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The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
TO RAISE THE BLA|RMORE
Captain William Burns Sent
Here by the British Un.
derWriterS.
The Difficulties of Recovering the
Bo1ies in the Vessel by Means
of Divers.

Captain William Burns arrived in this
City last Friday from London and is at
the Occidental. He comes in the interest
of the Blairmore underwriters and will
consider the best method of recovering the
sunken vessel.
Captain Burns is an experienced wrecker
and this is not his first visit to the Pacific
Coast, he having raised sunken vessel at
Portland, Or, several years ago.
He will make a thorough examination
of the wreck, and upon his recommends
tion the insurance companies in oniunc-
ton with the owners will act 1t is
thouK ht that an effort will be made to dis
pose of the hulk by sale, on account of the
cost and difficulty in getting her out of
the mud under the six or seven fathoms
of water in which she lies half buried.
REGARDING the recovery of the bodies of
the sailors entombed in the hull, the peril
of getting into the place where they are
supposed to be is a hazardous undertak-
ing. One of Whitelaw's divers made the
attempt Saturday night and failed to get
near the vessel because of the swift cur
rent that sweeps through the wreck He
refused to go down again on account of
the great danger of the undertaking.
To enter the hull the diver, after reach
ing the bottom, would have to climb
twelve or thirteen feet up the perpendicu-
lar deck to the open hatch. Then he
would drop the same depth down in the
interior. Walking along the bilge through
the soft, deep mud that has been. depos-
tied there by the current he would reach
the between deck.
This would confront him like a wall and
up this in the darkness he would have to
climb. Through the second hatchway he
would grope and drop again onto the bilge
IN the hold. Then he would be standing
upon the heap of ballast that rolled down
there when the Biairmore toppled over
The bodies may be buried under this
ballast or floating somewhere up against
the upper bilge, thirty or forty feet above
the divers head.
An entrance into the hulk through the
hole cut by the Union Iron Works people
would let the diver into the lower hold,
and if he did not find the bodies there he
would have to grope his way into the be-
tween-deck space, an exceedingly hazard
Gus labor.
Graham Menzies, of Menzies & Co.,
stated yesterday that in no wise would
the owners OF the vessel permit any more
holes to be cut in her. "The ribs of the
hull, said he, ''are % inches apart conse-
quently cut through plate would onl y be
that wide. If the bodies are not CO vered
up with the ballast they probably are by
the mud that has been deposited through
the wide katchways into the hull If
they are not washed out by the
ebb and flow Of the tide, which often
runs ten knots an hour there.
don't think it possible to recover
them until the ship is lifted to the
surface He will be courageous diver
who will risk his life crawling down
through these matches and through the
darkness of that lower hold. That hull is
in good condition and is valuable and will
be raised notwithstanding the predictions
in certain quarters
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28

support any candidate first, last and all
the time, would decline to serve"
Charles Bassett and Judge Garoutte at
the Union League expressed the greatest
confidence in the success of Mckinley at
ST. Louis, holding that the Ohio man
would be nominated on the first ballot.
They thought that the State Convention
should instruct for Mckinley, holding that
half the delegates already elected had
been instructed for him as first choice. and
very many of the remaining half had an.
nounced Mckinley as their second choice.
Major George Wheaton of the house of
Wheaton, Breon & Co, said all of the Re-
publicans and many of the Democrats in
their wholesale region were out and out
for protection. He remarked: "We don't
care whether the delegates to st. Louis are
instructed or not, so long as they vote for
McKiulev"
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
Engineer Killabrow and His
Party Climb Heights for
Huntington.
GOING TO HAVE a NEW ROAD.
Will Reach From Durango to Guada.
lajara, 500 Miles, and Maybe
to Mazatlan.

