The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 20, 1895, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1895. 185, STANFORD'S CASEN, M Ex-Judge Garber Has Finished | His Statement for the | Estate. ATTORNEY M'KISICK TO REPLY. The Great Suit and Is Nearing a Close | the Decision of the Appellate Judges. er concluded his argument | d States Court of Appeals he case of the United States Swanford, to recover some *d to be due the Govern- for the debts of the > Raiiroad Compan able effort, the two days’ talk being made wholly without notes or anda, except the citations of law. rber dwelt most of the morning n that feature of the case relating to constitutional prov which pro- os of stockholders, to show it was but upon n to make on,”” he said, ‘does not rs are liable for ities. The act Ihat act it- The United conc all come w v should it not » held by these d States to be i ‘the | n order to 1 = exe ? mere dry was reation by the Ntate of fornia of a 1 v unknown before. | it was provided that suit to recover on! it must be brought within three ar! Therefore. no action can have ing here—not even if brought by the 1 States—except it is subject to the litions prescribed by the power creat- he obligation. s the constitution is not self- s the Legislature had the right e the terms and the conditions ockholders’ liability, subject only requirement that there should be liability imposed; as this whole mat- Legislature; as, in the ion, there would be no ty which could be enforced, it follows rily that this is under our constitu- s it has been held elsewhere, the e of the statute and the creation of It follows from that, as I said before, when the Legislature has created this liability, it having the power to , and to prescribe the terms upon h it should exist, that the terms en- { into and conditioned the thing and that no man can come to en- e th which the Legislature created 1is benefit without coming also under the conditions, limitations and restric- ‘Wo man contend for a moment ion of the State of Cali- rom the Legislature the r in which, medies by which this individual hould be enforced, and to exclude 1 the constitution -xecuting in rhat t the Legislature is bound | ate some individual liability on, or some proportion, of | di exclusive of sC 11 )oe « e time within which edies sball be me when the liabilities shal [& T ce, and the time when they| , are ali left within the control islature, and not fixed or deter- )y the terms of the constitution. slature may, as it is settied in the California, and us nobody has doubted, say, not that stockholders be liable for all the debts and liabili- f the corporation, whether contracted bought the stock or contracted ld out their stock and ceased ckholders, but as Judge Sawyer been always since un- ood to be the rule, they may say that those who are stockholders at the the debt was contracted shall be Can it be doubted, if they can limit v, that tifey can also limit as nd as a partof the liability e hin which the creditor shall come to enforce that liability? What is unconstitutional in that? How does that impinge upon the policy of the constitu- tion any more than what was sanctioned he court where they restricted the lia- lity to those stockholders who should be such, at the very time that the debt was contracted or created and the liability fixed, and excluded from its operation those who i tockholders. Is it that this obligation, thus created by the constitution, though it is not self-execut- ing, as I have said, is to run on foreverand without any qualification? Is the Legisla- ture shorn of all power over the corpora- tions which itself shall see fit to create? In determining the policy of the State prations in a commercial > is the Legislature to be bereft of all bowers, and is its discretio: to a naked, fixed, ironciad rule, that time liable. 