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The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
INDICTMENT or AUcTJ0NEERS.
New York Authorities Begin a Crusade on
Houses Where Gi0rng SWndies
Are Conducted.

NEW YORK. N. Y, Oct THE Sep
tenn Der Grand Jury this afternoon handed
in several indictments against auctioneers
in this city for conducting fraudulent
auctions, and in addition, an Indictment
against those auction houses against
whom sufficient evidence to warrant an
indictment had been procured. Arrests
will probably be made soon.
The presentment, in part, says:
Among the various fraudulent devices
may be mentioned the practice Of procur-
ing false, fictitious and fraudulent bids
from spuffers' or by bidders who regularly
attend these auctions in the interest and
in the pay of the auctioneer with the pur-
pose of making such fraudulent and fcii-
tious bids against bona fde bidders in
order to enhance the price of the article
offered for auction. In addition to this
practice, evidence has been adduced show
ing that in at least one instance it was the
custom of an auctioneer to keep IN stock
an article of high grade and quality which
he put up for sale from day to day while
furnishing to those persons making the
highest bids similar article of inferior
quality"
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
AS UNBL UsHING FORGERY.
Lincoln Did Not Use the Words Attributed
to Hin by Democrats.

Lincoln Did Not Use the Words AHrtb uted
to Him by Democrats.
CHICAGO Ill, Oct. Perry S. Heath
of the Republican National Committee to-
day received from John G. Nicolay, one
of President Lincoln's secretaries, a letter
in which he declares spurious an alleged
quotation from Lincoln now in general
circulation as a Democratic cam mpaign doc
ument. The quotation thus condemned is
as follows:
.'Mr. Lincoln said: AS a result Of the
war corporations have been enthroned and
az era of corruption in high places will
follow, and the money power of the coun-
try will endeavor to prolong its reign by
working on the prejudices of the people,
until all wealth is aggregated in few
hands and the Republic is destroyed. l
feel at this moment more anxiety Tor the
safety OF my country than ever before,
even in the midst of war. God grant that
my suspicious may prove groundless.'
MIR. Nicolay continues: "This alleged
quotation from Mr.. Lincoln is bald, un-
blushing forgery. The great President
never said it or wrote it, and never said or
wrote anything that by the utmost license
could be distorted to resemble it. Its
origin appears to date back to 1883, as it
first obtained circulation in little PAM
phlet printed by radical agitator in
Iowa, copyrighted on May 10 OF that year
1t appears now without explanation or
credit"
Ex-Governor Pitkin of Louisiana called
at headquarters to-day. He has been
speaking in Maine and now goes to points
in the Mississippi Valley. He declares the
Mckinley sentiment everywhere is as
tonishing.
A near neighbor of Mr.. Bryan at Lin
coin, Judge E. M. Coffin, reported at
headquarters to-day that poll of the
precinct in which Mr.. Bryan lives shows
211 for Mckinley, q for Bryan and 10
ccattarin0
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
JACEMEL LAID IN ASHES
For Four Days Fire Ragged in
the Jamaica Town, Causing
a Big Loss.
The Damage Estimated at Five Million
Dollars, and Great Destitution
Now Prevails.

NEW YORK, N. z, Oct. 2.-The
steamer Andes, which arrived this after
noon from Jamaican ports, brings news OF
the great fire which destroyed two thirds
of the town of Jacemel, on September 19,
20 and 81.
At 10 o'clock in the morning the alarm
of fire was given and every effort was
made at once to have it extinguished.
The fire originated on the hill near the
cathedral and completely destroyed that
edifce. The flames went seaward and
burned all the houses aad stores between
the hill and the sea. No water could be
obtained at any time during the fire,
which ragged from Saturday morning until
Tuesday night, when the Andes left. On
that night the fire was still smoldering.
The loss sustained is estimated at S.. .000
600. The fire is supposed to be the work
of an incendiary.
Great destitution prevails, and it is for
tunate that the Andes had a large cargo
frola New York for that place. This was
landed in time to relieve distress and COM
manded ready sale.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
At TIE MERcf OF GALES.
Captain Smith Tells of the Destruction
to Shipptnq at Sauannah.


