The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 28, 1902, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1902, NATIVES BACK AT TVOLL e BETUETION OF WA THES “NEVADA BITTLE [AGED BECLUSE SHLORS ADRIFT ~ WHAT CATHOLIG FOR FIVE DAYS| CHURCH 5 DOING Comic Opera Has the Boards and First Night’s Performance FOR THE TOGH Fusion Relied ~nto Elect - DIES OF HUNGER Hans Hein Starves in Lonely Cabin Where He Lived. Frank G. I <nds to Serna —_— Politicians Ass:rt That Jones Wants to Retire From Public Life. Food Lay Within Reach, Yet Autopsy Shows Inanition. da_politician ngs of starvation brought death k G. Newlands Hein, 2n aged German recluse, in the United | as he sat in a ionely. cabin, yet food in It is said | plenty lay within the fall of his shadow. 4 The story of the aged man’s life and trag> ic death brings out a scriesof singular cir- | cumstances that eclipses those often re- nderstand that | lated in fiction. He has been known for g 1o take a rest. | eighteen ¥ the “funny man,” and . however, ma: bode as the ‘‘funny. house.” | - Shite is wife died in much the same manner et e e ht years ago, one of his sons commit- < PR e sticide, another attempted suicide re. Tt is quite well | ang two more are at present confined-in | | the ne Asylum. | 3 death of his wife Hein has o a single human being. dorgue deputies were lifting e woman's s into their receiver | he reque: t to hurt her.” Then han willix Promoters of Fusion. sers of the politic 1 sc B Democ his lips became sealed in a_silence that mexpected ob. | Was never broken. He left his house in- unexpected ob-| frequentiv—only to visit a grocery in the Newlands will inity. "If the proprietor was not there orship. The eturned to his seclusion. of thirty || Were the owner of the Erocery present > ouse and | he would pass him a slip of paper on | ower house 200! which was written what he desired, but | nch. Newlands | po never uttered a word of explanation. - votes on joint bal-| “Children shunned the house when th honor. It appears | heard of its mystery. It was.a smail cab- atorial contest is in some Its barred, and curtains | th obscured the win- dows. The recluse owed the .water col- lector $1 each month. When the collector | called a hand protruded from the window { and the collector received his money fromn | the grimy palm. None of the neighbors in at 1201 Sixteenth avenue South. { doors were alw cut from sack connected with the ted States Senator, av for i | { | | | | | | Palace Hotel Luxuries, e e | ever saw the man's face except when | e el | necessity drove him to the grocery store. | Pbece Tttt omee oc Then his absence from the house was short. He never went elsewhere. - No visitors were ever received, in fact, | is ha ko attles in| none were ever known to call. From what nd William Shar-{ the neighbors say he had not a single or s one of the rep- | friend. is Very | “When found dead Hein was seated on of | an inverted bucket, attired only in hi underciothes. Dearth of sustenance had reduced him fo a mere skeleton. His chin rested on his bony fingers and b iong hair, uncut for ten years, fell around his he autopsy surgeon said ion, yet three feet from the corpse was food that might ha kept life within him. Whether this peculiar man deliberateiy | starved himself to death or whether owing to weakness he was unable to reach the food are matters of conjecture. Considering the n ’s past there is little doubt that he w insane. His eccen- tricities tend to bear out the first supposi- tion concerning the manner of his death. Hein came to America eighteen yvears ago. He brought with him a wife and four son Hein w never regularly em- ployed at anything, and his means of live- until it became ans of our reside; everything that go: tici; ct t of blissful life in N The Southern that kindled circles the | al | year certain amount of that | money was sent him from Germany. their iey are ready | Yesterday afternoon Henry Rahiman, o provo the road in | the grocer, called at the recluse’s home order to and knocked at the door. de Recelving no r response he called Officer Ennis, who broke down the door of the place. the emaciated body was found. CAIE OF DEATY 70 DI TORETHER Physician Gives Expert| Young Pi]ysicia.n Shoots Testimony at Patrick His Wife and Then Murder Trial. Kilis Himself. W YORK, Ja: —The second day trial of Lawyer Albert T. Patrick, urder of Willlam Marsh up to the point where the cause of the death of the millionaire to be determined. The first along this line of inquiry intro- CHICAGO, Jan. 21.