The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 15, 1899, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15 MARCH 15, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. e~ ns to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. | PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 16 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, 5 cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one vear.. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months DAILY CALL cinoluding Sunday Call), 3 months DAILY CALL—By Single Mont UNDAY OALL One Year. WEBKLY CALL, One Yea All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples wil be forwarded when requested. | NEW YDRK OFFICE.... ‘Room 188, World Buildlag DAVIP ALLEN, Adverticing Ropresentative. WASHINGTON: . C.) OFFICE.........Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ... ..Marquotte Buflding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represontative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, comer Clay, open untll 9:30 o'ciock. 387 Hayee street, open ungil 9:30 o’clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 c'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock 941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2264 Market street. corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clack. K6 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second anq Kentucky streets. open until 9 o'clock. Address All Communicatio AMUSEMENTS. Columbia—*'Fedora."” Grand Opera House—'La Boheme.” y Poacher.” 1 Highwayman.” lle. vy, the Hero of Manila.” Zoo and Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon evening. Olympia—Corner Mason and Ellis streets, Specialties. Central Park—The Steeplechase. AUCTION SALES. Alhamb Frank W. Butterfield—This day, at 11 o'clock, Crockery ‘Hardware, at 520 Taylor street. A. W. Louderback—This Day, at 2:30 o'clock, Turkish at 123 Geary street. Von Rhein & Co.—Thursday, March 23, at 12 m., Real at 513 California street. FULL STEAM AHEAD. Y the handsome majority of 49 to 9 the As- B sembly passed the exposition bill, and, on the same day, the bill authorizing counties to levy a tax for exposition purposes. The two measures, therefore, go to the Senate with strong support, and there is every reason to believe they will be regarded in that body with a favor not less than that shown by the Assemb In the meantime the Examiner continues croaking opposition and objects to the enterprise on | the ground that the season is bad, business dull and many persons are out of employment. “The expo- | sition is not,” it declares, “so urgent as the promoters | imagine, but if the drought continue the necessity for | grow greater every day.” jite terms, the argument of the Ex- the conditions of the times being un- | propitious to California, while the Eastern section | of the country is booming with prosperity, we should | not try to launch a great enterprise and attract capi- te, but should start soup-kitchens. It | in commerce and industry we need, er, but activity in the distribution of its tal to the S is not activit ys the croal If any answer be needed to this argument against enter; undertaken with energy in the face of bad conditions it is to be found in a letter recently written by John Wakefield, secretary of the Omaha Ex- | position Company, to a gentleman in Buffalo, who with others is engaged in preparing for the coming | exposition in that city. | Mr. Wakefield states that the panic of 1893 {ound‘ Omaha on the crest of a real estate boom and at a | time of great industrial and building activity. Its effects were blighting and disastrous. To use his own language: ‘“We went to the bottom of the slide | with great rapidity, and the fall hurt us much. The | people were much discouraged, and the financial | gloom was thick when in the fall of 1805 a small | coterie of gentlemen arranged to project and push | the exposition enterprise.” The Examiner will hardly contend that conditions | in California are worse now than those described in | Cmaha in 1895. We may therefore pass at once to | Mr. Wakeficld's next statement. The enterprise was | opposed, he says, by many persons who declared the city and State could not at such a period of depression sfford the money for the undertaking. *The pro- moters held on their way, however, and found sup- port among progressive men of all classes. Mr. | Wakefield adds: “As soon as the project was fairly | before the people it seemed to have a reviving in- | fluence, and those who had been most discouraged | and discontented as to the outlook for the future be- gan to brace up and carry their heads in the air. They took hold of their own affairs with renewed courage, all of which assisted in the restoration of good busi- ness.” Commenting upon the results of the enterprise, which, be it