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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-29
AMATEURS in QUESTION.
Cycle Baseball League Roises the
PoiDt in It's Coming Tour
nOrnent
nOnent.

A meeting of the governors Of the
Cycle Baseball League was held Mon
day night at the Olympic Club. The
delegates present were Messrs. Haden-
feldt, Boeckmann, Lewis, Robinson,
Stratton. Egan. Winslow. Cunha
Sykes. Cartwright and Spalding. 1t
was decided to use a live ball in all
scheduled games of the league. The
opening date of the tournament was
postponed one week, from January 2
to January 9, to give all the clubs am
pie time for practice and to secure uni
forms.
The Bay City team was scheduled to
play the San Francisco Road Club on
April 10 in place of the Encinal Cyclers,
TO correct an error in the schedule, the
Bay City-Encinal game holding its
place on March 90. There is some ques-
ton as to whether the Encinal team
will be admitted, however, claim being
made that its members belong to the
Encinal Athletic Club. and not the En-
cinal Cyclers. This is to be investi-
gated.
Fully two hours were spent in dis
cussing the amateur standing of certain
players VINO are dlleSeu 10 De probes
SIGNALS, but are not yet so declared by
the Amateur Athletic Union. The mat
ter was left to the executive committee
which will finally decide at a meeting
tonight The questioned players are
Russell GmperiaD, Horn (San Fran
cisco Road Club, Hildebrand and
O'Toole (Bay City,. Mansfield brothers
/ Olympic Wheelmen). John Cosgrove
| Olympic Cyclers), Percy Mott (Reli-
ance), Birdsall and Thiesen (Califor-
/ nia).
The league will meet again next Mon
| day evening at the Bay City clubhouse
| AL Golden Gate avenue.
In preliminary practice games at the
| Velodrome grounds Sunday the Ofym
| pic wheelmen defeated the California
/ Cycling club; score, to 3. The Ba!
! City wheelmen defeated the San Fran
cisco Road club; score, 16 to IL. Th'
/ Bay Citys will play the Road clui
again next Sunday at the Sixteenth
street grounds.
The Bay City Wheelmen will have /;
| theater party at the Tivoli FRIDAY
evening, December 81.
The next meeting of the board o
governors of the California Associated
! Cycling Clubs has been definitely Sc
for Saturday evening, January 8, a
the Encinal Athletic Club, Alameda.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-29
NOT ANXIOUS
TO QUARREL
Oakland Satisfied With
Colonel Suffers
Report.
The Water Front Company Is
Likely to Favor the
Improvement.
An Idea That Alan1eda's Dilemma
VIII Not Affect the
Government
Oakland Office San Francisco Call



The members of the old committee
having in hand the task of trying to
adjust the differences OF opinion be-
tween Oakland and Alameda relating
to the tidal canal and harbor improve
ments will not take any action to try
to Offset the action taken at the meet
ing in Alameda last night, unless abb
solutely forced to do so.
Some of those most interested. dis
cussed the matter informally to-day
and decided that unless Alameda
should misrepresent the Oakland end
Of the argument the matter will be
left to the judgment of Colonel Suter,
who has already reported his opinions
to the Government.
1--WE have been consistent in our po-
sition from the first" said Vice-Presi-
dent Keller Of the Board of Trade to-
day, "and there is no reason now why
we should change our views. We have
all along maintained that to cut
through the tidal canal would be to i'm
peril the safety of Oakland harbor, and
that to dig up the harbor first is an
absolute necessity. Alameda based her
system for sewerage upon the assump-
I
through, which would make their sew
! erage system complete. The Govern
ment, however, is not in the business
| of developing municipal problems, and
although Alameda's dilemma is an un-
/ fortunate one and it has our sympathy
we do not see how the Government can
use public money to help it out.
The statement made last night that
| the railroad company is doing its best
/ to retard improvements on this side of
| the bay is manifestly absurd. The rail-
! road company, under the recent Su-
| preme Court decision, owns nearly all
the waterfront. and if the harbor
should, as ex-Congressman Sumner
said, be made the grandest in the
| world the railroad company would
| certainly derive the greatest direct
share Of the benefits. The same would
be true regarding the ferry system, for
| if this harbor were greatly improved
the additional shipping and commerce
would create additional traffic across
the bay, and consequently the railroad
would also benefit. The corporation
may have got into lots of things, but ]
do not think it very wise or correct tC
say that it is trying to impair the value
Of its own property.
Senator Perkins is thoroughly
| Versed in the details of the situation
and the general feeling in Oakland is
that the matter can well be left with
him. OF course If anything shall be
| done which makes it imperative for us
to make some contradiction or expla-
nation we shall do It, but we have nc
desire to enter upon a controversy"
The Alameda committee viii pro
coed to work at once to try to brinf
about some change in the plans as re.
ported by Colonel Suffer-
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CLOSING OF THE
CITY'S CEMETERY
Richmond Residents Jubilant
Over the Growing Of
Their Fight.
Resolutions Passed Thanking "The
Call for Its Valuable Assist
ance.

