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6 THE SAN ?FRANCISCO' CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1900. CThe - TUESDAY. gfl‘inq"c . Call. SPRECKELS, Proj JOHN D prietor, Commuhications to W, S, LEAKE, Manager. Telephone Press 204 Address A MANAGER'S OFFICE FUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201 EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cent Mail. Including Postage: ding Sunday), cne year. o , 6 month .39 . 8 months. 150 650 150 100 bacriptions. Sample coples wili be forwarded when reguested. nee of address should be W AND OLD ADDRESS in order iance with their request. BIANCY OFFICES 527 Montgomery, corner of Clay. open uotf] 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 63 onts] $:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open untfl s=ion. open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, per Sixteenth, cpen until § o'clock. 109 Valencia. open until § o'c 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW cor- ner Twent; ond and Kentucky, open until § o' clock. “ANUSEMENTS. Eddy street clalties. audeville every afterncon an 30 o'clock, Horses, at 721 agers in alliance with nd the other ward bosses e of fixing the Assembly, 1 districts of the State for of citizens, ure the g- have a fair the State k energy, the result will be vigor we sh ricts throughout which will te vantage in every elec- It be the fault of the better at this juncture the corpora- i Kelgifobtain a triumph, and A fair ) to good men to deal with thern Pacific touts in one t will remselves to blame. a chance to win able ere t will be mer strengthen mat support 1 not vote have either them compromised with Who shall 1 it be t redist the he railroad and the the representatives of in redis- to every intelligent involved the power the railroad e sake of having Thus there =5 rere an imperative duty at ng the touts and nd beaten. allowed no chance to etray its candidates. CHINATOWN @ND THE LAW. excit of the startling news Oricnt on the one hand and the in- 1 the political campaign on hat al issues may be to the movement which and th rted for the cleaning of China strength that has That The sanitary mqgve- Chinatown must be ng of the quar. ist. e outrage ry irritation to the peo- fact that at this juncture r the Police Depart- to enforce the sanitary Al- h officer the pol to be waiting for or- h and the Board is wait- other chance to spring & bu While they wait ple Chinese district i ders ir: ing bonic plague = <l Ch cffc I sec nothi g is done. sweep of the filth of not been even so much as an n emergency the people Jook to the Grand vy with expectant hope. That body has the power Jur tc mal inspection of the buildings of the Chi au, , to report 2li violations of law, and to find true b inst the violators. It is also province of the jury to investigate the taken by the Bcard of Health and the police and to make recommendations as to the best means of rousing those bodies to a keener sense of public duty. Prompt action in that direction by the jury conrse would be of great berefit to the community at this | time and it is to be heped it will be forthcoming, Whatever be done or left undone by the officiais has now become too serious jor e ever to consent to drop it from considera- Some of the most earnest and important or- ganizations of the city have taken up the work of promoting the desirad reform, and it is-not at all of the city the issue the pe. ion. jikely they will abandon it at this stage of the move- | ment. The popular forces that demand a clean China- town have in fact enlisted for the campaign. The sanitary laws of the city must be ved by the owners of Chinatown property as wellas by the owners of property in other districts. The enforcement of those laws is the duty of the municipal officials and the sooner they get about it the better it will be for al concerned. Pacific corporation, | ays win whenever the hon- | ¢ are willing to attend to | THE DUTY OF THE BAR. { PON the members of the Bar Association there rests a responsibility growing out U of the exposure made by The Call of the frauds in the Sullivan estate case not less | pressing than that which devolves upon the court. The men who have been proven | guilty of the frauds are members of the bar as well as officers of the court, and it is the duty of the association to act promptly in punishing the offenders to the extent at least of excluding them from further connection with the profession. Of Chretien’s share in the frauds little need be said. He has been proven guilty of procuring a fraudulent claimant