The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 4, 1896, Page 11

l 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1896 1 BUILT OF PRECIOUS ORE Count de Toulouse Loutrec Chats of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. » GREAT MINERAL RICHNESS, A Title That Is Not for Sale—Admires Catifornia Women Very Much. People who believe that counts, earls members of the aristocracy are 1 Iymphatic would receive a rude shock to their pet convictions if they met t ed at the Hotel Gailhard on Pine plain M. St. Loutrec of Paris. C t were the descendant of a red horny-handed sons of toil instead b y expect to be than he and is broad and muscular in proportion. His face is very tanned, too, for the Count 1g it for five years while eing that he stands 6 feet 4 e. and if his name and bed in full they would the hotel register. m Siberia on business,’ 1 yesterday afternoon ¢ ’ but if T title were insc two lines ¢ CALL about 1 . The i is being pushed ray I am contractor etween Viad ¢ Amoc fraction le in fact, $100,000. Labor to get con- capitalists went buld coin rers were he Rus- out its s needed, but > v induce- y can take e climate is delightfui. om VI the same in Van- urish, and though we v and February the cold at remi me that ment bhas surveyed a branch of ad irem the River Amoor to Port s open all the year rou n_on that branch in the British Government opposes on tooth and nail, but bah! e heeds that. Altoge In Tonguin I ur French Government, rything there little, cheap scale. { each cent was counted; but in ! ah! itjs splendid. try is rich; gold is to be found aid of glittering crystal “That is what we are ne with along my sec- bits of the rock littered prettily. the pieces to'a an here and he said, ‘That is silver we had it ayed and found that per cent pure silver. It ives you an idea of the mineral wealth of the country when you realize that ore of that richness is being shoveled 1n to make As he v a piec ay I was show line is finished it will take ock. That port is r Japan in three @ ached from v $12. ow I have praised the country, I ts drawbacks,’’ sa ueful tones. iere lacking—we have no women. will tel Count 18 in admiration—tuey ic. If the nnmarried beria they wouid have nin the country, contractors, the mine- their feet, for those there are without a lady gentleman in our sec- has his family; but 1 1z no ladies’ al of their spare time g cards. I do not dois to go to when I get tired of reading ny arms sadly and gaze will never occur r. if T can persuade one of California women to make society, suggested to the Count better lead a “‘personally con- party of ‘‘new women’ pionees land in Siberia, Le replied em- that one woman was about all jual 1o conducting. e in 3, at there might be no heiress in i e10ugh to consummate the bar- i forth a pai . bow- an grace, “I am not for to make enough money ependent. I have not see five years, and it i the beauty of the Califor dazzle me and fill me with the desire to take one of them awav witn but—for sale! Jamais, jamais!”’ 2 his way to Paris In spite tion for the California girl, he i an experienced, hard-headed man ness. As for that same admiration, the unemotional Rudyard Kipling owns to something of the same feeling on landing here aiter a mere voyage across the Pacific, and the Count de Toulose Loutrec ha: been five years without seeing any more attractive women than the peasants of Siby ; _no wonder he worships at the California_girls' shrine. He is a young man and is full of interesting anecdoths about life in Siberia, through which he has traveled extensively. USED A DUMMY STEER, Clever Ruse Adopted by Hunters in Order to Approach a Wild- Duck Pond. There was a meeting of the Fish Com- missioners yesterday. After the routine busin was transacted the Commission- ers began to discuss the Merced cases, where several market-hunters were ar- rested for slaughtering ducks and geess on the plain ponds by the use of guns larger an a twelve-gauge. These hunters have ned cattle. The animals are moved slowly to the ponds, with the hunter hid- behind their large bodies on the land side. When within shooting distance the Lunter merges from his “live blind’* and h more or less slaughter of game. It was suggesied that a good way to stop fuch slaughter with big guns would be to bavea law exacted prohibiting the use of live blinds as well as large guns. *“That would be of no avail,”’ remarked Commissioner Morrison. “Up +in Yolo these words the s, and there is already nt service of steamers, the fare mt de Toulouse Loutrec, who | undred counts, he could not reason- | igger or more muscular | | 2 in Siberia. In spite of | rength M. St. Loutrec of the. most aristocratic |and a petition for the donation of a site | ble ver | | | | County I saw an original idea put into operation by two young hunters. "In that county there are a number of ponds where live blinds are used, and there are quite a number of cattle trained to serve the hunters. There is one pond, however, proaches to the water are soft and boggay, and will not bear up the weight of a vearling steer. ““Thexe two hunters puzzled their brains for several days how they could getup within ‘shooting distance of the ponds where the ducks were very thick. At last hit upon a plan. They took a piece anvas the size of a steer’s'side and with a brush and several pots of mixed paints they painted a brindle and white steer upon the canvas. This they cut out and fastened upon a frame and put a hinge in the neck of their blind. ith this the two started for the pond and walked along the marsh with the blind held between them and the ponds. One of the hunters bobbed the dummy’s head up and down like an ox jeeding, while the other operated the frayed end of an inch rope like an ox switching