The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 17, 1895, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TH DAY, OCTOBER 17, 1895. AMUSEMENTS. PALDWIN THEATER.— Trilby." COLUMBIA THEATFR—* Robin Hood.” M OROSCO'S OPERA-TOUS he Pheenix.® 71VOL1 OPFRA-HOU CRPEEUM—High-Cl ster Dark.” £14TE BOARD OF TRADE Market #1xcet, below Second. Open on free. MECHANICS' PAvILION. PESTOETUATES of Fritz Scheel, Saturday PICNICS AND EXCURSION To SANTA . October 20, given by the uthern Tuesday, October 638 Market street, CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. ux’s estate is appraised at nton has & valuable artistic Milk Inspector D: cuting his search f Rev. J. M. O'Ne lecture at S made what he considers vigorously prose- ated milk. zed the press in his urch last night. k Binder have been by the Insanity Com- » and Oakland baseball his City yesterday morning, Coppin is figuring on plans for on the street railways of rofessional beggar, was Jail for thirty days by Judge weather, Wwith stationary sand light winds, has been fore- o-duy Union attaches object to & mid- Ivation Army at their oth has arrived, and will rriors’” at the somewhat further t his iriends fear he again in the Dur- arges preferred against Milk Inspector by certain milk-dealers were ordered the meeting of the Board of Health Yyesterday. _The Police Commil met last nightanad fined Police eegan and Austin porting on duty minal action against Mrs. Mabel Holmes unless she produce diamonds which are | 0 be unpeid fo ts will be sw ut in Judge Conlan’s Fire War b arrest of owners of vacant lots for maintaining | fences more than ten feet high. The case of the depositors of the Merced B nst the Bank Commissioners pre- sented to the Governor by Attorney Clunie with & demand for tneir removal. Outsiders in the bet DI n Mainstay, Remus With the app mittees ve > sociation was cor journed till its next annual m Chin Jung Sing convine: ointme ding com- | >alifornia 1, and it ad- ing. United State Com- v that he w born Chinese and was ailowed to again teke up his residence in this country. The Traffic Ass iation itsued a letter yester- day to merchants, asking them to assistin formulating a rate tariff to Utah for the con- ference of trans-Missouri lines in Salt Laxe. Milk Inspector Dockery has determined, h Veterinary Surgeon Creeley, after inves- n, that the death rate at St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum is not due to impure milk. Mrs. Hannah Curtin, 828 Potrero avenue, swote out a warrant in Judge Campbell’s court esterday for the arrest of Otto Kannitz, her andlord,<on tie charge of malicious mischief. A large and enthusiastic gathering of the Republicans of the Thirty-fifth Assembly Dis- trict met and o zed the official Republicen of that district at Stanford Hall last ants Charles L. Potter and M. F. Davis eir way to explore the Colorado River, rders to report upon the feasibility of the stream in & condition for com- night clerk at the Clay-street v/street, was slashed on thie right a knife last night by Tom Fletcher, a ason, who was arresied for assault’ to rs. Sarah Althea Terry’s estate is to be sold n this morning. laint is made was not advertised, and that the n that account sell for less than chnitt of the South- h C. P. Huntington mede Some chenges in the rai ment by making new disposi- als. Schneider, who claims to be less than of age, says_that her brother-in-law, enbanm of Third street, forced her Morris Misrowsky, a sailor living at 1050 Howard street. B. Peters, a student at Cooper’s Medical Col- lege. had his notebooks stolen at the college vesterday and applied to Judge Joachimsen for & warrant to search all the students, but the Judge refused to issue it. of Funeral services ie the late Andrew Superintendent of the Publ , were held at Trinity Episcopal Church &y morning. There was a very large dance and many floral tributes. Judge Lawton, Mrs. Mary A. Riley and Coachman Vogt were on the witness-stand in | the Garcelon case yesterday. Mrs. Riley told of the old lady’s intention to make a late will, and | Vogt declared that Mrs. Garcelon was very for- | getiul. { The Bank Commissioners have just made their seventeenth annual report t0 Goyernor Budd. An increase of banking resources is | shown amounting to $12,000,000. The com. | mission urges the separation of savings banks from other financial institutions. The Board of Directors of the Soci Prevention of Cruelty to Animals el Cole vice-president tofill the vacancy caused by the death of Ira P. Rankin. President Jacob Z. Davis is going East. W. J. Hochstadter was appointed to {ill the vacaney on the board. Frederick Denecelle, 515 Fifth street, while crossing Kearny and Clay streets yesterday afternoon was struck by cable-car No. 4 and knocked down. He was taken to_the Re- ceiving Hospital where it was found he was only suffering from a contused head and leg. James Nash alias Frank McCann was sent to the County Jail for six months by Judge Camp- beil yesterday for battery upon Herman Schro- der, grocer, in