The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 1, 1895, Page 13

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1895 All the News of Alameda County. TS i S BUILDING ON THE STREET, Contractors Pre-empt a Thou-| sand Dollars’ Worth of Land. A MISSING TICKET AGENT. A Reward Issued for Mountain View Cemetery’s Defaulting Secretary. OaxrAND OFrFicE Sax Fraxcisco Cary,) 908 Broadway, Oct. 31. § The contractors at work on the Blake block at Twelith and Washington streets, which is being completely remodeled on | the latter fror , were ordered to cease | work this m. g by the Superintendent | of Streets. It was found upon examina- | tion that the windows being put in came out just one foot on the sidewalk, this amounted practically to stealing f irontage on Washington street, operty is worth $1000 a front foot, decided that the improvement proved upon. He instructed Superintendent to protect the perty. There is a city ordinance ich prohibits the granting of any privi- such as the permanent use of the side- lk and consequently there 1s no way of eettling the matter but by moving the win- dows one foot back ARLY TWO SCORE YEARS Registrar Warren Has Annually Called Congregationalists to Order. Next Tuesday the thirty-ninth annual meeting of the General Congregational Association of California will be opened in the Market-street church of that denomi- nation and will continue four days. An interesting feature of the will be the appearance for the thirt I time of the Registrar, Rev. Dr. Warren. The association was organized in 1856, and Dr. Warren, then a young man, called the first meeting to order. Each successive year he has led a nilar duty. Since the year of its organization he has never post at the annual xt Tuesday the aged min- ter will again perform the duty that he undertook when a youth nearly two score ¥ s time totne and for some aring a report i This a favorite one with Dr. . McLe nd his views on the subject, to- h hiz collation of matters relat- 7ill undoubtedly prove to be h interest. is expected there will bea large at- tendance of pastors and delegates from all r the State, as the entertainment com- e has already been taxed consider- ide accommodations for those expressed their intention of at- he conference. The Market- onal Church was only s ago ard will be fully ing comfortably for all as given all of etudy has long be! who have t a tew SEAMA MISSING. An Oakland Ticket Agent Wanted by Several of His Creditors. George B. Seaman, for several years a 0t 1n this city, left his home two zo and his old friends know him said he has left the Pacific rand is living somewhere ral creditors would like ice was in the Macdonough build- and when he left he told the agent be intended taking a flying trip Jast and wanted to retain his office. Two s have rolled by and not a word has heard of him. One of his former id to-day that previous to his Seaman had some trouble with atine Insurance Company and that is bondsmen came to his relief, but the company revoked his commission. The Burlington Company, it is said, learned of this and requested the return of their Oak- land agency. “By this stroke,” said his rk, “‘all of his business was taken away and he had nothing to keep him here.” Weitmian & Weitman, I roatlwey drup- i are sorry they ever metSeaman. Mr. tman said to-day: “Hedid us up to e extent. He got us to insure in a company for which be did not hold the agency. Of course, the company took the policy all right. Then Seaman presented s with their bill, which we paid, thinking everything was straight. But it was not, for Seaman never paid the money to the company, but put it into his own pocket, as 1 suppose. The regular agent came around to collect, and we had to pay our bill the second time.” ) veral other storekeepers are anxious a settlement with Mr. Seaman. When tarted on his Eastern trip he took his fe with him, but left bis two little chil- in this city. The Police Squabble. The trial of Charles Pipenberg for va- grancy to-day threw considerable light on the charges that have been made against er Banks ip the Police Commissioners. 1t was shown that ex-Chief of Police Scha! fer and Pipenberg will be the material wi nesses against Banks at the latter’s trial Tuesday. It isvery evident that the feeling between the Banks party on the one hand and the ex-Chief of Police and lis associates on the other is very bitter. Many sensational statements will doubt- Jess be made. While Mr. Schaffer was on the stand to-day, he said, “I will say that Pipenberg is going to be a witness against Banks—against ‘'a gang of the most dia- bolical conspirators in the State.” The story connected with the Bauks-Shaffer- Pipenberg-Donnelly imbroglio has already been told in THE CALL. For Sabbath Observance. The Sabbath Day Observance Associa- tion met this afternoon. Dr. M. C. Briggs of San Jose presided. Others present were: Rev. E. B, Dille, D.D., Rev. James Curry, D.D., Rev. J. A. Calhoun, D.D, Rev. M. Willett, D.D., Revs. H. A. Ketchum, S. 8. Palmer, B. W. Perry, E. F. Fish, Phillip Graif, N. R. Johnson, H. H. Rice, H. Mc- Knight, W. C. Sherman, G. H. Jones, D. Morrow and Mr. French. Mrs. Sophia J. Churchill of Sn,n Jose, president of the California Woman’s Chris- tian Temperance Union, open the pro- ceedings with an interesting acdress on unday Amusements.” Several other addresses were made, all on the same sub- ject. Boogar Estate Expenses. Public Administrator Knight has filed his revort as special administrator of the estate of Philip Boogar, who was shot by his son-in-law, Michael Collins. The at- torneys engaged in the case have done re- markably well. P. F. Benson has received $3500, J. H. Smith $3500, J. C. Martin $500, J. D. Southerland $100, Detective Lesher $400. and there are many claims yet to be paid. The total estate was estimated to be worth §27,000. The music for Boogar's funeral cost $20, flowers cost $7, one under- taker got $203 50 and another $25. Beat the Slot Machine. interesting papers to be nvention will be that of Rev. Since the last annual meet. McLean has resigned from his | ing a nickel-in-the-slot machine at Pope Gray’s cigar-store last night. He beat it Wwith a hatchet and succeeded in capturing all the nickels. An ax seemed to have done all the work. With it he opened a barber-shop through which he entered the cigar-store, before smashing the machine. Besides emptying the nickel receptacle the burglar also emptied the cash register. No Compromise With Outram. Edward P. Outram, the defaulting sec- retary of the Mountain View Cemetery As- sociation is wanted. A circular has been is- sued by alocal detective agency containing his photograph and offering $100 for any information that will lead to his arrest. 