The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 21, 1895, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1895. 11 WOULD INVADE ENGLAND, W. M. McLaughlin Says War Would Cause an Uprising in Ireland. AN ARMY IN TWO WEEKS. Hon. Prank McCoppin Discusses the President’s Message and the Situation. *“As soon as the irish people could get I ere would be an invasion of Eng- id if that country should becorhe em- broiled in a war with the United States,” said W. M. McLaughlin of 224 Langton eet yesterday afternoon. McLaughlin is in a position to know t he is talking about. He visited his i r *home in Ireland two years ago, after an absence of twenty-six years, most of which he had spent in San Francisco. He bas raised a family and accumulated considerable property here, and conse- quently viewed the situation in Irelana from the standpoint of an American, with the advantage of being among friends and feeling there is intensely anti- be said. “The people adore Their sympathies are with this from which they have learned an of the value of personal liberty. iere would be no immediate out- , though. This 1s bec ients have no firearms. Why, the ors to the country, even, are not al- to carry weapons. hould America send a steamer load of arms and ammunition to Ireland the ef- t would be electrical. -I was only in the neighborhood of Londonderry in the lowe fu‘nh of Ireland, but I know there would e o from all over eks an army of a gathering of fighter: eisland. Inside of two v ),000 men could be in re: the ‘Irish Sea and dev great cities Mr. McLaughlin said he woul! boys to the front and enlist hin intry should need his services. nfident that nine out of ten of the citi- ens of Irish birth wo . In thefollowing Hon. Frank M ntelligently discusses the Presi 8 and the critical situation: _The President’s message is, in my opinion, most momentius State paper that has written sin neipation proc! ot_vet digesied by t fully understood s Dearings. made & profound d. Millic sion all over apers whic ey are born in But here i column in an has been read live as long &s the The Tubicon is and th ) cede one hair's breadth from v Were it to do so ifrom that d the United contemplate. It hat wonld of the frontiers ) a new map of t could be £ it T availa- 8 (\‘F‘Oswi nstantinople—to 4 be left to its own 1o one that 1d be dis- to hear end some people talk dent’s great message. It js like talking about pimples ir ence of & lofty mountain or figuring ch has not been ic n the money-bags is m of the 5 it has not been tested gof the Declaration of Independence. sides there were no colossal fortunes in country st that time, and Ame were not then wetching the money ma the world 1o’ sce whether bonds and stocks were up or war of independence was fou v a but 3 was *rag money, this time would be one of prin purely, and would at first godeep into the money-bags of the rich, and for this resson it will be inter- esting- to_observe the course tney will take after the first strong wave of feeling is passed #nd the sober second thought comes home. A nation’s workers—the bone and_sinew of the Jand—the men who wonld take the rifies and &0 10 the front—are Always patriotic,and can be depended upon in time of peril to answer the vugle call to arms. gland at TROUT OR SALMON? A Question in Piscatology Learnedly Discussed in Judge Low’s Court. In Judge Low’s courtroom yesterday afternoon the case of the People vs. A. Paladini, attracted a considerable number of fishpackers and dealers, all of whom manifested the most lively interest in the proceedings. The defendant is accused of having in his possession a number of fish said to be steelhead trout, a denizen of the watery worla which the State Legislature endeavors to protect by law from molesta- tion during its spawning and breeding sea- son. It had been supposed that the case would be tried before a jury, but Attorney T. D. Riordan, representing the waived that privilege. Several witne; were examined before it became clear what the questioners desired to have made Jlain. 1t at length developed that Mr. E:Aurdan intended proving that the fish on exhibition were not steelhead trout, but steelhead satmon. Prosecuting Attorney Madden seemed to copsider the distinction a case of tweedle- dum and tweedledee, and inquired whether §teethead trout if- not cut off in early youth would not develop into steelhead salmon. “‘I], P. Babeock, chief deputy fish com- missioner, testified that he had bought the malodarous fish from Paladini’s fish- stend, but when pressed to give his ac quisition a name showed a rather misty comprehension of the mysteries of pisca- torial nomenclature. 