the flies from its side. When close enough to the game they dropped the blind to the ground and began to blaze away, and great was the slaughter of ducks. Where h a clever substituts an be made for a live blind there is no use in passing laws on that subject.” N HD OF ICURABLES The Board of Supervisors Will Be Asked to Donate a Site. 4 | Plan to Erect a New Building for the | King’s Daughters’ Home for Incurables. The nature and needs of the King’s Daughters’ Home for Incurables, at 217 Frangisco street, will soon be brought to | the avtention of the Board of Supervisors in the form of a statement of its history for the proposed new building. The institution has outgrown its habita- tion, which is crowded and in many re- spects inadequate to the demands upon it. noble work has been done in an un- ostentatious way since the incorporation in 1860. Althouzh the name would indi- cate that all who went therein left hope | behind, such is far from the case. Many have gone forth to lives of usefulness after a few months of the pleasant home atmos- phere and the careful attention for which the home is noted. One young lady who entereu the institution bearing with her a | | certificate pronouncing her case incurable is now earning her own livelihood. Yet the majority of the cases are literally | incurable, and many an old person, friend- o | The 1nstitu er | and the | s to go to St. Petersburg from | d the handsome | one ugh vour streets I turn and | than for | less and hampered by an ailment that | would last as long as life, has found a com- fortable home and companionship for his { remaining years. There are sixty-four inmates at present, and applications are | | filed for nearly 100. on is supported by volun- | tary subscriptions, supplemented by the ' sums paid by such of the inmates or their friends as are able todefray tieir expenses, wholly or in part. Since State aid was withd. ures of the last Legislature, it has required clever financiering to muake both ends meet. 1t is proposed to erect a building to cost | not less than $4¢ commodate at ieast 100. A subscription 115t as been started. Lhe proceeds of the entertainment given by Miss Ida Diserens in October and that recently held b little gurls at the home of Mrs. A formed a neat nucleus for the building fund, and no inconsiderable addition will made by the contribution of 30 cents which will be requested from every King’s Daughter in the State during the year. The vlan of asking such contribution from all the King’s Daughters in the coun- | try, because of the fact that this is the only Home for Incurables under the aus- pices of that organization in the United States, is being considered by the man agers. The officers are: Mrs, J. G. Clark, presi dent; Mrs” E. M. Cofer, vice-presiden Mrs. Richard Brown, recording secreta Mre. J. B. Lowe, financial secretary; | Fred Diserens, treasurer. Mrs. Belie | mon is the efficient matron. The life members are: Mrs. cott, Mrs. Alpheus Bull, Mr. ‘red C Charles Kinsey and Mrs. A. E. Green, ‘The circle membership “Cupertino”’ ever’’ Circie, Lem H. Wagner’'s Sund San Jose; “‘Whatsoever” “Willing Workers” a; ‘‘Helping Hand” Circle, ‘Merry Sunshine” Circle, San Francisco; “Cambria” Circle, Cambria. DIGGING FOR GOLD. Editor Joe McCullough and ex-Gov- | ernor Francis Drawing Down Divi- San Jost school e class, i dends From Inyo Mines. G. T. Rives, superintendent of the Ren- | ard Gold Mining Company of Inyo County, | in which St. Louis men are interested, is | | at the Grand. The property is near Inde- pvendence and but a mile and a half from | the Carson and Colorado Railroad. “We have just completed a new ten- stamp mill, a wire rope suspension tram- way and several buildings,” said Mr. Ri: “A ledge of high-grade ore has been opened and the properiy is paying well now. We have already made several shipments of gold and con City. Our working force varies from fif- teen to twenty men. “Considering that this property was not purchased till May, I think we have made a remarkable showing with it. “Some of the best-known men of St. Louis are interested in the mine. Among them are: Ex-Governor Francis, the mil- lionaire Pierre Choteau, Editor Joseph McCullough of the Globe-Democrat, E. T. Allen, a leading attorney, and Professor W. B. Potter of Washington University, formerly president of the American Insti- tute of Mining Engineers. “Inyo County is new yet as regards mining development, but it has many rich prospects aside from developed mines, and I look for a great deal of development there during the next year or two. The mines we are working are in the Inyo Range, opposite the Sierra Nevadas.” Mr. Ri will be here several days. e MRS. SCANLIN'S CHILDREN. Their Rights as Wards Outlined by Judge Coffey. Judge Coffey has settled the accounts of Mrs. Mary Scanlin as guardian of her minor children, and in doing so has settled a bitter controversy which was waged be- fore him for a long time. Mrs. Scanlin’s account was protested by her son and one of her six daughters, who claimed that all the money which passed thrcu%h her hands had not been accounted for. The ruling of the court, however, sustains the account. Mrs. Scanlin’s chil- dren inherited from their uncle $14,000 worth of property. She managed the estate, and from it paid for the education of her children. The children opposed this, but Judge Coffey holds she g)d right. Mrs. Seanlin was not punctual in making her periodic reports, and the court expressed the belief that if she had reported regularly the trouble would not have happened. ——e————— Steps will soon be taken in Maryland to organize among the women of the States a *‘Mount Vernon Society,”” whose first object will be to perpetuate patriotism and the second to assist in the preservation