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TACOMA'S BANK RING.
Queer Features of the Raid
Upon the Treasury
Revealed.
OLD STEALS RECALLED.
Water Works Material That
Was Paid For ,but Never
Reached the City.
GSATTAN WHEELER'S METHODS.
Additional Inside History of the
Gigantic Thievery Given by
Margery Dare.
f Special Correspondence of Tite Cax.i»]
TACOMA, Wash., Dec 4.— Dear me,
what a hornet's nest I have stirrad up, and
all because of my innocent efforts to do
my assignment properly! I'm quite
sure I wouldn't want to be a man and have
it known I had written what I did about
these awful affairs up here.
The Ledger says 1 told only one truth
and that was whon I said the Union was
bought outright. r
The Union says I am a person of "shady
character" hired by the "bunko banks" or
something of that sort.
And the News says nothing.
I was too easy on the News I guess. At
least that is the general expression, and
some people say that because I spoke
kindly of Frank Lane, therefore, perforce I
am Frank Lane. Dear me! The very idea
of it !
OI 11 .
Well, the News won't got off so easily
this time. I've learned since last I wrote
that the News has been charged with
having had a finger in Mr. Boggs 1 pie.
They say up here that Grattan Wheeler
paid the News $1500 not to .publish an ex
posure of his derelictions. The Ledger
made the accusation and the News refuted
it. and there the matter stands.
I've learned a lot more about the "m
--sides"' you sent me to find out about.
Th ; s man Wheeler seem- to be at the
bottom of most of the bedevilment of tlsis
community, and he, in company with
Boggs, his successor in office, and W.
Burton Allen, the banker, and the Tacoma
Light and Water Company, seem to be
responsible for the most of its miseries.
It is an awfully long story, the telling of
which would ta'.ce two or three newspapers
like The Call
When the water company concluded to
sell to the city it first cot hold of Bennett
and the Led per. Bennett had been a
member oi a water commission selected to
choose a source of supply. A fine mount
ain stream known as the Mashall, or
Marechal, was selected. Bennett ha i :i
big fight on with the water company; had
driven a well at hi? hotel — the Tacoma —
in order to avoid the company's extortion
ate exactions; had fought it in court and
won. But he went East — to Philadelphia
— where the man named Wright, who
owned the company, lives, and became
converted and sent back telegrams
"strongly recommending the purchase.
There was talk of a tunnel contract and
also of a mortgage on the hotel — none of
which can be verified. Just the same
Bennett and his Ledger advocated the
purchase, or sale, or whatever it was.
The deal waa made, as I outlined before,
giving the City Treasurer of that time,
Mr. BogKS, lots of money to handle.
Among the urtick-.s purchased with the
water plant was a shipload of iron pipe
manufactured expressly for the company,
and all branded "T. L. & W. Co./' which
was iv transit at the time, and a lot of iron
pipe that was stored on the company's
property in this city. The ship on its way
to Tacorua was intercepted and steered
into port at San Francisco and unloaded
on the docks there somewhere. The pipe
is still taere.
Well, after being good friends all the
way through thp deal down to and after
the delivery of the plant, Mayor Huscm
and Mr. Wright "fell out" and Huson or
ganized a party at night, including police
men and firemen, who seized the piDe
that was here, took It bodily and carted it
off to city property. Of course the Mayor
and all his assistants were arrested, but
they were promptly acquitted. Just a day
or two aso the Supreme Court decided that
the city owned that pipe by reason of pur
chase, and that it could not be disturbed
in the possession of it. So now it is ar
gued tnat the pipe at San Francisco be
longs also to the city, wherefore it is said
those who caused it to be stored t§ere are
liable to arrest for theft.
A magnificent steal ! It quite wins one's
admiration. The plant, including this
pipe, was sold to the City at thrice its
actual value and then the pipe was stolen !
A whole shipload of pipe — a regular for
tune in hollow iron !
||How I do wish I were a man! If I
wouldn't make a noise aootit these out
rages! But there lam wandering dread
fui!y from the "inside."
What I started out to tell was about
that man Wheeler. He is in New York
City cow — has an office there under the
name of Wheeler & Co. and the Mutual
Investment Compauy. Wheeler & Co.
have advertised some choice "Western 8
and 10 per cent securities" for sale — which
securities I assume to be city warrants of
the city of Taconia, bogus — or rather, to
coin a new word, Boggus warrants — war
rants that have been once paid!
The Mutual Investment Company has a
neater plan — it sells certificates of mem
bership to yokels in the New England
States. And this man Wheeler remains at
large, unarrested, unmolested, while
dozens of men proclaim themselves more
anxious to procure his arrest than to en
joy a fortune!
