8
STILL AFTER THE EIGHT
K. M. Smith Files a New Ac
cusation for Impeach
ment.
DIRECT CHARGES OF FRAUD.
The Word " Extension" Relieves the
Market-Street Company of the
Two Per Cejit Condition.
Kire M. Smith yesterday filed in the Su
perior Court a second amended complaint
and accusation against and for the re
moval of the Solid Eight of the Board of
Supervisors.
It recites the same facts as the original
complaint, but presents them on new lines.
In the former complaint the basis of the
action was the failure on the part of the
Solid Eight to recognize the application of
the San Francisco and San Mateo Railroad
Company for a franchise out Sunnyside
avenue to Ingleside. This, it was charged,
was a failure to perform official duties, the
question of revenue being an incident.
The new complaint and accusation is
based upon the duty of Supervisors to sell
property rights of the City for the highest
price obtainable.
The complaint relies upon the law "of
March 23, L 893, relative to the sale of fran
chises, which law provides its own penalty.
The facts are alleged in such manner to
show how the Solid Eight conspired to aid
the Market-street Railway Company to se
cure two franchises to Ingleside under
their application for one, at the nominal
Drice of $500, excluding all other bidders
and under the guise of an "extension" to
an old franchise, leaving out the exaction
of the 2 per cent on the gross receipts,
which is now made a part of all franchises.
Two causes of action are presented in
•which the same facts are recked. The
first is the violation of the law and the
second is "an attempt" to violate the law.
As will be remembered this law of March
23, 1893, has an equal penalty for its viola
tion and its attempted violation.
The recitation of facts is much stronger
in this new complaint than in the old."
Stress is laid upon the fact that no street
railway franchises have been granted
within the past live years without- the
provision being inserted that 2 per cent of
tne gross receipts be paid to the CUy, and
yet this franchise, or literally speaking,
two franchises, are here coupled together,
and, with the excuse that it is an 'exten
sion" of a previous franchise, this pro
vision is not here exacted ; that the fran
chise has, however, been advertised and
all the forms followed, as provided in the
law of 1893, which by the way does not
mention such a thing as an "extension."
The complaint recites:
That on tho said Bth day of July, 1895, the
said eight members, being a majority and con
trolling number thereof, and each of them, did
willfully and unlawfully violate the said act
and with a fraudulent intent and purpose to
prevent any public competition against the
Market-street Railway company, a corporation
in said City and County, and all and each of
them did conspire and join together for and in
the interest of and in behalf of the said Mnrket
.sireet Railway Company and against the public
interest, and all and each one of them, to wit:
JOSEPH KING, Supervisor First Ward.
PETER A. SCULLY, Supervisor Second
Ward.
CIIAKL.ES E. BENJAMIN, Supervisor
Third Ward.
ALPH ONSE HIKSCH, Supervisor
Fourth Ward.
EDWARD C. HUGHES, Supervisor
Sixth Ward.
CHKIS DUNKEK, Supervisor Seventh
Ward.
ALFRED W. MOKGENSTERN, Super
visor Ninth Ward.
EDWARD L. WAGNEK, Supervisor
Twelfth Ward.
I>id recognize an application made by the said
Market-street Railway Company ior a fran
chise to construct a street railroad over a large
number of public streets in said City and
County, and each one of them did by his vote
on the said Bth day of July, 1895, at a regular
open session in an' open meeting of the Board
of Supervisors, knowingly and unlawfully vote
for and cause to be advertised the said Market
street Railway Company's application for a
f-anchise, with conditions and restrictions in
it own favor, drafted and framed by order of
pail Market-street Railway Company with the
unlawful, corrupt and fraudulent object and
Intention of defeating the purpose and spirit
of the law, and preventing any competition or
bidding whatever against it for the said fran
chise; and deponent alleges that the said ac
cused Supervisors and each one thereof, by his
unlawful action as hereinbefore alleged, did
legislate for and vote in the interest and be
half of the said Market-street Railway Com
pany and against the public welfare and inter
est of the people and taxpayers of the City and
County of San Francisco.
Again if says:
That there are several street railroad com
panies in said City and County with provisions
in their franchises requiring them to pay 2 per
cent of their gross earnings to the said City
•and County, and within the last five years said
City and County has collected the sum of about"
seventeen hundred dollars ($1700) from such
source as public revenue.
