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SEVEN HUNDRED .
THOUSAND DOLLARS.
The Valley Road Will Expend
That amount on the
Mud Flats.
SO SAYS CLAUS SPRECKELS.
Bids Called For on the Supply
of Rails for the New-
Line.
The Legislature is just now the body in
which President Spreckels and the other
officials of the valley road are most
interested, and i;s probable action
regarding the bill now before it
affecting the important work now under
contemplation was the object of much con
jecture yesterday.
Mr. Spreckels called attention to the
present condition of the mud flats, while
discussing the matter yesterday, and
pointed out that the proposed lease of this
property would transform it from its com
paratively worthless condition into a valu
able holding for the city.
"The improvements we contemplate
making there, provided we are authorized
to lease the property, will cost our com
pany fully $700,000," said he. Just what
these improvements consist of Mr. Spreckels
refused to state, confining himself strictly
to the lump sum which it is proposed to
expend thereon.
Mr. Spreckels said that it will not neces
sarily follow that the road will not be built
if a lease cannot be secured. "It is proba
ble that we would go on with the work,"
said he, "but it would in all probability
merely cross the territory between Bakers
field and Stockton, and I see no way in
which an entrance to San Francisco could
be effected."'
The directors of the road held another
meeting yesterday, at which the subject of
rails was the chief topic of consideration,
and after its adjournment Vice-President
Whittier, following instructions given him
at the meeting, prepared a circular letter
which will be sent to manufacturers of
rails in the East and elsewhere, in which
bids for this material are asked for. The
circular is as follows:
San Francisco, Cal.
Bear Sir: Sealed proposals will be received
on the 20th day of March, 1895, at the office of
The San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley
Railroad Company, No. 321 Market street, for
the delivery of ten thousand (10,000) tons (of
2240 lbs. each) of 62*4 lb. steel rails, best
quality, on the wharf in San Francisco. Fat
tern to be submitted with bid.
Bidders are also requested to make bids for
75,000 angle plates to fit above rail. Also for
A < oo kegs (150 lbs. each) railroad spikes, size
5" _x 9-16. Also for 150,000 railroad track bolts
${_3*_ hexagonal nuts.
Terms: Cash less freight of bills and bills of
lading.
The first shipment of not less than one
thousand (1000) tons will be required to be
made within thirty (30) days after time of
placing the order. Shipments to be made
thereafter at the rate of not less than two
thousand (2000) tons per month until comple
tion of contract.
Right is reserved to reject any or all bids.
Yours very truly,
The S. F. &S. J. V. Ry. Co.
It will be seen from the wording of the
document that it requires bidders to be
prepared to make the first shipment not
more than thirty days after the order has
been placed, which goes to show that the
road is to be pushed rapidly forward.
Engineer Storey has not yet outlined his
plans for beginning work on the prelimi
nary surveys, but is getting all possible
data in shape for action.
Innumerable suggestions are being re
ceived by the directors upon this subject,
all of which receive consideration, but it is
noticeable that the point which most in
terests these gentlemen is how they may
be able to get out of the city to the south
from China basin.
A gentleman who is well posted in rail
road matters yesterday suggested to the
board that the line cross the bay at Ravens-
Wood.
"At that point is the narrowest portion
of the channel," said he, "and a bridge
with a single draw would answer all pur
poses. After reaching the opposite side of
the bay, San Jose to the south and Berke
ley to the north would each be twenty
miles distant. The main line could fol
low any route decided upon to the
Bouth, while to the north the road
could run back into the country far enough
to pick up the trade of San Leandro, Niles,
Haywards ana all the territory up to West
Berkeley, where the line of the California
and Nevada, if utilized, would give an out
let into Contra Costa County. The road
would strike the immense coal beds in
that county, and from there proceed on to
Antioch, and from there across the marsh
country to Stockton.
"From Ravenswood, coming toward this
city, the line would parallel the coast
division of the Southern Pacific, and take
in all the towns up as far as Baden, when,
instead of coming up the hill, it would
make a straight cut out by Lake de la
Merced, and then follow the shore around
to the Cliff House, where a tunnel about a
third of a mile long would admit it to the
Presidio reservation, through which access
would be given to the bay, where a tract of
between twenty and thirty acres of State
land is available."
The Japanese know what's what. Orders
for Dr. Price's Baking Powder come even
from Japan. -fgffig
WILL GET A SCHOLABSHIP.
