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LATEST OAKLAND NEWS.
Luigi Dulcich's Trouble With
a Double Name and a
Funeral.
iSTORT TO HURT McCHESNEY
Money Being Readily Subscribed for
:. . the Wilmerdlng Technical
. : School.
Oakland Office San Fbahciboo Call,)
■ • 90S Broadway, August 20. I
Luigi Dulcich will have to pay $160 for
the funeral expenses of his boy George,
•who was buried under the name of Doban,
October 19, 1894. That was the decision
rendered in the Superior Court to-day.
Dulcich is known under the name of
Doban by many of his neighbors.
When* the boy died tne mother, who
/was formerly married to Terence Qrogan
and who married Dulcich afterward under
contract, gave the name of George Doban J
to Undertaker J. L. McCarthy as the one
to be put in the funeral notices in the
paper and upon the plate inscription.
When Dufcich found this out he became
very angry, and declared that he would not
pay the funeral expenses unless the change
was made and the name Dulcich put on
the plate. This was not aone and the
court yesterday decided that Dulcich
would have, to pay for the funeral ex
penses anyway, as he entered into the
contract with Mr. McCarthy.
MACKINNON'S MOTIVES.
\Thy Did He Attack Principal McChes
ney's Oymnasium ?
Principal J. JB. McChesney of the High
School, who is accused by W. H. Mackin
non of bringing male visitors to view the
gymnastic exercises of the girls in his
school, was most emphatic in his state
ments to-day that Mr. Mackinnon was act
ing through a personal and petty private
grievance.
"f had some trouble," he said, "with
Mackinnon last term about his children.
One morning he came down to the school
to 6ee me, and in a most abusive way said
we were not giving his boys proper marks
iii bookkeeping. He intimated that the
girl whom he claimed knew less of that
Study than the boy was given higher
marks, and that the boy should receive
even higher. Mrs. Pugb, the teacher,
stated that the low marks were on account
of the boy's bad penmanship. Mackinnon
said he did not care a rap about penman
s.hip and went away in an angry. mood.
"As for taking visitors into the gymna
sium while the girls are exercising, there
hAs-been only two visitors this term. One
was County Superintendent of Schools
Garlick and the other was the principal of
the Los Angeles High School, who desired
to get some information for the establish
ment of a gymnasium in his own school.
There is nothing immodest in the gymnas
tic exercises or in the costumes worn.
"As to the pupils injuring themselves, I
know that Miss Palmer, the teacher, is ex
tremely careful, and that she watches over
her charges carefully."
The costumes worn by the girls are of
the same pattern as those worn by the
young ladies at the university at Berkeley.
IMPROPERLY RECORDED.
A. Number of Street Assessment Rolls
Invalid.
.By the failure of the Street Superinten
dent's office to properly record the street
assessment rolls in a number of completed
improvements in Alameda. a good deal of
confusion has been created. The Califor
nia Improvement Company to-day asked
tor a dismissal of seventeen suits com
j rnenced in the Superior Court against cer
tain persons who had not paid their assess
ments. The dismissal was asked on the
. ground of the improper recording of the
.jolls. It will be necessary to commence
proceedings over again from the time of
presenting the rolls from the Street Super
intendent s office.
; STILL DRAGGING.
The Oakland "Water- Front Case Re
mains Open.
The findings in the Oakland water-front
suit will not be filed for several days yet.
The Water-front Company has asked for
further time in which to introduce evi
dence showing that a certain portion of the
water-front property along the south shore
of East Oakfand had been improved by be
ing filled in, and should be exempted from
the reach of the city's control together
with the five pieces already exempted.
MONEY PLEDGED.
The Wilinerding School Committee at
Work.
The committee having in charge the
canvass for obtaining funds for securing
the location of the Wilmerding Trade
School in Oakland have begun active
work. Among the first $100 subscriptions
to he received were those of C. F. Weber of
Fxuitvale and W. G. Palmanteer of the
Central Bank. It is expected that fifty
$100 subscriptions will eventually be ob
tained to head the list.
Verdict on the Lewis Shooting.
The jury which has been inquiring into
the shooting of Jennie Lewis brought in a
verdict to-night that the girl was shot by
some person unknown. This is rather a
disappointment to the police, who expect
ed to get a verdict incriminating Muhlner.
The story of Miss Sparhawk told last night
has entirely altered the aspect of the case.
Her description of the man she saw
walking away from the house after
the shooting applies more to a man of
Miller's build and complexion than to
Muhlner. She positively swore it was not
Muhlner. Mrs. Miller says she left her
son asleep in the house on the day of the
murder, and found him asleep when she
returned at 5:30. The shots were hred at
3:45. The father of Miss Lewis has
sworn to a complaint for murder against
Muhlner, and his preliminary examina
tion will be set as Boon as possible.
Galloway's Tragic End.
An inquest was held this evening into
the death of James Galloway, the man
who was burned to death on an electric light
mast at midnight yesterday. It was tes
tified that the current had not been turned
off before Galloway handled the carbon
and that as he had his leg over a wire the
Circuit was com pleted through his right arm
to the wire. Galloway has been a lineman
for fifteen years. A verdict of accidental
death was returned.
* •• Equalization Tronbles.
The demurrers to the complaint filed by
E. Gk Buswell for a writ of review of the
actions of the Board of Supervisors in ref
erence -to the lowering of the corporation
assessments was yesterday filed. They
will be heard before Judge Ellsworth next
Monday morning, when the motion to
strike out certain portions of the com
plaint will also be heard.
