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The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
JOCKEYS
 STILL UNDER
 4 CLOUD Indefinite Suspension of Spencer, Jones and Johnson. Eddie Jones Denied All Charges Preferred
 Against Him. Ex-Owner Johnson Peached Upon by an Eastern
 Bookmaker.
SPENCER HAS NO HEARING
As Usual the Willy Layer of Odds Escapes-Spicy Developments
 Expected.

The charge of fraud preferred against Jockeys Eddie Jones and Spencer and ex-Owner Ollie Johnson came up for an airing last evening before the stew ards of the California Jockey Club. The gentlemen comprising the board were: Thomas H. Williams Jr., J. w. Brooks, John J. Carter and Joseph A. Murphy.
 After calling upon a score fo book makers, owners and employees of the race course, the case against the sus- pended riders looked so dark that they stand virtually ruled off the turf, for their suspension was made indefinite.
 Both Johnson and Jones were of fered immunity from punishment if they would reveal the names of the person or persons with whom 1t is charged they have been doing business, but both declared themselves innocent of complicity in any jobbery. Spencer, though present, was not called upon.
 Among the turfmen called before the meeting and asked to give any infor nation that would tend to purify the game were: Hugh Jones, John Cole man, Billy Beverly, Jim Davis, Jimmy Coffey, Alb Stemler, Barney Schreiber, Billy Magrane, Sam Hildreth, William Fitch, H. Hoffman, Don Cameron and Tom Boyle.
 With one exception, that of an East ern bookmaker, nothing of any great importance was gleaned. This one penciler stated that last December Ol- lie Johnson approached him with a proposition to Hay up against" the horse Satsuma, to be ridden in a race by Jones. He declined the offer.
 Coffey, the horses trainer, was told previous to the race that he was not going to get a ride, and so informed the judges. Jones was warned. and Satsuma won the race. The stewards also said they were in receipt of sev- eral letters which did not tend to help the cases against the accused riders and Johnson.
 The running of the fast two-year-old Iobos was also investigated, and from present indications the stewards stated that Trainer H. M. Mason, now under suspension, will probably be ruled off the turf.
 Positive evidence was at hand show ing that the horse was not meant" in his first two races, but was simply started to get weight off, preparatory to the grand watermelon party. A tell tale letter from Chicago incriminates Trainer Mason.
 William Brown, who with Sandy" McNaughton was warned off the track some days ago, was reinstated.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
ATTORNEYS GET
 IN DIFFICULTIES A. M. Holiday and George Hayford in the City
 Prison. Charged With Obtaining Money Un- der False Prctenses and
 Petty Larceny.

Attorney A. M. Holiday was arrested last evening and charged at the City Prison with obtaining money under false pretenses by Dillon and Crockett at the instfgation of N. J. Bailey, the complain ing witness.
 It is alleged that Holiday has taken over 5000 in fees in the estate of Mrs. Fredricka GetZ in contravention of the orders of the clients, but the arrested at torney states that Mrs. GetZ, who lived in England had employed him to attend to a probate matter, and that after her death, but few months ago, he had de- sired that Bailey be substituted as party to the suit in the place of the deceased.
 After considerable trouble Holiday was asked to show certain papers in the suits which he declined to do, and on account of this he planes his arrest. but states that he will soon show to the satisfaction of the court that he is innocent in the matter.
 Attorney George Hayford was arrested by Sergeant Duncan for petty larceny. The complaining witness is E. H. Baxter of the No Percentage Pharmacy, 949 Mar ket street, who alleges that Hayford came into his place of business and wrote out a check for payment of articles purchased and that when the change had been given and the check presented for payment 1t was discovered that forty-f1ve cents was the amount of Hayford's riches. The ar rested man has been in trouble on previ- OuS ccaSfOQS.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
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The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
Meters in the City Hall
 Basement.

