The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 12, 1895, Page 12

12 THE SAN FRANCIS 30 CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1895. ; STt e e T e T TR ey el e e e —— SEVEN HUNDRED THODSAND DOLLARS. THE VALLEY ROAD WILL EXPEND THAT AMOUNT ON THE MUD FLATS. SO SAYS CLAUS SPRECKELS. Bips CaLLED FOR ON THE SUPPLY OF RAILS FOR THE NEW INE. ture i ident Spr The Leg: which Pres just now the body in els and the other officials of the valley road are most | interested, and ifs probable action regarding the bill now before it| affecting the important work now under contemy 1 was the object of much con- jecture yesterday. Mr. Spreckels called attention to the present condition of the mud flats, while discuss the matter yest v, and pointed out that the proposed lease of this property would transform it from its com- worthless condition into a valu- for the city. “The rovements we contemplate ing there, provided we are authorized e the property, will cost our com- parative able holding ully $700,000,” said he. Just what ements consist of Mr.Spreckels refused to state, confining himself strictly 0 the lump sum which it is proposed to expend thereon. Spreckels said that it will not neces- follow that the road will not be built if a lease cannot be secured. “It is proba- ble that we would go on with the worl said he, “but it would in all probability merely cross the territory between Bakers- field and Stockton, and I see no way in which an entrance to San Francisco could be effected.” The directors of the road held another meeting yesterday, at which the subject of rails was the chief topic of consideration, | and after its adjournment Vice-President | Whittier, following instructions given him at the meeting, prepared a circular letter which will be sent to manufacturers of | rails in the East and elsewhere, in which bids for this material are asked for. The circular is as follows: SAN FrANCISCO, Cal. Dear Sir: Sealed proposals wili be received on the 20th day of March, 1895, at the office of The San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad Company, No. 321 Market street, for the delivery of ten thousand (10,000) tons (of 2240 lbs. each) of 6215 1b. steel rails, best quality, on the wharf in San Francisco. Pat- tern to be submitted with bid. Bidders are also requested to make bids for 75,000 angle plates to fit above rail. Also for 4800 kegs (150 1bs. each) railroad spikes, size . Also for 150,000 railroad track bolts 1 nuts. freight of bills and bills of The first shipment of not less than omne thousand (1000) tons will be required to be made within t (30) days after time of placing the order. Shipments to be made thereafter at the rate of not less than two thousand (2000) tons per month until comple- tion of contract Right is reserved to rej Yours very truly, THE 8. F. & 8. J. V. RY. Co. It will be seen from the wording of the document that it requires bidders to be prepared to make the first shipment not more than thirty days after the order has been placed, which goes to show that the Toad is to be pushed rapidly forward. Engineer Storey has not yet outlined his plans for beginning work on the prelimi- nary surveys, but is getting all possible data in shape for action. Innumerable suggestions are being re- ceived by the directors upon this subject, all of which receive consideration, but it is noticeable that the point which most in- terests these gentlemen is how they may be able to get out of the city to the south from China basin. A gentleman who is weil posted in rail- road matters yesterday suggested to the board that the line cross the bay at Ravens- wood. ‘At that point is the narrowest portion of the channel,”” said he, “‘and a bridge with a single draw would answer all pur- poses. After reaching the opposite side of the bay, San Jose to the south and Berke- ley to the north would each be twenty miles distant. The main line could fol- low any route decided upon to the south, while to the north the road could run back into the country farenough to pick up the trade of San Leandro, Niles, Haywards ana all the territory up to West Berkeley, where the line of the California and Nevada, if utilized, would give an out- let into Contra Costa County. The road would strike the immense coal beds in that county, and from there proceed on to Antioch, and from there across the marsh country to Stockton. “From Ravenswood, coming toward this city, the line would parallel the coast division of the Southern Pacific, and take in all the towns up as far as Baden, when, instead of coming up the hill, it would make a straight cut out by Lake de la Merced, and then follow the shore around to the Cliff House, where a tunnel about a third of a mile long wouid admit it to the Presidio reservation, through which access ‘would be given to the bay, where a tract of between twenty and thirty acres of State land is available.” ct any or all bids. THE Japa;;e know what’s what. Orders for Dr. Price’s Baking Powder come even from Japan. e e WILL GET A SOHOLARSHIP. A University Education for a High School Girl. Superintendent of Schools Moulder re- cently received word from the faculty of the University of California that his rec- ommendation of a pwoper person to fill one of the eight scholarships in the institution endowed by Mrs. Phabe Hearst would re- ceive their approbation. These scholarships carry $300 a year each and are intended for young women of the proper gualifications as to character who have no other means of gaining a uni- versity education. 