The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 9, 1903, Page 2

THE €AN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9,. 1903. LLIES WORKING MUTINOUS CREW A0 PEACE. ESCAPES DEATH Protocol Con- Steamship Picks Up the tains No Objection- | Men of the Anna able Features. L. Mulford. B e ‘ r the Immediate | First News of the Leaking Vessel Since Attack on Captain. | LONDON, Feb, 8 We Captain Morgan, from New Or- 3 led that the crew of er Anna L. m Bremerhaven on Feb- ted that Captain Webster of h steamer Mount Royal reported s crew mutinied m. The cap- offer of Cap- r him to the Mount be towed to y and Cap- latitude ked for ne the 2 him, or Sandy LEADING HEBREWS START | AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT‘ s Nine of tive board of | met CIN( thirty n INNATI, f the e Hebrew congregations he Hebrew Union College. € of Peori 1., was nt to succeed Julius Frel- | ed T establish very eom: unity in| er towns | EVATOR munity and §TILL ON STRIKE _ . . was ARE of_paper, and to believe that & was instigated by business of insuring that there are cn the t to parents, I . fon's sake. It it saves = r French's bill an insult e a slur on the judgment of e. What rarents of sound neir child for the paitry sum DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS. 0 HHUMBUG HERE. the morals and stitute will be i when it comes up e will ensus, i Sen- San Francisco Endorsement Is What Counts With the San Fran- the purpese of have caused to the Legislature ten the time s of acres River may be made a trip down the steamer Modoc. The rranged by Frank D. Ryan, aber of rs Who T a the steamer ed and the en- were inter- ment of the river members of the The proposition acrman Island for channel to be g to relieve the the Sacramento all t n reduced to $4: ropriation_of Ways and_Me: and the Finance of Steam- was made by n h mber cres could be r water was is land would pi ac Ta. ed the opin- ssary and of vital affected, but that rman Island wish poter Losses, Lame B ness to Ma. owner to be benefited will n to hold up the State If they will come before give the right of way wh ver it may be, 11'go through, - ° BILL AGAINST PCOLROOMS. DQUAF SACRAMENTO, or Charles M. haw will in. t bi norrow. One »sing of gambling houses. ection of A public . Although the bill is of the citizens of Sausa of closing the poolrocmes aw ‘claims that the bill ing house in ntroduce another bill amending wec- th Code, which provides » amendment makes it to carry on a banking Violators of the law will » by a fine not less than $200 nor $1000, and shall be 'mprisoned in Jall until such fine and interest ——————— Extension Which Helps Round. ring whic An All Ww. T. HESS, h colonist rates ¥OTAEY PUBLIC AND ATTCRNEY-AT-LAW, ifornia hcs been extended Fenth Floor, Room 105, Claus Spreckels bldg ern_Pacific to June 15. This Telephone Main 983 r the fruitgrowers of Cali- Iumfl‘ 821 California et., below Poweil. | f mmediate work for those who Besidence Telephone James 150L | come to Calif wnia. . The British steamer | passed | to- | | H the L ! for | ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE WILL SCORE PRISON OFFICERS FOR CRUELTIES Evidence of an Amazing Character Obtained by State Legislators When They Investigated the Charges of Brutal Treatment. | | { Dispatch to The Call. | HEADQUARTERS, SAC- Feb. 7,—An almost | gtory of horror is Jut the manner in which prisoners in the San Quentin Penit are treated under | the managemen: rarden Aguirre. | | dence tending to prove shocking brutality | 1s in possession of the Assembly Com- | | mittee on State Prisons and Reformatory | | Institutions, and the facts have been kept !nnE the public. A minority of the com- wle 1 | helpless | | | mittee 1s sald to be in favor of white- | | washing Aguirre and the management, | | notwithstandin the shameful disclosures | that have becn made, but a majority will | report recofimerding the abolition of the use of the straltjacket as a barbarous | | means of discivline. ] On the subject of the coming report, reticence seems to be the rule with the | committee. That the members have been | pledged to secrecy they admit, and they | take shelter behind this pleGge when ask- ed to take the public into their confidence. Olmsted of San Rafael is chairman, and the other members are Carter of Los An- | geles, Brown of San Mateo, Walsh and | Bliss of Oakland, McKenney of Amador, | | Barber and Murphy of San Francisco and McConnell of Yolo, Bliss' name has been mentioned as one of the minority, but the names of the other friends of | Warden Aguirre and the straitjacket | have not been stated. It is believed, how- | ever, that o two of the committee favor a whitewash, the seven remaining | having been convinced that the methods | in vogue at the penitentiary should mot | be tolerated .n any d communi In fact the committee will rccommend the passaze of a bill prolivitng the use of ! the straitjacket and similar implements of torture and Fumiliztion in the prisons and reformatories of California. CONCEALMENT OF CRUELTY. Until the present disclos s it was a simple matter | the public, the st aitjacket being popular ly regarded mild means of correctic inflicting but little or no pain upon vietim, and beiug a necessar instrument for the punishme refractory. r otherwise is acter of this brutal app in evidence that prisoners in the straitjacket for from hours ta three da; It was algo shown he and humane of the the real ~ket lay in the