1 be no limitation in the iition, entering into and part of the liability, that it shall in a certain specified manner i cribed period ? That deed in the corpora- 20f California, or of aw of the Stat in the vague and general terms in h the constitution of 1849 was framed. h was the intention of the framers > constitution. They intended firstto a general principle as a directi rest to the power of the Legislature to the creditor: ‘When you with a corporation created California, with its character ritations established, the rights quire by dealing with the t down plainly, so that 1them. You must be bound mitations and qualifications; 1 contract upon those terms, asyou do; if the creditorscan waive by iuct, by oral or by written agreement, ational liability cannot waive not waive it when the 1 setdown in the charter rporation a certain prescribed and riod, or a certain meihod or mode sich he should enforce his liability; he contracts in view of that, with the tion bound by those charter does he not waive, conclusively 1y further claim based uvon the anguage of the constitution? Is he bound by his contract with that cor- I i to the terms of the act of the Legislature, in view of which terms he contracted with the corporation itself?” After dwelling upon-these several points at length and quoting numbers of authori- e Garber said in conclusion: ‘For these reasons, if your Honor please, not- withstanding the very able argument of the counsel for the United States I submit that the decision of Judge Ross rests upon a too solid foundation to be overturned.” The argument was completed about 3:40 yesterday afternoon and the court ad- journed. Judge McKisick will begin the conclud- ing argument for the United States this morning. to say e to- deal 1d does h ¥ell Eighteen Feet. Mrs. Connors, & widow living at 23 Langton street, was banging out clothes to dry from the rear balcony yesterday afternoon, when she to be lim- | at they may think is_good | other State which adopted a constitu- | e to the Legislature, but to leave | distance of eighteen feet. Fortunately her fall was broken by striking against a projecting piece of wood half way down. She was taken 10 the Receiving Hospital, where Dr. Fitzgibbon found that her right shoulder-blade and right ankle were broken and she was injured in- ternally. She is well up in years and her injuries are serious. FRUIT-GROWERY' CONVENTION. Orchardists Do Not Want to Go to San Diego. The next State Fruit-growers’' Conven- tion will be held some time in November, but the exact date and place have notas vet bech decided upon. These matters will be taken up by the executive commit- tee of the State Board of Horticulture. Considerable pressure is being brought to bear to have the convention held in San Francisco or Sacramento. At the last meeting San Diego was favorably men- tioned, but those who recommended that place are now anxious to have the conven- tion held in this locality. i n Diego was mentioned several ns have arisen that make it desir- to hold the meetings further north. ern auction sales of fruit and how to best otect the fruit-growers. Secretary Le- !long has recently received several letters from fruit-growers, who want the conven- tion held in San Francisco or Sacramento. D. T. Fowler of Fresno favors Sacra- | mento, which is in the center of the fruit | district, and he states that San Diego is too far away and the attendance would | necessarily be light because of the expense | in reaching that place. In conclusion he | writes: “Iruit-growers must be rallied and | more closely united in support of the pur- | poses of the Fruit-growers’ and Shippers’ | Association J an of Placer County writes i strain, and says the orchard- ists of Placer County favor Sacramento. Frank Lyman of Fowler, Fresno County, adds his voice in favor of Sacramento. EOUAL REHTS CAMPHGH, Rev. Anna Shaw Booked to Lecture in Cities of California. Manager Hester A. Harland Speaks of a Recent Trip Through the State. HestersA. Harland, manager for nna Shaw’s lectures, returned to | San Francisco Wednesday evening, having | made a tour of Northern California and | closed engagements for Miss Shaw to speak in various places. The progressive manager was seen at | the Sargeant residence, 1630 Folsom street, yesterday. She was in good health and > | high spirits after her arduous trip, and | predicted for the eloquent advocate of | woman suffrage a most entertaining and | animated campaign. Plans were effected for Miss Shaw to | speak at Santa Rosa, Napa, St. Helena. [ Suisun, Sacramento, Marysville, Chico, Red Bluff, Yreka, Willows, Colusa, Stock- ton and Vallejo. Mrs. Harland leaves for the south to- day for the purpose of completing ar- ngements for Miss Shaw to lecture at Fresno, Bakersfield, Santa Paula, Ventura, Los Angeles and adjacent towns. 