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The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02

phone" in their place of business or in
their homes. The company agrees, upon
request, not to place the number of
patrons telephone in the public books.
many reasons. Patrons may wish to be
saved from annoyance. They may desire
to discuss only those affairs that are OF
the greatest privacy. Whatever their rea-
son may be it is their own and the com
pany- promises to honor it.
Under the terms of this. agreement the
company promises not to give an in
quirer such patrons number under any
condition. To communicate with such a
patron one must know the number of the
telephone and must receive the lnforma-
ton from any source except the telephone
company. This is the theory. The prac-
tice is different.
Company affect to be greatly concerned
over the exposure of their offenses. Their
concern is the chagrin Of detection, not
the humiliation Of guilt For some peo-
in the calendar.
officers of the Telephone Company have
made lists Of these private telephones and
have sold them to whomever offered a
sufficient consideration: In this way they
strike double bargain. BY becoming
what they believe to be public necessity
they are bribed to give an exacting ser
vice They are then bribed to sell the
secrets they obtain.
John I. Sabin, president and general
manager of the Pacific, Telephone Com
y d
Call reporter in regard to the expose of
the lax and corrupt methods in the ope
ration of the company's business, He dis
played evidence of great confusion and
refused to talk on the subject. The as
sistant general manager, Louis Glass, was
more communicative, however, until in
terdicted by his superior officer, Mr.. Sa-
bin. II did not know of the story in The
''and 1 cannot understand it at all. know
that such a state of affairs as described
in The Call cannot exist. Whenever we
discover that there is an employe-of
whom we have large number-who is
not strictly secretive as to the communi-
cations passing through the office, he or
she is discharged Immediately"
Just at this juncture Mr.. Glass was
called to his private telephone. When he
returned he said that he was interdicted
from speaking further and that Mr..
Sabin would represent the company for
all interviews.
Being asked If it were not possible that
an operator might receive or overhear a
message and then transmit it to some
other than the party to whom 1t was to
be properly sent, he refused to answer.
The ban had been placed upon his tongue
and he declined to be interviewed
further.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02

Daniel NJ. Burns is playing gamblers $
game to win the prize of a seat in the
United States Senate. In his striped ca
reer as a malefactor in and out Of prison
cells, he has staked his personal honor
and the lives and liberty of his closest
and dearest friends against success
Sometimes he won with the instruments
of his dishonest greed and sometimes he
lost. From the moment that he crawied,
srakelike, into a position Of public trust
until now the shadow of his personality
has been a death blight to those upon
whom it has fallen.
In public life he has been suspected, dis
credited and dishonored. In private life
he has been stunned, feared and despised
His public associates have been blacklegs
and his private friends his victims. Hav-
ing dishonored himself, condemned by
association his friends, and robbed his
benefactor, he has planned how to bring
distress to many homes and with bait
of greed, grasp a new element of success
in his desperate fight for the Senatorship.
Daniel NJ Burns has decided 10 rob
twenty-one members of the local Police
Department of their livelihood by taking
from them ther positions. The agree
ment has been made, the list of victims
has been drawn, and If the fear of public
Indignation does not prevent the success
Of the conspiracy, twenty-one members Oh
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02
A CAUCUS OF
THE NEW BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS
Appointments to City
Jobs Considered.
POLICE COURT CHANGES
JUDGES LOW AND JoACHIMsEN
AS PROSECUTORS.
L. G. Carpenter and George Went
POLICE COURT CHANGES
JUDGES LOW AND JoACHIMSEN
AS PROSECUTORS.
l.. G. Carpenter and George Went
worth Also selected-Recorder Ber-
thier Completes His List of
Deputies and Copyists.

