The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 6, 1899, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1899. 5 WELBURN KEPT A DIKRY OF RIS WANDERINGS —e He Had a Very Hard Time of It. —e LABORED. ON THE DOCKS - BE TAKEN INTO COURT THIS MORNING. - States Will District Attorney Ask the Court o Fix the Date of the Trial. and Mrs. Antone Hess Arrested on a Warrant From San Jose. 1 s wife, Ida M. Hess d Dinan warra S J rging with ki J t t ears of Mrs. T, anc juirement quish t f er aunt in Jose i € A desire to b to this ¢ with husband. Mrs. Hess Work Two Shifts. ictors having in charge the £t tu under the t the interse Berkshire stre ) put on an extra shift of men ork nights in order to rush BUCKLEY DECLARES HIS 'POLITICAL PROGRAMME County Committee to Be Chosen From Rapidly Organized Precincts, ‘The Returning. Boss, Who Is Boldly Mustering His . Forces, Talks in an Interesting Way of the Chaos stopher A. Buckley has boldly re- the flelds o n Francisco pol- critical political time, estab- uarters on Market street ced his intention of taking seeking for himself and control of the ‘local Dem party and has, with characteristic and method, actively begun the niz followers throughout > e ies *~6 ER M . @+ CHRISTOPH m 1¢ Examiner 0 la e in the now unce cul of many Democrats : exj 1d proposes to do w ) P ining the machine s . ager of the Hear who w back from Mexico ng before the campa « Harbor Commissione man of the Democratic committee th at its 1 is over. Harney ur Hu ticall Jok er the is loc s of the Ifire Department under the new char “hief Sullivan et al. may be all right r loses. The Comm of One H regular county com- mittee, w atened with the Hee- ney app: Tarpey resolution and some other things before the State Com- mittee, cuts yut a comparatively small one because of the primary law. There will be no row over the Committe of One Hundred excey the matter of »portioning municipal convention dele- nd this committee is likely to act ly and keep the pea Mr. Phelan and his fight for the Mayor- alty are discussed just now as much as any other feature of the inchoate cam Aign, and politiclans wonder how Phelan stands and how he is going to stand with this and that influence and faction It is amid this party uncertainty that Chris Buckley suddenly looms 1p and boldly begins the first organized effort of to completion, which will | the campaign, Many Democrats surmise Iy be finished by the middle of | that Mr. Buckley knew what he thought it which time the Market street | he was doing before he started in, and expects to fta Npeooreet | hat he had effected strong comibina- from Mission street o iy | tlons and secured the backing of strons The Sunday program ilen | fnfiuences in advance. here is consid- it Glen Park "‘ amme this | crable speculation as to whether or n at Glen Park will consist of the | one of the influences behind him is t ng attractions | Examiner, which has avoided even. giving rical grouping, flying trapeze | briefly the ne at Buckley had opened ormance, comedy Specialties, acro. | fine Democr dquarters in the Bald- tumbling and juggling a pigeon | Win Annex and was whooping up politics b s sars g e day and night. Politicians observe that a g ncert and dancing by . i ; 8 o e ¥ | the Bxaminer has shouted no warning trles about cither Buckley or Rainey. SR a'up with these observations are fr Too Free With His Revolver. t Speculations xx to whether' or not ayford, who terrorizad prominent Examiner man will bécome e BV EOR) vl 0 ik Denole chairman of the Police Commission under liff House Tuesday by flourishing a | the new charter, and Lieutenant Esola g revolver and atening to shoot, | Chief of Police esterday sent to the County Jail for | Chris Buckley may be found every ¢ months by Judge Mogan.~ Rayford | afternoon and evening enthroned in one sentenced several months ago for | of the {wo very nice suites on the first tening to shoot a park policeman |upper foor of the Baldwin Annex. hired aught him shooting ducks. for the campaign. The *“Old ( g el flocks there in greater numbers every day. Keep all the beautiful Photo-Chro- | Those-who come to sec him and those wha natic tull baseniotires oot it " | frequent the auarters ‘woul e quite matic full page pictures, free with the | long roll. Those who see him elsewhere . @ 2 . | on the qutet would make another roil. First of the series issued to-day. {Sam Newman is one of his chief lieuten- | in Democracy and of Other Things. But as far best to respect the minority. it is | a8 we are concerned I think now | immaterlal. “As to the general political effect of the primary law, I think that for one thing it