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8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1895. MILLIONAIRES [N COURT. Defense of John W. Mackay and His Associates in the Fox Suit. SENATOR JONES' DEPOSITION. Story of the Reopening of the Con- solidated California and Vir- ginia Mine. The suit of Theodore Fox against John tv. Mackay, Senator John P.Jones and other director: fornia and Virginia Mining Company, for an accounting, was taken up for trial by Judge Seawell yesterday. This is a case with issues similar in some respects to thos cross case, and the amount of money in- volved is $1,829,000. eccounting was made in December, 1891, and the case has since that time been in the courts. In the complaint Mr. Fox alleges that Rhe directors of the Consolidated California of the Consolidated Cali- | e in the Hale & Nor- | The demand for an | who presented the full hist of stockholders in the Consolidated California and Vir- ginia Mining Company and the amount of stock held by each. He was examined at some iength in re- lation to the books of the company and the case was continued to Monday. AN OFFIOIAL STOREKEEPER. Adverse Opinion Upon a Modoc Super- visor’s Claim Against the County. Attorney-General Fitzgerald has ren- dered an interesting - decision relating to the purchase of supplies for county offices wherein a county officer was and is inter- ested in the firm from which the goods were purchased. His opinion is based upon an inquiry from John E. Raker, District Attorney of Modoc County. E. Lauer & Sons presented a claim for merchandise sold to Modoc County. E. | Lauer was a member of the Board of Su- | pervisors and owned a controlling interest | in the stock of the corporation at the time. | The Attorney-General is of the opinion that under the county government act of 1893 the claim of E. Lauer & Sons for mer- chandise purchased while E. Lauer was a | member of the Board of Supervisors is an | invalid ciaim and cannot be allowed. Mr. Raker asked for a second opinion concerning the claim of Benjamin Lauer, one of the sons and a member of the cor- poration. The latter purchased goods | from the corporation which he sold to the | county, and when paid by the county ‘ credited the corporation with the amount iclmrged to himself for such goods. The | Attorney-General is of the opinion that | Benjamin Lauer’s claim must be allowed, JOHN W. MACEAY AS HE SAT ALONE IN JUDGE SEAW [Sketched by a 0 N 1HE CORNER OF ELL'S COURT. “Call” artist.] ana Virginia Company deprived the stock- holders of large profits by a contract under which the ores were handled. This wasa contract with Senator John P. Jones, who worked the upper levels and caused the ares to be milled by the Comstock Milling ny, w plaintiff believes was control kay. Flood and Jones. Mr. Mac in court yesterday, and he modestly sat in the corner furthest from the witn and, upon which attention centered. Other defendants Charles H. Fish, president dated California and Virginia Secretary _ A. generally w present wi of the Conso. Mining Company; Have: George Wells and Cornelius 0’Connor. These were represented by Attorneys Deal, Tauszky and Wells, and the plaintifi’s ducted by H. G. Sieberst. As was stated at the opening of the case, Mr. Fox expects to prove that John W. Mackay, Senator J. P. Jones and J. C. Flood controlled a majority of the capital stock the Consolidated California and Virginia Mining Company ; that they en- tered into a contract with the Comstoe Mill and Mining Company to mill the o: of the corporation first named at $7 a ton, and that a large amount of ore was milled | under the contract. A fair price for the milling of the ore wonld have been $4a ton, it is stated, but Mr. Fox holds that by fraud in the contract the stockhold: overcharged to the amount of $1, 000, E ‘ The defendants declare that Kox has no standing in court, for the reason that he is | not a stockholder. They say that Fox made a demand for an investigation before the suit was begun, and that the directors appointed a day for the investigation, but that Fox did not appear. he first of the testimony in the case wis from the deposition of Senator Jones The witness said in this deposition that he “knew in a general way a2bout his interestin the Comstock Mill and Mining Company, but he was unable to say whether stock had ever been issued to him. Heownea about one-third of the property of the company, while Mackay and Flood owned two-thirds. He could not name the offices of the company, but he thought that his nephew, H. M. Gorham, was secretary. He testi- ied that he knew nothing of the profits of the company. His interest was purely financial, as he had