remembered, was conducted during the excitement of the war, Mr. Wakefield says: “It is| caleulated the large sum of $10,000,000 was left in the | city as the result of the exposition. Business was never better than at present. The year 1898 was the largest yet for our merchants and jobbers, and the present year starts out even better than 1808.” The Examiner says the working people of the city | | derive no employment or profit from the expo- ion, but Mr. Wakefield says that from the begin- ning of the work on the exposition in Omaha to the day of its opening a large force of men was em- ployed, amounting at times to 2000. The result of course was beneficial to the city. It is unnecessary to add anything to these state- ments of the results of the experience of Omaha. Every intelligent man can make for himself the ap- plication to the problem before us. It is to be noted that at the end of its croak of yesterday the Examiner hinted that it expects to “share in the division of ad- vertising.” Is that what it is waiting for? wil One wife-beater has just received a sentence of six months in the County Jail, and another has been bound over to the Superior Court. The second brute ought to reccive at least double the amount of the first brute, and a whipping-post would be too, good for either of them. i gl The shanghaied sailor who brings suit for dam- ages ought to receive more than he asks, provided he can prove his case. Shanghaiing is a malign form of slavery, and the American citizen who will quietly submit to it is not fit to be alive. Chaw Casey constitutes a striking instance of the guilty but not proven variety. And we might go so iar as to counsel him not to do it again. | $362,214, but on March STANDING BY THEIR GUNS. HE majority still rules at Sacramento. It has Tthe first and last say upon the question of a Sen- atorial caucus. If the party interests require the instrumentality of a caucus it is for the majority to so decide. From the beginning it has decided that those interests do not require a caucus. From time to time a recalcitrant minority has attacked the ma- jority on this issue, but has failed to shake it. The majority, to which alone the interests of the party are committed, has guarded them and will do so, we be- lieve, to the end of the session. The various candi- dates supported by the majority have offered repeat- edly to retire and leave to the Legislature a clear field for the majority to occupy and act upon. Only the one minority candidate, Burns, has refused, and by standing in the way has compelled the majority to still stand guard. Surely the majority and the people should be im- pressed by the spectacle. The Burns campaign has meen run on winks and nods and signs, grips and passwords, all intended to imply a reserve strength, the appearance of which has been confidently pre- dicted a score of times. As the contest has aged and one after another these predictions have failed the bluff has degenerated into a joke. As far as can be seen now, it is the intention of Burns to prevent a final adjournment and wait until the pressure of their personal concerns will cause enough members to go home to reduce the number needed to elect down to his size. This is the last desperate resort of the minority candidate, whose tactics have annoyed the majority, against which it has been in rebellion. The party and the people are watching this scheme as they have the others that preceded it and failed in their turn, as this will fail and follow them to the limbo of marplots which have distinguished the Burns candidacy and its methods. Good party men are aware that if no election take place the interests of the party and country will not be endangered, because, even with Delaware, Penn- sylvania and California leaving their three seats va- cant, there is left a Republican majority of twenty in the United States Senate. Good party men wish that that majority in the Senate, the largest for years, shall be maintained, and they know this can be done only by such nurture and admonition of the party in its highest purposes as will retain for it the esteem and confidence of the country, now so heartily mani- fested and freely given. This cannot be done by showing mere wantonness in electing Senators who represent none of the best motives and highest pur- poses of the party. Using its power to elece-a few Senators like Burns and Addicks is the short rqad to a loss.of that power by its vicious abuse. Every Re- publican in California who is so from principle knows, feels and says that the election of Burns means future defeat of the party, here and the sap- ping of its strength everywhere. For that reason they expect every man to stand by his duty and his guns and defeat every scheme of the turbulent mi- nority which is behind Burns. As his candidacy if openly announced last