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BALLINGER GETS VERY IRRITABLE UNDER GRILLING Counsel for Qlavis Springs Sen= sation Regarding President's Letter to Secretary Brandeis Suggests That Taft Had* No Opportunity to Examine Record WASHINGTON*. May 6.— Keeping Bal linger on the "grill" in the Ballin prer-PiiK-hot inquiry all day. Attorney Brandeis, counsel for L» R. Glavis, sprang a mild surprise today by inti mating that the exoneration of Ballin ger and the dismissal of Galvis by the president was not the result of judicial w^isrhing of facts by President Taft in Person, as had been generally supposed. Brandeis indicated by his questions ] io Ballinger his contention that it j would have been a physical impossi-j bility for the president to liii\ • -..l; the great mass of matte:- •:. j the Alaska coal cases — n; < \ pages in the record — in :: .!-- I tween the time he receiv«u :. ..\u25a0\u25a0••- i «rly, September 6, and the;puiliauon of his letter of exoneration Semein ber 13. FAULTY UECORI) SUPPLIED Furthermore Brandeis called atten tion to the fact that the week in question was crowded with engage ments for the president, including golf, yacht races and automobile rides. He < itpd. outside the record, the probability that the president also was engaged in the preparation of his important Bos ton speech. Lawlor, who is the assistant attorney for the interior department, Brandeis said, made two trips to Beverly that week and was there when the letter was given out. Brandeis also sought to show that the letter, if the president did personally prepare it, was based upon an incomplete record of the Cun ningham case. ALASKA I'UOTEST IGXOHED Glavis' attorney called the secretary's attention to letters written by Special Agent Jonesp rior to the clear listing of Cunningham claims by Ballinger, in which Jones urged a full investigation of the Alaska coal cases before allow ing any of them to go to patent. He asked Ballinger if he did not think the president should have had those letters to complete the record before him. Ballinger would not admit their impor tance. Another letter given by Dennett to the fraud division of the land office urging that no Alaska coal claims should be allowed to go to patent without full investigation, written after Jones' warning, was discussed. Ballinger insisted that he did not at tach the same importance to it that some "superstitutious" person might. CLASHES WITH INQUISITOR Clashes bftwe'on Ballingtr and his inquisitor were frequent. The morn ing: session was particularly lively, and at one time Ballinger made a dramatic appeal to the committee to protect him from the "insolence of this man." Ballinger probably will be on the stand several days. He is beginning to 6how the strain and appeared very irritable through Brandeis' cross ex amination. Brandeis had proceeded only a short time in his cross examination when a fcl-.arp clash occurred. The lawyer asked t!ie witness why hevjiad gone to B.verly to see the president after he had prepared in writing all the in formation in the possession nf his de partment bearing on the Cunningham SECRETARY IS COR\ERED BalHr.fr?!- sai.l that he went to Bev erly because he had .been invited by letter, whereupon Brandeis asked him to point out the paragraph in the let t:-r containing the invitation. Ballinger read a paragraph. "Does that contain any invitation to come to Beverly?" demanded Brandeis. "Strictly speaking, no." "Then why did you go to Beverly?' 1 • ; :<•!•* lisp i wanted to." Deo by (R. ) broke in impatiently: "I think this line of cro^s examina tion is extraneous." lie said, "and I ob ject to Mr. Brandeis further wasting the committee's time with Irrelevant questions. James and Graham took sharp issue with Denby and a longer argument fol lowed. STATi:>IK.\T CALLED FALSE Brandeis retorted that Vertrees had closely questioned Glavis when he was on the stand, "four whole days being taken up with his cross examination," he said. Vertrees spent all the time lie wanted on "one question," said Brando is. "1 value as highly as anybody the time of this committee, and of myself :is well. What I want is fair play. This witness had with extraordinary swiftness made any number of state ments — not only led by Vertrees, but dragged in by Vertrees." Vertrees took «>xception to this re mark, and, rising in his place on the side of the table, said that "statement was known to be deliberately false." His examination, he said, had not been according to any rules, because the original investigation was not con ducted Bccording to rules. "I have stood here a long time," con tined Vertrees. "and seen witness after witness offended by the insolence of this cross examination. Once or twice 1 have felt called on to introduce an