The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 14, 1895, Page 8

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1895. THE BAY DISTRICT RACES, Charmion Showed Some of Her Old-Time Speed, Win- ning Easily. ONE LONG - SHOT IN FRONT. Little Bob Disposed of His Field in the Last Race Iin Handy Fashlon. George Rose cut In again yesterday, which gncreased the number of pencilers doing busi- s to eight e W pulled up lame in the morning, ated scratching her as a starter | race. which nec in the El Rio Rey was well represented at the track a son and a daughter of his captur- t two races. Tillie § was well supported in the last race, Butshe seems to possess nome of her former &peed, finishing in the rucl rn tarfman, C. F. Sanders, would d several etacks of California gold to his bank account had Beliringer won. The rorse “that never did anything right” had 'em scared for a while. k" Havey as starter at gives general satisiac- semen. During the short > popular turiman wieided the flag | he showed himselt an , and the choice was un- | lection of * ggott will presumably ride for . Pending a more binding temporary contract now exists services of the rising young rider to e millionaire t With a *leg-up” as Cadmus, imp. Can- Joe should be able of his friends down tle Bob. Itlooked a for him a furlong from ded to his joc urging v at the finish. That efficient Fisher, certainly deserves xcellent form in which he his charge to the post. The Wheel of For and h trained by “Butcl and won clever record-brea Seraphin a; After disappointing her supporters on several previous occasions, until their faith was fast becoming undermined, Dan Milier’s good mare Charmion rattled off 1 furlo; n something like her old It was a condition race and she got in at 95 pounds. Everybody seemed to think her a “good thing” and she went to the post 9to 10. Bhe led all the way and four lengths from the third choice, a, in 1:273{. Fred Garduer, who was backed down to second choice, finished and evidently likes a Barring the opening race three favorites | and a second choice captured all of the | other events on the card and the talent | had “money to burn” at the close of the day. The last race on the card furnished about the only real contest of the day. It wasa mile affair and looked a very open betting event. Charmer, Little Bob, Tillie S and Frondeur were all heavily played. Around {»04 time, Charmer i slight call over tle Bob, 9 to 5 being the prevailing odds against the mare. Bellringer headed the bunch to the bend for the wire, looking a ten-time winner, but soon after fell back beaten. Little Bob now took the lead and won rather cleverly at the end, a length and a half before rmer, ridden out to beat Frondeur a head for the place. Tom Clarke ruled a 3 to 2 choice over the poor lot comprising the field in the open- dash at five furlongs, but the best he could do was finish third. Soon Enough, a 15 to 1 shot, took the lead when the flag fell and made a runaway race of it, winning by six lengths from Red Will, another out- sider. The popular young turfman, Jack At- kins, scored another winning bracket with his good filly, Belle Boyd, in a four and a half farlong sorint for two-year-olds. She ruled a 9 to 5 favorite over the field and led all the way, winning by two lengths from Josephine, who downed the second choice, Aggravator, a neck for the place in a drive, Je third race, a five-furiong run, proved valk for the 4 to 5 choice, Model, who sily from Monarch after getting v from the post poorly. Gondola, an outsider, came fast at the end, finishing third. MULHOLLAND. 50, Aug. 13, 1895. Five furlongs; selling; d upw 2 Time, 1:021 ind. lorye. 2 4 Jones). .4 chs). 7 Conn . 104 (Coady) (3271)Gonzalez Maid, 95 (Cheva- lier) . 2 (Burns).. ... 1268 Cadeau, 97 (Den Poor start. Won Rio Rey-Soone on Enough 12t0 1, Red Will 10to 1, Tom Clarke 3 to 2, Auteutl 7 to 1, Lee Stanley 4 to 1, “Maid'8 to 1, Maggie R. Smith 40t0 1, 30 to 1, Cadean 100 to 1. 1278, SECOND KACE—Five and a hait tur- Z{O. ongs Winner, ch. g., by selling; two-yearolds; purse $300. Time, 1:09. Ind. Jorse, weight, jockey. 3 St. 35 Str. Fin. 3 Belle Boyd, 97 (Piggott) .1 17 11 12 Josephine, 101 (Hinrichs). .5 43z 67 2n « gravator, 99 (Chevalier).2 54 314 32 pe, 93'(E. Jones).......4 21 ins, 99 (Coady).. 3 06 (Shavw) 7 (Reidy). Good start. Rio Rey-! . Betting: Belie Boyd 9 to 5, Josephine 5 to 1, Ag- gravator 7 to 2, Cheripe 6 to 1, City Girl 9'to 3, Jack Atkins 12'to 1, Suffrage 50 10 1. €)7() THIRD RAC 1279. inse 5256 Time, Won driving. Winner, ch. £;, by E1 Ind. Horse, weight, jocke; St. 145 Str. Fin. (1261)Model, 7 T2 11 62) Monar: 2 11" 1h 2ns 5 8 7¢ s b 6 3 31541 4 Rogation, 97 (Pigg 61 6153052 1 Tamalpais, 104 (Anderson)..8 b6a 4ig 67 8 Warrago, 102 (E. Jones) 1 8 Josle G, 102 (Hinrichs).... 4 Won easily. Winner, ch. 1., by imp. -Gypsy. Mocel 4 0 , Monareh 10 ¢0 1, Gondola arrago 18 to 5, Rogation 9 to 1, Detective 25 10 1, Tamalpais 150 to 1, Josie G 25 to 1. 128 X FOURTH RACE—Seven furiongs; four- + year-olas and upwara; purse $300. Time, 1:27%. Ind. Horse, welght, jockey. St. 15 Str. Fin. 1270 Charmion, §5 (Piggott) 2 12 15 0)Ali Baba. 108 (L. Lioyd).. 32 38 2ns Fred Gardner. 100 (Hinrichs)5 4h 47 33 5. 1 2I 2I 4r 4 510 61 510 ones).6 6 6 Tant-Unit. Betting: Charmion 9 to 10, All Baba 8 to 2, Fred Gardner 13 10 5, howard 15 to 1, Sir Walter 25 to 1, Haymarket 200 to 1. 19281, krra Rac One mile; selling; purse $300. Time, 1:4215. iy 1 Ind. Horse. weicht, jockey. St. Str. Fin, 1249 Little Bob, 60 (E. Jones)....2 24 27 11 4 Charmer, 101 (Pizgott) B 415 2ns valies 62 3h 3 1 aw) 11 13 41 Adelante, 98 (Coady) 7 61 61 1167 Tillie S, 101 (Hinrichs) 3r 58 66 1265 Bobolink, 104 (Keidy. 