The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1895, Page 17

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1895. T - Upthe IV\EDITERRANEAN 4 On BY DENIS KEARNEY. AAANAA A~ It-was in the summer of 1865 that we [and! gailed from Boston in the Bounding Bil- low, then a handsome bark-rigged craft. She was built in Chelsea for the Mediterra- | t trade, was copper bottomed and | nean fastened, put together to make asa fast sailer, could beat to wind- acht, as proud as a peacock anced upon the waters. Her s were lofty, and yards long ver ) The big single topsail d leech ropes were of hemp. in the fashion of the time like a sea bird as her bows rose ed by the ocean’s glisten- Y ung man, she was born long before you were. She was the product of a past , and she came upon the field of action the Yankee clippers dotied every her fror W every p lled w She was commanded lich. Hew by face was d he wore hairs of stiff as pi nd at the first ned yourself e pirates 1e Spanish n s b | th i in her sea robes of snowy | ed to catch the passing breeze, | 2 [FRUITER. ard_him tell the man who relieved eight bells to *“keep her full him and by. g iie showed no sign of sickness then, and when I went below to turn in it wasn’t with the expectation of being called two ho! ter to administer to the wants of me sailor, who was now dying in the hes of a dreaded scourge. ¢ can’t be possible,” said I to Mr. f s 1 reached the deck, “that sot the cholera.” not, sir,”” he answered, “but it orI'ma S 1z the forecastle I found it de- he watch below, now ut- ed, had taken their straw out onto the main deck and made t heds under the shadow of the weather bulwarks. “What's the matter with you, George?’’ terly de mattre I threw the glare of my bullseye to the lower berth, where he lay B0 T'm dying, sir; 'm dying! Can't o something for me?” was the poor ply in a voice that was scarcely by, George. Cheer up, no_cholera. I'll pull 1right. I've got some- licine-chest that will cure utes. I'll getit.” I did, back he was dead, stone The hated cholera had selected for 1 the only one of us who wouldn’t 0 ashore. ht, though dark and dismal look- It was an Italian sum- he stars were out in plenty, : icks could be seen s blazing belt twinkling on the lonesome ocean and the ed bark. We had fallen upon a sn't enough of air aloft to vessel lay motion- ving lost her steer- hung listlessly from IR '%1;\“ i THE BOUNDING BILLOW HOMEWARD BOUND. hen seated at the dinner-table at sea take t \;{: half a doz nions, and then yoked red nt of a p the who him an “nightcaps net a man who relished a omach-opener. *“You fellows,” v laughingly, “eat to live, but | ge he married a young 1at he cour from her | b es of two | ntil the | Aust i native plac th him. She was a t handsome young woman, with dark, r es that blazed in their sockets; her head was heavil ered with a waving mass of coal-blac that hung loosely over her shoulders, re ing to the knees, and s that resembled a S approaching ber tw couldn’t speak a word of E took her to be the old m when we first met and mode for calling her miss. We were bound for Malta with a cargo of | New England rum and leaf tobacco. W hen we arrived at Valetta, the chief seaport of the Maltese group, our consignees notified us that the cholera was raging there in all n was i had a complex sh olive. St nghter epologized its virulence; and as we had to go to other | Mediterranean ports for a home cargo we were ordered to discharge in quarantine. We proceeded to do so, but one afternoon | Captain Vidulich accidentally brushed up A f superior officer and he im- ately ordered us into pratique. We now came in contact with the resi- all who wished went ashore. 'man, who reported the oc- | Everything being ready we all collected in | @ group around the gangway with our { heads uncovered. | body onto the upper rail of the bulwarks the yards and occasionally flapped against the masts and shrouds as she rose and fell to the mournful motion of the deep. Away off, but standing high on the star- board bow, stood Mount Etna, belching from its belly tons of molten lava that shot In a bunk in the now deserted le and upon an old straw mattress, ed in his greasy jumper and tarry trousers, lay the lifeless form of a once powerful man who, like the rest of us, was moving about the decks a few short hours befor, and whose body we are now pre- paring to sink to the bottom of the dark waters beneath us, while Etna fired into the midnight sky her eternal salute to the stars. “Get a couple of hands, Mr. Cushing,” I said to the second mate, on my return to the quarterdeck, ‘and bring up that old jibtopsail; you'll find it on the port side of the lazarette. I want to cut a piece out of it to make a burial shroud. Go call the carpenter there, Jim, and rouse the stew- ard out. Tell 'em I want 'em on deck, and be quick about it.” ‘We bronght the body aft to the vessel’s waist and by the light of a binnacle lamp I wrapped and sewed it up in an old piece of canvas, tied a_few heavy lumps of coal to the