The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 16, 1899, Page 4

FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 16 1899. HUMANE SOCIETY GIVES HOT ROAST T0 GOVERNOR GAGE Executive Veto Denounced as Cruel and Lacking in Dignity. MORE IN SORROW THAN IN ANGER They Say They Are Mortified by the Ignorance of Law of he Man Who Was Elected to See That the Statutes Should Be Faithfully Obeyed. SACRA- | But we represent that such “property” ng open | Some times consists of several animals, slature | PATt of which may be sold to pay cost | of keeping all; and sometimes we take Hu- | yp “animals with other property at- mane Society and is self-explanatory: | tached, and no owner appears, and The petition of the Sacramento Coun- | sometimes a part interest in an ani- ty Humane Society to the Honorable | mal mary be1 spt:ll:ielt[‘; pay the cost of its Tiis ~ rescue from cruelty. the Assembly of the Legislature of Cal- | Feqoae TOR GUACNE, 1o able bodtes ifornia and the Senate of the State|ggqi;q¢ the charge of the Governor that represents that the right of petition be- | o want to put a burden of $102,000 on ing given to us as citizens in a duly | the people, and that we reap the benefit association under the laws | of fines imposed and put the cost of CALL HEADQUARTERS, MENTO, March 15.—The follov letter to the members of the Ls is from the amento County incorporated 1 S d of the State, we beg to be heard hyrmg‘iun the State without putting up | e v le bodies e a‘coliar, | Real estate.. +$16,006 00 your e ool In petitlon | % oo X ohresent that the socletles have | Bills receivabie. 14884 65 against the veto of Assembly bill No. put up ten times more of their own | Overdrafts S S b by the Governor, as sent to the As-|money than they have received as fines, | Cash sembly on the 9th inst., and we pray by |and many cases cost the societies more BANKS' AFFAIRS IN GOOD SHAPE Barrett’s lnvestigationv at Paso Robles. DEPOSITORS WILL NOT LOSE SUSPENDED CONCERNS ABLE TO PAY ALL. The Commissioner Regards the Re- cent ¥lurry as a “Financial Tempest in a Teapot.” Epecial Dispatch to The Call. PASO ROBLES, March 15.—Bank Commissioner Barrett concluded his labors in this county to-day and will leave here in the morning for San Fran- cisco. The affairs of the Bank of Tem- pleton and of the Citizens’ Bank of Paso Robles were investigated. Both were found In excellent condition, so far as the interests of their depositors are concerned. No attempt was made to examine the Bank of Paso Robles, as this’institution is a private concern, over which the Bank Commission has no jurisdiction. As the result of its suspension the Bank of Templeton - will retire from business after it has paid all of its de- positors in full, which its stockholders | are in a position and ready to do. Its condition at this time as found by Commissioner Barrett is as follows: Due trom banks. WHEATON DRIVES THE FILIPINOS FROM PASIG RIVER Inflicts a Heavy Loss on the Insurgents an d Takes Many Prisoners. MANILA, March 15.—Insurgents es- | caping from Pasig to-day attempted to | cross our lines between San Juan dell Monte and Santalon. A few volleys from the American troops drove them back. . General Lloyd Wheaton, command- ing the United States flying colurn, attacked and defeated a force of 2000 | Filipinos at Pasig this afternocn, in-| | | | flicting a heavy loss upon them. The American loss was slight. The Ameri- | cans captured 3850 Filipinos. Many bodies of rebels killed in the engage- ment are floating down the rivar. Private Fornoff, Company L, Twen- tieth’ Regiment, was Kkilled. The ‘wounded are: Private Newman, Company F, Twentleth Regiment: Pri- | vate Carroll, Company A, Twenty-sec- ond Regiment; Private Marshall, Com- | pany B, Twenty-second Regiment; Pri- vate Coombs, Company C, Twenty-sec- | ond Regiment; Private Rogers, Com- pany L, Twenty-second Regimenz. About 350 Filipinos surrendered at the town of Taguig to the Washington Regiment, and 1756 Filipinos were cap- tured at Pasig by the Twentieth Regi- ment. - Our troops found 106 dead Fili- | pinos and 100 new graves near Pasig. The prisoners taken were unarmed | and therefore it is presumed they exe- cuted their threat of throwing their arms into the river. A body of insurgents | | last night | | opened fire on General MacArthur's | | division along the line from Caloocan our petition that said bill may pass, than the fines levied; that the societies | TORRT oicocne | to La Loma. Our troops allowed them notwithstanding the objections of the | Work for the benefit of the people, and S EIn | to waste their ammunition, scarcely re- Sou = | not for themselves; we protest that the | capita) ... sen a7 | 190 | Governor, for ‘these reasons: | bill does not authorize us to