will dissipate a crowd of ‘leaders’ | | who claim to be leaders in all parties. It | wiil stop & lot of fellows who are always { fn office, no matter which party wins. If | the Democratic organization 1 am con- nected with is successtul we will do away with all that, “No, I don’t think the law will work here as it did in Stockton by letting one party with no fight on its hands help out a faction of an opposite party. In San | Francisco there will be such violent con- tentions in all the districts in all the par- tles that there will be little room for such combinations. Nobody will have many | votes to spare for such plays at the pri maries, in my opinion. The conditions have entirely changed. There was no le- gal election before. Now one man has one vote. The delegates to the convention select the committee to govern the par| and all other committees go out of e istence. The party is governed through the primary. : people have the powe in_their own The question i Will they exercise it? If they will the have a great opportunity. If there is a machine it will be creatéd by the people. The Rickard law? Well, it is in vogue in several other States. It's a new thing, and we'll have to try it before talking about it too much. It undoubtedly sup- plements the primary law in strengthen- ing party organizati “I am a progr: | the city ought to be improved. | that the ci ought to own its own and water wor The city should be e | sewered and its pavements improved. | belleve that if there was a falr assess s S Rea e _ | ment of property the city could be run on ?vvr»J ’-\p{t:)“ 'T{f‘fr..“l‘""x’ another. | 4, "qollar limit and all necessary Iim- Sootis: oo Mhaorese S provements made. Of course the dolla e B teny, John MuCalthy Sac lmit s meant f0 pay fhe puueing TECKUnGa: itHY Tiak Harboit) Caatiox Aaner | PonscaanTLUAIl_cherkesfon (tDeHsnkine = with his forces. e trrahuo |fund required by any issue of bonds e vho expects to boss the ThIr” | would be supposed to require an additional lon, the voung e AT ohiey levy. T believe the new charter a good lor voung hero of many a Buckley ihing, and I helped to adopt it. The local primary in the y-eighth, and scores | pemgcracy is in otic state at this more of the old w 1s of “‘other moment, but, my sir, don't forget w\\‘\_ ]v‘«r'- da i bonnhis that this is Democratic year.’ 2 uckle; rday about his | “gych s the present political appearance programme, d some opinions o¢ Christophe~ Buckley as he mounts abo things of current the saddle, and such is the outward ap- impo he was pleased o say | pearance of his policy. for publication was in effect a o Pe et e et et et ebeteQ A. BUCKLEY. by Thors Last Monday. what every citizen affairs are pol tate. It remind 1852. Then, if you cipality was it A manageme f yard of Trade, the r bodie all that sort nothing. At that entirely of fifty « ntral commit- emanated a the rty- clubs elected Union Hall, d a suc- on Bart- Captain nley Smith 2 her, Thomas Supervisors but that came - Democrats t They anuary, 1853, They compromised some ation with corpo- rati ind the first year they built some schoolhouses, etc., and ran the gov- ernment with one-dollar limit. The sceond year they built more schoolhouses, he government for 97% cents and 50000 in the treasur: e jeve that if the citizens would take advantage of the opportunity now offered and go to the p ries this rec- ord could be repeated by the city govern- ibly be done by efthet . Democratic par- ment. party, but surely It could poss by ty. At that elect mes J. Flynn was elected County Clerk on to run the office for $6000 a month, and he did it. He told me that he couid run it for $5000 by cutting off the dead weight which every office has got to carry, more or less. ““Fhis, in my opinion, is what the citi- ns want now, and they can ey will go to the primaries and representative men both conv and hold the parties responsibl conventions will, In turn, elect c: committees that will see that pledg kept Now, the alm and object of m elect ntions The the fricnds associated with m to repeat the governmen 1885, Whatever individu inated, the convention will adopt a plat- form and create a committee that will see it carried out. “\We propose to orga of running a ticket for municipal conven- tion delegates at the primary election. There will be an organization in each As sembly district and also an auxiliary I election precinet. “When hize for the purpose in each primary 3 these precinct clubs are organized they will each eiect one or more delegates to a general city committee, which will gov ern the campalgn, It is not vet known ust how large this committée will be This