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2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1896. on the eighth and ninth floors, facing the fire. The wall of the Hazeltine building tower- ing three stories above the dry-goods store of Homer Le Boutellier & Co., fetl upon the latter place and crashed through a sky- light in the center of the store into the cellar. The firemen, however, poured a great volume of water upon the smoking mass of bricks and saved the store from destruction. It was not until the Hazel- tine and Baptist buildings had been en- tirely destroyed, and after five hours of hard work, that the fire was subdued. The Hazeltine building was owned by Charles F. Hazeltine, an art-dealer. The ground floor was occupied by the Stetson Piano Company and the second floor by Mr. Hazeitine as an art gallery. The rest of the building was taken up with studios and offices. The loss on the building is probably $250,000, and Mr. Hazeltine claims that his stock of pictures was worth $150,000. The building was fully insured and there was a partial insurance on the pictures. J. B. Woodford, manager of the Stetson company, could not estimate his loss, but it is probably about $75,000, fully insured. The loss to the tenants of the building ‘will probobly foot up $25,000 more. The loss to the American Baptist Publication Bociety is $250,000 on stock and n.achinery and $150,000 on the building. On the stock shere is an insurance of $200,000 and on the building of §115,000. In the cellar of the Baptist Publication Society in vauits is $300,000 worth of plates of publications and it is not known whether these have been destroyed. The most serious loss to the publication so- ciety is the destruction of the valuable hibrary of the Baptist Historical Society and several hundred papers of the de- nomination that cannot be replaced. The tenants of the publication society’s build- ing lose about $25, Homer Le Boutellier & Co.’s loss is §75,- 000, covered by insurance.. The loss on the Lafayette Hotel is $75,000 by fire and water, and is covered by insurance. The hotel is owned by the Moro Phillips es- tate and is leased by H. C. Smith, a well- known Western hotel man. The hotel was reopened last evening for guests. Eight or nine of the firemen were in- jured by falling bricks, but none of them were dangerously hurt. Frank Hines of Pittsburg, a guest at the Lafayette Hotel, in descending the stairs tripped and fell, breaking his arm and several ribs. These were the only casualties. Lo THEOWN FROM THE ROOF. A Father’s Efforts to Save His Children From Cremation. NEW YORK, N, Y., Feb. 2.—While a fire was in progress at 30 Rivington street early this morning Joseph Kushner threw his four children from the roof of hishouse to the roof of No. 32, a fall of about thirty feet. Bertha, 8years old, a cripple, had one of her legs broken. The others suf- fered from the shock, but were otherwise uninjured. Mrs. Kushner, who tried to slide down a wire clothesline, fell when part way down and broke both legs. The father afterward jumped, but suffered no injury. The fire started in the rooms of Maurice Price, a shipping clerk, who lives on the fourth floor of the house. The flames were extinguished with slight pecuniary loss. STILL BLOCKED BY JONES, Early Action on the Tariff Bill in the Senate Is Not Likely. Cuban and Venezuelan Guestions Will Afford Opportunity for Debate. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 2. —The Senate does not convene again until Tues- day. It basno unfinished business before it, and consequently the course of proced- ure during the week may depend largely upon the action of the Finance Committee upon the tariff bill. Republicans hope to be ableto report that measure Tuesday, but Jones of Nevada,who holds the balance of power in the committee, and who has insisted upon the sugar schedule being raised in the same proportion as the other schedules, stated yesterday that he thought the bill would not be ready to report on Tuesday. This was some hours after the free-silver amendment had passed the Senate, and is therefore regarded as indi- cating that Jones’ opposition to the ageedy reporting of the tariff bill has some- thing besides silver back of it. Dubois has kept his resolution providing for a distri- bution of the appropriation bills amons the various committees in the backeroun because of his desire not to antagonize the silver bill. That being now out of the way, it is not unlikely that he may call this resolution up at an early day. The Cuban resolution, reported last week, and the Davis resolution on the Monroe doctrine, both of which are on the calendar, may possibly be taken up, and if so will afford abundant opportunity for debate. ‘The majority and minority report in the Dupont case, involving the seat of a Senator from Delaware, will be called up as a privileged question by Mitchell, chair- man of the Committee on Privileges and Eiections, at the first opportunity. For routine matters the Senate has the urgency deficiency and pension lp;;:'oprin- tion bills ready for consideration. Neither of them is likely to call out acy great amount of discussion. R When the bond-sale bill with the Sen- ate’s free-coinage amendment is reported in the House of Representatives to-mor- Tow it will probably be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and, if so, on Tuesday next when that committee meets it willundoubtedly recommend non- concurrence in the 'Senate amendment, But whether or not this bill so amended shall be permitted to at once engage the attention of the House to the exclusion of other business has not been determined. The probabilities are said te be that 1t will be sent to conference without much de- bate, and the House will proceed witl the appropriation oille. The District of Columbia appropriation bill is already on the calendar, and the In- dian aud military bilis are simply waiting to be reported from the committees having charge of their preparation. The Foreign Affairs Committee will be ready at scme time during the week to re- Eon the resolution censurinz Embassador ayard for his speeches at Edinburgh and Boston, England, and an interesting de- bate will doubtless occur when that mat- ter is called up for action, o M DEATH ENDS HIS SUFFERING. Passing of Lieutenant-Commander Car- mody of the Navy. