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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-07

Tenders have been severely punished.
we have had cases where police ofti-
GERS were taking money from disrepu-
table women and from liquor dealers
who wanted TO violate the excise law
By keeping their places open after
hours But the discovery has always
resulted in prompt discipline of all inn
pllcated. I have even heard that in
the United states some of your great
cities have been i'm the virtual control
of predatory gangs who were elected
To office and then used the offices for no
other purpose but to obtain all the
plumber possible out of them. l have
been told that there have been cases in
which the mayor and the chief of no
lice united to instruct their subordi-
mates that certain laws on the statute
books were not to he enforced, simply
because the mayor did not agree with
the law, or because he was paid stip-
ulated sums by the violators of the law
to insure their immunity. 1t is incred-
ible that such things are true in such
progressive and enlightened commune
ties as the great American cities, and
| have not believed the tales. But
they are constantly reiterated, and do
not seem to be resented by the accused
officers. Such things would not he toll
Grated here. If the charges had the
least element of truth, public sentiment
would ruin the men against whom they
were directed. and if not true would be
equally severe on the men who made
them. But if they came from source
of any dignity and repute they would
not be ignored for a moment"
PARADOXICAL LIBEL LAWS.
With all the testimony to the same
effect, / am bound to believe that the
civil service of sydney is far better
than that of our big American cities in
its honesty and faithfulness to the
public powers defined and its duties
apparently done, without respect to the
personal opinion of the civil servant as
to the merits of any particular law
with whose execution he is charged.
Public servants i'm New South Wales
have one safeguard against unfrendly
criticism which might save them some
trouble even if the character of the
| service We're not SO high. The libel
laws are So severe that to an American
they are simply startling. They are
based on the English theory. The
greater TIC llDtl, 50 lIal proof bl
truth aggravates the offense instead of
becoming a justification. The press
feels the limitations thus inflicted and
is often hampored i'm comments that
/ ought to be made by the threat of dam
ages for an expression of the truth.
A surprising case has just been re-
marked that will be hard for Ameri-
cans to understand. Butler, the muir
I derer who was eXtradited from San
| Francisco, was under trial i'm sydney
! for his crimes. \ paper here related
/ the history of the case. outlining the
! facts brought against him, and his ca
! reer. His lawyer called the attention
! of the court to the article, judicial cog
/ ni2ance was taken of the matter and
I the paper was mulCted for heavy dam
ages, the sum going to Butler to be
promptly used in his defense. The
fact that he was convicted of murder
soon aftcrward and was hanged for his
crimes did not relieve the paper from
the penalty for violation of the libel
| laws
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-07
CIVIC STANDARDS
In AUSTRALASIA
Where Crookeduess in Public Office Is
Practically Unknown.

BECAUSE ONE COUNCILMAN HAD A
STONE GATE PRESENTED TO HIM
BY \ CONTRACTOR WHO HAD
DONE BUSINESS WITH THE CITY
HE WAS FINED SlaOo AND EN-
PELLED FROM oFFICE--OTHER IN
STANCES OF CIVIC UPRIGHTNESs.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-07
SEVERELY PUNISHED.

Policemen? Well, you know our
police force is a colonial force and not
municipal. A mans appointment does
not depend on any local influence, he
cannot be kept on the force or turned
out by any local influence, and i'm Il
measure he is free from the tempta-
tions that beset the police where they
are under the authority OF the munich
pality, and aldermen ana the mayor.
1t is quite possible that individuals in
our police force accept money from
certain disreputable elements to induce
them TO wink at infractions of the law,
and in fact such charges have been
made on few occasions and the Of
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03

Wilson, General Dickinson, L. P. Drex- Ter, Kate c. Byrne, James D. Byrne and Van R.. Paterson, representing a num- Der of creditors.
 All of the mortgages are on the prop erty in the block bounded by Geary and Market streets and Grant avenue, and are as follows:
 John H: Dickinson, s2s, ,os1: same. s1O. .2ss: Ida J. Phillips, s15 900; Cecelia A. Levy. Doane. 5000: John T. Porter, s5O0O; L. P. Drexler, s!2,753; William B. Waldron, $7652 John T, Porter. s1750o; City of Paris Dry Goods Company s9665; L. P Drexler S035 Willard c. Doane, $500 Isaac Strassburger.: s32o2; Kate c. Byrne, s21.- 1884; same, 0,OO0; Russell J. Wilson and Mountford J. Wilson $20 900; Hepburn Wilkins, s10 900: Maximilian Herzog $3663 Robert Scott administrator $2002; Rich ard kinsilla and Robert W. Johnson $11O2 70; Michael Cochrane, $770; S. A. Pacheco and E. J. Rake, s933; William Sale, s640 75.
 The mortgages were given to secure promissory notes payable in eighteen months, with interest at per cent for the first year and per cent thereafter until redeemed. It is not thought that the interest on this indebtedness will embarrass Mrs. Blythe Hinckley, as the income of the property is very large. Several of the suits against the heiress were settled only yesterday on the execution of the mortgages. The total amount for which she pledges her estate is $232991.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03

