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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
PLAN TO SECURE
THE CREDITORS
COnferees Issue a Statement
on the Affairs OF
Singerly.
How Depositors In the Defunct Chest
nut-Street Bank Will Probably
Be Paid
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Special Dispatch to The Call.
PHILADELPHIA Dec. 27.-The con-
ferees selected to formulate a plan of
settlement Of the affairs of the Chest
nut-street National Bank and the
Chestnut-street Trust Company. of
which William Singerly, proprietor of
the Record, was president, tonight
presented their plan for the considera-
ton OF the depositors and creditors.
The chief measure suggested is the
issuance of Record stock to secure the
creditors. The plan is prefaced by a
statement that 1T must be clear to all
concerned that in no case can credit
ors of the bank, of the trust company.
or the pulp and paper company, and
or Mr.. Singerly himself, realize more
than the total value Of the assets and
rights of these corporations in addition
to those Of Mr.. Singerly individually.
No matter how protracted or expensive
possible assignments and receiVerships
may be made, the creditors cannot re-
ceive more than the total OF all assets
less the cost and expenses which will
be incidental to their administration
under what would be the most expens-
i've form of such administration. The
fact, however, not at first sight so OBJ
Vious, though 1t more and more i'm
presses itself upon US, is that owing to
the peculiar nature of the properties
to be handled lack of good judgment
in their management will result in the
receipt by the creditors of less than the
present and probably of much less
than the ultimate value thereof"
1t is believed that if Mr.. SingerJv
will continue to give his entire atten
ton TO the development of his great
paper the peculiar qualifications which
enabled him to build up a property
earning, it is stated, in the fiscal year
1896, $4,000 net. and earning also, it is
said, in the last seven years an aver
age annual net sum of $243. 900. viii
enable him to do what not merely viii
be impossible under changed condi
tions--namely, to maintain the present
great value Of the property-but also to
increase II.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
Those Working Against
the Law Not in Ac-
cord.
So the Chances Are That the
House Will Not Take
Action.
Two Reports VIII Be Submitted by
the Connnnittee and Neither
Accepted.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
Call Office, Riggs House,

Washington, D. c., Dec. 81
The anti-civil service forces in the
House Of Representatives are divided.
and 1t does not look now as If they
would be able to accomplish anything
OF consequence. The question is to be
taken up soon after Congress recon-
venes, however, and there will be q
very bitter fight.
majority report from the Civil
Service Committee will favor modifi-
cation Of the law, and a majority re-
port will favor total repeal. 1t is I'M
derstood that both propositions are to
be voted on, as il is reported that
Speaker Reed has promised the minor
tty an opportunity for a vote on the to-
tai repeal The Democrats, as a rule,
are expected to vote for the total re-
peal and not for modification. Many
Republicans will vote for a modifica-
ton, but will not vote for total repeal
The result of this division will proba-
bly, be that both propositions will fail
and the law will remain as il is.
Meanwhile, however, some modifica-
ton of the application of the law is to
be made by the administration, accord
ing to private announcements that
have been made.
President Proctor of the Civil Serv-
ice Commission, in discussing the
forthcoming report of the Civil Service
Commission, said:
We will call attention and empha-
size the scope Of the civil service law.
From time to time 1 have seen 1t stat
ed that it was not the intention of Con-
gress TO extend the civil service to po-
sitions outside of the city Of Wash
ington. This is the veriest nonsense.
The law was plain, very plain, on that
point, and extends to all positions in
the civil service with the exception of
those places filled by the President and
confirmed by the Senate, and laborers.
Our report will bring out this very
clearly, and will contain extracts from
the speeches delivered in Congress
during the debate on the bill
"A dispatch purporting to have been
sent out from this city is to the effect
that the President was about to take
some 5000 places from the classified
service. Has the commission any
knowledge of this?''
NO, we have heard nothing, al
though, personally. L believe he has the
subject before him.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
THREE DISTINCT
/ POISONS FOUND
Result Of the Chemical ANALYSIS
on the Body Of One Of
Zanah's Wives.
1t Is Yet to Be Determined whetber
the Drugs Were Used in
Embalnaing Fluid.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Three distinct
poisons have been discovered, as the
result Of a chemical analysis, in the
body of the fourth wife Of Charles
ZanOlH who collected insurance money
on the lives of at least seven persons.
He is suspected Of being responsible
for some Of these deaths, and is now
in the Tombs awaiting the termination
Of the tests begun by Professor Wit
thaus, the chemical expert employed
by the District Attorney. The profess
sor has found traces of arsenic, mer-
curry and zinc in parts of the body Of
Jenny Suhmer-Mrs. Zanolh No. a
given TO him for analysis. She died.
supposedly from typhoid fever, last
August.
Notwithstanding his discovery, Pro-
fessor Witthaus does not feel justified
yet in making a report to the District
Attorney that death was due to pois-
oning, for the presence of arsenic. zinc
and mercury might be accounted for
as the result of the use Of embalming
fluid by the undertaken who prepared
the body for burial. This must be in
vest1gated, and Professor Witthaus
viii not complete his ANALYSIS for AT
least a week.
ZanolH will be brought into court
again tomorrow morning, but owing
70 the absence Of a definite report from
the chemical expert, the District At
torney, in all probability, will ask that
the prisoner be again remanded. It ia
the intention to postpone action In the
case until the findings of Professor
Witthaus can be placed in evidence.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
,LlLIUOKALANI
YET FIGHTING
ANNEXATION
Has Not Abandoned
Hope Of Defeating
the Treaty.
'Ex-Queen Is Not Confin-
ing Her Efforts to Sc
cure a Pension.
Mission Of the Hawaiian Del
egatiOn at the National
Capital.
DESIRE INDEPENDENCE.
demand That the People of the Islands
Choose Their Own Form
OF Government
Mission Of the Hawaiian Del
egatiOn at the National
Capital.
DESIRE INDEPENDENCE.
Demand That the People of the Islands
Choose Their Own Form
OF Government
Special Dispatch to The Can.
Can Office. Riggs Honse

