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VOLUME LXXXII.-NO. 172.
THE BEAR
IN GOOD
CONDITION
She Is Almost Ready for
the Trip to the
Arctic.
HULL NEEDS SOME
PAINT.
Scraped Off by the Ice Points
~ in the Frozen
Ocean.
VESSEL'S STRENGTH NOT
AT ALL AFFECTED.
Full Detail of the Men Who Will
Sail to Rescue the
Whalers.
LETTERS FOR
THE WHALERS.
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£ THE CALL'S offer to take charge J
* of and attend to the shipping of *
* mail by the revenue cutter Bear for *
-_■ >
* the whalers imprisoned in the *
+, Arctic ice is being taken advantage *
* of by a large number of those who *
* have friends and relatives on the *
-* yes *.
* Letters are now being sent in *
Letters are n-->w being sent in J
* every day to THE CALL'S business *
*■ office. *
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-» Mail to go by the Bear should be *
.* sent in not later than Saturday at J
* noon, as it will require three days *
* - Jr
* for the trip from this city to Seattle, *
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* from which point the Bear will start *•
* On November 23. Send or take all J J
l nail matter to THE CALL business J
* office, in the Claus Spreckels build- *
* ing, corner of Market and Third * i
* streets. * |
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SEATTLE, Nov. IS.-The Revenue cut
ter Bear is aeain in port, having arrived
this afternoon from Quartermasters Har
bor. While in the dry dork her hull was
i c tried but the incesscnt rain prevented
her sides from receiving a coat of paint.
The ice points while in the Arctic last
summer hid torn iff ccns.deraole of the
sbeatning, which had 10 be repaired.
Otherwise the cutter was found to be in
fine condition and particularly well
equipped to undertake the perilous cruise
north to furnish aid to the 300 ice-impris
oned whalers in the Arc ie Ocean. Her
propeller required nut one new key.
Durm; tne next three days repairs to
the machinery of the cutter will be con
tinued, and on Sunday she will go to the
coal-bunkers. Two hundred and sixty
tons oi coal will be taken on, and after
reaching Dutch Harbor the coal bold will
aeain be replenished. Commander Tut
tle is anxious, if possible, to have the
iiear sail on next Tuesday, but the fact
that she cannot bestin coaling until Sun
.iv may cause a delay of one day.
To The Call correspondent he sail to
night: "At the present time I »cc no rea
-on why the Bear should not sail by-
Wednesday next at the latest. All the
men detailed for the expedition will have
nrrived before then, and ait necessary fur
doming and store-, including those so
kind furnished by .'he Call, will have
been received."
loan inquiry as to who would consti
tute lhe overland expedition, Captain
Tuttle replied: "I cannot say positively
as yet. Detailed instructions have been
mailed me. but I will not receive them
for two or three days at least. The com
mand ot this expedition will no doubt be
assumed by Lieutenant David H. Jarvis,
who has teen my executive officer, and is
a most trustworthy man. He will be ac
companied by Second Lieutenant Ells
wort 11 P. Bertholf, Dr. Woodruff and an
explorer named A. Koltchoff. As to who
else might be detailed to join the overland
party I cannot now say."
Captain Tuttle bad _ lengthy interview
this evening with Minor W. Bruce, who
establii-bsd the Government reindeer sta
tion at Port Clarence. This explorer has
a thorough knowledge of the coast of
Western and Northern Alaska and is
familiar with the natives, their location!)
and ba s.
The officers and relief expedition thus
Jar announced an who will sail on the
Bear next Wednesday are as follows:
Capiain Francis Tuttle, commander;, lieu
tenants, David H. Jarvis and J. H.
Brown; second lieutenants — Claude 8.
Cochrane. John G. Berry, B. H. Camden,
H. G. Hamlet, El sworth P. Bertnolf;
chief engineer, H. C. Whitworth; first
assistant engineer, Horatio N. Wood;
feecond assistant engineers, H. K. Spencer
*-nd J. I. Bryan; surgeons, Dr. J. S. Call
*-:d Dr. Woodruff; explorer, F. Koltchoff.
