The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1895, Page 13

v THE- SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1895. 13 LNEST OAKLAND N Street Railroad Owners Still Struggling With the Assessor. MAYOR DAVIE ON A WHEEL The Water War Drawing Near a| Climax—Trades Unions Organ- | 1zing Rapidly. Assessor Dalton and his Chief Deputy Richards, Edson F. Adams and the Super- visors, drove around Lake Merritt yester- lay morning and inspected the Adams| astate for tl arpose of determining its | value. It wasa very pleasant and Ve | imiable drive, and many questions were a hint was dropped as to thought, and by 11 s in session ready to ts of the street rail- o think the Assessor has wree times as much as ral minor assess- wpon, and then the lated Piedmont Com- 1sked, but no what the Super »elock the board isten to the compl road magnates w axed them abc ald Ira P. Bi about th ht the road, told ; nances and of | iver for the bond- | thought the price | ,000) was a fair | arrived at the | ons of the road by | 1 value. It was| d, for much less | But Mr. Bishop A little table e helped to put him | at last year the road $ 50 and the franchise Bishop placed the cash and the fran- \e Assessor's figures are | the road and $106,950 for the neer Wilson testified that the on the 1st of March last 000. He based this on the teri: t that time. st Oakland Street Railroad and treet road have also asked for ons. The latter road is con- d owned largely by F. M. Smith, | i-millionaire. All claim | s are not paying on the in- HER LOST BROTHER. Mrs. Templeman Finds His Body at the Morgue. Buch, the young man who was re- to the police as missjng, was found yrgue yesterday by his sister, Mr: ) On Thursday evening a bod was picked up at the broad-gauge fer ndin s Buch had been missing for | his sister called at the Morgue | , and discovered that the dead her brother: ome last Sunday night, after himself, and said he alk., He was suffering but would not be per- 1t was evident ended to commit suicide, as be ing at home that would help to identity and placed his money Ole F about 2 ars of age, and up to a short was a conductor on the How- le road in San Francisco. He bles beyond his sickness, and been suffering from delirium e took the fatal jump into the bay. GORMLEY WAS A BUTCHER. On Two Occasions He Threatened to Carve His Wife. Mrs. Catherine Gormley has decided that life with a butcher who attempts to practice his trade on his wife is not an ex- istence to be desired, so she has brought for divorce. The complaint contains s of cruel and unmanly con- du ientally three attempts on her life are cited. The couple were married in 1889, and two years later their troubles commenced. One morning, she alleges, her husband wielded a butcher-knife over her while she was in bed and threatened to cut her throat. She drove him away, but some weeks later he repeated his threats while brandishing a razor. A few weeks ago Gormley, so says his i ibited a pistol and threatened to He exhibited his ugly temper by kicking the dining-table over and Lhr:&wmg bread and dishes inthe back yard. Hates Single Life. Mrs. Blanche Cozzens thought Judge Greene would grant her husband his gi- vorce last Monday, and she made prepara- tions to be married the same night in San Francisco. She talked considerably around the courthouse, and it was learned that the young man whom she wishes to marry was the chief witness against berin the testimony taken before the Commissioner. Now Judge Greene is pausing before grant- ing the decree as it looks very much like a collusive case. Paper-Carriers Organize. The Alameda County Newspaper Route Agents’ Protective Association has been organized for self protection. Their sole object in organizing is to prevent bad debtors from changing their paper to evoid paying their bills. The officers for the first year are: President, H. Parratt; vice-president, W. T. Webb; secretary, E. A. de la Mater; treasurer, H. Schroeder; executive committee, E. Besenthal, W. Fife, F. Lynch, P. Serenson, H. V. Parratt. Must Think of the Wheel. At the regular meeting of the Good Roads Association of Alameda County it was decided to ask the Supervisors to | make a thorough test of red rock from a guarry near, Newark. Charles G. Yale spoke at some length upon the rock and among other things said: ‘“We must con- sider in booming good roads this question of the wheel.” Denies Her Widowhood. A.J. Hassler, to whom was distributed the estate of the late Dr. Hood of Hay- wards, has filed a denial of the claim of Mrs. Bessie Hood to being the widow of the deceased. He dectares that the Mrs. Hood who died a few months before her husband was the only wife the doctor ever had. May Stir up Strife. Attorney E. M. Gibson has brought suit against the estate of the late Franklin Moss for §500 for legal services rendered. Gibson says he was employed by the old San Leandro farmer from March to De- cember, 1893, and has only received $100 on account. Franklin Moss, who was an year before his death marri girl younger than his children. All sorts of litigation followed, and Moss was declared incompetent. His estate is badly mixed up, and Mr. Moss made several peculiar deals during the few years preceding his death whic) not yet closed. HISTORY OF A DAY. Alameda County Happenings Told in Brief Chapters. The County Boardof Equalization drove over the Adams estate yesterday to judge