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

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 11 189 SATURDAY -........MARCH 11, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. hddress 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 1874. | DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, B cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year £6.00 | 1 Y CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months 3.00 I LL cincluding Sunday Call), 3 months. 1.50 | CALL—By Single Month. 65¢ CALL One Year. 1.50 1.00 CALL, One Year. 1asters are authorized to receive subscriptions. s copies will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE: ... -. e zcurrteeasssnsssh 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....... _Wellington Hotel | €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE . 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THE HARBOR COMMISSION BILL. — ROM every point of view the defeat of Dickin- | r s Harbor Commi ion bill by the decisive | vote of 24 to 11 in the Senateis commendable and ing. The measure was of the kind popularly s “peanut politics.” It was pernicious in | 1d have been wasteful and offensive | blican party can take credit | killed by its representa- | in pract from the tives. n pointed out by The Call, the bill was le redeeming feature. It was a political | and simple, but impure and complex. ce every evidence of having been de- | job, nc It bore on its sigr fit ¢ off and opened a way for the appoint- | of an additional lot of political henchmen to the | 1 of the State acter of the support given to it in the Sen- | ate was in due a i with that of the bill itself. After Senator Boyce had made clear the facts that the | bill provided no remedy whatever for existing evils in | the administration of the affairs of the harbor, but on | the contrary tended to make them worse by the addi- | tion of two more spoilsmen with their following of | hungry tax-eaters, Senator Morehouse frankly de- | clared himself in favor of that kind of thing. He sup- ported the bill because it was a spoils bill, and made | no attempt to prove it be anything else. | The better element of the Republican party did notg lack a champion to reply to the advocate of the spoils | m. Senator Davis in a vigorous speech upheld the pledges of the party to the people, and declared he would not be one to make all the civil service planks in Republican platforms to be but lies. As the result | proved he spoke the sentiment of the great majority of Republicans in the Senate as well as in the State, | and nothing the friends of the job had to say in re- ply weakened the effect of his masterly defense of po- i litical honesty against jobbery and the - betrayal of | pledges. ! The defeat of the bill is beneficial in many ways. | It protects the revenues of the State against the waste | increase of salaries, it tends to check cor- tion in the ement of the harbor and opens a way for true remedial legislation, it baifles the efforts of the Burns gang to provide more patronage | to be distributed in the interest of their boss, it up- | holds the standard of Republican honor and marks | the taking of an important step toward ridding Cali- | fornia of that petty spoils system of politics which has been so pernicious to all the interests of her people. It is now clear that this Legislature will deserve a high degree of approval from the peopie. It has stood | firm against the intrigues of the Southern Pacific and a gang of corrupt politicians backed by the Exam- iner to elect a disreputable and dishonored man to the United States Senate, and in repeated instances has“ shown a resolution to give the State an economical’ | of a usele administration. It has not been favorable to cinch bills nor to political jobbery. It has given many evi- | dences of a desire to keep faith with the people, and one of the most striking of these was the overwhelm- | ing vote that crushed the schemes for jobbery and| boodle involved in the Harbor Commission bill. | e —————— | Just why anybody should be posing as “Soapy Smith” is not easily understood. Soapy was one of the worst scoundrels who ever met a merited fate in getting shot, and if the pretender can get himself ac- cepted as genuine there ought to be a lot of jails yawning for him. ? That regiment of immunes which has been painting | a streak of red across the South seems to overlook the | fact that peace has been declared. If terrible in war as after war is over, they would be bad people to meet in action. The spectacle of American soldiers being baptized in the Pasig River will strike native observers as pe- culiar. Only the other day an army of natives was driven into that same river, and so far as revealed here is there yet. Town Topics, 2 New York weekly publication, is assailing General Miles. While this is doubtless un- pleasant for the gentleman, the situation would