The incoming Board Of Supervisors held
a. caucus on appointments last evening in
DR. Perrault'S office. The list OF fortu-
nate ones who are to receive positions
under the new administration was prac-
tically completed, but the names are not
to be announced until tonight, as several
changes are possible. The positions in
the four Police Courts are all decided.
Police Judges Charles A. Low and H. Il.
Joachimsen are to be prosecuting at
torneys This is one of the peculiar re-
suits in the game OF politics Thomas
Graham, Prosecuting Attorney In Judge
Joachimsen's court, will ascend the
bench, and the eX-judge will take his
place as prosecutor.
l.. G.. Carpenter. the well-known news
paper man, who is a graduate of the Ann
George A Wentworth will prosecute
criminals in the other two departments.
Jack p Rice, James w. McQuaide, F.
Kelly and Fred Conway are to be clerks
of the Police Courts.
One of the important changes made by
the new board was the appointment of
W. o the new Hs of 9Gstee
Recorder Bertheir will take. charge Of
his office at p. m. to-day, when his as
sistants are to meet at the Rec9rder
office for instructions Last night the ap-
pointments in this office were completed.
They are as follows:
Chief deputy, Charles y. Corey; depu-
ties, Harry Baehr and Max Warshaner;
marriage license clerk, Joseph Tittel;
mortgage clerk, Edward w. Eustice;
messenger John. Patten;. chief copy
ist, John E. Durnier; copyists. John Cal
ish. Charles Malpiede, Eli Landry, Will
lam Fritz, A. T. Green, Joseph Hayes,
Fred Franks, Joseph Mcguire, Jerry
Moore, w. l.. Dauterman Jr., Sam Hamil-
ton, Percy Levy, Ed Duffield, E. B. Car
roll, Frank Koegel, Edward Haugkey.
Joe Mogan, for several years steward
at the Receiving Hospital, has been ap-
pointed clerk in the Coroners office by
Dr Hill
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02

will meet and adjourn until he is able
to do so. The unfortunate officers will
then have a little more time in which to
fight for their lives.
Chief Lees is quite confident, however,
that Tobin will be able to attend. The
Chief held yesterday afternoon, therefore,
his last preliminary conference with
Wright The talk lasted for several
hours The list of men selected for dis
missal is follows:
Captains Bohen and Dunlevy; Detectives
Bainbridge and Silvey; Sergeants Lind
heimer and Brown. City Prison; Sergeant
Shields, North End station; Sergeant
Barnstead, Southern station; Sergeant
Avan, Harbor station; Corporals John
Burke California-Street station; Heaney
and<Hagarty, Seventeenth street station:
Patrolmen Dugan attached to the School
Department.: Peter Coleman and Libby
Southern station; John McGreevy and
Charles O'Malley. Harbor station; Gag
nor. Morehouse, Fred Smith and Barney
Harter. Central station.
1t will be seen that this list includes
two captains, two detectives, five SER
geants, three corporals and nine patrol
men-tWenty-one in all Some of the men
who are to be retired are among the most
efficient and widely experienced in the de-
partment. Some of them are so thoroughly
informed on the affairs of the department
and its necessities that they cannot be re-
placed To dismiss such men means sim
ply to serve a dishonest purpose and obey
a dangerous demand.
Through the influence of superior Off
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02
PREYING UPON
THE COMMUNITY
How the Telephone Company Per-
fected Its Gigantic Bureau
Of Eavesdropping.

THE expose of the dishonorable meth
DDS employed by the Pacific Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company
toward its patrons and the public has
excited general dismay, disgust and in
dignation. Were 1t not for the absolute
proof presented by The Call it would seem
that this company would not dare violate
the confidence reposed in it's honesty as
far as to become public menace instead
of what 1t is paid to be-a public benefit
But men may be bribed to commit the
most despicable offenses, one of which
the Pacific Telephone Company has raised
to the despicable dignity of corporate
existence. This company has made itself
gigantic bureau of eavesdroping, organ
lied and protected under the law, to
listen at every mans door.
SO thoroughly is this shameful fact
known that employees of the corporation
from the highest to the lowest are aware
that In every telephone Office there is a
listening table" where the eavesdropper
may sit and hear any conversation that
Is carried on over any wire operated by
the company in any part of the city,
State or coast The listening table" is
the keyhole of the telephone company
and 1T is operated by the eavesdroppers of
the company, even without the knowledge
of the ordinary employees.
Only the most trusted servants of the
concern are allowed TO manipulate it.
The dishonorable possibilities of such a
system cannot be exaggerated Affairs
from the most trivial to the most import
ant are known to these legaliZed caves
droppers. Information that they are
bribed, as The Call has shown, to give
or that they may use for blackmail, is at
their command. Facts that the eXigen-
cies of public or private business demand
should be kept secret are in the posses
sion of this company.
The substance, of every message that is
sent or received over the Sunset system
is reduced to writing, indexed and filed
away. Why this should be done it is
easy to understand. Men are not knaves
for pleasure. When they are rascals they
are paid for being such. The Call deems
it a duty therefore to warn the public of
the manner of men who are managing the
Pacific Telephone Company, and while
they are being overpaid to render an hon
est public service they are stealing for
dishonest gain the secrets of the city AMI
State.
Particularly should warning be given
to those patrons of the Pacific Telephone
Company who believe they are paying
for what is known as a private tele-
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02

