injunc- tion Myer Jacobs was appointed receiver of the property in dispute. His bonds were fixed at $50.000, upon which the Pa- cific Surety Company qualified, and an- other bond of $50,000 was required by Judge Hebbard as an undertaking on the temporary restraining order, upon which the American Surety L‘ampan(;’ qualified. Matters being thus arrange Mr. Jacobs will proceed to take charge of the mines in dispute, all the stock, money and other assets, and, being backed by the order of court, it is expected that he will have no trouble. In his petition for an injunction Mr. Nevills sets forth the various transfers of the mining property to as many named corporations. Originally Captain Nevills was the owner of ail the stock of the company that handled the Rawhide mine. In August of 1891, for the consid- eration of $5000 down and &:romises upon paper of $25,000 at future dates he trans- ferred half of the stock of the company to the defendants named, and the com- | pany was incorporated under the name of the Guild Gold Mining Company, with 100,000 shares of stock. In October, 188, the name of the corporation was changed to the Rawhide Gold Mining Company, h 100,000 shares of stock, which were divided equal between the plaintiff and defendants, each taking one-third there- of. Subsequently, on August 29, 1595, the company was reincorporated, with a capital stock of . $5000.000, with 150,000 shares, and the name of the company was changed to the App Consolidated Gold Mining Company, each partner retaining one-third of the stock. On December 2, Mr. Nevills avers, the App mining prop- erty was transferred to the company and was accepted as the property of the co- partnership. It remained in the peaceful possession Of the coportnership until the 14th inst., when, it is_alleged, the de- fendants, with force of arms, took pos- session of the App mine and expelled the plaintiff, and still threaten to Kkill him should he venture across the lines. This action on the part of his mining partners, Nevills avers, is the result of a secret conspiracy to deprive him of the mine and to secure for Martin and Ballard the profits accruing there- from. 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