this city, April q to A. inclusive, as to give an intelligent outline of what will take place. While the programme has not yet been fully completed, the commit tee has authorized the publication of the following:
 Thursday evening-A grand concert of 300 voices at Metropolitan Temple. Friday morning-Opening praise service; features of thIs years work in our leagues; "Spir- itual Department: (a) Selection and adaptation of Topics; (b) preparation for leading meeting; Co harmonizing with the league and revivals. Sectional confer enceS in separate rooms: CD Literary de- partment; Bible study; grand junior rally; anf PfayeT wba eyc citizen; (b) municipal problems and our young people. @ Pen and press. (3) Fi- nancial: Funds for league use. (D Junior work.
 Friday afternoon-Song service; ''The League and Missions: (O missionary (b) missionary information and interest methods. Sabbath: (a) relation to the Christian experience and evangelism; (b) practical measures for conserving.
 Saturday morning-Song service and testimony; Our Intermediates-Plac Possibilities. Perils" The Juniors and the Church" Some Difficulties and Some Help-Spirit and Methods'; The Social Department" separate meetings of dis tricts, election. business. etc.
 Saturday afternoon-Sight-seein under the guidance of committee.
 Saturday evening-Praise service; "In- tellectual Life of the Leaguers": Spirit ual Life of the Leaguers'; conservation service.
 Sunday morning-Sunrise prayer-meet- ing; public services, preaching in the churches: Sunday schools in general.
 Sunday evening-Epworth League de- votional meetings; preaching service. by special arrangements; closing service at the Metropolitan Temple: (a) Grand service of song; (b) address, Christ for the World and the World for Christi; Co The Best Things in Experience and in Work (personal testimony and sugges- ton from members of the convention called by districts); (d) consecration and closing.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
PUPILS ACCUSE
 AN INSTRUCTOR
Charge Him With Having Aided Certain Scholars in
 Examinations.
San Joaquin County's Board of Edu- cation to Begin an Investi-
 qatiOn.
,ecial nisnatch to The Call.

Special Dispatch to The Call.
 STOCKTON, March g. A serious charge has been laid before County Su- perintendent of Schools Goodell concern ing Principal Condit of the large school in the Homestead District. The burden of the charge Is that he favored the larger pupils by giving out in advapce of examinations the questions to be pro- pounded. The penalty provided by the school law for such conduct is revocation of the teachers certificate and disbar- ment from further service in the public schools of this State.
 It was the regular county examination, and it is asserted that If the charges are true the offenSe must have grown out of a desire on the part of the principal to give his pupils the requisite standing for entry to the High School. Three young ladies who have been attending the school laid the charge before the County Board at it's last meeting and the affair has been formally placed before the board to be sifted to the bottom.
 The Homestead people are much di- vided as to the guilt or innocence of Pro- lessor Condit, who says in his own de- fenSe:
 'I did nothing of the kind. I am not in that kind of business. It would not be right I have taught school too long for that and have taught where there were no county superintendents, which would seem to indicate friction with the Super intendent.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
WOMEN HURLED
 FROM A STAGE
Seriously Injured in a Run away Accident at
 Santa Rosa.
One of the Victims Not Expected tc Live Throughout the
 Night.

Special Dispatch to The Call.
 SANTA ROSA, March 23.-As the stage from Dr. Burke's sanitarium at Aitrur1a was standing at the Southern Pacific de- pot this afternoon, and as the driver was looking after some baggage, the horses took fright and started in mad run toward. the business portion of the city. Seated in the vehicle were three women, all of whom were thrown out at the cor ner of North street and College avenue by the capsizing of the stage
 Mrs Ray, a trained nurse at the sani- tarium, was badly bruised about the head and chest, and was hurt internally. It Is supposed she will not live until morning. Miss Ida Kelshaw, a kindergarten teacher of Paso Robles, was badly bruised about the head, and her arms and spine were injured, though 1t is not yet known how seriously. Mrs. l.. R. Tull, wife of Napa merchant, was bruised about the head and chest, but was not so badly injured as either of the others.
 Mrs. Ray and Miss Kelshaw were taken to the Grand Hotel and Mrs. Full to the home of Mrs. Thompson, on King street. Physicians were hurriedly summoned. Dr. Burke at the sanitarium came to this city, bringing two trained nurses to at tend to the wants of the injured women, and their relatives were communicated with. Late tonight the condition of Mrs. Ray was very serious. The others were getting along well.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
To Survey the Line.

Manuel Amezqufta and Claudio Urrito, civil engineers, who are in the service of the Guatema1an Government and en route to Mexico to establish the new boundary line between Mexico and Gua- temala, are registered at the Occidental. These two engineers will finally adjust the long-standing controversy that has engendered much bitter feeling between Mexico and Guatemala. The latter coun- try has made a concession of about F 900 square miles The land is mostly barren and not valuable. Mexico will make her greatest gains in the northeast, while Guatemala's new line will extend along the Pacific Coast.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
SUICIDE OF A MINER.
Found With an Empty Laudanum
 Bottle by His Side.

