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The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
STOCKTON BANKS LOSE,
County Supervisors Refuse tc
Strike Out an Arbitrary
Assessment.
Await a Supreme Court Decision on
StanislauS County
Appeal.

STOCKTON, CAL, July 20.-This was
the last day on which the Board of Super
visors, acting as the County Board of
Equalization, could wipe out the heavy
assessment of nearly 100000 made bv
Assessor Ortman on the stock of the First
National Bank of this city, and it refused
to do so. This is the first time that such
assessment has been attempted here and
it raised a storm among the bankers
President Hewlett of the First Nat,onal
Bank at once petitioned the Board of
Supervisors to strike the arbitrary assess.
ment from the roll.
The opinion OF District Attorney Nutter
was asked for by the board to-day He
gave it in writing th is afternoon. Nntter
recited the fact that Acknowledgement
Fitzgerald had advised the State Board ri
Eauali cation that County Assessors had a
Ilght to tax the stock of national banks
heid by individuals and cited the case in
Stanislaus County, where Assessor Cam
pen leVled an assessment on the stock of
national bank, and when the Tax COL
rector was enloined from collecting il
Judge minor decided in his favor. THE
case Is now before the Supreme Court. and
IN "a view OF the unsettled legal status the
District Attorney advised the board to let
the assessment stand.
President Hewlett was on band ~
TEST against such action, but the Super-
visors refused to alter the assessment and
tne Dankers went awav disgruntled. 1t is
propaDie that decision will be handed
uoWn Dy the Supreme Court before the
tme 1or collection OF taxes arrives. but if
not the FIRST National Bank will probably
ofing suit TO prevent their collection.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
CRIME AT MoNrEREY.
Property of a Whaling Company Wrecked
by O. Miscrednt.

MONTEREY, CAL, July 20.-The Mon
terey Whaling Company is the victim of a
malicious persecution. Some one with
nothing better to do went oat to the
whaling company's works in New Monte
rey, turned on the large faucet of one of
the tanks, and as consequence 300 GAL
Ions of oil was destroyed. The mlscreant
was then not satisfied. Procuring a crow
bar he proceeded to wreck che company's
trying-works, and succeeded to the extent
OF about $3.50 damages. Suspicion rests
upon person lately connected with the
whaling crew, and VINO left town, presum-
ably, the day before the outrage was dis
covered. Captain Pedro can assign no
cause for the destruction of his property.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
Will Make His Colleague Rue
the Day he Rushed Into
Print"
STATEMENT TO THE PUBLIC.
Defends Himself and Wife From Those
Who Seek to Impugn Their
Motives.
Los ANGELES OFFICE OF THE CALL, J
328 SOUTH BROADWAY, )
Los ANGELES. CAL. July %.

