The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 30, 1895, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1895. NO DANGER TO' SALMON, It Is Impossible Under Present Conditions to Impair the Supply. OPERATIONS ARE RESTRICTED. The Annual Pack Governed by the State of the Markets of the World. In a dispatch from Washington, pub- lished yesterday morning, it was stated that “‘the rapid inroads which fishing and packing companies have made on the sup- ply of salmon in the Alaskan rivers have given great concern to the Government for several years past, since it became evi- dent that the fish were destined to the same fate of extermination which has overtaken the buffalo and is being visited on the fur-bearing seals of the northern waters.” Representations were also made to Com- missioner Lamoreaux of the Land Office that the salmon companies were acquiring large tracts of land at the mouths of the Alaskan rivers and other ‘“strategic points of future tommerce." As a consequence, J. P. Swineford, ex- Governor of Alaska, has been detailed by the Government to make an investigation we had to abandon, and there has never been any measure taken by the Government to reim- burse us for our loss. Mr. Bradford was then asked about the output of the coming season. He said it would be about 600,000 cases, valued at $2,100,000, representing a profit of from $350,000 to $400,000 to the shareholders of the company, or about 9 per cent on iheir investment.” Twenty-six vessels were sent north this season, eleven of which are owned by the association. All of these are supplied with men, provisions, coal, cans and boxes from this City. WILL HAVE NO SALOON. Bullders’ Exchange Decides to Not Let Out Any Portion of Its Building. C. C. Terrill won his point yesterday afternoon at the meeting of the Builders’ Exchange. The result of the meeting was that a vote was taken, by a call of the roll, on the question of whether a portion of the new building of the exchange should be fitted up and let out for a saloon or not. The vote stood 93 against the saloon to 38 for it. The new building, which is to be of cemented brick, one story in height and 80 by a little over 50 feet square, costing, ac- cording to Mr. Terrill, less than $7000, is to go up over the electric-light works on the northwest corner of New Montgomery and Mission streets. By the original plans a partition was provided for which sep- arated the portion of the building fronting on Mission street for a saloon or store urposes. The majority of the board of | girectors were in favor of having this part let out to private parties. It reasoned that the income to be derived from that source would largely defray the $200 monthly rental which the exchange has | to pay to the Sharon estate. The plans will | now have to be changed so asto do away TROUT N STOW LAKE, They Are a Healthy Fish, Free From Fungus and Parasites. FAT, SOUND AND SLUGGISH. The Result of an Examination of Some of the Varletles by Dan O’Connell. The trout which has to keep on the move, now darting into the center of the deep pool to suck in a drowning fly, and again lying in the foaming riffle to pick up a worm booming down the stream, has to work for his living. He earns the rest he takes under the spreading alder, propped against a shely- ing rock or lying snug among the clinging weeds. Therefore, when he discovers a strange and opposing force in fly or worm, a something that gives him a pain in the gills and drags him toward the surface, he exerts all his well-trained muscles to re- sist that mysterious and annoying strain. He springs from the water, he shakes his wrathful head, he dives and plunges and twists and turns, he dodges around stumps, he rubs his nose 1n the gravel, and when at last he lies panting on the bank he ex- V2, ONE [From an engraving.] OF THE CANN.NG PLANTS AT KARLUEK, ALASKA. of these matters, and left Seattle for Alas- | with the partition, otherwise the contract ka on the 25th inst. More than half the salmon pack of the United States, and nearly half of the world’s supply, now comes from Alaska from canneries owned and controlled in San Francisco. By far the largest operator is the Alaska Packing Association. Then there are the Pacific Steam Whaling Company and the Alaska Improvement Company. All have their headquartersin this city and draw all their vast supplies from this market. A representative of each company was seen and asked what he had to say relative to the statements made by the Govern- ment and its action. All were unanimous in pronouncing the assertions as absurd and unreliable, and as