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STATE SAVES $750,000 IN 2 YEARS Board of Control Reviews Its Work Biennial Report Discloses Irregularities; Suggests Reforms SACRAMENTO, Jan. 12.—Three-quar ters of a million dollars saved to the state; one state board secretary con fronted with charges of personal dis honesty which he is said to have ad mitted; accounts of investigations of state institutions and boards not here tofore disclosed, and a numfjer of re - ommendations for new legislation aro contained in the first biennial report of the state board of control. The report was made public today by John Francis Neyland, president of the board, and, besides accounting for its extraneous activities, gives an ac count of an entirely altered system of transacting state business. New reports on investigations of the board are on the following: Southern California state hospital in Patton. State board of medical examiners. State mining bureau. Financial accounts, state board of health. CASE OF DOCTOR TISDALE m The only personal situation now \ hanging fire, as shown In the report of the board, is that of Dr. Charles L. Tisdale, secretary of the state board of medical examiners. The report transmits to the governpr a check for $1,324 and says: "This sum represents restitution to the funds of the medical board of cer tain amounts found short in the ac counts of Dr. Charles L. Tisdale, sec retary." A supplemental report says that no one but Doctor Tisdale profited by the shortage, and asserts that he admitted this. A feature of the shortage is that come of it came from the funds paid In by 39 physicians as license fees. "An examination of the cash hook." the report says, "shows that in certain Instances names of these applicants and record of their payments had been made in the cash book and subse quently had been erased. SHORTAGE IX MIXIXG BLREAI "Nothing of value" is what the state ' mining bureau accomplished, according to the board's report, which further j says that when C. I* Avery, superin tendent of accounts of the board, ar-1 rived and began his investigations of the bureau's accounts, there was on hand only $539 in cash, where the books showed $2,952. The discrepancy j was accounted for by "tabs" represent- j ing "loans and advances" made to the state mineralogist and to other ap- W, W. Thayer, bookkeeper and cash ier, according to the report, had a tag for $50 which was more than a year old. It represented an advance for the payment of freight, but the report finds that no freight was paid from it and 'Hiayer was asked to refund, which he did. Memoranda of other advances to Thayer also were found. More than $490 in cash tags was found charged against Paul W". Prutz- | man. a mining engineer, who. was.sup posed to give his entire time tb the | preparation of a bulletin on the oil In dustry of southern California. "Up to the present time," says Jthe report, "there has been no result of i this employment shown," and it is ' stated that the board has refused to _j dit any more claims for salary or P senses for Mr. Prutzman, whose employment is pronounced illegal. MIXERAI.OGIST IS CRITICISED State Mineralogist W. S. Storms is criticised as "showing little knowl elge as to what time Mr. Prutzman has devoted to the mining bureau," and because cash tags signed by himself were found in the cash drawer. H. F. Williams, the janitor, also was found to have enjoyed the privilege of cash tagsj but in small amounts. A further charge against Storms is that lie used the state's money in traveling to inspect mining claims owned by individuals on which he ren dered expert opinions. The board finds this practice improper. Publications of the bureau, the re port says, were given away in some instances and charged for Jn others, and the great museum, containing thousands of dollars worth of speci mens of valuable ore, has not been catalogued or inventoried. "The payroll of the bureau is 115,540 pei year, and the employes are busy only a fraction of each da>'." the re port says. Dr. YV F. Snow, secretary of the state board of health, is exonerated of any dishonest intent in connection with a shortage of $705. in the funds of the board. The shortage arose, says the report, through poor bookkeeping. Doctor Snow, however, was required to make it good. HOSPITAL SCANDAL REVIVED The report of the southern California state, hospital at Patton is over a year old. and the persons involved in it have resigned, but th%> details now reach the public for the first time. Dr. E. Scott Blair, the superinten dent. Is charged with maintaining a private office in the institution, partly fitted up with the states equipment, for his private practice; with keeping his own horses and mules at the insti tution and supplying his vacation camp from the hospital commissary. J. E. Albert, the steward, is accused of allowing the alteration of weights In the receipt of meat supplies and per mitting the substitution of liquors and delicacies for officers of the lnstitu tl-n. « he board's investigations of the rV te printing office, the Napa state hospital, the state board of optometry, and of Inspector H. C. Halversen of the department of engineering and of the accounts at Folsom prison, under "Warden W. H. Reilly, have been made public. All these investigations, the report characterized as "destructive" and op posed to its "constructive" work. ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF BOARD Under the latter head the' accom plishments of the board, as given in the report, include: A uniform system of accounts for state institutions. Centralized buying. Proper auditing. Pre-auditing. Competitive contracts open to all. Collection of business discounts on state bills. The budget system. The state hospitals, which had not been audited for 14 years, the report says, have been checked up and a uni form system of accounting has been installed in them. In addition to this, an estimate is required from the head of each institution every month as to expenses for the ensuing month, and tills estimate is audited in advance. The report transmits the first state budget ever put in in this state. It shows the amount asked for each in stitution and the amount which the board finds to be most urgent and necessary, together with additional sums recommended. The grand total of special appropria tions requested is $7,983,853. This is pared to $5,803,120. General appropria tions amounting to $14,140,309 are cut I to $12,451,962. ' BOARD SAVES $750,000 The board of control costs the state /shout $42,000 a year, according to the 4report, as against $19,000 a year which Tit cost to run the state board of ex uminers. In justification of this the id claims a saving to the state jpf about three-quarters of a million dol lars so far. The principal item of this iiiju is $290,518 saved in reduction and [ correction of claims against the state. J Of disallowed claims, one has been pro- I tested. It is for $50 paid as a license j tax before the law was declared un j constitutional. Other large items included In the j board's estimate of its savings are ] $150,000 saved in the maintenance of j the state's wards, who, the report says, I are better cared for than ever before; and $212,000 in the schoolbook fund, -j which started out with a deficit. Of i the $212,000. $52,000 is represented In j book* already printed and ready for | distribution. A matter now under investigation Iby the board is the return of $1,638 to j the funds of the state board Of opto i metry, from which it was missing for i about four years. The hoard is mak j ing money and a recommendation is i included in the report that the annual I license fee be reduced from $5 to $3. SHERIFFS' FEES OPPOSED County sheriffs who draw $5 a day in addition to expenses while trans porting prisoners or insane persons , may be confronted with a bill abolish j ing this allowance. The board of control disapproves of lit and reports that an allowance of $3 a day for deputy sheriffs for which no j legal warrant is found has been dis continued at a saving of more than I $10,000 up to the present time. The jhoard thinks that insane persons j should be transported from place to j place in the custody of attendants at i the state hospital. In how far the state already acts in j the assistance of poor children as sug- I gested by proposed mothers' pension bills is shown by the report. For or phans and half orphans nearly $430,000 was paid out in the sixty-third fiscal year, over $200,000 of this sum going drrectly to parents. The remainder wa,s spent in the maintenance of chil dren in institutions. The Native Sons and Native Daugh ters of the Golden West are commended for finding homes for 275 children. Ap plications are on file with them for 594 additional children. STATE ADVERTISING "XEEDLESS" The state advertising, generally be lieved to be large, is described In the report as being, to a considerable ex tent, "needless and a waste of money." President Neylan, in discussing this feature, said that it amounted to only about $8,000 a year. The board recommends that instead of general advertising, the state keep a register on which persons or cor porations desiring to bid on state work may have their names entered for a nominal fee. These persons or corporations would then be notified whenever any business came up in which they were interested. It is probable that all the recom mendations made by the board will be followed by bills in the legislature. MEASURES WILL BE INTRODUCED TODAY SACRAMENTO. Jan. 12.