—Dr. Harry J. Zeig- | ler of 316 West King street, Lancaster, Pa., fatally wounded his wife, Anna, and then killed himself this afternoon at the Wellington Hotel. A note left by the physician stated that he and his wife | had decided to die together, and as he duced by the prosecution was D: acked the nerve Mrs. Zeigler had prom- | Williams, - of the pl d to commit the act. The woman de- | 18 1o the Coroner's clared, however, that the shooting was ¢ The gist of his evi- | done by her husband. were congested | The physician and his’ wife arrived at to the inhalation t and that chloro- said the Wellington Hotel this morning. They were young and apparently happy. They retired to their room and about '3 o’clock a call came to the clerk’s office. When the bell boy arrived at the room he found the woman tugging at the door. Blood was flowing from a womnd in the back of her head. “Oh, my husband has shot himself,” she cried, forgetting in her fear for him the pain of her own wound. The bell boy took her out into the hall- 18% will | way, saying that her husband might kill witness and Captain | her, and she let him lead her away from nference with Pat- | the room. Then he hastened to the office s told Assistant Dis- |of Dr. B. L. Ries, the house physician. | When the latter arrived the husband was dead and the wife was barely conscious. | Leaves Explanatory Note. at this conference | A note addressed to a morning news- hould be placed in | paper was found in the room. It read: pending decision as 10| My photograph belongs to your paper. Wi rightful custody. decided to die, but I lack the nerve ‘;rshouf it, the undertaker who | so my wife, Anna, will do it. Send my body Patrick to prepare the | home to 316 West King street, Lancaster, Pa body of Rice for cremation, testified that | Good-b; HEER he had said to Patrick that it would Ye- Mrs. Zel; e had said ; 3 o : s. Zeigler was conscious for som Eremation, B ombgbare for | time after the arrival of Dr. Ries. She ach Palie alming, 10 | confirmed the contents of the note, which ! i R onca anshit showed that the husband lacked at the ot Parrion hasEhl's assistant, | first the determination to carry out their P o o hack had shown him 4 | plans. . But she, too, fafled, and eventu- that after Geath bis Dody b ally, she eaid, Ker husband shot her and mated. The morning of the day set for | }fi“@,é&},’ffi“}fi,éfl“fii;fi,?“ Pend; tusne] cremation he had been called on the tele- | "1 Zeigler and his wife were not know: phone by Patrick and told that the cre- | at the Wellington Hotel. | Mrs. Zeiglers mation must be called off in consequence | father is Samuel P. Adams of this city, of a telegram he (Patrick) had just re- | who fs said to be wealthy. ¥ celved from Texas, but that it would | “When taken to the Samaritan Hospital probably be held two days later. The let- | it was thought Mrs. Zeigler conld nor 1o ter to which the witness alluded was | coy After an operation, however, ahe | gated August 3, 190. It was introduced | showed more signs of life, and, although s evidence. the cnances are small, hopes are enter- tained for her recovery. Saw Service in the Philippines. LANCASTER, Pa., Jan. 2l.—Harry G. %eiil;‘r‘ vi'fho shgl %woman plurporllnx to . e his wife and the Republican ticket was made to-day. | ot Chicago to.day, was b native of fog boom was :tarl?d at a dinner given | city and lived here until three years ago. y_evening in honor of County | He was 2 years old and a son of William Ewing, @larence Crowell, | G. Zeigler, station master of the Phila- pneumonia e same condition. | was recalled, and his continued. He said he unsel retained 1o sup- or Baker, will before the or Patrick, will . he said, his cilents, | Institute, would re- ars less than it | It was that Rice neutral S Wants to Be Governor: OAKLAND, Jan. 27.—The announcement Dr. George C. Pardee was a can- e for the nomination for Governor on The 8. n of the Republican County Com- | delphia and Reading Rail . mitiee 3. 5. Hevalk. State Senalor | Youne Zelgier nesved & torra mPeny: G. Russ Lukens was toastmaster and an- | school ship Saratoga, and three years ago nounced the that Pardee was in the | enlisted in the regular army and was sent race for Governor. County Clerk Jordan | to the Philippines. The last heard from is authority for the statement that Par- | him was a year ago, when his father re- dee said that he was in the fight to win. | ceived a lefter dated “Luzon,” in which — | he said ‘he ha(: enterehd lrhe hmlmv.ntl serv- {ice, a circumstance that accounts for his GRAPE-NUTS | title of “Doctor.” - - ~— v——— Zeigler was married about five years T - -~ | ago to Miss Harriet Baker of this city, Who i€ now at her home, and from wh | Bie haa been divorced: e | . Favor Retaining the Forest Rangers. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.—Rep- resentative Tongue of Oregon called on | the President to-day and presented a ilong petition, signed by the members of the courts of his State, members of the Legislature and prominent citizens gen- eraily, protesting against what they un- derstand to be the policy of the Interior | Department as to the policing of forest | reservations. The petitioners insist that | te forest rangers now employed, who ! are well acquainted with their duties and | perform them faithfully, should be re- | tained, and the policing of the parks not | turned over to inexperienced men. | AR i WICHITA, Kans,, Jan, 27.