to Shipping at Savannah.
NEW YORK, N. Y, Oct. 2.-Captain
Frederick Smith of the steamship
Nacoochee, which arrived from Savannah
this morning, told number of thrilling
tales of the havoc wrought by the recent
storm.
''The worst of the storm" said he, "was
on Tuesday afternoon. We were tied to
our pier in the Savannah River, and,
although our mooring held, others gave
way all about us. By dinner-time at
least fifty vessels had broken away and
drifted on a frightful sea.
Steam and sailing vessels were wrecked
Immediately astern of Us. Further
down stream | saw at least ten more
steamships at the mercy of the tempest
"a Norwegian bark called the Rosenius
broke from her moorings and capsized in
the middle of the river, one man going to
his death. From the deck of my vessel
we could see the roofs of churches, schools,
private houses and hospitals flying through
the air."
Rufus S. Moxon, merchant from Bos-
ton, who was on the Nacoochee, tells of a
thrilling ride on a wild Texan pony
through forty miles of swamp lands to
Savannah. He said that all along the
route trees were uprooted and fell across
the track For seven hours he rode furi-
ously, lodging death at every turn and
when finally he was out of danger the
brave little pony that had taken all the
obstacle jumps superbIy, and to which he
really owed his life, dropped dead from ex
haustion and fright
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03

traI and Peninsular railroad is a heavy
loser, as all the track trestling is washed
away for a distance of three and a half
miles. 1t will probably be month before
the trains run through.
The adjoining island of Atscena Otie also
suffered considerably, the Faber company
being the principal losers. Their storage
room, with about 3100 cases Of cedar ready
for shipment was washed away, and the
cedar has gone to sea. They also lost the
Office buildings and contents, which were
cedar logs. Great as the loss of property
is, it is feared that the next few days will
reveal deplorable loss of life as well. So
far as heard up to Thursday, eighteen per-
sons have been drowned. OF the whites
SIX belonged to one family, a mother, four
children and niece.
The Mary Eliza, sponging schooner,
came in at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning.
Jury-rig ing had to be cut away to pre-
vent capsizing. She reported that at dark
Monday night nearly 100 vessels were an
chored on the sponge bars and at daylight
this morning not one was in sight. Some
may have made harbors at other poiD is,
but many have gone down.
At a P. NJ. Wednesday part of the crew,
eight men, of the sponger Annie came
ashore in dingys and reported that the
schooner had capsized and sunk off shore
and four men had been drowned. Much
anxiety is felt in regard to the fishermen
encamped on the island along the coast
and others who left for Tampa yesterday.
The result of the storm will be particu-
larly disastrous to those engaged in the
fishing industry, which had opened with
the most fattering prospects for success
ful season. Cut off from shipment by
railroad they will lose at least month of
their best time and cannot hope to do
more than pay expenses.
Several large stores, warehouses, boat
houses and residences were unroofed and
otherwise damaged.
Numerous small craft are missing, and
the crews of some are saved and others
lost. Many of the rescued men report ter
rible experiences, some clinging for life
to capsized boats, and others hanging on
to tree tops, beaten and buffeted by wind
and waves until almost exhausted. They
all show the effects in their tattered cloth
ing and bruised flesh, but are thankful to
escape with their lives. Many others are
still unaccounted for and families and
friends are filled with anxiety, hoping for
the best, but fearing the worst.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
The Assistant Attorney.General
Temporarily Protects the
Amphibians.
THIS CITY OWNS THE ROCKS.
But the Government by Special Act
of Congress Can Protect the
Bay Fish Industry.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Oct. 2--Assist-
ant Attorney General Little OF the Inte-
rior Department to-day gave an opinion
at the request of Assistant Secretary Sims
of that department concerning the seal
rocks, situated off Point Lobos. In 1887
the rocks were granted by act of Congress
to the City and County OF San Francisco
lin trust and under certain conditions, one
provision of which was that the United
States may at all times control and limit
or diminish the number of seals resorting
to said rocks so as to protect the fisheries
and fishing industries. 1t was provided
further that when said rocks should be
required by the United States Govern
ment title to them was to be reinvested In
the United States. The Attorney-General
says:
II am asked for an opinion as to whether
the Secretary of the Interior Is charged
with the duty OF carrying into effect the
right reserved to the United States in the
first proviso of said act to at all times
control and limit or diminish the number
of seals resorting to said rocks so as to
protect the fisheries and fishing indus
tries
"It is urged that seals have become so
numerous on these rocks as to seriously
interfere with the fisheries industry in
San Francisco Bay, and the Commits
s1oner OF Fish and Fisheries recommends
that these seals be entirely destroyed or
their mum Der diminished to such an ex-
tent rs to grant the relief asked.
II find in the papers a report of the
Commissioner OF the General Land Office,
to the effect that the City and County of
San Francisco, CAL. has accepted the
trust imposed by the act. I am of the
opinion that this is matter exclusively
within the jurisdiction and control of the
Congress of the United States. This de-
partment of the Government is only
charged with the control of the public do
main, and the Seal Rocks, having been
granted by the act quoted, are no longer
part of that domain. 1t is true, certain
rights were reserued to the United States
IN the premises, but having once taken
the property out of executive control,
without providing specifically for execu-
tive supervision OF the reserved interest,
it would seem that an act of Congress is
necessary to reinvest this department
with jurisdiction"
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
Havoc Caused by the Great
Tidal Wave That Swept
Cedar Keys.
SCORES OF VESSELS WRECKED
AND CREWS DROWNED.
Sad Scenes of Desol lation and Devas.
tation in a Path Fifty
Miles Wide.