being entirely with- out foundation. Tnere were also all unan- imous in saying that the only motive that could have inspired these misrepresenta- tions was the desire to create a plausible excuse for a pleasure jaunt to Alaska for some individual at the expense of the Gov- ernment. ‘W. B. Bradford, secretary of the Alaska Packing Association, made a most compre- hensive statement relative to the Alaska salmon industry and its present status, showing clearly” that there was no cause for uneasiness as to the permanency of the salmon fisheries, nor for Government in- terference in the matter. He said: ‘We have £5,000,000 invested in that coun- try, and the idea that we are going to exhaust the rivers of Alaska of the salmon in them is ridiculous. Even were we inclined to kill the goose that lays the golden egg, 50 to A would find it & physical impossibility to do so, s I shall explain. Let us go back to 1891, when the largest pack ever put up in Alaska was recorded. This comprised 728,000 cases. At that time all the canneries were operating independently. It 'was soon_found that it would be impossible to market that guantity advantegeously, and by the concerted action of all the canneries of Alaska the pack of the following season was restricted to one-half, or about 350,000 cases, which was gul up by nine canneries. This method of co-operation proved so suc- cessful and sntislu:(og that in the following year, 1893, the Alaska Packing Association was formed. This company controls thirty-two canneries in Alaskan weters within the boun- daries of the United States, but has never found it profitable or advisable to put them all into operation at the same time, as the market il‘l:aply supplied by utilizing onlya portion of them. Each one of these oghnu Tepresents an in. vestment of about $100,000. Then we also own twelve steamers, which cost about $17,000 each, though we each season employ & much larger number of vessels. You will thus see that we are not anywhere near utilizing all the facilities at hand for the catching and packing of salmon. There is no inducement for us to do so, for we would only be overstocking the market. But even were the market of greater absorptive capacity, and ‘were we to put all our facilities into operation, there would be absolutely no danger of ex- terminating the salmon supply of those waters, One of the statements accredited to Dr. Hugh M. Smith, one of the experts of the Fish Com- mission, is that the extinction of the Alaska fish is inevitable if the present methods con- tinue unchecked. Every fish that swims, he says, can be caught at the mouths of the rivers, and as a matter of fact few salmon now reach the old spawning grounds in the rivers of «Alaske. In this statement Dr. Emith shows his abso- Iute ignorance of the subject he undertakes to speak about. Not more than one fish in every hundred that we handle is caught in the river proper. Our nets are set, not in the mouths of streams, but in the open waters just outside of the mouths of streams, and there is, therefore, no obstruction to the free passage of the sal- mon up the streams. A person fishing in San Pablo Bay might with equal truth be said to be obstructing the San Joaquin and Sacra- mento rivers for the passage of the salmon. Why, some of the estuaries on which our can. merjes are located are sixty miles across and many of them are from twenty to thirty miles. It must also be known that our canueries ex- tend along the Alaska coast line from the Brit- ish Columbia boundary to sixty leagues north Tepresenting not less than 4000 mites ot actu sailing distance for our ships. 8o far as the acquisition of land is concerned we have only endeavored to secure title to Fuch tracts as we actually require for sites for our canneries. It is true we sent a surveyor up there, but that was done in order that our titles might be prorerl secured. This would have been done earlier, but until within a few ears past there were 1o 1aws that enabled the %overnment to give titles to Alaska lands. 1do not see how the people at Washington can have any correct information about the Alaska_ fisheries, as zhei have never been ex- amined in anything like a thorough manner. Acting Secretary Hamlin was at Karluk last summer for a few days, but was not in the country a week all told, so his stock of infor- mation could be neither comprehensive nor valuable. I note that among the duties assigned to ex- Governor Swineford is that of seeing if all the requirements of the law are complied with. I wish to state that there has never been any at- tempt to violate the fishing law in any respect. All our fishing is done with the gill net, the meshes of which measure 6!