The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1895, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1895. evening at its new headquarters, 430 Pine street. Excellent music was provided, and the reception, which was well attended, proved a most ngreeable affair, both for the members and their invited guests. s i T CARPENTERS VICTORIOUS. the Fight on the Vallejo Schoolhouse Job. The carpenters and laborers who went on a strike on Rountree Brothers’ North Vallejo schoolhouse job have won their i point, and have gone back to work. They siruck because the contractors failed to pay promptly, and because they worked | them hours a day. The mat- | ter w ed to the attention of the car- 5 “| penters’ business agent, R. Johnson, Delegation to Be Appointed and Hur- | Laber Commissioner Fitzgerald and the A i | Solano County School Board. Johnson ried on to Washington to Urge told the men to hold out. Fit ald, Necessary Appropriatiens. 70 IMPROVE THE RAVERS, A Great Convention of Super- visors and Delegates From Many Counties. They Win THEY WILL SOON MEET HERE. nine backed by the law making eight hoursa day’s work on all State and county work, took the contractors to task for violating the law, while the School Isoard rounded up the Rountrees for not having the work finisbed on the specihed time. It did not take long for the contractors to see where they stoed and an under- sianding was quickly reached. The car The boards from 11 o of Supervisors and other | the river and the bay | et in this City January 15 | of arousing public interest delegates counties v for the pury in the improvement of the waterways | penters will be paid in l\lll,lh_v'cmnlmx;'tur'-s‘ 3, =4 g e! ers the Schoo! 0ar from San Francisco Bay. A |£iving them orders on 0 Wil be chosan aa0 Y. o | for their money. They will resume work e chosen 0 go om 1ol ., 4 receive all future moneys in the same n, immediately after the big wd last, but t least, it was n and present before Congress in eight hours shall be all that The manner convent agreed t the most effective way the necessity for | the men will be required to iabor. 1T spending some of the Government money | Carpenters regard this as another gratify- in proving the Sacramento and San | I tory, although the job is not very large. Joaquin rivers and their tributaries. Pet- FOND OF PIE AND TURKEY, Abnormal Appetite of Harry Garthside, a Daring Young Burglar. IS ARRESTED BY THE POLICE. Unpleasant Experience of Miss Sarah Gray Carmany, One of His Victims. An important capture of a daring young burglar has been made by the police, and the Chief is congratulating himself that his operations will be stopped for several years to come. His name is Harry Garthside, 20 years of age. Heisa youth of enteel appearance and engaging manners, and is said to be- long to a wealthy family in the interior of the State. He was booked at the City Prison last night on the charges of burglary and carrying concealéd weapons by Detec- ing at the Bohemian Club and looked the picture of rugged health and intellectual animation as he recited incidents ot travel and observation. In the course of an interview he remarked : “Yes, this is my firs: visit to California. My plans to remain 1 San Francisco some ten days were upset by the steamship company taking off the steamer adver- tised to sail January 9, and therefore I must go to-morrow on the steamer China. 1 have had a pleasant trip across_the con- tinent. I tarried some time at Minneap- olis to visit my son-in-law, Sol Smith Rus- sell, but did not get an opportunity to visit Salt Lake. “The newspapers at Minneapolis had a good deal to say about me, and one jour- nal described "'me as wearing blue silk stockings. Now, as a matter of fact,” said Mr. Adams, as he rolled up his pantaloons and displayed his stockings, ““I never wore s:lldk stockings in my life and I am 74 years old. “‘Some of my family think that [ am too old to be traveling around the world alore, but I am making this trip to save my reputation. I have had the reputation of never writing about a country which I had not seen, and that reputation;isin a measure deserved. The only time that I deviated from the rule wasin writing of the Nile, and now 1 propose to visit the Nile ana verify my work. Speaking farther of his travels, Mr. Adams said he had crossed the Atlanuc twenty times, had visited Europe