JACKSONVILLE, FLA, Oct. 2.-The
West India hurricane which struck Flor
ida Tuesday, though it lasted but three
hours, was the most disastrous storm ever
experienced in Florida. The damage to
property in the State alone will foot up a
million dollars.
Fully a hundred lives were lost and per-
baps 600 people were rendered home
less. The course Of the storm was from
Cedar Keys, on the Gulf coast, north by
northeast to and through the thriving
town of Lake City. Through the path
fifty miles wide few houses are left stand
ing, the wind at times blowing at the rate
of 100 miles an hour and averaging so.
In Jacksonville scores of buildings were
unroofed and trees blown down. The
storm had the characteristics of a tor
nado. Ii skipped some places in its path,
bounding over to others, where ruin was
wrought. Cedar Keys was exposed to the
full force of its fury. There a score OF
fishermen on the sponge banks were
drowned and their vessels were wrecked.
A tidal wave visited the town and inun-
dated it. During the tidal wave O. fire
broke out, and the unusual spectacle was
witnessed of firemen fighting flames al
most shoulder deep in water.
Lake City had almost every tree in the
town blown down and for two days the
streets were impossible. Two people
were kiIIed-a prominent lady Mrs. Fra
zier, and negro boy. Here many houses
were razed, while the roofs of others went
1whirling through the air. Lake City is in
Colum bia County, which has great lum-
ber interests. Half of the yellow pine
timber was blown down and lumber and
turpentine men lost thousands of dollars,
as the lum Der is badly splintered ana will
soon be attacked by worms.
In Baker County, which joins Columbia,
not score of houses out of thousand
were left standing. Grain stored in barns
was blown away or destroyed by rain.
Across the fields cotton was destroyed and
thousands of cattle were killed. The i'm
mense lumber mill of Eppinger & Russell
at Otusee was destroyed, including stores
and residences, and many people were
hurt, though none were killed.
At Macclenny. in the same county, the
same tale might be told.
Sanderson. a few miles distant, was al
most wiped out. All of the men employed
in the turpentine factories and lumber
mills are not only homeless, bat without
food, and famine there is impending.
The citizens of each of these towns have
organized relief committees and have is
sued appeals to the public for aid. Hill
lizards, in Duval County, was also devas-
tated and people killed and wounded by
the falling of houses upon them.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
DAMAGE IN cEMerER1Es.
1t VIII Take Three Years to Repair the
Haroc Done an Wnshington.

