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10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1895. DICK McOONALD ON TRIAL Witnesses Tell How $14,000 Was Taken From the Pacific Bank. THE PROSECUTION HAS CLOSED. Defendant Explained to W. H. H. Hart That He Wanted Ready Money | for Emergencies. Jr. to why the notes were drawn at the time they were. | that his brother, Frank, had returned only | a few days before from the East and found that $8000 was necessary to cover balances due at the Chemical Bank at New York. Donald drew the §14 43 fzom the bank he knew it was hopelessly myolved. General Hart’s most imporitant testi- mony was in regard to severai conversa- tions he had with Richard 8. McDonald He had questioned Mr. McDonald as The defendant had explained Later he found that it would require $6000 more, and he drew that. “Isaid it was not right to punish the | bank here to settle balances in New York,"” said Mr. Hart. I asked him if he didn’t consider that he had defrauded the Califor- nia depositors. “‘He said that he had objected to taking the $3000 at first, but later had yielded. He had then, he said, agreed to the draw- ing of the $6000 as well.”” Mr. Hart testified that he had talked the | second time with the deferdant about the | checks the morning after the newspapers | announced that Frank V. McDonald's | trunk had been robbed of $15,000 on its “Dick” McDonald was brought into Judge Bahrs' court yesterday morning to answer to the charge of embezzlement in taking §20,000 out of the Pacific Bank funds after it had closed on June 22, 1893, although he knew that the institution could not open its doors the next morning. The prosecution succeeded in introducing all its testimon n was over. b-day at 10 o’clock. His year's sojourn at the County Jail has The defense opens aged more g ! cies.’ way to the East. The witness declared he had made no threats to get McDonald to talk to him on the matter. asked him: ‘Have you heard the 2 new: “He saia: ‘About Frank’s losing his 9 trur 1 said, ‘Yes,” and wanted to know why he wanted to carry that much cash in the bottom of an old trunk, and why, if he was going to take money East, he hadn’t | bought drafts instead of packing a lot of | comn. “He answered: ‘Well, you know, we had to have a little money for emergen- Then he added, smiling, ‘And we has the savor of patronage, which its inde- pendence and real attainment forbids. Each of these young artists seems to have gone her own way to gather the beauty, best loved withal, and over all broods an atmosphere of syln_nnth{ fitted to a pleasant agreement that makes the congregate work a mosaic of many fine things—so fine, indeed, and so do youth and hope and strencth dominate it, that it were difficult to discriminate amidst the personality reserved and so well sustained. Miss Helen Hyde has several pieces, those in which the Rembrandtesque of light and shadow are the values, the deep rich tones of a torrid warmth and purple-like complexity so deftly handled, taking on the semblance of matured work- manstip in the surety, the dowager-like repose 1n which she leans upon her ait experience, and so determines her at once to the high realm and to a place within the temple; dispute closes its lips while the eye feasts on a luxury of masterly col- oring. - The sweet home woman in her picture called *“Happy Thoughts’’ is a satisfying glimpse of the sacredness of domesticity, of the beauty of wifely work. Her well- poised figure betokens strength for troub- lous times and what George Eliot would call the ‘‘happy balance” of a mind at- tuned to duties of daily life. The beaming countenance, so moist and wholesome in its suffusion of pleasant thoughts—is it the home-coming husband or some pretty freak of the sleeping children inweaving the fine thread of recollection with the swift strokes of the busy needle? The lady in the “Fairy Tale'” has all the delicate hauteur of high breeding and gracious con- descension as when lately seen at Vickery’s. Miss Hyde's fine accomnlish- R. H. McDONALD JR. AND HIS ATTORNEY, CARRCLL COOK. {Sketched in court yesterday by a “Call” artist.] gaunt, and lines of worry seam his face | had some purchases to maxe, you know.’” | ment, her finish of subject, is in these paint- and are stamped indelibly on his forehead, He was attended in court yesterday by his pretty blonde wife. Shesat beside him during the entire proceedings. Most of the time he neld her hand in s, and | would turn ev ittle while to whisper | anxionsly or i McDonald was accompanied These two, with Attorney Ca were the only ones who