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trom Mr. Tarpey went to Mayor Phelan to-night and asked some plain questions. He desired particularly to know how Phelan's friends regarded him, and there fore queried: "How does the San Fran cisco delegation stand so far as I axn con cerned?" Mayor Phelan responded: "I have not delved Into the matter further than to ascertain that . the San Francisco dele gates favor White. Tarpey and myself. How it stands as regards Magulre and Ostrom I cannot say as I have not inter ested myself. some exciting sessions in the various Con. gressional district conventions to-morrow. In almost every district there are more than two candidates and as each seeker after the honor of representing his dis trict in the national convention has his own delegation behind him some interest- Ing doings are assured. First District. J. S. Sweet. Mayor of Santa Rosa, ia mentioned for delegate from the First Congressional District. Ex-Senator Fos ter of Tehama, J. Q. White of Mendo cino and Lewis of Sierra are also men tioned. At a late hour it was tacitly ad mitted that Messrs. Sweet and White would carry off the prizes. Second District. D. W. Carmlchael. the Sacramento bus iness man and prominent Democrat, who was selected to act as temporary secre tary of the convention. Is a leading can didate in the Second Congressional Dis trict for the position of delegate to the coming Democratic National Convention: It is practically conceded that Mr. Car michael will be chosen. That gentleman is so Imbued with a trip to Kansas City that he had made up his mind to go there whether he was selected or not. Ex-Con gressman A. Caminetti of Jackson, Ama dor County, has been mentioned as a fit member of the party to Journey to Kan sas City and cast a vote ior Bryan. Mr. Caminetti is too modest to make an open fight for the hor.or. He Is willing to ac cept It if it is handed to him. Attorney E. W. S. Wood of Stockton is also men- tloned as a candidate. At a late hour it was definitely settled that the latter would accompany Mr. Carmlchael to the National Convention. Third District- ;:'-'- : U- Robert M. Fitzgerald of Oakland and James A. Keys of Sulsun are almost cer tain to be chosen delegates to the Na tional Convention by the Third Corigres- sional District delegates. D. H. Arnold, chairman of the Colusa County delegation, will make a bid for the honor, as will also Mackey of Solano. . Fourth District. The only candidates in the Fourth Dis trict Congressional Convention are Curtis Hlllyer, a young and promising: lawyer of San Francisco, and Charles Edelman, at ono time a resident of Los Angele5, but now a wheelhorsejn the San Francisco Democracy. As these gentlemen will have no opposition they will be elected by ac clamation. Fifth District Jasper McDonald of San Francisco and J. H. Henry of San Jose will in all prob- aoility be the choice of the Fifth District Congressional Convention. They are the only candidate in the field and delegates of the district favor their election. Senator R. F. del Valle of Los Angeles and John McGonlglo of Ventura will un doubtedly be chosen delegates by the Sixth Congressional District Convention. Sixth District. ICo opposition has been offered the gentle men named ar.d none Is expected. Seventh District. There will be a very interesting strug gle In the Seventh Congressional District in electing delegates to the National Con vention. There are half "a dozen candi dates in the field and each candidate Is confident, that he has the backing of his delegation and bases his hope of victory on this fact. The election of William Mc- Fadden. chairman of the county com mittee of Orange, is looked upon as a cer tainty. Mr. McFadden, it is said, has been in the. field for some months and has ad vanced his interests so far that It Is al most Impossible for him to lose. E. II. Tucker of Fresno has many friends in the district and has hopes that, their united stand for him will result in his selection. Among the other candidates are George M. Cooley and T. J. Dofflemeyer of San Bernardino. ' Dr. J. B. . Renshaw of Daggett, San Bernardino County; P. J. Tallant of Kings County, H. E. Mills and Henry A. Jastro of Bakersfleld. The latter's fight is being handled by Attorney Louis Fulkerth. Jastro claims to have the entire Kern County delegation behind his fight. He is ambitious to represent his district in. the National Convention. Four years ago he was defeated by one vote for the honor by Church of Fresno. Alternates at Large. Sydney Van Wyck, an attorney of San Francisco; Hugo Hornlein, proprietor of the Cafe Royal, and Dr. Charles A. Clin ton of San Francisco are candidates for the positions of alternates at large to the convention which meets In Kansas City on July 4. INFORMATION FOR DELEGATES GIVEN OUT BY. MANN * _____ Where District Conventions Will Meet— Believes Democrats Will • Carry State. CALL HEADQUARTERS, " . SACRA MEN'TO, June 13.