1n every town where the programme of | the course permits_the lecturer to remain | over Sunday an invitation has already | been extended for her to occupy a pulpit. | The desire to hear the able exponent is | universal. ‘In nearly all places visited by | Mrs. Harland leading society ladies and | the foremost men in educational work manifested enthusiasm in the forthcoming lecture season. In some places subscrip- tion lists have dlready been circulated with success. The organization of county and auxjiary 1 societies to advance the cause will engage applied, | the attention of Mrs. Harland on her next | journey over the course. When the or- ganization is effected tl)rouihoun the | Btate delegates will be chosen for a great | convention to assemble in San Francisco | next spring. The manager will visit the leading towns of California which are not embraced in Miss Shaw’s course. Leading lights of the suffrage movement will come from the East to speak at the State con- vention, and so it is thought that great enthusiasm on the subject will be awsakened. In several towns visited by Mrs. Harland preparations have been made for the run- ning of special excursion trains to enable people in other places to hear the noted ecturer. Rev. Anna Shaw is now in New York. | At last accounts she was in good form and, to use her own expression, able *‘to shout louder than ever.” She will arrive in this v September 25 and lecture on the “In- justice of Chivalry” at Golden Gate Hall the evening of September 26. The next | evening she will lecture in Oakland. Re- turning from her tour of the State she will | reach Liere November 1and leave town for the East the following day. Yesterday Miss Sargent and Mrs. Har- | 1and received some of the latest campaign | literature from the National Suffrage Asso- | ciation and this document was regarded as | pointed and pertinent: A FEW LEADING QUESTIONS. der & representative form of Govern. uch as ours, who should make the law he people. —Do the people make the laws? A.~No; half of the people are relieved (?) from mak- ing the law: : |~ G.—Who | m s ake the laws? A.—Men. e the men the right to make the A.—Men. the laws concern women? A.—They | certainiy do. Q.—May women not take part in making the A.—They may Men slone make the laws for women and | laws which they must obey? not. es the law, who de- If & woman trangr nvicts end punishes the penalty, tries 2 n. Q. on the juries before whom men | and women are tried? A.—Men only. | Q.—Is this what the constitution means by | “the judgment of his [or her] peers?” A.— | Manifestly not. May not mothers help make the Jaws that e their legal relations to their children? men make the laws, and in only six s of the Union has the married mother | the legal right to her children. | Q.—Why is the law so one-sided? A.—Be- | cauise oné sex alone has been making the law: |~ Q—Who make the laws that decide the rights | of husband and wife in case of separation? | Men only. Q.—When a husband brutally assaults his wife who make and enforce the laws that pun- ish him? A.—Men. —Who make the laws concerning the prop- ights of husband and wife? A.—Men. Who pay taxes? A.—Men and women, Q.—Is the property of women taxed the same | as that of men? A.—Higher as a rule. Q.—Who make the laws governiug taxation ? i en. —Who may say how tax money collected | from men and women shall be used? A.—Men only. Q—May not a capable woman who runs her own farm or other business have a vote in elec- tions that concern her interests as much as those of any man? A.—No; but the most in- capable man in ber employ may. Q.—May not & woman of eduvation, who un- derstands the questions of the day, vote? A.— No, but the most ignorant of men may. Q.—May not women who teach the boys in our schools vote? A.—No, but the boysthey instruet, when 21 may vote, Q—May mothers who have given sons to the State and nurtured them in the fear of God and love of country—may they not yote? A.— No. Q—Why not? A.—Because they are women. Q—Why does & conscientious woman want tovote? A.—So she may help to enact laws that will better the cond{tions ot society. Q.—Would women vote if the privilege were granted them? A.—In Wyoming a greater per- Sentage of women voted than men, and thar, too, when it is often necessary to walk or drive many miles to the polling places. Q—Who may vote? A.—AIl men, white or black, native or foreign, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, drunk Or sober, may vote. ———————— The Sanchez-Street Grade. Mrs. Mary P. Hogerty has petitioned the Su- ourt for an injunction to prevent the mi?gnfin Paving Compeny from changing the overbalanced Lerself and feli to -the ground, & streets. hese questions are in regard to the East- | grade of the crossing &t Sanchez and leeny‘ 1 | War Department may think of the proposition, | and Contractor Davi BATTLE ON THE MARSHES.