Samuel Killabrow, chief engineer of To-
cation for the Mexican International Rail-
way, owned by G. P. Huntington, who
has been surveying different lines over the
continental divide of Mexico, is at the
Grand. He is accom- panied by Mrs. Killa-
brow and is on his way to Guatemala.
Engineer Killabrow has during the last
year and half surveyed over region
1900 miles long. When he was asked last
night if it was rough he said:
81 reckon it is, when you can't carry a
wagon and can hardly get through on q
burro."
He was trying to get feasible route
from Durango TO Guatemala and finally
got one located, making the distance be-
tween about 500 miles.
Durango is the present terminus of the
Mexican International" said Engineer
Killabrow, ''and we want to get out where
there is big country and many towns
not previously touched by road. There
is branch road from Irapuato, on the
Mexican Central, to Durango.
The towns we will reach by the new
line are Nombredois, small place; Som
bererete, with 1900 people, and Chelchi-
chuitis, with about 10000. The two latter
are principal places, but of course there
are many small town and villages.
THE country is composed of valley and
mountains. The elevation varies from
$3.50 feet at Durango to $3.50 at Guadala-
jara. crossed the continental divide
twice. l saw one bonanza, or canyon,
1000 feet deep and but half mile wide.
"There is much good country, despite
the roughness All kinds of fruits grown
in California, except prunes, thrive there.
My surveying party is now between Du-
range and the Pacific coast. If found
feasable we will extend the road also to
Mazatlan, 170 miles from Durango"
Mr.. Killabrow has been with the lead
ing railroads of Mexico for fourteen years.
He was formerly chief engineer of the
Mexican Pacific. 1t was built by an En-
glish syndicate at an expense of several
millions and was finally forfeited to
Mexico. 1t was about fifty kilometers
long.
Engineer Killabrow will sail for Guate-
mala to-day. He is going on private busi-
ness he saws
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
Railroad Commissions to Meet.

An invitation has been received by the Cali
fornia State Board of Railroad Commissioners
to attend the eighth annual convention of the
railroad commissions of the United States, to
be held at the Office of the Interstate Commerce
Commission at Washington, D. c., May 10,
1896. The session promises to be very in
teresting one TO all interested in transporta-
ton problems, as at the last meeting COM
m1ttees were appointed to report at this ses-
sion on the following subjects: Railway
statistics. uniform classification, legislati on
for the protection of public interests during
railway labor contes is. regulation of State and
interstate electric railways; powers, duties
and actual work accom- plished by the several
State railway commissions during the year;
Government control and Government regula-
tion of railways safety appliances, pooling of
freightS and division of earnings.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
WILL HEAR CITIZENS.

Judge Murphy Denies That His Doors
Are Closed to the Unnaturaiized.
Judge Murphy Indignantly denies that
he has ever refused to hear an applIcati ion
for citizenship, or that he has ever done
so. He says he has often remained in his
courtroom until late at night hearing the
applications of those who wished to be
heard.
Some comments made upon the absence
of Judge Murphy's court from the list
of those which would hear citizenship ap-
plications are, according to the Judge him
self, erroneous. He says his court is al
ways open to those who wish to be ex-
amined for citizenship and that he has
never refused to hear an applicant when
he presented himself.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
NOT COUNTER CLAIMS
Judge SeaWell's Decision in a
Peoples Home Bank
Case.
Debtors May Not Buy Up Passboo ks
After Liquidation Proceed.
ings Begin.

Judge Seawell has decided that a de-
posit in a bank under liquidation is not
an offset to debt. The decision was
rendered in the suit of Henry Westphal
and G. A. Swanberg against. the Peoples
Home Savings Bank to restrain the bank
from selling certain securities for SAC, 900
note.
On January 81 1898, Westphal borrowed
$4,000 from the Peoples Home Bank,
executing promissory note in return and
400 shares OF the Morgan Oyster Company
in security. C. o. Swanberg guaranteed
the payment of the note. Before April 80,
1894, this note was reduced by the pay
ment of $4,000,
On May /, 1894, proceedings to compel
liquidation of the banks affairs were COM
menced by the Attorney-General. In the
January following the bank was adjudged
insolvent. In the meantime, between Feb
ruary 15 and April 80, 1894, Westphal
bought up at discount the accounts of
a number of persons, aggregating $4,000
or $19, 900, and these assigned deposits he
wished to be considered as an offset to the
balance due on his note
The action Just decided was one brought
to restrain the bank from selling the stock
pledged as security for the note to satisfy
the balance due. The plaintiff claims
that the relation between depositor and
bank was the same as that of debtor and
creditor, and that debtor to the bank for
money borrowed, who is also depositor,
has the same right to set off his deposit
| against his debt as any debtor has to set
off debt due by his creditor to him.
Judge Seawell held that counter claim
as an offset was such a claim as could be
set UP in court by defendant against a
plaintiff. A deposit is not such claim,
he says in his opinion, for it is not always
capable of being enforced. Deposits must
be loaned out or otherwise invested in
order to gain interest upon them, and
savings bank only engages to pay de-
positors when there is money on hand
which the directors may not deem neces-
sary for dividends or other disbursements.
After proceedings were commenced
against the bank by the Attorney-General,
and after the bank failed, two dividends,
each of 2 per cent, were declared and paid
by the directors. This was the extent of
Westphal's demand upon the bank, says
Judge Seawell, for otherwise his position
would amount to that of preferred cred
itor. The money in the hands of bank
in liquidation is for all the depositors, and
Judge Seawell holds that no one by pur
chasing at large discount the accounts of
others can set those accounts against the
bank up against money due by him which
belongs to the depositors in proportionate
shares. Had the action been brought be-
fore May l Westphal might then have
recovered the fnll amount of his deposits
as an offset to his debt. As 1t was the
proceedings to compel litigation changed
the whole aspect of the case.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
RICHMOND DISTRICT.
The Fire Commissioners Have No Funds
to Pro vide Additional Fire
Protection.

