The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 28, 1895, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1895. 11 I ALAMEDA COUNTY, Another Bigamist Is Be- ing Watched For in Oakland. BLACKMAILING CHINESE. No Prize-Fighting or Boxing Will Be Allowed in Haywards. MISS COOLBRITH IMPROVING. The County Press Condemns the Reduction of Railroad Assessments. ed the house at 827 A detective Milton street, North Oakland, most of vesterday, hoping to find A. M. Lorenzo de Ferrer, who is wanted for bizamy. His mother and b at address, renzo might and it was t e ay them a v the role of a But their vigil was nd when a little reard of him until nize an immense bout four years ago. like other schemes of was heard of again in married a very worthy and. Adfter the honey- deserted his young wife, ext seen in Oakland with a med Miss Patten, whom he ied at Santa Cruz. A friend of ife discovered Ferrer's duplicity By the description fur- rer recognized the girl as , of whom she had frequently errer wrote the Patten family and m she was Ferrer's wife. By that er had gone on the road as a i he has not revealed his The second wife,to whom arried by contract, returned and ber brother Christo- | t a warrant for bigamy, but | it have not been able to tated that he has rec- es and Vallejo. s coincidence that A. E. er both figured in O: > escapades at the same | 0, and both gained noto- | n the same day. Parlin | ut the same age, of the | ch belongs to the lass young fellows that wear silk hats with a ist to leeward. Wheels Are Turning. The Smith pipeworks at San Leandro started n Tuesday with a small force ter been idle some months. ne the present order is finished | be commenced on a big lot of | work from San Jose. This job will take several months to complete. Daniel Best 0f the large manufacturing works at San Leandro reports a pleasant r class outloo] To a reporter yesterday he said: | “I have just received an order from an English company at Redding for a traction engine and three largeiron wagons. They are to be used in car- rying copper ore. Tam expecting to do a big business in Ausiralia before long. A | number of English capitalists have inter. ested themselves in the matter of intro- ducing my engines and harvesters in t! country. They have spent $1800 i ing patent rights, and as other deta. | around here. A the coming se: Aprico e coming in so fast canneries are unable to keep up with th This is due to th ct that the ca nt help to cut a are plenty of people | who could fill these | if they apply at once the | ys it will not send to San | sco for Chinamen. After a littl ce workers can make from $1 to $ he fruit. T lameda County d per day. The canneries are now kept in a | clean and orderly manner, and there is no reason w e: hould be put to work ne atelson will soon erecta hand- nce on the Meek Tract, on the y road. Charles Neadeck of Hay- has a fine house nearly completed. Hoare is planning 1o build on his astro Valley property. J. Ruppricht of aywards is to make large additions to his | store property m that town. No More Boxing. The number of disgraceful fights that | have recently taken place at Haywards has moved the respectable résidents of that place to strongly protest, and as a result the following ordinance was passed for the first time last Wednesday and was pub- lished in the official paper yesterday: It shall be unlawful for any person in the town of Haywards to engage in, instigate, en- courage or promote any boxing match, fist fighting or fisticuffs. Svery person who violates any provision of the forgoing section shall be guilty of a mis- demeanor, and upon couviction thereof shall | be punished by a fine not exceeding $50, and | in case such fine be nnt&nld then by imprison- ment at the rate of one day for every $2 of the fine so imposed. Thé ordinance will become a law in about three weeks. Blackmailing the Chinese. During the past few weeks several Chinese merchants in Alameda County have been blackmailed by two men imper- sonating Federal officers. Their plan was to represent themselves as officers and de- mand to see the stock of merchandi hand and when shown it they pretended the revenue stamps were not of the right kind and that new ones were necessary, promising to send some for the money ihey received. At the store of Chung Wo at Haywards they secured $25 and from Hing Lee they got § Last Wednesday evening the men re- turned and tried to work the same tactics, but Constable Ramage had been informed of the swindle and when the men found they could get nothing they became sus- picious and left town quickly. The Macdonough Attractions. Monday, August 5, inaugurates the opening of the regular fall and winter sea- son of the Macdonough Theater. The at- traction will be Hoyt’s “A Black Sheep.” Itis the third season under_ the manage- ment of Charles E. Cook, and the coming season bids fair to be more prosperous than all preceding ones, as Mr. Cook has booked the finest attractions ever known to the coast. ““A Black Sheep’’ goes to Mac- donough’s for three evenings and a Wed- nesday mwatinee. Following “A Black Sheep” comes Herr Fritz Scheel and his entire orchestra, Friday, August 9, in a grand concert, and on August 13 Froh- man’s Lyceum Company in complete re- pertoire for three nights. Parlin’s Wives. PASADENA, CaL., July 27.