long period of it so that the wretched victim, ! ronfined for a day or more, whe | leased is in a pitiable and unclean! tion. One of the men, so tortured, in- formed a member the prisoners would rather be triced up by the wrists than suffer the punishment | of the straitjacket with its attendant | bodily and mental stress This circumstance that has been overlooked by the State Prison Direct- ors, but this is because the real nature of the punishment has been kept from them. Eviden is in possession of commiitee to show that the straitjac] not used to any great extent under the former administrations, and that it introduced by Warden Aguirre. The committee has heard appalling sto- ries of cruelty Inflicted upon the prison- is a ers. Th tories were related by free men who seemingly had no ulterior mo- tive in telling them. It is related of a | convict named Thompson that while he wa in a dying condition a gag was placed between his teeth and that he| shortly afterward died with the gag in his mouth. WARDEN IS IN PERIL. Some members of the committee have returned to Sacramento with the impres- =ion that Dr. , the resident physi- clan at the pi might be repiaced. Nearly all the members of the committee consider that Warden Aguirre is not fitted, either by training or disp ifon, to conduct an institution so important as is the penitentiary, and that the report will | clearly show this—if not in words, at least by implication. It is expected that the report will be presented early next week, and that it will form the basis of a very interesting and heated debate in the Assembly. Senator Robert T. Devlin, who is also a Prison Director, said in an interview to-day that the matter of punishment was left to the discretion of the Warden with the injunction that no cruel or unusual punishment should be inflicted, and that all punishment should be administered in the presence of the prison physiclan and under his supervision. The Senator would not say that the board would prohibit to conceal the facts from | twenty-four | e committee that the real torture of | of the committee that | the use of the straitjacket. They had JOmMy A BL\S MEMBER | cOomMMTTE TNVEST CATING LEGISLATORS ARE TO PROBE PILOT SCANDAL Bpeclal Dispatch to The Call. ACRAMENTO, Feb. 8. — The exposure made by The Call of bribery and corruption in the Pilot Commission has overshadowed in- terest all other topics of discussion at the capital, and leading members of | both houses of the Legisla- | ture declare that the | charges are so serious that in justice to the people and to the Pilot Commissioners a most thorough investiga- tion must be had in the matter. To-morrow morn- { ing a resolution will be in- troduced in both houses asking for the appointment of a special committee to investigate the scandal. The affair has been given so much prominence and has caused so much discus- sion that it cannot be glossed over, in spite of the political influence of the parties most vitally inter- ested. in 4 - — nothing to do with that, although they had the power to prohibit all punishment whatever. A confinement for ten min- utes in the straitjacket in the case of one man might be a very severe discipline, | while #o another man gwelve hours in the straltjacket might be hardly any punish- ment at all. The board left all such mat- ters, he added, to the judgment of the ‘Warden and the physician. In justice to the Senator it must be stated that he had not been advised at the time of the interview of the brutal- lzing feature of the straitjacket and was probably not aware of it. GOVERNOR INSPECTS CAPITOL. Senators Find It Difficult to Work During the Storm. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Feb. 8.—Governor Pardee made a tour of in- spection of the Capitol yesterday in order that he might seo what improvements were neces- sary. He visited every portion of the struc- ture and was covered with dust when he re- turned to his office. The heavy storm yester- day ripped up the tin on the roof, and every sust of wind raised the sheeting and flapyd it against the roof. The noise was incessdnt, and the Senators who tried to work in the chamber found it difficult. Senator Deviin has introducd a bill for an appropriation of $1200 to pay for repairs, | dining-rooms and Senators Surprise the Warden of San Quentin Penitentiary CrAaRMAN INVRSTIGATING | SOMmITRE e B WARDEN OF SAN QUENTIN l PRISON AND LEGISLATORS l WHO ARE INVESTIGATING. | | es = 3 AN RAFAEL, Feb. 8—The Senate Committee on Prisons and Re forms visited San Quentin to-d; The coming of the legislators was not publicly programmed and was whelly unexpected by Warden Aguirre. ‘The entire cor ittee, with the exception | of Chair rell of Grass Valley, ar- rived early in the morning and remained until late in the afternoon. They tried to keep their visit a secret and when they reached the prison reservation informed the Warden that they proposed to make | a thorough Investigation of the penal in- stitution, as well to inquire into the cruelties alleged to be committed in pun- ishing refractory convicts. The following membe of the commit- tee were present: Senators Luchsinger, Leavitt, Munter, Lardner, Nelson, Know- | land, Savage, Ward, Williams, Bauer, Diggs and Bunkers. Upon their arrival they went into executive session, mapped out their programme d at 2 o'cleck visited the various departments of the penitentiary. Warden Aguirre condueted the committeemen on their tour of