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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
A SERIOUS ACCUSATION.
Charged With Selling His Vote
to Charles Ward and
DR.. BuISon.
FRIENDS 90 ON HIS BOND.
The Prisoner Takes the Matter
Very Coolly When Arraigned
Before Judge Budd.

STOCKTON, CAL, May 8. - James
Brown, chairman of the Board of Super
visors, was this afternoon indicted by the
Grand Jury for receiving the bride, for the
giving of which Charles w. Ward was SEN
fenced on Monday to serve ten years in
San Quentin. The bride was given for the
purpose of securing Browns aid in getting
Architect Rushforth's plans for the new
County Hospital adopted and DIR. Bulson,
who acted as go-between between Ward
and Rushforth, was indicted with the
briber. Many thought it queer, at the
time, that Brown was not indicted with
them, but the Grand Jury was evidently
waiting for additional information to come
out at the trials of Ward and the young
physician.
The Grand Jury convened at 80 to-day,
and, promptly at 2 o'clock, filed into Judge
Budd's courtroom and announced that it
had found true bill against the Super
visor. A bench warrant was Immediately
issued, and Sheriff Cunningham found the
indicted man in his Office and conducted
him to the Courthouse.
Brown took the matter very coolly, evil
IDENTITY anticipating such action on the part
of the Grand Jury. He was released on
$4,000 bail, furnished by a number of
prominent citizens.
Brown has lived in this county thirty
five years, and has stood high in the COM
munity. At the trial of Ward he refused
to answer questions on the ground that his
answers might incriminate him. The case
is likely to go hard against him.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
TO OPEN Il WARDNEB NINE.
Citizens Indorse q Proposition of the
Company to Idle Worhnen.

Citizens Indorse q Proposition of the
Company to Idle WorImen.
WARDNER, IDAHO, May 8.-The Bun
ker Hill and Sullivan management having
expressed willingness to resume work in
their mine at wages of So per day for min
ers and 81 80 for carmen and shovelers, the
business men of Wardner and kellogg
drew up this petition, which is being gen.
orally signed:
We, the undersigned, citizens of Warder and
Kellogg, in consideration of the extremely low
price of lead and silver, and in further consid-
Grafton of the fact that the cost of living has
decreased, believe that, while these low prices
continue, So per day for miners and So so for
day laborers are fair and just rates of wages.
We further believe that the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company
has the same right to manage their own affairs
as we have to manage ours. We hereby pledge
the company our cordial support in its
determination to pay no higher wages
while prices of lead and silver are
so low, it being understood that
said company will restore wages to the former
basis of So SO and So whenever the prices OF
lead and silver advance so that the combined
value in New York of 100 pounds of lead to
two and half ounces of silver shall amount
to So.
1t is believed the mine will resume on
this basis. About 400 men are employed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
.FORESTERS At SAN JOSE,
Officers Are Elected and Other
Business of the Order
Transacted.
jacksonville Is Selected by the
Grand Court as the Next Place
of Meeting.

SAN JOSE, CAL, May S.-The second
days session of the Grand Court, A. o. +.
OF A., opened at O. clock this morning.
The point was raised that the sitting
grand officers. not being delegates, had not
the right to make or second motion and
occasioned a very lengthy and heated de-
bate. 1t was finally decided that all grand
officers were members of the convention
and had the same privilege as delegates
except that of voting, which is denied
them by the constitution of the order.
One of the most important amendments
placed before the convention, that of hold
ing the sessions every two years hereafter
instead of annually, was defeated. Wat
sonville was selected as the next place of
meeting.
The election of officers, which was made
a special order of business for the after
noon session, was a very warm contest.
The fact that fourteen supreme represent
tatives were to be chosen from among
about thirty candidates made the contest
lively. The following were successful and
will hold the reins of government for the
ensuing year: Grand chief ranger, A
Ordla of Los Angeles; grand sub-chief
A&ASOAI IL Os fO1dBS VI OdA1dHQJ ETduu
treasurer, s. A. White of San Francisco;
grand secretary, G. II. Bremen of
Alameda; grand recording secretary,
Solomon Peiser of San Francisco;
grand senior woodward, J. S. w. Saunders
of San Francisco; grand junior woodward,
John Heenan of San Francisco; grand
senior beadle, r. r. Dunstan of Grass Val
ley; grand junior beadle, Edwin L. Foster
of San Francisco; grand trustees-E. E.
Skinner of Eureka, II. B. George of Santa
Cruz, J. Z. Anderson of San Francisco;
grand auditors George Moody of San
Francisco, Ed Morris Of San Francisco, c.
NJ. Dies of Petaluma.
Notwithstanding the fact that during
the past year money has been scarce and
business stagnated, the order has been
steadily growing. Since the last session
of the Grand Court nineteen new courts
have been instituted. The courts have paid
out during the year for the relief of sick
and distressed members the sum of $685.
607. Nearly all of the subordinate courts
are in good financial condition.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
FIGHT WITH RIOTERS,
Police Compelled to Fire
Into the Ranks of
Strikers.
STONES AND BULLETS.
Women Increase the Troub BILE
Women Increase the Trouble
by Daring the Officers
to Shoot.
FIVE MEN BADLY INJURED.
Mills Kept Under Protection and a
Store Of Dynamite Heavily
Guarded.

