The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 19, 1901, Page 1

"YOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 81. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1901 JUDGE BELIEVES MRS. NATION INSANE AND WILL DETAIN HER UNTIL SHE PROMISES TO GO HOME Crusader Remains in Jail and the Arrest of Her Principal Followers Causes a Great Sensation in the Camp of Saloon Wreckers at Topeka g T ¥ =T IASH! SMASH! SM@SH!" ONE PICTURE SHOWS THE CRUSADER KNEELING BE- WICHITA JAIL, WHILE THE OTHER SHOWS HER AP- giver the pro- ecked Senate Id take w immediately ave bee! will order her | to send her| odge ced M ad e- camp when it iree of their members others were are RO S CRUSADER’'S CASES IN COD’BT.; Mrs. Nation Refuses to Give a Bond | end Is Taken to Jail. | Feb. 18.—The case brought by the pro- » | > { prietors of “The Senate” saloon, whose | place she wrecked about ten days ago, | c t The court- | was resum as crowd. room w W, L. Jamis prosecute t represented Mrs. the two attc eared for the State to J. M. Dumenil The table be- rneys was piled high on tween with law boek: Mrs, Nation’s at- , besides legal books, rom the Bible. Mrs. 4 her attorney and spent most of her time Wwriting upon a small blet. The argument was commenced by | acfense and Attorney Dumenil cited authorities. speaking of the first case paraliel to Nation's smashing, he sa is found in the Bible—in the Temple. Matthew that Christ entered mple and abolished that nuisance.” Hampshire law which .t the private party abating a nui- r oes not have to €o it ip a manner <t suited 1o the other party. That means liquor does mot have to be care- t. The New Hampshire ute says that public nuisances may be cbated by the acts of individuals. At this point Mrs. Nation left her seat ¢ opened a window. The cold wind et in @nd blew the papers about the urtygom. oge that window and open it from sald Judge McCabe to Marshal ie cited the ¥s v colored the prosecution. malicious mischief. gulity, as she did. supineness took her seat and Ross wer sash and opened the top on rushed back and threw Nation » the lower sash again. ! “Take your seat.”” commanded the Judge. “The Marshal will take care of the windows.” “He didn’t do it," snapped Mrs. Nation. t down and ‘tend to your bu A T'll "tend to mine,” retorted the s he closed the window. m was surprised. She was in the habit of having her own way, and this was rather a shock to her. Se t Ross as if too surprised to say Attorney Dumenil referred to the New Jersey Equity Reports, which stated that a man had the right to abate a common nuisance without proceeding through the rts, but afterward, if the court found that he had made a mistake and that the place was not a common nuisance, he colid be recovered agalust. Assistant lawyer, made the argument for stroying property brought against Mre. Nation does not come under the head of He argued that the }law of destroying property was the one nder which He held that Mrs.” Nation was arrested. if Mrs. “Nation was not then every one had a right to do McCabe Judge said consideratton, M Nation was tried on a peace war- rant and action taken to place her under bor 1 by County Attorney Galen Nichols before Judge Hazen in the District Court at 1:2) o'clock this afternoon. The trial was the result of her crusade Sunday morning, the warrant being sworn out by the Moeser Ice and Cold Storage Plant, where she was arrested by the Sheriff. Will Moeser, one of the partners, was the first witness. After he had answered all questions put by the County Attorney, Mrs. Nation. who acted as her own coun- sel, opened fire with all manner of ques- tior Objections were offered, most of which were sustained. Other witnesses followed in a like man ner. and she kept up a hot fusillade of questions, such as in your place?” n't it a fact that you keep all kinds of hell-broth?” Mrs. Na- tion could not understand the sustaining | of the many objections, and sald she did | not think the Judge was fair with her. Mrs. Nation’s bond was fixed at $2000. She refused to give it and was taken to Jail. Mrs. Nation received a telegram this af- ternoon from the manager of a-Chicago | stock company, offering her $500 a week to play In a temperance play. swered: sense.” She an- —_— MRS. NATION'S MANIFESTO. War of the Home-D:fenders on To- bacco and Whisky. TOPEKA, Feb. 12.