Hayes Vailey. Nash and a com- panion, because Schroder refused to give them cigars and whisky for nothing, gave him an un- merciful beating. Senator Thurston of Nebraska and ex-Senator Dolph of Oregon appeared on opposite sides in the suit of the Furmers’ Loan and Trust Com- peny of New York against the receivers of the nion Pacific and Oregon Railway and Naviga- tion Company, which was argued in the United States Circuit Court yesterday. TO TALK ON “IMPEDIMENTA.” Mrs. Graham’s Lecture for the Benefit of the Channing Auxiliary. Margaret Collier Graham, the talented California authoress who wrote *'Stories of J ALONG THE WATER FRONT, THE STEAMER KOTIK IN TROUBLE WITH THE CUSTOM~HOUSE OFFICIALS. OVERDUE SHIPS REINSURED. NARROW EsCAPE oF THoMmas FRy WHILE RESCUING A HoRsE. The Russian steamer Kotik is in trouble with the Custom-house authori- ties. There are considerable quantities of silks and satins and Chinese and Japanese curios aboard, and these the crew are seek- ing to lana without paying the necessary duty. ‘When the Kotik was at Petrapaulof- sky the British cruiser Porpoise was in port. The latter had come direct from Chinese waters, and the man-of-warsmen had done considerable trading while lying at Hongkong and Yokohama. Everything they bad in their lockers and achests in the shape of merchandise was sold to the sailors on the Kotik. These latter are now attempting to land the goods, and the cus- toms authorities are trying to stop them. Some of the officers will be arrested to-d and a systematic search of the steamer i to be made. Inthe meantime watch and ward is being kept over the suspected craft, and Deputy Surveyor Ruddell as- serts that not a particie of dutiable mer- chandise will land without a permit. The British ship Lord Spencer, now out 190 days from San Francisco for Queens- town, is proving to be a great source of in- terest to shipping and insurance men. In- cidentally gamblers are taking a hand in the game, and considerable reinsurance has been written on the overdue vessel. The ruling rate yesterday was 70 per cent and there were plenty of takers. Should the Lord Spencer turn upall right the gamblers will make a clear prolit of 70 cents on every dollar invested. When the Lord Spencer sailed from San Francisco about six monthsago she had not been in the drydock for over two years. Her bottom was covered with barnacles, and the grass hanging from them was nearly two feet long. Before thedeparture of‘the ship the skipper was heard to re- mark, “I be lucky if I make the run in Since the ship left San Fran- ywever, very heavy weather has vrevailed and a number of stanch vessels are known to have come to grief. Itis this fact that has made the underwriters wary. They evidently think that a quarter of ‘a loaf is better than no bread and have been ing their lines accordingly. nother vessel over which there is con- siderable uneasiness is the British bark Achilles. The last time she was heard from was when she picked up the crew of the American ship Arabia. The latter vessel was burned off the Horn and the crew escaped in the boats, After being picked oy up the Achilles they were landed at Montevideo and the good ship resumed her voyage. From that day to this she has never been heard from. The British ship Cawdor, from New- castle. Eng., for San Francisco, went ashore near Dover yesterday. She got off unas- sisted, however, and proceeded, haying sustained no apparent damage. Thomas Fry, who lives at 510 Francisco street, had a thrilling experience yester- day. He was down near Meiggs wharf, and saw a man backing a aouble team up to the dumps. The sudden fall of the load was too great, and the wagon went over and took the horses with it. One of the animals was drowned; but while the other one was struggling Fry took a sheath- knife in his mouth and swam out to it. He cut the harness that held it to the cart, and the horse swam ashore. Fry took pos- session of and demanded $10 for trouble. This the driver refused to pay, and Sergeant Bunner of the Harbor Police sent all the parties to the Central Police Station. Had Fry not jumped overboard the horse would have drowned, and he now vows that he will have $10 to repay him for his ducking or else he will keep the animal. Richard Sweasy, one of the principal owners of the recently wrecked steamer Humboldt, came down from Eurek terday. “We will build a new ve. take the place of the Humboldt,” when mlEillg about the matter. that is what has brought me to San Fran- cisco. The hull will be of wood and the plans call for a perfect model. It will be built at Eureka and probably by Bendixen. The machinery will be made in San Fran- cisco and the Union Iron Works has al- ready made a bid on the contract. “The new steamer will be larger, faster and in every way saperior to the good old Humboldt. Electric lights will be fitted throughout, and all the latest modern ap- pliances will be placed in her. She will make about fourteen knots and conse- quently the run between Eureka and San ll-'mncisco will be shortened