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MOORE FLINGS
SLURS IN PLEA
FOR CALHOUN
His Argument for Entire Day Is
Rabid Attack on the
Prosecution
Questions Motives of All and
Hinges Defense on Flimsy
Technicalities
ARGUMENTS EMPHASIZED BY
A. A. MOORE IN HIS ADDRESS
That no evidence ha* been intro
duced by the prtweeullon show
ing; Ibe direct connection of the
tlefendanf with Tirey I-. Ford,
Abraham Ruef or any of the »u
pervlKorn.
That the tesiimouy of all the ia
perviNorx makt he diMregrarded
because they are admitted per-
JurerM and liccmrc contradic
tion* in their testimony dis
credit them completely.
That even if the payment «f
bribe money to Ferd P. Xlcholas
Is shown no case is established,
because the cbarcre is that an
offer of a bribe tvas made prior
to the payment.
That even if the jury believed
7200.000 Tras paid to Ruef It ix
reasonable, to surmise, that thi*
amount constituted a fee for
service* and nan Riven Tilth no
ilioujrht of bribery.
W. RUSSELL COLE
From morning until night the great
est crowd of spectators that has ever
been marshaled into Carpenters' hall
sine© it was converted Into a court
room listened yesterday to a continua
tion of A. A. Moore's appeal in behalf
of his client, Patrick Calhoun.
Crowded though it was from rail to
door, the courtroom was still too small
to accommodate more than a fraction of
the number of spectators who clamored
for admission. On the police detail
under Captain Glecson there devolved
a duty almost as strenuous in its per
formance as that assigned to the at
torney who stood within the bar and
fought out the final battle of the de- '
fendant before the jury which has his
fate in its keeping.
Before court convened after the noon
recess the crush about the entrance to
the building had assumed such propor
tions that the barrier was raised
against all but court officials and others
having some direct connection with
Hie case. More than half the crowd
that finally found its way into the
courtroom was composed of women,
l»ut scores of women were turned
away, as well as accredited members
of the bar, whose cards gained them
no ruoro consideration than a sharp
order to keep clear of the passage to
the doorway and not to obstruct the
side-walk.
POLICE CHECK CROWD
. Time after time mounted policemen
ruOe through the crowd, forcing it back
from the entrance and driving all ap
plicants for admittance to the opposite
side of the street. It took more than
a "pull" to pra:i) entrance to Judge
Lawlor's courtroom yesterday after- \
noon. It took a decided tug.
Within the strictly guarded portals
the scene was practically the same that
it has been since the closing argu
ments of the trial began. In the first
rows behind the rail, on the defend
ant's side of the room sat the latter's
wife and daughters i in the midst of
a group of society women, while two
of his sons occupied places near his
attorneys. Scattered through the
crowd were many women of the League
of Justice, and bt-neath each blue badge
"of the organization there was pinned a
small American flag.
Moore announced, when adjourn
ment was taken at 5 o'clock, that he
expected to finish his argument within
thcec-quartcrs of an hour this morning,
but experience has proved that a law
yer's conception of time is generally
c. most elastic thing, and so it is use
less to attempt "to predict the hour at
which Francis J. Heney will begin his
rebuttal argument in behalf of the
prosecution. Once yesterday, when
an interruption occurred. Moore made
a remark which caused Heney to ask
him if he was threatening to continue
forever, and the speaker responded
that he felt capable of doing that very
thing unless physical disability called
a. halt. .
TECHMCAI. ARGUMENT
In its final summing up. Moore's
argument turned, as every other argu
ment for a defendant in any of the
'y^raft cases has 'Jone, on a technical
1] lint, the essence of which might be
lEjmmed up in a few words: "Did
James L. Gallagher offer Ford P.
Nicholas a bribe in so many words,!
.and if he did was that'offer directly
authorized by the defendant?" The
Ravage sarcasm which characterized
Moore's opening remarks Tuesday aft
ernoon was not so apparent yesterday, i
The argument contained more of log
ical analysis of the evidence and less
of vituperative attack. Toward the
end of the afternoon the speaker be
came visibly tired. He made several
juisstatements in which lie was forced
to correct himself, and once called upon
liis son, Stanley Moore, to read a por
tion of a record for him, but then
changed his mind and read it himself.