—This morn- ing’s press dispatches credit F. E. Parlin with having bad six wives, whose names are given. C. E. Getcheit, a prominent Pasadeha citizen, comes forward to-day with the information thatiun 1888 Parlin married Fannie E. Slocum in Helena, Mont., who died in 1889, leaving a child, which was taken by Mrs. Parlin’s mother to bring up, Getchelt has occasion to re- member the circumstance, as he erected a tombstone over the remains of Mrs. Par- Lin, for which he has never been paid. The Miss Slocum named was among the list of Parlin’s victims. Parlin ngpesn‘.d in court to-uay and withdrew bis plea of guilty toacharge of battery, for which he is iprisoned in the County Jail, His trial is set for Tuesday. Equalization Comment. _‘The great battle between the corpora- tions and the people is over and the rail- road- and corporations have won. Never before in_the history of this county was there such interest in corporation assess- ments as at the present meeting of the ‘ounty Board of E(‘ualization. The united atfack on Dalton’s assessments by the corporations was met with an equal strong showing by the County Assessor. In fact our County Assessor defended his assessments most completely, and all honor to him for the gallant ficht made. He stood by the people trom first to last. The cut in his assessment-roll will amount to about $1,000,000.—Haywards Journal. Cost of Education. The report of the County Supermtendent of Schools shows that the Haywards Gram- mar School is the most economically man- aged of any in the county. In the Liver- more district, with an enrollment of 519 and an average attendance of 371. the cost ver month for teachers was $980, or anaver- ageof $1 89 for each pupilenrolled. InSan Leandro the enrollment was 585, with an average attendance ot 451. Tne cost for teachers was $795, or an average of $1 37 per pupil. In Haywards the enroliment was 556 and the cost of teachers $657 50 per moqih, being an average of $118 for each pupil. Institute for Deaf Mutes. There are already several pupils at the Deaf and Dumb Institute at North Temes- cal, opened a few days ago by the Sisters of St. Joseph and work has been commenced in earnest. Its curriculum issimilarto that of the New York institution, and as it is the first private school of the kind started in the State, its progress is being watched by those interested in the education of deaf mutes. . Deputy Jerome Injured. E. B. Jerome, the customs official, met ith a serious accident Friday night, and will be confined to his home fora couple of weeks. He was riding a wheel on Twelfth street, near Jefferson, when the driver of a team ran him down and drove off without endeavoring to see how much Jerome was injured. Mr. Jerome is badly bruised and cut, but there are no internal injuries. General Kelley Heard From. General Kelley, his wife and two chil- dren, who left Oakland three months ago in a bakery wagon converted into a prairie schooner with the intention of going to Washington, have been heard from at Ne- vada City. Kelley has a petition to Con- that Government work be yed. HISTORY OF A DAY. Alameda County Happenings Told in Brief Chapters. The annual regatta of the California Yacht Ciub will be held to-day. B. F. Burton was held up in Highland Park late Friday night and relieved of a dollar and a diamond ring. Next Monday night the Oakland City Union of Christian Endeavor will be organized at Y. M. C. A. building. grading for the new raflroad from ado Crossing to the sugar mill is fast ng completion. The Foresters from San Leandro and Hay- wards will unite in a picnic at San Lorenzo on Sunday, August 11. Miss Ina Coolbrith has passed the critical se of her illness, and hopes for her recovery have some foundation. 1 year has ended and Oakland’s city does not show the £15,000 deficit that yrodicted by Expert York. A special meeting of the City Council will be vening for the purpose of con- the awarding of sewer contracts. Oakland Board of Education has estima- \at the grammar schools will require )00 and the high school $64,910 for the ing year. t San Leandro youths who participated fighis at San” Lorenzo grove on last nday have been arrested and warrants have beep issued for thirteen more. Eden Landing prosents & busy appearance. The warchouse is being rapidly filled with hay and grain. By the present outlook the storage capacity will %e taxed to its utmpst. The Oakland, San Leandro and Haywards lectrie Railway and the East Oakland Street Railway have {vrepnmd petitions to the City Board of Equalization for a reduction of their essessment. Street Superintendent Miller is not pleased with the sewerage system of Oakland. He says itis wey behind the times. The many com- plaints that have been filed at his office have caused him to investigate. General” Charles T. Kelley of Oakland In- ustrial Army fame, has been heard from in Nevada City, where he is soliciting signatures ) a petition to Congress. The Nevada City nscript denounces Kelley as a “fakir.” arles McMillan, who was struck by a Hay- s clectric-car on February 2 last, has com- 7 d_proceedings in the Justice Court of Oskland Township for the recovery of $200 damages alleged to have been sustained by him. To show how light the yield in Eden Township is this year ascompared with last tis stated that the amount last week secured the Mohr field, o;fl);lte the postoffice, was 8 sacks of grain. t year it amounted to « wa ings, who keeps a chicken ranch on nth street, Oakland, has produced a r which has laid the champion of all ggs. It is 814 inches in circumference v by 6}4 the other, It is the size of an nary turkey egg. dge F. B. Ogden has granted an extension 1 August 5 within which further proof be put in upon the question of occupation improvements