—Calvin A. Black, a Chicago traveling man, fell over a banister on a hotel stajrway here this morning and was killed. Your Hotel will servs Grape-Nuts if you ask Order the food served dry and with cream g to pour over it. B2 Is - Pleasing—Fun Can Be "Found at California, Excite- ment at Orpheum and Entertainment at Other Theaters &+ THE LITTLE WOMAN WITH THE BIG VOICE WHO IS SINGING AT THE ORPHEUM, * MART and smiling, the comic op- era company of the Tivoli opened its regular season last night with- “The Ameer.” A large house wel- comed the old and new singers, and “The Ameer,” barring a few loose ends, went with fiourish and snap. There were flowers for Anna Lichter, flowers for Frances Graham and even flowers for the new tenor, Harold Gordon, and a general enthusiasm over the return of the natives. The Tivoli “Ameer” is not the Frank Daniels “Ameer,” and gains as much as it loses in the difference. The Frank Dan- iels company depended largely on its smart frocks and scenery; the Tivoli, as always, depends mostly on its voices, not to say that the opera is not put on very effectively. It is prettily costumed and excellently staged and goes already with commendable smoothness, But it is the voices that win out, and they are as good and perhaps better than usual. Anna Lichter is the psima donna so- prano, and has the role of Constance, the American girl whose dollars and self are being railroaded by an ambitious mamma into the arms of the Ameer. Miss Lichter has been ill, and there is less of her than used to warble Aida’s woes into the ears of Avedano two years ago. She has lost flesh and gained in voice and looks, and it is only to be hoped that her warm wel- come and the California climate will not have their usual disastrous effect and make another Collamarini out of the now svelte and slender Lichter. She is singing very well, with an added ease and taste, but was probably not in best form last night, as her work was not even. The new tenor, Harold Gordon, is a taking young fellow, lyrically voiced, and enough of it, well used, and of very pleas- ing quality. He has not yet taken the measure of the house and his voice did not always go for what it is worth last night. There is nothing much in the part of Ralph Winston, and Mr. Gordon did it with grace and_self-possession, pleasing the house immediately. Frances Graham has as pretty a voice as one could wish to hear, a fine stage presence and a large, lazy grace that don't count for quite what they should. She is singing as well as she used to— no better—and is in all respects a pictur- esque and tuneful figure as Mirzah. Arthur _Cunningham is a pleasure to watch. His work gets steadily better, though at no alarming rate. His voice, warm, round and deep, is always good to hear, and if some one were by to aim a lively and intelligent pin at some tender spot on occasion Mr. Cunningham’s work would gain the speed it now lacks. His Blakjak is as good a thing as he has done, but would bear further caricature and bloodthirstiness. Ferris Hartman is as much the Ameer as Ferris Hartman can be anything . but Ferris Hartman, which no one wants him to be, anyhow, as he is of the funniest just as he is. He does all that is necessary for the part— and more—and as the cowardly Afghan amuses the audience with his usual abun- dant success. Annie Myers is among those present as the companion of Con- stance; Harry Cashman is Heezaburd with some success, but Edward Webb does not look stupid enough as the court jester. There is some excellent chorus work and some that needs mending, but it is & good show and will be better yet. Mr. Steindorff will see to that. Alcazar. “Coralle & Co., Dressmakers,” a farce comedy, very Frenchy in its construction and dialogue, was the attraction at the Alcazar Theater last night, and the origi- nal znd funny situations afforded no end of laughter to the large audience. The plot is simple and is based upon the dis- covery by the aunt of a young wife of a note written by a married lady to meet her at Coralie & Co’s. She jumps to the conclusion that the note was written to her niece's husband and the fun begins. There are one or two risque situations, particularly in the scene at Coralle & Co.’s, where a jealous husband rushes in with detectives expecting to find his wife with her lover, but instead finds her being measured for a{dress. This change in the | situation is caused by touching a button and the interfor of the room is instantly altered. Coralie & Co.'s dressmaking es- tablishment is also a rendezvous for clandestine