—Introduc \iori of bills in the fortieth legislature probably will be begun tomorrow, the first day of the second legislative week. In the upper house Senator J. B. San ford of Ukiah. who has been ill of ptomaine poisoning, will make his first appearance and probably will introduce a bill prohibiting the ownership of land by aliens not capable of citizenship. It will be modeled after the Oklahoma law, which has been tested In the courts, and will resemble laws already in force in some eight states, the sen ator said. "If I can accomplish It, this bill will be among the first introduced," Senator Sanford said. A bill making it a felony to ship infected fruit will be introduced in the assembly. It has been drawn up by Assemblyman G. W. Libby of Sebasto pol and Herbert C. Slater of Santa Rosa, and under its provisions any citi zen could swear to a complaint, as In any other felony case. Shipments to canneries or for conversion into by products are exempted from the pro visions of the bill. It was said tonight that a bill for a state board of pardons probably will be introduced, and that it will provide for indeterminate sentences. A bill providing for mining inspectors, whose duties would be to see that mine interiors are provided with proper ap pliances for the prevention of unhealth fulne.ss and disease and that proper measures for safety of those employed are observed, will be one of those fathered by Assemblyman Finnlgan and Senator Birdsall this year. Similar- bills have twice passed both houses, but failed to receive executive approval. WOMAN MAY CAST ELECTORAL VOTE SACRAMENTO. Jan. 12.—A woman is likely to bear to' Washington the vote of the state's contingent to the elec toral college. Mrs. Florence Collins Porter of Los Angeles, a progressive and the only woman elector chosen, will arrive here to participate in the meeting tomorrow afternoon, at which one of the 13 mem bers will be selected to go to Wash ington, iepresentin«g the electors, and while Marshall Stimson, progressive of Los Angeles, and P. F. Del Valle, demo crat, the only members of the college here tonight, said nothing definite had been determined, Mrs. Porter was dis cussed more than any one else as the probable choice. The electors will meet tomorrow at 2 p. m. In the hall of the assembly <n the presence of both houses of the legislature and make their choice. Mrs. Porter will be entertained h»re by local club women. PROSECI ITORS WANT SWEEPING REFORMS LOS ANOELBS, Jan. 12.-Legslation Which will bring about sweeping re forms in criminal procedure will be advocated at the state convention of the District Attorneys association, which will begin here tomorrow. Among the proposed laws which will be suggested by members of the local prosecutor's office will be one abrogat ing the existing statute which provides that unless corroborated the testimony of an accomplice shall be given little weight by the jury. Another proposed law which will be advocated by some of the prosecutors will allow judges to comment upon the facts as well as the law in their in structions to juries. A number of district attorneys from the northern part of the state arrived here tonight. « Piles, diseases of the lower bowel Dr. Reese, 830 Market. S. b. —Advt. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1913. Cartoonist Attends Vaudeville Show Sketches What He Sees in Empress This bill at the Empress theater shows the three Hedders, gymnasts; Jack Ranahan, a talented young singer; the four Puachinellis, operatic transformationists; Fox and Ward, vaudeville team; Harry Burkhardt & Co., sketch; Al Wallace and Murray Mack, singers; the five Musical Lunds; Ella Weston s old time songs by two singers and audience. CRUSADE ON VICE BANKRUPTS CITY Treasury Is Empty and Municipal Council "Discharges" Official for Dereliction of Duty (Special Dispatch to The Call) CHICAGO. Jan. 12.—West Hammond is bankrupt.. The municipal council has "discharged" City Treasurer Aug ust Kamradt because the treasury was empty and he refused to Increase his bond. Miss Virginia Brooks' crusade to clean the city emptied the treasury through loss of saloon revenues and payment of special prosecutors' fees and special police salaries, it is claimed. It is estimated that the crusade cost $10,000. The city council also "discharged' Alderman John Slavin, who has been absent from five meetings. Slavin says the salary of $1.50 a meeting is not enough. He refused to serve. Tax payers wrote to the council say ing that Kamradt's bond was insuffi cient because some of his sureties were unable to stand the amount which they had signed. THREE RAILROADS ARE TIED UP BY SNOWSLIDES Overland Train* Routed Around Moun tain* Via Vancouver, Uanli., and North Bank SEATTLE. Jan. 12.—Continuous snowslides in the Cascade mountains kept the three northern transconti nental railroads tied up today, and overland trains were sent around the mountains by way of Vancouver, Wash., and the North Bank road. The Northern Pacific reported prog ress in clearing its line and announced that the mountain division would be cleared In time for tonight's trains to get through over their own tracks. Trains from the east due yesterday and today are coming in over the North Bank road. Heavy snow is falling In the mountains tonight, according to reports received by the Northern Pa cific and the Great Northern. All Milwaukee telegraph lines are down and no report of conditions along that line has been received. BILL TO AUTHORIZE BONDING OF FARMS SACRAMENTO, Jan. 12.