The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 29, 1895, Page 7

1 F THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1895. 7 AMUSEMENTS. BALDWIN THEATER.—* Doreas.” CoLUMBIA THEATER—* Diplemacy.” MOROSCO’8 OPERA-HOUSE—“Love and Law..” 7IVOLT OPERA-HOUSE—*“Ernani.” CRrHEUM—High-Class Vaudeville. GROVER'S ALCAZAR.—*Chip of the O1d Block,” den Gate Park Band- 575 Market dmission free. OF TrADE Second. Open d CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. Dr. A. C. Hirst will leave for Chicago Tues- vening. A social meeting preliminary to the Mormon conference, was held last evening. _Keir Hardie aod Frank Smith _addressed_the French Socialists at Lafayette Hall last night. provement club, roposes to have a building and hall of for the consolidation of the Olivet Congregational Churches is being Rupert Schmid has received his bust of Alex- ander Montgomery for the memorial chapel at San Anselmo. weather forecast for to-day is: Partly ¥, foggy at night, stationary temperature risk winds. The officers of the Hum tigating & baby farm, k at 988 Folsom street. Dr. Charles C. Wadsworth is named as the suceessor to Dr. James E. Lilienthal, late in- sanity Commissioner. The Board of Health reports 100 deaths for the present w against 148 for the cor- responding w st year. of the Board of Supervisors 10 make three changes among the Police courts. zgerald has rendered an n with reference to the g and loan associations. derson, a stevedore, of 1414 et, accidentally shot himself yes- 1 a 10y pistol. He died three hours ne Society are inves- by Mrs. Nellie Allen, inte: Huntington, president of the South- Railroad Company, errived yester- from New York. He talked on many sub- phie Fisher was sentenced to three months the branch County Jail by Judge Conlan erday for smuggling opium into the Jail. Policeman Davan last night for setting fire trunk factory, on Seventeenth and California Bankers' Association will at Fresng, October 4 and 5. San Fran- financier i1l be well represented at the nnual gathering. ar Department ements at the P g it one of tl s in the countr; ontemplates extens 1io, with a view of st important military r Monument Association cting its plans and arrange- f al to be held in the v from New Guines was added to ection of animals a few days ago. rday and caused terror among 2 and animals for a time. he Supreme Court yesterday rendered a de- the claim of Horace Whitaker r 160 acres of land, of which the Southern acific tried to dispossess him. last bicycle on Franklin and Eddy streets f was , and_fra his nose, which dat the Receiving Hospital. The story published yesterday relative to h ful hoodwinking of the Commission- oad people in the matter of sts only in theory. citizens and the local indorse the sction of the Chicago convention in giving birth to the Irish National Alliance of the World. W. H. Mills of the Central Pacific has in- formed the mineral lands committee of the Miners' Association that he will consider its pian of agreement recently submitted. C..W. Bowmsn, carpenter, living at 332 Twelfth avenue, was wor track last evening when some lumber fell on top of him fracturing his left collar-bone. Prom societies {cLaren, 310 Hyde street, fell from his | g at_the new race | The Civic Federation Has In- stituted Mandamus Pro-~ ceedings. s IS THE MEASURE INVALID? Car-Fender Law to Be Pushed and the Sunnyside Franchise Investigated. The executive committee of the Civic Federation held a meeting at the office of the president, 1. J. Truman, yesterday aft- | ernoon, and took active steps in regard to | the tax levy. Other matters were also | considered. President Truman was by motion in- structed to institute proceedings looking | to the issuance of a writ of mandate | against the Board of Supervisors, demand- | ing that the board show cause why the City and County tax levy fixed by that body should not be declared invalid. Charles Wesley Reed, the attorney for the federation, was instructed to file a pe- tition for a writ of mandate in the Supreme Court, directing the Board of Supervisors to show cause why the tax-levy ordinance should not be declared invalid. The peti- tion was in the name of L J. Truman, as it is necessary that such an action should | be brought in the name of a taxpayer. As it was too late