of Mount Vernon, the old Washington home- stead on the Potomac River. where cattle are of no use, because the ap- | wn, through the economic meas- | and which will ac- | J00STS LOSE THE LINE, |Judge Seawell Decides That the | Railroad’s Bonds Are Legal. FORECLOSURE OF THE DEBTS. The San Mateo Electric Road Must Be Sold to Pay All Expenses. Judze Seawell yesterday decided the suit brought by the bondholders of the San Francisco and San Mateo Railroad against | that corporation, and added another chap- falliug upon all things once tainted with Buckleyism. By this decision the eight miles of double-track electric’ road, running from Market and Steuart streets out among the San Mateo hiils, has passed from the Joosts forever. The San Francisco and San Mateo Rail- road Company was formed with the Joosts and a board of directors, and then the S. 8. (8an Francisco and San Mateo) Construc- tion Company was organized for the pur- pose of doing the work. Like the Pacific Improvement concern of the Central Pa- cific Railroad, it was closely connected with its parent railroad company, and the two labored in perfect harmony. By the contract terms the directors of therailroad company were to deliverto themseives as direetors of the construction company, bonds-in fractional parts proportional to the work completed. But the San Francisco and San Mateo Railroad Company, collectively and indi- vidually, have begun to ieel the pinch of poverty. The Joosis were in aeep water and the others some distance from the shore. The 8. Constraction Com- pany was stringing along the rails and wires, sub-contracts were let on “long | time” and the work was being rushed | through in a careless manner. ‘l Then the railroad directors delivered to | the construction directors bonds from time | used to pay the hard-pressing biils, These | did notinclude the wages of the laborers Torn Works nor other claims yet standin; | against the San Francisco and San Mateo | twin companies.” In course of time the | $1,100,000 had been spread along the eight | miles'of badly built road, between Steuart street and the hills south of the City. | no longer keep cooling their heels in the | anteroom a bold stroke was resolved upon. 'he directors of the San Francisco and San Mateo Railroad Company met and re- solved that the bonds had been prema- turely issued and, consequently, their di | posal by the S Construction Company as pledges was illegal. livered from one board of directors to the other in advance of agreed time and they were not security. | " The $1,100,000 worth of ereditors quickly did something and the California Tule In- | surance and Trust Company, as their trus- tee, began suit for foreclosure in default of payment of interest, and Judge Seawell | yesterday sustained the validity of the bouds. He decided in effect that the S. S. Construction Company was the accredited | agent of the San ¥rancisco and San Mateo former were directed by the latter, and consequently iegal. The court also ordered that as soon as a final decree should be signed the raiiroad should be sold and the vroceeeds applied to defray the cost of the suit; to pay the | expenses of the receiver, Sanford Bennett; | to liguidate the preferred claims against | the road and the payment of the bonds. | Receiver Bennett is 1o file his account in two weeks, when the decree shail be made. | Judge Seawell decided further that the claim of the Risdon Iron Works for $11,000 | was to be regarded as a preferred claim, | with those of the laborers, as it was a bill for supplies used in the construction of the | road. The laborers largely owe it to Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald, who caused their different claims, amounting to from $20 to $200, to be recognized among those d as preferred. )| ¢ | ““It is well known that the proceeds of a consists of “Whatso- | sale of the road will be only & small frac- tion of the imdebtedness,” said an attor- ney interested in the case, “‘and it is prob- able that the principal bondholders will | form a syndicate and operate the line tiil | all claims are p: The road needs ex- tensive repairs and some of the poor work | to be done over; but it is a paying con- cern and only réquires the right kind of management.” % The railroad company will appeal the case to the Supreme Court. WAR IN THE CUCK MARSH, Secretary Lloyd Eaton Says the Maliard Club Will Hold | Its Own. Hopes Expressed That All Present Difficulties Among the Clubs May Be Adjusted. No little interest is manifested in sport- | ing circles regarding the present contro- versy between the Ibis Club and its oppo- nents. TrE CALL has published the par- ticulars of this interesting dispute from time to time. Lioya Eaton, secretary of the Mallard Club, believes that the public ought to pro- test against the doings of the Ibis Club, an organization incorporated under the laws of Colorado. He said: ‘‘Here are three men attempting to establish a system of game preserves all over tue State. They fasten on to lands which are valueless forany | other than hunting purposes and which, as arule, belong to persons or corpora- tions who never pzid a cent for them. Once these clubs get” hold of tracts by paying a ridiculously small, somefimes even nominal, rentai, they try to bar out every one else, even | extent and be composed altogether of marsh land. Before long something will surely be done to prevent this wholesale gobbling up of bird-hunting lands.”” Lloyd Eaton, secretary of the Mallard Ciub, when asked for an’expression of his views, said the facts had been so thor- oughly canvassed that he had little to add. ‘‘However,” he continued, ‘‘you may prohibitions of every kind and nature, our club intends to hold its own. We have never bothered the 1bis veople, but