The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 29, 1903, Page 4

THE SA FRANCISCO 903 1 (5] HOLSE TELLS OF OUTLAW'S NIGHT RIDES McKinney’s Friend Sup- firemen. for promotions‘in the Fire Department held last Saturday. another saloon-keeper, for the milk inspectors’ examination. MAYOR UNCOVERS A SCANDAL IN THE CIVIL SERVICE BOARD plements a Recent Confession. Talks of Removing | McCarthy and Mershon. Murderer’'s Weapons Buried in Darkness Near | Graves. - T. Mer NOTHER civil service scandal of alarming proportions and ing in its ugly details the names of ‘ivil Service Commissioners Jam shon and P. H. McCarthy ha ered and may result in the re- e two commissioners by Mayor who will begin this morning a estigation, which will undoubt- an entire reorganization of Bakersfield Prisoner Displays Sur se and Sorrow at News of the Death of Deputy Tibbet and Marshal Packard. r Al Hulse nfession general ack- against Commis- is that on last Friday night while drinking in “Jack” McNa- S Sy mara’s saloon at 117 City Hall avenue, he “ . llowed McNamara to abstract from his & = eries coat pocket a list of the questions asked e examination for pro- re Department, which wext day in the Girls' High auditorium. McNamara gave the a man employed in rk's office, who in turn gave b Buc the erstwhile more rat since his to ar ley, s were copied and peddled t three firemen who ion were supplied with the examination Jetermine. de up his mind to to resign at once, and as directed the Civil Service for promotions in the i harge against Commis- r McCarthy, which the Mayor will ke rt of his investigation, was made by Commissioner who states that Bernard oon keeper, doing busi- t street, prepared a list ns to be asked in the ation to be held for milk Health Department. n that McCarthy he would vo! had with Mayor questions were to‘have scorporated in the examination in rest of John A. Brown, who was v of the Board of Health as 1 various positions in ment of Health. Mayor s that on his admonition the were not included in the list, but iction was brought to restrain the fon from holding the examination ction has not as yet been dis- e Mayor stated last night that te s were Ise went and there hen ¢ v secret s¢’s Toom in the opium about this said | he would g|\p McCarthy an opportunity I'm not sorry |to defend himself from so serious a n who were kill- | ct as having prostituted thé merit t Packard and in an effort to make a place for a Should McCarthy be unable to 1 to-day . himself he will be asked for his clear resignation, and in the event of his refusal the Mayor says he will remove him from office. Bey of I‘ums Enbertluns Loubet. UNIE, ~The ebrations President Lo As the Pres ce of the Bey, in MAYOR GREATLY ANGERED. Mayor Schmitz, when interviewed con- cerning the alleged questionable acts of Commissioners Mershon and McCarthy, aid: 1 t0 be , the first time with white costumes eir usual strict ded in order to per- President, | very much deplore the bringing of the nunicipal civil service into disgrace. I have | always upheld the merit system and I am | sorry that two city officials, one of whom is my personal appointee, should have so acted redit on it. 1 propose to get -— . at the truth of the whole matter and to that April 2% T“m | ena will begin & thorough investigation at ng match with | once. the Coliseum to-night. |~ The fact that there was something wrong | was brought to my attention last Saturday | iR A | = , when Chief Sullivan of the Fire De- VASHINGTON, April 28—No further action | partment came to my office and handed me a War Department in re- > Dy of the questions that were to be asked in seneral Miles, made pub- | e afterncon in the examination for promo- s in the department. Chief Sullivan was DOAN’S KIDNEY PILLS. Burden Too Great Success in business is often han- dicapped— A man may have plenty of capi- tal—plenty of energy—plenty of pluck—and still not succeed— Burden is too great— Back can’t carry it all— A lame back—or an aching back is a terrible handicap— Drive away the ache and make work a pleasure— DOAN’S KIDNEY PILLS Make lame and aching backs strong— Cure kidney ills of every kind—Ask your neighbors—San Francisco people— They know—Doan’s Kidney Pills have cured hundreds of them Here’s San Francisco proof— SAN FRANCISCO PROO Vm. Tinkler, expressman for Gilbert Bros., residence 434% Clementina street, says: “I have been laid up in the house for three or four weeks at a time and have been afraid'to go to bed, because to turn caused excruciating twinges. If I stooped I suffered, and if I straightened it was just as bad, all on account of an aching back. I had attocks of it for several years, some of them so virulent that in my endeavor to find relief I actually rubbed the skin off my back with liniments. The