be much worse if the paper were praising him instead. ST ‘While London anarchists who claim responsibility for the explosion at Toulon are in all probability ly- ing, there could be no harm in taking them at their word this time. Perhaps if packers were in the habit of canning dis- eased meat they would refrain from the practice while a court of inquiry was engaged in inspection. Wi That Admiral Dewey’s hair should have turned gray rapidly is not surprising. The head under that hair hasn’t been turned any, | thing bitter and puckery to the Burns men. The ever- | of the House. with salaries for the bene- | y | prospect of a crop in order to save their trees. THE BURNS FLOP. NOTHER turn has occurred in thes Burns / \ policy. It is so acute as to excite derision and supply the element of humor in this long and rapidiy dying intrigue. On ‘Wednesday the purging of Milton Green of contempt and his discharge by the House was gall, wormwood, poke root and every- serviceable Dibble, who can always be relied on to give a good reason for a bad action, in that cheerful spirit which meets an emergency in politics by calling forgery a clerical error and perjury a poetic license, had shouted himself into prismatic colors in befialf of the honor of the House. He had asserted that to | purge Green was to disgrace the House. The Burns touts invaded the floor and leit the smell of their fingers in the buttonholes of the members, and ranted, persuaded, blasphemed and implored to get support for Dibble’s anxiety that the House should not disgrace itself. In that behalf nasty blows and nastier words were exchanged, and Green was not purged. Within twenty-four hours the scene and its spirit changed. Dibble appeared in behali of purging Green, and himself, good political apothecary, fur- nished the purgative. One day before this had been such deep disgrace of the House that Dibble mourned lest his good name should go into hectic decline if it were done. What was a deadly sin on Wednesday was put among the beatitudes on Thursday, and by the same men. It was an admonitory illustration of the idea of principles, of right and wrong, of, the decent and in- decent, held by Burns and his supporters. One day an act is denounced by them in every term and phrase of contempt and deprecation, and the next day, with a cheek as blushless as a crocodile’s, they father the same act and carry it out. With them the sole measure and standard is the effect of any act upon the candidacy of Burns. On Wednesday they thought opposition to purging Green would make votes for Burns, so they opposed and put their opposition upon the high ground of prin-| ciple, and declaimed in behalf of the vestal reputation | But all this brought no votes for Burns. On the contrary, it repelled some that seemed iriclined to come. Whereupon the same men ex-| changed the lilies and languors of virtue for the roses and raptures of vice, and, with only one sleep be- tween, on Thursday did that which on Wednesday they had declared would disgrace the House and stain it forever! | The quiet people who watch what goes and | thank God it goes no worse will not fail to prop- | erly analyze this change, and will hope that the same men will not close the session by trying to reseat Wright as Speaker of the House. l another dry year. There have been droughts beA! fore, but our prospective experience is novel, in | that we are faced with a drought extending over two years. The field crop planters are already resigned to on LET US HAVE ECONOMY. T is apparent now that California is to endure the situation, and the deciduous and citrus orchard- s are wisely sacrificing, in the arid districts, any In Southern California, where the Sweetwater and Bear Valley rescr}'oirs have run dry, the orange and lemon | planters are cutting their trees back, eradicating all bearing wood and reducing the bark and foliage, so | that the tree will live on less moisture and be carried | over until normal rainfall is restored. So every in- terest that can protect itself and wait is getting under | cover, and under the circumstances the most unwel- come visitor during the next biennium will be the | Tax Collector. | The Legislature should not forget this. It is no time for large appropriations to feed fads in State in- stitutions or support new official positions. Every household in the State is already settled down to economies fitted to the conditions of the drought. Let the housekeeping of the State likewise adjust it- self. The Governor has shown a commendable spirit of economy and has used his veto in that direction with praiseworthy impartiality. Thereare many measures yet pending which will need his attention, if they pass. Some of them create new offices and salaries. It is highly probable that one of these is the Oakland Harbor Commission bill. There is grave doubt in commercial circles in Oakland that such an establish- ment is needed or will