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 2.-—Lieuten- ant-Commander Robert A. Carmody, U. 8. N. (retired), died at his residence in this city at 7o’clock this mornmng. He had been in bad health about a year. Lieuten- ant-Commander Carmody was of the class of naval cadets of 1867. B i Colorado Mines Sold. COLORADO SPRINGS, Covo., Feb. 2.— The Easter Bell group of mines on Ball Hill has been bought by a New York firm for $100,000, ana the Little Johnny has also been taken by Eastern capitalists for ,000. GERMANS AL AT GAEAT BAITA Scornful Commentaries on the Speech of Lord Salisbury. BITTER PRESS-ATTACKS. England Accused of Hypocrisy in Dealing With the Turk. ITALY AND THE DREIBUND. Belief That King Humbert’s Govern- ment Will Not Desert to the Island Empire. BERLIN, GeErMAnY, Feb, 2.—The reia- tions between the Governments of Ger- many and Great Britain have not shown any signs of improvement within the last few days and particularly since it became known that the diplomatic efforts of the latter have been directed toward involving Italy in the arrangement between Russia and Turkey, in an agreement independent of her present allies. The treaty bind- ing the Triple Alliance—Austria, Germany and Italy—will fall renewable in 1897. Hitherto Germany and Austria have had no reason io suppose that there would be any change in the relations of the con- tracting Governments which would cause Italy to desire to alter the terms of the Dreibund pact, but within the last two weeks Signor Crispi, Prime Minister of | Italy, is reported to have sent instructions to the Itatian Embassadors at Venna and Berlin to sound the respective Govern- ments to which those diplomats are ac- credited as to their views in regard to important modifications of the responsi- bilities of Italy under the conditions of the present treaty, and as the result of Crispi’s correspondence with his representatives at foreign courts Count Nigra, Italian Em- bassador to Austriz, an ardent supporter of the Triple Alliance, has gone to Rome to influence the maintenance of the Drei- bund. In ofhcial circles here no alarm is felt that Italy’s entire withdrawal irom the terms of the treaty upon its expiration will be sought and accomplished, it being | held that as long as Crispi is in power that | would be improbable, if not impossible. The embarrassments of the Italian Gov- ernment, through its expenditures on men and money in Abyssinia, are recog- | nized as supplying a fair reason for Lhei belief that there may be some reason fora | few minor changes inthe treaty, but the Vienna Government seems to have taken an alarm, - especially since the intrigues of Lord Salisbury against Germany have assumed a tendency to cut off Italy from the Triple Alliance. As an immediate result of the new de- velopments, negotiations with a view to the determination of a new treaty are about to be accelerated. That the Berlin Government will not await the movements of the British Government to ascertain how the Dreibund stands goes without saying, The passionate language indulged in by the semi-official German press in referring to Lord Salisbury’s policy in Armenia has behind it more than official inspiration dare denote. Not only does the divergence of policy between the Ger- man and English Governments increase, but the policy of their respective plans increases also. The British blue book on the situation in Armenia, which has just been issued, together with Lord Salisbury’s speech, is in the meantime becoming a surface motive for a German attack upon Englanda. The North German Gazette finds in this official publication reason easily arrived at that the British Government delayed pub- licity of the report contained in the book, not because England did not desire to further arouse the public against the Turk, but because the current stories of the massacres in Armenia were found upon investization to have been greatly minimized. The conflicts between the Armenians and the Turks at Sassoun have shown their origin in the deviltry of agi- tators who hatched plots involving vio- lence and disorders. The Cologne Gazette, in an article upon this subject, congratulates Germany and other Continental powers upon having es- caped involving the possible breaking up of the Turkish empire; and the National Zeitung, the Hamburger Nachrichten and mostof the otherinfluential German jour- nals concur in rejoicing over the defeat of Lord Salisbury and in denouncing British hypocrisy and menaacity in connection with affairs in the East. The critical condition of foreign affairs has altered the plans which the Emperor had made for his spring outing. Accord- ing to his present programme he has abandoned his notion of going on the Mediterranean yachting trip and the Empress has also given up her sojourn at Abazzia. The Kaiser on Thursday had a long con- ference at the Foreign Office with Baron Marschall von Bieberstein, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and had a prolonged in- terview on Friday with M. De Szegyeny- Marich, the Austrian Embassador. Having been successiul in