last medicine I used was Doan’s Kidney Pills. That was six months ago. I never felt better in my life than during the time which has elapsed nor at the present moment. I owe this condition to,Doan’s Kidney Pills.” Doan’s Kidney Pills are fcr sale at all Drug Stores, 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. mmomm involv- | the | began. | knew of them the inves- | are null and void the | | | | 1 } AYOR SCHMITZ has begun an investigation into a charge that Civil Service Commissioner Mershon, .while intoxicated, al- owed “Jack” McNamara, a saloon proprietor, to obtain possession of the questions to be asked in the civil service examination The questions were passeq to “Chris” Buckley and made known to several The Mayor says Mershon's usefulness has passed and he will ask for his resignation. The scandal is aggravated by Mer- shon’s charge that Commissioner P. H. McCarthy said he would vote with him to adopt certain questions prepared by Bernard Tracy, The Mayor threatens to remove McCarthy if the charge is proven. | i | bt up over the matter and | | man who gave up the ques- | that he knew of two other | ! had & copy of the| their possession. I was the magnitude of the| and_ascertain ack MeNamara's | the questions T eent | o confessed to me that he | pers containing the ques- | | saloon the night for camme into-the pessceston-of McNamars for McNamara, had taken the two pocket of Mershon's | ad removed while play a. Me | Halght-street car and sent him home. He re | tained the copies of the questions, however, | | 404 then turned them over to a deputy In the County Clerk’s office and they fell into the | ‘ hands of “Chrig” Buckley. { | SAYS HE WAS DRUGGED. Mershon has assired me that he Was not @runk 4t the time, but was drugged, as he had | taken but two drinks in McNamara's place. | When I confronted him with the faots in my | | possession in the presence of Civil Service | | Commissioner Rogers and Chief Examiner Mo- | | ran he denied everything. 1 told him that I | would at once ask for his resignation if he | 1d not atd me in arriving at the entire truth | of the matter and he promised that he would do £0. No matter what the result of the in- vestigation may be, whether Mershon is guilty of having willfully made public the questions with the intention of permitting some rascally | politlcians to insure the passing of their hench- men, or whether he was simply indiscreet after BIAL'S IDENTITY PUZLLES POLIGE Effort Made to Charge Seattle Doctor With Murder. Special Dispatch to The Call SEATTLE, April 28.—Acting on the theory that Dr. J. Bugene Jordan fired the shot that may yet cause the death of Miss Margaret T. Deboe, whose true name is said to be Mrs. Fred Huyler- baus, a private detective this afternoon | applied to Deputy Prosecuting Attorney | Conover for the arrest of the doctor on a charge of attempted murder. Conover refused to issue the warrant, but told the detective that he would ex- amine the evidence and would issue the warrant later if convinced that a reason- able suspicion of gullt existed. Miss Deboe, who is still alive, insists that ‘she shot herself and says that con- tinued i1l health’'was the only cause. She steadfastly refuses to tell anything about Ler family relations. She repeatedly calls | for Dr. Jordan and with her arms around his neck yesterday she denied in the presence of the Sisters that Jordan had ever beaten or abused her. Although the injured girl has for some time past been known here as Miss De- boe, police officers who have been inves- tigating have received information to the effect that she is the wife of Fred Huy- lerbaus, and the mother of a son nine years of age, who lives with Huylerbaus in Washington, D. C. The woman, the detectives claim, is the daughter of a wealthy citizen of Anacosta, D. C. Dr. Jordan claims he knows none of these facts. Miss Deboe came here a little over a year ago with John C. Huyler. The girl believed she was Huyler's wife. Huyler went to Alaska and when he came back he found her under the care of Dr. Jor- dan. Huyler sald yesterday: “I knew the girl long before she came to Seattle, and I know she comes of a good family. We were never married, and after I went away Dr. Jordan poisoned her mind against me and would never let me see her after I got back, save in the presence of lawyers or other witnesses. Jordan once sent her away somewhere, | justito keep her away from me."” Rear Admiral Cotton Is in Oummnd. NICE, France, April 28 —Rear Admi; Cotton, commander-in-chief of the Un(ud States European squadron, arrived at. Villefranche to-day from Paris, went on board the flagship Chicago and assumed command of the squadron.. Orders wers given for the American warships to sail at sundown for Marseflles. R A Josiah Willard Gibbs. NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 28.