The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1899, ~-no--...MARCH 29, 189 | RECKELS, Propnetor. | sissmddimesiai ooy W.S. LEAKE, Manager. et and Third Sts., S. F. PUBLICATION OFFICE Telest EDITORIAL ROOMS rwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.. ....908 Broadway | NEW YORK OFFICE- Room 188, Worid Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE . Wellington Hotsl C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE Marquette Building | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street. corner Clay, | unt! cp il 930 o'clock. 38T Hayes street. open untit 9 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open unti 930 c'clock 5 Lorkin street, open unti! $:30 cclock. 541 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market et. corner Sixteenth. open until 9 o'clock. 2518 iss, street. open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, ntil 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 930 c'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentuciy streets. open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. pen Opera Compary,-Sat e every aftermoon one as the incarnation of bal- | other as the “pet i tainly incom- | gal elec- | but in and obtain a place upon al t Rump con- om self- * will not be ndent move- for them. If ce, can prove e on ballot under but thatis 2 for the nomi onventions, and having ’ and.nominat- ra- | provides that roduced legal | cial ballot in 2| be permitted to | conventions ac- | 1d not according to pany: 1f the Rickard law is Stratton primary law is n of the Rickard law, and aminer say the | es at intelligence and p a pre-| it draws the sandlot bow very he bosses pulated | s from “to permit t nate in their nd to keep the independent vote; | e disgraceful sale of places,” what | atton primary law, which | e a chance to beat the b sses in lhe; | all this is the veriest rot. | tem has not reformed and | nment. Some of the worst | o ever disgraced the people have been | elected under it, notably the late Board of Edacation, | and villainy was easily entitled to | 1ip of the world. Governor Gage in ickard bill has not struck a blow at any- | erical editor of the Examiner. He | siriply supplemented the Stratton primary law, | which that editor urged him to sign and which was ed by him as the greatest reform statute of the | : give it effect. ballot systems do not make govern- | ments. y system good enough for a virtuous | and upright people who 3ttend to their civic duties. | The Rickard bill will not prevent any intelligent citi- zen expressing his preferences at the ballot-box. Tt | may confuse a few ignoramuses, but that will do nn:»1 harm. . It is chiefly through the suffrages of the ig-| noramuses that the rascals now get into office. * } There seems a general tendency to poke fun at| Brigadier General Otis. Better wait until the war is | The general is now in such a position that the | necessity for printing his obituary may arise any day, | and it would not go well in a paper which had just teen expending its wits in formulating a ribald josh. Rich philanthropists in the East are putting up | del tenements for the poor, not only benefiting the ut showing that the world is less bad than sometimes painted. ove Army officers seem to have recovered from the no- tion that the regulars are more effective than the volunteers. Any soldier in either branch would rather fight than eat. Anybody who wants the big nations to fight must put up a more valuable prize than Samoa. No event will be pulled off in the absence both of a purse and gate money. A$ we understand it, the duty of the police is not always to convict an accused person, this being what théy are called upon to do only when the person is guilty. There is a certainty that American troops are fighting bravely. The only question is as to whether that for which they zre fighting is worth the treuble. :: tending to all civ organization | , | minal of the Union. | route will be 980 miles, of which 930 miles will be ! RUSSIANIZATION OF FINLAND. THE proposed Russianization of Finland is one of those exercises of despotic power that will excite the indignation of the civilized world andf go far to disprove the sincerity of the Czar in his sug- | gestion of disarmament, which is to be the subject of | ational conference at the Hague. On Mon- ewspaper called The Skandinaven, and in a brief ed in The Call. | ation P! re has been no greater outrage recorded in h ition of Poland in 1772 between a and Prussia. This dismemberment of cient kingdom, which it was compelied sanction in 1778, was followed in 1703 by an addi- | ! itorial grab by Russia and by Prussia. In| y of Vienna, the entire robbery was the rebellion under| ciusko had been suppressed and that hero and | t captured by the Russians and subjected to such pat barl ating treatment that