The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 1, 1899, Page 4

4 : THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1899. APPROPRIATIONS VAINLY GRANTED Efforts of Legislators Undone. BILLS VETOED OR POCKETED MR. GAGE STRIKES OUT MANY CLAIMS. The Governor Saves to the State Over Two and a Half Million Dellars by Withholding His Signature. Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, April 1.—The follow- Ing is a list of bills carrying appropria- tions vetoed or pocketed by Governor Gage: Improvements, purghase of land for Folsom Pris Whittier Schoel, $30,000: , $4000; quarantine officer, Board of Horticulture, ; claim, Board of Horticulture, $195701; expert to Australia, $2500; claim of E. N. Strout, $200; c! f 1. H. Polk, §7709 50; metallic cases, Clerk of the Su- reme Court, $11,000; mileage, attending jormal School convention, 9 80, metal- lic cases, State Libr: chase of lumber and ton School, $2500; Secretary of State, road on west shore of hoe, $18,000; ad room, Normal Bchool, San Jos $40,000; management of Yeteran Voluntecr eman’s Assoclation, | $3000; clairr of A. L. Wood, $300; Commis- sioner of 1r:.gation, $10,00; claim of Tal- bot H. Wallis, 3: claim of €laus | Spreckels, $25,000; indexing opinions of | Attorney = General, $1000; __ deficiency, | transportation of insane, $3239 10; de- ficlency, repairs of Capitol building, $10.000; boring well on Capitol grounds. $7500; ' concrete wall, Stockton Hospi- | tal, $5000; deficiency, stationery, lights | fuel, $1551 95; ' deficiency, station- lights and - fuel, $2500; claim of | of Sacramento for water furnished, | claim of clty. of Sacramento for | urnished, $600; building Folsom | State Board of Charitles, | rn~}'m|rs of Capitol deficfency, purchase of furniture and carpet deficiency, | ionery, ligh $4000; Pacific | Ocean Bxpositio authorizing counties to raise by taxation $10,000 for ex- | hibits at foreign and domestic expositions, | &7 countles, $570,000; besides th, named bill, falled to approve bill authorizing mu: nicipal corporations to raise, for like pur an unlimited amount; clalm of W. | E. Edson, claim | : aim of Thomas claim ‘of “John Mullen, | J. W. Sibole, $75; State | 00; - deficienc = ent expenses, Clerk of the Supreme Court, $200; State Board of Health, ex- perts, to examine purity of food, $20,000; Wagoh road to Yosemite Valley, $50,000; im- provement of San I rbor, $100,000; | improvement of inspection of dair pital, $20,00 of L. D ig: improvement Deaf and Dumb a Asylum, $14,000; claim of W As liam M. Sul- livan, $1000; release of J. N. E. Wilson from' indebtedness to State, $4371; com- pletion of main building, Home for Feeble- minded C 3 ; laundry, | lighting and h , Home Feeble-mind- ed Children, $800; water supply, Home ot | Fecble-minded Children, $3505; relief of J. A. Holt stablish water system, Preston School, $7000; ice plant, Preston School, $1500; fools and- hooks, Preston School, $1000; ase of land, Napa | 1 5 State Hospi PerKins & Co., McGinness, $5000; i sity and Affiliated C. - mission to tes of Goodall, of Addié | Instruction, trial Home of deficiency, Hall tru $. n $81 18: claim of Encinal Publishing C claim Bancroft, Wh y transfer from ger fund, $25.000; e on Hospital, San_Francisco, $310,000: end- | ing seawall, San Francisco ~harbor. be- | sides being a tax of $1.000.000, with inter- est, on_the shipping interests there would | be 'a direct tax upon the people, under | article XVI of the constitution, requiring the publication of such a law in every county, at-a-very low estim e of £30,000; appointing agent to collect war claims due the State to t nt of $3.951,915 42, at 10 per cent, § prevention cruélty to animals, al, $2,676,121 34. A FIRES FEAST, Continued from Firs | | alarm box and rang in an alarm, which | sounded as Clerk Sanders commenced | his inves By the tir rived the whole building was doomed vas the headway of the flames. The fire first swept up the back end of the building and licked its w many departments. Smoke ing densely from every window and soon leaped high above the structure. One alarm after another was rung in. Trafiic on DMission and Market streets was suspended by cars and the | thousands of people hurrying to the scene of the conflagration. were hastily strung, but as the fire in- creased in volume the police wers forced to draw their clubs and drive the curious mob of spectators hack to en- able the firemen to work. In Fremont street for the first half hour disorder reigned supreme. Above the roar of the blaze could be heard the voices of fire- men shouting unintelligible orders. Ladders were hastily rin up the sides of the building and as hurriedly with- | ! drawn, owing to the intense heat and dense smoke. Finally the water tower was backed up in front of the blazing structure and tons of water were poured into the bullding. The fight of the elements had commenced in earnest. At about the same time lines of hose were at- tached to the standpipes on the Sacra. mento building and the fire was thus fought from the rear. A half dozen streams were poured in, but in the face of the vast wall of flame they appeared useless. Wherever a stream struck there would be an almost indistinguish- able hissing noise, a few sparks would fly up and that was all. When the flames were finally under control'the bullding was a complete wreck. To- day, after all is over, there are four