they have bothered us in the most intoler- able fashion. Why, don’t you know, when one of our members staris in shoot- ing anywhere near what they seem to consider their dominions they send some of their keepers over to spoil his shooting ? “Yes, sir,”’ went on Mr. Eaton, warming up with his subject, “‘tue other day { was shooting somewhere beyond the Cordelia Club’s quarters, when one of the Ibis Club’s keepers came to the pond where I was and rowed out to the middle. I told him to get out, that he was spoiling' my shooting. His only answer was to run an oar down into the bottom of the pond and tie his boat to it. Then he lit up a big ipe that was strong enough to drive any- Eod . let alone a duck, far from the place. “When I saw that my game was spoiled ter to the dismai tale of retribution that is | to time, which were sold and the proceeds | | and the price of supplies from the Risdon | | When the importuning creditors could | They had becn de- | Railroad Company and the acts of the | these | though the tracts may measure miles in | put me down as saying that in spite | of the injunctions and proscriptions and | T went over to the other pond where the Ibis men were shooting and started in to shoot with them. They told me to get out. I told them I would go as soon as they would call their dogs off, meaning the keeper. They got a little huffy, and grumbled some, but Wwas game. When I got back to where I had been the keeper was gone, but the ducks were all scared away. “What we are fighting and what we in- tend to fight to a finish,”” said Mr. Eaton in conclusion, *‘isnot the Ibis Club nor any other club in particular, but the false and unjust principle that any club or per- son can be able to get a death-grip upon marsh lands to the exclusion of peaceable hunters who desire only to molest no one and be unmolested in return. The mem- bers of our club are enthusiastic in their conviction that the courts will decide in our favor. Inthe meantime the best course would seem to be the strictest adherence to the rules of courtesy on both sides, with the distinct understanding that our side is going to hold its own.” - Not Driscoll of Steiner Street. In en article announcing that charges would | be preferred against Officer McGrath for Il | treatment of one Dan Driseoll it was inad- vertently stated that the latter resided on Steiner street. The address should have been | Minna stree RUDBELL CONTRADICTS 7 Says the Statement That He and Wise Are at Outs Is False. A Score of Atlanta Fair Actresses and Illegally Landed Chinese Women Located. Depnty Surveyor of the Port Samuel J. Ruddell takes exception to the statement published in these columns yesterday that Collector John H. Wise and himself were at logzerh eads. He said yesterday afternoon that he and the Collector are stiil on the most iriendly terms; that he was a guest of Mr. Wise at the Cosmos Club on New Year’s day, and expects, upon Mr. Wise's return from Fresno, whither the Collector went yesterday, to be dined by the head of the Custom-house again. He added that when | the Collector and himself parted night | before last they were the best of friends. Mr. Ruddell is now domiciled at the California Hotel, having quite awhile back given up his comfortably appointed home | for the convenient apartments of Brigadier- | General Warfield’s hostelry. He dis- claims ever having been the medium of Government secrets leaking out of the Custom-house to favored reporters. That he may have enemies in the Treas- ury Department he does not deny, but he sees no particular reason, he says, why he should have any. One word he has for all that was published about him, and that word is ‘‘false.” The work of Surveyor William D. Eng- ish is so conducted at present that Mr, Ruddell occupies a very responsible posi- tion, and in Mr. English’s absence he is acting Surveyor, the boardingof incoming craft devolving largely upon his trusted subordinate, Ellis A, Holmes. Quite a number of the Atlanta Fair Chinese women and a half dozen Chinese women who have managed to slip through the vigilance of the customs authornities have been located in Chinatown, and it re- mains with the Collector what he will do to stop the laws being violated. Following is a partial list of the Chinese slave women so far found: At Hor Him’s on Baker alley there are three girls, one of whom is an Atlanta Fair actress. At Loh Wong’s, on the second floor op- posite Baker alley, is an actress. Chin Kim, opposite Kim Kop’s store, has an actress domiciied. | Thereis an actress and a girl who was | illegally admitted besides at the City of | Peking den on Jackson street, second floor. | At Wong Luk’s place on Bartlett alley, third floor, are two actresses. There 1s an actress in the den at 1 Bartlett alley. Yee Doon, on Bartlett {ley, has an actress. A so-called actress lives in Wong Song’s custody on- the second floor of the Wong Look house. On the first floor of Wong Fook’s Bartlett alley den is a fair girl. At Ko Gow’s house ic street, second floor, is another. There is one on the second floor at How Geo Kok’s on Ross alley. Upstairs over Sing Sing & Co’s store on Washington street are two girls, one an | Atlanta Fair actress and the other unlaw- fully landed. There is also a fair girl at Lee Sing’s, on Washington aliey.” One lives at Wong Ong’s, on the northwest | corner ot Baker and Sullivan alleys. An unlawfully landed girl is a slave ata den on the north end of Dupont street. At Wong Samn’s house on Washington ! street a girl named Kim Ying is domi- ciled. She is said to have been unlaw- fully landed. There is & woman at Ho Moy’s, upstairs, on the southeast corner | of Sullivan and Baker alleys, who was smuggled into the country. At Leong Sing’s, second floor, corner of Dupont and