The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 24, 1896, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1896 BOWMAN WAITES AGANST ROME, From the Standpoint of the American Protective Association. “ROME A NATIONAL FOE.” Further Comparisons Between the Pilgrims and Monte- zuma’s Conquerors, REV. YORKE TO J. S. HITTELL. The Priest Replies to the Historian {5 Regarding the Authenticity of Quotations. W. H. Bowman, editor of the American Patriot, submits the following communi~ cation to the religious con OFFICE OF THE AME 819 M tor of the To the ‘E f < BIr: There is no use e i nism is our Nati .~ Priest Pnelan at the Catholics | say irapkly confe stand before the country public schools is an _enemy © traitor and an u undermine our fare of the cou Education i form of go ism go b comp the I of iree education | tion. Me is a base n. He who would 1 system has not the wel- t. ble in a republican orance and Koman- | ey flourish in. loving an no more kness. The golaen ag, of Rom e dark age of history. And the zenith of her power was in the dark- est age of the dark ages. 1 s thas | ) and hoot in the darkn the | Papal priests cry out against real ed- { e eniightenment of our public | ool system. W niel cleims the rignt 10 ignore the teachin lish language—and thus our American press, pl ing those who citizens and v the great prin lates both the written our country wh and pulpit—and come our future d unwritten law of citizens to be loyal Americans. Americans, remem In encouraging | the Papacy in its educati he Roman | Catnolic youth of the Nation are subjected to | the heartless anny of supe trained in The Pepal expectation is that Romis! ion will raise up a gener- ation that shall ready for revolution social and personal, to be found re: g the acy of Rome. Rome is the foe of eivi Romanism | blocks the wheels of civilization, muzzles the gaxs the mouth of free speech, obstructs be against all rights, civi supers have dated th ! the scale of civil grandeur | from the maintenance of Romish error and the dissemination of Papal principles ought to be 8 warning to America. 1t would bea case of political suicide to allow it to gain the ascend- ency he Mod nations decline in consent to abandon which } ness, or 1 nacy. To Romar America. It would be to telescove the ninete y into the tenth. Its civilization we nodeled after mi-barbarism, the ignorance and super- n of the middle ages ame on the crin submit blocked the wk many centuries, the stake and sword e progressive ides, and eve ance! The old h divine authority, credentials of For years F gantic mach modern pr coward who would which sing &ll of her gi- e on the wheels of 1 handicap sci- 1d reason o aliow her t0 ban rerding of it L 1 ail the agencies nbition. Kome is hence a menace to our ¥ takes the individusl out from under the control of the priest and the Pope. Itgrants the rght of private jude- ment to all. But Rome cannot tolerate such a privilege. To do so would ruin her whole ystem. The temporal power of the Pope is in- compatible with republican hberty. Rome has strangled freedom at its birth when she could and murdered it wherever she has had the opportunity 10 civil free- dom witnout me and the dogmas of Rome make her ntal siaves. The the foe of eivi Republic. Civil Lt tees confessional-box is the sepulcher of liberty. The slave of the Vatican is not ree man. Rome is the foe of ci Romanism astical anarchism. She opposes all She never advocates the p ot, the necessity of clean politic Her very sytem of political intrigue and Jesuitical plotting makes her the friend of po- litical immorality and the foe of good citizen- hip. She uses the saloon as her ally in gain- ing power. Hence when you fight Rome you fight rum, and when you fight rum you fight Rome. They are Siamese twins of evil. Rome is a crafty foe. She curses in secret and blesses in public. She hurls her anathemas from her altars ai heretics, but behaves like & weaned child before her critics. When weak she is tolerant; when strong she is tyrannical. She rsuades as & friend before she cursesasa 1oe. She deludes or devours. She professes friendship, while an enemy at heart. She plots in secret and smiles in public. Rome is loud in her professions of loyalty, and yet seeks to train our future citizens in ignorance sad disloyalty. With satanic cun- ning and educated hypocrisy her minions cover up their abominable work and seek to divert attention and allay suspicion. They will accept toleration when they cannot get more. They will claim equality” where 1t is possible, and assert supremacy where they dare. Rome will betray with & Judas kiss, Like Joab she will give the friendly greeting and then plunge her dagger into the heart of liberty. Friendship isonly a mask, and reli- gwn & cloak to cover up her base designs. - Her istory has been ome long catalogue of in- triguing and plotting, of craity tricks and cun- ning schemes. It is an act of folly to trust her pretensions of friendship for our country. Rome is a dishonest foe. There is honor among thieves, but none in Romanism. They are ruled by policy instead of principle. Truth