JAMESTOWN, March 23.-The body of Richard Rogers was found yesterday morning in room in the Home Lodging House at Stent. The man had been dead for at least twenty-four hours, and an empty two-ounce bottle of lau- danum was evidence of suicide.
 Rogers was native of Virginia, a miner, and about 50 years old For some years he had been timber fore man for the Santa Ysabel mine and was considered a fine workman. He had been on a spree lasting two or three days. On Monday afternoon he purchased the laudanum and disap- peared from the streets. A Coroner's jury brought in verdict of suicide. The man was unmarried.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24

sub basement, where the engine and boilers are, instead of in the regular basement.
 A Call reporter, accompanied by an artist, made tour of the lower base ment yesterday in search of meters and found them secreted singly and in pairs at various points throughout the long subterranean passages that honeycomb the earth underneath the big building. On the sides fronting on Larl1in and Me AIIister streets and City Hall avenue they were placed in the most out-of- the-way hooks to be found. and one would never be able to discover them were it not for the rough board bar riers built around most of them to pre- vent access to any but employees of the company The door to each of these barricades was fastened with heavy paddock and chain, which the Mayor s experts had to force in order to make their tests.
 The barriers are alike in appearance and two of those on the McAllister street side that were sketched by the artist answer for all It was noticed that the chains and locks had been re- stored and were doing service again, but away down under the dome on the City Hall avenue side, in place that can only be reached by crawling on the hands and knees for several hundred feet. there is one meter that the com pany evidently did not think it worth while to barricade, it being so inacceS- sibIe that there was hardly one chance in hundred of it being found even 1T searched for. On the metal case cov- ering this meter was a typewriter no tice signed by Mayor Phelan, giving fn if without Dern1S- sion of the Mayor This notice was posted in such a manner that the case could not be removed without mutllat- ing the paper. and is undoubtedly 1n- tended to prevent the company rom tampering with the meter pending the Mayors investigation. It is fair to pre- sume that the other thirteen meters are sealed in the same manner.
 Mayor Phelan was not disposed 10 talk about the investigation he has be- gun saying he was not ready to dis close all that had been done, and would not be until another test had been made jointly by experts from the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company and his own experts. That the com pany's officials are greatly worked up over the expose in The Call was evil denced by a remark made by che Mayor that President Crockett had a short time before called him up by telephone to ask about his investiga- ton.
 Regarding the letting of the con- tract for lighting public buildings for the next two years, Mayor Phelan was willing to discuss freely. and he showed a determination to give competing companies an opportunity to bid, if they so desire.
 The Mayor expressed surprise that the Supervisors had refused to grant the Mutual Company the same prfvi- leges enjoyed by the San Francisco people in the matter of erecting poles and running wires. He said the mat ter had not been brought to his atten- tion, and the action of the board was slipped through without being noticed. He was of the opinion that the proper course for the Mutual Company to pursue would be to mandamus the
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
STRUCK BY A CAR.
William Emerson Severely Bruised on Sacramento Street Early
 Last Evening.

William Emerson who resides in the Federal House. 1905 Stockton street, was thrown from his wagon and struck by car 517 of the Sacramento-street line last evening, and was removed to the Receiv- ing Hospital to be treated for abrasions of the hip and thigh, and possibly in ternal injuries.
 According to the story told by the in- jured man, he was driving along Sacra- mento street, near Waverly place, and was about to turn out for a car coming was driving slipped and fell, and the car crashed into him, throwing him to the sidewalk, causing the injuries for which he was treated. The injured man is em- turerS
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24

obt the meter the wonderful meter,
 Buzzing around like feather-brained skeeter' Registering watts that never were burned Running up bills till to stone one is turned The current 1t measures could not be heeter' Smashes all records does this same Thomas
 meter.
 But it does it's best work in the dark Take such a place as the gloomy base rnent of the City Hall, for instance, where there is little likelihood Of it's heinz interfered with, and it settles down to business with a vim that fair ly astonishes its most ardent admlrer'
 That person is the man who owns block of stock in the electric light com- pany.
 There was consternation in the office of the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company yesterday when the officials opened The Call and learned that the meters that record the amount of cleo tricity consumed by the citY-or rather that record the amount the city has to nav for-had been tested at Mayor Phelan's instance. Steps had been ta- ken to guard against such proceed ing which was the last thing in the world the company wanted.
 From the location of the fourteen me- ters in the City Hall basement it would seem that especial care had been ta- ken to put them as far away from 1,rving eyes as possible. There may be some good reason for scattering them about in nine or ten groups, instead Of placing them altogether, but if so it does not show onits face. At any rate it was not necessary to hide them away fin the most inaccessible recesses of the
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
WORK UPON THE
 NEW POSTOFFICE.
The Treasury Department Will Ad- vertise for Bids for Contracts
 Short1v

WASHINGTON, March 23.-Representa- Loud called at the Treasury Department to-day and had an interview with the As- sistant Secretary, Supervising Architect Taylor and Chief Executive Officer Kem- per concerning work on the new Postoff1ce them he was anxious the work should be- building at San Francisco. MT. Loud told gin on the superstructure this summer or early in the fall. He was assured by the treasury officials that advertisement for bids for this work would be issued be- tween May 15 and June 1 next.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
Not Guilty as Charged.