meetings between members of the two sexes. L. Alsop as the sus- pected young husband threw enough vim into the part to make it interesting and | amusing. George Osbourne, as an elderly husband fond of flirting, was good, and Frank Bacon, as Stephen Coralie, a_hen- pecked husband, was very amusing. How- ard Scott and Henry Shumer had also congenial parts. Marian Convere I8 suffer- ing from a severe cold and her part—that of the su; ly deceived young wife, as played by Margaret Wycherley very } ” ingly. Marie Howe as, Madame Sharmingl¥a Lilltan Elllott as the meddie. | some aunt, were excellent. Oza Waldrop | was clever as Felicie, the maid, and | Georgle Woodthorpe made a hit as Double | Blanc, servant for Coralie & Co. Orpheum. From the time the Taylor twin sisters, who do a skating turn, go on the stage to the time the curtain falls at the Or-| pheum there is little to be wished for in | the way of amusement. Ada Arnoldson | and the Da Coma family, who with the | Taylos sisters constitute the hold-overs, are as popular as they were last week, and every one of the new numbers is more than pleasing. Kelly and Violette, the fashion plates, are everything the name implies, and in addition are clever per- formers, The great ‘‘cycle whirl,” by Gus Seyfried and ¥. W. Sheelor, is extremely exciting. Riding on the inside of a dip- per-shaped track these men drivestheir machines at the rate of a mile in 2:10. When they are going at top speed their bodies appear to be parallel with the stage. In the pursuit race, when one of the riders passes the othér, the patrons of the house lose themsélves in excite- ment. The track upon which these biey- clists do their riding is inclined at an an- gle of seventy degrees. Josephine Sabel Is as funny and as ‘“‘full of ginger” as ever. Jordan and Crouch are two nimble peo- ple who do a song and dance very clev- erly, and the Nambas are two Japanese jlllgglers and trapezists who are very clever, P Grand Opera-House. Edwin Arden's “Zorah” at the Grand night and should prove a popular attrac- tion, The story of the drama deals with the persecution of the Jewish race in Russia and unfolds a tale of exceptional interest. The principal characters are Israel Francos, a rabbi, and Zorah, his afflanced wife. Through the cruelty of a Jew baiting Governor they are sent to Siberla on a trumped up charge of con- spiracy. Their return to clvilization is due to the sickness of the Governor's daughter of a dread digease in the cure of which the rabbi has been successful. In the end they are given their liberty. Edwin Arden as the rabbi was strong and Laura Nelson Hall's Zorah was a plece of faithful work. Margaret Terry as the American girl was a success, and the support throughout was eminently satisfactory. The staging of the plece is a clever piece of work, the scene in the mines being realistic to a degree. “Zorah” should draw some big houses. Columbia. “The Princess Chic” began its second week at the Columbia last night with a large and appreciative audience. The opera is an excellent one, and there is plenty of mirth and music of the right sort. The songs are for the most part new and are all most favorably received. Maud Lillian Berrl receives the lion’s share of applause. The song of the two soldiers of fortune and the two stewards also makes a pronounced hit. The en- gagement of “The Princess Chic” closes unday evening, and will be replaced by “In the Palace of the King," in which Viola Allen is leading lady. California. Ben Hendricks, the rarest of Swedes, is back again with the ever fresh “Ole Olson” and his company of comedians, in- cluding the Swedish ladies’ quartet, who are not comedians at all bit sweet sing- ers. Ben improves on each visit, and the fate of old man Jefferson seems to be in store for him—to play ““Ole Olsen” for the rest of his natural life to delighted audi- ences. Ole is the whole play—in fact with- out him there would be no play at all, for all the interest, the comical situations and the auiet humor that there are in the piece revolve around Ole, the hero. Miss' Nettie Traubaud, the Genle Dimple, is a ood one, and Willlam Ryan is mirth- ully tuneful as Shingle. { Central. Thrilling and spectacular is the melo- drama entitled “The Man of Mys. tery,” which is being presented this week at the Central Theater. It will certainly please those who delight in the thriil of dramatic situations and well arranged climaxes. The play was received last night by a crowded house. The gcene is laid in New York, and centers around a man who leads a dual life. The whole play affords ample opportunity for the Central Theater stock company to dis. play its ability. Hotmann Recital. Josef Hofmann, the great pianist, makes his first appearance in this city at the Columbia Theater this afterncon at 3 o'clock. A programme of unusual excel- lence