The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 24, 1902, Page 1

OLUME 1902, GAGE CRIMINAL LIBEL PROCEEDINGS ON FOR HEARING IN SAN FRA PRICE HIVE CENTS. REJECT VETO OF | i % BUDGET | Supervisors Refuseto | | Sanction Mayor’s | Action. Board Is Unanimous | in Voting Against Schmitz. , Appropriations Stand as Originally Made. ‘ \Q e B of Supervisors by a unani- ™ te decided yesterday to override hmitz's veto of thirty-two | WHITE AND m next tax budget w :;:;‘; ePOIEN 7 dt g{or ai:(‘E&.LOGG oA e o b boads st el | ge T ubordi- i Put aber of salarics ally proposed : e mag s c members had been of their who would lose his | = 4 s own party— s ome | | MAYOR FEELS REBUKE. | te ‘ | s ocoxirro | N s ! (Cpowrss (o | IMTO THE E Y. | PI1T OF ) Be EVERLASTING /J was granted to the heads | | RE = < cted there t o | is o ONOLULU, June 17.—New from the site of the vol- pg canic activity on the island | Dr W of the Health | of Hawali, recelved on aitraigesed June 13, shows that Pele thb iy is stil on deck in just about the same degree of activity as was reported a week ago. This will be 2 muzh more satisfactory condition for tourisrs and visitors than if the volcano developed excessive activity, which would prevent people from approaching the crater. From Sunday, June 8, to Thursday, June 12 when the steamer Mauna Loa left Ha people on that island had not been able | to see the sun because of dense smoke from the volcano which had settled over’ the island, owing to the entire absence of or’'s veto were ui on held that if, as the men were in- should Service compete to the C h Officer | :30 and 5 p. m. amson said that be circumscribed cial hours, as the health officer was often required to do S ek b | wind from any quarter. Through tais | smoke the fire from the volcano can he PLEA FOR INSPECTORS. seen at intervals. There are indications \ nson protested against the reduc- | that the present eruption will steadi - e force of food, market.and| crease, Kilauea working up to an active ¥ quoted figures to | y,511ing point with more violent activi . of work done by | Tourists who have visited the volcano ,r‘ :'xzn .\7a'ynrs Ut | ang returned here from Hilo Anclude Pro- | ;w’i‘:;-\f‘m"i‘;i‘:‘“;: fessor V. S. Kellogg and Professor R. a bave to be dispenseq | O Allerdvce, both of Stanford Univer- 3 spensec | sity, C. 8. Plump, Miss P. B. Plump and » ¢ Dok e Mr. Phelps, who are also Californians. May Z at the pesce of the city S8 ellogg, who is connected with » alios B SERIEE Movetecla the natural history department at Stan- | ford, sa: AT THE CRATER’S EDGE. ““We spent a great part of the night we were at the Voleano Holse, near the cra- ter's edge, watching the wonderful scenes which the pit presented. Over it | id that he| rose a huge column of smoke which, avhen | action in voting for the | the air was still, must have reached an | elevation of over 1000 feet. The smoke | is objection and As-| was both white and, what is rarer, black. Moo said that | 1t was very sulphurous, the smell being sc | ¢ would have to be | girong that a Whiff of it was almost ovex- t was adopted. | ,,wering. ACTION. “We stayed very near the edge of the the veto was put to a vole, | pit and waited for a chance to- peer into | ——————— | it. Whenever a wind from a favorable | direction wafted away the smoke from ! hear from the City | 1 objected to hearing | s from Interested par- | rd had fully consid- | had already heard all Boxton s ew ¥ n JUSTIFIES BOARD'S Just before Continued on Page Two. " | STEAM 1SSUING FROM THRE PIT HOALEMAU MMV or our side we would hurriedly approach the cdge of the pit and look down into it. There is most certainly fire in the pit. Far down in a spot almost in the exact center of it we plainly saw a lake of burning incandescent lava. We also thought that we detected fire at another spot, but on account of the smoke we could not tell for a certainty. “As soon as the smoke was wafted | toward us again we had to retire from the edge of the pit, but we watched our chance and had several good looks inte its depths. We did not so much see the burning lava, however, as we heard it. A sound like the splashing of waves could continually be heard issumg from the bottom of the pit, evidently caused by the bubbling lava splashing against the sides of the pit. We could also hear stones and dirt being loosened from the sldes and falling into the lava below. “The sight was at its best at night, when fires was exceedingly bright and the fumes rising from the pit reflected the glow* from’the molten lava below. In the early morning also this glow in the smoke was plainly visible.” Manager, Waldron of the Volcano House is sattsfied that the present eruption will continue for some time and will grow in extent. Changes in the condition of the voleano are taking place every day. Alec Lancaster, the guide, has made a trail to within 200 feet of the brink of the pit for the benefit of visitors, while the more venturesome g0 to its extreme edge. More than one hundred people had been to see the volcano within a week. G. R. Gray of Honolulu went into the crater several times and says the glare from the thar there was a swash of the fire against the pit's sides like water dashing along the _beach. Judging from the sounds of fali- ing stones.and rocks, Mr. Gray. believes the sides of the crater are falling away PROFESSORS PEER INTO THE PIT OF ACTIVE VOLCANO OF L 5 1A IATS under the enormous vressure of the lava surging behind it. All around Halemau- mau there are signs of fire. EVIDENCE OF COMMOTION. Lorrin A. Thurston, former Hawalian Minister to the United States, makes a point of being early on the scene at every new eruption