A University Education for a High
School Girl.
Superintendent of Schools Moulder re
cently received word from the faculty of
the University of California that his rec
ommendation of a proper person to fill one
of the eight scholarships in the institution
endowed by Mrs. Phoebe Hearst would re
ceive their approbation.
These scholarships carry $300 a year
each and are intended for young women of
the proper qualifications as to character
who have no other means of gaining a uni
versity education.
Mr. "Moulder immediately sent the letter
to Professor Elisha Brooks, principal of
the Girls' High School, telling the latter
that among the 560 young ladies under his
charge he should be able to pick out one
who would fill the bill as to character and
other qualifications and asking him to
name a proper person for the coveted
chance for an education. Mr. Moulder,
having the greatest confidence in Mr.
Brooks' judgment, will indorse his selec
tion, and ere long a high school girl will
doubtless be enjoying the advantages of
the university.
MOBE BONES UNEABTHED.
They Were Found In What Was Once a
Pioneers' Graveyard.
A workman named William Cain made
a ghastly discovery yesterday. He was
engaged with some others in excavating
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the site of a house on Jessie street, between
Third and Fourth, when he unearthed a
skeleton supposed to be that of a man.
The remains were at a depth of six feet and
must have been there from pioneer days,
as they were much decayed. The Happy
Valley of early days was there and in it
was a graveyard. Another skeleton was
found there about two years ago, and both
are believed to be the remains of some of
the _9ers.
OOULD not testify.
Judge Belcher Will Not Allow Grand
Jurymen to Be Questioned.
A big sensation was expected in Judge
Belcher's court yesterday afternoon when
Carroll Cook brought the members of the
Grand Jury before the court to testify as
to the manner in which indictments were
brought a second time against Albert
Houston and George Lee for. interfering
in the election. Indictments had been
previously filed against them for acting as
election officers without qualifying, but a
demurrer to each indictment was sustained.
Cook wished to show yesterday that the
new indictments had been found without
examining a single witness, but merely
upon the testimony upon which the first
indictments had been found. He was not
allowed to inquire as to the secrets of the
jury-room however, and so no sensational
testimony was developed.
Cook then demurred to both indictments,
and the demurrer was overruled. He
then moved to have them set aside, and
this, too, being overruled, the accused
were ordered to appear next Saturday,
when their cases will be set for trial.
A LAUNCH WITH A MISSION.
The New Steam Flyer Built
for the Alaska Improve
ment Company.
She Is to Beat a Rival Craft Now
in the Northern
Waters.
The little steam launch just finished for
the Alaska Improvement Company took a
flying trip from Howard-street wharf yes
terday morning. Though not strikingly
bird-like in the air. she rested like a swan
on the water where the tackles of the
strong shears deposited her.
The small craft is a vessel of promise and
has a mission before her. Some lime ago
the Alaska Packing Company had con-
FLYING- TRIP OF A NEW STEAM LAUNCH.
[Sketched for the "Call" by W. A. Coulter.]
structed a fast launch which kicked her
wake into the eyes of every craft of her
inches in the northern waters. The launch
given a swim yesterday for the first time is
to show her rudder to the rival racer. She
is forty feet long and has a 30-horse
power engine which is to drive her twelve
or fourteen knots an hour. To-day she will
be given a trial trip up the bay, and is to
be sent north on the bark Harvester.
"Sugar and spice and all that's nice"
makes splendid cake when used with Dr.
Price's Baking Powder.
VALUE OP A LIMB.
A Patient Charts Dr. Morse With Un-
skillful Work.
A suit involving the reputation of Dr.
John F. Morse, a well-known surgeon of
this city, has been filed in the County
Clerk's office by Robert Woodburn. Wood
burn asks for $50,000 damages for the loss
of his right leg, which he claims was care
lessly and unnecessarily amputated by the
defendant Morse. The German General
Benevolent Society, at whose hospital he
was staying when the operation was per
formed, is also made a defendant. Dr.
Morse i 3 one of the surgeons on the hos
pital staff.
Woodburn states that he entered
the hospital on March 7, 1893, suf
fering from a disease of the toes of his
right foot, caused, he was informed, by loss
of circulation. He says he was allowed to
lie without attention from March 7 to
March 13, and it was then decided by Dr.
Morse that the leg should be amputated.
This was, done the following day, the limb
being taken off just below the hip. This
operation, he claims, was not necessary,
nor was it skillfully performed.
