The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 8, 1895, Page 9

CISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 189 — e s e e T e e e el I s e G AGASSIZ AND HIS GREAT QUEST. THE DISTINGUISHED GUEST OF THE COAST SURVEY STEAMER HASSLER. PLANNING THE GREAT TOUR, THEY ARE ALL Deap aND Now THE STEAMER Passes INTO OTHER HANDs. | The selling of the old coast survey steamer Hassler revives interest in her long and interesting history. For many years there has hung in the office of Pro- and came here from Seattle. My uncle is in a printing office there, and I am also a printer. He thought I might do_better in San Francisco. 1 had about $10 in my pocket when I arrived. 1 have tried almost every office in town to get work but have failed. Although I have lived as cheaply as I could my money gave out | three days ago, and I haven't tasted food since.” Yesterday morning Weedon appeared in Judge Low’s court to answer to a charge of vagrancy. He repeated his statement to the Judge, who said to Lake: “This man is not a vagrant and hasn’t committed any crime.” “I don’t want to prosecute him, your Honor,” said Lake. ‘T locked him up to prevent him from taking his life.” “Well,” said the Judge, “I will dismiss the case, and as the steerage rate is only 2 50 1 will see that his fare is paid so that he can go back to his friends.’”” ‘Weedon thanked the Judge for his kind- ness. He will be properly looked after till the next steamer leaves for Seattle. THE MANUFACTURERS. Arrangements Be Perfected To- Day for the Convention. T | | | | | | THAT NEW BURDEN, THE INCOME TAX. THE TIME FOR MAKING RETURNS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO APRIL 15. BIG PENALTY FOR NEGLECT. THosE WHO MusT PAY To MAKE Up THE DEFICIT IN THE TREASURY. “That is all a mistake about last Mo.ndny being the last day for making returfis as The general advisory committee of the | to income tax for 1894,” said Chief Deputy manufacturers’ convention will meet this | Collector Loupe yesterday. ““The time was fessor Davidson of the United States coast | afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Chamber cf | extended to the 15th of April, and those THREE WISE MEN PLANNING THE HISTORIC VOYAGE. [From a photograph in the pos ession of Professor Davidson.] and’ geodetic survey a large photograph, from which accompanying drawing was made by a CALL artist. { The central figure is Professor Benjamin Pierce, LL.D., superintendent of the United States coast survey, professor of mathematics of Harvard University and one of the greatest mathematicians of the country. It was at his instigation that the | tour made by Agassiz was undertaken. Professor Agassiz is at Pierce’s left hand. On the right hand of the central figure is Captain C. P. Patterson, hydrographic in- | spector United States coast survey, who | afterward succeeded Pierce as superinten- dent. These three wise men are supposed tc be discussing the proposed tour of the world which was then yet to be made by Pro- | fessor Agassiz, the trip that has since} taken its place in history as a voyage that accomplished great things for science. | The trip, made in 1871, was the initial | undertaking of the Hassler. She had just come off the ways in the yard of Camden, | N.J. Her performance during the entire | tour was all that could have been desired. The trip was undertaken at the request of Superintendent Pierce of the United | States geodetic survey and with and under | the authority of the Secretary of the | Treasury. The steamer was commanded by Captain Phil C. Johnson ef the United Statesnavy. Professor Agassiz was accompanied by | his wife and by Thomas Hill, LL.D., ex- | president of Harvard, and by D. 8. Stein- | dechnar, afterward director of the Impe- | rial Museum of Vienna. | On the voyage they studied the fauna of the ocean, its currents, temperatures, deep- sea soundings and the dredgings; also, the depths to which light penetrated the ocean. The little Hassler. just in commission and new to her business, brought the dis- tinguished company safely around the Horn and all the long way up the Western coast. They arrived in San Diego in 1872, Com- ing on to San Francisco, they were received by the California Academy of Sciences, of which Professor Davidson had just then been elected president. The party remained here some consider- able time, being shown all the honors that were befitting so distinguished & company and so noble a mission. Agassiz’s health steadily improved while he was here, and when he left it was to once more engage, and with renewed en- thusiasm, in the ichthyological investiga- tion and his teaching in the field school which his friends had established. All three of these planners of the expedi- tion have since died, Agassiz