The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 11, 1899, Page 6

HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1899 .FEBRUARY 11, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnetor. SSRSSSTu SSw L VT PUBLICATION OFFICE .Market and Third Sts., S. F. » Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........217 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 156 CENTS PER WEEE. Eirgle Coples. 5 cents Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 montha, DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 8 months DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL one year WEEKLY CALL, one year. All postmasters are agthorized to receive subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. DAKLAND OFFICE.. 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE..............- Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. 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Ingleside Coursing Park—Coursing to-day. HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS. Ingleside Race Track—Races to-day SSEMBLY BILL 568 is one of the educational f\ measures before the Legislature which merits general support, inasmuch as it provides a much needed reform in our system of certificating High School teachers. Under its provisions there will be a uniform standard of examination required for obtaining such certificates in place of the vague and indefinite standard, or lack of standard, now pre- ling. At the present time there are two methods by which aspirants may obtain certificates qualifying them to teceive appointments as High School teachers. Any graduate of the State Uniyersity recommended by the faculty, or a graduate of any other institution of education in the United States indorsed by the State Board of Education as oi equal rank with the State University ceive the High School certificate without examination. All other candidates for such catés must pass an examination conducted by unty Board of Education In the first method of obtaining a ma certificate the Graduates of university will. retain the privilege now accorded It is with that class of candidates for certifi- who obtain them by passing examinations the asure de: and its object is to substitute for the county Boards of Education a central State board as ‘the examining body before which all aspirants for h School certificates are to appear. There are upward of 120 High Schools in Califor- nia, employing over 500 teachers. For the examina- tiort of candidates for this service there are fifty-seven county Boards of Education, each with its own stan- dard of qualification, and in many counties the stan- ard is fixed by examiners who themselves could not meet the requirements of a High School teacher. Here is clearly an evil demanding a remedy, and it is to provide such that the bill under consideration has been devised. The measure proposes the establishment of a High School Commission, the members of which are to serve without pay. The commission is to be com- posed of the State Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion, the president of the University of California, and the professor of pedagogy of that institution, to- gether with three persons chosen from among the High School principals and city School Superin- tendents. This commission is to conduct all ex- aminations of candidates for High School teachers, and the successful candidates will receive credentials -on which county Boards of Education will grant cer- tificates. The measure, it will be seen, establishes unjformity where there is now confusion, and provides a well - ordered way by which persons who are not graduates . of the university may enter the High School service. "It will save the expense of fifty-seven separate county - examinations and promises in other ways to prove beneficial to both the teachers and the schools. Legislation to make the stealing of a ride a crime will do more harm than good. If a man who must have a ride can steal the price as safely as he can the ride itself, he will merely switch his larcenous pro- clivities so as to grasp the price. And, after all, the theft of a ride does not make anybody any poorer. —_— Every traveler who réturns from Thibet brings a tale of awful suffering, and the majority do not re- turn. The simple and impressive lesson of this is, Keep out of Thibet. The world is wide; there are many other places, and curiosity is apt to confound itself with virtue. The Bain matrimonial bureau, including the charming but fickle Mrs. Allison, is to have fifteen " months in San Quentin. If there is any gratitude in the outfit it will find expression in a unanimous vote