to file the petition yes- terday the proceedings had to be deferred until to-morrow, at which time a copy will be served upon the Board of Supervisors by Mr. Reed. In the pet tax levies shall be made was set forth on the action of the Board of Supervisors and Mayor upon the matter at issue. The | petitioner said that the Supervisors did not | | fix by ordinance or resolution the amount | and rate of City and County taxes for | the present fiscal r, but that at a meet- | ing held on September 7, “a certain ordi- nance, known and designated as Order ) 2903, was introduced in said board,” a on the 16th it wi opted by a majority of the Board of Supervisors. The ordinance | was presented to Mayor Satro who re- | turned it without his approval and with | his objections thereto. i The board refused to enter the Mayor’s | on the law relating how the | - objection in the journal and refused to publish them in a newspaper, as ired Accordingly id ord as Order No. 2903, is, as this petit- | ioner is informed and believes, void.” | The petitioner then prays that an alter- | nate writ of mandate be 1ed directing the Supervisorsto *‘actu he objections of said ordinance of the said Mayor * * ¥ and to proceed to fix said amount and | rate of taxes, and, in the event of their | refusing to act, to be and appear before | the court * * * and to show cause why a peremptory writ of mandate should not | | issue therein, compelling them to act.” | | Asex s anatory, the petitioner stated in | | the document that he believes that the | rate as fixed by the Supervisors is ex- ive, and therefore the ordinance is | o have taken the matter to a lower | court would have caused a delay in de- termining the matter and would have enfailed an endless amount of trouble, and the case might not have been determined for a year should an appeal have been taken. Such a delay would have clogged and in | mar Ci ases stopped the business of the | he people would have refused to | v taxes, officials would not be paid, and | yntractor would furnish supplies to | y institations and take_the chances of | not being paid. The petition closes by | praying the Supreme Court to take up the | matter at once and afford the people of | San Francisco a speedy relief. The committee decided upon motion to | 7. ¢ mplaint is_being drawn up charging e: ham of the Presidio with criminal libel in having ordered the inseription “‘Mur- dered by Strikers,” published on & monument. tic fight occurred at Mill Valley on ht between Charlie Martin ‘and ie” Cranger, both of Sausalito. It was 1t of long-standing bad blood between o young men. 7. Young, laborer, 1149 Stevenson street, was thrown off a wagon at Ridley and West Mission streets Iast night, and a buggy ridden by three men ran over him, fracturing his skull and in- | juring him internally. With two favorites and three outsiders haul- ing down purses &t the track yesterday the bookies got decidedly the best Gt the talent. The successful horses were Yreka. Sir Richard, Long Lady, Uncle Giles and Gold Dust. An abandoned girl baby, about 24 was found on the steps of Dr. G. W office, 704 Weshington str . ing and taken to the Rec g Hospital. It was later sent to the St. Joseph's Home. The Civie Federation executive committee erday and decided to petition for a hours old, » Don 3 met writ of mandate against the Supervisors on the tax levy. The car-fender law will be enforced and the Sunnyside franchise will be investi- gated. ing Attorney Mogan in court yesterday replied to attack upon him on Friday in the case, which he characterized as cow- nd charged the Judge with being in- Mrs. G. Monnier has denied the statements made concerning her in the other morning papers yesterday. She isnot the woman who wassaid to have met Durrant as he entered Emmanuel Church April 3. 