Washington, D. c., Dec. 81.
a local paper, rampant for annexa-
0on and not too careful about its facts,
printed a story to the effect that ex-
Queen LiltuOkalani. by the advice of
her friends, had abandoned all hope of
defeating annexation and would here
after conf1ne her efforts to securing a
pension This is a lie. The ex-Queen
Is an intelligent woman, and has been
given to understand by her friends that
the annexation treaty, as well as the
annexation bill, viii be defeated
The Star says tonight: The pres
ence of a delegation of native Hawaii
ans in Washington for the past week
has attracted some attention, owing to
the lack of information of what this
delegation really desires to accomplish.
1t may be said in passing that the
foregoing information about the ex-
Queen was not obtained from these
persons. A Star reporter, who. talked
with a member Of this delegation to-
day, Mr.. Richardson, was told by him
that the delegation will devote its eff
forts primarily to defeating annexa-
ton. WHAT we want he said, is
Internationally that mean that we
shall not be annexed TO the United
States, that the monarchy shall not be
forcibly restored, but that the people
Of Hawaii shall be permitted to choose
by ballot their own form of govern
menu
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
BELIEVES H0FF rs GUILTY.
George A. Saunders Talks of the Mgrder of
Emma Hawkins.

ALAMEDA, Dec. 27-George A.
Saunders, known as "Chippewah
George" said tonight regarding Hofr's
connection with the Hawkins murder:
IT lived in San Jose at the time Of
the Emma Hawkins murder, and had
my rooms and office across the street
from the Henslee House, where the
murder was committed. A few DAYS
ago 1 received a letter from Chief of
Police James A Kidward Of San Jose.
inclosing q photograph of Hoff and
asking me II had ever seen that face
before. I imediately recognized it as
the face Of the man had seen hang
ing around the Henslee House several
days before the murder, and just be-
fore dark on the evening of the day on
which the crime was committed 1 saw
this man coming down the stairs and
out of the door of the Henslee House.
Il do not know that this man was
the one who committed the deed, but
had / been sent out to hunt the man I
would have singled that face out of
all the faces in the world. The crimes
were so similarly committed that it
would make me stronger in nv con-
victions that they We're the work of the
same hand. The man whom I sus-
pect wore overalls, a brown coat and a.
SLOUGH hat"
Saunders could not remember the
name Of the landlady, but he thinks
she now resides in Vallejo. He was
not positive, but thought that Hoff. or
the man who so strongly resembles
him, might have had a room in the
Henslee House.
Saunders is. a pleasant, keen eyed
man and has had considerable expert
ence in detective work. His only de-
sire is to see justice done, and he ex-
poets to pay Hoff a visit tomorrow.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
ORE STRIKE IN THE
GROVER CLEVELAND MIME
Vein Eight Feet Wide Uncovered in q
Claim Owned BY Monterey
EdOjfnIiSfe