never taken an active part in the conduct of its affarrs. Some vears ago the witness owned the Eureka and Morgan mills, which were subse- %ncnlly acquired by the Mill and Mining ompany. Mackay also owned an inter. est in those mills. He was unable to state how the title passed to the Comstock Mill and Mining Company. In 1885 or 1886, continued Senator Jones, the idea occurred to him of reopening the Consolidated Virginia mine, which™ had been abandoned and was then a wreck. Senator Fair had declared that there was no ore in this mine. ° The superintendent and foreman agreed with Fair and friends declared bhe was crazy to undertake the venture. Mackay had no faith in the plan. In the face of this advice Jones investigated, and found that $75,000 would be necessary to retimber the mine and that an expenditure of $150,- 000 would be entailed before a car of pay- ing ore could be hoisted to the surface. Nevertheless, he went to the directors of the Consolidated Virginia mine to get a contract, and finally secured an agreement upon which he was able to reopen the mine. The mining company agreed to ray $9a ton for the milling of the ore, while Jones was to pay all expenses, including Sutro Tunnel charges, and guarantee the com- pany a return of 50 cents on every ton. At that time tne stock of the mining company was worth about 10 cents a share. Pur- suant to the contract he expended between $100,000 and $125,000, and developed a_tine body of ore, aiter which he surrendered -his contract. It was after the surrender- ing of this contract that the Comstock Mill and Mining Company was incor- porated. Then the coniract with the min- ing company to mill ore at $7a ton was made. Senator Jones declared that no attempt had_ ever been made to defraud the swcg holders of the mining company. The next witness was Secretary Havens, de of the case was con- | as the District Attorney’s statement shows that Lauer purchased the property indi- vidually from the corporation and had the same charged to himself on the books of the corporation. The goods then became his individual property, in which the cor- poration had no further interest; conse- quently Supervisor Lauer, a member of the corporation, is presumed to have no interest, direct or indirect, provided, of course, that the purchase of the goods by Benjamin Lauer was bona fide. * PRACTCALCO-OPERNTION, | The Successful Business of a Los Angeles Grocery Firm. Employersand Employes Divide the Net Profits and Are Pros- perous. Several months ago Labor Commissioner Fiuzgerald received from one of the pro- fessors in the university at Chicago a letter requesting that he forward any in- formation he might possess upon the sub- ject of co-operative corporations in this State. It was pot until Mr. Fitzgerald visited Los Angeles that he was able to | secure any information on the matter. He said: “While I was in Los Angeles I dis- covered a model co-operative store in suc- cessful operation. Itis the wholesale and | retail grocery-store of J. R. Newberry & | Co. I should have said stores, for they have half a dozen establishments in that part of the State all conducted upon the co-operative prineiple. “‘There are four members at the head of the firm, and their pian is very simple. They pay their employes good wages and at the end of the year the net profits are divided, the employers taking one-half and the employes the other half. The employes’ share is divided pro rata accord- ing to the positions held and the wages re- ceived. This really makes the employes partners in the Kusiness, and as such every man is keenly alive to the interests of the business. The division is made every year when the firm takes in stock. “Mr. Newberry told me that he adopted this system not as a matter of principle but of business. The emvloyes do not allow anything to go to waste that can be saved, and their care saves the firm from 2 to 5 per cent on the natural loss in stock. Forexample, a barrel of olives worth $50 burst, and Mr. Newberry said that not over $10 could be saved. To his surprise he found every cent’s worth bad been saved by the head man and a porter, who had worked half of a night putting the fruit up in fancy glass packages. In the Los Angeles store there are about fifteen men employed and every one is‘a drummer for the store. As a result the store does a very large business. s ““The firm’s other stores run from five to | ten men each. The store at Riverside does a business of $150,000, and the others in proportion to the size of the towns in which they are located. Mr. Newberry says that his father in Germany followed the same system successfully, and the Los Angeles man has