Los ANGELES, CAL, July 20.
The Whittier State Reform School fight
between Trustees Patterson and Mitchell
took new turn to-day. Lawyer Mitchell
returned from San Francisco, where he
took an active part in the organization of
the Democratic State Central Committee,
and for the tlrst time saw Trustee Patter-
sons long explanation of the motives
which have, according to Patterson s
view. impelled Mrs. Mitchell to instigate
the late investigation into the manage
ment of the institution.
The fiery Democrat from Cahuenga
when questioned as to the Patterson letter
to the public said:
81 shall henceforth deal with Mr.. Pat
terson. owing to his personal attack upon
myself and wife, and if mistake not
shall make him rue the day he rushed
into print in this personal and insulting
manner"
This evening Mitchell handed the cor
respondents and local reporters the fol-
lowing:
Upon my return from San Francisco my at
tention was called to the comm unication of
W. c. Patterson. Neither Mrs Mitchell nor
myself will defgn to notice this contemplate
personal attack further than TO say that it is
but part of his plans to stop the pending in
vestigation forced by Mrs, Mitchell, and an en-
deavor on his part to draw the attention of
the public from the disclosures of brutality
and mismanagement at the Whittier State
School, for which he is in q great measure re-
sponsible and is now the spoiogist Every
statement made by him which might be con
strued as derogatory is absolutely and un-
equivocally false and he knewi 1t to be false
when he made It. JOHN w. MITCHELL.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
The VENEZUELAN Case.
Counsel Storrow Prepares an I'M
portant Brief Against
Great Britain.
Accuses That Government of Forgery
in Connection With the Schom.
burg Line.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 20.-Vene-
zuela's brief prepared by Counsel StorroW
and presented to the Venezuelan Commits
sion as we'll as to the British counsel to-
day, is the most important paper that has
so far appeared in the case. Mr.. StorroW
demonstrates there never had been any
British sovereignty in the disputed ter
ritory: that the Dutch never gained the
SLIGHTEST foothold in the Orinoco basin
and therefore never transferred what did
not exist to Great Britain, and caps his
argument by demonstrating that the
Schomburg line, as held by Lord Sails
bury, was a forgery perpetrated oy the
British Government twenty years after
Schomburg' death.
Mr.. Storrow says the British claim has
confessedly no basis except occupation,
and the rules of law applied even to the
facts alleged not only give no support to
the British attempt to extend the boun-
dary, but are specifically and atfirmatiyely
fatal to it. He demollshes the so-called
temporary posts in the Cuyuni Basin and
at Barrina Point by showing that they
were Jrading-stations quickly destroyed by
the Spanish, who maintained sovereignty
over the region, and proves that the actual
settlements of the Dutch and Spanish were
always separated by $50 miles of forest.
The Oregon boundary case, which made
much international law, IS applied by
Counsel Storrow to the existing dispute,
and the British arguments in that case
are tuE9ed against Salisbury's present
contentious by showing that while private
occupation may in time give a private
title, no occupation can create sovereign
dominion unless it be directly authorized
or adopted by his Government at the out
set and for the announced purpose OF ac-
quiring sovereignty.
Mr.. Storrow refers to the Schomburg
line and traces its history. Incidentally
he finds that the British blue book leaves
part of a sentence out of Sehomburg's
memoir therein quoted, which shows that
Schomburg had no idea his line would
amount to anything until its termini at
least was agreed upon by the disputants.
Venezuela never agreed to any of it. The
lines marked by Schomburg on the,maps
published by himself and by the Govern
ment were declared at the outset to be the
definition of the British claim and merely
a basis for discussion; but now, says Mr..
Storrow, no discussion will be permitted
within that case by Great Britain as to the
territory within that line, and all that
will be submitted to arbitration is terri
tory formerly claimed far outside of it.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
THE NEWS OF SAN JOSE
Reported Capture of Butcher
Dunham by Mexican
Officers.
The Contest of the Late George H.
Parker's Will to Be Reopened
in September.

SAN JOSE. CAL, July 2o.-W. II.
Wheeler, a Chinese agent, furnishes the
latest report regarding the whereabouts OF
Dunham, the escaped murderer of the Nc
Glincy family at Campbells. A few days
ago he received a letter from his brother
in-law at Guaymas, Mexico, stating that
the Guaymas papers had just published a
telegram from Santa Ana, State of Sonora,
to the effect that Dunhan had been ar
rested by the Chief of Police of that place,
and that the murderer would soon be con-
veyed TO San Jose. No information has
yet been received bv either the Chief of
Police or tie Sheriff. The news may be
correct, for Santa Ana is far inland and
travelling to the nearest railway would be
necessarily slow.
Mr.. Wheeler has always held TO the
opinion tn Dunham, after leaving the
Santa Clara Valley, went to Mexico, pre-
sumably by water. He has sent scores of
San Jose papers, containing Dunham' s
description and an account of the murder,
to friends and relatives In the principal
towns along the upper Mexican coast, and
states that the people in those sections are
now well posted and are on the lookout
for the murderer.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
GovERNo8 RUssBLL,s FUNERAL.
President Cleretand and Joseph Jefferson
Afnong the Mourners.

President Cteretdnd and Joseph Jefferson
Asnong the Mourners.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS, July 2O.-The
uneral services over the remains of ex-
Governor William E. Russell were held to-
day. At 1880 A. NJ. private services were
conducted at the late residence of the de-
ceased by the Rev. Alexander Mckenzie
of the Shepherd Memorial Church, the
late Governors pastor. The body was
then taken to the City Hall, where the re-
mains lay in state from II to O'Clock and
were viewed by thousands of people.
President Cleveland, accompanied by
Joseph Jefferson, arrived in Boston at
1850 O'Clock this afternoon. The party
was driven direct to the Somerset Club,
where luncheon was served, after which
the party went TO Cambridge in:carriages.
The final services were held at Shepard
Memorial Church about 4 P. NJ. The sing
ing at the church was by an augmented
choir taken from the boys choirssof st.
PauPs Church of Boston, the Appleton
Chapel and Christ's Church of Cambridge,
assisted by the Albion male quartet OF
Boston.
The services were brief and simple, con-
sisting, in addition to the singing, of Scrip
tural readings and prayer by the pastor,
Rev. DR.. Alexander Mckenzie.
After the remains had been deposited in
the receiving vault President Cleveland
and Mr.. Jefferson returned to Buzzards
BaY
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
PORTLAND BURGLARS F0nED.
Driven From the City by Officers on the
Eve of a Proposed Bank
Robbery