start out | Due depositors. M (PR AL e B | To sustain said veto will be to con- | “on a pilgrimage of human slaughter,” | Due banks... ool WS EIN GO, e Gt s | demn all humane societies, and let the |and that such an attack by the Gov-| e LT s | people think that the statements of the | ernor is cruel, undignified, and loses St fosasisstotesasiac e 15942 [ been recelyec. | Governor are correct, which they are not. | We protest that in the veto message a iy | the Governor treats of the law as it ex- Our badge officers are not “newly cre- | j5ts more than of Assembly bill No. 5, ated knights of the pistol and trunch- | thus exposing unfamiliarity with the eon.” They are commissioned by the |law and the bill, for, as we have said, Superior Courts only. They have been | ‘heYC“'ere cre%md such b1y1 law bterorse such officers since 1874, and the bill |the Governor became a citizen of the 3 o | State, as he should have known, and does not create them, or any IMProPer | ) ¢ {ne same law exists in most States power for them. The Governor, it ap- | of this country. pears, is unfamiliar with the old laws | By this petition we represent that it of the State. is untrue that our societies do not work As to killing old, diseased, sick and |for “the benefit of the State,” but for abandoned animals, the charge against | their own gain; that such charge is us is untrue and cruel. Such power ig | ¢Tu€l and untrue; that we have for in the law of 1874 We asked some |opforce the State’s laws and have made changes that experience calls for. One |no gain for ourselves, and have given is about the location of the suffering our time as well as our money freely animal; another requires all peace |to prevent cruelty, rather than make officers, as well as our officers, to act | arrests, that our children and those of and take up and care for such aban- | our neighbors may not be witnesses of doned suffering animals, and if no own- | inhumanity, but be brought up to re- er can be found, then to kill the ani- |spect the rights of animals, because we mal. But it is also required that the | know that those who are cruel to their | officer shall care for the animals, and | domestic animals will be cruel to their | if they are not in the owner’s hands to | fellow men. | feed them, and treat them, and for the | We represent to your honorable bod- | cost a lien is given. | ies that we have not, as the Governor | We represent that there is not a word | says, sought to put a burden of $102,- | in the bill giving power to use “force | 000 on the people. Our bill asks for per- | against any one who ‘“re- | mission for the people, if they are will- monstrates;” or telling our officers to | ing, to help us meet the costs of our do anything that a good citizen should | work. It does not cempel them to do so. not do if he witnesses cruelty to an We represent, in petitioning you to animal—that is, he should interfere to | pass the bill over the veto, that we are prevent it if he can, and call on by- | more mortified than angry over the ex- | standers to help him. | posure made by the veto message of We present that the sarcastic words |lack of knowledge of the law as it is | Due de of the Governor about section 21 are and has been so many years, and over | Due banks. T cruel and beneath the dignity of his | the charge against our motives and| megar 320518 %6 office. That section we have found to | purposes, as being selfish and un- = ok be a necessity after long experience. requires owners of certain animals to | and unselfish, and we represent that we kill them to stop cruelty, but no man | would be less than men if we did not can be guilty under it until convicted | resent for the bodies to whom such in a court, 0 no injury can happen to | charges have been made, the attacks | him the respect his office should have. | | years and years put up our money to} ‘€ It | worthy, whereas they are disinterested | anybody for keeping a worn out brood- | ing or racing horse, because the section | says that it shall not apply to any one | who keeps an animal with proper care. If he does not, and turns the animal out to die uncared for he ought to be con- victed. We represent that if some words | of section 22 seem to be ridiculous, | they can do no harm, and no court would require part of a horse to be sold. made upon us so cruelly and unjusti- fiably. By the Sacramento County Humane Society. G. H. SMITH, President, DANIEL HEALY, H. F. MILLER, DANIEL FLINT, ISADOR SCHAD, Treasurer. Sacramento, March 13, 1899. TEACHERS' ANNUITY BILL GETS ON WELL| CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- | MENTO, March 15.