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The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
STEAMSHIP WAR
BECOMES BITTER
China Commercial Com
pany Makes Big Bid
for Freight.
Invades North Pacific Terri
tory and Shippers Are
Benefited.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PORTLAND, Or, Dec. 2.-The inva-
sion of North Pacific territory by the
China Commercial Steamship Company,
signalized by the sending of the steam
ship Lothian here to load, is causing
circles. When the China Commercial
uneasiness. III Oriental transportation
entered the trans-Paciffc field, with
number of Canton milionaires behind
it, it secured the services of j. S. Van
Buren, for nearly twenty years Oriental
agent of the Pacific Mail. The deser-
!'tion Of Van Buren from the old com
pany angered Manager Schwerin and
he opened nostilities Immediately upon
the arrival of the first steamer of the
line in San Francisco by cutting rates
to 81 per ton.
No serious damage would have re-
suited from this cut had the Pacific
Mail been able to keep the fight in its
own field. Unfortunately, however, for
the other Pacific Coast lines operating
to the Orient, a 81 rate out of San
Francisco did not harmonize with So
rate out of Portland and Puget Sound
ports, and to keep everything from go
ing coastwise to San Francisco and
llCuCc " lllC OllCtllt liz 4NOl NACA IL lAHCo
were forced to cut the rate to SO, a fig
ure low enough to prevent coastwise
shipments This 81 cut has cost the five
regular lines operating out of San
Francisco, Portland, Puget Sound and
Vancouver, s2540OO up to October last,
and there had been no gain whatever
at the expense of the newcomer in the
field. This loss of $254,000 was in
iv, aI1ot~ ~ "a Of
900 tons Of Oriental freight from the
coast ports. The engagements for De-
cember loading from Portland and 'Pu-
get Sound alone are $4,000 tons, with at
least 10000 tons to go out of San Fran
cisco. This will make the total loss
from the $2 cut for the business han
died up to January l, $l72,OOO, with the
end not yet in sight.
The action of the China Commercial
Steamship Company in sending the
steamship Lothian to Portland is re-
garded as a master stroke. The Lothian
was sent here because the Pacific Mali
corraled all of the freight out Of San
Francisco at 81 per ton. At Portland
the steamer will take full cargo OF
1000 tons at SO per ton. This will make
her cargo net the owners $4,000 more
than they could have secured had
Schwerin given them a chance at q
San Francisco cargo
This transaction Of the Lothian is
onlya forerunner of the Generalization
which is to follow, unless Hartman
I curbs his steamship manager and ex-
/ tends the olive branch. The Canton
( people will not only send the steamship
/ Lothian to Portland. which is In Har-
riman territory, but the steamship
Atholl will be sent to Puget Sound,
where her agents have already secured
/ $500 tons of wheat and 1000 tons of
flour. =.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
TREASURER KEPoIKAI
HOLDS TO HIS POSITION
Governor Carter Still Has One Mem
Der Of Old Regime in His Of
fetal Family.

HONOLULU, Nov. 26.-Governor
Carter's administration begins with
relations between him and the Treas
urer still very strained as result OF
Treasurer Kepoikai's refusal to offer
his resignation, as did all the other
heads of departments. There are no
conferences between the Governor and
the Treasurer and Carter has said that
he does not regard Kepoikai as a
member of his official family, not
having appointed him. and will not
assume any responsibility for his acts.
Kepoikai has much Hawaiian back
ing in his stand. The acceptance OF
the resignation Of Land Commissioner
z. s. Boyd leaves Kepoikai the only
Hawaiian holding a position as de-
partmental head. Home Rulers In
dorse his attitude. 1t is said that Ke-
poikai, who is resident of the island
Of Maui, would like to succeed ]. w.
Kalua as Judge of thezMaui Circuit
Court. Kepoikai was Vh the bench
under the monarchy and lost hts po-
sition by refusing to swear allegiance
to the provisional Government.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
WIDOW RECEIVES
HEAVY DAMAGES
Jury Gives Her Verdict
for S27, 800 Against
Railroad.
Southern Pacific Loses Suit
Growing Out Of Wreck
at Byron.