That the San Francisco and San Mateo Rail
way Company, a corporation, now and at all
times mentioned herein operates a street rail
road in said City and County and has such
a provision in its franchise, and is one of the
companies from which said City and County
has collected public revenue as hereinbefore
mentioned.
That the said Market-street Railway Com
pany pays no such revenue to the City and
County of San Francisco for any street railroad
franchise now owned by it, and with the inten
tion of preventing' the City and County of San
Francisco to exact and require it to pay as pub
lic revenue 2 per cent upon its gross earnings
for the privilege of runmug and operating its
cars upon the said public streets, it designedly
and unlawfully caused to be inserted in the
advertised notice of sale with a condition that
the privilege and franchise should be "to con
struct, lay down, maintain and operate for the
unexpired terms of the respective franchises
heretofore granted for its line of street railroad
on Mission street," as a pretended compliance
with the law, and with the object ot making it
appear that it is applying for no new privilege
and franchise subject under the law to pay the
taid 2 per cent of the gross earnings to the
<ity ana County of San Francisco as hereinbe
fore mentioned, but as a continuance of the
franchises already granted to its line of street
railroad on Mission street, which is not re
quired under its franchises to pay the said
mentioned percentage to the said City and
County of San Francisco as public revenue.
HARBOR COMMISSIONERS.
Iron Piers for the New Wharves — Chief
Wharfinger Boobar for Re
appointment.
It is the intention of the Board of Har
bor Commissioners when rebuilding
wharves to construct them upon iron
piling, which will in time make the whole
dock system of the City almost indestructi
ble. The new Pacific-street pier is the in
auguration of this important water-front
improvement and the change meets the
approval of the Chamber of Commerce,
which, at their last meeting, adopted the
following resolutions:
Wherkas, The Honorable Board of Harbor
Commissioners have ordered the Pacific-street
wharf rebuilt with irou cylinder piles filled
with concrete; and whereas, the major part
of the receipts of the board have heretofore
been expended in repairs.
nrsolvfd, That the trustees of the Chamber
of Commerce of San Francisco respectfully con
gratulate the Honorable Board of Harbor Com
missioner* on ihe adoption of a policy of per
mnnent improvement, which, if persisted in,
Will ultimately enable them to greatly reduce
Charges agaiiibt the shipping at this port.
Jietolved. That the policy thus Inaugurated
should be steadily adhered to until every wharf
on our City front shall be buih on iron piling,
and only the superstructure constructed of per
ishable material.
Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be
forwarded the Honorable Board of Harbor
Commissioners aud to his Excellency ihe Gov
ernor of California.
It is believed along the water front that
Chief Wharfinger Boobar will succeed him
self at the expiration of hia official teru
next month. Boobar is a very capable ,
man, and efforts have been made among
the shipping people, irrespective of politi
cal affiliation, to have him retained in the
position he has so well filled. Commis
sioner Cole favors him, and it is believed
that Chadbourne will not vote to remove a
Republican so worthy of reappointment,
especially when President Colnon has no
Democrat for the place and is satisfied with
JSoobar. \
HAPPY JACK HARRINGTON.
A Man With a Record and a Broken
Leg in the Receiving Hos
pital.
"Happy Jack" Harrington was walking
along Washington street at an early hour
yesterday morning when he stepped on a
banana peel. He fell and broke both bones
of his right leg.
"Happy Jack" has a record. He was
first known to the police here in the latter
part of 1865 as an associate of well-known
criminals.
On January 12, 1866, he was sentenced to
serve six months for petty larceny, and on
November 13 one year for burglary. In
1868 he killed Billy Dwyer, a prize-tierhter,
in a saloon on Jackson and Kearny streets.
He was tried for murder and acquitted, as
it was shown he acted in self-defense. He
went to San Diego and on September 28,
1870, got eight years for robbery.
After serving his sentence he came to
this City. He took a religious turn and in
1877 started a temperance coffee-house on
California street. He was backed up by
several religious societies and did a good
business. On April 21, 1883, he was sent
to San Quentin for six years for robbery.
His last sentence was ninety days for petty
larceny on April 23, 1889.
He is a native of Boston, about 56 years
of age. ; .;.'• ;
WEST END PEOPLE ANGRY
Will Demand Restoration Of
Car Service on Clayton- ;
; Street Line.