— The following advice and -views expressed by Seth Mann, chair man of the Democratic State Central Committee, will be of interest to* dele gates: "The Sacramento committee of arrangements, which has had In hand the preparations for the reception of the Democratic State Convention, is entitled to a great deal of credit for the thorough and careful manner in which it" has per formed its duties. The pavilion has b-»-n prepared in such a manner as to enable speakers to be heard throughout the hall; the seating of the delegations . has been very Intelligently arranged.. Places of meeting for the Congressional conven tions have also been get aside In various parts of the big building. Members ! of the First and Second Congressional dis tricts will hold sway to the 'left of the speaker's platform: the delegates of the Third District will meet in the anteroom which adjoins the entrance to the pavilion, and the Fourth,; Fifth and, Seventh dis tricts have been given separate places im- mediately behind the platform, while the Sixth will be directed to hold Its sessions in the main hall after an adjournment of the convention. "The credential and resolution commit tees may meet either in the pavilion, where rooms have been reserved for them, or at the Golden Eagle Hotel, as the committees may respectively decide. It ha3 been provided "and placards have been posted announcing that delegates, upon arrival in Sacramento, shall imme diately ' present their credentials to the secretary of the State Committee at its headquarters in the parlor of the Golden Eagle Hotel, and persons holding proxies are requested to pursue the same course. "The chairman of each delegation will be furnished with badges for his delega tion by the secretary of the State Com mittee. These badges will entitle the wearers to admission to the delegates' portion of the pavilion. The respective delegations, If they have not done so, should convene at once and select a chair man. "The convention will assemble at 10 a. m. on Thursday, June 14, at the Agricul tural Pavilion, corner of Fifteenth and M streets. It will be my pleasant duty to call the convention to order and the con vention, no doubt, will proceed with Its temporary organization, which will con sist of the selection of a temporary chair man and secretary and the appointment of a committee on credentials. To Instruct for Bryan. "It is expected that there will be a fairly large attendance at the conven tion. Reports received thus far lead me to believe that there will 500 or 600 dele gates present. . There seems to be no doubt that the convention, will Instruct Us delegates to vote ' ' for William J. Bryan as the candidate of the Demo cratic party for the Presidency of the United States, thus aligning itself with the column of States thus far heard from who have Quite generally adopted this resolution "of Instruction. The delegates are all enthusiastic and confident. There is a strong sentiment generally present favoring a' thorough system of organiza tion in all of the precincts of the State, and I believe that with , an « enthusiastic ' movement in the party toward an organ ization along, these lines that the State may be carried for the Democratic party at the coming election. TARPEY ASKS PHELAN v SOME PLAIN 1 QUESTIONS CALL HEADQUARTERS. SACRA MENTO, June 13.— M. F. Tarpey. appreci ates the fact that D. A. Ostrora's success cannot be * accomplished except by the turning down of one of the slated four. The slate candidates ; - for delegates-at large are: ¦.';-.; '. Stephen 1 "M. White, James G. '- Maguire, James D. Phelan ; and M. « F. Tarpey. • | In orderv to i assure himself ; that he was riot ¦ to ' be ¦ excluded i to make room • for Os- (Continued From Pag« Three.) DEMOCRATS PLAN TO INDORSE HEARST FOR VICE PRESIDENT. have lost no time In organizing them selves into a bureau. By common con sent ex-Governor Budd has been chosen chief of the bureau and literary censor. When the bureau was organized a seri cus diSiculty presented Itself. As the people of the State know, his Honor the Mayor has the Interesting faculty of saying nothing and saying it well. Ex- Judge Maguire has on more than one oc casion distinguished himself by saying something at the wrong time. How to reconcile these peculiarities and to bring from them something said at the right time was the problem presented to Cen sor Budd. He was therefore unmovable In the jtesition he adopted. With delicate courtesy he admitted the literary 4b lllt y of ex- Judge Magulre.; The people of California may have forgotten the fact that Magulre has won his spurs in the field