1t is evident from this that the efforts be- ing made toward a compromise have been | declared off, and that it 1s the intention of the association to prosecute Qutram, HISTORY OF A DAY. Alameda County Happenings Told in Brief Chapters. OAKBAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, 908 Broadway, Oct. 31. The second trial of Paoli Centini for assault | to murder Baptiste Torre resulted in a dis- | agreement of the jury yesterday, and after being out three hours they were dismissed. The Grand Jury, which hasbeen taking some testimony s to certain matters under the administration of ex-Chief Schaffer, has ad- journed until Friday. Council No. 4 of the American Protective | | Association will give their_first entertainment | | and dance this evening at Military Hall. 1 oy McClymonds, son of Superintendent | | McClymonds of the School Department, broke | one of the bones of his right wrist while play- | ing football with his fellow-students of the | High School Tuesday evening. Judge Frick has confirmed the sale by Ad- ministrator Knight of eleven bonds of the Piedmont Springs Water and Power Company for $1000 each, with $247 50 on account of ac- | crued interest, belonging to Philip Boogar’s es- tate. | The clerks in the City Tax Collector’s office | have worked so repidly that the bills will be | ready to be given out Friday morning. | The first annual accounting of John H. and Charles A. Meyer, executors of the estate of the late Charles H. T. Mever, was filed in the | County Clerk’s office to-day. The executors re- port the value of the estate to be $179,043. John Beck procured s marriage license at | the County Clerk’s office to-day to wed his sis- ter-in-law, Margaret Beck, who is the widow of Joun's brother, The couple gave their ages as 45 and 44 vears, respectively. They are Ger- mans, and gave their place of residence as San Francisco. THE WOMEN 1N POLITES, |Many Berkeley Ladies Have Formed a “Citizens’ Suf- frage Club.” | Students’ Military Companies to Com- { pete for a Medal—A New Elec- tric-Car Line. BERKELEY, Oct. 31.—Some of the most prominent ladies of Berkeley, desiring to take upon themselves to a certain extent the burden of political responsibility, have organized a “Citizens’ Suffrage Club.” Be- | | tween thirty and forty of them met at the residence of Mrs. Bell Weed on Chapel | street yesterday and perfected their | | organization. | Mrs. Eliza Tupper Wilkes gave a short | address upon “The Duty of Every Woman | to Have a Voice in Matters Political.” She | argued tlat two baneful errors have found | their way into the hearts and minds of many good people of this Nation, namely, i“ll.mt religion and politics are incom- | | patible and that { meddle in politics.” | The Yollowing officers were elected for | the ensuing year: Mrs. M. S. Haight, | president; Mrs. R. P. Thomas, vice-presi- | dent; Mrs. William Keith, recording sec- | retary; Mrs. A. E. S. Bangs, correspond- |ing secretary; Mrs. Lee, treasurer; Mrs. | F. Chick and Mrs, Professor Lange, audi- | | tors. Ten honorary vice-presidents were | | ‘“women must not elected: Mrs. Palmer, Mrs. Dobbins, Mrs. | Weea, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Professor Bradley, | | Mrs. Professor Howison, | Mrs. Bentl Mrs. Spiers. | The constitution and by-laws of the county society were adopted, with modi- fications to apply to the local society. Offers a State Medal. | On November5 a large number of the ‘ freshmen who have been drilling in squads | will be placed in the companies and com- pany drill will be the order for a short | time. About the 15th the corps will be devided into two battalions of three com- | panies each and drilled under the cadet captains. After t there will be ex- tended order till near the close of the term. The usual inspection and review will take place at the close, and it is un- | derstood thai Adjutant-General Barrett | will inspect the corps. | General Barrett has offered a State | medal for the winner of thes target shoot. | Will Discuss the ‘‘New Woman.” | The Stadents’ Congress, a debating so- | ciety at the “university, has taken up the | “new woman” question and will discuss | the problem pro and con at their next | regular meeting, Wednesday evening, No- | vember 6. The resolution which will form their | basis for argument is as follows: | Resolved, That the so-called new-woman | movement is for the best interests of the race, | by new woman being meant woman with all ;estrictlons. social and political, removed from er. The ministry will be made up as follows: | Prime Minister Oliver, '98; Associates Fisher, 96, and Ramsdell, '96; Leader of the Opposition Friend, '96; Associates C. | Elston, '97, and Gish, '96. Orchestral Society Concert. The Berkeley Orchestral Society wiil give its first concert of the season at Shat- | | tuck Hall to-morrow evening. Alexander | T. Stewart will act as musical director and the home talent will be assisted by the | California Quartet, consisting of C. J. | Wendell, R. W. Smith, C. L. Gage and E. | G. McBane. Josh Not to Be Stopped. At the meeting this afternoon of the committee on students’ affairs the idea was conveyed that they did not intend to prohibit the further issuance of the comic journal, but desired that more care be used in the choice of matter for publication. New Streetcar Line. It is rumored in business circles of Berkeley that the Southern Pacific Com- pany intends converting the Ban Pablo- avenue cable road into an electric line and extending it to West Berkeley. e e A New TrOLLEY Marrcar.