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Show FRISCO'S POLICE. It is Charged That They Are Robbing: California. WILL BE INVESTIGATED. The Situation in Brooklyn Continues To Be About the Same The Militia Use Baronets Strikers Hiss the Soldiers Women Use Guns Men Who Are Willing: Will-ing: to Work Are Roughly Handled Other News. Sacramento, Cala., Jan, 24. The legislature today considered the pro-pc pro-pc ed investigation in the alleged cor-cuption cor-cuption of the San Francisco police department. de-partment. The attorney-general was directed to draft a law grantiDtr au thority to non-parti3an committees to investigate the police and also the San Francisco election frauds. The committee com-mittee is to sit as lone as necessary, with power to compal the attendance of witnesses and to punish for contempt. con-tempt. Chairman Timothy Guy PhelpB, of the committee on retrenchment, retrench-ment, declares that the state is being robbed right and left, specifying the Preston school of industry, at lone, bb peculiarly dishonest in its management. manage-ment. The cominitte was empowered to send a sub-committee at will to investigate in-vestigate various state Institutions. THE BROOKLYN STRIKE. Brooklyn, Jan. 24. Matters were comparatively quiet on the Third avenue av-enue roada today. The wires between Sixth-fifth and Sixty-sixth streets were cut off at midnight, and as a consequence, con-sequence, the electric lights in the depot de-pot went out, leaving (Jap tain Thorn e and his detachment of the Twenty-third Twenty-third regiment in total darkness. The wires wera not repaired until 10 o'clock, when traffic was resumed, and at midday mid-day sixteen cars were rmning as against twenty yesterday. The foreman said he was unable to operate a greater number as some ot the new men had been transferred to Green Point. During the night and early morning, the full strength of the Twenty-third regiment, with the exception of companies com-panies F, G and K, was placed on duty along the road to Flatbush avenue. av-enue. At 11 o'clock, police on duty at Twenty-filth and Third avenue, had a lively time putting an nd to a riot whicu had broken out there. About se; enty persons colleted at this point and jeered the soldiers who were under arms there. The mob continued increasing until noon, when a stone was hurled by one of the crowd, striking a policeman. This was followed by several others, and then the police and militia charged. The mob rushed along the avenue and into the side streets. Many of them received bayonet thrusts from the militia men, while the clubs ot the police were used with telling effect on the heads ot the rioters. At Thirteenth street and Fifth avenue ave-nue two women, about whom gathered a crowd of men, hailed a Fifth avenue car. When it stopped they boarded it. They then drew pistoU from under their shawls and ordered the conductor and motorman to stop work. The men leaped from the car and leit the in vaders in possession. One of the crowd started the car, jumping off before it had gained much headway. When the car passed the stables at Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth street it was traveling at a bi?h rate of speed. One of the men standing there noticed no-ticed the car was running wild, jumped aboard the rear end and soon had it at a standstill. Another gang of strikers attempted to pull the motorman off his platform, but be fought them off. He was very roughly used in the scrimmage and had his jaw broken. Colonel Austin, of the Thirteenth regiment, said, in reference to the shooting of the man Karney, that it was perfectly justifiable. President Norton, of the Atlantic Avenue company, says that so far as his lines are concerned the strike is at an end, for he can get all the rrotor men and conductors for whom there are places. New employes go about outside of the militia lines at their peril. One who disguised himself as an old sol-d.er sol-d.er was spotted by the strikers and badly beaten. A JDXKEITINO TOUK. Washington, Jan. 24. The senate committee on commerce today decided to aek the senate to again authorize for the purpose of determining the re-lat re-lat ve merits of San Pedro and Santa Monica to become the deep water harbor har-bor cf Los Angelos, California, The trip, if authorized, will be made soon after the adjournment of the present session. A HIGH BINDER WAR. Monterey, Cala., Jan. 24. Chinatown, China-town, situated about half a mile from this city, is in a wild state of terror this evening and fears are entertained of a highbinder war. A quarrel at 6 o'clock this evening over a game of fan tan restated re-stated in a bloody street fight between six Chinese, two of whom, Man Choy and Ah Sing, are mortally wounded. Man Choy was shot through the abdomen abdo-men and Ah Sin horn biy lacerated with a knife . about the head and body. The police officers from Pacific Grove and Monterey are at the scene of the bloody battle, ana haye placed the participants par-ticipants under arrest, and are using every precaution to prevent further outbreaks. . ' i WEI HAI WEI BURROUNDKD. London, Jan. 24. A dispatch to the Times from Shanghai says that the Japanese have mp surrounded Wei Hai Wei. The Chinese declare tha Wei Hai Wei has ji garriBon and supplies sup-plies sufficient to enable the town to withstand a