3 Mr. Moulder immediately sent the letter to Professor Elisha Brooks, principal of the Girls’ High School, telling the latter that among the 560 young ladies under his charge he should be able to pick out one who would fill the bill as to character and other qualifications and asking him to name a proper person for the coveted chance for an education. Mr. Moulder, having the greatest confidence in Mr. Brooks’ judgment, will indorse his selec- tion, nn(i ere long a high school girl will doubtless be enjoying the advantages of the university. e ———— MORE BONES UNEARTHED. They Were Found in What Was Oncea Pioneers’ Graveyard. A workman named William Cain made | bird-like in the 2 the site of a house on Jessie street, between Third and Fourth, when he unearthed a skeleton supposed to be that of a man. The remains were at a depth of six feet and must have been there from pioneer days, as they were much decayed. The Happy Valley of early days was there and in it was a graveyard. Another skeleton was found there about two years ago, and both are believed to be the remains of some of the '49ers. 00ULD NOT TESTIFY. Judge Belcher Will Not Allow Grand Jurymen to Be Questioned. A big sensation was expected in Judge Belcher's court yesterday afternoon when Carroll Cook brought the members of the Grand Jury before the court to testify as to the manner in which indictments were brought a second time against Albert Houston and George Lee for interfering in the election. Indictments had been previously filed against them for acting as election officers without qualifying, but a demurrer to each indictment was sustained. Cook wished to show yesterday that the new indictments had been found without examining a single witness, but merely upon the testimony upon which the first indictments had been found. He was not allowed to inquire as to the sacrets of the jury-room however, and_so no sensational testimony was developed. Cook then demurred to both indictments, and the demurrer was overruled. He then moved to have them set aside, and this, too, being overruled, the accused were ordered to appear next Saturday, when their cases will be set for trial. A LAUNCH WITH A MISSION. THE NEW STEAM FLYER BUILT FOR THE ALASKA IMPROVE- MENT COMPANY. SHE Is To BEAT A RivaL CRAFT Now IN E NORTHERN Wl the Alaska Improvement Company took a fiying trip from Howard-street wharf yes- i Though not 3 ir, she rested like a swan on the water where the tackles of the strong shears deposited her. The sm hasam ion before her. Some time ago all craft is a vessel of promise and | 'PERKINS AND THE LIED LANDS, THE SENATOR SAYS HIS ACTION ‘WAS FOR THE INTEREST OF THE STATE. [ LAND-GRABBERS NOT AIDED. THE STATE WILL EXCHANGE VALUE- LESSFOR VALUABLE PROP- ERTY. “I do not care to have any controversy with that — Chron—beg pardon, I did not mean to swear—but I do not wish to enter into any controversy with that intelli- gent and highly influential journal,” said Senator Perkins yesterday when asked to make a statement concerning caarges thz¢ he assisted the landgrabbers. “Mr. de Young was knocked out on the first' ballot. He is consequently sore, of course, and I don’t know that I blame him. His paper has been attacking me regularly but I have just returned from Washington and must attend to my private business. I have no time for newspaper controversy— that is, not just now. Later on I may in- dulge, and then I think I will be able to give him all he wants. “The facts are that I telegraphed Secre- tary Hoke Smith at the suggestion of Mr. | Shanklin, asking what steps were neces 1y to secure to the State what are known the lieu lands. In reply he sent me a letter stating that certain action must be taken by_the Legislature. I handed the letter to Mr. Shanklin, who was Surveyor- - | General when I was Governor, and than The little steam launch just finished for | whom a.squarer or more honest man does | not exist. If you want any further inform- ation I must refer you to him. Personally, 1 think that the securing of the lien lands is a good thing for the people and for the te.” St | " Mr. Shanklin was seen in his Oakland | home. “The lieu land question, " he said “is one between the State of California nd the United States—not between the | State and any private parties, who may ap- the Alaska Packing Company had con- | ply for land under State laws. Therefore FLYING TRIP OF A NEW STEAM LAUNCH. [Sketched for the “Call” by