Los ANGELES, Dec. "A jury in
the United States District Court this
afternoon gave judgment against the
Southern Pacific Company in the larg-
-est amount ever awarded for the loss
Of a human life in this state. In the
suit Of Mrs. Cora Vernon against the
railroad company for $50, 900 as COM
pensauOn for the loss Of her husband.
who was killed in the wreck near
Byron on December 20. 1902, the jury
returned a. unanimous verdict award
ing Mrs. Vernon s27500. The high
est previous award in California for a
human life was $4,000. and it is said
that the Vernon award is exceeded
only by the Judgment given by a New
ork court in the case Of a victim of
the terrible tunnel wreck on the New
York Central Railroad.
Mrs. Vernon VIII now. bring suit
against the Southern Pacific for the
death Of her son. who was also killed
IN the Byron wreck.
The widow based her claim TO S60,-
600 damages on the fact that her hus-
band at the time of his death was
earning 5000 a year. with reasonable
expectancy OF living twenty years.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
Hard FRAMING For cadets.

HONOLULU, Nov. rs. - Captain
Zander of the German training ship
Herzogin Sophia Charlotte, which left
here yesterday for Sydney, sent boat
with ten cadets back to Honolulu
this morning to give the cadets
the experience and training. At a. m.
when the ship was about fifteen miles
away, the boat started and the sailors
rowed here by IL o'clock. After an
hour on shore they started back, row.
ing all the way. The vessel was not
in sight when they started, but they
rowed for the direction in which she
was under sail. During their brief
stay on shore the cadets were enter
tained by H. A. Isenberg, the German
Consul.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
FAILS TO PAY BALANCE
TO SECURE FRANCHISE
Bidder for Railway Concession at San
Jose FOrfeits Money origi-
nalTy Deposited.
- T0sE -. D Il

SAN JOSE, Dec. 2.-E. D. Craw-
ford, who last evening bid $500 for
an. electric railway franchise in this
city, failed to appear and pay tire bal
'ance Of the money to-day. and the
sale has gone by default. Ten per
cent Of the bid had been deposited and
Crawford has twenty-four hours time
in which 10 pay the balance. Craw-
ford on Tuesday defaulted on the
same franchise. II having been sold
70 him the day before. Now the Coun-
ell 9will be obliged TO again advertise
for. bids for the. franchise. Craw-
ford's object in bidding for the fran
ehise and then defaulting in the mat
o ter Of the payments is causing con-
siderable speculation here.
Crawford. who lives in Gmroy. re-
fuses 10 discuss the franchise. If he
look the franchise he would have 10
build a line which. without outside
Connection. would be worthless, as the
franchise is for only seven blocks.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
CHINESE PROFIT
BY A RATE WAR
Pacific Mail Offers Trans
portation to China
for So.
Opposition Steamship Lo-
THAN Carries 600 Celes-
tials at 81 8 Apiece.