objection. But the time has come when the committee- should protect the gen tlemen from such insolent imputations. I do protest against it. and I want to make myself plain on the question." PRESIDENTS WORDS WITHHELD Brandeis continued his questions con cerning thai visit to Beverly in Sep tember. V.iO'J. Ballinger arrived there on the. 6th and met the presid^nt on the golf links. Brandeis wanted to know whether the purpose of that visit was solely in connection with the Glavis-Pinchot charges, or whether it was also on othor matters. "That was substantially the matter which look roe to Beverly." the witness replied. ' Uruii'Uis questioned the witness as to the purpose of his visit to Beverly. Ballinger replying that he declined to repeat his conversation with the presi-. dent. Questioned as to the papers that I,awlor. assistant attorney general in the interior department, had taken to Beverly, Ballinger said he had some memoranda on tiie controversy under consideration, but he did not know ex actly what they were. SECRETARY CRIES "INSULT" ;/ > Senator Nelson suggested Lawler would be the proper person to call to Uarn what he had carried to Beverly, hut Brandeis said he would just then prefer going on with his examination of the secretary. BranJels asked Ballinger if. Glavis at any time had an opportunity to- sec the answers he and his assistants had prepared fbr the president in answer to the Glavis charges. Ballinger did not answer the question directly and the attorney had the stenographer read it over to hi mtwlce. • "This question implies an insult, that we made a suggestion to suit our selves." replied the secretary hotly. "I have said heretofore that we sent to the president all^the fact and withheld nothing. ; - APPEAL FOR PROTECTION "Gentlemen of the committee. I ap peal to you for protection 'from the insolence of this man who is tryipg to cross examine me. He is here by suf ferance of the committee and not by any other right.- I asked -for this in vestigation, and want a searching one, but I think I am entitled to be free from the imputation the gentleman puts in his questions." Judge -Madison (republican-insur gent) thought it- was obvious that Glavis had an opportunity to see the answers, to which the witness 1 as sented, and the inscident was passed over without Brandeis making any re ply to Ballinger's outburst. ONE QUESTION WITHDRAWN Another argument occurred a few moments later when Senator Root ob jected to the following question: "As a lawyer and a judge, covering a long period of years, were you not aware that the question of the truth of the Glavis charges could not be deter mined where you had the opportunity^ of answering him, and he, Glavis, had no opportunity to know if yOu put in all the facts? 1 ; Brandeis withdrew the question after considerable discussion, during 'which It 'was suggested by the members of the committee that the president could •answer the question better; than Bal linger. PROTEST FROM SENATOR Senator Sutherland was the next member of the committee to protest against Brandeis' methods of cross ex amination. He objected when the at torney asked the witness if it were not a fact that of the four pages of the record devoted to the, president's letter exonerating him, only half dealt with the Glavis charges. He thought the matter irrelevant, and, slamming a copy of the record on the table before him, declared heatedly that he did not think the lawyer should waste any more of the committee's time. James (D.) of Kentucky objected to | members of the committee interrupting counsel every few minutes. "I'll take the liberty of interrupt , ing counsel whenever I choose," re torted Sutherland. . "I'll take the liberty of interrupting members when they interrupt counsel whenever I choose," returned James suavely. After this little passage Brandeis asked another question. He wanted to know whether the president's letter did not contain many inaccuracies. "I refuse to answer your question. I will not be put in the attitude of. criticizing the president," replied the witness. Brandeis then sought to make the witness admit certain statements were based on inaccurate information. He referred to the president's statement that Glavis had been superseded by Sheridan because a lawyer was needed to handle the Cunningham claims. Brandeis pointed out that the testi mony and letters of Dennett and Schwartz showed that Glavis was su perseded because he did not want the cases to go to a hearing without a field examination. Reversal of Policy Denied PORTLAND. Ore., May 6.