—"Why should the farmer pay 8 per cent to borrow money which his local* bank has secured from the state or county for 2 per cent?" said Assemblyman J. W. Guiberson of Fresno county today In discussing a bill which he is pre paring for the financial emancipation of the farmer. "It manifestly is unfair that the banks should take from tax payers an exorbitant profit for handling" public money." Mr. Guiherson's bill, on which he is »t work with his attorneys, will enable farmers to bond their land, thus ac quiring collateral on which they may secure call loans for handling their ?ropß, or by selling their bonds secure funds for long terms for development »f their properties. Under the terms of this act. farmers would be entitled to secure loans from national banks, which are prohibited rrom lending money even on first nortgages on real estate. The bill will provide for state and •ounty funds being loaned on call to the highest bidder, thus bringing. Mr. luiberson believe?, not only a greater return to the public treasuries on their rile funds, but by competing with the lanks, lowering the rate of interest to .ht; public. • FRENCH WAR MINISTER RESIGNS IN CRISIS Chief, Assailed for Reinstat ing Army Officer, With draws From Cabinet PARIS. Jan. 12.—Alexandre Mille rand, who won a reputation at home and abroad as a great war minister, resigned from that office today. M. Le Brun. minister of colonies, has been appointed minister of war, and M. Bes nard, under-secretary of finance, re places ,Le Brun, the under-secretary ship being temporarily abolished. This ministerial crisis was the di rect outcome of the reinstatement of Lieutenant Colonel Dv Paty de Clam in the French territorial army. The reinstatement -incident led to dramatic sessions of the cabinet, at which M. Millerand explained that he felt honor bound to re-establish Paty de Clam in fulfillment of a promise, made by his predecessor in the war ministry, M. Messimy, but as this act was causing serious attacks against the ministry, he desired to withdraw. Premier Poincare admitted that had the minister of war conferred with him he could not have seen his way clear to ratifying the reinstatement of Dv Paty de Clam. Nevertheless he wanted to stand by the war minister and believed it was the duty of the entire min istry to resign. M. Millerand's resignation was ac cepted and the cabinet reorganized. The opinion prevails in some politi cal circles that the resignation of M. Millerand may lessen Poincare's chances of victory at the Versailles congress, which will name the presi dent on January 17. TORTURED BY UGLY ITCHIMUPTION Doctor Recommended Resinol. Half of a 50c Jar Cured It. Baltimore, Md., Nov. 5, 1912.—"My little daughter was taken with a very small spot on the back of her hand. It grew larger and caused her more trouble. When she would scratch it, It would bleed and get very ugly look ing, so I doctored it myself for about a year, and at last It broke out on both knees, and when she would go to bed she would scratch, and was so tortured and suffered so from the itch ing that I took her to our doctor, who recommended Resinol Soap and Resinol Ointment. Improved with first application. "I sent for samples and after the first application the itching and inflamma tion was improved, and I kept it up night and morning, and by the time the sample was gone she complained very little, so I got a fifty cent jar. and be fore that was half gone the trouble had entirely disappeared." ("Signed) Mrs. Maude Schmechel, 2757 Presbury ] Street. Nothing we can say of Resinol equals j what others, such as Mrs. Schmechel, say of it. If you are suffering from itching, burning skin troubles, pimples, blackheads, dandruff, chapped face and hands, ulcers, boils, stubborn sores, or piles, tt Will cost you nothing to try Kesindl Ointment and Soap. Just send to Dept. 7-T, Resinol Chem. Co., Balti more, Md., for a free sample of each. ! Sold by all druggists. THIS FRAT HOUSE HAS NO DOORS Architect Forgets to Provide Way to Enter Chicago Club's Home (Special Dispatch to Ttaa Call) CHICAGO, Jan. 12—Members of the Beta Theta fraternity at Northwestern university grouped themselves today about the recently completed founda tion for their new home, and, deeply puzzled, scratched their collective neads. Four solid walls of masonry bounded the embryo house. Not an opening could be found for entrance. "Wher.e will the doors be?" one of* the students finally asked the man in charge of the construction work. "You've got me," the foreman finally admitted. 