I'm wandering again— what I started to
tell was how Wheeler came to form a part
nership with Bog;'-. When Wheeler went
out of office and Boggs came in it is now
presumed that he was somewhat short in
bis accounts and that be had some war
rants uncanceled representing the deficit.
He succeeded in inducing Boggs to accept
these as cash and then started a bank (the
Commercial) on wind — that is, with prom
issory notes taken for stock, and took those
warrants as a deposit. Times were good
and deposits came easily, and the city and
the county and some genuine stockholders
dropped some money into the rat hole.
Then Boggs invented his. plausible
scheme of paying city warrants out of their
order in order to "maintaia the city's
credit." He would bold them for six or
eight months and then deposit them as
cash to the credit of the city at their face
value, dating back the indorsement i; not
paid for want of funds," and the bank
would sell them.
After a while the genuine* tockholders
got together and deposed Wheeler, and
then he organized the Imperial Loan and
Trust Company, a sort of bank, and
the warrant operations were transferred
thither. This bank was the object of sus
picion from the very outset and did little
else than the warrant business.
Then came a necessity for a reorganiza
tion of the Tacoma Trust and Savings
Bank, in order to relieve some of the
wealthy stockholders whom the inevitable
crasn might crush. Wheeler and W. Bur
ton Allen of the Tacoma Trust and Sav
ings Bank concluded to shoulder the
entire responsibility. For shame's sake
they took in a couple of stool-pigeons, to
Wnom they issued stock and from whom
they immediately took assignments in
blank, and, giving their own notes for
their own stock, organized the Bank of
Tacoma, ."bought out" the Tacoma Trust
and Savings Bank and continued business
at the old stand. The latter bank at one
time had nearly $300,000 of savings depos
.\lmn>t the entire line of deposits of
the former bank was the city's money, to
the extent of something like $110,000, and
tiie accounts, mostly overdrawn, of rela
tives and city otficmls receiving accom
modations, ana a few tiisled but well
meanins citizens.
The expiration cf Boggs* term of office
was drawing near. He had $1T2,000 of war
rants on hand. He was in a quandary.
;:v treasury scandal was becoming
more scandalous every day. There was
talk of ■ criminal prosecution of Boggs.
He made the rounds of the banks and got
a Dumoer of them to accept the now un
saleable warrants aa cash deposits, putting
I :k of Tacoma, making the
total amount there $221,000 or more. Of
course, these warrants were all "dated
back," BO that the accrued interest on
them made a very considerable sum,
which was not credited to the city nor
charged to tiie bank, but the profits of
which, whon the warrants were sold at par
and accrued interest in the Bast, as I am
informed many were, were divided be
tween Boggs and the banks.
During Boggs' term of office two or three
forged warrants appeared" in circulation,
bearing his forged (?) indorsement, the
signature of the City Clerk and counter
signature of the City Controller. A book
of 1000 blank warrants was missed. What
became of the blanks no one knows.
Whether there are numberless forgeries
atloat or not is unknown and how many of
the $1212,000 warrants were forged is un
known. The alleged forger (the Deputy
City Clerk) is imprisoned. Though a
pauper when committed his family is liv
ing in fine style in the city, supported I
am told by some invisible means. The
forger himself said to the City Clerk, big
patron, that "if he went to the 'pen' he'd
be' well paid for it." The City Clerk
repeated this, the newspapers printed it
and yet few suspected his meaning.
To return to Wheeler: Wheeler took the
warrants and went to New York. You
may ask, "What wore the city officers
doing all this time?"
By a cleverly contrived plot of Boggs
and others quarreling over council organi
zation, tied up from April to June in a
deadlock over who- should be president
and, more important, who should be
chairman of the Finance Committee, while
this fateful contest was waging, the suc
cessful aspirant for the chairmanship was
successfully negotiating loans of the
Tacoma Trust and Savings Bank and the
Bank of Tacoma, having oeen refused at
the legitimate banks the line of discounts
bethought himself entitled to. Naturally,
having attained this important end, his
duties as chairman of the finance commit
tee ended. Wasn't that natural?
Now Wheeler, the chief element of evil
in all this bad crowd, went to New York,
established himself in an office there and
presumably .successfully disposed of the
warrants. The plausible excuse given
the city officials was that these securities
had been pledged as collaterals to secure
Eastern creditors, and the city was given
Hobson's choice. 'Take a bond and such
securities as we have to offer or close the
bank." No one had the courage to close the
bank in the face of a decided public opin
ion that the banks should not be allowed
to fail. So the bond and securities were
accepted, including Allen's and Wheeler's
stock, notes and the obligations of the
chairman of the Finance Committee nnder
a promise that no one except the cashier
of the bank, chairman of the Finance
Committee and City Treasurer should ever
be allowed to see the securities.