W. A. Coulter.) structed a fast launch which kicked her wake into the eyes of every craft of her inches in the northern waters. The launch given a swim yesterday for the first time is to show her rudder to the rival racer. She is forty feet long and has a 30-horse- power engine which is to drive her twelve or fourteen knots an hour. To-day she will be given a trial trip up the bay, and is to be sent north on the bark Harvester. “SueAr and spice and all that’s nice” makes splendid cake when used with Dr. Price’s Baking Powder. VALUE OF A LIMB. A Patient Charges Dr. Morse With Un- skillful Work. A suit involving the reputation of Dr. John F. Morse, a well-known surgeon of this city, has been filed in the County Clerk’s office by Robert Woodburn. Wood- burn asks for $50,000 damages for the loss of his right leg, which he claims was care- lessly and unnecessarily amputated by the defendant Morse. The German General Benevolent Society, at whose hospital he was staying when the operation was per- formed, also made a defendant. Dr. Morse is one of the surgeons on the hos- pital staff. ‘Woodburn states that he entered the hospital on March 7, 1893, suf- fering from a disease of the toes of his right foot, caused, he was informed, by loss of circulation. He says he was allowed to lie without attention from March 7 to March i3, and it was_then decided by Dr. Morse that the leg should be ampnutated. This was done the following day, the limb being taken off just below the hip. This operation, he claims, was not necessary, nor was it skillfully performed. The wound caused him intense pain, he says, on account of the negligent manner in’ which he had been operated on, and it finally became so bad that it had to be re- opened and redressed. He claims that this amputation was not necessary in the first place, that if it had finally become neces- sary it was because he had been neglected so long, and that _even were an operation necessary at all it would have been sufii- cient to remove the toes only and not the entire lim®%. S el A Rough Trip Home. The British ship Conishead has arrived at Queenstown from San Francisco. On the voy- age strong adverse gales were encountered @ ghastly discovery yesterday. He was engaged with some others in excavating with the result that some fl‘"“fi’ was done on deck, The vessel proceeded to the charges against the Senator have no foundation in fact. “When the school land act of March 3, 1853, was passed, granting to the State from the public lands for school purposes sec- tions 16 and 36 of every township, section 7 of that act reserved certain exceptions, Among them was a provision that land mightfi)e reserved for public uses, such as, for instance, the Yosemite National Park and military and Indian reservations. The act provided that in lieu of the sections numbered 16 and 36 within these reserva- tions the State should be granted other lands, to be selected by the proper State authority and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. “The United States has held that the mere fact that public lands were surveyed conveyed to the State of California, in con- sequence of the actof 1853, a title to sec- tions 16 and 36. The lieu lands were se- lected by the proper authority, the Sur- veyor-General, but the Secretary of the In- terior declined to approve the selection till the State’s title to the sections within the reservations was re-transferred to the United States. Assembly bill 695, which has passed both houses of the Legislature, ac- complishes that transfer and nothing more. Assembly bill 126, which was first intro- duced, did not_accomplish the intended end, in the opinion of the Interior Depart- ment, and so bill 695 was substituted for it. ‘‘As a matter of fact, the passage of this bill will bring into the State school fund about $500,000. The sections within res- ervation limits of which the title now stands in the name of the State cannot be sold by it. The lien lands which will be obtained in exchange amount to about 80,000 acres, which will be immediately available for sale. Concisely stated the situation is this: The State owns property which it cannot sell and which, therefore, is of no use to it. By this transfer it wil receive lands that it can sell, and the money thus received wil go to the State school fund. “‘Assembly bill 530, of which the Chronicle also speaks, was drawn up by me and Senator Perkins knew nothing of it. It siinply allows the State to collect from delinquent purchasers of State land the costs of suits brought to annul the certificates of purchase because of such delinguency.” THE WAHLBURG RELEASED. The San Diego Collector Gives Up the Suspected Schooner. The schooner Wahlburg, which was sus- pected of taking a load of contraband arms ullonSundsy. | to Hawaii and which was seized a short: time ago by the Collector at San Diego for alleged violations of the maritime laws, has been released, and Captain Martin is in happy possession of his $1750 craft. Attorney