— Henry S. Graves, chief forester of the United States, who arrived here today, said that he could not imagine what Secre tary Ballinger referred to when he tes tified yesterday that there had been a "complete reversal in the forest reserve policy of the government" since the retirement of Pinchot. "If Ballinger made that statement," said Graves, "I can not imagine what he referred to. There has been no radical change in the policies, and I know of none planned, for the future. "Ballinger is also quoted as saying that $731,988 has been wantonly wasted on the Menominee forest reserve in Wisconsin. I am not personally fa miliar with the administration of af fairs up there, but I have always understood the work was excellent." DOGS HIGHLY TRAINED TO AID IN POACHING Warned of Advance of Game Keepers and Hide Quarry During the trial of a poacher at Llangollen, North Wales, it came out in evidence that his dog companion on forays acted as an advance scout and gave him notice of the presence and whereabouts of the game keepers. Actions of that kind are all a matter of training, says the Edinburgh Scotch man, and when the training "runs in families" the habit becomes, quite in stinctive, so that with the pups of old poaching dogs very little teaching is necessary. The best type of dog for that purpose is the "lurcher," product of the greyhound and smooth coated Scotch collie, especially if the dog is to be used for hare poaching after dark. A highly trained dog of that stamp "hunts silent" — that is, It never gives a whimper in the chase. A dog of inferior Instinct often whimpers, and If it finds its prey outmaneuvering or outdistanc ing It gives utterance to loud yelps — a perilous thing to do on a dark, still night, as it may be heard for a mile or more around. An old Ayrshire poacher of a past generation had a wonderfully trained dog. Starting from home, he and the dog went in opposite directions, the dog often making a circuit of many miles, but never failing to mcc its mas ter at some appointed place. That dog also acted as a spy on game keepers, especially those of the old tippling, ruffianly "school," now almost extinct. Dogs of that kind, so highly trained and instinctively hunters, often, co operate among themselves in forays, and by skillfully imitating lessons taught them by man often-.do an Im mense amount of injury. The writer adds: "I knew two collie dogs that showed great skill . In co-operative rabbit hunting, and when they 'snapped' more than they could carry to their respective homes (wide apart) they hid the carcasses and removed them bit by bit." Night sheep worrying by dogs is a curious "instinctive" sur vival of a trained habit neolithic or palaeolithic man taught wild canidae long before Cadmug or any other pun dit brought him letters. HOW TO BE POPULAR? DON'T BE A HYPOCRITE Men Who Show Their Real Selves Deserve Admiration The way to be popular has been ex plained by gne of; the marshmallow magazines which inflates itself with the idea that it is directing modern life. "When you shake hands with a man." runs the recipe, "grasp tht^NJiand as though, you were glad to see the owner, look him In the eye and give him; 'a smile from your heart." -This is a sure enough recipe. It has been used a million times from Alcibiades down to day before yesterday, says the Minne apolis Journal. It has been worked by some of the greater frauds in Christen dom to subserve their own -ends. The man who is seeking popularity, posing for it, angling for it, usually doesn't de serve it. Keep your admiration" for men who show you their real; selves, who, when \u25a0 they, are bothered or worried, or mad, or glad, make it manifest by ap propriate facial expression,, and. '.who are not constantly standing themselves before the mirror - • , ... . , THE BAN:.- FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY; MAY 7, 1910 George Frederick Ernest Albert, prince of Wales, who succeeds, Edward VII as kmg of Creat Britain, his j queen and -their six children : | LESS DEMOCRATIC THAN HIS FATHER Court Gayety Expected to Lan guish Under Reign of New King George V LONDON, May 6. — George Frederick Ernest Albert, prince of Wales, who now becomes king, is the second son ot King Edward and Queen Alexandra. He was born at Marlborough house June 0, 1865, 17 months after the birth of his older brother, the late duke of Clarence. He and his brother entered the navy together as cadets and he spent two years on the Britannia. He then start ed on a three years' voyage around the world on the Bacchante. In 189 Z, when his brother died, he became heir ap parent and took his seat in the house of lords as duke of York; In May, 1893, his engagement was an nounced to Princess Victoria May. of Teck and they were married July" 16, 1893. Six children were born to them: Edward Albert, Albert Frederick, Vic toria Alexandra, Henry William, George Edward and John Charles.' . The prince became duke of Cornwall when his father took the throne and soon after he started on a tour of the colonies. He opened the first parlia ment of the commonwealth of Aus tralia. In celebration of his. safe re turn he was entertained by the London corporation at Guildhall on December 5, 1905, on which occasion he delivered his well remembered advice to England to "wake up." . . . In the fall of 1905 he went to India, and when he returned there was an other celebration. Oii.this occasion he said that "the task of 'governing India will -be made the easier, if we, on our part, infuse into it a/wider element of sympathy."