fall would have defeated the | party last November, so his election how will defeat it next year. This no one doubts nor denies. No one doubts that his candidacy was secretly intended and planned for long before the last election. It was among the set purposes of a few men who have no interest in the party except to gather the spoils of its victories, and who care nothing for the advancement of its principles. These men cherished their plans in secret, while those who strive for party success for the general welfare were making pledges and prom- ises to the people inconsistent with the waste of its power and triumph in the election of Burns. These men are justly indignant at the cold-blooded proposi- tion to stamp them as liars and agents of false prom- ises and pledges made to be broken. It is well for the party that its majority in the Legislature has so far stood for the redemption of these publig pledges and has repudiated the secret plots of Burns and his Junta. e o e HE necessity for a Federal Senator, if one can THE LEGISLATURE AND THE BANKS AGAIN. I be elected who will represent the intelligence and the respectability of the State, is urgent. But there are also some matters of practical legisla- tion, of more importance to farmers and business men than to politicians, that ought not to be neg- lected in the closing days of the session. We re- ferred yesterday to .Senate bill No. 678, in relationt to the Bank Commission, which has been amended under influences evidently political or personal, and suggested that it be restored to its original text and passed. The recent suspensions of banks in Santa Clara and San Luis Obispo counties have made it obligatory upon the Legislature to pay some instant attention to the protection of depositors who repre- sent earnings and savings. The County Bank of San Luis Obispo, as we clearly proved, on account of the disproportion between its indebtedness and its cash and convertible securities, in 1895 was badly man- aged, by August 31, 1898, was positively unsafe, and should have been stopped or at least severely dis- ciplined by the Bank Commission, and by the begin- ning of this year had been permitted to drift into a condition that rendered its suspension almost = in- evitable. The statement of its assets and its liabilities, completed on Monday last under the direction of Bank Commissioner Barrett, and which apfieared in yesterday’s issue of The Call, not only confirmed our previous comments, but shows transactions within nine weeks that demand the closest investigation and clinch the argument for immediate legislative action. On January 1, 1899, the bank owed its depositors 13, 1899, this indebtedness had been reduced to $284,344, showing payments or withdrawals to the amount of $77,870. It will be in- teresting to ascertain how this sum was obtained and among whom it was distributed, with special refer- ence to the directors and stockholders. Between the two dates mentioned the cash balance had decreased from $12,777 to $6762, or by $6015, while the in- debtedness to other banks, presumptively based upon the best available securities the County Bank could furnish, had increased from $87,260 to $140,893. This addition of $62,633 to the borrowed money on which the bank to a large extent apparently conducted its business was effected within nine weeks, and, together with the cash withdrawn, saved some depositors, who were*either extremely lucky or singularly favored, to the detriment of others to whom $284,344 is now due and unpaid. Senate bill No. 678 as it originally stood without any additional expense to the State would at least supply a temporary check to this reckless method of dealing with the money of the people collected into banks and would serve to bridge over the period till the next legislative session, when it is to be hoped a thoroughly digested and effective substityte for the existing faulty system may be devised and enacted. It is quite practicable for the amendments proposed in this bill to become law within three or four days, and the urgency of the situation demands rabidit‘y of Delaware has joined Utah in failure to elect a Senator, Nextl - - movement. It might be a useful addition to these - Lamendments to hold the Bank Commissioners to a certain extent responsible for their own acts, and to this end to provide that if any bank prove to be insol- vent within six months after it has been examined and pronounced sound, the commissioner or the com- missioners participating in the report shall be sus- pended, and, unless justified through an investigation by the Governor, summarily removed. This could be easily accomplished by an addition to section 6 of the act establishing the Bank Commission. Section 8 should undoubtedly be changed, if nothing more be done, by requiring notice of every assignment and