CHICAGO, ILL, May 8.-Four police
men were injured and one striker was
fatally shot in riot at the Illinois Steel
Companys plant at South Chicago to-day.
The riot followed a mass-meeting of the
strikers held in Eighty fourth street.
About 500 men were present, and the
speeches became so violent and the men
were so demonstrative that the leaders
forced an adjournment.
The crowd would not dispense, however,
and the riot-call brought detail of fifteen
police officers headed by Lieutenant Wag-
ner, to the scene.
The police ordered the crowd to dispense.
The order was met with boots and threats,
the women among the men daring the
officers to shoot. The police finally charged
with drawn revolvers and were met with a
volley of stones and slugs.
Lieutenant Wagner and three of his men
fell. The other officers opened fire, send
ing about twenty-five shots into the crowd.
At the beginning of the firing the strikers
fed, four leaders being arrested.
The wounded are: John Wilkonki,
striker, shot through the head, will die;
Lieutenant Wagner, head cut with stones;
Officer Martin Crotty, dubbed into in
sensibility; Officer John McCaffry, badly
bruised; Officer William Walsh, head
badly cut with stones.
None of the policemen are believed to be
fatally hurt. After the shooting the riot
ers gathered in groups, threatening VEN
geance. The mills were kept under police
protection and the company's store of
dynamite was heavily guarded all day.
The American Railway Union has been
brought into the strike among employees of
the Illinois Steel Company at South Chi.
cago. Before the struggle is over the
National organization which brought out
the standing army in the Pullman strike
may throw its whole energy into the move
ment. 1t rests with President Debs
answer.
Tonight 2S5 members of the local or
ganization of American Railway Union
No. 521, which is composed of strikers,
took radical action. 1t announced that
it demanded an eight-hour day and So
cent increase of wages, and made de-
mand on Debs to assist with all the power
of the A. r. U.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
THE GUILD OF LETTERS.
Gratifying Progress Is Being Made
by the New Associa-
ton.

The Guild of Letters, organized for the
assistance of meritorious Pacific Coast
authorship, has issued circulars to those
who might be supposed to sympathize with
its objects. Its membership is now over
two hundred and the number is increasing
daily. At recent meeting General L. n.
Foote and James d. Phelan were added to
the directory.
The plan of the guild, as now formu-
lated, is simple and effective. Each asso-
ciate member is pledged to subscribe for
any book the committee of the guild NAV
deem worthy of publication. This COM
mittee is not necessarily composed exclu-
sively of the directors.
Indeed, its personnel has not vet been
decided upon. They will begin with the
publication of one book each year, or more
If the manuscript submitted to them will
warrant the undertaking. Armed with a
long roll of subscribers the executive com.
mittee can treat with the publisher on
terms of independence, and need not, like
the individual and often impecu-
NOUS author, submit to the exaction OF
enormous profits, which leave the writer
nothing but the fame, while the mechanic
pockets the money.
Miss Ina Coolbrith S poems from the firm
of Houghton, Mifflin & Co. will be the
initial work of the guild.
General Foote has made translation OF
the poems of Heinrich Heine. which have
been pronounced by critics we'll versed in
German literature far ahead of any English
rendition of that poet yet made, not ex-
cepting Theodore and Martin Foote'S
versions OF Remembrance, by Heine,
which appeared some time ago in a weekly
publication, is much superior in lyrical
construction to Lord Lytton's translation
OF the same poem, and is also more
accurate presentment of the sentiment of
the author.
The meetings of the guild are held in the
house of William Greer Harrison, who is
one OF the untiring promoters of its in
terests. 1t is purely unseltish in It's
motives, recognizing the necessity OF SYM
pathy, financial aid and business tact and
methods which authorship requires, and
looking only for its reward in the wisdom
OF Its Judgment in giving the literary world
the fruits of its choice and effort.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
CAPSIZED IN A GALE
Six White and TWenty-Six In
dian Seamen Thought to
Have PeriShed.
MASTS AND CANOES SIGHTED
1t Is Feared Other Sealing Vessels
Went to the Bottom During
the Recent Storm.