ten times and made several voyages to the South Atlaatic. In reply to the 1uestion as to how many books he had published, the writer-said: “Counting bound volumes of magazines alu Creek, Napa River, Islais Creek und | Alviso Slough. | Such is the result of a long and closeted | conference with the executive committee | of the California river-improvement con- | vention. The meeting was Leld expressly | MEN KAD THE CHUBCHES Presbyterian Ministers Discuss to aiscuss the advis v of calling a | 4 large convention, the Paucity of Men in terday ent upon the subject. The ! the Fold. The Local Methodist Churches ) was not upon the ad- | ed from a ;cncml} difference of opini 4 Will 1 of the committe men expre r opinions very Hold New Year Watch strongly that it is a great blunder to call a | Meetings. convention on such short notice before | the time the delegation must act in Wash- | = ington, but they finally waived all objec- | tions and agreed to support every rt | that might be made to boom the need of | improvements and arouse public interest in the request to be made for California’s | good. { The delegates present were: Senator | William Johnson of Sacramento Count “The Church and Men” was the subject of a paper read by Rev. E Clark at the meeting of the Presbyterian Ministerial Association yesierday morning. The speaker quoted Dr. Clark’s s cs to prove that women form the majority of the churchgoers in this count nd’that ge one-third of the con- of Yolo, H. H. Rose of | sre ; 2. A. Denicke of San Francisco, | ‘“May we not see in this the canse of Wiltiam P. E Sonoma, L. P.| much of the dishonesty in business? There Farmer of Sutt I T. 8 re religious hypocrites, but I believe they 1 of titute a very smali percentage of the of Shasta, and W. whole number. The ballot is practically {in unchristian hands, and the fact that { we mus: have civic federation 1G Chris- ian organizations to enforce the laws nd George Ohlever, at large. Drees of Petaluma and W. ra were ad ed E. Cooper of Santa C E. | P eful s » members of the executive committee. z:‘ = well o ;!r hlm]thllul J&""milyf' Rew ark urged manly preaching as one means ol pt, thefarenoon wagoon ;'”.““ of attracting to church, and con- an inquiry into the financial condition of | ¢lyged by saying, “If we solved the prob- the nd ex-Senator William | Jem o: getting men to_church, we shouid John to make a detailed | solve many of the xocial and political prob- nces from the in- f the committee down to the pre- | Nation. in discussing the paper Rev. Mr. Bevier advocated insututional churches, with Johnson also reported h ate to the Trans-Mi a No- that he had presented iprovement of Califor- s for church nember many men. . Alexander said: man in the pulpit there will be men in vember the mat e bors and that every | i ‘pews. Wherever there is a namby- introduced by him had been | pamby Miss Nancy in the pulpit, all the He had talked | old ds in the country will be in the impress the other delegates with | pews.” Dr. Ketchum de any attempts ying to § se ungod. to get them to church, and Dr. Minton d he did not believe in rches with imming-tanks and gymnasiums. often driven away from churches by seeing the pastor aiming to please them. Ihe thing is,” he said, “to preach the Gospel str: | _ Previous to the reading of the paper Dr. Minton and Dr. Bevier reported that the Thet the California River Improve- | mass-mee to_protest against outrages be and is hereby called to | in Armen ims of Sacramento and San Joaquin and Petaluma Creek to Govern- | g executive sess s the jorma- tion of the following resolution, which will be sent to the counties immediately con- | cern Congregational Club. Rev. C. A. Clark, who has just returned from eight years' missionary work in Japan, addressed the Congregational Mon- day Club yesterd He Alameda, , Tehama, drew attention to the size of the and showed by the aid of a map work of the American board had extended from the norih to the south of the country. The speaker stated that Japan now supports :orty Christian newspapers, and he explained how the Japanese churches had during the last year made their declaration ot indepen- dence of foreign missionary effort. 