hypothecation made by a bank, including a certified cepy of the instrument itself, to be given within twenty-four hours to the Bank Commissioners. The statute requiring semi-annual statements to be pub- lished should also be re-enacted. There is no time to be lost unless a plain legisla- tive duty is thrust aside and the welfare of the people disregarded. PRIMARY ELECTION REFORM. HE purpose of the new primary election law, we take s not so much to introduce electoral reform with a rush as to strengthen the organiza- tions of political parties. While it has been boomed by its promoters on reform grounds, the more in- telligent of them know that electoral reform must proceed first from the people; in other words, that an honest, virtuous, upright people need no laws to main- tain the purity of the ballot. Among such a people square elections must be as common as pure air and undefiled sunshine. Just exactly how the new primary law is going to work, however, can scarcely be foretold. It provides that political parties having complete organizations shall elect their delegates to nominating conventions under the forms of law, and it punishes severely every politician who attempts to subvert these laws for the purpose of dominating conventions or controlling delegations. It sends to the rear all “committees,” “side shows” and rump conventions, which in the past have afflicted city and State by parading thei- virtues under divers high-sounding designations. Doubtless sweeping this rotten political timber out of the way will be a good thing. We know of no in- stance in which the candidates of any of these “par- ties” have been elected, and there is no case on record where they have ever aided the cause of reform. They are usually the outgrowth of office-seeking and sore- headism, and while their influence has sometimes helped to curb the arrogance of the bosses, as a rule they have worked to defeat good candidates rather than to weed out the bad ones. When the Australian system of voting came in we entered upon a season of ballot independence, which has almost destroyed the regular political organiza- tions. The influence of that system has not only disintegrated parties, but it has loosened party lines among all classes of politicians. It has made bolting a virtue and has given rise to all sorts of party in- subordination. The new primary law gives the pen- dulum a swing in the opposite direction. If it shall turn out to be a practical statute it will be possible under it to build up our political organizations once more and make them represent something more than the wishes of an inconsequential faction or the aspira- tions of a political boss. Citizens who desire to re- form the Government will be compelled to make their fights at the primary ballot boxes. Politicians who want offices will have to organize their delegations and trade themselves into the nomination in regular conventions, and political bosses who hope to rule under party labels will have to possess brains and popularity. We shall observe the operation of this law with great interest. Undoubtedly it contains the germ of an important political change, and if our people do not get disgusted with it before it has developed electoral reform it may prove to be the solution of the entire political problem. Honest -government usually proceeds from the active civism of a virtuous people. If the new primary election law can arouse and maintain that sentiment among-our people it will prove a success. We have plenty of virtue but very little active civism. ONE-STORY BALDWIN. OoT Ion\g ago Baldwin made a threat that he N would cover the site of his late lamented tinder-box with a lot of single-story rookeries. He intended to use the walls now standing to carry out this purpose. That the fulfillment of the threat would have been a blow to the material interests of the city there can be no question, and that the Supervisors, who seem bent upon serving the public, and are thus a surprise and a delight, should have overturned the Baldwin scheme is a thing for citizens to congratulate them- selves about. The walls of the old Baldwin Hotel must come down. Such is the official decree, and we hope there will be no delay in carrying it out. They stand to- day a blot and a menace. The fence surrounding them is an exhibition of Baldwin nerve. Calmly, resolutely, without the slightest regard for the rights of others, Baldwin had the fence erected, and then went away so far that he could not see it. He utilized the space needed for pavements, shut off access to the places of business of his neighbors, dnd never so much as said “By your leave.” San Francisco would like to see on the corner a ereditable strycture. The location is one demanding this. Baldwin’s plan of spoiling the site and damag- ing all property in the neighborhood was as