stripped and examined and found to be almost as sound as when she was launched
 Captain B. Cogan has placed another vessel on the Kotzebue Sound route. There Is not accommodations enough on the bark Alaska for all who want to chased the bark Northern Light from James McKenna. and she will be fitted out for the trip at once.
 Captain Whitesides. late master of the whaler Navarch. will go as master of the Northern Light, and Captain Cogan will command the expedition and also the bark Alaska. The latter vessel will leave here April 25 and the Northern Light May 10. The Alaska will take the river boat to St. Law renee Island, and it will be ready for use by the time the Northern Light reaches the Sound.
 For Dyea and Skaguay the Alaska Yukon Transportation Company's AL bion will leave on Saturday with a ful list of passengers.
 Some of the Clifford party are taking five mules and twenty-five tons of freight, and the others are we'll pro- vided with dogs and provisions.
 The same company's steamer Ma tional City will leave next week.
 The steamer State of California got away yesterday for Portland. She had a number of people for Dyea aboard, which she will transfer to the steamer Oregon. There was the usual crowd of sightseers down to see the vessel off
 The rumor that the Pacific Mail is going to place the San Bias, San Juan, Colon and Acapulco on the Alaskan route is hardly credited. as the coffee season has just opened and the com pany cannot handle all the business offering. If MT. Huntington should de- eide to make the change the English steamers now on their way out from Liverpool will be secured and placed in the Central American trade.
 Captain John Lee, late of the c. D.. Bryant. Sonoma and half a dozen other vessels, made a successful at tempt at suicide yesterday. Tuesday night he had fight with Captain Captain Sullivan of the schooner Mary Gilbert. Yesterday morning he got a room in the Alpha house on the corner of Enst and Market streets and there took a dose of morphine. He was taken to the Harbor Receiving Hos pital, where he died at 9:30 last evening.
 Once before Lee attempted to end his life by the gas route. but failed. He is known from one end of the world to the other, and one time was one of the most successful masters In the Cali fornia trade. Once, however, he was arrested in Honolulu for smuggling. and his vessel was seized. He got out of that trouble, but was arrested here for trying to land four Chinese. For that he lost his ship, and has been working around the front ever since. He is the son of Professor John Lee of Gourouk College, Glasgow. Scotland.
 The Mail Company's Rio de Janeiro arrived from Hongkong and Yoko- hama yeterday. Two days out from Yokohama she ran into heavy north west gale, during which one of the starboard Hfeboats was smashed. Her cabin passengers were: Dr. W. H. Ab- ercrombie, Lieutenant l.. Saunders, R. N; James McWilliams. Thomas Clark and M. Mittog.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03
Another Sailing Vessel for the KOtZeb bue Sound
 Fleet.
The Lists of the Albion and National City Are Both
 Full.
Suicide of Captain John Lee, Late of the c. D. Bryant, and Well
 Known on the Front