on the water f{ront, the me 10 be offered as parties might be advised good cause appearing. Edgar Hobart, E. S. West and W. P. Nether- ton, appraisers of the estate of the late Melissa Sedgley, filed a statement yesterday morning appraisiug the value of the estate at $11,- 600 43, consisting principally of an interest in land in Alameda and in Santa Cruz. The leading society event of the near future in Alameda is the phantasma or living picture inment being arranged under the aus- f the Woman’s Exchange of that place. The performance is to_be given at the Linder- man Opera-house on the 8th, 9th and 10th. In the case of W.S.Linn, who is suing the Contra Costa Laundry Company for $10,000 damages on account of being run into by lzundry wagon on the Oakland boat, a continu- ance will be asked, as John Miller, the driver, and an important witness, has opportunely left the State. Patrick Murphy, who lives in Alameda on St. Charles street and was arrested for insanity, was discharged to-Gay s not dangerous to be atlarge. It appears that he acted a little queer at times and was in the habit of lighting matches at night in dangerous proximity to his bed. Murphy is 38 years of sge snd & eacher. The official board of the First M. E. Church of Oukland hae asked Rey. Dr. Chapman to deliver a series of Sunday-evening discourses which will be especially helpful to such as are bt about the inspiration of Scripture and Christian religion. The first of this series will be given this evening, the subject being “An Honest Doubter.” Mr. Foster, the redoubtable collector of poll taxes, is indignant over the version of his en- counter with Major J. E. McElrath which was given by the morning papers. One of them re- ported that he bit the major’s ear, and this he thinks is a particularly cruel slander, as his front teeth are gone, and be could not chew a gentleman’s ear if he wished to. Sevent Sale of a Shakespeare. A sef:c)'nd folio edition of Shakespeare in the original calf binding, the largest and finest copy known, was sold for $2700 at the recent sale of the books of the late Earl of Orford. Tt was sold in 1848 for $140 and in 1864 for $740. The price is remarka- bie, as the second is the least rare of the four folio Bhakespeares. A “Nouvean Testament,”” Paris, 1712, bound in red mo- rocco, inlaid in colors, by Le Mounier, brought $1725. This was sold in 1678 for $255. A Procius, ‘‘In Platonis Timaeon Commentarium,” Basel, 1534, sold in 1878 for $242, brovght §725. “Le Pastissier Francois,” 1655, the rarest of all Elzevirs, brought $500; Diego de Stella “Medita- tions,”” 1686, the presentation copy to King Henry UI of France, $725; Ariosto, “Or- lando Furioso,” Lyons, 1556, Catherine de Medici’s coKy, $640; Horace Walpole'’s “Hizmrly}) ic Tales,” $185; his copies of Boswell's Journal of a Tour in the Hebri- des, $205, and of the Earl of Chesterfield’s Miscellaneous Works, §78. Both the latter contained many amusing marginal notes in his handwriting. The proof sheets of Sir Walter Scott’s ‘‘The Pirates,” with bundreds of emendations in the author's hand, fetched §430.—New York Sun. WATTING WORD OF WARD. He Promised to Invest Liber~ ally in a New Electric Railroad. DUPED OARLAND CAPITALISTS. A Bunko Man Who Has Worked the Coast With Success for Ten Years. Two weeks ago a man named Mitchell S. Ward made his appearance in Oakland and caused the fact that he was a Chicago capitalist looking for investments to be bruited far and wide. He was accompa- nied by his wife, and although he had very little cash he talked of investments so con- vincingly that before he was twenty-four hours in any hotel the best wasalways placed at his disposal. The project so long talked of, the build- ing of an electric road to San Jose, was mentioned to him, and even before he gave evidence that he knew there was such a town as San Jose, he expressed his will- ingness to invest $30,000 in the enterprise. This made him more friends. The road is being advocated and backed by Felix Chappellet, the mining miltionaire of Oak- land, Joseph Kendal, another wealthy resi- dent ot Alameda County, and Mr. Chis- holm of Eden Township. So when Mr. Ward was seen in the company of such solid business men no one doubted that he was good for at least $1000, and he bought with a lavish hand and promised future settlements as generously. Ward told the projectors of the road that he had been engaged in doing some contracting for the Santa Fe Railroad in the southern part of the State, and that certain money he received he should have turned over to the railroad, but he kept it, and credited to his own account for the work he had done_for the railroad. The compsnz( he said, had brought suit against 5im and secured judgment by de- fault for $150,000. After this he turned all his property over to his brother and sister, who lived near Chicago. Ward then ave out that he had telegraphed to his Erother for $30,000 to put into the electric road. When the money did not arrive, Ward exilnined that his brother had left New York with the money, and was due on Saturday last. The day came around, but the brother and the ,000 did not. Before the appointed time Ward also dis- appeared, and has not been seen since in Oakland. The last beard of him was when he was arrested at San Jose and released owing to a misunderstanding. It was stated that he had bought a ticket for San Francisco and left on an early trafn. Although offi- cers of that city, armed with a warrant for grand larceny, were waiting to receive him, Ward is still at