is announced. Hofmann's second recital will take place next Friday after- noon at the Columbia Theater. The pro- gramme is as follows: - ¥ Varfations F minor (Haydn); son: - sionata, F minor, Op. 57 segthozfii)'-’”;'n'.. mptu, G major, Sofree de Vienne (Schu. rt); -ballarde,” A’ flat major, prelude No. 25 ski); overture (Tannhauser), S Chutes. The Chutes has a good bill for this week. Lyne and Kennedy scored a big hit with their clever buck and wing dancing, Billy Bryant does a clever monologue act and Srecic "Other mood numbers. are the Gi weel her dellers, acrobats and equilibrists; Nelllo Senate Committee Hears|Reach Island of Niihau | duty had operated beneficially in keeping | out the poor grades of tea, including the | improvement in quality would lead to an Opera-house drew a good attendance last | Arguments of Tea and Beer Interests. Claim Is Made That Present Duties Work Excessive Hardship. ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The Ways and Means Committee to-day temporarily set aside the question of Cuban reciprocity and entered upon the question of reducing the war revenue taxes. During the morn- ing the tea interests were heard on the proposition to take off the tax of 10 cents a pound on tea imposed by the Spanish war revenue act. This afternoon was set aside for the beer interests. The tea in- terests were numerously represented. Some of those present opposed the pro- posed change, and Chairman Payne di- vided the time so that both sides might be heard. Albert B. Sloan of New York, president of the National Tea Duty Re- peal Association, made the opening state- ment. He summed up the appeal for re- duction as follows: First—The duty is an . excessive hardship upon the four classes of people interested— consumer, retailer, wholesale grocer and tea importer. Second—The duty {s injuring permanently the quality of tea sold and consumed. Third—The poorer classes pay the tax in full and the better classes are gradually being de- prived of the best tea. Fourth—As the tea duty is a war tax, it | should be removed how that the war is over | and there is a surplus in the treasury. | Fifth—As the country is already heavily taxed on the principle of protection, it should not be doubly taxed upon an article which de- mands no protection. | Thomas Philan and Martin Roch of New | York, John Moore of Boston, John Ma- | gruder of Washington and others spoke along similar lines in favor of taking off | the tea duty. Tea People Hold Different Views. The opposition to the proposed reduction was opened by W. J. Buckfield, a tea im- porter of New York. He said the 10-cent Japan tea dusts, which had been mixed with other teas. This gave the countr)’! better qualities of tea, and eventually an increased consumption of tea. He stated | that. the price cf tea would advance by | the removal of the duty, and he said prices already had advanced in the ex- pectation that the tax would be removed. A. B. Johnson, recently United States Consul at Amoy, China, gave as a result | of his experience that the duty had op- erated to stop the shipment of poor tea to this country, and that the duty had fallen on the Chinese dealer instead of on the American dealers and consumers. At the afternoon session the beer people were represented by officials of their or- ganizations, including N. W. Kendall of New Haven, Conn., president of the United States Brewers' Association; George O. F. Berman, Baltimore, chair- man of the committee on federal relations of that association; Rudolph Brand, Chi- | cago, former president, and Robert Crane, Baltimore, of the board of trustees. Many | members of the House attended the hear- ng. | _ President Kendall said assurances had | been given when the war taxes were im- | posed that they were for war purposes | and would terminate with the war. There | was no trust in the brewing trade, he de- clared, and if large fortunes had been | made in the business it was before the Spanish war. He referred to “three men engaged in the iron industry, reaping | an annual profit of $60,000,( from their business,”” The breweries had paid to| the Government in 1900 $73,550,754 and their | profits éither had been wiped out entirely | or reduced to a pittance. Failures in the Brewing World. | Oberman spoke of the numerous fail- i ures in the brewing world. The industry was thoroughly American, with American labor at high wages, but he declared that | it was not_dreated like other American industries. | Brand referred to the enormous surplus glutting the treasury and said this should impel an immediate performance of the promises heretofore made that the war | tax should be repealed. Crane said the present tax was particu- | | larly onerous.on small brewers and that | its continuance would bring about a large | number of failures. A local delegation representing