of its value. Charles G. Yates said yesterday that Alameds Bupervisors must consider the needs of eyclists when building new roads. The newspaper carriers of Alameda County| have organized to prevent people from beating them out of subscriptions. When Mrs. Eliza Scott, the woman who tried tostarve herself in & lodging-house in Oakland, 2rrived at the Ukiah asylum she was searched sad found to have §565 in gold sewed upin | the lining of her dress waist. Mrs. Scott is said to have relatives in Chicego who are quite well to do. The water war in Alameda County is still on. Whoever it is that is pumping the water into the bsy at Mount Eden will probably be en- joined. Mamie Bush and Katie O'Brien, the two San Francisco girls who ran away from home and were caught in Oakland, were sent home vesterdey. At the meeting of the Federation of Trades Thursday night it was announced that the or- ganization of & woodworkers' union is well under way. Word has been received from Rhea County, . stating that an Oakland Adventist . R. Pillett is in jail for working at his trade on Sunday. Mayor Davie has determined to purchase e bicycle on which to ride about the city on his tours of inspection. He says & buggy is not sutable for the purpose. Oalkland is surprised at the cheapness of her street railroads. The Piedmont road, which has 1ot Cost less than §750,000, is velued by its owner &t $82,000 for tax-paying purposes. Lucille Hubbard has brought suit fora di- vorce from Ludlow Hubbard of West Oaklund, on the ground of desertion. The couple are middle aged and have been married twenty- one years. The newly organized Carpenters’ Union added twelve names to its roll yesterday. The officers are: R. W. Wind, president; P. Har graves, vice-president; J. W. Smith, recording secretary; J. Chalmers, financial secretary. Mr. and Mrs. Cushing of Irvington met with & mishap while on their way to San Jose. They met the Salvation Army chariot coming from Sen Jose, which fright- ened their horse and upset the buggy, throw- ing them out. W. A. Chittenaen, a real estate dealer, got out of & scrape in the Oakland Police Court some time ago, but forgot to pay the 100 fee 10 his attorney. Chittenden was before 8 Jus- tice of the Peace yesterday and was compelled fo relinquish his diamond pin and Waich- chain. LATEST BERKELEY ITEMS, Movement to Prevent Wagon- ettes From Being Used on Sidewalks. Town Employes Disturbed—New Fire and Police Alarm—De~ linquent Taxes. A movement is on foot in Berkeley to prevent small boys from riding along the sidewalks on four-wheeled wagonettes, as it is claimed by the promoters of the re- form that they are even more dangerous to the unwary pedestrian than the bicycle. The wagonettes reierred to are about half- way between a sled and a toy express- wagon, and are used by the small boys in coasting down hilly streets. Frequently these push-carts become unmanageable and are a menace to public safety, since they ere invariably used on the paved sidewalks. Milkmen and boys use these small vagons on the sidewalks for hauling and they irequently occupy walk, compelling pedestrians to step aside and let them pass. It is the intention of those interested in the movement to either propose to the Board of Town Trustees an ordinance cov- ering the case or to find out whether the present ordinance governing the riding of elocipedes’’ can be so construed as to suit the conditions. Town Employes Disturbed. Some of the town employes are con- siderably stirred up over the financial out- look of Berkeley, in view of the prospective long contest over the saloon license ques- tion. The last financial statement made public showed that the strictest economy would be necessary on the part of the Board of Trustees to meet expenses up to the time of the next tax levy. The refusal of saloon -keepers to pay their licenses until the final decision of the O’Brien case will resuit in the temporary loss to the town of a considerable source of revenue, last xear's liquor licenses being over $5000, and those due for the present year probably a great deal more. There is every prospect of along fight over the points* involved in the O'Brien case, and some employes of the town have expressed fear that salaries will not be forthcoming when due. Fire and Police Alarm. The Board of Town Trustees has received from the Committee on Fire and Water a | proposition for the erection of a police and fire alarm system for the town. The tavorable consideration of the scheme will be largely dependent upon whether the board ~considers the financial outlook sufficiently good to justify them in under- taking this additional expense. Delinquent Taxes. Of the 414 property-owners delinguent in the payment of their taxes, about one- fourth have paid up. Taking this number as a basis, it is estimated that there will be about the same number of sales this year as last, which was 270. All real estate upon which taxes are not gaid by the 25th inst. will be sold by Tax Collector Squires on that date. Dr. Greene Leaves. Dr. Edward L. Greene, for the past three years professor of botany at the University of California, will leave this morning for Washington, D. C., to begin his labors as head of the botanical department at the Catholic University of America. A FAILROAD QUARANTINE Preparations to Guard the State From Southern Diseases. Inspection of Aill Trains From Yuma and Tents and Barracks