the public opinion of s aroused and ex- es of Thomas Hope for a season bade the world farewell And Freedom shrieked when Kosciusko f In principle the partition of Poland was not a whit more shameful than the Fin present Russianization of land, at the very mome: ng the gospel o two millions of the Finn: COVH nt when the Czar is preach- peace. There are about ng territory that They are an ancient, an ent people, with a large | agricultural resources, and with a rich and ! factures, ive literature. Between 1772 and 1789, almost 1 e establishment of the A with tf present constitution was formed | the right of self-taxa- The Czar oi of proct: T and of appoi 'y he natives of the country, and including an Imper te of eighteen members who constitute the local government and by whom j administered. In 180g, when Swedish Finland was annexed to Rus- sia, the Czar, Alexander I, pledged himself to maintain “the religion, la: of each rank” within th “unchanged in their renewed by each of hi Czar November 6, 188 This guarantee to t! g official people, morally ex- , the Czar has now, by an imperial ukase, the exact terms of which are not bejore us, announced his determination causel, and treacherously to vi Finland is to be corporated as an integr: the Russian em- pire, and the term of ice extended from hree to five years, under a highly centralized army quote language of the London have d and alarmed all the in To inten: this ar- berty and of independence in 1g delegation of Finns were efused an audience by the Czar, and it is author- announced that ter petition against the act of forcible dismemberment will not even be en-| tertained. Here is an object lesson in benefit of the American people. some at least of the most important elements of self- government, and for many generations trained in and | habituated to the exercise of individual rights, which ng and vigorous agents in mod- ern progress, is suddenly and shamelessly reduced to | a condition more intolerable to them than seri- dom was to the Muscovites or slavery to the Africans. | Such an indication of retrogression, in the face of a high-sounding manifesto agai war, is an appalling proof of the inherent viciousness of autocratic govern- ment toward which some of our citizens are tending. While an Emperor tortures the Finns and the United States purchases from Spain the right forcibly to ac- quire and to hold the Philippines, reflective and free citizens will be apt to cherish with increased patriot- m and with a deeper love of humanity the integrity of American institutions and to regard the interests of peace as more safely resting in the enlarging scope of international arbitration than in sentimental and diplomatic announcements of suspicious origin and contradicted by acts which speak far louder than words. . of 1 y extinction of entire nation a pro a mo iperialism for the race possessed of CANAL VERSUS RAILROAD. HETHER Chicago in the near future is to be merely a way station between New York and San Francisco or the greatest metropolis in the | world with the two ocean cities serving as simple ports of entry subordinate to her commerce is a problem whose solution is seemingly to be deter- mined by forces now in operation and beyond the control of either of the three cities whose fortunes are subject to them. The first of these forces is the combination of rail- ways into great transcontinental systems. Only a short time ago Chicago was the great railway ter- The big lines from the East and the West met there. The Atlantic seaboard roads stopped at her depots, and the Pacific Coast roads started from them. The city was the dividing point of transportation, and vast and far-reaching were the commercial benefits she derived from the position. The recent combinations of railroads have now es- | tablished a series of transcontinental lines from ocean | to ocean. Passengers and freight are to be carried | from New York to San Francisco without change of cars, or without passing from the control of one railroad management to another. Chicago has been sidetracked, as it were. She is to-day virtually a way | station, and unless something intervenes will in a few | vears lose her present prestige in the commercial | world. It appears, however, that something is going to in- tervene, and something of such commercial potency | that it will more than counterbalance the shiting of | railway transportation. When the Canadians have n completed the Georgian Bay canal Chicago will have | a waterway to the ocean so direct and of such dimen- | sions that European trade will come to her wharfs | and New York will be sidetracked. The distance from Chicago to Montreal by this | open lake, sheltered lake and improved river, and | thirty miles of canal fourteen feet deep. The qistance“ from Chicago to New York by the Erie canal and Hudson River is 