7 447 7 (500d start, except Bobolink. Won driving. Win- zer, ch. g, by Surinam-Daisy S. Betting: Little Bob 5 to 2. Charmer 9 to 5, Frondeur 9 10 5, Beliringer 12101, Tillie S 4 to 1, ‘Adelaate 50 to 1, Bobolink 50 to 1. Following are to-day’s entries: First race. nine-sixieenths of a infle, maiden two-year-olds--Ollie M 109, Jongleuse filly 109, May Jones 109, Benham 112, Den Pio Pico 112, Sir Collier 109, Lady Leinster filly 104, Irene E 104, Cheripe 109, Belle Oak 104. Becond race, five-eightys of & mile, handi- 102, Virgie —Heartsease 110, Bloomsbur +'700, Tiverius iot 95, Clara. A 100, Tiberius 100, Gratify 100, Johnson 80. Third race, five-eighths of a mile, selling— Warrago 109, Joh Capron 92, Regal 99, Red Dick 105, Red Bird 99, 0'Bee 99, Harry Lewis 99, Lodi 99, Ledalia 97. Durango 99. Fourth race, five-cighths of a mile, handi- cap—Tim Murphy 115, Gold Bug 106, Realiza- tion 105, Nervoso 97, McFarlaue 93, Seraphin 92, Silver State 103. Fifth _race, seven-eighths of a mile, handi- cap—Wheel of Fortune 103, Arnette 100, imp. Ivy 98, Malo Diablo 92, Tiliie S 90. FOOLING WITH A PISTOL. Barney Juchter, a Teamster, Shoots Gracie Jago, a Young Girl. Gracie Jago, 19 years of age, was shot last night by Barney Juchter, a teamster, at the camp of Pat Rooney, the contractor, on Clipper street. The girl of a niece of Rooney and lives with her parents on Fifteenth street and ian avenue. She was in the habit of ting the camp and doing odd jobs for her uncle. She went out yesterday and was in the kitchen between 6 and 7 o’clock last night, when Juchter, who is employed by her uncle, stood at the door witn a re- volver in his hand pointed at her. She told him to “guit fooling,” as the revolver was loaded, and just then it exploded and the bullet entered her side. Dr. Plymne was hastily summoned and found the girlin a critical condition. He was unable to locate the bullet, but did all he could for the wounded gizl. Policemen E.J. Thompson and W. J. Dodge were detailed on the case, and about 11 o’clock last night arrested Juchter on Bryant avenue, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets. He was taken to the Seventeenth-street station and booked on the charge of assault to murder. He said the shooting was accidental, He found the revolver in a bureau draw in Rooney’s bedroom, and, not knowing it was loaded, he thought he would have some fun with the girl. To his surprise, the re- volver went off. He said he was an un- married man and lived on Petrero avenue. The poliee will investizate whether the shooting was accidental or not. One thing they consider suspicious is thatJuchter had no right to go into his employer’s bed- room, and they doubt the story that he did not know the revolver was loaded. THE OLD NEW CITY HALL The Record of Expenditures for Twenty Years Past. An Unhappy Angel That Cannot Fold Her Wings In Peace. Morton A. Edwards addressed an un- feeling letter to the City Hall Commission with regard to the angel of the dome, and which the commission refused to hear read at its meeting yesterday merning, but ordered consigned to the waste basket. Mr. Edwards is a sculptor and has some ambition to make the figure for the dome himself. he would have different from Mr. made an angel very Wells”. figure with wings rampant would always suggest the memory of the old Yerba Buena gravevard, and convey with it a smell of chloride of lime. ‘A medley of wings, drapery, torch with sculptured flame, and book is not a suitable decora- tion for an American City Hall, especially for such an intelligent community as San Francisco’s,” he said. He thought that such a nondescript might suit Chicago, New York or some other of the Eastern towns where the art of knowing what one wants in the matter of angels is not well defined, but not here. He thought the figure catered especially to the new woman which was not desirable at this time. It should have gone a step further, indeed, he thought, and been of the male sex. At any rate the wings should be clipped so that the wind might not have such a good chance. Mayor Sutro was not present, and so this letter found no sympathizer in the board. As though to add emphasis to the order consigning this to_the waste basket, F. Marion Wells was directe to go on With his work in a hurry, so as to have it ready to put in place when the dome is completed. Mr. Wells is somewhat disgusted at the formula of the metal adopted by the com- mission, declaring it was not such as he contemplated in his bid, and that it will materially cut down his profits from the work. Secretary McCarthy presented his re- ort for the fiseal year. It made the foi- owing showing of receipts and disburse- ments: nuary 1. 1894...$253,435 43 fiscal year, 5 -+ 117,861 75 Totad L..3.iL0 Total disbursements .. Balance.... Demands unre Balance in treasury July 1, 1895, DISBURSEMENTS. Payments to cONtractors. Salaries........... Repairs, urgent an: Advertising Printing and stationer: Miscellaneous..... Totel...... The Supervisors last year appropriated for this fund $118,080. Of this amount $117,861 61 was received. 3 Following are the amounts in the New City Hall fund: Fiscal year 1875-76. .-$172,582 38 $207,408 44 Fiscal year 1876-77. 858,331 72 Fiscal year 1877-78. 847,633 67 Fiscal year 1878-79 840,712 92 Fiscal year 1879-80. 114,072 19 Fiscal year 1880-81 32,655 35 Fiscal year 1881-82. 151,364 21 Fiscal year 1882-8 11,028 90 Fiscal year 1883-84. 14,084 74 Fiscal year 1884-85 152 36 Fiscal year 1885 86. 78 77 Fiscal year 1886-87. 42 Fiscal year 1887-88. 