Effort to Hurt Sutro's Gift to the
Affiliated Colleges Promises a
Failure-
If the state of mind of the residents of
that section of the City traversed by the
Clayton-street electric line is a safe basis
upon which to form ah estimate as to the
outcome, there is probable failure ahead of
the attempt of the Southern Pacific,
through its most reliable adjunct, the
Market-street Cable Company, to prejudice
the committee that is to make a selection
of a site from among the various tracts
offered for the Affiliated Colleges. : . '
As has been previously stated, the Mar
ket-street Cable Company has abandoned
the car service on the Clayton-street end of
the old Metropolitan line, in the hope that
the committee will reject Mayor Sutro'a
proffer of a site as being inaccessible, there
being no car service. This at least is the
belief of most persons interested in the
Affiliated Colleges site, and it is the unan
imous opinion of those citizens who live
alone the abandoned line, who depended
upon it for getting ift and out of the City,
and who are therefore in reality the chief
sufferers.
These are very bitter over what they
term "being whipped over the shoulders
of one of the company's enemies." The
various neighborhoods "of Stanyan street,
Clarendon Heights, etc., have been can
vassed and a meeting called, which will be
held on the 24th inst., to formulate plans
for making the company restore the serv
ice, or, in the failure of that, to have the
Board of Supervisors declare the franchise
forfeited.
Thomas U. Sweeney, residing at the cor
ner of Seventh avenue'and .T street, one of
those discriminated against by the new or
der of things, said yesterday:
There are fully 300 or 400 people shut off
from streetcar connections with the City by
the withdrawal of the cars from the Clayton
street line. Of course, we can take the steam
cars and transfer at the park, but they only
run once in three-quarters of an hour, and
there is no train from the City after 5.30 P. M.
This is practically as good as tio service at all.
We were entirely satisfied with th« service of
the electric line, and as most of the residences
in this section were built with the expectation
that the line would continue to be operated
so that we would have at least as good a ser
vice as had thus far been given us, if not im
proved upon, we teel we may be justly indig
nant at being deprived of the service entirely.
There is apparently no other reason for
taking off the cars than simply to spite Mr.
Sutro, whom they have always fought on every
proposition, and'we do not propose to be made
to suffer for a matter in which we have no fn
terest. We shall try to make the Market-street
Company put back the cars or we shall demand
that the franchise be forfeited.
George Lane, another resident of Seventh
avenue, reiterated the statement of Mr.
Sweeney that it was the malice of the
Southern Pacific Company toward Mayor
Sutro that prompted the abandoning of
\he service. He said :
It certainly can be for no other reason, for
the road paid a dividend when under the man
agement of the Metropolitan Company, and as
there are more people living along the line
now than then, it cannot be said that the cars
were taken off because they didn't pay. We
do not propose to stand such boys' play, and
we will have that service ret-tored or see that
the franchise is forfeited and room made for
Joost or some one else who wants to build
through to the ocean. I don't know what plan
we will adopt yet, but we will decide upon a
course at the meeting on the 24th.
Other residents of the locality talked in
a similar strain, .showing the community
is not in a mood to tolerate the discrimin
ation any longer than it is obliged.
From opinions expressed by a number of
the colleges' committee yesterday it is
hardly believed that the discontinuance of
the car service will carry much weight in
the selection of the site. They appear to
have no fears but there will te plenty of
car service by the time the building is com
pleted.
PRETTY HOME WEDDING.
Christopher C. Rivers anil Lillie A.
Mocker United in Marriage.
One of the social events of the season
was the marriage at the residence of the
bride, 725 Golden Gate avenue, yesterday
afternoon, of Miss Lillie A. Mocker, yonng
est daughter of William Mocker, to Chris
topher C. Rivers of the firm of Rivers
Brothers.
Though the spectators were confined to
immediate relatives of the families, the
capacity of the parlors, study and halls of
the beautiful home were greatly taxed.
Every apartment of the house was prettily
decorated for the occasion. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. E. J. Lion of
St. Stepnen's Episcopal Church, after
which the whole company sat down to an
elaborate dinner.
Among those present were Mr. and Mrs.
James L. Holland, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
Mocker, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rivers,
Misses Nellie and Hertha Page of San
Jose. Miss Anna Rivers, Mr. and Mrs. W.
Mocker Jr., Thomas W. Rivers, Mrs.
Noema Prussia of Oakland, Mr. and Mrs.
Rubin Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Mocker, Mrs. Parker, Mrs. Stevens, Mr.
and "Mrs. Edwin Q. Olsen, Mrs. Thomson
and Rudolph Mocker.
The bride is a native daugnter of this
City, of splendid accomplishments. She
has been a prominent figure in several
social functions of late and for several
summer seasons among the notables at
Santa Cruz.