sat with McDon- | ald, although he haa several friends among the spectators who came up to talk with him before he was returned to his prison quarters. ? ; Prejudice against the prisoner, against the McDonald family and against the Pacific Bank caused some delay in getting a jury. Nearly fifty men had to be ex- amined before twelve satisfactory to_both sides were obtained. They were J. Egan, T. O'Neil, I. Moore . Wiseman, | 8. Tripp, W. Steele, E. 8. Rosenblat, J. J. Pastine, M. ¥ Dillman ana C. Kostering. Assistant District Attorney Walter 8. | Hinkle conducted the prosecution without assistance. Carroll Cook appeared for McDonald. | The prosecution was unable to get hold of $6000 of the $20.00 Mr. McDonald is accused of embezzling. They expected to | have Louis Vescari, then teller of the Pacific Bank, testify that he had taken the | money for R. H. McDonald Jr. late on the | afternoon of June 1893, depositinz in its | stead his personal “'I. O. U.” for the same. This Mr. Vescari denied yesterday and the prosecution will be forced to rely on the two checks for §8000 and $6000 respectively, which Frank V. McDonald cashed to get coin to take to New York with him. F. E. Atkinson, the Grand Jury’s expert accountant who occupied the same posi- tion in 1893, testified that he had found the two checks drawn by Frank V. McDonald for $8000 and_$6000. They were in Dr. Mc- Donald’s private office, in a large book containing the doctor’s private papers, which he had discovered in a trunk. Cap- | tain McDonald was with him at the time they were found. W. 8. Boddy told of getting the money. He was_collector for the bank. He had | been called into the bank office by Frank | V. McDonald on tne afternoon of June | 22, 1893, and given the office check for §6000, with instructions to cash it. This was between 3 and 3:30 o'clock, and was | after the bank had closed and the tellers had finished their work. | After many objections by Mr. Cook. who | claimed that such testimony did notin any way tend to support the allegations of | the incictment, Mr. Boddy was allowed to say that he had brought the $6000, mostly | in gold, to Frank V. McDonald in a sack ang had given the check to the paying- [ teller. About a half-hour later, which was some time after 4 o’clotk, he was, he said. given a second check for $8000, for which he brought another sack of gold and paper into Mr. McDonald’s private office. Only Frank V. McDonald was there at the time, and the witness did not know what he did with the money. In cross-examination Mr. Cook brought out that R. H. McDonald Sr., on whose account the checks were drawn, had _more than $14,000 on deposit at the time. Frank V. McDouald was the cashier and as such frequently took cash from one part of the | bank to another. He also testified in re- sponse tv & questioning juror that checks were often cashed after business hours asa special accommedation to customers. ‘W. H. H. Hart, who was Attorney-Gen- eral of the State at the time the Pacific Benk failed, was put on the stand. He was questioned by Mr. Hinkle as to the condition of the assets at the time of the last examination of the bank by the Com- missioners. Mr. Hinkle explained'that his desire was to show that when Mr. Mo—l rby Gately, G. | Mr. Hart said the d whether I e took He had On cross-examinati defenda had not the moncy for his own use or not. had explained the his way by sayins ““When Frank’s here, he’s boss, know, and when he’s away I'm boss.’ “When he said he had to_have money fact that Frank had had you for purchases, he referred to drafts, did he.| not?” asked Mr. Cook. The witness supposed he might have, | and said : ““I asked if he did not know when the mouey was drawn that the doors would not open the next morning. He replied that he thought up to the last moment that the bank would get help, and added: ‘If we made a mistake, I can’t help it.’ ”’ *‘Well, that’s our case,” said Mr. Hinkle, as the witness stepped down. Mr. Cook here informed the court that he considered there was no case against his client and asked for a nonsunit. Judge Bahrs did not agree with him, and a recess was taken till 10 o’clock this morninz, when Mr. Cook will produce his witnesses. SKETCH CLUB'S EXHIBITS Invitations Are Out for a Sale Display to Be Held This Week. The Work of the Members Is Highly Commended by Art Critics. The Sketch Club have sent out their invitations for their sale exhibit to be held | this week at their rooms, and meny who | missed seeing the good work of the club during their semi-annual display a week or so ago can now avail themselves and