{ inches. Ampled)mxection for the salmon was taken by the Government when it made a salmon reservation of Afognak Island in 1893. We heve a plant there that cost us $100,000,which would 1n all probability have been awarded at Architect Brown’s office to-morrow noon, at which time the bids were to be opened. The agitation against the saloon was begun some time ago by Mr. Terrill. He argued that while renting a portion of the building for saloon purposes might serve a pecuniary purpose it would lessen the standing of the exchange in the eyes of the business world. This he backed up also by the claim that the exchange needed all the room the new building would afford, anyway. So he got up a petition signed by over ninety members of the exchange asking President Oscar Lewis on the 22d inst. to call a meeting of the exchange for yesterday afternoon. It was a rather lively meeting for a while. Directors Anderson and Dunla; and Secretary Wilson opposed Mr. Terril on the ground of business policy, but Mr. Terrill was equal to the occasion and claimed that the exchange needed all the room in the building. His motion to that effect was carried with a weak oppo- sition. President Lewis was asked if the action of the meeting would govern the board of directors. e gave it as his opinion that it would, which was received with considerable applause. The directors will meet to-morrow afternoon. THE OV HALL MRGEL Sculptor Marion Wells Gives His Views on the Situation. A Qulet Reference to His Friends In Munich—He Is Satis- fled. Marion Wells was reading the Cary’s re- port of the meeting of the City Hall Com- missioners yesterday when asked what he thought of the proceedings. “They were highly satisfactory to me,” said the sculptor, “‘inasmuch as it was an evidence that some of the Commissioners recognize local talent and ability and ad- here to their decision, unshaken by any bulldozing tactics of those now in foreign countries. “David Neal and Rupert Schmid, my good friends abroad,” added Mr. Wells, ironically, ‘“‘are both in Munich at pres- ent, and are as thick as two peas in a pod. What Mr. Schmid says Mr. Neal will swear to, and vice versa, and even if Mr. Neal did paint Mr. Sutro’s portrait during his stay here one could suppose that he had got paid for the job, and was no longer in Mr. Sutro’s em;flo{. “About Schmid? Well, I forgive Him because he is a hypochoundriac, a man who wants to do all the work that is to be done on the coast, from capping a tombstone to casting an heroic statue,and has no patience with any one who trespasses, as he consid- ers it, upon his exclusive domain. “Maror Sutro is evidently under the control of some outside influence, and is not, I confidently believe, speaking from his own convictions. “Why, on the day of the acceptance of the statue Mr. Sutro was the first one to approve it and advocate its being cast into bronze, stating at the time that white metal was an_inferior material and unfit for use in this case. The general opinion of the commission at that time was that it should be made in bronze, and I have awaited their decision since. “I am pleased to see that the majority of the commission adhere to their decision and fayor the speedy completion of the statue. As to the artistic merit of the work the gentlemen of the commission passed upon that some months since, pre- vious to my casting it, and therefore set that subject at rest. “I cannot complete the cast or work upon it intelligently until I know of what metal it is to be produced, which is intelli- gible to any one who understands the technique of sculpture in large work. Pre- g:nng a statue for white metal or one for ronze are two different and distinct oper- ations, not only in dissecting the work but in making the keys for the different metals. If I should prepare this for bronze and it would be ultimately cast in white metal, it would be a loss of several hundred dollars to me by the unnecessary work." —————— The song of the English male skylark is best when the female is upon the e; gs. At such times he soars to great heights and sings rapturously. pires as the angler pronounces his requiem, “A right game fish.” On the other side, the hand-fed trout in the inclosed pond which is pampered from the time it left the nursery-tank, and which has never known the sensation of going to bed in the weeds hungry, has not heart to battle with any inimical strength. He is like the untrained and fat wrestler whose wind deserts him in the first bout, or the pugilist