... , . .His Indian/trip: was- generally f re garded as unsuccessful from a political viewpoint. ' .' : -\u0084"./ \u25a0.: \u25a0•. / In 1908 he visited Canada to attend the celebration at Quebec and on that occasion met Vice President Fair banks. , '\u25a0-:,. \ . .... , : The prince, is less democratic than was his> father, and does not have such an ardent love for sports. It has been predicted, therefore, that after his ac cession/to' the throne' the r court gayety that, always was a, featur6 during Ed ward's reign will be : less marked. COCO AN UT ROOT GRO WS TOWARD THE OCEAN Tree Inclines to Sea in Absence of Obstruction It is a fact not generally known that a ; large majority of cocoanuts** drop from the trees in the night after hang ing <1 or ; a. period of ; about :i4" months for ripening. The action of the heavy dew;lo6sens.the seal with, which nature has provided the. nut and allojws; it to fall, ; ssiys -the, London t Globe.i v Nuts wanted for planting are eithcrgathered intojheaps or placed under sheds where they -are'./ allowed *to sprout • before planting, .'in order, that ,good '\u25a0 healthy "sprout nuts" may be selected, j. " .': .'-, An interesting story is told. by a man who resided \ for ' some , . years .:'. i n ; ; the tropics. . "He planted a; cocoanut = ; tree behind a broad fence some distance from; the sea. The tree grew.iperfectly. straight until it reached the, top of, the fence, when' it. began v to grow- toward the bcean.'leaning a foot or more; then a shed; was' built quite \ near . the S fence, but-several feet -higher,', and the tree again grew, straight, until;; the ; roof \ of the I ,' shed wass reached, .when. It! again leaned" toward \u25a0' th eVsea, forming- a very curious land ,"oddj looking .^tree.;^?";:; '\ '.-'.. \ - The} irregular -growth ; was wholly^ at-, tributable*; to^ the* influence* of \u25a0 the "salt iMr.-; No" magnet^is" truer;: to pole tnan^the^ root^of^the cocoanut^ tree : ;-, to the -ocean^f or •' when- the; root 1 breaks -its husk^ it" points Jdirectly to v the sear v " UNITED FUNERAL SERVICES PLANNED British:** Societies^ <j£ San Fran cisco Will Join in Rites for Departed Monarch Arrangements are under way to ob serve the death of King Edward VII with a .united funeral service by the British societies of San Franciscol The officers- of the various organizations are receiving hasty summons to "attend a general conference' to determine on the details of the mortuary rites. The ceramony will be enacted in a pavilion. in much, the same manner as the observance of the death of Queen Victoria was held. All of the members of;the different societies and orders will be required to attend and . the services conducted by the Episcopal church. Rev. F. W. Clampett officiated during the services 1 to England's former queen in the »6ld Mechanics' pavilion, which was draped in mourning. Among the societies that will take part in the servlces s are: The Sons of St. George, the British benevolent so ciety, the . Caledonians, St. Andrew's, Thistle club and other English and Scottish organizations. Great sorrow is expressed among the officers of these organizations over the death of England's monarch and a great demonstration of loyalty is ex pected from the united societies on the occasion of the funeral services. Thomas Poyser. grand secretar, yof the' Order of the Sons of St. George and head, of the Pacific coast jurisdiction, said' last night that services 'would be observed by all^ the branches of his order throughout the coast. '\u25a0*. KING OF-MONT BLANC DEFIES FATHER TIME Noted Guide Kills Self Rather Than Suffer Old Age Old Adolphe Balmat, the "King, 'of Mont 1 Blanc," ['\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 who has; killed himself because he could pot bear.to'be degraded by., old age' from the -"courses extraor diriaires" ;to leading /"tourists' jnules up bridle' paths, had been associated with several tragedies, one of .which was peculiarly pathetic, says the West minster Gazette. He.is; said to ; have been one of the" guides, who> were with Richard Lewis; Nettleship, -trie brilliant and beloved tutor, of Balliol college; OOrx r ford, '.when he perished . in Jan attempt to ascend Mont -Blanc on August" 25, 1592. They -were .' overtaken"- by a snow storm, and compelled to pass, the;night in a hole 'they had hewn . in the • ice Next morning the guides'": wished to wait for a lull; but Nettleship, saying "Allons,"- stepped out into the storm, to which *he soon succumbed. Nettleship is buried at. Chambnix/and the.iriscrip- cross over' his grave .ends with "'..the '\u25a0 /"quotation": 1 ' "He. maketh \u25a0; the storm fa. calm.".