charred and blackened walls standing and an immense mass of destroyed stock. During the progress of the fire, Jo- seph Bloss, a member of the firm, re- mained in Mack & Co’s drug- house, which is immedlately opposite. ‘While there he was jolned by Mr. Beott, another member of the firm. The employes reported to him wWhat they knew of the fire's origin. Mr. Sloss was unwilling to make an estimate of the amount of stock carried by the firm or the amount of insurance on it, but it is said that the stock is worth in the peighborhood of $400,000, and that it was insured for nearly two ' hundred { L PP | water, damaging the large amount of | and drenched with water, but as it car- | netting, parts of machinery, ete. | age, who, Fire lines | and fifty thousand dollars. The heavy insurance on the stock was placed by Loaiza & Co. and J. Greenebaum. Near- ly every big insurance concern in this | city carried a portion of the insurance on their books, Including the Western, Fireman's Fund, Phoenix of London, Connecticut and British American. Miller, Slass & Scott occupied the five stories of the large brick building at 18- 22 Fremont street. The firm succeeded Huntington, Hopkins & Co. and was in- corporated with the following officers: Charles E. Miller, president; A. W. Mil- ligan, first vice srusldem; A. L. Scott, second vice president; Joseph Sloss, sec- retary and treasurer. The directors are: C. B. Miller, A. L. Scott (a nephew of Irving M. Scett), A. W. Milligan, Leon Sloss, Joseph Sloss and Willlam Arm- strong. The firm employed 128 people. It did a general wholesale business in | hardware, iron, steel and pipe. The, building it occupied is owned by W. 8. Foy, formerly of Huntington, Hopkins & Co. It has occupled its present quar- ters nearly flve years. It is said the structure was Inade- | quate to hold the firm’s increasing busi- and about two weeks ago the cor- nes: por! n paid $100,000 for a valuable plece of property now occupied by the Mechanics’ Mill at the southwest cor- ner of Mission and Fremont streets, and the firm intended erecting a large build- ing there in the near future. A. D. Coddington, the shipping clerk, was in the immediate vicinity when the fire was discovered. He rushed to the store and arrived there the moment the Underwriters’ Patrol men entered the burning bullding. He told the fire- men where to lay their covers, and did other things with a view to saving his | employers’ property. Later he reported what he had done to Joseph Sloss. The latter anxiously asked him whether he had locked the safe door, and he re- plied that in his exictement he did not notice whether the door was: secured. Mr. Sloss visibly showed that he was worried, as he knew if the contents of the safe was destroyed the loss of his firm would be greater than ever, as the books, insurance policies and other valuables reposed in it. Coddington pluckily volunteered to enter the flam- ing building to see if the safe was locked, and attempted to do so, but was drenched for his pains. A few minutes later he again essayed to reach the office where the safe was, but accord- ing to his statement Fire Marshal Towe, who accompanied him, was afflicted with “cold feet,” and demurred | to going any further. Greatly to Mr. Sloss’ relief he later learned that the safe door was secured. At the time of the fire Mr. Miller was in Belvedere and although notified of his loss was unable to reach the scene. Mr. Scott was more fortunate. He caught the first boat and reached the spot in time to hear the crackle of cart- ridges that were exploding on the sec- ond floor. 5 But for the fact that the building oc- cupied by Miller, Sloss & Scott was con- structed of brick and steel, ‘the build- ings adjoining it would have been de- stroved. Its heavy fire walls prevented a spread of the flames and the only damage done the manufactories close by was through smoke and water.- The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber €om- pany’s basement was partly flooded by goods stored there. The Crane Com- pany, which occupied a section of the Fay building, was filled with smoke ries plumbing materials and other inde- structible stock, their damage will not be serious. Chief Sullivan and his men reached the fire soon after the first alarm was sounded. The magnitude of the con- flagration and the dangerous neighbor-, hood decided the Chief to tap two more alarms. The fire was fought from all sides. On Fremont street the water tower and. its powerful battery did splendid service. Tons of water were thrpwn into the building from adjoining roofs and from the back, but the blaze was not subdued until three hours later. The building and its contents were nearly totally destroyed during that short period, the loss being ap- proximated at $500,000, including the loss of $100,000 on the building, covered by insurgnce. Thousands upon thou- sands of wooden handles and boxes of portions of farming implements were on the floor where the fire started. This was made highly inflammable by rea- son of the fact that they had been put through a course of varnishing. The other floors were stocked with the finest cutlery, revolvers, shotguns, hardware of every description, wire Their contents were either destroyed by the flames or irreparably damaged by water. It will be some days before the ex- act extent of the loss can be ascer- tained, but a general idea can be had