The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1896, Page 13

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1896. 15, ‘lin»teresting Report of Important’ Up-to-Date News Items in Alameda County ANOTHER DOORSTEP WAIF, A Little Infant Carried to the Humane™ Society in a Basket. BIG BRICK COMPANY'S DEBTS. i Coroner Baldwin Accepts the Verdict of Suicide in the Case of Trofelli. OagLAND OFFIcE SAN FRANCISCO) 908 Broadway, Feb. 14, When Mrs. Lydia Prescott, the secretary of the California Children’s Society, went to her office this morning she found a y little baby boy in a basket on her The little follow is just four months old and seemed to be perfectly contented in his new quarters. The lady who leit the baby refused to give her name, but told a man in the office that she had come from Alameda. She said the baby was left on her doorsteps several months agoand that she had taken care of it as long as she could. Mrs. Prescott took the little boy to the ‘West Oakland Home, but she does not ex- pect it to be there long, s it is a handsome child and she feels certain that some one will soon adopt it. | | | BRICK FIR TROUBLE. The Fortin Brick Company Forced to Ask Time of Creditors. OAKLAND, Car., Feb. 14.—The Fortin Brick Company, one of the leading cor- porations of this city, has been in finan- cial straits for some time, and called a meeting of its creditors in San Francisco a few days ago. Mr. Fortin made a show ing of the business, and, according to hi: figures, the assets amount to $120,000 and the liabilities to §86,000. , He stated that if sufficient time were given the debts could all be paid in full. The finance committee appointed by the creditors will report to-morrow to the creditors, The assets consist principally fternoon: are secure The ds and on the bay schooners have preferred claims, so they are safe. S we owe cou en-ei hths of all the people their money what- cannot be sold ould be a_ great should be forced, | be arranged on a are: H. Blair, but $10,000; Central ; Puget Sound ; H. Cowell & Co., | e Company, $4500; J. $2000; Cienaga Lime 2. Allen. $600; J. A. | and Bank of & $2000; Pedrino Bros., I n there are a great many amounts ranging from $40 to $150 sma. es HAD A CHAPERONE, Mzs. Albrecht Resents a Statement Made by Her Husband. OAKLAND, Cav., Feb. 14.—Mrs. Belle Albrect ng her husband, Pro- | cht, a church organist, serious allegations, is ssed over her husband's s that she was given to bicycle- Adolph Grueb, a San Fran- She says she went wheel- but that a lady friend al- z She says that rode with him, however, until er return from Los Angeles some 2o, where she went, according to essor, on an understood agree- to her attor- her husband’s adow over her and the optician that is entirely unwarranted. Bridge-Builders Laid Off. OAKLAND, Car., Feb. 14.—The district foreman of carpenters for the Southern Yacific has called in all the bridge and ot gangs and boarding-car outfits and spended operations for the present. The sult is that about a hundred men are 1aid How long this will last is not known, is not expected that any extensive t fall, as all small repairs can be done by the gs during the spring and sum- I:1s usually about this time of the that the bridge department isthe st, as the swollen streams make 1t necessary to have outfitsscattered ail over, to be ready at a moment’s notice. So far this year no greatoverflows have occurred. Refused to Show His Wounds. OAKLAND, CaL., Feb. 14.—Notice has been given by the railroad attorneys of in- tention to move that the complaint of W. H. Hutton for $10,000 damages be stricken from the calendar. The reason for this is that the piaintiff refused to comply with a request of counsel to allow his injuries to be exposed while a deposition was being taken. A similar point was raised in the Wettstein suit, and Judge Ogden held that the defendants could not compel a client to submit to an examination. Gift of Thirteen Acres. OAKLAND, Car, Feb. 14. — Henry Curtner of Warm Springs has donated a tract of thirteen acres, with the building known as Washington College, situated at Irvington, to the ladies of the Christian churches of the Pacitic Coast, to be used as irls and young The dono: res that an en- | nt fund of $25,000 be raised, | interest of which shall be used for the education of deserving orphan and half- orphan girls. Settied Out of Court. ND, Cav., Feb. 14.—The suit of 1enzel ana his wife Elizabeth ameda, Oakland and Pied- Railroad Company for 1l probably be compromiséd out When the case was called before o to-day the attorneys asked ponement, a8 it was very likely at 1he case would be settled out of court. Ogden granted a continuance till th 1nst. Abe Majors’ Stepfather Arrested. but i work will be done before n neces section g r. me! a seminary of learnin women. OAKLAND Car., Feb. 14.—James A. e stepfather of Abe Majors, one of the boy burglars, was brought from San Luis Obispo to-nighv by Captain Wilson. Wagner is wanted as a defaulfing defena- ., and also for being in contempt of ! court. Itisthought that he may be able to throw some light on the acts of the boys prior to their recent career of crime. A Patent in Dispute. OAKLAND, CaL., Feb. 14.