Oh, yes, I forgot to Bay that all this
time the Mayor was vice-president of the
Mut'ial Investment Company and a
staunch friend of Banker Allen, and a bor
rower from the bank. Boggs' notes for
over $00,000 were amongJJ those securities
also I am told.
What I have said of this bant is also
true, only in a lesser degree, of the Colum
bia National and the German- American
Savings banks. Methods of operation
were the same, tools the same.
There are now under arrest as Ihe out
come of all these exposures several hith
erto prominent members of society and
Napoleons of finance, as follows :
George W. Boggs, ex-City Treasurer.
James W. McCauley, ex-City Treasurer
(removed).
W. Burton Allen, bank president.
W. G. Peters, bank cashier.
Major Henry Oliver, bank president.
A. J. Weisbach, bank cashier.
At present other arrests seem doubtful.
One city officer, a member of the Board of
Public Works named Taylor, is under im
peachment for having accepted some $500
from the Columbia Bank for alleged
"services'" which consisted in influencing
certain other officials to refrain from de
manding public moneys. Taylor admitted
having received the money and for the
purpose, but was surprisea and mad when
the Council voted to remove him. The
ingenuousness of his frank admissions was
as amusing as the candor with which he
told of having procured appointments for
friends by means of threats and promises
of rewards.
I wish you wouldn't head this up "Fair
Taconia 's Forty Thieves" — there are more
than that of them. Margery Dare.
IXTEURED AT tiOJSORA.
Frit' Mourners Follow Albert Me It eyti olds'
limit/ to the (Irnrr.
SONORA. Cal., Dec. 7.— Albert Mcßey
nolds. one of the men accused by bis sister
Ada of the murder of George Morris, and
who committed suicide in the County Jail
Thursday night, was buried in the city
cemetery this morning, and outside of the
family but few attended the funeral.
The other brother, Wesley, is still in
jail, and although the Grcnd Jury hag de
voted most of the day to the case nothing
was done to materially change the situa
tion. Wesley will, however, have a pre
liminary examination before Justice
Cooper on Tuesday morning, when, it is
generally believed," facts connected with
the case heretofore kept from the public
will be exposed.
SwtZ by a I'ianlia Company.
VISA LI A, CAiu, Dec. 7.— The Visalia
City Water Company commenced suit to
day against the Pirtle Real Estate and
Trust Company of Los Angeles for the
sum of $8787 78, the balance due on a pur
chase bond.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1895.
STATE GUARD CHANGE
A Complete Reorganization
of the California
Militia.
TAKES EFFECT AT ONCE.
Many Companies Consolidated
and Officers Placed on
Waiting Orders.
WILL LESSEN THE EXPENSE.
A Rearrangement Made Necessary in
Order to Keep Within the
Appropriation.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Dec. 7.— l'He plan
of retrenchment which has been instituted
by Governor Budd in connection with all
State asylums and institutions has had its
effect upon the National Guard. While it
will not materially decrease the strength
of the rank and file, the change that has
bef>n made will dispense with a number of
olllcers and enable the necessary expendi
tures to be kept with the bounds of the ap
propriation made by the late Legislature.
There will be a calling out of twelve com
panies, eight of which will be consolidated
with others and four mustered out. In
stead of nine regiments and one battalion,
there will be, under the reorganization,
but five regiments, and these will be placed
on the same basis, as nearly as possible, as
provided for by the rules and regulations
of the reeular army.
Complying with the recommendation of
the Secretary of War to Congress, the is
suance of the following orders has reduced
all the regiments throughout the State to
battalions, and has necessitated the re
tirement of all colonels; but another order
will be issued on Monday re-forming the
battalions into five regiments, and an elec
tion will then follow to decide as to the
colonelcy.
Last week, pursuant to the verbal in
structions of the commander-in-chief,
there was a secret session of a special
board of location and organization, con
sisting of the following officers: Major-
General W. H. Dimond, commanding di
vision N. G. C. ; Brigadier-General A. W.
Barrett, adjutant-general; Lieutenant-
Colonel J. 0. Currier, division inspector
N. G. C. ; Captain F. P. Carrington, TJ. S.
A., staff of commander-in-chief.
This board, after a careful consideration
of all the phases of the matter of the re
organization of the national Guard, unan
imously adopted the following resolutions
as the best solution of the matter before it :
First— That the two infantry regiments of
the First Brigade be consolidated into three
battalions of four companies each, to be here-
after organized into one regiment of twelve
companies, with headquarters at Los An
goles.