1415 miles, of which 10635 miles is lake and river and 330 miles of canal seven feet deep, | through which boats carrying 8000 bushels of graini are moved by horsepower. When the Georgian Bayf canal is completed wheat will be carried from ports on | the three upper lakes in‘steel steam vessels in four days I to the ship's side in Montreal for 2 cents per bushel, | and return cargoes of imported merchandise will be | carried, in bond, from Montreal to our ports upon the lakes for 75 cents per ton, or less. The distance | in the commerce of the country. | rulers, have a general clearing cut of salaried black. | guards and finally become decent, law-abidi: from Montreal to Liverpool is 300 miles less than that irom New York to Liverpool. The Georgian Bay canal is to be completed within five vears, and after thit Chicago expects the Erie canal, more famed in politics and scandals than in song orstory, to be useful mainlyas an irrigation ditch | or something of that kind. The great mass of our European imports will come to Chicago and be dis- tributed East, West and South from that point. | The railroads will have to conform to the ocean traffic, and the city by the lake will resume her proud position She is threatened to-day with the fate of 2 way station, but her hopes are great in the work of the Canucks. a4 wWdlL FROM THE SOUTH. HEN the next Congress assembles the South- V\/ern States will find themselves there in political hostility to all the rest of the Union, notwithstanding the vigor of the renewed ira- ternal relations which have been warmed into such a cordial glow by the events of the war. In the Senate the Southern delegation will be sol- idly Democratic, but all the Northern and Western States except Utah will be represented by Repub- licans. In the House there will be but fifty-five Rep- resentatives from the North and the West to go into caucus with the 108 Democrats of the South and give them the semblance of representing a national party. Such being the situation, the South finds herseli sidetracked and isolated. Her delegation in each branch of Congress will be in opposition to an over- whelming majority representing the other Thus in this era of good feeling the political divisions | represented | 1 States. | in Congress will be more sectional than ever before | in our history, not even excepting the stormy years that preceded the outbreak of the Civil War. The intelligence of the South recognizes the false position in which she is placed and bitterly denounces the iolly of the mad devotees of iree silver who led her into it. Thus the Richmond Times declared a few days ago: “Let us face the facts, let us no longer deceive our- selves. The Democratic party to-day is without char- acter and standing in the nation. fidence, if not the respect, of the great body of intel ligent, thoughtiul men of this country. What does | It has lost the con- | the party stand for? What are its principles? What | man is there in this party to-day who can stand up with eny sort of confidence and declare them?” The situation is the more galling to the South be- | cause her people have prided themselves on their de- votion to political principles and their capacity for the business of politics. Now they find themselves the sole supporters of a party that has neither prin- ciples nor political sagacity. Their representation in Congress will be utterly futile so far as national issues | are concerned—not even as important to the Govern- ment as the tail to a kite. INVESTIGATING SCANDAL IN Th CUSTOM HOUSE Charges of Habitual { Drunkenness. RHODES, SHARKEY AND QUINT ABSENT FROM DUTY THROUGH DISLIPATION. | Special Agents Linck and Smith In-| quiring Into a Strong Alco- 1 holic Odor in Weighers’ | Department. H and Smith are Special Agents Lt making a thorough inv tom-house affairs e to Washington giving their opinion with- out fear or favor. Among the tin | ored laxities which t have u thed is the manner in ch T department of the Custom-house n | conducted. From what they have ascer- tained thus far it appears that that branch of Unecle Sam's workshop is im- pregnated with the strong odor of alcohol and rectifiers’ flavors—in other words, whisky. | Complaint was made to them a short time ago that Arthur P. Rhodes, chief weigher, and " his ant, Thomas J. Sharkey, had been absent from duty on several occasfons w their services were most urgently required, and that nce was due to remorse of con- nce following inordinate indulgence in water-front w ky. The agents took up the matter at o the accused men for sent in answers nicel ing. that they ever ind the bowl that befuddle; with due solemnity and tion that when th P becau: overwork. Shark ver was really pugi in tone, and the don’ of his d ok away t lector Jackson for a few had experienced the felicit Both Rhodes and S y tors’ certificates a: afi 3 2 breath of C conds after h of reading it. roduced dc . which the in their p These certifi- session, readily believed. | cates were backed up by affidavits to the While the bad plight of the South is apparent even | now, it will be much more so when Congress assem- bles and the divisions of parties in both Houses are made conspicuous by the proceedings of the session Then indeed the South will have an object lesson from which to learn the full extent of the folly of ‘g6 and the expediency of turning away from Bryamism and getting into touch again with the rest of the | country politically as she has shown herseli to be in genuine patriotism. MORALS OF CHICAGO. SO.