—Many cities have already used the electric-car for carry- ing mail to the postoffice, but Boston is making a new departnre in the shape of a mailcar designed for the receiving of mail direct from the hands of the collectors. The car will run on schedule time to cer- tain points along the line, and it will thus be easy for the collectors to meet it at these ints and turn their mail into it instead of into the several sub-stations. The mail will be canceled and assorted on the car and left for immediate dispatch at the cen- tral office, or some railway station. The car has straight sides, like a regular rail- way postoffice, which gives plenty of floor space and room for hanging pouches. It will have a full complement of tables, cases and racks, but its most important feature will be a unceli::ig-muchino. The current which drives and lights the car will feed the electric-motor to run the canceling- machine, which will have a capacity of 40,000 cancellations per hour. By this plan it is expected that letters will be de- livered on an average an hour sooner than if they were taken to the sub-stations and Miss French, An energetic burglar succeeded in beat- | handled in the old way. | sorrow of her life. | his reason. | him as clearly as HER LIFE OF DEVOTION, For Thirty Years a Faithful Woman Guards Her In- sane Son. CHAINS OFTEN REQUIRED. | Never Has the Man Raised a Finger Against His Tireless Patient | Mother. OARLAND OFFICE SAN Fraxcrsco Carr,) | 908 Broadway, Oct. 31. § | Out on San Pablo avenue, far beyond the | city limits, lives Mrs. Christina Ferguson, | alady 66 years old, and her insane sonm, | | Victor, whom she has tenderly guarded | and restrained for over thirty years. The events of her life constitute one of the sad- | dest of romances. Mrs. Ferguson was | born in Sweden, and forty years ago she came to this country with her husband | and child, and lived for a time at Chicago. | After being there about a year’ her hus- | band, after a period of heavy drinking, an- | Mrs. Chri stina Ferguson, Whose Love | for Her Insane Son Was Instru-| mental in Reorganizing Chicago’s | Lunatio Asylums. nounced his intention of going to the | Southern States. He went, and since then nothing has been heard of him. From the time that she realized she was | deserted all her hopes centered in her boy | Victor. He gave promise of becominga | great seholar, and at 14 could read Latin and Greek with ease. Then came the great He was injured in an accident and frac- tured his skull. After hovering between | life and death for scveral months, during which time he was watched with unflag- ging devotion by his mother, she was re- | warded by being told that her boy hadlost | For thirty years his mind has | been a blank. He is sometimes harmless, ‘ sometimes a raving maniac. His mother | | studies his mind, and now understands | he were possessed of | reason. He talks a strange jargon of | Greek and Latin, meaningless to others | but intelligible to her. When about to become violent he knowsit and his mother knows it, and he permits her to chain him and lock him into his room until the paroxysm is over. He is a man of great strength, and it would not be safe for a | stranger to approach bim at these inter- | vals, but he has never yet lifted a finger, | even in his wildest mood, to the little | white-haired woman who has watched him | care‘ully and lovingly all these thirty years. | While in Chicago Mrs. Ferguson was | the cause of unearthing a most disgraceful | state of affairs in the administration of | the Jefferson Insane Asylum in Cook County. 1n that institution she placed her son, and the first night he was bru- tally whipped by the keeper for the pur- pose of intimidating him. With several other insane patients he was made to crush rock on the road, being farmed out | for that purpose to contractors, who were | working in collusion with Chicago Alder- | men, - She tried every means at her_com- | mand to interest newspapers and officials | in the work of producing a_reform in the manner of caring for lunatics. As a last | resort she called on Mrs. Charles Henro- | c j ciared th limmary hearing ‘Wil take place before Justice Morris to-morrow afternoon. Alameda to Bd Redistricted. There is a movement on foot to divide the election precincts of the city, There are now nine precincts, and the proposed change is to increase the number to twelve. The object is to facilitate the counting of ballots. At the last election 398 votes were cast in precinct 2. The count became so tiresome that the officers divided them- | selyes into two squads, having different tally-sheets and working simultaneously, the legality of which was questioned at the time. There are several other large pre- cincts in the city which need to bedivided. Supervisor Will Church has the matter under consideration, and before the next election the city will be redistricted. Pastors’ Union Elects Officers. The annual meeting of the Pastors’ Union was held at the Congregational Church yesterday, when officers for the ensuing year were elected. The union de- cided to hold united Thanksgiving ser- vices on Thanksgiving day, beginning at 10:30 A. t the First Presbyterian Church. ev. Dr. F. D, Bovard of the Park-street Methodist Church will deliver the sermon. The following are the newly elected offi- cers: President, Rev. W. T. Jordan of the First Baptist Church; vice-president, Rev, A. Calhoun of the United Presbyterian Church; secretary and treasurer, Rev. W. W. Scudder of the First Congregational Church. Watson-Whalley