—The teachers’ an-| nuity bill has passed the Senate and by | to-morrow night will be in the hands of the Governor. Yesterday the bill was taken up on the Assembly file and was read a second time. This afternoon it was taken up out of order for third read- ing and it passed without opposition. The bill makes two important changes in the annuity law now in force in this State. By some oversight high school teachers teaching outside of San Fran- cisco were not included among those en: titled to the benefits of the law, and one of the purposes of the bill just finally passed is to include every teacher 1n the State who wish to become a member of the a sociatjon. A second change was one equal- | izing the amount of the annuity. In San | Francisco teachers on the retired list| have heretofore been allowed $50 a month | and those outside of S8an Francisco $30 a month. The new bill reduces the $50 in | San Francisco to $30, making the amount | fhe same all over the State. This was | done from motives of justice and econ: | omy. T)he terms of the annuity law provide that $1 a month shall be deducted from the salary of every teacher who wishes to take advantage of the law and the fund so formed is used for the payment | of the annuities. | This bill, and other: elating to the| school departments, ha been under the | care of Colonel Murphy and E. 8. Kings- bury, teachers in the San Francisco | schools, and the two men selected by the | teachers of San Francisco to see that in | the mass of educational legislation which | has gone through and is pending there | was nothing that would work an injury to the schools of the State. With the passage of the annuity bill thelr labors . are nearly over, but for five weeks both gentlemen have been almost constantly on the ground, and as a result there has so far been no ‘‘bugs” passed in the edu- cational bills. Time Given for Argument. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 15.—Before vetoing the Veterans' Home bill, which provided for the payment of the Government allow- ance directly to the treasurer of the home, Governor Gage gave the subject thorough investigation. He found that the Federal statute required the money to be paid to the State. The Governor has determined that a full hearing shall be offered in reference to the Santa Fe bill. As the Merchants’ and Traffic associations presented objec- {ions to the measure it was decided that their representatives should have oppor- tunity Friday at 9:30 a. m. to submit ar- gument. As a measure of fair play it was also decided that the friends of the bill ghould then be heard. —_———— Newspaper Claims in Assembly. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 15.—Thirty-eight of those abbreviated newspaper claims for pub- lishing constitutional amendments were It was the heaviest day’s work yet ac- complished, and if it keeps up there will be some chance that some of the impor- tant measures on the files will be dispos- ed of before adjournment sine die is taken. Newspaper claims, however, did not take up all of the day. Senate bill No. 86, appropriating $20,000 for the erec- tion of a new building at the Ukiah asy- lum, was passed, and so was Senator Dickinson’'s measure relative to the in- spection of dalries and dairy products and the prevention of sale of milk drawn from infected animals. BIG EXPOSITION TO BE FAVORED CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 15.—A delegation of the supporters of the big exposition to be held in San Francisco in 1901 came up from the city this evening. The bills are those making an appropriation of $500,000 of State money and allowing the various counties to set aside money for exhibits. The two bills passed by the "Assembly | have been ordered on the Senate file; and they will be brought up to-morrow if pos- sible, When the bills first came up _in the Senate there was some opposition, but since_then the promoters o tion have secured promises enough from the Senators to warrant a prediction of | complete success. Those who came up to-night were: Charles L. Patton, Supervisor John Lack- mann, ex-Supervisor Thomas Morton, Jo- seph A. Stulz, president of the Grocers’ Association; T, Tracey, Henry J. Crocker, J. A. Filcher, Charles A. Luhrs, John M. Curtis, H. Weinstock, C. M. Levy and Cal Giesting. To-morrow morning another delegation will be up, which will include Mayor Phelan, J. B. Reinstein, R. P. Doolan, General R. H. Warfield, P: H. McCarthy, Hugh Cralg, 8. H. Friedland- er, J. C. Kirkpatrick, Congressman Ju- lius Kahn and others. ELXKES WANTS REVENGE. BOSTON, March 15.—Harry Elkes, the middle-distance rider, has issued a. chal- lenge to Floyd McFarland of San Jose, Cal., to a series of paced races, each for $1000 a side, one or all of these races to be with unlimited pace, on any date after June 1, 1899. If McFarland offers the ex- cuse that he cannot obtain pace Elkes will make a serles of unpaced races. ALL AMERICANS BARRED. VANCOUVER, B. C., March 15.