—Mrs. Nation issued the following statement to-day: “HEADQUARTERS OF THE HOME | DEFENDERS, Feb. 18 “We desire that we may have the aid and names of all men and women of any color or clime to be of us. Our motive shall be Nehemiah iv:14: ‘And I looked and rose up and said unto the nobles and to the rulers and to the rest of the peo- ple, Be not afraid of them: remember the Lord your God, which is great’and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons and your daughters, your wives. and your houses.’ Which is, down with this of hell—‘non-resistance’—the paralysis Satan is Infusing into the delud- ed sons and daughters of God in order that he may oW Js Rres Whii they 1' County Attorney Jamison, l-[ He said the charge of | the question was | new and important and entitled to a thor- 2nd he would an- | nounce a decisi>»n Thursday morning. What do you keep | “Not vet, while I've got seme | 4 | slumber. We have proven that the com- | mand of Jesus is the only safe way. ‘Re- | sist the devil and he will flee.’ Non-resist- | ance and he is bold 2nd defiant. “This army of the Home Defenders de- clares its intent in s name. We are the fathers and mothers, who, as God's host, have come to the help of the Lord against | the shield of falth. We demand defense and will have it. No whisky, no to- bacco or profanity shall defile our hearth- tones. No man or woman who uses any of these defllements shall have or need | 25k to serve us. Wc will be your brother to help you to cleanse yourself from the filthiness of the flesh, but you need .our ssistance. We canpnot use you in our business until you clean up. We are go- ing to place before the people men and | women who must be examples of virtue | 2nd strength, who shall serve us to re- | ward good and punish evil. ‘Happy iz that people whose God is the Lord, yea, i | sas shall be free, and we will set her on | a hill that hef light may go to every dark | corner of the earth. ‘Come with us and we will do thee good. for the Lord hath | spoken good concerning such a people.’ “CARRIE NATION ke 2 WARNED: | Mrs. Nation’s Followers Active in Various Scctions of Kansas. HERRINGTON, Kans.,, Feb. 18.—A | mass-meeting of temperance people‘has | adopted resolutions *warning jointists o remove their fixtures from town by Tues- day at 2 o'clock or suffer a raid. ARKANSAS CITY, Kans., Feb. 18— “The second regiment, Carrie Natlon Home Defenders, been organized and the local jointists given until Friday next MANY “JOINTISTS” the city HUTCHINSON, Kans., Feb. 18.—As a result of yesterday's mass-meeting, at which an ultimatum was issued warning all who unlawfully sold liquor to stop by noon on Wednesday next, the druggists held a meeting to-day and declded not to handle intoxicants, even under permit | from the Probate Juage's office. | WINFIELD, Kans., Feb. 18.—A printed | circular signed *‘Determined ‘Women,"” | warning the Winfield Commercial Club, {ha! been issued. It says that men reet at the club “to drink, gamble and hold | liquor carnivals” and closes: “If these things are not stopped the den of vice will be demolished and you may prosecute | your mothers, wives and daughters if you choose.” The saloon-keepers have stored their goods at their houses and say they will | defend them with tieir lives, | WELLINGTON, Kans., Feb. 18.—At a mass-meeting attended by 1000 peopie an | ultimatum giving Qe jointists until Fri- | day evening next to remove their goods and fixtures receive? several hundred sig- natures. LAWRENCE, Kans., Feb. 18.—The Wo- men’s Christian Temperance Union mass- meeting of last night was followed this morning by a visit of a number of women to the Police Court. There a lot of liquor secured in a raid last sumerer was given the women to smash. The women first went to the office of a Justice of the Peace and broke a couple of bottles of whisky as evidence and then destroyed. the rest of the stuff in the s‘reet. They were foi- lowed by a crowd of several hundred peo- pl:(.l but disbanded without attempting a raid. " . Accidentally Shoots Herself. SANTA CRUZ, Feb. 15.—While Miss Mc- Connell of this city was examining a pis- tol which had heen given to her by a Russian officer the weapon was accident- ally discharged. the bullet entering her ed. left arm. The ball was extracts o the mighty, and we are here to withstand | all the ‘flery darts of the wicked,” witk | bappy is that people in such a case.’ Kan- | to remove their fix:ures and goods from | BRAVE. DEWET LEADS BRITISH LIVELY CHASE Gonsul Hay Praises Daring Boer (eneral. ‘Returning Diplomat Tells of -~ Work of Americans in - South Africa. PRS- Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Feb. 18.—Adelbert | United States Co: sul to Pretoria, is here | en route to America. He =aid to-day: | “The complexion of matters has com- | pletely changed since I left Pretoria some lwrkc-ks ago, and at this distance it is im- | possible to say whether the war has really | ended. The area is so immense and oper- Hay, this distance can say what is happening.” “Will the British catch Dewet?” was | asked. E “I miust say that Dewet's many escapes are not, as many belleve, merely the re- | sult of luck, but so far as I can judge | trom personal observation of the man his | successes up to the present are the result | | of keen calculation and good generalship | | on his part, combined with Spartan en- | durance on the part of his men. Dewet {is a great man, as even his enemies grant, | but he has on his heels a combined force, the pick of the English army, under the best generals in the fleld, who are pursu- ing him relentlessly and with the tenacity of the proverbial British bulldog. “Dewet has the advantage of knowing every inch of the country and of being as- sured beforehand of the active sympathy of its inhabitants wherever he goes. The English, on the other hand, have only a | partial knowledge of the eountry. They are unfamiliar with the habits and lan- | guages of the people and have incredible difficulties to face at every step. ““There are several hundred Americans | in Pretoria and Johannesburg, all splendid | fellows, and mostly in positions of re- sponsibility connected with the mines. They have done ¥ great‘deal of work toward the pumping out of mines lately and have organized a guard for the pro- tection of them. This step was most necessary, as the gold fields cover a front of forty. odd miles, which it is very need- ful to protect, if only to prevent all their efforts from being thrown away.' “What are the chances of resuming work?"” “For the present they are poor. It will | take a long time to settle the country, settled. Then there will be a large influx of capital, and after the natural delay" has been overcome there may be even a | boom, but that is' looking a long way | ahead.” B b MANY DEATHS FROM FEVER Some Unpleasant Statistics Given in | the Houss of Commons. 3 | LONDON, Feb. 18.—Questions in the | House of Commons to-day regarding the | war In South Africa did little toward reaily enlightening the situation in South | Africa. The Secretary of State for War, Mr. Broderick, gave a statement of the ever-increasing number of cases of ty- phoid fever among the troops, thus par- ilinlly accounting for the long casualty lists. In October there were 569 ca 9 deaths; in November, 1213 207 deaths, and in December 1665 cases and 256 deat The total since the beginning | of the war to December is 19.101 cases and | 4233 deaths. | Lord Stanley, the financial secretary of s and | the War Office, imparted the information | | that the Government had. purchased for | the troops in South Africa 113,975 horses in | Great Britain and S8 elsewhere. The | English and Irish horses proved the best |and the Americans next. Of the latter | 21,000 were purchased, while Canada sup- | plied 3750. | WILL PRAY IN THE SALOONS. Crusade Planned by San Jose Tem- perance Women. | SAN JOSE, Feb, 18—Mrs. Eugene Maf- thews, who for some time has been fden- tified with the Florence Crittenton Mis- sion, 15 recruiting forces for an anti-sa- loon crusade which she will shortly begin in this city. She declares she will not adopt the hdtchet and start on a smash- ing career, as Mrs. Nation did, but with her followers she will go into the saloons and hold religious services right in front of the bar. They will sing, pray and en- treat the young men Who patronize sa- loons to mend their ways, and the ladies belleve they will make many converts. Mrs. Matthews says she does not believe Mrs. Nation’s is the Lord’s way, and while her tactics may be efficaclous in Kansas they would not do here, where conditions are different. oo T IMITATES MRS. NATION, Oregon Woman Kicks Her Husband Out of