The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 27, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 27 1899. The e Call TUESDAY... ... JUNE 27, 1800 | or. | JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propriet o S. LEAKE, Manager. | Address All Communicati ons to W. PUBLICATION OFFICE ......Market and Third Sts., S. F } Telephone Maln 1868. | EDITORIAL ROOMS. ..2IT to 221 Stevenson Street | Telephone Matn 1874, | DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 156 CENTS PER WEBK. Single Coples, b cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sundey Call), 6 morith DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 8 months. CALL—By Single Month 65¢ | CALL One Year. 1.50 | ALL Cne Year. 1.00 All posymasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. coples will be forwarded when requested. o 908 Broadway Sample OAKLAND OFFICE.. C. GEORGE KROGNESS, T Marager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Hou! P. O. 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" AUCTION SALES. 11 et < day at 11 o'clock, ar Str A VICTORY FOR THE PUBLIC. 1 satisfaction resulting from the con- | 1sness of victory achieved for the public| ter a hard-fought contest, The Call San I e long controversy over the o upon the people o anc hise upon the terms re- , and these are exactly the contended. There was It was a clear, victory for the municipality against the ve greed of the monopoly. | rights of the public was not | The struggle over the Du- | he defeat of that part cf single issue. ymise on 6 compre C: cut and the aggres: f the ed without a fight rvation loop resulted ir scheme. ant part of the victory is the concession e Market-street Company that the fran- being offered for sale under the law of 1897 the | t the minimum ]’\(‘ff(rfl-: s required by the new | concession is also a part of the issue | up by The Call, for-as was stated yesterday: | 1sisted by The Call, which merely expressed | 1 ion in an intelligible way, that unless | new whatever should he} arket-street consolidation until the | = operative.”” | wgrees to bid at receipts franchise no sts of business men and others who ww 0i 1897, but.as will be seen the terms require the Market-street Company to bid for it under some, at he provisions of the new charter. torily settled. The fight ¢ as made by The Call has been won at | and the contested franchise, instead of jury, will prove a benefit to the community. The issue is now sati r the peopl every poi being ONTRIBUTIO furid for the we dosme tota o the Dewey monument THE DEWEY MONUMENT FUND. ¢ ending last Friday amounted C .to the 1 of $2700. Two of the sub- scriptions are for $500 each, two for $250 each and twetve for $100 each. The aggregate of the subscrip- | fions to the date of the last report is $32,419, or very | nearly one-third of the sum required to erect the| monument upon the scale desired. Up to this time the contributions have come almost That was to be ex- pected, and it is right it should be so, for the move- ment had its origin in this city, and while it aims tc | provide a monument which shall represent the senti- ment of all California, San Francisco must, of course, take the lead in providing the necessary funds. ow that there has been subscribed in the city a| sum sufficient to assure the speedy success of the en- | terprise contributions from other sections of the State | may be confidently looked for. Communications pub- | lished in The Call from day to day during the past week from Mayors of various cities give ample evi- Gence of the favor with which the patriotic and artis- tic enterprise is regarded. The approval of the pro- ject is, in fact, well nigh universal, and when the whole of the desired $100,000 has been raised it will be found{ that the contributions have come from all parts of the State and from all classes of the people. It is not desirable that the fund should be raised by large contributions only. The monument is to rep- resent the appreciation a great people have of a great | victory which has vastly increased the prestige of | their country, and therefore the contributions to it | should include the dollar of the workingman as well | as the larger but not more loyal or more liberal gil'l; of the capitalist. | Nearly "one-third of the sum needed is now sub- scribed. This week will add another notable amount to the increasing sum. California will show forth the patriotiym of her people. Dewey shall have his monu- ment. exclusively from San Francisco. | The Czar's Peace Conference is trying to deter-| mine what will be the exact status of men who drop? wounded into the sea during a battle. The learned | diplomats might at least consider the condition of such unfortunates as dangerous. The New York woman who died begging for a pint of beer evidently anticipated a sizzling reception on the other side of death’s river. > 00 | by the Examiner, while catering to the sociallstic ele- | all the virtues attributed sometimes to aristocracies. | ‘| to it a tinge of imperialism. But the lofty and ab-| | ers raised them to such a height of sublimity