last of all. DRIVEN TO DESPERATION. Sad Experience of a Young Printer From Seattle Who Says He Couldn’t Get Work. “For God’s sake, iock me up or I'll kill myself!” was the remark that startled Po- liceman George Lake while patrolling his beat on the water front on Wednesday night. It was made by a young man who looked as if he meant it. “I am starving,”” said the young man, “and have no place to go to. It isa cold night, and if you don’t lock me up I’ll ('XO something desperate.” And he glanced in the direction of the dark waters of the bay. The oflicer took him " to the Harbor po- lice station, and, seeing his famished con- dition, ordered and brought him a large, juicy beefsteak, which he soon devoured with avidity. After he had finished Lake asked him his name. % “My name is W. 8. Weedon,” said he, “I am 22 years of age and about two weeks ago I took advantage of the cheap fares, Commerce. It will name all necessary | who have neglected to make oath as to sub-committees and perfect arrangements | how much they received in excess of $3500 inst. { for the general convention on the 19th | during the year still haye an opportunity to do so, and if they do, they will save The committee will consist of represen- | themselves the penakty of 50 per cent in tatives from the following firms and the | addition to an arbitrary assessment. gentlemen named : American Biscuit Company, National Brewing Company, San Francisco Brew- eries (Jimited), Se Smelting and Lead Company, Sperry Milling Company, Cap- tain Bermingham, California Powder Works; O. E. Moore. Bay City IronWorks; H. T. Scott, Union Iron Works; E. B. Pond, Dunsmore Soap Company; L. R. Mead, Risdon Iron Works; Kullman, | | “If, for instance,” added the deputy “the office learns that a man had an in- come of say $15,000 the last year and he neglected to make a return as required by law, the office will assess him for $30,000, and by the time he gets through with the | business he will find that it would have Salz & Co., Fulton Iron Werks; Hy L. | Dayis, Califérnia Wire Works; Bowen Rubber Company, L. Saroni & Co., Porter, Slessinger & Co., A. E. Shattuck; A. S. Halli California Wire Works; Golden Gate Woolen-mills; Cahn, Nickelsburg & Co.; General H. L. Dimond, J. P. Currier, R. 8. Shainwald, A. A. Watkins, W. W. Montague, B. Blumenthal & Co., J. A. Filcher, State Board of Trade; M. M. Bar- net, Journal of Commerce. It is desired that every manufacturer should consider himself invited to attend the grand convention on the 19th inst. An effort has been made to reach all by mail, but in some instances this may have failed. FOOTE MISSED HIS POINT IN CALLING ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY BLACK AS A WITNESS. JUDGE WALLACE D1p NoT LIKE THE MovE AND RULED QUES- TIONS OUT. P. M. O'Connor, the election inspector of the Sixteenth Precinct of the Thirty-first District, was on trial before Judge Wallace yesterday for willfully refusing to sign the election returns from his precinct as is re- quired by the law. Defending him was M. M. Foote, who has already been in serious trouble over the case through his free and easy criticisms of the course taken by Judge Wallace, and yesterday he came very near crossing the line once more, although this time his offense was more passive than active. Foote’s claim is that the Election Com- mission agreed to dismiss the case if 0O’Connor would sign the returns. 0’'Con- nor has signed the returns and still the prosecution goes on. Foote wished to show that his client had told the District Attorney that he was willing at any time to sign the returns, that he had no inten- tion of breaking any law and that there was no _criminal intent in his action. To prove this Mr. Foote called A.P. Black, the Assistant District Attorney prosecuting the case, to the stand. Black did not want to go. Judge Wallace looked with sur- rise on the proceedings, and said so. Should Mr. Black be made a witness he could not argue the case before the jury, and the court was of the opinion that in that fact lay thefi)rincipal object in putting the éAssiuumt istrict Attorney on the stand. Foote contended it was not and insisted that Black be called, and finally the court allowed him to take the stand, saying that he would see if Mr. Foote's intention were what he claimed or not. Foote tried to except to the remark, but Judge Wallace announced that he would allow no excep- tions to the remarks of the court. Foote then put_his questions, all touching upon what O’Connor had told the witness, and one by one the were ruled out by the court and Black retired without givinga word of evidence. The case then pro- ceeded without any further unpleasantness. Japanese politeness translates into queer English. “How is your