The wound caused him intense pain, he
says, on account of the negligent manner
in which he had been operated on, and it
finally became so bad that it had to be re
opened and redressed. He claims that this
amputation was not necessary in the first
place, that if it had finally become.neces
sary it was because he had been neglected
so long, and that even were an operation
necessary at all it would have been suffi
cient to remove the toes only and not the
entire limb.
A Rough Trip Home.
The British ship Oonishead has arrived at
Queenstown from San Francisco. On the voy
age strong adverse gales were encountered
with the result that some damage was done on
deck. Tho vessel proceeded to Hull on Sunday.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1895.
PERKINS AND
THE LIED LANES.
The Senator Says His Action
Was for the Interest
of the State.
LAND-GRABBERS NOT AIDED,
The State Will Exchange Value
less for Valuable Prop
erty.
"I do not care to have any controversy
with that Chron— beg pardon, I did not
mean to swear — I do not wish to enter
into any controversy with that intelli
gent and highly influential journal," said
Senator Perkins yesterday when asked to
make a statement concerning charges that
he assisted the landgrabbers.
"Mr. de Young was knocked out on the
first ballot. He is consequently sore, of
course, and I don't know that I blame him.
His paper has been attacking me regularly
but I have just returned from Washington
and must attend to my private business. I
have no time for newspaper controversy —
that is, not just now. Later on I may in
dulge, and then I think I will be able to
give him all he wants.
"The facts are that I telegraphed Secre
tary Hoke Smith at the suggestion of Mr.
Shanklin, asking what steps were neces
sary to secure to the State what are known
as the lieu lands. In reply he sent me a
letter stating that certain action must be
taken by the Legislature. I handed the
letter to Mr. Shanklin, who was Surveyor-
General when I was Governor, and than
whom a. squarer or more honest man does
not exist. If you want any further inform
ation I must refer you to him. Personally,
I think that the securing of the lieu lands
is a good thing for the people and for the
State."
Mr. Shanklin was seen in his Oakland
home. "The lieu land question," he said,
"is one between the State of California
and the United States — not between the
State and any private parties, who may ap
ply for land under State laws. Therefore
the charges against the Senator have no
foundation in fact.
"When the school land act of March 3,
1853, was passed, granting to the State from
the public lands for school purposes sec
tions 16 and 36 of every township, section
7 of that act reserved certain exceptions.
Among them was a provision that land
might be reserved for public uses, such as,
for instance, the Yosemite National Park
and military and Indian reservations. The
act provided that in lieu of the sections
numbered 16 and 36 within these reserva
tions the State should be granted other
lands, to be selected by the proper State
authority and approved by the Secretary
of the Interior.
"The United States has held that the
mere fact that public lands were surveyed
conveyed to the State of California, incon
sequence of the act of 1853, a title to sec
tions 16 and 36. The lieu lands were se
lected by the proper authority, the Sur
veyor-General, but the Secretary of the In
terior declined to approve the selection
till the State's title to the sections within
the reservations was re-transferred to the
United States. Assembly bill 695, which has
passed both houses of the Legislature, ac
complishes that transfer and nothing more.
Assembly bill 126, which was first intro
duced, did not accomplish the intended
end, in the opinion of the Interior Depart
ment, and so bill 695 was substituted for it.
"As a matter of fact, the passage of this
bill will bring into the State school fund
about $500,000. The sections within res
ervation limits of which the title now
stands in the name of the State cannot be
sold by it. The lieu lands which will be
obtained in exchange amount to about
80,000 acres, which will be immediately
available for sale. Concisely stated the
situation is this: The State" owns property
which it cannot sell and which, therefore,
is of no use to it. By this transfer it will
receive lands that it can sell, and the
money thus received wil go to the State
school fund.
"Assembly bill 530, of which the
Chronicle also speaks, was drawn up by
me and Senator Perkins knew nothing of
it. It simply allows the State to collect
from delinquent purchasers of State land
the costs of suits brought to annul the
certificates of purchase because of such
delinquency."
THE WAHLBUBG RELEASED.
The San Diego Collector Gives Up the
Suspected Schooner.
The schooner Wahlburg, which was sus
pected of taking a load of contraband arms
to Hawaii and which was seized a short
time ago by the Collector at San Diego for
alleged violations of the maritime laws,
has been released, and Captain Martin is
in happy possession of his $1750 craft.