of Kilauea. He ix there now and writes, under date of June 13, as follows: < KILAUEA EPORTS from the vol- cano of Kilauea, on the island of Hawait, con- tinue to tel! of unusual manifes- tations of activity. Venturesome scientists and tourists have peered into the crater and seen the - glowing masses of moltén lava. Many people have gone from Honolulu to sce the erup- tion. Latest news indicates that the display of smoldering fire is tncreasing. T T T Q L S0 SR AL o prioTo M. | | | HE accompanying pho- | tographs of scenes at the crater of Kilauea and in the vicinity were taken expressly for The Call. | Flames within the awful pits are reflected at-night in the clouds of white smoke, and superstitious ~ natives fear riore active operations on the part of the God of Pele. - “The chief scene of present activity is in the main central pit of Halemaumau, which was formed by the subsidence of a great lava lake in 184. This is still between 500 and 1000 feet deep and ap- proximately a quarter of a mile long, but gives evidence of a great commotion with- in its walls since February last. The flat floor of recently formed black lava, then visible at the extreme bottom, has disappeared. The debris slopes from the perpendicular walls to the center of the pit have radically changed their shape and look as.if they had been violentiy churned up. There were frequent slides and falls' of rock from the walls and slopes of the pit, which echo up through the -smoke Wit a' sharp metallic sourd producing a weird, uncanny sound which makes one unconsciously move back from the edge of the pit.. “There is an immense volume of smoke and sulphur vapor pouring out of the extreme bottom of the pit and from two sides about a third of the way from the bottom. This smoke column was plainiy visible from'off the Hamakua coast, seyv- enty miles away, and could be seen as| easily a hundred miles away. “There {s molten lava visible in the pit, but it is fluctuating in quantity, about two-thirds of the way to the bottom, by reason of the great quantity of smoke. o | given by Mr. Spreckels. NCISC T PLAINT LODGED IN CITY Information Against Defendants Filed Here. Louis P. Boardman Procures Issuance of Warrant. Proprietor ‘and Man- ager of The Call Rearrested. - 'y | i N information lodged by Louis P. Board- | man, the propricior and the manager of The | Call grobably will be tried | immediately in San Fran- cisco for the alleged libeling of Governor Gage. John D. Spreckels and W. S. Leake were arrested yesterday afternoon on the charge of libeling Governor Gage, and i gave bail for their appear- ance in court this forenoon. While the newspaper men are ready to meet the issue without delay, the Governor is hovering around Wil- mington Township seeking the enchantment which dis- tance from San Quentin lends to his reputation. The Governor having lost pres- tige as a statesman is now tn danger of losing caste as | a criminal lawyer. N information lodged by Louis P. Boardman, John D. Sprecf- els, proprietor, and W. § Leake, manager of The Call, were arrested yesterday after- noon for libeling Henry T. Gage. The warrants were issued In the Police Court and served on the defend- ants by J. Dougherty. Bail in the sum of $500 was given by each of the defend- ants. Willlam R. Wheeler and Samuel Sussman are the sureties on the bond E. L. Wagner and A. H. Vail are the bondsmen for Mr. Leake. J. C. Campbell, counsel for the defendants, asked for an immediate ex- amination -and*Police Judge Fritz fixed 19 a. m. to-day as the time for the pre- liminary hearing. TEXT OF THE COMPLAINT. The complaint recites that John Spreckels is the proprietor and W Leake the manager of The Call; that on Saturday, May 24, the said John D. Spreckels and W. S. Leake did publish an article and pictures and portraits in The Call (which was attached to the come plaint); that on June 14 Henry T. Gage did appear before Henry C. Downing, a Justice of the Peace of Wilmington Township, county of Los Angeles, State of California, and make complaint ani depose under oath that the said publi- cation was libelous and a public offensa and charged the said John D. Sprecke!s and W. S. Leake with having committed libel by said publication. (A copy of the complaint sworn to be- fore Justice Downing here follows.) That the sald Henry T. Gage asked for a warrant for the arrest of the sald John D. Spreckels and W. S. Leake. PLACE OF TRIAL FIXED. That by article I, section 3 of the con- stitution of the State of California it is provided that “indictments found or in- formation laid for publications in news- papers shall be tried in the city where such newspapers have their publication office or in the county where the party alleged to be libeled resided at the time of the alleged publication unless the placa of trial shall be changed for good cause.” That the publication office of The Call is th_the city and county of San Fran- cisco® That Henry T. Gage is now and waa at the time of said publication and has been continuously for more than one year last past Governor of the State of Cali= fornia. That Henry T. Gage is now and has been for more than one year last past & resident of the city of Sacramento. TRIABLE IN THIS CITY. That any public offense committed Ly the publication of the article of May 24 is triable in the city and county of San Francisco. ‘Wherefore your informant demands that such action, steps and proceedings be had and taken by your Honor as are provided for by the laws of the State of California for the investigation of the aforesaid , matter and publication and of any and all publi¢c offenses committed D. Continued on Page Two - Continued on Page Two.