* '* -, ; ' ' '\u25a0 'Y-V-' '" Southern. Pacific Trnln Clinnses Effective May;, Bth, train; No.': 88 will leave Market Street Ferry: Depot at n:00. p. ..m\; : instead v of .4:40 .p.; m:, \u25a0 for Niles, Livermore, Tracy, Newman and Fresno. Train:; No. 86 will Heave "Mar ket • Street Ferry Depot Vat- 9 :40 ~p. - m instead of ,11:00 p. m.. carrying Yosem i te ; sleeper for :'., El Portal; via ;- Merced, and will run to Bakersfleld instead of Fresno, as heretofore, affording good early morning connection^ for- Coalinga and" -other oil districts.'; Northbound (No>B7)vwill leave BakersfleldTat 9:00 p.m.,. arriving, San Francisco Ferry: De pot at 8:28 a. m.. Train N0. '198 KMviW leave Ferry Depot at 11:00 p. m.'for San Leandro,-, Niles -and; San S Jose. ' No.' 9, Sunset? Express, due at Third and Townsend Streets. theretofore at, \u25a0 11-40 a, m., v will«arrive-.at 10:55 a. ;m. w.Traln No.r:18 .will leave Third and.Townsend Streets at j 8:05 p.. m.Sand; Train :N0.«76 The '.-Lar k,%i ; will 8:00 p.m.- Tickets Offices:: ?Market Streets Ferry Depot. /> Flood <\u25a0; Building. .^.Third^-: and Townsend > Streets, - and*. Broadway " and Thirteenth". Street/Oakland; ; | ;^:- '\u25a0\u25a0";,• \u0084 BRITISH CONSUL GETS NO NOTICE Walter R. Hearn Says King's Death Is Blow to Nations That Loved Peace "I have received no official notifica tion of the death, of his majesty," said .Walter R. Hearn, British consul gen eral, yesterday evenfng. "I have re ceived notice from the press and will probably be notified in the morning from Washington. I ' "1 feel grieved, as does every loyal Englishman. King Edward's death is a great blow, not only to Great Bri tain, but to America and to every other country that loves peace. He did much for the promotion of international peace and endeared himself to the world at large. "I feel that I can add nothing to this statement except to repeat that I am deeply grieved." • « M. JEAN NICOT WAS NICOTINE'S GODFATHER Famous Ambassador Introduced Tobacco Into Portugal Although the father of Jean Nicot was a simple notary he spared no ef fort to educate his son. As soon as it was possible he sent the youth to Paris, where it was not long before his learning attracted the attention of the king, Henry 11. For a time he served Henry as secre tary, and Francis 11, when he came to the throne, sent Nicot as envoy and ambassador to Portugal. Always interested in men and affairs, says the Boston Globe, the ambassador met at Lisbon a Flemish merchant who told him rare stories in regard to what their ships had brought from foreign shores to increase commerce in Flan ders. He gave Nicot some weeds of an American plant that was unknown in Europe. He told him of certain valu able qualities of the plant/mentioning particularly the medicinal properties it had. - . • Nicot sent these, seeds to Catherine de Medici, telling her all that the mer chant had said. On his return . from 'Portugal Catherine presented him with one of ' the plants which had been "raised from the seed. This was tobacco, and the botanists named it ; Nicotiana,. in honor of Jean Nicot. .The Chevalier Thevet. a French traveler, disputed with Nicot the honor otj having introduced the valuable plant into France, but the name given It goes, to prove that the honor belongs to the ambassador at Portugal, f, It is doubtful „if Nicot' himself or Catherine de Jledici realized the enor mous value of this plant in commerce. Bue i Jean Nicot rendered another serv ice tohis own country. "It was he who produced the first model of a French dictionary. He called his work the "Treasure of the \u0084 French Language," but it was not ready for publication until he had been' dead six years. All : Identity with -his S» work is now lost is the perfected French dictionary; : but there still, remains his vocabulary, the one of the old French language. '.. -.'\u25a0 When Nicot died 'his body was laid at rest' in the Church at St. Paul at Paris, where .many important persons .have been i buried. \u25a0 This church Suffered des ecrationV during, .the .revolution and many "tombs were destroyed. ,- 'After his death the question came up of somelkind of a monument to ".him „ for .his services to.' France: Some one suggested that it take the form'*of a huge snuff box bearingthe SUIT "OVER SElZUßE— Oakland. ; May 6 — . Charges : that W. E." Dean." tnanajrpr. of a local : V collection Hgency., unlawfully -represented hlm vFelf as a 'deputy -constable and seized ; a "type-" •' writer desk, a ; chair, and promissory .notes were made today in '-> a '.suit \u25a0. filed .by . J.