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

DIES IN BED [FISHER LOSES OF A STREAM USTREAM, SALOON RICHT Body of Aged James Moran Berkeley Trustees Revoke His Owing to His As- fif Found in San Leandro Creek, License Exposure Bringing D -:.(h‘ sault Upon Church People . k- | —a MISSES FOOTING IN NIGHT|TO INVESTIGATE CHARGES MERES (SR | —_——— (Girl Discovers Remains and| Board Decides to Give the Ac- Runs Sereaming to Parents, cused a Hearing When He Who Send Word to Corvomer| Again Applies for Renewal 25 | Sied e SR Oakland Office BERK The Board of 1118 B Trustees to-night r d to renew the The dead body of license of “Sam” ner, the West 1d resident of San Leandro, was found | Berkeley saloon-keeper, who assauited in a pool in San L Creek shortly | the men and women of the Trinity before 9 o'clock this morning etcina | Church while they were conducting a | Santos, a 14-year-old girl, E “rummage sale” near his place. Fish- er's present license will expire with the end of the year and then he will have to shut the doors of his place. While the qu an, who v becom on Alvarado street, at the body was lying a Mor: > the years old, h evide e fused the rkness and had ver the bank of the creek in the night. | is not/altogether seftled, as he inten The body was found leaning inst | to renew his application, it is unlikely the bank of the pool with the head and t’he will receive any favors from the heulders out of the water, showing | Trustees, the majority of them being that the 1d o had not been | @8ainst him. The vote to-night indi- drowned, but had died from cxposure | & “"'.”‘T‘ when the """“)' ”";"' “1“ o aldix he water, from which | for final ~settlement Fisher's friends cape. | his opponents istees Rickard, Con- Petcin tos, who found the body, | Dor, Ferrier and Ryder, with Trustee was ba ightened and ran home, | Staats uncertain. screamir at there was a “dead man | 1¢ matter came 1p in the form of a in the creek.” After she had become |recomr ition from the License Com- calm enough to tell her parer mittee, Trustees Hoff and Staats, for she had seen Deputs oner ) | the.renewal of the licenses of nineteen was no and the body was loons. sher’'s name was not on the' t She Morgue {list. Trustee Dowd said Fisher .ought Dr. J. P. Tormey performed an au- |10 be given a license to run his place topsy this afternoon and h d {until the board had investigated .the that Moran had died from expos charges of the church people against The inquest will be held at 10 |him, and Fisher's attorney also de- next S ay morning { manded that privilege for his client. For thirty years the old man had| Trustee ats said thAt he did not lived alone ir a little two-rc house | wish to prejudice Fisher's case in the on the Mulford Landing rc ad he | Justice urt, where a criminal was seen last night he & ff the | charge is pending, and agreed with Haywards car and started toward his | Trustee Hoff to place Fisher's name on home about 9 o'c . At that time he [ the list of recommendations. After- was returning f a visit to his|ward this was withdrawn by agree- brother, Darby Moran, who lives at 301 | ment between the same Trustees, and a Jefferson street | vote of the Trustees asked. Rickard, The deceased was u ied, and | Hoff, Dowd and Staats voted for the besides hie brother he le r, | recommendation of the committee, and who also resides in Oaklan der and rier against it, the two has been removed to Ja being opposed to any sa- ertaking parlors and the funeral IL.in Beetiatoy. be held from the home of Darby | Fisher, through his attorney, gave no- n tice that he would apply at the next —————— for a renewal of his license. Trustees will then set a time for the hearing of the charges of the church people against him Animal Jumps Suddenly From Train, Knocks Crossing Man Down and HARRIMAN PREPARING TO ANTICIPATE COMPETITION Breaks His Wris —_— . OAKLAND, Dec. 25.—J. R. C: Has Mapped Out a Route for Electric on at the ‘rlll."n d ¢ Line Between Stockton and > yeked down to-day by i o leaped from the Although frequent stories of the pos- a Wek bilities of Stockton and Fresno.being connected by an electric line have been ras : ‘n-]n-utmaly alwm»d by those whose gy o A A o |Dames have been connected with the “1;‘«.1“\\_‘;;;*% h e f;"m; reported projects, it is again rumored o ns Approaching the sta- | that 1. H. Harriman of the Southern \“'_-".