pay back in any service the | burdensome tax on commerce required for its sup- port. For reasons added to the water-front litigation and derived entirely from the commercial situation it is evident that Oakland will in no respect suffer if she is not now loaded with this rather sumptuously sala- ried adjunct. The sentiment of the State government should be no expenditure for ornamental or senti- mental improvements, and no new salaried offices, except upon the plainest demonstration of their ne- cessity. ADMIRAL DEWEY’'S HEALTH. SENSATIONAL report sent out from Van- fl couver a few days ago to the effect that a British officer on his way home from Manila had declared Admiral Dewey’s health to be seriously undermined has been promptly refuted from Wash- ington. Government officials have received no infor- mation of any illness of the Admiral nor of any need or desire on his part for rest. On the contrary, a dispatch was received from him some time ago say- ing: “I trust it may not be necessary to order. me to Washington. Should very much regret to leave here while matters remain in the present critical condi- tion.” The promptness with which the refutation to the alarming rumor has been given is gratifying. At ‘the present time the sole danger point on the horizon of our national affairs is at Manila, and while the danger even there is not great, yet serious consequences might result from any mismanagement of our dealings with the natives and the rights of European resi- dents. It is, therefore, desirable we should have in command at that point a wise as well as a brave man, for the successful solution of the problems involved in the issues requires the tact of a diplomatist as well as the courage of a warrior. Of course no man is essential to the affairs of a great nation. Out of the ranks of a vigorous people there never fail to come forth leaders to take the place of those whom wounds, sickness, old age or death remove from command. Nevertheless, the personal- ity of a strong, sagacious man is always one of the controlling factors in the history of a nation, and whenever such a man is found in the right place at a time when his country needs him anything which threatens to force his retirement is a matter of serious concern to all. Admiral Dewey has proven himself to be exactly the man whom we need at this juncture in the Orient. He has served several years in that part of the world and knows its problems and its people better than the officials at Washington—better than any man we 1 substitute another in command. Therefore the rumor of his ill-health, coming from a seemingly well authenticated source, was a cause of much disquietude and there will be a feeling of no little satisfaction in its prompt refutation. - BRITISH NAvAL ESTIMATES. G sums with such a simple gravity of manner that at times it was almost amusing. For example, he gravely informed the Commons that the outlook for the British navy isnot reassuring, because the United States, Russia, France, Germany, Italy and Japan have under construction an aggregate of 685,000 tons of warships, or 225,000 tons more than is contemplated in the British estimates. The quiet assumption in this statement that things are not reassuring unless Great Britain constructs every year more war vessels than all the other great nations of the globe, with Japan thrown in, verges very close on the humorous. The very gravity with which the statesmen of the little island in the North Sea, located between the Irish Channel and the Ger- OSCHEN'’S speech to the Commons on in- troducing the naval estimates for the year man Ocean, propose to go up against the whole world | when it comes to a sea fight has in it something of a gasconade, and is the more entertaining because not intended for a boast. Mr. Goschen, however, was not humorous, nor was he boastful. He was quite in earnest. He would like to see upon the ocean a British navy as powerful as that of all the rest of the world combined, and, finding the desire is not to be attained this year, he regards the outlook as dubious and perceives nothing on the horizon which he can point out to his countrymen as reassuring. Despite his somewhat despondent tone, however, the Right Honorable gentleman, the First Lord of the Admiralty, had a pretty good naval programme to submit. It comprised in the aggregate an expendi- ture for naval purposes during the coming year of £26,504,000, or considerably more than $100,000,000. Of course not all the amount is for ships. Some is for new naval stations, and the Russians and port of Wei-Hai-Wei, where, as Mr. Goschen pointed out, there is a “valuable anchorage. In the meantime, since the naval outlook is not re- assuring, her Majesty’s Government is heartily sec- onding the peace proposals of the Czar. The confer- ence will not cost as much money as the naval es- timates amount to, nor even so much as the single item of the anchorage