The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1900, Page 3

FRANCI SCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1900. FRAUD FAILS TO SAVE THE BOSSES OPPOSITION TO KELLY AND CRIMMINS CAN EASILY ORGANIZE AND DIRECT THE MUNICIPAL CONVENTION Disgraceful Scenes at the Polls--= ing, Stuffing and Fraudulent Voting of Every Where Stuffing Was Resisted the Des- perate Henchmen of T[lint Saloon Bossism Smashed the Ballot Boxes and Scattered the Contents. the names d fraudulently e returning board can be produced whose names they did not g« h Returning Board. board to de t shall prevail . election, promulg amittee, contains t The end decide ed to & seat in the 1 to the welfare of the Re. to the cause of clean Francisco that the & board shall a urni consider the t at twenty thousand glected to participate election _yesterday, but 1 be needed to elect th November. No d a primary tection of law as a farce purposely refrained from ey will vote next Now: e Republican ticket if bos an party of SBan Francisco board appointed by to do its duty. g board lot box cating old-time smash it. oted for Dibble. rst District people were sterday of an orderly, clean . and some respects they had Democrats V. y- lot-boxes. But the Democra be proud. in-the-wool st actd He one of Dibbl % pent the a. 2 men who voted the Democrati the last election and who made es that the 1 vote the Re- r cast votes for ker, C. A. Murdock, F. C. E. Taylor, Irvine Graham sen are some of tne repre zens who worked activ e s ticket. Leon Denner: Dibble Jr. were the most rkers for the Dibble ticket. il ge vote was polled by ofessional men of the was overwhelmin » After that hour the nd the Democrats began to ne odds changed in favor of a1 cases Democrats refused at that they intended to vote Republican nominees, but at their elbows urged them irma they did were accepted. s a list of Democrat- will make affidavit to it est with the County Cen- one of Martin chmen in the Thiri the County Cent w hints_in practica: afternoon. He called at h an order for tally uberance of his elec- m he sald: cher life Kelly's got de Fred Eagers is . me one of de gang « puts in four all in a people out there is all he's one of us—purty good 106. Yousé kin put him in “"he'll go de route all right in de Tirty- ne we District ing two opposi- h precinct. The of this distnct hoss element. Leon Sam- Jeremiah Coilins are members and J. B. Daughney the others. -Crimmins men obtained pos- fon of the b = Thursday even- nd some ir heelers slept with araphernalia ail night. In the morn- If hour before time for the polls with the returning election | ail in the nominating | Kelly- | re were no fights, nor smashed or | 1 < | Riot in Thirty-First District. | Kelly's | and Crimmins and | Description Encouraged. AREFUL estimates made at a late hour last night show that the bosses will not be able to organize or control the local nominating convention of the Republican par- ty. The opposition to Kellv and Crimmins has triumphed in the following Assembly Districts: Twenty-ninth, Thirty-first, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, Thirty- seventh, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and Forty-fourth. These large districts have 151 of the 250 delegates. According to the face of returns, some of them being notoriously fraudulent and illegal, Kelly and Crimmins may be able to control the following districts: Twenty-eighth, Thirtieth, Thirty-eighth, Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty- third and Forty-fifth. These hoss-ridden districts will be represented by ninety-one delegates. The Thirty-second District with nine delegates is classed as doubtful. Leaders of the anti-boss element in the County Com- mittee are confident that the opposition to Kelly and Crim- mins will organize the convention and dictate the nomina- tions. A survey of the field shows that E. I. Wolfe has lost his The returning board of the County Committee will be called upon te deal with the affairs of this district. Dibble may be nominated again for the Legislature, but independ- ent Republicans are already insisting that his record shall be produced in order to insure his defeat. n Kelly, Phil Crimmins and | for not respecting the wishes of their enc v were on hand at the corner | T of the commitiee of the distric Jessie that hmen_wer to peat- forlofole foeforiofe il @ foofoefenfesfonfunfonoefesfosfoefonferforfoefenfortote cfesforforffrofomfesoofe foferforted] oo S ) el ol tion and at the polls yester- ; ! : OFF YER. HoT. AR ZSEE © EODIE BUCKLEY DID PoLITICS Fok DER. PUSH +s o D R R e g @-0@0@:@&@—0—@—0—. After i an at- | tempt was made to steal the | of the rowdies started to lea | with_the | but was capt man Barry. | over to Inspe the latter, accom county commit a gang of prote the polling place had boxes out of received 3. E: | his own faction the Ruef ticket. Scheme of Bosses Foiled. County Committeeman Frank Worth fofled the attempt of Kelly and Crimmins ruffians to gain control of the ballot box in the Thirty-ninth sembly District returns gave :man ¢ ting Kelly and Crimmins : SO : 5 3 | e, marched to the rooms of the County | The voting booth at 1032 Sutter street was fight for renomination to the Senate in the Twenty-first I | Committee in the Baldwin Annex. ' M. |about to close when the hirelings of the s torial District % | Hillman and Chairman ;"\l{rmil [‘r’\;“’;"r“l‘){‘\SA”;‘ "‘imao a descent on the booth. Mr. | were present to receive the ots and the | Worth divined th ose and ¥ enatorial District. i Toom "was crowded with poiiticians an | vented them carrying Sut Thelr nefarlous : P i | policemen. Fortunately the latter were | work. No blows were struck, but for a _Democrats marshaled by Rainey, Lan_lgan’and Herrin 3 | Bresct i force, Ot heriise some fghting | ort dme e air wae Hiied with warm assisted Kelly and Crimmins in the invasion of the Forty- & R\ Cilapers and Counter.charse | nent.”The bo e hae . " o . . | volces, and it was | they could t gal S ) - first District. The result is the election, on the face of the | Nl for sericant’ Christchson nd | lord Cust byt sitlzens, withdrew 10 & - : squad to clear the room before the | nearby aloc and d d @ disap- returns, of the Dibble ticket. B e srain e Ot et T A dean Mr., Boyne dem Inspector Kavanaugh turn the ballots over to the County Committee and demanded silence until the inspector. who was badly “rat- tled”” by the confusion, could explain how the ballots had been stolen and recovered. ain Barry was called upon to make atement, after which a réceli\l for ‘purported”’ ballots was turned over | to the inspector and a duplicate which was RESULTS OF THE r"ANVASSES. How the Candidates, Boss and Anti- Boss, Fared at the Polls. The rturns came in slowly to the return- board at the County Central Committee K headquarters, the last of the district | Toudly demanded by .!l : <n_r1'm ‘xm boards reporting there arriving only J. lml\“{:»\\l}:;‘.h}ql\l Pl Nthf_rrh ‘-I'A-"\mm | shortly before midnight. Returns from et and within a few minutes an- | tWelve precincts were reported to the reg- ular returning board, although two cl other squabble was on the tapis. Bosses Ignominiously Defeated. them were incomplete and were accom- i panied by protess The bosses went down to_ignominious | “p " B8 Po Ul wa d. | t st 22 for | Kelly faction. of | e hard for their foliowers to 10- | dcfes the Thirty-fourth District, not- ninth and the Thirty- o'clock “Jack Namara and the 3 - anti-Bouvier, | wiihatanding the sirenuous efforts of cach | fourth districts there were iwo sets of re- board whose credentials had been » Iy and Crimmins | man on the push ticket. They brought | turns, there having been in those districts iirman ‘J uvier an v and Crimmins factions | their henchmen to the polls vehicles of | two sets of ballot boxes. One set of re- appeared out for themselves. every description, but the respectable cit- | turns went to the regular returning board i Ve 2nd de- | Relly's Hand in Thirty-Third. izens of the district pursued the even |and the other to the Shiels Hall gather- ssion. _The | rimmins o - = % tenor of their way and elected their dele- | ing. door bolted indow | A. J. Martin and Jack Welsh looked | gates by a large majority. | "Chatrman Bouvier clalms that of the six inches, so th voters | after the County Committee's interests in | Robinson, who headed the list of | delegates elected those of the Twenty s’ through to the the Thirty-third District. All was quiet, | delegates on the boss ticket, and | nd, Thirty-third, Thirty { & irge of ~ the box. [ oly due to the fact that the opposi- | made himself conspicuous by an open | y-sixth, Thirty-ninth and T men refused admittance to the reg- | tion rstablished polling places in other | 1 of the cause of bosslsm, met with ourth districts are favorable to the ula s and an- Qi‘-”\ of the district. It is claimed that | }jjs just deserts, being defeated by George y Committee and opposed to Kelly T Propeny sii- | Martin ’x "r‘ ‘;“'r‘f“'."‘:‘ :"‘{:’rl:m-‘i';‘ f}'éf his | [, Center by a vate of 474 to 208 and Crimmins, and those of the Thirtys ) o allow Mec- e imen to hy ass n; 3 egis 3. 5. 