E. P. Cole of this city, in whose hands Martin placed his case, declared that there was no ground for the seizure, notified the San Diego Collector that he would be sued for damages if he did not release the vessel and argued the law of the case by mail with the governmant offi- cials of the southern port. The result was that on Saturday the schooner was Te- leased and Captain Martin took possession onreaching there yesterday. Thatappears to end the Wahlburg episode as far as the courts are concerned, Saetoala R THREATENED THE OOURT. Judge Wallace Receives an Intimidat- ing Letter. Judge Wallace received a most obscene and threatening letter vesterday, signed ‘‘Charles Wilson.” It purported to come {from the brother of the man whom he sen- tenced to forty years’ imprisonment on two charges of robbery last Friday, and threat- ened that the writer will kill him unless he reduces his sentences. The letter is not thought much of by his Honor. He quietly turned it over to the Sheriff and left the matter in his hands. It is believed the letter is an attempt to intimidate the court from passing a heavy sentence upon John Smith, Wilson’s part- ner in crime, when he comes up for sen- tence upon a second charge of robbery. Wilson and Smith were the two men who made such a scene in Judge Wallace's court on Friday morning when they were sentenced. GRAND JURY PRESENTMENT. ARGUMENT ON THE LEGALITY OF AN ARREST MADE UNDER ONE. THE QUESTION Is LEFT FOR THE DECISION OF THE SUPREME CoURT. Judge Low’s courtroom was crowded to the doors yesterday afternoon, the attrac- tion being the argument on the legality of arrests under presentments by the Grand Jury. Attorney H. C. McPike represented ex- Supervisor Christian Reis, who is charged with renting a house for purposes of ill fame; Attorney Ruef represented other property - owners and the four women charged with giving an indecent exhibi- tion, and District Attorney Barnes ap- peared for the people. Attorney McPike opened the argument and restricted himself to the points that the court had no jurisdiction atall, and that no jurisdiction attached to the issu- ance of any bench warrant. He referred to the act defining the jurisdiction of the Police courts, ang sections and 1427 of the Penal Code, which prescribed that a complaint must be made under oath and the court must issue a warrant of arrest. He spoke of the distinction between an in- dictment and a presentment, and pointed out that in the constitution of 1579 no men- tion is made of a presentment, but only of an indictment. He held also that Superior courts had no jurisdiction in misdemeanor cases except on appeal from the lower courts, and he asked that the case against Mr. Reis be dismissed on the ground of no jurisdiction. Attorney Ruef sarcastically remarked that one of the women indicted had been dead for two years, and another property- owner had been in Europe for twenty years. He merely mentioned these cases to show the care exercised by the Grand Jury in making their presentments. Ad- mitting, for the sake of argument, that the court had jurisdiction, the presentment was not a presentment, as it was not signed by the foreman of the Grand Jury, as laid down in section 941 of the Penal Code. It, therefore, stood in the same position as a complaint not signed by the complainin§ witness. All the presentments were signed by the District Attorney, and not by the foreman. He asked for a dismissal of all the cases on that ground. District Attorney Barnes argued that as an indictment was perfectly valid without gnature, a presentment was equally valid without the signature of the fore- man. The presentments were indorsed by the foreman, and no matter where they were so signed there was the principal fact that his signature was on them. In reply to Attorney McPike he argued that whatever the ulfimate decision might be the usual practice in such cases had been followed. This being a new procedure the fact of its being proper or improper ought to be known as speedily as possible, and the only way was to get an authoritative decision by the court of last resort, which he suggested should be done. Attorney McPike agreed with the Dis- wict Attorney, but Attorney Ruef ob- jected, as it would be putting his clients to unnecessary expense. The Judge, how- ever, continued all the cases, except Mr. Reis’, till Monday next. Mr. Reis’ case was continued until to-ddy, and mean- time his attorney will have a writ of pro- hibition ready to take the matter before the Supreme Court. MORE INDIOTMENTS FOUND. Owners of Houses Used for Immoral Purposes Charged. ‘When the Grand Jury filed into Judge Sanderson’s court yesterday afternoon to make its report the clerk carried the largest batch of indictments that has been found by the body at any one sitting since it was chosen to round up the criminals of the city. On the statement of the fore- man that none of those accused by the in- dictments were in custody, Judge Sander- son declined to give their names. For