8he says she will not testify. Archie Long, who stole-a parrot from Mrs. Johaston’s saloon on East street Friday, leaded guilty yesterday to_petty larceny and Battery upon Policeman Harrigan and asked for prompt sentence, but Judge Conlan con- tinued the matter till to-morrow. SOOIAL OF THE SAINTS. Preliminary Meeting of Those in At- tendance at To-Diy’s Conference. There was a social meeting of the Latter- day Saints at Calanthe Hall, Pythian Castle,. last evening, preliminary to the conference of the San Francisco and Sacra- mento churches to be held to-day. The hall was crowded and the audience appreciative of the programme, which con- sisted of recitations by Mrs. Houseman, Mrs. Josephine Squires, Mrs. Rattenbury and Arthur Scholes; vocal solos by Mr. Rattenbury, William Scowcroft, Robert Eccles, James Garlick and James B. Shep- herd; vocal quartets by Mr. and Mrs. Scowcroft, Mr. Shepherd and Elder H. Tanner; a guitar and mandolin duet by Miss Lord and Mr. Allen, a piano solo by Florence Rawlinson and ar original poem by Mrs, Thackham. The programme was followed by an hour of social chat and dancing. Meetings will be held at Calanthe Hall at 10 A. 3. and 2 and 7 P. M. to-day. ——————— Coming Musical Events. The first concert of the Carr-Beel winter sea- son tukes place Saturday next, when an_excel- lent programme, containing novelties by Dvaorak, will be performed. The fine Saturday Popular Quartet has a new second violin this season who has recently come (0 California from Germany. He issaid o be an excellent artist. Miss Sofia :Cewlund, the vocalist, will ging songs by ‘Thome, Torti and Goring Tiomhs. On Thursday next & concert will be given at i brary by the Mercantile Li- brary Aux Mri. Anna von Meyerinck hes charge of the musical arrangements and she will be assisted by Miss Cecilia Decker, Mre. Mann, Roscoe Warren Lucy, A. Armand Bolgmon, Charles Mayer Jr., Fred Maurer Jr, The Music Teachers’ Association of Califor- nia will give & concert on Wednesday evening 26 O'Farrell street. s oty oM Painters Organizing. The Progressive Union of Painters and Dee- orators, Which organized six weeks ago at the Labor Bureau, 115 Turk strcet, was iorced on account of increasing membership to engage & hall with & seating capacity of 200. Now again ihis hall is too small, end on last Tuesday night Wishington Hall, 35 Eddy street, with 400 sesting copacity, was engaged, Where the next meeting will take place Monday evening. | mittee that the continued growth in attend- y | aims of the feders | take action to compel the Market-street | Railway Company to place fenders on its | | streetcars, and President Truman was em- | | powered to take the necessary legal eps | {in the matter. The ordinance requiring | fenders goes into effect on October 1, and | the Civic Federation proposes to see that | it is obeyed. | The committee on by-laws reported prog- | ress and was ordered to again report at the next meeting, to be held next Tuesday at ({8 P M. On motion Attorney Maurice 8. Wood- haus was authorized to investigate the matter of the Sunnyside Railway fran- chise, and, if necessary, present the facts | to the Grand Ju A committee was appointed to prepare an address to the public setting forth the | ion. The committee | is composed of M. 8. Woodhaus, Rev. H. | N. Bevier and L. L. Case. G. T. Garden was elected treasurer, and Rev. Thomas Filben and Rev. H. N. Be- vier were elected members of the Centrai Council. THE BEDLCTON OF RATES. Ma- Farmers Will Benefit terially by the Recent Cut. The Eight Per Cent Scaling In Graln | to Affect All Interested Points. The story published in the Chronicle of yesterday, reflecting on the intelligence of the Railroad Commissioners and indirectly complimenting the supposed rascality of | the Southein Pacific in the matter of the | new grain rates, proves to be more a crea- tion of fiction than of fact. The article in question stated, among other things, that the company, in antici- pation of the reduction that has recently been inaugurated by the Commissioners, issued in May last an amendment to the | tariff which became effective December 29 of last year. By de this amend tariff the grain rate to milling and shipping cen- ters from the new State line south to¥s Horn mills, including all intermediate points, was increased from 50 to 100 per cent. This is true both infact and theory, but for all practical purposes the rate just adopted by the Railroad Commissioners might just as well have been increased 200 or 300 per cent instead of an 8 per cent re- duction over the May tariff. The reason for this extraordinary condition of affairs’ Ixs explained by Secretary Newman as fol- ows: The points afected by the May ameadment to the December 29 tariff promulgated by the last Board of Railroad Eommiuinnera, and which