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LOS ANGELES
BANK ROBBERS.
Officers Discover a Tunnel
to the First National's
Vaults.
STARTS IN A SALOON.
Excavated Beneath Cellars in
the Heart of the Business
Section.
DUG IN VAIN FOR EICHES.
The Safe-Crackers Frightened Away
After Weeks of Diligent
Labor.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 25.— A re
markbly bold scheme of bank robbers —
one involving weeks of cautious labor in
the heart of this city — has been unearthed
by Los Angeles officers. The police have
discovered a tunnel which had been run
from Commercial street under celiars to
the vaults of the First National Bank,
which were to have been "oracked" by the
robbers at their first opportunity. Had
they been successful, they would have se
cured about $300,000. The bank is one of
largest institutions in this section. '
Some time ago Chief of Police Glass
learned that an attempt was likely to be
made on a local bank, but as nothing was
done the rumor was forgotten after a time.
The Chief went to Atlanta, Ga., in May,
and then, it is supposed, the gang began
operations. Detectives had been cautioned
to be on the watch during the Chief's ab
sence, and shortly after his departure they
learned that "Billy" Matthaney, Gillespie
and Rier^on, a gang of clever safe-crackers,
were in the city.
The first clew to their plans was found
when Detectives Aubie and Hawley
searched Matthaney's rooms. In a satchel
they found a suit of dirty, stained clothes,
which led the officers to believe that the
gang was trying to dig into some bank.
The point at which they were at work
could not be found, however, so after
vainly following the trio for several day?
the officers arrested them and ordered
them out of town.
Early in the present month Chief Glass
learned that an attempt had been made to
rob the First National Bank. The steel
vault rests on a brick arch built up from
the cellar. The arch consists of four
layers of brick, then cement, and on top
of this two gridiron layers of steel rails
separated by cement; cement upon the
top rail, then steel axles, more cement,
and then tbe four-inch steel floor of the
vault.
Several layers of the brick had been re
moved, while in the cement floor was a
hole hidden by some old bricks. The of
ficers could not get into this tunnel, as
the way was blocked by a big jackscrew.
Farther investigation proved that the
other end of this tunnel was in tbe neigh
borhood of the Anaheim Brewery saloon,
at 112 Commercial street, just around the
corner from the First National Bank,
which is at 226 North Main street.
On the 17th Detectives Auble and Brad
ish broke into the cellar of the saloon and
there found the other «nd of the tunnel.
The place had been run by a man named
P. L. Jones. The bar was partitioned off
into winerooms, and the entrance to the
cellar boarded up and floored over, a trap
door being cleverly concealed in the floor.
Tn his cellar, which is 35 by 45 feet in
dimensions, the work has been protecuted
with a care that was fully worthy of tne
magnitude of the project. It was exactly
102 feet from the cellar to tbe point under
the vault, and the robbers bad figured out
with such mathematical exactness, that
the tunnel is almost in a direct line. It is
about two and a half feet square, just
large enough to accommodate a man
working on all fours.
Picks, shovels, crowbars and other tools
were used to dig with. Tbe dirt was packed
in a piece of carpet and hauled out of the
cellar with a windlass. A small bell was
the signal. As the air was foul in the tun
nel a piece of rubber hose was stretched
and fresh air was supplied by a. bellows at
the cellar end. The drift was carefully
timbered.
The officers watched both entrances
carefully for several days, but at last
learned that the gang had flown, so the
place was thoroughly searched. The tools
were found inside the drift, carefully bid
den by earth and sacks. In the cellar was
a tub of water and in this were thirty-one
sticks of dynamite and a cigar-box half
full of giant powder, all wrapped in oiled
paper. Some of the dirt from the excava
tion had been piled in the cellar.
James K. Stephens was arrested on
Tuesday and charged with being impli
cated in the attempted burglary. His was
the only capture made, as the balance of
the gang decamped, frightened away by
gome unknown cause.
Tbe police are reticent regarding Steph
ens. It is believed that Matthaney's gang
is at the bottom of the job. Its members
are expert safe crackers and no doubt
agreed with the less experienced men to
blow up the vault if the others would do
the tunneling. Jones, the saloon man,
disappeared two weeks ago, and has not
been beard from since. The police are
anxious to get him.
RETURNS TO LOS ANGELES.