': ■ Comedy at the Bfacdonough.
Gillette's comedy, "Too Much Johnson,"
which had a most successful engagement
at. the Baldwin Theater, comes to the Mac
dohp&gh next Monday for three nights,
and a prilliant season is looked for. Orders
for tickets have been pouring into the box
pffiGe. A number of theater parties have
been arranged for the opening night. The
advance sale of seats begins Thursday
morning at 9 o'clock.
Heavy Damages.
The damage suit of the Simmons family
against the Southern Pacific Company for
J50.000 was to-day compromised for $11,500
la tue Superior Court. M. G. Simmons,
the father, was killed in October last at the
time that the narrow-gauge train fell into
the estuary.
HISTOKY OF A DAT.
Alameda County Happenings Told in
Brief Chapters.
Oakland Office San Francisco Caix, )
908 Broadway, August 20. j
Auditor M. A. Whidden is better to-day and
it is expected that he will be able to be out in
a few days.
The Mayor has recommended to the court
that two landscape gardeners be employed to
erect fountains in the public parks.
The public debate between Eric Lewis (Chris
tian) and H. G. Thurston (Seventh Day Ad
ventist) is declared off by Mr. Lewis.
The clerks in City Treasurer Gilpin's office
were given a vacation to-day, as the office is
being renovated for the first time in eight or
ten years.
Company F, Fifth Regiment. N. G. C, have
held an election forcompany officers. Captain G.
A. Wethern and First Lieutenant W. H. Cobble
dick were re-elected.
Sheriff While is having a double screen put
in the jail, through which all conversation be
tween the prisoners and the outside public
will be filtered in the future.
The Socialists have secured Becker's Hall,
918 Washington street, for a meeting next Sun
day afternoon at 3 o'clock. They will be ad
dressed by Rev. George W. Hennihg.
Rev. F. J. Akers has taken charge of the
Ashby-avenue mission of the Presbyterian
church and will devote his time to the work,
which now has a very encouraging outlook.
The "open meeting" for to-morrow evening
under the auspices of Brooklyn Lodge No. 3,
A. O. U, W., will be held in Odd Fellows' Hall,
corner Twelfth street and Eleventh avenue,
East Oakland.
The Pleasanton Times says: "Our school
children will all be given an opportunity to
register for hop-picking again this year. In all
probability the school will close on or about
the Ist of September."
The alarm of fire at 12 :30 this morning called
the department to the corner of East Twelfth
street and Eighth avenue, where a small black
smith shop belonging to Lewis Hewlett was
discovered to be on tire.
Six documents have been filed in the fight of
the Auditor and the Supervisors against the
petition of E. G. Buswell for a writ of review of
the action of the Board of Supervisors acting
as a Board of Equalization.
Clay Holmes, the young son of Melvin W.
Holmes, formerly Deputy Street Superinten
dent, fell and broke both bones of his left wrist
last evening in the yard adjoining his own
home, 553 Albion street.
Suit %vas instituted this afternoon in Justice
Cliffs court against James H., Andrew J. and
William J. Powers, bicyle trick riders with the
Wallace show, by John' Stewart, the collector,
on an assigned claim of Fay Butler for $111 50.
Fifty prisoners answer to the roll-call in the
County Jail. This is a falling off of 100 per
cent in the number cared for by the county
before the new fee bill went into operation
cutting the recompense of Constables making
arrests.
Attorney Thomas Garrity will address the
ladies of the Catholic Ladies' Aid Society on
Thursday evening at Y. M. J. Hall building,
between Eleventh and Twelfth streets. His
subject will be "The New Woman and Her In
fluence Upon the Future."
Henry Varley, the English evangelist, will
deliver his last address before sailing for Aus
tralia at the First Baptist church to-morrow
evening. The services will begin at 7:30 and
a general invitation is extended to the public
to hear him in his farewell address.
K. Mizuno, a Japanese acrobat with the Wai-
Lice circu=, yesterday afternoon, near B-street
station, became confused, when the Sacra
meno train came along and tossed him into
the air over a telegraph wire into the bay. He
was attended by Dr. Dunn at the Receiving
Hospital and will recover.
The Grand Jury was not in session to-day,
tut Expert H. K. Know and County Ex
pert Davis had a conference in re
pird to the accounts of the Tax Collector's
office with the county. The District Attorney
has issued subpenas for M. A. Whidden, A. J.
Kosborough, J. Leo Park, F. A. Davis, J. E. Bar
ber and others, who will testify at the investi
gation.
Auditor Pnowis busy on his annual estimates
of expenses, which must be filed with the
Council by the la-t Monday in August. He
will not be" able to put in a complete schedule
of municipal expenses by next Monday, as the
bond election will not have been held by that
time. If the bonds t-hould not carry the Aud
itor would have to provide for them in his es
timates.
LATEST BERKELEY ITEMS
Measures Taken for the Erec
tion of a New High
School Building,
A Proposition to Secure a Portion
of the University Grounds
as a Site.
BERKELEY, Cal., Aug. 20.— From all
indications, it would seem that Berkeley
will have a new high school building in
the near future.
At the meeting of the Board of School
Directors last evening President Boone,
chairman of the special committee to
ascertain whether a site for the new nigh
school could be had in the University
grounds, reported that he had interviewed
J. West Martin, one of the Regents, and
that in his opinion there was no legal im
pediment in the way of the proposition.
President Boone stated further that he had
forwarded a communication to the Board
of Regents embodying the wishes of the
Board of Education, and giving special
importance to the fact that if a long-term
lease was not thought advisable, possi
bly they would sell a site to the town.