15 se- above of Santa lected by the board of the count named, and of the Board of Trus! kland, Stockton. Petalum; the gradual Cafifornia River Improvement Convention and five citizens of each of the above-named cities. i San Francisco secured this conveation. | Sacramento was to have been the meeting piace, but E. A. Denicke moved to amend the resolution by substituting this City for Sacramento. His principal arguments | were that the large City dailies would have a better chance to give more notice tothe sessions, and thatin consequence the State | generally and the East would be more im- pressed with the interest taken in the en- terprise. Johnson was equally ardent for the cap- ital city. Dan McLean spoke for San Francisco, declaring that the metropolis would be the | glons 1he coa most convenient place, ard then Farmer| The foliowing officers were elected for tried to turn the tide back toward the cap- | the coming three months: President, Rev. ital. | E.J. Nelson; vice-president, Rev. Dr. M Chairman A. H. Rose said that this City | £+ Colburn; secretary, Rev. E. M was not interested enough in_ the subject | hIOBTamme committee, Rev. W. 5. *t | Rev. J. E. Henderson, Rev. G. H. Jon's. and should be made to hear more about it. | ““Tiire will be watéh night services at Methodist Preachers. The Methodist preachers’ meeting yes- teraay was chiefly occupied with an- nouncements of the coming watch meet- ings. There will be a series of meetings at Epworth Church. At Howard-street Church Evangelist Curry will preside. son Memoiial will hoid a watch h will open val meetings ornia-street | hold an indoor picnic |on night, and the other | Methodist churches will hold watch meet- 1‘ ilnf')s on Wednesday night. | '1'(.\1z>du3' ion of the Chinese evangelical work Ti Sacramento couid furnish a free ball, as | the Central Methodist Episcopal Church stated, he believed San Francisco could do | (Dr. Dille’s) New Year’s eve, beginning at as much. | 9 o’clock and closinz at midnight. Bishop When the roll was called San Francisco | D- 4, Goodsell, D.D.. LL.D., will preacn won by one vote, the following members | 11%; strmon. ZLhe public generally 1s voting aye: Rose, Denicke, Edwards, Mc- | Gettigan, Roberts, Gleaves, Cooper. An effort will be made to get the Cham- ber of Commerce Hall for the meetings. Should there be as full an attendance as is expecied there wili be over 200 delegates in | town. The business of the convention will be to choose six .or perhaps only three repre- <entative men as a delegation to go to| W It will also elect a new ex- | ecutive committee to succeed the incum-I | —_————— Complains of Street Work, . Sarah Prace filed a protest with the erday against the being done on 3 Noe und Castro. £he states thet any verson who cares to do so can kick holes in the concrete with his shoe. —_—————— Hydraulic Miners. Atthe meeting of the Debris Commission terday permits to operate hydraulic mines were granted to the Flumas Biue Gravel mine Isous Point, Plumas County, Miocene iumes County, and the Quaker Hill Nevada County. Snow Brothers near Placerville were allowed to resume work in their mine. yrnia has sent $297,000,000 to the vernment and only $11,000,000 beew epent on this ate for Govern- | Pickpockets Arrested. ment purposes, smk Mnnl:»r Gleaves. | yames and Fre Hunter, brothers, who here is no area of arable land in the | were arrested at the Chutes on Sunda so great as that drained by the | identifie ht at the City Prison by Mrs rento and San Joaquin rivers. Few | X R‘(‘)‘:“;‘ e e R rh'e“e""d % Pl | her of hi urse containing $2. They were w it, but there is actually more | yooked for peity larceny. ly on the Sacramento River | ———————— 0 than on the whole Mississippi. | A new Decameron hasappeared in Paris, uciness is enormous. The people of | the contributors to which are representa- the State (o not realize it. 'We want them | Em F mm:rh aulrhmis like Mendez aud % 2 | Coppee. wo of them, De Maupassant ppreciate. these things fl"*‘l ‘:C‘{’"e and De Banville, are déad. Everything akened to the m]"fl‘l-!:’_ce of the im- about the book is conducted on the general provements to be asked for. lines of Boccaccio, and it is a lively The executive committce proposes to | Parisian lady, the Marquise Theresa de held its final meeting at 10 o’clock on the | Lionne, who has the story-tellers about 15th, an hour before the session of the con- | h¢r:_ Instead of eecking refuge from a vention wi'l begin | pestilence they are amusing themselves | during wet weather. I uire quick work to bring the b D ae ""‘ll,h;‘,he b;‘:l s :‘;)‘y” TeQuire | «The Melancholy Days Have Come ¥ Tk on th . miik : to d ork at Wasbington, They will | The saddest of the year,” not when sutimn has 10nal capital im- | 877ived, a5 poet Brsaut intimates, but when & fel- m upon their appointment in | 10w ge's bilious. The “sere and yellow lear” is in order to accomplish their purpose before | his complexfon if not in the foliage at that inaus- Congress shall hurry through the end of | picious time. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters will the present session and adjourn. soon discipline his rebeliious liver, and regulate his e — bowels, besides Loning his s:omach and healthfully Serosis Reception. stimulating his kidneys. Malaria, rhenmatism The Sorosis Club held a reception yesterdey | and nervousness are aiso relieved by the Bitters. lems that now perplex the church and the | ““Wherever there | men in order | into the | | Golden Gate s Men | afternoon on “Japan.” | | | | Srom: the rear, and after helping | man | that he held ir muffler over his face and a revolver in his | HARRY GARTHSIDE. [Sketched from life by a “Call’ artist.) tives Bee and Harper and Policemen P. | of which I have been the editor, including Suliivan and W. Burkholder. On the night of Deceraber 21 he broke into the houses of Thomas Bennett. 825 enue; I. Newman, No. 839 Al | M. Fitzgerald, L. Bates, No. the Boys and Girls, better known as Oliver Optic’s Magazine, and Our Little Ones, 1 have published 120 volumes. Yes, I ex- pect to continue the work.” Speaking of Boston and the members of that_literary guild which made the Atlan- 837, and M. Greenblatt, No. 841. s He seems | tic Monthiy so famous, Mr. Adams said to have had an abnormal appetite, for at each of these houses he helped himself to turkey and pie from the pantry. Nothing | of value was missed from any of the resi- | dences except Bennett’s, where Garthside | | were passed. stole $42 1n coin. 2 T AalE ey v | On December 22 Garthside broke into would take place next Monday | the residence of W. C J. armany, i109 He effected an entrance himself | to turkey and pie from the pantry, he went upstairs and into the room where Car- s sister Sarah was asleep. While ransacking the room the noise awoke Miss Carmany. Thinking it was her brother, she asked what he was doing. Franklin street. |, “Keep quiet,” said Garthside, as he fuced her. She observed by the light of a match his hand that he had a silk right hand. She was about to scream for bhelp, when Garthside said: “Keep quiet, now. The police are looking for me and, I don’t propose to be taken alive. If you make the slightest noise I will shoot you.” Then he said, pointing the revolver at her head: “I want that diamond ring that's on your finger.”” She assured him be was mistaken, as she did not havea | diamond ring. He came close up to the Dbed and examined her fingers, satisfying himself that she was telling the truch. Then he went to the burean and helped himself to her jewelry, which was lying on m{; of it. With another warning to her to keep quiet he stole silently out of her room and closed the door after him. Miss Carmany sprang out of her bed and was in the act of raising the window to give an alarm when Garthside opened the door and ad- vancing swiftly to where she was standing vointed the pistol at her head and hissed out: “I've a good mind to kill you. I’Il give you one more chance. If I hear you raising an alarm I will come back to your room and shoot you as I would a dog. So be warned.” This had the desired effect. Garthside after frizhtening the young lady almost to death went into the room of her brother and stole his gold watch and chain. He got away altogether with about $500 worth of articles of jewelry. On Sunday night the officers met Garth- side on Kearn?' street. They placed him under arrest for burglary. }ie protested that they had made a mistake and that he was a reputable young man from the in- terior. His protestations were of no avail and he was taken to the prison. On being searched a silk muffler was found in his pocket corresponding to the one seen over his face by Miss Carmany, and a Smith & Wesson 38-caliber revolve The diamond 1ing belonging to Miss Carmany was on his finger. He was placed in the ‘‘tanks’ till the officers had an opportunity of locating his room. Yesterday they were