The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 28, 1895, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1895. 9 DECLARES HIS INNOCENCE, O. W. Winthrop Charged With the Murder of Mrs. Jennie Mathews. HE WAS VISIBLY AFFECTED. Chief Crowley Glven Permission to Open Supreme Recorder Linn’s Letter. 0. W. Winthrop, assistant superinten- dent of the Laurel Hill Cemetery, was formaily booked at the City Prison yester- day afternoon on the charge of murdering Mrs. Jennie Mathews, 502 Broderick street. The complaint was sworn out in Judge achimsen’s court yesterday by Edwin Stirling Mathews, the dead woman's hus- band. Captain Lees personally served the war- rant upon Winthrop. He went to his cell and read the warrant to him. Winthrop was visibly affected. He asked to see the warrant,and while he glanced over it his hand shook and his face twiched. “Captain,” said Winthrop, in a voice that trembled with emotion, ‘‘is there no redress for me?”’ The captain said nothing, but shook his head. “This is the work of the Examiner,” said ‘Winthrop, with an_angry gleam in his eyes. “That paper is trying to hound me to death. My innocence of this charge will yet be thoroughly established.” Winthrop was then taken from his cell and the charge against him entered on the prison register. He hastily penned notes to Attorneys Kyle and Allen informing them that he had been charged and re- questing to see them. On Sunday Chief Crowley sent a dispatch to Supreme Recorder Linn of Indianapolis asking his permission, in the interests of public justice, to open the letter addressed to him which was found in Winthrop's pocket when arrested. Yesterday morning the Chief received the following reply: ‘“Open any letter ad- dressed to Consult Arnold, our repre- sentative, who has full power to act. Original papers mailed.” The Chief handed the dispatch to Cap- tain Lees, but despite the express permis- gion given to open the letter he will not do so until he has seen Mr. Arnold. ‘The original papers referred to in the dispatch are the applications made by Mrs. Mathews for membership in Olive Branch, Order of Chosen Friends, and for a relief fund certificate. The inquest on the remains will_be held next Saturday at 9 .M. Coroner Hawkins has postponed it from time to time at the request of the police, but now Chief Crow- ley has signified his willingness that the investigation should take place. The analysis of the contents of the stom- 2ch and bladder is not yet completed, but Chemist Morgan says his full report will be ready long before the time set for the inquest. Strychnine in considerable quan- tities has been found in the remains, but the exact amount will not be known until Saturday. TEE OEILD'S ESTATE. Will Become an Object of Controversy in the Probate Court. Edward Sterling Mathews, by his attor- ney, G. Gunzendorfer, yesterday petitioned the Probate Court for letters of guardian- ship over his child Martha, commonly called ‘“Mattie.”” The petition recites that Mathews has lived in the State for six years and that the child is the offspring of himself and Jen- nie Mathews, his wife. He says that the child’s estate requires the care of a fit and Eroper person. It consists principally of a enefit policy for $2000 in the Order of Choserf Friends, which will not pay the money until it can obtain a proper release. The father is stated to be the natural guar- dian of his minor child. Judge Coffey ordered the usual citation to relatives to appear in his court on June 5 to show cause why the petitioner should not be appointed guardian. This issaid by attorneys to be virtually an initiation of a contest for the possession of the money. Should the order refuse to pay it to Mathews as legal gnardian of the child a suit would be instituted againstthe order and the latter might come into court and force Winthrop, as trustee of the child, to interplead, so as to settle the elaims of guardianship. BUTTER TO MARE CHEESE It Can Be Used by Dairymen to the Extent of Three Per Cent. A Questlon Settled for the Dalry Bureau by the Attorney- General. A law was passed some time ago making it compulsory to make cheese out of either pure milk or cream. In order that it should be properly carried out the State Dairy Bureau was organized and given supervision of all the cheese factories in the State. Lately the question bhas arisen as to whether it was a breach of the law to use butter in the manufacture of cheese and the bureau submitted the question to At- torney-General Fitzgerald for his decision. The latter holds that ‘“‘the law which re- quires cheese to be made out of pure milk or cream is not violated by the addition of not to exceed 3 per cent of butter made from cream.”’ The law further requires that all cheese made in part or in whole from any other substance than milk or cream shall be stamped “Substitute for cheese.” On this point the Attorney-General holds that cheese made from milk and batter does not require to be so stamped. Both of these decisions will beread with a great degree of interest by dairymen and cheese- makers, as they have been afraid to use butter in the making of cheese for fear of an infraction of the law. The Attorney- General will forward his opinion to .the chairman of the State Dairy Bureau.to-day, and it will set all doubts at rest on the point. THE OLSEN DISPUTE. Their Differences Brought Into the Su- perior Court. Dorothy Olsen, by her attorney, A. T. Barrett, has filed suit against Peter O. Olsen, otherwise known as P. O. Olsen, m have the conveyance of certain property in Alameda County set aside as fraudulent. This is only a continuance of the Olsen family disputes in Oakland. 3 The complaint alleges that the plaintiff isan ‘old and decrepit German woman more than 66 years of age, of weakand wandering mind, illiterate and havin scarcely any understanding of the En§l§_s language,” and that the defendant “isa young man of dissolute habits, but with an acute understanding.” It recites that they intermarried November 14, 1891, and were divorced on_February 19, 1895; that de- fendant used to beat his wife and refuse to work, while m'gin%l her to transfer her roperty to him; that one day in March Ee prevailed upon her to sign a mortgage for $300 upon her Alameda property, but that sne did not understand the transac- procedure, she says, took place on March 30, 1895, when she made a deed of gift of her Alameda County property to her hus- band. When she understood the transac- tion she demanded its undoing, but says that her husband refused and now threatens to drive her from her home. BEALE STREET'S GRADE. Ex-Supervisor Dundon Is Looking Up Some Law to Enable Him to Lower It. Ex-Supervisor Dundon is very much chagrined over the action of the Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors in deciding to report against the proposition to lower the grade of Beale street twenty feet at its crossing with Harrison. ‘Iam not so sure that the Supervisors have the right to ignore the petition of a majority of the property-owners in a mat- ter of this kind,” said he. ‘“‘Our proposi- tion entails no expense on the City. We simply want the right to make the im- provement.—and improvement it certainly is. Why, this thing has been talked over o th' 1ast thirty years, and the Super- visors bave always favored it, but some technicality has stood in the way until now. The whole manufacturing and merchandising end of town is in favor of it, for it gives an outlet from the water fronHotEe upper business part of town for heavy draying. “I am going to look into the law of the matter, and if the majority have any logal rights in such a matter we shallapply them.” BUNKDED BY A STRANGER, Dr. R. E. Williams Was Hum- bugged by a Bogus Indian. The Physiclan’s Experience In Fish- ing and Hunting Near Tacoma. When a City man leaves for a vacationin | the northwest country, tempted thither- ward by the glowing reports the natives circulate When they sojourn here, he usually considers that he must load up | with the weapons of the chase and abun- dance of tackle for the brook. Thisopinion took possession of Dr. R. E. Williams when he departed for Tacoma some ten days ago. Of rifles and shotguns the medi- cal tourist had an ample outfit, and there was a bait-hook or a fly in every bag he packed, independent of the spacious trunk devoted solely to the storage of those de- structive lures. Dr. Williams has written a long and elaborate description of his adventures by wood and stream. When he arrived at Ta- coma he was received with much attention and respect. That city is not as lively now as formerly, and a San Francisco visitor with an unusual quantity of baggage is re- ceived as a special gift. The rifles and rods were stowed away in a spare room, and the doctor started out to canvas the town reigardin the shooting and fishing gossibil ties of the suburbs. He found a ozen of natives willing to afford him reams of information. They told him of a stream called the Skookum Chuch which was literally stiff with trout. Another an- cient inhabitant related of a wood where the deer were jostling one another like cows in a corral. To these tales did the ex- police surgeon inctine an attentive ear, and dispensed with a liberal hand the hos- pitalities of Tacoma, willingly reversing the duties of host and guest. The next morning, according to the doc- tor’s narrative. he proceeded to the stream of the Indian