"SDO DOfsc wa UHSHtHDtoW'
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 2.-The
storm of Tuesday and Wednesday did
great damage at the National cemeteries
in the vicinity OF Washington. The sex
ton at Arlington National Cemetery re-
ports that the trunks of fallen trees lie
across the tombs all over the grounds.
The soldiers monument was not damaged,
but there are hund reds of mounds which
must be rebuilt and again sodded. In
Oak Hill Cemetery two trees on each side
of the monument erected by the late w.
W. Corcoran to the memory of John How
ard Payne, author of Home. Sweet
Home" were torn up by the roots, but fell
in such way as not to iniure the monu-
ment
At the Soldiers Home Cemetery thirty
beautiful trees, most of them oaks which
have withstood the storms of more than
fifty years, have been laid low Three
hundred trees have been counted fallen in
the Soldiers Home grounds and General
Stanley states with the present force twill
take three years to clear up the brush. In
some instances in the cemeteries the up-
rooted roots of the trees brought with them
portions of the caskets and their contents
which had been inferred in this vicinity.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
SCENES OF DEVASrArIox.
Vessels Go DosCn IN the Hurricane and
Many Lives Are Lost

Vessels GO DosCn in the Hurricane and
Many Lives Are Lost
SAVANNAH, GA, Oct. "a letter
from Cedar Keys, Fla, dated October 1,
saws: The West India hurricane, of which
the Weather Bureau gave warning, struck
Cedar Keyes about $3.50 o'clock Tue day
morning and left q scene of wreckage and
devastation in its wake.
1t is by far the most destructive storm
that has ever visited this portion of the
&Gyulf coast in twenty years, and the prop
Sfty loss is immense. Though warning
had been given nothing indicated a blow
of unusual severity. Up to IL O'Clock the
night was calm and quiet. At that hour
a moderate breeze sprang up from the
eastward, increasing gradually until a
thirty-mile wind was blowing. About 4
A. NJ. it blew a perfect tornado and sud-
denly changed TO the southeast, bringing
in perfect deluge of water, the tide
rising two feet higher than it did in the
memorable gale of 1884, which was at the
time said to be tie severest storm on
record.
At o'clock an immense tidal wave
camo IN from the south, carrying destruc-
tion with it. Boats, wharves and small
houses we're hurled upon the shore, and
breaking into fragments covered the
streets with wreckage, rendering them
almost impossible, while the torrents of
water rushing through every open space
would take the strongest man off his feet
At IL A. NJ. the worst was over, the wind
subsideo, the water began to recede, and
by P. NJ. people began reckoning up the
losses and clearing away the wreckage.
The property loss is very heavy. Aside
from direct damage from the storm, while
the gale was at It's height fire broke out in
the Bottini House and it was burned.
The wind totally demolished the large
handsome Methodist Episcopal Church
South, the Cedar Keys high School, the
Christian Church and three colored
churches. several private residences and
ball the fish-houses except one. It also
tbadly damaged number of residences
Nand stores.
The Suwanee Ice Factory, VOLTS Cedar
Mill, the Eagle Pencil Cempany's mill,
also the large lumber mill of V. ]. Her
long and the planning mill of Meyer &
Sons, Just completed and ready for work,
suffered considerably. The Florida Gen.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
Rayaoes Of a Prairie Flre.

HURON, s. D., Oct. "A prairie fire
yesterday afternoon and last night COW
cred strip of country seven miles wide.
between Milwaukee and the Northwestern
tracks, three miles west of Broadland and
south of WooIsey and east nearly to Val
ley Junction. Immense quantities of hay
and grain were destroyed. John H.
Snyder and the Smyt brothers each lose
400 tons of hay and much grain. 1t is
estimated that 5000 bushels Of wheat and
10000 tons of hay have been burned, some
of the farmers losing all they had.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
Senator Voorhees, Not I'LL.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 2.-Senator
Voorhees, son and private secretary,
James Paxton Voorhees,, who resides in
this city, says that the statement tele-
graphed from Terre Hauts, as to his
father being very ill at Mackinaw. is en-
tireIy unfounded.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
Three Guests Pertshed.