‘g A S ot Pacific Company is prepared to und L triking Cameton and | take the construction of a line between M e Ty, | tliese two'e . and it is said that that e . e project wa: at prompted him to re- the majority of the stock cently acquir h kton Street -Ratlw; Com- mself together Ix o the thoroughfs . ra before efore | pany, whose office is soon to be moved gman realized what had | o i Voo ! Frank W. Webster, formers: chief clerk of the construction department of the United Rallroads, who recently re- signed to accept thé superintendency REPORTS ARE FILED IN RICHARD SIBRIA £ of the Stockton street road, and Henry Police Inguiry Complete in Prepara- | L¥nch. Who has just retired from the ; head of the construction department of tion for Inguest, Which Will Be the United Rallroads, have been in Held by Coroner Mehrmann. Stockton for several days looking care- OAKLAND, Dec. 28.—The body of ‘flh’ g l]?:c S il li”'rlhe latter Richard Sibrian, who died in the City ' pau1eq . = ipletely over- Prison from ¢ the il | Dauled in the near future, and the plans for the improvements are’ to be prepared under the direction of Lynch. While in the Slough City Lynch and home in funeral was remov arent e the was held. Reports concernir el \'r\aung man's ;nm«.m ants '{,“] © | Webster have beeft inspecting outlets e nnd la A EEmpOr Bt 15 from the southern end of Stockton. It street and Broadway gett is reported that surveys southward for The ailicial palice, recomls In the ca several ‘hundred miles in the direction have been procured by the Chief of | Of Fresno have already been made, and the work of construction of an exten- ce use to-morrow k - Bekios: Sar_mee 4 sion of the street road in that direction evening s the inquest, which will be held by Coroner Mehrman —_— Orders Hoodlums to Leave Town. OAKLAND, Dec. 28.—Ed Marks, 2 member of the notorious Sporting Life gang. has been given twenty-four hours in which to leave town. N told Judge Smith in the Police Court to-day that he was arrested while making arrangements to depart. His Honor suggested that Marks could show good faith by continuing his preparations as rapidly as otherwise six months in the City Pris- on would be the New Year's remem- brance for Eddie. DR. PIERCE'S REMEDIES. Backed up by over a third of a centu of remarkable and uniform cures, a re such as no other remedy for the disea and weaknesses peculiar to women cver attained, the proprictors of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription now feel fully war- ranted in offering to pay $500 in legal money of the United States, for any case ‘of Leucorrhea, Female Weakness, Prolap- sus, or Falling of Womb which they, can- | mot care. All they ask is a fair and reason. able trial of their means of cu *1 used four bottles of your ‘Favorite Pre scription’ and one of ‘Golden Medical Discov- ' » worites Mrs. Elmer D. Shearcr, of Mount- | ‘hope, Laucaster Co., Pa., "and can say thet Lam cured of that dreaded discase, uterine trouble. Am in better health than cver before. Every. ©ome who kuows e is surprised (o see me look sowell. In Jupe 1 was 50 in health that | 2t times I could not walk. To-day I am cwred. | licines } 1 tell eve ly that Dr. Pierce's i ‘curcd me.” g Free. Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Med- jcal Adviser is sent free on receiptof to pay expense of mailing only. Send 31 one-cent stamps for the cloth-boundvolame, ‘Address World’s Di Medical Asso- 1 cia~~a, Proprietors, NY. ¢ could be inaugurated on very short no- BER 29, 1903. | | £ i | | | 'UGLY TALE OF ALLEGED . BLACKMAIL IS TOLD | Investigationof Damand of C.S. MacMullan for Discovering Unassessed Property in Alameda County Begins, and Officials Say They Have Proof of Attempted Extortion . | OAKLAND, Dec. 28.—Investigation of the remarkable claim of C. S. Mac- | Mullan for discovering unassessad | property in Alameda County was be- | gun by the Board of Supervisors to- day at the demand of Chairman John i Mitchell. As a basis for the investiga- | tion the board, upon the motion Chairman Mitchell, rescinded all action that had been taken, both upon the | MacMullan clatm and the alleged agreement. that was made last April. and the matter has been placed in the hands of the Finance Committee to complete the investigation. But there is an’ infinitely rious phase to this mat than ths mere trapping of the Supervisors into authorizing an unmerited agreemen Various county and city officials assert that they hoid in their possession evi- dence that C. S. MacMullan, afte: had been emploved by the Boar Supervisors