is a stranger to the whole system. Itis a system of deception. Itis founded on faise- hood aud reared by fraud. Itisan arsenal of lies. Lying explanations given to God’s word, dishonest reports about men who have left her filthy embrace, incredulous miracles and lying legends—such ‘as men sailing in the air and picking up their heads after they were decapi tated and carrying them under their arms— with all the fraud and swindle of purgatory and travssubstantiation, all prove that-Rome should have the belt as champion prevari- cator. By the doctrine of mental reservation, which justifies the lie on the lip by the truth in the intellect, she stands condemned as dis- honest before the world. Romish priests pose as the friends of educa- tion; but they mean education in Romish doc- trines by Romish instructors. Itis the ability 10 repeat tne catechism and Ave Marias and Hail Marys that they consider a true eau- cation. When a Papal prelate waxes cloquent over “Ireedom of conscience,” “he i3 speak: ing of the ‘right to embrace, Profess and prac tice the Catholic religion.’” " “Chastity," in a bishop, priest or nun, means the license of lust under the guise of celibate abstinence. To *‘tell lies for the glory of God”’ is what they re- gnrd as speaking the truth. To steal for the enefit of the church is pure honesty and eaintly virtue. 1n fact,lying isa fine art and dishonesty a science in’ the Romish church. Priestly justification for lying isan indisputa. ble fact. Romanism may have some truth sbout it, but it is madness to put a viper in your bosom because of its gay coat. Kome is now trying to hide her dark. history by fraudulent and dishonest methods. She has established & censorship over the press to conceal facts. She has forced publishers to alter the truths of history, to garble diction- ary definitions, remodel articles in cyclo- pedias and lessons in schoolbooks under threat ©of the dreaded boycott. Some one may ask the question, What has their dishonesty got to do with their citizenship? Just this much: The privileges of <itizenship carry with them the duties of the citizen. But Romanists are un- able to render the duties they owe to the Gov- ernment. The Romish priesthood, whose theo- loficn training consists in learning the art of falsebood and deception, teach them that they may perjure themselves for the glory of God, 5 Lie enemies of the | ana | calls the A o adequate | and that their duty to the Pope severs their obligation to the Presigent. Under such in- struction it is no sin to be & trajtor to' their country. At a banquet in Wasnington the tonst “The Pope!’ came first on the programme and that of **Our President” second. Rome is & sleepless foe. She is wideawake to her interests. She watches her chances. While Uncle Snm slept she wound the threads of ec- clesiastical despotism around him, like the Liliputians did to Gulliver of old. Rome keeps her eye open and watches current events. She keeps her finger on Uncle Sam’s pulse so as 10 be aware of any symptom of patriotic fever. Her priestly buzzards feed on political carrion. They swoop down on cities that revel in politi- cal filth. Rome watches with unceasing vigi- lance the bills that are introduced in Corgre No legislation inimical to her interests can passif she can help it. Every measure to aid her she pushes to the front. She is constantly working to increase her power. To meet her we must wake up. We must be as vigilant in the interests of America as she is of Rome. Rome 1s an unreasoning foe. She is in- trenched in ignorance. If we could meet and calmly discuss the merits of the question with our Lomanist citizens, and they had the priv- ilege to abide by the dictates of reason aud common-sense, it would soon be decided in our fayor. But they are not allowed to use their reason. The use of reason is religious treason with them. It is the fact of the ig- norance of the great mass of Papists that makes them so formidable. Stones would answer argument, bullets discount logic and truth be silenced by brute force. In the broad arena of thought Rome would stand no chance 1o win. To reason with a Papal mob is casting pearl before swine. It is their ignorance that makes them foes. Give them a chance to think for themselves and they would cease to be the dupes of priests. Rome is an impudent foe. The brazen au- v and superlative impudence of Romanism r belief. Fraudulent claims, assumed aud unjustifiable encroachments on he incarna- { tion of impudence. For hypocritical preten- sions it cannot be beaten. Priestly bluster it can always muster. For depth of gall the Pope beats them all. We intend calling attention to some of the malicious and audacious utterances of Ro- manists con ing America’s best people. The Cath entinel of Philadelphia, com- menting some years since upon the sermon of Mr. McCalla, an” eminent Pres an minis- ter, who eulogized New England, thus reflecte upon that great people: 2 “Their minds are warped by fanaticism, darkness and bigotry, and vitiated by the abhorred and_atrocious principles inculcated by the vice of sanguinary wretches called the