The members of the Richmond Dis
trict Club are feeling particularly jubi-
liant at present over the crowning of
their efforts to haye the city cemetery
closed.
They had long and uphill fight
many having been opposed to them on
the theory that if one cemetery were
removed others might suffer like fate.
On the first of the year the ordinance
uassed by the Supervisors some months
ago will go into effect, and no further
burjals will be permitted.
The cemetery was originally intended
for a burial ground for INDECENT dead,
but number of societies reaped a har-
vest by the sale Of lots and its benefi-
cent purpose was defeated.
This state of affairs will end on the
beginning of the year, and property
owners in the district surrounding the
cemetery are happy, as it means a
long stride toward the improvement or
their portion of the city
The Richmond district people nave
always felt that the cemeteries WITHIN
the citys limits should be removed 10
accommodate the westward growth OF
the civ and that the dead should not
retard the progress.
President Charles H. Hubs of the
Richmond District Club, in speaking
of the Improvement of his district yes
terday, said: Il have been a resident
in the Richmond district for a great
MANY wears and have watched with
Tleasure the many residences that have
(he.n erected. There are still great
k1hy acres lying idle owing to their
NAG located near the cemeteries. PEG
Athave a natural aversion to living
ar a burying ground, and therefore
Ne hand remains unoccupied. we
worked hard to have the city cemetery
condemned as it was menace 10
health and prevented the Improvement
Of our district. We hope that ultimately
all other cemeteries within the city
limits may be removed, and our efforts
shall be in that direction"
Last evening the Richmond District
Club met and passed the following res
olutions:
Whereas, The Board of Supervisors Of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-29
says SHE Was Sane.
DR.. RobertsoD Of LiVernore Makes
an Important Witness in the
F0lIDer Trial.

OAKLAND, Dec. 2S-The trial of
Clara Falmer for the murder of
Charles La Due was continued before
Judge Ogden to-day. The only testi-
mony introduced was that Of the pros
ecution, which went to rebut the evil
dence Of insanity put in last week by
the defense. Some young fellows testi-
fed to facts that affected the young
girls morals and told Of incidents in
daneehalls across the bay. George
Patterson had helped to restore the girl
to consciousness in the Grant street
restaurant after she had been struck
by Charles La Due. Others had seen
them dancing and drinking together,
and incidents were related that were
no doubt a surprise to the parents and
older acquaintance Of the witness.
The defense placed on the stand DIR.
John W. Robertson of Livermore, who
has been an expert on insanity in this
torney' Melvin put a long hypothetical
question to the witness He recited all
the facts in the case in great detail,
went into the family history and told
Of the facts of the murder.
This question was not submitted to
the witness until several hours had
been consumed in argument and objec-
ton. Finally DR.. Robertson was per
mitted to answer, and he said, Such a
person was sane"
Attorney Frick cross examined the
witness at great length, and wher
court adjourned there was still some
more expert testimony to be taken
The trial viii go on again tomorrow.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-29