The rush to the gold fields of the Yukon has brought joy to the hearts of shipowners. Two years ago steam CTS, steam schooners, ships, barks, barkentines and schooners by the dozen were tied up in Oakland Creek waiting for something to turn up. now there Is not an unchartered or unused craft in the bay. All have come out of retire ment and in handling the rush to the Klondike are turning gold into the de- pleted treasuries of their owners.
 The steamer Eureka is to be again put in commission. She was built in 1864 and some time ago Goodall, Per kins & Co., decided 1t was time she went into retirement. When her license ran out she was not a candidate for new papers, but now that the company is short vessel, owing to the wreck of the Corona, the old vessel will proba- bly, go to work again. She has been
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03
INTERESTS THE COAST. Quartermaster's Depot at Vancouver Barracks to Be Discontinued.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 2.-By direction of the Acting Secretary of War, Captain Theodore E. True, assistant quarter master, Is relieved from duty as assist ant to the chief quartermaster, Depart ment of the Columbia, Vancouver bar racks, Wash, to take effect upon the com pletion of the transfer of his accounta- bility at that post. He will then tempor- arily retain his station at Vancouver bar racks. settle his accounts and, upon the completion of that duty. report by letter to the quartermaster-ge with a view to assignment to another station The quartermasters depot at Vancouver bar racks will be discontinued.
 A postoffice was established to-day at Ricardo, Kern County, Cal, and Rudolph Hagen appointed Postmaster.
 John H. Vandehoff was to-day appoint ed Postmaster at Hay Fork, Trinity County, Cal, vice Thomas J. Montgom- cry, resigned; and D. w. Muir at Wal ters. Riverside County, Cal, vice John A. Muir resigned.
 California -Original-Zebulon Morris. Soldiers Home, Los Angeles, s6 Increase-Charles H. H. Book, Oakland s4 25 to SS; Charles A. Westgate. Long Beach, s14 to ST. Original widows, etc. Annie M Curran, San Francisco, SS.
 Oregon = Original = Stephen Rigdon, Pleasant Hill, sS.
 ton-Original-James K. Ewing. Port Blakely, $6.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03
Mrs. Blythe = Hinckley Mortgages the Market
 Street Property.
Twenty-Five Instruments Are Now Placed on
 Record.
Lawyers, Money-Lenders and Others Receive Security for Their
 Claims.

Mrs. Florence Blythe Hinckley, heir ess of the millions of the late Thomas Blythe, settled her indebtedness to the butcher, the baker. the candlestAck- maker. the lawyers. the doctors and even the money-lenders, by executing more than score of mortgages on her Market-street holdings yesterday.
 Before the courts gave Mrs. Blythe Hinckley the decree that placed her in possession of the vast estate, money was not too plentiful with the young heiress, and she borrowed and went into debt in all directions. Since that time Simpson & Millar. the searchers of records. have been looking into the deeds of the property, and it was on their report that the mortgages were arranged.
 Among those who took part in the recording of the instruments were Judge Cotton, H. I. Kowalsky, R. J.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03
OPERATIONS OF A GANG
 OF AMERICAN CROOKS.
Many Persons Induced to Invest in
 Non-Existent Mexican

CITY OF MEXICO, Feb. 2.-Frederick Pollock, formerly a railroad contractor was arrested this afternoon for concealing stolen property in connection with the operations of an American gang of crooks. Frederic P. Graham, claiming to be an Englishman, who recently swindled New York and New Jersey capitalists out of S21 900 In a sale of non-existent phos- phate mine in the State of Oaxaca has left the country, and there is good req son to believe he has gone to Alaska, whither detectives will follow him, as he employed names of high Mexican officials in entrapping his victims. Colonel Dewitt Foster, an American officer in the Mexi- can army, has lent efficient aid toward unearthing the gang of crooks which has been heecng Americans.
 The discovery of faro tables ingeniously devised to cheat people, forms an import ant link in the chain of testimony against the crooks. who are now in Belem.
 Mayor Justice Baranda has cpt short his vacation in Yucatan, and is hurrying back to the capital to give direction to the prosecution of the prisoners, whose operations are now known to have been of great magnitude and likely to throw discredit on all legitimate Investments The Government is determined to root out the gang, and has the hearty support of the American residents.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03

contract looks very much like a job, and as If money had been used where 1t would do the most good. When bids were called for the work five were re- ceived. Of these Nash & McReynolds' was the highest and l.. Hewlett's the lowest. The two bids speak for them selves:
 Nash & McReynolds-.oo52s2 cents per square yard per month, six times week for two-year contract; .002641 three times a week Two per cent discount for a con tract for three years.
 L. Hewlett-.003975 cents per square yard per month, six times week. two year contract; one-half of the above amount for three times a week. Two per cent off for three-year contract
 Instead of awarding the work to l.. Hewlett, the lowest bidder, the Coun- cil deliberately gave the contract to Nash & McReynolds, whose bid was over one third higher than that of Hewlett. At present the city pays S595 per month for street sweeping but if the contract stands that was given to Nash & McReynolds the city will pay about S4000 a year more than they are now paying for the same work.
 Three years ago Hewlett was given the contract for sweeping the streets, and he immediately sold it to Nash &; McReynolds for $75 per month, and the latter firm made a good profit out of the work.
 How the Council could openly award the street sweeping contract to the highest bidder. and thus wantonly vote away the peoples money, is being se- riously discussed by the taxpayers. and charges of corruption are heard on all sides. Should the contract be awarded over the Mayors veto the people will be thoroughly aroused, and, although the thrifty four" have but two months to serve, steps may be taken looking to their removal from office. The present Council Is the most extravagant one the city has ever been afflicted with.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03
SIXTEEN MEN THOUGHT
 TO HAVE MET DEATH.
Driven Off the Ice by the Storm While Seal Hunting Near
 Sf Toh0S
St .InhnS