—There promises to be some lively times on the Upper Yukon River this year when navi- gation is resumed. Many of the boats have been manned by Americans, but in the future they will have to have British skippers and British engineers, so says Inspector Russell. He intends®o see that g::i la;v is carried out or the boats will be SRR Revolt on the Celebes Coast. LONDON, March 16.—The Brussels cor- respondent of the Daily Mail says: A dispatch from Batavia, Netherlands In- dies, reports that a revolt has broken out at Zoomalala, on the Celebes coast, and that the Dutch Administrator there has passed in the Assembly this afternoon. been murdered, the exposi- | Two depositors are creditors to the | extent of more than half of the deposits and they are not inclined to press their | demands. The bank has a capital stock | | of $25,000, divided into 250 parts of $100 | each. The stock is held as follows: | : SHARES. | A. P. Seeman.. 387, H. GIass........... 10 | A7 F. Horstman..... 60 Hattie M. Horstman 10 | John Quarnstrom.... 43/ Paulina Wessel...... 25 | H. Wessel. 4|Ella_Wessel... | 3. N. Jacobson....... 80/C, " W. Horstman. A. P. Seeman, the cashier of the bank, was appointed the agent of the Bank | Commission to take charge of its affairs mporarily. The affairs of the Citizens’ Bank of | this city were found in such a favorable | condition that it will be allowed to re- sume business urder certain conditions. | Two propositions to this effect .are un- | der consideration by the directors. It| | will either reduce .its capital to $30,000 | |and secure additional cash to tide it | over the present season or its impaired capital will be made good. Its condi- tion, as ascertained by Commissioner Barrett to-day, is as follows: ASSETS, Real estate.. 88 Stocks and warrants. % ! Bills_receivabl 6 | | Overarats 17 | Cash 92| Due fro 1,150 45 | Furniture . 1,000 00 Total .... $120,518 36 | LIABILITIES. | capital Tts capital stock is $61,800, divided into | 618 shares of $100 each, and is held as follows: SHARES, Commercial Bank of |C. A. Telleen. San Luis Obispo. L. Bromer. H. Brunne: W. C. Bennstt. Martha B, Car Joseph Edgas Willlam Ern 5 Belle Breck. 10 Mrs. J. B. Mo 5. 1 50. M, 14|George M. Mean {Stdney H. Smith. 5| Mattle (trust) 4) Mrs. C. P. Fowler... 5 William MacDonald. 10 John Baur. 10/ A. P. Fist 10 M. Seeman. 10 Germania Trust Co. 5 A. F. Horstman. C. D. P. Jones. D. 5 10| Robert B. Moran. 15| Nathan M. Moran. 4| Nellle J. Smith... wrnuBBanfioun o 5 Annle E. Tate. Of the amount due banks all but about $8000 is owing to San Francisco | institutions. The book assets of the institution were cut or ‘“written off" by Commissioner Barrett to the amount of $31,800. R. W. Martinoff, an attache of the bank, was placed in charge as the representative of the commission. President H. Eppinger and Cashier F. D. Frost of the Bank of Paso Robles are now in San Francisco, where they| hope to secure sufficient financial as- | | sistance to tide over their present diffi- | culties. A. Jackson, the assistant cash- jer, said to-day he was confident the | bank would reopen its doors on Mon- | day and be prepared to pay every de- positor in full and to meet every other | demand against it. Commissioner Bar- rett ig inclined to look upon the bank suspensions in this county as a species of “financial tempest in a teapot,” | caused primarily by unusual, unex- | pected and uncontrollable natural causes, and secondly to the existence of | too many small banks. He added: “The practice of commercial banks paying five and six per cent interest on certificates of deposit is unsafe and cannot under the condition of affairs exist without jeopardizing the inter- ests of the banks. This is one of the evils that the commission is constantly coming in contact with, and it has met with the most decided disapproval as being unsafe. The advice is given in all cases that this practice be discon- tinued as soon as possible.” BACK. AGAIN COMES “COLONEL” FINIGAN The Assignee of His Creditors Makes Complaint of a Berkeley Transfer. SAN RAFAEL, March 15.—Attorney M. F. Cochrane has filed a suit in the Su- perior Court of Marin County that will again bring the “Hotel Rafael pauper,” Peter A. Finigan, prominently before the public. This time the son and daugh- ters and the divorced wife all figure in the same case. Cochrane, as assignee of the estate of Peter A. Finigan, desires to have a trans- fer of property, valued at $100,000, made to the daughters a few weeks before in- solvency proceedings were begun, set aside. On March 1, 1899, the Superior Court gave judgment to Mrs. Finigan for alimony and counsel fees, amounting to several thousand dollars. She got an exe- cution and sold his interest in property at Berkeley. The complaint alleges that fraud entered into the proceeding and that it was done to take advantage of the creditors. Attorney Cochrane says that in a few days a separace complaint will be flled against Mrs. Fimgan herself. MANILA, March 15.