The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1902, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, JOHN D. SPRECKELS B GAGE MAKES FALSE APPEAL FOR VOTES With Primaries Only a Few Hours Ayvay, Governor Seeks to Deceive Republicans With Silly Denial of The Call’s Charges ITHIN a few hours of the primaries Governor Henry T. Gage files a few ‘more libel suits and republishes an old letter, in which he refuses to receive a chaii presented to him by a convict. - In this blic duty compels me to say to you would be highly improper for me n individual to receive a gift from as strained of his liberty. That is a euphemism by which the Governor intended to say that he would mot receive a present direct from a convict. As we have ot charged him with this his letter is no answer to any revelation of which The Cell has been the medium. g the Governor says: of the shipping receipts were purchased by me or on behalf embers of my family, and all the er shipping receipts are susceptible of actory explanation.” Purchased of whom? Some tons of furniture were shipped, as shown by those receipts, from San Quentin prison to Governor Gage’s home. When did he buy itP If that luxuri- ous furniture were bought of Sloane or Fredericks did they ship it to the prison, thence to be transhipped to the Governor’s home? Common sense revélts at the idea. We have the proof that the furniture was made at San Quentin by convict labor and shipped thence, as the receipts show, to the Governor’s home. Does he expect any one to believe that the Governor of California bought all quantity market where it is sold, San , and had it first shipped to the tiary and then to his home? The seration of his case is shown by his ug behind an invalid chair used by » member of his family, who deserves y sympathy. That recelp inted because the others were be- ing ounced as forgeries. He admits its genuineness and therein admits that the others are genuine. We have his ad- 1 that the chair was made by and him personally by a con- that §t was shipped and e umerous articles, thousands of dollars in value, were shipped from the 1. He says they were purchased by When, Governor, when? What citizen, buying hand-carved mahogany bedsteads, wardrobes, lounges, sofas, banjos, guitars, har- ness and cutlery and other articles of extreme luxury would ship them first to an out-of-the-way place like San Quentin and then to their final destination? It revolts common sense. him say when these things were d where, and then why their circuitous shipment. As a ] word, his refusal of a gift from a is not a refusal of the valuable manufactured for him by con- by order of the Warden, and > him. We published the first e receipts several days ago. His to within a few hours of the pri- and then his disingenuous answer only the thoughtless and un- We are ready to go to court on e and our evidence and we intend shall see the inside of a defendant. THAT DELAYED DENIAL. nor Gage's “explanation,” as car- rrunri Los Angeles by the Assoclated follows: ried Press Lo Aug. 11.—Referring to the s attacks upon by the San 1 wish to publicly declare that eceived nor caused to be made furniture nor c kind, nor have in any crafty articles adopted by to glve color to its unfounded charges order to defeat my nomination are reproduc- of shipping receipts by officers of the and 1 notice among the re- g receipts one including the ttle invalid son's chalr, which ght for him by me long before n to office. ther reproduced shipping receipt is that of & chair made by a convict named Larrabee, which The Call falsely says was returned after ended exposure, since May 24, 1902, naking and shipping of this chair by Lar. Tabec was at the time (namely, in November, 1500) to me, but when apprised by bee to this fact 1 immediately w mailed a letter t0 him refusing the offer, and then caused the chair to be reshipped r any other person unfortunately re- | of fine furniture in | to the prison. The following 18 a copy of my letter to Larrabee, with its date: GIVES LETTER IN FULL. Governor Gage then gives in full a copy { of the letter written by him to Convict K. | H. Larrabee. It is dated December, 25, 1900, and in 1z the Governor thanks Larra- | bee for his expresgsions of kindness and de- clines to accept a chair made by Lae ccn- vict and sent to him as a birthday gift. | He continues his statement as follows: This occurred more than a year before The Call's false charges agginst me, Wwhich fact was well known