Sheriff Burr find* 1 hat Be Ha* Been
Chatting a Bogu* .IHtnhittn.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 25.— An in
nocent and unoffending prospector, by
name Tom Connell, is the Erstine Creek
"Dunham," who was seen by Pinney and
Richards, Sheriff Burr and a formidable
posse, heavily armed, after having made a
trip of many miles on horseback from
Caliente Station to the Mojave desert, re
turned to-day. They left Caliente on Sun
day with a guide and reached the Bright
Star mine camp, near Kernville, on Mon
day afternoon. Inquiry revealed the fact
that no stranger had been seen in that
section for many a day.
Here Sheriff Burr learned that the man
whom Pinney had seen at Erskine Creek
was Tom Connell, a prospector, who bad
beer. In camp for the past six months. He
was informed Inter on that a miner named
Stanley, who had a cabin about six miles
further on, had seen a stranger a. few days
a<*o while out prospecting. Burr was soon
at Stanley's cabin, but the owner was
away. He awaited Stanley's return.
Stanley informed him that while pros
pecting in a canyon a day or two ago he
beard a noise in the brush about seventy
five yards from where he was standing.
He crawled up and saw a man tearing
through the brush, closely pursued by two
wild steers. That was all. *
GOOD TEMPLARS MEET.
Resolutions Declaring for Equal Suff
rage Are Adopted.
LOS ANGELES, Cat.., June 25. — The
District Lodge of Good Templars of South
ern California met in A. O. U. W. Hall
here to-day. Grand Chief templar Rev.
J. W. Webb of Fresno was in attendance,
with the following delegates:
El Monte— Wright, Emory Metcalfe,
Walter Metealfe and Alfred Drake.
Gardena— Jennie E. Smith, Mary E. Mitchell,
S. S. Smith.
Garvanza— Gamble, T. W. Greene,
Fletcher Burr.
Ragle Rock Lodge— Flora Mrs. Charles
Brierley.
Merrill— Fred Askew, F. Plaistridge, George
Telford, J. Watson, E. Braunton. - - ;■■■- |
Pasadena— Mrs. W. A. Ward, Sr. Gertrude
Ralston, W. A. Ward, Sr. Myrtle Shaw.
Santa Monica— Fred H. Tafts, Sr. Mrs. P. S.
Hubbard, Sr. Mrs. F. M. Tafts.
Willard Juvenile Temple, El Monte— E. G.
Metealf.
Seaside Juvenile Temple, Santa Monica—
S. Hubbard, Mrs. H. S. Hubbard.
Garvanzji Band of Hope— Thomas Fellows.
Pasadena Crown Temple— Mrs. Pierce.
Redondo— Mr. Hayward.
Pomona — G. Hansler.
West Saticoy— John A. Madison, Ernest Du
val.
Alhambra— C. H. Winsor. Dora Blackburn.
San Pedro— H. M. Dakin.
Tropicc— Mr. Prior.
The committee on resolutions submitted
the following report:
We reaffirm the Good Templars' platform,
adopted by the R. W. G. Lodge. > -V .-
We recommend that Gooq Templars do not
vote with any party which has not a plank for
the extermination of the liquor saloon.
We, as Good Templars, indorse the amend
ment of the constitution to be voted on this
fall, giving women the right of suffrage, and
call on all Good Templars to do all in their
power to help carry said amendment.
SCORED AT VETERANS.
Denunciation of a Pastor Who Would
Xot Drape UU Church With flans.
LOS ANGELES," Cal., June 25.— Stanton
Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and tbe
Women's Relief Corps, paid their respects
to Rev. Mr. Jfinley of the M. E. Church
South in the following terms at a meeting
here last night:
The members of the post and corps declare
that there is no spot s<o sacred but it may be
honored and glorified by the presence of that
illustrious banner, more dear to us than life
itself; that no day is too holy to bring to grate
ful remembrance the struggles and sacrifices
of our forefathers for liberty and independ
ence; that that church or denomination that
re: uses to Inculcate lessons of patriotism tiiid
veneration for our National emblem is derelict
in its duty; thai any so-called minister of the
gospel who so far forgets his obligations to
patriotism, and who so outrages every senti
ment of loyalty and memory of our patriotic
dead as to deliberately insult the flag of his
country, is in no sense a true follower of the
Lord Jesus Christ, and is unworthy the protec
tion of the stars and stripes and the blessing
of liberty and peace whicn they guarantee.
Fin ley had refused to drape his church
in National colors or preach a patriotic
sermon, as requested, next Sunday.