The Fire Commissioners met yesterday
afternoon and appointed David Harrison
and Jerry Sullivan hosemen of engine %
and John H. Mexican hoseman of engine
3S.
A communication was read from the
Point Lobos Improvement Club asking for
additional fire protection for the Richmond
district AS the Commissioners have no
available funds at their disposal it was de-
cided to send the communication to the
Board of Supervisors. The Commissioners
thought the streets in the district were not
in proper condition for fire apparatus to
roll over.
The Board of Health sent a communica-
ton asking that an engine be used for
emptying sheet of water $50 feet wide by
500 feet long in block d, Ocean View dis
trict, as it was menace to health. The
matter was referred TO the chief engineer,
who will send an engine.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
Stole Three Chickens.

Jonn Furlong. alias McCluskey, was arrested
last evening by Policeman james O'Connor
and Special Officer Nelson on the charge of
burglary. He is accused of breaking into
henhouse On Francisco and Kearny streets and
stealing three chickens.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
SANTA CATALINA ISLAND.
SODA BAY HOTEL.

CODA BAY, SITUATED ON CLEAR LAKE,
~ is most picturesque. Soda Spring is famous for
the vast volume of delicious soda water which
1t throws out daily amounting TO over ,000, 900
gallons. Hunting, fishing, boating and swimming
are unsurpassed anywhere A fine bar has just
been opened. The table is supplied with the very
best the market Affords and the comfort and well
fare of all guests carefully looked after, Free
camping grounds. coach will connect with the
daily stage from Pieta and Highland Springs,
Adams, Sejgler, Blue Lakes and Saratoga. Fare
from San Francisco, So so; round trip, $40. Spe-
cia rates for families G.. 3. WYATT proprietor,
Soda Bay Keiseyville, Lake County, Cal.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
HIGHLAND SPRINGS,
On the Border of Clear Lake,
LAKE COUNTY, GAL.

10 YOU ENJOY A SUPERB CLIMATE
~ dancing, lawn tennis, croquet, billiards? Do
you like fine bathing boating, hunting and fishing?
thirty kinds OF mineral springs? Shortest stage
route into Lake County
All this and more can be had at Highland
Springs.
New. hotel. Finest dining-room north OF San
Francisco.
From San Francisco 1t costs only SO for the
round trip, and the hotel rates 81 50 to 50 so
per day or $40 to $l6 per week. Take the S. f.
and n p Railway via Pieta, thence by short de-
lightful stage ride. J. CRAIG, Manager
San Francisco Office. 3l6 Montgomery ST.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
DUNCAN SPRINGS HOTEL,

Hopland, Mendocino County, CAL,
WILL OPEN NJ MAxl
THIS NEW 3-STORY, HARD FINISHED HO-
L tel is located miles from Hopland station on
the line of S. +. 81 n. p r. R. The hotel is built
knoll, $50 feet above the vaflay and 1000 feet
above sea-level. There are severel furnished cot
tages also fine Electric and Magnesla Baths.
Amusements Billiards, Lawn-Tennis, Croquet,
Shuttle Boards Fine walks to Duncan Peak 2200
feet. Beautiful view.
o. HOWELL, Proprietor.
Board, SO to @12 Per Week. Free Bus.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
NAPA SODA SPRINGS.
Ca1ifornia's Famous Mountain Spa,
HAVE You BEEN THERE LATELY?

1000 feet above Napa Valley. Climate unsur-
passed Views magnificent. Table suppl ed from
orchard and ocean, field and farm. Hot and cold
Napa Soda water baths Telephone and Postoffice.
Burros to ride. Bowling alleys, tennis croquet,
swings and hammocks New improvements every
year. Gas and running water in every room. Re
lief for asthmatics. WARM WATER SWIM
MING TANK. All ideal summer resort. Chill
drens paradise: mothers delight; husbands rest.
Address ANDREW JACKSON, Napa Soda Springs
Z. o.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
Paid Under Protest.