find much pleasure in their visit. The re- ception given lately by the members was something more than a vapid pink, a blue or chrysanthemum affair. It was a crowd of beautiful cultured women and men who | have already made their mark, or whose steps are on the ascent, bringing with them their tribute of generous and appreciative greeting to this occasion of fair devotees. It 1s a strong, young art world, this Cali- | fornia—a Goliath of future promise. In | the work exhibited, one is sensible of a | pristine vigor, a vitality of primitive power, toned and harmonized to the so- phistication which makes tte cuit the finesse of good work. It has in- trinsic truth and beauty in the sure but delicate stroke-shades as fine as the shadow of a Damascus blade, clear-cut and incisive—a brush work indi- cating well the intelligence in forming many of the pictures. eep in mind I am speaking of the stanch young work and not weighing it in the balance of yearsand experience and with not so much as a whisper about the old masters or master- pieces. Itis the venturing han dreacning out fearlessly to its chosen subject, throw- ing it upon the canvas—earth and sky, light or dark—with the boldness of that true simplicity which bespeaks native idea and strong individuality, thus dis- tinguishing each aspirant one from the other and pointing a long future-finger to something very nearly akin to greatness. Indeed, the exhibit is'most excellent. This term excellent is sincere, for commendable it was to settle balances, though, and | | | and good work. her poetry, her tender pathos, her ice of something deeper, isin other work, which, critically speaking, may not be such consummate skill, but it lays bare the heart’s finest fiber of feeling, a grief, a tragedy, a pathos not to be impeached nor brought to the crucial inquisition of cold criticism, but it is the test which puts its finger on the pulse of humanity. No. 22 in the catalogue is a *‘sketch’” by M. Isabel Morrison. The brown Lills in close perspective give a rest- fuiness to the scene, where the clump of green trees refresh the sight by n back glance 1o some familiar and well-beloved spot, chastened to memory, all the purer b’y contrast 1o the hurried city panorama of restless life. Oh. to be under the trees; to feel again the swaying shadow of green branches fan the tired brow! It isof no avail to appeal to technique to calm the emotions; it is always and forever what a picture makes us feel. This climax of sentiment reached, there need be no quar- rel about tones and values, for the artist has created something suflicient unto itself. Iam making no question of art for art’s sake, nor the claims of beauty. Beauty beseeches the senses, and is so relative a quantity that it is not wise to in- sist upon a standard. “Study of a Head,” by Genevive Rixford Sargent, is a strong “Redwoods,” by Marie Ray Sander, is a delicious bit of forest in its primeval, undisturbed silence. How holy and grand is undesecrated nature! Both the “Study” and *‘Sketch” (Nos. 30 and 36) are strong in true artistic in- stinct, which is insight. The artist grasps the characteristic and individualizes her work with a strength of touch and a sin- cerity of color which gives it that living quality which is the essence of tigure painting, the thing which gives per- manence to it as art. One recalls the work ot Marie Bashkirtseff, and be this my true praise to Miss Elizabeth Chandler’s task, well done and well deserved. Another “Sketch,”” by Miss Lou Wall, has great purpose and possesses a real interest, be- s1des having truth of touch. “A Hot Day in the Hayfield” is well treated. One feels the deadly calm of sultriness; there is not a ripple, a tremble -of leaf or living thing in the hot air, only over all the scene the insistence of midsummer intensity. In the “Study of Oaks” there is a tender truth of shadow. There are so many my hurried article must for lack of time over- look, and still they as well deserve the mention I may be able to give at another t;me, and so to conclude with the legend that “Art should Interest by the true, “To iluminate the intelligence; 2Move by the beautiful to regenerate life, Persuade by the good to perfect the heart.” ANNA C. STEPHENS. ——————— Brooks, the Detective and the Pistol. F. W. Brooks, the man followed by a private detective in the employ of his wife and his brother-in-law, denies the truth of many of the assertions made in the account published re- garding his arrest Tuesday on a charge of threatening to shoot the detective. He asserts that he is not a collector for any window