that | by the Examiner as the supporters of every form of | rule of seli-per | its relations to the masses to the simplest and most 1f the | trict. REPUDIATED DEMOCRATIC TRUST. HE Democratic Committee of One Hundred was an original trust, invented and supported * by the Examiner. Its theory was the substitu- tion of one-man power for the representative prin-| le, regarded as fundamental in our American insti- tutions. This was and is the predominant character- istic of Mr. J. D. Phelan, while catering with a certain degree of raw skill to special interests in his search for popularity and influence, has unerr- ingly disregarded the underlying conception of gov- ernment for and by and of the people. This party anachronism was the Democratic ma- chine in the last campaign. Produced and fondled| | | | who, | ments of our population, it was supposed to incarnate The unity from which its appointment proceeded gave | stract independence of its members and their intense cgotism in their pretentious role of political reform- ordinary Democratic voters gazed upon them with an awe that was only matched by their determina- tion to pull them down from their pedestal, inscribed with the blended names of the Examiner and of \ Phelan. They appointed the Democratic Municipal Conv tion, and, on the present authority of the Examiner. had about a quarter of their own number nominated for office, with the result that, while Mr. Phelan was saved by the skin of his teeth and by sacrificing every | one else for himseli, the ticket and the fusion it rep- | resented were literally slaughtered at the polls. But the Committee of One Hundred, the E iner and Mr. J. D. Phelan survived. Like the fossil- ized Democrats of Kentucky, they actually announce | their own existence. But what a change in t}mir mutual relations has been revealed! It seems that, while the Republicans, who are perpetually assailed n- am- jurious monopoly, have been struggling, and with | a fair prospect of success, for such a thoroughly popu- | lar representation of respectability, intelligence and influence in their municipal convention as could not | fail to command publicapproval,the Democratic Com- | mittee of One Hundred has not only formalized its tuation but has determined to reduce avowed mode of political bossism. It is of course understood that each member of the Committee of One Hundred is a candidate in waiting. aminer’s suggestion be accepted and a reso- lution of non-candidacy be adopted, that can be easily | handled by the continuance of last year’s policy and | a succession of resignations may be anticipated. But | | a Campaign Committee of Twenty has also been ap- | pointed, so that the power of control may be further concentrated, and they are to constitute an active oligarchy within or on behalf of the aristocratic hun- dred. This simultaneous contraction and expansion, however, appears to be only a part of the game. As a great many clubs have in the cighteen Assembly districts, each presumptively an exponent of Mr. Phelan’s inordinate ambition, the plan of autocratic government might fail, unless a mode of natural or unnatural selection were adopted Mr. J. D. Maxwell hit the nail on the head. He pro- poses that the Campaign Committee designate what the Examiner calls “an authentic club,” but what the inventor of the scheme and his associates described as “an official club,” which should bear the stamp of aristocratic indorsement within each Asembly dis been organized The simplicity of Mr. Maxwell's plan and its adap- | tation to the scheme of politi management for which the Examiner and Mr. Phelan are mutually responsible certainly commend it to the favorable consideration of the fusion or Phelan Democracy. But there are some obstreperous Democrats who have the audacity to demand the election of a Democratic municipal convention “by primary precincts,” instead of through the more easily handled Assembly dis- tricts. A Mr. Larry Conlan, who has been known as the physical leader of the resuscitated blind boss who so long guided the local Democracy by a string, | is actually malignant in his assertion of the superiority of the Democrats of Minna, Stevenson, Jessie and Brannan streets to the specialized associates of Mr. | Maxwell. There is'certainly a very pretty Democratic or fu- sion quarrel actually raging. Quiet Republicans, watchful within their own party, can look on with equanimity. But the tattitude of the Examiner excites general interest. Why, like Saturn, does it seek to devour its own offspring? Why does it now practi- cally assail the system it inaugurated? What is the real milk in this new cocoanut? Have the Examiner and Mr. Phelan been divorced and has the bond of their union been violently disrupted or are they both in the revolutionary movement of which Mr. Larry Conlan is a forcible interpreter? These are questions tc. which answers will have to be made, although probably too late to serve any purpose beyond the gratification of curiosity. The proceedings of to-night will be observed with- out enthusiasm but with a certain languid interest. It really