Pacific streets, there is a girl who is not an Atlanta Fair actress, but is a recent arrival. All these unfortunates, says THE CALL’s informant, have come into the City within the last three months and been assigned to their respective dens. | The information does not come from the | Custom-house. o | ABDUCTION OF SING FONG | The Girl Restored to Her Parents—Her | Abductor Arrested. Sing Fone, 15 years old, daughter of Gee Pon Chung, 712 Commercial street, was { abducted last Monday night by Lee Lang Toy. Diligent inquiry was made by the dis- tressed father to ascertain the place where his daughter was detained, and yesterday he secured a hint that the girl and her ab- ductor were in the basement at 833 Sacra- mento street. Sergeant McManus of the Chinatown squad was called and forcibly entering a back room of the basement found the girl and Lee Lang Toy. There was no furniture in the room. A few boardsand a blanket constituted the outtit. Some food was found, consisting mainly of candy and cake, The girl was restored to her father and her abductor arrested. He gave his age as 30 years, and said that the girl had $160 of his money. The sergeant asked her about the money and she denied having that or any other | sum. The prisoner then asserted ibat she bad a gold watch belonging to him, but she deried all knowledge of the timepiece. ‘When Sergeant McManus took hold of | the girl to lead her away from the base- | ment, Lee Lang Toy used force to detain | her, claiming '.Eul. he had married her, | The sergeant subdued him and’ de- | manded his marriage license, which the abductor could not produce. According to the girl’s statement to her father, she was decoyed or enticed to the basement by Lee Lang Toy. S e e To Install Rev. A. J. Wells. The service of installation of Rev. A. J. Wells as pastor of tne Second Unitarian Church wiil be held at 3 P. M. to-morrow. There will be special services in connection with tie instaliation in the evening at the usual hour, 7:45. The morning service will be omitted. All the Unitarian ministers about the bay will be present and participate in the service. ‘Windsor Castle was built by William the Conqueror. Edward III, who was born there, enlarged and beautified it, built the royal palace and chapel, together with St. George’s Hall and its cha&el. and insti- tuted there the Order of the Garter. Queen Elizabeth added the terrace, faced with free-stone ramparts, like those of a forti- fied city, which is scarcely to be equaled in Europe. . i | | | | | | SOCIETV'S SECOND DANCE Brilliant Cotillon Enjoyed by the Four Hundred at Odd Fellows’ Hall. PRIVATE DINNERS AND TEAS. Bohemian Club High Jinks—Theater Parties—Party for Bur. lingame. ) The second cotillon and third meeting of the Friday Night Club was held last even- ing at Odd Fellows' Hall, Seventh and Market streets, and was quite largely at- tended by the members and strangers within our gates. The hall had its usual pretty decorations, which did not differ in many respects from the Christmas gather- ing. The calcium and electric lights were missed, but the pretty red shades on the gas burners, the hanging Christmas bells and garlands and lovely loopings of white and pink made a pretty picture. The poinsettia among the ferns on the stage showed out most brilliantly. The guests began soon after 9 o’clock to'| arrive and by half after that hour Mr. Greenway started the cotilion with his partner, Miss Romie Wallace, who were assisted in leading by Southard Hoffman Jr. There were about five figures danced, all pretty and familiar ones, and chosen to show off the rich gowns of the ladies. Supper was served at the usual hour, 12 o’clock, after which an hour or two was spent in informal dancing. Among those who took part 1 cotillon were: Miss Ames, Miss Clement, Mrs. Bengon, Miss Gibhons, Miss McBean, Miss Petton, Mrs. Car- medberg, Miss 3 f: ¥ ess, Miss Ro s Van ) 5 Hooper, Miss Jessie Hooper, Miss Clementine Kip, Miss Celia Tobin, Miss Helen Smith, Miss Hanna Williams, Miss Genevieve Gead, Miss Frances Curry, Miss Helen Boss, Miss Komie Wallace, Miss Anne Clark, Miss Jessie Cole- man, Miss Garber, Miss Mai Moody, Miss Ella’ Goodall, Miss Blackmore, Miss Me- Nutt, Miss’ Mary ~ Kip, Miss Bautler, Mrs.” Knizht, Miss Watt, Miss Mai Stubbs, Mss Gertie Forman, Miss Glascock, Mrs. Magee, Miss McKenna, Miss Schneely, Miss Thomas, Miss Hyde, Miss Bertha Smith, Miss Bessie Zane, Miss Carroll, Miss Jarboe, Miss Sarah Colliér, Miss Jutiette Williams, Miss Maraquita Collier, Miss Fanny Crocker, Mrs. Paige, Miss L. Harrington, Miss Graves, Miss Gracie Clark, ss Lelin Burton, Miss Geneviev W. H. Taylor, Miss Rogers, Miss Hobart, Miss Gwin, Miss Patton, Miss Pnuerz Miss Foote, Miss de Noon, Miss Mhoon, Miss Ethel Smith, Rhodes Borden, A.W.J. Bowie, H. A. Beason, Thomes H. Bréeze, E. L. Brayton, Taylor H. Benedict, W. L. Cafrigan, Dr. T. Cerson, L. E. Chenery, L. N. Croxton, Andrew Carrigan, { George T. Cameron, A. W. Clement, C. L. Davis, I. T. Davis, R. M. Duperu, A. 8. Fleming, .de Long, R. M. Eyre, Maxwell Mc- A. McCully, Edwin fee, Tarn McGrew, L. Owen, enry W. Poett, 8. C. Pardee, W. D. Page, Willis Polk, Cutler Paige, Preston, 8. Clark Porter, G. L. Rathbone, A. B. Russell, McP. S. Rutherford, A. o Rogers, H. Rogers, W. R. Smed: berg, Philip W. Tompkins, Benedict H. Taylor, Morton Gibbons, J. B. Grimwood, E. M. Green- way, F. A. Greenwood, W. R. Heath, A. P. in the Young, Mrs. Taylor, Miss Va G, Hayhe, E. T. Houghton, H. M. Holbrook, Southerd Hoffman, Stanley Jackson, J. W. Joyes, D. , Samuel Knight, Harry Knowles, Walter G. Landers, Addison Mizner, Fred E. Magee, Tom Magee, Peter D. Martin, Marion P. Maus, Latham MecMullin, Frank McC. Van Ness, George S. Wheaton, A. P. Wil- lisms, A. G, Wright, EL A. Wilcox. The next meeting of the club will take place on January 17. 