of literature, but the experi ence will never be forgotten by Magulre. And the circle of protection has been drawn alro around his Honor the Mayor. The people of. San Francisco are still tingling over the Mayor's recent literary triumph. He has dipped into the pool of literary competition and the Phelan flag flaps to the people of San Francisco the serious fact of his victory. He is spurred to further emulation and to-night the censor has labored In earnest consulta tion with him. It Is understood that he has givefc his promise that under no con sideration will he accept a prize from the Yellow Kid and if he does not the citizens of the metropolis may be reasonably sure that no new official atrocity will be per petrated. 'V " w - Mayor Phelan needs no prize for his labors for the Yellow Kid. His Honor ha3 shared the sorrows and the sadness ot his saffron master. He has felt with the little Incorrigible the stings of defeat and It is no more than common justice thai without price or compensation he should help, with his pen, to punish the common enemies whom he and the Kid enjoy. So his Honor will write for glory and tell the friends of the Kid what the Democratic convention was not. And his Honor feels already the se riousness of his responsibility. He stood to-night in the lobby of the Golden Eagle Hotel burled In profound thought. He seemed not to hear the personal things which the southern delegates were saving of him. He seemed unconscious to tne murmur of antagonism that needs only an organizer to make his Honor write a most peculiar story of the convention. He was burled In the thought heap which he will deliver to the Yellow Kid. And while the Kid is waiting for the glittering thoughts of his commissioners extraordinary another difficulty has pre sented Itself. His Honor the Mayor wants to talk to the convention. So does ex-Governor Budd. and Magulre would rather be politically dead than dumb. All want to talk and all are firmly convinced that it would be political suicide to permit any members of the bureau to report what the others have said. The difficulty Is a serious one and It has been suggested that a Scotch verdict would be better than none and that Gavin McXab, friend and councilor of the bu reau, should be deputised to report every thing which has a personal meaning to the Kid's commissioners. Whatever the decision may be the fact remains the .commissioners of the Tellow Kid constitute to-night the center of at traction. They have overshadowed the Issues of the convention, have absorbed the Interest of the delegates and have in tneir hands the power to pose in plati tudes before their envious friends. SCHEME TO DEPRIVE SYLVA OF HIS SEAT Fight "Will Be Made On His Indict ment for Perjury by the Grand Jury. , CALL. -HEADQUARTERS, SACRA MENTO. June- 13.— There Is a scheme un der way. to deprive Adolph Sylva of Sau- «=a.::o or his ri^ht to participate in the convention which convenes to-morrow. A number of "holier than thou" Democrat.-* of San Francisco have raised their hands in horror at the idea of allowing Sylva to seat him?elf arnor.g representative Demo crats. They point to the fact that Mr. Sylva was Indicted far perjury by the Grand Jury of the city ar.d county of San Francisco and ia therefore "unclean." The scheme, as it developed late to night, is to have the chairman appoint a member of the Marin County delegation on the committee on credentials and ths member so appointed will be called upon by the good Democrats of San Francisco to throw Sylva down. The plan may suc ceed. a3 there are a number of prominent politicians in the scheme. Sylva has not as yet appeared on the scene, but it is mere than probable that when he learns of the attempt to do him Injury he will search out the perpetrators and wreak summary venjreance. Sylva was elected to represent hi3 town at the local convention and will therefore insist that he has a legal right to participate in the business of that august bcly. LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. AKKIVED. Wednesday. June 13. Btrr.T John S KIrr.ba!!. Thw!n*. 4^ days frota Everett. In tour of tu& Sea I. Ion. Strnr Crescent City, j-tockfleth, from Crescent S \ILF*Ti Wednesday. June 13. Stmr Maripo*a. Hcudlette. Hcnclulv and Syd ney. DO3JKSTIC POP.T. SOfTH BEND— Sailed June 13— Star RlvaL for San Franc: 3co. YELLOW KID'S COMMISSIONERS EXTRAORDINARY CALL HEADQUARTERS. SACRA MENTO. June 13.