of 'thanks to the court. What the pair needed was fifteen years. The sensitive soul of Senator Ashe revolts at the representation of members of the Legislature as monkeys or hogs, Well, they furnish the suggestions themselves. If a public man will act the hog it is not reasonable to expect the circumstance ta be over- looked. —— When Senator Cannon, loaded to the muzzle with indignation, discharges himself at the heads of the Mormon church, it may be regarded as certain that organization has more troubles than its Congressman- elect has wives. A A ' The murder story now being told in one of the local courts is so vile that women are being drawn to it. It is a pity there is no method of making these females ashamed, but efforts have been expended in vain. Aguinaldo is such a mercenary that if in civil life he would probably choose to be a bank-wrecker.’ By this time the Filipinos have entirely outgrown the habit of placing American officers under arrest. | fore the law, for obedience to the constitution; | method or measure of power that Russia or any IMPERIALIST DISCORDS. HE Democratic organ of imperialism here, the TExaminer, some months ago laid down the law- less line to be followed in the statement that ex- ternal colonial government would be carried on by the United States outside of any and all limitations of the constitution. This doctrine has been accepted as correct by imperialists in the Senate; who declare that the constitution of the United States is for the people of the United States alone, and that none of | its provisions need be projected to external territory or people gained and governed by the United States as a sovereignty. This doctrine we accept also as correct. It permits in our external possessions any other sovereignty may exercise. It removes all bar- riers, breaks down all Jimitations, equalizes and there- fore destroys all checks and balances, and permits one policy in one place and its direct opposite in another. The people so governed have no rights, fixed and chartered and made inviolable by fundamental law. They become the subject of experiment in govern- ment, which in the midst of them becomes entirely | empirical and autocratic. | But when we apply this statement of policy which | is accepted by the imperialists the Post, the Repub-’ lican organ of imperialism, flinches. When we call | attention to the existence in the Philippines of poly- gamy and involuntary servitude, the Post proceeds to hallow plural marriage as a religious institution protected by the constitution, which forbids a reli- gious test for holding office, and also forbids invol- untary servitude within the jurisdiction of the United | States. j | Hence it appears that the Democratic and Repub- lican wings of imperialism ‘refuse to flop together. 1i all constitutional limitations stop, cease and die at the border line of the United States, it is difficult te see how the Post can extend constitutional firo- tection to Philippine polygamy and constitutional prohibition to Philippine slavery, if it exist! | Inasmuch as the Post raises this very interesting question, and thereby materially increases the confu- | sion of counsel in the imperialist camp by insisting | that polygamy as a domestic and religious institution | is outside the constitutional reach of this Govern- ment, it is worth while to inquire into the supreme | law of the land on that subject. The constitution re- cites that it, and the laws and treaties made in con- | /formity to it, shall be the supreme law of the land. On July 16, 1804, Congress passed a law, chapter 138 statutes ‘af large of the Fifty-third Congress, providing for the admission of Utah as a State. In that act it is recited that the Utah constitution must be “republican in form * * * .and not repugnant to the constitution of the United States and the prin- | ciples of the Declaration of Independence. And said conyention shall provide, by ordinance irrevocable without the consent of the United States ‘and the people of said State, that perfect toleration of reli- gious sentiment shall be secured, and that no inhab- itant of said State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of reli- gious worship: Provided, that polygamous or plural marriages are forever prohibited.” A From this it appears that, standing upon a prin- ciple inherited in the constitution, this Government has the power to prohibit polygamy in the . United States, and used that power and prohibition over Utah as a precedent condition to her entry into the Union; Yet the Post says that we cannot prevent -a Mahometan from holding office in the United States, though he have the full allowance of four