Second— That the four regiments of the Sec
ond Brigade Jje consolidated into five battalions
of four companies each, to be hereafter organ
ized into one regiment of twelve companies,
with headquarters at San Francisco, and one
regiment of eignt companies, with headquar
ters outride of the City, and that Company A,
First Infantry Regiment, now stationed at
Eureka, be transferred from an infaptry com
pany into a company or division of Naval Re
serve.
Third— That the three regiments of the Third
Brigade bo consolidated into four battalions
of four companies each, to be hereafter organ
ized- into two regiments of eight companies
eacb, headquarters to be hereafter established.
This will leave the Guard as follows:
Forty-eight companies of infantry, four
companies of cavalry and five divisions of
naval reserves. Following this recom
mendation the following was issued from
the adjutant-general's office:
General orders No 1(5.
Section 1. In accordance with the recom
mendation of the board of location and organ
ization, and in conformity with section 1913,
Political Code, Btate of California, the follow
ing changes, consolidations and reorganization
of the National Guard of California are hereby
made, to take effect this day.
i'ii-t Brigade— The Seventh and Ninth In
fantry regiments are consolidated into three
battalions of infantry of four companies each
as follows: First Battalion, companies A, B, C
and F, Seventh Infantry, to be known as com
panies A, B, C and F, respectively, First Bat
taiion; Second Battalion, companies DandE,
Seventh Infantry, and companies D and E,
Ninth Infantry, to be known as companies H,
E, I and X, respectively, Second Battalion;
Third Battalion, companies F, C and G, Ninth
Infantry, to be known as companies L, M and
G, respectively, Third Battalion. Companies
A and B, Ninth Infantry, are hereby consoli
dated and will be known as Company B, Third
Battalion.
Lieuteuant-ColonelJohn R. Berry, Ninth In
fantry, and Major Samuel T. Black, Seventh
Infantry, are hereby assigned to duty with the
First Battalion; Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. How
land, Seventh Infantry, and Major F. T. Pres
cott, Ninth Infantry, are assigned to duty with
the Second Battalion; Major Charles S. McKel
vey, Ninth Infantry, is assigned to duty with
the Third Battalion.
Company G, Seventh Infantry, is hereby
mustered out of service, and Brigadier-General
C. F. A, Last, commanding First Brigade, will
detail an officer to lake charge of all State
property in possession of said company.
Second Brigade— The First, Third and Fifth j
Infantry and |the Second Artillery regiments
are consolidated into battalions of infantry of
four companies each as follows: Fourth Bat
talion, Companies C, F and G, First Infantry,
to be known as Companies C, L and G, respec
tively, Fourth Battalion ; Companies D and B,
First Infantry, are consolidated and will be
known as Company B, Fourth Battalion. Fifth
Battalion, Companies C and D, Third Infantry,
to be known as Companies D and E, Fifth Bat
talion; Companies B and F, Third Infantry,
are hereby consolidated and will be
known as Company H, and Companies
E and A, Third Infantry, are hereby
consolidated and will be known as
Company A, Fifth Battalion; Sixth Battalion,
Batteries C and E, Second Artillery, to be
known as Companies £ and X, Sixth Bat
talion; Batteries D and F, Second Artillery,
are hereby consolidated and will be known as
Company F, and Batteries G and H, Second
Artillery, are hereby consolidated and will be
known as Company M, Sixth Battalion.
Seventh Battalion, Companies A, F, G and B,
Fifth Infantry, to bo known as Companies A,
F, G and B. respectively, Seventh Battalion;
Eighth Battalion, Companies C, D and E, Fifth
Infantry, to be known as Companies C, D and
E, Eighth Battalion, and Battery B, Second
Artillery, to be known as Company E, Eighth
Battalion.
Company A, First Infantry, is hereby discon
tinued as an infantry company, and will be en
rolled as a division in the Naval Battalion, to
be known as the fifth division.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles H. Crocker and
Major Charles Jansen, First Infantry, are here
by assigned to duty with tne Fourth Battalion;
Lieutenant-Colonel James F. Smith and Major
Thomas F. Drady, Third Infantry, are hereby
assigned to duty with the Fifth Battalion;
Lieutenant-Colonel Dennis Geary and Major
A. Uuber, Second Artillery, are hereDy as
signed to duty with the Sixth Battalion ; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel A. K. Whittan, Filth Infantry,
is assigned to duty with the Seventh Battalion ;
Major J. W. Juilliaid, Fifth Infantry, is hereby
assigned to duly with the Eighth Battalion.