Nuptials. J. B. Watson Jr. of San Francisco and Miss Kate Whalley were married this evening at the residence of the bride, on Park avenue. Rev. W. W. Scudder of- ciated, The groom isin business in San Francisco. After spending their honey- moon the couple will reside in Berkeley. Only relatives and intimate friends were present at the wedding. An Ordinance Violator Fined. C. Helmke, an Oakland grocer, who was arrested last week for soliciting without a license, was fined $20 to-day by the City Recorder. He appeared before the Muni- cipal Board Monday night and took out a peddler’s licen THEY AGREE THIS ONCE. No More First Assistant Chief for Oakland’s Fire De- partment, OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francrsco CALy, 908 Broadway, Oct, 31. } Mayor Davie commenced his policy of economy this morning by abolishing the office of first assistant of the Fire Depart- ment. One week ago the Council passed an ordinance abolishing the office. Much pressure was brought to bear on them to alter their actions and reconsider the pro- posed change. Fire insurance men argued that the change would cripple the depart- ment, and that this move, taken in con- nection with the refusal of the Council to give alternate hydrants to each water com- pany, would resultin an immediate raise of rates in Oakland. Underwriters from San Francisco also joined in the request that nothing be done uld add to the risks carried in this veral members of the Council de- at th on was unnecessary, and that the mpaign in favor of retain- ing Miles Doody, the incumbent, in office was merely a political move to retain an old political warhorse. Their arguments revailed, and the ordinance was passed ¥ a majority. Since the matter was first mooted tax levy has been fixed at $1, and this figure makes it absolutely imperative that the strictest economy be exercised in every direction to prevent a deficit at the end of the fiscal year. The ordinance was passed a week ago and was signed by the Mayor this afternoon. By signing it to-day, the last of the month, Miles Doody’s services for the city terminate at midnight, and he is thus prevented from starting in to earn another month’s pay. Miles Doody has been in the Fire De- artment many years and is considered to e an able official, which counted for little. He has also been prominent in politics and is an enthusiastic Republican. REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS. Thomas F., Fannte F., Euphemia S. and Fred- k S, Johnson to Edward L. Cohn, lot on Sline of E of Franklin, E50 by S 14 ; $10. Thomas F., Euphemia 8. and Frederick S. John- 501 to same, same; $10. en, John and Mary Corsiglia to Glovanna ine of Lombard street. 58:3 W arcus Harrls, ot 814 S of Wash- on ington, S 25 by E 11 A of san Francisco to Pacific Bank I eet, 172 N of Eigh: teenth, N 75 by W 122 Albert F. and Elizabeth Cordes to Alfred Olson, lot on E. lige of Harrison sireet, 187:6 & of Twen- ty-first, § 25 by & 100; $76. Daniél ¥ and Lena Serens to Andrew and Frances Andker, lot on 10 street, 39 8 of Clip- 25 by E 80 . . #nd Mary E. Allen to J. T. Stone, lot on N line of Duucan street, 118 E of Castro, £ 50 by N tin, a wealthy Chicago woman. Mrs. Her- | j1{ roun canght the enthusiasm of the insane boy's mother, and the result wasa reform movement that will long be remembered in the Windy City. Many prominent society people joined in the movement and the result was that one Chicago of- ficial was sentenced fora term at Joliet, | £ two tled to Canada, and the whole man- agement of the Cook County Asylum was reorganized. Mrs, Ferguson and her son came to Oak- land eight years ago. She hss supported | herself and boy by working out, yet from | her scant earnings she has succeeded in paying for their little home. When she goes out she secures him and supplies him with food. The window is barred, the door is strong and he is just as secure as if hewere in an asylum. The chief fear now is that death may claim her first, and | that she will be forced to leave Victor to | the care of others. Few of the residents in the somewhat | deserted district on Forty-seventh street | know of the sad history of the little woman | in the rose-embowered cottage. CYRAL ATHOL'S RECORD. The English Nobleman Under Arrest in Alameda Served in San Quentin. Movement to Rearrange Election Pre. cncts of the City—Pastors’ Union Officers. ALAMEDA, Cav., Oct. 31.—Cyral Athol, the young Englishman arrested last Sat- urday for felony embezzlement in stealing a horse and buggy from Lubben Bros., at ‘West End, is said to be an ex-convict. Chief of Police Oscar Rogers this morning received a duplicate photograph of Athol | from the prison authorities at San Quen- | tin, where he served a three years’ sen- tence for embezzlement. The police are convinced that he isa hard case. When he | came to Alameda he laid claim to being the eldest son of the Countess of Coventry of England, and that he received a remit- tance quarterly. Possessing a good ad- dress, and on the strength of his family connection, he was able to enter society and obtain money, which has been ad- vanced to him in many localities. His record shows that he is bent on makinga livelihood by swindling and stealing. Chief of Police Oscar Rogers is engaged in looking up his criminal record. 15 pre- | CIift (Polnt Lobos) a: | Brookiyn Township, quitciai | ing ard V. Dey (trustees air) to Walter S. Ho- e of Pine sreet, 137:6 W ot Hyde, :6; $11,000. 3 Joseph and Nellle Kel- Jeher, lot on elon street, 225 NE of Fourtn and 193 NW of Braunan, Nk 25 by NW : gif William A.and Luey D. M lot on E ine of Seventcen Clement street, N 50 by E 120: $10. Barlow J. Smith to John Hinkel, jot 0n N line of 2 0 W of Twenty-fifth, Feginning: $1. iichael H. Lawler, 10 Lobos) and Twen: $5, W 20, S 20, son, ot on SE _cor- street and Ninth avenue South, K 300 by Neil & Haley, 179: also lot on W line of Bright street, 100 S 0f Sargent, S 60, W 200, N ;?g E 175, 8100, ty Land Association; ills to Solomon Getz, avenue, 3:11 N of W 20:11, N 120, ki 1,5 ohn and Ada M. Hinkel to on NW corser of CIff ( Thomas S. Wilson to John W. Pew, lots 41 to 48, block ots 12. 