pame. He founda siwash on the banks, who grunted Indian fashion and accepted a big American dollar just like a white man. illiams thought there was something familiar about the man’s figure, but he put his rod to- gether and began to fish. Morning wore to noon and noon to eveninF,buz not a fish did the doctor pouch. At last, execrating the siwash who had grunted "}\lenty fish, plenty fish,” he drove back to Tacoma. On the evening of that day he dropped in to get some refreshment at a saloon and there was a man leaning on the bar whose appearance surgested the mendacious in- formant of the morning. The second day of the doctor’s visit was put in deer-shooting. With his best rifle he drove to the forest where deer were sup- posed to be numerous. His guide had not taken him a dozen steps from the hitching- up %lu,e when they met an Indian. “‘Better give him a piece, doctor,” sug- gestec'the guide; “he knows all about the | country.” ‘Willingly the hunter complied and the siwash ledythem up a mountain and down & mountain, over streams and through brush and bid them to keep a sharp look- out. Then he left them. Williams hunted | all day, but never a deer saw he. He was footsore and weary when he got back to Tacoma, and after his bath and dinner he wandered about the streets. A snug little saloon reminded him that he was thirty, and he entered. Ashe was about to push aside the swinging doors he heard a voice that seemed familiar to him. He listened. It was the bogus si- wash relating how he had made $8 out of a fellow from S8an Francisco who thought he could MZ off all the fish and deer in the county, how he had put him on a stream where there were nothing but suckers and steered him to a wood where there wasn’t even a gray squirrel.. He himself was a barber out of a joband, at~ tracted by the doctor’s appearance, had taken this ingenious method of earning an honest living. § Doctor nglliams did not quench his thirst at that saloon and next morning lit out for Victoria. 2 et —— “Tre strength of Royal Baking Powder is shown to be 23 per cent greater than any other. “Asaresult of my investigations I find the Royal Baking Powder far superior to any others. Itis pure and contains none but wholesome ingredients. . X. VaLaDE, M.D.,” ic Analyst, Ontario. ———— SUSIE KOLFENBACH MISSING. She Has Not Been Heard of for Over Three Weeks. Susie Kolfenbach, 15 years of age, daughter of Henry Kolfenbach, 321 Green street, is missing, and detectives who have been on the case have been unable to solve the mystery. She had been m the employment of Dr. Holland, 1318 Washington street, until the end of April. On May 3 she told her parents that she had procured a situation in a restaurant at 829 Fourth street. She left her father’s house that day, but since then nothing has been seen or heard of her. She is tall for her age, has dark hair and eyes, and wore a dark-blue dress, dark jacket and brown straw hat. Secretary McComb of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was a few days ago asked by Mr. Kolfenbach to find his daughter. Officer Frank Hol- brook was detailed on the case, and yester- day he reported that he had a clew ‘of her hereabouts, but it required careful hand- ling; that there is no such number as 829 Fourth street; what would be the 800 block is where the bridge is; the girl had either willfully deceived her parents or she had been deceived and is now being kept in some secret place by her abductors, ———— Nothing Succeeds Like Success. The successes achieved by men and things are not atways based upon merlt. But a success well merited and unprecedented in the aunals of pro- prietary medicine, should these ever come to be written, is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, a botanic medicine, discovered nearly half a century ago, and the leading remedy for and preventive of malarial, rhenmatic and kidney complaints, dys- pepsia, constipation and biliousness. tion or would not have signed. The same [ BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. Market-Street Railway Given More Time to Fix Its Fenders. MONEY FOR CLEAN STREETS. The Delinquent Tax Collector Ap- pointed—Other Important Bus- Iness Transacted. The meeting of the Board of Supervisors yesterday was guiet, orderly and business- like—businesslike especially according to the8 to 4 rule. Routine business went through swimmingly, and as for the rest it went through quite as quietly with a vote of 8to 4. Mr. Clement, upon motion of Morgen- stern, was allowed to address the board in behalf of the Pacific Marine Supply Com- pany and their bid for furnishing supplies to the jails. He denied that the Supply Company had bid two years ago 24.50 for each prisoner, a