In resuming his argument yesterday
morning. Moore said:
"Before court adjourned last even
•ing I was intending to discuss with
you the attempted sneer passed upon
u.s for not calling Mr. Ford to the
.stand. • I call your attention to the
fact that they could have called Gen
eral Ford to the stand, as they did Mr.
Abbott and Mr. Mullally, who also have
large numbers of indictments pending
against them. And if he had refused
to testify they could have forced him
to do so by dismissing the indict
ments against him, on two of which
he has already been acquitted. And
so could they have called Mr. Ruef to
the stand. It is in evidence here that
Ruef was for a long time in the'eamp
of the graft prosecution and his testi
mony was doubtless accessible to the ;
prosecution.
*^f aile 'the other side are throw
ing Vtones in that regard it might be
well for them to repair their own
glass houses. Why was not Ruef
called In on<- of the Ford trials? Was
it not because his testimony would
have proved unsatisfactory to them?
Was It not because they knew that;if
Sketches of A. A. Moore, Senior Counsel for Patrick Calhoun,
Making His Plea for the President of the United Railroads
he went upon the. .-stand, and told the
truth it would exonerate General Ford
and Mr. Calhoun? They had both ends
and in the person of Ruef they also
Aad the middle, yet they failed to
put Ruef on the stand when he was in
their camp at the time of at least one
Ford trial."
The speaker declared that in analyz
ing the testimony against Calhoun not
a line of direct evidence could be found
against him. for not once was it al
leged that he bribed any supervisor
personally, while the evidence failed
to show that he authorized any one
to offer a bribe. On the contrary, the
speaker averred, the defendant had
successfully stood off for months the
attacks of "at least 165 of Mr. Spreck
els' employes and myrmidons," who
had failed to discover him in any
wrongdoing, "though '.airing their eyes
at transoms, keyholes and cracks, and
laying every conceivable kind of a
trap."
Moore disposed of the testimony of
Director of the Mint Leach very briefly,
declaring that he only mentioned him
at all because he had spoken directly
of Calhoun. The testimony regarding
the deposit of $200,000 at the mint and
the withdrawal of the money after
| ward were matters, said the speaker,
i which could have no bearing on the
| issue at hand.
FLIXG AT PHELAX
"The next man who mentioned the
name of Mr. Calhoun in connection with
this subject matter was Mr. Phelan,"
declared Moore. "That is Mr. Phelan j
who, I believe, gave $10,000 to aid Mr.
Sprockets in his uplift of this city — an
act of generosity. And I hope that Mr.
Phelan's past life in this city was in
keeping with this magnanimous desire
to make this city a fitting place to be
adorned by his presence as a resident.
His mention v of Mr. Calhoun was sim
ply a passing one. Mr. Spreckels, of
whom I shall have more to say later,
was the next man to mention Mr. Cal
houn."
Moore also mentioned the discussion
between the defendant and Attorney
W. W. Sanderson in the presence of Abe
Ruef, in which Sanderson declared he
was asked to appear before the board
of supervisors to urge the passage of
the trolley permit, but was later told
by both Ruef and Calhoun that he
wouldn't be needed anyhow, as it was
all fixed. Moore characterized Sander
son, who was recently appointed by
Mayor Taylor to fill a vacancy In the
present board of supervisors, as "an ig
norant young man." His testimony, he
said, was immaterial. Far from being
an Incriminating circumstance against
the defendant, Moore said, such discus
sion was the most absolute proof of
the defendant's innocence because it
"redou-nded to his credit" and showed
him to be liberal and willing to discuss
affairs with anyone at any time.
HELMS IS SCORED
"The next witness who mentions Mr.
Calhoun at all Is Helms — generally
called 'Mr.' Helms here, so I'll call him
Mr. Helms. Mr. Helms has been a sol
dier of fortune and a soldier. Mr.
Korngold-ha3 also been a soldier. They
are both those kind of soldiers who
have served both sides at the same
time.
"They belong to this array of wit
nesses by whose testimony that of the
supervisors -is bolstered up by the"
doughty attorneys of the other side.