feet, then laia it on the cdrpenter’s stage toes up and feet toward the rail to be ready for launching 1into the ocean at midnight. I had in the meantime told the captain what I was doing and asked him if' he was £0ing to get up to attend the funeral. He didn’t. He afterward told me that Mrs. Vidulich was badly frightened as it was and he didn’t want her to see us pitching the corpse overboard. The vessel had no headway so there was no need of our backing the maintopsail. Four men lifted the and shoved the stage far enough but for it . was one among the crew forward | to balance and held it there with an out- » conldn’t be induced to go. He was a | Ward tilt, while the steward read the burial t of coaxing could get him ireight was all ont we sailed out-of-the-wav place, to entence in quarantine, ng up the Sicilian Sea ead wind, when at four 1y stateroom door was A Whispered voice called, “Mr. oh, Mr. K v, wake_up, sir, i half and we w bells (10 ». x.) opened an Kearney v sick. I'm 1 the captain then,” I said, “but 1; don’t let Mrs. Vidulich hear I did, sis “Did his wife hear you.” ‘‘She must have, for when shutting the door I heard her say. somethi ‘old man’ in Italian, > "™ ething to the 1 you that he wasa ather, for you to get e, and do'what you ve him. 1t was Mr. Cushing who called me out of a sound sleep. He waunn{}x:ge}ii ond and I the first mat i o ol mate of the Bounding | steward of ours. stitions German sailor named George, | service from a small Bible that he always had such a dread of the cholera | carried about his clothes. A strange character, indeed, was this s He 'was tall, lantern- jawed and much older than the captain, with a long white beard and hair that cov- ered his neck, which he nursed with the greatest of care. Without being consid- ered at all irreverent, in looks he reminded me of one of the group that I had seen in a painting in the magnificent cathedral of St. John’s at Malta and pointed out to me as the twelve aposties, He was a con- firmed spiritualist. mpressively and with dramatic effect he read the service, and when be said “I commit this body to the deep,” with his own hand he pushed up the end of the stage and the di ship- mate slid into the sea, leaving nothing to mark hisresting-place savea few phosphor- escent bubbles, but they disappeared as quickly as they rose. A few months later we could be seen assing the Rock of Gibraltar homeward und, with a npankin%lhreeze from off the rt guarter; our t'gallan’, topmast and ower stunsails were set and the sea was running with us. Our hold was chock full of oranges and lemons, and we were hurrying home to sell them to the Yankees before they spoiled. Dexis KEARNEY. We left Malta that morni; i the last dog watch George tool 'fi?sd z?-sllrl:';% the wheel. I stood close to the binnacle —_— Origin of Punch and Judy. Boys and girls, old and young, who en- joyw the mwmf; "s Punch and Judy show will be glad to learn that the exhibition has a serious side as well as a comic one—is in fact a direct lineal de- scendant of the ancient miracle plays which our ancestors were fond of some six or seven centuries ago. Atleastthat is the opinion of the Rev. G. R. Woodward, who on Saturday delivered a lecture on “An- cient Carols” in the chapter-house of St. Paul’s to members of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. He contended that the modern Punch and Judy show, with its tambourine, drum and pipe, repre- sented the triumph of virtue over vice. Punch is very like Pons, or Pounce (Pon- tius) Pilate. “Judy was intended for Judas, the traitor, or for Judith, who slew Holo- fernes, and Toby was evidently the dog mentioned in the book of Tobit. He therefore discarded the Italian derivation of the word and held that the modern form of the old religious show was simply a corrupted edition of a miracle play whic! had Pontius Pilate as its hero.—London Telegraph. ——————— MECHANICS ALARMED. Filed Against the Nob Hill Apartment-House. The Nob Hill Development Company, which was organized and incorporated for the purpose of erecting an aparument-house at California and Jones streets, is having trouble with its contractors. Fletcher & Jordan were the original contractors, but things were not going on to their satisfac- tion and Jordan assumed the contract, which he sold to 8. Gilletti. The latter being unable to get his payments has filed with the Recorder a mechanics’ lien for $10,320 on the building. The Blue Rock Contractin and John Lauttle have also filed liensin the sums of $498 and $1575 respectively. Work on the building has not progressed very far, and it is thought the Nob Hill Company will not be able to carry out the plans for a swell apartment-house so_elab- orately outlined in the articles of incor- poration some months ago. HOLD T RAIL PARTIES The S. P. Company Obstinately Refuses to Remove Its Old Tracks. Liens Company As a Result the Residents of the Richmond District Are Doing the Work. The refusal of the Southern Pacific Company to remove its “dead” rails from a number