conducted his business on this principle for twenty-nine years. He says that he would have been bank- rupt several times if it had not been for his_employe-partners who stood by him in hard gimes. Notone of the employes could be induced toleave the firm. One thing Mr. Newberry insists upon, and that is that every one of his men shall get his life insured. Mr. Newberry says he will look out for the men when they are alive, but’ the latter must make provision for their families in case of death. This co- operative store in Los Angeles is the most perfect T have ever seen. Its interior has more the appearance of a bazaar or fair than an ordinary grocery-store, and all the gen are well satisfied with their posi- ions. | | TODEMAND A FORFEITURE, Property-Owners Organizing to Fight the Market-Street Company. WANT STREET-CAR SERVICE. South of the Park Citizens Want the Ocean Boulevard Graded and Improved. The end is not yet. The Market-street Railway Company has struck a snag—a very large, jarring, immovable sort of snag, one of those kind that rip the tire open and make the puncture past mend- ing. The residents and property-owners of the district immediately south of Golden Gate Park are thoroughly in ear- nest and mean to have their streetcar service renewed on the Clayton, Waller, Cole and Carl streets branch or have the franchise forfeited. Indeed the Market-street Company didn’t begin to appreciate what a very big snag it had struck when it suddenly and almost surreptitiously robbed these people of their streetcar facilities. They have proved themselves—these cheated property-owners and residents—a determined set of men. The meeting Wednesday evening at Mr. Lang’s residence, exclusively reported in THE CALL, was only the beginning of the big fight. Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock there will be a general meeting of residents and property-owners of this district at the office of Solomon Getz, in the Crocker building. The meeting of Wednesday evening was attended most largely by the citizens of Ashbury Heights. At this Sat- urday afternoon meeting there will be representatives from all the districts south of the park. A permanent organization will be formed by these gentlemen and a carefully considered formal plan of pro- cedure laid out. The new organization will probably be known as the South of the Park and Ocean Boulevard Improvement Association. Such men as Thomas U. Sweeney, Judge Troutt, C. W. Pope and others of wealth and prominence in the community will be influential in the new organization. The truth is that the dis- trict south of Golden Gate Park is inhab- ited and owned very largely, not only by men of intelligence, enterprise and deter- mination, but iy men who add to these qualities the powerful potency of ample wealth. Now the Market-street Company will find itself with a very large-sized fight on its hands when these men are once thor- oughly organized. In order to spite an old score against Adolph Sutro and make unavailable his proffered gift to the Affiliated Colleges the Market-street Com- pany has robbed these citizens of the streetcar facilities that were assured to them by the terms of the Metropolitan Street Railway franchise. Superintendent Vining's excuse for stop- ping the service—that it did not pay—is oked upon as an insult by the property- owners. And his further reply to their protests, his offer to run the cars in the morning and evening, which would still hurt the site for the Affiliated Colleges, is looked upon by these gentlemen with the same feelings as one who sees a prostrate man kicked by the same foot that knocked him down. But these south of the park people are not prostrate. Far from it, indeed. They are standing straight and looking their antagonist squarely in the eve. They are mostly “men” of wealtn and in- fluence in this community. They not only want the streetcar service for their own accommodation, but for the financial prosperity of their valuable prop- erties. They offerthe Market-street Com- pany two alternatives: To run its cars every fifteen minutes, according to the terms of its franchise; or to forfeit the franchise and give up the roadbed to others who would be glad to operate it, evenata loss. And if these men do not bring the Market-street Comf&ny to time, then in- deed is the power of the octopus omnipo- tent in this City. The meeting Saturday afternoon pro- Doses to.npfmint two committees, or per- hapsa single committee with a two-fold ourpose. The first purpose is to visit Mr. Vining to find out—if such a thingis pos- sible—just what the Market-street Com- pany means to do in the premises. There 13 not much hope that the