a Joint and Wrecks It. SALEM, Or., Feb. 18-~At Lyons, in tie Cascade Mountains, thirty miles east of here, Mrs. J. Wilson last night raided an unlicensed saloon, patronized by her hus. band. After kicking l_':er offending spouse out of doors, she began smashing the place in Carrie Nation style. demolishing bottles, kegs, bar fixtures and windows and frightening a crowd of men out of the house. The -saloon Was practically ge. | stroyed and will probably not reopen. The town has suffered open saloons in violation of the license law for years, Tha citizens generally approve of Mrs. Wi son’s course in following Carrie Nation's plan. Another saloon at Cascade is ex- pected to close immediately. atiops are so widespread that nobody at | though, of course, it will eventually be | ases and @ iieiriferlerfrfelefeefectolvlofontorte ; HE. many rumors which for months have circulated in .the | city that scme of the examina- tlons held by the Clvil Service Commissioners were permeated | with fraud will be shortly In\‘estlgate;d by | the Grand Jury now sitting. James H. Kelly, for thirty vears a com- petent plumber, and recently in the em- ploy of the Health Department as a plumbing inspector. is the man who will | furnish the Grand Jury with information | which seems destined to cause trouhle’ | | | for important members of the civil service entourage. The recent expose of the manner in which examination papers were marked | by the €ivil Service Commission and boards of examiners is too well known to need comment. Attaches at the City Hall, under the regime of his Honor Mayor James D. Phe- 13n, have had a choice topic of conversa- | tion In recounting the many qualifications | of a man known as “The Professor.” It/ was openly stated in City Hall circles that | a candidate for a position under the char- ter, no matter If he were deaf, dumb or| blind, could secure a position by the aid | of “The Professor.” “The thing is very eas; was the general remark. ““All one has to do is to secure the services of ‘The | Professor,’ and he will take the examina- | tion in the name of the man who wants | the job.” | Efforts to locate “The Professor” or | catch him at work have proved unsucess- | ful, and while the friends of Mayor Phe- lan and the Civil Service Commissioners appointed by his Honor are congratulat- | ing themselves that the work of the char- ter is, like Caesar's wife, above sus- picion, consternation is ltkely to reign among the “‘job holders” when they are called before the Grand Jury to reply to | the charges to be brought by James H. | Kelly. Charges Fraud and Deceit. Kelly's statements were secured last | | night and he declares most positively that | in the examination held last November for plumbing inspectors the grossest fraud and decelt were practiced by one member of the board of examiners. Kelly avers | that Fred Snook, one of the master | plumbers secured by the Civil Service | Commissioners to formulate questions and answers for the examination, “peddled the Iist of questions around for days be- | fore the examination was held.” Kelly also claimed that Snook had given the | | list to Patrick Mulligan, who agreed to let him see the questions, and that Snook | also secured a specimen of his (Kelly's) writing in order that Snook might recog- nize Kelly's examination papers. ‘While Kelly does not have proof that the list of prepared answers was also “peddled around,” a peculiar fact is dis- closed in comparing the list of prepared answers and some of the examination papers written by the candidates who took the test. In one instance the an- | swers of the candidate are almost identl- cal to those prepared by the board of ex- | aminers, even to the drawing of a plan | of plumbing, which competent plumbers say is absolutely useless. Kelly, with thirty yvears' experience as a master plumber and also as a workman, | was “turned down” by the examiners, while some men, whose answers in many cases even a layman can discern as incor- rect, received full credits from the exam- { ining board. Attorney George Collins has been re- tained by Kelly to appear with him before the Grand Jury and charge deceit and fraud against the Civil Service Commis- sion and the board of examiners selected to conduct the test of ability of the city’s tnspectors of plumbing. The board of examiners consisted of