—The owner | Ol 4 patent on dredgers has notified the Board of Works that if they let the con- tract for city dredging to the San Fran- cisco Bri Company he will at once enjoin the for infringement upon his patent, which, he states, the bridge com- pany is unjustly using. te-aay signed the minority verdict in the case of the death of Luigi Trofelli. This verdict states that the deceased shot him- self while suffering from the resulis of a debauch. HISTORY OF A DAY. Alameda County Happenings Told in Brief Chapters. OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, 908 Broadway, Feb. 14. Charles Keller has brought suit for a divorce from Catherine Keller, on the ground of deser- von. Frauk Bettencourt was found guilty of petit larceny in the Superior Court to-day. He stole & bicycle from an Alameda deeler. Aarou Rlack, the last of the colored men ar- Tested during the raid on the crap game, for- feited $25 in the Police Court to-day. Charles Edward Brown, a creditor of .Lo\lis Mever, the insolvent proprietor of Meyer’s din- ing-room, at 14 and 16 Ellis street, 1as filed an opposition to the letters of disch . The Oakland Verei intracht will give its seventeenth annual masquerade bali to-mor- row evening. There will be several tableaux and pantomimes during the evening. Phil Sheridan Circle No. 5, the Ladies of the Grand Ariny of the Republic, will give a lunch from 11 A. M. to 9 P. M. on Washington’s birth- day, on Twelfth street, between Broadway and Washington, for the relief fund. The Federation of Trades met for the first time in the new quarters in California Hall building tast night, and elected C. D. Rogers president. At the next meeting, Thursday night, the other officers will be elected. Abe Majors and Bert Whitmore were locked up &t the County jail this afternoon, where the will be detained until their cases come before the Superior Court. Mrs. Wagner, | Majors’ mother, spent most of the afternoon 1 her son. A telegram has béen received from Kansas City, Mo., announcing that the charge of high- way robbery preferred against Dan Hawley, whose moter 15 the proprietor of ‘the Arling’ ton Hotel in this city, has beeu dismissed. Rowland Hill, the alleged victim, has disap. peared. BERKELEVANS 10 VOTE Elections for New Schools and a Wharf to Be Held To-Day. Circulars and Replies Thereto—A Boom in Track Athletics at the State University. BERKELEY, CaL., Feb. 14.—The spe- cial election to secure bonds for $120,000 for a new high school and two new gram- mar schools, and $80,000 for a wharf at West Berkeley, will be held to-morrow. The two propasitions will be voted upon separately, and friends of both me: are confident that the necessary two-! vote will bc cast in favor of the bonds. The campaizn committee of the Good Government Club to-day issued a reply to | the circular distributed by the *‘Civic Fed- eration.”” The Good Government Club’s circular makes answer to the arguments of the anonymous circular and denies many of its statements. It is set forth that the Kellogg School is at present badly over- crowded, and that it cannot be relieved by any other way than the building of new schools. p The letter of the Good Government Club concludes as follows: It is not true that the Kellogg School if re- lieved of all other scholars could accommo- date the High School for ten years to come. On the contrary, the present attendance is more than sufficient to fill the entire building, and then in no sense of the word wonld they be proverly accommodated. It is not true that our last issuc of bonds was frittered away. It is & Wei-known iact that the scheols were let 1o the lowest pidder and built at very low cost. As to the sites, not one of them could be had to-day for the way lot is wort cost. : It is not true that thé Bbard of Trustees hired men to circulate petitions asking them to call this election. It is not true that & wharf would last not to exceed ten vears. The private wharf now there has stood for twenty-five years. 1t is equally false that our present Board of rustees is wasteful in their methods. Sucha | statement can only be made through ignorance or directly in the interest of bad government. “Voters of Berkeley, will you listen to the sophistries of tnose who, ashamed to be known by their true name, will publish spch false- hoods under & nom de plume? If they are working for the true interests of Berkeley why not sign their true names to the circular? Were they.afraid their names might damage the cause for which they were pleading ? 