The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 28, 1896, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1896. e et e —————————————————————————— e JUBILANT OVER MEN'S DISMAY, Bachelor Maids of Alameda Talk About the Leap Year Conflict. TO FIGHT IT OUT NOW. The Opportunities of This Year Will Not Be Known Again Until 1904. AN ALLIANCE WITH OAKLAND. One of the Young Women Points Out | a Diplomatic Course Which May End the Trouble. There is no material change in the leap- | year situation across the bay, and the de- | lay of arbitration or settlement is regarded year custom. Weli, they’ll find them- selves mistaken. And we'll have no more nonsense, either. When they gomenround playing fine and making their best bows, we are going to know whether they mean business. If they do not, they must keep their distance.” Another bachelor msid, who has more leisure to devote to the social whirl, and who is conspicuous at all the functions, sniffed with fine scorn when she read about the bachelor club. * They may think they are smart, but I think they are as mean as they can be,”’ she said. “Not that it makes the least difference to me. Oh, no! ButIdon’t want them to think they are indispensable. They are on such good terms with themselves that it makes me fatigued. The idea of forming a club and resolving not to get married! There ain’t one of them worth marrying! So there!” i A young lady who is surrounded with beaux whenever she appears at a function gave her views. “The bachelors of Ala- meda probably are bachelors becanse they can't help themselves. To think of their pretending that we are making concerle(“l designs on them! For my part I don’t know any of them who are worth bother- ing about. The men of Oakland are m‘ucn superior. They know how. to act. They never seem to be bothered over the ques- tion as to what they shall say, or how they shall wear their hair, and they are real nice. I gotoOakland a great deal more to parties than Alameda.” 2 A maid who goes in for yachting, tennis and the wheel made merry over the men bachelors who have entered into stipula- tions to preserve their single blessedness. “The poor dears,” she said, with very evi- dent sarcasm, “‘they shall not be whisked City Marshal Rogers, E. A. Young and Judge St. Sure of the Alameda Organiza- tion for the Resistance of Cupid’'s Advances. as serious in the light of the facts that | off into matrimony, even if it is leap year. nearly one montk of 1896 has passed, and there will not be another leap year this century. As is well understood by the ladies, the year 1900 will not be a leap year, for, al- though 1900 is divisible by 4 it is not di- visible by 400, and so even the social “four | hundred” could not induce the calendar men to add an extra day to another Feb- ruary before 1904. And, with eight vears to wait for a re- turn of the privileges, the young ladies of Alameda do not intend to abandon in any degree the principles for which they have organized. The bachelor maids are taking consid- erable quiet satisfaction from the troubled state into which their new organization has evidently thrown the lords of creation. The Alameda girl is spiri‘ed and knows whereof she speaks and acts, and she ig not going to sit idly by and allow the leap- year chances to be nullified before they have well begun. She fully understands, being up-to-date and thoroughly posted, that another leap year does not come around till 1904, and eight years is a cycle that even an Alameda girl has respect for and forestalis to the extent that she may. The Alameda Bachelors’ Club is not flourishing so aggressively as it was. There was to be a conspicuous badge of mem- bership with the motta, “We are our own sovereigns,”” but on Sunday a hasty change was made in this part of the pro- gramme and now it is decided to have a password and a grip instead. ‘I'he pass- word that was at first proposed was “Bloomers,” to be spoken derisively; but some other word may now be decided upon, as that password has become public. Greater secrecy will now be preserved in the meetings of the bachelors’ organiza- tion, for it is held that the trouble has been brought on by THE CALL publishing reports of proceedings which were not sup- posed to be known to others than mem- bers. THe CALL representative interviewed a number of the prominent members of the Young Ladies’ League yesterday. “The idea!” remarked one who in- structs the young idea which way to grow. “To think the men should be so egotisti- cal as to think we are all dying to marry them! They can smirk around us all the time for three years and never make a sign in earnest, but they seem to think whey are so irresistible that we will hanl ihem into matrimony by the hair of the head, once we have the right of the I )4 NEW TO-DAY. 