who is “put to sieep” by the first jab in theribs. Hecannot endure the pain of the keen hook, and will follow in any direction the angler urges him. He 1s scarcely annoyed at the inconvenience of a foreign substance between his jaws, only gently surprised and a trifle insulted at the indignity. The trout which were placed by the Fish Commissioners in Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park were born, so to speak, with silver spoons in their mouths. They had no necessity to acquire the lore of the brook, the best place for flies, the crumbling bank where a worm might be looked for at any time; the hol- low twig where the May fly deitly con- ceals her larvee, the ominous shadow on the water that announced the presence of the enemy man—all these things are as- a sealed book to the favored fish of the park lake. They know when feeding time comes around, and the quarter where the choEped liver is flung to them. They regard the small boy only as a sailer of miniature yachts, a harmless per- son, for that nimble lad has never invaded their peace with twine, bent pin and wil- low branch. They are as innocent of angling as the first parents of sin before the serpent entered the Garden of Eden. It was decided a few days ago to catch a few of these fish for examination, and see if any of them were suffering from those diseases 80 common to trout in confined waters, and the services of an _angler was called in. At Huntington Falls, where Superintendent McLaren is still improv- ing, the committee of one put his rod to- ether. The rush of the water down the illside between its rock! bounds, which are so artistically arranged that they bear no semblance of having been constructed by the hands of man, had the music of the real tenant of the glen. The tiny trout leaping and tumbling about in the clear pool at its base, the stepping stones over the stream, where the water from the hill bubbles into the lake, the fresh pungent odor of the ferns, damp with spray, were all strikingly true to nature. On the margin and close in shore half a dozen big trout were wallowing. They saw the workmen piling up the cairns, but they had no terrors for them. They were associated solely in the piscine mind with chopped liver, fag ends of sandwiches and the gleam of the noontide sun upon the lunch cans. There was no necessity for the human serpent who invaded this paradise to conceal himself behind a rock and step lightly on crisp leaf and broken branch. Who came or who went was none of the business of those fish. Man owned the land, and even when he chose to slip over their backs in his boats 1t was some- thing to which they had been accustomed from fryhood. The first cast of smali flies brought a big fellow to the surface. That is, he swam lazily up, looked at the lure with surprise and settled back among his companions, mad with himself at having been tempted to this unwonted exertion. The next time the flies rested on the water the fisherman allowed them to sink a few inches, and this woke up a still larger fish, who opened his mouth, sucked in the tail fly and was re- tiring, doubtless to deliver an opinion to the gang below on its flavor, when the man at the other end of the rod struck. Teased, but not outraged, the fish wriggled his tail. and then hung his weight on the line with a gesture of supreme indolence. 'he angler gently towed him toward the shore, and when close to the bank the trout made a feeble effort to return to his friends and ask what all this nonsense meant, anyhow. When checked he lay on the sur- face and accepted the situation without a rebellious flop. He was of the rainbow species and was carefully examined. But he wasa perfectly healthy fish and scaled precisely one pound and a half. There was no fungi or sarasiuas on him, an exemption due, beyond question, to the aerating the lake water receives from Huntington Falls. His only ailment was one common to many men—a hignly cul- tivated disposition to laziness. The next fish was taken under the Roman bridge, a favorite lurking-place for the veterans of the lake. A cast into the deep shadows brought one of a cluster of some twenty to the surface, and he ni ped the fly with an unusual briskness and danced away about twenty vards ‘at the prick of the steel. This rush” must have given him a pain in the side, for he helped the angler with his tail and lateral-fins to bring him ashore. It was a Lake Michigan trout, and though as fatas the rainbow was a sound fish, A third was caught under the lower two- arched bridge, which is a most ornamental and cunningly constructed