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' lx " A Y MARCH 10, 1895 LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF Fair weather to-day. Fresh westerly winds to-day. Weather forecast for to-dav san Francisco and vicinity: Gen erauy tair: nearly stationary tem perature; fresh westerly winds n£b£dis£ > Ihiscit >' dUring the past week The lighthouse tender Madrono leaves for the south to-morrow. Postmaster McCoppin has established a postal station at Ocean View. *»«-««. The Alaska improvement Company has just completed a new launch. The funeral of Patrick Slevin, ex-captain of police, took place yesterday. \l: ! :,^ r 1 ian Catholics will dedicate St.'An thony s Church this morning. The United States gunboat Bennington is on •• r way to ban Francisco from Acapulco. The Knights of St. Patrick will have their annual banquet at Delmonico'a on the 17th inst. JL surveying parties for the valley road will probably be in the field by the first of next month. Rev J. Q. A. Henry was given a farewell re ception at California Hall last night by his friends. The Board of Prison Commissioners met yes terday, but it did not elect a warden for San Queutin. The dedicatory exercises of the German Lu theran church of St. Marcus will be held this morning. The Boys' High School athletes held a very successful field day at the Olympic grounds yesterday. 11. Thiehnan. a native of Germany, died at the Receiving Hospital last night from the ef fects of la grippe. Colonel Shatter may not succeed Roger as general. Army influence at Washington favors some o! his junior colonels. Edgar Thomson^ 411 California street, was treated at the Beceicing Hospital last night for a bayonet wonnd in his thigh. Ex-Fireman Duffy, charged with eloping with Ml " Mei,urreu, has returned, and says he will surrender himself to the police. The Board of Supervisors has been petitioned U» advertise for bids fora 50 years' franchise lor cremating the city's garbage. A tournament of basket-ball match games was played in the gymnasium of the Young Men's Cnristihn Association last night. Five boys, whose ages range from 14 to 9 years, have binm arrested for committing a scries ot burglaries in the Mission. Mrs. Nellie E. Butler, a nurse during the civil war ana the widow of a Union soldier, has ap plied tor admission to the Almshouae. The Olympic baseball team defeated the Stanford nine yesterday and the Reliance team defeated me University .pi California. Probably $100,000 in additional subscrip tions will be resdv for announce! at tbe next meeting of the valley road officials. The annual meeting of California imman aery of the Loyal Legion •' ill :•■■ held on Echo Mountain, uear Pasadena, on the Kith inst. Robbers blew open the safe in the Butter worth stained glass works on Tenth street and stole i=iOO in ea.-h and jewels valued at The Ellis-street cable line broke down at a o'clock Friday night and did not begin run ning again until -1 o'clock yesterday morning. Walter Edgerton, convicted of robbing Isaac Glening, was sentenced to five ars' imprison ment in San Queutin by Judge 'Belcher -ester day. The Fire Commissioners met last night, and among other matters accepted the resignation of James Duffy, who has been charged with my. I 'iiat the City nil the \v:i --:i it for irrigation a "wai i- motor." which Iv cheapen the ex .iv and settle the ■ Mayor Sutro says ho '.'nod an order accept ing Guerrero street, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth; ivithout fcnbjvijfg the cohteiils vt thtMiooumem. Hanviic: C. Meyer's conscience awakens as the curtain of oblivion slowly fulls over the tragic death of his wife, Grace Ceujaniin-ileyer. He is sorry iie denied the marriage. ■ ■ iyn visits M;^ ''.!>>,■ O'Halloran, . v ronomer, hh.! elicits some • . ■ and ambit . mcisco life. Tlie peoj !c of nd district are ; « -: t - i 1 1 . to open is;i A, J( and c s:r- I and Fourth avenu - Bay i'!-rri.-t racetrack". Fred Pilgrim, one of the victims of the ex ploMoTi on" the Baivnmore.Ms iv a precarious condition. Assemblyman Llewellyn is going t<i bri:ig suit ::st the charterers of Cheves t>el. lynn was before Judge F-ahrs yes liarge <>i libel brought . ■ .-. en. Ec pi jfl li d i» ■.■. a- .-■■: iur trial on - -. i!);' ')i'.;ia.r.l champion, and four • court :•!: shooting i rap* i:! the Baldwin Hotel Ce.fe. Aftet h hearing the cases svere ■■(■•!. Judge Seavrell has ordered Saul Cornfield to pay.to R. M." Rivers $1071. The two litigants wore (Mice partners, and now {livers is suing Cornfield for half of what he alleges Cornfield Jias collected. Mrs. Emilv O'Kane, 36}£ Ilausch street, had licr liu.