honorable wife?”” one gentleman will ask. “I thank you, honorable sir, my dirty fool of a wife is well,” is the answer. i | been much cheaper to have made a state- ment within the time allowed by the law. ““Questions about the new law? Yes, we have to answer hundreds of them every day. To keep track of them would require the services of half a dozen shorthand | writers. There are a great many persons in this city who had at one time a large in- come, but who by misfortune have had that income reduced below the $3500 mark. These persons, fearing that they might be assessed arbitrarily, come here and make affidavit to show that they are not subject to assessment. It is not necessary, but there is no law to prevent them from so doing. No one who has not had an income in excess of $3500 need trouble himself about the income tax.” The law provides for a collection of a tax of 2 per cent on the return of gains, profit and income received by citizens of the United States, whether residing at home or abroad, and by other persons residing therein, naving an income of more than $3500 for the year 1894; and by persons residing without the United States owning property therein, or engaged in any busi- ness, trade or profession carried on’in the Unifed States during said year; and by guardians and trustees, executors, adminis- trators, agents, receivers and all persons or corporations acting in any = fiduciary capacity. eturn to be made to the collector or a deputy collector of the district on or be- fore the 15th of April, 1895, and the tax to be paid to the collector or deputy on or before the 1st day of July, 1895. It also provides for a like tax on returns by banks, banking institutions, trust com- panies, saving institutions, life and other insurance companies, railroad, canal, turn- pike, canal navigation, slack water, tele- phone, telegraph, express, electric light, gas, water, street railroad and all other corporations—and this to make up the deficit in the treasury, the result of the maladministration under the Cleveland rule. The law does not apply, however, to States, counties or municipalities, nor to corporations or associations conducted for charitable, religious or educational pur- poses; nor to savings banks having no stockholders, no members save depositors, nor cavital save deposits; nor to insurance companies on the mutual plan. GRAND JURY PRESENTMENTS, Attorney Ruef Will Test the Legality of Proceedings Against Certain Property-Owners. The question of the legality of arrests under Grand Jury presentments came up in Judge Low’s court yesterday afternoon, when the cases of the four women charged with giving an indecent exhibition were called. District Attorney Barnes appeared for the people, and Attorneys Ruef and West for the defendants and other defendants arrested on presentments. The defendants and the witnesses for the prosecution were in court. e The District Attorney said that arrests on presentments of the Grand Jury were new to San Francisco courts. He thought, however, the presentments would stand on the same footing as a _complaint sworn to in the police courts. He was prepared to go on with the cases. Attorney Ruef asked for a further con- tinuance. ~ He thought he eould satisfy the Judge that he had no jurisdiction, and at the proper time he would cite numerous authorities in support of that contention. There were also the case of property- owners to be brought up on presentments, and he wished for time to gather his facts in logical sequence,so that the matter could be intelligently argued and disposed of. His clients declined to plead as they did not recognize the court’s jurisdiction. The District Attorney agreed with Attor- ney Ruef as to the importance of the ques- tion, as there were fourteen cases yes- terday and there would be eighteen more to-day, in which the same principle was involved. He would agree to a reasonable continuance. The Judge fixed Monday afternoon for the argument, and_if he should decide against Attorney Ruef’s contention the cases will be tried by a jury probably on Wednesday. Warrants were served yesterday upon several of the property-owners against whom the Grand Jury made presentments for renting houses for purposes of ill fame and each gave bonds in $200 or $100 cash. - ELLIS' SUIT DISMISSED. He Decides He Cannot Win and So Drops Out. The suit of John W. Ellis against the Central Presbyterian Tabernacle, of which he was for some turbulent months the pastor, has been dismissed by Judge Sea- well on stipulation of the contracting parties. This suit was for $5142 78, which Ellis claimed was due him on the salary contract which he had with the session of the Presbytery. In its answer the defendant church de- nied owing this money to Ellis, and