many meetings past hard-visioned young men who served as election officers at the late election have crowded the wit- ness-rooms which adjoin those in which the inquisition is held, and after being called before the body have come crest- fallen and anxious eyed out of the cham- ber without the swaggering air of bravado with which they entered. Four of the indictments rendered yester- day were for election officers charged with making false returns to the Registrar, and four against burglars and footpads. The remaining twelve were against the owners of houses which are rented for immoral purposes, and the usual course of calling them to the attention of the Prose- cuting Atforney of the Police courts for that official’s action will be followed. A test case on one of the indictments recently brought on the same charge is now before the court and it is not probable that arrests will be mads on those found yesterday until this is decided. —————— ALWAYS a beacon of hope to the good housekeeper—Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder. ———————————— Arrested by His Father. Harry Hirshfeld, 17 years of age, ran away from his home, 1326 Buchanan street, about a week ago. He took with him $10, s diamond pin and watch, belonging to his father. Last night Mr. Hirshfeld saw him in front of the new City Hall. He grabbed him and took him to the City Prison, where he preferred a charge of vagrancy against him. Harry had been en- joying & good time and had spent the $10 and the money he got for the pin and watch. —————————— A Veteran’s Death. . John 8. Sargent died suddenly at 510 Shrader street yesterday. He had been drinking heay- ily and was found dead in his room. He was a member of the G. A. R. and was for many years employed on one of the dredgers by the Harbor Commissioners, S ok ST L S Good Advertising. SELLING PURE WHITE DINNER PLATES AT FIVE CENTS EACH. GREAT AMERICAN IMP. TEA CO.’S STORES. Other lines of Crockery equally cheap. . BAD SIDEWALKS, WORSE STREETS, THEY ARE TO BE SEEN IN THE COMMERCIAL DISTRICT OF SAN FRANCISCO. UNEVEN GRADES ON MARKET. UNATTRACTIVE SIGHT DOWN THE C1Ty’s PRINCIPAL THOROUGH- FARE. There are many streets in this city that are sadly in need of improvement, and many are in the commercial district. Not only are the streets in bad condition, but the sidewalks are worse, and to walk up one grade and down another, where the walks should be as level as a planked yard, makes walking over them a task that only few care to undertake unless forced to do so. Now that the spirit of reform and progress is awakening in San Francisco there should be a concert of action to com- pel the authorities to put the thoroughfares in a condition above that of a third-class country town. On the north side of Washington street the sidewalk at Battery is on a level with that grade, but before the middle of the block is reached it slopes upward and rises thirteen inches above the street; then it slopes down to Front. On the south side of the street the walk is far below that grade, and it gives the street the appear- ince of being lopsided, Right around this district there are any number of sidewalks that are above and below one grade. Every groperty-owner seems to have obtained in- ependent lines on which to lay the first floor of his house, and if it happened to be higher than that of his neighbor he simply sloped the end of his sidewalk in order to reach the adjoining one. In some places two narrow, rickety steps take the place of theincline, w?xile in others the in- cline is so steep that cleats have had to be nailed down so as to give the pedestrian a foothold. On Davis street, near Oregon, there is one of these cleated inclines that leads to the walk proper, nearly a foot above the other one; then at the other end if the pedestrian is not careful he will drop about ten inches before he touches the sidewalk. Jackson street, between Battery and Front, bears evidence that at one time it wad paved with that worst of all tortures ever conceived to ruin horses’ feet, cobble- stones. Wear and tear has caused depres- sions and the loosening of the cobbles from their foundation, leaving the thoroughfare in such a_condition that teamsters are afraid to drive over that portion of the street. At the East-street end of Jackson the street has been laid with basalt blocks and it is considerably higher than the por- tion west of it, also thecross streets. Between Market and Pacific streets, east of Battery street, there are more than a dozen different grades, consequently the sidewalks are as uneven as the undulating waves of ocean. At the gore of Sacramento and Market streets on the Market-street side the walk is about fourteen inches above the level of the street and to enable foot passengers to reach the street crosswalks have been set at an angle that make the descent anything but agreeable. At the western end there is a slope nearly five feet in length to reach the other sidewalk below. This is.tra- versed by thousands