3 In order to bring some light to bear on the subject Professor W.W. Thoburn of Stanford University was called to the stand. He discoursed at length upon steelheads and other members of the finny tribe, but the scholastic language seemed only to render the darkness yet more plainly felt. Still he gave it as his opinion that the fish exhibited was a true, un- doubted steelhead, but whetber trout or salmon he did not clearly state. . Then Secretary Booth of the Sacra- mento ‘River Packing Company tried his hand at elucidating the point at issue, and after many inquisitorial questionings on the part of Messrs. Madden and Rior- use the Irish | defendant, | ! | structed to straighten up their public seriousness, ‘“the steelhead salmon is a miserable fish. Horse flesh. is a dainty co:apared with it. So unpalatable a fish is unworthy of tne law’s protection, and it would be a great sacrifice of dignity on the law's part to protect it.” Judge, lawyers and witnesses debated more or less profoundly on the subject, but no agreement was arrived at, and fur- ther proceedings in the case were post- poned until next Tuesday afternoon. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. Rev. Dr. Dille Tells of the Transactions of the Trustees of the United So- ciety of Detroit. Rev. E. R. Dille, D.D., returned Wednes- day night from the meeting of the trustees of the United Society of Christian En- deavor which was held at the Cadiilac House, Detroit. December 11-13. Thirty of the thirty-four members of the board were present, only Dr. Harper, pres- ident of the Chicago University, Dr. Hen- son of Chicago, Dr. Boynton of Boston, and Hon. John Wanamaker being absent. More than half of the time of the ses- sion was devoted to a “‘retreat,” that is to devotional services, which were of surpass- ing interest and profit. Measures were introduced looking to an enlargement of the board of trustees by making the chief officers of the young peo- ple’s work in each denomination ex-officio members thereof, and also toward giving State, provincial and Territorial unions representatio There is to be at the con- vention in Washington next July a council composed of the presidents of State unions who shall meet and confer with the board of trustees. The report of Dr. Dille as to the pros- pects and préparation for the convention of 97 in San ¥rancisco was received with applause and congratulations by the boarcd. That the great convention which will bring from 15,000 to 20,000 peopie will be held in San Francisco is now believed to be afixed fact. Itis to be regretted that the directors of the Mchanics’ Insti- tute have decided not to build their pa- vilion, as such a structure will be needed i ions of the convention. time ago a joint committee was appointed, consisting of three men from the board of trustees of the United Society of Christian Endeavor and three from the board of control of the Epworth League to confer as to closer fellowship and co- operation between the great organizations, which contain more than 3,500,000 of Chris- tian youth, more than 00,000 in the Endeavor Society ard about 1,000,000 in the Epworth League. The committee consisted of Dr. F. E. ident of the United Society of deavor, Dr. R. Dille and S8 . W. Andrews, representing ian Endeavor; and Bishop. J. N. gerald, Dr. Schoil and Dr. J. F. epresenting the Epworth League. This committee met Saturday, Decem- n Chicago. and had a delightfully rotherly conference last- sor V = Bishop Fitzgeral not able to be present, and his place was taken by Bishop S. M. Mezrill, who presided and led the devotions of the session. The recommendations made by the com- mittee were as foliows, briefly stated: appointment of a joint committee lies to_ prepare common de- topics. The said committee it is hoped le nuclens of a federation of all young th leagues who edopt the to full membership and Christian Endeavor Society 1at 8ll young people’s societies in the t Episcopal church, while expected to nroll in the Epworth League, be allowed to choose their own form of local organization, to enroll in both societies and to fully affiliate with both. The recommendations of the committee, if adopted, it is believed, will be a much closer bond between the two great organi- zations, and will afford a basis of fellow- ship and co-operation which will greatly strengthen the influence and power of the young people’s movement. | STATE PROPERTY WAVTED, The College of Practical Viti- culture After Valuable