\l ETIMES San Francisco has qualms of con- science and mourns over her wickedness. The spectacle of Boards of Education stealing the city blind, or of Supervisors entering upon their terms poor but honest and emerging rich but rotten, has a tendency to depress. Often the conduct of political campaigns has been marked by crookedness and ras- cals have ridden into power on the shoulders of a lot of bosses who ought to be picking over jute at San Quentin, and yet in every administration there has been an element of good, a degree of attention has been paid to the public weal, and the executive head has usually been clean, even ii the law forced him to be helpless. But San Francisco may compare herself with Chi- cago and swell with pride. Here at least thugs and toughs known as such are not elected to office. There mbst be the seeming of respectability. The dives are not scoured for material and their beetle- browed proprietors hoisted into office. In Chicago no man, so he happen for the nonce not to be in the penitentiary, appears too vile to be made a member of the aldermanic body, and, indeed, the worse he is | the greater seeins his pull. Just now Chicago is engaged in a bitter and dis- graceful war. Not content with calling each other thieves, which they probably are, the opposing forces have taken to shooting. The only death thus far is credited to the guns of Mayor Harrison's "personal following, and a paper owned by Yerkes directly charges that the murder was with the connivance of the Mayor, and that he is using his authority to | l l 1 | sistently that he was obliged to effect that Rhodes and Sharkey never drank anything stronger than wat on duty.” These were strengtl affidavits from laborers and o same department, Sharkey Vou: Rhodes, Rhodes vouching for and Assistant Weighe Quint vouching for b en a similar charge of drunkenness against Q and Rhodes and vouched for the immaculate sobriety of Quint. These mutually friendly afiidavit: corroborated, as it were, by several the laborers in the department, into the matter. They weighers and_the laborers used to knock off work for five or ten minutes at a time to go across the street and indulge in a sociable bowl over a hospitable bar. Thus was the mutuality of the affidav ex- plained, and therefore there is much ap- prehension in the camp of the weighel The_agents learned a day or two ag that Rhodes had been attempting to in- timidate certain persons who were to be called as witnesses against him, and the therefore requested Collactor Jacksol vesterday to suspend Rhodes from duty pending the investigation, and to forbid him to come near the Custom-house until sent for. The Collector made the order of suspension as requested by the agents and 'the investigation will proceed witl out further interrupti indiscretion. is upon the duties of his office he was in debt to small trades- men and others to the extent of $2000, and rather than of that when he enter: that these creditors hounded him o per- t apart %0 per month of his salary out of which 1o pay them pro rata. After this arrange- ment had been carried out to the satisfac- tion of his creditors for about three months his family were prostrated by sickness and he himself was quarantined in his house and finally taken down sick himself. He had contracted docto: bills and bills for other necessary expe and he was unable to continue the pay ments to the prior creditors as promptl as they demanded, and complaint! were lodged again friends say, for spite. PRECEDENT IN GAME LAW. | ‘Bights of Superior Courts to Try shield the assassins. There is no mincing of words in | this accusation, and the Mayor either is guilty or the editorial department of Yerkes has been rash. That such a municipal mess should blacken the repute of a great city is in some measure a reflection | upon the whole country. The people of Chicago ought to reform to the radical extent of refusing to place their affairs in the hands of jailbirds, or per: haps supplying the birds with a suitable cage. They ought to wipe all the expansive area of Chicago with the battered remains of the ruffians who are now their thus in harmony with the environment of ci e e