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The San Francisco call., 1898-11-14
DAWN OF PROSPERITY
 FOR THE GARDEN CITY
What the Defeat of the Gang Means to San Jose and Its
 Suburbs

SAN JOSE, Nov. 13.-Now that the citi- zens of Santa Clara County have abolish ed gang rule, and county affairs will soon be under new mana cement, the city and county will certainly enjoy boom about the first of the year. High taxes and mismanagement of city and county af- fairs have kept new residents away, and thousands of dollars seeking investment have gone elsewhere. The victory of the Republican Good Government League in Tuesdays election has already done some good and the people of San Jose and San la Clara County are convinced that the officials they elected will do their duty With public affairs in the right hands San Jose and suburbs will enjoy the greatest prosperity during the year 1899. New peo- pie and capital will come and many al- ready here will improve their places.
 The fight for freedom from the evil in- fluerces of politicians in this city and county has been long one. The gang has been in power for years, and the tax payers have been compelled to support large number of useless deputies and olIl- cials. Things went from bad to worse un- der this regime. and. san Jose's misman- agement became the laughing stock of the State. The School Department and Fire and Police departments were turned over to politicians, and positions in them were assigned as rewards for political work.
 This Is practically changed now. The classes who were foremost in ridding the people of the barnacles on the public treasuries are determined to advance the interests of the city and county. The Good Government League, while a political or ganization, is also for the purpose of ad- people. The organization will open per manent headquarters and increase it's membership. The city win be advertised abroad as a place to secure investments fora capitalists. and it's advantages set forth. By this means the county will be settled up. On all sides the members of the organization are being congratulated for their splendid work. for to them all the credit for the victory belongs.
 The ballots in the County Clerks office are being watched day and night nendIng the contest that is to be instituted. AS soon as the official vote is announced by the Board of Supervisors suit will be com menced. Evidence of election frauds, it IS claimed is plentiful. The league will contest the election of R. J. Langford as Sheriff G. E. Req as Supervisor from the First District and J. W. Gass as City Jus tice It expects to win these three offices and thus add to the overwhelming de- feat of the gang.
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action entirely wrong The records will show that when the bids for the lease of the Lincoln School lots were opened championed the cause of John Macdonald, and in the committee of the whole and in caucus voted for the acceptance of his bid. Macdonald is friend of mine and a good. man, and I wanted to see him get the lease. MT. Macdonald threatened to knock out the bids that were presented on the ground that the advertisement calling for them was ambiguous, and I told him that if he would take such a step I would back him up in It. When the matter came before the board, however, he did not aD- pear, and I cast my vote for the syndicate as the only alternative, its bid being the highest presented, and it assured the School Department treasury a substantial revenue for several years.
 If money was used in any way in the transaction I certainly did not know of 1t and had no intimation of it afterward un- til I read this mornings Call"
 School Director Thomas F. Burns, one of Walters alleged solid seven, and who seen last night in reference to Reynolds
 ''TRe story in The Call is all bosh. Wal Ter never bought me and no one else ever gave me any money to stand in on the Lincoln School lease. I voted with the majority of the board to give the lease to proposition was the best submitted. As a matter of business, think the lessees have got the worst of the bargain When the lease was under consideration was not acquainted with any member of the investment corporation and l cannot tell to-day who are in it.