In conversation with Mr. Boone, it was
learnea tnat the board desired to secure,
if possible, a site near the northwest cor
ner of the campus, bordering on Oxford
street, and that the time of the proposed
lease be ninety-nine years. Such a lease is
now held by a high school from the Uni
versity of Illinois, and taking this as a
precedent, the board feels hopeful that at
last a careful consideration by the Regents
will be given their plan.
It was then resolved that the Board of
Town Trustees be requested to take im
mediate steps for the erection of a high
school building of not less than sixteen
rooms, built in a durable and ornamental
manner and provided with complete
equipment; and also that arrangements
be made at once for the erection of a six
room grammar school on Dwightway; a
new eikht-room grammar school building
on the site at present occupied by the San
Pablo school; a six-room building for
school purposes in North Berkeley ; a four
room school building on Ninth street; a
lot on San Pablo avenue, near Dwight
way, and also for the furnishing of all the
buildings named.
The Board of Education adjourned and
met as a High School Board. They passed
a resolution asking the Board of Town
Trustees to take immediate steps toward'
the erection of a sixteen-room high school
building.
Principal Waterman made the following
report, showing the total enrollment of the
Berkeley schools at the present time:
High Echool 266, Kellogg 368, Whittier 342,
Le Conte 282, Lorin 260. Total, 1518.
Professor Ardley of the university made
a strong plea to the board for the introduc
tion of a more complete course in drawing
in the schools, arguing from the stand
point that Berkeley entrants to the univer
sity were handicapped by the lack of
knowledge in drawing, as those coming
from Oakland, San Francisco and other
schools had a better understanding of its
elements.
Rector for St. Mark's.
Rev. George E. Swan of Indianapolis
has been secured by the vestry of St.
Mark's Episcopal Church as rector, to fill
the vacancy made by the recent resigna
tion of Dr. Easton. Mr. Swan is 40 years
of age, and is said to be a man of more
than ordinary ability. He will leave for
California at once, and is expected to offi
ciate on the tirst Sunday in September.
His family will follow as soon as possible.
Death of Miss Kerns.
Miss Ella W. Kerns, daughter of Charles
T. Kerns, died this morning after a short
illness, from pleuro-pneumonia. The
funeral will take place to-morrow after
noon from her late residence on Snattuck
avenue.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1895.
WILL NOT BE SLIGHTED.
The Mayor to Have a Clerk,
in Spite of the
Council.
A CITY DEAD TO THE WORLD.
Enormous Demand for Information
of Oakland That Cannot Be
Supplied.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,)
908 Broadway, Aug. 20. )
Mayor Davie decided to-day that he will
appoint a clerk to the Mayor's office. The
Council has denied his request for a clerk,
although the charter expressly says one
may be appointed, so he has decided to
appoint an expert, which power is vested
in the Mayor without any sanction of the
Council.
The circumstances that prompted the
Mayor to decide on having a clerk were
many and various. The chief executive's
mail was particularly heavy this morning.
It contained elegantly bound histories of
municipalities all over the country; there
were some requests from private persons
for information and photographs of Oak
land ; two letters contained money to pay
for newspapers and photographs; several
Mayors sent copies of inaugural addresses,
with compliments and a request for
a like courtesy; three manufacturing
firms sent long lists of questions that
they would like to have answered re
garding climate, locality, price of
land and material and prospects for busi
ness and the Civic Federation of Delaware
sent out blanks to be tilled out asking
about the duties and emoluments of the
various city officials. But as the Mayor
viewed his own helplessness he was very
wroth. As he was still opening letters an
expressman appeared with some sample
packing boxes, some sample bottles of
pickles and a sample gun. They were all
from firms anxious to locate here and who
wanted to know the chief execvitive's opin
ion as to the possibility of a sale for their
particular goods.
"My position is a downright farce," said
Oakland's Mayor. "Here are people want
ine to know all about this city and its ad
vantages and I am practically helpless. No
one man can attend to all these reasonable
requests and no man should be expected to
doit. It is absurd; it is a near-sighted
policy. I asked the Finance Committee to
allow me a clerk and it was denied. Now
look at my position. Here is a neatly
bound book from Grand Rapids, Mich.
With it is a note asking for my inaugural
message. When I asked that it be printed
I got one vote in the Council. I must send
a reply to the Mayor of Grand Rapids that
my message is on file and that if he sends
a money order to a local copyist he can get
a copy of it. That's dignified, isn't it. for
a city like Oakland.
"Here is an elegant report, full of pic
tures, from Detroit, with a request that I
send a report of Oakland. "W here can I
find one? Here is a municipal report from
St. Paul, beautifully prepared. The Mayor
asks me for one. What must I send? I
have only a copy of the city ordinances
and an Auditor's report that is clear and
correct to us, but which would convey very
little light to an outsider. At the present
time the City Attorney is shaping an ordi
nance covering the garbage question. He
has been here and has obtained several re
ports from which to derive information.
He will doubtless frame a first-class ordi
nance. But if any city official were to
write to me and ask for" information as to
how Oakland deals with the garbage prob
lem what could I send ?
Here is the crowning point. A firm
from Baltimore writes that hearing so
much about' Oakland's water-front, they
would like me to forward a plan and de
scription of it showing portions immedi
ately available for commerce. There is not
such a thing in the city. We have eleven
miles of water front and about 10,000 acres
of water-front land, and the Mayor of the
city is in a position where he cannot en
lighten an Eastern firm regarding it.