when it is remembered that the great- est hardware establishment - on the coast has been destroyed, and this is a city of big establishments. A DESERTED CHILD. By cable from London comes the news of a child deserted by its almost royal relatives and in danger of going to the workhouse for the lack of support. The story Is told by Miss M. Canning, super- intendent of the Ings House Hospital in London. Miss Canning says that three years ago the Baroness de Buren, al- leged to be a relative by marriage of the late Empress of Austria, came to the hospital with a girl not over 16 years of the Baroness said, was her sister. She wanted the girl'cared for and |- the young woman became an inmate of the hospital for three months, during which time a baby girl was born to her. | This child was left in charge of Miss Canning, who says she was told to take | it to a foundling asylum, or do whatever she pleased with it. - She kept it, she says, until now she is in_destitute ecir- cumstances and she wishies: the child’s relatives to care for it, or it will have to_become a public charge. The Baronness de Buren was Daisy Newman, at one time well known in this city. Her mother and sisters, who were’ in England .three years ago, .-are | now living here, and on them has fallen the scandal caused by the statements | made by Miss Canning, Mrs, Newman | denfes the story from begmmni} to end. | She says her daughter, the Baroness, did bring a young girl, not her sister, in whom she took an interest, to the | hospital, and that the girl became the ‘ mother of a child. This child, she says, was adopted leg\l_}y and with the consent | of all gnnles cohcerned, by Miss Can- ning. he - said the Baroness was fre- quently applied to for money to assist n the support of the child, but that | lately the Baroness has not responded to these demands, and Mrs. Newman- | thinks the publication of the scandalous | story is the result. | The record of the child's birth tells an- | other tale. It shows that on February | 15, 1886, a baby girl was born in the Ings | House Hospital. Under the space for the name and surname of the father is a | blank; under the space for his rank and profession is a blank. He is a certain | well-known voung man of this city. The address of the mother is given as a num- | ber on Southwick street, Hyde Park, London; she is described as belng of in- dfpendent means—and her name is also given. \ ————— | CHINESE DENS RAIDED. | The police made their first move in the | battle against the Chinese gambling dens | which flourish under the name of ‘“clubs’ last night. At 11:30 o'clock Lieutenant | Esola and Sergeant Christiasen, with four men, started out from the California | street police station to make a general | round-up. They first attacked the ‘‘Chinese Mer- chants’ JExchange”. and the “United Ori- ental Social Club,” on the. corners of Washington street and Waverly place, | The door »f the Merchants' Exchange | ylelded under a few blows, and twenty- | 8Ix Chinese, a complete fan-tan layout and about $4000 in coin were gathered in. | At the social club the door was o strong- | 1y coastructed that the police were unable | break it open, Half of it was zlass, ' guarded with brass bars. The bars were ' | torn away, the giass ‘shattered ana the | | officers climbed in through the upper half ' of the doer. J ~tan layout, a hiorde of hattering Chirese and a Guantity of coin Te also capiured in this p.ace. The men were all taken to the California street police station and bosked. o ‘ 3 RIR P STEAMER CRASHES ON CASQUET ROCKS AND MANY PERISH OUTHAMPTON, March' 31.—The pas- senger steamer Stel- la, plylng between this port and the Channel Islands, crashed wupon the dreaded Casquet Rocks, near the isl- and of Alderney, vesterday afternoon in a dense fog and foundered in ten minutes, her. boilers exploding with a tremendous report as she went down. is sald there was no pahic on board. The coasting steamer Lynx, which brought the news of the disaster here, picked up four boats and forty persons. It is estimated that 120 persons were drowned. o The second officer of the steamer, who was among those rescued, says that a collapsible boat was launched full of people, but he thinks she struck on the rocks, owing to the fog. Another steamer has picked up a boat containing forty-five persons, including twenty women, who escaped from the wrecked steamer. They have been landed here. The Stella had on board 210 passen- gers, who were going to spend Easter in the Channel Islands. The Stella, which belonged to the London and Southwestern Railway Company, left Southamptor at noon yesterday, conveying the . first excur- sion of the season to the Channel Isl- ands. There were about 185 passengers on board and the crew numbered thirty-five men. The weather was foggy, but all went well until the aft- ernoon, when the fog became most dense. At 4 o'clock the Casquet Rocks suddenly loomed through the fog bank, and the steamer almost immediately afterward struck amidships. The cap- tain, seeing that the steamer, was fast sinking, ordered the lifeboats to be launched. His instructions were car- ried out with the utmost celerity, and the women and children were embarked in the boats. Then the captain ordered the men to.look after themselves. A survivor states that he and twenty-five others put off from the Stella in a small boat. The sea was calm, but there