considerable increase over former bids, because the schedule of sup- plies required at their hands had been in- creased. Last year, because of the depres- sion, they had cut down their bid to 19.95 and had lost over $7000. In spite of this the firm had been furnishing supplies right along during the recent dark days without regard to whether money was in sight or not. They had submitted their bid of 24.77 (the schedule having been still further increased). It was the lewest of some hali-dozen, and it_would be unfair to require them to bid against themselves. Benjamin spoke in behalf of the con- tractors, saying that he thought their bid was all right. He moved to reconsider the action of the board of last week in ordering the rejection of the bid and readvertising, The motion carried, Hirsch, Dimond, Tay- lor, Spreckels and Hobbs, a minority of five, voting against it. Benjamin then moved that the contract | be granted to the Pacific Marine Supply Company, but this was defeated as Scully joined the minority of five as named, and the majority was no longer a majority, the vote standing six to six. Bids which had been received under the new advertisement were read as follows: S. Foster & Co., 22.87; Warren & Malley, 23 cents; Hugo Goldsmith, 19.94; Mau, Sadler & Co., 23.45. The bids were refused to the Finance Committee. The matter of the fishand game warden- ship, so often gos!pcned,cumc up again, and King moved the adoption of the reso- lution apnointing Joseph A. Morgan tothe office. Dimond amended, throwing the matter open for nominations. This wasde- feated, and Taylor, who had been called to the chair upon the retirement of Mayor Sutro, gave notice that he would move to reconsider next meeting. King called for the question on the resolution, but the chairman ruled that his mnotice to recon- sider stopped all proceedings in the mat- ter and the matter went over again. The Mayor’s veto of the order making it unlawful to keep a horse and vehicle in front of any property within the city with- out the owner’s consent was sustained. Eefore the vote was taken Mr. Spreckels said he thought the veto should be ined, as the Chief had advised it, | that he (Spreckels) had an order covering | the case, Lut which was free from the ob- | jections urged in the veto. The resolution_appointing ex-Assembly- man Frank H. Powers collector of delin- quent taxes was defeated by a vote of 7 to 5. Subseqnentl{ a resolution appointing Walter M. Willett collector was adopted unanimously. A resolution was passed approving the action of Superintendent Weaver the Almshouse in purchasing thirty barrels of flour from another than the contractor, the Del Monte Milling Company, who refused to supply it. A resolution that the heads of all depart- ments of the City and County be requested to report to the board on or before the 15th day of July the condition of their depart- meénts during the fiscal year, embracing all their operations, receipts and expendi- tures, presented by Chairman Taylor, was passed. The communication from the Chief En- gineer of the Fire Department requesting that certain streets be put in zood order and repair on account of their importance to the department when moving their en- gines to fires was referred to the Street Superintendent with instructions to recom- mend that the work be done. Hughes introduced a resolution grant- ing the Market-street Railway Com- pany an extension of sixty days’ time for choosing and equipping their cars with safety fenders or guards. Dimond thought this time was certainly too long. He said it was true that the Supervisors had been out to witness an alleged test of a fender, an alleged fender, offered by the company, but that it was an insult to their intelligence. The fact was that the contrivance did not need a test to show that it was of no use. The company had really done nothing in the several months that they had been given to pro- | vide a fender. If they were acting in good faith they could secure an effective fender and equip their cars with it in thirty days. 1f they needed more time it could be given When it was seen they were making an honest effort. Hughes said he thought it would be im- possible for the company to etiuip its cars in the time stated. He called for the question, and the resolution passed by the old vote of 8 to 4. A new theater and circus license was introduced by Mr. Wagner, chairman of the License Committee, requiring theaters to pay licenses according to seating capacity; those seating 975 persons $§301 per annum, $101 for three months, $51 per month or §5 per day; those seating less than 975 persons shall pay $201 per year, §76 for three months, $41 ior one month, $5 for one