Reports. | Efforts to Secure the Library, Etc., of a Defunct Commission Are Thwarted. The State Viticultural Commission goes out of existence on the last of this year. According to an act passed by the late Legislature the Commissioners were in- affairs by December 31 and turn over to the Board of Regents of the University of California all of the books, papers, reports, documents and other property belonging to the State. This property is much more valuable than the general public might suppose. There is a library that could not be dupli- cated for many thousand dollars, and some of the rare works npon viticulture and kin- dred subjects cannot be purchased for any money. Thus in the eyes of those familiar with these matters the property of the Viticultural Commission becomes invalua- ble. As may be suspected, there are those who gaze with envious eyes upon these )0ssessions. Foremost of these are the members of dan, managed to place on record his sol- emnly sworn conviction that tbe speci- men of defungt fishy mortality was in very deed and truth a steelhead salmon. Mr. Riordan explained that the law was framed for the protection of steelhead trout, and not steelhead salmon, the last- named creature not being so much as -mentioned in the statute. S “Why,” he remarked, with magisterial | an effort has been made to retain posses- the College of Practical Viticulture, a pri- vate corporation recently incorporated. Its members and officers are mostly those who constitute the practically defunct Viticultural Commission, and none know better than they the value of the property in questio; The object of the College of Practical Viticulture is to carry on the work of the dying State organization. To give up the valuable books to the Board of legents was a matter of so much regret that the idea was almost unbearable, and sion of the same. A few days ago members of the Board of Regents called upon the secretary of the Viucultural Commission and made a for- mal demand for the State’s property, which under the act abolishing the com- mission should be transferred to the con- trol of the Regents. But little satisfaction was received, the excuse being that the property was stored in_the basement ana the secretary had no time to get it out, or | even make an inventory ot what belongs to the State. One more effort was made by the College of Practical Viticulture to obtain the prop- erty in question, and a_ letter was written to the Attorney-General asking if the same could be conveyed to the college. Yesterday Attorney-General Fitzgerald made the following answer, which it is be- | heved will forever settle the question: Board of Stete Viticultural Commissioners, 101 Sansome street, San Francisco, Cal.—Gen- I am in receipt of your letter of recent date asking whether or L0t you can convey books, papers, documents, prifited reports and property belonging to the State to the Col- iege of Practical Viticulture (a private corpora- tion). Iam of the opinion that you have no authority to make such transfer, for the follow- ing reasons: First—No grant or donation of property can be made by the State 10 any corporation, asso- ciation, etc., noi under the' exclusive manage- ment sud control of the State as a State insti- tution. second—Section 3 of the act to repeal certain acts for the promotion of the viticuitural inter- ests of the State and for the transfer of the property of the Viticuliural Commission pro- Vides that 21l property in the possession or under the control of said hoard belonging to the State shall on or before the 31st day of December, 1895, be trausierred by said board o the Regents of the University of California for the further promotion of the viticultural interests of the State. + ———————— CaxpIEs and toys given away by Santa Claus &t the Branch Old I X L, corner of Sixth and Mission streets, south of Market. Neckwear at popular prices » 10 BE ORGAINED TO-DAY, Five Dominican Students Will; Receive| Holy Orders at St. Mary’s. THREE PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS. They Will Celebrate Their First Masses Sunday and Christ. mas Day. Five young men will be ordained priests | of the Catholic church at 8t. Mary’s Cathe- | dial this morning. The ceremonies of | ordination will begin ‘at 7 A. M., when Archbishop Riordan will be present to | administer holy orders to the applicants. | All the five young men about to enter | the priesthood are Californians and mem- bers of the Dominican order. 