was a big swirl around the rocks. When this boat was a short distance away from the wreck the boilers of the Stella burst with a ter- rific explosion, and the vessel disap- peared stern foremost in the sea. The last thing the survivor saw was the figure of the capiain of the Stella standing calmly on the bridge 4nd giv- ing his last instructions, with his vessel, the suction caused by the sinking steamer being very great. Continuing; the survivor referred to sajd: The suction was so tremendous that we thought our boat would be engulfed. saw flve boats and the collapsible boat besides our own leave the wreck: They contained altogether between eighty and one hundred persons. Five of the hoats were soon lost to view, but we took a boat filled with women in tow, and ' the occupants of our boat took the oars in turn and rowed all night long until most of us dropped to sleep, thoroughly ex- hausted. We sighted a sailboat at 6 o’clock: in the morning, but the Great Western Rail- way Company's steamer Lynx, from Weymouth, had meanwhile hove-in sight. She bare down on us and took us all on béard, eventually landing us at Guernsey. The Great Westérn Railway Com- pany’'s steamer Vera, from Southamp- ton, has picked up forty others of the survivors and landed them-at Guern- sey. In spite of this, it | He perished | I money, § The disaster caused intense excite- ment in the island of Guernsey and here. There were harrowing scenes at the offices of the London and ‘South- western Railway at both places. Many families lost one or more relatives. Husbands are inquiring for their wives and wives are asking after their hus- bands; parents are seeking news of lost children and children are making inquiries for missing parents. All the flags are half-masted. Up to noon to-day 102 passengers had been accounted for, including Mr. J. Parton and his wife. Mr. Parton is the manager of the Western London office of the American line. The steamers Honfleur and Vera are cruising in the vicinity of the wreck. Later accounts say that the Stella had 140 passengers on board and that her crew numbered forty-two persons. Another steamer of the same com- pany, which arrived at the island of Jersey at aboyt noon to-day, reports having passed many bodies of victims of the’ disaster about the Casquet rocks. & A survivor of the disaster named Bush says the speed of the Stella in the fog was not diminished, though the fog whistles were sounded. Bush adds that at 8:30 a. m. the engineer showed him in the engine room a dial registering a speed of eighteen and a half knots. He says the vessel struck within twenty- filve minutes afterward. Bush further asserts that two lifeboats were sunk with the steamer which, after resting on the rocks for ten or fifteen minutes, split in two and disappeared. Continuing, Bush said: When the Stella disappeared forty or fifty persons were disc red, clinging to pieces of wreckage or cabin furniture and crying piteously for help. All the passengers and crew had been provided with life belts, and there was little panic as the ship sank. I first slipped into the water and then swam to one of the boats, into which I was helped. We rowed sup- posedly in the direction of Guernsey, but seven hours later found ourselves near the scene of the wreck and saw dozens of persons. clinging to the rocks. The boat in which Bush was a pas- senger was afterward picked up by the Lynx. The passengers all agree that perfect | order and discipline prevailed on board the Stella. The crew promptly took up their stations when the steamer struck, served out the life belts and lowered | the boats. The scene at the moment of the sink- |ing of the vessel was heartrending. | Those who had succeeded in getting into thé boats had a narrow escape from being engulfed on account of the | suction caused by the sinking vessel. | "The voice of Captain Rooks from the | bridge was frequently heard urging the | rowers to pull for their lives. The boats | were adrift fifteen hours, during which | their -occupants were without food or | water, and . as _their clothes Wwere | drenched they suffered greatly. | “ The disaster is generally attributed | to the high speed at which the steamer | was traveling in_the fog. | The steamer Honfleur returned to- night, after having made the circle of the Casquet rocks. She picked up two | boats cgntaining women’s clothing, { velry and an opera glass case. | The last had evidently been used in | bailing. Many pathetic incidents are | reported. In several cases men lifted | their wives and ran into the boats and | then perished in their presence. One | wife svho was thus bereaved lost her | reason. | A large number of the survivors ar- | rived here -without any clothing, clad i only in blankets. It is thought possible that the“Par- [ tons were-tlie only Americans on board, | as the list of the survivors does not contain the names of any other Ameri- cans so far as known. The second mate was the only officer of the Stella who was saved. LONDON, March 31.