«band arrested for Cattery, and says she will ply for a divorce. She "has been marr ied one year, seven months of which .--lie has beta iv misery- Mayor Batro declares the Spring Valley waicf system is rotten ar.d its water impure. He foniid th^ shores of Lake Merced lilthy on a tri'.i made there yesterday. lie advocates the city building its own system. The conviction of 11. 11. Leonard, who was at one time manager of the Bank of .Santa Clara and who was charged with embezzling i $8384 17 of the hank's money, has been af- I lirmeu by the Supreme Court. Mr. A. P. Van Duzer will lecture before the j iv.riia Law Club on Monday, .March 11. at Si p. M.. Assembly room. Mills building. Subject: j " i lie New Charier." Non-members will be ad mitted on payment cf "5 Cent*. I'ip-iron and potatoes ere good and deserve ilici.i'iiiinnoi the press. The Call will also ! gUeiproper consideration to the esthetic side of life; and will publish all news obtainable In regard to loctil I lets and their doings. The missionary schooner Hiram Binghani ar- | rived from the Gilbert Island-- yesterday. She | brine* no tidings of the missing schooner Rob ert w. LogaD, which disappeared in a typhoon on the Japanese coast several months ago. It is claimed that the lawyers have discov ered that in the divorce proceedings between the late James G. Fair and his wife, the former acknowledged tne alleged illegitimate sou as and that he will figure in the will contest. Five favorites were fain •'barreled' 1 at the J-nck yesterday, long shots predominating. Fiie plungers were out many thousands of dol lars at the end of the day. The feature of the day's card was the Flying stakes, won by Key del Bandidos. This afternoon at 3 o'clock there will be a meeting for young men between the ages of lii and 40 years at the Young Men's Chris tian Association Auditorium, Mason and Ellis streets. General O. O. Howard will speak on a special theme to young men. The lawyers argued before Judge Slack yester day on McEnerney's motion to have a copy of the" Fair will admitted for use in the hearing of the case. Judge Slack will decide the matter next Saturday, and thus settle the first vexed question of procedure for the proposed contest. F. Ki«ele, who kept the old Louvre restaurant in the I'helan building, has petitioned the Su perior Court to declare him insolvent His lia bilities amount to $3788 21 and he has no as sets with which to liquidate. His property was all sold by the- Sheriff under an attachment a tew days ago. William H. Holt, the newly appointed organ ist of Grace Church, will, by request, give an organ recital at the close of this evening's ser vices. The programme will include: Offer tory by Tours; prelude and fugue in C minor by Bach; variations on well-known hymns; tune and march by Wely. Francisca, Herrero y Carrascosa, who lives in Madrid, Spain, has brought suit through her guardian to gain possession of 400 shares of -stock in the San Francisco Gaslight Company 800 shares in the Spring Valley filer Company. The stock belonged to her father, and was left to her when he died recently. -* Elvira is. Stacey has brought suit against the S. S. Construction Company to recover $10,000 damages for a general shaking up and the loss of four front te/;th. She was driving along the San Jose road when her horse shied at' a car which the defendant had carelessly left on a neighboring track and she was thrown out of her buggy. HOPES TO DISCOVER A NEW STAR. Miss O'Halloran, the Girl As tronomer, who Lives for Her Work. SEEMS TO LEARN BY MAGIC. Famous Professors Astonished at Her Knowledge — Can Teach the Men. 'Her great ambition," said Professor Davidson, "is to discover a variable star. I have been looking for one thirty years myself, but I should not be surprised if Miss O'Halloran stole a march on the men astronomers and found the next one that is discovered." The professor was speaking of a woman astronomer who is a constant enigma to ROSE O'HALLOKAN, THE WOMAN ASTSONOMEE, AND HER PET TELESCOPE. [Sketched from life by a "CaR" artist.] him because she knows so much and po tently hides her knowledge under a bushel of excessive modesty. 'She only live? to study the heaven?," lie went on to explain, "and it is my be lief that she absorbs her information by some sort of magic, borrows my new scientific books and reviews, aixl the next time' I meet her she has every line in them at her iin tiers' ends. "I sometimes say to my wife that slit puts them under her pillow and dreams them into her brain, for how could it be possible by mere human means for a woman who has never made a specialty o mathematics and has never had any in stroction in astronomy to work out problems that puzzle famous astron (imcr.