ST. JOHNS, N. F., Feb. 2.-Sixteen men belonging to Trinity Bay were driven off on the ice by the storm yesterday while .seal-hunting. It Is feared they have perished. The boats that were out seek ing them to-day returned at nightfall without having got sight of them. The steamer Vanguard went in search also but the atmosphere has been so hay 1t
 The British brigantine Lady Bertha. Captain Patey, from Aliciante was driven ashore last night at Rews Harbor, forty miles south of here. She was i'm bedded in an icefloe. and became total wreck. Her seven men, 1t is feared. are lost, although they may be drifting about in a boat amid the ice.
 Nothing is known here to-day regarding the steamer that was flying distress sig nals in the ice yesterday. The steamer Glover started to seek her this morning
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03
ANTI-QUAY MOVEMENT
 GIVEN AN IMPETUS.
Representative Pennsylvania Repub- licans Urge the Senator's
 Defeat

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2-The anti Quay movement in the Republican party received an impetus here to-day at a con- ference at which there were present about 400 representative party men from all sec tions of the State. The conference was held under the auspices of the Business Mems League.
 After lengthy discussion a resolution was adopted urging John Wanamaker to permit the use of his name flor the office of Governor at the approaching Repub- lican primary election and at the Repub- lfcan State Convention
 The present senior United States Sena- tor, the platform says, is understood to desire reelection, and he, more than any other man, 1t says, is responsible for the present corrupt condition of State poli- tics His defeat for reelection is urged upon the voters.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03
JOURNAL OF COMMERCE
 SUGGESTS RETALIATION.
Believes This Government Should Stop the Importation of Ger
 man Wines

NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-Referring edi- torially to Germany's exclusion of American fruit the Journal of Com merce tomorrow will say:
 We certainly have the right to object strongly to this sort of attack upon our products. This paper does not regard retaliation with much favor, but it is time to consider whether we ought not In self-protection. to exclude German wines and many other things on the wholesome. There is plenty of German testimony to the sophisticat ton of Rhine wines: and both France and Germany have been doing all they can to damage the reputation of our food products and 1t IS about time we resorted to some new measures of defense.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03
TRAIN WRECKED NEAR EL PAS0 Serious Accident on the Southern Pacific
 Road. No One Killed, but Eighteen Persons Are More or Less
 Injured. Pietro Marino, the Italian violinist, and Party Among the List of
 Unfortunates.
Special Dispatch to Tn. cali.

FL PASO, Tex. Feb. 2.-Train No. 20. westbound was badly wrecked at noon to-day 135 miles east of this place. A broken wheel caused two cars to leave the track, turning one completely up- side down, and dragging the second car with it some twenty feet from the track and perfectly demolishing one car. At the speed of forty miles per hour the sudden crash was terrific. Fortunately none were killed.
 The partial list of wounded Is as fol- lows: Trainman c. Ivy and Mrs J. w. Riordan, Ell Paso; Pietro Marino, the vfolinist, and party from Italy to San Francisco, three of whom are seriously hurt internally; George Donnelly of San Francisco, collarbone broken: Os- car Elbeng, from Sweden to San Fran cisco. badly cut about the head; J. Warren Dutton. and others whose names were not taken-eighteen in all.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03
SAN QUENTIN UTE SACKS.
Prison Directors Fix the Price for the Season at $5.3O Per
 Hundred

The Board of State Prison Directors held special meeting at the office of Daniel E. Hayes on First street Tuesday for the purpose of fixing the price on grain bags for the season. With the ex- ception of Robert T. Devlin there was present full board.
 The directors responding to their names were Robert Fitzgerald, James H. Will kins, Daniel E. Hayes and Donald Key, the new director, who has taken sthe seat left vacant by the retirement Of Edgar J. De Pue.
 The chairman explained that the pur- pose of the meeting was solely. to con slider the fixing of a price on the grain bags manufactured at the San Quentin jutemill.- After some consideration s 30 per hundred was agreed upon. This price Is slightly under the cost of production plus 1 cent.
 The directors further made an order that no sale exceeding 5000 bags should be made to single party. This the di- rectors believe Is strict construction of the Ostrum act which they intend to abide by. The receipt of orders for grain bags is not so large as usual, owing to the crop prospects.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03
Would Protect San Jose From Street Sweep
 ing Jobbery.
Evidence Of a Combination 10 Rob the City Out of
 $12,OOO.
Councilrnen Attempt to Let tho Con- tract Regardless of the Low
 est Bidder.
Special Dispatch to The Cali.