wives lavishly permitted by the Koran. From this we gather that the Post regards polygamy as a reli- gious institution of Islam. But we wish to inquire by what test the Post has determined that Mahomet, the son of Abdallah, was any better prophet of the Lord than Joseph Smith, son of Bill Smith, the Vermont farmer who sowed his rye with a shotgun in the steep sides of the Green Moun- tains. It is a day of commissions and inquisitions. How can we prohibit polygamy in one place, taught as a religious ‘ordinance, and permit it in another be- cause the constitution forbids a religious test? It is easy to see that an eminent commission must be ap- pointed to report on Mahometanism and Mormonism and determine which permits many wives for God’s sake and which wants a lot of them out of mere deviltry. THE TRIPLE HAMMER HE treaty of Paris escaped defeat by the skin Tof its teeth. Under the enormous pressure brought to bear upon the Federal Senate-one vote would haye changed the result. Had Senator Perkins followed his own convictions instead of a void instruction, it would have been beaten in fact as it was beaten in principle. Other Senators voted for the treaty with the distinct understanding that the ad- ministration did not propose to hold the Philippines longer than was necessary for the fulfillment of a moral obligation, that exists only in the imagination of those who look toward sentiment and row toward revolution. 5 The adoption of the treaty, therefore, was no vic- tory for imperialism or annexation. On the con- trary, it indicated the growth of public opinion against both forms of treason to the constitution. The! treaty itself settles nothing in respect to the Philip- pines, except the phyment of twenty millions for a fictitious title, unaccompanied by possession, and which originated in the exploded fallacy of a divine vicegerency, parceled out among the holders of monarchical baubles. Yet the New York Herald and the New York Journal and the San Francisco Ex- aminer sound a peal of triumph and misrepresent the treaty by declaring that it represents unanimous American sentiment, and The Call by asserting that. its opposition to imperialism and annexation sprang rom its relation to the domestic manufacture of re- fined sugar. The Journal and the Examiner resemble a rattle- snake cut in two. The head is raised and the forked tongue spits in New York, while the tail feebly rattles in San Francisco. Those papers are so demented through egotism that their “national policy” has be- come the laughing stock of America. The Herald, with a splendid news service that con- serves its circulation and its advertising patronage, upon the question of imperialism and annexation does not speak for American public opinion. Many years ago it supported Walker and the eother fili- busters who tried to place our country in the attitude of violating the eighth and the tenth commandments. It has drifted into an attitude more European than American. Its views on the result of the war with Spain are unmistakably hostile to our system of gov- ernment and harmonize with those of the gamblers, the speculators, the unclean combinations, the as- pirants for military glory, who seek to use false views of trade and commerce to benefit themselves and to extinguish the sentiment of American nationality upon 4 constitutional basis. On the vantage ground of Afnerican civilization | | with which they are laboring to’ perforate the Ame: The Call stands for individual rights, for equality be- for .the purity of American blood, for the rejection of all contaminating association with inferior races, for trade and commerce in their higher aspects and in an uncompromising resistance to treason. The sugar interest in this: State is spending millions in the de- velopment of a great American industry and for the benefit of white labor. Its payroll exceeds in amount those of all the imperial and annexation papers of New York and of San Francisco. If immediate profits were its sole object, the cheap labor of Asia would fill its coffers to repletion. But for years, while the internal welfare and prosperity of the American people have been treacherously abandoned by the yellow press, it has steadily manifested dts con- fidence in our American institutions and its determin- ation to use its pzver and its influence for the bene- fit of the American people on this continent. The Call will contihte to foster and to encourage this internal improvement and to resist all the efforts of American corruptionists and allies of Great Britain who have abandoned the republican experiment to se- duce or to bully eighty millions of intelligent and educated Americans