night session of court, but devote the evening to the witnessing of a prize fight, the time to inquire “Whither are we drifting?” has rolled round again. Our fatalities in the Philippines are greater than the islands are worth, but they are so small compared to those of the enemy as to arouse suspicion that the Filipinos are armed mostly with firecrackers. Fayne Moore, a pretty woman, has been discharged by a New York Judge, although she was the pal of a man who received a sentence of nineteen years. other words, Fayne's face is her fortune. Aguinaldo threatens to kill all Filipinos who refuse to fight the Americans. As an instance of being be- tween the devil and the deep sea this has seldom been equalled and never excelled. A Missourian of 103 years is on his way to Califor- nia, probably in quest of a climate under whose salubrious influence he will have fair prospect of reaching old age. ‘There is a suspicion that Governor Gage confounds the administrative and legislative branches of the State government. He occasionally thinks he is both. 5 It cannot be the Philippines will “prove a second Klondike.” Nobody will ever ireeze to death there. In, | says that the perso | demeanor, and is | not less than | | greater than $500, When lawyers refuse to submit to the plan of a | ‘ may be punished by a fine to any amount and. b; Certain Criminal Cases. An important decision relating to the | fish and game laws of the. State was handed down by the Supreme Court yes- terday. Tom Nop, a Chinese fisherman of San Diego, was arrested for violating the laws regarding the catching of fish, being charged under section 353 of the code. The Superior Court of San Diego, | into which the case was first taken, de- cided that it had no jurisdiction over the | matter. In case of a conviction the law utlty of a mis- | punishable by a fine of $100, or by imprisonment in Jail-in the county in which 1l be had, not less than both such fine and im- prisonment. The case was of much importance that the entire court gave it full consid- ration. Justice Garoutte wrote the pre- vailing opinion and upon his recommen- dation the judgment of the lower court was reversed. The main points consid- | ered are seen in the wing extracts from the Justices’ opini | 8 the punishment to be inflicted | . * may not exceed $00 fine, or six months’ imprisonment in the County Jail, | hen the offense is an ordinary misde- | meanor, of which the Superior Court has no jurisdiction. But if the fine may be | 500, or the imprisonment | may be for 2 jonger term than six| months, then the Superior Court has jur- isdiction to try the case.” | The gourt asks, “Is there any law limit- ing the scope and effect of the penalty | provided by section 636?"" The defendant claimed there is and pointed to ction | 19 of the Penal Code. The Supreme Court | does not consider that the point was well | taken, and says: “If ‘section 19 had never been enacted ! there would be no difficuity whatever in | enforcing section 636, and administering gunlshmen(t thereunder greater than $500 ne or a six months’ imprisonment. In the absence of any kind of intimation by | the law-making power that section 19 was | purposed to limit the force and effect of | section 636, we cannot o hold. The judg- | ment is reversed.” | Justice Henshaw wrote a dissenting | opinion, in which Chief Justice Beatty concurred. He said: “The conclusion reached and declared by the prevailing | opinfon is that a person found guflty of | olating section 636 of the Penal Code y an imprisonment for the term ofii his natural life.” { SR UNLUCKY PACIFIC BANK. | It Loses Its Suit With the Sacra- mento Bankers. The defunct Pacific Bank seems to be in hard luck, for aside from its failure | it never has the good fortune to win a lawsuit, no matter whether it sues or is sued. The last case to be lost was that of an appeal from a judgment given against it by the lower court in favor of | the Sacramento Bank. The racific Bank was _indebted to the Sacramento sank in the sum of $20.21270. Of this about 25 per cent, or $3il %, was collec sum | ed at one time and $5100 from the so\vent*gese constitutions are distributed broad- stockholders at another time, leaving a little over $10,000 of the original claim unpaid. | tionality. These collections were upon the | h first five dividends, and when the sixtl was declared the Pacific Bank wanted to give a dividend only T efn was the resuit of the refusal of the directors of the defunct banik 9 make the dividend upon the basis oemled original sum. The lower court T 551 With the question of how to compute 1he amount and fnally decided that it Shotid be on the basis of the preceding ‘?v? e dends. This_decision was upheld yes day by the Supreme Court, whic] fufl(h)er establishes as adprgceden! t(h%té axo: su ing dividends mus 3 b e g o original claim. Under this Sacramento Bank will be %?fi xpected, as L: ot of ite ciaim and will lose ool per cent, muc o ree—— AROUND -THE CORRIDORS | {CAME HOME George E. Goodman and wife of Napa are at the Palace. Edwin Swinford, a Col registered at the Grand. usa attorney, is 7. 