to TheCall at the time of its | recent false publication. Many of the other shipping receipts were for goods purchased by | or on behalf of members of my family, and al! of the other shipping receipts are susceptible | of satisfactory explandtion, too long to be here | incorporated, but which would have been fully | explained in’court had Spreckels and Leake not evaded the examination on the criminal charge by an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington, 1 have this day caused three criminal com- to be filed against Spreckels and Leake, . Inasmuch as these substantially meet all the charges and are made under my oath, 1 deem them a full and proper answer to the | false accusations of my —avsmalators: HENRY T. GAGE. THREE NEW LIBEL SUITS. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11.—Three addi- 1al cow:plaints ‘chargiug criminal libel filed to-day by Governor Gage against John D. Spreckels and W. 8. Leake before Justice Henry C. Downing | of Wilmington Township. The papers ap- | pear to show on their face thai they were | filed in Downing’s courtgbut to that ex- tent they are inaccurate #hd false, for they were not so filed. Gage had announzed o Saturday that he would institute new criminal libel actions to-day, and this morning Justice Downing received & mes- | sage from Los Angeles summoning him to | this city. Just who sent the message he does not say, but he left his court room in San Pedro and came to the city, where it I‘is known that he was closeted for a long | | time either with Gage or with those inti- mate with the Governor in his legal ge- tions. The complaints had been prepared |in advance, as had the warrants, and when Downing appeared the original cop- ies of the complaints were at once sub- mitted to him ard he accepted them as | though he had been in His own courtroom instead of twenty-five miles from home." Just what the proceedings were at this | conference only those who participated in | it know, but it is positively certain that | Governor Gage did not go to San Pedro to- that when the papers state that h ersonally appeared before” Justice Downing in Wilmington Township they | state what is not the truth; that the war- rants were issued not from the courtroom | in San Pedro, but from Los Angeles. PAPERS ARE FALSIFIED. ‘What effect this proceeding will have as to the final outcome of the cases caunot | now be predicted, but among those fa- | miliar with the facts the course followed is considered at least peculiar. At 1 | o’clock: this afternoon the complaints had | not been sigued, and therefore they could not have been filed in the San Pedro court | this morning. The Call _correspondent went to San Pedro at that hour and spent the afternoon watching Downing’s court- | room, but it was stated that Downing was | in Los Angeles. Downing telephoned to his wife that he would return at 4:30 | o’clock, but did not reach home at that { hour. He was not at home at 6 o’clock | 2nd had not been in his courtroom during the afternoon. Shortly before 5 o’clock in Los Angeles, three warrants, issued as a result of the | filing of the complaints, were delivered to | Sheriff Hammel for service. The Sheriff had been notified that he would receive them and had prepared to leave Los An- | geles on the Owl at 5 o'clock. The war- rants were delivered so late that the Sheriff could not get sleeping accommoda~ tions and therefore he did not leave to- night. He will go north to-morrow and gerve the warrants in person—at least that is what he announced to-night. This proves that Downing did not re- | ceive the complaints in his courtroom or | in Wilmington Township, but possibly to suit the convenience of Gage, came to Los | Angeles to exercise judicial functions in | a township in which he has no jurisdic- | tion. | The alleged libels complained of and made the basis for the complaints con- | sist of publications made by The Call on | June 1, August 6 and August 9. Each of the three complaints covers seven pages of typewritten manuseript and in general form and wording all of them are very similar to those filed by the Governor in | June, except that he quotes different mat- ters alleged to have been published in The l('al in fact, the great part of the com- | plair | | nt consists of quotations from The Call. The warrants are, of course, in the same form and simply order that the de- fendants be arrested. It was announced to-night that before the end of the week Gage would file ad- ditional