on the Desert, The State Board of Health is actively going ahead witb the establishment of an imporiant but rather novel quarantine service on the Sunset route of the South- ern Pacific railroad system. People coming into the State by rail through Yuma will meet a quarantine inspector just as arrivals by ocean steamer do, and out on the Colorado Desert there will be a quarantine station corresponding to the one that endangers the comfort of ocean travelers at Angel Island. The recent smallpox scare in Los Angeles started the scheme. The State board has a fund of $50,000 which it can draw on to fight contagious diseases, with the approval of the Governor, and now a part of that is being used. For three months Dr. Price of Los Angeles has been employed as in- spector, to board all trains at the State line at Yuma, and he has during that time in- s}wcted every train carefully for symptoms of smallpox from Mexico, or other con- tagious discases from anywhere. This careful inspection of all incoming trains will be kept up, and as soon as possible facilities for quarantining a trainload of people will be made ready. Cabazon, a little place west of Indio, at the ‘?Eer end of the Colorado Desert and about half-way between Los Angeles and Yuma, has been selected for the location, Here snitable buildings will be erected and supplied with necesssr{l facilities, and a good many tents will be kept on hand. Then if the inspector finds a case of small- x on board a train that is§peeding across {:e desert the whole train will be switched at Cabazon and the passengers will await symptoms and probably fumigation. In such a case most of the ,Bulan‘-n would not be detained long. Those in the car where the case was found would have the longest rest on the tented sands. Dr. Winslow Anderson, president of the State Board of Health, says that the land is being negotiated for and pl for build- ings are being drawn. THE MYSTERIOUS WHARF, it Is Being Constructed on the Adams Estate in .Oakland. : NO APPARENT USE FOR IT, Facllitles for Docking Five of the Largest Salling Vessels on the Front. For the past year animportant improve- ment has been going on at the Oakland water front, and in a few weeks the first large wharf fit for any kind of commerce will be completed. The completion of the wharf is of special interest at thistime,asit vresents a practical object lesson of what gan be done at the foot of every street run- ning to the water front now that the title is temporarily clear. The new wharf is located eastof Alice street and parallels tide water for 1500 feet. There has been an air of mystery respect- ing the purpose for which it was built, and it is certain that it is not for use for any'of the water-front enterprises at present lo- cated in Qakland. All manner of surmises have been made, but it is probable that none have as yet guessed the truth and neither can it be ascertained. The wharf will accommodate five of the largest sailing-ships that ever come into the harbor or four of the largest steamers. Edson Adams, who is superintending its construction, will not tell of its purpose, but merely says when completed there will be use forit. There haye been numerous complaints in 8an Francisco regarding the actions of the Harbor Commissions, and it is supposed that some firms have decided to do t‘r’zeir shipping from the Oakland side, When the Pscific%{ail threatened to move across the bay it was said that their steam- ers would occupy the splendid wharf now being completed at the foot of Alice street, but this is hardly feasible. Mr, Adams was seen, yesterday and asked regarding the use to which the wharf would be put, iut he said he would rather not discuss the matter. 1t is certain that we have prospects of Puuing the wharf into service,” he said, ‘or we should not be building it, but I can- Beiore not say yet who will occqry it. long this'side of the bay will make great stmgies, and I expect to see the Alice- street wharf one of the busiest spots in the State. Two or three steamship lines with weekly steamers could easily find suffi- cient accommodation there, and there will be water emough to float the deepest draught vessel at low water.” A trip to the scere of operations showed that about a hundred men were busily en- gaged in strengthening what, to the in- experienced eye, is already a finished wharf. A channel has already been. dredged 200 feet wide from the deep-water channel to the wharf, and a dredger is at work deug— ening the water alongside the wharf to 23 feet at low tide. LATE NEWS OF ALAMEDA, The Encinal Yacht Club Pre- pares to Defend the Chal- lenge Cup. German Lutheran Church Indor- porated—A Small Boy Is Found on the Marsh. To-day and to-morrow will be owners’ day with the Encinal Yacht Club. There is no particular event on the programme, and every owner of a yacht will be at liberty to cruise at his own inclination. The annual pennant regatta will take place Saturday next. Commodore J. A. Leonard has caused to be sent to each member of the clun the fol- lowing notice: The San Francisco challenge cup, of which the Encinal Yacht Club is the proud possessor, is now on exhibition at the clubhouse and has been challenged for by the Queen of the San Francisco Yacht Club. It is desirable that we have a meating of all the members at 10 o'clock Sunday morning to discuss ways and mesa id cup, and I hope t sufficient encouragement exists