Third Brigade— The Sixth, Second and Eighth
infantry regiments are hereby consolidated
into four battalions of infantry of four com
panies each as follows: Ninth Battalion, com
panies A, B, D and H, Sixth Infantry, to be
known as Companies A, B, D and" H, re
spectively, Ninth BattaHon; Tenth Battalion,
0, E, F and G, Sixth Infantry, to be known as
C, E, F and G, respectively, Tenth Bat
talion; Eleventh Battalion, Companies E, F,
and G, Second Infantry, to be known as
Companies E, F and G, respectively. Eleventh
Battalion. Companies C and 11, Second In
fantry, are hereby consolidated, to be sta
tioned at Nevada City, to be known as Com
pany C, Eleventh Battalion. Twelfth Bat
talion, Companies B, C and E, Eighth Infantry,
to be known as Companies B, D and 11, re
spectively, Twelfth Battalion. Companies A
and F, Eighth Infantry, are hereby consoli
dated and will be known as Company A,
Twelfth Battalion.
Company D, Second Infantry, and Companies
D and G, Eighth Inlantry, are hereby mustered
out of the service. Major Colin Chisholm is
hereby assigned to duty with the Tenth Bat
talion and Lieutenant-Colonel S. S. Wright is
assigned to duty with the Ninth Battalion;
Lieutenant-Colonel 11. I. Seymour is hereby
assigned to duty with the Eleventh Battalion;
Lieutenant-Colonel R. A. Gray is hereby as
signed to duty with the Twelfth Battalion.
Section ll— Colonel H. P. Bush, First In*
fantry; Colonel J. W. Guthrie, Second In
fantry; Colonel J. C. O'Connor, Third Infantry;
Colonel D. B. Fairbanks. Fifth Infantry;
Colonel J. J. Nunan, Sixth Infantry; Colonel
W. G. Schrieber, Seventh Infantry; Colonel
Park Henshaw. Eighth Infantry; Colonel E. B.
Splleman, Ninth Infantry, and Colonel Wil
liam Macdonald, Second Artillery, are hereby
relieved from the command of their respective
regiments and placed on waiting orders.
Section III— In companies where no consoli
dations have been made the present company
officers remain intact. The officers of the new
companies formed by consolidation are as
follows:
First Brigade— Third Battalion, Companies
A and B, to be known as Company B, Third
Battalion, captain, Richard V. Podge; first
lieutenant, Edward F. Brown; second lieuten
ant, J. C. Mielke.
Second Brigade — Fourth Battalion, Com
panies D and B, to be known as Company B,
captain, George Filmer; first lieutenant, B. B,
Sturdivant; second lieutenant, E. J. Blumkall.
Fifth Battalion— Companies B and F to be
known as Company 11, captain, Frank XV. War
ren; first lieutenant, H. C. Middleton, second
lieutenant, J. J. West. Companies E and Ato
be known as Company A, oaptain, J. F. Con
nelly; first lieutenant, G. T. Ballinger; second
lieutenant, .
Sixth Battalion, Batteries D and F, Second
Artillery, to be known as Company F, Captain
J. A. Miller; first lieutenant, C. F. Seitz;
second lieutenant, F. A. Nippert Batteries
G and H, Second Artillery, to be known as
Company H— Captain Thomas F. O'Neill; first
lieutenant, E. D.Carroll; second lieutenant,
C. J. Hogan.
Eleventh Battalion, Third Brigade—Compa
nies C and H, Second Infantry, to be known as
Company C— Captain, George A. Nihell; first
lieutenant, R. P. Bowerman; second lieuten
ant, W. M. Ashburn.
Twelfth Battalion— Companies A and F to be
known as Company A, Captain ; first lieu
tenant, L. A. Jackson ; second lieutenant, C. £.
Small.
Allother officers of the above consolidated
companies are hereby relieved from command
and placed on waiting orders.
Section IV— Brigadier-generals commanding
the several brigades will detail the necessary
officers to take charge of all State property in
possession of the companies hereby mustered
out of the service. By order ol the commander'
in-chief. A. W. Barrett, A<ijutant-General.
STOCKTON ARK DWELLERS
Harbor-Master Garwood to Raid
the Inhabitants of Mc-
Leods Lake.
Human Water-Rats to Be Driven Out
Because They Refuse to Pay
Wharfage.
STOCKTON, Cal., Dec. 7.—Harbor-mas
ter Garwood will give up the attempt to
collect wharfage from the ark dwellers on
McLeods Lake and adopt a different
course. He will bring before the City
Council the matter of havine the floating
population removed from the lake.
The question as to whether these ark
owners should pay their quota into the
wharfage fund has occupied a considerable
portion of attention of city officials.
Whole families live in the arks, and their
children have been raised in them. Some
rent out boats, some do odd jobs about the
city and others get small pensions from
the Government.