'DISTRESSING Cured by ticura C SPEEDY CURE TREAT: Warm baths with COTICURA S0AP, gentle appii. cations of CUTICURA (ointment), and mild doses of CoT1cURA RESOLVENT (the new blood purifier) . 801d throughout the world. Br . Nrw. PO gt g O g el Bl Do & Cuxa Cor., Sols Props., Bostan, U. 5. A | Commission against the company’s They are perfectly safe. Their defense- lessness would appeal to any chivalrous girl. When I marry I want a great, hearty man, and not a little starveling who is afraid of an old, ridiculous tradi tion like that of leap vear. The bachelors’ club! Bah! Is my hat on straight?” And so the controversy waxes, and the trouble seems to be growing deeper and more serious. The young ladies have the sentiment of the moralists on their side, but the moral- ists go too far to please them, insisting that the girls should never permita man to kiss them before becoming matrimoni- ally engaged—while the Alameda maids apply the rule only to leap year. T0 LIENSE THE GAMBLING DEAS Supervisor King Wants the Poolrooms Legal- ized. NEW ORDER SUBMITTED. It Provides for the Payment of Five Hundred Dollars a Quarter. TAXING THE ASSOCIATIONS, Supervisor Dimond Denounces the Attempt as a Blow at a Large State Interest. Supervisor King wants San Francisco to license gambling. At the meeting of the Board of Super- visors yesterday he chiampioned the cause of the poolrooms. He introduced an order providing for their licensing. It calls for the payment of §50 a day or $500 a quarter for the privilege. It also provides for a fine of $1000 for any person violating the provisions of the order. The order was read the first time and then went to the committees on Health and Police and Licenses jointly. It im- poses a license upon all persons engaged in selling pools, bookmaking, making bets or wagers on horseraces, wherein money or other articles of value are staked or pledged, or the placing of money for such purposes by carriers, agents, bookers or commis sioners, etc. The order reads: Section 1. No person without first obtain- ing a license as hereinafier provided shall: Sell any pool or pools or make up any book, list or memorandum for or on which money or any article of value shall be received or entered up, listed or written, or receive any money or other article of value as a stake or pledge upon the result of any trial or contest of spee power of endurance of horses; * Sell, issue or dispose of any ticket, certificate or other evidence of payment on which shall be inscribed, written or printed any number, name, word or mark or anything to designate the choice selected, received or uccefilod by any other person to entitle or enable the said person holding the said ticket, certificate or other evidence of payment to gain or lose on the result of any trial or contest of speed or power of endurance of horses: Receive any money or anything represent- ing money, or any article of value, as a bet or hazard upon the eventof any contest or any contingent issue, or as a siake or pledge between two or more parties and disburse the said money or any portion of the same; Receive Or contract to receive any money or representative of money either as agent, or commissioner, or broker, servant or employe for the purposes named. Sec. Every person desiring to engage in the calling as provided must make lpgllmuon to, and on permission being granted by the Board of Supervisors shall obtain from the License Collector a license therefor, which license shall be designated as “Pool-scller and Book-maker License.” The license is hereby fixed for one day,and for each day $50 must be paid or $500 & quarter, payable in advance. Section 3 provides that no person shall engage in the calling of poolselling, etc., in any building fronting upon a main street, or in any room adjoining a place where spirituous liquors are sold. No minor will be permitted to partici- pate or be interested in_any pool or book. Doorkeepers must be placed at each door and prevent the entrance of minors. Any violation of the provisions of the order will result in a