249,617 51 Fiscal year 18888t 268,212 81 ¥iscal year 1889-9 300,980 07 Fiscal year 1890-9 Fiscal year 1891-9: Fiscal year 1892 Flscal year 1893-94. Fiscal year 1894-95. Received under acts of Legislature prior to March 23, 1876, from sale of Cify Hall construction bonds.... 1,619,070 95 Total. s o $5,397.444 05 Total disbursements. 5,221,243 17 Commissioner Creswell inspected the sub-basement of the hall during the after- noon and found some two feet of water standing on the floor beneath the Larkin- street wing and City Prison. It is sup- posed to come from burst pipes. Steps will be taken to find the cause, stop it and pump out the water. e Napoleon and the Barber. Napoleon’s smooth face was a sure evi- dence of his dislike for a beard. In some anecdotes of the Russian campaign there is a story told of the great Emperor and a poor but witty barber who had occasion to shave him. Napoleon had made a rather lengthy de- tour from the line of march with a deiach- ment of officers. Arriving at a small vil- 1age they refreshed themsefves with a good meal and bath. Napoleon wishing to be shaved, the village barber was called in. While the poor fellow stropped his razor and passed it industriously over the great Emperor’s chin, he remained silent and seemingly melancholy, although perform- ing his work with amazing rapidity and smoothness. Napoleon complimented him, remarking: “But, man, why do you wear such a melancholy face? You should be happy to have the privilege of shaving an Emperor.” +1 am doubly happy, vour Majesty.” “Then what is it that troubles you?”’ *‘Alas, your Majesty, when Ithink of the Kings upon Kmgsand Emperors that have died without knowing what it was to be shaved by me, I am sad and melan- choly.”—Harper's Rquad Table, 198,208 61 237,726 92 337,042 79 117,961 75 Had he been permitted to do so | THEY WANT THE CENSUS, The Proposition for an Enu- meration by the Munici- pality Is Popular. DEARTH OF AUTHENTIC DATA. Chief Deputy Assessor Herzer Says City Officials Disagree as to Population. The agitation of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association of California for a municipal census to be taken every ten years seems to have gained a good many advocates during the brief time that it has been before the public, as outlined recently in THE CALL. In commercial and professional circles it has been widely discussed, finding favor everywhere, but enjoying, perhaps, its greatest popularity among the manufac- turers and merchants. Above all others these people are interested in having reli- able statistics relating to their respective lines of business. They declare that the Federal enumerations are totally unreli- able four or five years after compilation. This must of necessity follow where there is any growth at all. It would also follow that the greater the expansion in a given time the wider the discrepancy in the census figures. As these figures are not available for general information until about five years after compilation there is at all times a dearth of authentic data relative to aub{ects on which the men who are making the his- tory of to-day desire to be informed. Other cities have pursued the plan pro- posed for San Francisco with a high degree of success for a number of years. New Orleans takes its own census every five years. St. Louis does the same, and Chicago is preparing to do so. Mr. Dingle desires it understood that the scheme does not contemplate an enumera- tiou of the population as a mere matter of curiosity or local pride. He asseris, on the contrary, that the matter of popula- tion is the smallest part of the proposition, the commercial aspect of th question being in his opinion of far greater im- ortance. Of course, when reduced to undamental facts, everything in the way of development depends upon the increase in population, but Mr. Dingle, when he refers to the greater importance of commer- cial affairs, does so with the idea of showing that the proposition has a wider scope than is contained in the popular concep- tion of the word *‘census."” George Baker, the well-known attorney and local leader of the bimetallic move- ment, when asked his opinion of the mat- ter, said: It is an excellent idea. Iam heartil ofit. There is a crying need for such dataas this census would "give us. The Federal cen- sus is practically worthless. Enpcclluk this e Wes irue of rapidly growing cities of th think it would in favor 1 be better, though, if Congress | could be induced to pass’ 8 law making a cen- 1 i | sus once in five instead of once in ten years. In his communication he said that the | and an This would give the thing standing, H on wou! authentic flavor that municipal actl hardly contain. Benjamin Truman, the banker, said: It is just the thing that San Francisco needs. Let ut have it by all means. The expense could be divided somehow between depart- ments of the city government and business or- ganizations that would benefit most by the proposed statistics. It has been & success wherever tried, and it can be made to go here. Iamsure of it. Business men and others will see the feasibility of the idea and go in for its speedy consummation. Mr. Dohrmann, president of the Mer- chants’ Association, said: This thing ought to have been started years ago. Other cities have the census, and wé cer- tainly ought to have it. There is a lamentable lack of authentic information relative to our growth and present commercial status. Let us have the census by all means. It's the best thing that has been set on foot for S8an Fran- cisco for many a day. The matter ought to be as comprehensive as possible, covering every phase of our