to the estate and of aiding him by the fabrication of ialse | documents to obtain it; and he has confessed his guilt. His offense is one of the basest that can be committed under the+forms of law. It is, moreover, one which could have been | committed only by a person having the privilege of an attofney, and is therefore in the : nature of a professional crime. He is guilty not only as a man but as a lawyer. ! Why has the Bar Association stood not only inactive but silent for so long a time | since Chretien’s villainy was exposed and confessed? Why have no steps been taken to | rid the bar of such a rascal? The case against Attorney Rogers lacks the seal of an open confession, but the | evidence of fraud on his part is nevertheless so strong as to justify an immediate_jnvesti- It has been sufficient to form in the public mind a conviction of his Is it to gation by the bar. guilt. Does the Bar Association purpose to permit him to pass unquestioned? wait for the slow processes of grand juries and of courts? Here are the facts The Call has brought to light concerning Rogers’ connection with the case. He went into court as an attorney for certain persons whom he alleged to e heirs of the estate. He declared in court an assured conviction that the claimant put forward by Chretien was fraudulent; that no such man as Chretien pretended to have found was alive at the time. Having made that declaration, Rogers afterward withdrew the claim on the part of the heirs he alleged himself to represent, and in open court gave his consent to the distribution of the estate to the Chretien claimant, whom he had for- merly denounced as fraudulent. Roge! tate to Chretien’s bogus heir. That statement is contradicted by Rauer, ¥ho alleges that he paid $600 to Rogers, and that the payment was made in consideration of Rogers’ agreement to let Chretien’s scheme go through. With the details of the case, which have been fully published in The Call and proven in court, the members of the Bar Association are familiar.. They cannot be igno- rant of them, for they constitute one of the gravest scandals of the time, and are suffi- ciently contaminating to affect the reputation of bench and bar alike. , In the face of such an outrage, the Bar Association cannot retain public confidence if it remain silent. Is the association to do nothing to uphold the honor of the legal pro- on, to assure the public_that the bar is not open to thieves and rascals of the worst fess type? The issue cannot be evaded. Silence on the part of the association will be con-| strued as giving consent to the practices of such men as Chretien and Rogers, and will raise a suspicion that there are others in the profession who are equally guilty. Are ive the | there not enough honest members of the bar to call these men to justice and expel them | from a profession they have disgraced by using its privileges for the practice of frauds of the basest character? | THE PRESERVATION OF FORESTS. , ROM now to {he time when the conventions o ! | meet to nominate candidates for legislative of- fices and draw up pledges for the candidates to | subscribe there may be no large and disastrous forest fire to recall the public mind to the importance of grappling with that evil as speedily as a proper means can be devised for doing so. For that reason the press of the State should at this time undertake as a duty to keep the subject to the front, so that every man nominated for the Legislature shall be pledged to \ his uttermost next winter to bring about the estab- lishment in California of some comprehensive system of conserving our flood waters and preserving our jorests. The issue is not in any sense a partisan question, nor a local cne, and consequently the sup port given to any well directed attempt to deal with it should be well-nigh universal. Why should we wait for more fires to come to teach us the folly of ieaving our forests without pro- Have not the lessons of the past been suf- The fire season of to appear in the twelith statistical report of the Interstate Commerce Commission has just been given out to the press. It covers the fiscal year | ending June 30, 1899. It appears that on that date the total single-track railway mileage in the United States was 189,204.66 miles, an increase during the year of 2808.34 miles being shown. This increase is greater than for any other year since 1893. The States and Territorics which show an increase in s of 100 miles are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsyl- vania, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma. An evidence of