 My opinion is that Reynolds is bum, and, being hard up, he manufactured the story and sold 1t. I am not bothering about 1t at all. There are no explanations to be made. Every transaction in con- nection with the lease was wide open and ruption at the time. The proceedings of the Board of Education were open to the there @ been any d Shady p bushes it it" would have been discovered at the time.
 T wish to reiterate that I never re- ceived cent for my vote and I don't think any member of the board was bought.
 'The investment company made the highest bid and they got the lease"
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| it. said Welch, flor the simple reason that 1 do not handle the bids at all. The law requires that all bids shall be opened by the Superintendent of Schools. and this is invariably done.
 MT. Webster opened the bids for the lease of the Lincoln School property, one amount of the bid and then passing them to President Harrington. The bids did they had l would have had no opportunity to insert the figures. Had there been any plank bids Superintendent Webster would have discovered them when he opened them, for all bids were sealed and are only handed in to the Superintendent at the last minute; they never come to the
 "All the intending bidders came to me some time before the bids were presented and gave them all the information in my possession regarding the property, it's condition, the tenants and the rental. But further than that l had nothing whatever to do with the lease. nor had 1 any understanding with any of the direc- tors, or Reynolds or anybody connected with the company.
 Even if was willing to enter into any such Job l was in no position to render any service whatever, and people are not paying out money to anybody unless they receive something, in return for 1t. It is certain that l did not receive cent in connection with the lease and did nothing whatever to aid the successful bidders in
 ''I know Reynolds well, for he was for merly on the City Hall detail when he was reporting. He came into my office every day and frequently asked me for been drinking heavily I refused him; at other times l would let him have S1 or $2 90 or some such small amount but that was the extent of my financial relations with him."
 But Reynolds; in an interview says that at the meeting at which the bids for the Lincoln School property lease were opened he wrote the sum '$250 on a blot ting pad and passed it over to you with A significant nod of the head; that you read it., whispered to him th>t you would like to have that sum, and he replied shat you would receive 1t If everything (mean- ing the lease) was all right"
 That Is an absolute untruth Rev. holds did not pass me plotting pad or anything else, nor did we have any such conversation. In fact we did not discuss the lease at all, and l was not aware that he was interested in it in any manner.
 ''I will say this about that lease,' said MT. Welch in conclusion. Tt is the most profitable for the city that has ever been entered into for that property Hereto ings separately, and were always having trouble with bad tenants. We never se- cured as much rental for the property as we do under the present lease, and the records will show it. The lessees are un- der bonds to keep the property in repair past: and now we collect our s4000 per month in lump sum without any trou- ble. This was more than the property was ever leased for before.
 'This is bolt from a clear sky'' said Dr. Ragan T have just finished reading The Call and I must say I cannot see what foundation these allegations of Key holds have in fact. Leaving aside all questions of bribery. he has got the story of my connection with the actual trans
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island. Some of the men have not been paid for nearly year. and to all of them several months pay is due
 The situation has created no particular tRorties m as f it in is not o likely f to seriously affect the control of that portion of the island by the American forces; but it is realized that those $500 soldiers, ii they to Spain, might become dependents whom it would be difficult to care for, and ulti- mately, perhaps. menace to good gov ernment on the island
 The Spanish authorities express no fear of their ability to solve the problem pre- men. backed by their officers, absolutely refuse to return home without their pay, is not clear
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Q 0
 ATTORNEY VOGELSANG ENTERS DISCLAIMER.