— This city is again the scene of convention excitement. The Democrats of the State are here and the streets and hotel corridors are noisy with their chatter ajid political gossip." Empty as is the honor for which the factions are striving, the contest is nftne the less Interesting, and here and there groups of gesticulating, enthusiastic partisans are gathered, to indulge that prerogative of Democracy— the privilege of denouncing itself to its friends. ] While candidates are assembling their supporters and laboring for the victory that will send them to the national convention, while representatives of the sectionalism which inevitably pre sents itself at every Democratic conven tion are clamoring for- recognition, some thing definite is emerging from the chaos of preparation and three figures are as suming prominence which probably will give Individuality to the - entire conven tion. These figures are not unknown to .political fame. in California. One is his Honor James D. Phelan. the Mayor of San Francisco. ¦ The second is James H. Budd,- ex-Governor, of California, and the third is James G. Magulre, ex-Congress man, ex-Jurist and literary dilettante. Al ready they have been dubbed "the three Jimmies, the commissioners extraordinary from the Yellow Kid of San Francisco journalism to the convention." They are here to tell what they think and possibly what they see- of the Democratic State Convention. All of them have occupied positions of prominence in the Democracy of the State, but never before have they constituted a literary bureau as unique as it is unparalleled... \ To-night they are the center of political attraction. All eyes are turned upon, them and • all thoughts are focused upon them. The destiny of the convention is at the point of . their . pens and. weighted as they are with their serious responsibility, they » , Wn A jiamflgMMHiaafflBtegiSariE.' * . i.«:- v r-~^^Tw.. STATE EXECUTIVE'S FINDINGS. SAN" FRANCISCO, June 13, 19OO. His Excellency John Hay, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. 2 SlH: In reply to your tcU-irrnm of date. 3Iay 31, I have the honor to reports *j - FIRST That no cane In San Francisco or California has been dlnpnoseil an bubonic plague g by any attending physician while the victim was alive, nor by the attending: physician after death, q In some of the suspected cases death has occurred when no regular physician wos In attendance, f There have been in nil only eleven suspected cases among: a population of 33,000 Chinese (15,000 of 'A nhom are qunrniitinod). and no cases amoiiK wliitcn and other races. The examinations made after », death of the bodies of the suspected cases since the alleged discovery of the disease more than three C months oro fail to furnish satisfactory proof of plague. " ""1 SECOND That the quarantined district contains upward of 15,000 Chinese subjects, •• 33 OO of § whom are anable to nupport themselves I»> virtue of the quarantine. £ THIRD— That full and fair investigation has been denied the physicians of the Chinese by the 4 city Doard of Health. V FOURTH — That the Chinese were forced to appeal to the courts, and then -were accorded the "£ right of Investigation into the canne of death of the dead sunpects. .*, FIFTH— That since the procurement of the order of'court, granting privilege to the white puy- C siclans of the quarantined Chinese to visit the sick and be present and take part in autopsies had, 4/ neither the cit>- Board of Health nor Federal oillcers have been able to discover any bubonic plague *£ case, dead or alive. / jjj MXTH — That there has been no epidemic in Chinatown. *r SEVENTH — That the municipal records show the proportion of deaths in Chinatown has been 0 no greater than that of any other portion of San Francisco since the date of the discovery of the ol- g lrged plague In Chinatown. ' "\ '.!; 4 EIGHTH — That I cannot find proof the plague alleged to be here is either Infectious or con- q tagious. I lind no proof that any person has contracted It from another) and I further llnd that *r certain individuals who have been repeatedly exposed at autopsies and elsewhere to the alleged (f plague, and others who have moved about in the houses and rooms where the inspects expired, liav- 2 ing done so without taking any precaution whatever against the supposed maludy, have neither .» contracted the same nor spread the disease elsewhere. C XIXTH — That no two persons of the same family have contracted the disease, and that no two *• cases have occurred within the same house or building, no matter how great the exposure may have V been. 0 TENTH — That the medical gentlemen and experts of the city Board of Health and the Federal 4 quarantine officers who have ventured the Injurious opinions which have spread broadcast over C the world the rumor of the existence of the dreadful plague in the great and healthful city of San S Francisco have never seen a living case of plague; whereas, some among the physicians, surgeons •£ and scientists with whom I have advised have had personal experience and wide opportunities in <J observing- the bubonic plague when it was raging