Richard Creighton, who was tried be- fore Judge Low and jury yesterday for violating the law by selling pools. was acquitted last evening after the jury had been out six minutes. It was stated that an acquittal was given from the fact that the prosecution failed to prove that the defendant was the custodian of the prem ises at "A Ellis street
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
MATHEWS WILL EXHIBIT. Hopkins Art Institute Will Show That Artists Pictures
 Next Week.

On Monday next the second artists ex- hibition at Hopkins Art Institute will be inaugurated by the exhibition of the works of the last ten years of Arthur F. Mathews. There will be many pictures that he has exhibited in the Paris Salon Of 1898 and other exhibitions, including pastels, oils, drawings and' studies. on this evening there will be reception for members and invited guests only.
 The exhibition will close on April and ews iSr one of the finest of the local artists.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
GOT MONEY wRoNGFULLY.
W. A. Sheppard Convicted by Jury and Will Be Sentenced To-day.

w. A. Sheppard, who Is proprietor of a clerks exchange with offices at 313 Bush and 1923 Market streets, was convicted last evening by a jury in Judge Camp bells court of having obtained money by trickery and device. He will be sentenced to-day.
 Miss J. Conklin, who Is the complaining witness, states that she had paid fee of $5 for the purpose of being appointed matron of the Oakland office and that contrary to agreement she did not receive the appointment. Hence the suit and its conclusion.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
ARRESTED FOR BURGLARY. James McDonahue and I. Donnelly Caught by Detectives Ryan
 and 0,Dea

James McDonahue and I. Donnelly were arrested last evening by Detectives Ryan and ODea and charged with burglary at the City Prison. They were identified as the guilty parties, but third man seen at the time of the robbery has not been found.
 The arrested men had stolen 1000 grain sacks and 800 pounds of rope, valued at $70, from the hay and grain establishment owned by Andrew Cassidy at 430 Tenth street. The police are still looking for the other man.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
What an Inspection of the City Hall Basement
 Disclosed.
Supervisors Prepared to Again Choke Off Competition for
 Lighting Public Buildings.

board to compel it to grant the prtv1- lege asked for.
 The fears of the Mutual Company that the Supervisors intend to adopt the same tactics used by their prede- ceSSorS two years ago, to shut OH com peting bids, are well grounded. Clerk Russell of the board stated yesterday that he had prepared the proposal foTJ bids as he was instructed to do, ana that the proposal is exactly the same as that of two years ago, including the joker referred to in The Call yesterday morning and reading as follows:
 .sNO bid will be received or entertained from parties who estimate OH any contingent event. or who cannot comply with or who are not prepared or qualified to carry out the terms and conditions herein impOsed.'
 The proposal is now in the hands of the chairman of the Street Commit tee. and unless amended, there seems little chance of any opposition com pany being in position to meet its re- quirements.
 Vice-President Summerhayes of the Mutual Company said that if his com pany were given permission now to erect the necessary poles and wires 1t would be in complete readiness to en- ter upon the fulfillment of the contract by May 1, provided it was the lowest bidder The company has now ample facilities for supplying all the cleo tricity required.
 MT. SummeriYayes reiterated the as sertion made in his communication to Mayor Phelan, that his company guar anteed to save the city S40,OOO year on the present cost of lighting if awarded the contract.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
THE EIKS

The ladies' social which had been an- nounced for last Friday night by San Francisco Lodge of the Protective Re nevolent Order of Elks was on account or the Lenten season postponed until the 18th of April.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
Leigh Has Purchased Plaudit.

LOUISVILLE, March 23.-Eugene Leigh is said to have purchased Plaudit, the favorite in the Kentucky Derby, for s2O,- 000 He is believed to have acted for an Eastern turfman, Phil Dwyer being men toned as the real purchaser.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

SAILED.
 Wednesday, March 23. Rr stunr Moana Carey, Honolulu and Sydney. DOMESTIC PORTS coos BAY-Arrived Mar 23-Stmr Arcata7 hence 20th. Comet from San Pedro.
 ARRIVED.
 Wednesday, March 23 Stmr State of California. Green. hours from Portland and Astoria; passengers and merchandise to Goodall, Perkins & Go.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
DIED.

MHUGH-At the residence of her son, 15 Rim con place, March 23, 1898, Margaret McHugh beloved mother of John McHugh, Frances Rielly, Mrs. John Farnnan and Mrs Ellen quinn, a native of Parish of Ktlldallen, County Cavan. Ireland, aged 50 years.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
A PURIM BALL.

The Purim ball which had been an- nounced by the congregation Beth Men achim Streisand for the 9th inst was postponed until the 30th, on account of the death of Charles Hess, one of the trustees of the congregation.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
EPWORTH LEAGUE.
Outline of the Work of the Conven-
 tion-Executive Completes

The executive committee of the Ep- worth League have so far completed ar engagements for holding the great Con- ference Epworth League Convention in
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24

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