are now subjected to the 8 per cent horizontal reduction, are not situated in the grain-producing region. It makes littie or no difference whether the December Tate of $3, { the May amendment of §3 80 or the last rate, 50, fixed by the Commissioners, prevails. reductions were of course made on the mendments where such existed, but the Com- ssioners were careful to see that these amendments were t in excess of the last tariff, so far as the real grain-producing sec- tions were inierested. The Commissioners understood the situation all along, and it only requires a glance at the new schedule to show that the 8 per cent hori- zontal cut rcaches all the principal points covered by the tariff of December 29. There has been no fighting with the rates on the part of the Southern Pacific. The Commissioners have done just what the people mostly in- terested wanted, that is, made a sweeping re- duction. ——————— The Richmond School. A new wing is to be added to the Richmond schoolhouse. Since the closing of the school through the necessity of maxing repairs to cure the unsanitery condition of the building it has been considered by the building com- ance of pupils demands the present addition of one room. The indications are that the tenth class will soon be added and thet will demand still another room. Hence the new wing con- taining two rooms will be necessary. Mrs. Anna E. Tiernan, principal of the school, said yesterday that when she took the school six years ago there were only six classes, and they were very slim in the number of pupils. Those had increased to nive tull classes. st = FIRE IN CHINATOWN. Thirty-Five Hundred Dollars Caused by a Morning Blaze. Fire caused a loss of $3500 in the three- story brick building at the northwest cor- ner of Jackson street and Sullivan alley, at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. The building is owned by Henry Noorman and occupied by Chinese, many of whom lost their entire belongings. The usual scenes of excitement incident to fires in tne Chinese quarter were presented, and a number of Orientals narrowly escaped in- jury while attempting to remove their goods and chattels from the building. The $2000 loss on the building was cov- ered by insurance, while the Chinese will lose $1500, their property being uninsured. The cause of the fire was unknown. A loss of $2 caused early yesterday morning by a fire in the three-story frame building at 113 Oregon street, owned by Joseph Cuneo and occupied 1n the lower story by a Chinese laundry. The blaze was caused by a defective flue. An incipient blaze in the establishment of the Pacific Woodenware and Cooperage Company, about noon yesterday was uelled by the Fire Department without difficulty. The loss was nominal. h MONTGOMERY'S BUST A Work of Art That Arrived Intact Yesterday From Carrara. Loss It Is to Be Placed in the New Me- morial Chapel at San An- seimo. A beautiful marble bust of Alexander Montgomery, which is to be placed in the memorial chapel at San Anselmo, has been received by the sculptor, Rupert Schmid, from Ttal The work is eled in Carrara marble of flawless white, and stands on a polished white marble pedestal, across which the name “A. Montgomery” appears in bas- relief. The bust is life-size, and is an ex- cellent likeness of the deceased Califor- nian, who is represented in street attire, though the long flowing beard gives an air of dignity to the portrait and prevents an inartistic modern collar and necktie from being in evidence. Rupert Schmi modeled the head be- fore going to Europe, and chiseied two marble busts from that model at Carrara. One of them was intended for the memo- rial chapel at San Anselmo, and the other will be placed in the house of Mrs. Arthur Rodgers. The duplicate bust only differs from ‘the memorial one in having a pedestal of tinted marble, veined with black. The bust will be placed in the memorial portion of the Montgomery chapel at San Anselmo, which is rapidly nearing com- pietion. This isa 11 circular chamber opening out of the auditorium, and it oc- cupies the lower portion of the tower. The fioor and the lower vortion of the walls will be tiled, and the walls above beautifully frescoed. The bust will be placed in a niche facing the door, and on either side of it will be The Dead Millionaire’s