SAN PEDRIj WORK DELAYED.
Now the War Department Finds There
Is No Appropriation to Pay for
Advertising.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. — The War
Department has. found another excuse for
not commencing work at San Pedro. It
is now said that there is no appropriation
available for advertising.
The San Francisco Call
WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING.
SCHOOL EMPLOYES
ARE COMPELLED TO
PAY FOR PLACES
Grand Jury of Los Angeles Is Investigating
a Scandal That Involves Several
Members of the City Board of
Education,
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 18 —A scandal
has c.-me to light which involves several
members of the City Board of Education
and C. H. Axtell, the superintendent of
chool buildings, an oflner elected by the
hoard. E. E. Cooper, a janitor of the
Sentous-street School, charges that Build
ing Superintendent Axtell obtained $60
from him on the pretext that if the money
was paid he could with the aid of it se
cure Cooper's retention as a janitor, and
if it was not paid he would be discharged.
Cooper paid the money, and has made an
affidavit to that effect. He alleges that
School Directors Mclnerney (Democrat)
and Adams (Populist) were the two mem
bers, as he understood it, to whom the
money was to go.
Janitor Cooper is not alone in the affi
davit-making business. Principal Phillips
of the Sentous-street School, Principal
Capell of the Union-avenue School and
Principal Emory of the Eighth-street
School have aT made sworn statements as
to Building Superintendent Axteil\-> en
deavors to assess them to secure their re
tention as teachers. For some time past
there have oeen intimations that the
School .Directors were handling the public
business in a very loose way, but not until
to-day did the intimations take positive
form. The Grand Jury is in session and a
lose investigation is being made. Some
twenty witnesses were examined this
afternoon touching the alleged assessment
levied by Axtell, whom, it is claimed,
acted as place broker for a combine of the
directors.
School Director Charles Cassat Davis
was seen by a Call representative to
night, and asked about the revelations
that had been made. Ho absolutely de
clined to discuss the matter at all.
School Director Walter L. Webb, when
seen, said that he could not believe the
stories that nad been made public as to
Axtell's collecting money from the teach
ers und other employe* of lh- School De
partment. He said Axtell had a. ways
borne a good reputation and had never
taken any pronounced part in politics.
Until the charge was positively proved,
Director Webb said he would regard Ax
tell as an innocent m n. .
Janitor Cooper had a misunderstanding
witn Superintendent Axtell and was
about to be removed, but his affidavit is
re-enforc d by that of seven school
teachers.
A number of these teachers were seen,
out they declined to be. interviewed.
They admitted that they had testified
before the Grand Jury in regard to the
matter, but further than this they wouid
not talk.
The exposures made have created a
sensation, as in two weeks a bond election
is to be held, when the question will be
decided as to whether the city shall issue
bonds to the amount of $339,000 with
which to erect new school-houses. If the
bonds are voted die School Director-;
would have the exclusive disposition of
this money. The developments as to the
SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1897.
selling of places in the department will
materially affect tne result of the bond
election.
Wedding nt the Anijel City.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18.— Miss Mary
Hollister Banning, daughter of Mrs. Mary
Hollister Banning and the late General
Phineas Banning, was married to Will
Wakeman Norris at St. Paul's Episcopal
Church, at high noon to-day. The cere
mony was performed by Rev. John Gray,
D }'.. rector of S:. Paul's.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
Jo Weather forecast for San Fran- 3
g cisco: Friday cloudy, with fogs °]
V, in the morning; fresh southwest- 3
p erly winds. 3
U EI RSI PAGE. 3
jo Bear in Good Condition. _)
E Corruption at Los Angeles. <"*j
jo Truckee Wrecked at Coos Bay. 3
P San Jcse's Big Scandal. 3
£ SECOND PAGE. 3
P Football P. avers Ready. <"-<
So Pugilist ("riffo Badly Hurt. 3
£ THIRD PAGE. 3
Jo ' Dixon's Poisoning Mystery. 3
H» Coach Rolls Into the River. * ' 3
£ Will Make Gold in Public. °J
Jo Secretary Bliss' Report. . 3
£ Weyler Has Reached Spain. - °<
£ FOURTH PAGE. 3
iP E wood Cooper on Olive Oil.' «*"«!