will be done within thirty days. In my opinion this will be the strongest Dem- ocratic organization San Francisco ever As to how the plan is working, all in say is that ‘the work goes bravely on' and the prog is something aston- ishing even to me, and you know I have seen organizing done before. “What figure will the Committee of One Hundred cut? you ask. Under the Strat- had 1 ton primary law, which, by the way, is the hest thing this municipality ever 'se- cured, the duties of all party governing bodies are purely ministerial.” They must apportion delegates. determine the num- | her,-stipulate how elected. file certificates, | ete “In my opin’ lax difference n it will make no particu- whether delegates are elect- ed by precincts, by districts or at large. Oi course, If they are elected at large, they will represent one element of the party, which is not Democratic. By ci¢her of the other plans there would be minority representation and it is always follows: | have it if | THAT BASSETT 1S A CANDIDAT SR | Commissioner. Colonel F. crédentials cial order has taken his for a juc n the State now Should the witness stand his- appointment the narrative would be decidedly inter- ting. There is scarcely the shadow doubt that Chadbourne was slated for the Sal nto cou to grab th ard of Harbor Commisslor seat Herold the cupied by colonel be to tell the Rudolph placed on true story of office of president of the Board of Har- bor Commissioners, the place which is now filled by Paris Kilburn, but in a shuffling or juggling which occurred at Sacramento when the “‘organization’ was conducting politics in the way the In- diana man kept hotel, the name of Kil- burn was su ited for that of Chad- bourne In 1898 it was planned that Kilburn should have a Federal office as soon as his term as State Bank Commissioner ex- pired. Just as it was programmed years before that he should have a State offi when his career in Federal office of Survevor of the Port was ended. The of- fic Kilburn was that of 1 Commissioner. mation at Sacra- mento \ had been con- sulted to the sability of appoint- fng Kilburn, but it could not be ascer- | tained that Senator Perkins was enthusi astlc in supporting the claims of the ap- plicant. The fact was not disputed that Kilburn was in the Mexican Senatorial corral giving comfort if not aid to Burns. No doubt Senator Perkins was apprised through the friends of U. S. Grant where Kilburn could be found. When it became | obvious to the organization that Hanna could not or would not advise the Presi- | | dent to appoint Kilburn Shipping Com- foner unless Senator Perkins urged appointment, 4t was decided to slate ris for the firs® vacancy in the State Board of Harbor C ners and to give Colonel Chadbourne autiful gold brick. The pro : was carried out Kilburn got an office and Chadbourne re- ceived a commission entitling him to the first-class lawsuit. arrangement disposed of Kilbu d Chadbourne, but it left Charles Bassett without immediate pros- pect of remunerative employment as an office-holder. Bassett is not unknown to ite politics. He discovered H. H arkham of Pasadena and no one seeks deprive him of the distinction belon; to the discovery. He was not slow discover that Henry T. Gage stood cha > nomination fc Governc the Republican State convention last summer, and he at once proceeded to establish the most friendly relations with the prosepctive nominee. When Gage was nominated Bassett's po- litical future was assured. Comment ran along the line that was to have an- other term ut the “organization” nad others in view. The office of Shipping Commissioner was not lost sight of and so Bassett was ad- Vised to seek the good graces of Senator Perkins to obtain the favor in that quar- possession of The foregoins to a fine > of winning t in it as Harbor Commissioner ter, which w once desired to reward Kilburn. This is how it happened that ett became a candidate for nited : Shipping Commissioner tt served with Burns on the State Central Committee which conducted the Markham campaign and as a reward for appointed Harbor Com- It cannot be called to mind 1t his service was of any benefit to the but as he was recognized then for rering Markham perhaps he should be arded for not discovering Gage. AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR. The Grand Council Holds Its Anaual Session and Elects Officers for the Current Term. At the session of the Grand Council of the American Legion of Honor held in B'ne B'rith Hall the reports presented showed that the financial condition of the order is in a healthy Needed legislation was adopted and re- | ferred to the supreme head of