generous as his practical closing of the thoroughfare on one side of his property. He rose above all authority for a time, but in turn the authority rose and reached him. F . There should be no delay in leveling the walls. They are a constant danger, a nuisance and a detri- ment. While intact they were never fit to stand, and now, bereft of all support, the only reason they do not fall on the head of the passer-by is the good- ness of Providence. Jake Steppacher as Registrar of Voters would bring to the office experience, a love for Burns, an adora- tion for McLaughlin, a pleasing and modest person- ality, and a wart. There is no tendency to speak lightly of the wart. It surmounts Jake's dome of thought and is supposed to be a receptacle for brain matter that could not find room inside. — Frank Nickel has been arrested for shooting at his sister with blank cartridges. Frank made a mistake. If he expected to acquire popular sympathy his game was to use genuine cartridges of large caliber. Then he could have pleaded insanity, and all would have been well with him. SE K e Corrigan is said to feel blue, but perhaps by beat- ing a ninety-pound reporter, his favorite amuse- ment, he might restore his equanimity of mind. The trouble is that in San Francisco reporters average above this figure. Evidently the bankers of San Luis Obispo got tired of waiting for the end of the drought. The Filipinos are receiving valuable but costly in- | struction in the art of war. I 1899. CALIFORNIA'S UNEXPECTED POSSIBILITIES Great Commercial Ac- tivity Promised. A RESULT OF THE LATE WAR GENERAL CHIPMAN’S REMARKS ABOUT THE FUTURE. His Report Read at the Annual Meet- ing of the State Board of Trade {lontains Many Interesting Statistics. 'The annual meeting of the State Board of Trade was held in the Ferry building | yesterday afternoon, with General N. P. | Chipman presiding and J. S. Emery, Craigie Sharp, Mrs. Elizabeth Shields, C. M. Wooster, W. H. Mills, Colonel J. P. Irish, B. N. Rowley, George T. Trow- bridge, N. W. Spaulding, W. Frank Pierce and E. W. Maslin present. Secretary Filcher’ read a dispatch ad- dressed by the managers of the Pan- American Exposition to the State Board of Trade, in which California is invited to make an exhibit. Mr. Mills advocated making the exhibit, and said the Board of Trade could do more with $10,000 in making the exhibit a success than the State could with $100,000. Secretary Fil- cher was instructed to visit Sacramento and endeavor to obtain from the Legls- lature an appropriation of $10,000 neces- sary to make the exhibit. A protest from sixteen residents of San Antonio Valley and the vicinity of Lock- wood was presented to the board. In substance it refuted the report of E. W. Maslin concerning the distressing condi- tion of the valley, with the exception of such part of it as referred to the rainfall. These citizens asked that a practical farmer and a reliable person be ap- pointed to examine thoroughly into the conditions and products of the valley, and make a truthful report. Mr. Maslin reaffirmed the report he had made. He admitted that in his investiga- tion he had found the soil rich but that it was of such a character that unless there were a heavy rainfall disastrous seasons resulted. Mr. Mills also cited opinions of an expert who had investi- gated the locality and found the soil of such a character that it was not bene- fited by cultivation. The board deemed no injustice had been done the residents of theé locality, but it was necessary that the truth about the condition of this un- fortunate district should be made public, in order to relieve the remainder of the State from any bad reputation that might consequently result. A letter’ was received from _the Fresno Chamber of Commerce inquiring as to whether the board intended mak- | ing an exhibit at the coming Philadelphia | E){){]}osiuon. The letter was laid on the| table. The secretary presented the financial | report “for the past fiscal month. | showed receipts amounting to $1493 70 and | disbursements to $659 17, the balance on hand being $5734 53. The annual report by President Chip- man of shipments of fruits, wine and brandy and vegetables for the year 1898, together with statistical tables showing other productions, was given the closest attention by the board. The sta- tistical tables submitted were exclusive of the home consumption. One of the most significant statements made by General Chipman was his ref- erence to California’s future. He said: “I may as well say here as elsewhere what would be unpardonable to omit— that the Spanish-American war has opened great and unexpected possibilities if not actualities for California. Wise men not Californians—and some wise men who are Californians—foresee and have placed themselves on record as be- lieving that the most important theater | of commercial activity on the globe is| soon to be in the countries washed by the | Pacific Ocean. It is the belief also of these wise men that the ecity of San Francisco and the State of California of all American cities and States are to be the most benefited by the momentous turn in the wheel of fortune which the TUnited States has recently given. I dis- claim having the wisdom of these seers, but I beg to add my humble concurrence in these forecasts of the future for our beloved State.” A committee of ladies from the Cali- fornia Art Club, consisting of Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Moore and others, appeared before the board and stated that it was the pur- pose of the club to hold in this city early in May a State Industrial Fair for the purpose of advancing native industrial arts of the State and to encourage poor artists. They asked assistance from the board, and received an appropriation of $230, and General Chipman was appointed a committee to co-operate with the ladies and to render them all the assistance in | his power. The members of the board are | heartily in acdord with the California Art Club and the practical work it is about to_undertake. Mr. Maslin s cessity of the trongly advocated the me- | board endeavoring to im- press upon Governer Gage the great im- | portance of retaining as Horticultural | Quarantine Officer Alexander Craw. new bill is now pending before the Legis- lature which has In view the extension | of the power of this officer. The Governor | has the power of appointment, it being the condition upon which he agreed to gign the bill. The board will use its in- fluence to get the Governor to continue Mr. Craw in office. All of the old officers were re-elected. and W. Frank Pierce was elected second vice president in the place of C. F. Mont- gomery, deceased. — e BOY HORSETHIEF CAUGHT. Teslie G. Beckwith Must Answer to Charges in Oakland and Salinas. Leslie G. Beckwith is only 17 years of age, but he is reported to be a clever horsethief, and will have to answer to several charges of that nature before he is many days older. Last Friday he hired a horse and buggy from Hermann Broth- ers, 607 East Eleventh street, East Oak- land. On Sunday evening he drove to the livery stables of J. B. Schroyer, 1523 Howard street, and sald he had come from San Jose and would return for the Tig in a few minutes, as he was negotiat- ing with a man to buy the horse. He took the horse to Sullivan & Doyle’s stables, 397 Sixth street, and offered to sell it for $10. Then he came down to $5. ‘He told Doyle that he had had the horse for three years _and came with it from Kings _City. Doyle’'s suspicions were aroused and he called in Policeman Cooney, who placed Beckwith under ar- rest and locked him up in the “tanks.” He gave the name of Charles Johnson. Detective Dillon was put on the case, and he closely questioned Beckwith, who told him innumerable lies. He admitted that he was known in Salinas City, and a letter of inquiry was sent to Sheriff Far- ley there. eantime the police here had been notified of the disappearance of Her- mann Brothers’ rig, and yesterday George Hermann came across the bay and identi- fled his property. Beckwith was booked for grand larceny and was sent to Oak- land in charge of an officer. Word was also received from Sheriff Farley yesterday that Beckwith was a well-known horsethief and he was wanted for stealing two horses there. —_—ee—————— DICK WILLIAMS WILL ESCAPE One of the Chief Witnesses for the Government Missing. The third trial of Richard 8. Willlams, ex-Chinese inspeetor, charged with ex- torting money from Chinese Immigrants, will be called in the United States Dis- ‘| mony. .A‘)panmt unfairness o | Lord, had followed Nagle and his attor- |defendant discharged on account of the absence of Chin Deuck, one of the most important of the Government witnesses. Deuck left for China a few weeks ago without having notified the Government of his intention. He and Wong Sam were the means of convicting Williams on the former trial, but his_absence leaves no one to corroborate Wong Sam’s testi- On the two former trials Williams’ uilt was apparently clearly established. n the first trial it was shown that when he became an inspector he was a poor man, yet in two or three years time he had ‘amassed a bank account of $14,000, although his salary was but $ a day. —————————— FIGHTING FOR TILEMEN. The New Federal Building Plans Give Much Dissatisfaction. The Merchants' Association has taken up the fight of a number of local manu- facturers of building material with refer- ence to the plans of the new Federal building. When the plans and specifica- tions arrived it was noticed that they provided for concrete flooring throughout the entire structure. This aroused the ire of the hollow tile men, who assert that they are.barred