development. H. Herzer, chief Deputy Assessor of San Francisco, said: Such a census would fill a long-felt want. There are absolutely no reliable figures in the subjects with which such an enumeration would deal. Take for example the matter of population. Those who are supposed to know do not agree by many thousands. The Post- master has one estimate, the Assessor another, the Tax Collector another and the Health De: partment another. As I said, they do mot agree by many thousands. This holds good with all other subjects that could come under the purview of a census. We have no authentic information. By the time the United States census is available the figuresare of no use, except as & matter of showing our growth for & past period. The idea ought to be popular with all classes, and, in my opinion, it will go through all right. George P. Keeney, secretary of the American Bimetallic League, said: 1 have witnessed the result of municipal enumerations in several Eastern cities, and they have been highly beneficial wherever the system is In vogue. 1 do not see why the theory should not go in San Francisco. Captain W. L. Merry said: I am heartily in favor of the proposition. We should have had such & census as the one pro- posed years ago. The need of it is obvious to &1l thinking men. As to the reasons, I do not see the necessity for wasting many words. They must be_apparent to all. Many Eastern citiés follow this method with good results. W. T. Schenck, vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce, said: Iam in favor of such a census as the one proposed. The Federal figures are unreliable after three or four years. It follows, then, that we have no reliable data at hand. All branches of business would be benefited thereby. Itis an excellent thing and ought to go through. L. H. Clement, secretary Chamber of Commerce, said : 1 think that the proposition will recommend itself to all thinking people. It was started here several years ago, but nothing ever came of it; that is 1o say, it was discussed by several of the City organizations. I think it was in 1882, or thereabouts. 1 think a speedy con- summation of the project would be a good thing for the City. George Luddington, the veteran real es- tate man, representing Easton & Eldridge, said: 1 have reud an outline of the scheme as pub- lished lately in THE CALL. Itisa ?M thing. I believe that the people will take hold of the thing and put it through. The several depart- ments of the City government that are in actual need of authentic figures ought to give g, -dlxbeul support. All classes would be bene- ted. WAIL OF THE CAPTAINS National Guard Officers Who Strongly Object to Reductions. The Lack of Funds May Cost the Third Regiment Its New Armory. Although the work of the board of loca- tion of the National Guard of California has long since been finished, the discussion unon its actions has not yet ceased and its effects are likely to cause as much bitter- ness among the lower officers as muster- ing out of several companies would have done. The appropriation for the National Guard this year is extremely short and the principal reason for disbanding any of the companies or making any consolidations was to reduce the size of the Guard, so that it would run under the reduced ap- A)ropriltfon. The board has either to re- uce the company allowances or reduce objected to losing any of their companies, an understanding was finally reached by which the regiments were left substan- tially the same as formerly so far as the number of companies were concerned, and the company ulrownnces were slated to.be reduced from $100 tn $75 a month. 2 The complaint from the captains is in- creasing as the time for drawing the quar- terly allowance approaches, and it is the in- tention of many to subwit their demands for $100 a month as before, even should the order come directing that demands be sub- mitted for only $75. Out of the hundred which the rebate gave each company, $75 went for rent in most cases, and the re- mainder was quickly eaten up in gas bills for the company room, armorers’ sularies, ammunition above the State allowance of twenty rounds a year, repairing uniforms and repairing arms. There has always been some close figurtng made to keep the State money balanced, but with the reduc- tion the captains despair of meeting any- thing but a deficit. €Vith the reduction of the allowance comes no reduction in rents, and some of the companies more favorably located will have to dig into the company fund, that created by membership dues, to meet even this first expense. The captains, upon whom all this burden falls, are very indignant over the action of their colonels, and many say it would have been much better had companies enough been mus- tered out to allow the old allowance to be distributed. They say the companies can- not exist on $75 a month with rentsas they are now. The Third Regiment will probnbl{ be the first to feel the effects of the reduction. There is now under consideration by the officers the plans for a new armory, which was to have been erected on Fulton street, between Polk and Van Ness avenue, just back of the Grove-street Theater. The lot is a fifty-vara, and C. G. Hooker had al- most completed an agreement to arect an armory costing $30,000. The plans were drawn up by Bugbee & Nash, and they %rovided for a drill floor 110x137}% feef. his would have made a much finer hall than that of the Second Regiment, which has a floor 120x84 feet. Negotiations on these plans have all ceased, however, for Mr. Hooker asks $420 a month rent on the premises, and he is not willing to put up the