Helms simply testifies that he was em
ployed to follow the meek, smug Burns
and that when he fell off a motorcycle
the defendant told to gef an auto
mobile. The next witness who men
tions Mr. Calhoun at all is a man
named Scott. Scott was a double
dealer. I pause to say, gentlemen, that
the case carried on for the other side
by high minded gentlemen who would
not stoop to anything wrong, winds its
tortuous way by means of attemptad
trappings. To return, Scott testifies
that he was a party to a plot to tell a
story to Mr. Calhoun. Ho incubated the
story as a hen would an egg, and fin
ally it was hatched. Handlon, accord
ing to him, got up the story and. then
walked the streets with him,. tramping
his legs off to find a house to fit. I
hate to" discuss the testimony of such
a scoundrel as Scott, though they
haven't a. single witness that isn't
either a confessed scoundrel or a per
jurer. I won't make that Quite so
broad, for there were some witnesses
who testified about the money being at
the mint and such things, but I refer to
witnesses regarding material facts."
rORCKTS O\V.\ MEX
Moore neglected to eliminate from
his sweeping denunciation the score or
more of United Railroads officials, at
torneys and employes who have testi
fied in the case to the very matters
which Moore himself selected as "ma
terial facts." He next mentioned
Richard Cornelius of the carmen's
union and the substance of Cornelius'
testimony, carefully refraining, how
ever, from attacking Cornelius person
ally, but referring to the witness as
"no friend of Mr. Calhoun."
In addition to the witnesses named
Moore declared that the only other
witness called, who mentioned the
name of Calhoun at all was Treasurer
Starr of the company, who simply told
of being ordered by Calhoun to enter
a credit of $200,000 in the company's
books. And not one of these mentions
of Calhoun's name, averred the speaker,
proved or even faintly suggested the
defendant's guilt, •
Moore veered from his synopsis of
testimony to a tirade against James
I* Gallagher, whom , he character
ized 'as "more than a perjurer— an
informer," and he particularly de
plored the fact that any person of Irish
descent should be an informer, over
looking the fact that Gallagher is not
of Irish, but of German parentage.
"If the truth ever does come out
about the dealings of this board of
supervisors," he declaimed, "I think it
will be found that if any money ever
was paid to these supervisors from any
source it was extorted by this band un
der the leadership of Gallagher, who
aspired to be greater than his creator
Ruef.
"SO MOXEY PAID"
"But every circumstance goes to
prove conclusively that no money was
ever paid to this board by Patrick Cal
houn or any other official of the United
Railroads to secure this "permit or
anything else. Mind you, I make no
argument., that Patrick. Calhoun was
ever held up. Patrick Calhoun never
was held up, for nothingt shows i that
any money '.vras i paid.. But even had It
been paid Patrick Calhoun could not
be found guilty herei for" he "Is not
charged with giving a bribe. Ho is
charged with offering .a bribe." '
Moore took up the testimony of.Gal
mEvSAN.. ; FI&NCISCO^C^
lagher and Nicholas and attempted at
length to pick to pieces the story |of
the actual offer and payment of the
bribe money. He sought to 'show con
tradictions between the testimony
given by these witnesses in the pres
ent case and that given by them dur
ing tne former^graft trials, as well as
to show discrepancies in their, ac
counts of the same transactions. The
real essence of the whole argument,
if not the very cornerstone of the
foundation on which the entire struc
tuer of defense has been reared was
brought out strongly in Moore's con
tention that a fatal weakness existed
in the prosecution's case through fail
ure to prove that Gallagher ever made
an offer of a bribe to Nicholas prior to
the actual payment of the money.
RESTS CASE OX THIS . \u25a0
On this single point, Moore argued,
the ultimate verdict of the jury must
hinge. He did not deny that the. testi
mony of both Gallagher and Nicholas
in the present case was direct and un
equivocal upon this point, but he ar
gued that their failure to mention this
offer on certain former • occasions
proved them guilty of perjury in the
present Instance and stamped their tes
timony with the brand of untruth and
deliberate manufacture. Should the
slightest doubt remain in theminds of
the jurors as to whether a direct offer
was made by Gallagher to Nicholas in
so many words the whole case must
fall, he declared.