PORTLAND, Or, July 90. = Burglar
Charles F. Moore, recently released from
San Quentin after serving four years for
having robbed Neuburger, Reiss & Co. of
$4,000 worth of silks, was here last Friday
with John Belts, New York crook. They
were in town but twenty-four hours when
the police peremptorily ordered them to
leave. On Saturday morning Detect
i've Simmons learned that the office of
d. d. Oliphant & Co. had been entered
and $50 stolen an hour or so before Moore
and Belts had been ordered from the CITY.
The Office mad been left in charge of q
woman stenographer. When he inquired
as to why the robbery was not at once re-
ported at police headquarters he was told
that the firm did not believe that it would
result in the cEpture OF The thleves.
Detective Simmons obtained a full de-
scription of the men who robbed the Of
fee, and that description fitted Moore and
Belts like glove. This morning Chief of
Police Minto was advised of the arrest of
the thieves at Spokane. Detectives Day
and Simmons are en- route TO bring them
back.
By apprehending this pair here on Fri
day afternoon the officers averted bank
robbery. Detective Day said this forenoon
that since the departure of Moore and
Belts he was advised by one of their
friends that it had been their purpose 10
rob the First National Bank in East Port
land on Saturday morning. Moore and
Belts, well armed, went to the banking
house or Friday noon to change some cur
rency. That was done to give them an
opportunity to survey the premises and
learn the best and safest mode of escape
after completing their job. At that time
there were too many persons in that local
ity, so they postponed the proposed rob-
berry until the following morning, when
an attempt would have been made, but for
their deportation.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
LONG BEACH ASSEMBLY.
Equal Sufra0ists DeItvsr Addresses to
the ChaMtduQMans.

Equal Sufra0ists DeItrsr Addresses to
the ChautdEquGns.
LOS ANGELES, CAL. July 29.-The fe-
male suffragists had an inning at the
Chautauqna Assembly at Long Beach to-
day, both the afternoon and evening ses-
sions being devoted to addresses in the in
terests of the movem ent.
Rev. Anna Shaw was heard In the even
ing and made one of her forcible presenta-
tions of the cause of her sex. She said
that every one would admit that wome n
were more moral than men, and that tn q
great moral force of the world was woman
kind.
The experience in States where wome n
voted had shown that while women we re
not so strongly partisan as men they co M
PEELED both political parties to put
in nomination men of good moral
character. Because women were
more peaceable than men many
said that this was an argument
against woman's enfranchisement, be-
cause ballots and bayonets went togeth er.
This might be true il all there was of war
was the lighting, but the burden of main
tanning the army in the field and the fam
lily at home rested on woman.
Miss Shaw called atten ton to the fact
that this was the only nation which mas
erected no monuments to the women of
war.
Rev. Carlos Martyr spoke in favor of
female suffrage at the afternoon session.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
STATE EoUALIzERs MEET.
hrrdnge to Receive Complaints From
RdiIroGd Companies

SACRAMENTO, CAL, July 20.-The
first meeting of the session of the State
Board of Equalization. which will con-
tinue for at least two mon this, was held to.
day. Routine business was disposed of
and several interior counties were allowed
an extension of time. After considerable
discussion the following dates were set for
hearing the plants of the various rail-
road interests throughout the State should
they deem it advisable to present any: On
the oath inst. the Geralala River, Califor-
MIA and Nevada and the San Francisco
and San Mateo roads; on the 25th the
Sierra Valley and Mohawk; on the 9th
the Carson and Colorado, the Nevada
County Narrow-gauge and the Northern
California and Oregon; on the 2Sth the
North Pacific Coast, the Pacific Coast and
Pajaro Valley; on the 18th the Southern
California and the Atlantic and Pacific:
on the 30th the San Francisco and North
Pacific; on the 3lst the Southern Pacific
system. On August / a hearing will be
accorded the Pullman Palace-car Com
pany.
Equalizers Beamer and Arnold were an
pointed a committee to 60 to Oakland and
obtain certain important data required bv
the board in the furtherance OF its pro-
ceedings.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
INTEBEsrS THE COAST.
Prominent CGlforatans at Harrington.
AetU Postoftce-PensiOns.