-TL. Rogers. \u0084 ', The 'latter declares that the property tu> seized 'cloak: of "authority was .worth 'ss6l.'-; He I auks Judgment j for ithls • amount t and $500 addi tional from Dean. \u25a0\u25a0•. SHIPPING MEN WANT LOWER WATER RATES Schwerin Tells Supervisorsjhe Spring Valley Charges on Wharves Are Excessive Washing Fluid Costs 16 Cents and Drinking 75 Cents Each 1,000 Gallons Objection to the charge macte by the Spring Valley company for supplying water to the port shipping was made yesterday before the supervisors* water rate committee by R. P. Schwerin for the Pacific Mail and J. C. Hibbayd for the Pacific Coast steamship company and other shipping men. 'Our company uses 15.000.000 gallons of water every year in provisioning our boats and we get all of this we can away from San Francisco because of the excessive charge made by the Spring Valley company," said Schwerin. Hibberd said that the rate from 75 cents to $1.50 a thousand gallons was ridiculous, especially when his com pany could buy the same water on the wharf for washing down purposes for 16 cents. Attorney E. J. McCutchen for the company stated that the general ex penses of furnishing the service had to be met and that the company's charges were regulated accordingly. . The committee took the matter un der advisement. The complaint of contractors that they were charged 14 cents for water used with a barrel of cement in build ing operations when tests showed that by meter rates the cost would barely exceed 1 cent was also considered, but nothing was done. Manson Goes to Washington City Engineer Manson completed his preparations yesterday for leaving to day on his trip to Washington for the Ballinger hearing in the Hetch Hetchy matter. Manson will take with him complete maps and data of the district involved and will lay before the in terior department the latest informa tion regarding the rainfall and runoff of the upper Tuolumne watershed. !» "We are prepared to show," he said, "that for the future population that will gather around San Francisco bay we need all the water which we get from the Lake Eleanor source, the Spring Valley properties and Hetch •Hetchy itself. "The Hetch Hetchy is not to be de veloped until the need for it draws near. Whatever the outcome of the hearing before Secretary Ballinger the city must go ahead with its Sierra water supply system." Relief Home Appointments After a three hour session yesterday the board of health opened its doors and announced that it had appointed a "chief commissary" for the relief home. Thomas Gosland was the man chosen, at a 'salary of $100 a month. Despite the fact the salary appropriation of the home is exhausted the board also added five others to the force. Gosland, it is believed, is not in line to step into Wollenberg's shoes, but has been selected by Mayor McCarthy to find a way of getting rid of the superintendent. Wollenberg has the ] backing of virtually all the charitable j organizations in the city, and although he was a star appointee of the Taylor regime, the administration has so far found it impolitic to move against him. The others appointed were: Assistant Engineer J. Nicholson, Mrs. M. J. Leonard as attendant, J. Reiss as or derly, Samuel Robertson as attendant and Mrs. Josephine Yoell as seamstress in the emergency hospital service. The board asked all its subordinates to purchase stock in the Panama-Pa cific exposition to the extent of 20 per cent of one month's salary. City Hospital Offered The offer of P. J. Milerterno to build a brick or concrete hospital at 511 Clay street for the harbor dis trict and to lease it to the city for either three or five years for a monthly rental of $200 was favorably reported by the supervisors' hospital committee yesterday. Milerterno also offers to build and sell to the city for $37,500. The lot has a frontage of 30 feet and a depth of 118:6. Gas Company Apologizes The San Francisco gas and electric company apologized to the board of supervisors yesterday for inadver tently publishing a statement that its members ha»l agreed to a $1 gas rate. President Britton of the company wrote: "In the morning papers of the sth instant was published an advertise ment in which, through the inadver tency of our publicity department, the statement was made that the board of supervisors had fixed the rate of gas in San Francisco at $1. "This was an error an'J does 3'our board injustice, and we desire to apologize for said publication. Cor rections have been made of it in is sues of the