several hours. “In the meantime we are not losing 11 i sight of the trade and our arrangements for the chartering of a steamer to take the place of the Humboldt temporarily are | almost completed. She will be a good boat, and the chances are that we will be in running order again by the 1st of next month.” HIS NOTE BOOKS STOLEN, B. PETERS, A STUDENT OF COOPER MEDICAL COLLEGE, THE VICTIM. HE APPLIES FOR A WARRANT TO SEARCH ALL THE STUDENTS, BUT FaILs. B. Peters, a fourth-year student at the Cooper Medical College, rushed into the office of the Chief of Police about 2 o’clock yesterday .afternoon in a highly excited condition. ““Ihave had four of my notebooks stolen at. the college,” he said, “‘and I want an offi- cer to accompany me to search all the students. The books contain my notes on the lectures for the past six months and I value them at $200.” “How were they stolen?” asked Ser- geant Moffett. “I left them in the general lecture-room the Foothills,” will lecture on “Impedi- menta” at the rooms of the Channing Auxiliary, cornerof Geary and Franklin streets, on Saturday evening next. Presumably it will be a satirical discourse upon the droll mental and physical lug- age men and women burden themselves Margaret Grabam is humorous, and she is also something more. The Critic says in its review of her literary work: “Not only in her fun, but in her strong surprises of seriousness as well, does this author show her dramatic gift of suggestion. Literature does not consist so much in saying things as in not needing to say them, and for the most part the dis- last night, and now they are gone.” The sergeant advised him to lay his case before Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Graham of Judge Joachimsen’s court, and he hurried there. He made the same statement to Graham, and asked for a search warrant. “l‘wuntm search every student,” he said, “before he leaves the college at 3:15 o’clock, and you have got to hurry. This is not the first time that articles” have been stolen at the college. Professor Steel, while lecturing one day, laid his gold watch on his desk and some- body stoleit. Mr. Mitter, a student, had his gold watch stolen from him last year, and a lady student had a similar experi- ence.” giniuishing feature of Mrs. Graham’s art is that it is so much like life that it uses silence somewhat the way God does.” ———————— The Gleeson Will Contest, Mrs. Julia A. Keeley is contesting the will of 'Jlmmasnh-esnu,her father. Mr. Gleeson left & §2000 estgte to Mrs. Mary M. Hahenfeld, another daughter, in Judge Cof- foa's cogonughter. The trial is in Judg + Graham demurred to issuning a search warrant unless Peters could name some person or persons whom he suspected, and suggested that Peters should hurry back to the collegoand lay the matter befors the professors. “That would do no good,” said Peters. “Valuable volumes have been stolen from the library, and the professors have tried to find the thieves but without success. Let me have the search warrant and at once, and I may catch the thief before he leaves the class.” After further parleying Graham wrote out a search warrant, giving Peters au- thority to search ‘“Cooper Medical Col- lege,” and he and a policeman went with it to Judge Joachimsen. The Judge said it would be moustrous to issue a warrant to search the whole college and refused to sign it. Peters pleaded with him but he was inexorable, and the disappointed stu- dent left the courtroom and hurried back to the college. Peters was a witness in the Durrant case, and was one of the students who left his notes of the famous lecture by Dr. Cheney with the court. - HUNTING DISEASED MILK.} Inspector Dockery Still Vigorously Prosecuting His Work. Trials of the men arrested by Milk In- spector Dockery on charges of dealing in impure milk will come up in the Police Court next week. Dennis Spencer, the attorney of the Board of Health, will act as special prosecutor, and the cases will be pushed with great vigor. According to the returns Dockery made twenty-two arrests last week. 1n the near future he will investigate the milk supplies of all the charitable institu- tions, especially those which have charge of children. Veterinary Surgeon Creeley is accom- panying him on his hunt through the | Merritt and coachman for Mrs. Gareelon, | SPOKE OF A LATER WILL, MRS. GARCELON'S HOPES OF INDE- * PENDENCE OF PURRINGTON AND STANLY. LAWTON AND STANLY AT QUTS. Two INTERESTING WITNESSES, Tue OLp LADY WAS ABSENT- MINDED. The fifth day of the great Garcelon trust trial in the Circuit Court was marked | by the evidence of three witnesses for the defense. They were Judge Lawton, the | indignant enemy but former friend of that important witness, Judge Stanly; Mrs. | Riley, an old acquaintance of Mrs. Garce- | lon, 10 whom the old lady confided some | of her intentions regarding a proposed | new will, and Henry Vogt, driver for Dr. should become a little stronger she was “going to undo it all” and make a new will, and that Judge Stanly and Stephen Pur- rington