nulled the order. Justice Van Fleet
wrote the prevailing opinion in which
Justice GaroUtte concurred. Chief JUS
tice Beatty and Justice Mcfarland
wrote coucurring opinions, but JUS
tees Temple, Harrison and Henshaw
dissented. The opinion reviewing the
defense reciteS that the editor main
tanned that the publications were true
and made without intent to do wrong;
that personal reflections upon Judge
Catlin were provoked by the latter's
aspersions on the editors integrity. and
that there was no intention to inter
fere with the course of justice, and
upon this says:
THAT this was a complete defense, if
sustained by evidence. there can. we
think. be no doubt. The publication
of the truth as to legal proceedings
is not a contempt of court; and the
criticism Of the action of the Judge If
made only in proper response to an
unjust charge against petitioners YER
acity. and without intent to improperly
influence the proceedings of the court,
would not be contemptuous. = A
Judge on the bench no more than any
other can cast aspersions on the char
acter of a person not party or par
ticipant in a case on trial without a
right in the latter to defend himself.
Petitioner might have been able to es-
tablish his defense, but he was not per-
mitted to make the effort. 1t is a
| transgression of a fundamental right
| guaranteed to every citizen charged
| with an offense, or whose property is
sought to be taken, of being heard be-
| fore he is condemned to suffer injury.
80
Chief Justice Beatty declares that a
true report of the proceedings is not a
! contempt. a false report may or may
not be a contempt, according to cir
| cunStanceS.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-29
GREAT JOY
IN THE ARMY
Commander Booth Tucker to
Arrive on Saturday
Evening".
Programme for the Reception in This
City of the Great Evangelical
Leader.

Saturday evening, January 1, Com.
mander BoOth-Tucker of the Saliva
ton Army will arrive in this city.
At $50 he will be received at the
ferry by the local members of the Sal
walton Army and escorted to the Pa
vilion. The following gentlemen will
officiate and the following programme
will be rendered:
D. Phelan.
Vice-presidents-Cla Spreckels. Irving
NJ. Scott, General w. H. l.. Barnes, Pro-
L. Dodge, Professor NJ. E. Jaffa. ]. c.
Kahn, George II. Newhail. Horace L.
He'll Habrv E i MaI lie R M M Madbf GuB
Stetson, Horace Davis, w. w. Montague,
William Alvord. w. II. Dohrmann, S. w.
Levy, George c. Boardman, ]. B. Rein
stein.
Opening song, America; prayer, Lieu
tenant-Colonel Evans; song, Salvation
Army quartet; Introductory remarks, /.
r; Ellert, chairman colonization com
| D. Phelan; Progress of the Colonization
| Committee Commander Booth-Tucker;
The Soledad Colony Described" George
Collection; 1.-THE Labor Problem -
| Irving NJ Scott; Waste Land and Waste
Labor" Frank MCGOWAN; California
| <ANelp III -,
| E. w. Hilgard; Opportunity, Not Aims.
| James H. Barry; California, the Land
| of Promise" W. II. L. Barnes; closing
! song, Coronation"
The meeting will be preceded by ar
| old-fashioned barbecue at P. NJ. fol
thousands of poor, fac-simile ten-acre
farm at P. NJ, distribution of presents
to children from New Years colony
tree from to 7:45 p. NJ.
Commander Booth-Tucker will SPEAK
on Sunday morning at San Quentin;
P. NJ. at Congress Hail. 1889 Market
| street; 73o First Congregations
Church, corner Post and Mason streets
Tuesday night at Golden Gate Hal
the formal launching of the Soledat
colony in the Salinas Valley will take
place The chairman of the evening
will be Rabbi j. Voorsanger. The fol
lowing are the presidents:
l. r. Ellert, Rev. G. Adams, DID.
Hugh Craig P. n. Lilienthal. Rabbi ]
! Voorsanger, z. A. Selfridge, Thomas Ma
gee, E. J. DePue, George E. Butler, F
A. Him, H. II. Sherwood, w. NJ. Bun
ker, c. r. Romfe, G. S. Montgomery. ]
Perrault, John Taylor. p. Crowley, vii
s. Green, Wakefield Baker, Daniel Meyer
II. W. Weinstock, Jesse D. Carr, D. L
! Westover, Rev. J. Hemphill, DID. Nose
Samuel, Lippmann Sachs, Hugo d. Keil
l. J. Thurman.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-29
LEFT HIS HOME TO
KILL HIMSELF
A Young Wells-Fargo Clerk
Found Dead in a LOdg-
ing-HOuse.
His Wife and Employers Know Nc
Reason for His Taking His
Life.