successful. It was in a lodging-house on Murket street and on searching it nearly all the jewelry stolen from Carmany’s house was found in it. When arrested Garthside said he was 20 years of age. When booked last night he rzave his age as 21or 22. He says he came ~here four or five weeks ago and- was until recently a brakeman on the Yuma division of the Southern Pacific Railroad.. o[LIVER OPTC" N TOW, Sails To-Day for the Orient on a Trip Around the World. The Writer of Delightful Stories of Travel Speaks of American Humorists. William T. Adams (Oliver Optic) of Boston, arrived in San Francisco last Sat- urday evening on a journey around the world. In the United States and England Oliver Optic’s is a household nam2. For thirty years his stories of travel have de- lighted children and grown people. He was in a cheerful frame of mind last even- | Papyrus Club. | foremost that be frequently met Longfellow at the In its day that club was the quoted literary club of Boston. Ald- rich, Holmes and many otner bright spir- its met there frequently and happy times “The Boston Press Club is a prosperous institution,” remarked the veteran writer, “and it is my good fortune to be a member of it, although in the strict sense of the term I am not a journalist. I wasa mem- ber of the Atheneum, where many bright newspaper men were wont to assembie,” In 1870 Mr. Adams journeved to St. Pétersburg and met _on his travels Judge Devine of San Jose. They kept company for a long time through Russia and Aus- tria and formed a _close friendship. They isited Cracow, Warsaw and Moscow to- gether. In the judgment of ‘‘Oliver Optics” Lieutenant Derby (J hn Phenix) was the humorist of the school. He knew Mr. Derby well, having met the young officer in New York at the close of the Mexican War. Mark Twain, Charles Brown (Artemus Ward), Petroleum V. Nasby, Shillaber (Mrs. Partington), Griswold, the Fat Con- tributor and Orpheus C. Kerr gained their renown as funny writers since Oliver Ontics began writing books to delight and instruct tne little folk and the wise people of the land. Mr. Adams is a remarkably young-look- ing man for his years and anticipates lr:”uCh pleasure from the journey ahead of im. CADETS AT FOOTBALL. Interesting Game to Be Played on New Year's Day. A match game of football w ill be plaved at Central Fark on New Year’s day, com- mencing at 2:30 p. M., between teams from Company A and Company C of the League of the Cross Uadets. This will not be the first occasion on which these two companies have con- tested for supremacy on the football field. On Thanksgiving day iast year a most ex- citing game was played between them, which resulted in a tie. neither side having scored a point. On Admission da; they again met at Schuetzen Park and each scored the same number of points. Consequently the com- ing game 1s looked forward to with the greatest interest by the members and friends of the cadets. The players have been training hard for some time and both sides promise that there will be no tie this time. The teams will line up as follows: Company A. Positions. Rrosman . venter. » -Right guard. McKinley.. } 2 White -Loft guard.. Company C. ..Daly ‘Quarterback . “kight halthack “Left halfback. “Fullback S An Improved Headlight. An ingenious machinist in the Dunsmuir raiiroad shops is credited with having con- structed_an automatic headlight for en- gines. In going around sharpcurves nead- iizhts on'locomotives, being made station- ary, throw the light straight ahead instead of throwing 1t so that it follows the track, where the light should be at all times—a defect now remedied in this new arrange- ment. The headlight is made to hang on two W. Fitzgerald pivots, the iramework that holds the one | on top being fastened to the smokestack and the bottom one to the boiler-head. From the bottom of the headlizht two chains run to the ends of an extending arm, which latter is connected by a rod | that runs to the pilot-wheels’ truck. Thus as the pilot-wheels strike a curve the out- side wheel forges slightly ahead, of course. and this movement works the rod and chain just enough to move the headlight so that the reflection is cast directly on the-| track. 