SPIRITUALISTS WAST AN GOLD
None Attempt to Win a Purse Offered by
a Woman.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 25.— People
were on the gui vive here to-night over
the challenge from Professor Tatum of the
spiritualists to T. C. Alexander, an alleged
exposerof spirit tricks, and in consequence
Burbank Theater was filled with people to
witness the contest. Tatum failed to ap*
pear, and in consequence the show fell
tl.it. Alexander made repeated requests
for any medium to come forward and do
slate- writing to the satisfaction of the
audience and he would immediately till
out a check signed by Edna B. Sherman
for |500 and turn it over to the successful
medium. He read the following letter
from Miss Sherman and exhibited the
check, but no one came forward to com
pete for it :
Loa Angeles, Cal., June 25, 189t>.
T. C. Alexander— Dear Sir: I inclose check for
$500 to be paid toan y medium wbocan produce
spirit-writing on slate at your performance in
the Burbank Theater this evening. If no one
finds the conditions favorable enough, I will call
ior my check at the box-office to-morrow.
EIiNA B. SUEUMAJJ.
BAR ON SUM ARY CLOSING.
Angelenom Protest Against the Petition of
Reformers,
LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 25.— The
coutest over the proposition before the
Common Council of this city for Sunday
closing of all business places promises to
be a warm one. Two monster protests,
containing about 2500 names, have been
addressed to the Council in opposition to
the petition and movement for a Sunday
closing ordinance. The prutestants base
their opposition on the ground that such
an ordinance would be unconstitutional,
for the reason that "it would deprive a
certain class of an inherent right to six
days of labor and one of rest. Second —
Because it would destroy the equality of
all men before the law. Third — Because it
would be religious legislation. Fourth—
Because it would be discriminating in its
nature. Fifth — Because the constitution
of the United States guarantees one day
of rest out of a week to all who care to
assert that right without designating what
day of the wee* it shall be."
STOCKTON ASYLUM SHORTAGE.
Complaint Filed at Sacramento Against
the Several Bondsmen of Ex-
Treasurer Orr.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., June 25.— Deputy
Attorney-General Charles Post filed a
complaint in the Superior Court to-day
on the part of State Controller E. P. Col
gan, H. O. Southworth, A. Thornton, J.
D. McDougal, A. McDonald and Joseph
Steffens, directors of the State Insane
Asylum at Stockton, against N. M. Orr
and H. H. Hewlitt. Frank Stewart, T. W.
Newell, 1. D. BostwicK, R. B. Parker and
George West, who were the bondsmen of
N. M. Orr when he received the appoint
ment of treasurer of the State Insane
Asylum in Stockton.
The complaint, which is very lengthy,
after detailing the conditions under which
Orr accepted the office, states that he has
failed to account for about $10,000 of the
funds of the institution, although he has
been repeatedly requested to do so. On
April 24 E. P. Colgan had a demand
served on Orr for the sum of $10,000, to be
returned within twenty days. Orr had
failed to produce the money, and in con
sequence Colgan added to the gross
amount 25 per cent damages. By so
doing there became due to the State and
payable from these bondsmen the sum of
$12,501 08, no part of which has been paid.
Then follows a copy of the bond, signed
by all the defendants, approved by the
board of directors.
SEES NEAR PASO RUBLES.
Another Dunham Engage* the Attention
of the Constabulary.
PASO ROBLES, Cal., June 25.-The
local constabulary was notified this after
noon, that a stranger answering to the de
scription of Dunham, the murderer of
the McGlincy family at Campbells, had
camped last night at the Ryan Ranch,
eight miles east of town. A posse was or
ganized and started for the ranch.
Santa Barbara's Street Railway.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal., June 25.—
Well-borers who have been sinking for
the Santa Barbara Consolidated Electric
Street Railway Company on the lot se
lected for its power-house to-day struck
at a depth of 375 feet a splendid artesian
How. This development establishes the
location of tie power-bouse and encour
ages t-.e company to hasten its comple
tion. A large force of men is laying rails
along the already-graded track, and the
road will be in perfect running order by
the Ist of September, the date specified in
the company's franchise.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1896.
FATHER FERGUSON
ON "FALLACIES,"
The Eloquent Priest Ad
dresses an Immense
Gathering.
DEFENDS THE CHURCH.
What Emperor Frfderick Said
to Philosopher Benjamin
Franklin.
DEFINES ••STALL-FED" CATHOLIC
Declares the Catholic Church to Be
in the Vanguard of Thought
and Progress.