the Na- tional Retail Malt Liquor Association urged the repeal of the beer tax from the standpoint of the retailers. This closed the hearing on the beer tax. LN TIPTANS MAY AV JUR The United States Local Inspectors of Steam Vessels at this port are very much interested in the fate of a bill recently introduced in Congress by Mr. Morris to amend the Revised Statutes of the United States so that the local boards of inspec- tors shall be aided by a jury in their in- vestigations in. cases of incompetency or misconduct committed by a licensed offi- cer while acting under the authority of his license. The new bill provides that if the ac- cused be an engineer the jury shall con- sist of engineers, but if he be a master, pilot or mate, then the jury shall consist of either masters, pilots or mates. In en- forcing the attendance of jurors the in- spectors shall have the same powers as those exercised by the Circuit Court of the United States. The accused shall be entitled to be represented by counsel and shall have the privilege of questioning and objecting to jurors. The verdict of the jury shall be final so far as the facts are concerned, except that the Board of Inspectors, if it deems the verdict con- trn;y to evidence, may set the same aside. If a majority of the jury shall be sat- igfied that such licensed officer is incom- petent or has been guilty of misbehavior, negligence, unskillfulness or willfully vio- lated any of the provisions of the statute they shall so find in their verdict, and, the board shall thereupon suspend or re- voke the license of the accused, unless it set the verdict aside. In that case the board may render a final decision or it may ‘order a further investigation befors another jury. In the latter case the evi- dence taken on the first investigation may be read in evidence upon the second. Jurors shall be entitled to the _ same compensation as jurors in the United States Circuit Court of the circuit. The jury shall consist of not less t?n three | nor more than five persons. Thé&right of appeal is preserved. L o e 2 e e e o Montgomery_ in_ beautifully illustrated uongsf and Du Bell, aerial balancer. A series of new moving pictures conclude the bill, Charity Fund Benefit. The tenth annual benefit in aid of the charity fund of San Francisco Lodge No. 21, Theatrical Mechanics’ Association, Will take place at the Orpheum Thursday afternoon, ruary 6, at 2 o’clock sharp. Hvery theater in the city will send its best bits and the programme will be one long to be remembered. ‘Nordica Concerts. The Nordica season sale opens to-mor- row at Sherman, Clay & Co.’s music store, The dates for the concerts are February 4, 6 and 8 DIED. —1In this city, January 28, 1902, Rach- “fll‘){nm, wife of the late David Illn%ma mother of . D. en, Mrs. 1. ine, BRS o e h I T L 3 in a Half-Famished ‘Condition. Work Is to Begin at Once on the Naval Station at Pearl Harbor. HONOLULU, Jan. 20.—The steamer Niihau, which arrived from Kauai on the 15th, brought five Japamese sailors who had been adrift and helpless without sup- plies for five days In a fishing-boat. They were finally wrecked and got ashore on the island of Niiha, where they awaitcd the steamer. The men suffered fearfully with thirst and hunger, and were near death when they reached land. They had been fishing and had been blown from land by a gale. Acting under an order of court issued by United States Judge Estee, Captain Merry, U. S. N., is about to take formal possession of the 561 acres of land con- demned at Pearl harbor in the name of the Federal Government. He will raise the flag on the land and take it over for the Navy Department. Work will begin at once on preparations for the naval sta- tion. The motion by the Government for a new trial in the second Pearl harbor case, against the Honolulu Plantation Com- pany, has been submitted to Judge Estee. Negotiations looking to a compromise of other cases, which do not involve much, are under way. In the Honolulu Planta- tion case the jury awarded $105,000 for a 39-year leasehold interest, with some im- provements in land which the former Jury valued in fee at $52,757. The records of Honurulu continue to show that the police have great difficulty in looking after Porto Ricans who were imported as plantation workers. There are forty of them in Oahu jail now, all serving time for vagrancy. Petty thievery is epidemic in Honolulu, and there have been many burglaries and hold-ups. Ail unemployed Porto Ricans and others are being given chances to go to plantations with the alternate of serving time. The directors of the ,First Nationla Bank have decided to hold another stock- holders® meeting on March 8, it being ad- mitted that President Brown was in error in ruling out the proxies held by Colonel G. W. McFarlane, representing the Anglo- Californian Bank of San Francisco