forfeiture of the license issued and the payment of a fine of not more than $1000 or six months’ im- prisonment. The introduction of the order created some surprise and much amusement. The opinion was expressed that the board would not have the hardihood to pass it finally. ; = The resolution providing for the pay- ment of $50 a day or $300a month by keen- ers of horse-racing tracks came up for con- sideration. ¥ % 4 Supervisor Dimond spoke in opposition to the measure. : *I am opposed to this resolution,” he said, ‘‘because I do not think that it is in- FOUR DISINHERITED SONS One Contests His Mother’s Will and the Others May Follow. Mrs. Jane Duff’s Distribution of Her Property Does Not Meet ‘With Favor. James Duff, an incompetent, has filed a contest of the will of his mother, Jane Duff, who died January 7, 1895, leaving ai estate valued at $35,000. 2 By the terms of the will the contestant was bequeated $5000 to be invested for him 0 that he should have the income from it during his life. To Mary Marcella Pfeiffer, thetestatrix’sdaughter,wasleft 000, and the contestant claims she is entitled to only, one-fifth of the estate in common with himself and his three brothers. The grounds for contest are irregularities in the construction of the will, that the testatrix was not of sound or disposing mind, and that she was under the influ- ence of Mary Marcella Pfeiffer. There were three other sons, but none of them succeeded to any part of the estate. There had been various quarrels between them and the remainder of the family. and 50 they were left $10 each as a reminder that the estate was not for them. At the bottom of the whole trouble, the contestant avers, is Antone Pfeiffer, hus- band of the lucky daughter. He it was, says the document of contest, that con- vinced the testatrix that her sons were vrofligates and not deserving of considera- tion. In addition one of the sons had married against his mother's wishes. It is probable that the three other suns will jom in the contest. ———— - THE RAILROAD CASE. Copies of the Southern Pacific’s Reply Amdavit Must Be Served by Monday. Attorney-General Fitzgerald is playing all the strategy of law against the South- ern Pacific in defending the Railroad in- junction suit. Yesterday he went before United States Circuit Judge McKenna and asked that the company be ordered to serve copies, either before or on next Monday, of its reply affidavit:to the Rue affidavit, which embraced the Pacific Commission’s report. The Judge made the order as re- quested. The case will not be resumed before Judge McKenna on Monday as intended. Instead it has been put off until February 6, to give more time to the attorneys for both sides. ——————— A Chinese Desertion. Fong Fook Shang is suing for a divorce from Fong Suey Gee, sometimes known as Suey Gee, for desertion. They were married some years 0, he says, and about a year and a haif ago wile went back to Chi t heard from her since. i ape k) spired by a worthy motive. It is a hit at the two iarge associations which have ex- pended a great deal of money in the City and gives employment t6 a large number of persons. It is got up in the interests of these disreputable poolsellers. ‘“‘Besides,” continued the Supervisor, “it would unnecessarily injure another large interest in this State—the trotting-horse interest—already too heavily taxed, and San Francisco is the best place for the breeders of fast horses to exhibit the speed of their horses. Therefore [ am against this resolution.’” The resolution was defeated. George Ready’s application for a license to conduct a labor bureau caused consider- able discussion. Supervisor Dimond said that the Labor Commissioner opposed the fl-anting of the license unless the firm of urray & Ready was dissolved and the latter establish a business under his own name. - He declared that the old firm was disreputable. Several Supervisors and an attorney spoke in behalf of Mr. Resdy, and the per- mission asked was granted. In view of the fact that each of the vari- ous counties of the State had been as- sessed at the fifth biennial session of the California River Improvement Conven- tion, each contributing its proportion of the expense of sending a delegation to ‘Washington to promote legislation for the improvement of State rivers and harbors and to have a permanent commission ap- pointed to protect the same for the agri- cultural and commercial interests of the