large. The team he drove to Haywards from San Jose was returned to McCleverty’s stable in Oakland by a messenger, Ward having telegraphed from San Jose to the proprietor to send some one to that city to get the rig. S. B. Chaloner, proprietor of the Hay- wards Villa, and the heaviest loser by Ward’s bunko game, hearing that Ward was known in Seattle, sent to his friend, J. H. Woolery, ex-Sheriff of King County, ing if Ward was square, Ward is a clever rascal in a good many ways,” replied the ex-Sheriff. “The first that was heard of him in this county was in 1834, when -he was superintendent of construction of the Oregon and California Railroad from McMinnville to Corvallis. He failed to pay his men, and asa result came very near being lynched.” LATE NEWS OF ALAMEDA Evangelist Henry Varley Opens a Series of Revival Meetings. The Yacht El Suero Wins in a Race Against Encinal Boats—The Art League. Evangelist Henry Varley will com- mence a series of lectures in Linderman Opera-house to-day, which will continue during the week. A meeting for men only is announced for this aiternoon. The ser- vice this evening is a union meeting, in which all the churches unite. Good music has been secured and a large audience is promised. The, night meetings will be held during the week at Linderman Opera- house and the afternoon Bible readings in the churches as follows: Monday and Tuesday, in the Baptist church; Wednes- day and Thursday, in the Park-street Church, and Friday in the Presbyterian cnurch. ‘Wilmerding Trades School. The City Clerk sent out a circular letter yesterday to a large number of citizens, in- viting them to meet the City Trustees Thursday evening next at 8 o’clock to dis- cuss ways and means whereby the Wilmer- ding Trades and Mechanical School may be secured for this city. Other localities are exerting efforts for this institution. Encinal Club Races. The class race of the Encinal Yacht Club took place over the club’s course yesterday afternoon. Interest was more centered in the race between El Suenoand the Em- erald, as it was the impression that the winner is_to be chosen to defend the cu against the Queen. As was expected i; Sneno won. The Fawn, which held the second-class pennant, was defeated bi the Little Annie. The Volante won the third- class pennant. The Diamond Cyclers. The fleet members of the Diamond Cycling Club made a run to San Jose yes- terday and will return to-day. The club will change its quarters from 1124 Railroad avenue to 1429 Park street and will fit up its quarters in comfortable style. Act League to Reorganize. Artist J. D. Jewett has just re- turned from a month’s trip to Boulder Creek, where he spent his vacation sketch- ing. The Alameda Art League classes will be revived, and the first meeting of the gentlemen’s class has been called for the 13th of August. The ladies’ class will be formed a week or two after that date. ——————————— HEALTH AND POLICE. The Market-Street Rallway Company’s Feuder Models to Be Inspected. At the meeting of the Health and Police Committee of the Supervisors yesterday, Monday, August 5, at 10:30 o’clock A. ., was set for the inspection of the models of car fenders exhibited by the Market-street Railway Company, on West Mission stregt. A petition was read from the Holly Park Improvement Club asking for an extension of the pound limits from Crescent avenue south along Mission road to Islais Creek, thence along the creek to the San Bruno road. The matter was laid over for a week. Permission was granted to J. W. Ham- ilton and L. F. Herrick to comstruct rivate hospital on Mission street, between leventh and Twelfth. e Fastest Time From New York to Paris. The new steamship enterprise of the Ham- ‘burg-American line from New York via Cher- bourg to Paris has already achieved its laurels for speed on the New York-Paris route, out- stripping all other lines. The .twin-screw fiyer Furst Bismarck, for instance, left New ork June 27, at 11 A. M., passed over the bar at 1:04 P, M., and arrived at Cherbo July 4, atnoon. The passengers were transierred at once to the special train awaiting them there and arrived in Paris the same evening. By this new arrangement the disagreeable Channel crossing is avoided. The passengers reached Paris within one week, & feat hitherto un- equaled. ———— FOR ILLEGAL SEALING. The Schooner Sophie Sutherland Has Been Libeled by Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam is after Captain Sutherland of the schooner Sophie Sutherland and the vessel is to be libeled for having taken seals within the prohibited zone. ‘When the schooner left San Francisco she went to Japanese waters and when the season in the!Sea of Okhotsk closed, Cap- tain Sutherland sailed for the Pribyloff Islands. The agents of the Government assert that the crew of the schooner were caught hunting in the vicinity of St. Pauls Island and that fresh skins. were found in the boats. The libel will be tried in the United States District Court. —_— BERKELEY'S ~ BOATHOUSE, A New Building Just Com- pleted for Students In Sessions Basin. The Sport Seems Likely to Assume a Prominent Place This Season. The University of California’s new boat- house, which has been under course of con- struction for the past six weeks, is ready to be turned over to the board of club di- rectors. The new structure occupies the site of the old one which was burned last April, in Sessions basin, on the Oakland Estuary. The building is seventy feet Jong and twenty-four feet wide, one story in height, and will remain for the present with a