in India and elsewhere, and they all pronounce the *£ suspected cases here not bubonic plague. A ELEVENTH — From the best light I have been able to procure, nnd from a most careful con- g ¦ideratlon of the whole subject, I am'plcaied to Inform your Excellency that I firmly believe no case \ of bubonic plague has at any time existed within the borders of our State. ~ TWELFTH — That if the cases referred to were genuine plague, even then the Quarantine, a* 3 conducted by the city Doard of Health, in conjunction with the Federal quarantine officer, is dls- 4 criminating- against the Chinese nnd also unreasonable according to information derived from the C highest authority here obtainable. !t THIRTEENTH — It Is nndetermlned by the court whether the injunction referred to has been *J violated. c FOl'RTEEXTU — Since the report to your Excellency Involves, among other things, the question. 4 whether there is plague in Chinatown, and also vitally touches the commercial and other interests C of San Francisco, as well as deeply concerns the welfare of the entire State, I have deemed It my A duty to call into consultation distinguished physicians, surgeons and bacteriologists, able llnanciers jt and business men and others, as well as my eminent predecessor in office, the Hon. James H. Budd, £ some of whose names are, therefore, in concurrence hereto attached. 4 HE.VRY T. GAGE. <• — i We concur In the foregoing conclusion that bubonic plagne does not exist and has not existed 4 within the State of California. C. PHYSICIANS OF THE REGULAR PHYSICIANS OF THE H0ME0- ROBERT J. TOBI.V, Hibernla Sav-3 SCHOOL. . l'ATH'.C SCHOOL. . ings and Loan Society. 4 L. C. LANE, President Cooper Sled- Edwin S. BREY'FOGLE, 31. D. ADAM GRANT, of Murphy, Grantg leal College. — & Co. 4 C. N. ELLINWOOD, 31. D., Proles- BANKERS, MERCHANTS, ETC. LEWIS GERSTLE, President Alas-* ¦ or Cooper 3Iedical College. LEVI STRAISS, President of Levi kn Commercial Company. WINSLOW ANDERSON*. 31. D., 31. Strauss &. Co. ISAIAS "\V. HELLMAN, President! It. C. P., Lond.; 31. R. C. S., .Eng.; JAMES II. BUDD, Former Governor Nevada National Bank. g President College of Physicians of California. HENRY K. FORT3IAXX. President^ and Surgeons of San Fran- "WILLIAM ALVORD, President of Alaska Packers' Association. € Cisco. Bank of California. A. B. SPRECKELS. £ THE bubonic plague fake received a knockout L!otr lost night when Gov ernor Gage. In reply to the official note of inquiry received from Secre tary of State Hay on May 31, telegraphed to Washington that he has made a thor ough Investigation of all reports concem ir.e plague cases in this city and has ar rived a.t the conclusion that the bubonic plague does not now exist ar.d never has existed in this city. The Governor's re port Is indorsed by four physicians of un questioned standing in the "medical world and by nine leading business men. all of whom assisted him in his exhaustive In vestigations, acting, at his request, as a sort of ad\-isory cotamlttee. When Governor Ga^e received Secre tary Hay's rote of inquiry he came at ence to this city to inform himself thor oughly on the situation. He found that the State Board of Health had accepted the reports of the local board as true and ¦was about to officially notify the world that they pave full credence to the re j>orts. ignoring the State's executive in Thr- matter altogether. The Governor put a step to the whole bncSaeMi and toM the members of the board very plainly that unless they could show him from their own official investi gations that the plague did exist here he •wcuM not countenance the expenditure of State funds. The Governor then called to his aid the men who have signed his official report and commenced a most thorough and pair:stiik:::sr inv<?st!??at!cn, that has re <;-:r'.G two weeks of hard work. His con clusions are stt forth ia terms that can :. : be mistaken and the effect of his re port Trill be to convince the world that Saa Francisco is free from the plague, as it has always been. The hearing of the injunction sued out in the United States Circuit Court by" svme of the quarantined Chinese against the ?an FrJir.cisco Beard of Health to lift the fake quarantine progressed far enough ytsterday to convince all who lis t«T,*-d to the proceedings that the court •will hardly fail to grant the injunction. Tr.:- board's attorney. J. J. Dunne, was forced to admit in open court that dis <_r:rr.:na.tion had been shown against Chi- Dcae in the quarantine district, which is one of the principal points upon which the injunction suit is based. Attorney James G. ilag"uire presented the case of the Chinese in an ab-e argument that was not concluded before the hour cf adjourn ment arrived. A decision is confidently expected to-day. De Haven Sits With