day. No license shall be required for exhibi- tions or entertainments given for the benefit of churches or schools, or for any charitable entertainment by an amateur association or literary society. Every owner or lessee of a circus shall pay a license for each day an exhibition is given the sum of $25, and for each side show in connection therewith a license of $5 shall be required. Every owner or lessee of any exhibition of performance given under a canvas or enclosure shall pay a license of $5 per day. It took the regular course. The order, Mr. Wagner explained, is the same as that in force for theaters. The only changes are in regard to circuses and their sideshows. A tesolution approving the recommen- dations of the Mayor calling for a proper observance of Memorial day, the lowering of flags and dgeneml joining in the cere- monies was adopted. . Resolutions authorizing the Finance Committee to make provision in the next tax leyy for $150,000 for street sweeping, it being desired that the streets be Kept in the same good form that they have been kept by the Merchants’ Association during the past seven months, if not better, was passed. The report of the Street Commit- tee set forth that the Merchants’ Associa- tion would prepare specifications for the work, as also for the sprinkling, By the resolution also the committee was allowed to make provisionsin the tax levy for $80,000 for paving Folsom street wit{ bituminous rock and for $10,000 for improving Lafayette Park. % &ith regard to the latter Dimond gave notice that he would move for a recon- sideration next week. P A resolution was adopted barring James Gibner from el(ilgilnhty as a bidder for City work, as he had been gerelict with regard to a sewer contract which was awarded to him. - The order introduced by Mr. Spreckels to take the place of that vetoed by the Mayor, making it unlawful for vehicles to { | | stand_in front of buildings in the more settled parts of the City without the con- sent of owners, but exempting hackney cabs and carriages, was defeated. THE MISSING EXECUTOR. Adolph Prinz Believed to Be the Man Who Committed Sulcide at Salinas. The man who committed suicide ai Sa- linas, Monterey County, on Friday was, in all probability, Adolph Prinz, barkeeper for Albert Hillebrand, 1019 Market street. In the pockets of the dead man’s clothes were found 2 number of papers and a card bearing the address ‘49 Second street.” Prinz’s father kept a wholesale liquor-store at that address for several vears until he failed in business. Adolph Prinz was the executor without bonds of the estate of Charles Muegling, a saloon-keeper, who died at the German Hospital about a year ago. The estate consisted of about $3000 in cash and realty valued at $10,000. Prinz should have filed his first and final account on Friday last, ‘but he could not be found and a continu- ance was granted till yesterday, when a further continuance was granted till to- mMOITOW. The Sheriff of Monterey County notified Chief Crowley yesterday that the man be- fore he died gave several names, and among them was Adolph Prinz. Attorney Hoeffer, who represents Prinz in _the Moegling estate, called upon Captain Lees last night, and said from the description he believed the deceased was his client. He had last seen him on Wednesday, when he said he was going to the country for a day or two. He had been suffering from catarrh in_the stomach and other com- laints, and was hardly in his right mind. e was not a defaulter to the estate. There was between $200 and $300 unac- counted for yet, but he believed receipts would be found to cover that gmount. TRYING C. VON TIEDEMANN John H.Fidler, a Folsom Prison Convict, Declines to Testify. The Defendant Implicated In An- other “Ollie Hutchings” Case. The trial of Carl von Tiedemann, accused of forgery in connection with a real estate swindle, was commenced yesterday in Judge Belcher’s court. Von Tiedemann had ions with Guy Whitcomb, Lin- coln Carr, R. H. Fletcher and others who were implicated in hali-interest scandals. Von Tiedemann had an office at 957 Mar- ket street, with Carr, and on March 5, 1894, he took a woman to Notary Lee D, ig and introduced her as Harriet P. , the owner of land on Lake and Fifteenth avenue. She wished to acknowl- edge the transfer of the land to Horace G. Pratt. Later Von Tiedemann introduced a man as Horace G. Pratt, who executed a mortgage of the property to one Alonzo Thayer, who is still missing. Upon the attempted recording of the papers the fraud was exposed. The woman personat- ing Mrs. Cristy is not known, but it is be- lieved that the defense will attempt to show that it wasa Mrs. Sarah R. Owen, 5 cictimized by her. The case is similar to that of Wells and Pilger, who induced one Ollie Hutchings to per- sonate Miss Emma Dick in areal estate transfer. It had been expected that the half-inter- est swindler, Fidler, who is_serving a six- year term in Folsom, would testify for Von Tiedemann yesterday in corroboration of a confession of the defendant’s inno- cence alleged to have been secured from him, bat when called to the stand Fidler was disappointing. After admitting that he knew the defendant, he was asked whether he had haa any business dealings with him. *I decline to answer,” replied Fidler in a faltering voice. “On what ground?”” asked the Assistant District Attorney. 