-? But I lei! yon she does it, and there are men well known in the profes sion to whom .Miss O'Halloran can and .(• valuable information." "Do you really mean to say that Miss O'Halloran helps well-known men astron omers?" I asked in surprise. Professor Davidson gave a meaning smile and said guardedly : "Well, I gue.s> you had better not say much about any o them going to her for the results of "her observations. The time has not come ye \ when men like to sit publicly and learn a a woman's feet; but there is no doub about her knowing a great deal more thai many men who are famous, though she makes out her observations in her own way- a way that ia beyond my ken alto gether, though she always 'pets there' as well or better than I could myself. Now I will give you just one instance: Do yoi remember two years ago, when they wen making such a hurTan about having dis covered some spots on the sun ? Well, the day the news was telegraphed to San Francisco Miss O'Halloran was at our bouse, and when I told her about it she j Baid, i t i ber quiet little way: " 'Why. professor, I noticed those spots | two months ago.' Yes; and she had not only noticed them, but she had made charts of the spots every day they had I been visible, and that is what no observa- | tory in the world had been doing till a big j spot attracted their attention, and then all ! the great astronomers claimed an original j discovery. They never gave any credit to the modest little woman in San trancisco who had forestalled them all." When asked something about Miss O'Halloran's history Professor Davidson , said he did not know much except that she j had come from Ireland some years ago to : seek her fortune In California, as she wag too proud to stay at home and be depend ent, and on her father's death the estate I was found not to be big enough to provide j for all the large family of children. "She gi.es lessons," added the professor, "and we sometimes think she; denies her self comforts that her health requires in order to spend the money on astronomical instruments. Her face has grown very j thin and pale lately, as if her health was j not what it ought to be. But what can we . do? She is as proud as Julius CVsar, and • her instruments are dearer to her than her life." It was with some trepidation that I set out to interview the woman who imbibes astronomical knowledge by magic, and is as proud as Julius Caesar. It was difficult to find her, for so modest and retiring is Miss O'Halloran that very few people even know her address. At last, at 2023 Pine street, the comforting assurance was given that the lady not only lived there, but that she was at home. The dusk was just falling as I entered Miss O'Halloran's little observatory, and in the fading light a quiet, pale young woman, who was standing near the open south window arranging a large telescope, came forward and, hearing my mission, said, with a touch of soft Irish accent : "My work? Yes; if you want to know something about it I will explain how the observations are made." And with the air of one discussing something near and dear to her heart, Miss O'Halloran began to ex plain how she studies sun spots and vari able stars. At first it was hard to plunge into astron THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1895. i omy, my attention being absorbed by the strange half-weird surroundings, for in the j dim, mysterious light the bare room had i the appearance of some medieval astrolo ] ger's magic: chamber. Strange cabalistic | charts covered the walls, though no doubt ; they were only maps of the heavens, '; studded with dusky stars, and photo -1 graphs of the moon's mountains and j craters. Globes, spheres and astronomical i instrument- were half outlined in the gloaming, while the telescope, that its owner loves as if it had a- heart and soul, | gleamed with the last rays of light. Through the hare windows one could see th< v vtar.s appearing one by one— only little ! golden specks to most people, but worlds j fraught with romance and mystery to Miss I O'Halloran. and I could not help thinking ■ that in a darker age her devotion to these heavenly bodies would have cost her im | prisonment or death at the stake on the i accusation of dealing in witchcraft. The astronomer forgot that niirht had al | most come and that the chilly air was ! blowing in through the open window as j she explained with a patience and enthusi i asm that would have won the most wan ! dering interest, why the sun has those ■ wonderful spots that