Morrow. The -whole of yesterday was consumed In the United States Circuit Court in the presentation cf the Quarantine case and the discussions cf the Issues involved. United States District Judge de Haven occupied the bench with Circuit Judge Morrow for the purpose of consultation tr.d decision. There was a great array of attorneys, J. C. Campbell. James G. Maguire. Sam- TJ€l M. Shcrtrlcre. John E. Eennett. Rob- ! ert Ferrai and Thomas Keough appear ing for the Chinese and Joseph Dunne for the City Board of Health. There were al po present as spectators Thomas D. Rior can and Lyrnan I. llowry. attorneys rened in treaty and constitutional law; Chinese Consul Ho Yow and Wong Wai, s-cretary of the Six Companies: two score « '"-.riEtian missionaries, mostly women. ; £".d Bbout one hundred Chinese. Among | • e talent at the reporters' table was S";r Poon Chew, editorial manager of the C-i-ese daily piper. Chung Sai Yat Po. The minutes cf the Board of Health ¦with reference to the refusal of the board to admit to the quarantined district Dr. Pil'.sbury and other physicians engaged by the Chinese were brought into court. Mr. Bes&ett requested the court to make an order admitting the excluded physicians to be present at autopsies. Judge Mor row replied that whenever such a case of refnsal should arise he would make such £.n order. Discrimination Is Denied. Mr Du^ne then took Mp the return of fie Board cf Health to the order to show ca-«e Vmong his contentions were that Officially Reports to Secretary Ha3' That the Scourge Does Not Exist in the State of California. could have said that those casea had oc curred within the limits of the city and county of San Francisco or within the limits of the State of California, and would have had equal right to quaran tine the whole city or the State. Some thing more than the belief of the health authorities, sometimes more specific as to locality and other facts, should be set forth before this tremendous power is conferred. Authorities Are Bead. ! Authorities were read to show that the fact must be established that the quar antined person had been infected with the disease. or exposed to Infection. ,If the board bad isolated the houses In which the, deaths had Occurred and had placed the residents of those houses under quar antine it would have acted strictly within its powers and the exercise of reasonable discretion. On the contrary, the measures adopted were unreasonable; no provision was made to protect the health or lives of the Asiatics in the district and they were prevented from leaving the crowded and unsanitary environment of that -part of the city, so that if there should be a plague it might sweep down hundreds and thousands of the residents of the Chinese quarter, j No community had a right, argued the counsel, to shut up thousands of people In an unhealthy and Infected district. The Chinese here were entitled to th» equal protection of the laws and they should not be compelled to remain in an infected quarter to mingle with infected persons. „ Here an adjournment was taken until 10 o'clock this morning. Chinese May Make Trouble. The Chinese are "resting on their arms.' to use the expression of a Board of Health employe who spent yesterday in the quar antined district. They are awaiting. Im patiently but quietly, the decision of the United States Circuit Court before they take any further action. If It goes against them It is predicted by the men who are in Chinatown every day that serious trouble will follow. The Chinese are all armed, and if they ever commence rioting In earnest bloodshed will surely result. They are only restrained now because they have great confidence in the abllity of their attorneys to break down the quarantine lines. All depends on the out come of the case now in court. The quarantine is becoming daily more lax and the stream of people who come and go through the lines on permits from the Board of Health has Increased until It has become almost continuous. Even the people who possess permits make light of the whole situation. "Do vou suppose." said an elderly man yesterdav. as he slipped under the ropes. "that I v/ould go into Chinatown every day and remain there all day long. return- Ing at night to ray family in Alameda, If I thought for a minute that there was the slightest danger? Why. there are plenty Just like me who would not go there If there was any plague." The citizens' relief committee held a meeting at the Board of Trade rooms yes terday afternoon and decided to expend $3000 "more if necessary to continue the cleansing- of Chinatown and In providing food for the Indigent Chinese who are unable, because of the quarantine, to get outside and make a living. The commit tee is now paying out between $500 and $600 per day and Is