Attorney E. P. Cole of this city, in whose
hands Martin placed his case, declared
that there was no ground for the seizure,
notified the San Diego Collector that he
would be sued for damages if he did not
release the vessel and argued the law of
the case by mail with the Government offi
cials of the southern port. The result was
that on Saturday the schooner was re
leased and Captain Martin took possession
on reaching there yesterday. That appears
to end the Wahlburg episode as far as the
courts are concerned.
THREATENED THE court.
Judge Wallace Receives an Intimidat-
ing Letter.
Judge Wallace received a most obscene
and threatening letter yesterday, signed
"Charles Wilson." It purported to come
from the brother of the man whom he sen
tenced to forty years' imprisonment on two
charges of robbery last Friday, and threat
ened that the writer will kill him unless he
reduces his sentences.
The letter is not thought much of by his
Honor. He quietly turned it over to the
Sheriff and left the matter in his hands.
It is believed the letter is an attempt to
intimidate the court from passing a heavy
sentence upon John Smith, Wilson's part
ner in crime, when he comes up for sen
tence upon a second charge of robbery.
Wilson and Smith were the two men who
made such a scene in Judge Wallace's
court on Friday morning when they were
sentenced.
GRAND JDRY PRESENTMENT.
Argument on the Legality of
an Arrest Made
Under One.
The Question Is Left for the
Decision of the Supreme
Court.
Judge Low's courtroom was crowded to
the doors yesterday afternoon, the attrac
tion being the argument on the legality of
arrests under presentments by the Grand
Jury.
Attorney H. C. McPike represented ex-
Supervisor Christian Reis, who is charged
with renting a house for purposes of ill
fame; Attorney Ruef represented other
property - owners and the four women
charged with giving an indecent exhibi
tion, and District Attorney Barnes ap
peared for the people.
Attorney McPike opened the argument
and restricted himself to the points that
the court had no jurisdiction at all, and
that no jurisdiction attached to the issu
ance of any bench warrant. He referred
to the act defining the jurisdiction of the
Police courts, and sections 1426 and 1427 of
the Penal Code, which prescribed that a
complaint must be made under oath and
the court must issue a warrant of arrest.
He spoke of the distinction between an in
dictment and a presentment, and pointed
out that in the constitution of 1879 no men
tion is made of a presentment, but only of
an indictment. He held also that Superior
courts had no jurisdiction in misdemeanor
cases except on appeal from the lower
courts, and he asked that the case against
Mr. Reis be dismissed on the ground of no
jurisdiction.
Attorney Ruef sarcastically remarked
that one of the women indicted had been
dead for two years, and another property
owner had been in Europe for twenty
years. He merely mentioned these cases
to show the care exercised by the Grand
Jury in making their presentments. Ad
mitting, for the sake of argument, that the
court Tiad jurisdiction, the presentment
was not a presentment, as it was not signed
by the foreman of the Grand Jury, as laid
down in section 941 of the Penal Code. It,
therefore, stood in the same position as a
complaint not signed by the complaining
witness. All the presentments were signed
by the District Attorney, and not by the
foreman. He asked for a dismissal of all
the cases on that ground.
District Attorney Barnes argued that as
an indictment was perfectly valid without
his signature, a presentment was equally
valid without the signature of the fore
man. The presentments were indorsed by
the foreman, and no matter where they
were so signed there was the principal
fact that his signature was on them. In
reply to Attorney McPike he argued that
whatever the ultimate decision might be
the usual practice in such cases had been
followed. This being a new procedure the
fact of its being proper or improper ought
to be known as speedily as possible, and
the only way was to get an authoritative
decision by "the court of last resort,- which
he suggested should be done.
Attorney McPike agreed with the Dis
trict Attorney, but Attorney Ruef ob
jected, as it would be putting his clients to
unnecessary expense. The Judge, how
ever, continued all the cases, except Mr.
Reis', till Monday next. Mr. Reis' case
was continued until to-day, and mean
time his attorney will have a writ of pro
hibition ready to take the matter before
the Supreme Court.
MOKE INDICTMENTS POUND.
Owners of nouses Used for Immoral
Purposes Charged.
When the Grand Jury filed into Judge
Sanderson's court yesterday afternoon to
make its report the clerk carried the
largest batch of indictments that has been
found by the body at any one sitting since
it was chosen to round up the criminals of
the city, On the statement of the fore
man that none of those accused by the in
dictments were in custody, Judge Sander
son declined to give their names.