complaints for criminal libel and that as soon as the necessary { could be prepared he would institute civil proceedings for damages, based upon the more recent charges made by The Call in connection with its expose of the mis- conduct of affairs at San Quentin Prison. e I e R R R MR RN st MURDER MYSTERY STILL UNSOLIED CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—New evidence that Miss Minnle Mitchell was killed in the Bartholin house, where the aged mother of Willlam Bartholin was 'strangled 1o death and buried, was found to-day. At the same time it was brought out that a | few hours before her disappearance Mrs. Bartholin received $40 and was preparing to sell the house. Bloody clothing was found which indicated that some one oth- er than Mre. Bartholin was killed there. A cigar dealer who lives in the vicinity ©of the house told the police that on the n s Mitchell left her home with Bartholip he saw them near his house. The police believe Bartholin did not have enough money to get out of town, but that he may have pawned some of his mother's jewels to gt away, To-day a systematic canvass of the downtown pewnshops was begun in an effort to see how long he remained in the city after the discovery of Minnie Mitchell’s body The police think he did not leave Chi cago, if at all, until after the young wom- | er's body was found. Hunter has been found in Toledo. He tells an apparently rv"alghl story, which contradicts in sev- eral details the one told by Oscar Thomp- son, now in custody under suspicion. Mil- ton L. R. Edwards, another roomer, who eiso left the Bartholin house the day &fter Miss Mitchell disappeared, is in Denver. He telegraphed the police to- night that he would return to Chicago at once if transportation was sent. He still insists he left the house and then the city because he was afraid Bartholin would kill him There was found further evidence that there were many gay times in this quiel and respectable appearing house, As the scarch of the building continued to-day hundreds of whisky flasks and dozens of win¢ boitics were brought forth. Empty beer ¢ d boxes that once contained fine cigars were found in every room. A quantity of questionable literature was found, with many pictures that wouid not be allowed to pass through the malils, as well as dime novels and trans- jations of French novels. Police Inspector Hunt, who has the tholin case in charge, to-night made SHIP BUILDING PLANT 5 S0L0 __WILMINGTON, Del., Aug._ 11.—The | shipbuflaing plant of thé Harlan & Hol- | lingsworth Company, covering fifty acres | of ground, was sold to-night to the United States Shipbuflding Company, a syndicate in which is represented the shipbuilding plants of Lewis Nixon at Elizabethport, N. J.; the Neafle & Levin | Company of Philadelphia, the Union Iron | Works of San Francisco, the Newport News Shipbuilding Company and several minor shipbuilding plants throughout the country, for a consideration of $1,500,000. | Lewis Nixon is one of the vice pr | dents of the United States Shipbuilding Company, and it was mainly through his instrumentality that the\syndicate was formed looking to the purchase of the several shipyards named. The deal was | carried through by Messrs. Scott & Co. | of this city, who, it is said, have had the | matter under way for more than a sar. All those holding stock in the Har- n & Hollingsworth Company were pres- ent to-night at Scott’s office, where the deal was consummated. The Harlan & Hollingsworth Company has been in ex- istence sixty years and it was the first shipbuilding establishment to turn out an | iron steamship in the United States and | since that time the company has built vessels for all parts of the globe. The company employs on ap average of 3000 men and has done considerable Govern- ment work, [ | the statement that a fraternal organiza- tion is shielding William Bartholin and baffiing the efforts of the police to find him. 'The inspector refused to give the | name of the organization and would not | describe the methods it was using to pro- | tect Bartholin. He clung to the state. | ment, but would not make other charges | than of the most general character, —_— Pictures and Frames. Some new things strikingly novel and subjects never before shown here. All the latest finishes to appropriately frame any picture made. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. ’ papers | PROPRIETOR OF CALL TAKES 190 SWEARS OUT A WARRANT FOR ARREST OF GAGE UPON CH ARGE OF LIBEL STEPS TO FORCE THE ISSUE Accuses Governor of Having Written, Circulated and Caused to Be Published a False and Malicious Libel Contained in a Signed Statement Recently Given by Him to the Public Press GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, FOR _WHOM A WARRANT HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LIBELING J. D. SPRECKELS. g | e = s 5 3 OHN D. SPRECKELS, proprietor He secured writ after writ until the of The Call, has thrown down the | Supreme Court sat down on his lawyers, gauntlet to Governor Henry T. |&nd even after that they managed to dlig Gage Up a taxpayer who didn’t want the case v o be tried 'in this city because it would He visited the Hall - .of Justice | cost him constderably less than-2 cents yesterday afternoon in/ company | for his burden of the expense. with W. S. Leake, manager of The | Messrs. Spreckels and Ieake arrived at Call, and swore to a complaint charging Governor Gage with criminal libel, A warrant for the arrest of Governor Gage was immediately issued and last night Detective Tom Gibson left for Los Ange- les to place him under arrest. Mr. Spreckels was actuated to make this charge by the publication of a statement signed by Gage which ap- peared in the Bulletin on the evening of August 8. The statement was issued by Gage in Los Angeles and in it he char- acterized The Call charges that he was a beneficlary of the San Quentin frauds as malicfous and criminally libelous. He referred to Mr. Spreckels and Mr. Leake as publishers of a libelous sheet. This attempt on the part of Governor Gage to shake public confidence as to the truth of The Call's specific charges that he is a beneficiary of the gross frauds practiced at San Quentin under the management of his friend Martin Aguirre and at the same time accuse Messrs. Spreckels and Leake in the public press with the commission of a crime caused Mr. Spreckels to swear cut a warrant for his arrest. In order to clear himself of the charge Governor Gage will be com- Ecllcd to conte into court. Writs of prohi- ition, estoppel proceedings and the ever handy injunction and restraining orders with which Gage has sought to block the efforts of the proprietor and the manager of The Call to show the people that they aid not libel Gage ought to be things of the past. GAGE PLAYED TOO LONG. Governor Gage first accused Messrs. Spreckels and Leake of -the crime of libel and caused a warrant for their arrest to be issued in San Pedro. Then when Mesers. Spreckels and Leake met the charge with a frank effort to get an immediate hearing here in San Francisco or in Sacramento or anywhere else where the witnesses and rec- ords of theft and forgery at San Quen- tin could be readily produced in court Governor Gage began to evade the issue. the Hall of Justice shortly after 2 p. m. They went before-Judge Cabaniss and Mr. Spreckels swore to the complaint_ charg- Ing Gage with criminal libel. Judge Ca- baniss ‘accepted the complaint in the Warrant and Bond Clerk’s office and after attaching his. signature thereto it was handed over to Warrant and Bond Clerk John J. Greeley to.countersign. WARRANT IS REGISTERED. Greeley then took the warrant down- stairs and had it registered and in the regulation manner it was given over into the hands of Chief of Police Wittman for service. In causing the arrest of Governor Gage upon the charge of criminal libel Mr. Spreckels requested Chief Wittman to cause Gage no inconyenience in the mat- ter of his arrest. Both Mr. Spreckels and Mr. Leake pointed out that the pri- mary elections were about to be held at this time and they ,stated that it was not their intention to subject Gage to any unnecessary vexation or humiliation. After swearing out the warrant Messrs. Spreckels and Lealke called ugon the Chief and made the requests outlined above. Chief Wittman therefore instructed De- tective Gibson to give Governor Gage ample opportunity to furnish bail and make what other arrangements he deem- ed necessary to meet the charge. When Detective Gibson arrives jn Los Angeles to-day he will simply call upon, Governor Gage, serve the warrant and then awalit the Governor’s pleasure. Mr. Spreckels' complaint, upon which the warrant for the arrest of Gage is based, is as follows: In the Police Court of the City snd County of San Francisco, State of California. People of the State of California, Plaintiff, s Henry T. Gage, Defendant. State of California, City and County of San Franclsco—ss. Personally