delight observers. it was .'ike nailing a romance to hear her ! tell of that white-heat mass of gases that we call the sun. and how the hydrogen. thrown up thousands and thousands of j miles from the surface, becomes compara tively cooler and darker in the frigid realms I of space. "Even against the sun's surface these i jets of hydrogen look black," she ex . plained, "but the greatest heat we can pro- dace makes a snot upon them as black as this pencil-mark." Then Miss O'Halloran remembered that it was too dark to see the pencil-marks on her charts. "I will li<;ht the gas," she said, hospitably, ••but tirst let me show you the observatory, whore I can sweep "the whole heavens," and she walked to the south window and pointed to a (light of wooden steps leading to the roof of a build ing lower than her room. She spoke quite enthusiastically about what a plane it was to make observa tions, but it never aeemed to strike her that the roof might be a chilly, damp spot for a delicate youne woman to sit star-gazing through the long night-watches, and one only bad to look at Miss O'Halloran to see thai she was not at all robust. In spite of her frail appearance her palp, calm face had aconvincing charm of its own, lit-r deep-set gray eyes were lar^o and beautiful, though they had tho far-away look that people posses? who are accustomed to gazing great distances— a Jook that sailors frequently acquire. "When the gas was lighted I asiced the iistonomer to show the chart she had made ; day by day of the sun's spots two months j before the" great observatories had noticed ; anything unusual. She explained that ob- I seryation has shown the spots to acquire their maximum size and number every eleven years, and stated that two months before this was expected, she began to ob serve and make daily charts, marking the heliographic latitude of the spot* that afterward attracted so much attention, from the time that they first appeared on the pun's east limb. All the charts were there, marking the dots on the east limb, gradually increasing in size till they dis appeared on the west limb, and afterward reappearing, in almost the same helio graphic latitude, but of much greater mag nitude, on the east limb. Tt was on November 15, 1891, that Miss O'Halloran first observed the growing specks, and they ■were not seen at Greenwich till the 4th of tbruary the following year. ■"or three or four years Miss O'Halloran s been intently studying variable stars, a class of distant suns that do not keep a steady light. Day by day she makes charts of different parts of the heavens, marking those stars that seem to dwindle or to gain in brilliancy. There are two or three that she suspects of being telescopic variables; but it takes long observation, even alter the speck of light has been placed under suspicion of variation, to find out what are its periods for blazing out or for diminishing. Before many months are over, however, the girl astronomer will probably have added another variable star to those already known. And in the meantime she teaches by day and studies by night, throwing into her lessons such strong interestand enthu siasm that astronomy becomes no longer the dry bones of science, but something aglow with romance and interest. She has obtained recognition from astrono mers on two continents, has been made an honorary member of societies into which no woman was admitted before, and yet her studies have brought her nothing more tangible than the delight. "Does not your ambition point to a position like the one Miss Dorothea Klumpkc holds?" I asked. Miss O'Halloran's face lighted up at the suggestion of being able to live entirely for her beloved observations. Then she shook her head and remarked with a touch of ''It requires great influence to get such an appointment, and I am not an expert in such matters. No, I expect to go on But looking at her frail form I could not help wondering how long she would be able to stand the strain of day and night work, all done so ardently. When this genius is gone beyoud our ken perhaps we shall wake up to what she was, ana give her honor when it is too late to be of any use to her. We can wonder now at the wav the seventeenth century treated Galileo, but future generations will per haps wonder why Rose O'Halloran was not more appreciated. Marie Evelyn. THEY DID IT CHOOSE A WARDEN. Prison Commissioners Met, but Said Nothing About an Election. THE GOVERNOR MAY ASSIST. Hypnotic Influence Has Made Trouble in San Quentin Prison. There was no election of a Warden at San Quentin Prison when the Board of State Prison Directors met yesterday. As