For many meetings past hard-visioned
young men who served as election officers
at the late election have crowded the wit
ness-rooms which adjoin those in which
the inquisition is held, and after being
called before the body have come crest
fallen and anxious eyed out of the cham
ber without the swaggering air of bravado
with which they entered.
Four of the indictments rendered yester
day were for election officers charged with
making false returns to the Registrar, and
four against burglars and footpads.
The remaining twelve were against the
owners of houses which are rented for
immoral purposes, and the usual course of
calling them to the attention of the Prose
cuting Attorney of the Police courts for
that official's action will be followed. A
test case on one of the indictments recently
brought on the same charge is now before
the court and it is not probable that arrests
will be made on those found yesterday
until this is decided.
Always a beacon of hope to the good
housekeeper— Dr. Price's Cream Baking
Powder.
Arrested by His Father.
Harry Hirshfeld, 17 years of age, ran away
from his home, 13_0 Buchanan street, about a
week ago. He took with him 10, a diamond
pin and watch, belonging to his father. Last
night Mr. Hirshfeld saw him in front of the
new City Hall. He grabbed him and took him
to the City Prison, where he preferred a charge
of vagrancy against him. Harry had been en
joying a good time and had spent the $10 and
the money he got for the pin and watch.
A Veteran's Death.
John S. Sargent died suddenly at 510 Shrader
street yesterday. He had been drinking heav
ily and was found dead in his room. He was a
member of the G. A. R. and was for many years
employed on one of the dredgers by the Harbor
Commissioners. .. '.. >.••--■.
Good Advertising.
SELLING PURE WHITE DINNER PLATES
AT FIVE CENTS EACH.
GREAT AMERICAN IMP. TEA CO.'S STORES.
Other lines oi Crockery equally cheap.
BAD SIDEWALKS,
WORSE STREETS.
They Are to Be Seen in the
Commercial District of
San Francisco.
UNEVEN GRADES ON MARKET.
Unattractive Sight Down the
City's Principal Thorough-
FARE.
There are many streets in this city that
are sadly in need of improvement, and
many are in the commercial district. Not
only are the streets in bad condition, but
the sidewalks are worse, and to walk up
one grade and down another, where the
walks should be as level as a planked yard,
makes walking over them a task that only
few care to undertake unless forced to do
so. Now that the spirit of reform and
progress is awakening in San Francisco
there should be a concert of action to com
pel the authorities to put the thoroughfares
in a condition above that of a third-class
country town.
On the north side of Washington street
the sidewalk at Battery is on a level with
that grade, but before the middle of the
block is reached it slopes upward and rises
thirteen inches above the street; then it
slopes down to Front. On the south side
of the street the walk is far below that
grade, and it gives the street the appear
ance of being; lopsided. Right around this
district there are any number of sidewalks
that are above and below one grade. Every
property-owner seems to have obtained in
dependent lines on which to lay the first
floor of his house, and if it happened to be
higher than that of his neighbor he simply
sloped the end of his sidewalk in order to
reach the adjoining one. In some places
two narrow, rickety steps take the
place of the incline, while in others the in
cline is so steep that cleats have had to be
nailed down so as to give the pedestrian a
foothold.
On Davis street, near Oregon, there is
one of these cleated inclines that leads to
the walk proper, nearly a foot above the
other one; then at the other end if the
pedestrian is not careful he will drop about
ten inches before he touches the sidewalk.
Jackson street, between Battery and
Front, bears evidence that at one time it
was* paved with that worst of all tortures
ever conceived to ruin horses' feet, cobble
stones. Wear and tear has caused depres
sions and the loosening of the cobbles from
their foundation, leaving the thoroughfare
in such a condition that teamsters are
afraid to drive over that portion of the
street. At the East-street end of Jackson
the street has been laid with basalt blocks
and it is considerably higher than the por
tion west of it, also the -cross streets.
Between Market and Pacific streets, east
of Battery street, there are more than a
dozen different grades, consequently the
sidewalks are as uneven as the undulating
waves of ocean.