company at a salary of 30 a month nor that he has deskroom inan office in the Spreckeis building, but that he is manager of the Merchants' Sign and Window Cleaning Comvany and rents the whole office in his own name. Fufther, he adds that he has no tyve- writerin hisoffice and never had and never intends to have ane and_that he does not pay 1 & day for his meals, but boards by the month. He denies that he ever received a dollar from his wife and declares that he sup- ports his own ebildren. It was the acts of the detective and not what he might reportof his observations,so he says, that caused him to tell the detective to stop following him or he would live to regret it and he admits that he took his desk as he spoke, P " ®TPUY pistol on Although Trail Creek, B. C., is said to be no place for a poor man it is reported that one miner made $20.000 this year by locating claims and seiling them at prices ranging from $500 to $1500, according to surface showing. It is stated that L. H. Newton of San Francisco and Mr. Gray of Oakland have bonded for §40,000 the Loyal Lead mine, near Drytown, Amador County. The mines of Nevada County sent a ship- ment of seventy-five tons of sulphurets to Colfgx the other day, most of which went to the Selby works, though some was shipped to the smeiter at Everett, Wash. Owing to the sudden rise of water in September not as much money as usual has been taken out of the river mines of Butte County this season. ~ About sixty tons of travertine have been sent to this City recently from the traver- tine quarries near Bridgeport, Mono Coun- ty. This substance will probably displace the Egyptian marble now largely used in the interiors of fine buildings. There is an abundance at the Mono County quarries. The Bellwether mine, belonging to 8. W. Bright and on the east vein of the mother lode near Jackson. Amador County, has been bonded to George W. Brown for $110,000. The owner is to be paid $500 per montn until the money for the purchase is paid. The bonders take charge of the proEertv on January 2. The Black Hawk gravel mine, north of the Mayflower, above Forest Hill, Piacer County, and owned by the Wallace estate and W. A. Freeman, has been bonded to Dr. Brewer and other San Francisco men. The bond is for eighteen months with the Erivilege of purchase for $40,000, and $6000 as been put up for development work. Work is progressing rapidly on the Union Pass mines, Arizona, and rich spec- imens of gold rock are being taken out. The Kingman Miner says that there are thousands of mines in Mohave County, Ariz., that can be made to pay right aiong under a good mine management, and a small amount of capital is needed to put them in shape. Thougb the mines at Cooks Inlet, Alaska, are only now beginning to be worked, the presence of gold there was indicated as long as fifty years ago by Dorvshin, a Russian mining engineer. Wiltiam Bybee has leased his Josephine mine on Rogue River, Or., to J. M. Under- wood of Indianapolis, the lease being un- der contract for sale. N. A. Stevens of the Illinos Valley country, Or., has eighteen miles of mining ditch now finished, and expects that min- ing operations there wiil be very active this winter. The Oregon Mining Journal is authority for the statement that the pocket mines of Oregon have yielded over $1,000,000 during the past thirty years. The Breece & Wheeler mine at Bath, Placer County, is employing twenty men. The Evening Star is the name of a river claim recently located near Colfax, Placer County, by several Sacramento railroad men. They have located a portion of the American River from a short distance above Shirt Tail Canyon to a point above Indian Canyon. The old Panamint region, Inyo County, is beginning to revive again under the in- fluences of recent discoveries. At the Altoona mine, Trinity County, there are 95 men at work, and the mine will run steadily all winter. New and heavier machinery is being put in. The Amador Ledger saysthatthe Cram Bros., ship-builders, are heavily in(erestes in the Philadelphia reduction works, and in certain processes for treating sulphurets, and that their representatives are now en- gaged in making tests and chemical analyses of the ledge matter for several miles on either side of the Cosumnes River, and have under consideration the consolidation of a large number of claims at this_point, the erection of a vast num- ber of batteries—probably 1000 to begin with, and possibly 2000—and the erection and installation of reduction works. The mines at Funtee Bay, Admiralty Isiand, Alaska, seem to be coming to the front in a very