building under his present agreement should the company allowances be reduced. The six companies of the regiment will only receive $450 a month and the head- quarters $30 a month. The margin is too small for Mr. Hooker, and the Third Regi- ment will lose its new armory unless some compromise is effected or the companies receive the old allowance of $300 a quarter. THE NOE TITLE SUIm, \ Occupants of San Miguel Rancho Threatened With Eviction. The Part That the California Title Insurance and Trust Com- pany Plays. The suit about to be commenced by the heirs of Jose de Jesus Noe, which involves the title to the entire San Miguel Rancho (proverty valued at between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000) is only one of a large num- ber of similar actions which have in times past been sprung to annoy the owners of property in San Francisco. All of the original Spanish grants are in the same condition as this one. In the Noe case, it is claimed tbat the courts have misin- terpreted the Spanish law. Noe, upon the death of his wife, had only a life estate in the rancho, the fee simple, under the Sflamsh law, vesting in his_children. Therefore, the deed by which in 1853 he conveyed to W. J. Horner was void. Thus the 7000 owners in the San Miguel Rancho are threatened with eviction. The property involved is bounded by a line be- inning at the jumction of Valencia and Nineteenth streets, along the San Jose road to the County line, thence to a point near the Haight-street baseball grounds and back to the place of commencement. 1t includes the Almshouse Tract, Spring Valley property. all of Horner’s Adaition, Lakeview, the Heyman Tract, Columbia Heights, the Fremont Land Association’s Tract, Railroad Homestead, Park Lane Tract, Clarendon Heights, Market-street Homestead, S8an Miguel City, Pioche & Robinson Tract, Belle Roche Tract, San Miguel Homestead Association, and all the Mission blocks from 71 to 114 inclusive. This suit and the annoyance to which it will subject the owners of the property in question’is_but another illustration of the value of title insurances. Were all the owners on the San Miguel RanclxoTpo:- sessed of policies in the California Title Insurance and Trust Company they conld now laugh at the heirs of Jose de Jesus Noe and their attorneys, and sleep at night peacefully in the serene consciousness that 1f eventually evicted by the claimants the corporation would be compelled to pay them the amount of theirinsurance. In other words a powerful corporation would be at their back in this litigation, with plenty of money and a corps of expert and able lawyers. As it is, however, the prop- erty-owners who are not insured in the California Title Insurance and Trust Com- rany will have to orfnnize, hire their own awyers and take all the chances of the outcome of this suit. Title insurance not only protects owners from assaults of thus kind, but by making the title secure adds to the value of the property. The California Title Insurance and Trust Company is the only corpora- tion in San Francisco which examines real estate titlesand guarantees their perfection. Its office is in the Mills building and ex- Mayor L. R. Ellert is its manager. It has a paid up capital of $250,000 and a cash re- serve fund of $25,000, with which to defend its policies. e —.—— Trees and Health. It has been noted that the first settlers in heayily wooded sections of the country have generally been healthy, despite their many privations. The reason for this is that trees and plants of all kinds possess the power of absorbing poisoned air from decaying vegetation, besides which the emanations from evergreens and the smoke from burning resinous woods are noted for the relief they give to tnose suffering from puimonary diseases. New, heavily wooded countries, as al- ready noted, are the most healthy for "set- tlers, and they continue so for many years, as only a small portion of the forest can be cleared away each year. After the forest is removed and sunlight is admitted, the soil fills rapidly with vegetable mold, which decomposes more rapidly than it can be absorbed by the scant vegetation, and as a result the atmosphere is rendered impure and malaria becomes a common complaint. In view of these facts, people are begin- ing to understand the value of trees as disease-nbsorbing and health-giving agents. Naturally this leads to the question as to what trees are hest for protection against disease. On Long Island and in New Jersey there are localities surrounded and hemmed in with pitch-pines. which are famed for their curative qualities in consumption, and the pines are thus indicated as valu- able surroundings in pulmonary com- plaints. It would seem reasonable to supe pose that trees having the largest leaves and the most of them would be the best for this purpose, as such trees would un- doubtedly have the most absorbing power, ‘We have seen the eucalyptus tree men- tioned as of special valueas a purifier of the atmosphere.—Hall’s Journal of Health. —e———— Paris, through its Municipal Council has voted the 20,000,000 francs apportiones !b? the State as the city’s share of the 1900 xhibition. The city will pay the money to the state in five yearly payments, begin- ni:ns with 1896. "Whatever profits are made will be divided between the city and the state. The cost of the exhibition is estimated at 100,000,000 francs. s sl ' China now has eleven daily newspapers, nine of which are printed in Chinese, one the number of companies. 