3 are vide Vee! S€d n ? Bis Side. | trar that he wanted them for the Con- Bosses Win in the Fortieth. T ey i-Cr fed 1o force | greasion i primary. Instead of carrying | The bosses proved themselves astute | from the twélve districts reporting to the «»E-{‘n (r:: m:«;; ‘;’1”:?. ;’r:‘lv ",' ?]l““t.;;"rl;\m"h:i ;'\fzu}vfi" ];f:u'r;]l;P{}“* \:. 1‘1‘th» llmxeq in op-| and scheeming politicians by their suc-|regular returning board, the name of the B o L e A | Baillotine at Tastrtats _‘“,i‘.‘l-‘_flmmm cessful plan to disrupt and corrupt the | first candidate on the list of State Conven- inted If « that box they | streets was quiet and brisk. _More than | Yoting In the second poliing place in the | tion delegates belng gIvens, 0 1o o100 of their own just | two hundred representative Republicans | Fortieth District. That they succeeded (regular), 811; Thomas Corey (elly and gtreet at 10: o'clock. For | cast thelr ballots in the cause of decency. | was borne out by the successful manner ey 3 o the remainder of the day relgne Kelly and Crimmins had two large bal- | in which their hirelings manipulated the | ~ 3 i 2 supreme in the Mint sa trict. Vot- | lot-boxes filled with votes before the noon | votes. The story of their crime came to econd Distslct- T. B.-de "With, t on un o hour, one at Twenty-fourth streeet an. choosing_his votin Potrero avenue, and the other in the bac! room of a saloon at Twentieth and Il nois streets, permitted hipley streets, | elly-Crimmins men holding forth at | urth street. In the First Precinct rth of Jessie ballot-box received 323 for the Kelly-Crimmins ticket and 22 for the anti-boss ticket, while in the yuth of Jessie ballot-box there were de- posited 317 votes for the anti-boss ticket | and 2 for the Kelly-Crimmins candidates. | extreme. In the that district, voted often. He walked u In the Thirty-first District, which is lo- | cated above the section of the south-of- | the opportunity to vote. He voted th Market-street dividing line. where Kelly | hame of Charles W. Will of 216 Prospor(; to show that they were in earnest they and Crimmins ieelers could mot stuff the | place and when Mr. Hart, who was pres- | broke in a plate-glass window. The box, there was trouble incidental to a |ent to prevent stuffing; protested his ob- jumped into the primary where no laws can be evoked for | protection against roughs and opium | smokers who take orders from the bosses. At No. 2 polling place of the Thirty- ballot-boxes in the booth. enchmen in the Forty-third District was so criminal that the policemen who were present to,keep order blushed for shame. Despite the protestations of J. D. Hart and George J. Boyne stuffing went on with a freedom that was startling in the second polling place “Bob" Corcoran, a notorious. politician. of to the ballot-box without fear and cast the votes of honorable men who had not jection was overruled by the hirelings o the bosses, who played havoe with :hf | " Mr. Hart asked Corcoran if he was not opposition ticket. hirty-third District—John Rider (regu- lar), 430; George D. Flack, Thirty-fourth District—J. K 75: G. Muller, 206. light last night when C. G. Bolsdorff,.in- spector of the booth, foudly proclaimed that he wanted a receipt for his ballots. He shouted that 365 votes had been cast a k 1- mixed in character. Thirty-sixth District—E. D. Berri, 203. No opposition; ticket independent and at least not dominated by the bosses. Thirty-ninth District—P. L. Archibald (regular), 784 Nathan Bibo (Kelly and Crimmins), 137. age which rested in the ballot-box, which he said contained votes that were pro- tested because they fell out of the box when it was thrown down the cellar. In- spector Bolsdorff having secured his re- ceipt and left, the true story of boss methods came to the surface. C. Hobbs | In the Sec- ahn and 204 for Fitzgerald, and that | sl Made Policemen Blush. B T 10 thn e uoh t—John D. Daley, 3%9; | mara faction opened a poll-| The work of Kelly and Crimmins' | sheets, He called attention to a pack- Ticket elected is ourth and S| NORKED 00 ZeeLys Gang Bea OVERTIMEB » 19, second precinct 276, total 465. Dibble's second District—Dr. C. T. Deane and Crimmins), 422; Horace Wil- fourth District—W. F. Fitzgerald W. Schenk, 355. Of the districts reporting at Shiels Hall | and defying the authority of the regular returning board the results were as fol- Twentyv-eighth District—But one ticket; Thirtieth District—Total vote 357. Kelly- Crimmins ticket 311, regular ticket 46. first District—In this district the between a Burns faction and a The following returns were made at Shiels Hall: Burns ticket 253, Kelly-Crimmins 76. Thirty-seventh District—Partial returns, st precinct, Kelly-Crimmins ticket, 54 -boss, 182. * . * - ¢ Su . tUTUGGESTED HIS FUTURE HomEe -+ READY TO voTE & - THE FIFTH TIME .