On several occasions I have re
ceived money for books and
photographs of Oakland and have more
than once returned it. I could not send
the applicants what they wanted. Take
this letter for instance from Asbury Park.
I 1 is from Mrs. S and she asks me for a
book descriptive of Oakland and begs my
acceptance of the accompanying booklets.
Here they are, handsome little things, but
the pictures could be beaten a hundred-fold
in this city. Suppose there were a series of
photographs taken of the estuary and ar
ranged in a panoramic form. When a firm
in the East wanted to know about the
water front, why they could see it at a
glance. Take a' picture of Lake Merritt
and have all the yachts out for the occa
sion ; have a few pictures of our new
schools, put them in book form and have
an intelligent recapitulation of all the re
ports of the city departments and send
them to points "where they will be seen
and read. What would be the result?
Read my mail; any citizen is welcome to
call and inspect it, and see if it is not
absolutely necessary that Oakland do
something for herself. This city is the
most parsimonious in the United States in
the matter of calling attention to her own
advantages."
As the Mayor described his dilemma he
had all the requests, reports, photographs
and samples spread out before him.
There is no doubt that there is ample work
for a clerk in the Mayor's office at this
time and that is why ' Mr. Davie has de
cided to employ an expert.
NOT FORCED TO STARVE.
The Ant! - Peddler License
Ordinance Postponed
Indefinitely.
Many of the Councilman Did Not
Fully U nderstand Its Prohibi
tive Nature.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,)
908 Broadway, August 20. )
The ordinance that would have kept all
peddlers in Oakland from doing any busi
ness by requiring what would practically
be a prohibitive license has been tabled by
the City Council. This ordinance was
being rushed through somewhat speedily,
but about a month ago a communication
was sent to The Call calling attention to
the joker that lay in an apparently harm
less pack. The ordinance merely provided
for the raising of the license from $15 to
$50 per quarter, and looked innocent
enough, but not one peddler in a hundred
could pay the high figures, and as a con
sequence the thousands of householders
who live in the outlying districts of the
city would be forced to spend car fare and
come into town or purchase at village
stores sometimes removed a long distance
from their dwellings. The facts were in
quired into and published in this paper,
and to their publication is due in a great
measure the defeat of the ordinance. A
majority of the Council did not fully un
derstand the merits of the case, and when
they saw the hardship the measure would
cause they promptly decided not to sup
port it.
It was shown that there are about 2000
people dependent upon the peddling busi
ness for their support and the peddler's
only outfit was his horse, cart and time.
If he were deprived of this opportunity of
living the entailed suffering would be very
great.
The passage of the ordinance was warm*
ly advocated by merchants and commis
sion men in a very small portion of the
business district, but it was so evidently
for the benefit of a few and the detriment
of the vast majority that it was unani
mously passed over last night. An effort
will' be made to keep the large number of
Chinese peddlers out of Oakland who come
over every morning from Ban Francisco
and return at night, after having sold
about $7 worth of goods apiece. As the
number of peddlers is about 100, it is
readily seen that a large amount of money
is daily taken from this city, for which
there is absolutely no return. Alameda
Dassed an ordinance against peddlers who
were not residents that was aimed at the
Chinese, but the Celestials evaded the law
by building little huts on the banks of the
estuary and establishing a residence,
although they still make their daily trip
to ana from San Francisco.
The Oakland ordinance will be framed
so that, if possible, the Chinese cannot
beat it. It will probabiy fix a high tariff
on peddlers who hawk vegetables not
grown within certain limits. Several years
ago the City Council of Oakland passed an
ordinance that practically prohibited
peddling within the city limits, but the
opposition was so great that it was speed
ily repealed.
NEARLY A FREE FIGHT
The Meeting of the Board of
Works Enlivened by a
Wordy War.
Mayor Davie, Engineer Wilson,
Attorney Peirsol and Captain
Badger In a Tilt.
Oakland Office Ban Francisco Call, |
908 Broadway, August 20. \
The meeting of the Board of Works near
ly ended in a free fight. The row com
menced over the sewer on East Eighth
street. Four sewers of fourteen inches each
lead down Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Sev
enth avenues, and City Engineer Wilson
is laying an interception sewer along East
Eighth street. The size of the sewer is
twelve inches. To-night Mayor Davie
ordered the work stopped and demanded
of Engineer Wilson if an intercepting
sewer of twelve inches was sufficient to
carry off the sewerage from four fourteen
inch pipes. Wilson refused to answer.
"My opinion is—" City Attorney Peirsol
was saying when the Mayor cut him short
by saying: "Who asked for your opin
ion? It is not worth the breath tnat it
takes to express it."
"I am waiting, Mr. Wilson," said the
Mayor.
"I will answer to the Council," said
Wilson.
"Well, then, I will stop the work. It
seems to me you are about as good an en
gineer as Mr. Peirsol is an attorney," said
the Mayor.
Several hot passages of oratory followed,
and then Captain Badger, a land-owner
through whose property the sewer will
pass, addressed the board. Captain Badger
said that the City Engineer was laying the
sewer through his property and was going
out of a direct course to do it. He charged
Wilson with doing it because if be kept
straight on the sewer would pass through
the railroad property and the ditch would
pass under the track where it curves at
Clinton-street station.
Wilson denied tnat he was actuated by a
desire to favor the railroad.
'Then explain yourself, sir," said Badger
angrily. "The railroad has owned every
City Engineer we ever had, and I am pre
pared to show that they own you from
your head to your feet."