to enable us to make such an effort as will be successful in re- taining this beautiful trophy for the next season. The commodore is getting El Sueno in readiness to defend the cup. The owners of the Emerald would like to have their craft selected. Another Landmark Doomed. Harmonie Hall, the scene of every noted assembly of the Germans in Alameda, has been offered for sale. It wasthe custom to hold fashionable weddings, parties and balls in the hall, and alsp noteworthy political assemblies, giving the name to a party in municival politics, and it was con- sidered an omen of good luck to meet within its walls. However, a change came over the place and the Harmonie Hall party suffered a crushing defeat at the Iast municipal election. - The party went down and now the hall must succumb and make room for the onward march of progress. The hall was built twenty vears ago, when Alameda was a small village. Found on the Marshes. Mllie McErerney, the 10-year-old Q:y who disappeared from the home of this parents on Bank street Wednesday, was teturned to his home last evening. He was found in a balf starved condition in the marshes on the Oakland side of the estuary. He claims to have been enticed away by men passing along the streetin a wagon, but as he isa boy of questionable veracity, not much credence is placed in the story. His father is a baker, and recently moved herg from Oakland. The World’s Doom. H. F. Courter of Oakland and H. G. Thurston of New York, who claim that the Lord is coming and that the world will soon meet its doom, will this evening com- mence a series of meetings at the tent, corner of Pine street and Santa Clara avenue. They also claim that crime is in- creasing, which they attribute to those who preach to-day that God’s love is no more. German Church Incorporated. The German Evangelical Lutheran Im- manuel Church of Alameda has been in- corporated, with Christian Radzwill, Diedrick Muller and Frederick Bauman as directors for the first'term of one year. The life of the corporation is fifty years. The congregation has heretofore "held ' their services at Holtz Hall. NATIVE SONS CELEBRATE, The Twentieth Ail!lverf-ry of the Order Was Observed "at 0Odd Fellows’ Hali. The twentieth anniversary party of Cali- fornia Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West, was well attended last night, and 0dd Fellows” Hall was the scene of one of the most brilliant events of the year. There was a select and eharacteristic programme of dances, Blanchard’s Orches- ‘tra furnishing the music, which was all up to. date. The decorations were white, pink and green bunting, palms, ferns, potted ghnts and the ever familiar Cali- fornia flowers, including roses of every conceivable color. Will B. Shea was floor director, with Messrg. Henry F. Pernau apd Leon Den- \ nery as his assistants, and the two com- mittees were: g Reception committee—Dr. J. F. Morse, chair- man; E C. Kaiben, Frank B. , A. C. Lut- gens. Henry Stern, Harry Lachman, Dr. F. H. tahle, William A. Staniels, J. B. 8tovall, John R, Matcaes. Floor committee—James P, Dockery, Henry Lunstedt, Frank M. Marston, Charles A. Greea, . Label, Dr. J. F. Twist, Charles A. Boldemann, {‘411?‘. Léndstrom, Henry P. Umbsen, Robert P, eland. Those present were: Mr: and Mrs, W. W. Fairchild, Harry Grady, Jesse Yates, Miss Lillie Burg, Miss Flora Rich, Miss May Higgins, Joseph Green, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Yale,Miss Annie Hahne, Miss Hahne, Miss Strehl, iss Ebel, Mr, and Mrs. Willia E. Jackson, Mr.and Mrs. M. A.Ephratm, Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Henriksen, Mr. and Mrs. D. Asher, Mr, and Mrs. F. W. Marston, Mr. and Mrs. Johm . Niggle, Mr. and Mrs. E. Silverstone, Mr. and Mrs. Geory Luk- berg, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Harrison, Mr. &nd Mrs. Frank T. Shes, )r. and Mis. T. D. Hartwell, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Head, M. J. Silk, Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Morse, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Steinbach, Miss Nellie Marlmoir, Mr.and Mtrs, Louis Carnes, Miss R. Trieber, G. D. Hib- ‘bard, Miss E. Keeper, Edgar L, Ormsb; Cora Gilbert,, Miss Margie Coleman, Bern- baum, Miss B. Silverstone, Mr. and 3frs. F. W. Lees, L. Fitzgerald, Mr. and Mrs. J. Fagen, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Echenroth, Miss Mary Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Groom, and Mrs. A, J. Evans D. Hutcheon M. J. Bell, Mrs. Bryant, Miss Bryant, the Misses Heiler, H. E. Faure, Miss Inge Peterson, W. D. Shea, Miss Regina Shes, Miss F. Rich, Miss F. Luchen, Mrs. J. L. Cop~ &lge, Miss Martha Corpnfie, rs. M. T. Shea, iss’ M. E. Shea, Phil Hammersmith, Miss Emily Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. 8. Dryden, Miss Kittle Toher, Fred W. Pitts, Miss Vina Ortega, A; E, Matches, Miss C. Matches, Miss Alice L. Chase. J. . Strehl, Miss M. Mahony, Henry Sanders, Miss Rose Sanders, G, Dyer, J. 0’Connor, H. L. Ackerman, Felix E. Gung, Miss Clare McWiliiams, C. A.Bolde- man, Mrs. A. C. Boldeman, Fred I, Jung, Miss Millle Flynn, §. H. Jeweit, Miss Maud Buck- man, Solly Friedman, Miss Golda Friedman, Mr. Barnet, Miss May Tower, Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. George D. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Lundstrom, Lachman, Mr. and Mrs. Getz, Dr. and Mrs. Kelly. Miss Kelly, Sol Bloom, H. P. Umbsen, H. Stanjels, J. P. Dockery, C. Maj F. G. Wisker, Mrs. F. G. Wisker, J.J. 3c! lin, M. Silverstein. Miss Anna Jones, Charles C. Pernau, G. G. Bargstream, G. E. Baraty, Meyer L. Friedmaid, Miss A. McGrugor, Philip Eisner, H. M. Greene, Miss L. Silverstone, Miss T. Adler, Joseph McVanner, Tilleman, Mr. Thomas Morton, 8. Mendelson, A. L. Schleicher. J. O. Dwyer, Miss Gussie Michael, Mrs. Harry Morton, Miss Alice Clements, Otto Ript Jr., Mr. and Mrs, H. F. Pernau, Isidor Jacobs, E. C. Medan, Eugene Gauthier Jr., M. L. Frank, Michael Seeligsohn, M. McLaughlin, F. V. Hart, J. B. Stovall, Max Gross, E. A. Jaujau, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Boldemann, G. Brieger, W. J. Likins, W. A. Zollner, Mr. Martins,»H. B. Witt, A, H. Frank, Fred Kaiz Jr., F. P. Angonnett, C. K. Rosenberg, J. R. Matches, J. G. Earl, J. Hacrls, Joseph Harris, W. F. Dunphy, . W. Dyer, Joseph Pinto, George McEiroy, N. T. Hawley, Charles Finberg, A.F. Holmberg, T. P. Martin and wife, George Lubbert, R. Feig, C. Thieber, I. Tuckler, H, Harris, E. G. Schultz, A, Herenghi, Gustave Boldeman, Miss Alice Bolde- man, A. E. Buckman, Jossph M. Nye Jr, G. N. Levy, E. Lunstedt, Mrs. E. Lunstedt, Albert Laws, Howard Her) ton, George Katz, Perey V. Long, W. H. Mills, H. E. Brown, Joe Ellison, Binbsum, Paul Desenfant, | Harry Anson, Neil Henry, Frank H. Dunne, Charles Green, W. H. MeCormick, J, M. Blanch- ard, John B. Charleston, T. ks, J. Terih, 4. J. McElroy, Isador Label, O. L. Blackman, J. B. Stovall, Max Gross, ©. Shilling, Jobn F. Stewart, C. W. Dixon, Meyer Frankenheimer, R. 5 Wonael, E4 . Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. John' H. Grady, Miss Gertie Grady, Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Kevanaugh, &, i. 6, Bug- enmann,'T. F. Brady, E. J. Vogel, H. P. Umbsen, D, Garren, F. Giass, W. H. Miller, Louis Zeh, Emil Soher, William Schultz, Leon- &rd Stone, John B. Leonard, Louis G, Jacobs, A F. Medley, Mrs. Youn; Johu F. Mitchell, H. Stein, J. Gallagher, John J. Ne lands, G. B. Dillon, Emile Gi Ven Orden. A PLUOKLOOLO,BED " MAN. Representative Tarsney Tells a Story of Slave Days in Missouri. “Some queer things used to happen in the old slave days in Missouri,” said Rep- resentative John Tarsney just before he started for Europe. “The condition of the slave was never a very burdensome one in Missonri. The farm country and the near- ness of the Iowa line prevented anything like those plantation cruelties of which we sometimes read. In fact, I should judge that some of the Missouri slaves had as 700d a time as their masters. “In illustration, I might tell a queer story, which had its scene in Indepen- dence, Mo. Old Banker Bawyer of In- dependence carried on the same Sawyer Bank which exists to-day away back in the fifties, when Independence, as the eastern end of the Santa Fe trail, was the great outfitting point for those | daring and misguided peofflg who med- | itated a fight across the plains. Among other chattels of Banker Sawyer was a big black negro named Dustun. Dustun was a great mechanic, and had vast fame all over the Western country as the maker of that fashion of wagon known as ‘the rairie schooner. Sawyer had, besides is bank, a wagon-shop at Independence, and his negro, Dustun, ran the wagon- | shop. The wagon-shop did a good trade, and Sawyer said to Dustun one day: “+You make a lot of money working overtime, Dustun. Why don’t you buy and own yourself? Why do you continue in slavery? You've got $500 or §600 down in my bank now.’ “And it was true. Dustun had laid up quite a little store of money, and the fact of a slave with money on deposit in the bapk of his master is of itself illustrative of the lax condition of the institution in Missouri. (o ?%th‘ll you take for me?’ asked Dus- tu 'Seeing it’s you,’ said Sawyer, ‘T'll sell out cheap. If you want to buy yourself Tll take $1500, while you're easy worth 0 “Dustun bought himself, paid $500 down, and took the rest of himself on credit. | Sawyer made out his freedom .papers and Dustun made a mortgn’%e on himself to Bawyer for the $1000. Then he went to work. Ina year he paid himself free. In two years mdre he bought his wife and lit- tlegirl. Then he began to make monev. put he hadn’t proceeded far nor laid uj much abead when one night a fire st. and the next morning found Dustun’s ws‘;on-shoo in ashes. Shop, tools, stack and everything was burned u; as clean as a whistle, and,with the lack of forethought of his race, Dustun had no insurance. ©It was a plain, bard, hitter case of begin again with Dustun.He thought the sitoa- tion over, and then went to his 61d master, Sewyer. After ten minutes’ talk Sawyer lent Dustun $1000, mkmf)n mongnie is wife and young ome. ustun_rebuilt his sbop and opened upanew. Ie kept his old trade snd added to it. It finally became very unfashionable to start across the plains in anythmfilbm' one of Dustun’s prairie schooners. Within a year Dustan again had a clear title to his wife and child. “Life went easy after thatwith the old black wagon-maker. He died about ten ears ago at Independence worth fairly 50,000, The daughter whom he bought from Sawyer and then mortgaged and cleared the title to again wasfor along time, and is, I believe, now, a teacherin the colored public schools _at Kansas City. 0ld Dustun’s memory in Independence is to this day highly respected.”—Washing- ton Star. Tre Broycre HuMp.