span; massive, yet graceful, and a rare improvement to that portion of the lake. He was the largest yet hooked and the fattest, and for a minute made a plucky dash, but that was all. He, too, yielded and came sullenly ashore. This fish scaled nearly three pounds, and was as firm and cleanasa trout nourished in running water. This concluded the experiment, and showed that the trout in Golden Gate Park thrive to an unexpected degree. There are not many in the lake, and the Fish Commis- sioners might increase the stock with ad- vantage. They are a picturesque adjunct to the beauty of this dglightfll recreation gmgnd; this marvel of that skillful gar- ening and artistic taste which has con- verted barren and forbidding sand hills into lawns and flower beds, ferny dells, tumbling waterfalls and miniature forests. Dax O’CoNNELL. REAL ESTATE AGENT SWINDLED. A Warrant Out for the Arrest of M. J. Holy. A warrant was sworn out yesterday in Judge Campbell’s court for the arrest of M.J. Holyon a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. The complaining witness is F. W. Mc- Ewen of McEwen Bros., real estate agents, 118 Montgomery street. In his complaint he states that on December 26 Holy called upon him and represented himself to be the agent for Margaret Holy, one of the firm’s clients. They had just'sold some of her real estate to Patrick Murphy. Holy said that Margaret Holy was in need of money and wanted an advance of $60, which could. be deducted from the price of the property sold for her. The money was advanced, but now they find that Holy was not the agent of Margaret Holy, that she never asked for an advance of §60 and had not received the money. TOOK THE COURT'S TIME C. A. Spreckels Jr. Tries to Show That He Was With- out Recourse. He Had Not Asked the Oceanic Shareholders to Call a Meeting. The case of C. A. Spreckels Jr. against the Oceanic Steamship Company to com- pel the company to hold a meeting was re- sumed in Judge Seawell’s court yesterday afternoon. The annual meeting was held on January 21, 1895, and C. A. Spreckels Jr. contended that he had attempted to vote thereat under authority of a proxy, but this proxy he had been unable to pro- duce. The defendants had been permitted by the court to amend their answer by deny- ing the allegation that the directors con- trolled a majority of the stock, and yester- day the plaintiff attempted to introduce testimony to the contrary. The first witness was John D. Spreckels, president of the Oceanic Steamship Com- vany, who was asked why he had refused to call a meeting. An objection promptly made by S. M. Shortridge of Delmas & Shortridge, counsel for defendants, was “sustained by the couri. Attorney Cole, for the plaintiff, then proceeded to question the witness as to his allegation upon the control of the stock. It was shown, how- ever, that the books of the company were the best evidence. Cole argued that the books did not show the amount of stock controlled or influenced by the individual directors. Attorney Samuel M. Shortridge maintained that the amount of stock con- trolled was fixed by the amount owned by each holder. Witness John D. Spreckels answered that he owned the 3500 shares standing in his own name and only controlled thatamount of stock. It was attempted to show that he had controlled the stock of J. D. Spreckels & Bros. Co. and of his sister, but Attorney Shortridge objected, on the ground that control could not be imposed upon individual directors. t was also shown that the only vote taken at the last meeting was upon the question of adjournment. and that, prop- erly speaking, no stock was voted at all. In reply to further questions by Cole, J. D. 8preckels said that he had represented the stock of J. D. Spreckels & Bros. Co. on the occasion of the meeting. He was asked as to who represented the firm of Goodall, Perkins & Co. at the annual meeting. At- torney Shortridge objected to questions prying into the constitution of corpora- tions not parties to the present case. The court stated that it seemed to him that the plaintiff need not go into the inner particulars of the control of the stock. He should be content to show that he had tried to secure a meeting through the stockholders and had failed. Attorney Shortridge argued that it was not competent to inquire whether individ- ual directors held stock under ‘“‘centrolled’” conditions or not. The witness said that he and his'brother owned a majority of the stock of the J. D. Spreckels & Bros Co. He could not tell whose stock stood in the name of Secretary Preston of the company. The witness stated positively