daily on the way to and from the ferry. Every time they ascend and descend they say something about the horrible sidewalk and resolve to do something, but before they have walked many blocks they forget all about it and are not reminded of the resolution until they come to that walk again. At that articular point the pedestrian is at least a 0ot above the one on the south side of the street. This, of course, is not a recom- mendation to the thousands of strangers who land at the foot of San Francisco’s main thoroughfare and whose opinions of a city are often formed by first observa- tions. Nor is the opinion improved when their eyes rest upon the ramshackle struc- tures that are to be seen on_both sides of the street within a block and a half of the landing. The value of property on that great thoroughfare ought to be a sufficient incen- tive to the owners of these sheds to re- move them. They go far to sustain the assertion that in many respects the ninth city in the Union is “a jay town.” These rattletraps ought to come down to make way for more pretentious buildings, in keeping with many west of the line of Main street. The owners of these may suddenly be awakened by the reform earth- quake from their dreams of the past, realize that they are living in the present and do their share toward beautifying the city. On Mission street between Main and Beale, when the Market-street Company laid its tracks for the Mission electric line, it conformed to the grade of East street, and when the work was finished the tracks were about a foot above the curb en either side of the street. The two feet of space on the side of the outer track had to be paved and the way the pavers did it was to slant the basalt blockstill they reached the lower grade of the street. The street is in such a condition that when teams are once on the railroad track it is impossible for them to turn out. If they attempt it the wagons would certainly capsize, so the teams have to remain on the track until a cross street is reached. This is without doubt the very worst piece of pavement in the whole city. THE housewife who hesitates in choosing a baking Fowder will not succeed. Let her take Dr. Price’s every time and she will have no trouble. TORE 0UT HER JIBBOOM. THE SCHOONER J. M. COLMAN AFOUL OF THE SHIP JABEZ HOWES. A COLLISION ON THE BAy WHICH MicHeT HAVE BEEN AVERTED. The schooner J. W. Colman, lying at anchor off Harrison-street wharf, dragged her mudhooks yesterday morning and drifted down on top of the American ship Jabez Howes, whicb was moored off the Oceanic dock. The schooner escaped with slight damage, but the ship’s jibboom and headgear were carried away and other in- juries were sustained. The J.M. Colman arrived from Port Blakeley on Sunday afternoon, and sailed into Hport, choosing her anchorage ground off Harrison street. About4o’clock yester- day afternoon she began to drag her anchors and as she started down stream the tugs Alert and Reliance put out to her assistance. Captain Treanor refused the proffered aid and the vessel went along until she smashed into the ship. The captain then realized that economy is not always the safest course to pursue with a strong ebb tide running and would have gladly taken the tuga hed they been at hand. The tow- boats had gone back to the dock, but the captains had their weather eyes open, knowmlg that a collision was inevitable. The Colman swung into the Jabez Howes with a crash and tore out her jibboom. Then the schooner pounded against the ship, shocking her from stem to stern with every bump, The Alert steamed out to the scene of the collision and got a hawser on board the | Y . It required some good work to C:}-;natrl‘:e vessels, but the schooner wxs:1 inally towed to a place of safglf'. Instea : of having a simple towage _bill, the vel.;sse will now have a salvage claim against her. BUNKO STEERER IN TROUBLE. He Got a Chance From Judge Low, but Did Not Accept It. Five weeks ago Judge L_ow had R. C. Tyler, a bunko man, before him on a charge of petty larceny. He had swindled a stranger out of §20, and had_given hu:n back the money on his promise to leave the city. The Judge thought of sentencing him for vagrancy, but decided to give him another chance. 2 £ Policeman Coleman, who is specially de- tailed to look after bunko men, found afterward that Tyler had not profited by the chance given him, but was continuing his swindling operations. On Sunday Cole- man was down at the ferry and saw Tyler and another bunko man, named Kirby, with a crippled stranger in tow. When they saw Coleman they hurriedly left the stranger and entered a saloon on the corner of East and Market streets. Coleman fol- lowed them and placed them under arrest. While Kirby was talking to Coleman Tyler made a break for liberty. As he was the one the officer particularly wanted he gave chase and soon overtook him, but meantime Kirby had vanished. Tyler was charged with vagrancy yesterday and will be brought up for sentence before