Mr. Rivers is a successful young business
man, being a partner in the big grocery
house at the corner of Hayes and Octavia
streets.
The honeymoon will be passed at Lake
Tahoe, after which Mr. and Mrs. Rivers
will take up their residence at I^o6 Hayes
street.
Silk is so cheap in Madagascar that the
poorest people wear clothing made of it.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1895.
YESTERDAY AT THE FAIR
Nearly Three Thousand People
Visit the Mechanics' Pa
vilion.
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EXHIBITS IN GOOD SHAPE.
The Band Is One of the Big Attrac
tions While AH the Displays
Have a Share.
Nearly 3000 people passed through the
big front doors of the Mechanics' Pavilion
yesterday and last night. The unsettled
condition of the exhibits of the day before
and the noise of the hammer and the saw
had gradually diminished in the morning,
and by the time the crowds began to pour
in in the afternoon there was comparative
quiet, save for the rumble of the heavy
wheels in machinery hall, where affairs
are being speedily adjusted. All through tne
vast pavilion there is a settled appearance,
and the exhibitors are beginning to look
rested and ready to entertain the visitors.
"We shall have everything in place and
TIIE BLOOMER GIRLS AT THE FAIR;
things rnovirigaldhg with the smoothness
of clockwork by Saturday," said Superin
tendent VSinyth, "and the prospects are
that even before that the exhibitors will
have their wares all in place."
The visitors seemed to.be making a gen
eral review of the great hall and the hun
dreds of things displayed during the after
noon, and last night they rested and lis
tened to the music.
When you first enter the doors you catch
the blare of the big horns and. the big
drums, the finer tones of the smaller in
struments and see the crowds of attentive
listeners in the galleries. You notice the
coat of new paint on the gallery rail and
the sunburnt decoration at the west end of
the hall. Then you follow the lines of dis
plays on either side of the great pavilion
and wonder where you will start in first.
But before you have made up your mind
about that you meet the inevitable gum
girls, one in white and one in blue. They
wear bloomers and are housed within a
small inclosure, beyond which they do
not venture. »
You hesitate as if you had missed some
thing and turn instinctively to an inspec
tion of the numerous bicycle displays in
another section of the hall.
There is one exhibit that is a novelty—
never placed on public exhibition before
— the white and shining columns of borax,
which at nieht is illuminated by electric
Beauty in One of the Candy Booths.
lights. Representing as it does California
industry it attracts hundreds of visitors,
many of whom are not aware of its im
portance. The exhibit is by the Pacific
Coast Borax Company, whose mines are in
Death Valley. When the exhibit shall be
completed the process of separating the
pure borax from the original stuff that
comes'from the mines will be illustrated.
There is a pleasant surprise for you in the
art gallery, where the pictures are placed
in a sort of artistic disorder, distinguish
ing this exhibit from those usually seen in
the art displays of other fairs and exposi
tions. Solly Walters and J. Ross Martin,
assisted by Mrs- Waters, have stepped out
of the conventional style of placing oils in
one place, water-colors in another, and so
on down the line. They have grouped the
pictures much as an artist would in the
studio. The effect is noticeable to even the
uncritical mind. The great mass of people
who visit fairs have only that love of the
beautiful and artistic wnich pleases them
for the time, and the conventional plan of
hanging pictures is sometimes found tire
some.
The innovation in the art display at the
Mechanics' Fair is a pleasing one, and the
visitor" are already noting it and com
menting favorably.
The Golden State Amateur Press Associ
ation has an exhibit that attracts a good
deal of attention. On the walls and in
the showcases of the booth are displayed
some fifty or more sample copies of ama
teur papers edited by youthful writers in
various States of the' Union. In the dis
fjlay there are twenty-five edited and pub
ished by California boys, and there are
thirty-five members in the State associa
tion. One of the novelties of the exhibit
is the first and many subsequent issues of
The Stage Coach, snowing the evolution
of the art from a little sheet about hall as
bie as a $1 bill up to a three-column folio
which now beais the name of The Monthly
Times.
No fair was ever complete without a
patent washing-machine. But no fair
ever exhibited so simple, so unattractive a
washing-machine as stands near the door
way of the machinery hall. The plain
man who presides over and manipulates
this wonderful cleanser will tell you that
there is nothing like it on the market, and
you are prepared to believe him when jou
see him slosh the clothes up and down
among a bushel of little wooden balls
mixed up with a plentiful supply from the
borax display.