'Looks as if we clean for got 'em." The architect who drew tiie plans was informed of the discovery, and will order that for convenience sake in entering the building, doorways ba supplied. New Telephone Directory for San Francisco and Bay Counties Goes to press January 31 Please arrange for changes not later than January 25 /S\ THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE f&% AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY \®gj? GOVERNMENT TO RECLAIM WOMEN Ridi Philanthropists to Fur nish Money to Redeem White Slavers' Victims WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Stanley O. Finch, who has been in charge of in vestigations instituted by the depart ment of justice in enforcing the white slave law. now is in communication with a group of philanthropists form ulating plans for a national movement to reclaim victims of the traffic. Finch just has returned from New York, where he consulted some of the leaders in the proposed philanthropy and although he declined to discuss the details of the plan, he said no embar rassment for funds was expected. It is understood John D. Rockefel ler Jr., is one of the principal finan cial supporters of the undertaking. While men who are convicted under the law receive adequate punishment, the problem of caring for their vic tims from the first has been the hard est one with which to cope. It is the plan to expend the income from a large permanent fund which may amount to several millions in maintaining rescue homes in which girls who are reclaimed from the underworld may be given care and instruction necessary for a new start In life. The canvass, which special investi gators of the department of justice have been making of women who were leading vicious lives, will be continued and it is expected eventually that the department will have a detailed history of the inmates of segregated districts throughout the country. The project for the reclamation of all these women aims at establishing a sufficient number of homes—perhaps more than 2,000 —in all parts of the country so that definite help may be offered to every women who will con sent to give up a vicious, life. This Is the Train SUNSET LIMITED DE LUXE Once a Week Extra Fare $10 From San Francisco 6:00 p. m. every Tuesday (Third St. Station) From Los Angeles 8:15 a. m. every Wednesday Arrives New Orleans 7:20 p.m. every Friday Drawing Rooms Cafe-Dining Car Ladies* Maid Compartments. Manicuring Three-Room Suites Stock Reports Hairdressing Electric Berth Lamps Stenographer Massage Observation Car Writing Desks Valet Service Ladies* Parlor Barber Shop Clothes Pressing Library Shower Bath Vacuum Cleaners Close Connection at New Orleans with fast trains to Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago; also with Southern Pacific's commodious Atlantic steamers sailing to New York on Saturdays and Wednesdays. Southern Pacific SAX FRANCISCO: Flood Bnlldinjr, Palace Hotel. Ferry Station. Phone Kearny 3X90. Third and Townsend Streets Station. Phone Kearny 190. OAKLAND: Thirteenth an A Broadway. Phone Oakland 162. Sixteenth Street Station. Phone Oakland 1458. EXPERT TO DELIVER PAGEANT LECTURE Frederick R. Benson , Will Give Last Talk in This City This Afternoon Frederick R. Benson, the English pageantry expert, will deliver his la<*t lecture in San Francisco on pageant. o at the St. Francis before the Recrea tion league this afternoon. The public is invited to attend. Mr. Benson leaves for his home Tuesday. The pageant of nations which Mr. Benson proposes for the Panama-Pa cific international exposition is arous ing enthusiasm among many local or ganizations interested in civic welfare. Funds for preliminary work have been supplied by a number of persons inter ested. The pageant is to be a setting forth by the nations of the world of the. de velopment of their national life from the earliest times to the present. It will not be a side show, but an in tegral and important part of the expo sition. A luncheon will be tendered Marquis de la Vega Inclan at the Cliff house today, and at its oonclusion he will be conducted to the exposition site in he may reserve a location for Spain's participation ait the expo sition. The ceremony will be an mi i formal one. An invitation to the general public, beginning today, is extended by the exposition officials to visit the New Zealand building, 334 California street, and inspect the official pictures and models of the exposition buildings, which will adorn the site at Harbor View. The invitation was withheld until after the subscribers to the ex position fund had seen the plans ahd drawings. An interesting exposition program has been arranged by the members of the San Francisco District Dental so ciety for its entertainment of dental societies of Alameda county, Sacra menta valley, San Joaquin valley, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz, to be held next Saturday evening at the Palace hotel. 3