Father Ferguson lectured at Metropoli
tan Temple last evening under the aus
pices of the Young Men's Cathoiic Union,
on the subject of "Exploded Fallacies."
The lecturer was in his best voice and was
frequently interrupted in his discourse by
the applause 6f his large and sympathetic
audience.
Prior to the lecture there was an interest
ing prelude of a musical and literary
character. The performers were all
encored. As Father Ferguson arose and
was introduced by the chairman the au
dience burst into prolonged applause.
"I intend to lay before you this even
ing," he began, "the proof of certain fal
lacies regarding the Roman Catholic
church. These proofs are so cogent and
convincing that even the beam in the
most skeptical eye cannot obscure them.
"One of these fallacies is that the Catho
lic church is an enemy of human free
dom. Why, in the broad light of history,
any being can so hold is more than I can
tell you. It is one of those things that is a
marvel unto the philosophical mind.
"Until a very late period such was the
bitterness against those of our faith that
they were not permitted to enter any of
the learned professions. Men of honest
minds, who did not realize that this state
of affairs was dne wholly to bigotry, came
to the conclusion that the Catholic church
is an enemy to freedom and all prosress.
"Then look at the prejudices tiiat have
flooded Protestant homes in the form of
partisan literature. This is one reason
why the Protestant world, not so very
long ago, beiieved us to be followers of a
crude, if not corrupt, religion.
''But of late years there has come an im
portant change. The diffusion of Catholic
literature, the writings of unprejudiced
Protestants, and even of liberalists and in
fiSels, have done much to do away with
such a flagrant error.
"Let me tell you right here, that the
wisdom of hunting down these disreputa
ble i ales is manifest. As Macaulay says,
we cannot consider it strange that Protest
tants believe even tbe most strange and {
outlandish tales about us when we let
them pass unrefuted.
"This is something for you Catholics
who may be termed 'stall-fed' to consider."
After the laugh that erected this sally
had subsided Father Ferguson continued
his discourse in elucidation of the term
"stall-fed."
"A 'stall-fed' Catholic," he declared,
while the faces of his audience showed
that they anticipated something witty,
"differs from the 'jelly-fish' Catholic in
this: The 'jelly-fish' Catholic, while he)
will not answer, will let it go at that, j
while the 'stall-fed' Catholic will neither
answer himself nor will he lat others
answer. They call this 'dienified silence,'
but it ouuht rather to be called 'dignified
cowardice.' " %
Pausing for the applause and laughter
to subside, the lecturer drew a deep
breath and then launched forth asain, his
manner becoming more impassioned as he
warmed to his subject.
"They tell us that the Catholic Church
is an enemy to civil and religious
liberty, that her head has been
whitened by the snows of the
ages while her countenance has been
kept hooded and away from tbe sunlight
of toleration and beneficence, that like
some hideous animal from the shades of
the underworld she lies in wait with her
talons ready and itching to pounce upon
and rend him who would sinK broader and
deeper in the rock of human liberty the
foundations of the social fabric.
"How any man can pretend to believe
this and then hold up his nead before his I
fellow-nien and assert that he has ever
glanced inside the pages of history is a
mystery so profound and marvelous that ■
in grappling with it the brain reels and
the senses become utterly confused. I
now and forever will maintain that if it
were not for the Catholic church the pres
ent liberty of the United States could not
be maintained.
"What have the enemy to say of the
valor of our chivalrous sons who, in the
tremendous charge between the cross and
the crescent, bathed the soil oi Europe
crimson with their lifeblood in preventing
it from being overrun by the Moslem
hordes? Nothing whatever. 1 heir silence
is as deep and unbroken as the grave.
Listen to what the Protestant historian,
Lecky, has to say:
No human pen can write its epitaph, for no
human imagination can adequately realize its
glory. In the eyes of those who estimate the
greatness of sovereignty, not by the extent of
its territory nor by the number of its soldiers,
but the influence it has exercised over man
kind, the Papal Government has no rival and
can never have a successor.
Father Ferguson then mentioned more
instances in which the archives of history
demonstrate the obligations of the world
to tbe mother church, and then took a
new tack.
"Who was it," he demanded, "that es
tablished the present system of trial by
jury, with the good that it has brought to
us? Wno was it that founded all those
cardinal laws that have insured peace and
prosperity to nations and peoples as long
as they obeyed them in spirit and in
letter? Who but the Roman Catholic
church, which is and j ' ays has been the
tender mother of civil and religious lib
erty and of individual right. .