—An incalculable amount of comfort has been scattered far and wide by the statement of an old wheel- man in 8 bicycle journal that asa matter of fact the man who bends over his wheel is not “humped,” but the man who under- takes to sit up straight is round-shouldered. He adds: “Watch a rider coming head on, and you wiul think the one leaning over the is ‘hnmgd!’ hile the other class appears ntg(g:h‘t. rjtiwhen t:ag ss and you g e view you fini {’l?e'hwk of the stooped fetlow is straight, the'bend being at -the hips, the shoulders being pushed back square bg:he weight rest:gg on the rider’s hands irom the top of the bar. The rider who tries to sit straight reaches under the grips, and, by pulling, draws his shoulders together, cramping - his chest. Look for yourselves and you will be surprised.” The tallow t‘pnlmnlt of China has berries ;rhlch yield ug I.I:d mo;a‘e tkmm which s ex] a_substance w! makes a- nflmfum for olive oil, NEXT YEAR'S TAX LEVY Supervisors’ Finance Commit- -tee Going Over the Appropriations. SCHOOL DEPARTMENT NEEDS. The Fire Department Wants Eight Hundred Thousand and Gets Six. The Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors met in, special session last night for the purpese of going over the various appropriations preparatory to fix- ing the tax levy. Chief Sullivan of the Fire Department appeared before the committee and pre- sented the approximate needs of the de- partment for the néxt fiscal year. The sum required, he said, would be $830,740, including estimated salaries, $422,580. The Chief discussed the needsof the department with the members of the com- mittee in extenso, during the course of which he explained that several new bhouses were needed, hydrants, horses, engines, hose, etc., all of which were item- ized in the report already published. School Director Murdock asked that the appropriation for the School Department be fixed at $1,100,000. He explained that a million-dollar ap- propriation this year would not be equal to the same amount last year, as there are 50 many more expenses. The salaries will amount to more by reason of the increase in receiving classes, it being necessary to add eleven more, as the ' num- ber of pupils had been fixed at 35 instead of 40. He also explained that the old board had left a number of teachers’ suits on the new board’s hands, and that $3300 had al- ready been paid to teachers' who won their cases. \ There are suits still pending which will necessitate the payment of These suits are the result teachers being dis- missed in an irre anner. “If the appropriation is limited to $1,000,- 000 this year the additional expense re- referred to,” he said, “such asincreased salaries and damage suits, will have to come out of the building and improvement fund.” It was also urged that the extra hun- dred thousand asked for would be needed entirely for new buildings and repairs. Some of the buildings were represented as being in a deplorable condition. The Board of Education would like, however, to have $150,000 to spend on new buildings and repairs. Chairman Taylor said the City had been run on a tax levy of 1 per cent, but he thought the ple generally conceded that the levy would have to be increased. If, however, all the ;pprggriat(onswere made, which had been asked for, the levy would have been 2 per cent, and the Supervisors would never hear the last of the howl made by the people. He was determined to keep the levy within 114 per cent. The following estimate of appropriatiens was made STREET DEPARTMENT FUND. Repairing aud reconstructing accepted 6Lreets aNd BEWErS. .. .. .ot uoeenneees $200,000 Improving streets in front of city prop- erty. 25,000 Improving streets around sq 50,000 Improving pu! 50,000 Sweeping streets. 150,000 Fifteenth-street sewer. 10,000 Presidio sewer. . Repairs county road: & Bridge, Charies and AFi{gton streeis Total..... FIKE DEPARTMENT. Street-light fund. . ... 5205, Salaries for May and June unprovided for and carried over to the next fiscal year.. 800,000 The new City Hali fund, for which the Recorder recommended $120,000, was de- ferred for further discussion. 1In the matter of the old City Hall Chair- man Taylor was in favor of deferring the $300,000 appropriation recommended until the next year’s levy. An adjournment was taken until next Thursday evening. A SMART GIRL'S SHARP RUSE. A Washington Woman Rids Herself of an Aged Tormentor. An elderly gentleman whose duties re- quired his presence in Washington during the session of Congress had taken guite a fatherly interest—as elderly gentlemen will—in & young woman who boards in the northwestern part of the town. He had sent her books and flowers, and has called on her until really, it he were not an elderly gi;memn, people might have made remarks. s Not long ago, says the Washington Post, he appeared in the boarding-house parlor and asked for the young woman. She came in. Her face was a little flushed, and in one hand she carried an open note. She was up to the elderly gentleman. “Mr. So and So,” she said distinctly, “you say you would do anything for me. Do _you mean it?"” R 5 He looked somewhat surprised, bat he stood on his colors. “Certainly,” he said. ‘‘What is it yon want?"” k The young woman looked him straight in the‘face, and then, as she turned to leave the room, she said—and everybody heard her! “I want you to bring your wife to call on me.” Introduced strictly on its merits for past 30 years ARIANI 'l‘)lE IDEAL TONIC Recommended by all who have GIVEN IT A TRIAL Mailed Free. Descriptive Book with Testimony Portrai OF NOTED CELEBRITIES. Beneficial A, . Avold Sabstitutions. Ask for¢Vin Mariant.