State, the board allowed the sum of $300 as a donation out of the m‘-ig:nz necessity fund for the purpose named. The petition of Mrs. Martha Lee, pro- viding_for the removal of a high fence erected on the lot adjoining her residence at 3017 Sacramento street, was indefinitely deferred. The same fate met a like peti- tion of Mrs. Rosina Yung. The fence complained of by the latter surrounds her lot on the south side of Sacramento street, near Taylor. It was erected by the Iate Charles Crocker. The resolution to the effect that the Committee on Health and Police be au- thorized to enter into a lease with John McCarthy for a certain lot on the north side of Washington street, 100 feet west from Polk, with building thereon, for use as a police station, for a term of two years, the monthly rental to be $90, was referred back. The resolution had been vetoed by the Mayor. . The Mayor's veto was based on the urgent requests of property-owners in the neighborhood in question, protesting against the establishment of a police station at that point. He thought that the site offered by James W. Taylor on Polkk street, between Washington and Jackson, would serve the same purpose and satisfy the property-owners. The Edith-street sewer assessment mat- ter was referred back to the Street Com- mittee. The following titions and were read and rem-md to the committees for consideration: Property-owners, for the raising of the grade f Carlos place, off O'Farrell street. Julian Carey, to grade Broderick street from Union to Greenwich. Harry Monroe, complaining of bad sewerage at 3364 Bush street. Pro{eny- owners, for the fl:udln‘ of A street, between Eighth and Tenth avemues. Leach & Lea, to alier a show-window at 914 Market street. rotests ifferent Mrs. Vaughn, to erect a canvas awningat1l Mason street. Richmond District Improve- ment Association, for the closing of and re- moval of bodies’ from the City Cemetery and that a new site for the cemetery be secured. Mery Schneider, to lay wooden sidewsalks on Twenty-fourth street, between Noe and Castro. Ruhland, for alease of block 20, bounded by Point Lobos, Clement, Twenty-inth and Thirtieth avenues. P. McFadden and oth- ers, for the cancellation of erroneous per- sonal property assessments. Property-owners for the grading of Hampshire street, from Fif- teenth to Sixteenth. Property owners, for the condemnation of the sewer in Bryant, between Twentieth and Twenty-first. Merchants’ Asso- clation, requesting that no action be taken upon the bids for a garbage crematory until the association makes a report on the subject. D. Hewes, to slter premises on the corner of Mar- ketand Sixth. “W. C. Raisch, for release {rom his contract to_constructa sewer in Dorland street from Church to Dolores. California Foundry Company, to erect an_engine and boiler on Harrison' street, near Main. F. L. Turpin, for enforcement of the order to lay down sidewaiks on Bartlett, between Twenty- first and Twenty-second. Mary Torpiano, for the removal of a fence in the rear of her lot on Edith street. San Francisco Schwaben Verein, fora masquerade ball permit. C. Richards, for the laying of a sidewalk on Diamond strest, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth. Mrs. B. F. Williams, for the removal of obstructions from Michigan street, between Twentieth and Twenty-first. The board then adjourned. OFFICERS SQUABBLING. Conflict Between the State and Federal Authorities Over the Two Trenton Robbers. Edward Norton and Emilio Murillo, the Trenton postoflice robbers, were indicted by the United States Grand Jury yesterday. Both are now in jail at San Rafael undera State charge of highway robbery. They were arrested a few days ago by Constable F. M. Collins of Petaluma. There is some conflict between the Federal and State authorities as to which should have the right to prosecute them. Murillo and Norton went to the Trenton postoftice on the evening of the 7th inst. and held up at the pistol’s muzzle Mrs. Glass, the postmistress, and her daughter, who acts as her assistant. They took $8 worth of postage stamps of various de- nominations, but nothing else. According to what Norton says, he advised Murillo to leave the stamps alone, but the latter threatened to shoot him if he did not take the stampss Next day a woodchopver found the stamps about three miles from Trenton, tied up in a red handkerchief and con- cealed in some brush. So Mrs. Glass did not lose anytning