Pilgrim Fathers.” When we consider the fact that the Roman- ists who first settied in_America drenched its soil in Wood, we can gather a faint idea of such an impudent assertion. The Pilgrim Fathers sought this land that they might have “‘the free- dom to worship God,” while Rome colonized jor wealth and plunder. Mexico settled by Romanists—a land of sunshine and fiowers, of rich mines and tropical beauty—cursed and ower other'srights stamp Romenism as blighted. _ While the bleak, barren and sterile coasts of New England, colonized by Puritans, has molded the destiny of the United States and ¥ 1 men whose names adorn history’s scro’. New England, overrun by foreign im- migrants, while Mexico has to offer $50 & head, and not get hardly any. Take the vile slanders relative to our public school system, such as that they i ries of hell, 1g but & godless generation of thieves and bleckguards.” Considering the fact that the largest per centof our criminal are Romanists the papal gall is at once aanifest in the utterance of such a slanderous charge against the public scnool system. If our schools nursed Romanism they would have truth when charging them with being of hell,” but seeing they do not atement as a falsehood. eet printed in Boston, i mmon liars, dejamers { and vagabonds.”” Charity might suggest that it was giving a pen picture of the members of | its own communion, but as the word Ameri- can is used 10 denote the native Protestant element we will have to let the charge stand as written. Impudence is part of @ priest's stock in trade. Without it he would be lost. The superlative height of impudence is Teached in claiming absolute power 1n earth, heaven and heli for the Pope. * Such an absurd idea can only be maintained by the audacious assumptions and the Jesuitical conniving of men whose brazen cheek would shame & Goy- ernment mule. H. W. BOWMAN. ——— . FATHER YORKE ON HITTELL. Concerning Some of Those Quota- tions Made by Dr. Wendte From the Historlan. Father Yorke contributes the following brief letter in answer to Mr. Hittell, the historian: W The P1iot, & Januery 23, 18 To the Editor of The Call—DEAR Sir: Mr. Jo S. Hitteil evidently cultivates a grateful spi e wrote this morning: I thank Father Yorke for proving thatIcom- mitted forgery by quoting Doeliinger correctiy, by understanding Doeilinger to hold Aquinas respon. sible for the ideas written by his parcner in a book Which the Lwo composed and ind serting ty, which 1 osed 1 could asser; since the idea is one implied in many passages of the writings of Aquinas. For the benefit of those of your readers who may have no memory for dates permit me to remark. First—Thomas Aquinas died on March 274. econd—In the place quoted by Hittell Doel- linger says that Tolomeo did not begin to write until after 1298, Third—How he could have ‘“composed con- jointly” with & man who had been dead & quarter of a century Mr. Hittell dues not ex- lain. 2 And this is the accurate, fair, judicial, “Prot- estant scholarship” to which Dr. Wendte pins his faith. Did I say too much whenr I de- nominated John S. Hittell, historian, as the greatest humbug of this or any other age? Yours truly, C. YORKE. A TRIUMPH OVER AAT, Lithographer =~ Bosqui Walks Away With a Prize Offered to Painters. hn t Result of the Competition Over the Design for a Mardi Gras Invi- tation Ticket. Lithography has triumphed over art, and the knights of the brush are pretty much stirred up over it. Had it not been for the generosity of the Art Association it might never have hap- pened; but the glad hand went forth only to be grabbed by the man who engages in the occupation of lithographing designs as well as creating them. The whole affair began by the Art Asso- ciation offering a prize of $20 to the artist who would make the best design for an in- vitation ticket to the mardi-gras ball to be given at the Hopkins mansion on Califor- nia street in the near future. The artists who were invited- to submit designs, of, rather, who were expected to offer something, were Arthur Mathews, J. A. Stanton, Amadee Joullin, Emile Pissis, Ernest Peixotto and some others. Strangely enough, Mr. Stanton and Mr. Pissis, be- ing busy with the Arts and Crafts Exhibi- tion, made no attempt to carry off the cash, but the others mentioned sat up nights and had colorful nightmares over the matter. After considerable thinking and mental eruption all three got down to work and turned out something that was guaranteed to unhorse the committee on award and establish a new school of design. The products are said to have been exception- ally high grade and commensurate with the magnificence of the Mardi Gras. In the meantime Mr. Bosqui, one of the airectors of the association and incident- ally a well-known lithographer of this City, was preparing his designers with ideas that were infended to o7ercome any- thing turned out by the artists. He made very little noise about it, but when the specimens were handed in Mr. Bosqui was right in the thick of the bunch and laid his little exhibit carefully before the committee. He had nothing particular to say and the