appears that the Examiner is about to ceas irom its assumed vocation as a factor in Democratic affairs. l:‘v various departments of the city and county government exceed for the fiscal year those of the last one it is evident the Supervisors will have to exercise no little courage to stand by their pledges to the people and restrict the taxation to an amount not exceeding $1 upon an assessed valuation of $330,- 000,000. A detailed review of the subject given in The Call of Sunday shows that the increase in the estimates of the coming year are: For the schools, $59,420; for streets, $212,130; for Golden Gate Park, $102,000; for the Sheriff's office, $97,720; for the City and Courity | Hospital, $35,000; for fire alarm telegraph, $30,350: for the County Clerk’s office, $17,000. These do not | represent all the increase the estimates will call for, it is. fairly certain that in some departments, that of health for example, there will be a request for ad- ditional allowances. In the aggregate the estimates, as stated, show an | increase of $382,800 over those of the present ycar." There is, however, a deduction to be made for the decrease in the estimates for elections, which are | $106,100 less than those of last year. Making that de~3 duction, the net increase in the estimates reaches the} sum of $476,700, an amount which constitutes a con- | siderable percentage upon the total revenues of the city. _ | To raise the amount of money required for the esti- | mates of last year there was imposed a tax of $1.31.20 on a valuation of $350,000,000. That is to say, to meet estimates much lower than those now made it was | necessary last year to impose a rate of taxation nbout} 25 per cent higher than the one to which the Mayor | and the Supervisors are pledged. To accomplish the | work of the municipality upon the basis proposed wmi THE DOLLAR LIMIT PLEDGE. | ROM the extent to which the estimates of the ;0\'er, a Ministerial crisis in France is not a serious | probably hold its own for about six months. | there will be another flurry among the Deputies, ! from him and begin to fuse with the opposition, and | than winds and waves have upon the great movements to enjoy the holidays. | and falling in the form of a white snow of magnesia. | ti | require therefore a strict and sagacious economy, but | to use their teeth, by the exercise of that economy it can be accom- plished. The dollar limit of taxation levied upon an assess- ment not to exceed $3350,000,000 has long been desired in San Francisco. In the last campaign all parties pledged their candidates to uphold the desired rate and oppose any attempt to fix a higher one. Accord- irgly the Mayor and the Supervisors, no matter by what party elected, are now equally bound to fix the tax rate at a sum not exceeding that amount. The pledges made in the campaign have since been re- newed by the Mayor and a majority of the Supervi- sors in interviews with The Call. The public, there- fore, has a right to expect them to grapple earnestly with the problem before them, to stand firm for the welfare of the people and uphold their own repeated assurances that the city can be well and efficiently administered with a tax rate not exceeding the amount named. THE NEW FRENCH CABINET. RANCE has safely passed the crisis brought I: about by the resignation of the Dupuy Minis- try and a new Cabinet has taken office and as- sumed the responsibility of directing the affairs of the | country during the turmoil expected to result from the arrival of Dreyius to undergo a new trial. The crisis was probably by no means so great as it appeared from the reports. In France, as in every other country, there is a large body of citizens who care very little about the struggles of politicians, and who do not get excited whenever one set of officials o out of office to make way for another set. More- affair. Since the present Chamber of Deputies was elected, a year ago last May, three 'Premiers have been compelled to resign, and on each occasion there was great excitement in official circles and no disturb- ance at all among the people. The new Cabinet will Then | another crisis and another Cabinet. | The inability of any Premier to hold office very long is due to the fact that no party has a clear| majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Each succes- sive aspirant for the office has, therefore, to organize | a fusion party to enable him to form a Cabinet. Fu- sions, however, are never durable. The leaders of each faction entering such combinations expect to derive profit from them, and when the new Premier finished the distribution of offices, trouble begins. The disappointed members of the fusion fall away some fine day the Premier finds he has no longer a raajority at his back and has to step down and out. All these storms and changes in officialdom have no more effect upon the real government of France of the sea. They make a noisy commotion on the sur- face of things, but the undercurrent of administration is not disturbed. Taxes are collected regularly, the army, navy, judiciary and all’branches of