No attempt was ever made on the part of
any Harbor-master before Air. Garwood
took the office to tax these people for the
space they occupied, so when he stated
that he would collect wharfage from them
there arose a howl among the ark-dwellers.
They swore they would not pay wharfage.
The Harbor-master attempted to collect
the money but he met with very poor suc
cess, although the fee charged was only 5
cents a foot.
The argument of the ark-owners against
paying was that they could not be made to
pay wharfage where no wharf existed, and
that the space they occupied was utterly
useless for commercial purposes on ac
count of the shallowness of the water. The
advice of City Attorney Smith was sought
and it was agreed that suit should be
commenced against those refusing to pay.
That the city has a right to collect
wharfage from these people there seems to
be no question, but the Harbor-master has
taken the opportunity opened by their re
fusal to pay to attempt the carrying out of
a policy more to his liking. Harbor
master Garwood maintains that McLeqds
Lake should be dredged and used as city
water front, whereas it is now a useless
body of water and an eyesore to the city.
liIRTHTiAY OP A. GRANQE.
San Joaquin County farmers Celebrate
an Anniversary.
STOCKTON, Cal., Dec. 7.— The mem
bers of the San Joaquin County Grange
celebrated to-day the twenty-seventh an
niversary of the birth of the organization.
They met in Fraternal Hall for a regular
grange meeting in the morning, adjourn
ing shortly after 12 o'clock to the banquet
hall, just off the main room, where an
elaborate luncheon had been provided Dy
a committee of ladies. When the lunch
eon had been disposed of a short recess
was taken before the literary exercises of
the afternoon were commenced.
An intere?ting programme had been ar
ranged by a committee composed of Mrs.
W. Pi. Leadbetter, Mrs. J. L. Beecher Jr.
and Mrs. Noyes. Shortly after 1 o'clock
the large hall was filled once more and the
programme rendered. The exercises
opened with a grange song, in which
all present joined. This was followed
by a piano solo by Miss Lottie
Baber. Miss W. D. Ashley read an
entertaining paper in honor of the birth
day of the grange. Short addresses by
visiting members were next in order and
so t he nfternoon was pleasantly spent.
The meeting was well attended, and was
voted one of the most enjoyable gatherings
the county grange has held.
Tiunkarda to Settle year I.athrop.
STOCKTON, Cal., Dec. 7.-An agent for
a colony of Dunkards, at present located
near Grand Junction, has secured a large
tract of land near Lathrop, and it is ex
pected that the colony will be established
on the land about the first of the year.
The Dunkards will devote their time to
olive culture.
Australia stands first among the wool
producing countries of the world. The
yield last year was 550,000,000 pounds.
DISABLED IN A GALE
The Long-Overdue Steamer
Strathnevis Sighted
by a Bark.
DRIFTS WITH THE WIND.
Unable to Make Any Headway
Because of a Broken
Shaft.
AT THE MERCY OF THE SEA.
Vessels to Be Sent From Vancouver
to Search for the Missing
Steamer.
VANCOUVER, B. C, Dec. -7. — The
sugar-laden bark John Gambles arrived
from Samarang, Java, to-day, seventeen
days overdue. Its arrival is welcomed by
the entire Pacific Coast, as the bark brings
news of the missing steamer Strathnevis.
Full details of the sighting of the big
steamer were not learned until this even
ing, as two of the Gambles' sailors were
d}'ing on board from acute beri-beri, one
succumbing during the day. This disease
was thought by the medical officer at this
port to be some horrible contacion, but as
a similar case has never come under the
observation of any of the medical profes
sion here its exact nature could not be
determined. In spite of the captain of the
bark protesting that the men simply had
beri-beri. which was not contagious, a
yellow flag was ordered up and no one
was allowed to board the vessel. This
alarmed the citizens, and threats were
made because the bark did not anchor
in English Bay instead of in Vancouver
harbor. Finally the doctors decided that
the disease was no: contagious, and the
dead seaman was buried and the other
taken to a hospital.
The John Gambles has itself had a ter
rible experience in the recent heavy
weather. The vessel is storm-scarred
from stem to stern. Much of its upper
works have been washed away during a
series of storms, which periodically over
took the bark during the 107 days it has
been lighting the elements. The cargo ia
damaged and nearly all the sails are gone.
On the 19th of last month, according to
Captain Trethon's log, he sighted the
Glasgow steamer Strathnevis. The Strath
nevis was disabled and drifting with the
wind and tide. The crew of the steamer
was flying distress signals and the bark
signalled to send a spokesman in a small
boat. This was done.
It was found that during the month pre
vious the main shaft of the steamer broke
close to the screw when it was blowing a
half-gale. The Strathnevis had been help
less ever since and unable to get enough
headway to steer. It had been drifting
back eastward sixty miles a day since the
accident occurred. The steamer's captain
was in hopes the present wind would keep
up, as the vessel was in the track of steam
ers and fate was wafting it homeward.