further charged that he had collected $633 belong- ing to the tabernacle, which had never found its way into the coffers of the Lord. In answer to this Ellis denied taking the money, and claimed ' that any money he had ever collected had been used to liqui- date church debts in an entirely legitimate manner. Having issues thus joined the case came to trial, but Dr. Ellis’ evidence not being of the strongest it lagged, and is now dismissed. THEY WILL WORK TOGETHER PLANS BEING FORMED FOR A Co- OPERATIVE SOCIETY OF CHURCH MEMBERS. TWwENTY THOUSAND ACRES OF LAND As A Basis UrpoN WHICH TO BEGIN. G. W. Wilderman of 711 Howard street has a patent on a flouring mill and an in- terestin a tract of land near Ensenada, Mexico. With these two possessions he proposes to revolutionize the workglife of the Christian public by establishing a co- operative society composed entirely of pro- fessed and tried Christians. The plan is an elaborate one as outlined by a circular now in the hands of a printer. The organization is to be known as the World’s Christian Co-operative Society and is to be incorporated under the laws of California. 5 Each individual joining the society is to ay $100. This money is to be used in Se\’e]m)ing mining lands, to be purchased, building and operating flour mills and, in fact, delving in every business known to the people of the world. Tn order that the gociety may have some substantial ground upon which to begin business G. W. Wil- derman and William My Crindle have each donated 10,000 acres of land in Lower Cali- fornia to the society. That is, the circular says they do so, with the provision that the rovision that land shall never be sold ut must remain as the property of the society. The prospectus says that the object in forming the society is to get Christian people together where they can eamtlidldiy b b de ot et ot s rounded by the safeguards of church fel- lowship. All profits to be equally divided. The gllsiness of the society will be trans- acted by a board of directors to be elected annually by themembers. These directors are empowered to purchase lands, erect flouring mills, establish general stores, factories and such other places of business as they may deem fit. One of the principal features of the plan is to establish bakeries in San Francisco, and in that way use up the product of the flour mill, which is to be located within fifty miles of this city or Los Angeles. According to the prospectus the brans and surfeit stock of the proposed mill will be used to fatten cattle and hogs. Chickens and sheep are also to add to the exchequer. It is proposed to have 1000 Christians subscribe $100 each. qualified from a Bi not possess the requisite $100 he or she will be permitted to borrow the money they require from any one, and ‘‘the society will pledge the land.” Although the gift deed will have the provision that the land must never be sold, it is expected that many people can be found who will loan money upon it with that understanding. 8o far $14 has been received, according to Mr. Wilderman’s statement. There are to be no salaries, hence all the money paid into the society will go to furthering *‘the cause.”” Articles of incorporation have not been drawn up as yet, but it is expected by the father of the scheme that seven men will be ready to sign the articles within a_few days. Mr. Wilderman counts upon him- self and William McCrindle, who was the eriginal owner of the tract in Mexico, a portion of which it is proposed to give the society, as two of the people who will ask for incorporation. Thus far the scheme has not been en- thusiastically received. As soon as the prospectus has been i)rintcd the various churches of the city will be visited and the pamphlet will be sold to those who desire to investigate. THE FRENOH HOSPITAL FETE. A List of the Special Competitions Which Took Place. The general committee of the fete held for the benefit of the new French Hospital last week has just made its final report, and from present indications the net receipts of the festival will amount to about $7000. The following is a list of the special com- Eg tions which took place in the various oths for the benefit of the hospital : Candy booth—Under the direction of Mme. Sylyain Weill, No. 86, yellowish-red ticket, solid silver bonbonniere; No. 156, pink ticket, beautiful lamp; No. 237, white ticket, cut crystal and silver bowl bonbonniere; No. 1, green ticket, mando- lin; No. 10, painted silk bonbonniere; No. 289, yellow ticket, silver bonbonniere bow! and platter; No. 41, purple ticket, royal ‘Worcester jar and plate. The toregoing prizes may be claimed at Messrs. Stein, Simon & Co’s., corner Mar] ket and Second streets. Floral booth (under the direction of Mme. Adolphe