"The Protestants cannot claim the honor
for these institutions. Why? Because
they existed long before that form of re
ligion ever came into the world with its
attendant string of evils. That is why.
Isn't it enough?"
"Now" continued Father Ferguson,
"Magna Charta is commonly supposed to
be tne document that forms the basis of
all modern governmental liberty. To
whom was its origin due? Let me tell
you —it was owing to tne stren
uous endeavors of that grand and
noble man whose memory shall for
ever linger with us as an odor
fresh from the balmy groves of the Gar
den of Eden, Stephen Langton, Arch
biihop of Canterbury. On his memory
Sunset Cox, late envoy to Persia, pro
nounced a eulogy so fitting that I am
going to read it to you tonight. I am
going to let you know something of this
man to whom the civilized world is so
greatly indebted. 1 '
Here tbe lecturer read a rather long arti
cle by the author mentioned, showing the
estimation in which he personally neld
the Archbishop of Canterbury and what
homage his memory deserved from
all enlightened nations. The reverend
father ended with a plea that his
hearers would not forget that the
man of whom tbls tribute had been
written wad a Kotnan Catholic.' He was
once interrupted by deafening applause
while reading the article at a paragraph
erapasizing the fact that Magna Charta is
the direct, predecessor of the American
Revolution and the Declaration of Inde
pendence.
"Now," he continued, "I am not eager
to draw the deadly parallel in matters re
ligious, but it might be apropos under the
circumstances to ask what those on the
Lutheran side of the fence have to say for
themselves during the years that have
elapsed since the Reformation."
The manner in which Father Ferguson
asked the question was so inimitable and
the slight, sarcastic emphasis he threw
upon the word "reformation" so fetching
that the audience was instantly convulsed
with laughter.
"What have they performed ? I ask.
Has not the Enclish Parliament passed so
many bad laws that the fair pages of
history have been sullied by numerous
'redresses of grievances.'
"If Catholics are such enemies of liberty
why did they stand in and assist this re
public in the days of its infancy, when it
was hardly able to stand upon its feet?
"How about the Protestants during
those stirring times? Did they assist the
Americans? To be sure they did"— this
ironically.
"All those Hessians that were shipped
over to keep us under the iron hand of the
tyrant were Catholics, weren't they?"
Father Fereuson's tentative tone, and the
comic expression of his features when he
made this query, again brought down the
house.
"I defy any man to show me," he thun
dered, "that any Catholics were ever
shipped over to help subdue this country.
No, they are too liberty-loving a people
for that". There were enough Catholics in
Washington's army alone to disprove any
such assertion.
"What nations were they that gave us
recognition in those times? Compare the
reception of Franklin at the court of
France and of Prussia. At the former he
was welcomed. At the latter Frederick
told that eminent philosopher, who
snatched the lightning from the skies and
the scepter from the hands of tyrants, that
he was born to rule, and did rule, and
didn't intend to lend any assistance that
would harm the trade.
"Then how about the republics of Genoa
and the surrounding territory, as well as
the cantons of Switzerland, who owed
their existence to the favor of the Popes?
Instead of fostering them they might have
taken away their liberty had they so de
] sired.
"What was the results produced upon
I the Governments of Europe by the refor
mation? For fully 250 years absolutism
reigned, and it was not until the year 1848
that the tyranny of th« ruler of Prussia
was hedged about with restrictions. It is
| about the same with Sweden and Den
mark."
Hereupon the lecturer paused to quote
from historical authority to prove that the
condition of the people of many of the
districts of these countries is, in many re
spects, as crude as it was hundreds of
years ago.
"As the great Cardinal Newman said,"
he continued after reading certain ex
cerpts, ""There's not a tongue that wags
against the Catholic church to-dsy that
doesn't owe it to her that it can wag at
all.'
"The fabric of freedom in this country
was first reared by Lord Baltimore,
when he came with his faithful band of
followers and worked for the establish
ment of peace, liberty and happiness.
"Jefferson, when he wrote that para
graph in the Declaration of Independence
stating that the attributes of all men are
'life, liberty and pursuit of happiness,'
was foreshadowed by Fenelon, a great
French archbishop, who used nearly the
same words in requesting an English king
to ailow his subjects greater liberty.
"In conclusion, let me say that theCd'th
j olic church will ever be fouad in the van
' guard of progress, holding aloft tha torch
light of liberty and reason, that the
na'.ions may see their way clear to higher
planes of thought and existence."