specimen .or design spoke for itself. After reasonable deliberation and some thought it was announced that the litho- E;lp ic design had won the $20 and that Mr. Bosqui was the lucky gentleman. Mr. Mathews, Mr. Joullin and Mr. Piex- otto saia—well, it is not known definitel just what they did say—but whatever it was they said it in about the same man- ner that Mr. Whistler adopts when he re- fers to the author of *“Trilby.” A PHILOSOPHIC BURGLAR, The Capture of George Paul Debuss a Very Important One. ROOM FILLED WITH PLUNDER. Five Burglaries Already Traced to Him and There Is Suspicion About Several More. George Paul Debuss, alias George Paul, alias Charles Miller, who was at first be- lieved to be an amateur burglar, has turned out to be one of the most daring and accomplished in the profession. Early Thursday morning of last week he entered the residence of General Dimond on Taylor and Washington streets, but was scared awav before taking any plunder by Mrs. Paul Jarboe, who was awakened by the noise he made in her bedroom. Policeman Amos Williams happened to be close by at the time and arrested the burglar. A “iimmy” and a revolver were found in the prisoner’s pockets. On Monday Debuss was booked for at- on which the court based its decisions were wrong. Though the Benson indictments have een settled, the Jands are therefore still subject to ‘adjudication, so far as the boundaries are concerned, by the depart- ment. Theland which Agent Gendine has ex- amined is in the foothills of Los Angeles County. Agent Gendine is from Georgia. CONGRESS AND ROADS. Our Representatives at Washington Urged to Aid a Bill for a National Commission on Highways. A bill to create a special commission on highways has recently been read in the House of Representatives and has been re- ferred to the Committec on Appropria- tions, The local highway improvement com- mittee, L. A. W., has just received a copy of the bill from the office of the State Bu- reau of Highways and the result is thai both organizations have decided to urge by personal letters to each of California’s Rep- resentatives in Congress that efforts be made to have the bill agopted. In addition to a provosed appropriation of $10,000 to the use of the National Com- mission for the firs; year and a provision by which the commission is empowered to meet in different States in conjunction with the existing State road organizations the substance of the bil! reads as follows: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amer- ica in Congress assembled, that a special com- mission ou hughways is hereby created, which shall be composed of one Senator of the United States, to be appointed as the Senate may pro- vide; 1wo members of the House of Represen- [Sketched by a MILLER, THE BURGLAR. “Call” artist.] tempt at burglary and for having burglars’ tools in his possessiom Since then Police- men Williams and E. J. Wren have been working on the case and they have found that Debuss had for the past year been living 1 a house on Dupont street, be- tween Pacific and Broadway. They searched his room, and in two large valises and trunks they found a large quantity of silverware, clothing and other articles, the proceeds of numerous bur- glaries. The articies were taken to police head- quarters, and among those who identitied vroperty were Mrs. Samuel Ostroski, 1214 Geary street; Mrs. A. M. Parrott, 517 Sut ter street; Colonel E. A. Denicke, south- | C west corner of Sacramento and Maso streets, and Captain Samuel Blair, 1315 Van Ness avenue. Mrs. Ostroski’s residence was entered on December 21, Mrs. Parrott’s on December 20, Colonel cke’s on December 21, and Captain Blair's on November 25. There is still a lot of silverware unidentified. At the lodging-house on Dupont street Debuss was looked upon as a quiet, indus- trious and honest man, and the landlady was very much surprised aund indignant when told that he was a burglar. The police think he is the lone burglar who has given them so much annoyance of late. He is 41 years of age, short and stoutly built and a native of Germany. Several addresses of houses, apparently for future use, were written on a pocket- slate found among the papers. Some have been partly obliterated, but there are three distinguishable. They are 1917 Ellis street, 2016 Sacramento street, 827 Fell street. Debuss is a bit of a philosopher. Among his papers was found the following effu- sion, which very much resembles the kind of literature that Murderer Fredericks was so fond of writing: December 31, 1894. Three vices I have had in my life past. They | are well known to m They have kept me in never to be forgotten. 