There were 159 souls on board all told.
One hundred and fifty of these were Mon
golians, who were complaining because
their rice had run out, but there was plenty
of flour and preserved food. When sighted
the Strathnevis was only about 750 miles
from Cape Flattery, In latitude 48 deg. 40
mm. north and longitude 145 west. It had
almost directly doubled back upon its own
course to the Orient.
The captain of the John Gambles said
that a steamer should be sent to look up
the Strathnevis at once, as it must have in
the last month since he sighted the
steamer met contrary winds and been
taken far out of the course of steamers,
and its present location would be hard to
determine. When sighted all on board
were well, and the captain and crew were
in good spirits as could be expected under
the circumstanoes.
When the main shaft first snapped it
was thought the steamer had struck a
rock or sunken wreckage, but after con
sideration it was decided that the break
was due to some defect in the machinery.
A small screw on board had with great
difficulty been placed in position, but it
was found to be useless.
All the Strathnevis' mail was brought to
Vancouver and transferred to the steamer
Empress of China and will be taken by
that vessel to the Orient, outward bound
on Monday next. The China will, if it
sights the Strathnevis, so says Captain
Archibald, take the 150 Chinamen aboard
the latter steamer to China.
The steamer Danube will leave to-mor
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row night to search for the Strathnevis.
Probably a British man-of-war will also be
sent upon the same mission. The vessel
had almost been given up as lost and was
nearly covered by reinsurance at as high
a rate as 40 guineas.
RETURX OF THE GORSEDD.
Encountered Heavy Gales While Crossing
the Pacific.
POST TOWNSEND, Wash., Dec. 7.—
The British tramp steamer Gorsedd, Cap
tain Meade, reported lost, arrived here
this morning, forty-six days from Singa
pore.
• Captain Meade reports a rough passage
across the Pacific, and on November 15
heavy seas swept his decks, threatening
destruction. After the storm passed over
it was found that the only damage done
was the loss of a chicken coop, which had
been swept off the after deck. The Gor
sedd's tubes were leaking badly all the
way over and - this, together with the fact
that the steamer was light, made its prog
ress slow. Under : the < circumstances the
vessel arrived here on time.
ORATORY AT STANFORD.
Forced Postponement of the Pre
liminary Debates for the
Carnot Medal.
But Three Students Who Seem De-
sirous of Contesting for the
Valued Trophy.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal., Dec.
7.— The Carnot debate, over which so
much interest has heretofore been aroused,
seems to be falling in popular favor. A
large number of candidates had at first
signified their intention of competing, but
as the time for the preliminaries came
round so many had withdrawn that but
three canaidates were left. As this num
ber would simply fill the three places on
the team, and as there would be no com
petition for places it was decided to post
pone the preliminaries until next
semester. This policy promises to call
out considerable talent that can be brought
forward in no other manner.
There has been no small amount of
complaint over the postponement because
of the amount of work it throws into the
final semester of the college year, but at
present it appears to be the only method
"for overcoming a threatened difficulty.
Manager Eaton is still engaged in ar
ranging for a game with the Michigan
tean.. On of the football team who keeps
well posted on football matters says that
there is a plan afloat to pick a team from
the two university elevens to meet the
Michigans in a match. He did not believe
that such a clan would mature, however,
as there would be some trouble in making
the selection.
The ladies' tennis tournament came off
to-day. In the preliminary, Misses Rose,
Lieb and McCray drew byes.
The first match, between Misses Sim
mons and Phillipp, was won by the for
mer—6-2, 6-1. Miss Rose* beat Miss Sim
mons, 9-7, but defaulted the game. Miss
Lieu was beaten by Miss McCray— 6-3, 6-3,
and Miss Simmons was defeated by the
same player— 6-1, 6-3.
In the championship match between
Misses Martin and McCray, the latter lady
won the first set — 6-3.
JtOTJLEVARD OX THE BEACH.
Santa Barbara's famous Drive to He
Extended to Monteclto.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Dec. 7.— The
extension of Santa Barbara's boulevard to
Montecito is now an assured fact. Monte
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newmanTlevinson,
125, 137, 139, 131 Kearny Street,
BRANCH STORE— 742 and 744 Market
Street.
cito people have offered a check of $1000 to
partly cover the cost of this improvement
and have agreed to plant palms the entire
distance of the extension. The City Coun
cil has practically decided to accept this
offer and will expend a sum not to exceed
$3000, provided it can secure the necessary
earth with which to cover the extension to
a depth of a foot, and secure from the
property-owners alone the proposed im
provement sand in sufficient quantity.