and other interests at the last meeting. It is understood that Colonel McFarlane, who has a controlling majority of stock in his hapds with the proxies admitted, will hnge a new candidate for president to succeed Brown. The annual meeting of the wireless telegraph company here was held last week. Since last November the service has been interrupted, owing to the financial difficulties of the concern. At the meeting the matter of reopening the service was discussed, and the directors were author- ized to secure the necessary funds by bor- rowing. Some improvements are to be made in the service. @ iviiieinieiiiiee e @ CHINESE SEAMEN NOT COMPETENT Sarah Wakefield Claims Rio’s Crew Could Not Speak English. Ruth Miller, as executrix of the last will of Sarah Wakefield, one of the passen- gers drowned in the wreck of the Rio de Janeiro on February 22, 1901, filed in the United States District Court yesterday her answer to the petition of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company asking for a limitation of liability in the damage suits pending against it growing out of the loss of life on the occasion of the wreck. The answer denies that the Rio was tight, seaworthy, stanch and strong, and alleges that she was insufficiently and improperly manned and equipped for the voyage, and was especially lacking in competent seamen and officers; that the master, officers and crew acted with gross pegligence in attempting to enter the har- bor of San Francisco in a thick fog and were grossly negligent in not taking soundings while the steamer was at- tempting to enter in the darkness and the fog. It is further alleged that the sea- men were Chinese and were unable to understand the English language spoken by the white officers; that the officers were inefficient and incompetent for the reason that they were unable to speak the Chinese language of the crew, and that the company was grossly negligent in failing to provide the full complement of licensed officers. It is further averred that from the time the Rio struck the reef until she went down there was sufficient time to take off the passengers with a crew skilled and experienced, but owing to the ignor- ance and inability of the Chinese crew to understand the English language and orders expressed therein, and their fail- ure to render any assistance to the pas- sengers in endeavoring to save life many were drowned, among whom was the de- ceased represented by the respondent. The executrix therefore asks that the pe- titioner be held liable for $51,075, the dam- ages sued for. All the claims filed against the Pacific Mail Steamship Company for damages on account of the wreck will be presented in court to-day by United States Commis- sioner George E. Morse. YOUNG BURGLAR SENT TO SAN QUENTIN Frank Hayes Sentenced to Seven and a Half Years by Jucge Cook. Frank Hayes, who was called for sen- tence. in Judge Cook's court Saturday on a charge of burglary and claimed that he was under 18 years of age, again ap- peared yesterday. He and James Wilson, who was sentenced to fifteen years in San Quentin Saturday, broke into the room of Attorney Quigley at Kearny and Merchant streets. The Judge said there had been no fur- ther evidence offered as to the defend- ant's age except his own statement. The defendant was associated with a known criminal and Tesistance by raising a chair to attack Quigley. He sentenced the defendant to seven and a half years in San Quentin. —————— For Benefit of Local Commerce. At the suggestion of the Chamber of Commerce, the following bills have been introduced in Congress by members of the California delegation: To establish a fog signal at Fort Winfleld Scott, Fort Point, at a cost of not more than $7000; to construct a lightship at Blunts Reef, oft Cape Mendocino, at a cost of $9,000: to construct a lighthouse and fog signai station on_the larger of the two Mile Rocks at the harbor entrance, the cost to be $100,000; to establish a fog bell and lens lantern on the southeastern end of Southampton Shoals at a cost of $30,000. ———— LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVED. Monday, January 27. Brig Consuelo, Page, 18 days from Hana. MISCELLANEOUS. VICTORIA, B C, Jan 27—Lifebuoy marked Red Rock, Glasgow, picked up on Long Beach, near Clayoquet, also cases salmon and hard- stanchions and house doors. Ahousett mn. found clinker-built boat painted white, believed to be Condor's. Bishop Montgomery Ad- dresses Protestant Clergymen. Dwells Upon Questions of In- terest to All Thought{ul Christians, spatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27.