Sir Rfg thu p tn monngn your vauabea hht Bhdud a P o he lots b he agra mjntEm in y prepare fdh he operation of jumbn akenenhr ids IS adhd " in mos % los t t
 of thg ~ o o y any on in hescrtay, MI t h a him @ m h tnnant h not then h how dd b expected understand f the B 10 read the and hna also f dn if | were 0 frame p t meet the esof tn eadvr boards f3ts min the premises m h him m o tn i dsah hath u hd hurry O it p fh cefn criticism users S tn r person ,t am Ia tumble" "Yur fauu
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men could understand it, and yet that was the form in which 1t was submitted to the outside bidders. MT. Vogelsang thus bears out one of the allegations made by Mir Reynolds regarding the manner in which he claims the Board of Education favored the Real hslale Investment Company.
 Politician Phil CrimminS seems 10 De the chief beneficiary under the deal pe- tween the Board of Education and the investment company. Besides peihg one of the members of the corporation he is also a tenant and he gets a rake off'r going and coming. Under his for mer lease Crimmins paid $60O a month for the corner of Fifth and Market, where he dispenses wet goods to thirsty politicians and job-seekers. Since the property has been under the control "f himself and partners his rent amounts to only $250 a month. The reduction Is said by one of the parties interested to have been brought about in this way: Crimmins ostensibly pays $500 a month, but receives a rebate from the company of $350. This is in payment for ser vices" rendered When the profits are divided among the stockholders Grim mins of course gets his pro rata.
 The alleged manipulators commenced their flnanciering with apparently nothing but their own assurance as working capital In order to make a front as one of the alleged conSpira- tors expressed 1t, they paid man for the temporary loan of a certified check. It was not the intention to cash this, but merely to display 1t like stage money. For the loan of this check and for the additional sum of $5000 in cash the syndicate was to turn over 20 per cent of the entire capital stock or the investment company, which was 2o00 shares. The $5000 Is the amount al legged by MT. Reynolds in his affidavit as having been given School Director Waller and with which he was sup posed to subsidize the Board of Educa- tion.
 James A. Shook, who, Reynolds al- leges, is the moving spirit in the Real Estate Investment Company, has been careful to have persons with him whom he could control Both o. M. Tupper and Edward w. Williams are brothers in-law to him.
 The story in The Call yesterday was but the entering wedge in what may result in the most remarkable dfsclos- ures of official corruption ever laid bare here. It is expected that the Judicial body. in which is vested the proper power to punish crime, will investigate the charges made by MT. Reynolds Tn his startling affidavit. The maker of the affidavit sticks to his original story and with the aid of his attorneys will press his claim for a settlement with the men for whom he rendered services that secured for them the much coveted lease. Tn the pressing of this suit sen- sational developments are expected which may involve men in high places.
 President c. l.. Harrington of the board
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The remarkable affidavit of John c. Reynolds published in yesterdays Call, in which he affirms that $5000 was paid School Director Samuel L. Waller to in fiuence the votes of seven members of the Board of Education, created a pro- found sensation throughout the city. For months an undercurrent of scan dal has been heard regarding the &C., tton of the directors as to the purchase of lumber and other articles required by the department.
 For the first time direct allegations are made. The names of the subsi- dized directors are given and the lump sum that was paid for ''services ren- dered." This latter term Is alleged to cover all the work done in connection with the granting of the lease for the Lincoln School property.
 The accused men, men who are not accused for the first time in their offi- cial careers, deny the charges laid at their doors. It was not expected they would acknowledge the guilty part they played in granting the valuable lease to Phil Crimmins, James A. Shook and E. W. Williams. The accused directors are pr. Ragan, Samuel l.. Waller, Gal lagher, Bante1, Burns, Drucker and Hammond.
 There are some matters of record, however, that will require lot of ex- plaining away, and the public which cannot always be hoodwinked, has al- ready drawn its own conclusions re- garding them. First among these is the explanation of James A. Shook regard ing a $5000 item on the syndicate's books, as being paid to Jacob Samuels for legal services. Mir. Reynolds af- firmed in his affidavit that this was the amount paid Director Waller and then charged in the corporations books. The public scoffs at the idea that new incorporation would pay lawyer s5O00 for merely nominal services. The Southern Pacific with its millions would not pay so dearly for such a service. The leading lights of the bar could be retained for much smaller fee.
 The marines will be returning shortly from Manila and the manipulators might tell the story to them. They are credited with believing any fairy story.
 Alexander Vogelsang, attorney for the Board of Education, affirms that he called the attention of Secretary Welch and of President Harrington to the wording of the extraordinary ad- vertisement for bids for the Lincoln School property lease, but apparently not until it was too late to rectify it. It was so jumbled up that none of these
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NOTHING TO RETARD
 THE NICARAGUA CANAL
Senator Morgan Thinks This Country Will Carry Out the Colossal
 ITndeTt1 kinr