committee will get much satisfaction from this source. The appointing power foresees this proba- bility, and at the same time a committee will be instructed to lay the matter before the Board of Supervisors at its first meet- ing in September and demand a forfeiture of the Metropolitan Street Railway fran- chise. Another matter for which the South of the Park and Ocean Boulevard Improve- ment Association- if that be its name— will organize for is implied by the latter art of the title. The great highway, so ong a disgrace to the City and so lon, used solely to the advantage and profit of the Southern Pacific Company to the ex- clusion of all other citizens and the uses for which it was years ago reserved, must be improved, say these property-owners. This improvement is of vast importance not only to the property-owners south of the park, but to the entire City. The plan to make a great ocean boulevard of this highway, if ever carried out on its original terms, will give San Francisco one of the finest thoroughfares in the City, will make acontinuousopen driveway to the new race- track and also give the City almost a com- plete encircling boulevard. At the present time the Southern Pacific has the ex- clusive use of the great highway, though there is no warrant but that of possession for their occupancy. Thomas U. Sweeney and several other wealthy men who have large land holdings south of the park, will now, for a second time, make strenuous efforts to have the great highway improved, and the new or- ganization will have that end in view as oune of its main objects. Of course this will mean the uprooting of the Bouthern Pacific tracks, for even the octopus, in spite of its assertion that its tracks keep the sand from drifting, will hardly dare to set forth the claim that its tracks would improve a macadamized boulevard. Evidently if the highway is to become a boulevard the spur tracks must go. Several other matters will,in time, come before the new association, such, for instance, as the opening of J street, the es- tablishment of sewer gradesand such other much-needed improvements. GOETHE-SCHILLER FESTIVAL. Preparations Being Made for a Grand Affair in the Pavilion. A meeting of the ladies invited to form an auxiliary to the Goethe-Schiller Monu- ment Association was held yesterday after- noon in Beethoven Hall, on Post and Powell streets. Charles Bundschu pre- sided. About 150 ladies had been asked to attend this preliminary meeting, and more than half the number were present. Many sent regrets for their inability to attend, and several sent cash donations for the fund to be raised for the purpose of erect- in%a monument in Golden Gate Park. he president gave an interesting outline of the character of the festivities to be held in the Mechanics’ Pavilion in November next, and a general discussion, in which many of the ladies took part, showed that a great deal of enthusiasm prevailed and that the ladies will assist most effectively in making the contemplated festival a great success. A committee consisting of Mrs. Fred Hess, Mrs. Dr. Regensberger and Mrs, W. C. Hildebrandt was appointed and re- | Schwartz, L. Samuels, T. quested to report at the next m_eeting the names of twelve ladies who with them- selves will form the executive committee of the Ladies’ Auxiliary to act in conjunc- tion with the gentlemen’s executive com- mittee of the association. A general invitation will be tendered to all ladies who are interested in this festi- val to be present atthe next meeting of the Ladies’ Auxiliary, which will meeton_the 26th inst. At that meeting the committee of three will report their selections. The next move will be to organize the different sections to take charge of the booths. Mc¢DONALD IS FORGOTTEN. The Five Cases Against Him Were Dropped From Judge Murphy’s Calendar Yesterday. With the coming of the Durrant case the five cases against R. H. McDonald Jr.— two of forgery, two of embezzlement and one of felony—which were pending in Judge Murphy’s court have dropped into oblivion. Yesterday the finishing touch was put upon their state of retirement by an order of court dropping the five cases from the calendar of Department 3. Legally speaking, the cases, like Mo- hammed’s coffin, are between heaven and earth. They cannot be tried in Judge Murphy's court, they will not be tried elsewnere if other Judges have as much say as was formerly the case. When it first came to a question as to where they should be assigned none of the criminal Judges wanted them. All complained of full calendars and long lines of waiting prisoners waiting for that hearing which the law is supposed to give them, and to fix