into an act of national suicide. Let the triple hammer of the New York Herald and the Journal-Examiner continue to pound - the nail can flag. The Call will still recognize the Stars and Stripes. LIBEL AND SLANDER. HE act of 1872 was a protection not only to Tthc newspapers published in country districts, but to the mass of citizens. It required an un- dertaking in the sum of five hundred dollars in ac- tions to recover damages for alleged slanders, as well as in libel cases. Prior to its passage the most trivial slanders were made the basis of claims for damages, that were usually speculative, and the pro- ceeds of which, in the event of recovery, were custom- arily divided between plaintiffs and a disreputable class of attorneys, who in this way fomented un- necessary litigation and made business for them- selves. Since the necessity for a bond attached a genuine responsibility to the commencement of ac- tions of this character, the courts throughout the State have been virtually relieved from this species of gambling on verdicts, which consumed much time and money and was a vexation to reputable and re- sponsible citizens. The constitutionality of the act of 1872 was ques- tioned by the Supreme Court itself in the case of Smith vs. McDermott, and after full arguments, both orally and in briefs, and much consideration, was up- held by that tribunal. The law, therefore, has been firmly knit into the jurisprudence of the State, and its beneficial results, after the experience of twenty-six years, have been proved beyond question. Its repeal under the pretext of increasing the liability of newspaper proptietors and"protecti&g the reputation. of’ citizens would be 'a serious injury to the public, and could have no other effect than to re- vive and énlarge a kind of litigation against which the best lawyers'and the best judicial officers in the State unanimously protest. Most newspapers are extremely conservative, and seldom attack personal reputation unless sure of their facts, for justifiable ends, and. actuated by -good motives. Neither they nor individual citizens should be wantonly exposed to pettifogging and mercenary raids. Every man should be adequately protected in all his rights, including his reputation, but the liberty and the independence of the press, maintained in England during the last cen- tury after one of the most memorable struggles of modern times, are equally essential in the United States, and are the best means of ‘insuring this pro- tection. A free press and: free citizens can exist to- gether in harmony and in safety, but while freedom should not degenerate into license, it should not be restricted by irresponsible licentiousness. A roving privilege to manufacture a simulated reputation through courts and juries is only. desited by men without character or industry, and who ‘are the_cor- rupt and vicious elements in society. Any citizen, poor or rich, whose reputation ‘has been maliciously impeached, whether in writing or orally, and whose standing has an actual moneyed value, if he feels called upon to sue can easily find two sureties in the county where he resides, each of whom is able and willing to qualify to the amount of five hundred dol- lars. A litigant who cannot meet this requirement is bankrupt in the estimation of his fellow-men, and should not be permitted to speculate upon verdicts. Thé passage of Senate bill 386 is not demanded by public sentifnent, and the bill is only one of the in- numerable deviees to place good-citizenship and prop- erty at the mercy of the worthless and the undeserv- ing, and to swell the volurje of trashy and congesting lawsuits,, of awhich there are already too many, at the expense of enterprise, labor and capital. FOR THE ISOLATION OF LEGISLATORS i S R. DIBBLE has introduced into the Assem-| /\/\ bly a bill which declares, “It shall be unlaw- ful for any persan; either individually or as an officer of member of any committee or association, to demand or solicit of any candidate for the Legis- lature that he shall vote for or against any particular bill or specific ‘measure that may come Before the Legislatiire, or for or against any particular person for the office of Senator.in the Congress of the United: States,” and so on and so forth, etc.; for sev- eral varieties of specifications. Under this bill, should it become a law, no person can be pledged to anything except what is in his party platform. No citizen can suggest anything to a candidate—can, in fact, hardly talk to him on any subject connected with politics even in the most in- direct way. Platforms are long and wide, but they do not cover everything in sight, and the man who