NEW YORK, Nov. 13-The Washington correspondent of the Herald telegraphs: Senator Morgan does not believe, as he stated to me, that any new proposed Mica raguan Canal scheme viii retard the progress of the measure now before Con gress He is firm in the conviction that no other government will ever control the situation. The measure now under con through all the stages of probation.
 over two hundred engineers have made iIhhVestlgations and favorable reports, and the colossal undertaking Senator Nor gan referred to Porto Rico on the east ana Hawaii on the west as commanding passes. as we'll as coaling stations on the nlghWay. of vessels. In connection with the Philippines a new era, he thinks, Is looked forward to for this country, and a ueVeIopment Of our coast and foreign trade undreamed of before
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-14
SPANISH TROOPS ON
 THE VERGE OF MUTINY
Ten Thousand Men Declare They Will Not Return Home Without
 Their Pay.

General Corbin received dispatch to-day announcing that the Eighth Cavalry sailed this morning from Savannah for Puerto Principe, Cuba. The regiment will be the American garrison at Puerto Prin- cipe and Nuevitas.
 In this connection an interesting bit of information has reached the War Depart ment. Arrangements have been made by the Spanish authorities to send back to Spain the Spanish troops, numbering 9500 men, upon the arrival of the American garrison. It was expected they would sail
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-14
BOY COMMITS MURDER. Schoolmates Quarrel and One Is
 Stabbed to Death.

EMPIRE CITY. Or. Nov. 1S.-Ray Hol- lenbeck, young man about IS years of age was stabbed in the breast and killed shortly before midnight last night hv Guy Rockford, a schoolmate. The stab- ping occurred in a schoolhouse near Fair view, and was the result of a quarrel over the moving of the blackboard and some desks in the schoolhouse-
 Hollenheck started touIord pisz The latter told him that if he came any closer he would stab him. Holienbeck said 1T there was to be any stabbing he would do it. AS he reached for his nofa4o knife Beckford struck him a fatal blow over the heart. Hollenbeck cried ont 'I am killed and died almost instantly. Rockford made no attempt to escape.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-14
CHONG KI YES MISSION. Comes From Korea to Be Educated in
 English.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-Chong Ki Ye, connected with the household of the Crown Prince of Korea, and eldest son of Chin Pom Ye, the Minister from Korea to this country, has been appointed an at tache of the Korean Legation here, and is now en route to take his post. He Is 24 years of age and his main mission to this country is to be educated in the English language and customs. He left Korea un- accompanied on September 25, arrived in San Francisco last night and is expected to reach Washington the latter part of next week
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-14
BEATEN BY A MOB.

SEYMOUR, Ind, Nov. 1S-To-night a masked and armed mob took out of jail John Baird, a colored Democratic stump speaker who had been imprisoned on the charge of obtaining money by false pre- tenses. Once outside the mob beat him with gads. pounded him over the head with revolvers and ordered him to leave order he went to the Prosecuting Attor- ney and Sheriff for protection. A half hour later he accompanied the Sheriff and posse in a search for members of the mob. It Is not known whether the assault upon him was inspired by politi- cal Snite.
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Hill,s New Railroad.

SPOKANE, Wash, Nov. 13.-A Nelson (B. O. dispatch says James J. Hill Is to begin work at once on his new British Columbia railroad from Bonners Ferry, Idaho, to Nelson. The contract was let Saturday to Follett & Guthrie. The line will be known as the Nelson and Railing ton. It will be about sixty miles long. This will give the Great Northern a sec ond artery into British Columbia
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Captured With Their Loot.

SAN JOSE, Nov 13-J. s. Williams general merchandise store on Market street was entered by burglars last night and s70O worth of property stolen. The entrance was made from the rear end and in the act one of the burglars cut his hand. The blood marks left behind formed the only clew. This was followed up, and in a short time G. MacCanjono, whose hand had been cut by glass, and B. Ludovico,. were under arrest. All the property was recovered, some of 1t being found on the persons of the prisoners.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-14
DROWNED IN A SLOUGH.
solano County Young Man Loses Hi:
 Life While Hunting.