'They are: | Rev. Pius Driscoll, Rev. Reginald Thomp- i son, Rev. Paul Henry, Rev. Vincent Lamb | | the excursionists. dred of again bolding a social reunion at the Del Monte this vear, in celebration of the new year. Should circumstances war- rant the Southern Pacific announces it will put on a special train to accommodate The train will leave at 2 p. n. the Saturdgy preceding New Year's day and return on the rollow.szlmrsdny, leaying at about 8 P. M. This train will be | put on if no more than 200 reservations are made. In former years as many as 400 have participated in the jaunt to Del Monte. PARK SETTLEMENT PROGRESS. Members of the Associution Say the In- terest in 1t Is Increasing. The South Park College settlement is quietly pursuing its work, and members of the association pronounce the inteiest greater and prospects brighter than at any time in the past. The kitchen garden on- Harrison street, near Fifth, has been incorporated in-the settlement, it having been turned over by its former sponsors, the Buford Free Kin- dergarten Society. he weekly calendar of the settlement is as follows: Monday afternoon—"Happy Singers,” sing- ing for little girls, Miss Fordham. Monday evening—South Park Girls' Club: History section, Miss Peixotto; magazine sec- tion, Miss McLegn ; sewing section, Mrs. Moses, Miss Fitch, Mrs. Littlefield. Tuesday afternoon—*“At home” to mothersot club children, Mrs. Kincaid and Mrs. Scher- merhorn. REV. F. P, DRISCOLL. and Rev. Francis Barragan. Their fam- ilies live here and they have many friends, so it is expected that the cathedral will | be crowded this morning. Rev. Panus Driscoll was born in Lawrence, Mass., Tuly 871, and when 3 years of | age came to San Francisco. He was edu- | cated in the public schools, and at 14| entered the novitiate of the Dominicans at | _ Benicia. The congregation of St. Dom- inic’s Church on Steiner street remember | him as an altar-boy. | Revs. Vincent Lamb and Francis Barra- gan were born and reared in Vallejo, where they attended the public school | until they began their studies for the | priesthood in the same Dominican mon- | astery. = Mr. Thompson is a 8an Franciscan, edu- | cated at 8t. Mary’s College and prevared | at Benicia for holy orders, and Mr. Henry | is a native of Linden, near Stockton, | where he studied under the Brothers of Mary prior to entering the Benicia college. The course at the Domirican monastery | covers eight years' constant stuay tor[ novices who have aiready acquired a knowledge of the classics and E; h branches, 1n those eight years rubrics | and constitution of the Dominican order are first of all taken up, and then apout | two years are given to philosophy and | mathematics, and four or five years more | ta theology, church history, Scripture and | canon Jaw. This exhaustive course has | been passed by the five deacons who are to be ordained to-day. Rev. Mr. Driscoll will celebrate his first mass at St. Dominic’s Church at 10:30 A, M. Sunday. It wiil be a solemn high mass, with Kev. Edmond Harrington, O.P., dea- con, and Rev. Ceslaus Clancy, O.P., sub- deacon. Special music will be rendered on the occasion. Revs. Messrs. Barragan and Lamb will officiate at the altar as priests for the first time Christmas day at | Vallejo; Rev. Mr. Thompson will celebrate his first mass at Benicia Sunday, and Rev. Mr. Henry at the same place Christmas | morning. A RUSH OF TRAVELERS The Southern Pacific Enjoying a Boom in Passenger Traffic. Society People May Celebrate the New Year by a Social Reunion at Del Monte. One of the largest trainloads of pas- sengers that has ever left Portland was that which departed Thursday night for San Francisco. It consisted of fifteen tourist cars and five standard sleepers, carrying 314 second-class and 114 first- class passengers. This great exodus from Portland is said to be due to the desire to take advantage of the existing low rates, which are to be advanced on the 29th inst, to $7 50 for second-class and $15 for first- class passage. Last night’s Portland-bound train was also of unusual proportions, consisting of fifteen tourist and four standard sleepers, About 350 people departed on it, including quite a number of Stanford students, who went home to spend the holidays. The in- creased rates go into effect on trains. leav- ing San Francisco on the 30th. There will therefore be but one more train from San Francisco and one from Portland o whicn the $5 and $10 rates will apply. It is ex- pected that the last cheap trains will break the record for the number of passengers carried on this route. In order to encourage the attendance of City people at the Alameda County Indus- trisl