1t will be the leap- vear cotillon and will be led by Miss Sallie Maynard, assisted by Miss Hager. All the ladies will wear their hair powdered and possibly the army and navy officers will appear in their uniforms and the members of the Burlingame Club in their red coats. Leap-year rules will be strictly observed. c 2 Mrs. George C. Boardman entertained a number of friends at dinner at her resi- dence on Franklin street on Thursday evening last. The party, including the hoste: numbered twenty, and consisted of Miss Edith McBean, Miss Ripley, Miss Emelie Hager, Miss Alice Hager, Miss Cora Smedberg, Miss Helen Smith, Miss Bertha Smith, Miss Carrie Taylor, Miss Fannie Crocker, Lieutenant F. L. Winn, Captain Marion P. Maus, Dr. George Richardson, A. H. Small, Edward H. Sheldon, Colin M. Smith, Frederick H. Coon, and the sons of the hostess, G. C. Boardman, S. H. Boardman and T. D. Boardman. A few dances were enjoyed after dinner until midnight, when the New Year was ushered in with appro- priate ceremonies. L Mrs. Jennie Catherwood gave a tea on Sun- day evening lastat her home, corner Sutter and Gough streets. Among the guests present were: Mrs. and Mrs. Jerome, Dr. Catherwood, Miss Jenunie Blair, Miss Ethel Smith, Miss Marie Zane, Miss Fannie Loughborough, Frederick R. Webster, Frederick N. Coon, E. T. Messersmith and E. T. Greenway. A pleasant evening wes spent, during which light re- freshments were served. Miss Catherwood and Dr. Catherwood favored with voeal selections. Mrs. Thomas Breeze gave an informal tee at her residence on Sutter street on New Year's day. The Bohemlan Club’s-high jinks (Christmas edition) were periormed on _Saturday evening last in the elub building. George T. Bromley was sire, W. G. Stafiord was Santa Claus, Henry Hyman chiei harper, Harry Dimond was jester and George E. Lyon impersonsted the artist. A number of excellent musical se- lections were rendered. Among the notable ones were the “Christmas Ode,” with full chorus, words by Peter Robertson and music written by Theodore Vo{ ht; “Nazareth,” sun, by J. H. Rickard, and ‘‘Noel,” sung by Fran Cofin. Following the high came the low jinks, over which Harry Dimond presided. Mrs. John H. Jeweti announces that Miss Lillian O’Connell of New York vill on Satur- days, the 11th, 18th and 25th of the present month, give three recitals upon “Social Life in Colonial America.”” The readings will be held &t Mrs. Jewett’s residence, 931 Bush street, at 2°0'clock on the above days. Miss O’Connell will appear in avpropriate costume. Last Friday evening Miss Daisy Van Ness ‘gave a matinee tea at her home, 1312 Taylor street. The guest of honor was Miss Emily Potter, who has been visiting in this City for several months and who will shortly return to her home in Philadelphia. Miss Mai Stubbs gave a lunch party last Tuesday at her home on Pacific avenue in honor of Miss Josephine Blackmore. The decorations for rooms and table were pink, resenting & very dainty appearance. ~Miss tubb’s guests were: Miss Blackmore, Miss Mary Kip, Miss Eva Moody, Miss Mai Moody, Miss Hannah Williams, Miss Juliette Williams, Miss Emily Carolan, Miss Edith McBean, Miss Helen Wagner, Miss Sabin, Miss Anna Field, Miss Helen Boss, Miss Bernie Drown, Miss Ella Morgan, Miss Florence Smith, Miss Ida Gibbons, Miss Daisy Van Ness, Miss Mollie Thomas, Miss Rose Hooper, Miss Jessie Hooper, Miss Frances Curry, Miss Clara Huntington; Miss Gertrude Forman, Miss Emma Butler, Miss Mills, Miss Meabel Houston, Miss Helen Woolworth, Miss Mary Belle Gwin, Miss Erma Graves, Miss Eloise Davis, Mits Bessie Smith, Miss Alice Mastin and Miss Helen Stubbs. Miss Hyde of New York was the recipient of two complimentary teas last Saturday, one by Miss McNutt at her home on California street and the other by Miss Genevieve Goad at her home. A reception was held by the Century Club at their rooms on Sutter street on the afternoon of New Year'sday. it waslargely attended both by the members and their friends. A feature of the affair was the exhibition of posters losned by Edward Bosqui and Wiliiam Doxey. Dur- ing the afternoon a string orchestra rendered cotections and Jight Tefreshments wero soryed. The following ladies comprised the reception committee: Mrs. Henry Gibbons, Mrs. Ramon Wilson, Mrs. Joseph Marks, Miss Isadore Burns, Mrs. E. C. Wright, Mrs. A. Gerberding, Mrs. Barton, Miss Elia Adams, Miss vu-gma Fitch, the Misses Beaver, Miss Agnes Lowry, Miss Isabel Lowry, Miss Elesnor Blggs and Miss Partridge. 3 Last Monday evening Mrs. William M. Gwin chaperoned a large theater party at the Bald- win. The guests were: Miss Mary Belle Gwin, Miss Mamie Thomas, Mies Daisy Van Ness, Miss Etnel Tompkins, Miss Julia Tompkins, Miss Genevieve Goad, Miss Frances Curry, Philip Towmpkins, 8. ardee, Latham McMullin, F. A. Greenwood, ¥rank B. Findley and E. M. Greenway. Charles N. Felton Jr. gave a theater party recently at the California in_honor of Miss Laura McKinstry, who went East on Thurs- day. The others of the party were Mr. Mrs. J. Downey Hervey, Miss Jennie Blair, Miss Kate Clement, J. A. Hart, Frederick R. Webster. After the, Berfnmnnoe the part; drove to the Pelace, where supper was served. Miss MeKinstry was also the guest at another theater party, given by Miss Jennie Blair at the Columbia on Monday evening. The following were Miss Blair's guests: Mr. apd Mrs. J. Downey Harvey, Miss Jessie Coleman, Miss Kate Clement, Miss Ann Clark, Colonel C. F. Crocker, Jerome A. Hart, Frederick R. Webster, James D. Phelan ana C. lton Jr. Supper foilowed at the home of the lostess on Van Ness avenue. The Friday Fortnightly Club will give a dance at Lunt’s Hall, on Friday evening the 10th inst. To-day James D. Phelan will take a party of friends in the Burlingame coach to the Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton, starting from | San Jose at noon. The party will consist of Mr. and Mrs. J. Downey Harvey, Miss McNutt, Miss Ella Goad, C.Osgood Hooker, Joseph D. Grant and W. R. Heath. On February 2 the wedding of Miss Kathryn Jarboe, daughter of Mrs. John R. Jarboe of tiis City, to Jerome Case Bull, associate editor of Munsey’s Magazine of New York, will take place. “The ceremony will be performed in this City. After the wedding they will go to Santa Cruz and will remain there for about & year at the Jarboe cottage, Concha del Mar. Dundon Sues Again. P. F. Dunaon has again appeared in Pacific Bank litigation. This time he is suing for the amount of the dividends psid by the bank since 1887, the toial being $£519,896.