getting rid of Dr. Stoecker, formerly court chaplain, through his enforced resignation on ac- count of Lis refusal to declare himself against the doctrines of the Christian So- cialists, the Conservatives are thinking of throwing overboard Herr von Ploetz, who is the president of the Agrarian league. The Boersen Courier, in an article on this subject, says it has been only through the intervention of Baron von Manteuffel that Herr von Ploetz has been thus far saved, his excess of zeal in behalf of purely Agrar- ian interests having embarassed the lead- ers of the Conservative party in their plans for reconciliation with the Government. The Munich Allgemeine Zeitung accu- rately gives expression to the conservative sentiment in proclaiming the necessity for the return of the party to its old traditions and the cessation of its opposition to the Government rather than pursue the aim of a union of all parties of order against the common foe—socialism. According to the Berlin Post the reform of the military laws which has been prom- ised will not be brought before the Reich- stag this session. The time of that body will be absorbed by consideration of the civil code. An active agitation is proceed- ing #mong. the German women with the | missary of the German police, has arrived ances which the present code ignores, and ivisthe intention of the leadersof the movement to petition-the Reichstag for the introduction of eiauses in the code which will concede to married women power to dispose of their own property Wwithout requiring the consent of their husbands. It is also sought on behalf of married women that they may absolutely control their own estate, and use the earn- ings thereof as they may see fit. As the law stands at present the women of Ger- many are distinctly inferior in position to the males. It is not believed that the Reichstag will grant the demands of the petition, as the advocates of women’s rights are chiefly found in the ranks of the Socialists. The fetes which took place on the occa- sion of the thirty-seventh birthday of the Kaiser, on January 27, gave the old Ber- lin Aldermen an opportunity to relate how the Emperor’'s father, Kaiser Frederick 11T, when he was Crown Prince, invited a depu- tation of the Aldermanic body, then in office, to come to the palace and see his baby son and heir—the present- Emperor. The story, as told, is that the babe was carried by the Crown Prince and was vassed along the line of the deputation. Attracted by the brightness of the gold chains worn by the Aldermen the infant seized one of them and held tWe chain tightly, compelling the obese Alderman to follow along the line until its father re- leased its hold. As the little one was forced to relinguish his hold upon the chain he raised his hand in anger and at the same time set up a roar of rage, where- upon the father said : “You see a real Hohenzollern. Whathe once seizes hold of he never lets go."” The Bundesrath has adopted the Goy- ernment bill increasing the bounty on sugar and it will now be considered in the Reichstag and undoubtedly pass that body. The Emperor and alt the Ministry are favorable to it. There was a strong minority opposed to it in the Bundesrath, mainly composed of representatives from the South German States. Buaron von Hammerstein, the abscond- ing ex-editor of the Kreuz Zeitung, who was recently arrested in Athens by a com- here in custody of his captor and is in jail awaiting trial. Among the personsarrested in Hamburg for an attempt to rob the North German Bank in that city are three Americans. Two of them gave their names as Titts, claiming to be brothers, and the other gave the name of Taylor. All of them claim to be commission merchants in New York. The members of the Berlin Bourse held a mass-meeting yesterday, at which a reso- lution was passed pledging the Bourse to oppose the Gavernment’s bill which aims to suppress what the measure describes as illegal bourse transactions. Frau Friedmann, wife of the Berlin law- yer Fritz Friedmann who recently ab- sconded with another woman and a large sum of money belonging to his clients, made her debut as a singer in a Berlin music hall last evening, and scored a nota- ble success. The”announcement of her appearance was sufficient to crowd the theater, and the lady was greeted with prolonged applause. The Minister of War has issued a decree making it obligatory that all non-commis- sioned officers in the German army, in- cluding sergeants and corporals, shall be conversant with shorthand work, and pre- seribing the Stoltz- system as that which shall be generally used. HEARS S OWN DI Dramatic Suicide of a Young Swede in a Chicago Saloon. Ends His Life While a Pianist Plays His Country’s National Hyman, CHICAGO, IrL., Feb. 2.—John Malm- berg, a young Swede, made his exit from the world in a dramatic manner shortly | after 12 o’clock last night. He placed a revolver to his head and blew out his brains in the saloon of Nels Neuman, 120 Chicago avenue, whiie the piano-player was ren- dering the Swedish national hymn. The resort was crowded with people at the time. Neumax’s saloon isa favorite resort for the Swedish residents, who are plentiful in the vicinity, and last night there was con- siderable festivity in the place. About12 o’clock Malmberg came in and took several girinks. He was well dressed and seemed to be in good spirits. He conversed with several of the young men for some time and then walked over to the piano-player. . “Play the Swedish hymn,” requested Malmberg, handing the performer a small coin. The vpiano-player readily agreed and started the melody. He was in the midst of it when Malmberg attracted the attention of all by shouting: ‘‘Gentlemen !’ Every one turned to look at the young man. He held a revolver in his right hand. The next moment the patrons were horrified at seeing him place the weapon to his r:‘fzht temple. There was an explo- sion and the youth fell forward on his face, expiring instantly. [ ————— . CARRIED OUT TO SEA. Two Men and @ Woman Lost Of Swin- burne Island. ; NEW YORK, N.Y.; Feb. 2.—Colonel Arnold, the superintendent of Swinburne Island Hospital, reports that during his absence yesterday three of his cmproyes, John F. Furguson, the boatman, Louis Von Moes, the butler, and Mary von Moes, the cook, wife of the butler, started for South Beach in a small boat and have not been heard of since their departure. At the time of leaving, a dense fog prevailed in the lower bay, and it is feared that they have been carried to sea by the ebb tide. FETET D, JOINED WITR CLOVERDALE. Healdsburg Took a Iively Interest in Citrus Culture. HEALDSBURG, Car, Feb. 2.—The in- terest in Cloverdale’s citrus fair was not confined to that place alone, Indeed, over | four hundred residents of this place viewed the exhibits and an effort will be made by Healdsburgers to get some of the shares in the Cloverdale Citrus Fair Association. Last winter twelve hundred orange trees were planted in this locality, and local nurserymen say -that over 2000 orange treesand 600 lemon trees have alrea been enzaged this winter. The Dry Crae{ Valley is esvecially adapted to citrus fruits and several small groves are already in bearing. An Oldtime Packet. . One of the most famous of the oldtime packet lines of ships is at present repre- sentad by a single ship, the (;mt Admiral, which, under command of Captain Rowell, recendy arrived at Boston in. 132 days from Manila with a big cargo of hemp. She is the last of the old “Black Horse’ line, which, when the firm of Baker, Weld & Ca. was in its prime, consisted of twenty- CLAIMS HIS DEAD - SISTERS ESTATE Case Recalling Lively Inci- dents in -Sacramento’s Early Days. THE WOMAN’S HISTORY. Shot and Killed a Stage-Driver and Left Her Bondsmen in the Lurch.. SACRAMENTO UNION EXTRACTS. She Was a Wealthy and Beautiful Woman With a Penchant for Gambling. SACRAMENTO, CaL, Feb. 2—C. C. Brown, who went from this city to New Orleans a short time ago to claim the es- tate left by his deceased sister, has found several other claimants who will contend with him for it. He has therefore written to Justice Henry, stating that his sister shot a man in Sacramento in the early fifties, asking him to interview several old citizens and get what information he can coneerning the matter, as he thinks it will form a corroborating link in the evidence which is necessary to establish his claim by proving the woman’s identity. The shooting to which. Brown refers did actually take place. In those days Sacra- mento was a lively place and sensational episodes were of daily and nightly occur- rence. The city was then a great stage center and stage-drivers were very impor- tant personages and much in evidence. Oneof this class, Albert Putnam, went one night to a Second-street house in company with some friends and became involved in an altercation with Fanny Smith, and she shot him. The particulars of the affair are given in the Union of December 21, 1852, as follows: About 9 o'clock on the evening of the 20th, Albert Putnam, who was a stagedriver on the Auburn road, in company with some friends went to the Palace, on Second stréet, between TendJ,as he had often done, being in the habit of taking parcels there. The house is kept by Fannie Smith, as she is known. She was somewhat intoxicated and is known to be, when in that condition, a desperate woman. She demanded that Putnem buy a bottle of wine and he refused. They had a quarrel and during it he told her to ““dry up” and threat- ened her 1f she did not do so. She ordered him to leave the house and he refused to do so unless his friends approved of it. She went to the back part of the house and one of his friends, who was acquainted with her violent disposition, advised him to leave. As he had just stepped outside of the door she returned with a Colt's five-shooter and fired at his back, the ball striking him just under the shoulder blade and passing through his body, lodging just under the skin in front. He was taken to the City Exchange, on Second street, by his friends. She ran out on the street in the meantime and inquired for a policeman and the Marshal met her and took her to the station-house. Crowds began to gather almost immediately on the streets, and. the opinion was freely ex- pressed that she ought to be hanged. The sen- timent gained ground and the continually sug- mented crowd moved down toward the station- house. As it was evident that their intention was to lynch her several citizens hastened to the sta. tion-house in advance of the mob and warned Captain Mace, who was in charge. He had a boat ready for the emergency and took Fanny out and deposited her in the prison brig, in the river. The Marshal then addressed the angry crowd, telling them that she was securely in custody. pledged his reputation for her safe keeping, and aiter considerable expostulation succeeded in caiming them down in spite of inflamma- tory addresses by others, and aiter many threats they departed. The inmates of the house, meantime, fearing the mob, had packed up their belongings, ready to leave, but a strong force of police was siationed there and in an hour or two all was quiet. ‘The Union of December 23 speaks of “Fanny Seymour, alias Smith,”” as being tall and graceful, a beautiful woman, with a fair complexion and light-gray eyes, strongly marked and expressing in' an eminent degree the possession of strong passions and implacable animosities. Another