at Wei-Hai-Wei. British can find some pleasing promise in that pros. pect. It is safe to assert, however, they will none the less adopt the naval bill without a division and put another penny on the beer and the income tax and go a2long grumbling, as is their custom, because other na- tions spend so much on their navies. A GOOD BILL. THE Senate passed a bill the other day which should be promptly enacted into law by the As- sembly. We refer to the measure introduced by Senator Braunhart and known to the legislative files as Senate bill No. 202. It is a proposition to amend sections 204 and 2035 of the Code of Civil Procedure so as to change the method of drawing trial juries in the Superior Courts of the State. As originally pre- pared and introduced by Senator Braunhart its opera- tion was confined entirely to San Francisco, but the Senate considered the idea so good that it enlarged its application to the entire State. The amendments proposed relate mainly to the process of selecting the names of those appointed to serve as trial jurors. The Judges are left to prepare the lists as at present, but rules are set up which re- quire a more careful inspection of persons and a greater responsibility is thrown upon the clerks of the ccurts, who are commanded to examine the lists and report upon the personal characters of the proposed jurors. Another amendment provides that no person shall be obliged to serve as a trial juror for more than one month in the year, unless a longer service is de- manded by a trial for which he has been impaneled. Nor is any trial juror to serve on more than five causes during the term for which he may have been selected, and whenever a juror has served on five causes the clerk of the court is required to strike his name from the list. It is thought that this latter pro- vision, by making jury duty easy, will attract to the bex a more reputable class of citizens, or, what is the same thing, remove some of their objections to serving. It is to be hoped that the Assembly will pass this bill, if for no other reason than to give the new sys- tem a trial. Certainly the selection of juries could not be looser than it is at present, and anything which will throw around trials greater restrictions is in the line of useful legislation. WORKMEN OPPOSE THE RACES. THAT workmen as individuals should oppose racing as conducted at Ingleside is not strange. That as a body they should have paused in their routine to denounce it was unexpected, and brings into the contest a new element to combat the iniquity of the debased “sport” and to check the tide of gold flowing into the hands of the touts and bookmakers. The hangers-on of Ingleside, and also the managers, threaten dire things in case the Supervisors shall carry out the expressed determination to deprive them of their power for evil. It seems certain that the friendship of the workmen is far more valuable than that of the gamblers. That their influence is greater and their honest opinions are entitled to respect there can be no question. The Supervisors, setting aside the moral aspect of the situation, can well afford to listen to the voice of these honest toilers. Workmen are of the people. In the sweat of his brow the laborer at any manual calling must earn his bread, and as he earns it, rearing a family and providing for his home out of his wage, he has a right to protection against the wiles of the confidence operator. He ought to be assured that while he is at his forge or bench his boy is not being robbed at the racetrack, led into evil associations and trained to a career of uselessness or even of crime. There are many instances known of women neglect- ing their household duties and their little ones so as to attend the races, there to bet and to squander the scanty store which should go for rent or shoes, doing this while the head of the house was away earning more and never suspecting that the rounders of the tenderloin were to have that same money to spend. In some cases the result has been a tragedy. It is good that the workmen have spoken officially. Their clear and decisive words show how wide- spread is the interest in the subject, and will go far to offset the threats and cajolery of the parasites of which the community is striving to rid itself. People with a taste for horse meat probably have a right to indulge it, but the average American sol- | can reasonably hope to find when the time comes to | dier prefers beef. dealt with the proposed expenditure of large the Chinese will note with passing interest that something | like $15,000,000 is to be expended in fitting up the | Perhaps the | B+ 0009 +O+P+O e O+ ~o ! ! : i : ! : 1¢ : S O~ " |+ ii unfavorable and Captain Ma: o + | 0 along and towed her into port. It i 3 pire is ready for sea again. |+ wafwm+®+@+©+ew-@+@w BROKE DOWN OFF POINT REYES. HE collier Empire came to grief while on her way to Coos Bay. Tshe sailed back as