2 “On the ground that an answer might tend to incriminate me,” was the low rerxl:ly_. ¥ objection was sustained, the only admission by the witness being that he knew Von Tiedemann two or three months before March 5, 184, when the alleged fraudulent transaction took place. Then as the assistant district attorney asked that Fidler might be kept in reserve, Von Tiedemann's aitorney, Campbell, raised a storm by asking that the court in- struct the Sheriff that no one should com- municate with his prisoner on this case. “I am afraid of inducements being made to him to testify,” said Campbell, adding, “I know such inducements have been made all day.” This brought Peixotto to his feet with a hot denial, and it was with difliculty that he was prevailed upon to sit down while the witness-prisoner was removed to the dock by the deputy sheriff, who was given no special instructions. Adfter that five witnesses testified that as far as they knew Vcn Tiedemann’s charac- | ter was good, but that they did not know | much about him. Thirteen other witnesses who were to testify as to character were not called, the assistant district attorney admitting that that testimony would be of the same value as that of the others. Then Julia Pullen testified that she had I\nt some property in Von Tiedemann's hands for sale, and that Carr and others had wanted her to personate Mrs. Cristy, but that she had indignantly refused. Von Tredemann did not have anything to do with the offer. They had told her there was $5000 in it for her. Under cross-examination she admitted that she had told the conspirators that it was no use her going to Von Tiedemann as Mrs. Cristy, since he would recognize her. Von Tiedemann had been talking with her constantly in the past six weeks. Mrs. Pullen’s cross-examination had not concluded when the court adjougned until this morning. FAST TIME FOR FREIGHT, Seven Handred New Ventilated Cars Coming for the Orchard Prod- ucts of California, The Southern Pacific Railroad Company is preparing to handle a large quantity of California fruit this year. A. N. Towne, the general manager, is confident that the equipment of the road will be equal to the demands of the trafiic. The seven hundred ventilated cars or- dered some time ago, in anticipation of increased shipments in this line, are nearly ready for use. In fact some of the cars are coming west now. N The rush of business in handling Califor- nia fruit will not begin before the middle of June. For six weeks after that date the powerful engines on the mountain division will be tested to their full capacity in hauling the frait over the hillsj on fast time. A few carloads of cherries have gone for- ward from Sacramento in refrigerator-cars attached to passenger trains., The cost of this rapid transportation is $2 25 per 100 pounds, exclusive of charges for refrige- rator. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe is doing a fair business in fruit shipments. H. C. Bush, general freight agent of the company in San Francisco, figures that the traffic will be good when the peaches come. The Atlantic and Pacific can take fruit through from Los Angeles to Chicago in six days. TuEe Royal Baking Powder is the purest and strongest baking powder made, and has received the highest award at all the great international and State fairs wher- ever exhibited in competition with others. Ark., and that Von | W. W, STOW'S BIG ESTAT Appraisement of Over Half a Million Dollars’ Worth of Property. PRIVATE PROMISSORY NOTES. Particulars of Realty and Personal Effects in Several Countles. The appraisers of the estate of W. W. Stow, the well-known politician and Park Commissioner, filed their report yesterday, throwing some interesting light on the private financial transactions of the deceased. The estate has been valued at $576,402 34, distributed as follows: $412,153 29, property in San Francisco; $146,850, in Butte County; $15,899 in San Luis Obispo and $1500 in Nevada County. The San Francisco property is repre- sented as follows: Money, $17,57343; 825 shares of the stock