the order for approval, at the session to be held in August next. The following named were elecfed the officers of the Grand Council for the current | ferm: Willlam Metzner, commander; E. V. vice commander; W. W. Hobart, orator; | Jones, D.:iC ecretary; W. H. H. Hamil® ton, t B. Cooper, chaplain: Mary C. Snyder, F. Hamson, warden; A A. Nathan, H. Baker, Gus Pohl- man and_J brow, finance committe Thomas Flibern, supreme representative: W. H. H. Hamilton, alternate. The new officers were installed by District Deputy Commander Walter D. Manafield —_—————— Celebration Postponed. Arrangements were made for a grand ! celebration at Larkspur to-morrow, but | owing to the stubbornness of wind and tide the event will have to be postponed one week, to May 14. There was to have been a plank sidewalk laying ‘bee” in order that the many visitors of that pretty little resort in Marin County could tr: around the town and not get their fancy slippers and patent leathers soiled. Over $300 worth of lumber, amounting to about t, had been ordered, and the inten- for the citizens to turn out with | hammers and saws and place the new sidewalks in position. The lumber was to have been there to-day, but the gentleman who navigates the )w schooner on which it was to arrive failed to get the material on the ground in time, and hence | | the postponement. ———— Stabbed a Sailor. Dominico Rumaz, who stabbed John Johnson, a sailor in the doorway of a sa- | Toon at Jackson and Sansome streets Thursday night, was instructed and ar- raigned before Acting Police Judge Groez- inger yesterday on a charge of assault to murder. The case was continued till May 9 and his bonds were increased to $10,000. I believe | I Would Be Shipping! CORRIGAN CORRUPTED Made Him Lose a Hurdle Race at Latonia, Ky | Rl O | ‘Rascally Doings of the Ingleside Czar Lead to a Suit for Damages That Will Develop an Interesting and Ugly History. czar of |at th DWARD CORRIGAN, Ingleside and sultan of Emer time, but it will all come out at the trial. The Jockey luded to by Mr. Stanford & ville, will be haled into court | cooper in the foregoing statement 1s shortly to show cause why he | Stanford, hurdle rider of fifteen should not be compelled to pay | experience. He also will be a witness to the de Stanford n. ig: 3:3"““ to Alfred Nickells for defaming | said that in Jur he W engaged by Nickells' character to Prince Poniatow- | Corrigan to ride ( in’s horse 1::«1.11]n - ski 2 ol >rince to dis. | 1on in a hurdle race in Latonia, Ky. Im- {ski and inducing the Prince to dis-| meqiately prior to the race Corrigan met charge Nickells as his trainer of racing | Stanford with the fdllowing. proposition, hors as d in an affidavit Te was Aled 3 rioeiCour Corrigan said to me: ‘You cannot win | There was filed in the Superior Court | ;. “{1is horse to-day. 1 have ot a bet |late yesterday afternoon a complaint | on War Bonnet, and they tell me he is a | by Attorney Bert Schlesinger entitled u'wn!)nmm» to-day. ,]\_'u\\' »h\:y‘(‘\uull_ut el A e Res St this horse you are riding with the whip. Alfred Nickells vs. Edward ‘ull![.d.n. I don't care if vou get beat as far & The complaint recites that the plaintiff | that fence (indicating a fence about 100 in the employ of Andre Poniatow- rds distant). If the judges you any tell them n't say any- continued Corrig! que | : : : what I told you and they w ;Avr)l 10 of this year as a horse trainer, | thing to you. There's a race coming off | ski from November of last year until foos ‘0070501»0'0»'03-0-0:705030~0:0«0.,,of...‘,g.. K3 * S - e - 3 e, [ o O O o o e e ] EDWARD CORRIGAN. and that on the date last mentioned | next Tuesday for non-winners, and I will run this horse Reddington in there and he Edward Corrigan said in the presence | wij; win In order to get into that race I of Prince Ponlatowski and other | “Nickells is the crookedest on | | thg racetrack. Get rid of him. Not be- cause of what would happen now, but what might happen if you keep him.” must be beat to-day 1 rode Reddington,” continued Jock ord, “and he was last in the race. first price in the betting was 7 to 10 War Bonnet, the horse on which Corrigan had placed his mon 1s selling at 3 or b hat o Al ords | 4 to 1. On the following Tuesday Redding- The complaint alleges that the words | ., was entered in the hurdle race for quoted were slanderous and defama- | non-winners and his price in the betting tory, and were the cause of his dis was 2o 1 and he won easily. There were 4 : st ab horses in the r. That was sal from employment by the Prince | the only time that anybody has ever ap- damaged Nickells to the extent of $5000. | proachéd me during my fifteen vears’ ex- in riding rac next incident nar use of complaint is | A second alleged ¢ ¢ ed by Stanford that four days later Corrigan said in | iprows a flood of light upon the ch the presence of bystanders: “Nickells | ter of the racetrack Czar. It follow: is the @ edest man on the race-| ““On April 1S this year I called on Mr. rack” Corrigan by appointment at the Palace H. Cooper, owner of Silverado, a well- | Hotel and the following conversation en- KD o me. will be an important/ Sued.’ As I ‘entered his room he said, nown race HOrae, I it n the ouit. Mr, | How. dos you do? I sent for_ you last witness for the plaintiff in the sult. M. | night, and I am very sorry I failed to Cooper oung gentleman of mea meet you.' I told him I was there and who finds regreation in racing not from | had waited until 10 o'clock. He then said mercenary moti but for the pure | ‘T have just received a telegram offering love of the sport d because he dis- | me $5000 for Bachelor, and I don't think approved of ig gambling |1 will take it. I gink he can win_the ) oIf B e ruleq | grand national Steeplechase at New . e a s ho re ruled | &rand C : methods he and his hor were ruled | 5o said_t L didn’t think Bach- | Cooper ck a short time ago. of Corri- off the tr elor was worth $5000, and he said, ‘I car is connected with the story buy some pre zood horses i ot A ety toward Niskelldiwhich | ong Eor RISHY. SUoR Rorses at Umes dates from January 14 of thi: horse that I can make a jumper of. I that day Cooper's horse Silve give my horses to whom I please, and I | against Corrigan’s horse Colonel Bart- | Will give you a good jumper you; will lett. Just before the start Nickells said | testify against Cooper and Nickells.’ fo Corrlgin, “E think I can win thit, (1 seid. 7 am wiling 60 jestliiy to what | race,” Stlverado having been entered in ! e o tenands,j and | race, he said that the board would meet | Nickells’ name. | " Silverado beat the Corrigan horse, ~ HIS JOCKEY STANFORD | in one hou: time. He expressed anger | at my answer and picked up his hat and | went downstairs. “1 testified before the board of stew- | ards, and made a full, free and honest | statment of all the facts. 1 know of | nothing that in_any wise reflects upon | > honesty of Mr. Cooper or Mr. Nick- | For obvious reasons I didn’t deem v to tell Mr. Corrigan this.” i attorney for the plain- 1 upon, but he declined the matter, and would neither admit nor deny the statements made by Cooper, Stanford and Nickells. SATLORS VS. MEDICOS. Baseball Game to Raise Funds to Dec- orate California Soldiers A game of ball will be played at Sixteenth and Folsom streets on Saturday afternoon, May 13, between sailors of the battleship Towa and a nine chosen from students from the College of Physicians and Surgeons. The game will be under th uspice f the Native Sons of the | Golden W d the gate receipts will be devoted to a fund for the purchase of suitable decorations for California S diers upon their return from the land of the Filipinos. The respective nines have volunteered to contribute their services, and though neither organization is an old one, 't has shown in the few contests already played a knowledge of the national game which will furnish good entertainment. The relative positions are as follows: | _U.s.s. Iowa. P « | Geig Pitch E. J. Lyons | T. Hura R. W D elia ton urr aches of the LOS ANGELES CITY | LOST THE BIG SUIT EWATER COMPANY'S VICTORY IN | THr SUPREME COURT. Its Great- Plant May Be Purchased but Not Seized—A Contract, Not a Lease, Was Made. The big legal fight between the of | Los Angeles anc Los Angeles Water | Company ‘was d by the Supreme | Court yesterday in favor of the water company. In 1868, when the city was not 12 n a village it owned its owr water works, which seems to have con- | sisted at that time of a crude wheel and out ten miles of wooden flume. In that | vear the city entered into a contract with the water company by which it agreed to turn over the “plant” meptioned to the company upon the considefation that the | company would put in_and maintain a | modern ‘plant, extend lines into the | city demand required and furnish schools and municipal buildi fire hy- drants « with water without expense the city. Another condition in the reement was that at the end of thirty ears the city could acquire possession of the water works upon yayment to t corapany of the value e plant, mafn; and all improvemen The thirty 3 pired last year, and the municipality sought to secure poss sion of the r works did not pre mai v tain to pa 1 tha to the impr was a lease ration of the ime the property in que n went back to