° He claims that during the years since' 1881 the bank has not been in & position to legally and | properly pay dividends, and so he wants to | recover the amonnts o paid in order to reim- | burse the depositors, He sues each individual stockholder for his or her share of the divi- dends and also for interest on the same at 7 per cent per annum, GRABBED PRINCIPALITIES, the Northern Pacific Filched Mineral Lands. How Mr. Merrill Will Assist Senator Ford to Frame a Law Governing Our Property. Thomas G. Merrill of Helena, chairman of the Montana State Commission to look after the mineral lands within the North- | ern Pacific grant and see that the railroad | did not grab them, is at the Palace. He has come to conier with Serator | Ford and others of the California Miners’ | Association in regard to the drafting of a law here. The Montana State Commission was|§ formed, so Chairman Merrill said, to e amine and classify the lands, acting in conjunction with the United States Com- missioners appointed by Congress to actin each of the three districts of Montana. Each of these commlssions consists of three men. < 2 One of the districts has Helena for its center, another Missoula and the other Bozeman. Within these three districts, said Chairman Merrill, is the Northern Pacific grant, and within the odd sections there are about 11,- 000,000 acres of land which would be the rail- way's unless found to be mineral, always ex- cepting coal and iron, which of right would go 1o the Toad. We started in in May last, and since then have examined and classified over 11,000,000 acres. The State Commission was appointed to assist the three United States Commissions as far as possible. We are saving large areas of | mineral land, and the combined commissions are doing much good. ‘When I first called attention to the need of a State Commission the Northern Pacific Rail- road had already selected and had cernfied to them for patents from United Siates officials more than 2,000,000 acres of mineral land in which there’ were -thousands of mining prop- erties on which work had been prosecuted. Many of these were developed mines and very valuable. Of course the Northern Pacific will not get any portion of this 2,000,000 acres now, nor will it get & great deal more thatit bad expected to get and would undoubtedly have secured were it not for the work we have done to forestall the road. I understand that in California now the Miners’ Association and others are interested in the passage of a law such as that giving our commission work in Montana. It is for this purpose that I have come 1o conier with Senator Ford and others here. Any aid that I can give 1 shall gladly render. - Chairman Merrill will be here till Satur. ay. PASSING SPURIOUS CHECKS. One of the Sailors of the Cruiser Phila- delphia Charged With Forgery. George A. Smith, alias R. W. Harding, a sailor on the cruiser Philadelphia, has been arrested by Officers Crockett and Gil- lan., He is accused of passing forged checks made payable to him, either as Harding or as Smith, and signed by Pay- master Lang of the Philadeiphia. No such personage exists, the officers state. Some time ago the prisoner passed one of these spurious checks on the Cafe Royal, obtaining therefor the sum of $9. The check was repudiated by the Bank of Los Angeles, and when Smith called around yesterday and again tried to cash a check the officers were put on his track with the result stated, —_—————— Magee Gets Commissions. Judge Coffey has awarded to Thom as Magee a 134 per cent commission on the sale of 120 Sutter street and the properties of Kate John- son’s estate. S.D. Hovey, a renl estate man, claimed that he was the one who had sold the property, but Magee proved his claim and was awarded the commission. The property was s01d for $385,000. THE DRUG CLERK'S STORY. He Talks of Headaches and Nervousne; and Gives a Cure for Both, From the Evening News, Newark, N. J. It was the drug clerk’s turn to tell a story of one of his experiences, and the reporicr, ex- pecting something good, as usual, settled him- seif comfortably in & chair prepared to give his undivided attention (o the speaker. The lat- ter was Henry Maier, wno resides with his parents on Aqueduct street, Newark, N. J., and who hands out medicine over the counter of Dr. Andrew F. Burkhardt's drugstore at 271 Orauge street, this eit “Perhaps 1 can do nothing better,”” he began, “‘than to tell you the secret of my good health. 