should ask a candidate to stand in for a local measure or some reform overlooked by the platform makers would be a violator of the law and subject to con- dign punishment. It is a bill to put a padlock on the mouths of men and women from the time nominations are made un- til the campaign ends. Woe be to the thoughtless citizen who talks to a candidate upon even the most trivial subject, with this inhibition hanging over him. Public-spirited reformers who wish some evil cor- rected, if they speak to a candidate must go to jail. Temperance folks who wish a liquor law go to jail. Single-taxers with their theories go to jail. Citizens who wish an appropriation for an exposition go to jail. Ladies who would like to get a support for woman’s suffrage go to jail. Cattlemen who wish a quarantine law go to jail. Preachers who wish a Sunday law. go to jail. Even the wife of the candi- date’s bosom who should express a sweet feminine caprice as to the need of reform goes to jail. Dibble asks too much. Why padlock the public? Why send all the world to jail? It would be easier and better to provide that as soon as a man is nomi- ‘nated for the*Legislature he shall be at once conveyed to San Quentin and kept in close confinement where no one can speak to him until after election. x Assemblyman Works of San Diego siys that his face is his own, and up to the time of going to press ‘nobody Kas arisen to dispute the claims ~ - lare at the Lick. 10 CONSERVE THE WATERS AND FORESTS ‘Features of the Act Desired. SEEK FEDERAL CO-OPERATION WANT A COMMISSIONER OF ; IRRIGATION. The Measure Will Be Backed by a Message From the Governor. Special Committee for Sacramento. - = The California Water and Forest So- ciety, which is an outgrowth of the re- cent miners’ convention, through its ex- ecutive committee, transacted important business at its meeting yesterday after- noon. A few days ago a special commit- tee went to Sacramento to ascertain Gov- ernor Gage's sentiment toward the move- ment for the conservation of the waters and forests of the State. Their request for an audience was answered by the statement that they would be granted fif- teen minutes. At the expiration of an hour and a quarter the committee arose, but the Governor asked them 1o remain and further elaborate their proposition. The outcome of the conference was the announcement by the executive that the enterprise would have his hearty support and furthermore that he would send a special message to the Legislature advo- cating the passage of the measure pro- posed by the society. The legislation which is thus called for provides for the appointment of a Com- missioner of Irrigation, whose duty it shall be to co-operate with the United States Geological Survey in surveys and estimates of cost of reservoirs for storing flood waters for irrigation, min- ing and industrial purposes. It is stipu- lated that the commissioner shall receive no salary and that he is to hold office at the pleasure of the Governor. The measure, however, calls for the appro- priation of $10,000, to be distributed through the hands of the Commissioner of Irrigation, on the approval of the State Board of Examiners, with the under- standing that the United States Geological Survey will expend an equal sum in con- nection with said work. Another provision of the proposed law is that a commission be appointed for the purpose of devising means to preserve the D s of the State from destruction by fires and wanton depredation, and to re- ort to the Governor the result of their P&bota. A striking feature of the desired act is the provision that untfl such com- mission shall have reported to the Gov- ernor upon the maftters intrusted to their care no legislative action shall be taken toward the acceptance of the proposed donation bg Congress of a million acres of arid lands. In accordance with a resolution embrac- ing the foregoing propositions, offered by ex-Judge C. H. Lindley, a committee was appointed, consisting of President J. M. Gleaves, Chairman J. M. Wslliniol the executive committee and C. H. Lindley, John P. Irish and Julian Sonnta% to pro- ceed to Sacramento on next ‘hursday and submit to Governor Gage the draft of the bill embodying the requirements of the society. . Notwithstanding the fact that the bill will be an administration measure, it wiil be a part of the duties of the committee to convince skeptical members of the Legislature of the necessity to take fa- vorable action on the matter. Another task with which the committee is in- trusted is the promotion of an act to re- ieeal a certain statute created by the last gislature in the "Interest of private arties. Through the gro\'islons of this aw water rights have been appropriated purposely calculated to interfere with the construction of the big debris dam that is to be built with the 000 appropriated for that purpose several vears ago. The officials of the society state that unless this law is repealed it will cause a great déal of trouble whep the construction of these restraining dams begins. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. R. Smyth of Chicago is at the Cali- fornfa. « George H. Wright and wife of Boston Ex-Superior Judge J. M. Walling of Ne- vada City is at the Russ. Henry Avila_and_wife of Fresno are guests at the Occidental. D. R. Cameron, a large fruit shipper of Hanford, is staying at the Lick. Emmet Seawell, an attorney of Santa Rosa, is located at the Grand. Bank Commissioner A. W. Barrett of Sacramento is at the California. R. R. Schmidt, a mine owner of Calis- toga, is at the Lick with his son. J. H. Campbell, a mining man from Cot- tonwood, is registered at the Grand. E. C. Cheasty,.a prominent business man of Seattle, is a guest at the Grand. James A. Riordan and wife of St. Touis have taken apartments at the California. Prison Director Robert T. Devlin and wife of Sacramento are guests at the Cali- fornia. 2 Z. Hirikoshi and Genkichi Okada, silk producers of Tokio, are registered at the Palace. Charles E. Davis, major surgeon of .the Seventy-first New York Volunteers, is at the Palace. George W. Weidler, a Portland con- tractor, is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife. At the Palace are registered A. B. But- ler, the Fresno capitalist, and O. L. Houghton, a merchant of Las Vegas, N. M. David B. Gould and L. A. Norton, mer- chants respectively of St. Louis and Chi- cago, are registered at the Palace with their wives. A. G. Park, an attorney of Hanford; N, McLennan, a Port Townsend merchant, and C. H. Riege, a Fresno merchant, are arrivals at the Lick. Treasurer 1. J. Truman left here on Thursday for Santa Ana to attend the funeral of his brother, Robert Truman, a banker, formerly of Afton, Iowa. Paul Isenberg and F. C, Isenberg, wealthy sugar planters of Honolulu, re- turned from the islands after an extended visit and will shortly proceed to Bremen, where they reside. T. J. Bradshaw, who took advantage of the rise in the meat market and brought a band of cattle from Paradise Valley, Nev., to this city, will make the Russ his headquarters. Lieutenant Alfred Aloe, who was with the Eighteenth Infantry, U. 8. A., at Cavite, is on hig way home to St. Louils to have his eye'treated, and will be at the Palace for a few days. Commander Farenholt of the Monocacy, now anchored at Shanghai, is at the Pal- ace, on his way to Washington. Lieu. tenant Corwin Pottinger Rees, executive officer of the Olympia, will accompany him there. John G. Howard of New York gave a dinper in the tapestry room of the Palace Hotel last evening. His guests were Mayor Phelan, J. B. Reinstein, 8. H. Friedlander, J. H. Friedlander - and Charles Butler. > 3 ——— b, 10.-L B. WelcH A Nani. of San Francisco is at the Shoreham., Bernard Wood of Los Angeles is at Wil- | lard's Hotel. ————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—M. 8. Sloss of San Francisco is at the Holland. Mrs. Paris Kilburn of San Francisco is at the Neth- erland. A. Jerusalem of Visalia is at the Cosmopolitan. ——————— CALLED HER HIS ANGEL. Mrs. Regan Had Another Lover Be- sides the Murdered Policeman = Thomas Kennedy. The whole of yesterday afternoon was taken up with the cross-examination of Mrs. Elizabeth Regan, charged with the murder of Policeman Thomas Kennedy, and it was not concluded when Judge | Graham adjourned court at 5 o'clock and | fixed the continuation of the case for Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. | Attorney Barrett put Mrs. Regan under | a severe cross-examination and got her to admit that several statements made by her to Chief Li after her arrest were not true. She said that Kennedy did not | get his revolver and rush at her, nor did she take the revolver away from him. She did not remember if she said to Ken- | nedy, “If you come after me I will let | you have it.”” - She mever had the revolver in her possession.