—Joslah ‘Wilard Gibbs, Ph. D.,, LL. D., Math. D., professor of mathematical physics at Yale ard a scholar of international fame, died suddenly at his residence here to-day. I | % FE H. MSCARTHY. MEMB’ERS OF CIVIL SERVICE COMMISEION, WHO ‘WILL BE ASKED TO EXPLAIN: having been plied with liquor, T feel that his days of usefulness as a city official are over | and I bave decided that he must resign £oon as the Investigation is concluded. I not imagine why he allowed. himself to be en- meshed in such a network of rascality. Commissioner McCarthy will also be as re- 53 CURDPKTIN GOES, to the evacuation of Manchuria and he hoped the_silence he was bound to main- tain at present would not be of long du- ration. g RUSSIA’S SUBTLE STRATEGY. Makes Exorbita;rnemnds Merely to Gauge Opposition’s Strength. WASHINGTON, April 28.—No response has come as yet from either Embassador McCormick at St. Petersburg or Minister Conger at Peking as to the inquiries re- specting Russia’'s demands In connection with Manchuria. The State Department officials are in a state of uncertainty in view of the conflicts in the semi-official dispatches from the Russian and Chinese capitals. In the absence of official state- ments o Russia’s purposes, the opinion prevails here that these Russian demands were rkally put out in a tentative form last week and not in regular official | shape. There is good reason to believe that the Chineso Government itself let the demands leak out in order to obtain the support of the powers in its refusal of the Russian tenders. Noting the intense public excitement over the proposition, the Russian Govern- ment, it is surmised, took steps, through the statement issued in St. Petersburg | yesterday, to abandon several of the orig- inal demands. It is not doubted that such reduction of the maximum demands was fully within contemplation when the tentative statement was thrown out. If this assumption is well founded, then Russia will not further interfere with the consummation of the United States’ trade treaty with China, including as it does the new ports of Mouidam and Taku Shan. On the other hand, the fourth demand, characterized by the St. Petersburg state- ment as ‘“unimportant,” s not so regarded here, for it amounts to an indefinite con- tinuance under Russian direction of pres- ent conditions in China, which will stop all reform movements. It is now learned that in the original statement of this fourth demand, namely, ‘the present status of the administration of Manchuria s to remain unchanged,” there was an im- portant element of error, ‘and the word “Mongolia” should take the place of ““Manchuri: The demand as thus modi- fled continues the status quo in all North China, po kL SESTI CHINA’S FINAL REFUSAL. | City | Full information and folders at the ! Peter Harrison and wife was restored to | the entire city, and not only the police | whose sympathy for Winners ; ‘ The picture is as close a copy of one of our new designs in 3 x 6 feet | Is Guilty. it L e OMMISSIONER MERSHON made a statement last night, in which he denies all blame in the matter. He claims the papers were taken | from his coat wmmut his knowledge. He sald: The questions were stolen out of the pocket | of my overcoat on the Friday evening before the | exdmination took place while the coat was hanging in ®Jack McNamara's saloon at 117 Hall avenue. I believe McNamara con- nived at the theft, which was made by a fire- man by the name of Alfred Davis. I bad in the pocket of my overcoat the list of questions given the Chicago firemen at their last examination, together with some notes in | a rough form, on questions which were in my mind to ask. There were about sixty in all, rom which the commission was to choose ten on _the following morning. | On leaving the saloon on Friday night I left | my overcoat, with these papers in the pocket, hafiging in the saloon. I got it the following morning and found the papers intact. After the examination I was informed that a copy had been made of the questions by Davis while my overcoat was in the place. When I charged McNamara with allowing this to be done, he did not deny the charge. McNamara admitted that he had seen Davis take the papers and copy them svithout making any protest. He sald: I do not want to see an innocent man suffer for what I have had a hand In doing. Mer- hon is innocent of all blame in this affair. I noticed that he had left his overcoat in my place on Friday night and was going to'put it away, when Davis asked me whose coat it was. When I told him it was Mershon's he asked if | there were any papers in the pocket. I allowed | him to look and he found the questions copled them. YOSEMITE VALLEY. The Meeting Place of Thousands—An Easy Trip