appeared before me this 11th day of August, 1002, John D. Spreckels, a resident of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, who, being duly sworn, upon oath makes Complaint and deposes and says That at all times herein_mentioned the said W. S. Leake and John D. Spreckels were resi- dents of and now reside In the city and county of 8an Francisco, State of California; that at all times herein mentioned the said W. S. Leake | and the sald John D. Spreckels were and now \ are the manager and proprietor respectively of The San Francisco Call, a newspaper of daily publication, having its publication office in said city and county. LIBEL IS COMMITTED. That on the Sth day of August, 1902, at and Within said city and county the crime of libel was then and,there committed as follows, viz.: by Henry T. Gage above named, who then and there did willfully, unlawfully and maliciously, and with malicious intent to injure the said W. S. Leake and the sald John D. Spreckels, make, write, compose, publish and circulate fnd cause and procure to be published and ecir- culated at and within said city and county of San Francisco of and concerning the said W. 8. Leake and John D. Spreckels, manager and proprietor of the San Francisco Call, afore- sald, a cartain false, scandalous and malicious libel in a regular issue of the Bulletin, a news- Paper of general circulation having its publica- tion office in the city and county of San Fran- cisco, State of California, printed and dated on the Sth day of August, 1902, as follows, to wit: “GAGE DENOUNCES CALL'S CHARGES AS LIBELOUS AND PROMISES AGAIN TO DITORS, GAG! WILL FILE MORE TS, ELES, Cal.. Aug. 8.—More sults libel are threatencd by Governor iage against John D. Spreckels apd W. 8. Leake. The Governor to-day gave the Bulletih the following signed statement “‘According to The Call's own admissions, their publication of August 6 was made for the express purpose of attempting to defeat my renomination, and the publishers of that libei- ous sheet say thay will keep on with similar worlk until aiter the Republican primaries have taken place. ““The publication referred to is substantially a repetition of the previous defamation, and is malicious, criminally Ibelous on me; and for which I shall prosecute both Leake and Spreck- els. In bringing the second complaint I do not propose to have the trial conducted in any court selected by Spreckels, Leake and Board- man: but as before I shall cause criminal com.- plaint to be filed in the county of my residence, as the constitution and law provide. “(Signed) HENRY T. GAGE.” ASKS FOR ARREST. Wmcha false, scandalous and defamatory Iibel tends to injure, scandalize and vilify the good name, fame and reputation of the said John D. Spreckels and W. 8. Leake and tended to provoke théem to wrath and expose them to public hatred, contempt and ridicule and to de- prive them of the benefit of the public confi- dence, All of - which is contrary to form, force and effect of the statute in such cases' made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the State of California, And this complaint upon oath accuses said Henry T. Gage of having committed said crime, and this complainant prays that a ‘warrant may be issued for the arrest of said defendant, Henry T. Gage, and that he may be dealt with according to law. JOHN D. SPRECKELS. / (Signed) Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1ith day of August, 1902, GEORGE H. CABANISS, Judge of Police .Court Department 4, said City and County. ee—— To take life philosophically and as it comes does not mean that you should permit any of its opportunities to slip past you. GAGE GANG TO THE DRIVEN. LAST DITCH Republican Primary League Forces Ready for To-Day’s Engage That Deserved Vj HERE is cheering prospect of victory for the good government forces at the primary election to-day. It is absolutely certain that the allied bosses cannot capture more than eighty-five of the San Francisco delegation for Gage because they have been compelled to yield to the powerful anti-Gage sentiment in many of the Assembly districts and place on their tickets candidates to the State convention who are supporters of Flint, | The sharp contest for control of the local convention has shaped | R; Pardee or Edson. affairs so that Gage cannot get more than 50 per cent of the State convention dele- gates. Should the Republican Primary League win a sweeping triumph to-day, which seems highly prooable, the number