*Both she and Kennedy | had hold of.it; and she did not know how he got shot. Several times durini the- insistent ques- tioning of Attorney Barrett Mrs. Regan lost her temper, but after:being quietly Sdmnnlshed by the 'Judge she cooled own. The prosecution endeavored to introduce some letters, but Attorney lLong strenu- ously objected and the Judge sustained him. The letters would show that Mrs. | Regan’s claim that Kennedy was her only | lover was false. A number of them are | signed “Harry Bertheian,” and in them | he calls Mrs. Regan My own sweet an- gel” and "My own little pet. WILL TRANSFER FUNDS | SUPERVISORS SHOW WHERE A | SAVING CAN BE MADE. A Number of Accounts Overdrawn by the Last Board to Be Replenished. The Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors met yesterday and again dis- cussed the condition of the city funds under their control. It Wwas finally deter- mined to present to the board at its meeting on Monday a resolution framed by Chairman Perrault. This provides in effect for the use of money for other pur- Poses than was at first designed. By saving on a filtering system for the City Hall;" for additional police and on | the furnishing of the Hall of Justice and construction of a police station, many minor funds can,be increased to advan- ;fig.fl a’f‘ge‘hflgures, sho;ving h[he money e purposes vhic] - | tended to use iré, ollow: T e Filtering eystem for City Hal Additional police p Furnishing Hall of Justice Construction of a police station Total . . v $46, 8 Advertising, . §33 e exp::‘xfise(;? $500; County ‘Jail No. 3, $1800; examination of insane, $500; smallpox hopital, 3400; hos- pital, $3000; ‘police patrol, $1800; police rents. and Tepairs of stations, $00; sub- sistence of prisoners, $1500; lighting pub- lic bulldings, §1500;" salaries - (deficiency) County Clerk’s deputles and copyists, $24,- ; Recorder's folio clerks, $300; assess- ment roll, compiling, etc., $500; burial in- digent dead, $2000; vontingent expenses At- torney and Counselor, $400; Grand Jury ex- penses, $1500; special counsel, $2000. A number of these funds were over- | drawn by the last board and are in need | of being replenished. In keeping with the opinfon of the City and County Attorney it was decided to report ?(galnst the payment of Experts | E. C. llga(flck and A. W. Atherton, employed by the last Grand Jury. The present Grand Jury is to be notified that only one expert can be employed by it. The services of thé two experts employed by the board were tendered and they were recommended . as men well versed in the workings of the various departments of | the city government. The City and Coun- | ty Attorney was asked to attend the next meeting of the committee to adyvise with the member§ as to’the payment of the bills for gas supplied the city. ———————— TWO MEN ASPHYXTATED. Both Found Dead in Hotels and Given the Benefit of a Verdict of | Accident. Two more' unfortunates passed out of this life through the gates’ of gas last Thursday night. The first was Lee Cau- He arrived at the Hackmeier Hotel, No. 123 Eddy street, last Thursday after- noon, and_registered as from jonoma | County. Yesterday morning. at 9:45| the bedmaker smelled a strong odor of | gas coming from Caudill's room, the tran- som of which was open. A forcible entry was made, the room was found to be fuil of gas and Caudill was dead in bed. The stopcock .of the -as fixture was turned fully on. Before retiflni Caudill gave the clerk of the hotel $13 to keep for him until morning, and said that he intended to start for Coos Bay on a steamer yester- day afternoon. 1yhere are two theories of the case. The first is that Caudill blew out the gas; the second that ‘he retired leaving the gas burning, and that it was accidentally ex- tinguished during the night or turned off at the meter and then turned on again. The hotel ople deny that the gas is turned off during the night, and the only tgeory left is that the deceased blew out the gas. % The second victim 'was Thomas Hogan, He was found dead yesterday morning in his room at the New Western Hotel. He had gone to bed drunk on the night be- fore, and it is believed that he turned the gas stopcock carelessly and left it partly open, after extinguishing the flame. The Coroner’'s jury returned a verdict of accidental death in both cases. THE SCHMID MURDER. An Alibi Proved jn the Cases- of | Flanders and Forrest, the Suspected Men. Coroner ‘Hill held an inquest yesterday | into the cause of the death of Charles | Adolph Schmid, the ex-convict, who was | murdered in his room in the lodging | house at 15 Stockton street last Friday | night, Detective Wren and Dr. Pryor of the City and County Hospital swore that | Schmid made an ante-mortem statement to the effect that Al Flanders, master of the tug Millle, and Charles Forrest, a | barber, had entered his room and assault- | ed him, and that Forrest had used a | hatchet upon him. Detective Wren told | also of having followed blood spots from the lodging house to Pine street, half a bloek from the residence of Forrest. For- | rest swore that he never left his roem on | the night of the murder. . Flanders swore that