issue gives thestatement of a gen- tleman who said that he had seen the photographs of her two children, who were at that time in a' convent in Louisi- ana, and had read a letter to their mother from the superior. The paper, in one of the articles quoted, also states that she was considered, at the timeof the shooting, to be worth about $100,000, and that she was evidently pos- sessed of marked business ability. She was also a reckless gambler. She was intimate at the time with Reub Raines, one of the most prominent gam- blers in the city, who ran the El Dorado gambling saloon, and an old citizen says she would often mount a bench near the gambling tables and throw over a $20 piece, with a direction where to place it. It was generally known in the city at that time she was the sister of Mrs. Mc- Cormack, who was also a sister of Brown, and who left him her property. She was admitted to bail, depositing $3000, Raines being one of her bondsmen, but jumped her bail and managed to escape from the State, and ber bondsmen paid the money. EOSSIP FAOM NEW YORK, Experts Seem to Be of the Opinion That the St. Paul Is Doomed. Truly the Salvation Army Is Not Re- garded as a Rabble on the Streets. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 2.—Bids for the new Government bonds will be opened by the Secretary of the Treasury next Wednesday. It is all guesswork as to the result, although no one verson believes that the loan will fail, unless Congress should make a silver break between now and that'date. The tip went around Wall street yesterday thatimportant bids ought not to be forwarded under 109. It was also remarked that President John A. Stewart of the United States Trust Com- eight vessels, and went a long way toward laying the foundations of some of Boston’s fortunes of the present time.—New York object of obtaining the redressof griev- Tribune. pany, who is coaxing bond-bidders into a blind pool in order to fix an upset price, will make an announcement Monday. The price of Government bonds on the market has been declining of late, and‘l | they are down pretty low. Whether this is the result of natural causein anticipa- tion of the new issue, or artful manipula- tion by speculators, are questions diflqnlt to answer, Since John A. Stewart became active in tbe bond business, J. Pierpont Morgan has lapsed into innocuous desuetude, and the gossips say the great banker is sulking. He has a little deal on in Reading securities that will net him about $1,000,000. Further and further in the grasping sands of Jersey the steamship St. Paul is being buried, and as each succeeding tide rises and recedes her condition becomes more precarious. The freeing of the ves- sel seemed at first a matter of hours, ac- cording to wreckers and American line people; then days were talked of, and now the men even speak of weeks. The opinion of experts is that the ship is doomed. A large sum of money must be expended if she is moved to deep water again, For the first time in a good many years there was a suspicion of Frenchiness about the French ball held at the Madison- square Garden last night. There was more of the element that ten years ago made the ball an event, not alone a display of tawdry costumes and vulgarity. The gar- den was decorated tastefully. The last year it looked like & barn. This year there were long rows of pavilion-like boxes draped in red and white, and other decora- tions on roof and wall. g The grand march brought out a gay array of women in brilliant costumes, and there was a parade and ballet dancing by a special corps. Two bands kept the air full of music. ‘There wes no boisterous revelry, and the crowd seemed to be mak- ing its own acquaintance, the men some- what surprised at finding their partners representing a higher plane than in for- mer years; the women, who seemed to be in the majority, at little loss perhaps at finding the tough element rather scarcer than they had expected. At midnight there was a good-sized crowd and the influx from the theaters was increasing it rapidly with every suc- ceeding minute. Word had gone abroad| that it was to be a quiet ball; that there would be dancing on the floor, not rioting, and that the football rushes which swept the floor clean in the final hours of last year would be checked by the police. All in all, the prospects were for a French ball which should redeem the fallen reputation of the fraternity. Since the announcement of Mr. and Mrs. Ballington Booth’s recall people who look upon the Salvation Army as a rabble of the low and ignorant, whose chief ob- ject in life is to make a noise in the streets, have been wondering why such strenuous efforts should be made to keep them in this country, - Mrs, Bo oth has made man friends since she has been here,and her popularity has not been confined to the ranks of the army. She is a graceful speaker and a cultured woman, who has gifts that might have won fame for her had she vone on the stage. New York, socially, tried to make a fad of her several years ago, and she was in- vited to speak in drawing-rooms that never before had been invaded by the Sal- vation Army. Shetalked to the audiences | in these drawing-rooms about the work of | the army, and she got their money to sup- port it. Then Mrs. Booth went up to Vassar and told the young women there about her work, and they organized an auxiliary league to assist her. She spoke before | several clubs, always appearing in her army uniform. She is to-day the most popular officer in the army’s ranks in the country, and she has done much to lend dignity to the work in which she is inter- ested. “Pedlar” Palmer has evinced a willing- ness to fight Jimmy Barry under the aus- pices of the National Sporting