The gathering was dismissed with the
announcement that a grand patriotic dem
onstration would be held under the aus
pices of the Young Men's Catholic Union
in Metropolitan Temple on the evening of
July 3, at which all were invited to be
present. _________^__
VILLARD HIMSELF AGAIN,
The Old-Time Railroad King in
a New Transcontinental
Scheme.
Unlimited Backing From Europe and
tbe Rockefeller Interests in
This Country.
CHICAGO, 111., June 25.— The name of
Henry Villard of Northern Pacific fame
was associated to-day in railroad circles
with a story of a new transcontinental
railroad scheme, embracing the Baltimore
and Ohio, Chicago and Northern Pacific
Company's terminal property in this city,
the Chicago Great Western Road from
this city to St. Paul and the Northern
Pacific system from that city to the Pacific
Coast. It is said that Mr. Villard has re
gained the confidence of his former finan
cial backers in Europe to the extent of
having enough money, with the help of
the Rockefeller interests on this side, to
accomplish the gigantic scheme he is
credited with cherishing. The reported
plan is to buy in the Northern Pacific
property when it is offered at foreclosure
sale next month, and the Adams reorgani
zation committee is said to be cognizant
and friendly to the project.
Then the Chicago and Northern Pacific
Terminal s-ystem, which was built during
the Villard regime, is the next connecting
link which is to be added to the alleged
transcontinental chain of the property now
in the receiver's hands, if put up at fore
closure sale next October. If it develops,
as reported, that the Vanderbilts are after
that property for a Michigan Central
terminal the bidding will run far ahead of
the court's upset price of $10,000,000.
The Baltimore and Ohio, whicn is to be
the Eastern section oi the chain, is to be
sold by the receivers this year to the hisrh
est bidder, and it is said Villard and the
Rockefellers have been quietly buyinz all
the securities of that road they could get
since the road joined the receivership
ranks. A majority of the holders of the
Chicago Great Western securities are
European, and it is said the lourth link
has been assured by a combination with
the backers of Villard there to make that
line an integral part of the new transcon
tinental route.
MARK HANNS A ROBBED.
A Burglar Enters Bin Residence and
Make* a Haul.
CLEVELAND, Ohio. June 26.— Hon.
Mark Hanna's Lake wood villa was . en
tered by a burglar at an early hour this
(Friday) morning. The thief secured $300
worth of jewels and $70 in money.
He did not arouse the occupants of the
house, but was detected on leaving it by
Mr. Hanna's private watchman. The
Lakewood Marshal was notified • and he
with his two assistants chased the burglar
to tee lake front, where he eluded them,
escaping safely with his plunder.
The Venezuela Incident.
NEW YORK, N. V., June 25.— The Her
ald's special cable from Caracas, Vene
zuela, says:
News received here from Guiana is to
the effect that nineteen Englishmen were
arrested with Mr. Harrison, a. civil en
gineer, and are now held in El Dorado
station, on the Cuyuni River, for their at
tempt to build a road in Venezuelan terri
tory.
There was no bloodshed when the ar
rests were made.
JOHN P, IRISH ON
WHITNEY'S LETTER,
This Eloquent Goldbug Dis
agrees With the New
Yorker.
HE CRIES "NO QUARTER!"
Says an International Agree
ment Is Remote, if Net
Impossible.
OPPOSED TO ANY COMPROMISE.
Irish Says the Sound Money Men
Should Stand Together Under
the Two-Thirds Rule.
John P. Irish is one of the gold Dem
ocrats who do not agree with W. C. Whit-
Naval Officer John P. Irish, the Leading Democratic Champion of Gold or
"Sound Money" on the Pacific Coast.
ney of New York, whose recent letter,
written in an effort to in some measure
stem the silver tide in the party, practically
acknowledged the defeat of the gold
forces, pleads for a compromise and re
ports that the march of the "other na
tions" to the bimetallic goal is plain to
the ear on the ground.
In the following statement of his views
Mr. Irish, with customary force, declares
for "no quarter," deprecates persuasion |
of silverites an<l asks that in this party
emergency the two-thirds rule be made
what it was intended to be, "the last
refuge of principle":
I have carefully read Mr. Whitney's letter,
and disagree with him.