—Adjutant General, | Three thousand insurgents moved down last night in_ the towns of Pasig and Pateros, on the shoreof Laguna de Bal, fronting Wheaton's troops oa the Pasig River line. By heavy fighting Wheaton has dislodged and driven them back, taking 400 prisoners and inflicting | a heavy loss in killed and wounded. He | reports his loss as very moderate. He now occupies thése towns with sufficient | force to hold them. OTIS CASUALTIES AMONG | THE AMERICAN TROOPS | | WASHINGTON, March 15.—Genera!§’ Otis has cabled the following list of | casualties suffered by the United States | tfoops: | MANILA, March 15.—Adjutant-General, | ashingto: Casualties, March 13, near | Calcoocan—Killed: Twentieth _Kansas, | Company L, Private James W. Kline. | Near Guadalupe—Killed: Twenty-sec- | ond Infantry, .Company B, Privates George Stewart; Company K, Winn P, Munson; Company D, Wesley G. Hen- nessy. Wounded — Twenty-second _Infantry, Company M, Privates Willlam Renns. hart, leg, moderate; D, Willett Herman, | scalp, slight; Willlam 'S. O'Brien, head, | ‘Washington: 1M, | chest, severe; Company F, W. Company M, Theodore A. Misner, finger, severe; Dan Carroll, forearm, slight; Company E, John Hoffman, thigh, se- vere; Company 1, John Blasek, chest,.se- vere: David Mulholland, arm, moderate. Twentieth Infantry, Company K, Cor- goral Chris H. Thompson, side, severe; ‘ompany B, Private Charles Simon, back, moderate; Company K, Thomas Miller, hand, severe; Company D, Frank Nash, knee, severe; Company M, Richard F. Piper, thigh, slight; Company G, Lester M. Folger, neck, slight; Company H, Charles Sharkey, thigh, slight; Charles Davis, neck, severe. Second Oregon, Company B, Private Walter Irwen, foot, moderate, accidental injury. Twenty- second Infantry, Company B, Corporal Charles J. Ulsey, contusion side. Twen- tleth Infantry, Company E, Private Wil- liam Sampson, sprained ankle; Company ‘Adolph_G. Woepper, sprained ankle; Compeny B, Peter J. Thelan, hand, mod- erate; Company F, Cornoral John BE. Hoffman, sprained ankle. i March 14, near Guadalupe—Killed: First Washington, Company E, Private Ralph Van Buskirk. Wounded: 'Second Oregon, Company, D, Privates Alford O. Carden, 0. B. Dod- son, ankle, slight; Company B, Charles J. Olson, foot, severe. OTIS. NO MOVE FOR DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS BY SPAIN LONDON, March 15.—A special dis- patch from Madrid says Premier Sil- vela, in an interview just published there, spoke in favor of the interven- tion of France for the purpose of ob- taining permission from the United States for Spain to resume direct nego- tiations for the release of the Spanish prisoners held by the Philippine rebels. WASHINGTON, March 15.—At the French Embassy it was said that no move has been mdde to induce the United States to permit direct negoti- ations by Spain with the Philippine rebels for the release of the Spanish prisoners. It is pointed out that the term “intervention of France” is er- roneous, as there could be no interven- tion under any circumstances. All the Embassy will do is to act as the chan- nel for communicating Spain’s request that she be allowed to treat with the rebels. B CASTELLANOS INSULTS SPANISH OFFICERS MADRID, March 15.—An extraordi- nary speech made by General Castel- lanos, the Spanish Governor General of Cuba, who was recently appointed Cap- tain General of Madrid, to the soldlers during an inspection which he made of the barracks yesterday, has caused in- tense anger in military circles. The Captain General said: ‘“‘There is only one thing good in the army, and it is the soldier himself. As to the officers, if they are derelict in their duty, I am accustomed to send them to the galleys.” . The officers have demanded that the Minister of War take action in the mat- CONSIDER BIDS -FOR THE FIGRT Brady and Julian Meet in New York. SUING TO OUST PRESIDENT REA Union Bank Depositors Bring Action. i THREE DIRECTORS OPPOSED THE SAN FRANCISCO OFFER —— COURT ASEED TO ANNUL TEEELABGEST PURSE GUARANTEED APPOINTMENTS. THE PUGILISTS. Complaint Sets Forth That the New Disagreement Over Picture Privileges Officials Are Indebted | Causes a Postponement to the Defunct of the Final De- Concern. cision. | | Special Dispatch to The Call. Spectal Dispatch to The Call SAN JOSE, March 15.—A petition was | NEW YORK, March 15.—Willlam A. filed in Judge Lorigan’s .,.rt this|Brady, representing Jim Jefiries, and afternoon to oust James W. Rea, Dr.