OAKLAND, CAL, April 27-The heirs
to the Adams estate paid their city taxes
to-day, amounting to $2o75 IL. A formal
protest was filed, in which they claimed
that the assessment of $50 acres should
have been only $3.50, 000 instead of $685.
Supervisors in the county, and it was
claimed the law required the City Assessor
to accent these figures. They offered to
pay $1314 95, the tax on that assessment.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28

1t often requires good deal of faith tt
doubt.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
The Swain Estate.

OAKLAND, CAL, April 27-The Swain
estate contest will be tried before Judge
Greene and jury June 16. The probate
OF the will is to come up June %. The
estate of Swain, who was past "a, is valued
at $l15,000. His daughter, Mrs. Nellie
Leavitt Code, alleges in her contest to his
disposition of it that her stepm other used
undue influence to restrain him from al
lowing her what she should have had.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
SEIGLER SPRINGS,

L = COUNTY.
DOPULAR HEALTH RESORT. OPEN THE
i year round. Telephone connections. Round
trip tickets at Southern Pacific offices, SO: special
conveyance daily. For information address JOHN
SPAULDING, Seigler Springs, Lake County, CAL
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
Lyon Posts Row.

OAKLAND, CAL, April 27.-Lyon Post,
G. A. R.. has called an important meeting
for to- morrow night to consider whether
thev shall exist any longer as post or
shall surrender their charter.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28

CARATOGA SPRINGS, LAKE COUNTY, CAL
- The most beautiful summer resort in the
State: different springs; sulphur, soda, iron,
magnesia. seltzer, etc; good fishing and hunting:
accommodations frst-class; rates $40 per week
and upward: table unexcelled; hard-hnished
rooms en- suite and cottages. Address J. MAR
TENS, Bachelor Pos Office Lake County, Cal.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28

GOLD COMFORT HOME RESORT-11 MILES
- from Napa City, Mount Veder; elevation
1900 feet; mouptain spring water: fine scenery;
healthest climate; positive cure for asthma; good
board and room So per week; open to lst of Janu-
ary fare from Napa City 81 so via Phoenix Livery
stable, Address MRS. A. +. ALLEN, Napa City.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28

Address all correspondence to BARTLETT
SPRINGS COMPANY Y Fourth street. S. f.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28

DLUE LAKES PLEASURE RESORT-NEW
- hotel, now open; many new Improvements for
the entertainment of the guests: the pavilion built
over the water; naphtha launch, etc. good fishing
and hunting. Address CARL MEYER, Bertha
p. o., Lake Co. Do not address Blue Lakes.
A Il BELMONT, SAN MATEO COUNTY,
"A board for summer months; private family;
beautiful grounds; large rooms; minutes from
station; hour I'm city. MRS. HANSEN, Belmont
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28

AUREL DELL HOTEL, ON LAUREL DELL
II Lake formerly Lower Blue Lake)-This pop
ular resort opens to the public for the coming
with many improved facilities for entertaining
pleasure seekers; boating and bathing free; no
So to $l2 per week; route s. F. and n. P. Railway;
through fare S5; round trip SO 80 Address II.
WAMBOLD. Prop, Bertha p o., Lake County Cal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-19
AN ARMENIAN BOMB FACTORY
Discovered Under n church Near the Kais.
sim Pasha Cemetery.