Prominent CGIiforaians at Washington.
NetU Postoftce-PenstOns.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 2O.-Ex-
Representative Caminettl of Amador and
T. T. Lane of Angels Camp, California,
were in Washington tonight. They were
delegates to the Chicago convention and
afterward spent several days in st. Louis.
ana will look in at the Populist conyen-
tion.
postoffice was established to-day at
Poukiny, Mendocino County, CAL, and
William Bonee appointed Postmaster.
Pacific Coast pensions were issued as
follows:
California: William H. Pratt.
San Francisco; Theodore Woods. Soldiers
Home, Los Angeles; Samuel A. Hopkins,
Bridgeport; Isidore Lamoreaux, Clayton.
Renewal and increase-David G. Mitchell
Riverside. Increase-W William t. Gooding,
Los Angeles. Original, widow-Augusta
L. Bishop, San Francisco.
Oregon: Original-J. Esper Luper, at
Dalles; Moses Z. Thompson, Portland.
Increase-Andrew J. Byers, Independence.
Original, widow-Sarah NJ. Mobler, Mount
Tabor
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
JAIL LIFE At ERSEKADA.
James E. Gdrratt's Suferings While Con.
fined Without Cause in Mexican
0Uu0e0n


SAN DIEGO, CAL, July 20.-A year and
four months in Mexican prison, without
trial or right of bail and part of the time
IN solitary confinement, is the experience
which James E. CARAT, a young
Canadian who arrived by steamer from
Ensenada this morning, has just passed
through. Garratt wss arrested on March
Z2 OF last year, charged with completely in
the theft OF gold bar valued at $12, 800
he was placed in Jail in company with
Allan Pratt. a young Englishman. who
was bookkeeper for the firm that lost the
brick.
Garratt talked freely of his experience
to-day, and said that his release was not
due to the friendlv offices of the Governor
OF Lower California, Colonel Agustin San
gines, but in spite of him. No evidence of
any kind was ever found to even point to-
waro Garrast or Pratt, and after this long
imprisonment both were released Satur-
day.
Were you ill.treated2" was asked of
Garratt
:, NO; l was not hanged up by the
thumbs, as several poor devils were," he
replied, "but / consider the whole thing
an outrage. / was in solitary confinement
many days, without the right to receive
visitors or letters, or to send word to the
outside world. | was sick and delirious
with the fearful stencil from horde of
drunken and yermin-infested Mexicans
ana Indians, and the Governor would not
allow me to be moved or to receive better
care. L had to furnish my own bed and
board or l would have starved, as they
give only 20 cents in Mexican money per
day to prisoners for food. Ny lungs are
weakened and am reduced, as you see, to
almost skeleton, but will pull through
all right"
"Ifyou are British subject, why didn't
you appeal to Great Britain2'
u am Mexican citizen and that cut off
all lnterve ention, and also cuts off all right
OF indemnity for outrage. l went to
Mexico and invested and became Mex
ican citizen, relying on the belief that
Mexlco, under President Diaz, was an en-
ilghtened and progressive country, where
that my health is broken and my property
almost swept away. 1 do not blame Diaz,
however, as l know il is the work OF the
petty tyrants who carry on these outrages
without the knowledge of the general
Government.
AS soon as DiaZ finds out about it, as
intend he shall, there will be shaking up
OF dry bones among the Lower California
crew that will never be forgotten. l have
LETT there for good. / have disposed of my
property at sacrifice, and now l intend
TO get back under the folds of the Union
Jack as soon as can. If / am compelled
to go back to Ensenada in the future, |
shall take ont preliminary papers of
American citizenship and then l should
ike to see them put finger on me-"
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
xTALoN SUSPECT FREED.
Officers Seeking a Penitentidry "Escdpe"
Arrest the Wrong Han.