of pecuniary value by her unpleasant experience. Shortly after a man _was held up on the road and Norton and Murillo were arrested and identified as the robbers. They were charged with highway robbery, and the State authorities now refuse to turn them over to the United States Marshal. RUN OVER AT SURNYSIDE: An 0ld Dairy Woman Killed by a Southern Pacific Train. Was Driving‘ er Cows Across the Track at the Time and Trying to Save One of Them. A poor old woman was run over by a Southern Pacific train at Sunnyside yester- day forenoon and killed. Both her legs were broken in several places and her head was frightfully battered. She was Mrs. Ellen Fury, 52 years of age, and a native of Ireland. She eked out an existence by keeping some cows and selling milk to her neighbors. Her home was a humble wooden shanty in the rear of the New York dairy at Sunnyside. The accident was due to the woman’s cagerness to save a cow and the train’s high rate of speed. She was driving her cows, five in number, across the railroad track, and one of them was slow and awkward enough to get a hoof caught in some manner. Mrs. Fury tried to save the cow and she succeeded, but just as she got the cow out of the way the 8:15 San Jose and San Luis Obispo train (No. 5) dashed along and struck the old woman. The train stopped when it was too late, and she was picked up and carried on to Ocean View, where Dr. Vandre was called to attend her. In a little while sne breathed her last. The explanation given by the engineer was that it was an unfortunate accident. He supposed when he first saw the cows that they would all be out of the way in time; that is, that the noise of the train would frighten them. He said he did not see the woman until it was too late, owing to the rate of speed. The track is straight there, but the speed necessary isso great, he said, that it is simply impoasigle to stop the train unless an object on the track is seen at a great distance. Besides, the general habit is, the engineer argued, to suppose that people will keep out of the way of an approaching train for their own safety. There were several witnesses to the acci- dent, among them Charles Geiger and two girlsnamed Annie and Essie Ewell. Essie, who is only 12 years of age, described it subsmntin}lvl[y as follows: *‘It was Mrs. Fury’s custom to drive her cows across the track to the adjoining hill to graze because the grass there is good. The train was coming along at full speed. I don’t think any whistle blew or any bell was rung. At any rate, I aon’t remember hearing any. he train_always goes through this cut fast and Mrs. Fury was t0o old to move rapidly. She had a good many narrow escapes. 1 wonder she wasn’t killed before.”” The home of the woman is situated about 300 feet from the scene of the acci- dent and she has lived there for the past twelve years. Her only companion, has been her nephew, James Boland, an Ingle- side laborer, who has been living with her for about nine months. About mix years ago she secured a divorce from her hus- band on the ground of cruel treatment. The case was reported to the Coroner’s office and Deputy Coroners McInnis and O’Brien went out and took charge of the woman'’s remains, which were brought to the Morgue. Police Officer Herve fook the case in hand and if he finds that the circum- stances of the accident are such as to show that the engineer was criminally respon- sible he will have him arrested pendin the result of the Coroner’s inquest. iismage suit against the company may fol- ow. ——————— MRS. CAROTHERS DEAD. The Wife of One of the Prominent Attorneys of Ukiah. Mrs. T. L. Carothers of Ukiah, wife of one of the well-known citizens of Califor- nia, is dead. Her husband was a Presi- dential elector from this State when Presi- dent Harrison was elected, and he is one of the best known attorneys of California, Some years ago bhe ran for Congress, and was recently spoken of as the prospective Attorney-General. He has been president of the Boara of Directors of the Ukiah In- sane Asylum. Mrs. Carothers was ill only three days. Detective Reynolds returned to the City yes terday afternoon on the steamer Umatilla from Seattle with J. D, L. McGaughey, who is wanted here on the charge of forgery. The complain- ingwitness is John Brenan, representi the San Francisco Paving Company, who alleges that McGaughey forged names of property- owners to contracts for paving, receiving his commission thereon. ———e———— All Agree. GREAT AMERICAN IMFORTING TEA CO. Sells Crockery, Chinaware, Glassware and Tinware CHEAPEST OF ALL. TRY THEM. Very Pretty Dishes. Very Cheap Prices. 