to look up this unassessed property, offered the Southern Pacl Company, for a_econsideration of 3300, to diyert his attention from any of i | unassessed property. The story of this attempt upon the part of MacMullan to trade upon the agreement he securéd from the Super- visors last April is best told by describ- ing the way in which the discovery was made by the officials in juestion. _ Some time ago John Mitchell, chafr- man of the Board of Supervisors, re- cefved from Julius Kruttschnitt, gen- eral manager of the Southern Pacific Company, a communication, addressed to him as chairman of the board. The letter announced that E. H. Harriman, sresident of the Southern Pacific Com- ceived a communication y “your county tax expert’ and that the communication in question had been referred to him and by him had been referred to the tax depart- ment of the Southern Pacific Company. SUSPICION IS AROUSED. The letter from Mr. Kruttschnitt did not contain the contents of the letter more rks | possible, | | tice. Those who pretend to know as- sent by MacMullan to Mr. Harriman, sert that Harriman has made all prep- . but Mr. Mitchell began to wonder what aration for this mew line in order to MacMullan was doing and why he was anticipate any similar enterprise that| writing to Mr. Harriman, and who au- might be projected by other parties. | thorized him to communicate with any —_—— | one connected with the Southern Pa- LAID IN THE GRAVE cific Company. SULL as nothing more o - developed, and as there was nothing in WITH, MiILITARY the action of MacMullan to arouse | AT suspicion, the Kruttschnitt letter was | Uniformed Members of Knights of | allowed to fade from Mr. Mitchell's | Pythias Attend Funeral of the ' | Mind for the time being. | Lath Datbas) 7: B Abliott. | The matter was forcibly revived when an accidental meeting between Jere | OAKLAND, Dec. 28.—Colonel J. P.! Burke o HONORS f the Southern Pacific Company | Abbott, a prominent member of the | and Mr. Mitchell occurred in the Pal- | Knights of Pythias and acting adju-|ace Hotel In San Francisco. Mr. Burke | tant general of the California Brigade | Immediately wanted to know from Mr. | of the Uniform Rank, was Jaid in the | Mitchell what kind of a tax expert he grave by.the members of the order | had appointed in Alameda County, and | vesterday afternoon, the ritualistic |in reply to Mr. Mitchell’s question of services being conducted by General “Why?” he told a story that hung upon C. F. McGlashan and Colonel George | the mysterious communication received Samuels and the religious services by | from General Mahager Kruttschnitt by | eral of John S. the Rev. Paul Stewart. More than 400 Knights, many of them in full uni- form, attended the funeral. | Mr. Mitchell. According to the story told by Mr. Burke to Mr. Mitchell, and since re- Following were the active pallbear-+ peated to others, $500 was asked by ers: P. J. Ryan, W. W. Whitmore, E. Bernstein, George A. Taylor, T. W. Painter and Frank Trahan. The honorary pallbearers were: Gen- | | eral H. Schaffner, General I. A. Mer- | guire, Colonel A. Marks, Colonel G. Schiller, Colonel T. W. Fifleld and Colonel J. C. Lohmier, all of the major general’s staff. 7 e —— Arrested on a Serious Charge. . Albert King was arrested yeSterday | afterneon by Detective . Tom - Gibson | @nd his name entered on the detinue | book at the €ity Prison pending an in- vestigation. . King is accused by Mrs, Seymour of 2856 Market street of hav- ing received $400 from her to play thg races and failing to make an account: ing. i Leap Year Party. The members of the San Francisco | Turn Schwestern are looking forward interést to their leap year and whball party, which is scheduled January 10. The party will be held in the Turk-street turner halil and a good time is looked forward to by all. The proceeds will, as usual, be devoted to a worthy cause. R Pioneer Laid to Rest. BERKELEY, Dec. 28.—The fun- Moore was held yes- terday from the family residence, Woolsey street, Berkeley. ceased was a pioneer of this § was well known in Berkeley. where he resided for a number of ycars. - He is survived by his wife and three chil- dren. - —_——— Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, Dee. 28.