Warden Hale's term will expire on April 1, it was generally expected that the board would elect a successor, or probably re elect him for the next four years. The Prison Commissioners would not discuss the subject and left earlier than usual after hastily transacting business of the month. Director Ivory said he did not know exactly how it stood. "The election was never mentioned," he said, "and I don't know what the board intends doing. Tfcis was the regular monthly meeting, and Mr. Hale's term of ollice will end on April 1. But he can hold office until re-elected or a successor is appointed." Mr. Ivory was asked about rumors to the effect, that Governor Budd may make changes in the board "for cause." "Well, I've heard it .-aid," he replied, "that 1 was not legally appointed, because my appointment was made when there was no vacancy on the board; The same thing obtains in Mr. NefFa case. Then I under stand it is charged that some of the board supplied material to the prisons, which is a violation of the rules, and also that they traveled on railroad pusses. Either charge would be sufficient grounds for the Gov ernor to take action, if he so wished. But 1 don't know that there is any truth in them." From a legal point of view the constitu tion is considered so delightfully uncertain regarding appointments of prison directors or wardens that precedent may cut no figure in the Governor's action. Governor Stoneman changed four members of the board, making ii Democratic, after he took office. The only director he did not move was John Boggs. Then Governor Bartlctt made no changes, but when Waterman succeeded him the board was turned upside down. Warden Shirley, who had been re elected for a second term, was removed after holding office seven weeks on the secoi'i term. His place was lilied by Gen eral McComb, who was moved by Mark ham three years and three months later. In the summer of 1883, when Stoneman changed the board to suit himself, the four deposed directors fought for six months to bring their cases into court and to regain office, having been appointed for ten years and still having some years to serve. They failed, however, a< the Governor is sole judge of the cause of removal. Prise m officials have not the slightest doubt that Governor Budd can pursue the course taken by Stoneman, should he wish tv muke changes or appointments in Folsom and San Quentin prisons. For although the law is apparently explicit on the point of Prison Commissioners' ap pointment, there is a clause which vir tually places them at the Governor's mercy. A full board mot at San Quentin yester day, with Director Depue in the chair. Benjamin P. Merritt's petition for em ployment a.s guard was referred to the Warden with power to act. The California Jntcmill Company asked for a loan of '200 bales of iute until the ship Miranda arrives from Calcutta. Only 12('O bales are in the prison, and the mill uses from 750 to 800 bales a month. The request was referred to Mr. Depue and the War den. A letter from Dunsmuir& Sons was read a-k i1 1 u r that- a new test of their coal be made, as in their opinion the last test was not properly made. The board was satis fied with results of recentexperimentsand declined this proposition. The Warden reported that Convicts James Lamb and Lee Brown, boys, wished to be transferred to the Preston School of Industry. Lamb had served a term in the Whittier lleform School, so his case was dropped, but action on Brown's request was postponed for a month. The advisability of giving discharged convicts money to pay their fare to the counties from which they were taken was discussed. It was made discretionary with the Warden to furnish convicts tickets or the equivalent in money. The Warden was instructed not to buy any more Bnpplies for the barber-shop, and henceforth the officers must supply themselves with barber's materials. Bills aggregating $12,059 were ordered paid for February. Four months' "credits were restored to John Haley, a convict from San Francisco, who lost a year's credits for lighting in the prison. A convict named Lang, from Aiameda, serving a term of Imprisonment for burg lary, attempted to escape Friday evening. He is unbalanced mentally and tit lock-up time stole away into the large deserted furniture factor}', where lie was found half an hour later lying on a heap of rub bish. The warden reported he had found that Mrs. Martin, in prison for swindling a woman In Oakland oat of $14,000 by hyp notism, was responsible for all the trouble made by Mrs. Werner, another prisoner. Mrs. Werner killed her husband in San Francisco. Some time ago she