The San Francisco call., 1899-09-26

Dental Examiners. in which DR.. F..
F. Tebbets is the central, unenvia-
BILE, accused figure, has assumed
wide proportions. Another dentist
has come forward to join DR.. Louis
T. Cranz in charging DR.. TebbetS with at
tempted bribery. This new accuser is DR..
G. II. GaZarian of Fresno, who declares
that DR.. Tebbets demanded of him $500
as the price of diploma from the State
Board. Dr. Gazarian says that Tebbets
told him that there were four members
of the board who had to be paid. Ga
zarian refused to give the money and
failed in securing certificate.
The Governor can now have no further
excuse for delaying or preventing an in
yestigation of the scandal. DR.. Louis L.
Cranz has become weary of promises and
has determined to press the matter at
once to an issue. He has sought an in
quiry into his accusations against his fel-
low member. DR.. F. F. Tebbets, but on
one pretext or another the Dental EX-
amjners and the Governor have evaded
the issue.
DR.. Cranz has decided therefore to
place responsibility where it belongs, and
to-day his attorney, Thomas D. Riordan,
will draft formal charges and present
them to Governor Gage with a demand
for an immediate and public investga-
ton. DR.. Tebbets must enter therefore
upon a trial In which his professional
honor and his private character are at
stake. And it is extremely probable that
the methods of the entire Board of State
Dental Examiners will be subjected to
the closest scrutiny.
The scandal which revolves around the
name of. DIR. Tebbets has opened wide
field in which accusations of fraud ana
dishonesty in the issuance of certificates
and the sale of examination papers must
be answered DR.. Cranz specifically ac-
cuses DR.. Tebbets of having urged him
to become party TO the sale of a certih-
cate to a Chinese for $1,000. The accuser
promises to have the testimony of two
dentists who will swear that they paid
DR.. Tebbets money to assist certain ap-
plicants to obtain certificates. Another
dentist will swear that another applicant
informed him that he had been ap-
preached by DIR. Tebbets, who demanded
$500. The sale of the examination ques-
tions to George r. Harris, f. o. Wolf
and Nicholas Connor will also be exploited
far more deeply than the letters already
published indicate.
Nothing will be left undone to give the
Governor every opportunity to make a
thorough investigation if he wishes to do
so. The affair has already scandalized
the dental fraternity far more than the
members of the profession care to see,
and DR.. Cranz will be assisted by his pro-
fessional associates to clear the name of
the State board from suspicion.
One of the most remarkable features of
the entire affair is the attitude assumed
by DR.. G.. S. Bachman, the president of
the State Board of Dental Examiners. AS
president of the board DIR. Bachman not
only refuses to call a meeting to discuss
and investigate the charges, but he has
countermanded an order which he made
for a session. The president makes the
startling announcement that he post
poned the meeting which he had already
called siuply because the charges against
DR. Tept cts had become public property.
When asked for an explanation yester-
day OF his conduct DR.. BaChman was not
only reticent but evasive. He says that
he does not intend to call a meeting, pro-
poses to make no investigation, and has
no idea who should do so except perhaps
the Governor. When asked if he did not
consider it strange that the State board
preferred to do nothing under such con-
ditors, he replied that it was best to