43 the colonsls | in Frepgh apd the othsy ip Evglish. y.) THE SAN MIGUEL RANCHO, Land-Owners Laugh at the Tvyenty-Four Million Dol- lar Suit. SPANISH LAWS ARE QUOTED. Many of the Land Companles and Private Owners Have Govern- ment Patents. The pending suit of the Noe heirs against the property-owners in that part of the city known as the San Miguel Rancho, an account of which was pub- lished exclusively in THE CALL yesterday morning, created an interest among the dwellers of the district in proportion to the enormity of the land values involved. Careful and conservative estimates do not decrease the probable amount of the property values as first given—$24,000,000— and some place it even higher. In all such suits there is a disposition to con- sider the action in the manner of a “bluff” for ulterior purposes, but in this instance the long residence and social standing of the plaintiffs in this City is calculated to render any such deduction or surmise in- appropriate. The Noe heirs have employed prominent and responsible Mexican counsel, in con- nection with Messrs. Gunn & Koscial- owski, to prosecute a thorough research into the fundamental Spanish laws in ope- ration at the time the Governor of Alta Cali- fornia made the grant of one square league of land to Jose de Jesus Noe. All the early land transactions were made under these laws, and the operation thereot has fur- nished the basis of innumerable suits to satisfy title since the State was admitted to the Union. The attorneys for the plaintiffs call at- tention to the fact that the California courts have been at varience in their inter- pretation of the Spanish laws for years past, and that no ultimatum has ever been established. This may also furnish an ex- planation of the disinclination of other at- torneys likely to be interested in the big suit on behalf of the 7000 or more de- fendants to express an opinion concerning the extent to which land grant transac- tions are amenable to the Spanish law. Whatever the cause, those who were asked for an opinion yesterday declined to ex- press themselves on the ground that they had not had time to look up the law. Mr. Koscialowski said : There is nothing but law in the suit, and the heirs are too well known to permit of the slightest suspicion of a money extortion scheme. The courts of California have held almost universally in their construction of the Mexican law that all land grants made peior to the admission of California into the Union sbould be elassified as “blenes gananciales” (donations) mnade by the Government. In the case of Panaud vs. Jones, First Cal. 448, the court, after reviewing the case at considerable length, decided that the property received by Alviso’ by way of grant was gananciales (gaing), end asserts that Alviso had entire con- trol and right to dispose of the whole ganan- ciales. Mrs. Alviso died before her husband, but the court held that no estate vested in the children, and that it was common property on the decease of their mother, and that their title interest only became perfect after the death of their father,and only then after the debts had been paid. Now, by Escriche's (Spanish lawbook) definition of gananciales, it is shown that property received by ihe grantee as a reward for mil"lrg services was his separate Eroperty, for at the time he was performing these ser. vices he received a salary and support from the Government. But if, at'the time of perform- ing these services, he was paying his own ex- penses, living on the income derived from the “dotal” property of the marriage, then such grant should be ganancial Alviso received this grant in return for military services, and itis not known whether he Tived upon the salary received from the Government during the performance of these services, or whether he paid his own expenses out of the gains and profits. I call attention to this for the reascn that Escriche says that the wife had tacit mertgage on the separate property of the husband to compel said husband to make £ood to her or her heirs the dotal property he might have received either before or after marriage. Now, this grant received b{, Alviso for military services may have been his se) arate property, in which case his heirs would have a claim’ upon it, but not through their !\:}olhfl’l mortgege upon the same as described above. Many of those connected with the land and improvement companies operating in the district have Government patent titles to the land, and laugh at the idea of sucha preposterous claim being set up at this time, OUT-OF-TOWN PERSONALS. Avalon, Catalina Island, Cal, Aug. 13.— Sunday night witnessed the largest crowd of the season at Catalina. It is estimated on a conservative basis that fully 5000 people are on the island, yesterday’s arrivals alone foot- ing up 500. The hotels Metropole and Island Villa are packed from top to bottom, and the 100 tents in the canvas addition to the villa are full. Cots have been spread in the halls of both hotels, and the staterooms on board the steamer Hermosa lying at anchor in the bay are utilized to accommodate the overflow. Every hotel, boarding-house, lodging-house, cottage and tent on the island is full to over- flowing. Among the important arrivals were C. F. Crocker, H. E. Huntington and J. A. Muir of the Southern Pacific. The pyrotechnic celebration and illumina- tion last night was superb. Every building fronting on the ocean boulevard was gay with colored lights and lanterns. Crimson lights burned from every mountain peak surround- ing Avalon, and signal fires blazed from Sugar Loaf to greet the incoming steamer which, as she approached the wharf, burst into a perfect ship of fire, with colored lights burning from her highest mast to the water's edge and rock- ets