1f you have the good name oi Berkeley at hesrt, if you wish steadier employment or larger trade, if you wish your property to in- crease in value, go 1o the polls to-morfow and vote for the bonds. price paid, while the Dwight- 50 per cent advance over its JANES L. BARKER, Joux M. Foy, H. D. Irwrx, Committee Good Government Club. Ex-Trustee N. T. Whiting has denied that ne was 1n any way connected with the authorship or publication of the anony- mous circular of which 10,000 copies were printed yesterday. Mr. Whiting says he was approached and asked to contribute $50 10 the expense of publishing such a circular, but refused to do so. ie submits the following letter: Editor Call: In Berkeley items it is stated by your correspondent, “it is rumored that George Schmidt and ex-Trustee N. T. Whiting are lge' authors of circular disapproving of the bond issue.”” I wish here to state I did not have anythin said circular, directly or iudirectly to do with ut g0 far 88 my jndgment goes I thihk it the only sensible presentation of the subject as yet published. N.T. WHITING, Athletics Booming. BERKELEY, Car., Feb. 14.—The pleas- ant spring weather has brought out a large number of college men who will try | for records on the track and field. Most of tbem have had previous experience in the differentevents and asa result are more or less competent to teach the new comers, The prospect of sending another team across tbe continent during the present vear has been the means of inciting no fiu)-: interest in athletics. Though the track and the fiela and the basebal! dia- mond are attraciing many men, yet boat- ing has not been wholly neglected. Class teams are being formed with the view to having a series of regattas early in April. To-morrow afternoon those who are try- ing for the ’94 class crew will meet at the university boathouse in Sessions basin for the purpose of making preliminary ar- rangements. Those who have charge of the various class crews are: Peck, '%6; English, '97; Hutchineon, '98; Cole, "99. The following men are coming out regu- larly for work on the track, most of whom are observing careful training rules, with ihe hope of smashing some university ana Pacific Coast records in some of the spring meets: Merwin, Koch, Barnes, Torrey, Chick, Dean, Hupp, Carver, Hilton, Edgren, Dorn, Brown, Reeves, Anderson, Starr, Bakewell. Baugh, Dozier, Holden, Fierce, Pache, Lloyd, Dresser. Griesberg, Hooper, Houghton, Houston, Dexter, Crafts, Sted- man, Perley, Marmon, Carroll. Work on the Campus. : BERKELEY, CaL., Feb. 14.—The con- struction of the new rustic bridge aeross Strawberry Creek, which is to serve as a crossing for the sixteen-foot walk to be built by the student labor brigade, was commenced to-day by the univorsglly work- men. The agricultural specimens and trees along the route are rapidly being re- moved in preparation for the work to be done by the collegians. President Kellogg has announced that Validity of a Court. OAKLAND, CaL., Feb. 14.—Attorneys Chapman & Bradley have decided to at- tack the validity of the Whitney act, under 1 the present police conrt of Oakland ated. ‘The basis of the test case is nese habeas corpus case. Suys It Was Suicide. OAKLAND, CaL., Feb. 14.—The Coroner the {»eriod to be set agide for the student wo;zgwi_ll be three days—March 27, 28 and 29. ‘Woman Suffragists. - BERKELEY, Car., Feb. 14.—The Citi- zen Suffrage Society of Berkeley -has formed- a class for the study of political questions, which will meet every Monda afternoon at the residence of Mrs. H. . Lee, 2245 College avenue. SECOND WARD BATTLE County Committeeman Mitchell Calls the Regular Club Together. REPUDIATES PORTER'S CLUB. The Rival Presidents Each Express a Determination to Maintain Their Prestige. OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,} 908 Broadway, Feb. 14. Politics have broken out in the Second ‘Ward and there is a prospect of some keen fighting. The climax was reached to-day when John Mitchell, the Republican Coun- ty Committeeman for the Second Ward, issned a call for a meeting ‘of the regular Republican club to-morrow night. Every- body thought the Second Ward Republi- can Club had been started on itsactive way a week ago, and that it held a rousing meeting last night. Now it appears that the club of which F. R. Porter is the president is a usurper, and President P. M. Fisher of the regular club does not propose to have any of the glory of presiding over Second Ward Re- publicans wrested from him. He has Committeeman Mitchell on his side and proposes to say some very pertinent things at to-morrow’s meeting. “There is orly one regular club,” said Committeeman Mitchell to-day, “and that is the one that I recognize. Itis the same club that has always existed in the ward, and P. M. Fisher, ex-County Superintend- ent of Schools, is president. There are over 150 names on the roll, and we are very strong and do not propose to be put down by Mr. Porter or any one else. The | club to which Mr. Porter succeeded in having himself elected as president con- | sists of about twenty members. At his last meeting there were just eight voters, and if he has fifty names on his roll pearly all of them must be boys. Eleven of our members attended the meeting and, after secing the nature of the piece club, they left in a body,and I am informed that the hall was nearly empty. Ido not recognize Mr. Porter, but I have called a meeting of the regular club and have no doubt it will be weil attended. I object to having voters made to believe that the Porter club is the regular one. If he