—The following marriage licenses were issued by the County Clerk to-day: George K. Smith, 31, and Elizabeth A: Coghlan, 22, both of Oakland; Trescott 8. Wil- son, 29, and Sadie H. Chick, 28, both _of Oakland. with . | MacMullan from the Southern Pacific Company in consideration of which he would refuse the position of “tax ex- pert,” to which he had been appointed by the Alameda County Supervisors, | As this story ran, various communica- tions, innocent In themselves, passed ; from MacMullan to various officials of the big railroad corporation, from Pres- ident Harriman down, and in the course of railroad events these commu- nications found themselves in the tax department of the company and in the hands of Mr. Burke. WANTED FIVE HUNDRED, Whereupon, sb Mr. Burke told Mr. Mitchell, he had an interview with Mac- | Mullan. At that interview MacMullan informed him of the work that had been delegated fo him by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, and add- ed that he knew where the Southern Pacific Company was not paying the county of Alamrda $2700 in taxes that | was due the couuty, and that under his appointment he yvould be compelled to report the samti to the Assessor, but that he once mcje wanted to enter the field of journalisin, and if $500 could be secured with which he could start a paper in Alamdda County he might overlook this asséssable property or give up his position @ltogether. ‘With cautious regard for the affairs of his company Mr. Burke took the matter under. advisement, and he.re- ferred the whole proposition to William ¥. Herrin, then general solicitor for the corporation. Mr Herrin's reply, as re- peated by Mr. Jiurke to Mr. Mitchell, was that if the ‘jouthern Pacific Com- pany owed Alamida County $2700 taxes it would pay it, Hut it would not put up a cent for blackrdall. That was an ugly word, but as thé story finally reached Alameda County'it was used by the big attorney. 4 i Mr. Burke's story ended at tl.at point, 2s the negotiations betweeh MacMullan and the company closed right ther Rut certain members of the Oakland WILL REOUEST RESICNATIONS Are Physically Disqualified A T A VACANCIES TO BE. FILLED| RN S ‘ Commissioners Postpone Action | on Candidates Until the| Next Meeting of the Board e Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | 1118 Broadway, Dec. 28. | Chief of.Police Hodgkins has report- ed to.the Police Commissioners that Patrolmen C. E. Kentz and Willlam Tillotson, recent appolntees of the board, are physically disqualified from proper performance- of their duties. Kentz, according to Jghe Chiel's state- { ment made this afternoon to the Com- . | missioners, is a sufferer from varicose ! goor the rest of the office | veins. Tillotson is alling from rheu-| pue (he wiris named | matic gout and the Chief asserts cannot | grightened, even when t! do patrolman’s duty efficiently because | of his trouble. Based upon that report the Commis- | sioners directed the Chief to ask both men for their resignations. Kentz and Tillotson were appointed | to the force on November 1. worked about three weeks during No- | vember and were compelled to lay off, | not returning to the beats until De- | cember 15. But sincé then ULoth men have been regularly on duty. The retirement of these men will | create a total of three vacancies in the regular police allotment. That which was caused by the killing of Policeman James H. Smith has not been filied. At to-day’'s meeting of the Commissioners the matter of appointments t. the reg- ular force was laid over until the next | meeting, which will be held on Monday, January 4, the regular meoting day, Friday, falling on Year's day. C. J. Dowen was appointed a special | policeman for the Twenty-third avenue district. IRISH VOLUNTEERS WILL DANC] R'S EVE| Nit Y Arrange for Ball at Which Many Handsome Uniforms Will Be Conspleuous. Company A, Irish Volunters (Knights of the Red Branch Rifles). will give | a military ball at Golden Gate Hall on Thursday night, New Year's eve. The They each | calmly sat at the switcht “hello” to everybody t number. “Tt v e | the girls aft but | reaily no ger of us burnin The fire brok in the U French and orner of avenue and Baneroft way. Whil ning in front of the building to ANSWER CALLS 1S FIRE BURNS AR Telephone Girls Stay by Their Switehboards, Though Flames Lick the Sides of Buildin CALMLY INUE WORK| CO) e o) University Freneh Laundry De- stroyed Through Blaze Start-| ed by Spark in Drying-Room | g Berkeley Office 2148 Cente With. flames licking building In which young “hello” girls in the teiephon answered calls pening. The re Miss art and M 1 H the fire broke out in the ! the vas Mary nehr Stew- When to turn the place into a H and