Judge Low to-dav. : g Tyler's working ground is at Sixteenth- street station, Oakland. He d self as a countryman and strangers coming to the city land trains. TEACHERS ON THE WARPATH THE ITSELL DECISION MAY TROU- BLE THE NEW BOARD OF EDUCATION. Treyaioron y the over- Miss ASHMEAD, THE WHIPPING TEACHER, PREPARED FOR A FIGHT. The recent decision of Judge Wallace re- storing A. J. Itsell to his position and salary as vice-principal of the John Swett Grammar School, because he was not tried on the charge of incompetency fore the full Board of Education, which passed judgment, is giving the members of the new board a good deal of worry. They don’t know where they stand, and it looks as though they would receive back on their hands a lot of teachers who have been dropped in the past. It istakenas a foregone conclusion that they will have to restore to the rolls the several teachers dis- missed for incompetency by the last board, but thereis a possibility that now there will bob up teachers who have been dis missed by still other boards. For many years it has been the practiee to try teach- ers on any charge before a committee, the board acting on_the report of the trial committee, and all teachers so tried stand on the same legal plane as Mr. Itsell. All or nearly all, the teachers dismissed last year have either begun suits for res- toration or put their cases in the hands of attorneys. The Board of Education will now either appeal the Itsell case or restore the dismissed teachers. In the latter case the teachers may be tried and dismis according to the law as Judge Wallace in- ter)frets it. “If we find that this thing may run back for years and bring forward a lot of teachers who have been dismissed in the past we will probably peal to the Su- preme Court,” said C. B. of the Classification Committee, yesterday. “If we must restore these teachers, I am in favor of promptly retrying them before the full board and dismissing them legally it the charges are sustained. I don’t know how the rest of the board feels about the matter, except that many of the members are inclined to be lenient with the teach- ers. Ithink they are too lenient,and I believe that an incompetent teacher ought to be dismissed. It is possible that Mr. Itsell will be given a trial before the full board now himself.”’ So there is a possibility that the dis- missed and degraded teachers, who now | osition, will | have the advantage in legal bring on an interesting and hotly fought batch of open trials before the full board, and the trial of a teacher is always a hot and bitter one. {iss Ashmead, the South San Francisco teacher who was tried by the Committee on Rules a few days ago for thrashing and pinching children, is likely to bring about another storm. The trial committee de- layed its report pending the Itsell decision. It was decided that Miss Ashmead might be let off by a transfer to the substitute list from which she would in time go to a class in some other school. After the Wal- lace decision the board could not legally order this done without another trial, and she was privately told that the matter would be dropped if she would present her own written resignation and request this transfer. She said she would think it over, and yesterday gave notice that the matter was in the hands of Attorneys Henley and Costello. That was notice of a fight. Some members of the board say that all she will be apt to gain by a fight will be a_trial be- fore the full board and dismissal altogether. B ‘WaaAT housewife ever worried about her baking who wused Dr. Price’s Baking Powder? Not one! WANTS TO KILL THE FAMILY. A Gilroy Rancher Asks Sheriff Whelan’s Aid. Mrs. or Miss Blanche Dowdy, whichever it may be, evidently thinks that Sheriff ‘Whelan has jurisdiction over the whole State of California and can issue warrants for the arrest of any and all persons when he pleases. She has reason to think that her Chinese cook is trying to poison the inmates of her home and has asked the Sheriff to interfere and take the Celestial into custody. Fol- {owing is the letter received by Mr. Whe- an: GILROY, March 9, 1895. Sheriff of San Francisco—DEAR SiR: Get out a warrant to arrest our cook. I found phosphorus in the water where the chickens drink and strychnine in the coffee. It tasted bitter. The Chinaman (cook) would not kill any chickens after I found the phosphorus. Yours, BLANCHE Dowpy, Dowdy ranche. The Sheriff sent word to the anxious rancher that he could do nothing for her and that she had betterapply to the proper authorities in her own county. ————————— TARGET-PRACTICE DELAYED. Soldiers Are Waiting for the New Krag- Jorgensen Rifle, Small arms target-practice for the regu- lar soldiers serving in the Department of California is being delayed on account of the War Department having issued gene- ral.orders to the effect that the new Krag- Jorgensen rifle must be theone used in the next practice. It wasascertained at the Phelan buildin yesterday from . the inspector