matters the five cases were assigned to Judge Murphy, who had no criminal cal- endar, but offered to take a few cases to help out the criminal department. One of the forgery charges came to a trinl of some weeks, and after causing no end of scandal and the subsequent convie- tion of William Hurley for attempted jury-bribing, the jury in the case dis- agreed. Then Judge Murphy cried enough. ALHAMBAA OPERA-HOUSE. Redwood City to Have a High- Class Temple of Music. C. JOSSELYN THE BUILDER. Fine Equipment of Scenery and a Curtain of Surpassing Beauty. The Alhambra of Redwood City may never rival in grandeur and historic asso- ciation the famous palace of Granada, but it will give to the progressive dwellers in the cavpital of San Mateo County all the comforts of a modern opera-house. Red- wood, as Paul said of the town whence he came, ‘‘is nomean city.” There is public spirit in the place. Beautiful, broad ways—macadamized, watered and free of dust—render it pleasant to drive from town to the suburban villas. Water communication with San Francisco sup- plements railway facilities. Vessels draw- ing ten feet can come to the town, hence there is traflic for freight and passenger boats. The population of the place is 3000; a | modern electric plant supplies light; the water supply is pure and abundant, the drainage system first class, and the health of the town consequently good. No wonder then that the Yeople so hap- Pll)’ endowed with the solid comforts of ife should sigh for the intellectual pleas- NEW OPERA-HOUSE, REDWOOD CITY. He vowed that no more McDonald cases | should come within the doors of Depart- | ment 3, and in pursuant to his determina- tion the cases were yesterday consigned to | comparative oblivion by the order men- tioned. ‘Who will take the cases now is a delicate question, for all the Judges have declared against them, and will not take them up unless compelled to do so. A CORNER [N LANTERNS Chinese Speculators Have Se- cured Control of Decora~ tive Lamps. Dogs Are Polsoned In the Seaside Suburb at the Rate of Thirty a Week. An informal meeting wWas held on the Sausalito yesterday morning regarding the naval engagement fete. The City Council | was represented by General Dickinson and J. W. Sperry, and J. B. Stetson ap- peared for the railroad and ferry company. ‘While the fete will undoubtedly take place some time next month,and while all the preparations for the placing of the shins and the building of the fort will occupy but a short period, the difficulty of procur- ing Chinese Janterns for the civic aecora- tions is going to cause so me delay. There is a corner 1n Chinese lanterns. The wily Chinese, aided and abetted by a ring ot shrewd Caucasian speculators, have made a corner in lanterns. Those fragile paper illuminators have jumped up like a mining stock when rich ore is struck. They are closely held, and 100 per cent advance is demanded for even the most modest quality. Now, as several thousand dozens would be necessary to make a good showing on the hillsides fronting the bay, the expense of illuminating would be more than the householders feel inclined to pay. To obviate this J. W. Sperry has suggested that he telegraph to the agents of his company in Hongkong to ship over the necessary number of lanterns by the next Asiatic” steamer bound hither. This will defeat the rapacity of the specu- lators, and lighten by 100 per cent the cx'Fenses of house illumination. he head committee now consists of J. B. Stetson, J. W. Sperry, General Dickin- son, C. P. Hamilton, J. T. Harmes, D. Ross and C. C. Bruce. This committee will meet on Saturday afternoon and appoint sub-committees to attend to the various details of the fete. The Sausalito Borgia is again abroad in the land. During the last toirty days the average of dogs that have taken the potent pill has been thirty a week. Atthisratea dog will soon be as much of a rarity in Sausa- lito as a white blackbird. Many valuable dogs have been destroyed and their mourn- ing owners are wild to discover the perpe- trators of these dastardly murders. Sus- picion centers on an individual whose progress by any home when a dog lingers on the street is strewn with canine corpses. If he is guilty he does his work so cleverly that it is almost impossible to prove his guilt. But he is closely watched, and his carcass, if not his life,” will be in serious danger when the dog-slaughter is brought home to him. PAVING FOLSOM STREET. Several Bicycle Clubs Will Join in the Agitation. The executive committee of the South Side Improvement Club met representa- tives from seven bicycle clubs last evening at Irish-American H’;ll, on Howard street, for the purpose