| Sloughs Blockaded With Piles and Steel Wire Cables at Suisun. THE TEAL CLUB MONOPOLY. Wealthy Men Who Made the Pre- serve to Be Arrested In Solano County. A conflict of extraordinary interest to sportsmen throughout California is to be revived in the county seat of Solano be- fore the coming season opens, and already many votaries of the gun in San Fran- cisco, Oakland, Benicia, Suisun and Val- lejo are preparing to carry the fight to a hasty conclusion. Though it slumbered for several months, while there were no ducks to be killed, in view of the near approach of the season a quick and decisive legal battle is to be waged. It all involves the rights of citi- zens to shoot over marsh lands, and also the very interesting question of whether a few wealthy men may combine in this State and maintain preserves, on the Eng- lish plan, with gillies and gamekeepers, you know, on marshes which, according to act of the last Legislature, shall beopen to all sportsmen. The trouble began a year ago, when Kel- logg, Whittier and some other men of means in San Francisco shut out sports- men from the best part of the Suisun marshes. ‘Those exclusive hunters formed the Teal Club, which leased the Chamber- lain tract of 6000 acres in the overflowed lands near Suisun Bay. They sublet parts” of the tract to the Cordelia, Ibis and Drawbridge clubs, and thus with their own preserve monopolized the best strip of hunting land in Solano County if not, indeed, in the State. But sportsmen from around the bay of San Francisco did not submit meekly to this altogether foreign policy. They wentin upon the marshes as ‘‘poachers,’”” know- ing they would be arrested and forced to retire, though there was land enough there for ten times the number of shoot- ers. And beyond that the whole matter was carried into the State Legislature. And what has been the result? A law was enacted declaring that marsh or overflow land could not be reserved from all citi- zens who wanted to shoot over it, and in this point the exclusive gun club preserve scheme received a bad knockout blow. But the worst came when a keeper lost his life for leveling a shotgun at a “poacher.” Several sportsmen of Solano County were arrested for trespassing upon the pre- serves, but they claimed the right of jury trials, and out of forty-eight men-—good and true—who sat in judgment upon their cases there were only two who stood for the principle of aristocratic preserves, as against the defendants, who by the way were plain, everyday American citizens, taxpayers and supporters of the country in which they could not shoot game. After these suits went against the Teal Club injunctions were served on twelve sportsmen in S8an_Francisco, Oakland and Solano County. The Mallard Club, which had been the” chief offender, was made a special object of attack. Vic Harrier, Dave Beveridge, W. Mitcheil and Thomas Rob- inson of Vallejo; Lloyd Eaton, Charles Dietz and Robert Van Norton of San Fran- cisco, and W. J. Boyer, Will Prather, Fred English and Alec Rosborough of Oakland were enjoined from shooting on the Teal Club’s 6000 acres. Mr. Harrier said yes- terday: We propose to hav, Club arrested. Th work and blockaded these people of the Teal y_have gone quietly to he sloughs to the Suisun marshes. They got Contractor Davis of Beni- cia todrive a row of piles into the sloughs near the mouths, and when the piling was finished steel cables one and a half inches in diameter were woven in and around barri- cade, which stands to-day as an impassable barrier against vessels. The Frank Horn Slough, which hias an ayerage width of 0 to 140 feet, is navigable for four miles from fts mouth where it is blockaded. For that dis- tance n craft carrying & load of 25 tous has been seiled with merchandise. We propose to 5 these navigable waterways can be le- ¢ obstructed. We don’t ktow what the but &nyhow it will be testel in court. If that does no good we shall go up there with saws, axes snd chilied chisels and cut down the ob- structions. Our pien is to arrest Messrs. Kellogg, Whit- tier and the other prominent men of the Teal Club; also Captain Chittenden, the of Benicia for bloc the sloughs. Life will be made miserable for those sportsmen whenever they get into Solano County. Warrants from every town in the county, from