San Francisco to China for 81. That
Company yesterday offered to carry Ce-
lestial passengers to the Orient. Low
as was the fare, however, few availed
themselves of the bargain in transpor-
turn to the Flowery Kingdom had pre-
viously closed with the China Conn
mercial Company, on whose steamships
Lothian 500 of them sailed shortly be-
fore yesterdays sun went down.
The China Commercial rate was SIS.
which is itself something fairly tempt
ing in the bargain line, and which at
tracted a big rush Of almond eyed pat
ronage. The rush for China attracted
the attention of the Pacific Mail agents
and they went the new line enough
better to have caused a yellow STAN
pede Pacific Mailward had not the Lo-
thian's Chinese already paid their SIS.
With the departure of the Lothian
the old rates will go into effect on Pa
cific Mail liners and will be maintained
until the next China Commercial steam
ship is ready to receive passengers. A
few took advantage of the lower rate,
however, and several of the Chinese
passengers who will leave day on the
Hongkong Maru will cross the Pacific
at cost to each of them of 81.
The Chinese who sailed on the Lo-
THAN were nearly all old men, who are
going back to China to die. Under or
binary circumstances many of them
would have availed themselves of the
various Oriental schemes for making
Uncle Sam send them home. Before
deportation, however, there is a period
Of detention in jail, and, although the
scheme is costless, it is more annoying
than the spending of SIS with an i'm
mediate departure. This rate war is
pleasing to the officials of the Chinese
Bureau, much Of whose time is taken
up with these old men, who, for the
sake of free ride home, acknowledge
themselves illegally in the land of the
free The prosecution of these cases is
expensive, so that. although rates to
China ranging from 81 to SIS may be
ruinous for transportation companies,
they mean many dollars saved fer
Uncle Sam.
Acting Customs Collector William B.
Hamilton notified United States Immi-
grant Commissioner North yesterday
that the steamer Lothian had
cleared from this port for Ore
gon with $50 Chinese, who were
returning to China and suggested that
steps be taken to prevent the landing
or escape of any of the Chinese. II
is supposed that should some of the
Chinese escape and remain in this
country they would send their return
certificates to China to be used ir
gaining admission to this country OF g
like number of Chinese laborers.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
! BLACKMAIL USED
UPON A CHINESE
Scheme to Deport Chin Nee Yook
Exposed by David
Jones.

Chinese blackmail methods were ex-
posed yesterday in United States Court
Commissioner Heacock's court by Da-
yid d. Jones, official interpreter of Chi
nese for the District Attorneys office
The case was that of Chin Nee Yook, a
laborer, returning from China and
claiming to be a native born American
citizen. Chin produced a record of the
United States District Court certifying
to his admission to this country on a
former occasion as native born Amer.
lean, but the Chinese Bureau was rot
convinced that he was the person men
toned in the record.
Chin was bailed out by security
company, Chinese firm furnishing the
cash. Yesterday Fong Ping, a Chi
nese interpreter, approached Mr.. Jones
and informed him that Chin's bonds
men had determined to surrender him
into custody because they had learned
that that was not his name and that
the court record was not his.
Mr. Jones suspicious were aroused
by the eagerness of the Chinese to al
low Chin to be deported to China. and
he had an interview with the defend
ant. Chin said that he had paid Fong
Pings people IS for costs and certain
sum for the bail bond. and that he had
promised to pay s25 more for an attor-
ney's fee, but that Fong Ping had de-
manded $50 additional, threatening, at
the same time, that If 1t were not paid
his bondsmen would surrender him into
custody and he would be deported.
Chin introduced witnesses before
Commissioner Heacock, and they
proved that Chin was not an impostor,
but the person he had represented him
self to be. The court discharged him
from custody and remarked that 1t
was a clear case of an attempt to rail-
road a man to China because he would
not submit to be blackmailed
o. p. Stidger, who acted as attorney
for Chin, stated that he would waive
his fee of $25.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
AGED MINER rs KILLED
BY A PREMATURE BLAST
David Crissmap Meets Death While
Working in His Quartz Mine
Near Golconda.

WINNEMUCCA, New, Dec. 2.-Da-
vid Crissman, miner, aged 20 years,
was killed last night by premature
blast while working in his quartz
mine near Golconda. He was alone
at the time of the accident.
Crissman was an old time miner In
the West, having followed the for
tunes of the gold seekers in all the
Western States and in Alaska. Eight
years ago he passed through an
experience such as few men could en-
dure. He was imprisoned by cave
in on Winnemucca Mountain in the
old Pride of the West mine and lived
forty-six days without food and with
no other water than the small amount
obtained by melting snow. When he
was rescued he weighed but fifty-six
pounds. Although interested in a
number of claims, Crissman died poor,
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
Spring valley Files Trust Deed.