52 Market street, S, F., Headquarters. BRANCH BTORES EVERYWHERE. NOT A SON OF SIR ROBERT PEEL, Nat Feldman, Variety Actor, Characterized as an Impostor. HIS FACTS DO NOT FIT. Claims to Be the Eldest Son of a Man Who Is Not Married. THE SIR ROBERT OF TO-DAY. J. F. Russell Peel, Grandson of Sir Robert of History, Is a Resi- dent of This City. J. F. Russell Peel of this City, grandson of Sir Robert Peel of history, shrugged his shoulders yesterday when he in so many words his belief that the young man was simply after Miss Sanford’s money, and charged him with having com- mitted forgery. All this information was given out by young Peel himself. He admitted also that the young lady had written to him breaking off the engagement. He said that the old gentleman’s charge that he was a libertine was based upon an esca- pade in which he had figured with Mrs. Langtry, when he “took that lady away from Gebhard,”” as he himself said. He was at that time engaged to marry a beau- tiful young lady—Miss Lane Fox—but his conduct with the Jersey Lily, which was the sensation of a year at Monte Carlo, leit her no alternative but to break 1t off. Since that timethe then Sir Robert Peel has died, and the young man referred to, now about 38 years of age, has succeeded to the title. Possibly, however, his rever- sionary life interest 1n his father’s estate, also his life interest in the old baronet’s life insurance, have been sold—a result of his proflizacy. This is the man that Nat Feldman, the Bella Union variety man, familiarly re- fers to as his “governor.” He did not, know, however, that there was a real scion of the house of Peel in this City capable of fatally puncturing his claims and correct- ing his history. Mate Orr Held for Cruelty. First Mate Charles V. Orr of the American ship John McDonald was held by United S.ates Commissioner Heacock yesterday for brutally beating J. W. Smith, a sailor. The story told b( Smith and his witnesses, Otto Anderson and Martin Olsen, wasthat Orr ordered Smith to go aloft, that Smith was bareheaded at the_ time and went to get his hat and that this made the mate angry—so angry that he knocked Smith down and beat him about the face. Orr’s bail J. Russell Peel. was asked for an opinion as to the Bella Union variety actor who claims to be “an eldest son”” of the Sir Robert Peel of to- day. Russell Peel isa young man under 30 years of age.. He is in business in this City and has been for some years at 310 Pine street. He is a son of Archibald Peel, grandson of Sir Robert the great. “I am extremely averse to newspaper notoriety, especially in connection with a disagreeable subject of this kind,” said Mr. Peel. “8till Tdo not think it right that this man should be permitted to make capital at the expense of the name of Peel. Ido not know the man; I never heard of him until he appeared in the papers here as the eldest son of a man who is not mar- ried. S8ir Robert Peel of to-day is a young man himself and, as I say, is not and never has been married. Consequently the main prop of the variety man’s story being taken away there is no need of denying its de- tails. I may only add that in every other part of the story of which, in its relation to the Peel family, I would have knowl- edge, it is all equally false. Itis remark- able, I may add, the number of people who come here to make capital by the use of old and well-known English and other foreign names.” This was all that Mr. Peel cared to say about the matter, but he was evidently very much chagrined at being called upon to come into public notice to deny the claims of a stranger to a name of which he is, with reason, proud. “Nat Feldman,” the variety man who claims to be the eldest son of Sir Robert Peel, had evidently not studied his Peer- age sufficiently before he entered upon the ‘‘eldest son’’ business. Still, as he is not running bills of expensive totals on the strength of the Peel name, or even play- ing a part calculated to infatuate the eligi- ble heiresses of Nob Hill, he may be said to have made his point in the advertising already secured. But even a casual familiarity with cur- rent news should have protected him against the error of claiming to be the “eldest son” of Sir Robert Peel. The present Sir