Edwin B. Riddell was found dead
in bed at a lodging house at All Bush
street yesterday afternoon under cir
cumstances which point strongly to
suicide.
He went to the house Monday even
ing and engaged a room for the night
Yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock the
chambermaid, Mamie Fitzgerald. tried
70 enter the room and to clean it up,
but found the door locked and was
unable to get any response from Rid
dell. She called Charles Allen, the
night clerk, who attempted TO wake
Riddell, but when he could not he en-
tered the room through a window and
found that the ledger was dead. By
his side was a bottle of morphine
pills, which had originally contained
100 eight grain pellets, but there were
only twenty remaining. DIR.
Schlaubaum was called and he said
that the man had been dead for sew
eral hours.
Riddell had been a clerk in the au-
diting department of Wells, Fargo &
Co. for the past six years and had al
ways been an exemplary young man.
He was about So years old and leaves
a widow and four children living at
1922 Folsom street.
His friends and relatives can give
no reason for his having killed him.
self and a brother-in-law thinks he
must have taken an overdose of the
drug, but the fact that he took a
room downtown seems to overthrow
this idea. Riddell's relations with his
wife were perfectly harmonious, and
the officials of the express company
know of no reason for the act.
1t is said that Riddell was rather
sickly, and that for some years he
was troubled with consumption. Re-
Gently he was obbliged to cease work
for a short time on account of a Sc
we're cold, for which he was attended
by Dr. James w. Ward until about q
week ago. The doctor says that there
was nothing serious about the condi-
ton Of his patient and he thinks thai
Riddell must have been suffering
from a temporary fit of insanity wher
he took his life.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-29
LAW OF LIBEL
WELL DEFINED
Editor G. H. McClatchy Of
Sacramento Was Not
in Contempt.
Superior Judge Catlin Exceeded
His Rights and
Powers.

Under a decision of the Supreme
Court, rendered yesterday, that tribu-
nal accords to the public press the
right to criticize the acts of judicial
officer. In the same opinion an in
depreciation is given Of the law of libel
and also the powers Of the court to
punish for contempt. These points
were brought out in the case of Charles
H. McClatchy, editor of the Sacra-
mento Bee, and Judge Catlin of the
Superior Court of Sacramento County,
wherein the former was under con-
tempt and appealed to the Supreme
Court for a review of the proceed
ings.
The Talmadge divorce case was on
hearing before Judge Catlin and the
witnesses were examined behind
closed doors. 1t is not unfreQuently
the case that in such matters the pub
lie is excluded where the testimony is
considered to be unfit for the ears of
the people. During the Talmadge case
the Bee published what purported to
be a part of the evidence. When the
paper was shown TO the Judge in court
on the following morning he stated
that he had mo hesitation in saying
that the statement referred to was a
grossly false statement, and that there
was not the slightest ground in the
testimony Of the witness upon which
such a statement could be based"
This provoked the Bee to put out
it's sting, and it upheld it's reporter
editorially by saying: The Bee will
go further than that. 1t will declare
that both the attorney before the bar
and the Judge on the bench knew that
the statement made in the Bee was an
essentially correct epitome of the tes-
timony given by Mr.. Talmadge at the
very moment when they unhesitating-
ly, shamelessly and brazenly declare
It to be a gross fabrication
There is no paper anywhere that has
a supremer contempt than has the
Bee for a Judge who will approve the
unmitigated falsehood of an attorney
as Judge Catlin to-day approved the
brazen misstatement of Judge J. E
/ Devine."
This and similar utterances from
the Bee caused McCIatchy to be cited
| for contempt. He appeared with his
attorney and answered that he re.
| peated the contents OF the publication
| of testimony Of the trial and was ready
| to substantiate what had been printed
| He further offered to prove that he wa;
! correct, but the court refused to hear
| him, holding that the stenographic re
! ports were correct and authentic, anC
| they did not contain the statement:
made by the Bee. McClstchy was fined
! $500 in spite of his objection.
! The latter then began proceedings II
certiorari, and the Supreme Courr
! holds the proceeding proper and an
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-29
LOOKING TO THE NORTH.
Many Inquiries Made OF the
Alaska Trade Connittee.


