The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-04-22
He SAYS EAGAN
WAS BRUTAL
AGAINST FORMER COM
MISSARY GENERAL MADE BY
DIR. POLLATSEK.

SAN FRANCISCO. April S.-General
Charles p. Eagan did not leave all of
his peculiarities behind him when he
quilted the American Army and Anne
rican soil, TO become manager of the
Mexican Anthracite Coal Mining Com
pany's diggings-that is, if the affidavit
of DR.. d. j. Pollatsek, filed in Judge
Graham's Court yesterday, may be be-
lieved. DR.. Pollatsek is suing the min
ing company for $4,000 damages for the
alleged outrageous treatment accorded
him by General Eagan while the plain
tiff was acting as the company's ply
stefan in the little Mexican mining town
of san MARCEL He accuses Eagan of
having kicked him out of his room
While he was sick and unable to walk
without difficulty, of having been in a
disgusting state of intoxicating during
most of the Doctors six months stay in
the camp, and finally of having forced
his men to drive DR.. Pollatsel5 from the
vicinity of the camp into the midst Of
hostile Yaqui Indians by pelting him
with bricks and stones.
In his affidavit DR.. Pollatsek recites
that in February of 1902 the Mexican
mining company employed him as its
physician in the mines at San MARCEL
al a salary of $3.50 per month. He took
his knives and toniCs and bandages
there, and all went well until General
Eagan and the doctor fell out with
each other Eagan dislil,ed the physi-
clans personality, and, it is alleged,
ordered him off the place; but Pollatsek
stayed despite orders, until he fell i'll
and was confined to his bel. Then, one
day, he says. Eagan came into his room
well filled with Kentucky's best, and
proceeded to throw him out of the room.
nt wit iC y
set the sportive miners upon the
little doctor and they drove him,
sick and penniless, out into the
wilds of a half-civilized Mexican state,
Before the final scene, however, Pal
latsek demanded the money yet due
him. and Eagan rendered him a check
on a San Francisco bank for S3l9 The
doctor refused this, as he could not per-
suade the Indians in the bush and
chapparal huts to cash it along the
journey. and he says this refusal an
gered Eagan into the severity with
which he dismissed him.
There We're War-painted Yaqui In
danes lurking in the mountain passes.
says the physician, looking for white
mems scalps and only by the greatest
care did he reach a place of safety. He
reached San Francisco last July and
4 Immediately began suit against the
company and Alvinza Hayward, its
chief stakeholder, for the injuries and
humiliations that Eagan had placed
upon him. Eagan, says the doctor,
also kept his surgical instruments and
materia medica. For these he wants
reimbursement.
This affidavit detailing another
chapter in the history of the strenu-
Gus Eagan came before Judge Ora
ham yesterday when the corpora
TONS attorneys asked for more de-
I lays in the trial in order to secure a
deposition from Eagan who is still in
Mexico. They asked for six weeks and
Dr. Pollatsek opposed the delay with
the sworn statement of his troubles in
Mexico and a statement that the trial
4 had already run so long that he was
out of funds to proceed with it and
was dependent upon the charity of
| friends for support Upon this state
ment the mining company. which ad-
mits owing him back salary advanced
| him 500 to agree to the continuance
and it was so ordered.