were not goiag to hive any part in the new business, Stephen Purrington, she told Mrs. Riley, 0pposed her in every- thing she did. Mrs. Riley made no mention of these conversations untilabout five months after Mrs. Garcelon’s death, because she had been requested by the old lady to say nothing. Henry F. Vogt became Mrs. Garcelon’s coachman immediately after the death of Dr. Merritt, for whom™ he used to drive. He told of many little experiences on the frequent drives and shopping excursions that would go to show that Mrs. Garcelon wasa very kind-hedried ola lady, not physi- cally strong and mentally inclined to forgetfulness. . In addition to his salary of $50 a month she used to give him different amounts ag- gregating $40 or §50 a month. It was her habit to slip the money into his hand or lay it on the carriage seat, but she always did it cautiously and never when Stephen Purrington was in sight. After leaving market orders she very | often forgot about them and would be on | the point of duplicating an order or re- | turning to a store to repay for something | when the coachman would remind her that she had attended to it. On one occa- sion she purchased twenty boxes of apples and twenty sacks of potatoes, and half of them spoiled in the cellar. | Once early in his service he told her that he must quit, that he could not stand Stephen Purrington’s bossing; but she THE LEGAL TALENT ARRAYED IN THE GARCELON CASE. dairies in search of cows suffering with | of whose eccentricities he spoke in court tuberculosis. A number of them have al- | yesterday. ready been condemned and several have been killed. In a number of instances samples of milk were taken from sus- pected cows, and their fate hangson the report of Bacteriologist Spencer. | Judge Lawton was on the stand all the morning under cross and re-cross examina- tion by Judge Hayne,for the complainants, Some | and redirect examination by Attorney forty samples of milk are now being tested | Philbrook for the defense. by him in the laboratory. If the show milk of a dangerous character a number of arrests are likely to follow. MIDWEEK THEATER NOTES “TRILBY” AND "ROBIN HOOD” ARE DRAWING AS WELL AS EVER. “CONFUSION” AT THE ALCAZAR Is Now PREFACED BY A CUR- TAIN-RAISER. The public seems to be showing nnusual theater-going proclivities this week; all the houses in town are drawing big audi- ences, and ‘some of them have to turna number of people nightly away. At the Baldwin the sign “standing- room only,” that has become so con- spicuous during the “Trilby” engagement, was displayed last night. As for the audi- ence within, it displayed the usual interest in the woes of Billee and Trilby and Svengali’s melodramatic death. The play has only three more nights to run. It will be succeeded on Monday by “The Passing Show.” It appears as if “Robin Hood” in the hands of the Bostonians could go on, like Tennyson’s brook, “forever,” for though the opera, which is by no means a nov- elty, is nearing the end of its second week at the Columbia Theater the seats are all filled and standing room in the foyer isnot despised. The cast remains the same as on Monday. Next week “Prince Ana- nias’’ will be preduced for the first time in San Francisco. Milton Nobles has saved about the best of his plays for his last week at Morosco’s. “The Pheenix” is a stirring melodrama in which Nobles himself gives a clever ren- dering of the gentleman who springs from his own ashes, and Miss Hall makes a sympathetic hitle flower-girl, who goes on | the stage and finds that the life of a suc- cessful actress is not strewn with flowers, Nobles must have wished to give some wholesome advice fo stage-struck damsels when he put such a doleful description of the amount of work an actress has to ac- complish into her mouth. Florence Thrapp made a chic little French actress from (?ork. “Confusion” is not quite long enough to fill an evening’s bill, so “A Husband in Clover” has been puton at Grover's Alca- zar. The little curtain -raiser is acted brightly by Charles E. Lothian and Miss Jennie” Kennark. Botb pieces keep the audience well supplied with laughter. - All the acts at the Orpheum this week are good. Lottie Medley and- Miss An- drews dance very gracefully, and the Gotham quartet sing well, besides giving some telling by-play. The jokes of Haines and Pettingill meet with a ready response and are welcomed as old friends, which in point of fact they are. Fialkowski con- tinues to charm the public with his menag- erie, the sealion being the favorite. At the Tivoli “Il Trovatore'’ is exercis- ing that pleasing influence which its familiar strains can be warranted to pro- duce on any audience not hopelessly given over to Wagnerianism. To-night Arthur Messmer wili sing the title role and Laura Millard will take the Eart of Leonora. Next week Mascagni will be sandwiched with Offenbach. The benefit for the actors’ fund of America will take place at the Baldwin Theater to-morrow afternoon. « —————————— DEATH OF AH JIM. 3 His Assailant Under Arrest at Valley