DENIsON, TEX, Oct. 2.-This morning
about 2:30 the City Hotel at Ladonia was
destroyed by fire. Three guests perished-
Mrs. Jane Knapp, who was visiting;
Johnny Mcfarland, boy about II years
old, and Miss Carrie Mcfarland, about Is
years old. Several boarders narrowly
escaped.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03

Brosseau, one of the largest carpet-dealers
of New Orleans, has assigned. Assets,
SOC, 900; liabilities, $2s6, 900. Mr.. Brosseau
is a half brother OF Justice White, who
was summoned here to look into the
affairs of the firm before its failure.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
Kil,ed ov a BoiIe,. .EnDfosson.

CAsS CITY, MICH, Oct. 2.-The boiler in
the Miils saw mill at NovesIa, small town
nine miles southeast of here, exploded
to-day completely wrecking the mill, kill
ing two men and seriously injuring two
others The killed are Nelson Mills,
proprietor of the mill. and Jerry Lewis,
engineer. The injured are Ezra Scribner
and Ezra Dace, probably fatally. Lewis
and Mills leave families. The cause of the
explosion is unknown.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
Lrsser Brofhera Fail.

NEW YORK, N. Y. Oct. 2.-Lesser
Brothers, wholesale dealers in clothing.
failed o-day, with Liabilities estimated at
$3.50, 900. TIE firm stood we'll in the trade
and were reputed to have capital OF
$3.50, 900.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
Treasury Gold Reserve.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 2.-The
treasury gold reserve at the close
OF business to-day stood at $123, 585, SOL.
The Withdrawals OF Thursday and Friday
at New York were $238, ,554. There was
received $3.50, 900 in gold in exchange for
currency.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
A SIR Mils Burned.

PLAINFIELD. N. T.. Oct. 2.-The silk
mill at Sterling, owned by 81. Alfred
Streuli of New York, burned this MOI n
ing. Loss $500, 900; partly insured.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03

Failure of a Carpet Dealer.
NEW ORLEANS. La. Oct. IA. z.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-05-12
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Housekeepers will do we'll to
secure some Sheets and Towels
from the bargains at Warehouses;.
Mothers should get some of those
new pattern Flannelettes.
City Carriage Co.. j. S. And.
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hack with good horse and care
full driver ring mp telephone lib,
corner of Fort and Merchant
streets. Hack at all hours.
G. r. Harrison, practical piano
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furnish best factory references.
Orders left at Hawaiian News Co.
and the Wall, Nichols Co. will
receive prompt attention. Tele-
phone Nos: 234, 100 and 442.
The only genuine DIR. Williams
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Honolulu's warm climate is
conducive of thirst to a greater
degree than that of a colder zone.
The average business man loses
also, to a degree, the amount Of
energy and nervous force common
enough in the bracing air of
American cities. These two phases
of our climate make it more
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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-05-12

nately without injury, merely be-
cause L didn't use my knees as
men use theirs. As practice makes
perfect, L may tell another story a
few months hence, if l live
through the experimental period.
At present l am so surprised to
see my feet so far away from each
other, feeling like two lone or
phans, and so absorbed in the
novelty of the situation, and so
lost in wonder at what may hap
pen, as to be more anxious than
happy. Bear in mind that L gem
orally ride alone, men riders being
scarce and only available on holt
days.
Native women, who walk the
earth as though they owned it
that is, when they arc barefoot or
in easy shoes-are equally ma =
ters Of horse. No bifurcated
skirt for them! 1 don't know
how they accomplish a miracle,
but they do. BY some legerde.
main they tuck their holokr 8
Mother Hubbard } between their
legs, twist this garment into close
fitting trousers and ride for hours
without the least displacem ent of
clothing. With or without shoes,
with or without stirrups, they ride
from place to place, and make Oh e
green with envy at their dexterity.
On gala days they add two long
steamers of gay colored cloth to
their ordinary attire, and as they
dash by resemble streaks of rain
bow on a gallop.
White women here complain of
nervous prostration and all the
diseases Of other climes. l am
persuaded that most of their ill
health is due to lack Of exercise
and living indoors. They eat and
rarely walk, their only locomotion
being in q ry-all or buggy be-
hind family" horse. Even
when shopping they sit in their
carriages and let the clerks do the
walking. Then they blame the
climate when their heads ache.
KATE FIELD.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-05-12

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