1ains and these chains Iam about to throw off and free myseli for- ever. My parents who brought me into this world forced the first and most serious on to me, about the same time nature fores second on to me, and the third my own v and a corrupt world to give the first two a mate, 1 suppose, done the rest. I am like & being coming from another planet to this cor- rupt world with different idees, manners, etc. ; in short, I am j he opposite what these creatures are, for I have never found one ideal among the millions [ have met. 1 will not let my plans be known to any one for the simple reason they are not understood, hence I must be the silent man. But they shall feel me so much the more. Ido not ac- knowledge any religion; they are all frands. But ‘There is an eternal God ‘Whose presence bright All space does occupy, ‘All motions guide Unchanged through time’s All devastaing flight— An only God: there is no God beside. Philosophers in their sublime research may measure out the ocean Geep, may count the sands or rise of sun, but God, for thee there is 10 weight or measure. None can mount up to thee, mystery’s Reasons, brightest spark ; Being above all Beings, Mighty One, whom none can compare and none explore—who forms exist- ence with Himself alone. The following, headed “resolution,” was also found among his papers: September 29, 1895, I will from this day work and s: ve centI have to labor for. It must be my iron bound duty to meet all expenses from sale of clothes or whatever I can convert into money. After I am completely out I must manage io live from the interest of my money, which I will pat in bank as soon as I getit. "G.P.D. Debuss refuses to talk about his arrest. He says he has been twelve years in this City, working sonuetimes us a cook and sometimes as a waiter. The police so far know nothing of his past history, but are making inquiries. LOCATING LAND LINES. Agent T. Y. Gendine of Washington Struggling With a Relic of the Benson Frauds. Thomas Y. Gendine, special agent of the Interior Department, Washington, D, C., is at the Occidental. He has been traveling in California for some time, and making investigations in connection with the Benson land frauds. He has lately come from Los Angsles County, where some of these lands are, and where he has been examining into the subject of land grants. He says that ac- cording to the Benson surveys the tracts of land did not come out right, the bounda- ries in many cases being yvet matters of dispute. The United States courts took a hand at settling them, and made certain declarations and deivered decisions in re- gard to them. Still the matter keeps bobbing up. Itis constantly being shown that the premises tatives, appointed by the Speaker; the chief of engineers of the army; the director of the geo- logical surve chief of road inquiry of the Department of Agriculture. This commission to report from time to time, by bill or otherwise, and to continue until final report is made, but not beyond the pres- ent Congress. It shall be the duty of this commission to inquire generally how the Government may | further promote the improvement of highways, | and among other things to consider the ex- | pediency of anc best methods of providing for, | (1) The sclentific Toeation of highiways o the | public domain. (2) The employment of the | Geological Surveyv in the discovery of road | materials. (3) The fre: testing of all road materials offered. (4) Construction of model roads ard instruction in road maling at agri- cultural colleges and experiment stations, The same at the military academy and | when practicable at all 1nstitutions having & military instructor. The commission shall confer with the Inter- state Commerce Commission and with leading | railway oflicials concerning a general reduc- tion of transportation rates on road materials. (MAYOR ASKED TO VETO, | Cemetery Associations jArgue Against the Burial Lot N HAMMOND'S BEHALF, The Gold Mining Exchange Calls for a Mass - Meeting To-Morrow. THE GENEROSITY OF CURTIS. The Imprisoned Californian’s Friends Kept the Wires Hot Demand. ing a Fair Trial. The Gold Mining Exchange of San Fran- cisco held a special meeting in the assem- bly-room of the Mills building vesterday afternoon and took formal action looking to the proper administration of justice in the case of John Hays Hammond and other American citizens now in prison as a result of the Transvaal invasion. The Curtis cablegram, published in THE CaLL yesterday, had much to do with arousing the California friends of Mr. Hammond to immediate and definite ac- tion. The meeting yesterday was largely at- tended, and the liveliest interest was dis- played in the proceedings. President Walter Turnbull presided. General Harris, who is an uncle of John Hays Hammond, set forth the condition of affairs which surrounds the accused. He said that it was impossible to get any direct communication with Hammond, as the Transvaal Government had doubtless applied the censorship. M. F. Tarpey offered the following reso- lution: WHEREAS, A number of American citizens of California haye been arrested and imprisoned by the authorities of the South African republic, charged with complicity in the recent armed invasion of that country; and Whereas, from our knowledge of the men so charged, their high character, their educa- tion and standing, we do not believe that they are guilty of the grave offense for which they have been arrested, and for which they are to be tried; therefore, be it Resoived, By the' Gold Mimng Exchange of San Francisco at a called meeting at the