At the gore of Sacramento and Market
streets on the Market-street side the walk
is about fourteen inches above the level of
the street and to enable foot passengers to
reach the street crosswalks have been set
at an angle that make the descent anything
but agreeable. At the western end there
is a slope nearly five feet in length to reach
the other sidewalk below. This is .tra
versed by thousands daily on the way to
and from the ferry. Every time they
ascend and descend they say something
about the horrible sidewalk and resolve to
do something, but before they have walked
many blocks they forget all about it and
are not reminded of the resolution until
they come to that walk again. At that
particular point the pedestrian is at least a
foot above the one on the south side of the
street. This, of course, is not a recom
mendation to the thousands of strangers
who land at the foot of San Francisco's
main thoroughfare and whose opinions of
a city are often formed by first observa
tions. Nor is the opinion improved when
their eyes rest upon the ramshackle struc
tures that are to be seen on both sides of
the street within a block and a half of the
landing.
The value of property on that great
thoroughfare ought to be a sufficient incen
tive to the owners of these sheds to re
move them. They go far to sustain the
assertion that in many respects the ninth
city in the Union is "a jay town." These
rattletraps ought to come down to make
way for more pretentious buildings, in
keeping with many west of the line of
Main street. The owners of these may
suddenly be awakened by the reform earth
quake from their dreams of the past, realize
that they are living in the present and do
their share toward beautifying the city.
On Mission street between Main and
Beale, when the Market-street Company
laid its tracks for the Mission electric line,
it conformed to the grade of East street,
and when the work was finished the tracks
were about a foot above the curb en either
side of the street. The two feet of space on
the side of the outer track had to be paved
and the way the pavers did it was to slant
the basalt blocks till they reached the lower
grade of the street. The street is in such
a condition that when teams are once on
the railroad track it is impossible for them
to turn out. If they attempt it the wagons
would certainly capsize, so the teams have
to remain on the track until a cross street
is reached. This is without doubt the very
worst piece of pavement in the whole city.
The housewife who hesitates in choosing
a baking powder will not succeed.' Let her
take Dr. Price's every time and she will
have no trouble.
TORE OUT HER JIBBOOM.
The - Schooner J. M. Colman
Afoul of the Ship Jabez
Howes.
A Collision on the Bay Which
Might Have Been
Averted.
The schooner J. W. Colman, lying at
anchor off Harrison-street wharf, dragged
her mudhooks yesterday morning and
drifted down on top of the American ship
Jabez Howes, which was moored off the
Oceanic dock. The schooner escaped with
slight damage, but the ship's jibboom and
headgear were carried away and other in
juries were sustained.
The J. M. Colman arrived from Port
Blakeley on Sunday afternoon, and sailed
into port, choosing her anchorage ground
off Harrison street. About 4 o'clock yester
day afternoon she began to drag her
anchors and as she started down stream
the tugs Alert and Reliance put out to her
assistance.
Captain Treanor refused the proffered
aid and the vessel went along until she
smashed into the ship. The captain then
realized that economy is not always the
safest course to pursue with a strong ebb
tide running and would have gladly taken
the tugs had they been at hand. The tow
boats had gone back to the dock, but the
captains had their weather eyes open,
knowing that a collision was inevitable.
The Colman swung into the Jabez Howes
with a crash and tore out her jibboom.
Then the schooner pounded against the
ship, shocking her from stem to stern with
every bump. - V /,'
The Alert steamed out to the scene of
the collision and got a hawser on board the
Colman. It required some good work to
part the vessels, but the schooner was
Sly towed to a place of safety, Instead
of having a simple towage bill, the vessel
will now have a salvage claim against her.
BUNKO STEEREE IN TROUBLE.
He Got a Chance From Judge Low, but
Did Not Accept It.
Five weeks ago Judge Low had R. C.
Tyler, a bunko man, before him on a charge
of petty larceny. He had swindled a
stranger out of $20, and had given him
back the money on his promise to leave
the city. The Judge thought of sentencing
him for vagrancy, but decided to give him
another chance. '.."'' ~' „, ,
Policeman Coleman, who is specially de
tailed to look after bunko men. found
afterward that Tyler had not profited by
the chance given him, but was continuing
his swindling operations. On Sunday Cole
man was down at the ferry and saw Tyler
and another bunko man, named Kirby,
with a crippled stranger in tow. When
they saw Coleman they hurriedly left the
stranger and entered a saloon on the corner
of East and Market streets. Coleman fol
lowed them and placed them under arrest.