MONTEREY, Dec. 27.-Word has
Just been received here that a new
vein Of soft quartz has been struck in
the Grover Cleveland gold mine near
Placerville, which is owned by Mon
terey men. John z. Sexton, mining
expert, has been at the mine some
time experimenting the early stages
Of its development and has just ar
rived in Monterey to make a personal
report to the owners Of the property
B. T. Harmon and E. Michaelis. The
vein is over eight feet wide and as
says about S. to the ton. The ore
contains considerable iron, and Is very
soft.
The mine is considered to have de-
veloped remarkably in the five months
1t has been worked, and the expert
says it has wonderful promise. It is
lnow decided to push further develop
BEnent work with all possible dispatch,
esnd Mr. Sexton viii start at once on
his return to the mine The owners
believe they have found their own
Klondike nearer home than Alaska
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
SOUTHERN CRUISE POSTPONED.
1t Is BeGeved the Spanish Situation Might
Be Aggravated by Hurrying Vessels
10 cubd'S VICINITY.

NEW YORK. Dec. PA Washington
special to the Herald says: The de-
parture of the North Atlantic squad
ron for the Gulf OF Florida has been
postponed until January 10. The de-
partment officials say it is impossible
to sooner complete repairs to vessels
In the New York yard In some quar-
tiers it is limited that the delay is due
to the belief that the Spanish situa-
ton might be aggravated by hurry
ing vessels to the vicinity of Cuba So
far as can be learned, nc objection has
been raised by the Spanish Govern
ment to the proposed programme of the
Navy Department, and it is expected
that none will be made, but it is be-
heved the administration would be wise
II 1t directed Rear-Admiral Sicard to
maneuver with his squadron along the
northern coast of the country.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
TROUBLE IN STORE FOR
THE GENOA LYNcHERS.
Many Witnesses Summoned to Give Test
mo1y Before the County Grand


CARSON. Dec. 27.-Sheriff Brockliss
Of Douglas County was in Carson to-
day subpenaing witnesses for the Uber
investigation. which comes before the
Grand Jury at Genoa tomorrow. Judge
Mack stated that he would examine for
bias all members of the Grand Jury
and excuse all who were disqualified
or unfit to serve in any way Four of
the jurors signed the anti-reward petit
ton, and will be excused on these
grounds.
GENOA, New, Dec. 27-The Grand
Jury will convene tomorrow to inves-
tigate the Uber lynching. A large
number of witnesses will testify. Ex-
element was high in the valley to-
day. An abundance of evidence is said
to have been compiled against the
lynchers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
CRIPPLED GIRL PERISHES
ENWRAPPED BY FLAMES.
Daughter of Tuidre County Rancher In
ci1erated in a Burning
DWELLING.

VISALIA, Dec. 27.-The residence Of
A B. Ballard in the Poplar neighbour
hood was burned to the ground yester-
day and Billiards. daughter, Miss Hat
tie, persisted in the flames The young
lady was cripple and unable to help
herself. Her body was burned to a
crisp.
The unfortunate girls parents had
gone out to the barn to milk the COWS
and feed the horses. Hattie was left
sitting by the heating stove. The barn
was some distance away. Soon smoke
was seen issuing from the house. The
father rushed to the scene, but the
whole building was then wrapped in
names. 1t is thought the girl fell out Of
the chair and knocked over the stove
Her head, arms and legs were horribly
burned and the body was not recov-
cred until the flames had died down.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
WILL NOT ENTER MIRO
THE SEALING AGREEMENT.
Great Britain Declines TO Interfere With the
Foreign Relations of Canada.