Valiejo, Fairfield, tlie county seat, Benicia and Suisun, will be.made out, and'the Teal Club men will be taken in and dragged all over the county. The gitorneys who have the cases in hand have decided to stertin on the first day of the ceason and keep up the arresting from differ- ent places in the county at intervals. Soshoot- icg on the : preserve will not be so exclusive afte s season When Ju returns from the East he will hear the cases that have been pending against us. We shall attack the injunctions on various grounds: That the law 8llows citizens to shoot over marsh lands; that it does not recoy eserves on marshes, and that the title held by the Teal Club is not clear, and, therefore, not & legal title. 1 will be in Oakland Seturday to reorganize our Mallard | Club and there meet the San Francisco mem- bers, for it is our intention to fit up our ark for the season’s shooting and go right in again un marshes. This season the fight will be far and away more bitter and persistent than ever before, and. there will undoubtedly be some startling developments in the struggle. WILL STOP BUYING THERE Temperance Women Promise Not to Patronize Corner Groceries. The Ninth Annual County Conven- tion of the W. C. T. U. Appoints Officers. Resolved, That as Woman’s Christian Tem- perance Women we will not patronize gro- ceries that sell liguor or that order it for their customers. This fiat against corner groceries was unanimously passed by the ninth annual County convention of the San Francisco Woman’s Christian Temperance Union yesterday. Mrs. Rose French introduced it in a short but emphatic address in which she told how, walking recently through a poor neighborhood, she had entered the empty cottage of a wretched family that had been turned out for debt and had found some stray leaves from their grocery book lying about. ‘‘The amount spent in food was just one-third that which had been spent on whisky,” she said, and added the suggestion that in wealthier househbolds than the wretched half-starved one to which she had been alluding the facility with which whisky can be procured along with the groceries often proves a stumbling-block to the weak. A number of other leades joined in the discussion on the corner-grocery question and all of them were of the opinion that though it might be a temporary con- venience to send in haste to the nearest grocery, when the larder happened to run out, it was their duty as temperance women to patronize temperance groceries only, so they one and all pledged them- they had to send a mile for an ounce of tea. The convention was presided over by the selves to Mrs. French's resolution, even ill T outgoing president, Miss S. M. N. Cum- mings. The morning session was chiefly | occupied by hearing reports from the | county officers and from the presidents of the local unions. All the reports were of a very encouraging nature in regard to increase in membership and work done. The three new unions reported as having been formed during the last year are those of Westminster Church, the Third Congre- gational Church and Trinity Church. The following officers were clected for the coming year: Mrs. H. H. Luce, presi- dent; Mrs, E. B. Stewart, recording secre- tary; Mrs. Rose M. French, correspond- ing secretary; Mrs. L. P. Williams, treas- urer; Mrs. L. M. Carver, auditor. | Mrs. Nellie B. Eyster told of her work in the temperance cause in the public schools during the afternoon session and Miss Lilla i‘nles described how even children in the kindergartens can be taught abhor- rence of intemperanca. Mrs. Spencer reported for the Indian work and Mrs. L. N. Carver and Mrs. Eyster urged greater activity along this Ime of work. A report of the labor depariment was furnished by Mrs. Harnish and Mrs. Rose French made a report on law enforcement. | The latter lady said, ‘“We could get many more convictions if we could do away with the law that permits a man convicted of selling liguor unlawfully to appeal to a jury.” The polyglot act, a document’ in thirty different Janguages and miles in length, was described by Mrs. Athearn. She stated that great progress was being made in securing signatures to this act in favor of temperance, which had been signed by all classes of people irom crowned heads to the poorest in the various lands where it is | being circulated. Just before the close of the convention a committee was appointed, consisting of Mrs. L. M. Carver, Mrs. H. H. | Luce and Mrs. Barry, to