same papers as of May 6, to which we beg to call your atten tion." Baths May Be Accepted City Attorney Long informed the supervisors yesterday . that the mu nicipality had power to accept the gift- of the James Lick baths from its trustees and to run the institution as a free public utility. In behalf of the trustees H. E. Matthews offered to give the building and equipment to the city if the latter would assume a funded debt of about $20,000 and kee^ the baths open for the public in ac cordance with the wish of James Lick in his bequest. The private manage ment has found It necessary, especially since the losses of the fire, to exact a small charge. ' ~ { The' third book of opinions of the city attorney has just been published by the municipality. It contains some 200. opinions given by City Attor ney Long during the last three years. The' first volume contained opinions of City Attorney Harry T. Creswell during 1893-98 and the second opinions of City Attorney Franklin K. Lane I during 1899-1902. . Of the present book 64 opinions are directed to the board of supervisors and concern its powers under the charter. Thirty-four opinions were for the board of works and 12 dealt with the powers of tlte police commis sion. ' \u25a0 WHEN GREEK MEETS • GREEK, WHAT THEN? Astonished King Meets Equally Astonished Foreign Minister King Ferdinand of Bulgaria Is, we are told, an accomplished modern Greek scholar. \ During his recent visit to the sultan of Turkey, >he king found much pleasure in walking about the streets of Pera "incognito." and conversing freely- with the Greeks — shop ! keepers and merchants. , During one of . his promenades he met the Greek minister and Mme. Griparis. He told the minis ter In Greek that he was astonished at the number of. Greeks to be found in Constantinople, and the minister,' on his part, was no less surprised at the mon arch's fluency; In the language of Ho mer's'countrymen. — London Globe. CHINESE COMPLAIN OF POLICE OUTRAGE Sergeant Accused of Using U» legal Search Warrant and Humiliating Merchants Matheson and Members of His Squad Sued for Breaking Into Store Acting under Instructions from the Six Companies former Judge Carroll Cook complained to Chief of Police Martin yesterday of outrages alleged to have been practiced in Chinatown by the police squad under Sergeant Duncan Matheson. This step followed an indignation meeting hel«l Thursday night by 75 of the leading Chin-se merchants, many of whom threatened to take their establishments to Oak land if their right.-* were not respected. Sergeant Matheson was accused of breaking into the storeroom of the Sam Kee Jan company at 739 Grant avenue without a proper search war rant and confiscating a number of ar ticles. MERCHANTS CALLED VAGUA.VTS Six merchants reported that they had boen stood up by plaincloth.es po licemen ami forced Io undergo humili ating treatment. They were searched for concealed weapons and for lot tery tickets and then charged with vagrancy. The Chinatown squad Is charged j with forcing entrances into private j houses at all hours of the night; even 1 when no lights were displayed, anil j subjecting the inmates, women as I well as men, to many indignities. On ' one occasion. It was alleged, many of j the clerks of a store were searched J during the busiest hours of the day. Sergeant Matheson was given charge of the Chinatown squad two weeks ago and his activity since that time in com pany with Corporal D. M. Keavls has raised the storm of protest. Attorney Cook yesterday said: "The police are perpetrating outrages J in Chinatown that no self-respeCtin? | American would permit. Houses are ', invaded in the dead of night and the j privacy of women Ignored. They insist < on doors being opened and if this is ! not complied with doors are broken in. j '"Sergeant Matheson is to blame. I was instructed this morning by the sec retary of the Six Companies to take whatever legal action that might be necessary to stop the continuance of the outrages. INVESTIGATION DE>lA> DED "I saw the chief of police this morn- j ing and demanded that the unwar- j ranted actions of Sergeant Mathe3on be ? investigated by the police commission- ? ers and I am prepared to take the I matter to court." Ling Ye, secretary of the Six Com panies, said: "Chinese of good standing in our community are arrested on charges of vagrancy, though it is known that they are persons engaged in business. It Is the only charge that they can be taken into custody for. and such unwarranted acts are humiliating to my people. "A petition will be drawn up and signed by prominent Chinese detailing all the indignities to which we -have been subjected and presented to the city authorities through our consul." 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