| Martin Jullan, manager of Bob Fitz- William Simpson and George T. Dun- | simmons, met to-day to consider the lap from the directorate of the Union | bids made for the proposed fight be- Savings Bank. The action is taken in | tween these pugilists. As soon as the name of Alexander Filipello, D. C. | Brady and Julian read the $30,000 bid Tabaceo, J. S. Wallace, G. V. Gabliardo, | of a San Francisco syndicate, through S..S. Parker and F. Garboil, depositors, | H. P. Taylor, it was taken up. Juli_an and Francis Pope, a stockholder. |said-that if any person connected with Archer & Pope are thé attorneys. | the National Sporting Club of San It is set forth that James W. Rea |Francisco were connected with the new is indebted to the bank in tt: sum of | syndicate he would not accept any pro- $5000 on two promissory notes, Dunlop | posal from that body. In fact, he said, | $900 on two notes and Simpson has two | he would rather have the bout take notes aggregating $2250 against him. | place in the East, as their experience | The law provides directors shall not |in California in the fighting line was | borrow from the funds of a savings |not agreeable either to himself or Fitz- | bank and it is claimed persons in- |Simmons. ; debted to such bank cannot legally be | Brady then asked Mr. Taylor what elected directors. TF- petitioners ask | he was prepared to (:oncede for picture that the appointment of Directors Rea, lprm‘leges and the Western representa- Simpson and Dunlop be declared null | tive replied that the purse was }arge and void and that three competent per- | enough to cover all that. Brady ob- sons be appointed as directors in their | jected and so did Julian. Both claimed | stead. Judge Lorigan set the hearing | that the picture privilege would prove | of the petition for March 24. | to be a large factor in the matter and The depositors now begin to realize | that no club offer will be considered there will be much delay in settling | until the participants in the bout should the bank’s affairs. - The action taken |receive a percentage of the profits aris- by C. P. Breslan in the United States |ing from the reproduction of pictures | Court to enjoin the directors appointed | of the fight. Brady said: | by Judge Lorigan means lots of time| “T'll give a sum equal to 75 per cent | consumed. Breslan said to-day if the | of the net receipts of the fight for the | court granted his writ he would call |privilege of taking and producing these | a meeting of stockholders at once and | pictures.” : Mr. Taylor then asked for time to | elect a new board of directors. I communicate with the San Francisco “I only wish to see a reputable board | of directors appointed that will have | people whom he represents so that he could find out what terms he could the confidence of the people. If I had the naming of a board it would be | offer. Amasa Eaton (president), Cyrus Jones W. B. Gray, representing the West- (vice president), J. J. Miller, J. Leiter, | chester Club, offered a purse of $21,000, G. W. Fowler, F. A. Hunter and W. H. | but would not concede any privileges to ‘Wright.” | the fighters, claiming that the purse He denied that he represented the s in itself sufficient. His offer was Union Trust Company. The decision |tabled quickly. of the United States Court in the Bres- | Then came the Coney Island Club’s lan case will be watched with interest. | representative, John P. Dunn. He said Breslan was elected director after the |‘the club was willing to put up a purse bank failure. He refused to resign |of $20,000 and also, so far as he kmew, when the rest of the board resigned.|to divide the proceeds of the picture The fact that he still remained a direc- | privileges equally between the two con- tor was ignored by Judge Lorigan and | testants and the club. He also re- a full board appointed. quested twenty-four hours to enable him to communicate with the manage- ment of his club. It was finally agreed to give all parties twenty-four hours Convenm of Suixdh?Schools. EUREKA, March 15.—The convention of Sunday-Schools and Young People’s So- cieties of Humboldt County commenced the first of its three days’ session in this city to-day with Rev. John A. B. Wilson of San Francisco as conductor. Dele- gates from all over the county are in at- fendance. A number of interesting papers were read at to-day’s session. to make final offers. There will be another meeting at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternocn, when it is thought a final settlement will be ar- ranged. Advances made on furniture and planos, with or without removal. J. Noonan, 1017-1028 Mission. | Picked Up by the Steam- ter. TRADE COMBINE OF CYCLE MAKERS Fifty Millions severe; Joseph Mubahille, scalp, slight; WRECKED DIRIGO A SALVAGE PRILE Capital ship Tees. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. VICTORIA, March 15.—The steamer Dirigo, which ran upon the rocks on Midway Island.last Thursday, has af- ter all escaped becoming a wreck. The steamer Tees, of this port, which ar- rived at 9:30 this evening, picked her up on Saturday afternoon last, an hour after she was floated, and, putting hawsers aboard, claimed her as a sal- vage prize. The officers on board en- deavored to make an'arrangement to get the Tees to tow her to Juneau, but the Victoria steamer was, of course, unable to make such an arrangement, according to law. She is not permitted to tow in American waters, being a British bottom. The position of the Dirigo, when picked up by the Teees, was an ex- tremely dangerous one, and had the slightest squall or disturbance of the then placid sea arose she would with- out doubt again have been wrecked on the reef from which she had just escaped. A blinding snowstorm prevailed from long before the wreck occurred until within an hour before she was floated. and in’the storm two American steam- ers passed the wreck without seeing her or the signals of distress she was displaying. The Tees came along during a break in the storm, and had hardly got her lines aboard and begun to tow, when the snow began to fall thickly again, rendering the navigation of the reef- studded waters of that vicinity most dangerous, especially for an iron ves- sel like the .Tees, hampered as she was by her’consort. The Dirigo, when taken by the Tees, was lying about a ship's length from the reef, where she was wrecked, and was anchored with her hawsers run- ning across it. She was helpless, as her engines were lifted out of place dur- ing the accident and were. utterly use- less. Had she lifted her anchor, ac- cording to the officers of the Tees, she would have become a wreck again in an instant by drifting on other reefs near by. Her hull was torn badly by her contact with the reef, but by dint of hard work her officers and crew managed to patch the hull with canvass and boarding so that she could make the voyage to Juneau, thirty-six miles away, in safety. She is now.lying at the Alaskan port and when patched sufficiently will be towed down. Orders were received by the Tees and tele- graphed this evening to Seattle, asking that a tug be sent up for her. This lit- tle service by the Tees will no doubt result in a handsome reward in the way of salvage, as the Dirige and her cargo are valuable. Officials of the Canadian Pacific Nav- igation Company will go to Seattle to- morrow to institute salvage proceed- ings against the Dirigo. Pllot Nichols, who was on the bridge at the time o1 the wreck, is, like Cap- tain Roberts, a sick man. When the Tees reached the wreck he was con- fined to his bed with a severe attack of pneumonia. It is believed here among insurance men that the. Dirigo wreck will have the effect of sending up insurance rates on vessels plying to Alaska. Involved. Special Dispatch to The Call’ NEW YORK, March 15.—The Herald to-morrow will say: Makers of bicycles have arranged the details of the for- mation of a trade combine that will involve capital to the amount of $50,- 000,000. It is understood that ten of the leading makers of wheels have entered the combine and that several others will probably be persuaded to add their signatures to the agreement. A. G. Spalding is credited with being the moving spirit in the vroposed com- bine. With him are associated A. A. Pope and R. Philip Gormully of the Gormully & Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Chicago. Attempts to form a bicycle combine have Been made in the past, but all have been futile, pri- marily because the small manufactur- ers could not be eliminated. ‘With the coming of the chainless bi- cycle, however, the situation was al- tered. While the transmission of power by means of shaft and gearing is not a novelty, the adoption of it to the use of the bicycle, involving the construc- tion of complicated machinery neces- sary to turn out the gears, is said to have cost one company five years of labor and an expenditure of more than $300,000. A company was formed in New Jersey and Lyons to manufacture bevel gear bicycles, but under its pat- ents privileges were granted to some of the largest concerns in the trade. It is upon the foundation afforded by these licensed concerns that the new organi- zation is to be founded. AN the com- panies licensed have agreed not to cut prices under penalty of forfeiture of license and the payment of a cash pen- alty said to be $5,000,000. ‘When this had been arranged A. G. Spalding set sail for Europe. At the time it was said he went for his health. 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