5 —_————— THERE'S no sense paying $1 25 per ounce fo-. sterling silver when you ean buy the same article at Colonel Andrew’s Dizamond Palace, 221 Montgomery street, for 95¢. - American | CAPTAIN-LEES INDIGNANT. If Judge Bahrs’ Decision Stands It Will Hurt the De- partment. DAVIS MADE A CONVENIENCE. Opinion of the Superior Court Known Beforehand and Preparations Made for It. | i The decision of Judge Bahrs releasing" James Gleason, convicted in the Police | Court of having burglar tools in his pos- session, has created much dissatisfaction | in the Police Department. It is argued that if the decision is upheld by the Su- preme Court the prisons and jails of Cali- fornia will be immediately relieved of all sorts of desperate criminals. It may be remarked, however, that such a decision was confidently looked for by Chief Crowley and Captain Lees, and they made preparation for it in the case of Davis, alias Jack Strauss, convicted on a similar charge in Judge Joachimsen’s court on Friday last. From the District Attorney’s office the purport of Judge Bahr’s decision was given to Captain Lees, who immediately determined to find ! another subject to fit the case. Ex-Con- | viet Davis happened along about that | time, and he was immediately pounced | upon as the proper person to make a test | case. The fellow wasarrested and brought | before Judge Joachimson for trial. It re- | sulted in the release of the convict, much | to the chagrin of the Police Department. | They then preferred another charge, | which was heard in Judge Joachimson’s | court on Friday last, resulting in the con- viction of Davis. The case will be ap- | pealed to the Suverior Court, though Cap- tain Lees says he will not be satisfied with | anything less than a Supreme urt de- | cision, and he proposes to exercise every | possible means to secure an opinion from that tribunal. “Judwe Bahrs’ decision does not surprise me in the least,” said Captain Lees yester- through the District Attorney’s oftice how he felt about the matter, and with this in- formation in our possession the only pos- sible thing for us to do was to make an- other arrest, and push it through to the | Supreme Court. Jack Strauss, or Davis as heis better known, was captured about this time, and it was determined to make a test case of this. The first trial resulted in acquittal, but I went to Joachimsen and showed him the fallacy of his reasoning. Then a second charge was placed against Strauss, the hearing of which resulted as | we desired. “It is stated that Judge Joachimsen was | ignorant of the Superior Court decision else he would not have decided against Davis. This is a mistake, for Judge Joachimsen knew all along the opinion of Judge Balrs, but it was not until I bad pointed out the law that he recognized the error of his former ruling. | “It is preposterous to assume for a mo- ment that the police have not the right to arrest a man caught with burglars’ taols | in his possession. I grant that if there | were no corroborative evidence in the shape of past bad character it would be extremely unjust to convict | a man simply because he had these imple- | ments in h's possession, but with a con- victed thief it is different. An honest man is not loaded down with such materinl, and it is only a just supposition that a man ia not carrying such things arouna for his | health, “It is nonsense to apply the Supreme Court decision rendered by Judge Harri- | son on the lottery question as applicable | | to the present issue. The cases are not parallel by any means, and I am surprised that a man of Judge Bahrs’ knowledge of the law—but I had better not talk about | that now. He was doubtless conscien- tious in the decision rendered, though we do not by any means agree with him."" *‘The eriticism made by Captain Lees re- | ‘gurding my decision 1 the case of The People versus James Gleason, who was | | charged and convicted in the Police Court | of having burglar tools in his possession,” said Judee Bahrs last evening, ‘‘was based upon a moral yiew of the situation with- | out regard to an unbiased interpretation of | the law under which he was prosecuted. *‘Gleason was .not prosecuted under the Penal Code of California, it being thought that a conviction could more easily be ob- | tained under section 11 of the General Or- dersof the Board of Supervisors of this City and County, passed to prohibit the | unlawful possession of burglars’ tools, the construction of which ordinance is identi- cal to the oue passed in Los Angeles pro- hibiting the possession of lottery tickets, which has recentlv been declared uncon- | tutional and void by the Supreme Court of this State. 