making provision to continue the work for another ten or twelve days, although a strong feeling pervaded the committee room yesterday that the decision of the Federal court will relieve them from the burden very speedily. Cars "Will Run To-Day. Employes of the Sacramento and Wash ington street lines of the Market Street Railway Company received notice from the headquarters of the company last night to be on hand and ready to operate cars a? usual to-day. This Is taken as an indication that word has been passed along the line from some official source that the quarantine wlli be lifted to-day, sufficiently, at least, to enable the trans portation lines running: through the fenced-ln district to resume operations. ' The Sacramento and Jackson street lines have been shut <5own ever since the quarantine has been on. and there has been a lot of suffering among employes of the company in consequence. Mo notice has yet been given as to when traffic will be resumed, but the order given to the men last night seems to be an indication that cars will be moving to-day. Lawyer for the Health Board Admits in Court the Charge of Discrimination Against the Chi- "NO PLAGUE," SAYS GOVERNOR GAGE THE SAX FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUXE 14, 1900. MEN WHO HOPE TO GO TO KANSAS CITY expects to be heartily supported by ail the northern delegations. CALL, HE,tf>QUAP.TERS. SACRA MENTO. Jur.e 13.— Everything points to 5 the court had no Jurisdiction; that the matter was without equity, and that for the evils and injuries wnlch the petition er Jew Ho Is alleged to have suffered there is adequate remedy In an action at law. The counsel read from the city charter to set up the powers of the City Board of Health and argued that the board had not gone beyond those powers. Discrimination against persons or races was denied, and the past existence of the bubonic plague in the Chinese quarter was affirmed. He contended further that the germs of that disease linger and live for a long time after escaping from the animal body, and that the present system of quarantine was a necessity. Mr. Maguire began his argument on be half of the petitioner t>y denouncing the action of the board as an attempt to ex ercise the most extraordinary power ever known under a free government. It sus pended al! political rights, and where such tremendous arbitrary power Is sought to be exercised a very complete showing of that power ought to be made. He fur ther contended that the Board of Health Is not enforcing the ordinance of the Board of Supervisors throughout all the area of the quarantined district as de fined in the ordinance. He averred that The houses on the north side of California street the west side of Kearny street, the Eouthwest line of Montgomery ave nue, between Kearny and Broadway and some houses on the east line of Stockton «=treet between California and Broadway. had been by the board exempted from quarantine solely because they were in habited by white people. If that district is quarantined It must be because it is necessary to be quarantined to prevent a great danger to the people of this city. The board, he argued, was discriminating against the Chinese exclusively, and there was no reason, either In law or medicine, why these houses occupied by white peo ple should have been exempted from the rigors of the quarantine. Denies Existence of Epidemic. The speaker next adverted to the fact that the nine houses in which It was al leged that persons died of the plague had not been Isolated and quarantined. No showing had been made, he argued, tha't the bubonic plague was either contagious or epidemic. The court could not* be ex pected to look beyond the pleadings Into books of medicine or history, and he as serted that the authorities showed that under certain conditions the bubonic plague was simply sporadic and not epi demic, and that that was the case In San Francisco. The long string of denials In the an swer were next taken up by the speaker, and when he asked why the board had denied having restrained and imprisoned the petitioner within the boundaries of the quarantined district, Mr. Dunne re plied that although he admitted the phy sical fact of the detention of . the peti tioner, such was not confinement or im- prisonment or the deprivation of any I right under the police powers of the Mr. Maguire retorted by saying that Mr. Dunnes philosophy was exceedingly subtle, a legal fiction and an evasion of the obligation to respect the rights of the individual. The fact that the Board of Health did not quarantine within the district was a virtual admission on the part of the board that it was acting without reason. If it believed that there was bubonic plague within the district It committed a great wrong upon the ten