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Show FINE SHIPPERS ON CONSPIRACY CHARGE SAN FRANCISCO. Deo. L'3. -C. D. 1 Bunker and R. H. S'ayne, shioping men. were fined tOion each by T'nit-M '.stales District Judsrc William C. Van Feet here today for connection with an alleged con-I con-I spirscy whereby the steamer Sacramento provisioned German wan-nips at pp;i in j violation of A merican neu traiity. Ocotrp j and James Flood, shipping men, were fined S5000 each ; Ileinrieh Kanffmann. chancellor of the former German consulate con-sulate here. $2 ft 00, and T. W. Anderson, captain of the Sacramento. 81000. f"r tliclr connection with the ullescd conspiracy. Fines of $100 each wero imensed on C. Di Bunker A Co., tho Northern Sonlli-ern Sonlli-ern Steamship company and the Golden Gate Transport;) tion company. The sentencing- of Robert Capello a nd Joseph L. Bley was post poned until .In n -nary' 2- The defendant were shipping men and firms or attaches of the forni'T German consulate here, and pleader guilty recently to the charye that the used the Sacramento for the purpose sta ted. The Northern t Southern Steamrhlp 'company paid Si S. 000 of the government's libel claim of $250,000 acainst the steamer Sacramento. The balance is to be paid within a year. |