rough finish on the interior. W. G. Morrow, treasurer of the club, said ihat although the club realized $2400 from insurance yet there was only $1700 left with which to put up a ney building, properly equl;} it and purchase new boats and shells. The building alone, without any interior finishings or furniture, cost $550, and by the time the new shells were OAKLAND'S ~ POSTOFFICE, The Service Suffers From Res- idents Dealing With the Office Here. MORE CARRIERS ARE NEEDED, If the Patronage Were Divided an Improvement Would Follow. Oakland residents and business men want a better postal and carrier service. The same applies to Alameda and Berkeley. Ozkland has thirty regular carriers, and five or ten more are needed to bring the service up to the requirements of a city of its size. The only condition necessary to the improvement needed in the carrier service is that of an increased revenue at the Oakland office, and the resi- dents of Oakland who do business in San Francisco are looked to by their neighbors and fellow-townsmen to supply this needed revenue. Several thousand business and profes- sional men and others whose daily labor is performed in this City have tbeir homes in Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley. Many of them buy all their stamps and other mail matter at station D in this City, with the resuit that the revenues of sta- tion D have been increased until they are within §20,000 or $25,000 of the annual revenue of Los Angeles’ postoffice. Nearly all that revenue, if it is not Oak- land’s by right of residence, properly be- longs there. According to Postmaster ‘White, if station D’s revenue was cut in half Oakland’s postal business would be increased sufficiently to warrant the de- partment at Washington in improving the carrier service, But those who buy their stamps at Station D while waiting for a boat or on their arrival from the other side prior to praceeding to their places of busi- ness do not think of this, “If these men would buy half their stamps of us,” said Assistant Postmaster *A. L. Martin yesterday afternoon, ‘‘we THE NEW BOATHOUSE OF THE BOAT CLUB IN built the treasury would have been entirely exhausted. He said: The last race was very disastrous to us, for we had gone to the expense of erecting & grand stand for our guests, and on the very night be- fore thé race with the Columbias the boathouse was destroyed. As & consequence our audi- ence was small and the gate receipts likewise meager. It isour intention toexpend about $500 ‘more ou the house later, in building a balcon: all around it, and in furnishing ladies’ an gentlemen's aressing-rooms, We are now having built two 40-foot four- oar gigs, two working boats, lwemfnfim lonfi by twenty-four inches wide, and a single smal two-oar craft. As soon as it is possible for us to doso we intend to build several pleasure boats, perhaps two row and two sail. The cost of maintaining the house will be about $500 a year, outside of furnishings, which will be required from time to time. When asked what the prospects were for races during the coming season Mr. Mor- row said that Btanford had informally agreed to row against the university in ’97, but no definite conclusion had thus far been arrived at. He eaid that from all indications boating would form a promi- nent part of university athletics during the coming year. _ 2 The present officers of the association are: President, Samuel Colt Jr.; vice- &resident Professor C. L. Cory; seorehré, orton R. Gibbons; treasurer, W. G. Morrow. R —— LATEST BERKELEY NEWS, A Sanitary Inspector Makes Important Discoveries on His Rounds. Crescent Club Wheelmen Adopt a Handsome Uniform=Pro- fessor Blackmar. Sanitary Inspector Thompson has com- pleted the inspection of the First Ward and about one-half of the Second, and re- ports a total of thirty-eight places ordered connected with the sewer. Recently there has been much complaint brought against the sale of impure milk in and about Berkeley, and it is the intention of the Health Officer and his assistants to make a thorough investigation of this matter during the month of August. Vitioultural Report. George E. Colby, instructor at the uni- versity ana official reporter on fermented liquors for the Association of Agricultural Chemists, has just completed a very im- };omnb Te] on methods of analysis of rmented liquors. Samples were sent to all the members of the association, and the various methods of analysis are to be compared. Thea: tion meets in Wash- ington, D. C., on September 5 to compare these reports. An 01d Landmark Gone. Workmen are engaged in tearing down the old Columbia Gymnasium, on Ban- croft way. This db:l‘ld%;g was :omu;id many years ago and has been put to vari- ous n’azn such as a dance hall, agnfing rink and drill hall. Crescent Wheelmen’s Uniform. The newly organized wheelmen’s annex to the Crescent Athletic Club has adopted a uniform which consists of a black cap. white sweater, blue trousers and blac! stockings. To-dr:ly a club run will be made_to Haywards to witness the Acme ten-mile race. Professor Blackmar Will Preach. R B e T iRl uate of Johns Hopkins University an: who now holds the chair of soclol? at the University of Kansas, will ;reuh his morning at the Trinity Methodist Church on the subject of “Christ and the Social Problem.” Termagant was formerly a quarrelsome person of either sex, and only the lack of galhnuy of men has li the word to ts presence sl G ’ = UNIVERSITY OF OCALIFORNIA’S SESSIONS BASIN. [From a photograph.