The following is the musical programme
for to-day :
March, "Grand Triumph" Wleprecht
Overture, "Xabucco" Verdi
\Val:z, "Fstudiatina" Waldteufel
Prayer Kucken
American medley Moses
Overture, -'Jolly Robbers" Suppe
Waltz, "Morning Journal"
•Cocoanut Dance" Hermann
"In the Clockstore" Orth
"Feat Reveille" Fritz Scheel
KVEKISO.
March, "Blunervy" . . ... Horst
Overture. "Lustspie' ..-. Keler Bela
Waltz, "Rosefron" .-
Peer Gynt Grieg
(a) "Morning"; (6) "The Death oi"Ase";
(c) Tempo <1i Mazonrka, " Anitoras
Dance"; (rf) "Dance of Imps in the Halls
of the Mountain King."
Clarionet so!o, -'Eureante" .. Webei
Waltz, "Vienna Gir15"...... ......Ziehrer
'•Awakening of Spring" — Bach
Fan taste, "EspaKiiola" Metra
March, -'he l'erede la Victoria." Ganne
Herr Fritz Schcel, musical director..
Got the Worst of It.
Thomas O'Hara, a clerk, went into the
grocery-store on Williams and Post streets last
night, and, without saying a word, picked up a
cheeseknife and made a slash at the proprietor,
Theodore 'limm. Timm knocked him down
with a club and hold him until a policeman
arrived. O'Hara was taken to the City. Prison
and Dooked on the charge of assault with a
deadly weapon. ■ . ' /
STUDENTS TURN TEACHERS
Many of This Year's Stanford
Graduates Will Be In
structors.
Professor Davidson of Toronto Uni
versity to Succeed Professor
Symington.
Professor Davidson of the department
of Spanish and French at the Toronto
University, Canada, has just been ap
pointed assistant professor of Romanic
languages at Stanford University, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of Assistant Professor Symington, re
cently called to *he chair of Romanic lan
guages at Amherst College. In addition
to his work at Toronto University, from
which institution he was graduated, Pro
fessor Davidson spent some time in study
at I«ipsic. Like a great many of the
Stanford professors he is a young man.
Although Professnr Hussev has accepted
the appointment of astronomer at the
Lick Observatory he will continue his
courses in astronomy at the university
until next January, when he will move to
Mount Hamilton.
Information has reached ihe university
of a large number of this year's graduates
who have already secured good positions.
Teaching alone has attracted a great many.
('. E. Purrell of Pasadena is now teacher
of chemistry and physics at St. Matthew'?
Hall, San Mateo; A. S. Miller of Normal
Square, Pa., is teacher of science at Hoyt's
Oak Grove School, Burlingame; Miss Cora
M. Palmer of Saratoga, one of the victorious
intercollegiate debaters List year, is teach
ing in the Lowell High School, San Fran
cisco; J. M. Stowell of Palo Alto is prin
cipal of a grammar school in San Jose;
Miss Kate Herrick of Sacramento is assis
tant principal of the Sacramento High
School; Miss Kate Nash of Pasadena
is teaching in the Pasadena public schools;
Miss Lv Brimm of Williams is teacher of
Shysiology and gymnastics in Snell's
eminary, Oakland; Miss Harriet Cory of
San Jose is teaching in the State Normal
School at San Jose; W. S. Brown of StocK
ton is a teacher in the Stockton public
schools; 8. M. Look of Prsttsburg, N. M.,
is principal of the public schools
at Anderson, in the Sacramento Valley ;
O. P. Morton of San Francisco is principal
of the public schools of Mayneld ; W. 0.
Hazzard of Claquato, Wash., the great
center rush of last season's 'varsity, is
superintendent of schools at Olympia,
Wash. ; C. C. Hughes of Redwood City is
principal of the Ross Valley school, Marin
County; D. L. Arnold of Orange and W. E.
Winship of San Diego are instructors in
mathematics in Stanford University: E.
L. Farmer of Santa Cruz is assistant in
electrical engineering at Stanford Univer
sity.
F. R. Dray of Sacramento, a member of
this year's graduating class, was the only
one of eighty students recently examined
at the Harvard Medical Colleze to be ap
pointed on the hospital medical staff for
I the summer.
Keinasuke Otaki, one of last year's grad
uates, and the first Japanese to receive a
degree from Stanford University, ia now
on the Imperial Fish Bureau of Japan.
Circus Parade To-Night.