of devising methods for co- operating in making the mass-meeting a success called for September 3, at Metro- litan Hall, to agitate the paving of olsom street from Nineteenth to the water front. The following-named bicycle clubs were represented: San Francisco, Polytechnic, Liberty, California, Imperial, Waverly and Outing. In addition to the above mem- bers of three Folsom-street improvement clubs were in attendance and one repre- sentative from the Golden Gate Improve- ment Club, . Dr. T. A. Rottanzi presided. On mo- tion of A. B. Maguire, seconded bf M. Haas, the chairman appointed the follow- ing gentlemen to constitutea visiting com- mittee to the various bicycle clubs of the city, asking co-operation in the proposed meeting: Henry Winn, J. W. Maguire, J. | . Rottanzi, ures of music and the drama, and it is wholly in harmony with the spirit of es- thetic progress on the peninsula that A. Page Brown should plan and C. Josselyn build an opera-house worthy of the city. Now the plans have been accepted and the contract awarded. The house is of the mission type of architecture with the blending of the Moorish. There is a series of ornamental windows across the front, heavy cornices project, and the tiled roof lends poetry to the structure. The build- ing is to be of brick, sand finished. Seat- ing capacity for 500 people will be pro- vided. A sgncions stage and fine dressing- rooms will delight the actors and singers. Then the auditorium is so picturesque with its quaint timbers overhead instead of the finished ceiling. Gains in ventila- tion and opportunity for decoration have been thought of by the ownerand the archi- tect. But this is not all. The drop curtain will be a thing of beauty and therefore a joy forever. The Josselyn genius in the creation of this curtain will be refreshed, stimulated and animated by the collective enius of San Francisco bohemianism. ohn Stanton is carrying the curtain in his mind now. Other artists are making sug- gestions, and when Mr. Josselyn goes abroad next month his plastic mind will secure drop curtain impressions in London | and Paris. The equi}vment of scenery is sure to be ample and fit for the production of overa and the rendition of drama. The desires of the young people of Red- wood City have not lacked consideration. Dancing in the Alhambra is sure to be a delight, for the floor is laid on lines to make dancing agreeable. Below will be stores and a cafe. Electric lights, gas jets and fire escapes are to be provided for the building. In truth, the Alhambra wiil light up well. Contractor Robert Brown, who built the Burlingame Country Club, will construct the new opera-house. At the next election the people of San Mateo will consider the proposition of building a new courthouse in keeping with the progress and wealth of the com- munity. The town has now one of the finest school buildingsin California, a bank with a capital of $200,000, which Neighbor I7]055?13111 founded, and also three good otels. RECEPTION TO A RECTOR. Rev. William Hall Moreland of St. ‘L\Ike’l Welcomed Home After His Vacation. Rev. and Mrs. William Hall Moreland were welcomed home after a four months’ sojourn in the East by a reception at the home of Mrs. Theodore E. Smith, 1619 ‘Washington street, on Wednesday evening. The Ladies’ Parochial Society, of which Mrs. Smith is directress, tendered the re- ception, and all members of the parish, other friends of the rector of St. Luke's ana all the Episcopal clergy were invited. There were more than 250 guests. Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Moreland received, and many members of the church served as an entertainment committee for the evening. Vocal musi was provided by St. Luke’s vested choir, Miss Winn, soprano; Miss Garlic, contralto, and Mr. Ladd, tenor. Brandt’s orchestra played at intervais. The drawing-rooms were tastefully deco- rated, and refreshments were served in a vine-covered nook on the lawn, which was brilliantly lighted and gay with bunting and flags. A member of the parish said the recep- tion marked a new social era in the his- tory of St. Luke’s. There have been few social assemblages in the parish hereto- fore owing to the lack of church parlors, but it is expected that the Ladies’ Paro- chial Society.will arrange for occasional socials at homes in the future. Ail were glad to extend the hand of wel- come to the popular rector on his return and he has resumed his duties with added vigor since his visit to his old home in Charleston, S. C. L, . e Leaguo of the Cross Cadets. Company G, League of the Cross Cadets of St. Brigid's parish, will give a grand compli- mentary entertainment at National Guard