City of San Francisco on this 23d day of January, 1896, that our Senators and Representatives in Congress be urged to take immediate action in behalf of our imperiled citizens, and that_if they are to be tried in a foreign land under such grave charges,it be urged upon the au- thorities at Washington that this Government be represented at such trial or trials by a_rep- resentative learned in the law who will de- mand s fair and impartial hearing for each of the accused; and be it further Resolved, That the secretary of this meeting telegraph’ copies of the resolutions to each ot Ordinance, Mr. Sutro Will Give the Matter Careful Attention Before Affixing His Signature. A large delegation of representatives of | the Cemetery Associations called on Mayor | Sutro yesterday and uraed him to veto tne | ordinance recently passed by the Board of Supervisors prohibiting the sale of burial lots within the limits of the City and Coun Messrs. Gray, Burling, Gunnison and Crowell appeared for the Laurel Hill Asso- ciation, Messrs. Cowdery, Bohen, and Fletcher for the Odd Fellows’, and Messrs, Davis, Sumner, Stetson and Whittier for the other associations. They declared that the ordinance was a farce on its face, as it would not accom- plish the object for which it was intended, and would at the same time work a hard- ship on the associations. They declared that the prohibiting of the sale of burial lots would not stop burials within the City limits, as the ground already disposed of would accommodate 80,000 graves if not another foot was sold. At the same time the cemeteries would be deprived of the source of revenue which keeps them in zood condition. It was contended that legislation of this character was invalid, and would not stand in the courts. Attention was called to the cemeteries at the Presidio, and the Mayor was asked whether he was willing to precipitate a clash with the National authorities by signing the order. Messrs. Gray and Sum- ner argued that the cemeteries were not 4injurious to the public health; that the mortality in the districts in which they are situated is less than in other sections of the City, and that meny poor people are in the habit of visiting them for the pur- pose of resting and breathing purer air than is to be found in the crowded streets, Mayor Sutro intimated that while he considered the cemeteries a menace to the public health and favored burials outside of the City limits he thought the associa- tions should not be crowded in the matter, and that they might be given further time to hunt other locations before their reven- ues are cut off. The cemetery representatives called at- tention to the fact that people living west of the burial grounds—the ones who are advocating the . ordinance—bought their property with the full knowledge that the cemeteries would be located where they are. They stated in their defense that the associations had paid the City $25,000 for a deed to the land in 1871. 1t wasshown that the Odd Fellows have thirty-four lots left unsold, Masonic Cemetery twenty- seven and Laurel Hill sixty. The Mayor, after hearing all the argu- ments, said the associations might have vested rights which the Supervisors could not overlook, and that he would look carefully into the matter before deciding Whether or not to veto the ordinance, e Moved Their Advertising Department. Owing to the increase of the work devolving upon the advertising department of the South- ern Pacific Company, whick is in charge of A. C. Jackson, it has been removed from the sec- ond floor of the building at the corner of Mar- ket and Montgomery streets to some of the unoccupied rooms in the old building at the corner of Fourth and Townsend streets, our Senators and Representatives at Washing- ton. The resolution was unanimously adopted, as was the following, offered by Colonel Smedberg: WHEREAS, the Gold Mining Exchange of San Francisco desires to express its sympathy in behalf of John Hays Hammond and other American_citizens, who, we are informed, are detained in prison in South Africa. Therefore be it Resolved, That the Gold Mining Exchange of San Francisco requests the Governor of our State and the Mayorand all citizens of our City to assemble in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco on Saturday, January 25, 1896, at 2 o'clock r. sider tne matter in question and to steps as may be deemed wise and proper toward amellorating the condition of Mr. Hammond and other fellow-citizens who- are imprisoned in the Transvaal. The chair was empowered to appoint a committee of three to take the subject- matter of these resolutions in hand, and call the meeting if the necessity of the case demanded such action. The committee appointed consisis of W. R. Smedberg (chairman), P. T. Dickinson and Louis Glass. In addition to the cables already pub- lished in THE CALL from George T. Curtis, one of the imprisoned Californians in Africa, to his friends in this City, the fol- lowing was received by ex-Judge Eugene Garber: NEWCASTLE, Natal, January 22, 1896. Eugene Garber, San Francisco: Do what you can to help Hammond. He has been