The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12

com pafison with which its blackmalllng
fproclivities assume a semb!ance OF honor.
"A crime so debased, so unclean, so far be-
How the ordinary human concept that it
.cannot be classed aud has no name.
: Not satisfied with lis malodorous repu-
station obtained by means which place it in
The category of those vultures of the news
paper world which subsist through pander-
5;ng to the lowest element of humanity,
sby wsding in filth and spewing
it's nastiness broadcast over the COM
imunity it assumes the role Of
secret assassin of character, and has
used the United States mails for the fur
5therance Of a crime that, were it not hid
den under cover. would subject the perpe-
ttrator TO incarceration in the peniten tiary
tat hard labor for FIVE years.
Caught red-handed in its attempt to
steal news from the office of The CALL,
exposed to public scorn torger of
honest mems names and proven a mer-
csnary blackmailer of corporations, this
employer of liars and thieves, this mid
might defiler of doorsteps, this receptacle of
the off-securings of mental sewers whose
Iowner dare not show his face in the home
of his mo ther lest he fal! into the clutches
,of utraged justice, must hencefortn bear
the livid mark of Cam on his brow and
stand before the world branded as MUIR
derer of regulations, the peer only OF that
vllest of all cri minals-the pois oner.
Too cowardIy to make its attack through
its own vile columns 1t de bauched the
postal system of the Government to
further its foul designs, and used boy as
an accessory to its crime because it knew
that it was only through the inexperience ce
and ignorance of youth it could hope to
obtain tool plant enough to assist in
carrying out a contemplate plot from
which even the lowest criminals would
shrink.
he CALL is now in position to an
nounce the fulilIment of a triple duty
owed TO the people of San Francisco, the
Alaskan Trade Commit and to itself, in
the unmasking of this contemplate
scoundrel, who has attempted TO delude
the people by cloakiDg itself in the
sem bIance of the guise of the committee
in order to traduce a successful con tenn
porary.
Sunday, December 5. The CALL pub
lished the fact that a circular so
skillfully worded as to give the
impression that i. emana;ed from
been sent TO the merchants of the city
with the evident intent to injure THE CALL
in the estimation OF the business men of
San Francisco. The CALL is now in a
position to prove that these circulars
were addressed in the Examiner office,
and were taken under the cover of dark
ness by an office-boy TO postoffice station
h. in the Palace Hotel.
beside which blackm mailing is an honora BILE
occupation, for in that, at least, the per-
petrator must be known to his victim.
The CALL announced on Novem Der 81
the complexion of its work in outtijting
the expedition sent by the Government
to the relief of the iCe-im prisoned whal-
ers, in the following dispatch from it's cor
respondent in Seattle:
SEATTLE. Nov. 25.-Outfits have been
furnished by THE CALL to the follow
ing officers of the Bear and M en- b ers of
the overland relief expedition:
Captain T. TuttIe.
First Lieutenants j. ii. Brown and
David II. Jarvis.
Second Lieutenants C. Fl. Cochranc,
John c. Berry THE CALLS correspon-
DENT, Il. II. Camden Examiner corre-
EpOndent), II. G. Hamlet Chronicle cor
respondent,E f. f BerthoIf (THE CALLS
Iespondent).
Chief Engineer II. w. Speer.
First Assistant Engineer H. n. Wood
(THE CALL photographer).
second Assistant Engineers H. X
Spencer and j. 1. Bryan.
Surgeons: DR.. S. j. Call, DIR. f. H.
Woodrufs (TBE CALLS surgeon).
Steward William Boundy.
Explorer +. KOltzschoff.
Each man was furnish ed with the fol-
lowing articles: Eskimo dogskin parkie
and breeohes, dogskin boots, silk mfts
buckskin gloves, SILK hoods, half-dozen
Arctic socks, duck vest, two suits silk
underwear, suit chamots underwear.
In addition the members of the over
land expedition were supplied with
sleeping blankets, duck parkies, wolf
skin robe, field glasses, rife, knives and
complete outfit.
A library of over 200 bound voIumes
and book and sheet music were furpixb-
ed for the wardroom of the Bear. Extra
provisions for tho crew were furnished
by THE CALL and shipped from San
ceries, provisions, wines and cigars for
the wardrOom mess, were procured in
Seattle.
The whole amounted in value. for
which cash was paid to various firms, to
S7O69 7s
, At 3:45 o'clock on the afternoon of No
vem Der 81 boy, hired by the Examiner to
lie, just as that paper had previously hired
one of its employees 10 steal, went to the
various news agents OF the city, notably
to w. G. Brown, at the railroad station.
Third and Townsend streets, and repre-
sented himself as being sent by The CALI
for the purpose Of obtaining all the unsold
copies of this paper of that date contain
ing he foregoing article. he stated to
! the news dealers that there had been SUCH
an unusual demand for the paper that the
supply had been exhausted, and he pur-
chased all the unsold copies containing
the article. obtaining from Brown alone
papers for which he paid SIS 50.
The boy went Immediately to the Office