SAN JOSE. Dec. "A trust deed
from the Spring Valley Water Com
pany TO the Union Trust Company Of
san Francisco to secure a s2S. .OOO. 900
bond issue was. filed to-day in the Re
corder's Office. II is voluminous doc
Elment covering fifty pages of closely
printed matter, describing the property
Of the Spring Valley Company about
the StateS. The filing fee amoanted to
S225 The bonds were ordered issued at
meeting Of the company on Novem-
bSy %, 1903. There are 2s,OOO bonds of
the par value Of $1,000 each and they
are TO bear per cent interest. The
trust deed viii be filed in all the coun-
ties where the Spring Valley Company
has property.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
HIGH TIDES CAUSING
DAMAGE AT SUNDERLAND
Wharves Owned by Oil Companies
Suffer and Property Along Beach
Is Inundated

SANTA BARBARA, Dec. 2.-Ex-
treHely high tides during the past few
days have wrought great damage at
Summerland, which is situated on the
coast, six miles east Of this city, and
where several hundred oil wells have
been drilled in the sea Many wharves
owned by oil companies were dam
aged by heavy; seas and sections of
others were carried away.
OF derricks were DESTROYED and
property along the beach considera bly
damaged. AS the tide is higher to-
night IL IS feared that greater dam
age VIII result The loss already
amounts toeseveraI thousand dollars.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
steamer Queen city Is Safe,

NANAIMO, B. c., Dec. 2.-The
steamer Queen City, which left Vic
toria for the west coast last week and
whose non-arrival has been the cause
of much uneasiness. has just been re-
ported from Alberni. The steamer
encountered terrific weather up the
coast. which delayed her four days.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
Rav Pirate Arrested.

John Quinn, who is known to the po-
lice as bay pirate, was booked at the
City Prison yesterday afternoon by De-
tectives Regan and O'Connell on a
charge of burglary. The officers found
him on Sunday night with a boatload
of pigiron ana arrested him. They dis
covered yesterday morning that the
pigiron had been stolen from French
bark lying at F'remont-street wharf and
consigned to Balfour, Guthrie & Co.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
library Site Is Finally Selected

: WOODLAND. Dec. 2.-The Car
negie library controversy has been
Settled by the selection OF a site Of
fered by the Board Of City Trustees.
At a meeting of the Library Trustees
last night DR.. Prose. changed his vote
from the site selected by that body to
that offered by the city, which gave
a majority for the latter site.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
Mining Congress to Meet at Portland.

PORTLAND, Or, Dec. 2.-Instead
of the executive committee of the
American Mining Congress meeting at
Salt Lake on December z, as first ar
ranged, it has been decided to meet
in this city three days later. The
committee has been called together to
arrange for the seventh annual ses-
sion of the congress, which is to be
held here next year.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
slauer Of wife Goes Free.

SEATTLE, Dec. 2.--The jury In the
Bartlett murder case to-day brought
in a verdict of not guilty. Mitchell
Bartlett was charged with having
murdered his wife one year ago last
month. He admitted having killed
her. but proved extreme provocation.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
Railroad victim Is Identified.

SAN JOSE, Dec. 2--The name Of the
man who was run over and killed by
the Santa Cruz train near Alma yes
terday is Frank Jobst He was a ranch
hand and 60 years Of age. The inquest
held to-day failed TO show why Jobst
was on the track. No blame was at
tached to the railroad company.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
Grand Jury to Investigate Gambling

WOODLAND, Dec. 2.-The Grand
Jury for 1904 was drawn yesterday.
J. F. Kennedy was appointed chair
man, Hayes Goble secretary, z. T.
huston expert and c. A. Stevens assist
ant It is reported that there will be
a rigid inquiry into the matter Of al
legged illicit gambling at Washington.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03

Ihree lads. none of whom has at
tanned his sixteenth year, were before
Judge Mogan on the charge of having
STABBED with murderous intent an ared
groceryman named Martin Kroger
whose place of business, where the at
tack took place, is at 500 Second street.
Inc trio was arrested and booked as
Archie Burton. John Quinn and John
Mccarthy, and as they faced the man
they had attempted to kill they showed
neither regret for what they had dyne
nor rear of its consequences.
kroger appeared to prosecute. but as
ne had not entirely recovered from the
effect Of his many wounds the case
was continued till December 9.
1t was the evening Of Saturday. No
vember 10, when Kroger was set upon
end cut with knives by the young fell
lows. He had refused to sell drinks
to them, as they were minors, and in
retaliation for his refusal they proceed
ed to wreck his grocery. When he at
tempted to protect his property they
attacked him.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
Head of the Foresters Coming Here