or twenty thousand Chinese in the district by al- ! lowing, persons who had been in infected buildings to mingle with the population. Board's Powers Questioned. Mr. Maguire contended that Instead of legislating upon the plague question- the Supervisors had delegated Its powers to the Board of Health, and that such dele gation of power was not legal or per missible, and was therefore null and void. The speaker argued that the ordinance of the Supervisors adopted on June 2 had not been legally adopted and was there fore void. The court had not been advised In the answer as to the exact locality in which the cases of alleged bubonic plague had been found beyond the statement that they had been encountered within the dis trict- quarantined. With equal truth, pro ceeded Mr. Magulre, the Board of Health HEALD'S BUSINESS COLLEGE, 24 POST STREET, San Francisco, Established over a third of a century: has a national reputation, and was one of the few schools selected to represent the development of commercial education at the Part* Exposi- tion; over 1Z.00O irraduat-s successfully apply- ing their knowledge: ;¦"> graduates annually placed In positions; 25 teachers: open the entire year: new W-page catalogue free. Hitchcock School, SAN PAFAEL, CAL.. FOR Y0Ui\G MEN ANO BOYS. Separate Roctna. Gymnasium. Military Drill. Etc. CHRISTMAS TERM BEGINS ACGtTST UTH. REV. C. HITCHCOCK. Principal. 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I wBIlm Last neek of 1hB I I ffmmm LHwm Overstock Sale of * I f ililiiR Men ' s suits - \ SMl/lHffii $ \lffivfc§iv\ Until closing timo next Satur- •? a I Kla-lvilw's ' MVvwCX w^Ja day night you can buy ono \g _C il tim-Wlf fl<W m NVVv^?""*}^ of oun "atty, uu - to - cfato ¦* £ \[\\WMn$B> \'W^mr//A S^.5O or $15.00 Single *}-_ * H\\\\ViSffili fl wW/W///l Breas ted Summon Sack * *: mw?rmfc 1 S?y^w Suiis fon NINE ""f^y-fivr. .% ** vvYr IriNw w^fi^ TXyW_f Two weeb a S° we fonnd ?°° m3n 7 °* the3a •* * Y# P I'M ( iff ill PisX5^l suits on hand, and to qaickly nore the iur- .< $ izii 1 ! i'iiv 'If I l/B^tM p '" stock rat the P riC3 t0 $9*95' % *" ilk f/v ill HI { IP) « liJltvwi There are 20 styles and colorings — 3-r*es, jr * *Vk 'if' It' ¦ W'JWiiB' Cas-imeres and Cheviot. The patterns X K x • !' il I i /in!//] J d and color effect3 are ia the preT32iajr fash- j{ _£ !> : I'f'i A I I f'li/l' \ -*«* ion, and the suits are 6tyli_hly cat and "<t * [)( (-7 i ¦M I}] I 9 well made. ' ' .« J- m ij Hi I ( ]1 At the regular prices, $12.50 and $15.00, ** } 11 j If'' I'// _^^w they were cheap enough. Ono of tha Big I 1 ! £ i }/ fj £. 1/ £3 Igk Score's bjs- dothin? bar- tfQ Q j- -* i J- l{ n I U j ft I egj jggk gains at thi* week'3 fisrare... vw*ww fc' '• IV I iVl I Secocd Aisle— RlgSt cf Entrance. Jg £ 'j' ' iij 7 A ' Wf Boys' Long Pants Suits $4.95 ;5 j j»* iij H,'fjJ f — sizes for 13 to 19 years of age, regular «J * In I j|' J J6 and $7.50 sai:3, nade of ali-wooi cia- *J J» |j I j ft !l /*^^"^ terla's ia neat dark patteirs, new goods, "«c V t 'I I! Ql _^"^s. f— stylishly cut and extra well made, coat the .V ** (( {jj / / i Jij y «*_-^ _^^S round comer sack style; the very spidil \ X Iflij I'M FrtJap and SiturJj?. &**mitO .% *¦ j; ; Children's Sailor Suits $2.95 £ J ' 1 00 JMi — siz.s for ages 3 to 10 years, regular Jt it ' e > f|;| =? -^ $3.95 suits, made cf dark all-wool blua -* «£ / III! ll'm -^ r ~*^^' cheviot, handsomely trl__m9d ia contrast- \f > frj£Ljj__f«--5s: (M 1 gL F g____J- r icg colors, full-cut b ciises. re-enforced Jf & > <-§ffE^'"^'' %'\£^ =r ~ pants, • perfect fitting; s?!:ijl pr:;i for -J X^&T m - i djvS-ThursJjj;, Friday C o Off I ft V^ and Saturdjv &-C«£7«> $ V Second Aisle— Right at Eatrance. ,** | f jt; A Three Days' Saie jfr :5 || Men's Sample Shoes. \ifi\ :5 ! *£ Ja.3t 171 pairs ia this lot— men*3 sample frjia the j 'J£> I ** 1 K manufactory of Buckingham & Hechs— calf, tan calf, box g^J/o \ % J 1 calf, vici kid and kangaroo — lace and congress styles— all GS-Ci^v vi •* 4f etyles, toes and tips — sizas 7, 7J and S— shoe, that retail g^Nk^i^j 5 i J* v^^.;,^^;' 1 ' '^^NTnursday, Friday and /^&*-^\s^^/ ** % Kij<£*Q\p ; v \vj only iC h | %^^'lv Balbriggsn Underwear 42c % •r v^w\vl\ f ' i°^ er k a< * three ea«es of good balbriggaa underwear <2 ft \v^\i-Si§$x\i * or mea ' w^' c^ hj.wis very anxious to di_po3d of ft *£ before the close of the seaion. The underwear ia ours ,J it* \\X^^\ x^vvv Tk0Vf ' at a 8ac " 5ce P" C9 — yosrj ti-dj? only if yon »J» % *\S \ x >^\ \?^N- w '" k aTa it— ecru, b;U5 or helictropa combinations — '^ * vl\ shirts and drawers -porgariwonf _fflO*%' '• %t v v S\ * 1* It \y Third Aisle— Right cf Entranc* ,<f ** S i earners. BP?T - - Jt**? «* Man. -J £ Special this OokSenRnle Bazaar. Newest biorb.. -S X week 25O CAUFOR.NWS lARQEST-A.nERICA-5 GRANDEST STORE. &3.5Q %