The extreme silver men have a majority, and |
we have more than one-third of the conven- I
tion. Why persuade them to conservative ac
tion such as resting on an international agree
ment? Such an agreement is impossible, or"
6o remote as to lose paral.«tx. Mr. Whitney
overstates the European situation. If the ex- !
trcme silver men are induced to depend on an j
NEW TO-DAT.
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH
iH!.L^E. VACATION SUIT
PONT DELAY TOO LONG
alter
We're going to alter the store, big as it is, we're
going to make it bigger — in the meantime we have this
great Alteration Sale. Here's our offer for to-day —
Men's Suits that we sell at $12.50, $15.00 and $17^50,
we've altered in price to $9.35. Compare the quality
and style with any other store— and remember, we
sell NO "TRASH!
MEN'S SUITS.
$10.00
$12.50 FORMER
$13.50 PRICES
„ $15.00
ALTERED
-tllJu I DI\DIJ
IN PRICE TO
$9-35
We've made the same great ALTERATIONS in
the price of everything, Men's, Boys' and Children's -
Clothing, Furnishing Goods and Hats to mark this
great ALTERATION Sale.
H.SUMMERFIELD&CO,,
!)22-930 MARKET STREET.
SAYE~MOMY--BE IN TIMET
COME THIS SATUEDAY.
TrarOFFERS^VEKADE™
international agreement they will be dis&p
apointed, and we will have an acute renewal
of tbe present dangerous agitation.
In my judgment the sound money men at
Chicago, being more than a third of the con
vention, should stand together and vote sol
idly for a sound money candidate — Russell,
Carlisle, William L. Wilson, Secretary Morton,
anybody who stands for the old Democratic
faith. No party authority capable of deliver
ing a National canon has ever yet declared
that the free, unlimited, independent coinage
of 6ilver at a ratio of 16 to 1 is a Democratic
principle. We are under no obligations to
accept that novelty at the dictation of recent
Republicans like Boies or anarchists like Alt
geld. Let lhem find ways and means to nomi
nate their candidate. The two-thirds rule in
Democratic conventions was intended to be
the last refuge of principle. Let it be used to
that end in this emergency.
What is the situation? We measurably re
deemed the party's pledge of tariff reform.
The silver men by violent agitation have so
alarmed the country and the world as to con
gest and stagnate business enterprise and in
dustry, with the result of deficient revenues,
not due to the tariff per se, but fo industrial
paralysis caused by the fear of a silver stand
ard. The silver men therefore have played
into the hands of the Republicans by enabling
them to revive protection and reseat it in the
law. Original silver propogandists in the
Democratic party were protectionists, like
General Warner of Ohio, who is now out with
a declaration in favor of 16 to 1 and "inci
dental" protection. The party owes to such
men the coming overthrow of every result of
thirty years' education oi the people on the
tariff.
They are going into this battle repudiating
the whole record of the party since 1861, and re
jecting the only successful leader we have had
since the Civil War. I see no good in attempt
ing to reason them out of it. They prefer Till
| man to Cleveland. Let them test the coun
try's judgment on that preference.
John P. leish.
OARSMEN AT PRACTICE.
The Sportsman Says the Yale Crew's
Work Has Surprised Their Eng
lish Critics.
LONDON, Eng., June 25.— The Yale
eight were out again this afternoon and
rowed over half the course in 3:32% at a
stroke of from 34 to 36. The New College
crewrowed the same distance in 3:24, at a
stroke of from 35 to 38.
The Sportsman will to-morrow say that
the latest performance of the Yale crew
has surprised their critics. It is abund
antly evident that they will take a lot
more beating than anybody expected.
The Trinity Hall crew were out on tbe
Thames this morning and rowed over half
the course in 3:32, at a stroke ranging
from thirty-eight down to thirty-five. The
Yale men were in better shape this morn
mtr. They were out on tbe water at 11
o'clock and rowed for an hour. Bob
Cook expressed himself as greatly pleased
with their work.
A Sheet Anchor
In all conditions of muscular wasting,
nervous debility and fever, good in shock
and fainting, a valuable help to dyspep-
tics. •
This eulogy, one of many, has been
pronounced upon that sterling stimulant,
Duffy's Pure
Malt Whiskey
A Sheet Anchor holds a ship from drift-
ing on the rocks. So does this medicinal
whiskey retard consumption of tissue, and
thus prevents the body from drifting into
a condition of disease. Is not this worth
remembering at a time when a change of
temperature may be fraught with danger
to blood and nerves?
No wide-awake druggist or grocer thinks
of being out of Duffy's pure malt.