SUISUN, Nov. 13.-Charles Lambrecht, the IS-year-old son of Ludwig Lambrecht, a rancher residing at Scandia. left home on Saturday afternoon to go hunting on Montezuma Slough. As he did not re- turn at the usual hour, his parents be- came worried. At early dawn searching party started out and later in the day several Suisunites also rendered assist ance The searchers at noon to-day found Lambrecht's boat capsized in Mon tezuma Slough. Search is being made for the body, which up to a late hour to- night had not been recovered.
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MARCHAND ABOUT TO
 EVACUATE FASH0DA
His Expedition Will at Once Retire by Way of Sobat to
 Jihutil

CAIRO, Nov. 13.-Major Marchand, com rnander of the French expedition at Fashoda, started to-day for that point with Captain Saratier, who carried Mar chand's report to Paris and brought the reply of-the French Government.
 On their arrival at Fashoda the expedi- ton will immediately retire, by way of Sobat, southwest of Fashoda, at the junction of the Sobat River and the White Nile, from which point they will move overland to Jibautii, the French post in the Zesa district, on the west coast of the Gulf of Aden.
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To Be Governor of Malta.

LONDON, Nov. 1.-The Malta corre- spondent of the Daily Mail says it is re- ported that Lieutenant General Sir Fran cis Wallace Grenfell, inspector general of the military forces and in supreme com mand of the operations conducted Dy the Sirdar, General Lord Kitchener. for in the Soudan, will be the next Governor of Malta
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expected obstacle has arisen among the men themselves. They are on the verge of mutiny, openly declaring they will not return to Spain until they have received their pay, now far in arrears, for service in Cuba. The mutiny extends not alone to the enlisted men, but to their officers, and is directed against the executive off,
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Tunnel Thirteen Opened.

through tunnel 13, near the summit, which was burned week ago. was the overland. which reached here after 10 o'clock to- night In another day the retimbering will be completed, but trains are now moving constantly. It will take a couple of days to get the hundreds of cars of delayed freight under way.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-14
Five-Mile Record Broken.

SAN JOSE, Nov. 13.-John E. Wing to- day broke the five-mile record. standard course, of 12:34, formerly held by Tony Delmas, making 1t in 11:45 This estab- fishes a new coast record.
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Nevada County Soldier Dying.

Nevada County Cat, n il.Inher of the California Volunteers row at Vancouver was struck by a train and fatally injured at Clarnie on the O. R. and N. last night. He had fallen asleep near the rails.
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DEATH OF DIR. HALL.
Passing of One of San Jose's Most
 Proninent Physicians

SAN JOSE, Nov. 13-Dr. J. Underwood Hall, one of the most prominent physi- clans of this city, died this evening of in- fiammation of the stomach. He was 75 years of age and native of Kentuc6y During the war he had charge of the his 'S sons sis is Health oficer of this city.
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Football at San Jose.

SAN JOSE, Nov. 13.-The Alohas of San Francisco defeated the Garden Citys in a football game to-day by a score of to 5. The players were Juveniles.
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Colonel James Gilliss Dead.

NEW YORK, Nov 13.-Colonei James Gilliss. Assistant Quartermaster General, U. s. A. died suddenly to-day at Gov
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LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE
ARRIVED.

AftHlNED.
 Sunday November 13 Stmr Gipsy. Leland. 20 hours from Moss Landing and way ports.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1898-02-24
MunyOn Case Argued.

The case against Sallie &. Munyon,
which was tax en- up from this court to
the Supreme court, was argued before
that body on Tuesday. The Trenton
State Gazette thus says
"The second case argued was that of
Sarah G. Munyon against the State Of
New Jersey. The woman was found
guilty IN Cumberland county of practic-
ing abortion, and was sentenced to five
years Imprisonment and fined $1,000.
She was jointly indicted with Howard
Tyler, the victim of the operation being a
young woman named Agnes Katz.
Tyler afterwards married Miss Katz, and,
she then being his wife, her testimony
could not be used to convict her husband
Tyler was released and single indict-
ment found against Sarah Munyon.
Prosecutor William A. Logue appeared
for the State and Thomas. w. Trenchard
and Judge John w. Westcott for Sarah
MunvOnV