The Syndicate Circus will open to-morrow
afternoon with a matinee after the magnifi
cent street parade, which will be a sight in
itself well worth seeing. The novelty of a
night parade will be presented to San Fran
cisco this evening, when the hippodrome with
its pageant of animals, trained horses, mag
nificently costumed riders, the clowns and the
gorgeous triumphal chariots will pass through
the principal streets of the City.
A Young Barber Drops Dead.
E. O. Williams, a barber aged 23 years,
dropped dead at the Sutter-street market, cor
ner of Grant avenue, at 6:30 p. M. yesterday.
Dr. J. W. Moliere pronounced his death due
to a collapse from congestion and heart failure,
owing to extreme debility. A brother, S. C.
Williams, in Los Angeles was notified by tele
giftSh.
JUDGE MURPHY IS BETTER
His Honor Is Again Able to
Preside at the Durrant
Trial.
ALARMS FOR THE JURY-BOX.
County Clerk Curry Repudiates
Charges Made Against His
Chief Deputy.
THE DURRANT CASE IN A MINUTE— MORE
CHARGES ARE DENIED.
Charges made in an afternoon paper to the
effect that the police are anxious about the
handling of the trial jury-box are denied by
Captain Lees and utterly repudiated by County
Clerk Curry. The reflection is cast upon his
chief deputy, Harry Piper, and rumors of many
days concerning the Howell, Curtis and Mc-
Donald cases are raked up.
The trial will be resumed this morning, with
Judge Murphy on the bench, his Honor having
recovered sufficiently from a severe asthmatic
attack to proceed with safety.
It is an off day, even during the recess
of the court, that the ever-fitful rumor
does not crop up in the Durrant case. It
is also a ve-y frigid evening of that cold off
day when the same ever-fitful rumor is not
run to earth* Yesterday was no exception
to the rule, and the embryo sensation
which has been lingering in the lap of
opportunity was sprung on a nauseated
public, It was just as promptly exploded
ere the night fell and now the decks are
cleared for the next.
In an article in the Report yesterday
afternoon the statement is made that:
The selection of a jury for the trial of Durrant
is causing the Police Department a great deal of
worry, notwithstanding that Juror Brown has
been retired. Captain Lees is very outspoken re
garding the situation, and says Federal officials
have assured him they have positive evidence
that a certain well-known Deputy County Cierk
tried manipulations with the Howeli jury, and
even went so far as to attempt to influence the
attaches of the court. Notwithstanding the
notoriety the deputy received in connection
with this matter, he has the entire control of
the tin box in which the names of the venire
men for the Superior Court are kept, and has
drawn from it the name of every man so far
summoned as a venireman.
The police have no hesitation in stating
what their information against the deputy is,
and that it is convincing to them. They niso
say this deputy was very active in assisting in
tne defense of >i. B. Curtis, who was tried for
the murder of Patrolman Grant; but though
they say County Cierk Curry himself ought to
take charge of the venire box they have, so far
as known, done nothing, to remove it from its
present obnoxious custody. They say the dep
uty is paying a great deal of attention to the
Durrant case, and frequently visits the court
room to watch the drawing of names. He is
paying altogether too much attention to it to
suit Captain Lees. '...-'. .
The name of the Deputy Clerk is not
given in the article, but so meager an at
tempt was made to cover up his identity
that County Clerk Curry immediately,
upon reading it, came to the conclusion
that his chief deputy, Harry Piper, was
meant. He immediately called upon Cap
tain Lees and asked him if he was the
authority for the statement and the chief
of detectives put in an emphatic denial at
once. Mr. Curry then told Captain Lees
that if he had the least suspicion the trial
jury box was being manipulated he was at
perfect liberty to send two of his best men
to investigate the matte/. They could
readily ascertain by comparing the original
trial-jury list with the names drawn in
all the courts and those still remaining
in the box whether or not the names had
not been properly drawn.
To this Captain Lees replied that he was
perfectly satisheit that the names had been
properly drawn in the Durrant case; that
the list was correct and that the names in
the box jrere all right.
"I have heard some of these rumors for
several day*," said County Clerk Curry to
a Call reporter last evening, "but I would
not care to make any statement had not
this publication appeared. I will say now,
in justice to the public, Mr. Piper and my
self, that if there is any ground for these
charges, if they are presented in proper
form and the parties who have made them
will authenticate what they are alleged to
have said, Mr. Piper would not remain in
my office five minutes. I have had a great
deal of experience with Mr. Piper, and I
consider him square, upright and attentive
to his duties. He has the interests of the
public at heart. 1 think I ought to be
better able to judge of him than people
vho have not oeen brought into as close
contact with him as I have.