Springs. Ah Jim, an elderly Chinese, died alone and unattended at the Chinese hospital at 724 Pacific street yesterday morning. Some time ago the man was employed by J. C. Higginbotham of Valley Springs. He got into an altercation with the son of his emplover, and his friends claim that during the melee he was hit over the head with a shovel. His countrymen brought him to this City for surgical treatment by a Chinese doctor. Young Higginbotham is under arrest at Valley Springs, and will be charged with murder. The body, which shows lack of care and medical skill, is at the Morgue, reports | | erty, He drew up a will for Dr. Merritt, and | was surprised when, a few days aiter the | doctor’s death, a later holographic will | was probated and he found himself an ex. | ecutor. He was in San Jose at the time helping Judge Stanly in his candidacy at | the Democratic Convention for Chief Jus- tice,and had hurried down there immedi- ately after the funeral, at which he wasa pall-bearer. Shortly aitet this will was opened he as- sured Mrs, Garcelon that there was no great fear of its being broken. It was his suggestion to Mrs. Garcelon that Judge Hamilton be added to her attorneys, the firm of Stanly, Stone & Hayes. Later, after election day, he told Judge Stanly that he thought it would be best to have the estate incorporated; and he mentioned to Mrs. Garcelon that a corporation or syndicate could better protect the prop- as there would be a defensive strength that would make *“the boys” and their attorneys less willing to begin a con- test. . But Mrs. Garcelon objected. The idea was that she should furnish the principal stock and tbat the other heirs should be parties to the corporation. The final compromise papers giving the nephews $500,000 in settlement of their claims on the Merritt estate were read to Mrs. Garcelon at her house in the presence of Judges Lawton, Stanly and Hamilton. At one time Mrs. Garcelon seemed to have been madeapprehensive through some one’s suggestion that Judge Lawton would bring in_extra charges as an executor of the Merritt estate and he hastened to as- sure her that his reward was fixed by law and that any services legally or otherwise that he might render e e gratuitous. When Starly, Stone and Hayes and Hamilton presented a bill for $20,000 for five months’ legal services Judge Lawton told Mrs. Garcelon that he thought it was too much, particularly as there had been little work done in the first period of the settlement of the Merritt estate; but the bill was paid and Lawton, as an executor, signed the check. The witness counld not remember ever bhaving published an interview regarding these fees. But something made Judge Stanly turn upon him when, as an execu- tor, he was on the witness-stand in the Oakland court. On that occasion Judge Stanly requested to have him removed as an executor on the grounds of wunt of in- tegrity and habitual intemperance. 'hen the Stanly-Lawton friendship was irreparably ruptured. Judge Lawton wrote a long interview that he had published in tbe Oakland Times. In it he reviewed his own career, and rejoiced that the people of California had been so wise as to save the honor of the bench by defeating Jud Stanly for the Chief Justiceship by a big 5000 majority, and he apologized for ever baving ‘taken any part in his campaign. The interview told of an extensive legal experience of twenty yearsin New York, gurticu].uly in probate matters; of his udgeship in Albany; of his unsolicited appointment to the Superintendency of the San Francisco Mint shortly after hisarrival in this State, in 1874, for his health. There was also a reference to Stanly’s having evaded him with what he termed a spry- ness unsuited to his yearsand dishonorable to_the profession he represented. ‘When Judge Hayne put the question to Judge Lawton yesterday, ‘‘Are you a friend of Judge Stanly ?"’ the answer came sharp and decided, *‘I am not.” Lawton did not know how many collat- eral relatives he had, but he thought the maximum would notexceed twenty. There were only three or four cousins and second cousins whose names he could recall. The afternoon session began with the evidence of Mrs. Mary A. Riley, and when court adjourned for this morning the cross-examination of the Garcelon coach- man had just begun. Mrs. Riley told of two conversations she had had with Mrs. Garcelon, one in June or July, 1891, and the other only about five weeks before her death. On the first occasion Mrs. Garcelon was coming out of an Oakland furniture store, and she said that she was fixing up her house for the last time; that it was no more than right that a Merritt should occupy it after her; that she was feeling ill, and had taken morphine prescribed by Dr. A%\rd to re- lieve the pain in her head; that it had been only worry and care since her broth- er's death; that Judge Stanly wanted her to make a deed of trust, and that Stephen Purrington was after her day and night to sign the papers, and that she did sign in order to have freedom and rest during the few remaining years of her life. In the last conversation she did not ap- pear so weak as on the ocgasion of the earlier talk on the sidewalk, nor did she cry then, though she had done so before. She repeated in substance her earlier re- remarks, and added that she wanted to leave ‘“the boys’’ $40,000, but that Judge Stanley objected, on the ground that they had been "amply provided for with the $500,000. 