ask the county | voard of the W. C. T. U. todraftalaw against the sale of liguor in corner gro- ceries. | CEN, CAMPOS MISSED [T, General Ezeta Once Promised to Fight for Cuba’s Inde- pendence. He May Meet Trouble Iin Mexico Unless He Alters His An- nounced Plans. People who know all about1t—who have, 5o to speak, seen the whole deck—say that General Gutierrez, down in San Salvador, has no more real reason to fear the fire- eating Ezeta than has General Campos over in Cuba. Resplendent in goid lace and a choice collection of Midwinter Fair swords the Napoleop of San Salvador, as he styles himself, sailed yesterday for the land that don’t seem to want him. His announced programme as given out is to land at Acapuleo, skate across Mexico, organize an army and dash down through the coffee plantations and frijole factories and seize his country by the throat. If he tries any such over-vigorous scheme in Mexico heis likely to get into a Mexican jail, and all people who have been there say that it 1s not a nice experience. **Mexico will not permit,”’ said Mexican Consul Coney yesterday, ‘‘any overt act against a Government with which she is at peace. General Ezeta can enter Mexico as any person may, but if he tries to use the country as a background for a San Sal- vador revolution he is going to get into trouble.” It perhaps is not generally known that the picturesque Ezeta had a chance fora | job at redhot fighting, accepted it, and | then withdrew. Friends of the revolu- tionary cause in Cuba asked him to go down there and help fight Spain’s famous general, Martinez de Campos. It was right after the trouble in the | courts here. FEzeta was freed largely | throvgh the instrumentality of Senor | Quesada, the young attorney who came from New York to help the Salvadoran refugee. Quesada was then a secret official of the Cuban revolutionary party. He urged Ezeta to give to Cuba some of his surplus fight, and Ezeta agreed. “Congratulate me,” said Quesada to a friend who happened into Ezeta’s room one day about this time. I have the| promise for Cuba of General Ezeta's vic- torious sword " “It is so,’ said the general, flashing all | the fire he could from hiseyes. “Iow my friend Quesada a debt of gratitude, I will join his people in the fight of oppres- sion against tyranny!” Quesada was €0 ov ved that he settled the general’s board biil, and Ezeta left for Mexico with the understanding that he | would get over to Cuba as fast as possible. | From New York Quesada heard that | Ezeta had returned to San Francisco and since then they have not been good friends. Some of the people here who came to think the general considerable of a fakir say now that it is just possible that he is going to keep his Cuban engagement. »He has given out that he is heading for San Salvador in order to mislead the enemy | over in Cuba If both General Compos and General | Gutierrez are wise in war tactics they will | post double pickets until San Salvador’s Napoleon is again safely located. Ordered to Account for $3000. Judge Slack has cited Mrs. Marie E. Newlands to appear in court next Friday to answer a | charge made by Public Administrator Freese | that she has concealed and disposed of $3000 | belonging to the Conrad Gerlach estate. | MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION, Favorably Disposed to Electric Lights on Market Street. THE TALL BUILDINGS LAW. The Members Take an Active In- terest in the Proposed New Charter. The board of directors of the Merchants’ Association held a general meeting yester- day and matters of interest were discuseed. Several communications and requests were received from merchants and_citizens ask- ing the board to take immediate steps for having the specifications for sprinkling and sweeping the streets, as prepared by the association, put in force without fur- ther delay. The subject of putting electric lights on Market street from the ferry to Valencia street was considered, and it was reported that the resolutions favoring this improve- ment had been referred to the Street-light Committee of the Board of Supervisors. Further efforts to secure electric lights on Market street will be made at once. Direc- tor Keil suggested a plan of putting the lights on poles of a suitable height be- tween the cartracks. He further suzgested that platforms be built arouna the base of the poles to prevent the poles from being injured and to give people an opportunity to escape injury in case of