LONDON, Dec. 27.-Lord Salisbury.
the Premier, has written to United
States ambassador Hay in response to
Americas latest proposal in the Ber-
ing Sea controversy, her request that
Great Britain would enter into nm
agreement with the United States,
Russia and Japan TO stop sealing.
Great Britain declines to enter into
such an agreement. Lord Salisbury
says in substance that he has COM
municated with the Canadian Govern
ment. which has the foremost interest
in the sealing question, and that
Canada is unwilling to become a marty
to such an arrangement as is proposed
by the United States. Therefore Eng
land, continues Salisbury, whose inter
est is but slight, would not be justified
in acceding to the proposals.
Lord Salisbury's answer emphasizes
the policy Of England not to Interfere
in Canada's foreign relations.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
CHARGES OF ROBBERY
OF THE GOVERNMENT
While There Appears TO Be No Foundation
for the Story IT win Be the Subject
of Congressional LnoUfrY

NEW YORK. Dec. 27.-The Herald's
Washington correspondent telegraphs
Charges that the Government is usu-
ally robbed Of from six to eight mil
lion dollars in payments to railroads
for transportation of mails will be the
subject of Congressional inquiry When
the House Committee on Postoffices
and Post roads frames it's appropria-
ton bill the principal officials of the
Postoffice Department will appear. and
I understand this subject will be most
carefully investigated. At the Post
office Department it is asserted that
there is little or no foundation for the
charges. Second Assistant Postnas-
ter-General Shallenberger, who has
charge of such matters, is not in the
city.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
SUICIDES I'M A NEW
JERSEY PEKITEKTIARE
One Prisoner Wanted TO Die and win Live.
While the Other Was Joker and
win DIE

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Two prison.
ers, Frank Barbain, an Italian, and
Harry McCallum, colored, attempted
suicide at about the same time in the
penitentiary at Caldwell, n. J.. to-
day. McCallum, who ATTEMPTED sui
eide as a joke, is dead. Barbain will
recover. Barbain, who has been i'll
and respondent for some time past.
fastened a strap to the bars Of his cell
and hanged himself, but was discov-
cred by a keeper before life was ex-
tinct and was resuscitated. Barbain
admitted that he tried to kill himself
because he was I'll and was tired Of
living
When the excitement caused by Bar
bain's attempt to kill himself had sub
sided somewhat, McCallum announced
to his prison mates that he would play
a joke on the keepers. A few moments
later a convict in a cell adjoining Nc
Callum's heard the latters cell door
rattle followed by a low groan. A
shout Of warning brought the keepers
TO the scene. McCallum was found
hanging from the door. He had tied
one end Of strap to the bars and the
other about his neck, bent his knees
under him and allowed his full weight
to hang on the strap. He showed no
signs Of life when the keepers reached
his side, though he had not been hang
ing more than a couple of minutes
The body was carried downstairs and
a physician summoned. The physician
worked hard over McCallum, but could
not save his life. The doctor said that
the strap must have pressed against
the mans jugular vein in such a. way
as to render him unconscious almost
instantly McCallum was serving a
sixty days sentence for larceny and
was booked for release next Thursday
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
Suspected lof a Hotel 8obbecy

RENO. Dec. 27.-Sheriff McInnis has
arrested a man named Albert Watson
supposed to be the individual who held
up the hotel at Steamboat Springs on
Saturday night. He was dressed in
five suits of clothes and carried shot
gun. He was seen in the vicinity of
Steamboat on Saturday, and as he did
not tell the same story twice he was
arrested on suspicion.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
Ddiy BUYS SbiDmnfe

LEXINGTON, KY. Dec 27.-Marcus
DAILY Of the Bitter Root Farm, Mon
tana, acquired another brood mare
to-day. Gus Eastin has sold to DAYS
agent the dam of First Mate for $4,000.
The mare, Shipmate, is years old.
and was sired by Spendthrift, dam
Messmate, by Alarm. She and Lady
Reel. also just purchased by DAILY. viii
be left in Kentucky until after foaling
time. and then shipped.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
Use of Wood in Rarsbios-

WASHINGTON. Dec. 27-Assistapt
Secretary Roosevelt submitted to Sec
rotary Long to-day his report with ref
erence to the continued use of fireproot
wood on naval ships. Mr.. Roosevelt
urges that wood be abandoned for deck
purposes and that wood of any kind be
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
DISCHARGED Without Honor. e

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-By direc-
ton Of the acting Secretary of War.
Post Quartermaster Sergeant Robert
Fallon. now at Fort Spokane, Wash,
will be discharged without honor from
the service of the United States on re-
ceipt Of this order by the commandment
- his station.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28

employed as sparingly as possible in
future construction. The Assistant
Secretary favors the use of cork, but,
where wood is absolutely needed, he
suggests that fireproof wood be used.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28