13, 44 and 45, block 24, City Land Association: #175. Patrick and Ella A. Murphy to Jane C. Gallagher, 1ot on SW line of Madazascar street, 100 T St John, SE 25 by SW 100; $10. H. 0. and Auguste Licbscher to John G. of St liner, 1ot on E Jine of Harper strect, 195 S of Thirtieth, | $26 by E125; $10. James P. Dameron to Charles P. Harris, lot on corner of ¥ line of Castro Laidley, street and N W line of N 158:2, SE 125:5, SW 87:10, lot 40, 4, Mission and Thirtieth Street Homestead 5. . Winn to Edgar L, Hoag, ALAMEDA COUNTY. J. H.T.and Henrietta Watkinson to Martin C. Blote of Oakland, jot 19, Map of the Laymance Tract, Oakland Township; 5. Theodore C. and Eliza th Boyd to H. M. Allen, lot on line of First avenue, 157:8 N of Summer street, N 37:6 by E 100, being portion of lots 4 and 5, Locksley-square Tract, Oakland Townshlip, sub- Ject Lo a morigage; $10. F. M. Riley (wife of J. HL) to Margaret E.Short, line of county road 70N, 40.42 W of Peralts” avenue, W 60.82, N 130/46, E 60, S 121.72 to beginning, being lots 7, 8 and W 10 feet. of lot §, block A, Fruitvale ki Charles E. and James E. White (o Central Bank, the N half of lot 15, 16 and 17, block B; lots 1 to 6, 8. 18. 24, 30. 32, 34, 45, biock H; lots 4 to 12, 26, 27, 28, 2, 38, block 4; lots 3,4, N haif of Jot 10 to half of lot 15, 16, S half of lot 17, 21, 23, 24, 26, N half of lot 27, 50, block C, Fruitvale Station Tract, quitclaim deed, Brooklyn Township: §10. §10. Antonio S, Tosta to Hopkin Hughes of Livermore, 1ot on S corner of Livermore avenue and Park street, SE 50 by SW_ 100, being the NW third of lots 10, 11 and 12. block 16, Map Northern Addi- tion to Livermore, quitclaim deed, Murray Town- ship: $5. . ‘Hopkin Hughes to F. A. Schroder of Livermore, me. Murray Township: $300. * E. Bowman of Alameaa to Roberts Invest- ment Company of Oakland, lot_on NE corner of Eleventh and Jefferson streets, N 105 by E 70, be- parts of lots 1t0 5, biock 156, quitciaim deed, Oakland: $10. Benjamin W. Ferris to C. M. Barre, lots 46 and g'., block D, Beulan Park property, East Oakland: G. and Mary Peladean and Aunte Beaudry to Flbert hret Jr. of Alameda, lot 7, blook 20, Boan- dre and Peladeau property, Oakland Township; Builders’ Contraots. Mrs. T. Morffew with L. T. Fenn and E. M. Weste, alterations (0 two-story building at 1725 Pine street; $1300. Charles Groezinger with W. W. Reduall, to erect a three-story and s two-story building on SE cor- e w Twenty-second street and Treat avenue; Offered the Unpublished Private Papers of Thomas Jef- ferson. ARE ALL NEW TO THE WORLD. Thousands of Letters and Many Diar- ies and Manuscripts Now to Be Sold. A great mass of the unpublished private papers of Thomas Jefferson, including thousands of his letters and other price- less things of great historical interest, may possibly come to San Francisco. They have just been offered to Adolph Sutro by Alexander McAdie as representa- tive of the descendant of the Sage of Monti- cello, who now owns them and would like to sell them. The big collection, which has not yet been given to the world, may or may not become a famous feature of the Sutro Library, but Mr. Sutro can have it if be will buy it, and the collection is held to be dirt cheap at $20,000. These papers, which would make many published volumes, passed to the posses- sion of Jefferson’s descendants in a cedar chest in which they were carefully packed by himself, and for a generation or two they have been in the possession of the family at the old homestead and birth- lace of Jefferson, at Edgehill, five miles rom Charlottesville, Va. The two living direct descendants of Thomas Jefferson are his great-grandchildren, C. R. Ran- dolph, a physician of Charlottesville, and Miss C. R. Randolph, who now owns the papers and the ancient homestead. Monti- cello was sold long ago. Jefferson’s library, once destroyed, with about everything else, at Monticello by the British under Cornwallis during the Revo- lution, was sold as it existed at the time of his death to the Government and it was one of the first purchases for the present National library. His public papers were sold to the State Department many years sgo and are now preserved as the property of the Nation. But the private papers have slumbered for these generations and but little from them has seen the light. Two or three biographers of Jefferson have hastily gath- arefi scraps of information from these dur- ing visits of a few hours’ duration and some extracts from the private letters were published some years ago in **The Domes- tic Life of Thomas Jefferson’’ by Sarah Randolph, the deceased sister of the pres- ent possessor of the papers. But an al- most infinitesimal fraction of the collec- tion has yet been given to the world. Some time ago an effort to sell the collec- tion to the Government was begun. Li- brarian Spofford was enthusiastically in favor of the purchase at $20,000, and mem- bers of the Cabinet were especially inter- ested, but official redtape, Secretary Gres- ham’s death, the paucity of department funds that could be used for such a pur- pose and other things have stood in the way. If the Government secures the priceless collection for the National library, where it properly belongs, it will undoubt- edly be by an appropriation Congress, and Senator Martin of Virginia will likely move to that end during the next session of Congress if the collection is not sold before. Alexander McAdie of the Weather Bu- reau, who is now here, married into the family, and his wedding occurred at the old homestead at Edgehill. Last spring he and Dr. Randolph made efforts to sell the collection or parts of it to the State and Agricultural departments. Jefferson’s “Farm Book” and his “Garden