"If there has been no offer," declared
Moore in summing up this "branch of
argument, "there has been no crime.
And Mr. Nicholas comes to you as an
accredited perjurer to begin with, as
well as confessing himself to have
committed crime after crime. His af
fidavit In the Langdon suit convicts
him of perjury. And Gallagher's testi
mony is worth no more than is Nicho
las" testimony. Nicholas has contra
dicted himself. He has sworn both i
ways. lie has sworn that he had an
offer and he has sworn that he had not.
And in the first Ford trial he said he
could not remember exactly what Gal
lagher said.: God forbid that a man
should be put In stripes on such tcstl- I
mony as that!"
In dwelling upon this feature of ar
gument the speaker read copious ex
tracts from the record of the various
cases that have been tried, as well as
from the original confessions of the
supervisors given at the Gladstone
apartments and before the grand jury.
The substance of the testimony regard
ing the direct offer; of a bribe he de
nounced as pure fabrication and a mass
of untrue testimony. No credibility
could attach" to the testimony of any
of the supervisors", he said, because
of their perjury, their former crimes,
the contradictions in their testimony
and the fact that they were under Im
munity.
IMMUNITY WAS BRIBERY^
"It was a bastard, kind of immunity
these supervisors received," ho ex
claimed, "and it was very nearly
bribery if it did fiot amount to bribery
Itself. They were given immunity of
a kind which the prosecution now.an
nounces is not enforceable. It was a
contract on the part of the supervisors
to tell the facts as the prosecution
might sne these facts from time to
time. One or two of these supervisors
have deviated from this straight and
narrow path laid out for them and have
felt the lash. Wilson is one who- has
felt the lash, and he v fs now a pitiful
sight in his efforts to win back the
favor he has lost. Each-lime he tes
tifies he feels tho Heney lash swish
over him. Ho is like the picture we
have all s^en of the dog sitting bo
fore a phonograph with his ear cocked
to listen to his master's voice. , So
\u25a0"Gallagher has loaned with one ear
toward Heney. until it has become
elongated to catch his master's words.
Yes, he is a pitiable spectacle— the
good'tlog Wilson." ? , ' , .
Moore argued that it would have
been physically, impossible/ for • Gal
lagher to have stored In a. safe deposit
box the amount of bills which ho testi
fied he had received and thus! put
away. By a system of computation' not
entirely explained MoorY; arrived at "the
conclusion that had Gallagher stored
the amount of money lie said he did he
would have piled up a J stack of cur
rency eight foet high. \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0"\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0_ . •
"MIGHT HAVE *BEEX A KEE"
"Suppose this money was paid toJAbe
Ruef as.a fee for. *. services,"'. cried
Moore, suddendy'' changing the subject
at Issun. "Suppose it; were shown 'that
General Ford actually.; paid this surti of
$200,000: Into ;Ruef's hands. Could^any
one say-that such a payment amounted
to anything more '.than, a. payment -of
money, for peace? • Ruef was known as
the omnipotent; power,- not. only in con
nection with .the board" of supervisors,
but in connection -with; the entire la
bor* situation Ui. this city. Would It
j have amounted to' bribery , If General
Ford . had paid moneyj to ; Ruef ,to se
cure the /.peace?. /By 'no
mea.ns.": . If- such? payment- was made.
\u25a0 was, it not; made .'.without- any dream; of
bribery, without, any. thought of brib
er > ;? ' v 3l^^^^Pl'^: \u25a0\u25a0'\u25a0.-. " y- \u25a0"".\u25a0•'
\u25a0r'Howevcr, gentlemen, this is all mere
speculation. •Tliere is no evidonceVoh
the I ' subject. . I ; say/. there VigLhot-: one
bit of evidence that Rucf ever: got one
cent from the United Railroads. There
is no evidence that when Ford drew
this money he paid a single cent of it
to Ruef. And so long as there is no
evidence on this subject, is there any
reason why we should produce evidence
to show what became of this money?
We are not here to account } to . Mri
Heney or to any aggregation such as
is behind him, which may go around
the country under the guise of re
formers.