+ + |® + KELLY AND CRIMMINS ‘.4« 25 I eD OO D e e ettt etedeleiede +ES eI | neighboring saloon and within a short | same way. The boss element opened busi- | time half a dozen rounders, filled with | ness for themselves, but at no time were | majority, 122. | drink, would roll over to the voting place | they a possible factor in the fight. orty | and ¢ he votes of honest mern. T After the polls closed Ruef's end made | | decent element was helpless and had to|a return to the Baldwin Annex head- | | sta and watch the criminals work. | quarters and the opponents, headed by | According to a well-known citizen of the | County Committeeman Eddie Buckley, | (regular), §01; district between twenty and thirty Keily | brought their ballots to the Shiels build- |and Crimmins rowdies voted throughout | ing. Charges of crooked work were made | | the day with freedom and frequency.|by both sides, but the boss outfit ac- Their pres in the district simpiy | knowledged that Ruef was the owner of | lows: | frightened the citizens and they remainea | the district. away from the booth. Returns 312 votes cast. Thirty-eighth District—No contest. Fortieth District—No returns reported. For hird District — Kelly-Crimmins 425; anti-boss ticket, 138 Forty-fif District — Kelly - Crimmins ticket, 447; ticket, 50. From_ the ninth District the Kelly-Crimmins people for their separate ballot box as follow < “rimmins ticket, 633; anti-boss, 37. tus Tilden, mouthpiece of Bosses 1d Crimmins, appeared before the returning board with a proposition from his superiors which was not entertained. The rival faction wi anxious to bring its returns over to the Baldwin Annex, but declined to do so unless it received as- surances from the board that it would consent to have the County Committee as a whole act on the protest: Mr. Til- den's overtures fell on deaf ears and he was obliged to withdraw and inform the bosses of his failure. The matter now resolves itself into a bitter fight which will not end until right is recognized. The bosses will attempt in three ways to defeat the upholders of ciean politics. They will in all_probability resort on on credentials and will attempt their cause by producing the au- They will also appeal to the Election Commission for the right to hold a convention and will also seek recogni- tion at the hands of the State Central Committee. Mr. Tilden after his unsatisfactory in terview with the returning board stated that his side won out all over the city. “Although we are perfectly satisfied that we are going to be sustained by the State Central Committee and eventually v the County Committee itself.” he said, e nevertheless in the interest of har- mony proposed to the committee of eight- een that we would practically recogrize them as a returning and canvassing board, provided that they would submit all pro- tests however trivial to the whole County Committee. “1 came over this evening representing an anti-Ruef-Bouvier faction. The mat- ter was informally discussed in commit- tee and a resolution was adopted by the committee rejecting my proposition. The spirit of the committee was shown by the attitude of Mr. Metzner of the Thirty- sixth Assembly District. who advised the committee to instruct those whom I rep- resented to file their returns as provided reported returns in rsion of the call published in to- day’s paper, namely 930 Market street, or do with them as we pleased. “I then withdrew. flfih! to the finish on the proposition that the tuted canvassing and returning boards for their respective districts, and the appointment of the committee of eighteen was an arrogation of power not justified in the call of August 11, 1990, and entirely Inconsistent with the Ruef amendment to that call, which was car- | | o o Forty-first District—Milton H. Esberg R LS B R R L B (DbbIe Tirst precinct 354, second precinct b | ballots, a number of hirelings of the| 241, total 59; J. C. Campbell, first precinct | bosses tried to enter the booth and gain S o | possession of the ballot-box. Their threatening front was only a feint, but JOHN W. LORBEER KILLED IN HONOLULU Fatally Shot by a Conductor of the {mlk‘eman on duty breach and strove to hurl the hirelings back, and during the excitement Inspec- tor Bolsdorff, who was in league with the bosses, by a premeditated move , at 284 Ninth street, in ;hp private | ashamed of glmsehlf for_voting another | grabbed the bmdlm-b?x and hurled it Oahu Railway, Whom He Had loon, a_disgraceful row oc- | man's name, but the stuffer unblushingly | through a trap-door into the cellar. C. i . A ieceion oMcers, | 1gnored the robike. The Xelly and Cogw. | M. Dillom, who was in sympathy with Threatened to Discharge. mes Nolan, Harry Hall, | mins fellows inside the booth came to the w through the HONOLULU, Aug. 11.