5 “The decision to which I have reference and under which I released Gleason from custody was rendered by the Supreme Court on September 4, 1895, in the case of Wong Hane, who was held in confinement by the Chief of Police of the city of Los Angeles under a warrant of arrest issued by the Police Judge of that city upon a complaint charging him with the violdtion of a city ordinance in that he did willfully and unlawfully have in his possession— such qossession being neitherinnocent nor for a lawful purpose—a certain tool. de- vice and paper used and intended to be used in preparing and drawing a certain Jottery. “The ordinance under- which the com- plaint was made is as follows: The Mayor and Council of the city of Los Angeles do ordan as follows: Section 1. It shail be unlawful for any person to have in his possession, unless it be shown that such pos- session is innocent or for a lawful purpose, any lottery ticket, or any ticket, certificate, paper or instrument, purporting or representing, or understood to be or to represent, any ticket, chance, share or interest in or dependent upon the event of any lottery, or any_tool, instru- ment, stamp or devise, used or “intended to be used in or for contriving, preparing, making, writing, producing, stamping or geiling reeay forsale or distribution any lotiery ticket or tickets. °_Sec. 2. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a_misdemeanor, and upon conviction - thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500 or be imprisoned in the City Jeil for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine or imprisonment. 3 “M. G. Norton, representing Wong Hane, made an application to the Su- vreme Court for a rit of habeas corpus. The court granted the application upon the ground that the ordinance was uncon- stitutional- in that it placed on the one accused of its violation the burden of show- ing the innocence of his possession. ‘‘The ordinance under which Gleason was prosecuted states that it shall be unlawful for any verson to have in his possession any tools of the "description known as burglars’ tools unless it is shown that such possession is innocent or for a lawful | unles: day. “because I krew two weeks ago | el | said purpose, the construction bej identical with the Los Angeles ordinance prohibit- ing the possession of lottery tickets, and as this ordinance places the burden of proof upon the defendant I held as did the Supreme Court that it was unconstftu- tional and void, consequently the prisoner was released from custody.” Payroll Has Not Arrived. There is a general murmur in the Custom- house over the tardiness of the clerks of the Treasury Department. The payroil for Decem- ber should have arrived on the 26th inst., but it did not. The monthly roil amounts to abont $30,000. The cierks had hoped to be able to begin the New Year with their pockets lined with money, but it looks like a case of bitter disappointment. .- The Lamp Exploded. Mrs. Kate Hagerty, 307} Lombard street, went home las: evening under the influence of liquor. She lighted alamp, but as it did not burn to her liking she attempted to blow it out. The lamp exploded and she was severely burned about the neck, body, arms and legs. She was taken to the Receiving Hospital. Dr. Thompson says that although the burns are serious, they are not fatal. RESTAURATEURS COMBINE Will Deal With None Who Settle Under 100 Cents on the Dollar. Original Creamerie Proprietors Say Qther Restaurants Are Pooled Against Them. The restaurant business continues to be full of agitation. The recent failures in that line have led certain leading caterers to take steps for self-protection. The fol- lowingagreement wasin circulation yester- day and subscribed to by the firnis and individuals mentioned in the following: We, the undersizned restaurant-keepers in San Frsncisco, for the welfare of the commu- nity and bencfit to the trade, have come to the conclusion that henceforth we will not deal with or purchase from any firm or dealer that will settle bi for less than their face value mitigating circumstances are proven to the satisiaction of the undersigned. The Wilson Dining Saloon, 114-130 Post street. : The Popular Dining-room, 35 Geary. Vienna Bakery, 112 Grant avenue. New York