Charles Weatherby, Richard Rice and Fred W. Snook. Kelly made the following statement last evening: His Experience Did Not Count. “f was employed as a plumbing in- spector in the office of the Board of Health for the past thirteen months, and have been engaged in the plumbing busi- ness all my life. “I have worked for some of the princi- pal firms in this city and have also been a master plumber. I don't think that a man lives who can honestly say that T do not know my trade. When the examina- tion for plumbing inspectors took place Jast November I took the examination, and was the most surprised man in the world when I learned that T was rejected. 1 intend to go before the Grand Jury and charge fraud and deceit against the board of. examiners who conducted the examination. ] will swear that Fred Snook, one of the examiners, peddled around the list of examination questions Before the examin- ation was held, and that one of the in- cessfully passed by the board, had the questions some time before the day of the examination. - T am willing to admit that 1 saw the list of questions ten min- utes before the examination was held. I dald not see them for the® pur- pose of studying up the right kind of answers, but I knew that others had seen them, and I wanted to see what they were like. I saw that the questions a Member of Board fee i spectors, Patrick Mulligan, who was suc- |* — ‘"PRICE FIVE CENTS. AMES H. KELLY, one of the candidates who recently took an examination for the posi- tion of Plumbing Inspector, intends to go before the Grand Jury and charge gross fraud against the board of examiners sclected by the Civil Service Commissioners. that Fred Snook; one of the examiners, “peddled around” the questions formulated, and that Pat- rick Mulliéan had the list of questions in his pessession some days before the examination was held. Kelly also charges that Snook asked him for a specimen of his handwriting in order to identify his (Kelly's) written answers. CHARGES FRAUD AND COLLUSION IN THE EXAMINATIONS HELD BY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS Grand Jury to Be Asked to Investigate Alleged “Peddling Around” of List of Questions by of Plu.mbin'g : Examiner S Kelly avers @ 1ol Al @ — CHARGE THAT GROS8 FRAUD o+ JAMES. H. KELLY, WHO WILL GO BEFORE THE GRAND JURY AND WAS PERPETRATED IN EXAMINA- TIONS HELD BY THE CIVIL SEKVICE COMMISSION, | . were dead easy: T got the list of ques- ) amimation questions which Kelly claims tions from Mulligan and Fred Snook asked | that he received he replied, “I know me for a sample of my handwriting, so that he might recognize my written an- swers when the board passed on the mer- its of the candidates. “ can tell 2 whole lot more, and will do 80 before the Grand Jury. and eight children to support, and no man can say that 1 ever took a quarter I did not work for. Identical With Prepared Answers. ““The rankest fraud was perpetrated in | the examination. as an Investigation will show. Since I was let out of the health office as a plumbing inspector I have gone to the City Hall and taken copies of the original qu lons and answers formu- lated by the Board of Examiners. I have also copled the answers I made and the answers made by four other men. One of the men received a full percentage on the questions as to knowledge of the du- ties of a plumber. Many of the answers are incorrect. as any man who &nows anything about plumbing can testify Now, it is a remarkable fact that these answers. made by this man are dlmost identical .with those formulated by . the Board of Examiners. “One of the questions required the drawing of a diagram and plan and one of the men I speak of had a plan and diagram identical in every respect with the one prepared by the Board of Exam- jners. It is easy to infer from this that the answers were peddled around in the same manner as the questions were. I am perfectly willing to have my answers to the examination questions compared with those made by the other candidates and abide by the decision of the best plumbers in the city. . “The Civil Service Commissioners se- lected master plumbers to act as an exam- ining board. This in itself was wrong. as the plumbing inspectors are called upon to inspect the work done by these men. A man who would give answers contrary to their views, though he might be in the