® At Bruggists and Fancy Grocers. MARIANI & CO., Pan: 4184, ey 6. 16thst, New Yk, s 939 Oxford Streat. PILES mues,, i Adk your for i% . [TCHING PILES l NEW. TO-DAY. 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Syrup of Figs is for sale by all druge gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man- ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co.only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will noi accept any substitute if offerea. FITSGURED | (From U. 8. Journal of Medicine. Prot.W. H.Peeke,whomakesa specialty of Epilepsy, haswithout doubt treated and cured more cases than anyliving Physician; hissuccessisastonishing. We haveheard of cases of 20 years’ standing cured by him. Hepublishesa valuatle work on this disease which he sends with a large bottle of his absolute cure, free to ‘sny suffererwho may send their P.0. and Expressad- drese. We advise anyone wishing a cure to address, Prof. W, H. PEEKE, F. D., 4 Cedar St., New York. OCEAN STEAMSHIPS! DIBPATCH STEAMERS FROM SAN Franclsco for ports in _Alaska, 9 A. M., July 5. 9. 19, 24, Aungust 3, ¥, 18, Sept. 2, For British Columbia and et Sou rts, July 5, 9, 14, 19, 24, 29, and eve fiftn day there- after. ¥or Eurekn, Humbold: Bay, steamer Pomona, every Tuesday at 2 P. M. ¥or Newport, Los Angeles and all way m July 4. 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, andjevery .day thereafter, 8 A, M. ForSan Diego, stopping oily at Port Harford, Eanta Barbara, Port ‘Angeles, Redondo (Los Angeles) and Newport, July 2, 6. 10, 14, 18, 232, 26. 30, ana every fourth day thereafter, at 11A. M Steamer Pomona Saturday to Monday excar- sion to Santa Cruz and Monterey, leaves Broadway whart 1. Saturdavs 4 P. M. For ports In Mexico, 10 A. M., 25th of each montk, steamer Willamette Vlu?{. Ticket Office—Palace Hotel, 4 New Montgomery street, ‘GOODALL, PERKINS & CO., General Agents, 10 Market st.. San Franciseo. TO PORTLAND 0. R. & N. SNbA5T0RA. STEAMSHIPS DEPART FROM SPEAR- street wharf at 10 A. . every five days, con- necting at PORTLAND with direct rail lines to all ints iIn OREGON, WASHINGTON, IDAHO, E’ONTANA, ‘and all Eastern points, including Chi- cago, New York and Boston. State of Callfornia sails July 8, 18, 28, Aug. 7. Oregon sails July 13, 23, August 2. Fare in cabin, Including berth and meals, $15 00; Steerage. $7 60; Round trip, $25 00. For through rates and all other information apply to the undersigned. GOODALL, PERKINS & Cou Geén'l Supts., 10 Market st. COMPAGNIEGENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE French Line to Havre. OMPANY’S PIER (NEW), 42 NORTH River, foot of Morton st. Travelers by this line avoid both transit by Knglish rallway an the discomfort of crossing the chaunel ina small boat. New York to Alexnnflflli Egypt, Via Paris, first class $160; second class $116. FRED. F. CONNOR, Gen'l Agent. 19 Montgomery st. nt. creriaee - Juiy £7, 7:00'a. 3t LA BOURGOGNE. Capt. Leboneut. .. 2 o Angust 5, 4:00 4 x LA TOURAINE, Capt, Santelll.......... agtst 10, 6: A For further particulars apply to A. FORGET, Agent, No. 3 Bowling Green, N J. ¥. FUGAZI & CO. Agents, b M ve., San Francisco. York. CUNARD LINE. New York to Liverpool, via Queenstown, from Pier 40, North River. FAST EXPRESS MAIL SERVICE. Campania.Jy 27,9:30 x| Etrurla, Aug. 24, 8 Ax ‘Aurania, Aug. 3, 8 ¥ Campania,Aug. 31,1 » x Umbria, Aug. 10,8 A Umbria, Sept. 7, 8A X Lucanis, Aue. 17, L e s Tucavia oo, 14, Noon Cabin passsge 60 and upward; second cabin, 235, 8107$45, according to steamet and accommo- ations. Steerage tickets to and from all parts of Euroj at very low rates. For freight and passage apply 8¢ company's office, & Bowling Green, New York. "FRRNON I, BOWN & 00., General Agents. S oot o Aiarals okt on N Akenis, San Francisoo. M;AL MAIL STEAN PACKET COMPANT. TEAMERS LEAVE ASPINWALL tly for the West Indies and =i e A wure to direct ports in any. “Throush ickets from San Francisco to PLymouthy Taee e 50, For et ;Eh?‘“x‘m"niu claes, riher culars &) PARROTT & CO., Agents, 306 California st STOCKTON STEAMERS Leave Pier No. 8, Washington St., At 5 P. M. Daily, Except Sunday. 4@~ Accommodations Reserved by Telephone STEAMER J. D. Peters, City of Stockton, Cai. Nav. and Impt. Co. T, C. Walker. Mary Garratt, Telephone Main B05- Atlantic Pacific RAILROAD leave from and arrive Chicage Limited ves every day at 5:30 P. ., carrying Pullman mri\wemupen.:nd Tourist Sleepers to [Chicago via Kansas City without change. ADnex cars for Denver and St. Louls. VIA LOS ANGELES. Trains leave daily at 9:00 A 3. and 5:30 P. ., connecting in Les Angeles with solid tralns, Los Angeles to Chicago. - S or Winter the Santa Fe Route is the most Comfortable railway, California to the East. A popular misbelief exists ling the heat in Summer. The hent is not greater than Is encoun- tered op even the most northerlyline. This is well Kknown to experienced travelers. nonefl:u!nrnr-mmummmm ex- cellent feature of the line. The Grand Canyen of the Colorado can be reached in no other way. Ticket Office—644 Market Street, Chranicle Building. OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. OCEANIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Coolgardie gold flelds (Fremantle), Austra- ; $220 first_claas, 8110 steerage. Lowest raies to Capetown, South Africa. Australlan steamer, ALAMEDA, sails via Honolulu and Auck- Jand, Thursday, July 25, 4t 3P ). Steamship Australia, Honolulu only, Satur day, August 8 &t 10 A M SPECIATL PARTrES.