Hall, on Ellis street, near Polk, next Friday evening. The programme will include num- bers by the best local professional and amateur talent. Rev. P. C. Yorke, the chancellor of the diocese, will deliver an address. A feature of the oceasion will be an inspection and an exhi- bition drill. There will also be acompetitive drill for two handsomely engraved gold med- als, one for privates and one for non-commis- sioned officers. The awards will be made by Rev. M. P. Ryan of St. Brigid's, spiritual di- rector of the company, and the judges will be Se?eln!l Healey and O'Connell of Battery H and Sergeant Kropp of Battery L, United States Artillery, stationed at the Presidio. a GREAT _{ SPECIALS ot FOR Vo =y To-Day’s 'Trade! ——r lowing In connection with many other REMARKABLE CLEARANCE BARGAINS we to-day make A SPECIAL OFFERING of the fol= Extraordinary Attractions! At 15 37 pieces 37-INCH ALL-WOCL FIGURED closed out at 15¢ a yard. At 25 price §1, will be closed out at 25¢ a yard. closed out at 35¢ a yard. At 55 made of heavy percale, regular price $1 $175, will be offered at §1. GLOVES! At 85 a pair. dozen LADIES’ 8-BUTTON offered at $1 a pair. COLORED DRESS GOODS! Cents. DRESS GOODS, former price 50¢c, will be Cents. 157 pieces 37-INCH MIXED DRESS GOODS, in pinbead checks, figured and tweed effects, former price 50c and 75c, will be closed out at 25¢ a yard, At 25 Cents. p = 125 pieces 40-INCH ALL-WOOL PORTEGO CHEVIOTS, medium mixtures, former 5 At 35 Cents. : 72 pieces 37-INCH ALL-WOOL NAVAL STORM SERGE, formr price 50c, will be LADIES’ WAISTS! Cents. LADIES’ LAUNDRIED SHIRT WAIST, in fancy_ stripes, checks and figures, full sleeves, yoke back, regular price $1, will be offered at 55¢. At 75 Cents. LADIES’ LAUNDRIED SHIRT WAIST, extra full sleeves, in all fancy shades, 25, will be offered at 75c. At $1.00. LADIES’ EXTRA GOOD QUALITY PERCALE AND LAWN WAISTS, laundried collar and cuffs, blue, pink, plaids and all fancy shades, regular price $150 and GLOVES! Cents. 200 dozen LADIES’ BIARRITZ KID GLOVES (with 2 hooks at wrist), Foster, Paul & Co. make, in dark, medium and tan shades, good value for $1, will be offered at 65¢ At $51.00. LENGTH MOUSQUETAIRE GLOVES, in dark and medium colors, also black, extra value for §1 50, will be DRESSED KID / | Streel, corer of Joneg, SAN FRANCISODS. SAUSALITO THE PATIENT, Dr. Freeman Turns the Tables on the People by the Sea. The State Board of Medical Exam- iners Gather Up Some Rec- ords in Old England. Sausalito has its little troubles as well as any other city. This time it can be laid at the door of Richard T. Freeman, who was, up to yesterday, a practicing physician in the State of California, having been issued a certificate to practice by tiie State Board of Medical Examiners in December, 1894, Yesterday afternoon Dr. Wadsworth, secretary of the board, went to Sausalito | and informed the diamond-decked doc- tor that he would expect him to deliver that particular certificate up for cancella- tion, and Mr. Freeman proceeded to do so, writing the words **Delivered for cancella- | tion" across the certificate with his own hand, using red ink to accomplish the work. In an interview with a CaLrreporter last night Dr. Wadsworth stated that he had the following reasons ior demanding the | certificate: “Dr. Freeman came here in 1894 and the State board issued him a certificate on the ground ot his having been a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1864. We did not know what became of him after that until he turned up in Sausalito, where he got into some difficulty recently. It resulted in a local physician writing to Dr. Miller, registrar of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, 299 Oxford street, London, and he was promptly informed that Freeman had been removed from the | register for criminal practice in 1293, and to bear out the statement Dr. Miller sent an extract from the minutes of the General Council May 23 of the same year. The extract contained information that Dr. Freeman had by criminal practice caused the death of Ellen Matilda Franklin at the instigation of William Chaslwoo, and was assisted by Annie Francis. He failed to nEpear before the council to answer to the charges and his name was forthwith re- moved. “I took this statement to Sausalito with me and asked him what he intended to ao in the matter and he confessed that it was all true. I informed him that the State association could not submit to havin bim practice in California, and he forthwitg delivered his certificate, writing his can- cellation with his own hand. We are tr; ing to keep the medical profession in Cali- fornia ciean (from such incidents, and [ assure you