1t is & story that I have told to many recently, and as it resulted in good in each case, it may be worth your while to listen to 1t. To begin with, I wasnot al\va{s strong and robust as Iam now. Long hours of work and hard study had left me in a wretched condition. Frightful, lin- gering headaches found me & ready victim, and at times I was 50 nervous that the dropping of a pin would cause me to give a violent start, and then I would be seized with a fit of tremb- ling that was, to put it mildly, exwedingla’ bothersome. Well, I began to doctor myself. Now I flatter myself that I know something of medicine; but with all my knowledge I could find nothing that would cure those terrible headaches or put an end to my extreme nerv- ousness. When I picked up a bottle my hand would shake as though I had the chills, and if it was a powder that I was handling I stood a 0od chance of sprinkling it all over these lack trousers. Things went from bad to worse, and I soon realized that & man of my physical condition had better not attempt to mix any medicine. “‘Try & box of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills; said Dr. Burkhardt one day; and as you know the doctor’s advice is alweys worth following I got the Pink Pills and began to take them. Alad- din’s lamp never performed the wonders of these pills. Would you believe it? Before I had taken the contents of one box my head- ache began to give me a day off occasionally, and soon it left me entirely. How about my nervousness? Well. the pills put an end to that with ealmost startling abruptness. You see Iknow enough about the business to appreciate the importancs of following_the prescribing physicians’ direc- tlons, and by paying strict attention 1o those given by Dr. Williams with each box of his Pink Pills, I was soon another fellow. Look at me now! A picture of hcalth, en? Well, that is what Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills will do fora man or & woman either. See,I can hold this 1ass of water out now without spilling a drop, ot sontdnit do that two montts 280 and— “What is it, ma'am?” he asked, as a neatly dressed woman came up to the counter. “A box of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pilis.”” “Yes, ma’am, 50 cents, please. Thank you.” 'hese Pink Pills are gleal things,” said Mr. Maier, as he turned to the reporter again, and tne latter, after all he had heard, thought so too. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain. all the e.e- ments necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are for sale by all drnggnts‘ or may be had byscxalfl h‘to‘l:ll D;i Wi'flullmusdl:edicine Com- pany, Schenectady, N. Y., for T boX, or A Doxeb tor $2 50, N : She Cares for Cats. N A lady who lives near the Jardin des Plantes, or old Parisian Zovo, is a provi- dence to the stray cats of her neighbor- hood. She feeds aaily a hundred at the Bercy wine market, where they are al- lowed to live in the cellars. This lady be- lieves in the transmigration of souls, and says she feels as if she were formerly in- carnate in a woman who hated animals, Her extreme sensibility to their sufferings is, she also feels, the punishment meted to her. She hasin an outhouse a number of mutilated and sick cats that she rescued. Another lady attends to the cats in the Palais de Justice, thé central markets, the Prefecture of Police and the Sorbonne. There are thirty cats at the Palais de Jus- tice. They are in the babit of being regus larly fed.—Gali senger. NEW TO-DAY. Tobacco users say. Ah! maybe yousay soyoursell. Thereare millions like you, with what physicians ca!la “T0- BACCO NERVE”—thatis, your nerv- @us system is compleiely under tobac- 0’8 rarcotic stimujant, and when you say, “t CAN'T QUIT,” youfell the truth. The natural way is totreat thodiseased nervous system by using ¥8 MAKES IT [BAC EASY, ¢ acts directly on the fobacco-irritated mervo centres, destroying the nerve craving effects, buiids up and improves theentire nervous system. Makas WEAK MEN STRONG. Many repor? & gain of fen pounds in fen days. You run no physical or financial risk—NG-T0-BAC $0!d under your ¢wn RUGGIST’S GUARRNTEE, Every druggist is authorized to sell No-To-Bac uander absolute gua.r:\u‘leee tocure every form of tobacco using. Our written guarantee, free sample of No-To-Bac and booklet called, * %0 L Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away," maliled for thoasiing. Address THE STERLING REMEDY CO.. Chi- § cago, Fontreal, Oan., New York. 66 cAscARET candy mmog, constipati In fame and popularity of its contributors oblure’s agazine has no superiors. Here is a partial list for the current year: Robert Louis Stevenson His last Romance, *‘St. Ives.” Anthony Hope His new Adventure Novel. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Her Autobiography. Joel Chandler Harris Five capital War Stories. Octave Thanet Six stories of Western Life. Short Stories by Rudyard Kipling R. L. Stevenson Bret Harte Ian Maclaren Anthony Hope Robert Barr 10cents a Copy. S. S. McClure, Ltd Lafayette PL., N. Y. $1.00 2 Year. 1901 5 more years to the 20th century. 5 more years for the HALF MIL- LION CLUB. Help 'em along by en- couraging HOME INDUSTRY; by wearing. for instance, STANDARD SHIRTS. All dealers. Neustadver Bros., Mfrs., S. F§ THE 65th SEMI-ANNUAL TERM N S T 2124 CALI- N DAY, Jen. 6, lectures on Phy~ 1896. Mr. C. Brier will begin h sics eazly in the coming year. A department for very young boys will be added to the school. NATH, MOOR! Principal. AF.\UCTION EAEESW EDWARD §. SPEAR & €0., Auctioneers, 31 and 23 Sutier Street. TELEPHONE, MAIN, 518l Farniture and Carpets of the Grand Southern Hotel at Auetion. MONDAY AND TUESDAY, Jannary 6.and 7, A 10 A. x. each day, we will sell, on the premises, « ; COR. MISSION AXD SEVENTH STS., THE ELEGANT FURNITURE AND CARPETS 01 above Hotel, contained in 100 rooms. The goods comprise Two Square Pianofortes, Fine Solid Oak Chamber Suits, Best Spring and Curled Hair Mattresses, Fine Featber Pillows and Bolsters, Mission Blankets, Mantel Mirrors, Brus- sels Carpets, Wardrobes, 200 Oak Chairs, Fire- proof Safe, Fine Upholstered Parlor Furniture, eic NoTE—Be sure and attend the sale, as the goods are very desirable. % EDWARD S. SPEAR & CO., Auctioneers, 31 and 33 Sutter streets