SAN JOSE, Feb. 2-The attempt on the part of the City Council to mulct the city to the sum of about $12000 during the next three years by means of a street sweeping contract. has been baked, temporarily at least, by Mayor Koch's veto, which was filed late yes- terday afternoon. In vetoing the res- olution awarding the contract to Nash & McReynolds the Mayor says he is convinced that the bid is not the low est and best.
 Councilmen Fay. Krieg, Noting and Dittus were unanimous in awarding the contract to Nash & McReynolds, although 1t was over a third higher than L. Hewlett's bid, and in all prob ability they will pass the matter over the Mayors veto.
 The letting of the street sweeping
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03
a New ArrivaI.

MT. Herman Scheller, draperer. late of Arnold Constable, New York, took charge of the draping establishment of the Pat tosien Company, Sixteenth and Mission, at which bargains are now given at their great sale
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1898. SOME SHOP I AK.

The balance of the 25,0OO tickets bought for Special Sale will b. of- fersd daily. this week while they last between the hours of 10 A. M. and l P. M. at 15c each.
 They are the regular 25c admission tickets, good until FebruaryI5. Only . sold to single purchaser. :.
 Special Ticket Office-Near elevators, : west side of rotunda. :.
 In response to- many requests from patrons, we will again ex- hibit Delorme's marvelous painting, beginning Monday, February "A, for two weeks only.
 A wonderfully ingenious piece of echanism from France that is operated by electricity now on ex- hibition in our showro 9m, second floor. Bring the children to see ths gymn asts in their wonderful feats; the automaton brass band, etc. =.
 Just issued-printed in co1ors- profusely illustrated-a mine :. of condensed information about AL aska. Tells steamer fares, dis tances, best claims and their values, latest mining laws, women's nseds in Alaska, etc., with new map. Mailed free on application. oAd- dress Adverhsing Bursau, 7he En- porium, San Francisco z
 For three days longer we wifi sell the 25c Veilings, advertised earlier in ths week, at tOc yard. They are an-silk Tuxedo Mesh Vefiings, in black, brown and navy, in d. sirab1e styles-good value at 25c. Nearly 2OOo yards left, and will probably last the week out fO. at. ......... SSS
 100 pieces just received in the very latest weaves and swell color combinations. It's an extra heavy quality and an unusually good bargain at the opening price, TX. p.r yard ........ ~ These color combinations: Brown and Heliotrope. Green and Gold. Sapphire and Brown. =; Red and Pink. : Blue ana Gold. Cerise and White : White and Gold: Cerise and Nile.
 Cardinal and Navy.
 There's a miscel1aneous assort- :. ment of Denim and Art Ticking Table Covers in the Art Embroi- : dery Department that mast be sold at once to make room for other goods. =.
 36x36 inches -fringed a1I around tinted and machine embroidered -three shadss of blue, green, car dinal and pink. 25c, soc, 75c, $1, $1.25.
 Newly arrived, direct from the manufacturer, complete assort- ment of the latest novelties in Fancy Saxony All-woo1 Wrapper Flannels. They make lovely house jackets, waists and ehidrer1's oO. dresses as well. Per yard =. oOC Disblayed in East Shoy Windows. = Eagle Table Fruit-Peaches, .
 Apricots or Pears 3 cans for 25c Maine Sugar Corn-reguiarly
 t2lc can-to-day -. t0c Imported Sardines, 4ls regularly.
 15c ean-2 for.... -. ... 2c Fancy Eastern Hams-regu1arlY
 13e lb-to-day. y..............u Il ium and Golden Bazaar.
 HE KLOND1KE COUNTRY. kAA AAAAAAAAFAAA& A&A A AAAk'
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03
Went Hunting in tho Park.

Louis Lafond. the young man who went hunting for game out in the park. and when interrupted pointed his shotgun at Officer E. Campbell, was convicted of a charge of assault in Judge Dunne's court yesterday. He will be sentenced Satur- day.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03

day acwd by bark Aaka Kozee und aveb bee e put o % a rEuka b bbrugtou