of the Market-street Railway Company, $30,525; 200 shares of the Edison Light and Power Company, $10,600; 334 shares of the Spring Valley Water Works, $32,899; 100 shares of the Nevada Bank, $10,000; 175 shares of the Bank of California, $38,500; 162!4 shares of the San Bernardino National Bank, $18,- 687 50; 100 shares of the Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company, $15,000. An item of 9900 shares of the stock of the West Harmony Gravel Mining Company is re- turned as of no value. Among the promissory notes are the following: Sherman P. Stow, $19.800; H. Whelun, $5000; Marcas and L. T. Katz, $5000; R. M. Shackelford, Rathiburn, $5000; L. D. McKissick, §150; J. A. Waymire, as indorser for J. M. Merrill, $500; Thomas Day & Co., §95( ¥ C Buckley, $735; Byron Waters, $500; John and Alex McCord, There were other small notes, including: D. M Frazer, $100; Charles P. Whitcomb, $15 John C. Quinn, $100; Solon Pattee, $10C R. H. Sinton, $130; W. E. Dargie, $100 James E. Murphy, $300; J. A §800; Hugh M. Burke, $100: C.J. B stecher, $500; John H. Hollister, $3300; George C. Gorham, §$500; Wiiliam ) Stewart, $1000, on a note to_8. T. Gage, in- dosed by Page to Stow; Paul Neumann, $1000, in twe notes; John B. Harmon, $500; W. W. B , $100; Dayid B. Hunt, $2505 Adolph Berg, $300; M. D. Boruck, a note of $400, on which $220 has been paid; L. C. Cox, $800. Of these the appraisers say they have not_ascertained the value. Two notes of R. E. Culbreth for $250 are appraised as of absolutely no value. Among the most valuable reaity of the estate are: North Beach water-block 6, bounded by Jefierson, Powell, Beach and Mason streets, $85,000; lot and improve- | ments 1013 Pine street, $30,000; lot and im- provements 1410 Larkin, $11,000. 5 The country property includes: Gold Bank mine in” Butte County, appraised at $100,000, and machinery, etc.,$45,000; realty at San Luis Obispo, houses, etc., valued at $15,899 05; Tiptop and Yerba Buena placer mines in Nevada, valued at $1000 and $500 respectively. The appraisers of the San Francisco property were: Edward W. Gunther, John Patteson and G. W. Lane; of the Butte County property: Matt Waite, L. B. Johnson and L. W. He ; of San Luis Obispo County property: N. W. Palmer, W. A. Harlam and Henry Benotti; of the Nevada County property: K. C. ‘Walrath, J. T. Morgan and F. E. Brown. The will of the late W. W. Stow be- ueathed to the widow the residence on ine street, property to the value of $100,000 and the policy of insurance on his life; to bis son, Sherman P., several pieces of jewelry and a presentation cane by way of remembrance; to trustees the residue of the estate to establish trusts for the other children, viz.: for a daughter, Lena, of her children, $30,000; for a son, Vander- lynn, $15,000; for a daughter, Nellie, $50,000; for a son, Lenry P., $40,000; for a son, William W., $10,000 and the San Luis Obispo ranch. Several of the children, it was stated, had received portions of their interest in the estate, and for that reason the amounts apportioned in the trust varied. Kangaroos are often hunied with dogs— huge, powerful creatures, obtained by a cross between a mastiff and a greyhound. ‘When driven to bay in a creek or river the kangaroo has often been known to seize one_of these hali-breeds and drown it by holding its head under water. 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For those who are run down by too much indoor life or by hard work, and who would safely weather the coming month, the most dangerous in the year, Paine’s Celery Com- pound s the true tonic. It strengthens the nerves and purifies the blood. Try it. Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills Are acknowledged by thousands of persons wha have used them for over forty (un to cure SICK HEADACHE, GIDDINESS, CONSTIPA- TION, Torpid Liver, Weak Stomach; Pimples, and o CoussmarsSyeelie e With this remedy persons can cure themselves without the least exposure, change of diet, or change in application to business. The medicine contains nothing that is of the least injury to the mmmn. Ask your druggist for it. Frice $1 NEW TO-DAY—-DRY GOODS. RED LETTER DAYS FOR BUYERS ~>XAT OURS <> GREAT FORGING-OUT SALE SO FTic SURPLUS STOCK! The PRODIGIOUS REDUCTIONS with which we continue our great sale THIS WEEK will make EVERY DAY A RED LETTER DAY FOR BUYERS of the following or the many other lines em- braced in our vast stock, for every particle of goods offered is of THE NEWEST AND MOST STYLISH PRODUCTION, which, owing to our VAST OVERSTOCK, we are compelled to place on sale at CUTS THAT WILL FORCE A SPEEDY REDUCTION ! HOUSE-FURN SHINGS AND WASH FABRICS ! SPECIAL SALE INGRAIN ART CARPET SQUARES, in full line new