of Gage delegates from the city will be trivial. : The bosses themselves regard Gage's candidacy as hopeless. The tide of popu- lar sentiment against the Governor's nomination is so strong that it cannot be stemmed. So many counties from *‘Siski- you to San Diego and from the sierra to the sea” lave so positively pledged their representatives to oppose the nomination of Gage that solid machine delegations from Los Angeles and San Francisco could not overcome the strength of the Republican miners and farmers. GAGE’S FINISH IS IN SIGHT. atever may be the outcome of to- day’s battle in San Francisco and Los Angeles, it is settled in advance of the struggle that the manipulators of the ma- chine can never force upon the State con- vention a programme of Gageism, Law- lorlsm and Kevaneism. The supporters of Gage may trot out a “dark horse,” or they may signify a preference for either Flint, Pardee or Edson. It was common Eosslp in political circles last night that age’s candidacy would immediately ter- minate if he should fail to win a majority of the Los Angeles delegation. It is ex- pected that the push will claim everything in sight, but the people will not be de- ceived by the claimants. Barly in the campalgn the push claimed Alameda, Butte, Colusa, Humboldt, Madera, Marin, Mendocino, Merced, Monterey, Napa, Ni vada, Orange, Placer, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, San | Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare and Ventura, | | and yet every one of these counties is lined up against Gage. It is really a liberal estimate in view of the recent successes of the people in their flfflt against bossism to figure that Gage w and sixty in Los Angeles. to the thirteen in Kings and Kern would place his strength in the convention at 158, or 257 below the number required to | nominate. Should he happen by the force of a tremerous Democratic vote to win all the delegates in San Francisco and all In Los Angeles and be able to hold his hoodoo thirteen in Kings and Kern he would still be 129 votes short of the num- ber required to nominate. It seems prob- able now that Flint, with an assured | strength approximating 300 votes, lead on the first ballot. Flint is sure to get thirty-five or forty votes from San Francisco, whether the Primary League wins or loses. Pardee and Edson will each get as good a bunch of delegates in this city. . ‘William J. Drew of 4076 Seventeenth Street writes to The Call that his name was placed without his consent on the Mutual Alliance ticket as a candidate for delegate to the Republican convention. Mr. Drew wrote to the alliance requesting that his name be withdrawn. HALE-HAYES INCIDENT. The story published in the Examiner gurporting to give the words which passed etween O. A. Hale and Mr. Hayes of San Jose relating to Hale's desire to go to the State convention from the Third Ward of San Jose is pronounced by the Herald of that city to be misleading. Here is the version of the incident as given by the Herald: It is true that Mr. Hale called upon Mr. Hayes and expressed his desire to go as a dele- &ate to the State convention and asked what would be the prospect of his getting on the ticket. He was told that the sentiment that an unpledged and independent delegation should be sent from this county was strong in San Jose, that it was universally known that he was one of Governor Gage's appointees, and for this reason that he could not be Independent, so far as the gubernatorial nomination was con- cerned, as courtesy would require him to vots for the nomination of Governor Gage so long as he was a candidate before the conventio that a caucus of the anti-boss Republicans had been called for the Third Ward, that the dele- gates selected at this caucus must be known to be unpledzed and independent or it was likely that they would not be chosen, and that unless he could satisfy the caucus that he was in a position to be independent and act in ac- cordance with the wish of the people and the @ il MORE ARGUMENTS FAVORING DELAY Superior Judges Cook and Seawell sat in bapk yesterday and heard arguments for and against the dismissal of the writ of prohibition recently issued out of Depart- ment No. 1 upon the petition of Taxpayer J. R. McMurdo restraining Police Judge Fritz from proceeding with the hearing of the criminal libel suit pending against John D. Spreckels and W. S. Leake. Governor Gage's attorneys made their usual argument against the right of Po- lice Judge Fritz