the sky was lighted up for around. Mother: [ brothers came along an them leaving the th but they would not and his sister fre which he tho grigg, a High on the forehead by The wou from instant deat} Marstor: hose street into 4 a “Key route” train, just as it coming to a stop. The horse was knocked down and the car damaged. but Kenny escaped unhurt The laubdry is a totai loss to Cap ville Bros., the owners. The fir caused by a spark in the drying ARREST HOMAN - 010N JOINTS gisk Chinese Highbinders Stoek Up “iop” Lad With a Quantity of for Prisoners in County - FILLED . rw Gong, Wong Koang and Ah Big Smuggle CLOTHES wIiTH IT Lounie Attempt ¢ of the Drug Into the son Oakland Of an Francisco Call, 1 way, De 2 taken to Three Chirese y Jail f naa etdd about their per ent to supply th "Mineso hun- irug committee in charge is working dill- { gently to assure the success of the bail. | | The dances of Ireland will be in a| ! prominent place on the programme and | the hall is to be handsomely decorated. | | The members of the company will at- | tend in full uniform and will be under | the command of Captain H. P. Filgate. | | There are to be military exercises. The | | fleld and staff of the First Infantry Regiment, N. G. C., and of the League | | of the Cross Cadets and officers of the | | First Troop of Cavalry will attend. i Following are the committees: Ar- i rangements—T. L. Mahoney, chairman; | Sergeant P. J. Kenny, secretary; Ser- geant Charles J. Collins, Corporal M. | O'Neil and T. J. Shaughnessy. Floor | manager, Captain H. P. Filgate; assist- | | ant_floor manager, Li€utenant Thomas | McNaboe; floor, Corporal M. J. Hessfon, | Joseph P. Kelleher, W. J. Hudson, J. et | Coen, P. Kelly, J. Walters, T. J. Con- | nolly, J. J. Rodgerson and P. F. Green. City Council became aware of these| Reception—Lieutenant J. J. Sullivan, events, and they made some investiga- | chairman; Sergeant J. Gaughran, Cor- tions of their own, and exactly the same | noral D. Harnedy, M. Buckley, P. S. ! O'Looney, T. J. Shea, J. J. Murphy, P. story was told them. Thereupon the City Council promptly threw MacMul-|y. Crowe, P. Purcell, P. Mannion and ULAY PRESENTS M3 TO THE SUPSRVISORS.. | \ v XPERT., WHO I8 AC- D, OF TRICKING THE ALAMEDA SUPERVISORS. lan and his proposition to “discover” | W. Brady. unassessed property out into the cold, cold world. SAYS HE WAS ROBBED MacMULLAN ANGERED. BY TWO UNKNOWN MEN This angered MacMullan, who; being facile of pen, proceeded to write sundry letters to the Council criticizing, abus- ing-and threatening s'uch men as Presi- | reported to the police yesterday that | dent Dornin and (lmh:man John L.| 1o had been robbed during the after- Howard of the Finance Committee and | noon of $1400 others of like character. This did not | A g help MacMullan in the eyes of the city | _According to his story he went to officials nor the publle, and when the the German Bank, where he drew out Council refused to recelve any more the money, which he placed in a communications from him' unless | handkerchief and then stored it away in an outside pdcket of his overcoat. William Ehrenpfort, a well known citizen residing at 801 Fillmore street, FREE ART SUPPLEMENT ....The Huntsman’s Trophy.... WITH NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL | little hope of apprehending them. | honorable purpose of this couched in proper language MacMullan | reachied the end of his rope in that| He then proceeded downtown to the quarter. i Since the county expose there are| many happy officials around the City | Hall of Oakland. | This story known to several offi-| cials and it has been told by Mr. Burke | to more than one and there is plenty | of corroboration. The first chance that this story had | to come to the surface in full public view was when the first MacMullan claim was put through last week. Up! to that time and even at thac time the | Board of Supervisors had absolutely no information of what MacMullan had been doing. Hjs reports had been made to Assessor Dalton and there was noth- ing to show when the tax rolis were turned over last July whether Mr. Dal- ton's regular deputies or MacMullan had discovered the large lIncrease In taxable property in Alameda County. Fhe work was supposed to have been | that of Mr. Dalton's office and it passed for such until Saturday last when Mac- Mullan finally came out of the brush and openly declared that hé was the man that had “discovered” the ferry- boat franchises, the water in Lake Cha- bot and a total of about $5.000,000 of property upon which he wanted his commission, the first installment of which he had applied for in his claim for $1099 15. 