far as Duxbury Reef, when the wind became day morning the steam schooner Luella, from Point Arena, came L O R O O R SRCRY SRCERSCR SR SCS son anchored his vessel. Yester- will be two weeks before the Em- 04 040404H 404040404040+ 0404040404 0404040404040+ 040+ 040+0+H COLLIER EMPIRE 1S DISABLED P THE COMST |Towed Back to Port by the Luella. | 'SUBSIDIZED FRENCH VESSELS WAY TO THIS PORT. | Helen N. Kimball Overdue at Pana- | ma—TLumber Vessels for South Africa—Sale of the May Flint. in tow of the The Empire left here day and all went port yesterday | schooner Luell for Coos Bay last Thui well until Point Reyes was reached, when the crank shaft broke. This left the ves- el helpless as far as the engines were concerned, but Captain Nelson soon got 1 on her and headed for San Francisco. When off Duxbury Reef the sea became rough and a head wind was encountered, so the vessel was anchored. One of the black stack tugs went to her assistance, but a bargain could not be struck. Early yesterday morning several steam schooners hove in sight and the Luella bore down on the disabled collier. The | two captains came to an agreement and | the Luella took the Empire in tow. She | was brought through the Heads without | any bother, and when off Lime Point the | tug Sea Queen came along and relieved | the Luella of her tow. The Luella went to Third and Berry streets wharf to dis- | charge her cargo of lumber and the Em- | pire was docked at Vallejo street wharf. | It will take a_couple of weeks to repair | the collier, and in the meantime the Coos Bay Coal Company will have to secure | another vessel to take her place. 'he owners of the schooner Helen N. Kimball are wondering what has become of their vessel. She left Eureka on De- cember 3 last in company with the schoon- er Esther Buhne. The Kimball was bound for Panama_with a load of lumber and the Buhne for .Honolulu with a_similar cargo. The Buhne arrived at Honolulu December 30, discharged and loaded and | was back in San Francisco on February | 2. A week later she was on her way to | Puget Sound and two days ago she sailed | again from New Whatcom for San Fran- cisco. The Kimball has not been heard from since she left Eureka ninety-eight | days ago. Panama is about 1200 miles fur- | ther south of Eureka than is Honolulu, | but the Esther Buhne has covered three times that distance since she left Eureka | in_company with the Helen N. Kimball. | The owners of the schooner are not | very anxious about her. They think she may have reached Panama and that Cap- tain Guttormsen has failed to notify them of her arriv Still, none of the mail | | steamers. mention having spoken her. The Kimball is a _stanch schooner, splendidly found, and if anything has happened to her it' must have been In_an exceptional blow. She was built in Cuffeys Cove in 1881, and is 155 _tons net burden. She is | 112.3 feet long, 30.8 feet beam and 5.2 feet in draft. Tha vessel has been in the coast ELEVEN OF THEM ON THEIR The steam collier Empire returned to | steam | | see those warships way out there? $15 2 month. Charlotte Gray was grant- ed a divorce from Thomas Gray on the ground of desertion, Barbara A. Rush- worth secured & divorce from Wiiliam V. Rushworth on the ground of extreme cruelty. Grace Samuels was granted a divorce from George M. Samuels on the ground of infidelity. Suits for divorce | have been filed by Emma J. Pattee against Frank M. Pattee for failure to provide; Frederick W. Gardam against Rose Gardam for desertion; Ida L. Will against George W. Will for crueity, and Josephine Wooley against Horace M. Wooley for cruel AROUND THE CORRIDORS S. K. Dorchester of Santa Rosa is at the California. H. Cornforth, a Marysville storekeeper, is staying at the Lick. G. W. Harney, a Marysville | grower and packer, is at the Grand. | Captain W. H. McMinn, a retired army | officer of San Jose, is registered at the fruit | S. Gillen, the extensive orchardist of Mountain View, is at the Russ with his wife. Frank McGraw, 2 mining man of Lewis. ton, Idaho, is registered at the Occidental with his wife. George T. Myers, a large fish packer of Portland, Or., is at the Occidental, ac- | companied by his wife. George F. Ditzler, a fruit merchant of Biges, and John H. Millzner, a Tucson mining man, are at the Grand. T. L. Bell, proprietor of the Ben Lo- mond Hotel, and Dr. Ben A. Plant of Santa Cruz are registered at the Grand. Michael the millionaire pork packer of 2o, and D. W. Copelin, a merchant of Toledo, Ohio, are among the arrivals at the Palace. | Captain W. B. Rathbone, who has been expert bookkeeper at the Palace for a| long period, will leave next Sunday for a | two years' trip to England. | 46———°+ Captain Hooper 3 of the revenue SPANIARDS cutter McCul- loch tells a good story of the tak- | ing of Manila and the consternation | created among | the Spanish soldiers when the formidab!al Monterey steamed into the harbor. Under | orders from