prolonged attack. THE IMPEDING WAR. San Francisco, Jan. 24. Consul-General Consul-General J. Diaz Duran, of Guatemala, has been recalled by President Barrios to take command of a military force in the war which he believes to be impending im-pending with Mexico. . He has received a diepatch from the Guatemalan war depar ment, confirming the war news and stating that every able-bod ed Guatemalan is neded by his government. govern-ment. Duran says thai an alliance ha; finally been formed by Guatemala, Nicaragua, Salvador and Honduras, with a joint force of 100,000 men, to march against Mexico. Consul-General A. K. Coney, of Mexico, on the other hand, declares that there -will not be war between Mexico and- Guutemala over the existing bound any dispute, w hich be says can and wilf be Bettled by diplomacy. Coney says the only chance of hostilities lies in the possibility possi-bility of some hot-neaded 'Guatemalan officer firin? on Mexican trosps. If war should be declared, Coney i? confident that Mexico could easily defeat Guatemala, Guate-mala, even if the latter ccajtry were-able were-able to form an alliance with the Vothor. Central Am rican republics,' wbJch he considers unlikely. Coney says that" the Mexican army is in splendid con dition for the battlefield. . . ' California's great storm. - , ' San Francisco, Jan 24. Xhe storm has subsided in the mountains and ' the mail and express through trains are now running on all roads except : the Oregon divisions. The Central Pacific road to Ogden is open and all the regular trains are running run-ning close to schedule time. The Oregon division, however, is in bad shape. The work train, which left Oakland Tusday night with . 100 shovels to clear the snow slide near Dunsmuir, was started in tea miles below Kent. Then the track wa3 covered with mud fifteen feet deep in places and it took all night to clear it away. This morning the men got through the siide and it is expected that the track will soon be entire'! clfjred. Yesterday's south Dound'Oregu express ex-press is Btalled at Delta, were another mud slide covered the track. The fw passengers on the train are being cared for by tthe . railroad people. All the damage along the roads in the southern part of the state has been repaired and all trains are running on time. In many parts of the state local train service ser-vice will not be resumed lor ten days. In Sonoma county the storm was the most damaging in thirty years. Bridges were swept away and roads so washed out as to be impassable for miles. Waters are flowing over the streets of Guerneville and residents can move about only in boats. A number of nouses have been overturned by landslides land-slides and swept away ty floods Loases of household belongings, provisions, pro-visions, lumber and farm implements are large and many head of cattle haye been drowned. The lull does not mean a cessation of work nor a relaxation of vigilance on the part of railroad men engaged in keeping clear the great artery of traffic that connects the coast with the east. The rotary plows have to be kept in constant operation to remove the great massej of snow that are continually breaking eff the high banks that line the road for miles and the drifts that are constantly forming in the narrow cuts through the hills. The snow depth is as follows: Truckee, 8 feet 8 inches; Summit, 30 feet; Cascade, 19 feet; CiBco, 18 feet; Emigrant Gap, 16 feet, Blue Canyon, 12 feet; Gold Kun, 4 feet 4 inches. GENERAL MILES' BOYHOOD. Loved Fishing and AVas the Leader of an "Indian" Band. When General Miles was a boy, he had few companions near his home, for it was a farming region and sparsely eettled. His only brother, 12 years older than himself, left home early, and his two sisters being much older Nelson was left much to himself. ' On Saturdays and other holidays the schoolboys frequently met by appointment appoint-ment at the home of one of their number. num-ber. They formed themselves into bands and clans and drilled or carried on miniature min-iature warfare. They re-enacted scenes of the Indian and Revolutionary war3. The leaders drew lots to settlo who should be "the British," "the Injins" or "the 'Mericans. " Nelson Miles frequently led one band. They made expeditions through the open wooded country. Sometimes imagining themselves roving Indians, they built wigwams, and sometimes as pioneer settlers they built log huts. They laid ambuscades, attacked strongholds, captured cap-tured parties and did many other adventurous ad-venturous things. Their costumes were gathered from the farmhouse garrets and consisted of colonial, continental, 1812 and train band uniforms formerly former-ly common in old New England families fami-lies and imitations of the dress of the Narragansett and Iroquois Indians. Tho weapons were old flint lock muskets, shotguns, rusty swords, tomahawks and bows and arrows. , It is easy to infer that the Miles boy had military aspirations, and that the promioe of an appointment to West Point when he should be of the required age would have been hailed by him with delight But a farmer's boy without with-out relatives or friends with political influence had no hope of such an appointment ap-pointment in those days, when cadet-ships cadet-ships went by favor and not by competitive com-petitive examination. NewYork Press. |