VICTORIA. B. c., May s. Captain
Steward of the sealing schooner Dora Sic
ward, which returned at 1 o'clock this
morning from her spring cruise, has little
doubt, from the reports they received from
Indian hunters of the schooner Favorite,
that the sealing schooner Walter A. Earle.
Captain Louis Magnesen, of this port, was
capsized in the open sea on Sunday, April
IA, and every member of the crew lost.
On Saturday, April 10, the day previous,
there was terrible gale and on the follow
ing Monday the schooner Earle was seen
bottom up with her rudder gone. She
evidently got into the trough of the sea
and was capsized. There was no sign of
any of the crew. The Earle had crew of
six white men and twenty-six Indians.
Wreckage, including mast and canoes,
has been sighted and it is feared other
schooners met the same fate.
The Walter a. Earle was one of the
ablest schooners in the Victoria feet, be-
ing of double topmast rig and of about
ninety tons burden. She was built at
Victoria and the control of her was in the
bands of Thomas Earle, NJ. P, and the
Magnesen Brothers. She has hunted out
of Victoria for several years and has nearly
always had Indian crews. She sailed from
Victoria in March with the rest of the
schooners of the coast fleet. Captain Louis
Magnesen was about 49 years of age and
leaves family and number of relatives
in Victoria.
Captain Steward got 500 skins, the high
line catch so far. The spring cruise has
been failure and all the owners will lose
money
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
MACE GETS THE OFFICE.

The Santa Clara County Treasurer
Elect MsGst Put ", a $4,000 Bond.
SAN JOSE, CAL, May S.--A large crowd
was in attendance at the meeting of the
Board of Trustees at Santa Clara last even
ing, as it was rumored that the board
would declare the Office of Town Treasurer
vacant and would elect successor to the
incumbent, Charles A. Mace, the Treasurer
elect having failed to qualify. Mr.. Mace
presented his bond to the board Monday
night, but the board was not satisfied with
his sureties.
When the election of Treasurer came
up last evening, Mr.. Mace was present and
stated that he had secured additional Sc
curities and that he was ready to file his
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
Youthful burglars Sentenced.

SAN JOSE, CAL, May S.-Frank Clatz-
bach and John Hoag were before Judge
Buck this morning for sentence. Clatz-
back was tried and convicted of footing a
room in the Beckwith block, at Los Gatos,
and Hoag, who was his accomplice,
pleaded guilty to the same charge.
Clatzbach, who is about 20 years of age,
was sentenced to one year at Folsom. In
the case of Hoag, who is IS years of age,
Judge Buck said he had been assured that
the boy would be sent to sea, and if ar
engagements are so made by Monday he
will be allowed to go
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
WHISKY MEN At WAR.
Rather Harsh Language Used at a Meet
ing of Trust Directors.

ing of Trust Directors.
PEORIA, ILL, May Sat noon to-day
an adjourned meeting of the stockholders
of the Distilling and Cattle-feeding Com
pany was called to order and $780, $40 shares
were represented by proxy and 1071 in per-
son.
S. D. Wead offered resolution that
whereas the bylaws had been amended so
that the meetings of stockholders could be
held either in Chicago or Peoria the meet
ing be adjourned forthwith until May Is
at Chicago. Mr.. Greenhut asked, when
the amendment had been made, why no
such action had been taken at the last
meeting OF the stockholders.
Alfred S. Austrian replied that the rec
ords would show, but they were not pres
ent, being in the possession of the secre7
tary. Greenhut again asked when the
amendment was made. II do not care to
handy words with you," said Austrian.
"You are low-lived whelp," retorted
Greenhut.
"You are gentleman" retorted Aus
TRAN, "but you will have hard work prov
ing it."
The resolution offered by Wead was car
ried by vote of $50, 400 shares atfirma-
lively to Ills negatively and the meeting
adjourned until May Is at Chicago.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
Gallant Rescue From Drowning.