the increasing prosperity of the | railways of the country is afforded by the fact that the number in the hands of receivers at the close of the fiscal vear was 71, there being a net decrease of 23 as compared with the corresponding date of the previous year. The number of railways placed in arge of receivers during the year was 16 and the ficiently costly and disastrous? ber removed from their management was 39. this vear has hardly begun, and yet already we have | The operated mileage of the roads under receivers on had reports of flames sweeping fields, pastures and | June 30, 1809, was 5853.13 miles, of which 722562 woods in almost every section of the State. The | miles were owned by them. Of the roads in the hands ing season has in many localities of receivers on the date named 10 had an operated opening of the shooti ; b i " filled the farmers with more or less dread of dangers | mileage in excess of 300 miles, 10 between 100 and 300 miles, and 40 less than 100 miles. from camp fires or from lighted matches or cigarettes thrown carelessly on the ground. It is certain that | Other proois of prosperity are found in-the sta- The number of passengers before the rainy season returns there will be lost to | tistics relating to traffic. California many thousands of dollars, and perhaps | carried during the year was 523,176,508, showing an millions, by these fires. It has been so in past sea- | increase for the year of 22,109,827. The number of cons, and it will be so until some adequate method is | passengers carried one mile—that is, passenger mile- provided for preventing it. age—during the year was 14,501,327,613, there being If we undertake to achieve this winter at least a | an increase in this item of 1,211,397,609. The num- | ctart toward a comprehensive system of forestry, we | ber of tons of freight carried during the year was will have attained something of great value, for when | 959,763,583, an increase -of 80,757,276 being shown. once a good start has been made the movement will The number of tons of freight carried one mile—that progress thereafter very largely of its own virtue. A is, ton mileage—was 123,667,257,153. The increase in + great deal of useful information on the subject can | the number of tons carried one mile was 9,589,680,843. be obtained through the forestry bureau of the De- | The average revenue per passenger.per mile for the partment of Agriculture, without cost to ourselves, | year ending June 30, 1809, was 1.925 cents; for the pre- and in other ways valuable assistance will come if we ceding year it was 1.973 cents. The revenue per ton in earnest set about the work. The one thing of im- of freight per mile was .724 cent, while for 1808 it portance is to put an end to the spirit of indifference | Was .753 cent. An increase in mileage earnings is and carelessness on the issue, and to begin to fdeal shown for both passenger and freight trains, with it in a rational, civilized way. In conclusion the statistician of the commission We repeat that the matter is one the press of the | repeats his previous recommendations to the effect State should take up and impress upon the public | that reports should be secured from express com- wind during the campaign. We shall have fires |panies engaged in interstate traffic; that repo-ts enough between now and election day to serve as | should be secured from corporations and companies object lessons to all who are in need of that kind of | owning rolling stock which is used in interstate trai- inetruction. The one danger is that what is learned | fic; and also special reports from corporations and in‘the dry season may be jorgotten when the winter | companies owning depot property, stock yards, eleva- comes. For that reason the campaign of education 0a the stibject should be made now and candidates for the Legislature pledged to do at least something fhis winter in the direction of checking these disastrous conflagrations. e e tection? from carriers by water, so far as their business is in- terstate traffic. The recommendations are deserving of support. should grant it 2ll powers required to make it useful in as many ways as possible. There is certainly no reason why the interstate commerce handled by ex- press companics should not be supervised by the com- mission as well as that llandled by railways. Tjoca! health authorities have condemned a great deal of Federal supplies as unfit for food. Since the bubonic combination appears to be broken somebody ought to suggest the removal of the Kinyoun me- nagerie to this city, where its late champions could | destroy it as inimical to public safety. Waldorf Astor is getting a good deal of roasting for his treatment of Sir Berkeley Milne, but possibly the uninvited nobleman deserved all that Astor gave him. It is not likely that Astor, after requesting Milne’s re- tirement from his concert, would thereafter have pub- lished the fact without some reason for doing it. i RIS | 1f the Board of Public Works were as prompt .in in ite attention to public improvements as it was the other day in rejecting a bid that was three minutes late in being presented, San’Francisco would try to endure the shock of watching officials performing their duty; e Congressman Lentz has declared that he thinks the Democrats can carry Ohio this year, and now we know that when Mr. Lentz thinks that he thinks he is really just talking with his mouth. — Two duties are at this time imposed by his political Everybody admits that the Chinese ought to be well whipped, but we take notice that Kaiser William | is the only person who shows any enthusiastic de- | sire to do the whipping, and he doesn’t intend to go ibilities 1 s | himself and take part in i responsibilitics upon a good citizen; first, he must | register so that he can vote, and then he must join | Some of the friends of Judge Troutt who have been a Regublican cluh anwt. 5 w | appointed attorneys for absent heirs are certainly con- The campaign of this year is very much like that of | vinced of the truth of the adage that distance does 1896, but it will be quicter and duller, and we will | lend enchantment to the view. miss Tom Watson. 5 ~ wore he received no money for consenting to the distribution of the es-| SUMMARY of the railway statistics which is | tors, and the like; and that reports should be securey Since the commission has been established Congress ; D R S O R SCES SO SO S Y ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGD [ WAS TRAVELING MAN AND HAD A STEAD BUT, ALONG_CAME THE MSKINLEY Q L et I S i S A TESTIMONIATL. v#«us AND 1 LOST MY OCCUPATION. -0 e o S A AR A A * £ * * : é ) @ * ° . > * @ * ¢ * ) * £ + @ . - . LY - P * ® . . DS * e . —=8t. Paul Pioneer Press. s eieoe@® Second Prince. lang Woi Ris son Pu Lan Disqualified L e S e e o | | HE Chinese royal family consisted originally in the present generation of seven Princes. Two of these are dead. Of these Princes one only suc- Icopdml to the throne. At his death his on reigned for a short time, when he died, _and the throne was given to the son of the seventh Prince, who is now | supposed to be in possession. power In 1644. It is called the Tsing dynasty—the word “Tsing” meaning pur- V. 1 family is not of Chinese anchu. the Ming dynasty The preceding dy- Ming" nas me thi. wa g bright. The royal family dynasty were of pure Chinese blood. For a short time previous to the Ming dynasty the empire was ruled by a Mon- golian royal family, known as the Yuan > anin; the only and the The Yuan dynasty Tsing dynasty are dynasty. present which the royal familles have not been Chinese. / Emperor Taokwang, who was the father of the seven Princes of the present gener- ation of royalty, was the sixth Emperor in the Tsing dynasty. He was succeeded on the throne by his fourth son, Prince Emperor. This Prince married a wife, and she had one son, Tungehi. The present Chinese dynasty came inlo two dynasties in the history of China in | Hienfung, who was known as the seventh | B AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT A TR T R TR TR AT AR TR TSR EMPEROR TUA KWAKG -- MARRIED YUFN (TARTAR.) Third Princ (Dead) | Pirst Wife (D2ad) Her Son , Suppress By Towager Rrpress. Present Dow- tger Ruprcss R e L it R s ‘While his first wife was yet living he | took a second wife, Tsu Hsi, the pres-|an ent Empress Dowager. Tungchi became the eighth Emperor. H is sald to have been very wild and dis pated. and he died in 1575. some time elapsed was settled. son of the seventh Prince, Chung. this she declared that Puolan, son of the second Prince, was disqualified becar | he had accepted the estate of the thii Prince, who had died. The claims of all | others available, were simply suppressed. deal of tact in making this arrangement. Before she had been taken as a wife she | was a slave. After her elevation she | contrived that her sister should marry rince Chung. Kwang Su was the issue | of that marriage, and by making him Em- peror she was elevating her nephew both by blood and marriage. With an eyve t the future also, the Empress Dowager ar- ranged a marriage between her exalted nephew and the daughter of her brother, General Kwan Siang. The Emperor and the Empress are therefore cousins. There are no children. Pourth Prince.lPirth Prince His reign lasted but a short time, | the populace until a change is made The imperial family were divided as to | who should succeed to the throne, and | Prince—that before the question | ent The Empress Dowager made the selection—choosing Beileh Kwang Su, To 4o | leties and has alw The Empress Dowager showed a great | L o B B N s e e e e e e e g = : GHINESE EMPEROR’S FAMILY * TREE - * L] & . @ Sixth Prince.