GERS a few of the men on the list of de-
capitation were informed of their ap-
preaching misfortune. With despera-
ton inspired by the knowledge that they
are to lose their livelihood these men have
since been vigorously seeking influence to
save their positions. Among those that
are fighting practically for their existence
are Corporal Heaney, SergeantS Brown
all of these men are of acknowledged
ability and value in their respective
spheres. but they are to be sacrificed to
the ambition of Dan Burns.
With the vacancies created by the dis
missal of these men Dan Burns hopes to
be able to buy votes.
A legislator who has the power to ap-
point a captain of police of San Francisco
would be no mean political figure in his
district. A legislator who may name
sergeant of police would be less powerful.
but still important. In such manner this
schemer of the Candelaria has thus ar
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02
PLOT TO PURCHASE
A NATIONAL HONOR
Dan Burns IS Using the Police Department of
This City With Which to Bait
Officers of State.

ranged his bait to suit his game. Big fish
need large bait and small fish are tempted
by little hooks and Burns knows that
there are big and little fish in the State
Legislature.
Craftily, therefore. Burns has arranged
TO give to each member whom he needs
from the interior the right to appoint one
patrolman of the police force OF San
Francisco. The higher positions are to be
given to the legislative delegation from
this city.
This in outline is the plot that Is so
cruel to officers that must live by their
labors and so injurious TO a department
that is saturated more than enough al
ready with the drippings of corruption:
The Call does not pretend to predict that
the plot will be carried to completion. II
the Police Commissioners obey the oe.
for their action If they do not another
public expose will have prevented another
public outrage.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02
CONGRESSMAN DINGLEY
Is CRITICALLY ILL
Leader of the Republican Majority in
the House a Sufferer From
Pneumonia

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-Representative
Nelson Dingley of Maine is critically i'll
at his apartments at the Hamilton House
in this city with an attack of pneumo-
MIA. Because of his age much concern is
felt over his condition. His illness dates
from Wednesday of last week, when he
had an attack of la grippe. He grew
rapidly worse, and last night pneumonia
set in. This afternoon it was stated there
had been a slight change for the better
and this has continued throughout the
evening.
an unremitting worker, and has figured
in tariff legislation in the House for
great number of years past. He is now
chairman of the Committee on Ways and
Means, and is the leader of the Repubii-
can majority on the floor of the House.
His wife and daughter are here nursing
him in his illness, while a physician is in
constant attendance at his bedside.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02
Proud of the Record.

Captain Spillane feels proud of the rec
ord made by the patrol wagon of the
Southern Station during the month of De-
cember. He has prepared a tabulated
statement of the number of runs" 1t is
now in the hands of Chief Lees
The document shows that there were
$50 runs during that period, the largest
for the same length Of time in the history
of the department.
There were 64S prisoners conveyed in the
wagon to the City Prison and 6S injured
people taken to the Receiving Hospital
The number of miles traversed by the
wagon was nearly HOO.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02

Dolan, s. D.. in Chicago on January II at
the residence of Miss Whited's brother
in-law, Rev. Rowland Hanson. Immedi-
ately afterward the bride and groom will
leave on six weeks Eastern trip. They
expect to be "at home" in Blackfoot,
Idaho, after March /
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02
RECOGNITION OF vALoR.
Army and Naval Officers to Be Re
warded for Gallant Service.