out of competition for any of the contracts on the building. In order that the tile men have a | chance the association has sent the fol-| Jowing letter to the supervising architect, J. K. Taylor, at Washington: “Dear Sir: The immediate atten is association has been calle tion of f the specifications ment bul}glni The speclfical arches, which, it is ¢ the importation from cement USe in con Local manufacturers of holl that this material 1s equall; ! E hat e construction of floor arches, an for v the specifications should be amended S0 a8 to allow its use in the new Government building. | %\We take the liberty of calling your urgent_attention to this matter, feeling assured that your department will have Bese apecifications so amended as to per- mit our local manufacturers to bid for this important work. “Kindly wire %t O,‘,']f expense a Teply to his request, and oblige. = e “MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION. laimed, will require ‘Europe of all of the nection therewith. ow tile claim y serviceable HE LOVED HER MADLY IN FROSTY NOVEMBER SPICY TESTIMONY REVIEWED IN NAGLE CASE. | Counsel Will Argue the Points Pro | and Con Before Judge Mogan on Tuesday Next. The hearing of some new testimony and the cross and redirect examination of pre- vious witnesses in the Nagle-Rodgers ring case brought the spicy hearing to a close in Judge Mogan's court yesterday after- noon. B. K. Collier, attorney for the prosecu- tion, started the afternoon’s proceedings by calling the Judge's attention to the fact that threats had been made by the defendant’s father against the life of At- torney Nagle and that on Saturday after- noon both defendant and her sister, Miss street, flinging at them insulting and tantalizing remarks. The | court counseled that the mecessary legal steps be taken in'the matter, adding that he would punish for contempt of court the guilty parties. Angc:tllc¥ gncldent of the trial was the asking of the Judge that the testimony of Mrs. Rodgers, in which she stated that Nagle Sr. was “fearful,” be stricken from the court records. “There is no question as to the integrity of Mr. Nagie Sr. or to his honorable standing as an attorney, safd his Honor, “and I therefore ask fhat the testimony bearing on this point be omitted from the official report.” Counsel for defendant offered no objec- tion and it was so ordered. During the afternoen Mrs. Rodgers, | Mrs, Lord and Mr. Nagle were recalled | to the stand. Mrs. Rod?’crs added noth- | ing to her previous testimony except to | State that in the early part of frosty No- vember the Nagle cardiac went a thump- ing pace and that his love was sizzling ney down the ot. A letter submitted by the attorney for the defense showed that Nagle was in the habit of addressing the lady who, he claims, stole his ring, as “My dear Nel- lie,” and in the missive he only sent™his “regards” to the family, reserving his “love” for Nellie. Judge Mogan will hear the arguments | in the case on Tuesday morning next a 11 o’clock. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. G. Gerst, a brewer of Red Bluff, is reg- istered at the Russ. Frank W. Smith, an attorney of Red- ding, is at the Lick. Judge J. R. Lewis of San Jose is a guest at the Occidental. Willlam Nicholls Jr., a Dutch Flat banker, is at the Grand. Thomas Flint and his wife are regis- tered at the Palace from San Juan. Avery G. White, a Stockton attorney, is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife. A. H. McKinley, a prominent Pittsburg merchant, is registered at the Palace with his wife. Mrs. Belle Irving, whose husband has extensive fishhing interests in Vancouver, B. C., is at the Occidental. Emil Rogasner, formerly with the Chi- cago Daily News and now representing an Eastern picture firm, is at the Palace. Captain Hinkle, who brought down a torpedo boat which was constructed on Puget Sound to Mare Island, is at the Russ. Thomas J. Kirk, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, came down from Sacramento and will be at the Lick for a few days. , C. H. Ordway, a Reno mining man; A. H. Hart, a silk merchant of New York, and W. P. Hussey, an Indianapolis tim- ber-dealer, are among the arrivals at the Grand.* Richard Tjadu of Stockholm arrived at the California yesterday. He is an enthu- siastic hunter of big game and has come here to gratify his desire in that direc- tion. He is now arranging for hunting trips to Salinas and to the Rockies. —_—e——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March M4.