|| Sevorth Prince ; Tuan . Leador of 3 Robellion. | — X ! L 4 His Son | * ed * Yine Yoars . o1 13 e - Hetr | @ Apparent. | . . v . Chinese Princes are not regarded with degree of awe by the populace until Very I 1 family, they tentic | very little is known of its members by in the ruler. For this reason Prince Tuan, the sixth the sixth son of the pres- Emperor's grandfather—I | before been he 40 years old, ha s life to ath- been a great fa- | vorite with the young men of the nation | with whom he came in contact. | Tuan has a son 9 years old, who has | been proclaimed Crown Prince, or heir | presumptive to the throne. The young | men rallying around Tuan's banner for | the purpose of avenging themselves on foreigners were first known as athletes or boxers. Their ranks rapidly grew. The recruits accepted the name, and all who were In sympathy with the cause desig- nated themselves Boxers. [ The Viceroys and Govermors are not of oyal blood. The two offices are some- | what_similar. although the Viceroy is considered somewhat higher in rank. The duties of both the Viceroy and the Gov- ernor are co-ordinate. Neither has au- thority over the other; both are responsi- ble directly to the Emperor. PERSONAL MENTION. State Senator Thomas Flint Jr. is stop- ping at the Palace. W. I. Leester, a well known resident of Carson s registered at the Palace. Charles Henderson, a leading merchant ot New York, Is stopping at the Palace. C. E. Sherman, a merchant of Santa Barbara, is registered at the Occidental. B. V. Sargent, a well known attorney of Salinas, is registered at the Occidental. H. M. Yerington, one of Carson City's most prominent citizens, is at the Palace. Murray Innis, one of the most prominent mining men of Arizona, is at the Occiden- tal. Dr. J. 3. Johnson and W. G. Murfin of the United States army are guests of the Occidental. G. B. McCauley, a member of the Demo- cratic State Central Committee, is at the California. W. H. Great, a prominent society man and capitalist of New York, s registered at the Palace. W. H. Hoppin, 2 capitalist of Provi- dence, R. 1., accompanied by his family, is at the Palace. James McMenomy Jr., the well-known bicycle rider of this city, is enjoying his vacation at Bartlett Springs, in order to get into condition to smash records. —_——————————— SAN FRANCISCANS IN PARIS. NEW YORK, July 16.—The following San Franciscans are registered in Paris: L. Arnstein and family, Dr. J. Callandreu, Mrs. H. Doepfner, Mrs. R. H. Dearborn, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Lychtenstein, Miss M. Lychtenstein_Miss H. Hoffers, Mr. and Mrs. H. Kauhn, Miss M. Kauhn, F. La- faix, Mrs. W. H. Thornley, Caroline Vo- gel. PETER DAILEY KILLED BY ILLUMINATING GAS The Key Was Loose and Was Acci dentally Turned On by the Victim. Peter Dalley, a railroad hand, aged about 60 years. was found dead in his room in the Webb House, 37 Second street, at noon yesterday by Sarah Rundel, a chambermaid in the lodging house. The gas key was turned fully on and the room was filled with the suffocating fumes. Dalley was in bed and his clothes were on a chair. There was nothing to sup- port the theory of suicide, the gas key being 50 loose as to be turned with a very ht tap of the fingers. Y afisypenngvd tg: room a week afo. and was temperate in his habits. An in- quest will be held. —————— Merchants’ Association Members. During the past month the following twenty-five new firms have been added to the rolls of the Merchants’ Association, bringing the total membership up to 1214 firms: Amrath & Amrath, Luis de Abris- queta, W. C. Bentham, F. E. Booth, George C. Bornemann & Co., Chauche & Bon, C. Claussen. Henry C, Flaggeollet, Glaze & Trewella, L. Hirsch & Co., George P. Ide & Co., G. Jewell, John Lubben, J. G. Macdonald, 8. C. Murray, Omey & Goetting, J. S. Oppenheim, Occidental and Orlental Steamship Company, Schlegel & r, John Simmen, Steiger Terra ta and Pottery Works, les Steinfels, ‘Willlam Taaffe & Co., the Van Laak Man- ufacturing Company and James Young. '} .