NEW YORK, Jan. IA Washington
special to the Herald says: President
Mckinley will send to the Senate immedi-
ately after Congress convenes a list OF
army officers entitled in his opinion TO
brevet rank for gallant and meritorious
service during the recent war. 1t is ex-
pected there will several hundred names
AS soon as the naval promotions board
submits it's report Secretary Long will lay
before the President the names of naval
1t is understood the President will at once
send the nominations to the Senate.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02
Meeting of the PAYERS Union

The monthly meeting of the PAYERS
Union, held yesterday at Hibernia Hall,
was a success, being well attended by
representatives from all over the city
AS indicated by the reports read before
the assembled members, the union is in
q 1ourishing condition, which bids well
to continue during the entire new year.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02

morning, aged IA. He was the son Of Mrs.
Julia A Tevis, founder and for fifty wears
principal of the Science Hill Girls High
School Through that institutions al
umni he was we'll known in nearly every
mart of the Union.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02
Trustees Will Hold a Meeting.

The regular meeting of the board Of
trustees of the Mechanics Institute will
be held at 81 Post street Tuesday even
ing January 8, commencing at 7:30
O'Clock Owing to the number Of impor-
tant questions of interest TO be discussed
1t is expected that every member of the
board will be present.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02
EX-SENATOR DUBOIS TO WED.
South Dakota Miss Will Become the
Idaho Statesman's Bride.

CHICAGO, Jan. Cards are out to-day
announcing the marriage Of ex-United
States Senator Fred Dubois of Blackfoot.
Idaho. and Miss Edna Maxfleld Whited Of
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02

by w. R. Summerhayes to prevent the
auditing and payment of demands for
lighting made by the San Francisco Gas
and Electric Company. The way is now
clear for the settlement of the demands.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02

The famous old JESSE MOORE WHISKY is
recommended by physicians for family and
medicinal because it is pure.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02
Big Typewriter Order.

The United States War Department OF
this city just placed another order with
L. & NJ. Alexander for ten more ne"
model Smith Premier typeWrlters.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02
HOTTIES SCHOOL

Has removed from Burlingame to its new
home at Menlo Park. San Mateo County; ac-
credited, and prepares boys equally we'll for
business; next term begins January 18th, lS99s
IRA @. HO1TTp Pm. De Principal
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02
Tiebtine Bills Will Be Paid.

Judge Seawell has handed down an
opinion dissolving the temporary lnJunc-
ton granted in the suit recently instituted
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02

Over II 900 900 fans are exported in one
year from Canton, China
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02

Noted Educator Dead.
SHELBYVILLE, Ky, Jan. 1.-Dr. ]. P.
Tevis, an old educator, died here this
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02

90 ssesssses0
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02

Captain Benjamin F. Bohen.
Captain Andrew ]. Dunlevy.
Detective Arnop cambridge.
Detective Raymond NJ. Silvey.
Sergeant Mier Lindheimer.
Sergeant Fred T. Brown.
Sergeant John W. Shields.
JSn
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-02

Sergeant Thomas D. Barnstead. /.
Sergeant John AVIAN.
Corporal John II. Burke.
Corporal John Heaney.
Corporal Patrick S. Hagarty.
Patrolman Timothy ]. Dugan.
Patrolman Peter Coleman.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1899-01-10
Selling Farm Fertility.


In deciding what should be the sala-
bio products of his farm, one of the
most important questions is whether
such sales will take small or large
proportion of the fertility which is tho
farmers best capital. Most New Eng
land farmers have for years given up
growing wheat, though it Is probable
that those who have turned their land
to producing tobacco or garden crops
could now produce wheat in larger
crops than they ever did before. But
1t would take from the soil mineral
clements that they can better use in
other ways.
Whether farmer shall sell milk or
take off its cream and make it into
butter, while using tho skimmilk as
food for pigs, poultry or other ami
mails, may not depend wholly on the
amount of money the butter or the
milk would sell for, but upon the eff
feet on soil fertility. The sale of but
ter removes nothing of value from the
soil. Neither, and for the Same reason.
does the fattening of fully grown stock.
But IN the growth of any young ami.
ma, onu III VIC pIOuuctlOn OF milk,
the most valuable elements of fertility
in the food are drawn upon. 1t was
on the light lands of England that had
long been pastured by mich COWS that
supplied London with milk, that soils
first gave out and would not grow
grasses as they used to do, until
guano was applied. 1t was found
afterwards that phosphate of lime was
what was most needed, as it made the
lands as productive as the guano could
do.
OF all our grains Indian corn takes
least from the soil. It's stalk and
grain are both mainly carbon, and this
can be got in abundance from the air
through the broad expanse of leaves
which the corn plant shows. But the
flax plant is the direct reverse of this.
It's root robs the soil of both nitrogen
and phosphate. Hence it is so ex-
haustive crop that it is now little
grown except in the West, where the
process of selling farm fertility so as
to get ready money is still going on
about as actively as it ever did
American Cultivator.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1899-01-10
Grannlric.I Honey