to proceed with the tak- ing of the evidence in the libel suft which was Instituted in good faith and In the regulation w: in this city and county by Louis P. Boardman. Gage and Taxpayer MecMurdo, who wants the libel case transferred to an- other county because his share of the ex- pense of trying the case will probably cost him in the neighborhood of a cent and a fraction, were represented in court by Attorney Peter F. Dunne and an un- derstudy of A. A. Moore, the railroad at- torney. Attorney Dunne did all the talk- ing and Moore's understudy was content to play a thinking part in the proceeding. Attorneys E. F. Preston and Joseph Campbell appeared for the respondent, Judge Frifz. Judges Cook and Seawell appeared upon the bench at 11 a. m. and took up the mat- ter. Colonel Preston at once made a mo- tion for the dismissal of the writ on the grounds that the application did not state sufficient facts to entitle the petitioner, MeMurdo, to the relief prayed for, and for the further reason that the petitioner was not a party beneficially interested in the proceeding sought to be prohibited. Colonel Preston argued against the fur- ther operation of the writ. He touched upon every conceivable objection to the Judge Fritz from taking up stopping of the case and pointed out that the trial of every criminal case could be blanketed and hampered if parties not interested in the case one way or the other could come into court and get out a writ re- straining a magistrate from at least de- termining whether or not there should be a trial. Mr. Preston quoted nimerous Supreme Court decisions in support of his position. S He pointed out the fact that Judge SI SS had already decided after a ler:i‘glhs (;n- vestigation of the case that Judge Fritz had a perfect right to go ahead with the trial and that the Supreme Court had also refused to prohibit him from pro- ceeding with the t: of the testimony. Mr. Preston’s argument took up most, of the morning session. When he concluded Attorney Dunne commenced his argu- influence and | get eighty-five delegates in this city | These added | will | ment and Confident ctory Will Be Gained majority of the delegates elected, it would | probably not be possible for him to securs the nomination, The result of this interview was that he did not seek the nomination from the anti-bess caucus. | CONGRATULATORY MESSAGES. The following méssage of congratulation was received last night at the Primary League headquarters: | SAN JOSE, Cal. Thomas P. Woodward, ident Republican Primary League, 16 Geary Street, San ran- | cisco: We congratulate you on the splendid fight you are making for clean politics and wish you the success you deserve. PUBLICAN GOOD _ GOVERNMENT LEAGUE OF SANTA CLARA. Mayor Worswick of San Jose, who led the good government forces that rebuked | Gageism in _the munieipal election in that city last May, sent this message last night: Thomas P. Wood Aug. 11, 1902. dward, President Republican Primary League, San Francisco: The Repub- licans of San Francisco who are struggling to free themselves from the rule of political bosses | have my heartiest sympathy and best wishes | tor their success. GEO. D. WORSWICK. BEWARE OF SHARP TRICKS. The push to-day will resort to all the cunning devices known to the gang to | mislead voters. Every voter in each dis- trict can easily make sure of securing tha genuine Primary League ‘“paster” by bearing in mind the name that heads the ticket in his district. Following are the names of those head- ing the different Assembly districts and who are the candidates nominated by the | Republican Primary League: enty-ninth Distri®—The headed by E. S. Havens. & “right’* ticket s Thirty-first District—The ‘“right’” ticket in headed by George L. Center. Thirty-third District—The “right’ ticket headed by Poter T. C. Wolff. Thirty-fifth _District—The headed by I. J. Truman. s Thirty-sixth District—The “right” ticket headed by John W. Rogers. Thirty-eighth District—The “right” ticket is headed by Byron Mauzy. Twenty-eigi District—The “right” ticket Thirtieth District—The Thirty-second District—The “right” ticket s Thirty-fourth District—The “right” ticket Thirty-seventh District—The ‘right” Thirty-ninth District—The “right”" ticket is_headed by Walter armle:{;n.m” VR headed by J. B. Campbell. headed by Thomas Cavanaugh. headed by John McCloske: PIBAP ticket is headed by Joseph H. Scott. T he- “right' headed by Thomas P. Woodward. Forty-first_ District—The ‘‘right' eaded