of the thoroughfares in the Richménd district has caused the progres- sive residents of that part of the city to become exceeding wroth. They are attesting their displeasure in quite an unusual manner, which is sup- plemental to the action taken by the im- provement club in regular session as- sembled. The Richmond District Improvement Club expressed its desire to have the “dead” rails removed some time ago, and appointed a committee to wait on Superin- tendent Vining. The committee obtained no satisfaction. Superintendent Vining was in a facetious humor, and met the ex- postulations of the committee with the remark that he did not know the lines of the Market-street Cable Company took in any portion of the Richmond district. “And. by the way, where is this Richmond place you talk about?” asked Mr. Vining. I'hereaiter the residents took the matter in their own hands, and organized nocturnal T rail parties. During several nights recently ~rails have been torn up, two, three and half a dozen at a time, and Jaid along the curb. The objectionable rails are on First avenue, between Point Lobos avenue and D street, on Point Lobos avenue from First to Twentieth avenues. They are the old- fashioned T rails and have not been leit in their present position for the purpose of holding franchises. The -company has no desire to operate lines along these streets, and the neglect simply takx e orm of: wiZavoldancaar the expense incidental to their removal. Another source of complaint on the part of the resident property-owners of this district is the failure and refusal of the company to remove the ties of the old steam railway on Central avenue. The rails were torn up three years ago and the | ties still remain embedded in the road- | way. Repeated aemands have been pre- | ferred, but the company, in its arrogant indifference to public and private con- venience, has refused to heed the numer- ous complaints. R. Fletcher, the ex-president of the former Point Lobos Improvement Club, says the complaint is general among the residents, and that their action in tearin, up the rails themselves is only a natural consequence of the company’s indifferent neglect. FOUND An Embryotic Dragon Frightens a Party of Poppy Hunters at Sausalito. A MONSTER. In an abandoned prospect hole on a hill- side behind Old Sausalito dwells a huge, uncanny monster which has spread terror among the children who visit that locality in search of poppies. It is lizard-shaped, with red scales, and basks every sunnv afternoon in front of the cave. One day last week a party of young people halted in front of the hole and were preparing to have lunch when the lizard appeared. It thrust out its long tongue and crawled to- ward the children, who fled, screaming, from the neighborhood. They saw enough of it, however, to describe it as a most re- ulsive and ferocious looking animal. Its ength is almost three feet and it is some eighteen inches wide. The head was round and feet flat, and the tail short; the eyes were fle)x red and the claws short and stumpy. description of more de- tail it was impossible to procure from the bagdly scared rart{. The most self-pos- sessed, a girl of 14, declares that it was unlike anything she had ever seen before. Its attitude was decidedly ag- ressive and it emitted a musky and very sisngreeable odor. An attempt will be made this week to capture this strange monster, and if it should prove anything out of the ordinary Professor Jordan of the Palo Alto University will sit upon the re- mains. ——————— ON TRIAL FOR MURDER. The Tragedy on the Bark Hesper Again Being Investigated. The second trial of Herman Sparf for the murder of Mate M. Fitzgerald of the bark Hesper was resumed in the United States Circuit Court, vesterday. Captain 8. O. Sodergren, master of the bark at the time of the murder, was the first witness. He gave a detailed account of the tragedy and seemed to have still a vivid recollection of its horrors, even though it is now nearly eighteen months since it occurred. e related all the incidents of the voyage from Sydney, N. 8. W., to Papeete, Tahiti, where the bark put in to land the murder- ers. He told of the combination existing between Sparf, Hansen, St. Clairand Green to kill all the officers and run off with the ship and the captain’s wife. Of the four mutineers Green turned State’s evidence, 8t. Clair and Hansen are under sentence of death, and Sparf is having his second trial. Special Address to Young Men. The address before the young men’s meeting at the association building, Mason and Ellis streets, this afternoon at 3 o’clock, will be de- livered by Rev. J. R. Farrand, pastor of Howard Prrbymn Church. Service for gentlemen between 16 and 40 years of age. No lad: - It is raining, Up above me on the road several picnickers who have been caught in this April shower are hurryingin search of shelter. They look down curiously apon me sitting here in the rain under a drooping willow. Probably they are say- ing to themselves that I do not know enough to go