} e could give the people of Oakland five more 1 carriers. Our revenue is only $91.000. An increase of $25,000 or $30,000 would induce the department to grant our request. It is no more than right these people who live here and do business in 8an Francisco and kick about the inadequate service shouid divide their patronage. Their interests are half here at least. “While our income is only $91,000, that of station D is $130,000. 1t must nearly all come from those who cross and recross the bay daily, because there is no unusual postal business in the immediate vicinity of the ferry. Alameda and Berkeley suffer in the same way; and it seems to me it is only necessary to call the attention ot the business and professional men to the cause of our inadequate service to have it reme- died. Ourdaily collections in the business center are seven, and in the residence and outside districts three and four. The de- liveries downtown are four, outside two and three. ‘“‘Some of the outside annexes we cannot cover at all, so you can see how badly we need an improvement in facilities. Five thousand dollars a {en was recently cut off from our revenue by an order made by the authorities at Washington. Hereto- fore one could buy his_stamped envelopes here and have tbe San Francisco return no- tice printed on them. Now a man must buy his stamped envelopes in the place where his mail is to be returned in case of non-delivery. Alameda has seven car- riers and Berkeley but two, with conditions about the same. The revenue of the Berke- Ieydofl!,ce is almost as large as that of Ala- meda. 3 BELIEVES IN MADSTONES. The Good Rocord of a Stone That Came ¥rom the Far Eas “No person who has seen madstones ap- plied so often and so successfully as I have can ever doubt the efficacy of these articles.” So speaks D. Pointer, a citizen of Mem- phis, whose whitened hair attests his ar- rival at an age of intelligence. Mr. Pointer’s father was Dr. D. Pointer, who practiced the healing art at Como, Miss., for many years, being a native of Halifax County, Virginia, where the grandfather, Thomas Pointer, lived. This family 1s widely connected and is well known in Virginia, as well as in the Mississippi Valley. “When I tell you that we have had a madstone in our family for over three- quarters of a century, and that I myself have positive knowledge of hundreds of cures of bona fide cases of hydrophobia by the stone, you will understand why I am such a thorough believer in it,” says Mr. Pointer. “My grandfather, Tom Pointer of Halifax County, Virginia, first came into possession of the stone. I have in my younger days often heard all about how he got it, but "have forgotten most of the de- tails. I know that afriend of my grand- father traveled in the Kast Indies, or China, and came back with a great many of these stones. . Ido not know how he got. them. He sold them to different eople. He did not sell this one to my gmndintl‘x)er, but left it with him, saying my grand- father could have it, unless hereturned and claimed it. He was a great traveler. He made another trip after this and was never heard of again. Hence, my grandfather retained the stone. Later in its history it ‘was broken. One partis now in the pos- session of Joe Pointer and Green Williams of Person County, North Carolina, and I and my sister, Mrs. Stith of Dallas, Tex., keep the other. At one time, when it was necessary to sell this stone at auction to settle an estate, it brought $750. “The stone we have is quite qrdingal in appearance. It is and mignt well be taken for a chunk of coal. ue _side, that is applied to the bit«sf is rough. When the stone is used it is laid on the spot where the bite has scratched the skin. If poison has been deposited there the mad- stone will stick and absorb the poisonous substance. B “T recollect on one occasion when a member of our household had been bitten, the doctor gave up thwficnt .and said | that he could not live till morning. The bite was on the arm and the swelling was immense. The patient could not open his eyes. There was no doubt about this being acase of rabies, for the doctor so pro- nounced it. The doctor, having given u the case and declared that death woul ensue before morning, I asked him if 1 could not try the efficacy of the madstone. He had no_objection, stating that it would do no ‘fqod. but to appease my insistence he said it could do no harm. 8o Iapplied the stone. It adhered. Presently it had absorbed all it could contain of the poison- ous substance and fell off. “By that time the sufferer had been benefited sufficiently to be able to open his eyes. Iplaced the stone in a bucket of lukewarm water, the usual wag of treating it, and the poison at once exudéd and rose to the top of the water. forming a green scum. When the stone had emptied itself it was again applied to the sore, and fore it had filled up again it fell off, all the poison having been absorbed. The patient recovered, though the doctor, a disbeliever in the madstone, had given him less than twelve hours to live. . “‘There are many people in this city and in Mississippi who can vouch for the effi- cacy of this stone. Iremember of a cure before the war, in which Phelan Lucas, who now lives at Holly Springs, was deeply interested. Mr. Lucas had a valua- ble negro bitten by a rattlesnake while working in the field. The bite was in the thumb.” The negro came in from the field with his hand and arm fearfully swollen, suffering great pain. There wasno cnance for him to live long. Mr. Lucas said after- ward that anybody could have bought that negro for $10 then, But the madstone was got from my father’s’and the negro was cured. ‘‘Persons who have seen so many and such positive cures as I have cannot doubt Te efficacy of the madstone.”