has something to work out and a little club may help him. of course I have no right | to interfere. The field ia open, but_there | | is only one regular Republican club in the | Second Ward.” F. R. Porter, president of the other ciub, holds that any body of Republicans have aright to form a club, and he denies the | jurisdiction of Mr. Mitchell to dictate to any one. ‘We have over 100 memberson our roil,”’ said President Porter to-day, “‘and we en- roll at every meeting. We have organized as a McKinley Club, and for the purpose of trying to get the Republican State con- vention held in Oakland. We passed a | resolution last night to that effect, and | sent a copy of it to the State Central Com- | mittee. We are working for the best in- terests of Republicanism in Alameda- County, and no one is doing any more. We are not organized for any specidl pur- pose as regards local candidates. Those matters will be considered later. We or- ganized several days before the so-called regular ciub held its_initial meeting, and we intend to go on in the way originally mapped out.” - Both clubs meet in Milton Hall and the respective presidents are very energetic. For nearly a year the county committee has been divided, and several attempts | have been made to reorganize it and to ap- boint a chairman to succeed Mantalen. { This has proved to be impossible as a quorum could not be obtained, but as long as the authority of the ward county. com- | mitteeman is disregarded by many Repub- licans, F. R. Porter says hn has as much right to form a club as has Mitchell. MAS, CARPENTER'S CLAIM The Grand Army and a Cofil- mittee of Ladies Taking It Up. Curiosity as to What the New Owners of the Alameda Baths Will Do With Them. ALAMEDA, CaAwn, Feb. 14.—Andras Jorgenson, an old resident, aied at his home, 2015 Clement avenue, last night of cancer of the stomach. He had long been ill, but at the last the disease was compli- cated with plenro-pneumonia. He leavss a widow and two grown sons. William Wilson died last night at his home, 1150 Park ayenue, 6f consumption. Deceased was a native of Glasgow and re- sided in Alameda for three years. A widow and nine chilaren survive him. Mrs. Carpenter’s Claim. ALAMEDA, Cawn, Feb. 14.—An oid troubie that distracied” Alameda a litile more than a year ago-is likely to come up again aud cause further tribulation. Two vears ago Mrs. Susan Carpenter was in charge of the Woman’s Exchange. The institution was housed in a building of its own. Mrs. Carpenter claimed to own the buildin least in part. She refused to vacate and the law was invoked to put her out. Before it became completely oper- ative she employed house-movers to trans- fer the structure to another lot. They went to work at night. The local courts were invoked by the other side and issued warrants of arrest for the house-movers, but without effect. There was a riot when the house was got into the middle of the street and blood was shed by more than one person. Finalily, after the house was got half around the block the otner side gained control of it and put Mrs. Carpenter’s things out. They employed the same gang of movers to continue on with the buiiding around the block and back upon the foundation which it had just left. A new superintendent was elect- ed, but Mrs. Carpenter always claimed that she had something coming from the institution. She said she ought to have $109. Being theadopted daughter of the late Commodore Porter, she had a claim on the Grand Army people, and has of late succeeaed 1n getting them to take the matter up. Some of the ladies of Alameda have also interested themselves, and the trouble which has estranged so many who were once friends bids fair to rise once more. The Long Branch of Alameda. ALAMEDA, Cai., Feb. 14.— The old Long Branch Saloon and Garden, at Web- ster street and Railroad avenue, years ago the most famous resort in Alameda, but for the past four years closed, having been sold at Sheriff’s sale, is about to be aitered and reconstructed to fit it for general busi- ness purposes. The proprictor of Long Branch was E. Mayrisch, who twenty-five vears ago owned the Arion, then located at Clay and Kearny streets, San Fran- cisco, and the great resort of actorsand men about town. The Arion was very profitable, and Mayrisch accumulated a nice competence which he cameto Ala- meda toenjoy. He invested it ina fine home at the West End and built the Lon, Branch in what was then the new part-of town. He kept 8 place much more expen- sive than the patronage warranted. His friends would visit_his place of Sundays, especially after the baths were established, but he lacked a steady trade and gradually lost ali his capital, and then his property Wwent and he was tinally sold out by fore- closure, a poor man. Alameda Baths. ALAMEDA, CAL., Feb. 14.