Exposition now being held in Oak- land, the Southern Pacific. Company has agreed to_put on sale tickets in its offices here at the rate of 35 cents each, which price will include transportation and ad- mission tothe exposition, which has proved such a great success that it will be contin- ued all of next week and possibly for two weeks. Y : There is talk among the local four hun- Wednesdry afternoon—“Willing Workers,” sewing, Miss Brown, Miss Sarah 'Coleman; “Little Helpers,” kiichen garden, Miss Frances Coleman. Wednesday evening—Boys’ Club, Miss Hoi- den and Mr. Bestic. Zhursday aiternoon—Buéerd-Library, read- ing, games, etc., Miss Elizabeth Crane, Miss Rambo and others. Thursday evening—Lincoln Boys® Club, Victor O'Brien, Miss Fitch and Mr. Leszynsky. Saturday morning—Kitchen garden and sew- ing, Miss Hooper, Miss Davis, Miss Houghton, 53 Beaver and others, Saturday afternoon (third ifh the month)— sy Bees,’ sewing and reading for young Hamilton and Miss George. r. Holden and Mr. Bestic. The residents are Mrs. M. C. Schermer- horn, resident in charge, at home Friday afternoon; Vietor L. O'Brien, Percy O’ Brien and Mr. Bestic. During the present season lectures are given by Professor Bernard Moses on *City Life and Labor,” by Professor Bacon and " Professor Plehn; also_a course on “Hygiene'’ by Dr. Adelaide Brown. CHPTURED BY A WOMAK A B'urglar Cleverly Run to Earth in a Water-Front Lodg- ing House, He Was Caught Ransacking Rooms in the Wellington House on Jackson Street, Mrs. Mary Lickel, owner of the Welling- ton Lodging-house on the corner of Jack- son and Drumm streets, had an exciting encounter with a burglar yesterday, and in consequence George Johnson is now occupying one of the cells at the Harbor Police station. The latter ransacked seve eral of the rooms before he was discovered. ‘When Mrs. Lickel discovered him she shut the door, and while hanging desperately on to the knob she yelled vigorous!y for the police. When Officer George Hall showed up the burglar surrendered. Mrs. Lickel is a widow, and on several occasions her house has been burglarized. The last time the place was visited all her little son’s best clothes were stolen. This made the mother angry, and when she saw Johnson prowling about the place yester- day she suspected him. After seeing him take some things out of one of the lodger’s rooms and enter another she ran up and closed the door. Then the fight began. Johnson strove to pull the door open, while the widow strove to keep it closed and yelled for help. Find- ing she could not keep him a prisoner, Mrs. Lickel let go her hold and ran for the only means of exit with the thief at her heels. She reached the front door on Jackson street first, and slamming it after her began to yell “Thief! murder! rob- bers!” "N. O'Neill, a jeweler, who lives next door, came to her assistance, and Charles Foster, a boarder, who had been aroused by the noise, descended upon Johnson from the rear. It was then t Officer Hall, who was on his way to his luneh, was notified, and he at once placed the man under arrest on a charge of bur- glary. At the police station Johnson said he nad been employed on the Valley Raii- road and that he had got into the house by mistake. “I have been robbed several times," said Mrs. Lickel, in speakicg about the matter, “and I don’t propose that any one shall get the better of me again. The last time the villaing stole my boy’s best suii of clothes, and I have been waiting to get the money to buy him another one ever since. I wasn’t a_bit afraid of Johnson. T was just determined he should not get away.” ——————— An 014 Suit Dismissed. The suit of Priscilla H. Lincoln et al. against 8. D. Cary et al. has been dismissed by Judge Sanderson. The action was one to quiet tit to the lot on the southeast cornerof Taylor and Vallejo streets and was commenced in 1867. There was never more than & semblance of a prosecution of the Tflnufli and now it has been dismissed for lack of prosccution. The parties now interested are all different from those who were involyed in the was first broughte uit when it Sunday evening—Boys' reading-room, Miss DENTAL STUDENTS WIN. Dr. Dunbar Reinstates Them Without Requiring an Apology. TELLS WHY DR. BOXTON LEFT. The Boys Had Determined to Leave if Required to Ask Pardon of p Dr. Sharp. The members of the junior classof the Dental Coliege, who were suspended last Monday for ‘“‘cutting” a lecture of Dr. Sharp’s course in a body, have won their fight with the faculty and were yesterday reinstated without having to make an apology to the