The crowd of visitors at the Alaska
Trade Committees exhibit has in
creased very materially within the past
few days, and several hundred have
registered on the blanks prepared for
those who are going to the Yukon gold
fields as soon as the passes and trails
are open. The interest in the exhibit
is as great as when it was first opened,
and the men who have it in charge
have been questioned and interviewed
in a manner that shows that much
time and attention has been given TO
the manner and methods of mining in
the Alaska gold fields, the necessary
supplies needed and the best routes TO
take.
Many inquiries have been received
from the East following the visit of
the special car and the circulation OF
advertising matter to outlying towns
time and attention have been given to
to order a large amount of printed
matter to meet this unexpected demand
for literature.
For the present the committee has
decided not to send the special car
now in Chicago to New York and the
other cities of the Atlantic Coast. II
is deemed more expedient to confine
the advertising of this sort to the
smaller towns and cities of the middle
West. where the movements of the
San Francisco party naturally attract
more attention than in the larger cit
les. It is possible that after the Chi
cago bureau has been arranged and
has been placed in full operation
a car containing the San Francisco ex-
hibit may be sent through the Middle
States.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-29
Chief Lloyd Declines to
Make Collections for
the Detectives.
The Information Did Not Lead
to the Recovery Of the
Typewriter.
A Peculiar Conversation Had With
Attorney McElroy on the
Ferry-BOat
Oakland Office. San Francisco Call,
sos Broadway, Dec. %.

sos Broadway, Dec. %.
The exclusive publication in The
Call this morning that Chief Lloyd had
taken a check for $40 from Attorney
J. E McEiroy, to be held in trust for
some Portland detectives, who claimed
to know where the attorneys stolen
typewriter could be found, caused much
surprise in City Hall circles. This
morning Chief Lloyd met Attorney Nc
Elroy on the ferry-boat and without
any explanation handed him back the
check
The address given by the Portland
detectives was that of a furniture
store on Mission street, and Detective
Holland and Mr.. McElroy went to San
Francisco to-day, but did not succeed
in recovering the machine. Inquiry
by Detective Holland at the San Fran
cisco detective department showed that
Detectives Maher and Riley of Port
land, Oregon, were unknown and there
is something peculiar about the whole
transaction. The letters printed in
The Call were written on paper hav-
ing heads of the detective department
of the Portland police force, but did
not contain the name of the Chief of
Police, and the answers were sent to
care Of Chief of Police, Portland"
In this connection peculiar incident
occurred to-day. While discussing the
matter with Attorney McElroy, Chief
of Police Lloyd asked Mr.. McEIroy ii
he would not write a statement say
ing how the affair had occurred and
correcting the story. Mr.. McElroy re-
piled that The Call had copied the let
ters from the originals. that there was
nothing to correct and no explanation
needed, and that he was not in any
such business as letter writing on such
subjects
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-29
pidn,t Return the souob.

DR.. Thomas L. Mahony, Polk street,
was arrested yesterday by Policeman
Butterworth on a warrant charging him
with violating the health ordinance by
not returning a diphtheritic SQUAD to the
health ONCE. He was released on his
own recognizance by Judge Conlan.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-29
Turk STRAIT TemnIe

G. B. Benham will lecture before Lib
erty Branch of the Socialist Labor Party
tonight in the Temple, III Turk street.
His subject will be THE Measure of
Morality" Meeting opens at o'clock.