CONsTANTINOPLE, Sept. 12.-An Ar
menian bomb factory was discovered
by the police Thursday, located I'M
derneath the Armenian church near
the Kaissim Pasha cemetery. From
the factory a long TUNE had been ex-
cavated in the direction of a govern
ment powder magazine, the intention
obviously having been to undermine
the magazine and blow it up.
The government officials are urging
the foreign residents of the city to
sign a memorial thanking the sultan
for the protection his ma jesty has af-
forded them. A number of English
men consulted Sir Philip Currie, the
British ambassador. as to the advisa-
bility of signing the memorial and
were advised by the ambassador to
tear up the document and throw the
pieces into the faces of the officials
that presented them.
The mosques were placarded on
Wednesday with an appeal t. the
government on the part of 4 number
of army officers that they receive their
arrears of pay without delay, other
wise the officers must help themselves.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-19
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE Plymouth Eng Mercury, OF
formation that n massacre of the Ar
meniauS remaining in Constantinople
Is fixed to occur in ten days or two
weeks. 1t says that Armenians al.
ready deported have been murdered
by wholesale, tine ships on which they
were sent out of the country having
chutes. from which the victims were
shot into the water and drowned in
patches.
CAPT. MURPHY of the steamer Lau.
rada was arrested in Wilmington, Del,
on the 18th, by United States Marshal
Lannan, on the charge of organizing ,
military expedition against Spain
The charge was preferred by the
Spanish consul in Philadelphia. Muir
ply furnished 81, 900 bonds for a hear
ing.
AMONG the passengers who sailed
from Queenstown. IN the 18th, for New
York, on the Cunard liner Lucania, was
the Dynamiter Whitehead, who was
recently released from Portland prison
after serving Is years of a life sentence.
Ills friends had subscribed an amount
Of money sufficient to start him in
business in the United States.
BY the collapse of a bridge on the
Arcata & Mad River railroad neal Eu-
reka, Cal, on the 18th, an accommoda-
ton train was precipitated into the
bed of the creek below. Four persons
we're killed outright and a number of
pthers seriously and some fatally i'll
iured.
AMONG the passengers arriving AZ
New York, on the 18th. on. the I'm
hria, from Liverpool, was Miss Clara
barton, the representative of the Red
Cross society, just returned from the
scene of the Armenian troubles.
SERMONS against the misrule of the
sultan nd the massacre of his Chris
tiau subjects were preached, on the
18th, in London, Liverpool and else
where in Great Britain.
CAPT GEN. WEYLER cabled from
Havana to Madrid that 81 insurgents
who had been confined in the Cabana
fortress and MORO castle were shot on
the 18th.
AN official dispatch from Manila, on
the 18th, stated that the chief leaders
of the Instruction in Corvite had been
shot.
The funeral of the late ex-senator
Henry Il. Payne. at the family resi-
lence, in Cleveland, O., on the 18th.
was largely attended.
Mrs. WILLIAM VYBERG and her
daughter, aged 20, were drowned at Du-
buque, Ia, on the 18th. while attempt
Ing to ford a swollen creek.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-19

Daniel I. Cubberly, aged I6. was ac-
cidentally killed by his companion,
William Davis, while returning nome
from a hunt, near Louisiana. The
boys were walking on the st. Louis,
keokuk & Northwestern railroad
track. and Davis, who had thrown his
gun across his shoulders. struck the
hammar, lodging the entire load in
Cubberly's head, and literally blowing
it into atoms.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-19
Temporarily Embarrassed.

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Sept. e.-The
Consolidated street railway of Fort
Wayne vas thrown into the hands of
receivers yesterday on motion of the
president, John J. Shepard, and Di-
rector T. DeHass Robson, of Cleve-
land. The NJ. J. Degnon Construction
Co. filed a lien of $4,000 against the
property. j. Ii. Bass and NJ. s. Robi-
son, director and general manager re-
spectively, are named as receivers.
The embarrassment is but temporary,
and the company will pay 100 cents on
t.he dollar.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-19
Hog Cholera In Central Missouri.

From reports received by the state
board of agriculture, it seems that the
ravages of hog cholera in the central
section of Missouri are more disastrous
at present than for many years; so
bad, in fact, that the board has ap-
pointed a special inspector to visit the
infected regions and endeavor to find
some means to check the spread of the
disease.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-19
Three-Year Certificates for Teachers.

State Superintendent j. r. Kirk has
issued three-year third-grade teachers
state certificates to the following: j.
a. Lowe, Jericho; L. c. Sherry, Gains
vile; Mary L. Stephens and Mary W.
Atkins, Independence, and Anna Doug
las, Kansas City. These certificates
are the results of the teachers exam
lnation held in st. Louis, Kansas CITY
AID st. Joseph. in connection with the
examination of medical students. Out
OF 19teachers examined five certificates
We're granted.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-19

THE promised reduction in the size
of the docket of the supreme court of
the United States as a result of the pas
sage OF the act creating circuit courts
of appeal, seems to be realized. At
the present rate of progress the court
will have caught up with its work in
the year 1900.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-19
Result of an Elopement.

Several weeks ago Michael Heiserer
and Miss Lille Profit eloped and were
married, says a dispatch sent from
Benton. The other night the bride
groom took morphine, administered
by himself, with suicidal, intent. His
folks were opposed to the match and
had not been r%econciled, and it is sup
posed this SO preyed on his mind that
he took the poison, from the effects of
which he died. He was a son of Vim
cent Heiserer, who was for many years
treasurer of Scott county