—The news of the disaster to the Stella spread slowly | | | through London, in the absence of the | usual newspapers, to-day being Good Friday. - As the afternoon advanced | small groups gachered at the Waterloo station, where many painful scenes oc- curred. A large crowd collected to wait | the arrival of the train from South- | ampton this evening, which brought | three of the survivors, David King, a | London merchant, Heilbron and Green- | er, all of whom bore evident traces of | their sufferings. King, who was among | the last to leave the ship, said: | Toward evening we encountered a | mist, which soon developed into a dense fog. There was, however, no apprehen- | sion. Suddenly a.great shock told us | that the Stella had struck the rocks. Screams rent the air, but the coolness of | the officers considerably allayed the ex- | citement. The crew behaved splendidly, | lowering the boats with the greatest | promptitude. Every woman was supplleu( with a life belt. = At first we thought there would be time enough for all tne | boats to clear away, but suddenly the boilers burst with a deafening report, | rending the ship amidships. | King and two firemen, Osborne and | Bailey, were the last to leave the ves-| sel. King had just given up a life belt to | aid a clergyman’s wife and was liter- | ally pulled into a boat by Second Mate | Reynolds, who was instrumental in| saving many lives. | The boat with twenty-two persons | drifted for fifteen hours in the intense | cold and was finally picked up by the Great Western Railway's steamer Vera from Southampton. King believes that five boats were launched. He saw one upturned with children clinging to it. The_Cherbourg correspondent of the Daily Mail says: The eight passengers of the Stella who were landed here were rescued from a boat that originally con- | tained fourteen men. The boat capsized | and six were drowned. The others clung to the keel for five hours and then man- aged to right the boat, which was half full of water. Other accounts say that Captain Rooks supposed the fog was merely in | banks, as is the usual experience, and decided to run through it, but as it be- came continually -denser he lost his bearings. ‘When the Stella- struck there was a terrible sensation, a noise of metal and | woodwork being torn away, the vessel passing over the jagged rocks at full speed and her side being ripped open like matchwood. When she slid over the rocks she turned completely over, carrying a lot of people with her. The eight survivors who were landed at Cherbourg by the tug Marsouin were | picked off floating furniture vans by a | fishing-boat. The ladies on board one | of the lifeboats sang hymns all night | long to keep up the spirits of their | companions. | Two bodies were washed ashore on | the island of Alderney. | One pdssenger says he remarked to the crew on the high rate of speed at| which the Stella was traveling in the | fog, telling them he did not consider it | safe. The Daily Mail will publish to-mor- row dispatches from several passengers urging the paper to demand a thorough | investightion as to whether the steamer | was racing against time. : The testimony of the passengers who | have arrived here confirms the early ac- | counts of the disaster except that some | deny that the boilers exploded. Hopes | are still entertained that others may | have been picked up. There is no indi- | cation that there were any Americans | on board except Mr. and Mrs. Parton. | The steamer Stella, which belonged to | the London and Southwestern Railway | and ran in connection with its land | service, was built at Clyde Bank by | Messrs. J. & G. Thompson in 1890. She | was 253 feet long, 35.1 in width and 14.8 | in draught. Her gross tonnage was | 1059, and her horsepower 495. She was steel built, had two screws, eight com- | partments, water ballast and triple ex- | pansion engines, with schooner rig. | | | ST e JURY BRGER INTIMATED I " LAWLOR' COURT Stormy Ending of a Larceny Case. A. W. Manning, A. Christensen, J. H. Moore, E. Engelberg, E. A. Cutting, Sam- uel Harris, H. Messenberg, T.°C. Van Bibber, H. Kaha, J. L. Markel, Paige and D. B. Francis are the twelve men, “good and true,” who will be called upon in the near future to explain the system of reasoning uged by them© in reaching a verdict late yesterday after- noon while serving as a jury that gave freedom to Frank H. Rood, charged with Jarceny for having swindled Cornelius Cronin of Nevada out of the sum of $180. Rood had been on trial for many days before Judge Lawlor and the jury named on the charge of larceny. It 'was claimed by the prosecution that Cronin, the ccmplaining witness, had de- osited $255 in defendant’s saloon, on Va- encia and Sixteenth streets, but when he called for ‘:t was given but $75 and then st into the street. c.Durlm; the many days of trial the pros- ecution established a strong case against the defendant and his eonviction, it was. thought, was assured. Thursday night, however, James H. Moore, one of the jurors, was heard to snx that his mind was made up; that he did not believe the testimony of certain of the prosecution’s witnesses, and therefore must find the defendant not gullti. This tangled mat- ters, but the court kept silent and await- ed the verdict. Early In the afternoon the jury retired to deliberaie on a ver- dict,” but_the hours passed and no return was made. Finally the bell announced that instructions were wanted, and the jury filed into court. Desired instruc- tions were given and the jury returned to its rooms for further deliberation. Finally a verdict was reached,” and the twelve men, “‘good and true,” again filed into the jury box. In answer to the ques- tion of the clerk the. foreman arose and said that the verdict was ‘“not guilty.” When it was found that Rood was a free man Judge Lowlor opened on the ury. i ¥ ‘l"fn discharging the jury the court feels constrained to say that the yerdict rep- resents a ml!