"I aru not answerable to this board," said
Commissioner Wilson.
"Well, I'll see that you are," retorted
Davie.
"I am of the opinion — " Mr. Peirsolwas
saying.
"A hg for your opinion," said the Mayor.
"Wait till you get your $100 a month as
sistant attorney and then I suppose we will
be flooded out with opinions.
The Mayor had reference to the resolu
tion passed last night authorizing the City
Attorney to appoint an assistant at a saf
arv not to exceed $100 per month.
There was some more quarreling, and
the meeting broke up with the Mayor re
newing his order that the work be stopped.
This is the first conflict that has arisen
under the amendment to the charter mak
ing the Mayor, the City Attorney and the
City Engineer members of the Board of
Public Works. Each member has specific
duties and responsibilities in his individual
office and also as a Commissioner of Pub
lic Works. In both capacities are they
subject to the City Council and as individ
ual officers they are subject to themselves
collectively. Just how the complications
can be straightened out is not very plain.
The meeting of the board usually lasts
about twenty minutes. To-night it lasted
two and a half hours.
LATE NEWS OF ALAMEDA.
The Labors of the Board of
Equalization Have Been
Completed.
Rev. W. M. Lane Called to the
Pastorate of Christ Episcopal
Church.
ALAMEDA, Cal., Aug. 20.— The work of
the Board of Equalization was closed with
the session held to-day, and an adjournment
sine die was taken. On account of the
clerk's vacation, Trustee Clark was ap
pointed to the vacancy.
T. W. Cuthbertson was granted a re
duction on improvements from $1400 to
$1150. D. Muller from $2000 to $1600, N.
Muller from $1750 to $1500, W. M. Bowers
from $1050 to $700, J. A. Blanchard from
$1150 to $1100.
Action taken on Monday on the appli
cation of H. A. Dilling was recinded and
reductions from $1600 to $1350 were allowed
on land at the southeast corner of Santa
Clara avenue and St. Charles street, and
from $1150 to $900 on property on Santa
Clara east of St. Charles.
Assessor Linderman was ordered to place
the assessment of the improvements of lot
22, block 18, Oak Shade Tract, on the roll
and assessed to H. M. Allen at the rate of
$600 valuation.
The Masonic Hall Association assess
ment of $200 for personal property was
Btricken from the roll. S. Fisher was
denied a reduction on unimproved property
in block 17, Oak Shade Tract.
The total reductions of the Board of
Equalization from the Assessor's figures
amount to $59,345.
Rev. Mr. Lane Called to Christ Church.
The vestry of Christ Episcopal Church
have called" Rev. W. M. Lane to the pas
torate to succeed Rev. M. Perkins. He
comes to Alameda from Merced, where he
was stationed as a pastor. Rev. Mr. Lane
occupied the pulpit at Christ Church Sun
day last and will occupy the pulpit there
next Sunday. A reception will be ten
dered him Thursday evening at the resi
dence of Mrs. J. S. McCain on Central
avenue.
Smoke Ordinance Shelved.
The ordinance prohibiting the emission
of dense smoke from locomotives, which
has been pending for some time before the
Board of City Trustees, has been shelved.
As first proposed the ordinance applied to
the chimneys of factories also, and a
majority of the Trustees were under the
impression that it would tend to discourage
manufacturing enterprises, and only one
of the Trustees championed the proposi
tion.
Mont Blanc is the highest peals in
Europe.
ONCE AN ARMY OFFICER
The Shooting Stockton Con
tractor Formerly Colonel
of Infantry.
WAS BURNED AT THE STAKE.
Custer Kicked Aside the Firebrands
and Rescued Thornton From
Certain Death.
R. R. Thornton, the grading contractor
for the Valley Railroad, who on Monday
shot and wounded a laborer at Stockton
because he demanded his pay, is a mem
ber of the Loyal Legion, and was formerly
colonel in the United States army. While
serving with the regulars he had some
startling adventures, and one of them,
R. R. Thornton, Formerly Colonel,
U. S. A..
[Reproduced from a recent picture.]
which occurred nearly thirty years ago,
turned his hair white in anight and left
him souvenir scars which he will carry to
his grave. The story of that experience,
as told by Colonel Thornton during a re
cent visit to this City, is as follows:
During the fall of 1867 I was engaged on
topographical survey work in Southern Cali
fornia. I was then major of infantry, but was
assigned to this detached service under Colonel
Wheeler, who then commanded 1500 men.
About the middle of September I was sent with
sixty men to the north. We were mounted, of
course, but a pack train bearing our surveying
paraphernalia seriously impeded our move
ments. We traveled from mountain peak to
mountain peak and on the evening of Monday,
September 20, had reached a point about sixty
miles north of The Needles. TUat night we en
camped in a little basin studdea with bowlders
and half way up the mountain side.
About 4 o'clock Tuesday morning we were
attacked by Indians. There were fully 800 of
them and except that the nature of the ground
favored us we would have been swept from the
earth In an instant. The bowlders, however,
furnished some shelter to the soldiers.
For two days we fought thus, and then, as a
forlorn hope, Lieutenant Wilder stole out from
our position, ran the lines of the encircling
savages and started for aid to Custer's camp,
forty-six miles away. Our little force had
been reduced by death from the bullet and
from rocks rolled down the mountain side
upon us, till, when Wilder left, but eight men
remained.
