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4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1896. IN THE ALASKA GOLD DIGGINGS, Big Wages Are Paid, but the Working Season Is Short. WARTIME PRICES RULE. Bacon Costs 40 Cents a Pound and Lager Beer 25 Cents a Glass. CREDIT SYSTEM IS TABOOED. Miners Who Do Not Strike Pay-Dirt Will Need Help Before the Season Ends. PORT TOWNSEND, Wasn., March 17.— The steamer Topeka arrived this morning from Alaska after the most pleasant trip since last summer, although three feet of #now on a level is reported in Juneau and Sitka. Among the passengers was Edward McConnell, who is one of a party of four that arrived from the Yukon just in time to take the steamer for Puget Sound on business and he will return north on the same boat, going direct to the Yukon again. His party brought out an outfit weighing 800 pounds with a sledge and six dogs, and the mercury during their 900-mile tramp averaged 60 degrees below zero. They av- eraged nearly twenty-four miles a day, but would not care to make the trip again. On the way out they stopped over night with the Ogilvie Canadian boundary survey party, which treated them royally. At times the mercury went as low as 72 de- grees. McConnell will take six horses back with | him and establish a vacktrain between | Circle City and the diggings. He says the official census of Circle City is 560 persons, instead of about 1200 as claimed heretofore. McConnell savs that a Yukon miner named William Fee and known among all the miners there as *“Missouri Bill,” has made more discoveries than any other ten men combined, two of his finds, at Independence and Deadwood creeks, hav- ing already yielded over $100,000, and “Bill” is still climbirg over the moun- tains with 2 pack on his back looking for new claims. He says the prediction made by some people that the Birch Creek dig- gings would soon be worked out and that Circle City would dry up and blow away sound very funny to an old-timer like himself, There is now enough in sight to keep things humming for ten years, and the surface of the ground has been but barely scratched in a few places. The number of women wintering at Circle City this year is sixteen, most of them being wives of traders or miners. Those who are single remain so of their own choice, as it is declared they could have the pick of the entire camp. McCounell prediets considerable suffer- ing and hardship among the Yukoners during the present year. There are only | about forty-five days when actusl opera- tions can be carried on and those who strike nothing then will be helpless, as the | stores can sell for cash all the supplies on haud, and they have entered into a com- pact to trust no miners. Wages, however, run from $7to $10a day, teamsters with their teams eetting §25 a day. Quotations are as follows: Flour $3 per 100 pounds, bacon 40 cents a pound, sugar 20 cents & pound, beans 10 cents & pound, whisky 50 cents a glass, beer 25 cents a glass. A shave costs 50 cents and a haircut $1. . Captain Healy of the steamer P. B. Weare, which was reported in a dangerous position in the ice at the mouth of Porcu- pine River and liable to be broken up with the spring thaw, says she could not be in a safer position and will again be in the ser- vice during the coming summer, The steamer Topeka brought down a box of bullion valued at $72,000 trom the Douglas Island mines. LEGAL STRIFE AT SANTA ROSA. Lawyer Lynch Tries to Have Editor Lem- mon Clied for Con- tempt. SANTA ROSA, Car.,, March 17.—The case of Wesley Mock vs. Santa Rosa, grow- ing out of the water works contract dis- pute, was on trial here to-day before Judge Dangertield of San Francisco. Somtehing of a sensation was created when Attorney Lynch for the plaintiff read an editorial from the Daily Republican of March 6, 1896, entitled, ‘“Democratic Opposition.” The article is from the pen of A. B. Lemmon, editor of the Republican, and accused Lynch, Judge Dangerfield and others con- nected with the case of being Democrats. These statements, Lynch declared, were false and contemptible. The langunage used in the editorial, he said, was calcu- lated to bring the court into contempt, as being biased by political] motives. Lynch wanted Editor Lemmon cited to appear before the court to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt. Judge Dangerfield said, in discussing the editorial, that while it might be contempt he did not believe it worth considering, and consideration of it might aggravate the case. Failing in this direction, Lyneh turned his attention to Attorney Goodwin, the counsel for Mayor Effey of Santa Cruz, to whom the contract for constructing the water works was awarded, and a great part of the aiternoon was spent in trying to get Goodwin to answer certain questions regarding the Mayor's transaction with the City Trustees. This the witness re- fused to do, on the ground that as Effey’s attorney all communication to him on this line were privileged. An effort was also made to prove that the Effey and Garratt & Company bids for the con- struction of the water works were in the same handwriting, and experts on hand- writing occupied the stand a part of the day. Public interest in this remarkable trial is abating, and all of the political parties stand pledged by their platforms to use all lively interest was manifested for the cam- paign will be a hotly contested one by those in favor of bonding the town for $60,000 for the puttingin of a water system, as against those who oppose the plan. It is generally undersiood that the gentle- men nominated for trustees favor the pro- posed improvement. The following nominations were made: For Trustees—John Favour, J. H. Gunn, H. H. Pyne and W. H. Barnes; for Clerk —U. H. Pond, A. B. Provines; for Marshal —J. B. Leard, J. C. Ingalls and C. Bryan; for Treasurer—George H. Warfield. T CARSON TRIAL NEARING AN END. Closing Arawments to the Jury in the John T. Jones Case. CARSON, NEv., March 17.