+0+0+o—o—o+o+o—~+o—0- $ FASBION HINT FROM PARIS. [ e e e e o S S R e e e e e e C SRCR SR S S B R S S R R R O IR S @000 et sdsieiede® DRAB POPLIN DRESS. . The engraving represents a princess dress of drab poplin, with the outline of bolero traced in stitching, the line belng | continued over the hips to form an out- | line of the arron. The shawl lapels are of white frilled cambric, and the cravat | and trimming of the sleeves are of same material. |NOBLE EFFORTS FOR THE DUMB ANIMALS Thousands of Dollars Spent in Carry- ing On the Work of the Society. The annual meeting of the San Francis- co Society for the Prevention of Cruelty | to Animals was held yesterday in the Par- rott building. Secretary C. B. Holbrook’s report of the business of the past twelve months and the financial statement of the soclety was as follows: Number of cases reported, 257; investigated, 250; prosecuted, 147; convictions, $§: disabled animals killed, 198; animals taken from work by reason of sickness, old age, soreness, otc., 1901; animals removed by society's ambulancs, 59; ‘animals involved, 13,753; animals relieved, | 3443, Financial statement: ' Cash received_for year, 310,670 07; cash disbursed for year, $i1.- 022 08; deficit for year, $352 01: total cash on hand ‘June 1, 1300, in 'San Francisco Savings Union, $11,346 69; cash in treasurer's hands, §136 32; cash in decretary’s hands, 307 7 total, ~ The old board of trustees was ri as follows: i oo N. P. Cole, Colonel J . Jacksor S. Hutchinson, O 8 Crittenden, 5. B oimen, Frank A. Vail, John Partridge, Martin Stevens, Dr. Charles A. Clinton, Robert C. Holton, 1. N. The M. McDonald, orp, E. F. Delger, J. M. Géorge M. Mitcheil, Tre 5. Dalziel. the Interesting papers wers Mrs. &te Waters nndgug. c..Bftl.!%I!?rzot on S8 gthes nu the organization of SAN FRANCISCANS MOURN FOR RELATIVES Mrs. E. D. Bailie, Her Husband and Three Children Butchered by the Boxers. Among the San Franci families to whom the news of the massacre at Pe- king has brought sorrow is that of Alfred Worley, attorney at law. His sister, Mrs. E. D. Bailie, her husband and their three children were among the victims of the fiendish brutality of the Chinese. Mrs. Baille had been a resident of China for several years, and last summer she re- turned to San Francisco with her chil- dren on a visit to her brother and sister, Miss Dr. Worley, leavi king last Segteame: T N N WO _years ago her husband was pointed professor of English in the Im.p: rial University ot Peking; which position e p to the t > oc b of that city by the Boxers, = Ccc Pation The last letter received by Mr. Worley from his sister was dated Peking, May 3 bout’ the ap- o of this year. She told him al prehension that had been felt there as the Boxer rebellion, and how she and her husband had made all preparations for a hasty flight from China, until the arrival of the marines had quicted all the fears of the foreigners residing in that city. That was the last that Mr. Worley heard from his sister and her family, anq he is eonvinced that not one esca the horrible carnage. COMPLAINTS OVER SEIZURES OF TROUT The trout fishermen on the Truckee River In this State and Nevada are com- plaining to the California State Fish Com- | missloners of the recent seizures of trout recently made by Deputy L. N. Kercheval, These fishermen are known to the commis~ sion as market fishers, and during the past two weeks they sent quantities to | local dealers. The law prohibits the sale of trout under six inches in length, and | every lot seized there were many of tha prohibited kind. The total selzuree amounted to about 40 pounds, valued o3 about % cents a pound. These were sented to local charitable institutions o During the past day or so the fisherm | have been sending letters to the Commis. sioners to the effect that the seizures wy unwarranted, the fish i | | 1 x in, inches, which Mr. Kercheval dentes i Commissioners are satisfled that no mis. take has been made by the deputy. —_—— Merchants’ Association’s Review. The July number of the Merchants As- sociation Review has just been issued, It contains many interesting subjects re- lating to municipal government. One pa- r, by Georze Hansen, d e jSenrk System for San Prnncl::t:."' "l"'hl:-:c. jects of street sprln.klln,, &I:'e“uefl: Sys- n: tem and first duties o also_discussed. Superfor Jud‘e"é‘s'::: A, Belcher contributes a lo; “iVhat Shall Be the Status o‘f"!h‘:‘l"l‘ll:hon of Our New Insular Territorial’ othes sions?” Cal, glace fruit §0c per I at Townsend's,* —— e, Special information supplied dafly business houses and public men e Tess. u (Allen" A gomery st. 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