2 SUPERVISORS INVESTIG When the Supervisors faced the re- sult of their action to-day they prompt- ly rescind everything they had done; and then proceeded to look about them to find out exactly where they stood. They have not yet discovered; but they have started in the right direction and they are determined to investigate every phase of the “unsight and un-| seen’” contract that they made last April. The county may be discovered to be legally bound by its agreement with ‘MacMullan, but the Investigation | will have it3 benefits in preventing any more trickery in the future, MacMullan precipitated the action himself, though Chairman Jobn Mitch- ell was ready to demand a full investi- gation. MacMullan sent the following communication to the Supervisors, in which he took exception to the inter- views of some of the Supervisors that appeared In The Call: 3 “OAKLAND, Dec. 28§, 1903. “To the Honorable Board of Super- visors of Alameda County: “Whereas, The San Francisco Call of this day intimates that my employment by your honorable body is not credft- able; that the county treasury is to suf- fer by such employment, and that as a consequence my engagement by you is burdensome to the taxpayers of this county;. and . “Whereas, Your chairman has as- sured the public through sald issue of The Call that the matter of my em- ployment, by which certain commis- sions are now. due me, will be thorough- ly.lnveuullled by you. - "L therefore petition that you proceed with such investization forthwith that I may plead guilty on account of the Russ House bar, where he suddenly realized that his money was gone. He told the police that he recalled two men following him down to the hotel | and believes that they stole the money from his overcoat pocket. A description of the men was given to the detectives, who, however, have — % county's present Assessor to turning many bags of gold Into this county’s treasury which has heretofore been lost to sald county. Respectfully, “C. 8. MacMULLAN."” EXPLANATIONS MADE. Chairman John Mitchell requested Supervisor H. D»- Rowe to take the chalr in order that he might speak di- rectly from the floor, and the Mac- Mullan communication did not change one statement he made yesterday. He said: “I am not responsible for everything that the newspapers say, but I did say yesterday that I would demand an in- vestigation of this matter and I am prepared to make that demand to-day. ‘When we employed Mr. MacMullan ~'e employed him as an assistant to this board, and not as an assistant to the County Assessor. It was his duty te report to this board his- findings and we could then have acted upon them. Now we are called upon to pay a lot of bills for werk that we never saw. To my knowledge Mr. MacMullan has never reported to this board., and for that reason I move that all acts con- nected with this matter be rescinded and that it be referred to the commit- tee of the whole for investigation Supervisor Rowe had this to say: “I want an upen Investigation so that the people can be informed of every move. If we had appointed Mac- Mullan in open session all this noise might have been ayoided. Mr. Mac- Mullan was appointed by us to dis- cover unassessed property and was to recelve a certain commission for so doing. 1 understand that he has dis- covered - this property, and I believe at we should keep our agreement ith him. 1 thought that it was a good thing then and I think so now.” | MacMullan announced that he had reported his finds to some individual members of the Finance Committee, but Chalrman Mitchell sald that he had not been reported to. The motion of Mr. Mitchell that all action be rescinded carried and the matter was referred to the Finance Committee for further investigation. This will result’ in MacMullan being forced to make all of his claims at once instead’ o? trying to avoid public notice by dribbing them ia one at a time in small amounts. Jere T. Burke, attorney f the Southern Pacific Company, stati last night that in view of his confidential position with the railroad company he was not prepared to make any state- ment at the present time as to any vroposals made by MacMullan. " This is one of the § | | | | | g % | | : % | | g % | | tures given .away { famous sporting pic-§ te all readers of ‘THE SUNDAY CALL '