began to act as if she were insane, and set tire to her bed about two weeks since. After that she pretended to be idiotic, eating mush with her lingers and throwing it into her mouth and upon her face, soiling the bed and her dress. Her purpose was|u> get a pardon on the grounds of insanity and then be sent to the Home for the Feeble minded. Tinder close scrutiny of Dr. Mansfield, Captain Edgar, the matron and warden, she broke down and confessed she had been led by Mrs. Martin, who pos sessed perfect mastery over her. Mrs. Martin was placed in solitary confinement for two days and is now locked up in her room where she cannot come in contact with other prisoners. The board adjourned to meet at Folsom a week from to-morrow. DEADLY DISEASE GERMS. I)'-. Annie William* Is Making :) i.jf,. Study of their Habits and Production. Bringing up by hand the deadliest of little disease germs, studying their habits, training them carefully in the way they should go, and killing them off with neat ness and dispatch — that is a new occupa tion for women— and not so queer as it may seem at first thought, for the greatest discoveries in the science of medicine have been made in this way of late years. Bacteriology has conquered smallpox, laid diphtheria low, has won a fighting chance with consumption, and will surely take more of death's ground out from un der his f< ■ before long. This interesting field for woman has been opened by the appointment of Dr. Annie W. Williams to be art assistant bacteriologist in the New York City Health Department. For that matter, the field lias been *pen all the time, but the place this thoughtful girl has made for herself in it shows that it is suited to any other woman who has the taste and the training. Miss Williams is a shy little woman who now spends most of each day at a desk in the Health Department's laboratory across the beautiful inclosed court in the Crim inal Court building from the chambers in which the famous Recorder Goff metes out justice. She was found watching the con tents of a filter dripping from a glass fun nel into a wide-mouth flask, and contain ing microbes enough, no doubt, to put half the population of the city into their graves. "She was not in the least afraid of them, however. "The work is not as dangerous or as hard as that of a practicing physician," she said, "and there is nothing about it that a woman has not the strength to do. I won't agree, though, that a woman can manipu late bacteria any better than a man, for when a man has* had long experience in this work he acquires quite as much deli cacy of touch as a woman. But really, please, I don't want to talk about it, for I am very, very busy." MNs* Williams always had a taste for medicinal study, but it' was only lately that her interest in "the study of disease germs led her to decide that .she would make it her life work. She studied medicine in Leipsic and in the women's medical college of the New York infirmary, graduating from the last named institution in 18'J2. She has made a specialty of anatomy, and was at once appointed assistant to the professor of pathology. Last summer she obtained permission to study in the city's bacteriological labora tory the evil microbe that causes diptheria. Her work was so thorough that she was asked to give her time to the city, continue her work and take a good place on the payrolls. She is a sweet-faced, serious minded young woman, who is more at ease with microbes than with newspaper folk, and who seems to be wholly absorbed in her work. She combs her dark hair straight hack, dresses simply, has large, intelligent, pray eyes and moves about with a quick, springy step that betokens enthusiasm. Her surroundings are conducive to the scientific spirit. Microscopes of high power are stationed here and there. Test tubes containing mysterious - looking liquids, their mouths closed with cotton batting, stand in racks on the desks; bottles range in rows on every shelf, re torts, flasks of all shapes and sizes, beakers, copper boilers are everywhere.