—Av quarrel be- George Brown and James stuffer's rescue by yelling “What of it? wed the ballot- | tween Yardmaster John W. Lorbeer and 7, were attending to the business | to them. Edward Nolan, the | county committceman of the district, en- tered the room where the ballot-box rest- ed on a table in front of the window. At the same time S. J. Campbell, a_brother- | in-law of Phil Crimmin deputy in Sc he Tax Col- | Vote anyhow.” Mr. Corcoran voted, A young man named Dunphy voted th name of Timothy G. Murphy of 211 Pro. pect place, and twenty minutes Michael Clay, who street. handed voting and protested made a grab | Spector of the,booth. t intention of | backed him up! The latter an tried to prevent the | phy, “‘Yes, you voted alre: m destroving the ballots, | the Keli row was precipitated, | booth replied i1 unison, “What t'ell it h = front of the ballot-box | d1d? Let him vote again.”” ,Dunphy vote: the ballots strewn about | again. r the melee heelers on | Tommy Conboy, a prominent factor i the outside threw bundles of folded bai- | Democratic politics in the Forty-thir | lots among those on the floor. District, changed political coats for th The timely arrival of Policemen Gond- | occasion and made himself obnoxious. . | win and Van Kueren prevented further |the decent Republicans. destruction of property and, evi- | lenged repeatedly tly was the desire of the Kelly and | ed in obstructi Crimmins heelers. a big row. The officers | 8an, known as ‘“Napoleon” I'agan of bas, | placed S. J. Campbell, James Nolan (also | ball and political affairs, and who is als | an_employé of Scott) and W. J. Maskell | & Democrat, voted in behalf of Kelly au. { under arrest, charging them with disturb- | Crimmins. | ing the peace. These men in turn pre- | ferred charges against Edward Nolan for | breaking the ballot-box. “He was arresteq | and charged with malicious mi: resides at 1025 Cla; to v,” and agai nd Crimmins voices inside-th later brazenly returned and voted the name of | Mr. Hart objected to this high- to the in- John Kavuanaugn id to Dun He was chal- for voting and succeed.- | the voting. Joseph Fa- When Mr. Fi her of 1308 Powell street, a highly respectable and well-known Re- publican, attemipted to vote, as was his box through the trap-door. e | in the cellar in time to a number of ® | Keily and Crimmins men diligertly en- gaged in stufing the box. He grabbed the box and tossed it back into the room. During these exciting proceedings a num- ber of ballots fell on the floor and bes | came contaminated in the eves of the board. The policeman having forced the crowd back, the bailoi-box was rescued and quiet once more reigned in the camp. In the first precinct of the Fortieth dis- trict the same state of affairs existed. No window was broken, but the contents | of the ballot-hox were dumped on the floor by the inspector, and a clerk while supposedly engaged in resculng the votes emptied his pockets of a hundred folded ballots and they were counted with those legitimately cast. F. W. Meyer, County Committeeman from the district and a number of prom. inent citizens are ready to flle affidavits with the County Committee to prove that the ballots were intentionally or acei- dentally strewn on the floor by Harry Baehr, the acting inspector, and that Harry Thompson, who acted as elerk, added more ballots to those originally cast. There is every likelihood of a sti He arrived the County}{ Committee, scheme in 4 Jiffy and foll Samuel Barney, conductor, of the Oahu Railway Company last Sunday morning ended in/the shooting of the yardmaster, Who died in a few moments ‘after being shot. Barney is now under arrest charged with murder in the first degree. The trouble between the two men arose over threats by Lorbeer to discharge Bar- ney, accusing him of drunkenness. On Sunday morning they met at the rail- road station just as an excursion train was about to leave. Barney stood in front of an engine and Lorbeer pushed him out of the way. Then as Lorbeer started to leave Barney shouted at him, calling him some name it is supposed. The yard- master started back toward Barney and the latter drew a pistol and fired. After the first shot Lorbeer clinched with the other man, though he had already received a fatal wound. The two men fell to the ground, Barney firing again with the pistol pressed against Tlorbeer's side, Lorbeer died before reach- ing the hospital. chcums of witnesses differ as to who was the aggressor. Some state that Lor- beer had struck the first blow before any shot was