¢ltrlage of justice,” said Judge Lawlor. “Thé& court is' convinced that a serious crime has been committed, and that the perpetrators—or at least one of the perpetrators—has escaped justice. 1 discharge the jury from further attend- ance on fila case, with these remarks.” Here the court addressed himself per- sonally to Moore and grilled him on his conduct and expression of opinion en the case prior to submission. “At the conclusion of the session of court yesterday afternoon, and while .the Judge of this court was standing in the nelgfizborhnad of the jury box,” said the court, “you undertook fo address him and to intimate that it was the duty of the court to send the jury to get certain evidence; and you did that before the case had been submitted to you and be- fore vou were authorized to determinie any fact in the case. 8o as not to involve the fortunes of this defendant in the out- come of this trial the court retra.lnfid frem doing more than to tell you at the time to perform your duty and to decide be case according to the evidence that U J. H.4 had been presented to you, and on that account no further action was taken at that time. Now you created in the mind | of the court when you made that remark ba strong prejudice against your good in- tentions in this case. It felt that you were guilty of a gross impropriety in ad- dressing the court on such a matter at such a time, or, In fact, at all; and the court felt constrained to_ believe that when you were bold ‘enough to speak on such a matter your conduct should be re- garded with suspicion.” When Moore had expended his resources endeavoring to lead the court into the be- lief that his conduct was innocent in in- tent Judge Lawlor ordered that his name be withdrawn from the box and informed the juror that henceforth he would be “‘excused” ‘from further duty on the panel. This did not close the scene, however. District Attorney Murphy was in court, and astounded the gathering by the state- ment that he. was in possession of evi- dence that established his contention be- yond the peradventure of a doubt that the jury had been tampered with and that ex- terior influences were responsible for the verdict of acquittal. “My proofs are not yet ready for pre- sentation to the court,” sald the District Attorney,“but I will continue my investi- galinns and when 1 have matters in con- ition to proceed,-1 shall, and the atten- { tion of the Grand Jury will be called to | the matter and that body will deubtless | act thereon.” 5 Thig closed the arraignment of the jury, but the crowd had become excited and jammed out through the door dis- cussing the situation in a loud and indig- nant manner. Rood was taken away to | rejoice over his escape, no matter how it 'was effected. It i8 now ‘“‘up to” Dis- trict Attorney Murphy, and the inter- ested will anxiously await developments. APRIL FOOL BASEBALL. A Warm Article Scheduled for To- ‘Day at Recreation Park. People who desire a very warm article in baseball should not miss the meeting this afternoon at Recreation Park be- tween the Gilt Edges of Sacramento and the heavy hitters of the San Francisco league team. Early in the season as it ig, the playing and practice already are top notch, the teams in the league going out in a bunch for the far-off champion- ship. Tge experience of last season has shown the managers that the people of this city will patronize good ball and give_the dis- tant go-by to the ragged article. For that reasen the best material has been select- ed for the clubs and the men know that | they must play ball all the time or they | will hear something drop. The game will begin this afternoon at 3 o'clock sharp and will be made further interesting by the reappearance among the Sacramento contingent of Pitcher Hughes, who twirled last year for Bal- timore. He is scheduled for the right gar- den, but it Is likely that he will be put in for a few innings to April fool the ene- my. The San Francisco aggregation is sure the visitors will need him and then not win out.” The line-up of the teams will be as follows: Positions, San Francisco. The same teams will meet to-morrow afternoon at 2:15 o'clock. Spesiamt el L For Lack of Prosscution. The charge of murder against Joseph Muller, the boy who accidentally shot Kittie Wannemacher, was dismissed by Judge Mogan yesterday, as no one ap- peared to prosecute. i S e IO *99 Cleveland Cycles sell for $40 and §0. * GAGE TOSHAKE THE PLUM TREE Whittier Reform School Appointments. | Special Dispatch to The Call. | LOS ANGELES, March 31.