NOT COMPELLED TO TELL
"We are not compelled to tell what
we do with our money, so long as we
use it for a legitimate and proper pur
pose. We are not obligated to explain
our business to these men representing
Rudolph Spreckels. With 'the United
Railroads spending thousands of- dol
lars a day in defraying the expenses
of a great strike; with Rudolph tfpreck
els and many powerful enemies seek
ing the ruin and eventual "control of
the system, was it not more than pos
sible that this money was paid with
out any intent or idea of a bribe?
"Suppose that this money was paid
for exchange. Suppose that it was
paid to me, or to General Ford himself
for some debt owed him by the com
pany. '..Is that anybody's business. but
the company's '"own? .. The officers of
the company have testified here, and
these men have already learned more
about the company's business than they
had any right to know. In fact, it
has been shown that the payment of
this money was entered in r the cash
book, the ledger and the journal of
the company. Nothing can be made out
of the fact that these books were not
here in court, on account. of the exi
gencies of the situation that the audit
ing department of the company was in
the east.- \u25a0 , "
PROSECUTION'S MOTIVES
"I want to say that if a man is
guilty it is no defense to show that
the motives of the prosecution were
bad. "We are not concerned with the
conduct of Heney and Burns and
Spreckels, no matter what it may have
been. But if you should believe that
Rudolph Sprcckels was concerned in
this matter as a rival to the United
Railroads, intending to grind the face
of the company into the earth; If you"
think that he joined with Heney and
Burns and Phelan; and if you'i think
that the supervisors, confessedly under
their control, were induced to make up
this yarn, and that they""extorted
through' Rucf a fund from the United
Railroads, pretending It to be a pay
ment by the United Railroads, -then
does it not make a difference what'the
motives, of this prosecution were and
whether or: not the testimony of cer
tain witnesses Is credible?
"It may have been a shock to the
moral sense of the community, and it
may have been and doubtless is a
shock to your moral sense, that Mr.
Spreckels should have raised a fund of
$200,000 — the same sum that caused
Mr. O'Gara's t eyes to.bulge'out of his
head yesterday when he mentioned it —
to take the United Railroads away
from, its lawful owners."
Moore turned to a discussion of the
relative merits of the underground con
duit and.overhead trolley systems of
street, railroad construction and its re-*
latlon to the controversy before the
fire when the electrizing of the United
Railroads' J cable lines was first ; sug-
SPIIKCKELS A.M) PHELA.V
He declared that Rudolph .Spreckels
and James D. Phelan were both head
and body of the Sutter. street improvef
nient association, and that in'^demand
ing a uniform underground ' 'conduit
system, throughout the, city they were
demanding ; what was impossible! and
what .they knew to be impossible.^ He
read long excerpts from the reports of
the engineers; who investigated - local
conditions, asserting that a Uniform un
derground • conduit system was un
known in; any city on. the face, of the
earth'" and that :it had . bo<*n .declared
unfeasihle for/ San Francisco i by: the
foremost engineers; of the country. -
j In his effort to sho\y that- the entire
prosecution . was actuated only by a
motive looking, to the. destruction of
the United/ Railroads \u25a0 Moore *• charged
Rudolph Spreckels with having > inter
fered; with :the resumption of car^ serv
ice-in San Francisco after, theifire'as-a
'means< of gaining hisown ' ends.*" ;
" "The order which stopped car service
foi7 v six :*. days after it had ; first J been
resumed • came from Spreckels7 acting
ostensibly -in;. his capacity t as » chairman
of some' committee ; or. pother," * declared
Moore.y;,VThis was .the same ispreckels
—the: same { man who ,had put up , this
large -sum of Jmoney.f or. the- incorpora
tion; of ;a\rlvaU company, with: its j sole
purpose 1 being; to eventually-fgairi w c6n- v
trolr.of ,the - United , Railroads, and .who
by some '-, hocus pocus had this. j money,
loaned' back to' himself in"order'*tb* ? put
it in < again : whenever ' the exigencies
should; require." ' ;i
'\u25a0_: Moore. /took -up. the ... immunity, con
tracts' given the .supervisors ,-j as >.. his
next subject of discussion,"; and « deliv^
erediseveral . fresh 'rounds of jf sarcasm;
r './."Golden"; Ml Roy "is; credited! on"" I ! the
expense; account] which ' lias, been .intro
duced; in"*; evidence,, here\ with-; receiving'
$7,500 f f off furnishing 'the "* place t ,where
these supervisors . might -be ' trapped
and for, assisting in the trapping," he
eaid. ",If he received such a sum for
so trifling a service it is possible that
this may be" the same sum which Gal
lagher himself got for what he did in
arranging matters. The evidence is
that fc'preckels was displaying exceed
ing generosity, about that time. ' ;
"Imagine this meeting at the Glad
stone apartments of these gladsome
gentlemen for a glad purpose. Can you
not see Spreckels and the supervisors
with Heney behind, lining up chest to
chest and ranging themselves to march
on what they deemed the doomed city
for the work of regeneration of the un
regenerate, and can you not see them
as they all went down the line sing
ing, 'He certainly was good to me'?