—Some inter- | est is manifest as to what will become of the Terrace Baths. They are now the property of W. B. Carr, who acquired them through foreclosure of a mortgage less than a year ago. Inthelasttwo years they have been vermitted to run down greatly., The history of the property is one of misfortune. Six years ago Robert Haley, the founder and onhe of the owners, was 1instantly killed _bg the explosion of a boiler used to furnish steam to pump water. Nearly two years ago C. A. Edson, the remaining partner, was murdered by an_employe. The bad luck has steadily followed the place until a creditor has closed down upon it. GARRITY WENT TO JAIL Retused to Pay a Fine for Con- tempt in Judge Woods’ " Court. Released on Habeas Corpus After an Imprisonment of Two Hours. OARLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCIECO CALL, 908 Broadway, Feb, 14. } Attorney Tom Garrity, who was the Democratic candidate for District Attor- ney at the last election, spent a few hours in jaul this afternoon while his friends drew up & writ of habeas corpus. At his own request he was placed in a cell, where he received his friends and ate his dinner. Judge Wood and Attorney Garrity gave a matinee to-day for the benefit of the lobby. The attcrney was late and the court reprimanded him. Then Mr. Gar- rity said he did not think the case that had been commenced was set for that day. Then the following conversation took place: “You continually keep this court wait- ing, Mr. Garrity,”’ said Judge Wood. “Iam always on time. If you say that T am not you say-what is untrue,” Garrity replied. “‘Mr. Garrity, you are not. We nearly always have to wait for you.” “If you say that you say what is not true.” “If you are not careful of your remarks, | Mr. Garrity, I will adjudge you guilty of contempt.” Mr. Garrity then got up and seizin, big dictionary threw it down on the table with vigor, at the same time remarking, *I insist on what I saif.” “For your remarks, Mr. Garrity, I now adjudge you guiity of contempt of court and ‘orde u to appear at the conclusion of this case for sentence.” After a few minutes, durin, jurymen had been examined, the trouble roke out again. Judge Wood requested the attorney ‘o proceed with the case in an orderly man- ne: “ always proceed orderly,” replied Garrity. . “You must have got out of bed the wrong way this morning,” said Judge ood. “I think you must have. I don’t think that you got out at all,” was Garrity’s reply. I have already adjudged you guilty of contempt of court, Mr. Garrity, and I want you to be oraerly now.” “I am orderly.”’ ' “I want you to proceed with the case.” “I want to_find out why this case has been set for trial before a jury.” “You can find that out afterward. If you do not conduct yourself in an orderly manner 1 wiil have you excluded from the courtroom.’’ “I have rights in this courtroom. I have said nothing that is discourteous.” ‘‘The records show that you asked for a jury trial in this case on December 28,” added the cierk, At the conclusion of the case Judge Wood sentenced Attorney Garrity to pay a fine of $25 or spend twenty-four hours in jail. Garrity went to jail, and as soon.as vossible a writ of habeas corpus was pre- sented to Judge Ogden. It was made returnable for next Mon- | day, and Attorney Garrity was released on $25 bail. COMMODORE BLOW DEAD. ‘While Visiting in Berkeley Last Night He Was Stricken With Heart Disease. Commodore W.W. Blow, the well-known real estate man of Oakland, died sud- denly at 12 o’clock iast night in Berkeley. He was paying a visit to Dr. Parker when he was stricken down with a sudden painin the heart. He was attended by the doctor, but failed to recover from the stroke, and in the course of a short time was dead. He was widely known, especially %in yachting circles, and was the commodore of the Oakland Canoe Club. Of a wener- ous, lively disposition, Commodore Blow was a genefal favorite on both sides of the | bay. For years he had been a sufferer from heart disease, but his death comee as a great shock to his host of friends and ac- | quaintances. He had a real estate and office at 1010 Broadwa; Jackson street, Oakland —Songn, Origin of the Word ‘‘Canara.’ ‘What is the origin of the expression “‘a canard” when u wonderful story that has no foundation in fact is meant? Even Frenchmen cannot say. Itisnow claimed that the honor of the invention belongs to M. Cornelissen, a member of the Academy He had noticed so: ‘‘yarns” in the daily paper to which he notary public y and lived at 755 ful subscribed, and in order to satirize the writers, he sent in one himself, as a joke. It was about a pretended exper ment with twenty-five ducks, and tended to show that ducks are canmbals. He had, he said, killed the ducks one by one and fed the. survivors exclusively on the body, and in course of time there remained “but one duck of the whole twenty-five. This last of the ducks was said to have haa a post- mortem examination made of its body, when it was found to be suffering from cer- tain internal injuries as the supposed con- sequence of its strange diet. The paragraph, which the writer never expected to see in print, was published and sent the rounds. It gotto America, whence it was constantly coming back, and the phrase “It is another canard,” or duck, be- came common in newspaper offices.