—The home- | coming of Governor Gage has increased speculation in regard to appointments that affect the Whittier Reform Schooi. Those who are “on the instde” insist that the new Trustee may. be named before the | Governor returns to Sacramento and that either A. M. Johnson or Colonel Richard Eagan of San Juan Capistrano will be named. The choice for the vacancy creat- | ed by the expiration of President Mitch- ell's term has narrowed down with the Governor to these two men. Johnson, who is one of the partners in the Red Rover mine, has known the Governor for years. | He i$ a heavy stockkholder in the Union | Hardware and Metal Company of Los An- | geles. The place is his if he will accept it. | As soon as the new appointee is named | the hoard will reorganize with Dr. Walter Lindley as president. The superinten- dency of the institution will go to either Major M. T. Owens or Sherman Smith. Should the former notbeappointed hemay succeed Brigadier General Charles F. A Last as commander of the First Brigade, National Guard of California. A strong effort is being made to have Mrs. Mitchell | {’elal‘?ed as a member of the Whittler | oard. 1 Senator Bulla will not be a candidate | for re-election next year. He says he has | all he wants of legislative work. Some of | Bulla’s friends in the Los Angeles legis- | lative delegation are considering the ad-‘ visability of issuing a formal statement | in defense of their course, which shall deal not only with the Senatorial con- test, but the policy adopted upon matters of general legislation. 3 Assemblyman Valentine may be the Re- publican candidate for State year. This county elects but one Senator, | a successor to Bulla. Valentine, on the other hand, may d'cide to make another | try for the Assembly nomination in the hope of landing the Speakership. Should Stephen M. White be a candidate for United States Senator the Democratic candidate for State Senator in this dis- | trict will be General John R. Mathews, | whose term as Postmaster will have ex- | glred by that time. Mathews was State enator six years ago. | An_effort is being made to induce Her- | vey Lindley to return and take charge of the Republican clans in Southern Califor- | nia. In reply to overtures made recently to accept the leadership he said he was engaged in piling up another fortune. Un- til that had become assured he will do no more politics. Daniel M. Burns is at Governor Gage's Red Rover mine, near Acton. Burns and | Expert Hamilton of San Francisco are inspecting the property. George J. Denis one of the owners, is at the mine to ren- | der such assistance and information as | may be needed. Politiclans were to-day discussing a | story to the effect that Burns was figur- | ing on the Red Rover with the intention to purchase the mine as the representa- | tive of a syndicate of English capitaiists, The Governor's intimate friends give no credence to the story that he is to be part owner of a new morning paper in San Francisco with Colonel urns and Thomas H. Williams Jr., the horseman. The Governor has not the means, it was said, with which to dabble in such a ven- ture, though his ambitions may run in | the direction of journalism. e story was to-day generally discredited by the Governor's friends. | effect enator next | o 0900060 $000 608960 0 H0GOS. GERMAN PRIEST 15 IMPRISONED in a State of Alarm. Chinese STORY OF THE RECENT CLASH CELESTIALS KILLED DURING A FIGHT WITH THE PATROL. Now the German Admiral Is Landing a Strong Force to Preserve Or- der and has the Fleet at Kiaochou. Special Dispatch to The Call. :0,#‘**#*’*#4##04 LONDON, April 1.—The Pe- king correspondent of the Times says: Jnder orders from Berlin, the Germans will occupy Si- Chau-Fu and I-Chau-Fu, in the province of Shantung, umtil China is able to give the re- requisite guarantee of her abil- ity to preserve order in that provinces Since she is unable to give such guarantees, ~Ger- many’s action is equivalent to effective interference in admin- istrative control within the German sphere of influence.” + + o + + R R D RS GV B R e e e an e oo s PEKING, March 81.—The disturb- ances of the province of Shantung during the whole winter have been causing serious anxiety and have cul- | minated in' the imprisonment of a Ger- | man priest at the town of Thine, ac- tually within 100 1i (a 1i is approxi- mately three cable lengths) of the Ger- mén sphere about Kiaochau. The facts regarding the attack on a | German officer and several companions show that a German naval patrol, con- sisting of an officer and six men, was landed at I-Chou, not at I-Tscho-Fu, | | as cabled last night | and advanced a short distance inland. from Kiaochau, This patrol was met by a detachment of Chinese soldiers, who fired upon the Germans. The officer in charge of the German detachment caused the fire to be re- turned, killing several Chinese, but his party was obliged to retire, and German admiral is landing a stronger force to restore order. The presence of nearly the whole of the German fleet at Kiaochau, it is believed, indicates the possibility of extensive operations, and the Chinese, in consequence, are seriously alarmed. The Tsung Li Yamen, in order to show its desire to remove all possible causes of friction, has dismissed three magistrates voluntarily, although the German Minister, Baron von Heyking, has been constantly pressing for their disgrace. The fearful ravages of the Yellow River flood have caused terrible misery and great discontent in the province of Shantung, - and the - native . officials have been unable to maintain order. The landing of the Germans is intended to show the Chinese that if they are unable to control the populace it is necessary for the foreigners to protect themselves. The imprisonment of the German missionary near the Germans' sphere of influence about Kiaochau is difficult to explain, as the place mentioned is within easy march of a German out- post. The Chinese fear that the present operations will expand the German ad- ministration to the 100-1i sphere. MAGUIRE WILL NOT BE A CANDIDATE SAYS HE WILL