Jo- Was Dreyfus Blackmailed? 3
P Guinan Will Stay Free. 3
£ FIFTH PAGE. 3
g The Baseball World. 3
Jo Judge de Haven, Eievalor-Boy. 3
p Paulists Want Dens Removed. 2
C Searchlights for Suicides. °j
p SIXTH PAGE. 3
i, Editorial. 3
>o The Parting of the Ways. 3
g Non-Par;isan Freeholders. 3
U Junketing Prison Wardens. 3
p Congress and Diplomacy. o<
£ Our Mayor from Oakland. °J
C A Typical Saffron "Scoop." 3
jp The New Buoy Light. 3
U Personals and Q leries. °j
g SEVENTH PAGE. tf
U An Exhibition of Dolls. °\
Jo S:orm*Driven Vessels Outside. 3
P Hunting for Baden Robbers. g
Jo The Stale's Golden Jubilee. 3
p Charges Against Jerome. °(
S EIGHTH PAGE. 3
p Commercial Intelligence. 3
£ NINTH PAGE. 3
g News From Across the Bay. °\
£ TENTH PAGE. 3
g Races at Oakland. °\
Jo ELEVENTH PAGE. 3
P Births, Marriaces and Deaths. 3
£ TWELFTH PAGE., ?_ 3
P Sharkey Won the Fight. , .°\
£ Rottanzi Unearths a Scandal. - %
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STRANDED AT
THE MOUTH OF
UMPQUA RIVER
Homeward Bound From . Tillamook, the
Steamer Truckee Is Lodged on
the North Spit by Wind
and Wave*
MARSHFIELD, On., Nov. 18.— News
has reached here that the steamer
Truckee, bound from Tillamook to San
Francisco, lumber liden, stranded this
morning on the Nortii Spit of the Umpqua
River.
G. W. Freeman, superintendent of the
thirteenth lirhthou«e district, who was a
passenger on the s.age down the beach
from the Umpqua this afternoon, says
that about 5 o'clock this morning the
keeper of the Umpqaa light heard a dis
tress whistle, but on account of darkness
was unable to distinguish anything. At
daylight the Truckee was in sight,
headed south, evidently disabled.
It was blowing hard from the southwest
and the Umpqua bar was breaking Ciear
across and was nothiag but a white strip.
A 7 o'clock the captain hoisted his fl ig
and headed for the bar. The steamer
passed through the oater line of breakers
successfully. The captain, trying to hold
her in the channel, hoisted his pennant,
but the wind was too strong and it was
carried way. The square sail was also
hoisted and was immediately carried
overboard, throwing the vessel on the ex
treme end of the North Spit. All this
time the crew was throwing cargo over
board. .
The Umpqua life-saving crew was
promptly on hand and made three unsuc
cessful attempts to reach the steamer. '
When Mr. Freeman left the scene at
10:30, there bad been no communication
with the Truckee, and she was apparently
resting easy, with her head inshore and
her stern to the wind. The sea was very
rough and was breaking all around the
steamer, but did not appear to be break
ing over her.
The Truckee went on at high tide this
morning, but as the evening tides are the
1 heaviest, it may be possible that if she
j did not go to pieces to-day, after dis
', charging her deckload of lumber, she may
jbe force lin over the bar. News regard
j ing the wreck is very meager, and there
' will be no more- information from there
! before to-morrow evening.
The Umjqua River is twenty miles up
the coa3t and has no wire communica
tion.
The stagedriver says that he has never
experienced such a s'.orm on the beach as
that, of to-day.