in when it rains, and perhaps they are right. I am sorry for them—their pleasure outing is so obviously spoiled by the pattering drops, but for my own part I am happy. There is something peculiarly gentle and courteons about an April shower. You are so fully conscious, even while the drops are falling, that the sun is shining behind the light clouds. And the drops ther- selves come down so gently, tentatively offering themselves, as it were, to the The City Folks Enjoy Their Sunday Outing. thirsty earth; pattering lightly on the | leaves and grassand softly rippling the surface of the little pool under the willow tree. The filly, yonder in her stall, thrusts her head over the half-door, and, with her soft black muzzle in the air, opens her mouth and runs out her tongue to catch the welcome drops. The horses on the hills seem glad of the wetting. Even the buds have not sought sheiter, and why should 17 3 During a shower is the time of all others to study leaves. We are apt to overlook these in our eager contemplation of the flowers of plants. In fact, our attention is DYLLS of the BY A NATURALIST AT LARGE. FIHELDS, B weed seems to render most skins imper- vious to the attacks of the Ishmaelite of our woods and fields. But watch the wormwood. See how the raindrops quiver for an instant upon the tips of the pinnate leaves, then follow each other in a mad chase down the central grooves of the leaves. Each leaf rises from three ridges on the stem of the plant, and between these ridges lie shallow grooves, down which the raindrops run and soak into the ground upon the plant’s root. Now you can tell, from watching the con- duct of these leaves, wbat sort of a root the wormwood has. I have never pulled one up, but I am sure it has a main top-root, with no spreading branches. All such plants have leaves sloping upward, and with grooved stems, to perform for the roots just the office that these leaves are performing. Sthdy the leaves of the radish or the beet and you will see how admir- ably the leaves are equipped to act as water-carriers. This alfilaria, now, the fragrant “filaree” of our fields, has another provision for this same purpose. The filaree is a wide- spreading plant with an absurdly small root. It needs lots of moisture, and the stems are thickly set with soft, fuzzy hairs that catch the water and convey it along the stem to the root. Growing all along the bank is the little chickweed, with its tiny white stars of blossoms. If it were not so plentiful we would wax enthusiastic over its beauty, and seek it for our garden borders. It hasarunning, threadlike root, and a single row of hairs alongits stem holds the raindrops and sprinkles them gently down upon the roots. Where a plant has a spreading root the leaves slant outward and downward from base to. tip, letting the moisture they gather down upon the roots. My willow has such roots, and itisa lover of moisture. See how the long branches droop and shed their drops of gathered rain. The eucalyptus is another victim to mit'hty thirst, and it takes a deal of water to keep that thirst quenched. We do not half appreciate this tree. Here about the bay it is one of the most beautiful growths we have. It is not symmetrical in the sense of having a neat, snug, arboreal symmetry. It sweeps its tall nead against the sky and spreads its great branches to the wind with the untrammeled original- ity of genius. Itis a genius among trees. What other one has /its unquenchable dominance of life, its endless variety of form and color in foli ability to withstand the storm and survive drought? The treeless hills of India, the barren plains of the Pacific Slope, the deadly campagna of Rome have all been redeemed, beauti- fied, vivified by this tree. It sendsa great root down into the depths of earth to hunt for water. Other roots branch off in the same erratic, original fashion that charac- terizes the growth ofquer branches, and thick, glossy, pointed, down-drooping leaves soak in the moisture of the air, gather in the falling rain and pour the drops down in beneficent showers upon the Toots. Did you ever stand beneath a eucalyptus tree and glance upward at its foliage? TIf rot, a silvery surprise awaits you. Seen thus the leaves are things of beauty in the sunlight. This beauty is greatly enhanced, however, on a rain , and in the moon- light they glimmer in a silver sheen of glory that cannot be described. The leaves are the real life of the plant. They gather in its food from the air. They are the lungs through which it breathes. The flowers are a mere incident in the plant’s life. When the plant grows under water the leaf is long and thread-like. Thisis because the supply of carbon is lim- itea, and the leaves are minutelP' divided in order that the greatest possible surface may be exposed to absorb it. If, as is the case with many aquatic plants, the stem grows until the Jeaves finally reach the sur- | face, they immediately spread out and be- come larger. Most of them float out upon the surface of the water, knowing that this will support them, and they need waste no further effort in growing a sngporting stem. Nature never dpes waste effort, de- spite what secems at %imes her reckless prodigality of growths. The same reason that makes the plant | under water put on slender, threadlike | leaves makes the grass grow in the form | of blades. The air supply would seem abundant, but competition is fierce. The grasses and the low-growing {)l:mts are Very numerous, and so they divide and | subdivide, becauseiin these forms they. are \ \ LY v \ TR i\ \\,\\\»\\v\\\\\i\\\‘ AR \\‘.