—Closing ar- guments to the jury in the case of John T. Jones, on trial for complicity with Convict James Heney in the theft of $23,000 worth of bullion from the United States mint, occupied the entire day in the United States court. Attorney Dennis for the de- fense charged the shortage to Heney. bullion lay present melter and refiner, and Jones, the defendant. General Clarke and United that he was short $34,000 in 1893, before Harris came to the mint. Clarke, in his address to the jurv, and yet Jones made no report of the short- age, because he was short himself and had to make bogus melts to cover both steal- ings. The defense made the assertion that Harris made the bogus melt in March, yet his letter reporting & shortage and calling for an investigation was written on Feb- ru 15. Clarke was talking for the Government at 4 o’clock and will finish his address to- mOrrow. ST R Fatal Shooting at Loomis. shot and killed George Stringham, a neigh- bor, Sunday morning on the Sikameen River. Coults found a fence on his land torn down, it evidently having been de: stroyed by Stringham’ during the night. Coults commenced to rebuild, when String- ham shot at him with a rifle. Young Coults ran to the house and brought a rifle to his father, when Stringbam and Coults both fired, Stringham falling in his door- way mortally wounded. Stanford Students Addressed by the Favorite of the Stage. Evolution of the Drama Described and the Great Actors of the World Discussed. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CarL, March 17.—The university chapel was crowded this afternoon as it has seldom been before by an audience eager to hear Actor Frederick Warde lecture on “The Evolution of the Drama.”” Long before hegan reserving their seats, and when Warde was o’clock, the room was filled to the point of suffocation. ‘Warde's discourse was delivered with all the grace, fluency and humor of which the accomplished actor was capable. He said that from the earliest times a community been created as a popular form of intel- lectual pleasure. As early as 500 B. C. almost dating back to the Homeric era— the drama could be traced back. In its origin it was usually a song to the ruling | deities. These songs were sung or chanted | by bands of chorus singers. The Grecian | Thespius was the originator of a story in | verse. Half a century later Eschyius introduced two persons with a chorus. Sophocles and Euriptdes later introduced the entire dramatis persous, perfecting, as they believed, the drama. Music pre- dominated in the early drama, but has dis- appeared now. From Greece the drama went to Rome, where it was patronized by the weaithy for a time. Then it sank from sight, only to be revived and fostered by the church. It was uitilized to illustrate churchly miracles and portray the sufferings of Jesus Christ. Later the church became antagonistic to the drama. Not until the age of Elizabeth did the drama take its | rightful place as an art and an institution. Shakespeare, the Immortal, then came with that galaxy of wonderful dramatists. The sovereigns, Elizabeth and King James, became the patrons of the drama which flourished as it had never done be- fore. came under the Puritan commonwealth. When restored the drama lost its purity and became vulgar and depraved, but for- tunately this did not last long. plays of the time. Then arose Sheridan® Knowles and his comedies. Realism en- tered to the disadvantage of art. A light farce came to preface heavy tragedy, and a low comedy closed the performance French plays with social motifs were in- troduced with the burlesques; then came the pantomime—all action being expressed without the aid of the voice. Realistic drama reached its height in the railroad, water-tank, sawmill and horse-race plays. Lastly, then, was the farce-comedy, which combined the worst elements of the farce, the burlesque and the comedy. Specialty performances are most popular at the present day. Mr. Warde closed with a discussion of the great actors of the world and the char- acters in which they excelled. e INTERKED AT FRESNO. The Bodies of Douglas K. and Francis C. Mott Laid to Rest. FRESNO, CAx., March 17.