People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — An Earthquake In California. [ARTICLE]

An Earthquake In California.

San Francisco dispatch.—The appointment of Mose Gunst, the wellknown sporting man, as police commissioner of San Francisco, the recent refusal of Acting United States District Attorney Knight to issue a warrant for the arrest of C. P. Huntington for violation of the interstate commerce law and the issuing of a pass to Frank H. Stone, a politician, under the glaring frauds of the recent election, caused Mayor Sutro to issue a call for a mass meeting of citizens to take action in the matter. The meeting was held last nls-ht in Metropolitan Hall, which was cr w eu by representative citizens. It is estimated that 10,000 people were t urned away, being unable to gain ad nisdon. The meeting was very businesslike. Speeches were made by well-known men and a score of resolutions were ■ adopted appropriate to the occasion. ' These resolutions denounce C. P Huntington, as a self-conf eased b iber accuse him of taking $56,0v0,000 . coEnglish stockholders in Central Pacific and a solemn protest was entsred against the passage of the tuning bi 1 The speaker of the house is appealed to to protect the people of California by refusing to give a special order for a day to the Central Pacific Railway Company, and each individual member of congress is apeale 1 to to not overlook tbe 200,000 pro'estr against this bill filed by the inhab< tants of the Pacific coast. The resolutions also demand that th< legal authorities of the United t’t’te in this judicial district shall issue 1. warrent for the arrest of Huntington The President is appealed to to see tha justice is done and that he deman< thav Messrs. Knight and Peacock d their full duty under the law, or V* they be removed from the office the are disgracing and degrading. Other resolutions denounce ex-Gov Markham as the tool of the Souther Pacific Railroad and the appoint nen of Mose Gunst as police commissioner is characterized as a burning shame I and a disgrace to the respectable peo- 1 pie of the community. It was resolved that a committee of three be appointed to wait upon Gunst and request him to resign his office of police commis- ' sioner; alco, t h *t a. committee act with other organizat one of like character in securing the reforms so earnestly desired.