they are very unpleasant to us. Before I left Sausalito his professional board was removed and heis no longer a practicing physician.” . Residents of Sausalito say that Dr. Freeman wasa man who seemed very much addicted to the diamond habit and gener- ally wore them in profusion. He was a man about 65 years of age and was rather inclined to mingle with the bon-ton. ——————— A Rapid Pilgrimage. A telegram was received yesterday at the Union Pacific office in this city, announcing | that the special train sentout by General Agent D. W. Hitchcock of the Union Pacific with Oakland Commandery had been running at the rate of sixty miles an hour over the Nebraska division of “the railway, and had made such headway it would arrive at Kansas City three hours ahead of time. The Knights of Oakland Commandery and their {riends have been treated to & most agreeable surprise in the ser- vice and attention given them under Mr. Hitchcock’s paternal supervision. - A New Memorial Hymn. E. J. Stark, cantor of the Temple Emanu-El, has composed and arranged for & solo and double chorus a memo: hymn, “Why Are Thou Cast Down, My Sou. he hymn is de- voted to the memory of the composer’s father, Cantor Josef Stark. QTHITED T SHERF, A Houseful of Furniture Under Attachment Spirited Away Whelan’s Force of Men, Assisted by the Police, Find It After a Week’s Search. Sheriff Whelan has just passed an ex- ceedingly troublesome week, with enough worry from day to day to keep him awake at night, but ke has come out successful though with a determination to insist upon strict discipline in his office. Through some negligence in the case of F. W. Gross, at 1012 York street, the Sher- if’s office was plunged into confusion ; every man in it from Under Sheriff Clack to the messenger was temporarily transformed into a detective, and even the whole police force was called upon to assist them in every possible way, Gross had furnished his house on York street from a Mission-street dealer on the installment plan. He failed, so it isde- clared, to pay according to contract and, on August 12, was attached by the] Hard- ing Collection Agency for the amount of the bill. The Sheriff put a men in charge of the furniture, but it seems that the keeper strolled away to see some other roperty which had come under the official ock and key. Incidentally he remained away from Gross’ place for afew hours, altogether too long for the safety of his charge, for when he returned there was nothing there but an empty, hollow cot- tage with an open door. ’the furniture disappeared in t;l]m keeper’s brief absence with such rapidity and completeness it was like a bit of magic. The neighbors knew nothing, had seen nothing, heard nothing, and all that re- mained for the keeper to do was to report at the City Hall what had come upon him. A search was at once commenced through- out the City. Some one had said that the attached household goods went to Harri- son street, and then the hunt was turned . into the long thoroughfare. The police took part in the search, with every office assistant and outside deputy who could be spared by the Sheriff. The assistant jailers had doubie tasks to perform, for when not actually employed in watching the risoners they were out on Harrison street. ore than a week was spent in the search, and on Tuesday the property was discov- ered hidden in a back cellar in the Mission. The owner of the house refused, however, to allow either a policeman or Deputy Sheriff upon his premises. Eventuall the furniture was recovered on a search warrant and taken to the Sheriff’s ware- house in triumpn. But what troubled the Sheriff most was that sucha thing as attached property under his lock and guarded by a keeper should have disappeared on more occasions than this particular one. ————— LIKELY TO RECOVER. Charles Kane’s Case Puzzling the Doctors at the Hospital. The case of the boy Charles Kane, who was kicked by his father’s horse and had his skull crushed in Sunday in Golden Gate Park, is puzzling the doctors at the Receiving Hospital. A piece about four inches square was taken from his skull and part of the brain matter had oozed out. It was thought by the doctors that he could not live many hours, but he is still alive and there are hopes that he may recover. Yesterday morning he regained consciousness, and when he opened his eyes and saw his mother sitting at his bedside he smiled and ut his arms round her neck and kissed er. If he should recover a piece of silver plate will be inserted to_fill up the gap in » his skull. The puzzling question i whether the loss of a portion of his brain matter will permanently affect him, and if 50 In what way. p