It is believed that the drive will be ex
tended some distance beyond the point
proposed, as property-owners in the vicin
ity of Miramar and as far down the coast
as" Summerland are anxious to reap the
benetit of this handsome connecting high
way.
THE ORAXGE SEASOX.
Great Activity at tlie Illyhland Packing
Houses and a Fine- Crop.
, SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Dec. 7.—
Now that the orange season is on there is
great activity in and around Highland.
There are at present in operation the three
bite packing establishments of Allen Bros.,
Earl Fruit Company and the association,
each employing* a large force of packers
and helpers. At East Highland a new
packing-house is being built, and will be
opened in a few days. The orange crop
far exceeds that of 1894. in both quantity
and quality, and is ripening fast, Several
carloads have already been sent out for the
Christmas trade, and shipments will come
thick and fast between now and Christmas
time". Buyers who visit Highland speaic
in the highest terms of the quality of the
oran ges. _^___^^__^__—
AUCTION SALES.
TUESDAY,
TUESDAY DECE3I BERI7, 1895
at 12 o'clock Noon-.
At 638 Market Street, Opp. Palace Hotel.
REFEREE'S SALE.
THE MAGNIFICENT
MANSION,
With Largra Corner Lot, being tha
Southeast cor. of O'Farrell and
Gough streets. Lot 60x137:6 feet,
with an L on southeast, corner,
30x34:4'/2 feet. . '
The subdivisions of tbis mansion comprise Salon
ParlorB, Ilpception and Dining Booms and Grand
Hall, which open together, making one grand room
of the entire floor; Kitcben, Butler's an/i other
Pantries, Servants' Rooms, etc., on flrat floor an-
nex; fine large Bedrooms, Dressinar-rooms, Bath-
rooms, Toilets, t-tc, on second floor; space for
three large rooms in attic; Storerooms, Coalroom,
Wineroom and Laundry in basement; basement
cemented; lar.ee, handsome grounds; streets bitn-
minizedand basalt rock; Jfront walk cement stone.
Surroundings cannot be excelled. Neighbors
are of the first-class order. Car accommodations
not excelled.
>'.B.— To examine this property please obtain
card from the auctioneers.
EASTON, ELDKIDGE & CO.,
638 Blarket street. Auctioneers.
RUGS
An unrivaled collection of TURK-
ISH and PERSIAN varieties is
- now on
EXHIBITION
■ — i-v— t
GOLDEN GATE HALL.I .
625 Sutter Street. \.J>
It forms a "Wonderful Display.
IFLTJGrJS
The stock of HADJI EPHRAIM
BENGUIST. It contains many
Rare Antique specimens, all very
valuable and of Great Beauty,
JBrS. U fLJrS9
The delight of connoisseurs and
collectors, were awarded 5 Medals
at the "World's Fair. Every piece
is guaranteed as represented.
AUCTION SALES.
These gems of Oriental Art will be
sold in
GOLDEN GATE HALL,
625 Sutter Street,
OX TUESDAY, DEC. 10, 1895, :
At 7:30 o'clock Evening.
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY,
December 11 »nd 12,
At 2:30 o'clock Afternoon,
7:30 o'clock Evening.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13,
At 2 :30 o'clock Afternoon.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14,
At 7:30 o'clock Evening.
EASTON, ELDKIDGE & CO.,
Auctioneers.
Catalogues at G. O. HALL'S.
X.B.— An opportunity of a lifetime to
secure Genuine Works of Art.
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REFEREE'S SALE!
AT Aicrios.
SATURDAY.
Saturday. ........ December 28. 1893,
At 12 o'clock noon, at Salesroom of
Q. H. UMBSEN & CO., Auctioneers
14 Montgomery Street. .
MURPHY-GRANT PROPERTY,
Northeast Corner Bush and
Sansome Streets.
Lot 137:6x137:6, and brick and iron Improve-
ments. Subject to a lease, witn Alurphy. Grant
&Co., expiring December 31, 1896,'. f0r $2200 per
month, total moilthly ' rental of property being
»3275.
GUSTAV H. UMBSEN, Referee.'^
, Further particulars please apply to
O. H. UMBSEN A CO.,
Auctioneers. 14 Montgomery atreet. '
~ piios
AT AUCTION.
MONDAY. .
Monday...... .December 9, 1895,
■ At 11 o'clock a. m.,
AT SALESROOM, 16 POST STREET.
ALSO
TURKISH RUGS AND CARPETS.
• •, „ • ■ ; ■'- ALSO— • ■ ■: ■ ■
French and German-Art Goods
- • WILL E. FISHER & CO., Auctioneers.