colorings, at nearly half value, viz.: Size 3x5 feet, Toc; 6x9 feet, $250 each; 734x9 feet, $325 each; 9x9 feet, $3°75 each; 9x1014 feet, $1 50 each; 9x12 feet, $o each; 9x13}4 feet, $5 75 each. SPECIAL SALE BEST-GRADE SMYRNA RUGS, all new, rich colorings—18x36 inches, $1 each; 21x46 inches, $1 50; 26x54 inches, §2 each; 30x60 inches, §250 each; 36x72 inches, $3 75 each. SPECIAL SALE IRISH POINT CURTAINS (from the great sale of E.S. Jaffray & Co.), best values ever we offered. At S FINELY WORKED IRISH POINT 275 a Pair. CURTAINS, 314 yards long, would be cheap at $4 a pair. t $4.50 a Pair. A IRISH POINT CURTAINS, heavily worked, and stylish in designs, value for §7 50. At $2.25 a Pair. NEAT ALL-CHENILLE PORTIERES, in eight different colorings, fringed and dadoed on top and bottom, worth $3 50. 15 Cents a Yard. At I WHITE DOTTED SWISS, 36 inches wide, value for 25¢ a yard. At 50 Cents a Yard. NE PINHEAD DOTTED SWISS, 44 inches wide (for dresses, etc.), value for 75¢. At 12% Cents a Yard. 2500 pieces BEST GRADE YARD-WIDE PERCALES, in 100 different patterns; the grandest line ever shown in this city. 12% Cents a Yard. At Large line FINE PRINTED CRAPE CLOTHS, in cream, pink, lavender, etc., grounds, nice figures, value for 20c. At 7 Cents a, Y ard. 50,000 yards PALMER, Etc., FINE GRADE SEERSUCKERS; a great line. NICE LINE DUCK SUITING, in a full line of coloring. At 10 Cents a Yard. Better grades at 12)4c and 15¢ a yard, just opened. 10 Cents a Yard. At 500 pieces CREPON WASH SUITING, crinkle effects, in a grand variety of colorings, serviceable and strong; value for 15¢. At 8% Cents a Yard. 70 pieces CHECKED AND STRIPED NAINSOOKS, in a good variety of patterns; good value for 10c. 25 Cents a Yard. At 2 cases BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK, 56 inches wide, in a good line of new floral designs; value for 40c. a Yard 5 At 8% Cents E 5 cases BLEACHED IRISH LINEN TWILLED CRASH, 18 inches wide, value for 12}4c. GREAT VALUE! 500 pieces CREPE EFFECT VIENNA CLOTH, in plain black, light blue, rose pink and fancy printing, to be closed out at 6}4c a yard; value for 12}4c. CLOAK DEPARTMENT! LADIES’ CAPES AND JACKETS. At £1.75. 50 LADIES’ DOUBLE CAPES, made of a very fine cloth, velvet collar, tan, navy blue and black, worth $3 50, reduced to $1 75 each. At S$2.50. LADIES’ FINE BROADCLOTH CAPES, double or single, handsomely braided, collar prettily trimmed, finished with ribbon bow, also Short Military Cape, scalloped all around and embroidered with silk, fancy e r. finished with large ribbon bow, navy and black, worth $5 and $6, will be offered at $2 50 each. At $38.50. | LADIES DOUBLE CAPES of tan, black, navy and scarlet broadcloth, edged all round with band of cloth, high rolling collar of velvet, fastened with fancy clasp, worth $6, will be offered at $3 50 each. At $5.00. 75 LADIES’' CAPES, double and single, handsomely embroidered or braided, or pret- ily perforated in fancy patterns, finished at neck with full pleated ribbon or stand- ing velvet collar, bow of ribbon or pretty clasp. worth $10 and $8 50, reduced to $5 each. At $5.00. LADIES’ DOUBLE-BREASTED JACKETS, of black, tan and navy Cheviots, triple« stitched seams, large bone buttons, worth $7 50, will be offered at'$5 each. LADIES’ SUITS AND SKIRTS. At $5.00. LADIES’ SUITS, made of serge in black and navy, jacket one-button cutaway, with rounded corner and pointed shawl collar, full skirt, worth $7 50, will be placed on sale at $5 each. y At $£7.50. LADIES’ SUITS, made of Cheviot in shades of tan, navy, gray, black and bronze brown, one-button Blazer Jacket, with notched collar and plaited leg-o’-mutton sleeves, tailor pockets, worth $10 50, will be placed on sale at $7 50 each. LADIES’ DRESS SKIRTS, made of black and colored materials, lined throughout and stylishly made; the materials used are covert cloth, plain and twilled cheviot, crepon and '.MY' have also a fine lil We figured black liaods, vagmg in price from $3 50 to $15 each. atin and Silk Skirts, varying in price ne of plain and figured from $8 50 to $22 50 each. CHILDREN’S JACKETS. At S2.00 and $2.50. CHILDRENS’ JACKETS, madeof all wool tan-mixed cloaking, very large sleeves, double breasted, worth §4 and $4 50, will be offered at $2 and $2 50 each. $2. 50 and $3.00. At CHILDREN’S DOUBLE-BREASTED JACKETS, in gray and tan checks and mot- tled effects, with velvet noiched collar, bone buttons, neatly finished, varying in size from 6 to 14 years, worth $5 and $6, will be offered at $2 50 and $3 each. p3~ Our New Illustrated Catalogue is now ready for distribution te our COUNTRY patrons, to whom it will be mailed free on receipt of addre: 7 o i MURPHY BUILDING 7 Markel Streal, corner of Jaes, SAN IFRANCISOS.