—Clergymen from nearly every Protestant sect in and around Los Angeles listened to a paper by Bishop Montgomery of the Catholic church, read before the Ministerial Union this morning. The Bishop's theme was along purely religious lines, and the ap- pearance of a Catholic prelate speaking to a large audience of Protestant min ters that received him with every demon- stration of approval has never been seen in Southern California before. At the conclusion of the paper ail dis- cussion and criticism were set aside, and, on motion of Rev. Will A. Knighten of the Methodist church, the ministers voted to commend the paper and express their high approval of the Bishop's views, hop- ing at the same time that he would meet with the association again. “What Catholics Are Doing for the World” was the subject, and Bishop Montgomery handled it with tactful abu- ity, leaving out all doetrinal pomnts and dwelling upon some matters of common interest to which all thoughtful chu people are giving consideration. Amoug other things, he said: Marriage Tie Is Sacred. All thoughtful men agree that the home and family are the fountain source of the social order. The Catholic church is conferrmg upon the world an inestimable blessing in Insisting upon the sacredness and the indissolubility of the marriage tle as the foundation of home and family, As Christian ministers, you and I agree that Christ has made a law on this matter. ‘e may not agree upon the exact extent of that law. You must admit, however, that no just interpretation that can be put upon the Sa- vior's words will permit more than one cause Spectal Di: ' 97 for annulling a marriage and permitting a sec- ond union during the life of husband and wife. If Christ admitted no cause for such proceed- ing, no power on earth has the right to insti- tute one. If he admitted one and only one such_cause, no power on earth has the right to add others to it. Christ's words are clear: ““What God hath joined together let not mad put asunder,” and he pronounces as guilty of a crime those who shall attempt to do so. In upholding this legislation of the Savior, the Catholic church is following strictly theso other words of his: ‘‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's.” Caesar, or the state, has the right and the duty—a right and a duty coming from God— to regulate the civil relations of marriage. But the religious, the spiritual relations, God has reserved to himself. Religion in the School. The Bishop said that the Catholic church was doing much for the world, insisting on an absolute freedom of con- science for all mankind, and that it of- ten was misunderstaod along this line. He offered a solution for the vexed ques- tion of how religion should be taught in school. Said he: Let the state pay for education as it pays for anything else—for work performed. Let the state prescribe the grade of secular knowl- elge that it wants and pay for it when it gets it, whether it be given in a public school or in a’'private or parochial school. Then let the Catholic, the Methodist and the Presbyterian and the Episcopalian and others who want religious instruction to go along with that of arithmetic and geography. bufld their schools as they build their churches, and In them teach the secular branches that are taught in the other schools and as efficlently, and let the state pay for it Sceording to coritract -and _according to re- sults, Declares the Assessment Legal. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2I.—An opinion was delivered by Justice McKenna of the United States Supreme Court to-day in the case of A. N. King and others vs. the city of Portland, Or. he suit was brought to restrain the enforcement of street improvements as in violation of the fourteenth amendment of the national constitution, but the court held that un- der the construction of the Oregon Su- preme Court the contention is not justi- fled. The court affirmed the decision of the Oregon court, which sustained the assessments as legal. e g e e Licensed to Marry. OAKLAND, Jan. 2l.—Licenses to marry were issued to-day to Phillp Friedman, aged 28, and Birdie Isaacs, 2, both of Qakland; George J. Donavan, 2. and Rose Silveria, 19, both of Oakland; An- drews P. Crane, 4, San Lorenzo, and Amelia S. Hall, 22, Providence, R. 1I; Georgs W. Ledgett, 38, and Frances Led- gett, 31, both of Oakland. ——— ‘WOODLAND, Jan. 27.—Albert Zing was found dead in & woodshed this evening. Death was due to alcoholism. FHe claimed to have been the first native born in Sacramento. ADVERTISEMENTS. ECZEMA’S ITCH IS TORTURE. Eczema is caused by an acid humor in the blood coming in contact with the skin and producing great redness and in- flammation ; little pustular eruptions form and discharge a thin, sticky fluid, which dries and scales off ; sometimes the skin is hard, dry and fissured. Eczema in any form is a tormenting, stubborn disease, and the itching and burning at times are almost unbearable; the acid burming humor seems to coze out and set the skin on fire. 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