All that night the fight was kept up. Our
ammunition was getting low, but at opportune
moments we robbed the cartridge boxes of our
dead. By noon Thursday, however, the last
shot had been fired and the savages closed in
on us. We were too exhausted to make any
effective resistance, and they took us alive-—
only seven, however, for one more had been
killed by the falling rocks.
The Indians took us to a wooded plateau
about four miles from the scene of the battle.
We were tied to trees. Green boughs were
piled about us and set on fire. They burned
slowly, giving out a stifling smoke, and while
waiting for the supreme moment the Indians
amused themselves by hurling hatchets at our
heads, their object being apparently to see
how near us they could come without striking.
Dodge? It was little use to dodge, since one
was more likely to move into the path of the
hatchet than to avoid it. One poor fellow,
however, was put out of his misery by an un
skillful throw, ana after that the fun stopped.
My particular tire burned hottest on my left
side. It seemed ages before it got well started.
The flames crept up my left leg, scorched mv
left hand, which, though tied down, I could
move slightly out of the way of the flames.
They reached my throat at midnight, and soon
afterward I became unconscious. What hap
pened afterward I can relate only from wha;
was told me.
Lieutenant Wilder had easily evaded the
Indians. He reached Custer's camp about
midnight Thursday, and almost instantly 300
men, led by Custer himself, were en route for
our position. They did not expect to find us
alive, but intended to trail and severely punish
the reds.
It was about 4 o'clock in the morning when
Custer reached us. Forty-six miles in four
hours, through a wooded and broken country,
is pretty heavy marching, but neither horses
nor meu had been spared.
The Indians, in fancied security, had ne
glected to post guards and Ouster's charge
took them unawares. Some of the cav
alrymen cut us down while others battled
with the savages. Custer himself kicked the
firebrands from under me and laid me on the
grass before taking part in the fight. The
engagement lasted half an hour and the
Indians left 200 dead upon the field. I was
laid up for a long time, but am now as strong
and hearty as ever. My hair has, however,
been white ever since that day. You can add,
too, if you like that never since then have I
seen a red man but I have had the desire to
draw a bead on him and make one more live
Indian a 'good Indian.'
Colonel Thornton graduated from "West
Point in 1863. Before Vicksburg he was
made first lieutenant. At Chickamauga
he became captain and at Missionary
Ridge major. When tortured by the
Indians he was, to use his own expres
sion, a "beardless boy of 24." Lieutenant
Wilder, who brought Custer to the rescue,
is still living and resides in the State of
Nevada.
HE IS NEAR TO LIBERTY.
Wickham Will Probably Es
cape Trial Through De
fective Records.
The Court Register Indicates That
No Information Has Ever
Been Filed.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,)
908 Broadway, August 20. C
Ed. Wickham, who is now locked up in
the County Jail on a felony charge, will
probably be released from custody to
morrow. Wickham has been in jail for
some time, and the District Attorney's
office claims that an information was filed
in the County Clerk's office against him
July 31. '
W. F. Cram, who is attorney for Wick
ham, asked last Friday that the charge be
dismissed on the grounds that the in
formation had not been filed within the
thirty days allowed by law, or at all. One
of the Assistant District Attorneys claimed
in court that the information had been
filed.
Judge Frick, under this contradiction of
claims, continued the case until to-morrow
morning.
Meantime Court Clerk Mack investigated
the records in the County Clerk's office.
The register of criminal actions, which he
overhauled, did not show that an infor
mation had been filed at any time against
Wickbam, and as the numbers of the
cases showed that no omission had been
made, he was somewhat puzzled.
The District Attorney's office claimed
that it had filed two informations on July
31. Both of these are recorded in the reg
ister, but there is no indication that any
information was filed in the Wickham
case.
A Sad Case.
Mrs. A. A. Wtildeit, 26 Georgia street, waa
found wandering aimlessly on Van Ness ave
nue last night with a boy 4 months old in her
arms and three other children, the oldest 9
years of age, toddling after her. She appeared
to be out of her mind and was taken to the Re
ceiving Hospital. The children, who had not
tasted food all day, were well cared for by the
matron, Mfs. Edmunds. Her husband works
in the 6Ugar refinery at the Potrero, and was
hunting for his wife and children ail day and
uight till he ascertained they were at the hos
pital.
OUT OF TOWN PERSONALS.
Avalon, Catalina Island, Cal., Aug. 19.—
The Saturday rush to Catalina was somethintr
entirely unprecedented in the history of the
island, fully 700 people arriving within
twenty-four hours. The first steamer of the
day arrived at 1:30 p. m., her decks crowded
with passengers. Every effort was strained to
accommodate the throng. At the Metropole
portions of wide piazzas were canvassed in and
cots spread. Down at the Island Villa half of the
large parlor was curtained off, and here cots
were made up to accommodate the ladies,
whose husbands were occupying quarters on
the Metropole porch. Every tent, cottage,
hotel and lodging-house on the island was
literally packed from top to bottom, and the
staterooms on the Hermosa ana yachts lying
in the bay were occupied. The fact that just
now the season is at its heieht and the added
attraction of the opera "Pinafore," which was
Eroduced in the pavilion last evening, com
ined to bring this phenomenal rush.
U. S. Grant Jr. and family of San Diego ar
rived at the Metropole last night. CA. Bald
win, nephew of "Lucky" Baldwin, is spending
some time at the Metropole, accompanied by
his wife and little daughter. Mr. and Mrs. W.