Club in May next, and Richard K.Fox hasagreed to offer a gold and diamond belt to represert the bantam-weight championship of the world. Palmer and his manager, Alf Snelling, called on Mr. Fox yesterday to leave a challenge to fight Dixon at 118 pounds for the belt now in the latter's possession, but were infermed that the lightwelight trophy was Dixon’s individual property, he having won it according to the conditions. Paimer's disappointment | vanished when Mr. Fox expressed his willingness to offer a new belt. Parson | Davies, who represents Barry, was the first, however, 10 propose the inaugura- tion of a new tropl:{v for bantam-weight honors and pledged himself on Barry’s be half to contend for its possession. FOGS ARE A FORTUNE. London Variety Proves a Bonanza to Thieves of That That Metropolis. There are few things that all classes of London thieves like so well'as fogs, and the thicker these latter are the better, said a detective inspector to an English writer. ‘We can always count fully on any foggy afternoon or evening bringing out hun- dreds of clever professional hands on busi- nese bent, and the reports of thefts at various centers always increase to a most appreciable extent aiter a spell of fog. onsequently our men are always very much on the lookout during snch weather. I could tell you one or two curious in- stances of thieves being, so to say, acci- dentally caught in this way. In one case about two years ago we had been on the lookout for weeks foran Amer- ican swindler who had several thqusands of pounds’ worth of stolen bonds in his possession. The inspector who had the warrant at last declared that this man must have got out of the country, but one densely foggy night the former happened to be in a quiet street not far from Bedford square, when a stranger, against whom he nearly ran, said: “Can you tell me precisely where I am? I've got mixed up, somehow !’ “Follow me and I'll show you,” said the officer, and he showed him—to the police station, for the man was the very one he had been looking for. A well-dressed gentleman was in a south- eastern suburb helped in a fearful fog by a ‘poor man, who, with his charge, took tem- vorary shelter at a police station. The gentleman explained that he had just ar-- rived from Canada, where he had been for thirty years, and that he was now looking, in this to him strange land, for a brother. Explanations followed, and the man who had helped him turned out to be the brother he was.lcoking for, I heard the story from the sergeant, who was present when tne explanation took place. But as fo fogs favoring thieves, I can only tell you that we are often rather sur- prised to see atler a spell of fog what an access of means and extravagance at their favorite resorts there is among known thieves. ——————— Remarkable Twins. Tillle and Lizzie of Philadelphia, 19 years old, are remarkable twins if the stories told of them be true. When one suffers pain the other feeis it also. Either sister can find the other in a crowd of any size “‘without hunting,” as they express it. Theresemblance between the two girly is remarkable. Both weigh exactly the same. Their recollections of past events are precisely the same. Neither one can recal ingle’ occurrence that did not happen in the presence of both. It takes the minds of both to retain a lasting recol- lection of any happening, but when the fact is once’ impressed upon the minds of both neither one forgets its least import- - ant feature. . Horseless carriages are now t0o common upon the Parisian boulevards to attract EXPAND [T LIMITS, The Board of Trade Doing Systematic Work in the Matter. A NEW WATER SYSTEM. Nearly All the Property-Owners in Outlying Districts Favor the Scheme. ENTHUSIASTIC MEETINGS HELD. The City Will Probably Be Bonded to Carry Out the Progressive Enterprise. HEALDSBURG, Cav., Feb. 2.—For the past two months the Healdsburg Board of Trade has been systematically paving the way for an increase in the size of the cor- porate limits of this city, and the putting in of a complete water system. Commit- tees have interviewed property-owners in the district desired to be annexed and nearly all are willing to come iuside the city limits. Several very enthusiastic meetings have | been held, and the miost extensive prop- erty-owners in Healdsburg have signified their desire that the City Council call an election to vote bonds to an amount suffi- cient to put in a complete water and sew- erage system. Surveyors who have worked the ground estimate the cost of the pro- posed work at $55,000. Of this sum $30,000 will be needed for the water system. It is proposed to build a reservoir on Fitch Mountain, distant two miles from | this city, and at an elevation of 185 feet, and pump the water from a well close by the bank of Russian River. . It is highly probable that at the city elec- tion to be held in April this place will put itself in line wich other progressive cities and vote the bond. BV STRUCK A GOLD LEDGE. Lucky Find of Prospectors in Dry Creek Valley. HEALDSBURG, Cax., Feb. 2.—Consid- erable interest is taken in the operations of Burton and Hopkins, who are prospect- ing on the Reynolds place in Dry Creek Valley, and it is stated on reliable author- ity that they have struck a ledge vielding sufli(i;ent gold to justify them putting up | a mill. Geo, Madeira informed a CaLy represen- tative that the work of developing ‘the re- cently located onyx ledge would be begun as soon as the road could be put in shape to permit the hauling of heavy machinery to the mine. t The Healdsburg Paint Mine is shut down, but the machinery 1s being over- hauled and put in shape for a heavy sea- son’s run. el gt = Heavy Shipment of Fruits. HEALDSBURG, CaL., Feb. 2.