right, would not be likely to meet with favor at their hands. I don’t ask a favor of any man; what 1 want is justice and the exposure of these men who bave violated their oath and acted in a fraudulent manner. I am not afraid to tell all T know and will do so before the Grand Jury. “As to my record, it will speak for it- self. 1 passed a cl"fl service examination for plumber in the Government service and secured more than % per cent for my answers. Every one knows the difficulty of passing a Government examination. The questions put by the Board of Exam- iners for the Civil Service Commissioners were child’s play compared to those I an- swered in the Government examination. “I do not hesitate to swear that Fred Snook, one of the Board of Examiners for the examination of plumbing Inspect- ors, peddled the aquestiois around and that Patrick Mulllgan was one of the men who had these questions in his possession some days before the examination was held.” Mulligan Is Agitated. When Plumbing Inspector. Mulligan was seen at his residence last night and con- ‘fronted by the statement made by Kelly he appeared greatly agitated and was very evasive in all his answers. At first ‘he denied that he was Mulligan, but when the reporter refused to speak to any other member of the household he admitted his fdentity. In answer to an inquiry as to ‘whether he knew anything about the ex- 1 have a wife | | nothing about the matter.” | When asked if he knew Fred Snook, he | replied, “T will talk w the time comes i before the proper people.’ | When that Kelly would be sum- moned before the Grand Jury and that he would testify that he had been promised a set of the examination questions, and again asked If he knew anything concern- ing such a promise, he again said, “T know nothing about ‘the matter.” Snoock Makes Denial. Fred W. Snook said last night: ““As far as the accusations with regard | to Mulligan are concerned they are ab- solutely false. T gave out no questions |in advance, nor did any other member | of the examining board. As to the an- j.-w!rw to the Mst of guestions,. we had none prepared, but marked the papers as | they came In from our knowledge of the | toples treated of. . | “This whele matter is a plece of spite { work. Kelly came fo me a week ago and threatened to make trouble for me unless he was made an I told him Ynat as far concerned theres was no appeal from the Commissioners’ action. He said I had better think it |over. He told me he would give me a { week in which to change my mind, and jat the end of that time weuld go before the Grand Jury with the Mulligan story unless he were licensed. To-day he j came to my store and asked me whether I had changed my mind. ! told him I had not, and he sald he would have me up before the Grand Jury “A man by the name of Dodge, 'who took the examination and falled, asked for another chance and we called a spectal meeting to go over his papers a second time, but it was impossible to raise his marks. He is now geing in with Kelly to make trouble. As to Kelly I will say that | he must have got his job last year through a political pull, for he showed he had a very poor knowledge of the subject. He could not answer the questions, that is all, and it was imoossible to give him a certificate on his showing at the ex- amination he took. Kelly failed to pass and that is all there is to his charges. “The successful candidates for plumb- ing inspectorships were Peter Mulligan, William Hobro and Willlam Tobin. The board or committee that was chosen by the Board of Civil Service Examiners to conduct the examination was composed of myself, Charles Wetherbee and Richard Rice.” | STEAMER DISAPPEARS AFTER A COLLISION Homer Is Belieyed to Have Gone Down With Sixteen Parsons - Aboard Her. LONDON, Feb. 18.—The Russian bark Hoppet, Captain Lindblom, which sailed from Hull on February 14 for Sapelo, has been towed into Grimsby with her bows seriously damaged by a collision on the night of February 15 with the steamer Homer. from Libelu. The Homer dis- appeared after the collision and is be- Heved to have foundered with the loss of ' sixteen lves. told inspector. 1 was The Homer was built at North Shields, in 1530. She was 230 feet long and 34 feet beam and wzs 17 feet deep. She was of $19 tons net register and was owned by the Eilliott Steam Tug Company of Lom- don.