New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-09

SOUTHERN PACIFIC OFFICIALS UNEASY
RANK TROUBLES-A NOTED OUT
LAWS DEATH.
JBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIpUSE.l


San Francisco, July s..-Among the army OF
officials and clerks in the Southern Pacific Com
pany's big building there is a feeling just now
that lightning may strike any one from tn"
general manager down. The forger Of the thun-
derbolt is President c. p Huntington. whose ways
are mysterious and whose apparent omnscience has
made him the terror of all suborlin:tcs who have
any wrongdong negligence to conceal. Mr..
Huntington, il will be remembered came into
the presidency of the big railroad company by
making "A secret deal with Mrs. Hopkins
Searles. and thus securing proxies of more than
half the stock. The deposition Of Mr.. Stanford
WIS not followed by any radical changes. but
Mr.. Huntington's plan to condense allied de-
partments and 10 cut off any useless appcndaGes
was remorselcssv carried out. with the result
of saving much money Lately he is reported to
have been much dissatisfied with the mana cement
of several prominent officers and their removal
is said to have been decided on. Colonel Jack
Wright, division superintendent at Sacramento
is the first victim; but il is understood he will
soon have company Whether there be any
truth in these rumors not the result is TO
place every one in the railroads employ on the
alert. which is not had thing for efficiency.
The effort of the Bank Commissioners u get at
the real condition Of the suspended Pacific Bank
has been tedious and eXasperating. worse
tumble of accounts and securities probably never
fell TO any examiner Of public institution.
Wildcat banking had been carried on for three
years. and in that time nearly Sl,500,000 has
been lost in foolish loans and scml-speculative
enterprises Though the bank is declared solvent
the shareholders will have to bear this heavy loss
of capital and even if the assets can be realized
upon, depositors will have to wait many weeks
before they see their coin DIR. (. h. McDonaid
who owns eleven shares more than nall inter-
est is now in New York. and any effort to rcorgan
ize the bank will depend largely upon his de-
sires He is reported as anxious to get out OF
the corner. and Judging by the results of the
financiering since he resigned the active manage
mept of the bank. this desire is natural. Whether
the Peoples Home Savings Bank, which was an
adjunct of the Pacific Bank, will be able 10 re-
sumo is uncertain. The transfer OF some real
estate made by the Pacific Bank has been declared
illegal, so that it is doubtful whether the bank
can reopen without assessing the stockholders
The appointment of an executive committee to
solicit contributions and 10 make arrangements
for the midwnter fair is pretty good proof that
the project has passed beyond the stage of spccu-
lation. There is plenty of idle money here TO
make the scheme success. and even those who
opposed it at the outset are beginning TO see that
it offers the best means of stimulating business
and of bringing new settlers to the State.
The atrOcous murder Of Mrs Kate Grinis, the
wife of newspaper reporter, in water front
liouor store has stimulated concerted newspaper
attack on the ladies entrances TO such resorts
There are actually seventeen hundred liquor sell
ing places in San Francisco which maintain these
side entrances for women, and in certain districts
every shop has these attachments Drinking
among women is largely increasing in this city,
and the dives" and other low resorts are re-
oruiting mainly from the back rooms of these re-
SORTS The number of young girls who stcal
through these entrances is so large and the cases
OF ruin and degradation traced TO these places are
20 numerous that an effort will be made to IN
corporate in all saloon licenses clause foroldding
the maintenance Of any side entrances or rear
room and removing all screens from the doorwals
Among the deaths of the week was that of
John r. Jarboe. one Of the foremost Of San
Francisco lawyers. For over twenty years he
was the partner Of Ralph {: Harrison, recently
elected to the State Supreme bench, and the firm
of .Jarboe < Harrison conducted some Of the
most important htgatons IN Gafogni man M of
rare scholarship, and owned one of the hnest
private Libraries on the coast. ,,.
The death Of John Sontas at Fresno nm, week week
robbers whose murderOus deeds have hlIed me
California newspapers for the last year. Inc
dead mans companion IN ms long f G11 t
believed 70 be diving from his wounds. WHO ms
b,ntber George is also living severely wounded
in Folsom prison, the result OF heading jail,
break of desperate conycts: A young pupil 81
fbesn desperadoeS named William FredeIlcks Is
now = hunted outlaw. lie supplied the guns used
nv Sontag and his companions in trying TO secure
their liberty. and since his own release ron
prison he has killed two men and attempted one
sstacn rolhery lie was a petty criminal until
he met Sontar in prison. Under the train rob
hers tutcage he has suddenly developed mo Il
daring outlaw whose chief desire seems - De u
sbcd blood He is now chased by several sh"riis.
bnt il is probable he will not be captured with
cut loss of life.