—During the past week seven carloads of canned fruits, two carloads of prunes, a carload of dried peaches, nine carloads of wood, four carloads of brandy, one carload of cream tartar and three carloads of wine have been shipped from this city. e ekl A Pioneer Stricken With Paralysis. HEALDSBURG, Car.. Feb. 2.—Judge A. M. Baker, a prominent picneer of So- noma County, suffered a stroke of paralysis yesterday and cannot recover. e Dog-Poisoner at Work. HEALDSBURG, Car., Feb. 2.—Some miscreant is poisoning dogs in this city. During the past three days no less than twenty canines have been sent to the happy bunting groun '« by the strychnine route, some of them ...ng very valuable., LIST YEAR CAOP HOTES The State’s Grain Harvest Below That of the Previous Year., . Output of the Beet-Sugar Factories. No More Fruit Acreage Is Required. Tne State Board of Agricultura has sub- mitted its report for the fiscal year ending January 31, 1896. The past season, it says, was the most unsatisfattory in the history of grain-growing in this State. The yield estimate was 20,779,832 bushels of wheat, against 26,071,510 of 1894, but with better prices—$1 0234, against 88 cents the pre- vious year. The wheat export of 1805 was 20,083,333, an increase of 3,767,000 over 1894. From all statistics it can be seén that wheat for exportis an industry of the past, and when it is noted that there is and has been a reduction of over 80 per cent in re- turns during the last twelve years it is not necessary to search further for reasons why the wheat-grower has not been pros- perous. Summing up its deductions the report advises the California wheat farmer to turn his attention to a more profitable crop. It advises the holder of great tracis to cut up their farm lands inte small hold- ings and sell off at such prices as can be obtained. He must reduce his acreage, because no crops that are now grown wil! warrant & plant necessary for extensive farming. The réport further says: = There is no disguising the fact that thorough reorganization of farmine methods is needed. The “cities, through their property-owners, their merchants, their capitalists, must sooner or later take hold of the question of agricult- \‘1’1;1@1 n"l,‘é:ge d‘e {“(“finb mht.h(; ‘nobla t:flo\ving fully felt by the cities until i laté to apply’a iemady. I s t is agriculture that in & great measure keeps th i supplied with trade. Ly Uingme O ne thing the farmer must certainly do is t get out of the old wheat-raising m!. Therg are many subsidiary products of the farm that will, even at this time, return a good living. y are the consumers of poultry and eggs compelled to rely upon importations from other States for sugply during six months of the year? Simply of n of atten- m;n :g lhel"ch gken business.” 1 the palmy days of wheat-growing it was beneath the dignity of man ri‘rmeu ‘w bother with chickens; these progucts were left to Jomen of the family to trade for muslins at e . Now poultry raised in the East is shipped from one t0 (wo thousand miles and s0ld in open market at higher. ?flcu than our own uct. O 2,000, ozen of eggs from east of the Rockies have n received and sold in this market during the year just closed, and for which the ucers received dozen; to this add 8 commission; thus the ily be at from 20 to less than 10 versge California not wortby of much attention. An assurance of 10 cents per dozen the year through would make a neatreturn on two or tbree hundred good layers. The fame argu- ment applies to table poultry. With 8 freight tariff oF at least $1 per dozen, Eastern ”“055 sells rapidly. Recently a consignment of 4 fowls, shipped from the State of Kansas, was received in one of our cities and sold at prices satisfactory to the shippers. Wheat will never again sell in California for $2 or 83 per sack, and the sooner our farmers of the ‘‘old schoo! realize this and devote some sttention to truck farming the more prosperous they will be. Happily the great shrinkage in wheat UXPOIP'-Ebin bee\f counterbalanced by our increase in orchard products. In 1882 the value of fruit shipments was $1,714,043 10, against $15,029,770 in 1894. Thereport says: At this time we have about met the demand for fruit, and we deem it inadvisable to further extend the planting of new orchards until an increased market is assured, as the trees now in full bearing, and those that will come into bearing within the next few years, will supply all ordinary demand. We consider it better to extend other agricultural possibilities than to cripple these now on'a peying basis. The cul- tivation of sugar beets and tobacco, truck- farming, the raising of poultry and dairying offer better inducements at this time than does the further extension of the fruitindustry. The shipments of fresh fruit Eastin 1895 was nb’iun 4500 care, and that of the revious year nearly 6500 cars. £ San Frnyncisco ranks third in datly ex- orts to foreign countries, New York ana %oston being respectively first nxzd}second. The output from this port in Df\wa; as follows: Butter, 411,059 pounds, ‘Sl""{'efif}.l? §$71,181; cheese, 271,101 pounds, ats-—l-l § total $99,075. or about $20,000 less than nat of'94. Commenting on this industry the report says: rare No adjunct of farm life offers more induce- ment fot further development and exl?n.