3 She confided to Mrs. Riley that when she pleaded with him to remain, asking him to put up with it, and that 1f he would al- ways remain with her he would be remem- ‘ bered. Stephen did not like Miss McClellan and referred to her as “the grass-widow.”” | Once an oyster-dealer, upon whose sug- gestion Miss Garcelon had ordered a half | dozen oysters a day as a strengthening | food, asked her how she liked her oysters, | anda she replied, “Very much, indeed.” But as she drove away she remarked to the coachman: *“If he thinks I am eating the oysters he is mistaken; Stephen eats all those oysters. The case will be continued this morning with Vogt on the stand for cross-examina- tion. The defense says it has enough good witnesses to occupy fully another week at most on the stand. THE LUK ESTATE WLUED IT Is ESTIMATED AT OVER THREE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS. NearRLY ALL IN THE Bic FIrM. REPORT OF THE APPRAISERS FinaLrLy FILED. The estate of Mrs. Miranda W. Lux has been appraised at $3,636,195 52. The papers were formally filedin the County Clerk’s office yesterday, though the appraisal was made in July. . Of this the personal prop- erty 1s valued at $22,800. The principal items of the inventory ar Cash in Bank of Californ Note of Mary P. Crellish. Note of the Callustro Company . Note of John H. NewkKirk Note ot William H. Sheld Note of Annie y Note of Kate Eichlez. Note of Astoria Seagood for F300. te of Mrs. A. Burns for $1000. ring Valley stock... San Francisco Gaslight stoci 2769 shares of Callust stock, no value.. Jeremiah Sheldon Mary C. Hubbbard, legacy (assigned; Elizubeth C, Alien, lega 82,980 00 7,200 00 Sarah Loveiand. 3000 0 Martha A. Cook. - 10,000 00 Mirand W. Lewis 10,000 Miller & Lux, on interest. - 8,528,989 85 The real estate consists of the property at. Pacific avenue and Buchanan street, ap- praised at $22,500, and some lots in San Mateo Jounty. W. Mayo Newhall, John T. Porter and George D. Bliss, the appraisers, have been appointed to appraise some additional profieny which has come to the knowledge of the executors. . A MURDEROUS LANDLORD. Otto Kannitz Threatens to Blow Up the Curtin Family. Mrs. Hannah Curtin, 828 Potrero avenue, accompanied by her husband, appeared in Judge Campbell’s court yesterday and swore out a warrant against her landlord, Otto Kannitz, butcher, Fifteenth and San- chez streets, on the charge of malicious mischief. Mrs. Curtin stated that they had occu- pied the house for the past two years. It formerly belonged to Cornelius Dunchee, Mountain View, but was sold by him four months ago to Kannitz. Kannitz has been anxious to get the Curtin family out of the house, as he wanted to pull it down and rebuild. He demolished a storeroom in the rear, and on Tuesday night told Mrs. Curtin that unless she removed from the house in four days he would blow it up, and her also. Their rent is not due ti November 1, so they declined to quit, and being afraid that Kannitz would carry out his threat the" laid the matter before Judge Campbell yesterday and the war- rant for malicious mischief was issued. ————— U. 8. COURTS CALENDAR, United States District Court. [Before Morrow, Judge.] United States vs. schooner Louis Olsen—Return of order to show cause extended to November 18. Shainwald vs. Davids—Order to show cause con- tinued until Monday, October 21. ‘Thomas Price vs.' ship Elmbank—FHearing con- tinued until Friday, October 25. United States Circuit Court. (Betore Hawley. Judge.] Prasident and Trustees of Bowdoin College et al. vs, James P. and Frederick A. Merrit et al.—0n For to-day—Same case. Played With Matches. Rosie Goldman, 5 years of age, was playing with matches 1n her father’s house, 840 Ship- ley street, yesterday afternoon, when her dress caught fire ana she was severely burned about the arms, body and face. She was taken to the Receiving ng attention, but her condition is cri 1. where she received every tical, ! ”~ . ONE HEAD UNDER THE AX ANOTHER APPOINTMENT MADE BY THE BOARD OF HEALTH YESTERDAY. VERY ANIMATED DISCUSSIONS. QUARANTINE OFFICER CHALMERS ToLp THaT HE Was INsuB- ORDINATE. At the meeting of the Board of Health yesterday the head of an employe of the Almshouse was lopped off; Mayor Sutro flatly toid Quarantine Officer Chalmers that Be had been insubordinate in the way he handled a quarantined steamer; -the Superintendent of Cemeteries was given a practical monopoly in handling disinter- ments, and the charges of Dr. Titus against Miss Patton. head nurse of the City and County Hospital, together with certain milkmen's charges against Milk Inspector Dockery, were tabled. This virtually pock- ets the