—Memphis ppeal. DR, WOOLSEY IN A BRAWL The Oakland Physician As- saults a Constable en the Street. His Refusal to Accept a Canceled Insurance Policy Leads to Trouble. An attempt to serve a civil paper on Dr. E. H. Woolsey by a Deputy Constable pro- voked an encounter on Oakland’s main business street. During the past week an agentof the Hartford Insurance Company has made several attempts to serve Dr. Woolsey with a canceled policy on his hospital. Dr. Woolsey refused to receive the canceled pohcy and Agent Strong of the insurance company made another attempt yesterday afternoon. He was unsuccessful, and then he transferred the paper to Deputy Con- stable Ed Widler, who went to Woolsey’s office with it. ‘Widler was refused admittance,and took his stand at the entrance leading into the building from Broadway. Dr. Woolsey was walking toward his carriage when ‘Widler held out the paper. Woolsey told him thatif he placed his hand on him (Woolsey) there would be trouble. Widler placed the document on Woolsey’s arm, and at the same instant put his other hand toward his hip pocket. Woolsey struck at Widler's head with a heavy cane, and gave him a blow_at the back of the ear. The doctor then dropped the cane and placed his arms around Wid- ler, who was faint from_the blow. Widler did not have time to raise his hand before bystanders took away his pistol. About a month ago the insurance on the hospital, amounting to $15,000, was trans- ferred by Dr. Woolsey from the Sun Com- pan{ to the Hartford. On July 2, about a week after the transfer, there was a fire in the hospital, and considerable damage was done. The company concluded that the large wooden building wasa bad risk, and they decided to cancel the policy. Attor- ney George de Golia advised Dr. Woolsey that the paper was not a legal document, and that he had a right to refuse to re- ceive it. +“This trouble dates back fifteen years,” said Dr. Woolsey. ‘‘At that time I and George Dornin were fellow-members of the directorate of the Blind Home. We were not the best of friends, and now Dornin is the manager of some insurance companies in San Francisco. He evidently heard that there had been a fire in my hospital just after a transfer of the policy, and so e is trying to Phy even by having my policy canceled.” ‘Widler’s friends deny that there was an attempt made by him to draw his pistol, and say the assault was unwurmntfl{ —————— NEew DEVICE FoR MENDING BICYCLE TIRES A patent has been taken out for a bicycle tire that will not collapse. The outside half of the tire is filled with powdered cork bound together and strengthenea by a special process. A puncture has not the slightest effect upon it and with it a wheel- man can set out on a long trip without the least fear of having his journey delayed by a burst tire. A novel extempore remedy for a burst tire is reported from New Jersey. The rider removed the inner tube, filled the shoe with sand and rode back to town. Another case is recorded where the outer tube was stuffed with hay. In neither case was any damage done_to rim ortire. A new device is announced which it is claimed will make the inner tube tire a thing of the past. As every one who rides awheel knows, if an inner-tube tire receives a puncture much time is taken up in repair- ing it. The tire must be removed from the rim and unlaced and the inner tube withdrawn. Aiter the puncture is located and repaired, the tube is replaced within the shoe or tire, which is then cemented to the rim. All this trouble and delay is avoided by the newly atented instrument, which is constructed in three sections, that when closed to- ether form a tube contracted at one end. his end is tapered so asto readily pene- trate the puncture in a pneumatic_tire. The instrument looks very much like a skeleton syringe, and like the syringe is provided with a piston or plunger. 5;hiu plunger is provided at its lower end with a socket to receive and hold a_headed plug made of rubber, and has a suitable handle for its operation by hand. When the tire 1s punctured the instrument is inserted into the hole and the plug, which has re- ceived a coating of rubber cement, is fixed on to the ta?ered end. When this is with- drawn the plug fastens flrml{ to the inner wall of the tire. It then only remains for th: nlder to inflate the tire and mount the wheel. BROOM MEN COMPLAIN, Home for the Blind Accused of Demoralizing-the Market. MOVE FOR SELF-PROTECTION. Attention of ths Manufacturers’ Assoclation to Be Called to the Matter. Loud and grievous is the complaint of the broom manufacturers of this City against the Home for the Adult Blind in Oakland. That eleemosynary institution, under Superintendent Joseph Sanders’ management, has become a factor in the business which the local employers of white laborers who are not blind are view= ing with consternation, Zan Bros. & Co. have been endeavoring to bring about some sort of a combination of the factories here to offset the effect of the Home for the Blind on the market, Armes & Dallam have joined them in the movement. The largestof the three whité factories, however, the California Broom Company, which employs from forty to fifty men, has not yet seen its way clear to co-operate, owing to its recollection of Frank Zan's cuttingof prices about two years ago. The matter will be brought by Zan Bros, to the