Admiral Dewey, when the fleet moved into the harbor preparatory to lowering the Spanish flag and raising | the stars and stripes over the forts, lhel Monterey kept well inshore. FEARED THE MONTEREY. The remain- | der of Uncle Sam’s warships, stripped for | action, stood well out in the harbor. Every | one remembers that not a shot was fired | on the city, and the Spaniards made no | attempt to damage the American fleet. This surprised the naval officers and their surprise was still greater when they saw the fortifications and forts which the Spanish failed to defend. Captain Hooper was one of the officers detailed to go ashore to receive the surrender of the Ma- nila forts. In the largest and best fort were a number of great guns which could have done much damage to the warships if the Spaniards had been courageous enough to use them. The commandant of the fort was an intelligent Spaniard and | spoke English fluently. After the surren- der had been made Captain Hooper sat down to chat with this officer, and during their conversation said to hi “Pardon my question, as I ask it out of curiosity, but why did you not fire on us when you had such a fort and such guns as these here? “Well, T'll tell you why,” courteously replied the Spanish commandant. “You We saw what kind of h— they raised with Admiral Montojo's fleet. Well, you see trade since she was bulilt. American lumber Is in demand in South | Africa and a number of grain vessels not | liking the outlook for next season are | accepting_charters for Cape Town and | Delagoa Bay. The Kenncbec arrived at Cape Town on March 2 from Puget Sound with a_load of lumber and the ships | James Nesmith and John A. Briggs and | barkentine John Smith are now out| eighty-two, Sseventy-two and sixty-six | days respectively from points on the Sound for the ports named. In addition to these the British ships Olivebank and British General and the American ship M. P. Grace, now in this port, have been chartered to' go to the Sound to load for South Africa. Including vessels loading ‘at the islands there are now sixty-five American vessels | listed for this port. At the same time | there are forty-five British vessels, eleven French, three Italian, two German, four | Hawaiian, one Norwegian, one Japanese | and one Chilean on their way here. | The above figures are given to show what a subsidy will do for the mercantile marine of a country. A short time ago France decided to pay a mileage subsidy to her sailing vessels. At that time it was | a very rare thing to see the French tri- | color In the port of San Francisco while | at this time last vear only two French | vessels were on their way here. Now there are eleven and the chances are that many more will be seen in these | waters before the vear is out. | Flint & Co. of New York have decided | that there is nothing in sailing vessels. | Some years ago the British ship Persian | Monarch was wrecked on_ the American | coast. She was purchased by Flint & Co., who spent considerable money in repair- ing her, after which she was placed under the American flag and renamed the May | Flint. Ever since she has been sailing in cross of St. George hoisted in its stead. The name May Flint is to be effaced and the old name Persian Monarch replaced. She is now under charter to carry coal oil from New York to Japan. Three tugs for use in Manila Bay and among the Philippines have been pur- chased by the United States Government in Hongkong. They are the Kar Shun, Y.ee Fat and Kum Hing- at present, but the chances are that Admiral Dewey will rechristen them as they are handed over to him. Each tug is 100 tons burden. 87 feet long, 14 feet 7 inches beam and § feet draft. They were built and engineered by Chinese and were especially prepared for the trip to Manila. They will be used to transport troops from point to point when necessary {n the Divorce Court. Justine Lelanne has been granted a divorce from Simon Lelanne on the ground of failure to provide. The plain- | Ina., has engaged apartments at the Palace for himself and wife. George C. Hodges, who is connected and out of ports in the United States, but | now her American owners have resold her | to an English firm and the stars and | stripes are to be hauled down and the that thing close inshore? (pointing to the Monterey). We never saw anything like it before and we did not know what kind of h— it would raise, and we did not invite it by resisting the Americans.” Captain Hooper then gave the Spaniard | a general description of the Monterey and | & her guns, at the conclusion of which his listener remarked: “You Americanos are devils for building machines to raise h— with.” F. S. Fish, who is largely interested in carriage manufacturing in South Bend. with the Chicago Record, is here on a business trip and is registered at the Pal- ace. He has made a tour of Mexico and will visit the northern section before re- turning home. George