\‘\\\ M\ \ 3 \\\ Tt i WAL Mg ; \\H e,:fl\ ' })\}“‘\h\:l\’\‘\;\ f!\‘“;- 1 \ SEVERAL PICNICKERS CAUGHT IN THE APRIL SHOWER. usually not even concerned with the flow- ers themselves, but only with the lovely petals that often surround them, and which we all want to call the flowers. But the leaves are the plant itself—the central idea of what the plant is meant to express. They tell us much about the plant itself, if'only we have the ability to understand their "language. Why, for in- stance, does this pond lily spread out its indolent broad leaf on the surface of the water, while its cousin, the wild iris, yon- der on the bank, has long, narrow leaves, folded almost double? 3' do the leaves of this pu\:fient wormwood that I have pulled stand stiffly pointing upward, at an angle that shows us their under rather than their upper surface, while the leaves of the oak just at my hand are spread out before the descending rain. Let us see what we shall see if we open our eyes. Take the wormwood, for in- stance, and before we %o any further let me call attention to the fact that, if 1 should have occasion to meddle with that Koison oak yonder in the ravine, I should irst rub my hands and face with the crushed leaves of the wormwood. You will usually find the two growing near together, and the juice of the wayside fittest to survive in the struggle for exist- ence and to obtain their necessary food supply. You will see this tendency in the foliage of the common buttercups and the eschscholtzia. Some one spoke to me yesterday of Cali- fornia’s perpetual springtime. ‘“Younever know the sadness of the dying leaves here,” he said. ‘‘Your trees are always green.”’ He was both right and wrong. Most of our trees are deciduous, however, although many that are deciduous in other climates become evergreen here. This does not mean that the leaves are not shed. The provision for that process is made when the leaf is born. 2 The leaf does not, as is popularly su posed, die and drop away. It is cut off. ‘When the work of the leaf ‘is done, and when, as in snowy countries, it would become a burden to the tree, a plane of cells begins to form,—a new growth, cut- ting sharply through the petiole, near its base. This mew growth forces its way against the leaf, until the latter is actually crowded off by the coming leaf bud. Even the pine trees shed their needle- like leaves, but they only shed, in a single season, those nearest the trunk. The new growths at the ends of the branches gather round and hide the dismantling irocess s0 successfully that we never really now when it is taking place. Indeed, on every pine tree we will find the leaves of several successive seasons. Do the leaves die? Does anything? We see them fall and turn to mold, from which other life-forms spring. There will be other poppies next year where yonder orange-red blossoms are nodding. The waving grain, already headed out and bowing under its weight of raindrops, was but a handful of dry kernels a few months since. They were cast upon the ground, and they died, if that tossing sea of green is death. We see this happening about us, on every hand, and we still o up and down the earth demanding of seer and scholar. “If a man die shall helive again?” But the sun has come out. The rain is over and gone. Only the last treasured drops chase each other along the leaves and down the stems of the plants. Our picnickers have ventured out from the eucalyptus grove, and everything seems to have forgotten ‘‘the useful trouble of the rain.” THE SUTRO ROAD. Surveyor Tilton Says That Tracks Have Been Laid on a Street in Golden Gate Cemetery. City and County Surveyor Tilton, who was instructed by the Board of Supervi- sors to investigate the complaint of Ralph ‘Wetherbee, that the Sutro Railroad Com- pany had laid its track across a portion of Golden Gate Cemetery, has completed his report. He finds that tracks were laid across the southeast corner of the cemetery and on a Eonion of the cemetery purported to have een declared an open public thoroughfare by resolution No. 10,614 of the Board of Su- pervisors. The matter will come up at a meeting of the board on Monday. NEWS OF THE_IN[IUSTRIES. A Revival in Business Circles With Orders From the East. Local Contracts for Machinery Awarded During the Past Week. The Pacific Can Company has been rubed to the full capacity of their factory of late in filling orders for cans for the sea- son’'s salmon pack. This