—A large con- course of Fresno's citizens took part in a sad event to-day—the -funeral of Douglas K. and Francis C. Mott, brothers, who died within three days of each other at Berke- ley, the elder, Douglas, going first. They had lived in Fresno nearly all their lives and were universally liked. With their widowed mother they removed to Berke- lev, where recently Douglas K. Mott en- tered the university and his brother the High School. Consumption claimed both. The bodies were embalmed and brought here last evening. The funeral took place from the Episcopal church. The proces- sion started from the church at 2 o’ciock P. M. The bodies were interred in one grave in the town cemetery. The elder brother was for more than a year a re- porter here on a local newspaper. A sister of the two young men died from con- sumption a year ago. A mother, sister and brother survive them. s 155 SR bonorable means to stop the litigation. R P& Py HEALDSBURG NOMINEES, Bonding for a Water Sustem the Issue in the Coming Election. HEALDSBURG, CaL, March 17.—A largely attended meeting was held in this city last night for the purpose of nomi- nating candidates for the various offices to CYCLER PETTIS' MISFORTUNE, The Well-Known Wheelman Suffers the Amputation of @ Leg. SBANTA ROSA, Car., March 17.—W. F. Pettis, a well-known wheelman of this city, was thrown from a buggy a few days ago, breaking his leg just above the ankle. To-day.it was found necessary to amputate the leg to save the young man’s life. be filled atthe coming city election. A Pettis formerly belonged to the Reli- ance Cycling Club of Oakland, and par- Mr. Woodburn, leadine attorney for Jones, | stated to the jury that the stealing of the | etween Hirsch Harris, the | States District Attorney Jones took up the | -accusation and showed by Jones’ accounts | claimed that Heney stole $29,000 in 1893, | LOOMIS, Wasg., March 17.—Peter Coults | WARDE 1T PALD ALTD, the hour for the lecture arrived students | introduced, shortly after 2| demanded amusement and the drama had | Its growth was rapid until a check | Tragedy and comedy were the prevailing | ticipated in the last carmival races here, as well as in other meets throughout the State. He is resting nicely after the opera- tion, but is not out of danger. - A Ends Life With a Bullet. SANTA ROSA, Car, March 17.— Joseph Kirsch, a native of Germany, aged 58 years, committed suicide here to-aay by " shooting himself through the head. lgirsch had resided in Santa Rosa for more than thirty years, and for the past quarter of a century had owned a barber shop near the Grand Hotel on Main ‘street. FIRE ON DRUMM STREET The Warehouse of Ames & Harris Seri- ously Damaged This Morning. The large warehouse of Ames & Harris, at the northwest corner of Sacramento and Drumm streets, was badly damaged by fire this morning and the stock suffered | heavily'both from fire and water. | About1a. . flames were seen breaking from the windows in the fourth or top story. An alarm was instantly given at the Harbor Police station, in an adjoining block, and Policeman Cayot turned in a | signal from the fire box at California and Drumm streets. No time was lost, but the flames made great headway before the engines arrived. | A second alarm wus then sounded. as the fire began to assume alarming proportions. Presently a dozen firemen were clamber- ing up the iron ladders or fire escapes of the high brick building. They dragged a | hose line and a ladder to the roof anfpro- | ceeded to work, but hardly were they well | begun when flames burst from windows on | both sides of the iron escape and threat- | ened to cut off their retreat. Chief Sullivan ordered them down and the men responded Lurriedly, for they had to gass between two wallsof Hlame that ade the ladder almost unbearably hot. The water tower was then called into use, and with three combined streams pouring through the top windows the fire | was soon under control. | The building was used as a bag, twine and linen store by Ames & Harris and con- ained a large and valuable stock. The | loss was variously estimated at $25,000 to $50,000, but no cause for the fire could be ascertained. A John T. Doyle is the owner of the build- ing, which was erected in 1889. The fire was confined to the fourth floor. How it | started is not known. The loss on the building was $2000 and the loss on the stock was about $20,000. % FOUND IN THE BAY. The Body of an Unknown Man Rescued From the Deep by a Fish- -erman. Nicholas Sylvania, a fisherman, found the body of a man floating in the bay off | Fisherman’s wharf yesterday. The Coro- | ner’s office was notified and the body was removed to the Morgue. The hands were | tied with twine and the pockets of the dead man’s clothing were filled with stones. The body was that of a man of about 50 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches in height, and weighing 160 pounds. The clothing 1 (‘nnsisteg of a dark coat and light trousers. The body had been in the water some time, as the features were greatly disfig- ured. Though the case is somewhat strange, it is believed that the man com- mitted suicide. The body was not identi- fied in the afternoon. Late last evening G. B. Larkin, who re- | sides at 1124 Howard street, called at the Morgue and recognized the remains as those of William Giles, whom he had at one time employed as a teamster. He | says that Giles was born in Boston and | was 55 years of ageat the time of his death. Giles nad frequently threatened suicide, and told his friend that in case he was | missing not to worry as he intended to do away with himself. Mrs. Barker, who re- sides at 309 Capp