"I want to say, further, that if these
Federal officials they speak of will name
the Deputy County Clerk they are said to
allege manipulated the Howeli jury and
to have influenced the attaches of the
Federal court in thatdirecticn his position
will be vacant in tive minutes. I want the
naipes of the people who make the charges,
and if what they are alleged to have said
is true I would only care to point out that
they are as culpable as the one they charge
is, in not having brought this matter to the
attention of fhe proper authorities."
Meanwhile, with all these charges and
denials in the air, 125 veniremen will wake
up this morning to prepare for their ap
pearance in Judge Murphy's court to
answer as to their qualifications to act as
jurors in the Durrant case. His Honor has
been suffering acutely since adjournment,
having been visited by a particularly se
vere asthmatic attack, tie stated last
evening, however, that he thought he
would be able to go on witn, the case with
out further interruption.
ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.
Enjoyable Celebration of the Anniver
sary of Sir Walter Scott's Birth.
St. Andrew's Society last night cele
brated the one hundred and twenty-fourth
anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter
Scott by a literary entertainment and so
cial dance in Scottish Hall.
President William Niccl was in the chair
and on the platform beside him were the
other officers of the society. The hall was
comfortably rilled.
The president, after an overture. "Melo
dies of Melrose," by Gregg's orchestra,
made a few introductory remarks appro
priate to the occasion.
The literary programme consisted of
songs, recitations, quartets and a violin
duet. Each number was well received and
encores were in great demand. Alexander
Smith recited "The Saxon and the Gael,"
from Scott's "Lady of the Lake," most
creditably and, in response to the applause
that followed, rendered the humorous
Scotch recitation, "The Broken Bowl."
Ths quartet, "Hail to the Chief," was
splendidly given by Miss M. Gaskill, Miss
Nellie Anderson, J. A. Owens and Robert
Blair. The others who took part in the
programme were : Mrs. P. W. McGlade,
Miss L. Steffani, Miss L. Donovan, the
Misses Minnie and Millie Van Doren, John
Desmond, Eric Francis and Robert S.
Duncan.
Dancing concluded a most enjoyable
evening. The floor manager was William
K. Birss.
A YOUNG WOMAN EVANGELIST.
Meeting of the Congregational Women's
Home Missionary I'nioii.
The morning session of the meeting of
the Congregational Women's Home Union
of California yesterday was devoted to de
votional exercises and reports from the
thirteen churches represented. Mrs. E. S.
Williams presided.
Mrs. M. L. Merritt read a paper on "Our
Ideal Attainment" at the afternoon ses
sion.
A report from Miss Grace Scott of her
evangelistic labors at Hyderville and Roh
nerrille was read and occasioned favorable
discussion. The girl evangelist, who ha 3
been heard occasionally at San Francisco
and Oakland, has been holding revival
meetings in the interior towns with marked
success. She is wonting under the aus
pices of the Congregational Home Mission
ary Society and the Sunday-school Pub
lishing Society.
Mrs. Williams, the president, called at
tention to the missionary efforts of Rev.
Michael Nardi among the Italians. She
said he alone, excepting the recent move
ment toward organizing a mission in Los
Angeles, represents Protestantism among
the 160.000 Italians of the coast. His in
teresting history was referred to, and it
was stated that at one time he served as
Italian Consul. He was engaged in busi
ness in Philadelphia at the time of ins
conversion, and since that time has given
all his energy to the improvement of his
countrymen in America. His aim is to
organize churches and place Waldensian
pastors in charge.
The union discussed the advisability of
pledging itself to raise $100 toward the pay
ment of a debt of the National Congrega
tional Home Missionary Society, of which
General 0. O. Howard is president.
THE ALASKAN GOLD FIELDS
A Prospector Gives a Very
Gloomy Account of
Them.
He Says Cold Is There, but tn Too
Small Quantities to
Pay.
A prospector who recently went to
Alaska gold seeking tells the Alaska
Searchlight the following discouraging
story :
Gold is here, hut the finest color found
on the Snake River, Idaho, would be a
nugget in comparison. All this section
appears to be of glacial formation and will
not pay to work, except by hydraulic
process on a large scale, and even then I
thinK the gold would go in at the head
race and .come out at the ta'l race, the par
ticles are so fine. I tried to gain all the in
formation possible about these diggings
before leaving Juneau and came here with
the impression that th«?y were new, a dis
covery of last year. This is not the case,
as some of the men now here have been on
the ground the past six years and no one
has made a stake yet. There are two or
three claims on Bear Creek which show
coarse gold, but they are only prospects.