0. Carlisle, 2 mining man of Knights | Ferry, is a guest at the Lick. a guest at the Palace. - Morganthaler and wife of Kansas Mo., are guests at the Russ. : grower and shipper, is at the Lick. P. F. Kelley,a merchant of Seattle, is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife. George Gray, a Stockton lumber dealer, upon the amount | 009, 5 i i the | i | oodbury, a milling man from | .. -S Porter, a Kings County frutt | at the Occidental, accompanied by his i < M. Cassin, a prominent citizen | of Santa Cruz, is making the California | his headquarters. A, B. Carloch, a banker of Fort Jones and a prominent man in Siskiyou County, is staying at the Grand. = 2 s )| C. Lawrence, a well-known res-| e e eistered at'the Fal ace with his wife and so 1. T. Hatfield and F. D. Nicol, attorneys respectively of Sacramento and Stockton, | are registered at the Lick. Shaw, a Susanville merchant, and | Witliam M. Storey, a Fresno fruit raiser, are late arrivals at the Russ. Captatn J. W. Kelly of St. Louis, Me., who represents this Government in Alaska, is at the Russ and will leave for sin, China, h 4, and wiil leave on the next| for the Orle Al Misses N | are prominent in Honolulu society, here on a pleasure trip and have regis- tered at the California. Secret Service Agent R. S. Browne, who has been in the southern part of the State in counterfeit has re- at the Occid ng for ed and i of Victori g men, are | making the Grand their headquarters. ~ A. J. McNab of Salmon City, Idaho, has returned from a pleasure trip to Hono- lulu and is at the Occidental with his two daughters. McNab is a partner of United Senator Shoup of Idaho. He will home in & few days. . Rosendale, a Pacific Grove mer- T. W. O'Nelll, ex-Sheriff of Sacra- | mento; John Bruner, a furniture manu- facturer of Speramento; J. M. Striening. a Santa Rosa attorney, and Xavier de Pi- chon, a winemaker of Livermore, are among the arrivals at the Grand. —_—e——— NINTH U. S. INFANTRY SAILS. Three Batteries of Light Artillery Ordered to the Philippines. The Ninth United States Infantry board- ed the transport Zealandia yesterday, and | before sundown was en route for Manila. Some of the men left the Presidia on the steamer McDowell and the remainder marched down Market street to the ferry. | All the troops were equipped in heavy | marching order. i The War Department has ordered three light batteries of artillery to Manila. Those which will respond to the call ar Battery E, First Artillery, ¥ of the Fourth and Fifth Artilleries. - will supply the need of light artil- the land of the Filipinos and will or the command of Major John F. who will concentrate them at Twenty-four selected s will accompany each battery. The question of transportation is now under | consideration. It has beén proposed to accept the services of a sailing vessel, as both men and horses could be tran rted together. The fact that their need much felt in the Philippines may, how- ever, cause the War Department to send them on ’the first returning transport vhich is the Arizona, due here on April four batteries of the Sixth Artillery | which have been ordered to Honolulu will not leave before April 20 at the earliest. | The_Charles N ."laden with freight for Manila, will leave on Thursday after- | n. o aF direction of the War Department a number of changes will be made in the ations of troops. These changes will bring several new companies to Califor- . including four of the Twenty-fourth ted States Infantry. | The last twenty-six men of the New | York regiment, who were stranded here | on account of illness, were mustered out | sterday. An order has been received directing | that enlistment for the Third Artillery, | now in the Philippines, be stopped, and men be enlisted for the two new batteries Major Edward Field, Second Artillery is detailed as an additional member of the | general court martial appointed for the | trial of Lieutenant Neall. | e | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | TWO DAYS—Subscriber, City. The 234 of February, 1951, fell on a Saturday, and the day. SNOW—A. S, Oakland, Cal. The que: tion in regard to the big snowstorm in | Other causes. San Francisco w: of March 22, 189 FACE VALUE ONLY-C. R, City. A 25-cent piece of 1853 with rays around the eagle and a l-cent piece of 1561 do not command a premium. as answered in The Call MARRIAGE LICENSE-S., City. The records of the County Clerk of Alameda County show that on the 1ith of Febru- ary, 1899, a marriage license was_issued to George H. Rice and Fannie M. Ronald, both of San Francisco. REPRESENTATIVE METCALF—A de