lecturer. On Thursday a notice was posted on the bulletin board asking them to meet Dr. Dunbar, the dean, at 5o’clock yesterday afternoon. They met the dean, who told how Dr. 8harp came to be appointed, asked some easy questions of several members and then asked all who would stand by the laws of the college in future to rise. They all stood up and the dean told them that they could enjoy their holidays free from any thoughts of expulsion. The boys quietly enough went outside and then held a jubilee meeting. The dean had not asked them to apologize and they had won their fight. Thursday a committee was appointed to wait on the faculty at its meeting tbat evening with full power to act for the class, provided that no acreement should be made to apologize. On this point the class was firm and unanimous. The com- mittee was at the Donahue building when the faculty met, but before the meeting the members decided that they would not go before the faculty unless requested. They were not invited to appear, and then decided to wait for developments. Yesterday at noon this was reported to tbe class at a meeting held then. Nearly every member of the class took a hand in the discussion that foliowed. It was decided to meet Dr. Dunbar, but it was unanimously agreed that they would listen to no terms that included an apology to Dr. Sharp. At 5 o'clock Dr. Dunbar, accompanied by Dr. Goddard, met the class in the lec- ture-room. He began by saying that he believed that the class did not under- stand the case at all, and the difficulty all arose out of pure misunderstanding.” He then went on to say that when Dr. Box- ton left the school had been losing money in the mechanical department. They had asked Dr. Boxton to stay, but be had refused unless he was paid a salary of $200 2 month *o recoup him for his loss of time. Dr. Goddard had propesed Dr. Sharp, *‘but I did not want him to accept because he was working in my office, and if he did would have to leave,” he said. However, Dr. Sharp, he said, was a loyal alumnus of the school and did accept. He said that Dr. Sharp had made a good show- ing, but any man would have to be a para- gon to satisfy the present junior class, which had done everything to make it hard for bim from the beginning. The whole trouble, he said, had been caused by two members of the senior class—‘‘one with whiskers and the other old enough to grow then He referred to Husted and Hart, Dr. Dunbar then read three questions which he said he would put to the mem- bers.of the class. These were: ‘““Why did you stay away from Saturday’s lecture?”’ “Iid yon participate in any of the noise?”’ ang. “What objections have you to Dr. Sharp?” Several members were called upon and the answers were very similar. They said that-they had stayed away because it was not proper time for the lecture and be- cause Dr. Sharp had no authority for fix- ing times for lectures. Each ore denied gnrlicipnling in the noise. As to Dr. Sharp, they said that they considered him incompetent, but had no objection to him on personal grounds. After these questions had been asked Dr. Dunbar gave them a severe lecture on college discipline and asked all who would in future obey the rules to stand up. They all rose. ‘‘Hereafter you will sustein the rules of the college,”” he said, as he brought his fist down on the desk. With a little further admonition the students were dis- missed. Howard Club Reorganized. The reorganization of the Howard Club was held Thursaay evening at the Knights of Pythias Hell. The following-named officers for the ensuing term were elected: President, Chris Newman; first vice-president, Fred Frey; second vice-president, Ernest Letcher; third vice-president, Thomas McDermott; re- cording secretary, Thomas F.Graham; finan- cial secretary, D. J. Crowley; treasurer, Fred Egeers; sergea e, John F. Kelly. The following were elected as board of directors: William J. Blattuer, George Bryant, Barney Doughnerty, Frank Cornynn, Thomas Fellows, John J. Griet, Thomas Fleming and Thomas J! Iy, ALLOWED TO LAND. Mexican Immigrants Under a Labor Contract With Jesus Borboa Ac- corded That Privilege. Jesus Borboa arrived from Mazatlan, Mexico, per steamer Willamette on the 17th inst. With his wife and five children he had enjoyed cabin passage. In the steerage was a young woman named Mer- ted Flores and her 12-year-old son, Felice Ochon, and there was also a l4year-oid girl named Maria Casteneda, who Borboa said was his adopted daughter. Deputy Immigration Commissioner De Las Casas reported to Commissioner Strad- ley that the woman