charges. Mayor Sutro has been very indignant with Quarantine Oflicer Chalmers ever since he learned that the latter allowed the steamer Australia to dock without being fumigated. Yesterday was the first op- portunity offered since the occurrence to officially question Dr. Chalmers on the matter. The resolution adopted by the board on the morning of the arrival of the Australia was read, and Mayor Sutro flatly asked the Quarantine Officer why he had not fumigated the passengers, cargo and bag- gage as ordered. “I reported the matter to Dr. Peckham of the United States marine service,’”” re- plied Dr. Chalmers, shifting the responsi- bility. “Thnen Dr. Peckham released her?” VoL But Mayor Sutro was not satisfied with this manner of avoiding the issue. ““Have you filed the consular reports of the vessel?” he demanded. 3 “No,” was the rephy. *‘I'd like to keep them in case I'm called before the Grand Jury in this matter.” . Mayor Sutro eyed Dr. Chalmers sharply and the latter returned the look. “I want to know if Dr. Chalmers runs this board or not,” broke in the Mayor. “It’s a case of insubordination. If he can doas he pleases in a matter of this kind the board might as well go out of exist- ence.” Dr. Hart endeavored to palliate Dr. Chalmers’ action. He explained that the latter had endeayored to do what was right in the matter of the consular reports. ut Mayor Sutro knew that he was right and insisted on his point. ‘“What objec- tion has Dr. Chaimers to filing these con- sular reports?’’ he repeated. Dr. Chalmers answered that he wanted to keep them for use in case he was inves- tigated by the Grand Jury. To obviate any such action hereafter the Mayor requested the board to pass a reso- lution ordering the Quarantine Officer to file his consular reports with the Board of Health. Dr. Hart changed the motion so that a copy will hereaiter be filed with the board. Thisisa step toward providing the Quar- antine Officer with a secretary. Only the low condition of the City treasury has staved off the struggle for this appoint- ment., Dr. Fitzgibbon moved that the position of night watchman at the Almshouse be declared vacant. *‘Didn’t he perform his duties properly 2" asked the Mayor, quizzically. “Well—um—ah—tbat is, I think,” re- sponded Dr. Fitzgibbon, “that he was only there temporarily, anyhow.”” “It looks like it,” said the Mayor, sweetly; and the four doctors voted to oust the night watchman. By the same united and shoulder-to-shoulder vote Thomas Kelly was appointed to fill the place. On request of the medical faculty of the University of California, Drs. H. A. L. Ryxkogel and Robert Crees were ap- pointed to conduct the post-mortem ex- aminations of the wards of the City and County Hospital in charge of the faculty. On motion of Dr. Fitzgibbon it was re- solved that hereafter all interments and disinterments in the City Cemetery shall be made by the authority of its superin- tendenf, and that in no case shall he be allowed to chflrge more than $2 50 for each interment and disinterment. Dr. Fitzgibbon explained that the motion was framed to stop speculators ‘‘going out there and disinterring Chinese bodies and others at cutthroat rates.” The Mayor thought that if meu were willing to do the work at cheaper rates the monopoly should not be turned over to one man. ‘“‘But the superintendent gets $75a month and pays out $50 of it to a grave-digger.” “What did he take the place for, then?” retorted the Mayor. Somebody mumbled something about “nat cutting off his rightful perquisites,” and the motion was carried by the four doctors. J. Kelly declined the position of first cook of the City and County Hospital ten- dered him by the board. Frank Nash is serving temporarily in the piace. Milk Inspector Dockery reported that he had condemned and destroyed 500 gallons of impure milk. At present he has forty samples of milk seized at_restaurants in the hands of Bacteriologist Spencer for testing. In the past week he arrested twenty-two offenders for dealing in im- pure milk. The complaint of property-owners against the chemical tannery on Four- teenth and Dolores streets was referred to Health Officer Lovelace. On the recommendation of Health In- spector Kinne and Policemen Rosekamp and Madden the matter of the unnealthy condition of the sewers in Butchertown and South San Francisco was referred to the Board of Supervisors for improvement. The condition of the hogpens under the slaughter-houses in Butchertown will be taken up at the next meeting of the board. Held for Grand Larceny. Mrs. Sadie Nichols of 303 O’Farrell street was yesterday held by Judge Joachimsen 1o answer before the Superior Court on & charge of grand larceny in $1000 bonds. She was charged with stealing $90 from George F. Aubertin. The Judge in renderlns his decision said he was not much impressed with the prosecuting wit- ness and was inclined to think that be was not much better than the defendant. Mrs. Nichols hascome into considerable notoriety recently b{ her efforts to get her daughter from the