SAN BERNARDINO, CAL, May S.-News
has been received here that Harry Roberts,
a former resident of Santa Barbara, who
one year ago left here for his old home in
Wales, recently performed gallant act at
Chester, England, in saving little girl from
drowning. The child fell out OF a boat i'm
mediately under a suspension bridge
which Mr.. Roberts was crossing, and he
plunged into the water from height of
some thirty feet and rescued the little one.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09

bond. After much wrangling. an ordinance
was passed declaring the Office of Town
Treasurer vacant, owing to the Treasurer
elect having failed to qualify to the salts
faction of the board, and then another
ordinance was passed appointing Mr.. Mace
Treasurer, providing suitable bond was
filed.
Mr.. Mace was given until May IA to file
his bond. The bond required is $500, 900.
The bond OF the former Treasurer was
$4,000, but it was raised to 5000, 900 owing
to the fact that $50, 900 of bonds are to be
issued for the purpose of establishing
water works
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
KILLED AT SEOUOIA.
an EmpIOye in the Lumber Mills Meets
Hith O Fatal 4ccident.

FRESNO, CAL, May 8.-Coroner Long
left this evening for the Sequoia lumber
mills, sixty miles east of here, having re-
ceived word of an accident in which w.
Werskind, one of the millhands, was killed
at o'clock this afternoon.
Werskind and four other men were rid
ing from the mill to the lumbe fume, a
short distance away, on carload of lum-
Der. On steep grade the car became I'M
manageable and ran off the track, and all
the men were injured, Werskind fatally.
He died soon after. 1t is believed that the
injuries of the other men are not serious.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
SETTING THE STAKES.

York of the Valley Road Surveyors Pro-
crossing RapadIy Near Stockton.
STOCKTON, CAL, May S.-The sur
veyors OF the Valley road tonight have
completed the setting of the permanent
survey stakes for distance of six and a
half miles from the city to the point where
the railroad will cross the Mariposa road
on its way to the Stanislaus River. The
crossing will be at BurneyviIle, indicating
that the road will not reach Modesto with
the main line.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
Sensation In a Los Amge,es court

LOS ANGELES, CAL, May s.-During
the trial of a case involving the $10O 600
left by Bridget Wilson, whose husband is
trying to break the will. sensation war
created by witness who formerly lived
with Mrs. Wilson, who testified that Mrs.
Wilson "never drew sober breath in the
last five years of her life"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
Seeks to .4renoe a M,trder. ,

FRESNO, CAL, May S.-For three or
four weeks an unknown stranger. about 50
years old, has been hanging around
Fresno. To-day it was learned that he had
been trying to find and kill Jack Smith,
who shot and killed Percy Williams,
brother of Tom Williams, the San Fran
cisco horseman, few years ago. The old
man, who says he is a brother OF Williams i,
declares that he will devote his life to
aVeuging the crime
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
DID Not Arrest morrill,.

TOPEKA, KANs., May 8. - Governor
Morrill, was not arrested to-day, as was
announced by the attorneys in the case
yesterday, for the reason, they say, that
the man who is to swear to the complaint
could not reach here to-day. The attor-
neys insist tonight that the arrest will be
made, and that Morrill, will have to SUBJ
NIT to the law the same as any private
citizen
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
THEFT OF A BICYCLE.
4 San Jose Man Rides off on, the Wrong
Wheel and Is arrested.

WHetV UHtI 10 HTTtSteU'
SAN JOSE, CAL, May S.-A. H. Kunz
was brought before Justice Dwyer to-day
on a charge of grand larceny, and his
examination was set for Friday, May 10.
Kunz is accused of stealing bicycle be-
longing to Ed Williston. Williston left his
wheel in front of the Tribune Cyclery
last evening and when he returned few
minutes later the wheel was gone. Later
in the evening Kunz was arrested with the
wheel in his possession.
Kunz claims that he had left wheel in
front of the same place and as it was gone
when he returned he took Williston' IS
wheel. He says he supposed Williston had
taken his wheel by mistake, and in taking
Williston's wheel he had no intention to
commit a theft.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
Fire at Buffalo.