There are nearly 200 men here, and the
majority of them will leave as soon as they
can do so. The water is yet too high to
work at an advantage, but there is no
hope of making wages after it goes down.
The best encouragement we can get is that
we may be able to make from 50 cents to a
\ dollar a day. Resurrection Creek is the
largest stream flowing into the head of
Turnagain arm, being some forty miles
long. The first fifteen miles have been
thoroughly prospected. A man by the
name of Miller is said to own the best
claim, on which four white men and an
Indian are working. The first clean-up of
the season resulted in $31 in gold, and
represents twelve weeks' work for one
man, two-thirds of which, however, was
dead work.
Those who expect to winter here are
buying provisions cheap, getting the out
fits of those who are leaving at almost any
price. Bede, the discoverer of gold on
Bear Creek, has an hydraulic plant at work,
but it is said his first clean-up was only
four ounces. He has nine men at work for
him. Remains of old sluice-boxes have
been found on this creek, which f how con
clusively that some work was done here
years ago. Across the arm twelve men
from Fresno, Cal., have been prospecting.
They report finding the ruins of an old
cabin and other signs that miners had pre
ceded them, but they found no pay dirt
and have gone to the Six-mile Creek, about
twelve miles from here.
The miners held a meeting here a few
days ago and organized a mining district
and Robert Michaelson, formerly of Ju
neau, was chosen recorder. Hope is the
new name for the camp. The highest
price ever paid for a claim here is $600.
The largest amount ever taken out was
$125 in four days. Several men nave gone
up the Kinik River to prospect, and it is
possible that before winter sets in you may
receive some very good news from this sec
tion, but unless something new is struck
every one of the twenty-two boats riding at
anchor or lying on the beach in front of the
settlement will spread their white wings
and sail away. Possibly my disappoint
ment has colored this communication a
little, but I have tried to give you the facts
just as they exist, and I believe you will
be doing any one a Kindness to dissuade
him from coming here at present.
Receiving Hospital Stewards.
The last of the changes in the Receiving Hos
pital staff took place yesterday. Robert Tre
win, the steward, and the ;two assistant stew
ards, Dawson and Alexander, retired, and Dr.
Bucker, steward, and Assistant Stewards Fo
garty and Mogan filled the vacancies. Mogan
is not a new hand at the business and will be
a decided acquisition to the staff. Trewin, the
retiring steward, has held the position with
credit for five years and eight months, and
during that period 34,675 cases have been
treated at the hospital.
The expression blackguard originally in
dicated the scullions, kitchen-boys and
potwashers who brought up the rear when
a great man's household was moving from
place to place. As these persons were by
no means choice in their language or ele
gant in their deportment, the word was
soon applied to those who in speech or ac
tion resembled them.
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Goodyear Welt shoes are ;
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neither of which passes
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That's just the way hand-
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Goodyear Welt seams are
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That's why Goodyear
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We are still at the old stand and doing a rushing
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be compelled to move. We have been selling Shoes
cheaper than they were ever sold on this Coast be-
fore and we will continue to offer bargains to our
customers. All we want is a trial. We wish the
public to call and examine our shoes and prices,
and if they are not convinced that we are under-
selling our competitors they need not buy. This
week we are selling strong, durable Pebble Grain
Button School Shoes, with toe caps and spring
heels, that are guaranteed for wear and that fit and
look well- „ .,
• , Sizes Bto 10 V£ 75c
Bizesllto2 85c
But where we lead is on Southern Ties. \V c have
the most complete stock of lan-colored and Black
Kid Southern Ties on this Coast, and we are selling
them cheap. We have Ladles' Fine Dongola Kid
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and pointed patent leather tips and hand-turned
soles, that we are selling for
; 51.50
That cannot be purchased in any otherstore in thta
City under $2 50. ;
' We also have Ladies' Tan-colored Russian Calf
Southern Ties, with pointed toes and tips and hand-
turned soles, that we are selling for . „:-:•
$150
That are better made and more stylish In appear-
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the money. Bemember, the above ties are greatly
reduced in price, but we want the public to trade
with us aud we are offering extra inducements..
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