by Charles A. Son. Forty-second District—The “right” ticket headed by George B. Keane. Forty-third District—The ‘“right” headed by Dr. C. G. Kenyon Forty-fourth District—The “right” ticket J. George Boyne. fth District—The headed by A. Ruet 3 In the Thirty-second District, Felix Dugan and Willlam McNamara are knif< ing Jack and Dick Welch delegates. This is one of the bitterest factional fights in the city. It is a Kilkenny fight, and two tails are all that are left of the cats In the Forty-third District, “‘Colonel™ Martin Brady, a follower of Crimmins, has declared war to the knife against Kelly and Burns. There are three tickets in the field with odds decidedly in favor | of the Republican Primary League. SURPORTING LEAGUE TICKET. In the Forty-fourth District, ihe Primary League forces are well organ- ized, active and confident. A big vote is promised in the Forty-fourth. Property owners and business men of the district ticket 18 ticket 1is is ticket 13 is “right” ticket Is support the League ticket The indications are strong that A. Ruef and L. Rea will put up an in- vincible fight in_the Forty-fifth. The stalwart Republican force of the Primary League in the Thirty th As- | sembly District are making a gallant battle for victory under the leadership | f John W. Rogers, Robert D. Duke and Henry N. Beatty. In the Thirty-second District a bogus union labor ticket has been sprung. It is a combination ticket, headed by A. H. Barrett, and contains seven names of Welsh's ticket. C. W. Gordon’s name is on the Stata ticket of the Republican Primary Leagne of the Forty-third District. The so-call- ed United Republicans put his name on their ticket without his consent. He wrote a letter of withdrawal from the latter ticket. Subsequently he was waited cn by a representative of the united fac- tion and told that his name could not be withdrawn, as it was already printed. The Republican Primary League and the Roosevelt Republican Club of the Forty-second District have joined hands to down the bosses. The prospects of vie. tory for the bright. SINT FE SUED " FOR BT LD Special Dispatch to The Call SAN DIEGO, Aug. 1L.—For many years there has been talk of the way the Santa Fe Railroad, through some of its subor- dinate companies and promoters, had ac- cepted the immense land subsidy offered and deeded to it by the people of San Diego and by Warren and Frank Kimball of National City and had then fafled to carry out the portions of the agreement made at the time the subsidies were ac- cepted. The dispute i3 now to be brought to a head through the filing of a com- plaint in the Superior Court by the Kim- ball brothers asking that the deeds be set aside and that the railroad company be declared to have forfeited its right to the subsidy fand by reason of its failure to carry out the agreement, which, it is claimed, was that shops and terminals of the road should be maintained on the bay of San Diego of sufficient proportions to give employment to 1200 or 1500 men. The property given to the rallroad com- pany consisted of 2000 acres of land in tional City and on the National ranch, to- gether with more than three miles of water front on the bay of San Diego and the tide lands and riparian rights which belong with water front property. The mpany built its line to the bay and to ational City and laid out plans for the finest terminals and shops on the con- tinent, but it went no further than that, and now there is hardly the ghost of a shop or of a terminal at National City. @ it e il @ ment in faver of blocking the Inquiry into the San Quentin frauds. Dunnc’s argument was in line with all of the rest made by Gage's attorneys in their efforts to block the wheels of justice. At the conclusion of Dunne’'s argument Attorney Campbell arose and addressed the court. Campbell argued for the dis missal of the writ in a logical manner and pointed out the evils of issuing pro- hibitive writs to bar preliminary hearings simply use some obscure taxpayer who professes to have no interest in the merits of the case, one way or another, does not want the expense of the trial charged to the city. At the conclusion of the arguments Judges Cook and Seawell announced that they would take the matter under ad- visement and announce their decision in a few days. P S T SEATTLE, Aug. 11.—The %arehouses of the North American Transportation and Company at Fort Cudahy on the Y, v: were destroyed by fire on August 7. A N 4 good government forces l.r!' 4 )