Coughs and colds cured with Lows
Horehound Cough Syrup; price 1Oc. All
Sansome street.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-08-05

he jerked the horses sensitive mouth
with the cruel curb till it bled profuse-
ly, and every little while his sharp
spurs would tear Dandy's fianks. Suf-
fcring all this pain, the horse calmly
walked in ranks without showing any
resentment, and apparently knowing
that his master was out of his senses.
Shortly after this happened we were
fired upon from ambush. The sergeant,
who was in the lead, was shot dead in
the saddle while riding along the brink
of one of those steep canyons which
abound in that part Of Arizona. So he
pitched head foremost out of his sad
die down hundreds of feet into the
canyOn-bed.
During the next few days Dandy ate
almost nothing, and appeared dull and
listless. All the men being mounted,
he was led and a pack-saddle put on
him. About a week later, as we We're
riding along the brink of another can
yon, very similar to that in which
Dandy's master had found a grave, the
command was halted for rest, and
the men, dismounting, let their horses
Craze on the few punches of dry grass
in the vicinity.
Presently we saw Dandy TX TO the
edge of the cliff and look down into the
black canyon depths. There was some
thing in the horses manner that at
tracted attention, and we weSe silently
watching him. when he crOuched on his
gave quick spring far out
into the air over the edge of the cliff.
and went turning and twisting down
500 feet to be dashed to death on the
powders in the canyon-bed.
"As clear case of suicide as l have
ever seen," our captain said. Poor
heart was broken!
Can it be that the horse is passing
away from us? Let us hope not. If he
Is, we are losing a noble friend.-A
Cavalry Soldier, in Youths Companion.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-08-05

stopped. Most bold and daring riding
on the part of the herd guards is re-
quired to head off a cavalry stampede
and turn the leaders.
Horses soon learn all the trumpet
calls stable CALI in the afternoon is
the favorite one, imagine, as it means
dinner"
A trumpeter's horse in a certain troop
at Western post was condemned for
disability, and sold to a milkman. One
day, when the milkman was driving
near the drill ground where the troop
was drilling. his horse. Mt the sounding
of the charge" by the trumpet, bOlted
for the troop. OF course the funny
sight of Il milk cart charging with a
troop of cavalry caused great merri-
ment to all, except the milkman.
During the Geronimo campaign some
years ago in Arizona, a remarkable il
lustration of how great an affection
can exist between soldier and his
horse occurred in a troop in which l
was serving. An old Irish sergeant
had splendid brown horse called
Dandy" to which he was SO singular
ly attached that the care and caresses
he bestowed on it would have satisfied
the most cxacting sweetheart. The
beautiful and intelligent animal SEEM
ed to be almost human, so much did he
appreciate the affection of his master.
Now it happened that during long
march the sergeant became very tipsy
by drinking some fiery Mexican ines
cal" Keeling in the saddle to and fro,
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-08-05
Oldest College Men.

Samuel Ward Chandler of Philadel-
phia. and the class of 1922. now nearly
ninety-four years of age, is Haryard's
well-preserved oldest; he is the father
Of Francis w. Chandler, professor of
architecture in the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology. Dartmouth's
oldest living graduate is Mark Went
worth Fletcher of Wayne, ILL.,, class of
1925, who is within a few months Of
being as old as Harvard's oldest. Emil
ius Kitchell Sayre of Monticello Mo-,
who is in feeble health in his eighty
eighth year. is Amherst's oldest; he
was in the class of 1928. of which he
is the sole survivor. The oldest Will
Jams graduates of the same class OF
1928 are Joseph Lyman Partridge Of
Brooklyn, ninety three years of age,
and Rev. Ebenezer Harrison Stratton
of Branchport, n. Y. The oldest fOI
Bowdoin College is Frederick Waite
Burke of New York City, ninety-one
years old, of the class Of 1924.
oldest, and indeed her very
first graduate. is Daniel H. Chase, who
lives at Middletown, and now and
then attends the morning chapel ser.
vice. Mellen Fitch of West Newton
and the class of 1896 now ninety-twG
years of age, heads the list for the
of Vermont. Lawyer AL
bert Ware Paine Of Bangor, Me-, at
Waterville, Me. DR.. Benjamin D. Silli-
man of Brooklyn, n. Y, holds the sem
iority for Yale.--Boston Journal.