company report that between 10,000,000 and 12,000,000 cans, thousands of barrels and an unusually large quantity of stores have been shipped by the Alaska packers’ northbound fleet. Included in this fleet are the Prussia, Merom, Raphael, Highland Light, J. A. Boreland, Nicholas Thayer, Alex McNeil, J. C. Potter, C. B. Kenney and other ves- sels. Paul B. Perkins, manager of the Perkins Pump and Engine Company, returned yes- terday from a trip to Kern County. While there he secured the contract for building the engine and pumping machinery for the Kern County asylum. His company is also shipping several gas engines to Ukiah | and putting in a ventilation equipment in a Bakersfield hotel. The California Wire Works just com- pleted a 31,500 foot cable, weighing 80,000 pounds, for the Tenth and Post street cable road. The company has alsc orders from_ the East for three cables. This | fact demonstrates that when manufactur- ers here bend their energies to specialties they may hold their own against Eastern importations. H The Risdon Iron Works are building two ten—stnmg mills for shipment to Montana and two Bryan mills for milling companies in Mexico. Thei; are also receiving the material for the boilers to be placed in the electric light station on Howard street. Francis Smith & Co. are shipping a large quantity of galvanized iron pipe to Mazat- lan to be used in Mexican mines. The Union Iron Works are building thirty Gold King amalgamators for the Midas Gold Saving Machinery Company. Recently eleven tons of beach sand from Grays Harbor, Wash., was run through a Gold King amalgamator at the works here and the results were so satisfactory that twenty machines were ordered, and as soon as completed will be shipped and put in operation by companies interested in the gold-bearing beach sands of Grays Harbor. The Hadwen Swain Manufacturing Com- pany is moving into new quarters on Spear street, where a substantial brick factory building has been erected specially for the use of the firm. The National Base Ore Reduction Com- pany’s new plant near Shell Mound, Oak- and, is about completed, and ores are being received from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and other Pacific Slope States for treatment by their quick-roast- ing process. E. G. Sresovich has just received a cargo of cocoanuts by the City of Papeete from Tahiti. These cocoanuts are of the new crop, and will be manufactured into shredded and desiccated cocoanut at the Pioneer factory, North Beach. A large number of orders for belting are being received from the interior by i 1 Degen, the belt and leather manufacturer. he C. H. Evans Machine Works are building a deep-well pumping plant for the Cypress Lawn Cemetery. It will have a capacity of 15,000 gallons per hour. This company has also completed. a hoisting- engine for the bark J. D. Peters, and is building & twin-power pumping plant to be shipped to Ross station for irrigating purposes. During the past week the McGlue Con- centrator Company has shipped one con- centrator to Placerville, one to Grants Pass, Or., and one to the Okanogan mining district in Washington. Steiger & Kerr, who confine themselves exclusively to foundry work, report a large increase of orders, which shows a growing nctivit%vamong the machine-shops. The Woodbury Concentrator Company is shxpglnf two_concentrators to the Rose Kimberley mine in El Dorado County. Mr. Woodbury will visit Utah shortly, when he expects to place concentrators in several imBorumt Utah mines. P. F. Dundon’s San Francisco Iron ‘Works have just put in a machinery plant, including pans, tanks, mixers, etc., for the Mission Chemical Works, and is erecting boilers for several other establishments. Bids will be in this week for the kitchen for the Roman Catholic Theological Semi- nary at Menlo Park, to cost about $50,000. The California Ink Company has filled an order for five barrels of ink for a daily paper in this cit; IN THE DOCK. Small and Great Criminals Arraigned for Their Offenses. Stephen Henderson was arraigned for forgery in Judge Belcher’s conrt yester- day. He pleaded not guilty, but admitted that he had been convicted before. The forgery of which he is accused is that of the name of Louis Oelto of 446 Natoma street to an order for seven pounds of cof- {es;s The crime was committed January 24, Antone Lauricella, in the same depart- ment, was arraigned for burglary of the house of Angelo Ferrea, 533 Vallejo street, on March 3. William Whitney, convicted of petty |’ larceny, was sentenced by Judge Bahrs to three years in the Folsom penitentiary, after his motion for arrest of judgment had been denied. Fred Wilson, who was born on Novem- ber 1, 1877, and had been convicted of bur- lary, was ordered sent to the Whittier form School until he reaches the age of 21. Judgment and sentence for the crime are suspended, by order of Judge Bahrs, tdi\:;mg the time Wilson remains at Whit- GREAT CURES Blood and Skin Remedics Combined. POTTER DRUG & CHEMICAL CORP., SOLE PROPRIEIORS, BOSION, U, & &