that he had never asked Preston or any other stockholder to vote in any particular way in hislife. He had heard no expression of discontent at the meeting on the part of any of those present at the prospect of no other meeting being held, and since the meeting no one, except_the plaintiff, had made any complaint in the premises. Attorney Cole then attempted to ascer- tain what stockholders the plaintiff could have succeeded in persuading to call a meeting. Attorney Shortridge objected strongly to any such inquiry as hypotheti- cal and to questions as to individual hold- ers as calling for the opinion of the witness on a problematical event. The objection was sustained. _The court again animadverted on its time being taken up in immaterial discus- sions. The only issue was whether the defendants controlled more than half the stock, so that a request on the part of the Pplaintiff to the stockholders to hold a meet- ing would have been idle. The question was not as to the past control, but the pres- ent control of the stock. The witness stated that he would have objected to holding a meeting had he been asked before the commencement of the action as far as his individual stock was concerned. As to any other stock he could not say what he might have done. In reply to Mr. Shortridge, the witness stated that he represented the J. D. Spreckels & Bros. Co. at the meeting ina general way, and did not hold the firm’s proxy nor authority to vote its stock. The "Oceanic Steamship Company ‘had been in existence for twelve years and had never had any trouble in its board un- til one C. S. Wheeler, not & bona-fide stockholder, had been placed on the board by the plaintiff. C. W. Weed, E. H. Sheldon and J. H. Manuels, stockholders of the J. D. Spreck- els & Bros. Co., were placed on the stand and_questioned as to the control of the stock in their nare. Attorney Shortridge then cross-examined C. A. Spreckels upon the proxy which he alleged he had lost and the case was sub- mitted, the Judge stating that he did not expect to_be able to render a decision be- fore Monday next. - Nothing Succeeds Like Success. The successes achieved by men and things are oL always based npon merit. But & success well merited and unprecedented in the annals 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 or and preventive of malarial, rheumatic and kidney complaints, dys- Pepsia, constipation and billousness, NATIONAL BANK TAXATION Attorney-General Fitzgerald’s Opinion as to Assess- ments. A QUESTION OF THE BONDS. The Assessment of Natlonal Banks WIill Have to Be Judicially Settled. A dispateh in yesterday’'s CALn states that the State Board of Equalization now in session in Sacramento, is struggling with communications from county assessors. These are inquiries as to whether they shall act under the opinion of Attorney-General Fitzgerald relative to assessing the National banks. Attorney Fitzgerald states that the mat- ter will no doubt have to be judicially settlea. He has had many applications for copies of his decision, which is creating a deep interest throughout the State, and which is as follows: SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, 1895, J. F. Campbell, Esq., Assessor of Stanislaus County, Modesto, Cal.—DEAR SIR: 1 have given a thorough examination and a most careful consideration to the law bearing upon the question of the assessment of National bank stock held by individuals. The question is & very difficult’ one, and one upon which it is hard to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion, in view of the policy of our State in the matter of assessing shares of stock in corporations. Such shares are specially exempted irom taxation by section 3608 of the Political Code, on the ground that (heg; possess no intrinsic value over and above the actual value of the property of the corporation which they stand for and repre- sent, and the ussessment and taxation of such shares, and also of the corporate property, would be double taxation.” Iam of the opinion, however, that as the National banking laws of the United States re- quire that at least one-third of the capital of National banks actually paid in must be in- vested in United States bonds and deposited with the Treasurer of the United States (Sec. 5119 Rev. Stat. U s0 invested and deposited is especially ex- empted from taxation by or under_ State, or munieipal, or local authority (Sec. 3701 Rev. ), the reason given in Section 3608 of cal Code for not assessing the shares of stock of a corporation cannot be invoked in favor of 5o much at least of the shares of stock