The Truckee has a . register of 342 tons
and i-i owned by the Truckee Lumber
Company of San Franci-co.
TRACK Or THE STORM.
Heavy Rain and Big Winds Along
tne Oregon and Washing
ton Coast.
Special Dispatch to The Call.'
PORTLAND, Nov. 18 —For : the past
twenty-four hours a. furious win and
rain storm has prevailed over the entire
North Pacific Coast. The wind: to-day
reached a velocity of fifty miles per hour
and the rainfall for twenty-four hours has
been about three and a half -inches. The
weather has been warm, which has melted
| the snow in the foothills, causing a rapid
| rise in the streams. Tae storm played
havoc with trees, billboards, awnings,
si_ns and electric wires in the city to-day,
and the telephone and electric servica was
seriously interrupted.
A message from Yaquina Bay says a
heavy storm is raging there. The cus
tom-house was blown down and the rec
ords of the office lost in the bay. The
telephone wires are prostrated and consid
erable damage has been done to small
craft on the bay.
SEATTLE. Nov. 18. A heavy wind and
rain storm has prevailed over the Paget
Sound region lor the past forty-eight
hours. Up to 6 o'clock to-night the rain
fall had exceeded four inches. Owing to
the crippled condition of the te'egraph
and telephone services, only meager re- j
ports have been received from adjacent :
points. The reports received indicate
that if there is not a sudden drop in tem
perature serious floods will result. The
White and Black rivers are rising rapidly,
and will soon be out of their bounds.
The Duwamisb, Snohomish, Skagit and
Stillaquamish are all raging torrents.
OLYMPIA. Nov. 18.— In the last three
days, ending at 4:30 o'clock this after
noon the rainfall was 5.3 inches; for the
last twenty-four hours ending at the same
time the fall was li 82 inches. This record
is very unu<ual. A landslide on the Port
Townsend Southern Railway at water
somewhat delayed trains to-day. No
damage is reported in this locality.
ASTORIA, Or., Nov. 18.— One of the
worst storms ever known has prevailed
lor iho last thirty-six hours. At the cape
last night and this morning the wind was
blowing at the rate of seventy-four to
eighty-four miles p r hour. The gale was
from the southwest and the mouth of the
river was obscured by a thick fog. The
storm increased in fury after midnight
i and reached a hurricane at 7 o'clock this
j morning. Little information can be ob
! tamed from North Beach, as the wire is
j down, but the steamer Ilwaco returned
and reported no great damage done there.
A man was a sleep on a wood scow which
drifted away from its moorings and has
not yet been found.
The Biitish ships K'.nrosshire and Nor
| ma dragged their anchors and were blown
onto the sands. About live miles of the
postal telegraph line is down.
The s earner State of California, which
j was due Tuesday from San Francisco, bas
not yet arrived. As no vessels have ar
| rived or departed since the storm com
: menced there is no anxiety as to her safe
ty. It is. believed that she has been .ff
i the month of the river for two days and
is simply waiting for the storm to sub-
I side.
TACOMA. Nov. —Chinook winds
and rains are playing havoc throughout
I Western Washington. Telegraph linea are
down in all directions, rivers and smiT
streams are swollen. rail oads are suffer
ing from washouts and flooded track".
The Government telegraph wires went
down between Port Angeles and Tatoosh,
Cape Flattery yesterday, and have not
been raised.
AIL, telecraph wires reaching from
Tacoma to Eastern Washington along the
line of the Northern Pacific went down near
Lester yesterday afternoon, but have been
raised again. The wires on the Grays
Harbor and the South Bend went down
yesterday. Trains are delayed by wash
outs on the branch lines.
STRIKING THE
HEAD CENTER
OF CORRUPTION
Effect of "The Call's" Fight
for Honesty at San
I Jose.
GANG THAT RULES THE CITY
HAS TURNED UGLY.