"And then there -was the formation
of this firm of attorneys with Mr.
Heney at , 4 tlve head. It, was formed
with the principal object in view of
confining itself to the work of the
graft prosecution and it lasted until
recently, when work got slack. Then
everybody got out of it all they could,
and it busted up. : Cobb got $25,000
and went into business for' himself,
and Dwyer saved out of the wreck
about -$13,0d0 and retired to the ob
securlty whence he came."
As a final offering for the afternoon
Moore took up the expense account,
showing all receipts Vnd disbursements
of the graft prosecution from the/time
of its inception, and attacked item
after item individually. 'He picked out
the names of "* various members of the
prosecution and assistants on the staff
of William J. Burns, and asserted that
the amounts paid them were out of all
proportion to any legitimate service
which they could possibly have ren
dered.
REFERS TO FREE COUXTUY
"Enough of that now," he concluded]
"except to state the mortifying cir
cumstance that in our free country and
our free state of California a private
citizen can spend $238,000 in money and
can pick, himself out a private
cutor and can get the district attorney
to .appoint this man he has employed
to public office, and the district at
torney does it, and* an army of men,
every one of them a suborned man,
willing\to do the bidding of his em
ployer, can be brought in here. What
can you expect to be the result?"
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DISORDER FEARED
WHEN SHIPS ARRIVE
Honolulu Authorities Prepare to
Check Demonstration By
Japanese Strikers
Training Squadron and Amer*
ican Cruiser. Scheduled to
Meet in Hawaiian Port
HONOLULU, June IS.— -With the lead
ers awaiting a reply to their appeal to
Ambassador Takahira at Washington to
make the arrest of four Japanese edi
tors and .the'selzure of their papers
last week by the territorial authorities
the subject of an international inquiry,
there has been no further developments
in the Japanese strike situation.
• Small groups of Japanese have re
turned to work unmolested, on some
of the plantations and uninterested
parties have attempted to bring about
a settlement of the differences be
tween the planters and their employes
without success.
.Precautionary measures taken by the
police have not been relaxed, but so far
there has been no indication of. disorder
on the part of the strikers, who, while
much incensed over the arrest of their
leaders, arc, conducting themselves
peaceably, j
The authorities, however, are appre
hensive that the coming of the Japa
nese cruisers Aso and Soya, which will
arrive in a few days from Seattle, will
be made an occasion for a demonstra
tion, on the part of the strikers.
The coming of the Japanese training
squadron and that of the cruiser St.
Louis, which also will arrive at Hono
lulu in a few days, is in accordance
with a schedule arranged by the navy
departments of the two countries many
weeks ago. This, however, is not being
told the ignorant strikers, but their
leaders are making use of. the coming
of the Japanese ships to persuade their
followers to stand firm In their de
mands for higher wages and refuse to
return to work.
Renewed threats, it is said, have been
made against M. Shoba, editor of a
local conservative Japanese paper, who
opposed the strike. He has requested
the police to furnish him with a body
guard.
In response to appeals cabled to the
Japanese of San Francisco and Seattle,
replies have been received by the strike
leaders promising financial and moral
support."