W. Boyd, assistant general pas- senger agent of the Pennsylvania road, accompanied by his bride, will arrive in the special car Olivette to-day from Phil- adelphia. They are making their honey- moon trip throughout the United States. Jay W. Adams, Pacific Coast agent, and J. Y. Calahan, general Western passenger agent, of the Nickel Plate road, have gone to Honolulu to establish agencies for their line. This course is made necessary by the increase in travel to and from the islands since their annexation, Captain C. B. Hardin of Company F, Second Battalion, Eighteenth Intfantry, |u. ., is at the Occidental. He was with his regiment here and at Honolulu, but has been on sick leave for the past | four months. He has been seriously ill with typhoid fever, but has fully recov- ered and will join his company, which is now at Manila. He will leave on the next transport which leaves for the Philip- pines. —_————— A Witness Wanted. ‘When the case of Harry L. the bellboy in the Palace i{flte],l‘(‘e;lii“;gg with robbing Ethel Hall last Sunday night, was called in Judge Conlan’s court yesterday the girl failed to appear, and a bench warrant was issued for her arrest. It is supposed she has gone to her home {in San Jose. The case has been continued. ——— An Oakland Insolvent. SCISSORS ARE EMPLOYED 10 HIDE EVIDENCE A Murdered Man’s Coat Mutilated. MORGUE OFFICIALS BLAMED PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION OF DANIEL SCATENA. The Testimony of Dr. Zabala, Au- topsy Physician, Leads to Ad- verse Criticism by the Police. The preliminary examination of Daniel Scatena, charged with the murder of his partner, S. Brancoli, in their fruit store | on Larkin street, was commenced before Judge Graham yesterday ecuting Attorney Carpenter conducted th | case for the people, and Attorneys Devoto | and Demartini represented the defendant. | The witnesses examined for the pro: | cution were O. Brancoli, Frank Tompk! | son, D. McSweeney, Mrs. Elsie Willen- brick, Daniel Lyons and Detective Wr The evidence was practically the same as given at the Coroner's inquest. Tompkin- son, the boy employed in the store, saw two of the shots fired. Scatena came to him after the shooting and said that Brancoli had a knife, and the boy, be! frightened, did not contradict him. Y terday he testified that Brancoli had no ing in his hand. Mrs. Willenbrick a! saw two shots fired, and saw E turning around toward Scatena just be fore the shots were fired. McSweeney t tified that he heard the three shots. 1 first had a muffied sound and the oth two sounded clearer. Scatena told that the man who fired the shots bad r | away. R The theory of the prosccution is t after the quarrel between Scatena ¢ | Brancoli_the latter turned to leave tr store, when Scatena placed the revolver against his back and fired the first shot. ancoll straightened himself up as he el around, and the other two shots hi ccording to t deliberate an: | self-defense could not b | "Dr. zabala, the autor | also a and his | prised the pro | testified that the e orrhage following a gunshot wound. ¥ terday he testif 1 wounds. In one inst e the bullet had | entered the back, ranged upward and | came out at the left shoulder, and was | the cause of death. | tered the r:ghxhbreulsl fsndm | chest cavity, where he foun g id"l'he coat worn by Brancoli at the time | of the shooting was produced in court and it was in a mutilated condition. The ings_where the bullet in the | tered, had been clipped away with a pair | of scissors removing all traces of the powder marks and burns. The importance f this evidence is shown by the fact that Witnesses for the prosecution all testified that Brancoli's coat burning at the back when they portion of the front of th been cut away. The mutilation of the garment had been made at the M..r;,“r. l«u‘( vhat urpose is not known. ma Prestigated, as there was apparently an attempt on 'the part of some one to de Stroy an important link in the ch evidence. The prosecution also that three bullets entered Brancoll and they base their contention on the con- dition of the bullet holes in the coat. The one in the back is not disputed, but in regard to the other two there is evi- dence that the autopsy physician may be Wwrong in his diagnosis that the bullet fering the back ranged upward and came out at the left shoulder. There are dis- tinct powder burns on the left lapel of the coat, and the inner part of the cloth Is ragged, showing that a bullet made its entrance there, and not its exit. On the right lapel of the coat there are ilar marks, but the burns are not so distinct. Tt is therefore supposed that three bullets entered Brancoli's body, but the autopsy physician was only able to find one. It is P10 supposed that as each shot was fired A oncoll was backing away from Scatena, Wwhich would account for the difference in the condition of the powder burns. 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