Robert Peel has held the title but about a year. Within two years he figured largely in newspaper stories that were telegraphed over the country by the column, in which he was represeneed as trying to induce an American young lady to marry him, and in which the American young lady, seconded, or perhaps superin- duced, by a stern father, flatly refused to do so. The American young lady in the case was Miss Kittie Sanford of Bridgeport, Conn., granddaughter of Henry Sanford, president of the Adams Express Company, and daughter of Professor Samuel Sanford of Yale College, and the richest man in Bridgeport. It wasn the latter part of August, 1894, that the present Sir Robert Peel, then plain Mr. Robert, came over from England expecting to make Miss Kittie his bride. She was then 19, and her wealthy grand- father intended she should marry Harry Shelton, a member of the law firm which had charge of the business of the Adams Express Company. Miss Sanford had been educated at Paris, and while there it was that she met Mr, Peel. He said he met her at Monte Carlo, confessed that he had fallen in love with her and had proposed marriage; and he -said further, that she had accepted him. But her father, who was present, objected, and, he said, sug- gested that they wait a year. At the ex- piration of the time he came over, went to Bridgeport, but was unable to see Miss Sanford. He then called upon the grandfather in New York, and that old gentleman gave him what, if it was to-day, would be termed a pronounced case of glassy eye. He called Mr. Peel a libertine, and stated Nat Peel. was fixed at $1000, and Smith and his two witnesses were ordered to be kept in jail until the trial to insure their appearance. CUT OFF THE DOG'S TAIL How George Brown Tried to Cure His Yellow Cur of Fits. The Surgical Operation Interested Secretary Holbrook, and Brown Will Be Arrested. According to statements made to Charles Ho‘lbmok, secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, George Brown, who lives on Fourteenth street, has discovered a new way to cure a dog of fits. From the story told to Secretary Hol- brook it seems that Brown has a yellow dog, one of the common ordinary kind, that is subject to fits. Brown studied the case of his yellow dog carefuily with a view of effecting a per- manent cure of the aiiing canine. Some one told him that a similar disease in human beings was the result of nervous afflictions. Brown knew enough about anatomy to realize that there is some con- nection between the nervous system and the spinal cord. From what took place it is evident that he believed that a shock to the nerves of the spinal cord would prove a preventive of fits. A few days ago Brown’s ocher-hued ca- nine had another fit and the owner de- cided upon - giving the dog a shock that would cure theillness. Not wishing to give it to the dog in the neck for fear of the ex- periment proving fatal to the dog, Brown seized the four-footed sufferer by the caudal extremity and led the animal backward to a chopping block. One stroke of the hatchetand the yellow dog and his tail parted company foreyer. There was not enough tail left attached to the dog for the latter to wag a friendly greeting to an acquaintance. j ‘Whether the experiment in the interest of suffering dogdom proved satisfactory is not learned, but Secretary Holbrook will make an inquiry. He says that he will cause Brown’s arrest for cruelty to an ani- mal in amputating the yellow dog’s tail, as the operation was not performed ac- cording to the latest methods prescribed in works on scientific surgery. NEW TO-DAY. In a Vice. Feet feel that way in stiff, hard shoes. Goodyear Welt shoes are easy, flexible, com- fortable. All dealers sell Goodyear Welts, all people may wear them. “Foot Comfort” will tell you all about them. Write for it. GCOODYEAR SHOE MAéfl'Y €O, BOSTON MONEY OUTLOCK BRIGHT, Theodore H. Price, the New York Banker, on the Improved Conditions. THE WHEAT AND COTTON CROPS Capitalists All Want the Hundred Million of Bonds—General Con- fidence Growing. Theodore H. Price, a leading broker of New York, arrived here last night and is at the Palace. Mr. Price is of the firm of Price, McCor- mick & Co., formerly Hubbard, Price & Co. In the earlier days they were very heavy dealers in cotton, handling large quantities for Japan, and they yet handle large amounts, though their attention has been turned to other products. Branch