on Friday night he | was at home attending to his wife, who | was jll, and that he dig not leave the | house at night at all. This testimony was corroborated by his wife. | It was shown that Schmid had also stat- ed that his aggressor was a soldier sur- eon, whose sweetheart Schmid had cap- ured, and on another occasion he sald that a Chinaman had inflicted the wounds upon him. edjury returned a verdict that the de- ceased was murdered by unknown per- sons. —_———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, A DAY IN AUGUST—L. M, City. The 19th of August, 1872, fell on a Monday. LARGEST FERRY-BOAT-M. E. C., City. The Bolano is the largest ferry- boat afloat. flA SWEDISH MILE—A Subscriber, Oak- ale, Cal. A Swedish mile is e 6.648 English miles. S FILES OF THE CALL—L. M., City. For back numbers of The Call apply at the business office, corner of Market and Third streets. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR'S PAY— Trilby, Sonora, Cal. "The pay of the Lieu- tenant Governor of the State is $1¢ per day.as president of the Senate. "SAN FRANCISCO TQ NAGASAKI— E. 8. G, city. The d!gtanca from San | cold in twelve hours or money refunded. MRS, ALLISON AND BAIN SENT 70 SN QUENTI Months Fine. Given Fifteen and $1000 BAIL MONEY WAS ATTACHED THE WOMAN CALLED THE COURT A VILE NAME. Desperate Attempt of Her Attorney to Obtain a New Trial of the Case Was Quite Useless. Lawyer T. J. Crowley made a strong plea for mercy yesterday in United States District Judge de Haven’s court when his clients, Mrs. Grace Allison, alias Quinn, alias Collins, alias Smith, and I. W. Bain, alias H. C. Curtis, the brace of matrimo- nial bureau sharpers, appeared before the court for sentence on the charge of using the United States mails for the purpose of defrauding old bachelors in quest of wives. Mr. Crowley moved for an arrest of judgment, then for a new trial, both of which motions were denied. Then, 151 mitigation of punishment, he placed N. C. Colling, the putative husband of the successfully seductive woman, on the stand and proved by Mr. Collins that he intended to take his bride to Midway, Ky., to reside and that they were mar- ried last December in Jeffersonville, Ind. He gaid that his “wife” was in bad health; that she believed herself to be in a delicate condition and that the alr of a prison would not agree with her. Then the lady told the court how she had been suffering from nervous prostra- tion; how her eyes troubled her at times so that she had to wear goggles and re- main in a dark room for three days at a time, but the Judge evidently considering that there were plenty of dark rooms at the lady’s disposal in San Quentin peni- tentiary brushed these pleas aside and proceeded to pass sentence. He began by saying that the duty of pronouncing judgment upon a criminal was most delicate. The court must take into consideration what is just to the pub- lic and the degree of punishment to be inflicted. The case had been carefully tried—in fact, he could not recall a case in which he had sat as a Judge that had been more completely presented than the present one. The counsel for the defend- ants had made the most of it, and the court was fully persuaded t! were It not for the fact that the evidence of the guilt of the defendants was simply over- whelming a different verdict would have been rendered, He regar the offense for which the defendants were tried as very grave. There are many crimes where the defend- ant may urge in extenuaticn that the crime was committed in the heat of pas- sion or under the stress of some great temptation, but the offense of which' the defendants had been convicted was not of that kind. It must have been deliberately plann@d, and in order to be successful they must be able t& meet with men of more than ordinary credulity. The court then sentenced both defend- ants to he imprisoned for fifteen months in the penitentiary at San Quentin, and ehch to pay a fine of $500. Mrs. Allison received the sentence with a sneering smile, and turning to Colling, who was sitting by her side, muttered, “The old " 'The reporters and others who heard the remark were more than ever convinced that she was a real “loidy."” The defendants had put up $3000 cash bail and this sum will be levied upon for the payment of the $1000 fine. Bert Schles- inger, on behalf of Dr. Allison of Temple, Tex., has also attached the ball money in the suit of Dr. Allison against his namesake to recover the value of the dia- monds and other presents given to her by him as engagement tokens. Mr. Crowley obtained a stay ceedings for ten days. Both Denied Bail. M. H. 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