satisfactory mannper. A number of rich strikes were made on }hlel Beaver's Bay section of Alaska this all. The largest nugget taken out this season in the Yukon region, Alaska, was from Robert Wesley’s claim on Glacier Creek. It weighed $234. Circie City is expected to be the big camp of ghe Yukon country, Alaska, next summer. There are some 200 houses there now. Bohemian Mining District, in Lane County, Or., has two quartz mills in opera- tion. The three most prominent names are the Musee, Annie and the Champion. The oresin the camp are high grade. A g(emd road is needed before the camp can developed properly. Fred Ward of lg:nus City has organized acompany and will immediately erect a ten-stamp mill on the site of the old O. K. mill recently destroyed by fire in Gold Basin, Ariz. W. H. Miler has s rich_ledge on Soldier Creek, Or., not far trom the filinoh River and twenty miles west of Kirby, from which he poundsout ina hand mortar from $10to $12 per day. He lives alone, works the mine himselfand is not both- ered with a mill or a stock company or anything else, The ore in the Iron Mountain mine, Shasta County, is said to carry 30 per cent copper and $11 gold per ton. The ore body is very large. . The ground at Skull Valley, Utah, is be- ing rapidly taken up by prospectors and there is a sort of boom in the district. The Jerome Creek mines, not far from Pn;?use City, Wash., are showing up very well. The famous old Peck mine on the Brad- shaw mountain, Arizona, formerly a large producer, has been lying idle, filled with water, for years, It is now under bond and has been pumped out by A. Falco, Wwho has twenty-one men at work on a narrow streak of very rich ore. Since the discovery of telluride ores in the Long Lake camp, B. C., there has been considerable excitement in that section. The values placed upon prospects have also greatly increased in the camp. Placer mining on Reeds Creek, Idaho, will be carried on extensively next spring by a party of Tacoma ecapitalists, who have recently been hauling iron for hy- draulic pipe to the ground. Some of the claim-jumpers at Rossland, B. C., have been sent to jail. The citizens themselves will prosecute claim-jumpers in the tuture. The Golden Mound claims, Ellsworth District, eight miles west of Harqua Hala, Arnz., are yielding twenty-five tons of ore a day with eight men at work. A ten- stamp mill with Frue vanners is to be put up this winter. The machinery for the new forty-stamp mill of the Merced Mining Gompany, Coulterville, bl Mariposa County, is arriving | wi daily and work on the mill foundations is being pushed ahead npidlg. The cam;) of Mercur, Utah, has now progressed far enough to need a bank, and one has been established. Silver Reef, the sandstone silver camp of Utah, was at cne time very prosperous, but has been under a cloud some years. The arbee & Walker mill is now being worked on a two weeks’ test run on a new process by parties who are trying to see if they c¢'n work at a profit. " Should this prove to be the case renewed activity may be looked for 1n that section. % : General Penrose has taken up his option on the Gold Dust firoup, consisting of thirteen claims in Mercur Camp, Utah, and work will now be prosecuted on an extensive scale. D The Gold King group of mines in Dixie minling district, Idaho, is to have a new mill. A. Elger of Fresno has purchased the Yellow Jacket mine at Oak Bar, Siskiyou County. X The property of the Oregon Gold Mining Company at Cornucopia, Union County, Oregon, which has been valued as high as $500,000, was bid in at Sheriff’s sale the other day for $9000. Foots Creek, which is twelve miles up Rogue River from Grants Pass, Or., is at- tracting considerable attention on account of the richness of its mines. Americans are taking the lead in devel- oping the mining properties in British Columbia, but the Englishmen will come along after a time and buy the mines—at a good profit to the Americans, The ore shipped to smelters from South- ern Kootenay during the year amounts to 26,678 tons, valued at $2,076,250. Forty-eight companies have been incor- orated and registered on West Kootenay, E. C., since last January, the total capi- talization being $35,675,000. There are, of course, a great many mines in operation which have not been incorporated. The Opir and Pay-grit mines in Central District, Nev., have been sold by C. M. Harvey, John Poole and C. S. Wright to C. H. Wilbur of Salt Lake City, the price being $2500. The new owner has also bought a five-stamr mill near White Plains, which he will remove to Central District. The mill just ready