Eust in Carrara Marble. [Sketched by a “Call” artist.) fine stained-glass windows, one represent- ing the cross and the other the crown, em- blems which were favorite ones with Alexander Montgomery during his life- time. In the floor of this circular chambera brass will be placed, marking the entrance to the vault. The auditorium, which opens | out of the chamber, is large enough to seat | 230 people, and contain: an organ, as well asa handsome chancel with fine stained- glass windows. It is intended that the memorial chapel and its adjoining class- rooms shall be used constanily for divine service and for Sunday-school, etc. There is no doubt therefore but that the fine bust will frequently be seen and admired. UP-TO-DATE SHOE HOUSE. One of the Most Notable Mercantile Developments of the Season. Yesterday the San Francisco Shoe House opened in Gutzkow Building on Market street, opposite- Mason, in many respects the finest shoe house west of New York, and tills a long felt want fora complete up- town shoe store. It is not the magnificent salesroom of the establishment, extending from Market to Stevenson, that lends the greatest interest to the store, but the fact that George E. Fairchild. the president and manager, is the Napoleon of shoe merchants in the West. Less than three years ago he came to this coast a stranger. Now he has four stores in Oakland, one in Alameda and one in Berkeley. The San Francisco Shoe House is but the tardy fulfillment of hisdetermination to open on this side of the bay a model shoe em- porium. B HISTORY OF THE BTATE GRANGE, On Tuesday next THE CALL will publish a history of the Patrons of Husbandry by Ed- ward F, Adams, & member of the order. The history will describe its origin, the difficulties encountered in establishing it, its feilures and successes. It contains about 14,000 words and will occupy more than one page of THE CALL. Itis grlpgic. concise and complete. Every granger in the State should have copies of this number of THE CALL for his own reading and for distribution emong his friends. Ii members of the order expect the grange to grow it must be by the distribution of such literature. ‘Address orders to Charles M. Shortridge, San Francisco. ——————— James H. Barry Injured. James H. Barry, editor of the Weckly Star, was badly injured Fridey evening. He was alighting from a cable-car, when he was struck by another car coming from the opposite di- réction. He will be confined to his home for some weeks. - e———— C. B. YounG, owner of Searchlight Addition (1500 lots) to the city of Stockton, has removed to 602 Market sireet, Crocker 5nflmns. the office formerly ocoupied by the Board of ey STATE BANKERS TO MEET, Annual Convention of Presi- dents, Cashiers and Financiers. WILL CONVENE AT FRESNO. Several Important Papers to Be Read by Prominent State Capitallsts, The fourth annual convention of the California Bankers' Association will be held at Fresno next Friday and Saturday, October 4 and 5. Einstein Hall, opposite Hughes Hotel, has been engaged for the occasion. The indications now point to a full attendance from the State at large, and certain it is that local financiers will be well represented. According to Presi- dent Lovell White, however, nothing of general importance will be discussed. The exécutive council will meet at the Einstein on Friday, October 4, at 9 A. m.. and at 11 o’clock the convention will be called to order. Dr. Chester Rowell, presi- was openly asserted yesterday that the place had been practically tendered to and accepted by Dr. Charles C. Wadsworth. Dr. Wadsworth, when asked about the rumor last night, declined to discuss the matter in view of the recent death of Dr. Lilienthal. He said that the appointment was_in the hands of the Supreme Court. ‘While he had heard nothing officially, he was not prepared to deny that the appoint- ment might not be offered to him, and that he might accept it. Dr. Wadsworth is the president of the San Francisco Medical Society and quite opular among his colleagues in this City. L is appointment was made by Judge San- erson. BUILDING AND LOAN BUSINESS. An Interesting Opinion by Attorney- General Fitzgerald. Attorney-General Fitzgerald has ren- dered an opinion which is of importance to all building and loan associations. Itisin answer to 1nquiries