NOT RE-ENTER POLITICAL LIFE. Judge James G. Maguire flatly de- nies the many rumors that have been in circulation during the past week to the that he will be a candidate for yor at the coming election. He states that he does not intend to enter political life during the next campaign or any of the following campaigns. The rumors and statements to the contrary that have been lately set afloat have been a source of annoyance to Judge Maguire and when interviewed last night on the subject the Judge vehemently denied the rumo here is absolutely no truth in the statements that I intend to he a candi- date for Mayor of the city at the com- ing el fon,” s=aid he. “You may state positively that I have no intention of re- entering political life at the present time. I intend to devote all my time to the practice of my profession.” Yes, the law will occupy all my time in the future and I have absolutgly no idea of becoming a candidate for oOffice at this time. What the remote future will bring forth I know not, but at the present time and in the future as far as I can look ahend I in- tend to giv 1 said before, all nyy time to the practice of law.” the | | | | MASSACRED BY ALASKA INDIANS Probable Fate of Six= teen Kentuckians. PARTY MISSING FOR MONTHS SQUAW REPORTS THAT ALL WERE SLAIN. The Interior Department at Washing- ton Is Notified and Will Insti- tute an Investigation of the Natter. BY HAL HOFFMAN. Special Correspondence of The Call. JUNEAU, Alaska, March 27 (by steamship AI-Ki to Port Townsend, March 31).—A wholesale murder of goldseekers by Indians has in all prob- ability been committed near the mouth of the Kuskokwim, one of the largest riversof Alaska. The Kuskokwim drains: a watershed immediately south of the lower Yukon River and empties into Bering Sea about 100 miles southeast of Etolin Straits. Last spring sixteen men from Kentucky fitted out a small steamship, which they named the Jes- sie, and sailed from San Francisco for the mouth of the Kuskokwim. There the Jessie was wrecked in a storm, but the crew and passengers got ashore, sav- ing the most of the cargo of provisions and mining outfits. No particulars are known here yet, but the report is that the entire party was attacked while asleep by a band of natives and killed for the property they had. The men have been missing for months and.not a word has been heard from any of them. The Kuskokwim is generally be- lieved—and even so far down in South- eastern Alaska as this—to flow through a country rich in minerals. It has never been explored by white men. The news of the massacre of the Ken- tucky party reached. civilization, and eventually the Interior Department at Washington, D. C., which has taken the matter up. Living at Kweegausute, on Nunivak Island, about 1&) miles northwest of the mouth of the Kuskok- wim, and to the westward of BEtolin Straits, is a white trader who has an Indian wife. Last summer while they were in the Kuskokwim country she overheard several natives quarreling over the division of some property and was told the story of the killing of a party of whites who had come ashore from a small steamer which had been wrecked. This news eventually reached Seattle. Congressm#®n Ellis of Owensboro, Ky., laid the affair before the Interior De- partment and asked for an investiga- tion. The Interior Department, by Act- ing ‘Secretary Ryan, whe officiated in the interim before the appointment of the successor of Secretary Bliss, wrote to Governor John G. Brady of Alaska for information. As Governor Brady was then in Washington laboring in | behalf of Alaskan legislation, the cor- respondence went into the hands of A. D. Elliott, secretary of the District of Alaska and acting Governor. He has written the department in re- ply, stating that there is so much ice in and off the mouth of the Kuskak- wim at this season as to make a trip thither very hazardous, but suggesting that next summer a Government rev- enue cutter or gunboat be seht with one of the Commissioners for Alaska, a Deputy United States Marshal and a sufficient force to investizate the re- port and punish the natives. Acting Governor Elliott now here. He did not bring the correspondence from the Interior Department along with him, and the names of the mur- dered Kentuckians he cannot call to memory. They are said to be promi- nent people. Mr. Elliott has promised to send the names to me when he returns to Sitka on the next steamer, but in the mean- time they, and perhaps additional par- ticulars, are on file in the Interior De- partment. Prospectors in from the Porcupine re- port that there is absolutely no truth in the report of a fight between American and Canadian miners there. Relations are still somewhat strained, but there has been no armed conflic MACARATHUR MUST WAIT UNTIL SHAFTER RETIRES NEW YORK, March 3l.--General MacArthur's appointment as brigadier general of the regular service will be made upon the retirement in August of Major General Shafter. The President is determined that General MacArthur shall be rewarded for his conduet of the campaign against Malolos, but un- fortunately no vacancy will exist until General Shafter’'s retirement. Seabestany Runaway Boy Caught. SACRAMENTO March 31.—Frank Steinbacher, an 1l-year-old boy, 0 says his mother lives near Stockton, was given lodging at the City Prison to-night. 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