Book,” which contain almost daily entries of ac- counts and all sorts of observations and memoranda in Jefferson’s exceedingly fine hand and methodical style and continued over a great number of years, were taken by Mr. McAdie to' Secretary Morton, who was greatly interested in them and who afterward corresponded with Mr. McAide about them. Secretary Morton passed them to Secre- tary Gresham last May, and the two books were the subject of iong and interested in- spection and discussion at a Cabinet meet- ing just before Gresham’s illness. Gresham’s sickness and death interrupted pending negotiations with the State De- partment, and since then nothing has been done, except to recently sell to the Smith- sonian Institution “The Morals and Life of Jesus of Nazareth,” a book compiled by Jefferson and made up of extracts cut by him out of printed copies of Greek, Latin, French and English Testamentsand pasted in a biank book, indexed in the compiler’s own hand, end handsomely bound. There are 3660 letters written by Jefferson toa great many different people; some famous, some forgotten and many mem- bers of his family. These letters touch on a great variety of topics; those on political events being of intense interest. Some, for instance, to his son-in-law describe the progress of legislation at the time of the passage of the alien and sedition laws and during the dispute as to whether he or Burr should be declared President. There are about 5000 letters received by Jefferson and a large proportion of them are from such men as Jay, Lafayette, Kosciusco, Marshal Grouchey, George Rogers Clark and others of the most dis. tinguished men of his day in both hemi- spheres. At the recent request of a Boston pub- lishing-house these letters are now being catalozued that the nature and volume of the collection may be estimated. If the letters are not soon sold along with the rest of the collection of papers they will likely be published as a commercial enter- prise upon some terms. Among the features of the collection are: “Parlinmentary Pocket Book,” with its closely written pages; a bound catalogue of his library, which was classified accord- ing to the faculties, memory, reason and imagination; a book of his law cases; two books of his household accounts while in Paris; several pocket diaries full of in- teresting entries; a manuscript partial translation of “Volney’s Ruins” and other Looks containing notes, opinions, etc., on a great variety of subjects, including mem- oranda from his *Notes on Virgi ideas about the cession of the Northwest Territory by Virginia, and personal ac- counts, meteorological memoranda, ete., made during his residence at Paris, Monti- cello and Washington. Then there is a tin case containing diplomas, commissions, credentials and certificates of membership of different sci- entific and other societies and institutions of America and Europe. This case, made to his own order, holds his appointment as Secretary of State, signed by Washington, the letter from Adams announcing Jeffer- son's election to the Vice-Presidency, ete. While many books are filled with the author’s notes of daily private life proba- bly the most interesting are the farm ana garden books. They reveal the inner life of one of the immortal figures in American history. ; Jefferson’s meteorological observations were taken persistently and systematically for thirty years or so, wherever he was, even at roadside inns, in France and America, and his were among the first meteorological observations made in this country. Mr. McAdie is naturally es- pecially interested in them, and it is one of his ambitions to compile and edit them. Last summer McAdie discovered and published Jefferson’s temperature record of Philadelpbia, including three or four observations daily made suring the first days of July, 1776, inciuding the 4th, and made while Congress was discussing, amending and adopting his Declaration of Independence. These entries were proba- bly made with the same pen that wrote the original draft of this famous dozument. Historians have recorded that the adop- tion of the measure was hastened by the impatience of the delegates caused by the heat and the flies from an adjoining livery stable that kept the members busy whip- Emg their silk-stockinged calves with their andkerchiefs. Jefferson says nothing about fiies, but his record shows that the temperature at 1p. M. of both the 3d and 4th was 76 degrees, 3 Oneof Jefferson’s entries, under date of July 8 of one year, is: Paid Sparhawk for barometer. Paid 2 dinners at Smith’s.. During his presidency he noted ‘‘Ice formed In the Tiber.” “The Tiber was a creek, since filled un. The meteorological entries are many thousands. He also noted from year to year with great particularity the dates when the first whistle of different birds was heard at Monticello, the dates of the budding of all fruits, the dates when the first fruits and berries reached his table and so on almost ad infinitum. His farm and gar- den books served the life of a cultured gentleman farmer of intensely methodical and practical ideas and methods. He poted everything that might be of any future value to himseli or others, Re- garding rotation of crops he noted “G. Washington’s plan,” “T. J.’splan,” *Ran- dolph’s plan,” ete. There is a complete census of all the bottles on his estate made at one time, and the bottles number- ing thousands, were classified ac- cording to size, use and so on. Mr. Mc- Adie’s notes and recollections of the books show that once Jeiferson noted the ob- servation that Goliath, one of his slaves, was wearing out too many shirts, and he records his estimate of the kind, amount and cost of shirting that ought to be enough for a slave for one year. Once the Sage of Monticello made and recorded ob- servations for several days of road-making to determine which was the more eco- nomical—three negroes with wheelbarrows or one negro with a mule and cart. Mr. McAdie doesn’t remember the conclusion. These are but two or three glimpses of a great mass of unpublished material rang- ing in interest and value from the arrival of larks and strawberries at Monticello in colonial and revolutionary days, the tem- perature of the White House, Faneuil Hall and Paris and Jefferson’s dinners and gifts to servants and charity, to commissions to ransom Americans from the Barbary pirates and treat with nations and letters from actors in the French revolution and in the greatest scenes that attended the forming of this Nation. Perhaps Mr. Sutro will not bring these Lrgliisures to San Francisco and perhaps he will. OF TEREST T0 FARMERS San Luis Obispo County Famous for Big Growths of Vegetables. An Estimate of the Bean Crop of Santa Barbara and Ven- tura. The county of San Luis Obispo has long been famous for its big vegetable growths. A seed firm in Philadelphia having offered prizes for different classes of vegetables the farmers in the vicinity of Arroyo Grande, in the above-named county, have entered the lists with some world-beaters, consisting of a head of cabbage weighing 64 pounds; three vellow Denver onions, 714 pounds; three Wetherstield onions, 6 pounds; a green cucumber, 16 inchesin length; a white spine cucumber, weighing 3}4 pounds, and the championship pump- kin of Arroyo Grande Valley, which weighs 219 pouuds. Breeding gives a profit, as is shown in cattle for beef. A Galloway and shorthorn steer, recently raised in Scotland, at 2 years and 11 months old weighed 2016 pounds on the hoof. He was raised on pasture (no grain), with turnips and straw in winter. The weight could have been increased by high feedinz. At present prices of beef in this country the steer would have sold for $75 or perhaps more, according to quality. The discussion as to the relative merits of large and small hives, which has long | been going on in the bee journals, seems as far from settlement as ever. No doubt much depends upon the locality and the kind of honey produced. In regions of great honey flow, and especially in case extracted honey is produced exclusively, large hives will be most in favor; while in working for comb honey, especially“in re- gions of light flow, small hives will doubt- less give the best satisfaction.—S. B. Review. Every beekeeper should understand how to detect the loss of the queen. The fol- lowing morning after a loss of this kind has occurred and occasionally in the even- ing, the bees may be seen running to and fro in wild corsternation. Toward the middle of the day the confusion will be less marked, but the next morning will be again enacted, and, after the third or fourth day, will cease entirely, and appar- ently lhe{ become reconciled to their labors, although they do not manifest the energy or agility seen in a prosperous colony. Compared with corn, there is more pro- tein in oats and less of the carbo-hydrates than in corn. Oats contain about 9.25 per cent of protein and corn about 7.90, while corn contains abcut 67 per cent of carbo- hydrates and oats 48 per cent. Thus, for fattening purposes, corn is superior to oats, but for animals that produce milk or are growing oats should be fed. Corn is usually cheaper than oats, which brings it into more general use, but it is more eco- nomical to feed oats to work horses, grow- ing stock, cows giving milk, and laying hens than to use corn. Santa Barbara Independent: Commer- cial Agent Simpson of the Southern Pa- cific estimates the bean crop of Santa Bar- bara and Ventura counties at 2000 cars. Of that number 300 or 400 cars will come from this part of Santa Barbara County. In order thatsome idea of the immensity of the yield can be obtained it is only necessary todo a little “figuring’’ to arrive at_the total number of pounds of beans raised in the two counties. Twelve tons to each car makes 24,000 tons, or 48,000,000 pounds. There is no danger of the Bos- tooians starving thisyear. Thecrop repie- sents an income of over $1,000,000, at a low estimate. correspordent, the New York Tribune said recently: ‘‘Hot water would not kill the | weevil without destroying the germinating property of the beans.” M. M. Murphy of Ripley, Ohio, takes exception to that state- ment, thus: *“In this we think you are in error. We know by experience of several years that the weevil can be killed with hot water without injuring the germs of the beans. Our method is as follows: After the beans are gathered and dry, place one pint, or quart, of beans in a pan, our boiling water on them. Let the ans stay in the boiling water exactly one minute; take them out, spread to dry and weevil will never show in the beans, and every bean will grow. We have never tried it except on pole beans, especially ‘Kentucky wonders.’ It is ithe common practice here and the beans all grow.” George Stewart of Crow’s Landing is looking into the matter of sorghum-rais- ing, says the Newman Tribune. This year he sowed ten acres to sorghum seed, and taking into consideration the fact that it was an experiment with him and fur- ther that no especial cultivation or care was given it, raised a fairly gooa crop. This year he will cut the sorghum for stock feed. Since the sorghum mill at Dos Palos has started up Mr. Stewart has be- come interested in the matter and will in- vestigate the working of the mill at that vlace. Should he be able to induce some of his neighbors to raise this product he | tions, excesses, dissipation. In answering the query of a California | will plant a larger acreage next season and enieavor to establish a mill at Crow's Landing. We cannot see any reason why this plant could not be successfully and profitably grown to a considerable extent in this section. climate and soil being fa- vorable to its growth. Dr. N. R. Barbour of Lockeford brought into town tbe other day a six-horse load of almonds and dried fruit which he had sold in San Francisco for $900. The