officers Seeking a PenitentiGry "Escape"
Arrest the Wrong Han.
AVALON, CATALINA ISLAND, July o.
G. /. Officer, who was arrested here on
Thursday on charge of being an escaped
convict from the Deer Lodge (Mont.) pen
itentiary, established his innocence and
has returned to the island. When his
captors reached Los Angeles with their
prisoner, Officer asked Sheriff Oswald of
Bakersfield, who made the arrest, to wire
to the Wardens of the Deer Lodge peni-
tentiary for Identification. This was done
and Oswald received the following dis
patch:
Officer worked for us as guard. He is OF
light complexion. Stuart Russell is dark.
CoSLEY AND McTEAGUE, Wardens.
Officer was also able to prove an alibi,
as he was within eight miles of Los An
geles at the time the convict escaped.
Sheriff Oswald returned to Bakersfield
and Officer vows he will secure damages
for false arrest.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
Monterey Ftsh Cannery CLOSED.

MONTEREY. CAL, July 20.-The Mon
terey Fish Cannery has closed for the sea-
son. Manager Haller says shat next year
a substantial structure will be built on the
water front. The necessary machinery will
be taken from closed cannery in San
francisco and placed in position here.
Should next seasons run Of salmon be as
great as the one Just ended, the plants
capacity will be increased and mackerel.
sardines and other fish will be hauled.
This year, with the small force of men and
machinery, Mr.. Haller succeeded in put
ting up about 100 cases of salmon daily.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
He Declares the Stockton and
Napa Payrolls Are Too
Large.
MEN HIRED TO DO NOTHING.
Decrease of Patients Accompanied
by an Increase in the
Expense.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, July 2o.-Drs.
Asa Clark and A. NJ. Gardner, superin-
tendent and resident physician respect
ively, of the Stockton and Napa Insane
Asylums, were called before Governor
Budd to-day and questioned as to the
reasons why the payrolls of those institu-
tons had increased materially although
the number of patients had not increased
in the same ratio.
In 1885," said Governor Budd, "there
were more patients in the Stockton asylum
in the month of June than there are at the
present time. yet the expenses were but
$67S4, while during the past month it cost
$S290 TO run the institution"
DR.. Clark explained that he had to pay
a plum bing bill on the new building, and
was informed by the executive that the
bill should have been paid out of the per-
manent improvement fund and not the
maintenance fund.
"And as to the Napa institution" con-
tinued the Governor, sin 1885 with 140e
patients the payroll was SIS ,46s, while in
1894 with 1885 patients the roll had in
creased to $92, ,000 find a peculiar con-
dition of affairs at the asylum. The di.
rectors had gone to the Legislature and
secured the appropriation of 40 cents per
capita, and what remained was used up in
the payroll. You have no right to pay
anything out of the appropriation for the
asylum, but you should provide for every
thing from the contingent fund, which
was fixed at $1,000 a year. What you
have saved on certain articles you have
used up by placing man or two more on
the payroll"
DR.. Gardner said in reply that when he
assumed charge of the institution he
found it was in a dilapidated condition.
As he employed the inmates in restoring
the buildings and in the gardens he had
been forced 10 increase the number Of at
tendants.
ION the contrary" retorted Governor
Budd, "your list of attendants has de-
creased, while you keep people to drive
your carriage"
"You are misinformed in that matter, I"
answered Gardner. There is only one
man employed in charge of the stable"
Then he explained the changes made in
the cooking and other departments and
claimed that the saving made by so doing
would result in the lessening of expense
for the year of $4,000, which next year
would be further decreased, probably by
the amount OF $4,000.
Then the Governor took a fall out OF
Deputy Attorney-General Anderson by
stating that the law which prevented the
asylums from hiring a special attorney
had resulted in a loss of $4,000 to Napa
alone. as the Attorney had not
collected any of the claims for paying
patients. Anderson retorted that as no
list of these claims had been given he
knew nothing about them.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
Admission Day Regatta.

STOCKTON, CAL, July 2o.-Chairman
Grunsky of the Admission day amuse-
nent committee to-day sent to President
Humphrey of the Pacific Athletic Associa-
tion the ultimatum of the committee as to
what it would do toward bringing the
6oat crews and single-scull men from San
Francisco 10 participate in the Admission
day regatta. The statement to the Pacific
Athletic Association recites the fact that
at least $500 will be appropriated for cups
and medals for the oarsmen. The COM
mlttee refuses to pay transportation of the
crews to Stockton aad back to San Fran
cisco, believing that the offer of valuable
prizes is quite enough.