While Kirby was talking to Coleman
Tyler made a break for liberty. As he was
the one the officer particularly wanted he
gave chase and soon overtook him, but
meantime Kirbv had vanished. Tyler was
charged with vagrancy yesterday and will
be brought up for sentence before Judge
Low to -day.
Tvler's working ground is at Sixteenth
street station, Oakland. He dresses him
self as a countryman and preys upon
strangers coming to the city by the over
land trains.
TEACHERS ON THE WARPATH
The Itsell Decision May Trou
ble the New Board of
Education.
Miss Ashmead, the Whipping
Teacher, Prepared for
a Fight.
The recent decision of Judge Wallace re
storing A. J. Itsell to his position and
salary as vice-principal of the John Swett
Grammar School, because he was not tried
on the charge of incompetency before the
full. Board of Education, which passed
judgment, is giving the members of the
new board a good deal of worry.
They don't know where they stand, and
it looks as though they would receive back
on their hands a lot of teachers who have
been dropped in the past. It is taken as a
foregone conclusion that they will have to
restore to the rolls the several teachers dis
missed for incompetency by the last board,
but there is a possibility that now there
will bob up teachers who have been dis
missed by still other boards. For many
years it has been the practice to try teach
ers on any charge before a committee, the
board acting on the report of the trial
committee, and all teachers so tried stand
on the same legal plane as Mr. Itsell.
All, or nearly all, the teachers dismissed
last year have either begun suits for res
toration or put their cases in the hands of
attorneys. The Board of Education will
now either appeal the Itsell case or restore
the dismissed teachers. In the latter case
the teachers may be tried and dismissed
according to the law as Judge Wallace in
terprets it.
"if we find that this thing may run
back for years and bring forward a lot of
teachers who have been dismissed in the
past we will probably appeal to the Su
preme Court," said C. B. Stone, chairman
of the Classification Committee, yesterday.
"If we must restore these teachers, I am in
favor of promptly retrying them before the
full board and dismissing them legally if
the charges are sustained. I don't know
how the rest of the board feels about the
matter, except that many of the members
are inclined to be lenient with the teach
ers. I think they are too lenient, and I
believe that an incompetent teacher ought
to be dismissed. It is possible that Mr.
Itsell will be given a trial before the full
board now himself."
So there is a possibility that the dis
missed and degraded teachers, who now
have the advantage in legal position, will
bring on an interesting and hotly fought
batch of open trials before the full board,
and the trial of a teacher is always a hot
and bitter one.
Miss Ashmead, the South San Francisco
teacher who was tried by the Committee
on Rules a few days ago for thrashing and
pinching children* is likely to bring about
another storm. The trial committee de
layed its report pending the Itsell decision.
It was decided that Miss Ashmead might
be let off by a transfer to the substitute
list from which she would in time go to a
class in some other school. After the Wal
lace decision the board could not legally
order this done without another trial, and
she was privately told that the matter
would be dropped if she would present her
own written resignation and request this
transfer. She said she would think it over,
and yesterday gave notice that the matter
was in the hands of Attorneys Henley and
Costello. That was notice of a fight. Some
members of the board say that all she will
be apt to gain by a fight will be a trial be
fore the full board and dismissal altogether.
What housewife ever worried about her
baking who used Dr. Price's Baking
Powder? Not one!
WANTS TO KILL THE FAMILY.
A Gilroy Rancher Asks Sheriff Whelan's
Aid.
Mrs. or Miss Blanche Dowdy, whichever
it may be, evidently thinks that Sheriff
Whelan has jurisdiction over the whole
State of California and can issue warrants
for the arrest of any and all persons when
he pleases.
She has reason to think that her Chinese
cook is trying to poison the inmates of her
home and has asked the Sheriff to interfere
and take the Celestial into custody. Fol
lowing is the letter received by Mr. Whe
lan: '. :■.■'.'■,••"■/
Gilroy, March 9, 1895.
Sheriff of San Francisco— Sir : Get out a
warrant to arrest our cook. I found phosphorus
in the water where the chickens drink and
strychnine in the coffee. It tasted bitter. The
Chinaman (cook) would not kill any chickens
after I found the phosphorus. Yours,
Blanche Dowdy,
Dowdy ranche.
The Sheriff sent word to the anxious
rancher that he could do nothing for her
and that she had better apply to the proper
authorities in her own county.
TAEGET-PEAOTIOE DELAYED.
Soldiers Are Waiting for the New Krag-
Jorgensen Rifle.