from the board of com- missioners_of building and loan associa- tions, and is self-explanatory: Replying to your letter of recent date, asking (1) whether or not a building and loan assoCia- tion is insolvent when its property has depre- cisted to an extent that exhausts the entire accumulated profits and impairs the dues paid in 10 or 20 per cent, after allowing for outside claims; (2) can such associations continue business without scaling its book value of shares, and (3) can the board of directors effect such sealing, or must it be done by vote of its shareholders, I am of the opinion: First—That a builaing and loan corporation is insolvent when its available and collectable assets are reduced below the value of its capi- tal stock, as defined in section 634 of the Civil Code. Becond—That such corporation may con- LOVELL WHITE, PRESIDENT CALIFOENIA BANEKERS’ ASSCCIATION. [From a photograph.] dent of the People’s Savings Bank of Fresno, will deliver the address of wel- come, which will be responded to in behalf of the visiting delegates by A, H. R. Schmidt, cashier of the German Savings and Loan Society of this City. The nfi- dress of the president of the association will follow, and then the reports of the treasurer, secretary and executive council, in the order named, Special papers will be presented by J. E. Ward of the First National Bank of Mo- desto; William Beckman, People’s Savings Bank of Sacramento; Major George H Bonebrake of the Los Angeles National Bank; Benjamin C. Wright of this City, and Bank Commissioner . W. Magee. Additional matter for discussion will be supplied by letters from gentlemen promi- nent in financial circles. The bankers of Fresno have made elabo- rate and thoughtful provision for the en- tertainment of their guests. A theater varty will be the feature of the first even- ing at Fresno, and on the next night a banquet will be given at the Hughes. Drives through the surrounding vineyards and farms will be tendered ti:ose who re- main over Sunday and Monday. Arrangements have been made with the railroad for a one and one-third rate for the round trip, providing not less than fifty tickets are purchased. Every bank in the State has recently received a certificate to be signed by the agentselling the ticket, for which the purchaser will pay full fare. In order to obtain the one-third fare fro Fresno the certificate must be vised :} Fresno by the secretary of the convention. The officers of the California Bankers’ Association, together with the name of the institution with which they are connected, appear as follows: Lovell White, president, San Francisco Sav- ings Union; 1. G. Wickersham, vice-president, Wickersham Banking Company; G. W. Kline, treasurer, the CrockerWoolworth Nagionsl Bank; R. M. Welch, secretary, San Francisco Savings Union; executive council—James A. Thompson, chairmau, Donohoe-Kelly Banking Gompuny;'N. Do Rideout, the Rideout Bank; C. E. Palmer, Union National Bank of Oakland; W. P. Harrington, Colusa County Bank; S. Prentiss Smith, the Bank of California; H. H. Hewlett, First National Bank of Stockton; J. M. Elliott, First National Bank of Los Angeles; Stoddard Jess, First National Bank of Pomona; C. Bingham, Decker, Jeweit & Co. Bank. ARRESTED FOR ARSON. William McGreevy, a Laborer, Caught in the Act by a Police Officer. William McGreevy, a laborer, living at Eighteenth and Valencia streets, was ar- rested shortly after 10 o’clock last night by Policeman Doran, and booked at the Seventeenth-street station on the charge of arson. Doran was standing on the corner of Folsom and Seventeenth streets when he saw a blaze in Steele’s trunk factory on the corner of Shotwell street. He ran to the i:llsce and saw McGreevy running away. e pursted him and captured him after an exciting chase. He then went back with his prisoner to the factory and extin- guished tue flames, which were beginning to creep up the wall of the building. He found that McGreevy had stuffed a lot of paper through a hole in the fence which is close to the factory and set fire to it. McGreevy was considerably under the influence of liquor. He denied setting fire to the place, and {Aretendcd not to know what he was arrested for. He said he was on his way home from his work in the Southern Pacific yards at the foot of Six- teenth