civil service are maintained, the police continue to make arrests, and government goes very much as if there had been no crisis at all Everybody will wish the new Premier, M. Waldeck- Rousseau, succ He has a pretty good mouth-fill- ing name and his reputation as a patriot statesman is high. He merits all the congratulations that will be given him on his accession to power, and¢ when along about Christmas time his turn comes to give way to a be again deserving of congratulations on his relief from the burdens of government in time ss. crisis he wi ELECTRIC COHESION. "3 XPERIMENTS recently made at the Royal f Institute in London by Professor Oliver Lodge are reported to have completely demonstrated that the passage of an electric current through smoke, fog or mist will cause the particles of mois- ture or of smoke to precipitate, or “cohere,” and fall to the earth. The experiment at the institute lecture was made with magnesium smoke. Such fumes re quire ordinarily a long time to disperse, but it i said that as soon as a charge of electricity was sent | through the jar in which they were confined the air began to clear at once, the smoke particles uniting | oy The explanation of the phenomenon is said by Pro- fessor Lodge to be as yet beyond our scientific knowledge. We know at present no more than the fact that electricity causes cohesion of any particles that may be floating in the atmosphere. Even that limited knowledge, however, is expected to be of considerable use to civilization. | Professor Lodge is quoted as saying the experi- ment does nof afford any reasonable ground for ex pecting it will result in the invention of a method of climinating the “smoke nuisance” of great cities. He | does believe, however, it may lead to the adoption of some method by which any kind of fog, whether sea fog or a fog arising from the ground, may be dispersed. “A Scotch mist,” he said, “can be turnea into rain by a suitable discharge of electricity, and or- dinary rain can be changed into the large drops of a thunder shower by the electric discharge of the light- ning flash. The reason for the size of the drops is that, owing to the incident of electric ‘cohesion,’ the drops are attracted to one another and form conglom- erate drops.” The statement of the professor suggests that the discovery may be of use to the people of the semi- arid districts of the United States in their various rain-producing experiments. There are a good many sections ‘where the atmosphere holds a quantity of moisture abundant for the needs of plant life if only | it could be made to fall in the form of rain. All such attempts thus far have been futile. Electrical force is becoming a comparatively cheap energy, easily produced where there is either fuel or water power, and it will be worth while for some American inventor to set his wits to work to see if the new discovery in science may not be made effective for some such use. A party of visionary Stocktonites have returned from a fruitless cruise of seven years in search of pirates’ gold. The party sailed in the approp}iately named yacht, the Hayseed. There is likely to be an exodus of gold-brick men from this city to Stockton. Ex-Governor Stone of Missouri, the acting chair- man of the Democratic National Committee, is look- ing for a national “organ.” He might make a good beginning with William Jennings Bryan, who is splendidly qualified to furnish the bellows. Los Angeles wants all of the big political conven- ons of next year. She might have them and a bonus to boot if she would promise not to give us another Gage. Governor Murphy of Arizona is waging a war on fakers. It wouldn't take a prize-guesser to tell where Governor Gage would begin if he did the same. The Boers are said to be armed to the teeth. It is also interesting to remember that they know how | are not true, but they are annoying. ll DR. McNAUGHTON TELLS HIS STORY OF CHARGESy R.' JAMES McNAUGH- TON has arrived on the scene and announces his readiness to refute the charges against his ability, morality and integrity, now being investigated by the Alumni Association of the | San Jose Normal School. These charges have been printed in full by The Call and interviews have been published with prominent citizens of Council Bluffs, ia., where the basis of the charges is said to have been laid. In justice| to Dr. McNaughton, therefore, | this paper has allowed him to make his statement of the case. Dr. James McNaughton, principal- elect of the State Normal School at San Jose, has arrived iIn the city and is al- ready engaged in preparations to refute the charges against him now being in- | vestigated by a committee of the| Alumni Association of the institution to | which he has been appointed. Dr. Mc- Naughton got in yesterday morning | from Tempe, Ariz., and is stopping at; the Grand Hotel, where he will remain | until he goes to San Jose to enter upon his new duties. The accused principal professes to have no fear of the outcome of the | alumni investigation. He says, as he | has said in previous interviews, that | the charges against him are anonymous ! and have been made against him in the same form time and again and time and again refuted. In support of this ,@—0—@—0—@—0—@+®+@+¢—0~o R | D S S o o SO S SN AAS P S L g S T o R S D DA assertion, he produces a bundle of man- uscript half a foot high, consisting of letters from former professional and business associates testifying to his high'character; affidavits from numer- ous persons denying absoluteiy the charges in former circulars; and reso- lutions from executive boards of two school governments testifying that the accusations, after full investigation, have been proven groundless. “When a man has been pursued as I have been,” said Dr. McNaughton, “he finds it well to come prepared.” The accused principal does not pro- pose to put in this proof before the Alumni Association. He thinks that the best plan will be to allow the associa- tion to sift the matter and then, if it finds that there is ground for the charges and makes them formally to the Trustees of the Normal School, he will come forward to refute them. He purposes, however, while the Alumni Association is going along with its work, to let no grass grow under his feet. In justice to himself, he says, he wishes that the members of the Board of Normal Trustees should be- come familiar with the history of the charges and the fate that has befallen them, and for this reason will submit what documents he has personally to each Trustee he can reach within the week that intervenes before he as- sumes the duties of his new position. In pursuance of this plan Dr. Me- Naughton called yesterday morning upon State Senator Leavitt and sub- mitted his papers. He will reach the others as quickly as possible. “These charge: said Dr. McNaugh- ton yesterday, “are not new and they A brief history of them will not be out of place. I had been unanimously re- elected Superintendent of Schools at Council Bluffs in May, 1890, as I had been for seven years before. In_ Au- gust, 1890, the principal of the High School, @ man addicted to the free use of liquor, refused to respond to require- ments of the School Board and was dismissed. Members Lucius Wells and John Schoentgen of the School Board, his special friends and associates, were offended at the action of the majority and declared that since the principal of the High School was dismissed I should be dismissed also, they assuming that because 1 did not approve of the con- duct of the princival that the board would be divided while I remained. Mr. Wells said after his faction had asked me to resign: ‘I believe Professor Mec- Naughton does not want to throw ob- stacles in the way of the schools; he is an innocent victim.” #Mr. Schoent- gen said:’ ‘I have the utmost .respect for Professor McNaughton; I have nothing to say against him.’ “Immediately thereafter they em- ployed. attorneys, who formulated charges, securing the statements in questionable ways, on which the said charges are purported to be based. There was never an opportunity given me by that board to be heard on these charges before a tribunal having au- thority to pass upon their validity, and at no time was there a majority of the board willing to give these charges any official recognition on account of the notorious fact that they were false and malicious and trumped up as a justifi- cation for asking for my dismissal, an act that a great majority of the people of Council Bluffs were severely censur- ng. Neither was there a majority of the board willing to permit these men “ THESE CHARGES ARE NOT NEw” to sit as judges of the validity of the charges, which they themselves had been instrumental in bringing. “Mr. Hunter of the School Board al- lied himself to Wells and Schoentgen for reasons unknown to me, thus caus- ing the board to stand three against three on all questions, and thus pre. venting an official vindication. “The position taken in this matter by | James A. Edwards in the December number of the Iowa Normal Monthly, he told to me and others, was due to intimidation from Wells and Schoent- gen. - “I resigned my position at Council Bluffs not because of the charges, but because my wife’s health was rapidly ; sinking under the torments of my per- secutors and our family physician de- | manded that she be relieved; the schools were rapidly becoming demor- alized under the personal direction of ‘Wells and Schoentgen; there was no further hope of vindication with half of the board devoting their time and energies planning devices to remove me; there could be no hope of re-elec- tion the ensuing year, since at the next election the terms of the three hostile members would not have expired; was unable to obtain my salary with- out process of law; 1 was obliged to re- tain an attorney at no small expense; I had opportunity for congenial work where I hoped to be free from persecu- tion.” From Council Bluffs Dr. McNaughton went to Mayville, N. D., at the solicita- tion of the State Schools, John Ogden, and took the po- sitions of City Superintendent Schools and principal of the Normal School. He occupied these places about two years before he heard of the Council Bluffs charges again. Then they were presented to the board un- der which he was working and made L O O e R O . 