So- elety for the Suppression of Vice, and also in connection with the death of James Murphy, who was found asphyxiated in one of the rooms of her house. A Painter’s Suit for Damages. Iver M. Jansen, a painter, has begun suit against Anna M. C. Holling for $10,290 dam- ages. He was engaged to paint a house for Mrs. Holling, and while on ‘a ladder fastened to the rear‘wall of the second story of the build- ing a round of the ladder broke and Jansen tumbled to the ground. NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. A FITTING (LOSE T0 A SUCCESSFUL SEASOY FAMILY Egcynsfiw SANTA CRUZ Via Narrow-Gauge Route. GIVEN BY THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY Under the personal supervision of its Excursion Passenger Agent, Mr. WM. H. MENTON, OCTOBER 20 The last excursion of the season to be given by the Southern Pacific Company. Round Trip Tickets $2 Round Trip Tickets Five hours for rest and recreation. Warm salt water bathing, boating, fishing, electric cars to Vue de I'Eau Park, natural bridge, aquarium, etc. Take the 7:45 A. . boat from Narrow Gauge ferry landing, foot of Market st., San_Francisco, From Oakland, take 7:45 A. M. train, Fourteenth and Franklin sts. From Alameda, Park st. (Nar- row Gauge). take 8:20 A. M. train. Returning, leave Santa Cruz at 4 P. M., arrive in San Francisco at 8:05 P, M. Excursion Tickets will be placed on sale at 613 Market_st. (Grana Hotel Ticket Office), October 16,17, 18 and i9, and at the ferry landing (N. row Gauge) on the morning of the excursion. kets can aiso be procured at Fourteenth and Franklin sts., Oakland, and - Park-st. Station, Ala- meda, on the dates named. RICHARD GRAY, T. H. GOODMAN, Gen. Traflic Manager. Gen, Pass. Agt. ar- Tic- NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. ] L;\nn Co, INCORP'D M EATRE "\ PRORS. ONLY 8 NIGHTS MORE. LAST MATINEE SATURDAY! Last Performance Saturday Nightt TRILBY SPECIAL-Friday Afternoon, - At 2o'clock sharp. Grand Entertainment in aid of the AGTORS’ FUND OF AMERICA! AN AMAZING PROGRAMME! The second act ot “Trilby” (t scene); the Tivoli Opera Compan: Grand Opera-house Oct, 18, Lackuye, H. Conlter Brinke: Comedy Company, the 4 Schrodes, Haines and Pettingill, Gilbert and Goldie, Gotham City Quartet, Miss Ruth White, the Hungarian Band, Little Verlta, etc., etc.—all for $1 for reserved seats, gallery 50c. SEATS NOW SELLING, EXTRA—Monday, Oct. 21, CANARY & LEDERER’S N. Y, Casino Produc- tion intact, “THE PASSING SHOW?” With its 110 people, beantiful scenery, lively bur- lesque, etc., etc. The greatest novelty of the season, Seats for “The Passing Show” ready to-day calwe, FRICOLANBLR.GOTTLOD & co- 1£35es AnbRAMAGERS -+ STILL | IMMENSE CONTINUES CROWDS he Famous, Original I BosTONTIANS — “ROBIN ETOOD.” Monday Next—First Time Here, “PKINCE ANANIAS.” Seats Now on Sale, GROVER’S ALCAZAR. — EVERY NIGHT—— AND SATURDAY AND SUNDAY MATINEES The London and New York Laughing Craze, “CONFUSION I” SUPERBLY MOUNTED—AN IDEAL CAST. Preceded by—— “A HUSBAND IN CLOVER.” Matinee Prices—10c, 15¢, 25c. Night Prices—10c, 15c, 25¢, 35¢, 50a INK DO MINOES.” ... Black 991 PEOPLE’S THEATER. Howard street, near Third, GEO. F. CLAYTON.. Lessee and Manager. TWO SHOWS IN ONE ! TAMES M. W ARD In Boucicault's Thrilling Melodrama, “AFTER DARK!” WAITS BETWEEN ACTS FILLED BY STAR SPECIALTY PERFORMERS, Popular Prices—10c, 15¢ and 20c. Next Monday— Telephone.... MATINEE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE MEs. KRNESTINE KRELING Proprietor & Manages SEASON OF GRAND ITALIAN OPERA! EVERY EVENING THIS WEEK, Verdi's Most Popular Opera, “IL_TROVATORE " ——NEXT WEEK—— “CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA!" Next Sunday Afternoon—Special Natinee. AN AFTERNOON WiTH DIXEY. HENRY E. DIXEY, THE TIVOLI OPERA COMPANY, ENLARGED ORCHESTRA, Ete. Popular Prices—25c and 50c. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theaterin America. WALTER MOROSCO. .. .Sole Lessee and Managas THIS FVENING AT EIGHT. ~——POSITIVELY THE LAST WEEK— Of the Famous Player and Playwrigh! INT s Great American Drams, “THE PHENIX” A Continuous Success for Twenty Years. EVENING PRICES—25c and_500. Family Circle and Gallery. 10c. Usual Matinees Saturday ana Sunday. [ MECHANICS’ PAVILION. OCTOBER 19, Farewell Performance of FRITZ SCHEEL! Special Wagner & Popular Coneert. 100 ARTISTS. ADMISSION TO ALL PARTS OF THE HOUSE... .. FIFTY CENTS SATURDAY, 8 P. M, BT Tickets for sale at all music-stores. ORPHEUM. O’Farrell Street, Between Stock(on and PowelL. TO-NIGHT AND DURING THE WEEK, Celehrated Vaudeville Features! 5—NEW PEOPLE!—5 GOTHAM CITY QUARTET! EdwardgA. Lans, H. A. Fairbanks, T. H. *iTumphreys, 1. . Patham i MEMPHIS KENNEDY, JOHN HIGGINS, AND AN UNEXCELLED COMP ANY. Reserved seats, 25¢; Bal - and Box seats, 506, S O oy RACES! RACES CALIFORNIA JOCKBY CLUB RACES, FALL MEETING! " BAY DISTRICT TRACK. Races Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday— Rain or Shine. Flve or more races each day. Racesstartat 2:03 ‘r..“ll. sharp, McAllister and Geary street CATs Pass RUNKING & RUNHING