A demand made by Attorney Joseph
Lightfoot for the return of the books
and papers seized on last Friday by
High Sheriff; Henry in the, ofHces of
the Jiji newspaper and the Higher
W r age association has been refused by
the government. An attempt now will
be made to secure their possession by
means of a replevin suit, which is in
preparation.
Embassy to Investigate
WASHINGTOX, June 16.— Following
by a few hours the appeal of Japanese
strike leaders in Hawaii to Ambassa
dor Takajiira at Washington to thor- '
oughly investigate the raid on the,
Japanese newspaper offices in Honolulu,
a dispatch regarding the situation was
received at the embassy today from the
Japanese consul general stationed
there. The consul general expressed
the hope that the "strike would soon be
settled. At the embassy it was stated
that no action would be taken until
more facts were learned.
No Appeal Made to Tokyo
TOKYO. June 16. — The foreign office
has not received any appeal from Ha
waii in the matter of the alleged vio
lation of treaty rights said to have
been sustained by a Japanese subject
and the Japanese consul at Honolulu
reports that the strike situation in the ;
islands is not serious.
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STATEMENT
OF THE CONDITIONS AND AFFAIRS OF THE
London Guarantee S Accident
COMPANY
OF LONDON. ENGLAND, oa the :51st day of De-
cember. A. D. IfX)S. ami for the jear endtnc
on that day. I*ublishe<t pursuant to the Pro-
vision* of Scctiou «U1 of the Political Code ami
compiled from the annual statement filed with
the Insurance Commissiuuer of the State of
California.
fash Market Value of all Stocks and
Bonds owned by Company $ 1,992.5 t7.7T
Cash in Company's Office 1.671. 61
Cash In Banks lOS.ouO.ttt
Interest due and accrued on bnndn.. 23,091.33
Premiums ia due Course of Collec-
tion , 570.060.01
Total Assets \u25a0$?..-,op,.Tra7T
LIABILITIES
Losses In process of Adjustment or
In Suspense $23,111.00
Losses resisted. Including expenses.. 16,000.00
Gross premiums on Risks running
one year or less. $1,202,012.1*6; re-
Insurance. 50 per cent 601,006.12
Gross premiums on Risks running
more than one year. $140,471.22;
reinsurance pro rata 81,113.53
Commission?! and Brokerage due or to
become due.. 103.102.12
Special Reserre for unpaid Liability
Looses T70.70&.47
Reserve for Credit Losses 47.429. 00
Contingent Reserve 100,000.00
All other Liabilities 36.043.33
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Net. cash actually received for pre-
miums $1,750,001.82
Received from Interest and divi-
dends on Bonds. Stocks. Loans.
and from all other sources 74.737. 4S
Total Income ...si.s.'"t.7rr).:{'i
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.Remitted to Home Office.... 124.X37.4S
Paid or allowed for Commission or
Brokerage 450.9-17.05
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charges for officers, clerks, etc.. 125.533.Ul
Paid for -State, National ami Local
taxes ....:..... 20,503.93
Investigations and Adjustment of
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All other ExpendUures tio,t>2U.74
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Xotlce to Creditors of Calvin False.
' Deceased s
ESTATE OF CALVIN PAIGE, deceased. No.
7753, new" series. Department Number Niue.
Probate — '
Notice is hereby given - by the cader-
(lgtted. executors of the estate of Calvin- Paige,
deceased, to the creditors of and all persons
having claims against the said deceased, to ex-
hibit them, with tlie necessary vouchers, with-
in 10 months after the first publication of
this notice to the ' said executors at the oftlce
of Charles S. Wheeler. 609 Union Trust build-
ing, .situate at northeasterly comer .'. of Post
and Montgomery strevtrf^ San FTancisco, Call-:
fornla. • which «ald otflce the andersigned se-
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connected with said estate of Calvin Paige, de- .
ceased. ~ LOUIS P. MONTEAULE.
: OEOROE SI. WRIGHT.
TIMOTHY- PAIGE.
".. Executors of.- the estate of Calvin Paige, de-
T - •* ceased.
Dated San Francisco. May 25.' 1809.
\u25a0 y . . CHARLES S. WHEELER.
Attorney. for Executors.'" 6o9 Union, Trust build-
.; In*. 'San'Fjanciactt- California. ' • i
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