Ll5au O LHs LOLtsLeIs OOInlng heIe.
SAN JOSE, Dec, 2.-Supreme Chief
Ranger John F. Kelly of the Foresters
Of America win visit the Foresters'
courts in California next January. Su-
preme CHIEF Ranger Kelly writes that
he VIII leave Jersey City, N. J., his
home, on January 2, coming direct to
California. Orders VIII be issued by
Grand Chief Ranger Gabriel to the va
rious courts Of the State TO prepare a
suitable reception to their chief Kelly
is Chief Of Police Of Jersey City and
a Tammany politician.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03

Police Judge Cabaniss tenderly dam
died policeman's club and asked
James j. Roberts, a private infantry
man, what he meant by carrying such
an implement concealed on his person
when he came to town for recreation.
The prisoner said he had been held up
and robbed one night recently while in
specting the Barbary Coast and he had
equipped himself with the hickory
bludgeon to prevent a recurrence of
that incident. There was incredulity
in the Judges facial expression and
tone as he surveyed the son of Mars
with critical eye and remarked:
well, we'll let this case go over till
tomorrow, when@we may have found
something more about you'
Roberts was arrested Tuesday night
by Policeman Nelson on complaint of
an intoxicated man who had given the
soldier $25 to keep for him temporarily,
and then found that he could not get
back the money. While searching his
prisoner for the coin the policeman
found the club cunningly concealed in
his clothing where it could be instant
ly drawn. The charge against Private
Roberts is carrying concealed weapons
Charles O'Brien, who picks other peo-
ple's pockets for livelihood when he
is out of jail, was held to the Superior
Court with bail fixed at $1,000 by Judge
Mogan.
O'Brien's method Of dipping" as ex-
planned to the court, was time-honored
and usually effective. With couple of
confederates he would board a crowded
street car and snatch purse and make
good his escape while his pals obstruct-
ed pursuit. He tried the trick once too
often, however, on November 25, when
he slipped his hand into the pocket of
Nash B. Aguayo on a Kearny- street
car and was caught and held by his in
tended victim before his accomplices
could interfere. The outcry raised by
Aguayo was so fierce that they were
lucky to escape arrest.
James Muir was before Judge Cab
aniss on a charge Of assaulting Police
man Murphy, who was escorting Mrs
Muir a professional fortune-teller,
from her chamber of mystery on Geary
street to her home.
The woman testified that her hus-
band left her about nine months ago
ana went TO Arizona, apparently caring
little how she might live while he was
away, and when he returned and found
her earning livelihood by revealing
the future for 10 cents per revelation
he wanted to resume marital relation
ship. but she would have none Of him.
AS he appeared to be angry she got the
policeman to protect her, and while she
was walking home under escort Muir
followed them until Murphy told him TO
let his wife alone. Then, Mrs. Muir
AYERS, her husband struck the police
man and the latter retaliated with his
club and arrested the cause of her
trouble. Before taking his prisoner to
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03

The export trade in Galveston for the
fiscal year showed an increase of So 000, 900.
Public and private improvements recently
completed and under way will aggregate
in cost S5,15s, 900
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
Mosnnito Fleet R.eturns.

The gunboat Petrol the torpedo-boat de-
stroyer Perry and the navy tug Fortune re-
turned yesterday from Santa Barbara where
they acted as stakeboats during the trial OF
the Tacoma. The Petrol anchored off the
Yerba Buena training station and the others
went direct TO Mare Island.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03

II would be a good idea for some peo-
pie TO hold their tongues occasionally Y
and give their brains a chance 20 catch
I'D.