—Lon- don Daily News. % ————— Parsing a Sentence, According to an Obio T"p"' this is how a high scnooi girl recently parsed the sen- tence *‘He kissed me”: “He,"’ she “began, with a forid lingering over the word that brought the crimson to. her cheeks, “is a pronoun, third person, singular number, mascaline gender, a gentleman and prett; well fixed; universally considered a gooi catch! ‘Kissed’ is s verb, transitive, too much so, regular every evening, indicative mood, indicating affection; first and third persons, plural number und governed by circumstances. ~‘Me’—Oh! well, every- body knows me.” And she sat down. * A pike weizhingeeixteen pounds is men- tioned as having been recently captured on Potter Heigham Sound, near Gpnn Yar- mouth, Epgland. which some | me wonder- | fl AN OPIUM COOKING PLANT Officers Are Searching for It in the Hills Back of Niles. CERTAIN OF ITS EXISTENCE. The Raw Material Brought From Across the Bay and Returned After Treatment. OAELAND OFFIcE SAN FrANCISCO CALL,} 908 Broadway, Feb. 14. For over a month several deputy con- stables and ambitious amateur detectives have been seeking a fortune in the hills near Niles. The fortune they want is the substantial reward that the Government offers to those who discover stills and opium-cooking plints. For several months the authorities have been convinced that there is an opium- cooking plant located in the hilly part of this county. It has been known that large quantities of the crude material smuggled into San Francisco were brought over here to be cooked and then returned across the bay. The business exists on such an ex- tensive scale and there 1s supposed to be such a vast amount of the raw stuff over here that the lucky man who finds it will have no need to work for a year or two after his success. Butup to date John Chinaman has been smarter than the officials, and the drug passes to and fro unmolested. About three weeks ago Constable Quel- len caught a Chinaman at Fruitvale re- | turning to San Francisco with.a basketful of cooked opium. The Chinese was taken into custody and given over to the United States authorities. Although a strict | watch has been kept no one else has been caught. Several Chinese who come over | from San Francisco regularly with fish and go as, far as Niles and Pleasanton have | een watched, but although the same ped- | dlers have been seen to go to Niles several times, none of them have ever been seen to return. It is supposea that the opium-dealers make their way to the bay and return to | | San Francisco on fishing smacks which they board along tae bay. Very careful | mueasures must be taken to avoid arrest as | every avenue is being watched and still the | | illicit trade goes on. | The Shenif’s office has been told that i such a place exists, and special deputies | have been sent out to try to locate the | lace, but without success.” The business | is such a Incrative one that it is more than | | likely that some white rancher is in part- a | nership with the Chinese, and if this be | the case detection is almost impossible. The hills between Niles and Haywards, i where the plant exists, are particularly | rugged, and it is a practical impossibiiity | | to make a thorough search, or, indeed, | | anything but a superficial hunt for the | | cooking plant. | There are several Chinese camps in this county, and large quantities of opium are | consumed, but, although numerous | | searches have been made, the stuff has| | pever been found in sufficient quantity to | pay for the trouble of locating it. The | i search will be kept up until the place is | | found. MAKE-UP OF THE PARADE Societies From Both Sides of the Bay to Honor Washing- ton's Day. Many Floats. Representing Historic Scenes Will Be Interspersed in the Pageant. OARLAND OrFicE SAN FraNcrsco Cavrr,) 908 Broadway, Feb. 14. | The final arrangements for tt e parade to | be held on Washington’s Birthday have | been completed. The ranks of the Ala- | meda County delegation will be materially | swelled by additions from San Fran- cisco. Chief among these are the Veteran | Firemen’s Association, who will parade | about 200 strong, dragging their old en- | gine. Aswell, a large number of members of the Junior Order of United American |/ 3echanics will 6oms eyar ts enlarge the | ranks of the Alameda County councils. The following is the make-up of the and chief of staff. Chief of Police, police captains, policemen, grand marshal, chief of staft, color-bearers, bugler, aids, float (American flag). Chief of first division. aids, band, compan- ies A, F and G, Fifth Regimént; foat (Wash. ingign and cherry tiee), G. 4. K. Lyon Post No. §, Appomattox Post No. 50 and Porter Post N ; float (Washington at Valley Forge), | Carriages containing Veterans Mexioan Ws president of the day, orators, chaplain, Chief of second division, aids, Veteran Fire. men's pand, veteran firemen of San Francisco and Oakland, two engines. Chief of third division, aids, float (Thirteen d, Uncle il States’, bend ! n, all patriotic citizens, | float (Forty-five States), Jr. 0. U. A. M., San Franclsco conncils, George A. Custer Council No. 22, James Monroe