— Boston Globe. THEY DID IT SHOOT CRAPS Frank Ives, the Billiard Cham pion, and Four Others on Trial. As the Shaking Was for Drinks the Cases Were Dis missed. The arrest of Frank Ives, the champion billiard -player, George Easton, the horse man, Samuel Howard, George Britton and Edward Isaacs, in the Baldwin cafe on Friday night on a charge of playing craps caused quite a sensation among the fre quenters of the cafe. When the cases were called in Judge Conlan's court yesterday morning many friends of the defendants were present and watched the proceedings with interest. Policeman McGrayan, who made the ar rest, testified that he was specially de tailed to stop gambling. He was passing along Powell street, and happening to look through one of the windows of the cafe, he saw Britton and Howard shooting craps at a table. The ot her three were sitting at the table. He walked in and stood about ten minutes watching the play. He saw m onev changing hands and then he went outside and gdt Officer MacLeanto go back with him. He placed the live men under arrest. McGrayan was asked by the Judge if he was familiar with the crap game. The oliiier gave the Judge practical illustration of the fact that he knew the same well. "Was that the only gambling game you could find in the city?" asked the Judge. "It was the only one I could iind that night," replied McGravan. •"You couldn't rind" a gambling game with a lantern," said Attorney Kowalsky, who appeared for the defendants. "The place where the defendants were seated," said Kowalsky, "could not only be seen from the street but by every one who entered the cafe, and it is preposter ous to assume that they could play a era]) game there. Why didn t you arrest every one who entered the cafe?" McGrayan did not reply. The defendants all swore that they were not shooting craps, but were shaking dice for a bottle of wine. "The prosecution has failed to establish a case," aaid the Judge, "and I believe the defendants when they say they were shak ing dice for the drinks. Even if they were not, if that is ail the gambling the officers can find in the city we are getting along very well. I shall dismiss the cases.' 1 Champion Ives was very indignant over his arrest, and said it was the first time he had ever been in the hands of the police. A RAILROAD INVESTIGATION. The United States Grand Jury Is Looking Into the Issu ance of Passes. Judge Morrow and Attorney Foote Had Quite a Tilt on the Subject. "Your Honor can, of course, give the Grand Jury whatever instructions you think proper; but as I have sworn to give the same body my best advice, and am in fact its legal adviser, I shall naturally do my best to expound to them what I believe to be the law in whatever case may come before it." The remarks just quoted were the wind up of quite a little tilt between District Attorney Foote and Judge Morrow in the United States District Court yesterday. The whole matter arose over the question of the power of the Grand Jury to call witnesses. They sent a message to Judge Morrow, ami his Honor met them in open court. The foreman asked whether the body had the power to subpena a witness independ ent of the District Attorney. The court told them that they had the power to call any one who lived within the Ninth Judicial District. It was then inti mated that District Attorney Foote would not call a certain gentleman that the Grand Jury wanted to hear from, and it was generally understood that the witness in question was C, P. Huntington. From this point the foreman branched to the interstate commerce law, and the issuance of a pass to Frank Stone by C. P. HontingtoD cropped up. Foote, it appears, had advised the jurors that the evidence only showed a crime of intent ana that an in dictment would not lie. The jurors thought differently and wanted C. P. Huntingdon subpenaed. It was on this point that the tilt occurred. Judge Morrow for a time ruled against the District Attorney, but when it was shown that there was no breach of the interstate commerce law in Stone's case he agreed that the crime was only one of intent. He then pointed out to the jury that the word "pass" is not used in the act, but that any person "discriminating"' between States was guilty. When the matter had all been smoothed over District Attorney Foote said he was perfectly willing to call any and all wit nesses the Grand Jury might want to hear from, but he was not willing to put the United States to the expense of trying a man who could never be convicted. There are said to be nearly 600 orders of nobility in Europe. William J. Florence in the "Almighty Dol lar" is immortalized by the cigar named after his great play. * WIDE SCOPE OF AN ORAL ARGUMENT S. M. Shortridge Has His Final Say in the Great Insur ance Case. D. M. DELMAS WILL CLOSE. Not Only the Insurance Com pany but the People Are Interested. B&mnel M. Shortridge closed his argu- j ment in the injunction proceedings of the Continental Insurance Company against the Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pa cific Coast yesterday. It was an able effort, and United States Circuit Judge McKenna showed his appreciation of the points raised by counsel by stopping him on