shooting {rom her decks. Guy Cochran, captain of the Stanford foot- ball team for the coming year, has arrived and is the champion swimmer and diver on the island. The strong, swifc strokes of this splen- did young sthlete are the envf of all ambi- tious swimmers. Avalon Bay is literally white with yachts. The mackerel fishing in the bay was never so good. Hundreds of pounds are hooked aaily by men, women and children, who go out in skiffs every morning and pull in the fish as fast as_they can throw the bait. E. C. Fitzgerald, G. L. Curtis, wife and daughter, of Oakland, arrived at the Metropole to-night. M. J. Frisbie and C. Maxwell of San Francisco came in by to-night's steamer. Mrs. Charles A. Marriner of Los Angeles has gone north to the Mount Shasta region. Mrs, I. N. Van Nuys and Mrs. 8. C. Hubbell, two well-known society Iadies of Los Angeles, Have been spending some time at Bartiett Springs and will next week go to San Francisco for a short stay before return- ing south. The marriage of Miss Jennie Wins- ton, the sweet singer, formerly of San Fran- cisco, to Colonel Albert' . Castle of San Fran- cisco, will occur next Wednesday evening in Los Angeles. J.D. Hammond, Mrs. E. F. Hen- ing, Mrs. Lyman asery, Mr.and Mrs, L. F. Darling were & company of San Franciscans who visited Echo untain this week. Mr. and Mes. J. A. Henderson and daughter, Mrs. George Steckel of Los Angeles have gone to i:zln the Los Angeles contingency at Lake Ta- oe. Mr. and Mrs. P.B. Elderkin, who have been staying in Los Angeles for the last two or three months, hav jone to San Francisco to reside. Mrs. W. G. Stafford of San Francisco, who has been visiting various resorts in Southern California, re- turned home this week. Miss P. M. Silva of Oakland is visiting Los Angeles friends. Miss Eames of Oakland is the ‘uell of her sister, Mrs. McCrea, and family in their luxurious cottage tent at Avalon. "Mrs. Bradner Lee is one of the many Anielennu summering at Lake Tanoe. George . Siebe and ride of San Francisco are at the Metropole, Catalina Island. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Stevens and P. Joseph are among recent arrivals at the Hotel Metropole. Count C. Bentzonl and his niece, Countess G. von Schiutterbach of Los Angeles, are at the Metropole. The Countess is & young and beautiful widow and plays the cornet divinely. .James Hervey Jones and bride of San Francisco are doing Southern Caliiornia. Mrs. Gass and daughter of San Jose are in Los Angeles, 8, C. Combs and N. L. Combs of Visalia are at the Hotel Lillie, Los Angeles. Congressman W. W. Bowers of the Seventh California District is a guest of H. L. Storey of Altadena. A. W. Barrett and wife of Bacra- mepto agrived at the Metropole to-day. NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. o] ( STSCTEEN LEARANCE BARGAINS The ASTOUNDING REDUCTIONS that are making the final days of our GREAT SALE such an overwhelming success are illustrated in the follow= ing llnes, which, having been specially selected for clearance to-day, are offered AT A PRODIGIOUS SACRIFICE! LADIES’ WAISTS! At 25 LADIES’ WAISTS (odd sizes), of fancy cl Cents. z hecks and stripes, slightly soiled, regular price 75¢ and §$1, will be closed out at 25¢. At &S 1.00. LADIES' WAISTS, Banner brand, in fancy stripes and checks, laundered collar and cuffs, extra full sleeves, regular price $1 50 and $1 75, will be offered at $1. LACES AND VEILING! At 15 Cents a Yard. 2 BUTTER POINT VENISE LACE, 4 inches wide, regular price 40c, will be closed out at 15c per yard. =25 Cents a Yard. At : BLACK CHANTILLY LACE, all silk, 7, 8 and 9 inch, regular price 50c, will be closed out at 25¢ per yard. At 5O Cents a DOUBLE-WIDTH CHENILLE DOTTED be closed out at 50c per yard. Yard. TUXEDO VEILING, regular price $1, will At 25c, 30c, 35c, 40c and 50c a Yard. WHITE AND CREAM GRENADINE, SEWING SILK AND CHIFFON VEILING, with black dots, a complete assortment. GLOVES! s5 GLOVES! Cents. At 200 dozen LADIES’ BIARRITZ KID GLOVES, with 2 hooks at wrist, Foster, Paul & Co.’s make, in slate, tan, modes and brown colors, good value for $1, will be offered at 65¢ a pair. At TS Cents. 100 dozen LADIES’ 4-BUTTON REAL KID GLOVES, in tan shades, good value for $1 25, will be offered at 75c a pair. ] » HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR AND CORSETS!4 At 10O CHILDREN'S FINE RIBBED BLACK Cents. COTTON HOSE, double heels and toes, guaranteed fast black, regular price §2 per dozen, will be closed out at 10¢ a pair. At 15 Cents. 4 ) LADIES’ BLACK COTTON HOSE, fine zuuge. extra high-spliced heels and toes, Hermsdorf back, regular price 25¢, will be ¢ 75 osed out at 15¢ a pair. Cents. At LADIES’ GRAY NATURAL WOOL VESTS, high neck, long sleeves, ankle length drawers to match, guaranteed non-shrin at 75¢ each. king, regular price $1 25, will be closed out At $51.00. LADIES’ 3 and high bust, with patent-loop eyelets, CORSETS, made of fine English coutil, sateen striped, lon waist , perfect French model, drab and black color, regular price $1 50, will be closed out at $1 each. MEN’S FURNISHINGS! 52 Cents. At 25 dozen BOYS’ FAUNTLEROY BLOUSES, made of Percale, Cheviots and White Lawn, with embroidered trimmings, in a variety of patterns, worth 75¢ and $1, will be closed out at 50c each. 35 Cents. At . 75 dozen MEN’S UNLAUNDERED WHITE SHIRTS, made with double backs, re- enforced linen fronts and of good heavy muslin, extra value for 50¢c, will be closed out at 35c. At 15 Cents. 145 dozen MEN'S HEAVY UNDYED spliced heels and toes, extra value for 2 At 75 ITARY MERINO SCCKS with double , will be closed out at 15 cents per pair. Cents. 