Council No. 24, Paul Revere Council No. 28, Henry Clay Couneil No. 34, John A. Logau Couneil No. 31, Spirit of 1776, float (Red, White and Blue), patriotic Indies, ladies’ cavalcade, carriages containing Supervisors, Mu{or Davie and Board of Public Works, Board oi Education, Dr. B. F. Huddel- son. Chief of fourth division, aids, float (Washing- ton crossing the Delaware), band, secret so- cieties, fioat (Cornwallis surrendering to Washington), secret socleties. Chief of fitth division, aids, float (Washing- | ton at home), drum corps, secret societies, (Utah coming into the Union). Chief of sixth division, aids, bands, Boys" | Brigude, float (school house), school children, Alameda pubiic schools, Piedmont public school, Peralta public school. Golden Gate public schools, kmery public school, Temes- cal pubiic scnool, Oskland public’ schools, float (Temescal school), Temescal teachers, Chief of seventh division, aids, cavaleade of men, bicycles, Fire Depariment. —— SUPEBBTITIONS-L)I‘ TO-DAY. Sixpences Bitten by Lucky Cecil Rhodes and Other Charms. Cecil Rhodes has the powerful jaw and the strong teeth that belong to men of his type. So great has been the luck of this man that South Aifricans sometimes ask him to bite sixpences for luck. A young Englishman during a recent evening in bohemia produced the traditional crooked sixpence from bhis pocket and told how Cecil Rhodes had bitten it. The possessor would not part with it for many times in value. Everybody laughed at the superstition, but as it turned out neariy every man present had some such fetich. Neither he of the crooked sixpence nor any of his companions quite believed in the eflicacy of his charm, but each liked to daily with the superstition. One of the company carried an old George ITI Penny to jingle with the loose change in his pocket. Another, opening a little ciga- rette-case, showed a bit of rattlesnake skin; supposed to exercise a subtle in- fluence upon poker hands. It was a cosmopoliian little company of decidedly modern quality, sufliciently skeptical about many things that most good persons believe, bnt a majority of its | ever, the dogs again found the trail, fol- | parade, as arranged by the grand marshal 13 luck. If every such company could be in- duced to make a show of pocket-pieces and a frank avowal of superstitions lightly | held, but not quite disregarded, the show- | ing would rather astonish folks that be- | lieve thisa skeptical age. The late Eng- | lish- hangman, Marwood, made a pretty | ggnny by selling bitsof rope with uncanny istories. The coral beads brought home from Eur- Ope as presents to children are really de- signed to keep off evil spirits. ~The branches of the coral are supposed, like the horns of a horseshoe, to ward off ill luck. Amber beads are worn by many excellent persons to keep off ervsipelas. There must be a good many New Yorkers carrying the rabbit’s foot. A voung woman Wwas seen not very long ago to stoop down on a wet and muddy day, pick up a horseshoe from the pavement of Fifth avenue and tuck it away under her water- proof. None of the great ocean liners sail from this port on Friday. The cres- cents of gold and ivory worn on the watch- chain ‘f’fy many persons are amulets to keep off evil spirits. Here again is -the horn or prong, as in the horseshoe. This crescent is one of the commonest forms for the so-called watch charms. The old superstition thata band about the arra gives strength is still prevalent among some New Yorkers. Rings made | of several metals, and designed to keep off | rheumatism, are sold by many New York jewelers. In spite of the fact that the hirteen Club has flourished for many years, few hostesses in any part of the town would care to head a table of thirteen yersom. for while the hostess might beindiiferent to the superstition, she could be by no means sure that every one of her guests would be as free from its tyranny. Tenement-houses in all parts of the city where tenement-houses are found have horseshoes over their doors, and there is an east side house where the door | knocker is made of two horseshoes, one | fixed to the door, the other hinged to the first. Don’t step over a negro child Iying on the street unless you wish to brave the rage of its mother. w York Sun. SHREWDNESS IN CANINE HEADS, An'Interesting Test of the Man-Tracking Qualities of Bloodhounds. An interesting test of the skill of blood- hounds in man-tracking through the | | streets of a populous city, over ice and | snow, was given in Indianapolis in con- | nection with the pet stock show. Four | dogs were entered in the test—Brandy and | Countess, belonging to S. M. -Miller of | Darlington; Prince, owned by Bowers & | Harris of Noblesville, and Bright, who is owned by W. €. Fields of Wheaton. Early in_the morning Dr. Bell of Ko- komo left Tomlinson Hall and passed out, and after walking through alleys and streets he put on a pair of arctic overshoes and continued his walk through the parks and on the streets frequented by pedes- trians. On the line of march the doctor saw & runaway team and in connection with the crowd assisted in catching the horses. He then returned to the hall where the show was in progress. An hour later the dogs were put on the trail and followed it with comparative ease, except at the point where the runaway was halted *and at one or two other places over which there had had been considerable travel and around which the crow:l following the dogs surged until it was almost impossible to break through. With unerring instinct, how lowed it steadily over the entire line which | Dr. Bell had walked and back to Tomlin- son Hall, where they picked him of a| crowd of several hundred people, going up to him and indicating his identity by barking.