shame- fully treated and is now confined in jail, with 1o prospect of being admitted to bail, CURTIS, Curtis is one of those arrested and vet in all his telegrams has said no word in bis own behalf, but spoken only for his friend Hammond, who is in the greatest danger. Ex-Judge J. D. Thornton, who was a warm friend of the late Major Hammond, sent off the following telegram yesterday to Senator Morgan of Alabama: SAN FR. sco, January 23, 1896. John T. Morgan, United States Senate, Washing- ton, D. C.: 1 hope you, with Senators Pugh, Daniel and Bate, will do all in your power to obtain prompt and vigorous action in favor of Curtis and Hammond and other Americans in prison in Pretoria. Private advices show prompt action necessary, Urge g fair trial. ave written. AMES D. THORNTON, BEALTY SOLD AT AUCTION, Baldwin & Hammond Hold a Successful Sale of City Property. Pacific Improvement Company’s Lands Brought Fair Prices—A Large Sum Realized. The auction sale of property belonging to the Pacific Improvement Company at- tracted a large crowd yesterday to the salesroom of Baldwin & Hammond. The result of the sale waseminently satisfac- tory to the auctioneers and the owners of the property, the prices, in most instances, being vevy good. Before commencing the sale of the Pa- cific Improvement property, there were sold, under order of court, twelve houses on Stevenson street, between Seventh and Eighth, renting for $292 a month, for $28,000. After this property was disposed of, the sale of the lots belonging to the Pacific Improvement Company began, the first lot offered being the southwest corner of Fifteenth and Valencia streets, 40x137:6, which started at $10,000, and quickly ran up to $13,250, at which price it was sold. Lots 4 and 5 on Valencia street, 90 feet south of Fifteenth street, were sold for $4600 each. Lot 2 on Valencia street, 25x 187:6, adjoining the corner, was sold for $4525, and lot 3, same size, brought $4400. A .large lot on Fifteenth street, 53:4x150 feet, was sold for $5800, with the improve- ments, which rent for §33 per month. The lot on the southeast corner of Fifteenth street and Albion avenue, 104:8x108, brought $8900. On Albion avenue the lot 62x104:8 brought $4000. Three other lots on Valencia street, two of them 25x90 feet each, brought $3900 apiece, and one lot, 22:6x90 feet, sold for §$3600. On the northeast corner of Valencia and Hermann streets the lot 49:1014x7. brought $19,250. Immediate- ly in the rear of this lot two lots, each 42:8x49:10)4, sold for $3000 and $3200 re- spectively. The lot 28:6x124 on_the south side of Market street, between Brady and Hermann, went for $14,250. The lot 75x 124, southwest corner of Market and Brady, brought $55,250. Two lots, each 25x124 feet, on the south side of Mark.1, 75 ,:ent west of Brady, sold for $17,500 each. The remainder of the Market-street yroparty was witbdrawn, as it appeared Tom the survey that there Was some en- croachment on the property of adjoining owners, This matter, however, it is stated, will be straightened out in a short while and the property offered at private sale. All the interior lots in Mission blocks 13 and 14 were in great demand and many of them were purchased by the present ten- ants. These lots ranged in price all the way from $625 up to $3000 each, the differ- ence in price being due entirely to the size of the lots, some of which were only 20 feet front while others were 80 feet. After the sale of these lots five lots on the north side of Waller street, east of Stanyan, were put up and sold at prices ranging from $1175 to $1275 each, the lots being 27:6x85 feet in size. Taking everything into consideration, the owners and auctioneers are to be con- gratulated upon the success of the sale, which is an indication of the return of better times. The total amount of the sale was $281,115, exclusive of an offer of $8200, which was made for the lot on the northwest corner of Castro and Seven- teenth streets, which will probably not be accepted. The following is a list of the principal purchasers: T. Mahoney, E. L. Reese, James Campbell, H. & L. Block, United States Laundry Association, O. D. Bald- win, Joseph Harvey, R. V. Lucy, George Schafer, Albert Joseph, Mary Sommers, Catherine Murray, T. C. Murphy, Fred Muller, Louis Kuebber, William Kennedy, T. J. Murphy, M. Corbett, Josegh Jacqu met, Thomas O’Brien, A. Eckert, Julia Garvey, M. Daly, J. Bernard, A. L. Mor- ganstern. P. H. Farrell, James and Katie mith, C. Foley, J. Hinkel, C. 8. [ves, Charles Mohaupt, James Bohan, Peter ?