attention of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association soon, in the hope that the association will use its influence upon the powers that be to puta stop to the demoralizing of prices. From Frank Zan and also from Manager John P. Henry of the California Broom Company, it 1 learnad that the Home for the Bfind is selling brooms for less than cost—for even half cost. Mr. Zan’s figures are as follows: The cost of a ton of broomcorn is $100; of handles for this amount, $28; of labor $35; of twine, wire, locks and incidentals, $20; mak- ing a total cost of $183 for every 100 dozen of brooms. Mr. Henry’s figures are: It takes 22 pounds of corn to make a dozen brooms. This corn costs 5 cents per pound. The cheapest handles will cost from 18 to 20 cents per dozen Add to this 10 cents for wire, twine, locks, tacks, and all cther incidentals, and the cost per dozen is $1 40, counting labor at nothing. Notwithstanding this Mr. Henry said last night that the institution was selling brooms to George F. Mackenzie at 90 cents per dozen. He added the following state- ment: I don’t see how Mr. Mackenzie manages to obe tain such advantageous figures, for heisin- debted to the institution on an old account to the amount of $800. One thing is certain, the broom business cannot stand any such coms petition. Mr. Mackenzfe has sent to Melbourne, Aus- tralia, within about a year over 1200 dozen brooms, and during the past few weeks he has sold thirty to forty dozen to some of my cuse tomers. We have simply been compelled to quit mag- ing cheap goods, for we can’t afford to pay wages ok {ry to compete with Mr, Mackenzie. Ido not wish to say that Mr. Mackenzie is doing anything out of the way, for I supposa he is simply doing what any other man might do, namely, taking advantage of a business op- ponunng. What bothers me, though, is how the Home for the Blind can possibly sell brooms at such figures. Mathematical caiculations would not bear it out, and the only conciusion I can reach is either that some of the State’s appropriation is used in this way, or that the inmates of the institution are very much overworked. 1 know this, that there have beena number of complaints against Superintendent Sanders; and I have heard that an effort was being made to have him removed. John P. Irish, who was his x}mn support, has gone back on him re- cently. The Tast Superintendent was removed sev- eral years ago on cnmgllint of a committee of the blind which Hugh Johnson accompanied to Sacramento. Several of the inmates have left the home and have come to us with stories of the sort of treatment they received while there. One of them, whose name was 0’Connor, end who was formerly an engineer, told me that he had been actually driven out of the place. I have been informed that the inmates have a hard time of it, and if they open their mouths they are told to get out of the institution. With a good market about 100 men would get employment in this City through the broom industry. The three white labor factories represent an in- vested capital of $200,000. About the best wages that can be paid to employes under existing circumstances is $12a week. On the wage question Mr. Zan said: The men are paid by the rpicl:e, and wages are governed by the state of trade. It takes from two to three years for a man to become a proficient workman. SiX yeers ago Dot tem men were employed in this City in this line of business. On an average, from 200 to 300 tons of broomcorn are now raised in this State. Another element against which local white labor has to contend js Clhinese labor. The three Chinese factories employ about forty men. The Chinese, however, told Zan Bros. & Co. and Armes & Dallam that, in consequence of Mr. Mackenzie’s ability to purchase goods at half what it is supposed to cost to make them, they would willingly join any combination of manufacturers to put a stop to the disas- trous cutting of prices. NeighborTorigi;;fi;u—ig;boor. or the nearest residing farmer. NEW TO-DAY. FREE AS AIR Dr. McKenzie’s Catarrh Cure Can be Had at Joy’s. AN INVENTION IN PAPER-MAKING.—A new form of *‘dandy” roll has been invented for producing water-marks in paper. The water-marking of paper is ordinarily ac- compiished by means of a light revolving wire cylinder, upon the surface of which the lettering or designs are fixed. This necessitates the wuse of a separate “dandy” roli for every water-mark. The new invention obviates this ne- cessity, inasmuch as the water-mark- ing letters or designs are made inter- changeable, thus avoiding the removal of theroll itself. The nvinfi in the number of rolls will be appreciated by paper-mak- ers. A farther advantage is that it will be possible to execute small orders with any special water mark at a small cost— simply the cost for the lettering or design. No Fear of Escape. After filling the post of prison warder for ten years, Braschini adopted the profession of ul:'e r{i er. o e at led you change yo pa- tion ?” inquired a friend. ¥ “The circumstance that, in my new em- gl‘oyment, 1 have no escape to fear.’—! pagallo. To loiter originally meant nothing more than to walk slowly. The celebrated Catarrh Cure of Dr. of testimonials by rich and poor attest the To prove its relief, A SAMPLE will be given to you free. E. W. JOY, BALDWIN PHARNACY (HARLES H. PHILLIPS, ATTORNEY-AT phone 570. McKenzie has made a name for itself in value of this Catarrh Cure. To prove its worth, The more chronic the case the better. Cor. 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