the city the same as d piece of land with any improveme the tenant mi ave placed hereon.. A move was taken to take water works by force and have a receiver appointed to to the running of business un- matte The water secured 7 to prevent me ar r court decic he 1s from this in- that the the highe taken. court w: ion given half n other actions at law were started ppeals taken, but | the principal one was a sul the city to recover the water worl The Supreme Court declares that the agreement was a contract and not a lease. Therefo t to that which it never ow 1 “‘plant” being all that was city to the company 3 that the water compa could not be mpelled to deliver over the plant, etc., il the value is paid by the city. If the city wants to own W works it must pay for the same cording to the contract. The other cases relating to the same matter before the court were dis- nosed of according to the principal de- | cision. un these —_— e ——— Was Not a Vagrant. Josephine Shanley, 68 Folsom who has onl n married three 1t 2 o’clock Mrs street, weeks vesterday be went out of her hou morning buy wich, so_ she told Judge Gr: y, and Polic Drisc arrested her and booked h of vagrancy. Her husband is a mech and appeared in court to ask for a dismi sal of th se. The Judge unuer the cir- tances dismissed it, but acvised Mr not to go for 2 ham sandwich at an unre onable ho He also ad- | vised the offic to more careful. e A Basket Picnic. ular monthly meeting of the Cal- ifornia State Floral Society will be held to-day in the garden of John Hin | 2520 Channing way. Berkeley. Mrs. W. | Wiester will read a paper on the subject of “Re Nearly all of the members of the society will be in attendance, because | of a novel feature that is to be introduced. | They take their lunc and form | really a basket picnic. The majority from | this city will leave on the 9:30 a. m. boat. Suicide of Mrs. Abbot. Flora Abbot, wife Billy Abbot, the well-known saloon-keeper, committed sui- cide in her room at 303 Grant avenue yes- ley he rej es.” 1 | terday _afternoon by drinking carbolic | acid. She had been despondent and sick for some we 8 nd to her friends | the statement that she would end her troubles. had m | someda and Corrigan, with the ‘“‘gamene of | a pawnbroker, “roared.” Being a job- | ber himself, he thought everybody e must be the same, and he accus Cooper of having jobbed him. The stc | was told to a Call reporter yesterday by Mr. Cooper. After a very close finish my horse | won, aid Mr. Cooper. “Corrigan | raised quite a furor and declared that if any other man but himself had been | second in the race he would have pro- | tested against awarding the purse to || | Coope! He claimed that he had been | the victim of foul play and went be- | | fore the board of stewards and tried | to have us ruled off the track. I was | | invited to appear before the board, but | |1 was not permitted to know the na. OF o'clock P. M. our ture of the charges against me. I had | heard that Corrigan had said that I | had paid two of the jockeys in the race to pull their horses in order that mine | | might win. | " “T stated my case to_ the board, and | said that I had been absent in Oregon | for ten days prior to the race and had | | returned to this city only on the morn- | |ing of the race. I'had a gentleman of ments. | high standing to testify to this fact and T insisted that he should be heard Our patrons are respectfully re- in my behalf. Corrigan said, ‘Nobody | minded that all goods purchased up disputes your word,’” and the rest of the , board of stewards seemed to have | to 9 o'clock P. M. | nothing to say. Corrigan, as usual, | our latest delivery. |was running the whole thing. Corrigan | |refused to allow my witness to be | called. Then he offered Jockey Stan- | | ford a race horse if he would go before |the board of stewards and testify | against us. “Shortly after that Nickells wanted | to enter another colt of mine and he went to Secretary Green and asked | permission to enter the colt for a race, | Green admitted that we had been ex- onerated by the board of stewards, and | | said that he would allow the colt lnl |run if I would agree to certain black- | mailing demands of Corrigan, which 1 | | refused to do, and my colt was not al- | ‘ THIS (SATURDAY) IS THE SIXTH DAY - REORGANIZATION SALE! From 9 o'clock A M. be open for business. New lines of bargains especially desirable for Saturday trade will be displayed in several of our depart- Market and Jones Streets. OUR P | until 10 establishment wil! will be in time for Murphy Bulilding, | | lowed to run. The demand that Cm--i lrlgan made upon me I decline to state