$85.00. REDUCED TO $47.50
CLOSING-OUT SALE.
the "HDSEBY"
. FDLLY GUARANTEED.
The Only High-Grade Wheel on the
Market at $47.50.
We challenge comparison with|any and all bicy-
cles In the world, possessing radical advantages
superior to any bicycle manufactured.
LARGE ASSORTMENT
Of ladies' and gents' wheels must be sold in tea
days for cash. All I request is a critical, Impar-
tial and scrutinizing inspection.
E.J.THELENp^?t
Open Evenings. Tel. Main 1850.
IN RESPONSE TO THE DEMANDS OS MANY
X of our patrons we have concluded to establish
a "Table d'Hote" dinner, beginning Thursday, June
25, from 5 to 8 p. m., the pi.cc of which will .be *1«
The high standard of excellence that we have so
carefully preserved for so many years will recom-
mend this new feature to the public.
SWAIN BROS..
Props. Swain's Restaurant, 213 S utter.
UNITED STATES BRANCH
STATEMENT
OF THE
CONDITION AND AFFAIRS
OF THE
LANCASHIRE
INSURANCE COMPANY
OF MANCHESTER. ENGLAND, ON THE
81st day of December, A. D. 1895, and for the
year ending on that day, as made to the Insurance
! Commissioner of the State of California, pnrsua-it
I to the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the
Political Code, coniensed as per blank furnished
by the Commissioner. i :/?'"*' •*'?'. v: : •'".'■
ASSETS.
Real Estate owned by Company 385,585 72
Cash Market Value of all Stocks and
Bonds owned by Company 1,649. 502 50
Cash in Company's Office 1.129 88
CashinßanKS -.. 127,20181
Premiums in due Course of Collec-
tion... 244,436 33
Total assests .....fa, 307,866 04
LIABILITIES.
Losses Adjusted and Unpaid $70,460 18
Losses in process of Adjustment or
inSuspense 119.953 00
Losses resisted including expenses.. 38,589 95
Gross premiums on Fir« Risks run- .
nine one year or less, $1,545,-
-961 90. reinsurance 50 percent.. 772,980 96
Gross premiums on Fire Risks run-
ning more than one year. $882,-
-766 10, reinsurance pro rata 490,830 62
All other demands against the Com-
pany 45,000 00
Total liabilities $1.537,814.70
INCOME.
Net Cash actually received for Fire
premiums ....'. $1,896,651 43
Received for interest and dividends . ; . .
on Bonds, Stocks, Loans and
from all other sources ' 65,964 26
Received for Rents 3,443 83
Total Income $1,966,059 52
EXPENDITURES.
Net amount paid for. Fire L055e5.... 13,679 61
Paid or allowed for Commission or
Brokeraze 813,603 94
Paid for Salaries, Fees and other
charge* for Officers, Clerks, etc.. 171,95103
Paid for State, National and local - -
taxes 42.957 96
All other payments and expenditures 149,964 34
Total expenditures $1,792,156 87
~-_.v -.., . ■ y ■■..-'.gj'iv.. . ; - ;
Fire. Losses Incurred
during the year... 51,062,339 00 :\; •;-;.
bisks A PREMitics. Fire Risks. ) Premiums.
, Net amount of Risks
written during . the
year $224,395,432 $2,584,042 13
Net amount of Risks ";%-.'",'-"
expired during the •.
year 217,651,094 2,562.295 68
Net amouDt in force
December 31, 1895 ,208,943,226 2,428,728 00
, . . K. LITCHFIELD, Manager.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 25th day
of January. 1896-
C. K. VALENTINE, Notary Public.
MAI 1 & WILSON, Managers,
PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT,
S. E. Corner California and Sansome Sts.,
SAN FRANCISCO CAX.
UP-TO-DATE BICYCLES.
Crawford-:- "Unsurpassed,"
$40, $50, $60, $75. •
Phoenix "Stands the Racket"
$100.
The guarantee of the Crawford same as that
given with $100 wheels.
EDWIN MOHRIG, Agent,
1 1610 Market St., San Francisco. Cat
w^r f% - "*" *
4&RNYSI
IS THE VERY BEST OXE TO KXAM.INS
your eyes and fit tnem to Spectacles and Eya-
glaases with instruments of his own invention,
whose superiority has not been equaled.' Mjr *U»
cess hAs been due to the merits of my worit
Office Hours— l 2 to *c- v. . ■, -- .■ .■ ,
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