and a Famous Land. Part of the surprise of Yosemite is that your friends are there before you. Be- fore the awful grandeur of the stupendous rock masses people unite in wondering admiration, Now is the time to go. The waterfalls will never be finer, nor the trip pleasanter 2nd easier. People generally go via the Santa Fe. It is the quickest way. The Santa Fe is the only route that runs through the Big Trees without a side ride. Yo- and | emite desk, 641 Market street. L e e S S S e Y ) quired to explain his ccnnection with the fram- ing of questions for the milk Inspectors’ ex- | emination by Bernard Tracy, another saloon m who is fmplicated in the monstrous con spiracy to overthrow clvil service. Some time ago Mershon came to me with a copy of some questions, which he said Tracy had prepured for the examination. Mershon sald that Tracy | had informed him that McCarthy would | “stand in" to have the questions adopted. I told Mershon not to vote in favor of the ques- | tions, and they were not incorporated in the list. ‘I sent for Tracy. and told him that he muit make a clean breast of everything or [ would take steps o haye his liquor license re- | voked by the Police Commission. Tracy has promised to tell everything and will ¢onfront | McCagthy in the Investigation. If McCarthy | cannot prove bis innocence I will cause him to | be removed from office unless, of course, I am prevented from doing so by court -injunction. In fact, I propose to see If saloons in the vicinity of the City Hall, which are used to debauch our city officials, shall be permitted to exist. I have always been a stanch ad herent_of civil service and I do not prope while I am in office to stand idly by and se~ it made a farce of. I thi; it for the best in- | terests of the merit s 'm that Mershon should resign, and if McCarthy cannot clear his | skirts of the ugly charge that he too was a party to & juggling with civil service, then he, {00, must retire from his office. NIAG WOMAN KIDNAPS A BABE Found With Little One in a Swamp Four Days Later. Rl RN Special Dispatch to The Call. HOUSTON, ' Tex., Amfl 28.—After four days of searching, the infant child of their arms this evening. On Saturday morning last thé child suddenly disap- peared from its crib. Search of the neigh- borhood was followed by the searching of and detectives but dozens of citizens, the grief stricken parents was keenly aroused, joined in the hunt. On Sunday evening the police received the first clew. It was learned that a woman from another part of the city, supposed to be demented over the recent death of her babe, was missing from her home. It was also ascertained that she had been in the neighborhod of the house from which the child was stolen on that morning. ~ Following this clew resulted in the lo- cating of the child and the maniac this evening in a dense thicket geven miles from the city. The insane woman had built a rude habitation of weeds and was guarding the child In it. Both were near- ly dead from the hardships which they had undergone. The woman fought with all her strength in her frenzy to retaln the child. She ‘was at last overcome, and with the lost infant, brought to the city. The unfortunate woman is believed to be dying to-night. ENRAGED OREGONIANS MAY LYNCH A TRAMP Residents of the Town of Canby Chase a Man Who Attacked * a Woman. OREGON CITY, Or., April 23 —Resi- dents of Canby, a village ten miles south of this city, are in hot pursult of a tramp who assaulted Mrs. Tillle Willls there this morning. Indignation is running high and Will Not Agree to the Terms Pro- posed by Russia. PEKING April 28.—China has given Russia what the officlals describe as a final and definite refusal to accept her demands regarding Manchuria. Warning to Blackmailers. Acting upon the suggestions of Mayor Schmitz, Chief of Police "Wittman last night issued a circular in Chinese, accom- panied with an, English translation, in which he reviews the recent charges of bribery and blackmail in Chinatown, and warning the Chinese that no one has the authority to guarantet gamblers or other violators of the law protection, and add- ing that any person or pemn- Heucud in an attempt to offer such gu: {h prosecuted to the full exqent p: lhe aw. the man will undoubtedly bs lynched if caught. g Skeletons on the Desert. IMPERIAL, Cal., April 28—Five human skeletans were found to-day on the east side of the Salton River, making eighteen found to date on that part of the desert ‘being brougnt under irrigation. It is pre- sumed these persons perished from thirst, as many have been lost in this region be- fore the era of irrigation. Many of the skeletons appear to have lain on the desert for years. —— e Sunny Suburban Homes In Marin County. 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