‘Ire‘;ler, C. D. Salfield, A. Olson, M. Mec- Jord. MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION The Special Committee Reported in Favor of a Public Market. Opposed to the City Making a Fifty- Year Contract on a Garbage Crematory. The board of directors of the Merchants’ Association held a meeting last evening and decided to submit to the Board of Supervisors at its next meetine the plan of the City Hall directory. It will cost only $125. This will include sixteen hall directories, lettering the doors, naming the several floors, etc. The Supervisors will be petitioned for the repaving of several of the downtown streets, principally Geary, Post and Mont- gomery, the latter as soon as the railroad company decides upon what kind of car service it will give the public. The matter of lighting the downtown portions of the City was postponed until after the Supervisors let the street-lighting contract on July 1. The widening of Lombard avenue to the Presidio was discussed. The association voted §25 toward defray- ing the expenses of the committee that is going to Washington in the interests of improving the rivers and harbors of this coast. The matter of a free market was intro- duced by the special committee’s report. After stating what was said and done at the two recent committee meetings, the report said : Your committee respectfully submits the fol- lowing conclusions as the present result of its deliberations: First, the free public market system is successful and beneficial in other cities of the United States and Europe; sec- ond, there appears to be a general demand among the smaller producers and consumers for a free public market in the City of San Francisco; third, a free_public market in this City is not only necessary, but would prove of decided advantage to the City; fourth, the offer from the State Board of Harbor Commis- sioners of a location at the water front should be accepted &s a beginning of the project and & step in the right direction; fifth, there should be established at least two more free public markets in the neighborhood where they would prove most useful to consumers and most convenient to producers. Edward F. Adams of the California Kruit Exchange presented a long commu- nication upon the same subject. Letters upon the subject of selecting a site in San Francisco for the Wilmerding 8chool were read. Secretary J. R. Freud reported that he has nearly finished compiling the synop- sis_of the proposed new charter, which will be ready for publication within a few days. The vrincipal points in the charter will be summarized in ten pages. The | Merchants’ Association has ‘declared in favor of the proposed charter and will in- stitute a vigorous campaign to secure its adoption. The subject of the means of disposing of the City’s garbage was discussed, and it was decided that a petition be sent to the Board of Supervisors asking it not to take any aciion 1n regard to the awarding of the contract for building a crematory for garbage until a report by the engineer of the association can be submitted. It is believed that the engineer's report will show that it would be well for the City to own its own plant, and that it would not be wise to let a contract under any condi- tion for so long a period as fifty years. The following new members were elected: Anglo-American Crockery and Glassware Company; Blake, Moffitt & Towne; Langley & Michaels; Sherwood & Sherwood ; Levi Strauss & Co. NEW TO-DAY. 1t is the waste that you must stop. When you find your nerves becoming weaker and weaker day by day, when you find your jarring nerves do not respond to the exigencies of time or place, it is then time for you to use a remady that will make you a really strong men. Hud- yan will do it. Use the great Hudyan for Con- stipation, Nervous disorders, Liver and Kidney troubles, ana have yourself restored. Send for FREE Circulars and Testimonials. HUDSON MEDICAL INSTITUTE. TAINTED BLOOD-—Impure blood, due to serious private disorders, carries myriads of sore-producing germs. 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NOTICE IS Drop will be received by the undersigned upto 12 o'clock . of the 7th day of February, 1899, for the purchase of thirty-twn (32) Kings County Courthouse Pouds, numbered consecutively from one (1) to thirty-two (32), both tnclusive, of the denomiiation of one thousand ($1000) doliars each, and payable on the first day of January, 1906, or at any time before that date, at the pleasure of said county, in gold coin of the United States, with interest Uiiercon at the rate of four (4) per cent per annum, payable semi-annually,on the HEREBY GIVEN THAT SEALED first day of J. and on the first day of July of each yeai interest payuble at theoffice of the surer of said Kings County. Said bon s having been issued in conformity Orders and Resolutions of the Board of Sup: Visors of Kings County dated December 3, 18595, and January 6, 1896, and under authority con ferred upon said board by the provisions of and in accordance with an act of the Legislature of the State of California, entitled “An Act to F; i Uniform System of County and Township ment,” approved March 24, 1893. None of said bonds wili be sojd for less than faca value and accrued interest. nor shall any sale thereof be final or valid until app Be:td of Supervisors, and ¢ hy pressly reserved to refect any and all prope Mark envelope. **Proposals for the purch Courthouse Bonds.” By order of the Board of Supervisors of said Kings County. W. H. SLAVIN THESUOCESS OF THE SEASON THE LADIES' GRILL ROOM —OF THE—— l PALAGE HOTEL, DIRECT ENTRANCE FROM MARKET ST, OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT.