The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1895, Page 23

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1895. [NOTE.—For the benefit of certain interested | do all this and more. ones it should be explained that the name o the city wherein Maaroof found himself i given as Ikhtiyan of El-Khutan, the latter edition of “The Thousand and One Nights,” but is found in the Calcutta edition of the complete work. It commences with part of the nine hundred and eighty-ninth night and ends with the one thousand and first. The s}uri here given ends with what seems to be th e dramatic finale to the remarkeable ad- ventures of thiscolossal impostor. It takes the reader into the one thousandth night, but in the narrative of the Calcutta edition, which is nted from that oi Cairo, the one thousand first night is devoted to an account how Maaroof lost his magic ring recovered it through the cleverness royal wife; of her death and appearance of Fatimeh El-Orrah. Some rities question the authenticity of this ul termination to an otherwise delightful the latest researches place it among de narratives of Queen Shahrazad. To writer 8 Hindu gentleman rship once gave this rather curi- etion of the apparently unnecessary on of this story: “In my opinion,” Queen Shahrazad designed to accomplish the end ing on the one thousandth night, intercede with the King for her 12t of the women of her city, but <ion came to speak her courage her ingenuity or her memory the production of a new tale, she it this one for another night, <, & more auspicious moment ap- presentation of her plea.” modera Oriental thought, testi- n th tales yet occupy a e . d re: when the merchant Maaroof had v, and had become indebted to n the sum of a thousand pieces of vhich he had distributed to the poor, rchants proceeded to lay his case be- e king of that city, and to eulogize to praise his generosity. And that s covetous; more covetous than So that when he heard of the v of Maaroof his covetousness him, and hesaid to his wezeer: t did not possess abund- generous conduct would d from him. His merchandise ail will arrive, and he will dis- ng these merchants abundant I am more worthy than erefore I deem that my plan show affection for him, and endship with him, and I 1 to my daughter and join th with mine. But the wezeer ing of the age, I imagine him but an impostor.. And the : I will try him. And he ten he had ap- d to him: O mer- 1d see what it is, and ,ana he gave him a jewel a hazel nut, which the king had ased for a thousand pieces of gold, e had not another, and held it dear. took it crushed it be- thumb and ger, and broke it. refore said: Why hast thou thout As| | | Leing the name of a district of Tartary. In | Trebutien's version it is called “Knaitan, the capital of the Kingdom of Sobatan.” The story oi_ Mearoof does not occur in the Breslau | ! | | mind, this naive explanation is | d twenty days with the merchants | | | 1 | | | | w So he was ap- peased. And on the morrow he sat with the kin, in the council chamber and distributes robes of honor among the emeers and wezeers and lords of the empire, and show- ered gifts upon all who came. And he continued in this state for the space of twenty days, and there appeared not his merchandise, nor naught eise, and he said within himself: A burning plague! What will happen, will happen'! And in time came the treasurer, when the king sat with the wezeer and no one else, and said: O king of the age, the treas- ry is almost empty, and on the morrow we will close it, empty. And the king said to the wezeer: Verily, the merchandise of my son-in-law hath been backward in com- ing. And the wezeer laughed and sa1 May God be gracious to thee, O king of | the age! Thou art none other than a care- less person! And the king said: How tion. He went like one intoxicated and ceased not to proceed until the hour of noon, when he neared a village and saw a Eiowmnu near it plowing with a yoke of ulls. And huneer violently affected him and he saluted the plowman, who said to him: Welcome, O my master, and in- vited him to alight for entertainment, say- ing be would go into the village and bring dinner, and fodder for the horse. So he alighted and the peasant left him and Maaroof sat waiting. Then he said within himself: Verily we have diverted this poor man from his work, but I will arise and plow in his stead untii he come to compensate for my having hindered. him, Accordingly on the bulls, {mt the plow struck against something and the beasts stooped. And he looked at the plow and found it to be caught in a ring of gold in the middle of a stone of alabaster, of the size of a nether millstone. And he labored with it until he pulled it from its place and disclosed a subterranean plaee with stairs, and he de- scended into a place like a bath, with four | lewans. The first lewan was, full of gold | from floor to roof. The second was full of emeralds and pearls and corals from floor to rcof. The third lewan was full of jacinths and balaco-rubies and turquoises, and the fourth was full | of diamonds and precious minerals and all kinds of jewels. At the |upper end was a chest of pure size of a lemon, in which when Maarocof opened it was a seal ring on which were engraved names and talismans; and he | rubbed the seal ring and lo! a speaker | sai At thy service! At thy service!l. O my master, demand and then receive, for whatsoever thou demandest it shall pen by permission of the Almighty King the Creator of the day. And hesaid: O creature of my Lord, who art thou? He {answered: I am the servant of this geal | he took the plow and drove | crystal, and on it a little box of gold the.| black slaves and men-at-arms, and he was | clad in._a suit of apparel of the treasures | and rode in a takht-rawan, and was become | & thousand times more majestic than the king. Then the king saluted him, and all the great men of the empire saluted him, and itappeared that Maaroof was veracious and that there was no falsenood in him. He entered the city in_a stately proces- sion that would have made the gall-bladder of the lion to burst, and the merchants came and kissed the ground before him, and the merchant Alee said to him: Thou bast done this deed and it hath been suc- cessfully accomplished by thee, O Sheykh | of the impostors! But thou art deserving, therefore may God (whose name be ex- |-alted) increase to thee his bounty! And Maaroof laughed. Then he ordered the treasury to be filled with gold and jewels and stuffs, and select- ing of the best of the loads sent them in to the gueen, to distribute among her female | slaves, and proceeded to pay the mer- | ckants to whom he was indebted, giving | double the amount of his indebtedness to each; and he ceased not to give and be- stow and distribute until he had distrib- uted the 700 loads of merchandise, after which he gave of the jewels and treasure to the soldiers and to the poor and needy until there remained of the people none who desired aught. And he gave gifts to his wife of splendor surpassing ail the others, saying, Take and wear these and welcome to thee. And when the king | would have checked his liberality he said: What is this small matter? I have abun- dance. And his veracity had become pub- licly manifest and no one could any longer belie him. : Extolled be the perfection of the Living, who dieth not, and in whose hands are the keys of the dominion that is apparent and the dominion that is hidden. DEMON OF TEE AIR. A Meteor Turned a River’s Course and Killed the Fish. The recent meteoric displays in the west- ern and southern heavens have been a sub- ject of general comment. The Memphis Commercial Appeal gives the following account of one meteor Which was visible all over Arkansas and Western Tennessee: | Its first appearance from Little Rock was | at a point in the heavens about 50 degrees | from the horizon in the west by 5 degrees | north. Itseourse was to the south at an | angle of 7 degrees from the meridian. The | flame was from 15 to 20 degrees in length | and 3 degrees wide in the widest point and “ AND MAAROOF LAUG HED AND SAID, ‘O KING, THIS IS NOT A JEWEL.” shall we act? And he answered: O Ting of the age, no one will become ac- quainted with the man's secret except his W So the king and the wezeer entered into the sitting-room, and the king's daughter came behind>the curtain and they tock council with her as to how they should learn the state of the case of the merchant Maaroof. And then the king urged upon his daughter to incline unto her husband and to use nearness and re- | ring, acting in the service of its possessor, and my name is Abu-s-Sa’adat. And | Maaroof said: Canst thou bring forth | this treasure and place it on the earth? | And he said: Itwill be the easiest of ac- tions. And immediately there appeared multi- tudes of young, elegant boys, with beauti- ful faces, carrying the treasure forth in baskets. And they ceased not to trans- | so dazzling as to hurt the eyes. The color had a greenish blue tint similar to the | burning of a trolley wire by a bad electric | connection. Many thought that it must have landed within only a few hundred yards of them. Now, however, its location is definitely settled. A man from the southwestern | part of the State gives this account of an | occurrence that made the people prepare for the end of time: ROUNDING UP BOODLERS Efforts to Establish the Identity | of the Solid Eight's Broker. ; GRAND JURY DISCLOSURES. Facts About the Payment to Martin Gallagher of $125 for a Permit From Supervisors. The session of the Grand Jury next Mon- day promises to be highly important. It is known that some witnesses held in re- serve will be called, and testimony may be produced to establish beyond the shadow of doubt the identity of the Solid Eight’s agent. It is possible that Martin Gallagher, who received $125 from Langdon, as disclosed in the testimony of the latter last Friday, may have figured in other transactions, but he is not accredited with the sagacity required for the management of important legislation. According to the testimony the money which he got from Langdon was returned, which was an exhibition of weakness that an out and out boodler can never tolerate. At the session of the Grand Jury last | Monday night, John D. Spreckels gave the | iniormation which led to the investiga- tion of the payment of money by Langdon for a special privilege. Mr. knew that money had been paid for a spe- cial privilege. Shortly afterward Spreck- els and Bourdette met, and the former re- in the transaction. It is understood that Mr. Spreckels agreed to give Detective Cur- tin a point or two on another matter, if Langton and Bourdette would tell what they knew concerning the suspected brib- ery of a Supervisor. The statement which Mr. Spreckels made to the jury in relating a conversation with Bourdette, which was then fresh in his| mind, was to the effect that Langdon told Bourdette that he (Langdon) had to pay $125 for the privilege of making an altera- tion in a building on Stockton street. Hearing this from his client Mr. Bour- dette, the lawyer, went to Supervisor Dun- ker and said that the money must be re- turned. It appears that Dunne & Co., who keep a saloon in the neighborhooc, did not want Langdon’s opposition, and accordingly set about to prevent Langdon from getting a permit to put in & wooden partition. The privilege was tied up for several days, and then Langdon put up $125, which was sub- sequently returned. (l,n his testimeny ore the Grand Jury last Friday Mr. Bourdette says he did not connect Supervisor Dunker with the trans- ac%on. In an interview yesterday he said: “Langdon wanted to open a place on Stockton street and was about to make some alterations in a wooden building when he encountered the opposition of Dunne & Co., who keep a saloon near by. Ifound that he was entitled under the Jaw to a permit from the Supervisors to make the ci.anges provided the alterations did not increase the risk of fire. As the building was of wood the proposed wooden partition would not increase the danger, and soI advised him. He told me then as an incident that he had to put up $125 for the privilege. He did not say to whom or {for whom the money was paid.” At the session of the Grand Jury last Friday Langdon said be paid the money— $125—10 Martin Gallagher, and had since received that amount i return. The Grand Jury will call Martin Galla- gher as a witness next Monday, and may succeed in getting more information on thesubject. 1t is gratifying for the jurors to observe, as a result of their investigations, that money paid to boodlers for_the ostensible purpose of fixing the Board of Supervisors is being returned. It is also noted with satisfaction that the character of street- work is greatly improved. Some bad jobs which would have been accepted if the Grand Jury had not intervened have been torn up. Better work is being done, and material called for by the specifications is being used. It is just possible that the pool-sellers will conclude that a contribution of $500 a month is too much to pay for “legal ser- vices” when no cases are on the court calendar and no litigation is anticipated. Spreckels | received a hint that John W. Bourdette | quested the latter to make known the facts | Langdon refuses absolutely to talk. He | |EHNENT GTIZENS TESTIFY TO POSITIVE CURES BY HIS IN- PROVED HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES. THE TRUTH FROM HONEST PEOPLE. | Druggists Say: “We Hear Noth- ing But Good Reports of Munyor's Gures.” REEUMATISH, CATARRH, DYSPEPSIA AND THE MOST OBSTINATE DISEASES CURED BY THESE WONDER- FUL LITTLE PELLETS. Ask Your Druggist for Munyon’s Guide, to Health, Select a 25 Cent Remedy and Cure Yourself. 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Long Distance Teleplhione 5527. port the treasure until ngught remained | in the subterranean chamber and Maaroof | said: Canst thou bring ‘me mules and | chests and place this treasure in the chests | and upon the mules? And lo, it was done, | the gold and each mineral packed by itself | Separate Cures for Each Disease. Munyon’s Catarrh Remedies never fail. The Catarrh Cure—price 25c—eradicates the disease from the system, and the Ca- tarrh Tablets—price 25c—cleanse and heals admits that money was given by him to | Contractor Gallagher, and that he got it back, and that the money was to hasten the work, but he refuses to say anything more. el? 1d Maaroof laughed : O Kking, thisis nota jewel, but of mineral, worth a thousand sof gold? How isit that thouart a | icalleth this a jewel, when the| moteness of speech, and induce him to nfess, and then to make them acquainted th the case. And the king said: If he be an impostor, I will surely slay him in the most unfortunate .manner. And she One morning recently farmers and fish- ermen along the Little River and the Red River, below the junction of the two, noticed a large number of fish floating down and that the water was hot. An juld be_worth seventy thousand sof gold. But ye are excusable, be- e ye are poor and have not in your | n treasures of value. And the : O merchant, hast thou among iise jewels of thekind you i Maaroof said: 2bundance. 1 the king dismissed the merchants, g them be patient until the mer- dise should arrive, but as to him, he t eer: wezeer, treat t Maaroof with courtesy and > with him in talk and men- to him my daughter. Now the vezeer had desired himself to marry the daughter of the king, and the damsel con- d not, so he said to the king: O none other than an impostor, h ng was wroth and said: O de- thou desirest not good fortune for g desirest only my daughter. And he threatened him so that the wezeer went forth, saying: Set the dogs upon the oxen. Then be inclined to Maaroof and id to him: The king loveth thee, and he th a daughter endowed with beauty and oveliness whom he desireth to marry to jee. What sayeth thou? And Maaroof a No barm. 3 But he desired the weezeer tnat the king should wait until the merchandise hould arrive that he might suitabiy dow the bride and give gifts to her at- dants and distribute alms among the The wezeer therefore went and ac- ad overcome bim, and he sent for ry, bidding him_take what he i1’ his merchandise should ar- And the king ordered tbe Sheykh el Islam to perform the ceremony of the mar- ge contract, so he performgd the cere- v of the contract of marriage between the king's daughter and the merchant Maaroof. And a great feast was made, and Maaroof took from the king's treasury end went dround among the people and gave to every one who plafed by the hand- ful, and bestowed alms and fed the hungry and clothed the naked, so that the treasurer had hardly time to bring the gold and silver. And the heart of the wezeer was burst- z with anger, but he durst not speak. The festivity lasted for forty days, and on the one and fortieth they made a procession for the bride, and Maaroof scat- tered gold over the heads of the people. And they introduced him to the bride and let down the curtains and closed the doors and went forth, leaving him with the bride. And thereupon i: smote hand upon hand and sat sorrowful, saying: There is no strength or power but in God, the high nmfi the great. So thé queen said to him: O my lord, may Allah preserve thee! Why art thou sor- sowiul? And he said: My merchan- dise hath not arrived, and I desire to give to thy atlendnntsdjewels and ornaments in honor of thy wedding night. But I have them not with me, and how can I but be sorrowful? for this is to me as the burning of green corn. But she said: O my master! Let not this trouble thee. When thy merchandise doth arrive ‘hou canst | | | | | 1ted the king with this, but covetous- | of and gave him the keysof the | | i all that I can procure. said: O my father, I know how to ex- amine him. And after nightfall Maaroof came in to her as was his custom. So she rose to him and took him with ber hand beneath his armpit and begniled him with excessive guile, as women "'know how. And when she saw he inclined to her entirelv she said: O my beloved, joy of my heart, affection for thee hath takenupitsabodein | my heartand I shalllovethee forever. But acquaint me with the truth, for I fear thy | case will be exposed to my father before we contrive a strategem to avoid it. quaint me with the truth, and if thou hast imposed before 1 will contrive a plan for thy escape, if it be the will of God. And he said: O my mistress, know that 1 am not a merchant, and I have neither merchandise nor a burning plague. But in my country I was only a cobbler, and have a wife whose name is Fatimeh El-Orrah, and such and such things hap- pened to me with her. And he ac- quainted her with the story from begin- ning to end. And she said: Now my father is pur- posing mischief to thee, on account of thy imposture, but thou art become my hus- band, and thou shouldst then be a source of disgrace to me. slew thee, he would probably desire me to marry another, and to this I will not con- sent, though I die refnsing. But arise now. Put on the dress of a memlook, and take these fifty thousand pieces of gold of my wealth. Then mount a horse and journey to a country where the rule of my father doth not reach. There thou canst trade as a merchant, and thou canst send | me a letter by a private band, that I may know where thou art, and I wiil send thee Thus thy wealth will become abundant, and if my father should die, [ will send for thee, and if thou or I die, departing by the mercy of God (whose name be exalted), the day of resur- rection will unite us. % So he sal O my mistress, I throw myself upon your generosity; and he embraced her and went forth. - And when morning arrived her father came with the wezeer to the sitting-room, and she came behind the curtain, and her father said: O my daughter, what sayest thou? And she said: May God blacken the face of thy wezeer, for he desired to blacken my face in the eyes of my husband. And she told them that news had come in the night that the caravan of the merchant Maaroof had been set upon by the Arabs and its coming had been delayed and that ten memlooks had brought the news, such as for beauty and splendor her father had not in his kingdom, and her husband bad repaired with the memlooks to bring back the mer- chandise, with which, if it were the will of God, he would soon come. And she pro- ceeded to blame_ the wezeer for his evil counsel, saying: It is all the fault of thy wezeer, who speaketh against my kus- band. And the king proceeded to ap- ase her mind and to threaten the wezeer, and the stratagem deceived him. But, as to the merchant Maaroof, he mounted a courser and proceeded over the desert tract in a state of dire perplexity, mourning and reciting verses in his afflic- 1 Ac- | Moreover, if my father | on 300 mules. And Maaroof said: O Abu-s- Sa’adat, canst thou bring me a caravan of loads of precious stuffs, Egyptian, Syrian, Persian, Indian and Greek, of the stuff of each country a hundred® Joads, upon the backs of mules? And he said: Grant me a delay until night, and Maaroof granted the delay. Then he ordered a pavilion | spread and a table of viands, and Maaroof sat in the tent with the viands be- | fore him and attendants | black slaves about him, when the peas- ant approached, carrying a large wooden bowl of lentils and a fodder-bag of barley. And when he saw the state by which Meaaroof was surrounded he was confused, | and said within himself: Would that I | had kiiled two chickens, and fried them red with clarified butter, to please the Sul- tan; and he desired to return and do so, but Maaroof saw him and said to the memlooks: Bring him, and Maaroof caused the peasant to sit down with him and partake of the various dishes of ex- quisite viands before him, but for him he had brought until he was satisfied, and when the bow: was emptied he filled it | with gold, and the peasant returned with it to his dwelli driving his balls before him, and imagining that he himself was a relative of the king. Maaroof passed that night in delight and joy, and when the morning arose, lo! be was surrounded by | a caravan of the maznificence of all lands, | Now the king with his wezeer sat | in_the council chamber, and the king said: Veri my heart is sad by reasop | of my son-in-law, Maaroof, and I fear that the Arabs may slay him. Would that I knew whither he had gone, that I might send my memlooks with troops to his aid. And the wezeer said: By my beard, the man is none other than an impostor, and I imagine that he knew we had be- come excited to suspect him, and that he had fled to escape thy wrath. And lo! a | courier entered and kissed the ground be- fore the king and offered up a prayer for the contiruance of his glory. So the king said, What is thine affair? And be an- swered him: Thy son-in-law is approach- ing with his merchandise and Lath sent me with this letter that thou mayst go forth to meet him with the troops. Then the king read the letter and said to the wezeer: May Allah blacken thy face! How often wilt thou speak against my son-in-law? Behold! he hach come wit the merchandisé, and thou art none other than a traitor. And the wezeer hung down his head in shame and confusion, for he had said not these words save in anxiety for the king and the treasure. Then the king gave orders to decorate the city and went 1n to his daughter and told her the good news, whereupon she wondered, saying: Was he deriding me, or was he trying me when he said he was 2 poor man? But praise be to God that nothing unjust proceeded from me to him. And great excitement prevailed in the city, the merchants saying one to another: The merchandise of the merchant Maaroof hath arrived. The king then assembied the troops and went forth, and, lo! Maaroof was approaching in the midst of his mem- looks and attendants and drivers and male and male | ate only of the lentils which the peasant | investigation showed the fish to be cooked. | Alarmed at this, a party was finally | formed to go up and investigate the cause. | Touching the river at various points as | they proceeded on horseback, they noticed | that ‘the water was getting hotter and | botter, and later they could trace the | entire course of the river by the rising | steam. The negroes had all quit the | cotton fields and lumber camps and gath- | ered around their preachers wherever one | could be found. On the varty pressed, getting smaller each mile, as some brother thought his final hours could best be spent under a preacher’s fervent prayers, and dropped out to join the negro impromptu camp-meetings. Rounding a sharp bend they came upon the white chalk cliffs of the Little River in the county of the same name, and just south of the junction of the county with Howard and Sevier. a sight so strange that every one in the party, moved