several occasions to ask for further in formation on the subject. "I will ask the court," said Mr. Short ridge in conclusion, "to note the non intercourse laws laid down by the de fendants; to pay especial attention t<> the j penalty that such rules impose on the in- | surer; to note the injury it inflicts upon j the agents of the Continental Insurance i Company, and lastly the continual dam- | age it is doing to the" business of the com- I pany itself." Mr. Shortridge then read a | portion of the complaint, which sets forth j that the Board of Underwriters is com- j bined to charge the property-owners 15 per | cent in excess of the rates at which the Continental and other non-intercourse i companies are prepared to do business. He then asked for an in junction in order that the Continental might try to break up the monopoly and give the public com- | petitive rates. Judge McKenna — "What can be done ! in regard to the agents you speak of, and j how can the court act so as to give the I insurer and the insured equal justice? Shortridge— We aim at the suspension of ttiese non-intercourse rules by means of < an injunction. This arbitrary law set up by the Board of Underwriters" is unjust to the Continental and equally so to the public. Judge McKenna— Then one of the things j you would have the court do would be to '■ enjoin the writing of these letters to the I agents of the Continental Company? Shortridge — I would ask that they be | prohibited. Judge McKenna — You state that the de fendants decline to receive or place re-in- ! surance from the plaintiff and that these ' board companies refuse to do business ! with property-owners who insure in the ! Continental? Shortridge — I do, and I think a court of i equity will, by proper decree, prevent ! this boycott. They assign to the prop- i erty-owntrs as a reason for not doing so that the plaintiff company is not a | member of the board, and that they can- j not therefore do business with it. This ! compact is a menace to the people ; it Beeka to arbitrarily control the insurance business on the Pacific Coast— to create an oppressive monopoly; its object, its pur pose is, therefore, unlawful, opposed to public policy. This court is asked to pre- • vent the carrying into effect of this unlaw ful compact's unlawful purposes. The attorney then quoted the case of a ! Cincinnati typographical union which at tempted to boycott a printing office. Cir culars were sent to all the patrons of the j latter and his business suffered a great deal. He applied for an injunction and it was granted. Mr. Shortridge then drew the analogy between the Cincinnati case and the one at bar. In conclusion, he said : "This organization is an unlawful com bination against public policy. It destroys competition among its members and by the enforcement of its non-intercourse sec tion the complainant is suffering irrepara ble damage and the public is greatly injured. If it were the people who were bringing suit in this instance, there would not be a moment's doubt as to the outcome, and as the inter ests of the people and the Continental Insurance Company are so closely allied we trust that the result will be the same. What form of injunction we will ask your Honor to issue we will suggest after care fully considering the matter." Charles Page of Page <k Eells opened the case for the Board of Underwriters. He went over the case as presented by Mr. Shortridge, and carefully analyzed the argument in favor of an injunction. He referred to the vast sums involved in the case and the reputable business men wlm were members of the Board of Underwriters. He insisted that no one had been coerced into joining the ranks ol the Board of Un derwriters. It was late in the afternoon when he concluded his address, and the court then adjourned until to-morrow at 11 a. ic, at which hour D. M. Delmaa will close for the Continental Insurance Com pany. A MORGUE MYSTERY SOLVED. B. Bernard of Sacramento AVas the Un known Suicide. A Morgue mystery was solved yesterday . On October 26 last the body of a man was found hanging in Golden Gate Park. No one could identify the remains, so they were photographed and buried. Yester day Mrs. B. Bernard of Sacramento,.!. S. English, her son-in-law, and her daughter called at the Morgue and identified the photograph as that of the husband and father. He was a great gambler, and when he left home to collect a debt of $2700 his wife told him not to return home unless he brought tho money with him. He must have lost the money jit poker, as only a nickel was found in his pocket. 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