being hemmed in by streetcars and vehicles. Several plans wilt be looked into before any will be recommended. At a-recent meeting a resolution was adopted by the association favoring the construction of the Nicaragua canal under the control of the United States Govern- ment and its completion at the earliest possible time. Copies of the resolution were sent to many prominent business men. Letters were read yesterday from Grove L. Jobnson, John A. Barnham, 8. G. Hilborn, Stephen M. White and George C. Perkins, indorsing the resolution and promising all the help they can give in the matter. Secretary Freud reported upon the an- notated editions of the new charter which he is preparing for the association. Pre- liminary to this he submitted a brief summary of the mnew charter, which the board of " directors will have printed in a convenient small book for the vest pocket. It will be a reference book which will contain all of the important points in the proposed new charter. The subject of finance and revenue in connection with taxation and expenditures will be briefly explained. 'The subject of the civil ser- vice and the commissioners will be briefly alluded to, and their terms of sevice as well as the general character of their work will -be-shown ; their duties in making ap- pointmen dismissals and promotions will be explained. The book will also con- tain the sections of the new charter relat- ing to the question of bonding the tity, and anumber of other important matters will bé briefly handled. The directors also discussed the auestion as to how the law shall treat the construc- tion of high buildings. It appeared to the board that an ordinance should be passed stating some reasonuble limit upon the height. Possibly the height of the build- ing could be guided by the width of the street. The subject was referred by the Merchants’ Association to Ernest McCul- lough, the civil engineer, to make a full report as soon as possible upon_this ques- tion. Mr. McCullough informed the board hat he was now encaged in prepating a report, and that he would haveit ready for publication before the question would be | decided by the Board of Supervisors, A resolution was passed that the board favor the location of the Willmerding School of Mechanical Arts in San Fran- cisco. The following new members were elected: W. K. Vickery, Montgomery & Co., Osborn Hardware Company. THE GIRLS WILL SING. Migh School Graduates Will Perpetuate the Schumann Club. The Schumann Club will have a suc- cessor in the Girls’ High School Alumni Glee Club, which has just been organized by graduates from the Girls’ High School, under the leadership of Mrs. Anna von Meyerinck. It proposes to cultivate chorus singing. It was feared when Mr. Loring left for Japan that this work would be abandoned, but the new organization as- s its continuance under favorable con- ditions. The following officers have been elected : President, Miss Caroline Herrin; vice- k‘»re., ent, Miss Grace Davis; secretary, Miss Augusta Abenheim; treasurer, Miss Jeanette Newman. The club will meet every week for work at Mrs. von Meyerinck’s residence. Gradu- ates from the Girls’ High School only will be eligible for memibership. ——ee——— ire Department. The Fire Commissioners met yesterday and fined Thomas Kelly, engineer, ana Walter Lin- ton, stoker- of engine 27, five days’ pay each for neglect of duty in not keeping the engine- house properly cleaned. Frank Page, extra- man of engine 3, who. was convicted of bat- tery upon a cable-car_conductor, was fined fif- teen days' pay. Fred Eilenberger wasapjointed truckman of truck 5. IT IS GOSPEL TRUTH THAT Is the only safe and certain remedy for you to use, if you have dyspepsia, insomnia, nervous or general de- i bility, or are worn out” and weak generally. It NEVER FAILS, and the good it does is LASTING. To women it is worth its weight in gold. Test it and see! NEVER TAKE b SUBSTITUTE--#IND THAT, __ NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. ARGAIN-DAY SPECIAL NEW JACKETS, CAPES, SILK WAISTS, RIBBONS, LACES, GLOVES, CORSETS, UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS AND BLACK GOODS! For the benefit of our regular bargain-day patrons a number of our leading departments combine in A SPECIAL CFFERING OF NEW FALL GOODS at prices that make them POWERFULLY ATTRACTIVE VALUES! LADIES’ FALL JACKETS. At $5.0D. LADIES' DOUBLE-BREASTED JACKETS of black and nuvy seams, very full sleeves, bone buttons, worth $7 50, wil At 87.50. LADIES' DOUBLE-BREASTED JACKETS of black and navy Berlin twill, coat backs, notched collar, tailor pockets, bone buttons, worth §10, will be offered at $7 50 each. At $10.00. LADIES' DOUBLE-BREASTED JACKETS of black and navy diagonal cloaking, with square notehed revers collar, very full sleeves, large bone buttons, neatly trimmed throughout with worsted braid, worth $15, will be offered at $10 each. LADIES’ CLOTH CAPES. At S5.00. LADIES' DOUBLE CAPES of black and navy melton, trimmed all round with satin band with rows of silk stitching, rolling collar of vefvet, ‘worth $7 50, will be offered at §5 each. At 8.50. LADIES’ FULL CIRCULAR DOUBLE CAPES of black and navy Roanoke beaver, trimmed all round with several rows of worsted braid, worth $12 50, will be offered at §8 50 each. LADIES’ PLUSH CAPES. LADIES’ FULL CIRCULAR RIPPLE CAPES of black plush, lined with twilled silk, neatly trimmed with braid and jet, storm collar and satin ribbon streamers, wortn $15, will be offered at $10 each. At S815.00. LADIES’ CIRCULAR CAPES of black silk plush, elaborately {rimmed with jet; storm collar and satin bow, lined with twilled silk, also medium length plush cape with deep cape collar, fronts and collar edged with angora, wortn $22 50, will be offered at $15 each. CHILDREN'S JACKETS. At S4.50 and $5.00. CHILDREN’E DOUBLE-BREASTED JACKETS, varying in size from 4 to 14 years, made of fanc; brown mixed cloaking, square revers. vélvet collar, bone buttons, very full sleeves, wort #6 and $7, will be offered at #4 50 and $5 each. Balance of Our Summer Garments Now Being Cleared Out at a Third of Former Prices. RIBBONS! RIBBONS! At 15 Cents. 500 pieces 5-INCH ALL-SILK, SATIN AND GROS-GRAIN RIBBON, value 30c and 85c a yard, will be offered at 15¢ a yard. At 15 Cents. striped and shaded effects, value 65c, will be closed out blue beaver, with triple stitched be offered at £5 each. 100 pieces FANCY RIBBON, in at 15c a yard. At 20 pieces 7-INCH STRIPED SASH 25¢ a yard. LADIES’ AND MISSES’ GLOVES! At 25 Cents. 40 dozen MISSES' BIARRITZ KID GLOVES, in slate and navy blue shades, also black (odd sizes), former price 75¢, will be closed out at 25¢ a pair. 4 At 85 Cents. 550 dozen LADIES’ BIARRITZ KID GLOVES (special purchase), in dark and me- dium colors, former price $1, will be closed out at 65¢ a pair. 5 At 9D Cents. 650 dozen LADIES’ 5 AND 7 HOOK KID GLOVES, improved Foster hook (special purchase), in colored and black, former prices $1 25 and $1 50, will be closed out at H0c a pail NOTE.—Every pair guaranteed and if not satisfactory money refunded. UMBRELLAS! UMBRELLAS! At $51.C0. . LADIES’ GLORIA SILK UMBRELLAS, with paragon frames, natural handles, will be offered at $1 each. 25 Cents. RIBBON, in Cardinal only, will be closed out at At B81.75. LADIES’ SILK UMBRELLAS, with steel and natural handles, in Dresden and natural wood handles, will be offered .at $1 75 eaci. PARASOLS! PARASOLS! At $1.00. CARRIAGE‘ PARASOLS, in Gloria siik, lined, in black only, value $1 50, will be offered at $1 each. LADIES' BLACK AND COLORED SILK WAISTS! At S2.50. 50 LADIES’ BLACK SILE WAISTS, regular price $3 50, will be offered at $250 each. At B2 OD. : 40 LADIES’ BLACK AND COLORED SILK WAISTS, regular price $550, will be offered at $4 each. LACE DEPARTMENT! At 5 Cents Hach LADIES’ WHITE HEMSTITCHED LAWN HAND-EMBROIDERED INITIAL HANDKERCHIEFS (unlaundried), special value at 5¢ each. At 10 Cents Hach. LADIES’ WHITE HEMSTITCHED FINE LAWN EMBROIDERED INITIAL HANDKERCHIEFS (unlaundried), special value at 10c each. At AB Ceniz Each. LADIE® ALL-LINEN HAND-EMBROIDERED SCALLOPED-EDGE HANDKER- CHIEFS, colored embroidery, value 75¢ and $1. At 15c, 85c and 35c a Yard. IRISH POINT EMBROIDERY, desirable patterns, 3-inch at 15¢, 5}4-inch at 25¢, 8-inch at 35¢; regular value 25¢, 35¢ and 50c. At 22c, B5c and 50c a Yard. BLACK SILK BRODERIE ANGLAISE LACE, 4-inch at 20c, 8-inchat 35¢, 10-inch af 50c; regular value 35¢, 60c and 90c. VEILING! VEILING! At BO Cents a Yard. DOUBLE-WIDTH CHENILLETTE DOTTED TUXEDO VEILING, stylish patterns, in black, navy, brown, cream, tan and black on white, regular value 75¢ and $1. CORSETS! CORSETS! At 55 Cents. 100 dozen LADIES’ BLACK CORSETS, regular price $1, will be placed on sale at 55c. BLACK DRESS GOODS! At 25 Cents. Two cases 52-INCH FINE ALL-WOOL DIAGONAL CHEVIOT, extra good value for 60c, will be placed on sale at 25¢ a yard. MURPHY BUILDING, Market Siveel, corner o Jones, SAN FRANCOISOO. /