by the same im- pulse, fell from his horse prone on the ground, while the animals quaked with fear and trembling and huddled together. ‘The meteor had hit the chalk cliff, liter- ally tearing through it a hole 100 feet wide irom the top to the water’s edge. The ex- posed portions of the fissure had been melted by the intense heat and friction. There in Little River stood the lost star- let, anchored deep in the bed of the river, leaving barely room for the water to pass on the southwest side and grojecting twenty feet above the level of the water. The exposed portion was still lurid with the heat of its rapid transit through the air, and the water was boiling. Naviga- tion beyond this point will be impossible until the Little River cuts a new channel to the south. - An Insulting Suspicion. Winks—What’s the matter? You look as nad as a hornet. Jinks—I ought to be mad. I've been ;l;rossly insulted, and by my own preacher, 00. “Your preacher?” ‘“Yes, my sreacher. He stopped me on the street and said he'd roticed that on two or three occasions lately 1'd Jeft the church just as thecontributlon-box started around.” “Did you leave?” “‘Yes; but you doun’t suppose it was to avoid adding’a paltry dime to the church funds, do yon? The idea! It makes me boil to Tthink that preacher—my own preacher, too—should = suggest such a thing. TIts outrageous!’” “But why did‘you leave?” ““It was raining. I'd forgotten my um- brella, and I a few in the vestibule.”—New York Weekly. ——————— The rate at which the use of the bicycle is growing is seen in the statement that the %:aguu of “American Wheelmen now numbers 37,348 members, 9522 of whom are credited to New York, 5833 to Massa- chusetts and 4412 to Pennsylvania, while the tail-enders of the procession are Idaho and Nevada, with two members each. Both these States, however, are better knéw there were onl; | adapted to walking than wheeling, There they bebeld | «I don't intend to say anything,” he said. “This is an affair of my own, and 1 don’t wish to be (}uoted. It’s of no public | interest, anyhow.” Mr. Groom, the secretary of the Grand Jury, says that nene of the testimony given Friday tended to inculpate Super- visor Dunker. Mr. Langdon, he declares, did not mention Mr. Dunker’s name. “Langdon told about the work he was having done,” said Mr. Groom festerday, “and said that the contractor, Mr. Galla- gher, had come to him and said he was afraid that the work might be stopped by the Fire Marshal. He thought that it would require $125 to keep the work going. This Langdon says he demurred to paying, but finally handed over. “The work kept on and after three or four days Langdon said Gallagher returned him the $125, saying he could not use it. And then, two days later, two days after the money had_been returned to him by Gal- lagher, the Fire Marshal stopped the work. “Tangdon then told about” seeing-.Bour- dette. He said the lawyer advised 'Bim that he could not be stopped and told him to keep right on as when the fire risk was not increased the Fire Marshal had no voice, he said. Mr. Bourdette saw the proper officials and the® work was com- pleted. “You see,” Mr. Groom added, “Lang- don didn’t say a wora about where the money was to go. He gave it to the con- tractor and the contractor gave it back be- fore the work was stopped. “And Bourdette did_not claim that any money bad been given to Dunker either. He told how he became interested in the case, and then said that after he bad found the decisions he went to see the Fire Mar- shal and met Mr. Dunker. “To Mr. Dunker he said that somebody had taken $125 from Langdon to insure the latter from interference in altering his building. He then advised the Supervisor that the money had better be returned. “But all this time the money had been iven back to Mr. Langdon. So Mr. Dun- er was not affected in any way, and, be- sides, Mr. Bourdette did not claim that the money was returned after he had seen Mr, Dunker.” Ten New Policemen. Ten more policemen were sworn in yesterday by Chief Crowley as follows: Michael McHugh, born in Ireland, 33 years of age, laborer; David E. Baxter, Californis, 26, teamster; Patrick Curry, Ireland, 25, teamster; Elijah C. Perci- vyal, Canads, 82, milk-dealer; Patrick Mec- Greyan, Rochester, N. Y., 31, sawyer; John | Joseph _ Crowley, Boston, 34, millwright; Henry C. Folsom, 8an Francisco, 29, carriage- maker; Thomas_O'Connor, Ireland, 31, black- smith; Robert J. Byrne, San Fraucisco, 34, clerk; Thomas Hogan, Ireland, 32, miller, e A Prisoner’s ¥all. Charles Seeley, formerly a prisoner in the County Jail, has brought suit against the City and County of San Francisco against Sheriff Whelun for $20,000. He says that while & prisoner in the jail he was compelled to plaster over some holes in the and that he was compelled to use an insecure scef- folding. As aresult he fell about fifteen feet and was severely injured, the parts. . 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