Small arms target-practice for the regu
lar soldiers serving in the Department of
California is being delayed on account of
the War Department having issued gene
ral.orders to the effect that the new Krag-
Jorgensen rifle must be the one used in the
next practice.
It was ascertained at the Phelan building
yesterday from • the inspector of small
arms practice that it might be a month or
two, or even more, before the rifle would
be supplied to the organizations in this de
partment, as the first to be supplied were
to go to the regiments whicn showed the
highest excellence in last year's and year
before last's practice.
As target practice is the most important
event in army life considerable interest is
felt as to the time when the new gun will
be ready.
Thought His Daughter Was Murdered.
John Lynch of 38 Gilbert street reported to
the Coroner yesterday that he believed his
daughter, Mrs. M. J. Costello of 747 Brannan
street, had been murdered by her husband. An
autopsy showed that the woman had died of
consumption. As Lynch asserted that his son
in-law had compelled his wife to take poison
the contents of the stomach were analyzed, but
no traces of any deadly substance were found.
A BIG DEAL IN
ORE TAILINGS
Nevada Mining Companies Make
a Contract Involving
Millions.
EASTERN MEN THE BUYERS.
A New Process for Reducing
Low-Grade Ores That Will
Be a Boon.
A mining deal involving $4,000,000 was
consummated in San Francisco yesterday.
The Holmes Mining Company, the Geor
gene Mining Company and the Ca idelaria
Water Works and Milling Company of
Esmeralda County, Nev., contracted to sell
their tailings to a syndicate of Eastern
capitalists at the rate of 50 cents per ton
net. There are hundreds of thousands of
tdns of tailings at the mills of these com
panies. Nos. 1 and 2 mills at Belleville,
Nev., have been running for twenty-eight
years and have milled 450,000 tons of ore,
which has never been cleaned up.
The Holmes Company will deliver to the
syndicate all its low-grade ore assaying
less than 15 ounces per ton at $3 50 in gold
per ton, and on all of the ores which are
above 15 ounces per ton the Holmes Com
pany is to receive 25 per cent of the bat
tery assay valve, payable in gold. All ores
above 20 ounces per ton will be worked by
the Holmes Company at the Candelaria
mill.
The syndicate has also been given the
privilege of cleaning up the Belleville
mills, also the Candelaria mill, and the
Holmes Company is to receive 45 per cent
of the result of these clean-ups, which will
net the company about $85,000 from the
Belleville mills and $50,000 from the Can
del aria.
The terms of the contract are that the
syndicate shall begin the work of cleaning
up the mills within thirty days from date,
and that within four months from date
they will have their plant for working the
tailings in full operation. The syndicate
expects to expend at least $250,000 upon
the erection of these tailing plants and will
therefore do much toward reviving the
mining industries of the district.
"The syndicate is composed of Eastern
men," said Colonel William J. Sutherland,
president of the Holmes Mining Com
pany, who negotiated the sale, "and the
process which will be used in extracting
the gold, silver and lead from the tailings
is a new one and is the invention of a Chi
cago man. lam not at liberty to outline
the process yet, but it will revolutionize
the whole system of handling tailings and
will be of immense value to the science of
mining. Only low-grade ore will be han
dled by the new company. Ores that can
be profitably reduced by any other method
are not wanted by the syndicate."
Colonel Sutherland leaves for New York
on Thursday. He is very much pleased
with the prospect of injecting renewed life
into the mining industries of Esmeralda
County, Nevada, and looks forward to a
prosperous future for the old camp with
which he has long been connected.
GUESTS OP THE CONCORDIA,
Lady Friends of the Club at the Baldwin
Theater.
A small and select affair was given last
evening by the members of the Tuesday
Night Bowling Club, an offshoot of the
Concordia, to a few lady friends of the
club. The ladies were conducted to the
Baldwin Theater, where they occupied four
boxes, and after witnessing the perform
ance of "Judah" they were driven to the
rooms of the club, on Post street and Van
Ness avenue, where a champagne supper
was served. President Joseph Kothscnild
was in charge of the party, and among the
guests were: Misses Sachs, Schlesihger,
Brown, Gerst, Seller, Schwabacher,
Schweitzer, Weill, Fleischhacker, Adler
and Morris, and Messrs. Ach, Maudel,
Weill, Fleischhacker, Schweitzer, Seller,
Nordman, Adler, Hirschfelder and
Feigenbaum.
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