to be put in opera- tion at the old Steamboat mine is said to be one of the most complete 1n Southern Oregon. The Prineville (Or.) Review says that New York men have been investing in the Ochoco mines and next spring will put up a plant. ‘ameron & Boaz have sold a large tract of their mining eround near Uniontown, Or., to B. E. Taney and John Hastie of ‘acoma, who will equip it with a first-class hydraulic plant. Five stamps Lave been added to the mill and thirty-five men are at work at the Hammersley mine, Jump-Off-Joe District, Oregon. The Congress mine has the deepest shaft in Arizona, 1415 feet. There are 400 men employed at the mine at $3 and $3 50 per day. The forty-stamp mill runsday and night and rich ore is daily shipped by car- loads to Argentine, Kans. No saloon is allowed on the company’s grounds. The Pres cott Courier says there are wise men who declare that general ore-reduc- tion works will not pay in Prescoit, Ariz. On top of this come reports from outlying districts that mills are running steadily, and yet the milling capacity is inadequate to treat custom ores in the various dis- tricts. There has been considerable activity lately in the placer claims in Fremont County, Wyo., in a district embracing South Pass, Atlantic and Oregon Gulch. The gravel is rich, but the season is short and more water is needed. Some lodes of free gold ore have been found and are being pros- pected. Some bars are being worked at the mouth of Warm Springs Creek, sixteen miles be- low Atlanta, Idaho. From these beds down to North Fork, a distance of twenty-five miles, there has been much activity dur- ing the past season in placer mining. ixlensive‘. prospecting is about to begin at Mercur, Utai, with diamond drills. At the Bullion-Beck mine, Utah, there are said to be about 200,000 tons of ore which accamulated when smelting charges, cost of transportation, etc., ren- dered it impoysible to work it at a profit. This is now being put through the concen- trator at the rate of 200 tons a day ata very good profit, but the force of miners has been materially reduced while the ore is being handled. Another gold find has been made near the town of Mercur, Utah. It is at the foothills of Rush Valley and on the south- west side of Mercur. The ore runs from $4 to $10 per ton. 2 A vast number of Cripple Creek (Colo.) mining companies have recently been formed, the stock of which is being tloated on the market. ‘The camp is very well advertised, so much so in fact that those not familiar with mining matters would suppose it to be almost the only gold re- gion in the country. General Classification of Mineral Lands. It a United States patent issues for agri- cultural lands on which there is a known lode, title to the mineral does not go with the patent. But if the mineral deposits are discovered after the patent has issued, they vass with the patent. When the land becomes individual property the Government loses entire control of 1t, as it can only give the right to mine on public lands. It is for these reasons that the California Miners’ Association and the Northwest Miners’ Association are en- deavoring to vrevent the railroad compa- nies from obtaining patents to any more land on their grants until the land is properly classified, so that the mineral expressly reserved by the Government may ndt be taken up under an agricult- ural patent. Of course the law already provides a method by which a miner may make his individual protest againsta railroad com- pany absorbing his claim, when he knows they are about t@ patent the land. The trouble is he does not always know this, for the advertisements required by law are so published as to convey very little in- formation except to exparts. Moreover, half the miners do not know what town- ship aud section their mine is in. There is no obligation on the part of the railroad company to inform the miner personally or by letter. Ir fact, they might not know even that there was a mine on the land they apply for. By these means numbers of miners have found their claims in- cluded in railroad patents, though they were working them all the time. But this is not the worst evil of the present system. There are large tracts of land yet unpros- pected, but containing mineral, or in a mineral-bearing region, where no indi- vidual has an interest in making a_formal protest, and as a result the railroad appli- cation goes through without opposition and the patent comes, carrying mineral and all. After that, the ‘miner must buy from the company. B It is this feature which the Miners’ As- sociation is trying to