Lacy Waters of Monteoito arrived at the Metro
pole last night. Among well-known Angelenos
who are spending August at the Metropole are
Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Sale. Mrs. Davisson,
wife of Dr. Davisson, president of the State
Board of Health, accompanied by her children,
is cemping here. Dr. Davisson comes to the
island to pass Sundays. Professor F. A. Moly
neaux, Superintendent of Schools of Pomona, is
enjoying camp life here. H. Z. Osborne, editor
of the Los Angelas Evening Express, has been
here with his family camping for Bix weeks
and returned to the city yesterday. Hon. J. S.
Chapman and family, J. F. Crosby and family,
Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Edmonds, Mrs. Glassell and
family are among the prominent Los Angeles
people sojourning at the Metropole. E. F.
Hurlbut and family of Pasadena returned last
evening for another stay at the Metropoie
and will probably remain till the end
of August. Dr. Lulu Ellis of Los An
geles, accompanied by her sister, Miss
Charlotte Talbott, left this week for Europe to
spend a year in "Vienna studying her specialty,
that of microscopical work. R. J. Boyer and
C. L. Dietz, of Oakland arrived at the Metro
pole last night. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Wright ot
Fresno are at the Island Villa. T. J. O'Brien of
San Francisco and Mrs. L. Kane of Sacramento
are at Catalina, stopping at the Grand View
Hotel. The three Carhart brothers, who have
been at the Metropole for some time, left for
Santa Barbara to be present at the marriage of
their sister, Miss Carhart, to Dana Burks, a
well-known bank cashier of Los Angeles. S.
M. Haskell of the Pomona Progress has joined
the editorial colony of Catalina. Wilbur F.
George and wife of Sacramento and Mr.
Hideout and wife of Marysviile left Catalina
yesterday after a ten days' stay at the Metro
pole. They will visit Santa Monica and ascend
the heights of Echo Mountain, leaving for the
north on Monday. Wesley Clark and family,
prominent Los Angeles society people, arrived
at the Metropole to-day for a prolonged stay.
W. H. Perry, the well-known Los Angeles lum
ber-dealer and owner of the Los Angeles thea
theater, arrived last night accompanied
by his daughter and husband, Mr. and
Mrs. Modina-Wood, D. A. Helbing, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Campbell were among the San
Franciscans who arrived at the Metropole to
day. George L. Fish and Miss L. Stuart of Oak
land were among the arrivals at the Metropole
by the noon steamer to-day. W. C. Patterson,
president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce, arrived by this noon's steamer to join
his family at the Metropole. He was accom
panied by H. Jevne. L. N. Breed, the well
known Los Angeles banker, and J. J. Metlus
joined the Angelenos at the Metropole for over
Sunday. P. M. Green, president of tne First
National Bank of Pasadena, with his wife and
daughter, is at the Metropole. Mrs. W. R.
Fortune of Ramona has returned from a six
weeks' visit in San Francisco. I. W. Hellman
Jr. accompanied the Misses Castle down from
San Francisco, who came to be present at the
marriage of their brother, Colonel Castle, to
Miss Winston. Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin of
San Jose are visiting their daughter, Mrs. L. C.
Scheller of Ramona. Miss Alice Hobart of San
Francisco, who has been the guest of Mrs. John
P. Jones and Miss Jones at Miramar, their
Santa Monica home, has returned home. Her
marriage with Mr. Lester, nephew of Senator
Jones, will take place in the early autumn.
Gilroy, Cal., Aug. 20.— Dr. and Mrs. Strong
of San Francisco are here with relatives.
George C. Earl, George W. Reynolds and Rich
ard McCann of San Francisco, appraiser of the
Miller & Luxjestate, were here recently. Mrs.
Charles and Mrs. Pershing of Suisun visited
friends in this city last week. Mrs. Bernard
D. Murphy and her sister, Mrs. Geoghegen, of
San Jose visited the Sisters of St. Mary's Pres
entation Convent last week. Miss Minnie Wil
ley is home from Sausallto. Ross and James
Sargent, Oscar Mone, A. W. Furlong and C.
Johnson have returned from a camping trip to
Monterey. Mrs. E. J. Fuan is spending the
week in San Francisco. Miss Frances E. John
son of San Marcial, Sonora, Mexico, arrived to
day, and an elaborate "tea" was given in her
honor at the residence of Mrs. C. A. Moxett, in
which several of her young lady friends par
ticipated. Leon Loupe gave a "progressive
angling" party at the Rea mansion Saturday
evening for his cousins, Miss Nellie Hostetter
and Coralee Montgomery of San Jose. William
Wilson of San Jose wag in town Sunday. Miss
Emma Miller has taken charge of a school in
Ban Benito County. Mrs. Dr. Cooper and chil
dren are over from Fresno to spend the heated
term. In the firemen's daughter contest Miss
Fannie Moore leads with 342 votes, Miss Josie
Wolfran 226, and Miss Laura Dewart 179.
Capitola, Cal., Aug. 20.— Arrivals at Hotel
Capifola: Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Glennan, Santa
Clara; Mrs. M. Macabee, Ralph Lowe, Theo B.
Lowe, Sam Lowe, San Jose ; Charles Overacker,
E. E. Ushar, Niles; Frank Fuslar, Fresno;
Duncan McPherson. Santa Cruz; Mrs. Annos
and family, San Francisco; A. E. Bowman,
San Jose; Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Fellows, Los
Gatos; Clay N. Johnson, Kate Wright, San
Jose; H. B. Towne, Santa Ana; J. M. Wright,
LomaPrieta; Georee Lauck, Santa Clara: Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. Veck Jr., New Orleans; Mrs.