street when Doran arrested him. McGreevy has a penchant for fires, Sev- eral months ago he was arrested for two attempts at arson eariy one morning. One of the attempts was on the building at the corner of Twentieth and Valencia streets, and the other at the corner of Twenty-first and Valencia. No damage in either case resulted, and the charges fell through, ——————— DR. LILIENTHAL'S SUCCESSOR. Dr. Charles C. Wadsworth the Man. The death of Dr. Lilienthal, ona of the Insanity Commissioners, lelt a vacaucy on that board, which rumor is already filling. Despite the fact that the funeral of the lawe commissioner has not taken place, it id to Be tinue to do business without immediately scal- ing the book value of shares, provided, how- ever, an apportionment of its losses must be made at least annually, in accordance with sec- tion 642 of the Ciyil Code. Third—As the law requires the apportion- ment of profits and losses to be made, the same may be made by the directors, without vote of its stockholde LOST THE BET AFTER ALL, End of a Lawsuit Over an10 U and a Smoking Wager. James H. King Thought He Had Made an Easy Winning, but the Court Ruled Otherwlise. James H. King was overruled yesterday by Justice of the Peace Carroll on that $100 smoking bet with which he proposed to offset a $100 10 U given by himself to Joseph Knauer. The bet and the IO U have caused a great discussion as they see-sawed up and down in the scales of justice and the men about town have had no end of fun out of Knauer and King over the matter. The controversy and joking has been going on for four months. All sorts of bets have been made on it and now by the decision of the court Knauer and the I0 U have won and King and the $100 stake have lost. Knauer began the contestin the Justices’ Court with a suit to recover $100, alleged to be due on a promissory note signed by James H. King. It was admitted that King had made the note and had received $100 for it and that he never returned the money. King made answer as a set-off to the note that Knauer owed him $100 on a smoking bet. According to his story told on the witness-stand the two had sworn off smoking and had made a bet that the first one caught sucking the weed should pay the other $100. The bet was entered on June 23 last. King was the lucky man. He was stroll- ing along Montgomery avenue about three weeks later when he espied Knauer puffing a big cigar with mingled avidity and de- light. He slapped him on the shoulder and in the most joyous manner imagin- able demanded his $100 forthwith. Knauer responded that he did not walk the streets prepured to pay $100 bets at a moment’s notice. So the matter dragged on from day to day and week to week, till Knauer tried a little collecting on his own account and asked King to pay his $100 T O<U. Then came King’s flat re- sponse, “‘First pay me that $100 smoking bet you owe me and call it square on an oifset.” Knauer did neither. He began suit to recover on the note. % In summing up the case Justice of the Peace Carroll said : It is conceded that at thé time of making the bet, and thereafter, no money passed between the’ parties. It is essential to the existence of a contract that there should be a sufficient cause of consideration. I am of opinion that in this case there was no_consideration what- ever for the bet entered into between the parties, and for this reason the counter claim of King is dismissed and judgment is rendered in fayor of Knauer. Mendelssohn and Shakespeare. An attractive entertainment will be given at the Tivoli Opera-house Tuesday afternoon, October 8, when George Riddle, who has a Na- tional reputation as a reader, will recite ex- cerpts from Shakespeare's “Midsummer Night's Dream,” accom panied b{ asymphony orchestra under the direction of Adolph Bauer. The Mendelssohn music will be played in its entirety, and the orchestra will be the best that Director Bauer can gather in the City. Rid- dle’s reading of the work has been excellently received wherever he has given it, and his sue- cess with the Boston Symphony Orchestra was a genuine one. Seats Will be on sale at Sher- man, Clay & Co.” THE song of the 99" that created such a furor oy sung by the Arion quartet at Senator Perkins’ reception in Oakland last evening can be procured free upon application to Dodge, Sweeney & Co., San Franc THEY CAPTURED HIS WIFE, Suit Filed by an Angry Hus- band Against His Wife’s Protectors. LOST A GOOD BUSINESS, TCO. Hapless Experience of Kasper Sim- men, Who Ventured Into Trade and Matrimony. Kasper Simmen has filed a red-hot suit in the Justices’ Court against R. Scholz and Lena Scholz his wife. Simmen has charged them with enticing away his wife and he demands a lot of compensating damages. The Simmens are a young married couple while the Scholzes have been sailing on the matrimonial sea for a great number of years. They keep a clothing-store at 404 Fifth street. One of the queerest de- tails of the very queer suit 1s that the Sim- mens were married only last May. The following month the rumpus occurred that nearly wrecked the two families. It divided the Simmen family. Elizabeth Simmen is now living with the Scholzes, while the angry belligerent husband is venting his spleen and making preparations to get some satisfaction by means of suits for damages. Mrs, Simmen’s sister is married to her husband’s brother and that circumstance cuts a great figure in leading up to their own marriage. Once united Mrs Simmen began to urge her husband to get inlo some business. *‘All right,”” he answered, “I'm willing. Find a good business and L1l invest in it.” Mrs. Simmen put on her bonnet and in a little while she returned with a proposi- tion from Kobert Scholz. Scholz offered to sell a half interest in_his business to the husband of his friend, Mrs. Simmen. After a few days in dickering the trans- fer was made and the trouble began. Simmien gave an inkling of its nature in the complaint he filed in the Justices’ Court yesterday through his attorneys, Nagle & Nagle. The couple married on May 27. In less than a month, that is on June 21, accord- ing to Simmen, ‘‘the Scholzes maliciously enticed away my wife from me and kept her where 1 couldn’t see her. They played on her feelings till they got her to sue me for a divorce. But the divorce was denied onmy wife’sown testimony. Iwasobliged to pn}' out $100 in deiending the suit, and now I want Mr. Scholz to return that amount to me. It is no more than fair after the trouble he has caused me. ¢ T tried my best to get possession of my wife, but they refused to surrender her to me. So I lost both her society and serv- ices. That’s where the law says I'm enti- tled to damages, an¢ I've sued the Scholzes for $299.” The Scholz family and Mrs. Simmen langh at the suit and stoutly aeclare that they are only too willing to meet Simmen on the charge of “capturing and secreting” his wife. They say that Simmen brought all the trouble upon himself by his actions. After the explosion in the families and “capture of Mrs. Simmen by the Scholzes,”’ Simmen made a sortie on the household, recaptured some of his effects and went to live elsewhere. In order to safeguard the money he had invested in a half interest in the clothing-store he assigned his right to J. Satorius for the nominal sum of §200. Satorius tried to get some of the property, but he was denied admission, possession, acknowledgment and everything else by the barricafied Scholz. Scholz flatly refused to treat with him on any terms. Satorius brought suit on the assignment of the one- half interest. The case is still pending in the courts. & Simmen has lost his wife and his prop- erty, and now he is going to try and re- coup himself in the way of damages. DEATH BY A TOY BULLET. Thomas Henderson, s Dock Laborer, Dies Through the Explosion of His Son’s Little Pistol. Thomas Henderson, a longshoreman living at 1414 Kearny street, met with a fatal accident yesterday afternoon. While at dinner his son’s toy pistol was lying on the table and Henderson took it up. He carelessly pressed the trigger and the pistol egploded, the bullet striking him in the chest. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital, and Drs. Fitzgibbon and Helms probed for the bullet. They found it had glanced downward into the abdomen. Henderson was suffering great pain. The surgeons thought that his chances for recovery were exceedingly slight, as the tiny bullet had penetrated the vitals, and they detained him for treatment. He lay on a cot_suffering acutely and began to sink rapidly. At 6 e. 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