offices have been maintained in Liverpool, Savannah and Norfolk. Mr. Price says that recently business hag materially brightened in the East. The feeling of confidence has extended over the Prairie States, and throughout the country, according to Mr. Price, there is unquestionably an increased amount of prosperity. “There has been a noticeablelimprove- mentin New York,” said Mr. P: , ‘‘and it is so, as I believe, over the whole of the country. Wheat has advanced, and we have better indications every way than we have had for several years. When I left New York it was already apparent that the $100,000,000 of bonds which Mr. Cleve- land recently ordered issued would all be taken. So many applications for them were made thut the applicants cannot all be accommodated. “I am convinced that when we get a new administration a year hence, a Repub- lican one, sound on the finances, we will enter on such a period of prosperity as has not been experienced for a long time. Meanwhile everything 1s now in good shape for an improved condition of the finances. “Wheat is rising, as_before mentioned, and I notice that 1n California the advance has made considerable difference in the business feeling, as it has elsewhere. It may continue to rise, as the indications are that the crop of fall wheat east of the Rocky Mountains will bea little light. As for cotton the price has risen materially, and the growers of Texas and other Southern States are making a great deal of money. “However, when_ cotton is high here the Japanese usually turn to East India for their supply. That does not matter to us, however, so long as prices are good. “‘Other products are alsc commanding better figures. There is everywhere a healthier feeling in business. Men are more ready to make investments. Confi- dence is being restored. To my mind there | is general prosperity ahead. Everything points in that direction, and I believe there is a better feeling throughout the whole of America.” | Mr. Price was in California last, and, in | fact, for the first time in 1890. He nas come out now for a brief visit with his brother, Walter W. Price, the popular San Francisco newspaper man. Mr. Price's partner in the brokerage businessis Mr, McCormick, son of the millionaire reaper~ manufacturer. AN IMPORTUNATE BEGGAR. | Charles Kane Sentenced to Thirty Days in the County Jail. | Charles Kane, astrong, healthy man, 39 years of age, was sentenced by Judge Low yesterday morning to thirty days in the County Jail, on the charge of begging. He has been annoying the residents on Ashbury Heights by importuning them on the streetsand ringing their doorbells at night after they had retired to bed. Complaints had been made to Policeman Sylvester about Kane by several of the residents, among them Emile Depierre, the architect, and Mrs. White, corner of Park road and Frederick street, and he arrested him on Saturday night. Mrs, White and Mr. Depierre testified agaiust Kane in court, and he was lucky to get off with such a light sentence. ° : —————— Dead for Several Days. At the What Cheer House, on Sacramento anq Leidesdorff streets, a laborer named F. Sullte van was iound dead yesterday in his room, No. 70. Sullivan must have been dead for several d for the body wes beginning to decoms P No one about the place could give any clear explanation as to Sullivan’s movements, except thst he ogcu}.fled the room, and it was supposed he was all right. The Case Was res ported to the Morgue by H. Harris, R On the 6th of July the earth is farthep away from the sun than at any other time, NEW TO-DAY. When Paderewski ‘Comes HE WILL PLAY THE STEINWAY PIANO SHERMAN, CLAY & CO, Cor. Kearny and Sutter Sts., Pacific Coast Representatives, Goke! Coke! Coke! CALIFORNIA AND ENGLISH. P. A. McDONALD, 809 to 813 Folsom Street, and 300 to 400 Howard Street, from Fremont to Beale. I have on hand a large quantity of S. F, Gas light Co.'s and Pacifilc Gas lmprovement go?; Coke, which [ am selling at & very low rate. Thig gkel :u suitable for Grates, Furnaces, Laundry and mily u 1 am also a direct importer of the and Belglan brands of Fatent Cokc?e\l\!';lf: I offering at reduced rates 1o Foundries, Breweries, Mining Companies and the tr EASo T ® ade in lots from 1 Couniry orders solicited. Cit; ZChaniey draae, ¥y orders delivered Will guarantee satisfaction, will suit from an experience of business. as 1 know what 25 years in the Office 813 Folsom Street. 4