Roos)—No. 51, surprise bou- ?uet; 112, onyx and §x]t lamp; 151, beauti- ul artistic basket with chrysanthemums; 108, jardiniere dnd stand; 174, silver vase and “crystal; 131, silver jardiniere; 158, beautiful vase; 58, nice flower stand; 100, order for a $26 portrait, in water colors; 310, French doll. The above prizes may be obtained at the store of Roos Bros., 27-37 Kearny street. g Vienna top booth (under the direction of Mme. Ellen Coursen-Roeckel)—No, 20, um- brella stand; 44, ou painting, Governer Budd; 379, order for $25 for dentistry; 500, album ; 260, ball shpgers; 21, fan; 282, sofa cushion; 66, order for corsets; 139 piano stool; 92, order for gentleman’s hat. These Erizes may be secured from Mme, Ellen oursen-Roeckel, 1429 Bush street. Soda fountain booth (under the direc- tion of Mme. E. Raas): No. 39, box at the California_Theater for the play, “A Tem- perance Town'’; 71, bronzed mirror; 10, silk umbrella with_silver handle; 59, cut- filass atomizer; 135, mink collarette and e; 180, one dozen Paris panels and a $25 crayon. The prizes here mentioned may be claimed at Messrs. Rubin & Raas, 103 Post street. If a person_who is cal standpoint does . GOOD-BYE T0 THE LAUNCH METEOR. THE FLEET LITTLE _CRAFI‘ TO GO TO THE UMPQUA RIVER IN OREGON. SAILING OF THE PROGRESOC. A LIFE-RAFT FOUND NEAR PACIFIC GROVE—WHALERS GOING NorTH. The swift little launch Meteor will grace the waters of the bay no more. She was sold yesterday to A. W. Read, a merchant of Gardner City, Or. The Meteor was owned by M. H. Newell, marine secretary of the Home Mutual Insurance Company, and J. L. Hawks, paying teller of the Bank of California. She was the fastest launch on the bay, having won all the races last year. Her average speed is 9% knots an hour, but the coming of the Satellite put her into the shade, which fact may have accounted for her owners part- ing with her. Mr. Read will ship his pur- chase on the next vessel going to Umpqua River. He expects to take considerable pleasure out of the craft this year. The Panama Steamship Company’s steamer Progreso sailed for Panama yes- terday afternoon loaded to her utmost capacity. The principal items of freight were wine, canned fruit, beans and canned salmon. ‘Word was received here yesterday that the British ship Thomas Stephens, bound from Cardiff for Victoria, had put into Port Stanley for repairs. She was dis- masted in a gale, and had her bulwarks smashed and chainplates darmaged. A life-raft with lines attached picked up recently on the beach near Pacific Grove is said to answer the description of the raft of the lost collier Keweenaw. It is painted white and is about twelve feet long. The California Drydock Company’s new dock will be launched at Benicia this morning. A party will leave Vallejo-street wharf on a tug at 7 o’clock to be present at the launch. The steamer Mariposa will sail for Aus- tralia by way of Honolulu and Samoa this afternoon. ‘Among her passengers will be the “Gaiety Girl’’ troupe. She will take a large lot of lumber for Apia, Samoa. attie Morse, a handsome and wayward young girl, arrived from Stockton yester- day morning consigned to Captain Dunlevy of the harbor ice. The girl said that she went to Qakland from Los Gatos and fell under the baneful influence of John Roach, a hostler, who took her to Stockton and wanted her to support him. She was rescued by the Chief of Police of Stockton, who sent her back to this city,and Captain Dunlevy returned her to her uncle in Oakland. The Branch Hydrographic Office has issued a circular asking specially for in- formation regarding derelicts. Thecircular says: in several reports recently published de- scribing the rescue of distressed crews by the boats of another vessel, little or no mention was made of using oil to calm the seas. The Hydrographic Office desires to call the attention of shipmasters to the beneficial effect of o0il when the seas are heavy enough to endanger g ship’s boats. By sieaming to windward and liberating a quantity of oila “slick’’ is formed in which boats can be lowered with greater safety and the wreck approached with more ease. After the boat is clear of the rescuing ves- sel the latter can steam to leeward and round to in the ‘‘slick” in order to pick up the boat, meanwhile using oil freely. The office would be glad to receive reports re- garding the effect of using oil under such circumstances. The whaling bark Lydia was towed to Howard-street wharf yesterday morning to fix out for another cruise in the Arctic. The vessel is an old-timer and her bones have been bleaching in the San Leandro estuary for the past two seasons. The old bark Lydia came off the Merchants’ dry- dock yesterday and is fitting out at Mission-street wharf No. 2. The Andrew Hicks is on Hunters