inspec- | tion. After going through the hospital wards, other minor depart- ments, they saw the dungeons and the straltjackets were brought out to be scrutinized. There were no convicts in the dungeons at the time, but some were brought in to have the straitjackets laced upon them. The Senators were most in- quisitive about the use of his jacket and questioned many convicts as to whether it was inhuman. The statements of those who had been punished by this means were not made public, but according to Aguirre the committeemen were satisfied that the jacket was a proper form of chastisement. Later in the day the com- mittee sought information from the con- viets in their cells and in the yard. To- night Warden Aguirre said: “Yes, the Senators were mained nearly all day. Their visit was & surprise to me and I knew nothing about it until they arrived. I showed them all over the place and allowed them to converse with any of the 1630 convicts. The committee seemed satisfled with the way things were running here and I be- leve will uphold the use of the strait- jacket to the extent that I use it. They visited every department of the prison and ven interviewed the women in- mates."” g ONEAL MEASURE UNCERTAIN. Senate Will Probably Defeat the Cap- | itol Removal Project. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 8.—On the subject of capitol removal, the indications are that the proposition Intrpduced by Oneal in the Senate will be defeated. A poll of the upper house taken to-night by The Call indicates that there are fourteen votes. against it there. On all Proposed constitutional amendments a two- thirds vote is required, and if fourteen of the Senators vote against it, the provosed consti- tutional amendment will be defe; & Any man has a right to consider him- self a gifted orator who can get people to stay in a room and listen to him talk for two hours without having the door locked. - here and re- | e e—————— in \DMIT SERVICE STATEHOD FIGHT OF THE PAPERS| NEARING THE ENC ¥ Counsel for Fair Heirs Compromise Measure Refuse to Talk \ Likely to Be In- Further. } troduced. Will Embody Plan to Cc solidate New Mexico and Arizona Ta Abram Nelson Denies Knowl- edge of Repudiation of Agreement. WASHING in B . point to the co El bill Epecial Dispatch to The Call. i tatehood but no NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—Counsel for Mys. Hermann Oelrichs and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Jr. to-day refused to discuss in the < the repudiation by the heirs of Mrs. |, Ly (oo 1f the plans of the R Charles F. Falr of the settlement of their Hems T s who oppose the * clalms against the Fair estate. It was | 0 (0 0 FC e, the Com admitted that papers had been served, |, .. ... wil bring In a subs but further than that no information | SEVESTCR WL S NT ding for e ! could be obtained. s the ol Soo b twd " James E. Chandler, who has charge of the case for the Nelsons, is a lawyer | with offices at 115 Broadway, where it Is id that he is connected with a eommer- His address is not given in but in a directory of club members it is given at 4§ West Twenty- at address it was said rght that Chandler was unknown present tenant has lived there for one year and knows nothing of those liv- will be giv not take shape, Se ator Quay s likely to press his Statehood amendment on the agricultural appropria- tion bill, and a test of strength would en- > on this amendment will ken, and w the o tes feel that they m ing in the house before that. they realize that it will n PLAINFIELD, N. J., Feb. 8.—When ge as it would be on a direct seen at his home in Newmarket by The Statehood bill alone. all correspondent this afternoon, Abram is now ¢ G. Nelson denfed any knowledge of ac- clahoma, byt if t tion having been taken to upset the com- promise in the Fair estate. | “It is news to me,” sald he. 3 mother is ill at Mrs. Bonnell's, in Union, N. J., and I can assure you that she has )t started litigation over the Falr ate. Other members of the family sald they knew nothing of the suit. dertaken it will be resor and will be postponed u toward of the session. All the Senatc restless under the pres ich, it is evident, House will resume work on the ap- rmer pr civil and appropriation s a both on the calendar. The ably will be considered first ! Holy Redeemer Church Benefit. | Among those who will participate in the | benefit performance at the Alhambra| LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8.—The rainfall Theater to-night for the Holy Redeem during the past twenty-four h . Church will be Camille d'Arville and Ed- | amounted to .38 of an inch. The i r ward Lang, the tramp monologue artist. | the seasc s far is 8§.60 inches - Besides these the best talent in amateur circles will be on hand to help the worthy cause. The sale of tickets has been very large, and.every indication points to large audience. The performance will be- gin at 8 o'clock sharp with a concert by the First Infantry band. The lecture will clese the evening’s entertainment. Re- served seats may be had at'the theater | this aftrnoon and evening. The weather to-night is emperature higher than for se 18t ), Feb. 8.—A Afth of an ere to-day, making 7.97 n Feb. 8.—James Gl aeronaut, is dead. This Beautiful Picture Given Free With The Sunday Call Next Sunday, Feb. 15th ,,,,,,,, ! | L4 el lododotd o] lell!!fll'lfl'fl‘ll!fl!!l 2 O O O BREEVER (1 DT PP P EIPE R R LR E EREEEE P ET R L P L L | | | | | s ONLY A ROSE.