stop and endeavoring to have the Government classify the lands in large tracts and set aside that of a min- eral character for the future use of pros- pectors. The railroad companies object to this wholesale classification of lands, as is now being done in Montana and Idaho, and want 2ach tract to stand on its merits before the Land Ofiice, with protest, proof and all the formalities asusual. As stated, however, when noone man has an interest in protesting the whole tract is lost to the mining industry and the Government. The Miners’ Association are endeavoring to act for the great mass of miners, as one would act for himself, but are finding it very uphill work by reason of the strenu- ous objections of the railroad companies. Wwho would rather take their chances against individual protestants in each case than have the general classification so much desired by the miners. CHARLES G. YALE. Casey Was Blameless. The charge of manslaughter against Edward Casey was dismissed by Judge Joachimsen yes- terday on motion of Prosecuting Attorney Dare. Casey is a driver for the Cosmopolitan Hotel, and on November 24, while drivin; a buggy in Golden Gate Park, ran over John Me. a bicyelist, and fatally injured him. The Coroner’s” jury exonerated Casey from ame, and the Prosecuting Attorney ag ith them after hearing the evidence” NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. A LIVE SANTA CLAUS Is in the Toy Department Basement Salesroom of “The Maze” and he gives all good children accompanied by grown persons a silvered cornu= copia filled with candy. This store is open every evening until after Christmas. Holiday Gloves $1.00 and $1.50. The best Gloves ever sold inany known part of the world for the money. Fitted to the hand and guaranteed. Certiticates sold entitling the bearer to Gloves on pre- sentation, if you want to make a present and don’t know the size. Holiday Umbrellas. From $1 25 up, and such you need not be ashamed to present to any one. Extraor- dinary values in Umbrellas. Holiday Handkerchiiefs. Silk Initial,2 5¢; Linen Initial, 25¢c; Fancy Embroidered and Plain White Em- broidered, 10c up to $5; Children’s Handkerchiefs, 25¢c a box; Men’s Handkerchiefs, great value for little money. Holiday Perfumery. The celebrated “LA CIGALE” in elegant bottles, 65c. Evervtody’s perfumes kept here and sold from 25c to $8 a bottle. Atkinson, Pinaud, Lubin, Roger & Gallet, Free- man, etc. Our perfumery sold lower than any store in this city. Silver and White Metal Novelties. Trilby Hearts, Chains, Lockets, Pins, Earrings, Rings, Sterling Silver Pocket Man- icure Sets, Silvered Frames, all sizes, White Metal Ornaments, etc.; Fans, Empire, Feather or Gauze Fans from $1 up; Ce!luloid Novelties from 10¢c up; Silver Belt Buckles and Belts. A thousand articles for useful presents. More Substantial Presents. Never in our existence were we better able to make you presents of elegant mer- chandise for little money, to present to your friends. Dress Goods, Silks, Cloaks, and the more necessary articles of life. i Take a Walk Through and See—See! HOLIDAY HINT No. 15. See other * Hints” in mo:ning and evening papers. We have hundreds of chairs, more or less like the| above, for $2 or more—justa| trifle more than a fair price for the frame alone. Happens this way: We do all our own upholstering and have a lot of remnants of expensive coverings to throw away or put on small chairs. Costs us nothing ; costs you nothing. Clocks IN GOLD FINISHED DELFT CHINA, FRENCH PORCELAIN, ONYX AND GILT, BRONZE, ENAMEL. l l l Do you want your Christ- mas givings to be gobbled up and forgotten ? Or do you want to be remembered for years and years ? H “IDEAL XMAS GIFTS.” OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS. NATHAN, - DOHRMANN & CO., 122-132 SUTTER ST. RIGGS HOUSE, Washinston, ID. C. . The Hotel * Par Excellence Another picture — rocker with embossed sole-leather seat—dreadfully hard to get up from. Like picture, 85.50. Others (different), $3,25. You don’t think we can sell and deliver these small- price things ? Whatdo you Otthe National Capital. mn‘:cg:s“}m appotar suppose we advertise them|" american plan, $3 per dsy and : for ? gpvurd. Carpets . Rugs . Mattings Baja California CALIFORNIA Damiana Bitters FURNITURE COMPANY Sexat and Wrihary orEans. of Dotk scres. enale ereat remedy for diseases of the kidneys and biad- (N. P. Cole & Co.) der. A great Restorative, Invigoratorand Nervine, Sells on its own Merits—no long-winded testi~ ‘monials necessary. NABER, ALFS & BRUNE, Agents, 323 Market St., 8. F.—(send ior Cireay 117-123 Geary Street.