of a National bank as is equal in value to that portion of the capital stock which is invested in United States bonds. Thereiore, I shouid advise the assessment of the shares of stock of a National bank owned by individuals at their actual value after de- ducting therefrom the pro rata value oi the )nrolicfly of the bank other than that invested in Uniled States bonas. Such would not, in my opinion, be double taxation; at all events it is a question which should be judicially de- termined. In making the assessment you must be uided by the provisions of section 5219 of the f(e\‘i!ed Statutes of the United States, which make the assessment of such shares subject to two restrictions, viz: “That the taxation shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed upon | other moneyed capital in the hands of indi- vidual citizens of such State. and that the shares of any National banking association owned by non-residents of any State shall be tazed in the city or town where the bank is located and not elsewhere.” Respectfully, W. T. FITZGERALD, Attorney-General. The position of the Attorney-General in this opinion is not op{:osed to the provis- ions of section 3608, Political Code, which essment of the shares of stock held by individuals is double tax- ation. That section which is quoted in the opinion very clearly states the reasons why such an assessment of the stock is a double assessment, viz., because the stock only represents the property owned by the corporation, and to assess that property and the stock also would be doubie taxa- tion. In the case of National banks, how- ever, the reason fails to the extent stated in the Attorney-General’s opinion; and in view of this fact the provision of the see- tion exempting shares of stock from taxa- tion cannot be invoked in favor of the shares of National bank stock to the ex: tent that the property represented by them is invested inQ'nilcd States bonds, which are not assessable. In other words, where all the pn)s)erly of a corporation is as- sessed and the shares are assessed the as- sessment of the shares is double taxation. Where a part only of the property is assessed and the shares are assessed, the assessment of such shares is double taxa- tion to a limited extent only. Finally, if a certain proportion of the property of a corporation 1s non-assessa- ble anda like portion only of the yalue of the shares of stock is assessed this would not in any sense be double taxation. Therefore, if the property of a National bank is valued at $100,000 and $50,000 of that property is invested in United States bonds, which are not assessable, and the bank is assessed only for the remaining $50.000 of its property, then the assessment of the capital stock of that bank at a half of its actual market value would not be double taxation and would not fall within the reason of section 3608, Political Code. Wanted for Murder. The identity of the young man who caused the death of Charles Koelling of 850 Mission street by hitting him on the head with a brick on May 13 hasbeen discovered by Detective Dan Coffey, who was detailed on the case. He is Frank Cratserand lived at 935 Folsom sireet. The detective ascertained yesterday that Crat- ser left the city ten days ago and he has beer unable to find out where he went. A descrip- {on of Cratser has been sent throughout the a —e— Joy’s tor the Jaded ana Good Health for all Mankind. JOY'S VEGETARLE $ARSAPARILLA. ismade from ties through herbs, end nature’sown contains no properchan- mineral nels. Joy's drugs or Vegetable [y pois- Sarsaparilla o Joyis cures Dys- Vegetable Rgpsia, Sarsaparilla hronit robs the Constipa- blood of all Joy’s Vegetable rsaparilla prevents tired feel- 1ngs, staggering sen- g ufioll:s, pllpi'-]:tiov; of rush o b!oo.\'la:;t'l.he'head, aIgVrIHLH03 5400 Wl Q 3l il Sl t‘ N I XHE Qi N eases of the stomach, liver and kidneys, Joy,s Ve bl e s e Wh Payfor thebestsce that ou get the best, JOY Sror 1mE Japep DRY GOODS. B e D, DRAWBACKS! Every business has its drawbacks. Only for them success would be easily attained. Our drawbacks now are the Remnants and Odd Lots accumulated during the un- precedented rush consequent to the great sale of the NEW GOO DS of THE KENNEDY BANKRUPT STOCK ! Commencing Mon day morning, the week will be devoted to the GIVING AWAY of these ODD LOTS AND REMNANTS at nome inal prices. 0DD LOTS. Hosiery, Underwear, Table Napkins, Towels, Quilts, Blankets, Lace Curtains, Portieres, Jackets, Capes and Gloves. REMNANTS. Colored Dress Goods, | Black Dress Goods, Velvets, Velveteens, Silks, Laces, Ribbons, Broadcloths, Calicoes, Ginghams, Sheetings, Flannels. SPECIATI.! 