Point drydock. She will complete the trio of windjammers, which are to make one more hunt for coal and oil. Collector of the Port Wise received a copy of an amendment to the shipping act yes- terday that will bring sorrow to the heart of the boarding masters. By it a fine of $100 is provided for any one convicted of retaining the clothes of a sailor after a demand has been made for them. Inother words *‘Poor Jack’s” kit is exempt from execution. HIS MOTHFR-IN-LAW. Dan Spellman Wanted by the Polide for Failure to Provide. Mrs. Lizzie Daly, Seventeenth avenue, South San Francisco, swore out a warrant in Judge Conlan’s court yesterday for the arrest of ber son-in-law, Dan Spellman, on the charge of failure to provide. Mrs. Spellman accompanied her mother. She said they bad been married seven years ago, and had two children, one six years of age and the other four. Almost from the day of their marriage she had been forced to go out working for families to earn money to keep them from starving. Sdpeuman had been constantlg in trouble, and three or four years ago had to leave the city. When he came back he secreted himself in his father’s house, and the fear of his_arrest so worked upon his mother that she died. Mrs. Daly said she was getting tired sup- porting Spellman’s wife and children, and was determined to bring him to time. —— UNDER FALSE PRETENSES. Warrants Out for the Arrest of Whee- lock & Co., Stockbrokers. Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, who lives on Lar- kin street, opposite the City Hall, swore out a warrant in Judge Campbell’s court yesterday for the arrest of the members of the firm of Wheelock & Co.. 4 Leidesdorff street, on the charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. She stated that she went to their office a few days ago and asked them to buy for Surgeon=General FRENCH ARMY IMIARIANI THE IDEAL TONIC ¢ . . . During long, tedious ' marches, the soldiers found instant relief from fatigue and hardships, when using this marvelous tonic.” Descriptive Book with Testimony and Portraits OF NOTED CELEBRITIES. || Beneficial -.;:' 4 le. e Avold Substitutions. Ask for‘Vin Mariani,” . At Druggists and Fancy Grocers. | MARIANI & CO., { ‘{flw 41 nd, Haummans; 53 W, 16154, New Tork, Almighty-dollar Cigar, ber ten shares of Western Union stock. Aft 'tllaeir request she gave them a deposit of $10. Later she received a notice from them that they had purchased ten shares at 8734 per share. She went to their office, presented a certified check for the amount and asked for the certificate. They re- fused at first, and finally acknowledged that they did not have any Western Union stock for sale. Now she wants them ar- rested for obtaining the $10 under false pretenses. TWO SUFFOOATED. Four Bodies Were Taken to the Morgue Yesterday. Four bodies were taken to the Morgue yesterday. Patrick Mathews, a peddler, was found dead in his bed a:529 Sacra- mento street at an early hour in the morn- ing. It is supposed that he died from natural causes. William Melcher, an ex-soldier with a good record and a liberal pension, was found dead in a bed in the New Western Hotel, with the gas turned on, about noon. Papers in his possession showed that he had twice enlisted in the army and had been discharged for disability. A letter written by the deceased to Richard Kum- merlander, 219 Minna street, was found, in which he wrote that the climate did not agree with him and that he was going to Iowa. He registered at the hotel as Charles Bramer, and the chances are that contin- “'Pf ill health caused him to commit sui- cide. Ferdinand Imbert, a waiter at 336 Bush street, was found in his bed on the 5th inst. almost asphyxiated by gas. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital, where he died yesterday and was removed to the Morgue. e was formerly employed at the Ingle- side Hotel, and it is supposed that de- spondency drove him to commit suicide. The body of an unknown was found floating in the bay off Harrison-street wharf.” The only means of identification is a small tag, on which is written, “Jan. 23. F. Heally 163 Nights.” The remains were evidemlyy those of a longshoreman. IT IS NOT A LEGAL ACTION GEORGE WHITTELL'S OPINION foF THE MARKET ® STREET BOND SUIT. OPPOSING STOCKHOLDERS OF THE STREET RoaDs FEAR FOR THEIR RIGHTS. That the suit of the Market-street Rail- road Company against I. W. Hellman, which, upon a pro forma decision of the Superior Court, is now before the Supreme Court, will not be decided without a con- test, is shown by a notice of motion for permission to file briefs made yesterday. The suit is one to settle the legal stand- ing of the bonds issued by the Market- street Railroad Company soon after its formation. I. W. Hellman, president of