Kitchen, 733 Market street. Schwartz & Beth’s Louvre, 1 O’Farrell. G. Gal Fourth. ;'hhl‘lc . Haub & Brothers, 17 and 19 Pow- Page & Falch, Turk and Mason. Charle: inkand, Cafe Zinkand. R.J. T e Good Fellows' Grotto. John Fey arket. Swain Bro 3 Sutter. Vienna Model Bakery, R. Beck & Co. N. N. Young, 225 Keerny. P. Priet & Co., Marchand’s, 117 Grant avenue. Ladagnour & Levy, Maison Riche. AVilliam Bogen, Louvre. €. J. Larsen, Tivoii Cafe. J. Jacobsen & Petersen, Maison Doree. E. H. Ludwig & Co., Caterers, 1206 Sutter. Frank W. Marston, one of the proprie- tors of the Original Creamerie, stated y terday that “Young & Weisman, run the Creamerie at 725 Market street, oppasite Grant avenue, have no interest whatever in the Oricinal Creamerie,” and that they sold ont that place to Marston and Davis ih 1894. “The troubles of the New Creamerie,” Mr. Marston, ‘“affected us only slightly. Our creditors, as soon as the New Creamerie’s indebtedness was made kuown, immediately demanded payment and served attachments on our furniture, etc., but we paid as soon as the attach- ments were laid 100 cents to the dollar and now we are square. Two attachinents were levied, and after setthng we consuited our attorney, who told us we had done an unnecessary act, and could have waited until the bills were ue. “Coliector J. J. Rauer told me a day or so0 ago in my own office that he had been offered $1500 by the vroprietors of several restaurants about town if he would close us down. This seems to me to be a very low trick of business jealousy. I also heard that these restau- rants had gone around among the fruit and coffee merchants and butchers saying that if they did not insist on our paying 100 cents on the dollar the restaurants would boycott them. “There is too much money, however, back of both Mr. Davis and myself for us | to be hurt by any methods of that de- seription.” Come and Took through onr store. Reductions everywhere * previous to Stocktaking. 0dd pieces and small lots of goods on | that Bargain Table at half aud even quarter price. Splendid New Year's Gifts—Carving Sets, Table Catlery, Platedware, China— everything for the dinner table and everything at wholesale prices. THAT BIG CHINA STORE— A Quarter of a Block Below Shreve's. WANGENHEIM, STERNHEIMN & CO., 528 and 530 Market St., 27 and 29 Sutter St., BELOW MONTGOMERY rossossssssel NEW TO-DAY. You Must y Try il OU must try Dr. Sanden’s Electric Belt, for don’t you see it is im- possible to get your health in any other way? You who have been doctor- ing, drug- ging, poisoning your poor stom- ach in your efforts to make that worn out organ revive your other weak parts, can’t you see that the trouble is not in your stomach, that you have to try some other way ? : What a ridienlous proposition it is, to be trying to make the stomach give up its vitality to feed other weak organs ? That’s just what you are trying to do, for your drugs never get farther than the stomach, and do they give it strength ? “No, no, no,” the millions of drug-ruined stomachs protest, and you know it yourself. Then what is the right way ? Nature! Electricity!! Prof. Fowler, oracle for millions of health seeking people, says “Electricity is the instrumental- ity of all life.” We know that we would be dead without it, and we will know some day that when we are weak and sick it is the only thing that will revive us. Itis life, or the basis of life. Jup “ spent hundreds of dollars for medicines t@ no good, for lost manhood, . and Dr. Sanden’s ric Belt cured me. G. H. Keyes, 49 orth Thirteenth stre an Jose, C. *‘I took barrels of medicine for Nervous De- bility. Dr.Sanden’s Electric Belt cured me in { three months,” s: Wm. Dawson, 1422 Sutter | street. San Francisco. I sufiered from seminal weakness for years, and spent hundreds of dollars doctoring with- out benefit. Dr. Sanden’s Electric Belt cured me in two months,” says F. B. Galloway, Dens- more, Cal. These are the hardest kind of | facts, and you are false to your own self and false to those who may look to you for an inherit- ance of health if you neglect your chance to be cured. 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ERILLON 33 Rue des Atshices. Parla ue v Sold by alt Druggiste. A 1sxative refreshing fe fruit {ozenge, very agreeable to take. CONSTIPATION Tis emtrhoide; bley 5 l0ss of appetite, gastric Intestiaal troubles aud