15 pieces ALL-SILK FANCY VELVET, small neat figures in garnet and gold, black and gold and blue and gold, cost the im= porter $4.70 a yard, will be closed out At $1.75 a Yard. C. CU RTIN, 911-913 Market Street. First Dry-Goods Store West of 5th Street. STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIES OF TH3 Commercial Union Insurance Company F LONDON, ENGLAND, ON THE 31ST DAY of December, A. D. 1894, and for the year end- ing on that day, as made to the Insurance Com- missioner of the State of California, pursuant to the provisions of sections 610 and 611'0f the Polit- ical Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the commissioner. CAPITAL. Amount of capital stock, pald up in cash... weeeeee..$ 1,250,000 00 ASSETS. Real estate owned by compan $ 2,166,641 46 Loans on bond and mortgage. 348,687 74 Cash market value of all stocks and bonds owned by compa 5,034,911 00 Amount of loans secured by pledge of bonds, stocks and other market- able securities as collateral 216,250 87 Cash in company’s office Cash in banks. Interest due and accrued on 1,780,068 16 stocks and loans Z 2,748 23 Interest due znd accrued on bonds ANd MOTtEAZeS. . .o ..ueoee. 8.47470 Premiums in due course of collec- a5 5 1,335,296 50 Bills receivable, not mai for fire and marine risks 66,778 75 Total assets, life departmen| 8,437,617 20 Sundry offices for guarantees and relnsurance onlossesalready paid. 482,282 29 Rents and interest due. 3,563 66 Stamps on hand.. 2,761 45 Total assets . LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid; losses in process of adiustment or in suspense:; losses resisted, includ- 743,525 00 ing expenses Gross premium ning one vear or less, §.... rein- surance b0 per cent; gross pre- | 1,879,575 00 miums on fire risks running more than one year, 8.... rein- surance pro rata... Gross premiums on marin land_ navigation risks, re- insurance 100 per cent: gross} 905,000 00 remiums on marine tme risks, | ... reinsurance 50 per cent. . Liability under lite department. Cash dividends remaining unpaid.. All other demands against the com- pany .. 2,343,481 96 Total liabilities. 8,437,617 20 1,990 66 INCOME. Net cash actually received for fire premiums ... Net cash actu rine premiums. Received for interest on’ bond; MOTEAges ................. = Recelved for interest and dividends on bonds, stocks, loans, and from all other sources. 31 Received for inco 5,480,416 64 1,142,796 18 833,210 86 1,215,981 86 446 56 Total income... $ 8,172,852 08 EXPENDITURES. Net amount paid for fire losses (in- cluding $.... losses of previous i -8 3,535, Net amount paid for marine losses oo 27 04 (lnclu)flmg #.... losses of previous JORTS).ooousenrannn onn 68,1 Dividends to stockholders. 311.6%21 % P;Id \Or Allowed for commission oF rokerage 3 P 786,977 64 s charges for officers. clerks, etc. ; paid for State, National and 1,581, ocal taxes: all’ other plymsn(né oy and expenditures.... Total expenditure of life depari ment. P . 556,207 41 e = --..§ 7,437,352 82 IRE. Losses incurred during BEAL the year. ............... $3,394,36800 $664,301 00 RISKS AND PREMIUMS. |_FIRE RISKs, | PREMIOMS. Net amount of risks| written auring the Total expenditures. year. 1,995, P e i $1,995,302,890 $7,325,385 32 expired during the Net amount In force December 31, 1894 1,414,855,792| 5,402,795 20 876,785,674 3,869.010 34 IMABINE RISKS| PREMIUMS. Net amount of risks written during the ear. $ 362,848,475/81,665,710 00 expired during the year & December 31,1894 850,257,490/ 1,649,870 00 89,123,950, 944,665 00 JOH! OTT! H. MANN, Secr QLN TROTTER, Chairman. Subscribed and 3 of April, 1894, sworn to before me this 19th day G. F. WARREN, Notary Public. PACIFIC COAST BRANCH OFFICE 301 California Street. C. F. MULLINS, Manager, BUSINESS MEN WHO HAVE GOODS FOR SALE ALWAYS WANT TO MEET THOSE WHO DE- SIRE TO BUY The MAY Former™™ o Latter IN THE COLUMNS OF The Weekly Call PUBLISHED TO-DAY. UNDER THE HEADING “COAST NEWS CONDENSED,” Is PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK IN- FORMATION CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW ENTER- PRISES, AND DEALERS MAY THUS SECURE EARLY INFORMATION CONCERNING PROPOSED SCHOOL HOUSES, BRIDGES, RAILROADS, ELECTRICLIGHT PLANTS, CREAM- ERIES, BUSINESS BLOCKS, ETC., ENABLING THEM TO BID FOR FURNISHING SUPPLIES. CONSUMERS, ON THE OTHER HAND, LEARN OF THE ADDRESS OF DEALERS IN GOODS WHICH THEY DESIRE TO PURCHASE, It Pays TO SUBSCRIBE FOR THE Weekly Call PER ANNUM, $1.50. SIX MONTHS, . 75. IODIDE OF IRON. POSTERS LARGE PRINTING. STERETT PRINTING (0, 532 Clay Street.