Almost all extracted honey will
Sranulate and become like sugar Dur
ing cold weather. Heretofore this
has been considered rather q detri-
ment to the sale and use of extracted
honey. But, when brought more
prominently before the public, and
consumers become better acquainted
with it, it may almost be called the
loader.
We have always taken the ground
that honey after granulation is in the
most perfect form in which it can be
used.
Granulation improves the appear
ance of any quality of honey and never
fails to give it lighter shade. 1t
also has tendency to drive from it
any wild tHsto and make it a purer
sweet. In this condition it is in the
best possible shape for keeping any
length of time
Being free of wax, and taken from
the comb just as the bees placed it
there, without any melting Of the
combs or mixing OF any kind, by the
latest improved machinery, it is, with
out doubt, the purest of all sweets.
1t Is easily returned to its original
form by simply heating it, and if
sealed up air-tight while hot, 1t will
remain in liquid form for a long time
Farm, Field and Preside.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1899-01-10
X AGRICULTURAL. *
Stone Fences.

While the stone fences common in
all sections where stone abounds cost
nothing for material, and with hard
work are therefore within any ones
ability to construct, they are not usual
ly very satisfactory. Horned stock
soon learn that the top stones can be
easily displaced and then the fence
can be jumped. When stock once
learn that fence cannot hold them
they practice on it with more zeal than
the most ambitious college athlete,
and i'll time Will learn 20 90 oyer al
most anything. Even stake with
rail over the top will not hold breachy
stock. The best way to stop jumping
is to place bsrbcd wire over the
fence, fastening it to stakes firmly in
the ground. 1t may seem cruel, but
the stock must learn not to Jump, and
they won't get hurt. But when sheep
have learned to Jump n low stone wall,
even n barbed wire over it will not
stop them. There must be several
wires, so close together that the sheep
cannot get their heads between. That
will stop the first sheep, and no one
of the flock will try to jump after the
leafer has turned back.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1899-01-10

Poultrymen are agreed that in the
cabbage they have almost an ideal
plant to furnish a winter supply of
green food for poultry; but the cab
bage, like most cultivated vegetables,
has its insect and fungus enemies,
which in some localities so ravage the
crop as to discourage its production.
The matter of keeping them through
the winter and spring months in a
sound condition, and in such a way
as to be accessible at all times without
regard to weather conditions, has been
serious question i'll New England.
and the lack of its thorough solution
has doubtless prevented many who
wished to use cabbage on a large
scale, if at all, from attempting to use
them.
For three years we have been sue
cessful in both growing and keeping
them for our poultry on n more or less
extensive scale, although apparently
we are located where all Of the dis
eases of the plant abound.
When harvested, they are pulled up
by the roots and taken to the forest a
few rods from the poultry houses. A
sloping place is selected, FREQ from
brush, and the cabbages are placed.
heads down, upon the leaves in a
long bed running up and down the
slope. They are packed closely to-
gether in beds six feet wide, and as
long as You wish Tho limo of the
bed should follow the slope of the
land, so that the water, when there is
any, will run beside the row and not
under it. The forest leaves are next
raked up from each side and thrown
upon them until they arc covered out
Of sight, then few pieces of brush
thrown on TO keep the leaves from
blowing, Packed in this way they are
easily taken out at any time during
the winter, and it is not necessary 10
wait for q thawing time to get them.
as when they are covered with earth
in the common way. They freeze and
stay frozen. A load may be taken
ont and placed where they will thaw
ont, when they are as fine as when
placed in the bed BY this method
we have kept them clear through She
spring months, until other green
foods could be readily obtained. The
soft, poor heads are used first and
are packed in similar way on the
north side of the poultry-house.-
Farm Poultry.