The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-09-26
FLED in HASTE.
Why General EZeta Did
Not Linger Here.
ROBBED RIGHT AND LEFT.
He Was Charged $3.50 for Five
False Teeth.
ROBBED RIGHT AND LEFT.
A CREDITOR CAME FROM AFFAIR.
The Exile Feared That He Would Be
Arrested on Trumped Up
Charge-The Deputies Bills.

Many good and great people have come
to San Francisco, tarried for a time and
gone away to make unfeeling remarks
about the people, their manners and
| customs; but few have fed from the city
feeling that they were leaving a commu-
nlty of robbers behind. Antonio Ezeta is
one of the few. He could not say, like the
great John l.. Sullivan, that il was ''dead
Jay town, for to his untutOred mind it was
town of living, peruiciously active jags.
He could not say, like the pompadoured
master Of fist and tongue, that here he en-
countered dead cold frost" for he de-
parted feeling that he had been roasted to
turn.
1t is not alone the memory of the enter
prlsing Marshal and his expensive deputies
that ranked in EZeta's mind as he turned
his face toward Mexico and sorrowfully
regarded his emsciated pocket-book. He
thought of the tradesman, the merchant
and the professional man whose exactions
compelled him to flee from a land in which
the wine is good and the women are fair
1t was wrong, very wrong. to say that
Ezeta was charged $50 a day for the
services of the deputy marshals who
guarded him. He was ouly charged $50
day.
There were six deputies and he was
charged S. day for each of them. 1t is
true that many deputies were employed
during the strike at 81 day, and many
more could have been employed for that
amount or less. but there is some difference
between the deputy who guards a train
from the assaults of truculent and un-
reasonable strikers and the deputy who
guards a distinguished foreigner in
fashionable hotel.
EZeta may yet forgive the Narshal-who
has, doubtless, forgiven himself-but be
can neither forget nor forgive a certain
dentist who lives and labOrs in this favored
city. Five of the wanderers teeth were
shattered in collision with a rebels pistol
ball just before he left his loved native
land, and TONY" as he was irreverently
called, deplored their loss. His smiles
palled upon the fair ones at whom they
were winged and he hated to keep his
mouth shut, although eDjoined to do so on
more than one occasion by his thoughtful
attorneys.
A dentist was summoned and engaged to
/ repair the gaps in the fugitive's jaws. He
pr epared five false teeth, attached them to
plates and closed the breaches in Ezeta's
facial orifice.
"What Is your charger" Attorney Ru-
bens asked for Ezeta.
ut is $780, sir" was the modest reply.
IT'S wbich?"
81 said $3.50"
A gale was blowing across the city at
the time, but the forlorn exiles gasped for
breath when the dentists reply was trans
lated to them.
Surely you're joking" said the lawyer,
castically. you don't mean to charge
n rich man like Ezeta only $3.50 for five
false teeth! Why, msD, you'll ruin your
selfl WHY didn't you say SCOOP"
Il wish had" was the cool reply, and
the money was paid and pocketed.
The story of the exile and the dentist
was told by one of Ezeta's intimate friends:
General Ezeta was robbed right and left"
he declared, land that is one reason WHY
he left the city so soon. I was with him
the last night he was here and a man ut
terly unknown 10 him came iE and pre-
sented bill for 1901. He said it was from
| a merchant in San Salvador and he gave
the general two hours in which to pay.
Ezeta had hardly a dollar left and this visit
convinced him that plot had been formed
to keep him here as debtor Til trump
up charges could be forwarded from San
Salvador"
This friend of Ezeta says there is no
truth IN the story that Antonio is going to
gather an army in Mexico to fight for HIS
lost power. He declares that Ezeta will
meet his companions in exile at Mazatlan
and that for the present they will make no
| effortto upset the Government that exists
| in San Salvador