—Willilam T. Shaw of San Francisco is at the Windsor; R. Roseathal, Miss M. Marshall, of San Francisco, are at the Vendome; F. S. Johnson of San Rafael is at the Bucking- ham; Charles F. Kinsman of San Fran- cisco, J. A. Partridge of Durango, are at the Imperial. —_— ANSWEPS TO CURRESPONDENTS. NO PREMIUM-—F. H., City. There is no premium on a fifty-cent piece of 1831 HAY—C. F. 8, City. By examination of Thehcall's lrmn'ket reports you will see that wheat sells higher than timof in the San Francisco market. e SUBMARINE CABLES-—S., City. There are at this time all over the world 1142 submarine cables, which have % gate in nautical miles of m‘:swu e RUSSIAN NEW YEAR-T. R, City. l}:‘.x;ery one hundred yvears the difference etween our system of recko; style, and the Russian and é‘l{ge K tsl;gtneg' old style, increases one day, so after 1900 m:’y ]?sala.n new year will fall on Jan- PENSIONS—R. P., City. Accordin, the table of rates the highest penslni }g the United States is $30 per month and the lowest $8. There are special cases where :Re rat.lnglfl different, as for instance in na‘:x gsa:see tc:: S total blindness o.r loss of both AN ODOR OF GAS_A. W. X., City, perceptible odor of gas in Santa l’:!;’;bar% County at a point where there are no oil wells within twenty miles” would be con- sidered an indication that there was nat- trict Court to-day, and it is expected that the case will be ordered dismissed and the J ural gas in the vicinity, a fact which can be determts olivor e 1 G, exaclly, a8 for | - A SUSPICIOUS FIRE 1S BEING INVESTIGATED Cottage and Contents. Destroyed. OCCUPANTS AT THE THEATER WHEN THEY RETURNED THE PLACE WAS IN FLAMES. Suspicion Lies in the Fact That There ‘Was No One in the House for Nearly Five Hours. Fire Marshal Towe is investigating & suspicious fire that occurred at 350 Twen- ty-fourth avenue, near Point Lobos road, early yesterday morning, resulting in the total destruction of the building and con- tents. The house was owned by Mrs. Henry Vorrath and was occupied by Michael O'Doherty, & motorman.on the Sutro electric road. The suspicious circumstance lies in the fact that no one was in the house from 7:30 o’clock Monday night, when O’Doher- ty and his wife left it to go to the Al- cazar, till they returned a few minutes after midnight. When they left there was nothing that would lead to the sup- position that a fire would take place. According to O'Doherty’s statement made to the Fire Marshal and Sergeant Harper shortly after the fire, when he returned to the house and opened the front door he was met with a volume of smoke, which drove him out. An alarm was turned in, but before the firemen reached the scene the place was in ruins. O’Doherty said that he and his wife went to the Alcazar and had seats down- stairs. When asked If he had any checks for the seats, he produced a pass check and in _explanation said he left the thea- ter before the close of the play, taking the check and waited outside for his wife. He could not remember the name of the play, but several friends saw him there. When pressed to name them he said he could not remember their names. His furniture and personal effects were in- sured for $600, but he placed their value at $1000, as his wife, who was in good cir- cumstances at one time, had a lot ot valuable jewelry. O’'Doherty’s_wife was then questioned by the Fire Marshal and told the same story of going to the Alcazar, but she contradicted her husband by saying they had seats upstairs. She also could not remember the name of the play. The Fire Marshal and gollce searched the ruins for two or three hours but could not find any trace of anything suspicious. Before leaving he told O’Doherty to be at his office yesterday morning. O'Doherty appeared, but although closely questioned he adhered to his original story. The building was a four-roomed frame cottage and was insured for $700. Sanford to Be Prosecuted. Secret Service Agent Browne was in- structed yesterday by the Secretary of the Treasury to prosecute Charles Sanford Rounds, alias Charles Sanford, for alter- ing United States bills. Sanford is a con- fidence man, and when arrested by De- tective Egan at the Cliff House several dollar-bills were found on his person. The bills had been raised by pasting on the faces thereof the figures *50” and “100" cut out of internal revenue cigar stamps. —_—ee——————— Crushed by Wealth. John Ashman, an expressman, who for many years has carried the sacks of money from the Custom-house to the United States sub-treasury, slipped and fell as he was descending the steps of the ‘ustom-house building with two heavy cks of coin yesterday and sustained a fracture of the right leg. Ashman was | taken to the Harbor Hospital, where the fracture was reduced. —_———————— Cal. glace fruit 60c per 1> at Townsend’s.* —————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ —_— ee—— It is not generally known that at one time vergers were instructed to shoot tne pigeons of St. Paul's, to keep down their numbers. They were shot from the steps at the western front of the cathedral, When the arca before the steps was in- closed. 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