fired. while according to others the pistol was used when Lorbeer was ap- ¥ n e o a u d | o] o 0 d right, he was Zold that he had already |contest before the County Committee to~ | Was immediately released on a | voted. ~ He protested vehemently —anj | might A Stfong protest will be made | PiRACHINE BATNEY. o rents reside in Po- | " ¥earing further trouble, Sergeant Coo- | might not have secured the priviicge of | against accepting the votes and testi-| ona, Cal. He had been in the employ of | gan with five policemen from the Southern | casting his baliot had not Mr. Hart in- | mony will be glven to %rove that dirty | tphe rn'llrolid for about two vears and was | division was sent to the scene in a patrol | formed the inspector that a ‘‘hop-head’ | politics was resorted to by unscrupulous |z highly efficlent workman, having been wagon. The ballots which had been | voted Mr. Fisher's name early in the | politicians. promoted from the bottom to the position | strewn about the floor were picked up by | morning. When Mr. Fisher tendered his Ruef Wins Decisive Victory. He was a member of the | Thomas E. Brophy, a friend of the Fifth- | | etreet push, who strung them together | but after Mr. Hart and Fisher made their | and took them to his room e polling | united complaint against such unfair place remained closed during fhe rest of | methods the officers condescended to al- low him to vote. the day and interest was transferred to | therefore voted twice. olling place No. 1. at 200 Natoma street, | both sides realizing that the fate of the | tiekets would be determined there. | The straightening out of the political | tangle in the Thirty-first in a manner sat- | isfactory to even a few of the electors of the district will take quite a little time | ana constderable diplomacy. One faction met Wednesday night and took action against “some” of the County Committee ing place voted about seventy-five between ti the f openly and notoriously engaged in writin, out the names of the to a henchman, ballot the polling officers laughed at him, Mr. Fisher's name was There is strong evidence to show the Kelly and Crimmins gang in the mflf hours of 4 and 6. Onemgz udges inside the polling place was citizens who h: not voted. These names were passed n?x‘: who took them to a of yardmaster. order of Odd Fellows. ‘Barney came here about a vear ago from San Antonio, Texas. He was ar- raigned in the District Court the day after the killing and granted a continuance. It is understood that bis plea will be self- defense. ——— ST. PAUL, Aug. M.—Private advices to-day from New York state that Luther E. Newport, the prominent St. Paul soclety and business man, well known in business all over the coun- became temporarily insane in New York because of the heat on Monday, is In a vez critical condition, but it Is hoped that with great care he may recover. In the Forty-fourth District Abe Ruef beat out the Kelly and Crimmins faction quite handily. At both polling places his opponents, realizing that their chances of a showing were slim, opened voting head- quarters of their own. In the First Pre- dinct Maurice Bushway assumed charge of the new polls and ‘hustled about for votes, but Ruef himself was close at hand and got the majority of the vpters to lh{low their bz'l:loua;a:}t‘ T!dfafiuonfi b’l;he were not far . and thou; Dl Were Weil supplied with “serappers’ not a single fight occurred. Flnhely own near the beach affairs shaped about the iz STRANGE DEFENSE IN RAILROAD DAMAGE SUIT Averment That the Life of the Man Who Was Killed Was Worthless. United States District Judge Beatty of Tdaho, sitting in the United States Circuit Court, took up the trial of the case of Walter Thomfrson (aged 15 years) vs. the Southern Pacific Company, an action for $10,000 damages for the death of the boy's father, George F. Kellogs, in October, 1898, in San Diego County. The boy’s mother died some years before the father. George F. Kellogg, BCCording to the complaint, was a mail clerk and was in a mail car when the accident dccurred. In traversing the thirty-mile desert in San | Diego County the locomotive ran into a | pile of sand, driving the water tender into the mail car, inflicting fatal injuries upon Kellogs. Evidence will be introduced dur- ing the trial to show that the defendant had only one track walker for twenty miles af track at the time of the accident, | Carelessness on the part of the defendant is alleged. The defendant will try to prove that George F. Kellogg was a drunkard and that he never Prm'lded for his family. Hence that his life was worthless so far as the son was concerned, and that there- fore the son sustained no damage in his death. The trial will be resumed to-day. Shipping Masters Fined. HONOLULU, Aug. 17.