BUFFALO, N. Y, May S.-A fire early
to-day destroyed NJ. Strausse & Co.'s tan
merry, Postal Station A, Groben's coalyard,
barns, several freight-cars, two dwellings,
anumber of horses and large amount of
stock in East Buffalo The loss is estimated
at $3.50 900, with $125, 900 insurance
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
Sale of a suicides Horses.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May s.-The
trotting-horses belonging to the estate of
the late George Scattergood, who COM
mitted suicide recently, were sold to-day.
Ell Robinson, 6years DID, sired by E. Hau-
lette, trial record 2:14, was bought by
George Rowe for $4,000.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
En-Pemstom Aoent Pond Dead.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, May S.-A special
to the Wisconsin from Westfeld, Wis,
says: Ex-United States Pension Agent
Lee Pond died suddenly of heart disease at
l o'clock this afternoon. The deceased
was prominent in Grand Army circles and
served in the State Senate
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
AcqttittaI of Dentady.

DENVER, Colo, May s.-The jury in the
Demady case returned a verdict acquitting
him of the Trapper murder tonight after
having been out four hours and half.
The prisoner, Richard Demady, was
charged with the first one of the
stranglings on the crow" Lena Taper,
his mistress, was the victim.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
Delapare's Senatorial Deadlock.

DOVER, DEL, May s.-After taking the
thirty-second ballot of the day at $50
o'clock the joint session OF the Legislature
adjourned till o'clock tomorrow. The
last ballot was: William Dupont (R.), IL;
DR.. Burton (R.) 8; Ridgely (D.), 8; Tun-
nell Cd. J. L
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09

SALT LAKE, UTAH, May s.-The con-
stitutional convention, which has for sixty
days past been framing the fundamental
law of the new State, finished its labors
this afternoon and adjourned sine die.
Speeches of congratulation were made, and
the closing hours were very interesting
and impressive.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
Tried to Ktll Himself.

SANTA BARBARA, CAL, May s.-News
reaches here that Airaldo Costanzo, a
Spanish-American employed on the old
Grondona ranch, in the upper Montecito,
attempted to commit suicide by shooting
himself in the neck several days ago. He
will recover.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09

SAN JOSE, CAL, May S.-Mrs. G. B. de
Arce, widow of the late Captain Francisco
c. de Arce, died at her home near this city
last night. She was born in Monterey
County in 1887, and in 1852 was married to
Captain de Area, who was formerly Secre-
tary Of State Three children survive her.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
American Tract Societu.

NEW YORK, N. Y, May s.-The seventh
annual meeting of the American Tract
Society was held to-day. Rev. George
Knox, who has for years labored in the
missionary fields of Japan, declared the
student of English literature would find
better books in Toxic than in San Fran
cisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
Under nfnrtiaI Latu.

BLUEFIELDs, w. VA, May S.-Poca-
hontas is practically under martial law.
The public ways are guarded and the COM
manding positions are all in charge of the
militia. The companies in Pocahontas
are determined to continue mining at all
hazards.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
Omaha Damned hu HILL.

OMAHA, NEBR. April S.-A terrible hail
storm did much damage in Omaha yester-
day. Hailstones as large as hens eggs fell
and filed the streets. Much property was
destroyed, mostly glass and young trees.
The damage will amount to thousands.
But little glass remains in windows 'front.'
ing south.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
Riddted Each other Wath Bucksho,.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK, May s.-This
afternoon at Wampoo, this county. an at
tempt was made by Constable Greene to
serve warrant on Milt Harper. Both
men were armed with double barreled
shotguns and began firing at each other.
Greene received ten buckshot in the body
and Harper twenty-three. Both died in
less than an hour
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
To,cm Threatened by FIre.

SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, May Sire
men from here were called to Yellow
Springs to-day by fire that threatened to
sweep the town. Littles grain elevator,
Buchert's carriage works, a livery stable
and five dwellings were burned. Loss
$4,000.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
The Grant Ordered to ALASKA.

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, May s.
Orders came from Washington to-day
for the revenue cutter q. S. Grant, after
undergoing repairs, to proceed to the north
for services in the Boring Sea patrol fleet.