Groome, Mrs. Thomas, T. E. K. Cornell, Sausa
lito: Mrs. G. E. Owen, San Jose; Mrs. Jennie
Pepper, San Francisco; J. Pancera, J. 11. Chriss
man, San Jose; W. G. Droleop and children,
France; Mr. and Mrs. Dr. J. C. Frazer, San
Jose; Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Cope, A. A. Taylor,
Santa Cruz; C. J. Wilcox Jr., San Jose.
EIGHT OF IEEE SPEECH.
Judge Conlan Dismisses a Charge
Against a Street Orator.
Judge Conlan yesterday reaffirmed the
decision he rendered about a week ago in
the case of President Burns of the Cigar
makers' Union aa to the right of free
speech on the streets.
George Spurgeon, a silver advocate, while
addressing an open-air meeting on Third
and Market streets Monday night was ar
rested and charged with obstructing the
streets.
The case was tried yesterday morning,
and after hearing the testimony of the ar
resting officer the Judge dismissed it.
"The streets," said the Judge, "constitute
the people's forum, and so long as no riot
is threatened the police should hot attempt
to interfere."
Beaten With a Bung-Starter.
Henry Gerson, GOS Broadway, was taken to
the Receiving Hospital yesterday morning and
had a badly lacerated wound in his scalp at
tended to. He then swore out a warrant in
Judge Joachimsen's court for the arrest of C.
G. Goldsdorff, saloon-keeper, 642 Sacramento
Btreet, on the charge of assault with a deadly
weapon. He stated that he went as usual to
clean up the saloon yesterday morning, when
Goldsdorff charged him with stealing three
bottles of whisky and beat him over the head
with a bung-starter.
Two years are required for the gulf water
to travel from Florida to the coast of Nor
way.
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THE BANKS OF THE STATE.
A Wonderful Increase In As
sets in Eleven and a
Half Months.
BUSINESS IS DECIDEDLY GOOD,
Figures Which Show That the Tide
of Prosperity Has Come In
California.
Since the June reports of the banks of
California were presented Secretary Duns
moor of the Bank Commission has been
going over the figures with a view of ascer*
taining the loss or gain of the banks from
July, 1894, to June 15 of this year. Ho
has found the increase in assets as fol«
Iowb:
Heal estate „... $2,184,820 03
Stocks and boMs 4,0314,447 28
Loans on bonds and stocks 1,452.844 67
Loans on other securities 1,454,140 78
Loans on personal securities 1,395,843 54
Due from banks and bankers 3,845,536 81
Other assets 1,402,072 38
Total increase In assets $15,767,705 4©
DECREASE IN ASSETS.
Bank premises $83,379 38
Loans on real estate 3,317.807 62
Money on band 539,859 99
Total decrease $3,941,046 99»
Net increase in assets in eleven
and a half months $11,826,658 4?
INCREASE IN LIABILITIES.
Reserve and profit and loss $839,437 60k
Due depositors 8,133,956 41
State, county and city money 3,068,249 93
Due banks and bankers 3,108,520 4tt
Total increase in liabilities $11,879,056 34
Less decrease in capital 5%397 87
Net Increase in liabilities $11,826,658 47
That the banking business has increased
in San Francisco as well as throughout the
State is shown by the following figures:
Increase in San Francisco savings
banks $3,092,069 63
Increase in San Francisco commer
cial banks 8,489.727 49
Increase in San Francisco National
banka „.« 1,068,87609
Total $7,651,673 14
RECAPITULATION.
Increase in San Francisco banks.... $7,651,673 14
Increase Interior banks 618,888 86
Increase interior commercial banks. 8.570,377 54
Increase interior ft-:uouiil banks... . 398,451 08
Total $12,239.400 63
Less decrease In private banks 412,742 15
Net increase of all banks $11,826,667 41
VOLUNTAEY DBUNKENNESS.
Judge Loir Raises an Interesting Point
in Barney Juchter's Case.
The preliminary examination of Barney
Juchter, ' the teamster who shot Grace*
Jago, a niece of Contractor Rowley, last
week, was held before Judge Low yester
day. The girl was able to appear in court
and testified that the shooting was
accidental.
• Tne defendant in giving his testimony
admitted that he was so drunk at the time
that he did not know what he was doing.
He could not remember how he came to
have the pistol in his hands , or how the
accident occurred. ■',/-. '- : V : l^
In answer to the Judge Juchter said he
got drunk voluntarily, and was surprised
when the Judge told him that the law
expressly laid down • that voluntary
drunkenness was no excuse for criminal
negligence. He intimated that he would;
give his decision to-day.
* If the Judge should decide that Juchter
was criminally negligent by reason of
voluntary drunkenness he will have to
stand his trial for assault with a deadly
weapon.
SANTA BAEBABA EXTENSION.
Work of Grading: the Southern Paciflo
South of San liiiis Obispo Resumed.
Work on the Santa Barbara division ot
the Southern Pacific is about to be re*
sumed with great vigor. The road is now
completed to Guadalupe, twenty - seven
miles below San Luis Obispo. To-day, P.
J. McCormick will begin sending a larga
working outfit from Los Angeles and San,
Francisco to grade on McMurtry & Stone's
contract south of Guadalupe.
Mr. McCormick was seen at the Palace
Hotel last evening. He said the comple
tion of the proposed work would carry the
road within seventy miles of Santa
Barbara. He expects to have 150 men
with a full complement of mules and
scrapers at work next week. No material
blasting will De required on his contract,
but the filling in and embankment work
will be quite heavy.
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