and girl were brought here under contract by Borboa to work in a hotel he contemplated starting in this City, and Mr. Stradley refused to allow them to land until the board of special inquiry ascertained whether there was an{ violation of the contract-labor law or not. _The board made an investigation and listened to several conflicting statements, That of the woman was that she had been Bmmlsed $20 per month to go to work in orboa’s hotel when he got it started, and the girl said he had agreed to pay for her services §8. He had paid their pas- sage. Borboa’s statement was that the Wwoman was a domestic employed by him in his hotel in Mazatlan, is still in his em- ploy, and that the girl had been turned over to him by her mother for adoption. The woman’s husband is still_in Mazatlan and the girl’s father Jives in Rozario, Mex. However, Messrs. Presbury, Channing, Hills and Sprague of the board of special inquiry decided that Merced Flores and Maria Casteneda were Jesus Borboa’s per- sonal servants, and on that the board con- cluded they were entitled to land, but Mr. Stradley is not quite satisfied and may take some action to have this decision re- versed. Merced and the girl were penniless. The law provides for deportation of persons who may become public charges. —————— Fighting for the Children. The Wagners were fighting for their children beiore Judge Seawell yesterday. Joseph A. Wagner wished to get possession of the two little boys born of his marriage to Lucinda G. Wagner, from whom he has been diyorced since 1891. He alleged that the mothet was not giving them proper care. She claimed that he owed her a large sum in unpaid ali- mony and that he was under arrest for failure 1o provide, It is to prevent the prosecution of that charge, she says, that the present action is br?ught. The case was taken nnder advise- ment. 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Royal Danish Terra Cotta Ware, The only Ware of the kind for sale on the Coast ‘We wish it thoroughly understood that this sale is what we state, without limit or reserve, and also that it is well worth the attention of people in- terested in Fine Art. H. J. LEUTHOLTZ, Auctioneer. B. M. BIRDSA LL, Proprietor. REFEREEN SALE! AT AUCTION. SATURDAY. Saturday.. December 28, 1895, At 12 o’clock noon, at Salesroom of G. H. UMBSEN & CO,, Auctioneers 14 Montgomery Street. MURPHY-GHAFI’ PROPERTY, Northeast Corner Bush and Sansome Streets. Lot 137:6x137:6, and brick and iron improve- ments. Subject to a lease witn Murphy, Grang & Co., expiring December 31, 1896, for $2200 per month, total monthly rental of property being $3275. GUSTAV H. UMBSEN, Referee. Further particulars please apply to G. H. UMBSEN & CO. Auctioneers, 14 Montgomery street. STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS OF THE UNION CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY F ST. LOU1S, IN THE STATE OF MISSOURT, on the 31st day of December, A. D, 1894, and for the year ending on tha duy, as made to the In- surance Commissioner of the State of California, pursuant to the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Political Code, condensed as per blank fur- nished by the Commissioner. CAPITAL. Amount of Cepital Stock, paid up in Cash...... $250,000 00 ASSETS. Loans on Bond and Mortgage. ......... $172,000 00 Cash Market Value of all Stocks and Bonds owned by Compény ........... 25,000 GO Amount of Loavs secured by pledgeo? . Bonds, Stocks and other marketuble securities as collateral 285,250 00 Cash in Company’s Offi 127 61 Cash in Banks. 28,320 99 Interest due and accrue 2,237 47 Premiums ia due Course of Collection. 177,660 58 Totat Assets.. LIABILITIES. Losses in process of Adjustment or in Suspense. .. Losses resisted, including expenses. ... Gross premiums on Risks running one year or less, $688,236 71; reinsur- ance 50 per cent. ... 344,118 35 All other deman: m- 51352 .$384,122 39 $38,726 85 763 87 Total Liabilittes. INCOME. .$587,317 41 EXPENDITURES. Net amount paid for Losses. Paid_or allowed for Com: -$213,512 50 r Brokerage... . 179,982 34 Paid for ~Salaries, fees and other charges for oflicers, clerks. etc........ 82,833 26 Paid for State, National and loc taxes....... . 12,423 20 All other payments and expenditures. 64,518 06 Total Expenditures.. $503,071 36 Losses Incurred during the year... C. P. ELLERBE, President. 0. K. CLARDY, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 24th ary, 1896, o J\flhhu D. MURRAY, Notary Public. -$258,002 02 | TARPEY & KRIGBAUM, GENERAL AGENTS. 208 Sansome Street, Sam Frameisco, Gll._