A., City. Victor H. Metcalf was not elect- | i | ed at the recent election to represent tn. Fouréh Congreéssional Dhistl"}%l of Califor- pia, but to represent the ird Di ict. Hi¥ resiaence 15 Oakland et § ON TRANSPORTS—: City. A person{ desiring employment on one of the trans- | ports that will carry stores to Manila | should apply to the owners or agents of | the vessel, if it is a chartered one, and to army headquarters if it is a vessél be- longing to_ the Government. At these | places the applicant will be set on the right track. £ e | ADDRESSES—B. H. L., City. The ad-| dress of Cecil Rhodes is Kimberly; tha of George W. Cable, Scribner & Sons, New York City: James Whitcomb Riley, | Indianapolis, Ind.; Charles Dudley War- ner, Harper Bros., New York City Thomas A. Edison, Menlo Park, N. J. Samuel F. Smith. author of ‘“America,” | died in Boston November 15, 1885. NATIONAL MUNICIPAL LEAGUE—-J. T., Oakland, Cal. The secretary of the National Municipal League, which has for | its purpose the improvement of municipal | government, is Clinton Rogers Woodrufl, 514 Walnut street, Philadeiphia. Pa. The secretary of the League of American Mu- | nicipalities, having also for its purpose g:enherue&l]\‘?:lstu:f Il)nunl;:lpal government. s B , Dowi N Sork City. N3 ning building, New | NATIONALITY A QUALIFICATION— G. L., City. There are a number of or- ganizations, social and beneficial, the membership of which is restricted to na- | That is a provision of the con- stitution of each organization. and as st, it is impjossible to ‘‘glve the names of all the societies that make nationality a prerequisite for membership.” | the M. MERRY TME N THE HOUSE - OF MORAGHAN James A. Is Rendered Hors de Combat. INTOXICATED OCCASIONED EXCITEMENT IN THE PROBATE COURT. Judge Coffey Threatens an Attorney With Imprisonment and Also Decides Against His Client. Administration proceedings in the es: tate of Julia A. Moraghan as far as the Superior Court is concerned closed yes- terday before Judge Coffey with a verbal pyrotechnic display, vistons of prison for at least one attorney and indignation on the part of the court. From out of the maze of dissension, however, Elsie Mo. raghan, decedent’s daughter, walked vic- toriou: The court had imposed upon her the responsibility of handling the estate until_such time as it _is ready for final distribution. While Eisle was enjoying the fruits of her victory, the sole person who would deprive her of the pleasure, her brother, James A. Moraghan, re- mained in his apartments and nursed nu- merous discolored bumps upon his per- son and planned to even an uneven score. Shortly after the death of Mrs. Morag: han, who left property valued at about $50,000, including the controlling interést in the Moraghan Oyster Company, her daughter, Elsie Moraghan, filed an appli- | cation for letters of administration upon her estate. James A. content to allow his destiny of the estate in which he was interested and he, too, filed a petition for letters of administration. As the breech between brother and siSter grew ' apace Moraghan withdrew Dis applica- youn, tion i’l favor of the Public Administra- tor, but finaily filed another. Yesterday the matter of the various applications came up for hearing. Dur- ing the course of proceedings it was stated that a few nights ago James A. had returned to his home in a state of intoxication. From this statement argu- ment grew in which 1S was ascertained that when young James A. returned to his home in the condition of hilarity he was met by a committee of three and so severely damaged about the eyes that he was not presentable, and in consequence was unable to appear in court, greatly to his disadvantage. From the witnesses examined the story of young Mioraghan's “bat” . graduaily came to light, and it is not without in- terest. It pears that the young man returned to his home and endeavored to make things tropical. He was set on by the committee of three, one of w h was his brother, but the committee ex- perienced great difficulty in handling him. Finally the patrol wagon was rung in for, but when it arrived, bearing two burly policemen to the scene, all was jet. Jamed® A. was seated in a chair, his legs securely tied, while his hands were Kept busy in an effort to cover ail bumps at once. James A. was hors de combat, the committee was proud and jubilant, so the police departed and left ung Moraghan to the Kindly mercy of his conquerors. 2 During the proceedings in court ye: terday a few remarks were occasioned when the treatment of James A. by the committee of three was made public, and finally Judge Coffey made a remark that did not please the young man's counsel, especially S0 as an effort had been made to transfer the case to Judge Troutt's court_on allegations of Judge . Coffes’s prejudice. 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