—The water front rows over the business of nhlgp.ng saflors which have been stirring up Honolulu for six months resulted in another fight two days ago, and the Grand Jury has now taken the matter up. Oscar Lewis and F, J. Turk, the San Franeisco and Portland Shipping masters who came here about nine months ago, had their third Police Court_trial here yesterday. being up for assaylt and battery on William MecCarthy, a shipping master who ships union men. They were fined $50 each by Judge Wilcox. MILWAUKEE, Aug. 24—The Dally News says an organization having for Its object the control of every electric plant and system in Wisconsin, has been incorporated by Milwau- isconsin _Tract Light. . Heat and Power Company. Henry C. Pa . Johi . , Charl . Pfister and P.y“'. i lllowl. all of Milwaukee, are the IN THE 44 ‘ ~oTE ueps YEA N, to a| We are going_to | district committeemen were consti- | that ' e e s S e R R A A S FMRE SMITH HEELERS ENJOY A DAY AT THE POLLS, ried by the votes of members of the County Committee, who from the first have expressed their opposition to the appointment of any committee Mr. Bouvier.” The returning committees worked un- til a late hour canvassing the ballots cast. It had heard from twelve preeincts and had received protests from the Fortfeth and Forty-third _districts. The committee will meet in the Baldwin Annex this morning at 11 o'clock for the purpose of recelving further returns and to decide whether or not it should take up_the protests. Officers Freyer and Meyers of the Southern station were detailed to watch the ballots for fear that some of Kelly and Crimmins’ satellites might try to de- stroy them. The officers kept their weary vigil all night and were Wt called upon to exercise their authority g s ndthoc Primaries to Be Held To-Day. A primary election for the Fourth Con- gressional District will be held in this city to-day. The fifty-five delegates who comprise the convention have already been appointed by Martin Kelly. As the | latter has all the election officers on the inside and_no opposition on the outside he can stuff the ballot-boxes at his pleas- ure. He can throw in fifty-five votes or fifty-five thousand votes, as he is in- clined, if his rounders are not too weary from their nefarfous work of yesterday. Hon. Julius Kahn, Congressman from the Fourth Congressional District, has no opposition and is sure of renomination etween 7 and 10 o'clock to-night the Democratic party will elect at their va- rious district clubs delegates to the con- vention to be held in San Jose next month. - Want Phelan to Appoint Henry. At the last meeting of the Bryan and Stephenson Club of the: Thirty-fourth As- sembly District J. J. Crowley introduced resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Supervisor John E. A. Helms, who was elected Supervisor from that district. The resolutions also embodied a request that Mayor Phelan appoint as sccessor to Mr. Helms, John P. Henry, prominent Democrat of the Thirty- Exerese and Heam, Exercise is a splendid thing for a healthy person. But when the body is weakened by disease, exercise strains rather than strengthens. Exercise will not cure a "weak” stomach. It may in- | crease the appetite, but it won't cure x5 dyspepsia, and an | increased appetite is | a curse not a bless- ing to the sufferer from d; i Take exercise by all means but also take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis- covery if there is a § deranged or diseased condition of the ifies the blood, gl_ncnus physi- vigor. There is no aleo- hol contained in “Golden Medical Dncovcli”'mditis absolutely free from opium, cocaine and every other narcotic. | It is strictly a temperance medicine. I wish to say that Dr. Pierce's Golden Med- | ieal Discovery has proved a great blessing to me," writes Mrs. Elfen E. Bacon, of Shutesbury, Franklin County, Mass. *Prior to September, 1857, 1 had doctored for my stomach trouble for several years, going t h a course of treat- ment without any real benefit. 1866, 1 had very sick spells and grew worse : could eat but litfle. I commenced in September, 1857, to take Dr. Pierce's medicine, and in a short time I could eat and work. I have gained twenty pounds in two months.” Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are a cure ~ ANY MAN WHO SUFFERS Just beginning to suffer from the weak- effects of self-abuse or over-indulgence night emissions or lost power. can b permanent!y cured by our wonderful and never- failing_method. Write if you cannot call at the office. 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