of small- arms practice that it might be a month or two, or even more, before the rifle wounld be supplied to the organizations in this de- partment, as the first to be supplied were to go to the regiments whicn showed the highest excellence in last year’s and year pefore last’s practice. As target practice is the most important event in army life considerable interest is felt as to the time when the new gun will be ready. ————— Thought His Daughter Was Murdered. John Lynch of 38 Gilbert street reported to the Coroner yesterday that he believed his daughter, Mrs. M. J. Costello of 747 Brannan street, had been murdered by her husband. An autopsy showed that the woman had died of consumption. As Lynch asserted that his son- in-law had compelled his wife to take poison the contents of the stomach were analyzed, but o traces of any deadly substance were found. a; .J;one, chairman | A BIG DEAL IN ORE TATLINGS NEVADA MINING COMPANIES MA A CONTRACT INVOLVING MILLIONS. EASTERN MEN THE BUYERS. A NEw PROCESs FOR REDUCING Low-GRADE OREs THAT WiLL BE A Boon. A mining deal involving $4,000,000 was consummated in San Francisco | The Hoimes Mining Company, the gene Mining Company and the Candel Water Works and Milling Company Esmeralda County, Nev., contracted to se their tailings to a syndicate of E capitalists at the rate of 50 cents per net. There are hundreds of thousands tons of tailings at the mills of these com- panies. Nos.1 and 2 mills at Bellevillc Nev., have been running for twenty-eight years and have milled 450,000 tons of ore, Which has never been cleaned up. The Holmes Company will deliver to the syndicate all its low-grade ore assaying less than 15 ounces per ton at 0 in gold per ton, and on all of the ores which are above 15 ounces per ton the Hol s Com- pany is to receive 25 per cent of the bat- tery assay valve, payable in gold. All ores above 20 ounces per ton will be worked by the Holmes Company at the Candelaria mill. The syndicate privilege of cl mil Geor- a of n | also been given the ning up the Belleville ndelania_mill, and the is to re: 45 per ¢ of the result of these n-ups, which w net the company about $85,000 from the Belleville milfis and $50,000 from the Can- delaria. The terms of the contract are that the syndicate shall begin the work of cleaning up the mills within thirty days from date, and that within four months from date they will have their plant for working the tailings in full operation. The syndicate expects to expend at_least $250,000 upon the erection of these tailing plants and will therefore do much toward reviving the mining industries of the district. “The syndicate is composed of Eastern men,” said Colonel William J. Sutherland, president of the Holmes Mining Com: pany, who negotiated the sale, “and the process which will be used in extracting the gold, silver and lead from the tailings is a new one_and is the invention of a Chi- cago man. Iam notat liberty to outline the process yet, but it will revolutioni: the whole system of handling tailings an will be of immense value to the science of mining. Only low-grade ore will be han- | dled bv the new company. Ores that can be profitably reduced by any other method are not wanted by the synd | Colonel .\'ulh(-rfi;md ves for New York on Thursday. He is very much pleased | with the prospect of injecting renewed life | into the mining industries of Esmeralda Cownty, Nevada, and looks forward to a prosperous future for the old camp with which he has long been connected. GUESTS OF THE CONCORDIA, Lady Friends of the Club at the Baldwin Theater. A small and select affair was given last evening by the members of the Tuesday Night Bowling Club, an offshoot of the Concordia, to a few lady friends of ‘the club. The ladies were conducted to the | Baldwin Theater, where they occupled four | boxes, and_after witnessing the perform- ance of ‘““Judah” they were driven to the rooms of the club, on Post street and Van Ness avenue, where a champagne supper was served. President Joseph Rnthsc‘;fii«l was in charge of the party, and among the guests were: Misses Sachs, Schlesinger, Brown, Gerst, Seller, Schwabacher, Schweitzer, Weill, Fleischhacker, Adler and Morris, and Messrs. Ach, Maudel, Weill, Fleischhacker, Schweitzer, Seller, Nordman, Adler, Hirschfelder and Feigenbatm. , also the ( Holmes Company Removes wrinkles and all traces of age. It feeds through the pores and builds up the fatty membranes and wasted tissues, the shriveled and shrunken skin, tones and invigorates the nerves and muscles, en- riches the blood vessels, and supplies youth and elasticity to the action of the skin. It’s per- fect. i Beware of substitutes and Yale’s Origi- nourishes impoverished counterfeits. nal Skin Food, price $1.50 and $3. At all drugstores. MME. M. YALE, Health and com- plexion specialist, Yale Temple of Beauty, 146 State street, Chicago. REDINGTON & CO., Wholesale Drug- glsts, San Francisco, are supplying the dealers of the Pacific Coast with all of my remedies.