72 dozen MEN’S CAMEL’S HAIR UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS, fancy silk finished, extfa value for $1 25, will be closea out at 75¢ each. Harket Stroet, coruer af Jones, SAN FRANCISCS. Alice Cowan of San Francisco, one of the Stan- ford University students, is at the Metropole, the guest of Dr. and Mrs. W. G. Cochran. Fresno, Cal., Aug. 13.—W. W. Eden and fam- ily are spending the summer at Pacific Grove. Judge M. K. Harris and wife have returned from Summerdale, in tne lofty Sierras. Miss Mary Maupin is in San Francisco spending her summer’s vacation. H. C. Warner is home from Pacific Grove, where he left Mrs. Warner and children to remain during the rest’ of the heated season. Mrs. George H. Monroe has re- turned from an extended visit in the East. Mrs. W. D. Crichton and sister, Miss Carric Stevens, are visiting their former home in Tennescee. Supervisors Frank P. Wickersham and Charles W. Garrett have gone to the coast on a brief vacation. Ex-Senator G. G. Goucher has returned from Mariposa County much im- roved in health. Mrs. F. J. Butleigh and Baughter, Miss Hattie, are visiting in San Fran- cisco. City Attorney Lloyd W. Moultrie is re- cuperating at Santa Catalina. Mayor C. J. Craycroft and wife have returned from a week’s visit at Santa Cruz. Among the Fresno People who are spending the summer at Capic tolaare: Mr.and Mrs. 4. T. Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Chance, Dr. and Mrs. T. B. Meux, Mrs, Dr. J. C. Cooper, Mrs. M. L. Woy, Mrs. T. G. Hart, Mrs. B. T. Scott, Miss Florence Chit- tenden, Miss Stella Chance, Miss Cleo Stevens, the Mitses Lillis and Lizzie Foin, Miss Lulu Melvin. Those who have left Fresno to attend the State University, which opened yesterday, are: Miss Belle Ritchie, Miss Jessie Dewelle, Miss Agnes Helm, Silas Geis, D. K. Mott, Wil- liam Mott, Herbert Olney. Santa Rosa, Cal., Aug. 13.—Charles Rhein- dollar and Herbert Slater have gone to Geyser- ville for a vacation. Rev. T. A. Atkinson left to-day for San Francisco. Thomas Carrollton left to-day for Santa Cruz to recuperate. Mrs. Weiss of San Franeisco is visiting Mrs. James Marshall here. Mrs. Taylor and her grand- danghter, of Oakland, are visiting here. Mrs. Gilchrist and Miss Ina Griffen, of Oakland, are guests of Mrs. Dr. Finlaw. Harry Hall, Ben Hall, John Dillon and Frank Loughrey have returned from Dillons Beach. L. P. Latimer, the well-known artist, of San Francisco was in Santa Rosa to-day. Julius M. Eckhert of Ukiah is here for a few days. Dr. G. W. Winckfield of Nara is visiting here. John S. Whitney of San Raiael and James Talbot of Santa Cruz are spending a few days here. Mrs. Julius Bizzini has returned from & sojourn at Lyttons Springs. N. Marcill and family have gone to Duncans Springs. ———— ‘Watching Spiders at Work. "Sittin§ on a bench under a pear tree, T saw a spider drop down from a leaf fully nine feet from the ground and disappear in the grass, leaving a slender rope of web, attached at the upper end to a leaf and at the lower to a fallen pear. In afew minutes a small white caterpillar, barely an inch long, began to climb this rope. grasped the thread in its mouth and drew up its body about a sixteenth of an inch at a time, then held tight with the two fore feet, and, lifting its head, seized the rope a sixteenth higher, repeating this operation incessantly, the rest of the body swinging in the air.” Never pausing, without haste and without rest, this creature patiently worked its way upward, as a man might up a rope. t any one seize & beam overhead and attempt to lift the chest up to a level with it, the expenditure of strength is very great; even with long practice, to “swarm’’ up a pole or rope to any distance is the hardest labor the human muscles are pupable‘of. This despised ‘‘creeping thing,” \ylthout the slightest apparent effort, without once pausing to take breath, reached the leaf overhead in rather under half an hour, having climbed a rope fuily 108 times its own length. To equal this a man must climb 648 feet, or more than half as high again as St, Paul’s, says a writer in Long- man’s Magazine. The insect,fon reaching the top, at once commenced feeding, and easily bit through the hard pear leaf; how delicately, then, must it have grasped the slender spider's web, which a touch would destroy. The thoughts which this feat call forth do not end here, for there was no necessity to go up the thread; the insect could, to all up- pearances, have traveled up the trunk of the tree with ease, and it _is not to be sup- posed that its mouth and feet were espe- cially adapted to climb a web, a thing which was, to all appearances, merely the result of the accident of the insect coming along just after the spiaer had left the thread. Another few minutes and the first puff of wind would have carried the web away—as a puff actually did soon afterward. I claim a wonderful amount of original intelligence—as opposed to the ill- used term instinct—of patience and per- severance for this creature. It is so easy to imagine that, because man is big, brain power cannot exist in tiny organizations; but, even in man, the seat of thought is so minute that it esca&xes discovery, and his very life may be said to lie in the point of contact of two bones of the neck. Put the mind of man within the body of the cater- pillar—what more could have done? Ac- customed to bite and eat its way through hard leayes, why did not the insect snip off and destroy its rope? .- Condors have been killed in Peru which had & wing spread of twenty- Telegram from Russia: # SEND TO ANITCHKOFF PALACE, ST. 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