the Nevada Bank, contracted to purchase a large amount of the bonds, but when the time for delivery came he refused to accept them, on the ground that they were not legally issued. A suit to compel him to take the bonds was then instituted, and Judge Wallace, before whom the case was tried, rendered judgmentin favor of the plaintiffs, thus, for the time being, estab- lishing the validity of the bonds. The case was submitted to him upon an agreed state of facts, gnd it comes now be- fore the Supreme Court under the same circumstances. ‘Whittell’s affidavit and notice of a mo- tion for permission to file briefs in the case is made as a citizen interested in but not connected with the suit. Whittell is a stockholder in the Central Railroad Company, and now has a suit pending to set aside the transfer of the roperty and franchises of the Central ailroad Company to the combination. Joined with him in his motion is J. How- ard Smith, a stockholder in the Ferries ands Cliff House Railroad, who has a similar suit to set aside the transfers of property and franchises of the road in which he is interested. ‘Whittell’s claim is that there is really no controversy between the parties in the ac- tion now on appeal, nor does he admit there ever was a controversy. He charges that the whole case is an agreed action to secure a decision adverse to himself and to the objecting stockholders of the roads which entered the combine. The section of the Code of Civil Proce- dure which the applicant quotes in sup- port of his claim allows parties to a ques- tion in difference to agree upon a case con- tuinins the facts upon which the contro- e epends and to submit the same for adjudication. The section expressly pro- vides, however, that it must_appear by af- fidavit that the controversy is real and the proceedings in good faith. This Whittell claims is not the case in the present action. The controversy is not a real one, he says, but one brought by both parties for the sole purpose of securing a judgment and without any bona-fide difference arising between them. His motion will be hear next Monday. His action is brought, he states, because he fears that unless repre- sented in the case he as well as other op- posing stockholders will not have their rights protected. FIGHTING FOR A CHILD. Nicholas H. Lang, a Real Estate Agent, Makes Damaging Accusations Against His Former Wife. Nicholas H. Lang, the real estate dealer, through his attorney, James A. Hill, has petitioned the Superior Court for the cus- tody of his younger child. He was granted the custody of the elder child when di- vorced from his wife, Mary K. Lang. The two children, however, were placed in cus- tody of a woman where both father and mother had access to them. The mother took the youngest child to her home at 1025 Bush street the other day, and Lang got out a warrant for her arrest. In this way he recovered possession, and now asks the court to grant him custody of the child. ‘The petition alleges that ever since the 31st of August, 1889, when the divorce was granted, and for a fong time prior thereto, the defendant, Mary E. Lang, had been an habitual drunkard and had been and is in the habit of visiting saloons and staying out at late and unusual hours and drink- ing; that the defendant is not a fit and proper party to. have the care and custody of said little girl, Mabel Josephine Lang, who is now aged about 6 years, but that the éalaimifi desires the custody of said child and will place her in a family where she will not be contaminated by the evil influence of her said mother, ——— NURSES FOR THE POOR. A Musicale for Their Benefit at Golden Gate Hall. A musicale for the benefit of the trained nurses, who devote their leisure time to the poor, will be given at Golden Gate Hall to-night. Following is the programme: Violin selection, Miss Daisy and Master Neddy Dooley; soprano, Lutheran song (8treleski), Mrs. J.” T. McDonald; violin, “Le Grande” (H. Wieninwskig Henry Larsen; soprano, _‘Silent ighway' (Stephen Adams), Mrs. A. I. C.Grant; recitation, Mrs. George Root; piano solo, Nocturne (Dohler), fiiss Juliet Leven- berg; tenor solo, “Could I’ (Tosti), Frank Coffin; contralto solo, Mrs. Walter Wat- son; coster song, “Future Mrs. Hawkins,”” James Flamm%; accompanist, Signor D. Emiho Cruells. S s Gl wWRER i R R el ey ‘CATARRH I DESPAIR, A PEN PICTURE. Many Women Will Recognize It. [SPECIAL TO OUR LADY READERS.] “Oh, I am so nervous! No one ever suffered as I do! There isn't a well inch in my whole body! I honestly think my lungs are diseasch, my chest pains me so; but I've no € cough. I'm so weak at my stomach, and have in- digestion horribly. Then I have palpita- tion, and my heart hurts me. 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