Superior Judge Lorigan Will Not Talk at
All Upon the Grave Charges That Have
Been Made Against Him by Mem
bers of the Grand Jury*
SAN JOSE, Nov 18. Judge
I. origan to-day ordered the
Grand Jury to appear before
him on Monday. It is) believed
that, this move I. made for the
purpose of ascertain ing who has
been dispensing the secret* of
that body.
SAN JOSE, Nov. IS.— every street
corner downtown, in every place where
men congregate, in the public offices, in
places of business and in the privacy, of
their homes the people of San Jose to-day
discussed the story of the sensational pro
ceedings that have characterized the ses
sions of the Grand Jury relative to charges
against the three Justices of the Peace of
Santa Clara County and the part played
by Judge Lorigan.
It was apparently a new sensation to the
local residents to see news of this char
acter told on tho basis of cold facts, with
out coloring and without favor or fear.
The expressions of the best class of peo
ple, represented by bankers, merchants
and men of means and standing in the
community, were ali of one tenor, and that
favorable to The Call. It is admitted in
sorrow, and also somewhat in trembling,
that San Jose occupies a unique and un
enviable position.
Its most substantial citizens acknowl
edge that it is probably the most ring
ridden, boss-ridden, bcodler-infe ted eny
of its size in the United Stales. Spas
modic and unsystematic attempts have
been made to break the power of the
"gang," as it is termed in the local idiom,
but without even a show of success. The
charges have usually been of the kind
known as "glittering generalities." No
specific offenses were brought to light and
no particular offenders were brought to
book.
It is the knowledge that these condi
tions have and do militate against the
best interests of the "Garden City that has
caused the citizens who are striving for
good government to give hearty welcome
to the entrance of The all into the fight
to free San Jose from the thrall of the
bosses and corrupiionisls. To-day there
are men of wealth and position, and pre
sumably of influence here, who, while
more than willing to see matters changed,
do not come into the open and announce
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE J. D. EEGGS*
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
themselves as being opposed to the ele
ments that now control the municipality
of San Jose and the county of Santa
Clara. They say it would be certain ruin
to their business interests. Crossing the
bosses had been tried before by individu
als who thought they were powerful and
wealthy enough to withstand the insidi
ous influences and lorces of the "gang,"
but in each case the brave spirit has been
sent into the street or driven from town.
This last is the baleful boast of the hench
men of the boss-in-chief, James W. Rea,
or, as he is better known in his habitat —
Jim Rea.
When it came to the knowledge of the
gang that the Grand Jury proceedings
were to be published in The Call, Johnnie
McKenzie, one of the State's Game War
dens, whose most onerous duty is to
draw his salary, approached one of the
representatives of The Call and intimated
broadly that a mistake would be made if
Judge Lorigan's connection with the
quashing of the indictment found against
Judge Dwyer was published.
"The gang," he said "has never been
a en out, ar.d The Call will make a
bud break if it jumps on the boys. We
never let up on a man when he jumps
the traces. As an instance, look at the
signs 0:1 the Ruckers' store." A view of
these signs show that they announce the
retirement of the Rucker brothers from
tbe furniture and carpet business in San
Jose.
Within fifteen minutes after the train
brought The Call to this city to-day the
news spread like wildfire of the characier
of the article on its front page, and despite
t..e large supply of extra papers that had
been received here by nightfall not a copy
was to be bad. Even the closest friends
of the men accused of corruption had no
word of complaint to utter as to the facts
set forth. Lorigan's position excited
nearly as much sympathy as indignation,
but the hi.'her sense of morality and jus
tice prevailed. It was held that, at all
hazards the purity of the bench must be
protected.
It is the undivided opinion that the
Grand Jury sadly and seriously failed to
perform its duty in not indicting all three
of the accused Justices of the Peace —
Dwyer, Herrington ' ana Beggs. It is
charged that in permitting these men to
escape trial for their self-confessed felo
nious actions the Grand Jury was com
pounding a felony; that its members had
no moral or legal right to make restitution