4 -4 © . 03 & & S & + |1t HAVE ReeN PERSEQUTE FOR TEN YEARS™ D R SIS roes e v the subject of investigation by each. ‘‘The city board,” said Dr. McNaugh- ton yesterday, “took three weeks in its investigations and then adopted reso- lutions completely exonerating me and finding the charges groundless. Normal School Trustees took time to investigate, but longer after four months of it they adopted similar reso- | lutions. I have a copy of them her They read: Resolutions of the board of manage- ment of the State Normal School at Mayville, N. D., passed unanimously at a meeting of the board heid Novem- ber 25, 1892: Wherea this board has received a communication from J. P. Haber of this v calling attention to a' letter Pulponlng to have been written to him by one Lucius Wells of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and making certain charges against Dr. James McNaughton, and also an alleged copy of said letter; and has also received from saiu J. P. Haber a copy of the Iowa Normal Monthly issued in December, 1890, in which is printed and published an article making certain charges against Dr. McNaughton; and whereas, the said J. P. Haber has read and shown to Hon. E. M. Paulson, president of the board, a letter purporting to have been written by one James A. Ed- wards of Dubuque, Iowa, and making certain other charges against Dr. Mc- Naughton; and whereas, we have carefully considered all these charges and investigated all the allegations contained therein and have become satisfied that they are malicious, false and’ without foundation In fact; ther fore be it Resolved, That this board have and hereby desires to express full confi- dence in the abilities of Dr. James Mc- Naughton as an educator, in his integ- rity as a business man, and in his character as an upright and conscien- tious gentleman. Further, we hereby express our disbelief in all the charges and innuendoes contained in the afore- said magazine article and letters re- ceived. N Dr. McNaughton says he left May- ville a year after the charges had been disposed of, for the reason that the Legislature' had failed to make appro- priations for the conduct of the schools. Since that time he has been at Tempe, Ariz., in charge of the Narmal Schonl. “The charges followed me even there,” continued Dr. McNaughton, “copies of the Iowa Normal Monthiy containing them having been forward- ed by some interested parties. They were circulated at different times among the Board of Trustees, but no Trustee could be found who considered them worth investigating. I remained in Arizona at the head of the Tempe school under four Governors and under six Boards of Trustees, and when I handed in my resignation in order to come to California the board unani- mously passed resolutions regretting my departure, stating that my admin- istration of the affairs of the institu- tion had been pre-eminently progres- sive, and concluding with the opinion that my work had had a good influence throughout the Territory. . : ‘s I said before, it is annoying to have these same old charges, baseless and nalicious as they are, digged up and gone all over again. However, I have no objection to the investigation taken in hand by the Alumni Assocla- tion. T do not know what it will find, but if, with the materials it has in hand, it feels compelled to file charges against me with the Board of Trus- | tees, I shall then ask the privilige of putting in my refutation, which is at hand, full and complete. It seems to me that the fact that the School Board of Council Bluffs could not be induced o take up the charges; that two school ‘boards in North Dakota did take them - Superintendent of of up and prove them groundless; and that no Arizona board would consider them at all, should be enocugh to deter any person or association from prob- ing into them. However, as I have said before, I have no objection, except on the ground of annoyance, to any pro- cedure the Alumni Association may take; and I am as sure as I am sit- ting here that the result of any investi- gation will be another vindication for me “Now, in regard to the charges them- selves, which have been distributed broadcast, I want to say that there is no one of them that will hold water. My work in the various schools to which I ha been attached and th commendations I have received shoul settle once for all my qualification an competency as a pedagogue. The ir nuendo as to my immorality is too ab surd for mention, but it might be wel to say in this connection that prior t« my departure from Council Bluffs I r ceived unsolicited from the pastor of every church in the city a letter vouch ing for my integrity of character. Since 1 have left that city I have had letter from five of the gentlemen whos names were signed to:the charges to the effect that my character was of the best. F. M. Hunter, one of the School Board in Iowa who opposed me, wrote a letter to the Board of Trus- tees of the rth Dakota school, in which he vindicated me. It reads: He