«ien than does the dairy business if properly con- ducted. and no other industry of this State in- vites the attention of capital with '“,""f‘,",' ance against loss that is gueranteed by ¢ 111_‘ i terest. Its possibilities’ are without limit The natural conditions of soil, climate an surroundings for the promotion of the dairy interests are not equaled in the most iavore countries of the world. Sk Aes This interest needs organization and c operation. There should be an organization of milk producers in each county in the State. Mr. Tomasini, a ber of the State Dairy Bureau, has aptly said: “The creamery is the only salyation for the California dairy in- dustry.” By this method the small producer will be benefited, asa market for all surplus milk will be secured, Thereisno one farmer miiking cows but who would profit by the lo- cation of a creamery in his vicinity. The San Francisco Board of Health have our lasting gratitude for their earnestness in bring- ing to light the atrocities practiced by tne average vender of milk in that City. In oo spector Dockery thy have selected & faithiu and fearless official, whose acts in the fulfill- ment of his duties should receive proper recog- nition from the authorities of San Francisco. The showing made by this official of the adul- terations of milk, to say nothing of the filthi; ness practiced by the'so-called milkmen o thet C: rings home to all the necessity of reorganization of the method of supplying milk to customers. 3 It is notgenerally known, but it is neverthe- less & fact, that California has within her boundaries more land adapted'to the culture of tobacco than all the tobacco-producing States east of the Rocky Mountains, and more particularly is this true.as to the production of the kind known as cigar leaf, a variety that has made Connecticut famous; the climate is also peculiarly well adapted to’ the curing of the Havana seed leaf. The coast counties are more especially the favored section for the growth of aromatic tobaccos, while the Sacra- mento and San Joaquin valleys will abun- dantly grow the class known as Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky tobacco. The large area of land in California suscepti- ‘ble to sugar beet culture, and the vastly im- roved method of handling this prolific root n its transformation into sugar, warrant the State Agricultural Society in sgain urging its cultivation. At$4 per ton, the ruling factory prices ot last season, & profit from $1 50 to r ton has been returned to the producer, With pros- pect of increased yield and correspondingly greater profit per acre. What California most needs is the development of her industriai capecity. Her eitizens are not looking to thi: with the vim characteristic of ather countrie: In Europe the tendency is to create new i dustries, end encourage the full development of her resources for the benefit of her large population, and with commendable results. In the matter of this very subject—the growth of sugar beets—there has been a remarkanle stride within the past few years—more so there than in any other portion of the globe. California, with her 1,200,000 population, and with & territory to supply that is peopled by 65,000,000 souls, could easily maintain, with the producing quality of her soil, twenty fac- tories at least. Since 1888 the sugar produced by Belgium has doubled. They are not siow in that country o recognize their advamtageys and unless the people of the State fise to Ple situation, the_development of many of our dormant resources will be left to the next gen- eration. As Director Gird truly in his recent paper upon the subject of r beets: “We find here in California all those natural conditions by which the sugar beet wasen- abled to come into existeuce in its original home; such asamild, dry climate, deep al- luvial soil, and long periods of sunshiny weather, which will eventually cause it to be- come one of the great economical and indus- trial produets of California.” The beet sugar output of this State for 1895 was as follows: Chino factory, 22.- 000,000 pounds; Watsonville factory, 21,890,000 pounds; Alvarado factory, 5,400,000 pounds—afiout a value of $2,046,- 520. The possibilities are favorable for an ex- tension of trade in many agricultural and horticultural products, the report says. The fruit-grower should look more closely to the packing of the dried product. This class of fruit should be graded and sold in boxes of from five to fifty pounds in weight. In the extension of trade in our products it might be suggested that there are inducements here for the manufacture of citric acid from the inferior grades of lemons, also grape sugar ‘and extracts of all kinds. Broom corn is another proauct that we import and pay $100_per ton for, when any of our river lands will produce a superior marketable article. Condensed wilk is brought from Michigan and shipped from the port of San Francisco to the Pacific Ocean trade. The meat-curing industry could be extended with profit, thereby diminishing the export of this highly essential article of oommerce. NEW TO-DAY., Free Free A corps of prominent chiropodists will treat patients free of charge during the month of February for ingrowing nails, corns, bunions, perspiring feet and all feet troubles. This magnificent offer to pur chasers of goods to the amount of $1 or over. THE WONDER DRUGSTORE (FLETCHER & C0.), 1028 Market Street. Take advantsee of this great offe N bility or o %oa{omdnmé’gn hl: crcm' en w. COSMOPOLITAIN, Opposite U. 8. Mint, 100 ‘and 104 Fifth st., San krancisco, Cal.—The most select family hotel in the city. Board and room, $1, $1 25 and $1 M)rer day, according 10 room. Meals 25c. Rooms, 80 and 75¢ a day. Free coach to and from the hotel. Look for the coach bearing the name of the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. WAL FAHEY, Proprictor. AUCTION SALES. AUCTION SALE. TO-MOR ROW. Fob: . A STREE ‘clock A. —— 16 HARR 80 HEAD 05 SON OF HORSES, broken and unbroken; also Stalles, Sheds. Corrals and Lease. Buyers are cordially invited Lo be present. ‘Terms cash, unless otherwise agreed upon. 8. L. DANIELS Auctioneer.