—Cincinnati Enquirer. ————— Billiards is very popular_in the higher circles of French society with women, and it is rapidly coming into favor at many Getman courts. Princess Leopold of Austria, the daughter of the Emperor Francis Joseph, is a graceful player, and in their home at Munich she and her chil- dren have many interesting contests on wet afternoons. i 1 HENRY TILLER, Battery. K, Tift | belp him out on the ideas. | AR HE 1S OWNER OF PUCK, A, Séhwarzmann, the Old-Tims Associate of Keppler, in Town. HE TELLS OF HIS STRUGGLES. The Taste for Wit and Humor, He Says, Is Growing in America and England. A. Schwarzmann of New York, provrie- tor of Puck, is at the Occidental, accom- panied by his family, He has been for three or four weeks in Southern California. H. C. Bunner, the editor of Puck, is at Los Angeles now. He has been in a shaky condition of health foy some time and Mr. Schwarzmann got him to come out with him for a trip. Mr. Bunner will probably be here later. Mr. Schwarzmann told the interesting incidents of his and the journal's career last night. He is a German, as his name implies, and landed in America a small boy. He was for fifteen years with Frank Leslie, and then he and Joseph Keppler started Puck. That was just a little short of twenly vears ago. The San Francisco Wasp, the first colored cartoon paper in America, was started three or four months before that. Schwarzmann and Keppler made money from the start, though they had to do some close calculating for a little while. Keppler did the art work, and Mr. Schwarzmann put on his thinking cap to He also kept a weather eye on the business end of things. 1t was a success from the start. When Keppler died, as Mr. Schwarz- mann &aid ther artists came to the front. In 1885 Judge Arkel 4nd Mr. Gil- liam, the noted artist recently deceased, bought Judge, the other New York col- ored cartoon paper. It had then lost $250,000, The new purchasers put it on a paying basis. Keppler's son is an artist and does considerable work for Puck somewhat after the style affected by his father. “The strangest thing i, said Mr. Schwarzman, *‘that both journals have gone right along making a success. Oxir i t circulation has steadily increased. shows that the taste for humor is growin ‘‘One of our brightest men is H. L. Wi son, who used to live in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He is associate editor n and is managing editor in the absence of Mr. Bunner. e began contributing for us, and his articles had so much merit that five years ago we sent for him to come on and go on the paper. He never hdad avy newspaper experience till be began in the desultory way. I believe he bad been a typewriter here. “‘Probably not 5 per cent of the matter sent us is used. We get copy in immense quantities from all over the country. Cer- tain-portions of Puck, as well as of Judge and Life, are reproduced in England simul- taneously with the publication of the same matter here. The English people like the matter. Their taste is growing for it. I counted up once the number of funny papers that had been started and died prior to Puck in this country. My recollection is there were over 150. The trouble was they were not funny enough."” Mr. Schwarzmann will be here a week or two. He will visit San Jose, Monterey and other points hereabout. He has never been in California before. He is a stout, | stockily built man of middle age, and with a slightly German accent. Y\ o M A \ h Astillery, U. S. Military Post, Presidio, San Francisco. I interviewed Henry Tiller of the Fifth | Artillery yesterday. I went'immediately | to the point. Iasked him what he thought | of tne Californian remedy, Joy's Vegetable | Sarsaparilla. A smile illumined his face | as he said: *‘Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla was recommended to me—for an acid con- dition of the blood.” [ used two botties o(l ispensary, | gr. Gibbon’s B . ‘Eg:.lhl‘:lhl‘d of P; e Manhood. Debility op mindand wearing on bodyand T'he doctor cureswhen 1LY bim. Charges low. members carried charms to bring good Cures teed. GLBBON, Box 1057 Sev pamite: Joy’s and the acid condition disappeared. I have every reasop to believe Joy's Vege- table Sarsaparilla is'a good remedy. Iam informed that this remedy contains no mineral poisons.”’ It is made of vegetable. It has no iodide of potassium, and, of course, acts on the blood. 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