shipment was sent to the metropolis by steamer. There were 150 sacks of almonds inthe shipment, for which the raiser will get $810, and the other stuff was dried apricots and peaches. The almonds were raised on a tract of thirty-five acres on the north side of the Mokelumne River, in the sec- tion known as the Langiord colony, on land which Dr. Barbour recently pur- chased from G. A. Foster. The crop was not up to the expectations of the owner of the tract, but it was profitable and gives him encouragement for the future of his fine tract. The trees are seven years old, and will bear heavier from this time for- ward. Ina good season the yield of nuts will be much larger than this year, and the price is expected to remain at about the figures offered for this season’s crop. San Francisco dealers pay 9 cents per pound for such almonds as Dr. Barbour shipped, and that price is very satisfactory. Orchardists say that they can make money when they can sell almonds for 9 cents a pound delivered in San Francisco.—Stock- ton Independent. No healthy animal needs medicine. The practice of using copperas, carbolic acig, etc., as preventives of diseases, by giving such drugs to animals, and especially as is done with hogs, results in more damage than occurs from disease. Such substances are poisonous, and cannot be allowed with- out risk of deleterious effects. How to Best Utilize the Farm. Every acre of land the farmer has should be of value, says the Baltimore Sun. The drainage should be good. He should un- derstand the nature of his soil so well that he knows what each field is best fitted for raising. There is nothing like being in- formed in one’s professio: Farmers must read good papers on farming if they would do the best. Poor fences, poor stock, poor crops are unnecessary to a farmer who knows his business. More fail, says an un- identified exchange, because of poor man- agement than from any other cause. It is almost true that farmers are born, not bred. It does not pay of late years to raise grain, as there is already an overproduc- tion, thirty and forty acres of wheat mak- ing the planter out of pocket. This keeps him from the use of his land at only $5 50 to the acre. 1o wonder the mortgage grows until it is large enough to swallow everything. One should raise just enough wheat for his own use. He should raise every kind of fruit to which his land is adapted. Strawberries are more paying than potatoes. While the farmer is waiting for his fall crops his small fruit is turning into money. Too many make a specialty of some one thing. Asaresult their loss is heavy if there is an overproduction of the product Plant every variety that is suimh}e to the lana. The soil should be kept in good con- dition. No weeds should be allowed to go to seed. Orchards should be sprayed. Never spend a cent without selling some- thing that will bring in_another. Keep a variety of fine stock. Have a number of fat porkers to sell in the spring. Be sure that the poultry-house is warm during the winter. Fowls will then lay during the winter months, when eggs brine the most. In March they will set. Nothing pays better than spring chickens. The farmer should buy nothing that he can raise, for no one will sell an article without a profit. Shall the farmer raise such articles and get the profit, or shall he pay some one eise for doing his business? Have a hot- house. Early vecetables find a good market. It reuires shrewdness to know when to sell. Farmers watch the market as close as do Wall-street speculators, Some farmers do not sell until the market is surfeited ana produce is ata beggar’s fee. Not until a man devoies all his talent to his profession will he succeed. ——————— ELECTRICAL INSTRUCTION IN THE Russiax Arwy.—Many European nations recogniz- iug the inevitable importance of electricity in the wars of the future have established electrical departments where instruction is given to the sub-officers of both the army and the navy. Russia has, at length, fallen into line. and its army authorities have decided to open a scientific branch of the service under the direction of a lieu- | tenant-general, two major-generals and five officers of lower grades, who wil devote themselves te working out the applicability of electrical discoveries to war purposes. An electro-technical school has also been instituted under the supervision of a major-gereral for the purpose of giving a nineteen months® course of Instruction to thirty-five lieutenants and sub-lieatenants of en- gineers. Another notable feature of the school is that it will_give a special electri- cal training the in handling of war appli- ances to a company recruited from me- chanics and from selected non-commis- sioned officers of engineers, who will after- ward return to their regiments and there be available asinstructors. The recogni- tion of the necessity of having fighting men availabie who can handle the material they have to fight with brings to mind the admirable suggestion made a few years ago by Lieutenant Bradley Fiske, the in- ventor of the range-finder, that a corps of electricians should be formed, who should be instructed in theelectrical handling and fighting of warships, so as to supplement in time of war the very limited number of men who are able to doso. Hithertonaval fighting has been done by sailors; in fu- ture it will be done by electrical engineers, 0 YOU WANT TO BE STRONG? MOST MEN do, and few men are s strong as they ought tobe. 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Plain and to the point. Itishonest. You can write to Mr. Pratt and he will verify his statement. It means good news to you if yow are weak. You can see hundreds of others, with full name and address, in the little book, “Three Classes of Men.” It can be had free. SANDEN ELECTRIC CoO., 630 Market st., opposite Palace Hotel, San Francisco. Office hours 8 to 6, evenings 7 to 8:30. Portland (Oregon) office 255 Washings ton st