—Reduced special rates for parties August 3d and Cook’s Party Auzus: 5d. ‘Ticket office, 138 Montg Freight office, 32° CKELS & BROS.. ¢ reet. icet street. al Agents. RATLROAD TRAVEL! SAVFRANCISCO & NORTH PA- CIFIC RAILWAY (9. Tiburon Ferry—Foot of Market St. San Francisco to San Rafael. WEEK DAYS-—7:40, 9:20, 11:00 A.d.; 13:38, 8:30, 5:10, 6:30 P. M. Thursdays—Extra tri t11:30 .. Saturdays—Extra trips at 1750 and 11:80 ». . BUNDAYS-8:00, 9:30, 11:00 A.a.; 1:30, 8:30, 5:00, 6:20 P. x. San Rafael to San Francisco. WEEK DAYS—6:25, 7:55, , 11:10 A, a.; 12:45, 340, B:ld(' P. M. Saturdal &t 1:50 P. M. an 5 P, M. SUNDAYS-8:10, 9:40, 11:10 a. 3.; 1:40, 3:40, 5:00, 6:25 r. M. Between San Francisco and Schuetzen Park same schedule as above. Teave Arrive San Francisco. | J3eMeCt | gan Francisco. WEEK | SON- ' Sus- | WEEK Davs. | pavs. |Vestination.| 5.vg | Dave. 7740 AM|8:00 AM| Novato, |10:40 AX| 8:50 AM 8130 Px|9:30 x| Petaluma, | 6:05 Px|10:30 Ax 5:10 »|5:00 P |Santa Rosa.| 7:30 px| 6:15 rx Fulton, 7:40 Ax| Windsor, 10:30 Ax | Healdshurg, Geyserville, 3:30 P3|8:00 A/ Cloverdale. | 7:30 pxr| 6:15 put Pieta, | 1 idoax Hopland & | 110:30 ax :30 Px(8:00 AM| Ukiah. | 7:30 Py 6:15 PM 740 Ax| | I |8:00 Ax|Guerneville, 8:80 x| 7:40 A%|8:00 ax| Soroma 5:10 P (5:00 3| an I Glen Ellen. 7:40 A3[8:00 Ax. = 10:40 A3 10:30 Ax 3150 12t 5:00 #ac| Sebestopal. [1G:53 115135 B Stages connect at San Rafacl for Bolinas. g Siakes connect at £anta Rosa for Mark West prings. ‘Stages connect at Geyserville for Skaggs Springe. Stages connect at Cloverdale ior the Geysers. Stages connect at Pieta for Highland Springs, Kelseyville, Soda Bay, Lakeport. Stages _conuect st Hopland for Lakeport and Bartleit Springs. Btages connect at Ukiah for Vichy Springs, Blas Lakes, Laurel Dell, Upper Lake, Booneville, Green- wood, Mendocino City. Fort Bragg, Usal, Westport, Cahto, Willetts, Calpeila, Pomo, Potter Valley, John Day’s, Lively's, Gravelly Valley, Harris, Blocks- burg, Bridgevilie, Hyde-ville and Eureka. Saturday to Monday round-trip tickets at reduced ates. On Sundays round-trip tickets to all polats be- yond San Rafael a¢ hal: rates. sSpecial Sunday El Campo Service. STEAMER UKIAH leaves Tiburon ferry every Sunday—10:30 A. M., 0, 2:00 and 4:00 :fi;&x;ll)fl“—!&lve El Campo at 1:00, Tic.-.et Offices, 650 Market st., Chronicle building. H. C. WHITING, R.X. RYAN, Gen. Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent. SOUTHERN PACIFIC (PACIFIC EM.. Trains l..“;n: nred SAN FIRANC srlon LEAVE Frow JULY 16, 1895. #6:30A San Leandro, Haywards & Way St'ns to arrive at ARRIVE 7:00a Atlantic Express, Ogden and Fast.. 7:00A Benicis, Vacarille. Rumses, mento, and Redding via Dovis.... 7:15p 7:304 Martinez, San Ramon, Naps, Calis- and Santa Rosa... . 6:or 7:30a S0 Leandro, Hagwards & Way Sths 10134 $:30A Niles, San Jose, Stockton, Ione, cramento, Marysville, Red Biutt 4:15» *7:15p 11:454 9:004 Martinez and Btockton. 10:004 San Leandro, Haywsrds and Niles . 12:00x San Leandro, Haywards & Way St'ns. 3:00P 8an Leandro, 4:00p San Leandro, H; 4:00r Martines, Ramon, Napa, Oalistoga, El Ve 4:00; n&lmm"p.m 1002 ) Knights Landing, Marysville, Oroville and Sacrainento 10:454 5100 Niles, San Jose, Stockton 75p 5:30P San Leaudro, 81452 5:30r Los Angoles xpress, Fresno, Ray- mond (for Yosemite), akersteld, Santa Barbara and Los Avgeles.. 4:452 5:302 Santa Fo Route, Atlautic Express for Mojave and Last... 6:00p Furopean Mail, Ogden ane 6:00r Hoywards, Niles and San Jose. :00r Vallejo 7:00p Oregon Iixpress, Sacramento, Marys- ville, Redding, Portlaud, Puget Sound and East .. £ 9:00; $111:15p San Leandro Haywards& Way v SANTA CRUZ DIVISION (Narrow Gauge). 17:454 Sundsy_Excursion for Newark, & Jase, Los Gatos, Felton and Santa ik, San Jose, Felton, lder Creek, Santa Cruzand Way Boul Stations,..... erees DIDOP #2:15p Newark, Centery New Almaden, Felton, Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz and Principal Way Stations. .. *11:204 4:45p Neowark, San Jose, Los Gatos .. 9304 COAST DIVISION (Third & Townseud Sts.) ‘Way Staticns.. . . 81154 San Joso, Tres Pivos, Santa Cruz, Pacific Grove, Paso Robles, San Y.uis Obispo, Guadalupe and Prin- eipal Way Stations 19:474A Palo Alio and Way Stat 0:404 San Jose aud Way Stations. 454 Palo Alto and Way Statlons. *2:30p San Jose, Gilroy, Tres Pin Cruz, Salinas, Monterey and ay *4:30r San Jose and Way ious. 5:30¢ San Jose and Way Stations. 6:30p San Joso and Way Stations. 80P Ban J¢ Way Statl CREEK ROUTE FERRY. From SAN PRANGISCO—Foot of NMerket Streat (Slip 8)— *7:00 8:00 9 *10:00 11 $1:00 *2:00 3:00 *4:00 600 From OAKLAND—Foot of Broadway.— *0: 8:00 *9:00 10:00 *I1:00A.M. *12:30 8:00 300 420 11200 “5:00r A for Morning. * lnnflfi.a: ted.‘m‘" P for Afternoon. 1 Saturdays only. A‘S"lldl!l only. i hid and Saturday nights onlys VIA SAUSALITO FERRY. From Armiv 21, 1895, ‘WEEK DAYS. Nill Y., Ress Vel Sa3 B Ariva 8. P, " “ “ “ “ “ “ - “ “ “ “ “« " “w “ B “ 1 Ross Val., Saz RfL, San Qia. SUNDAYS. l@l.l.:fl!"llfi.l?“hnl.‘,fihlm.fll& Prrrereyy P .. Koss Valley, al, SanQtn..... 9.004.M. ILII“VIL. ‘n Val., &l}'a.u., EanQta. seoms 10,0041, 11004, an Rass V: al Val., San’ @ San Rfl PR . Sa0 Qt, 12.10P.M.