made a strong defense, in the fight which was wagéd against him, and as the board was equally div A for and against him the contest - came very bitter and personal, and many things were said and done which never would have been thought of had the contest been an ordinary one. ‘While the doctor was connected with our schools he accomplished a great work and-was greatly instrumental in elevating them to the good standard they are to-day, of which we are all proud, but he had done all the good that lay in his power, and on that ac- count I believed a change desirable. I took pains to investigate his moral and conduct between man am pleased to say his was above reproach. I might say that the personal feeling between | | | | | | | | The | | | \ | 628 Market street, L O e SCas S +O+0-++0+0g + & - & « ! RESIGNE»P\YPOJIT)m | AT QUNCIL BLUFFRs® L] D S SCSPSRIPS + (- e e e e e e o S ) ¢ | him and me is not very congenial. We have '‘not recognized each other for nearly two ye: although we have met upon the t large gatherings re to do him that is due every man in the community in which he re- fes. 'As the man who submitted his name for the principaiship,” said Senator Leavitt yesterday afternoon, “I think that Dr. McNaughton is taking the right course. I say this, however, with- out having made any particular inves- tigation of the charges against him or the proofs he says he has and which he submitted this morning for my inspee- tion. The matter seems to be for the present in the hands of the Alumni A sociation. If it should formulate e charges the Board of Trustees will cer- tainly hear them and Dr. McNaughton. If it does not, why I suppose the mat- ter will drop. “I have heard some comment con- cerning the fact that the board se- lected an outsider like Dr. McNaugh- | ton instead -of a resident of the State | of California The reason they did so was that outside of the two local can- didates, Messrs. Childs and@ Randall of San Jose, they could not find a man in the State completely fitted for the posi- tion. For that reason they went out- side. The local candidates seemed ob- jectionable to the board for the reason thdt each was so strongly backed by a following of friends the result of the election of either would have left a bit- terness still there and that would have been bad for the school.” Investigators a~ Work. SAN JOSE, June 26.—Dr. James Mc- Naughton, the new principal of the Normal School who is expected: here shortly, will be waited on by the in- vestigating committee of the Alumni Association, as socn as he arrives and asked to appeint a time for an explana- tion of the chariges against him. He will be put through a searching exam- ination. The investigating committee, com- posed of John G. Jury, Eli Wright and Fred Carll, has begun its work in earn- est. Circular letters asking for infor- mation regarding McNaughton have been sent to Council Bluffs, Tempe; Arizona, and other places where Mc- Naughton has resided. Cal.glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* e supplied dally to the Or:t- Spectal _fnformation business houses and public men b: Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 510 gomery stréet. Telephone Main 1042 S e e S More Suits Against the Assessor. The Crocker-Woolworth Bank and the First National Bank entered suit in the United States Circuit Court yesterday against Assessor Dodge to restrain him from collecting taxes on their stock, etc. The suit is_similar_to that of the San Francisco National Bank against the As- sessor. Official Route Christian Endeavor Excursion to Detroit. Leave San Francisco 6 p. m.. June 29, via Central Pacific, Union Pacific, Chicago and Northwestern and Wabash Railways, one day spent at Loth Denver and Omaha Exposition. Round trip rate to Detroit. $81. For reserva- tions and further information address George P. Lowell, Transportation Manager California Christian Endeavory, 1626 Eighth ave., East Oakland, Cal g e e EXCURSION TO $81—Detroit, Mich., and Return—881 Leave San Francisco 8 a. m., June 2, the Burlington Route will run an excursion to Detroit in charge of a special manager. Up- holstered tourist sleeping cars used on this occasion. Route via Salt Lake and Denver, passing Colorado scenery by daylight. Arrive Detroit 6 p. m. July §. Berths reserved, etc., at 32 Montgomery street, San Francisco, or 972 Broadway, Oakland. Rock Island Route Excursions. Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Island railweys. Through tourist sleeping cars to Chicago and Boston. Manager &nd porter accompany these excur- sions through to Boston. For ticiets, sleeping car accommodations and further Information address CLINTON JONES, General Agent Rock Island Railway. 62¢ Market st., S. F. —————— | Low Rates to Detroit, Michigan, for Christian Endeavor Coavention. The SANTA FE ROUTE will make rate of $81 for the round trip. Tickets on saie Juns 2th. For full particulars call at ticket office, this city, or 1113 Broadway, Oakland. < ————— When your appetite deserts you just try 10 to 20 drops of Dr. Sfegert's Angostura Bitters in sherry or port wine before meals.