street, is a sister of de- | ceased. She was informed by the Coroner | last evening of the death of her brother, | but she refused to have anything to do | with the burial of the body. | |OCEAN VIEW COURSING. | A First-Class Day’s Sport at the San | Mateo County Resort—The Winners. In spite of counter attractions the cours- ing men assembled at Ocean View Park yesterday in large numbers and witnessed running that has not been equaled for months past. The hares were in the finest possible condition and the high grade hounds that were on the ground | gave the spectators a first-class day’s | sport. | In the unfinished stake left over from | Jast Sunday D. Tweedie's dogs demon- | strated their superiority by winning every- | thing in sight without a contest. White | Rustic beat Mascot and was withdrawn so | as to claim third, Tempest and Dnblin | Stout taking the large end of the purse. A twelve-dog consolation followed in which Snowbird won first, Tempest second and Bobolink, a Captain Morse pup, third. Then a four-dog match at $2 50 each was run, as follows: | _Maud G beat Foxhall, Dublin Stout beat | White Rustic. . Finale—Maud G beat Dublin Stout. Next Sunday a §1 stake, the drawing for | which will take place at 915 Market street on Thursday evening, will be run. —_———— IRISH NATIONALISTS. Brilllant Festivities of the Knights of the Red Branch at Odd Fellows’ Hall, The twenty-fourth grand anniversary | ball of the Irish Nationalists of San Fran- cisco under the auspices of the Knights of the Red Branch was a success last evening in every way. 0dd Fellows’ Hall was resplendent with vellow and green. Long streamers of these colors hung from the center of the | ceiling to the galleries, and along the latter was arranged green and yellow bunhting, varied by the flags of Erin and the stars and stripes. The stage was banked with flowers, the predominating colors being the yellow and the green. Suspended across the arch in yellow letters was the legend “Knights of the Red Branch.”’ he shamrock was on every coat lapel and in the corsage of every evening toilet. The committee of arrangements con- sisted of W. B. Shorten, chairman; J. Murphy, P. J. Sullivan, M. Mannix, P. Donohue, Ed O’Reily and J. Tracy. The reception committee — Captain J. Sheehy, chairman; P. J. O'Neill, M. D., J. Kilemede, W. B. Shorten, M. Gall, J. Fay and D. Killeen. Floor director, M. Mannix; assistant door director, P. J. Hulligan. Floor committee—J. Welsh, F. Palmer, P. T. Condron, M. D., T. Kearney, J. Rog- erson and J. Loughrey. Over 1200 were in attendance. Dancing was continued until a late hour. PERILS OF THE SEA. One of the British Ship Thistle's Crew ‘Washed Overboad and Drowned. Arrivals, The British ship Thistle arrived last night from Swansea. She sailed thence on November 9 and her captain reported that on the following day the ship encountered a very heavy gale with a very high cross sea, which went clean over the vessel. Six of the crew were injured and one, Jobn Henréflndwick. a native of Eng- land, aged 22 years, was washed overboard and drowned. The captain put into Holy- head and sailed thence November 21. No p(a;tlculn difficulty wasencountered there- after. . The British ship Ardamurchan arrived from Cardiff, having sailed November 8. She reported heavy weather November 10 and 11 with v-r]yingwlnd- thereafter. The bark Columbia got into port last night after severe weather on the passage. | PAINTERS AGAIN ONA BIG STRIKE, Every Union Journeyman Ordered to Quit Work To-Day. VERDICT OF THE BOSSES. They Refuse to Comply With the Demands Made by the Union. THE WORKING-CARD SYSTEM. The Building Trades Council Will Without Doubt Take a Hand in the Fight. The Master Painters’ Association has de- clined to accede to the terms of the union| journeymen painters. This aetion will | probably oprecipitate one of the _!argex_ati trade union strikes ever witnessed in this | City. As previously stated in THE CALL the journeymen demanded $3 asa minimum for 1 a day’s wages for eight hours’ work anda | recognition of the building trades work- ing card system. By the working card all union workmen are prohibited from work- ing with non-union men. Inother words none but union men shall be employed. The master painters have held several meetings of late and sent & committee to confer with the Executive Board of the | Painters’ and Decorators’ Union. That meeting was held on Monday and last evening the master painters commiueel made its report. Among the features in | this report was that there may be one ap- prentice to every journeyman, one fore- man to eight men and one laborer to six men. The master painters after a long debate | decided not to adopt the committee’s Te- | port, but to take the bull by the horns, so | to speak, and decline to comply with the | principal demand of the union men, a rec- ognition of the working-card system. Their ultimatum was as follows: | SAN FrANCISCO, March 17, 1896. At a special meeting of -the Master Painters’ | Association of the Pacific Coast, held March 17 | at the Builders’ Exchange, after a due and | careful consideration, it was unanimously | Resolved, That the demands of the Journey- | men Painters’ Union in regard to the card system will not be recognized. i E. H. BLACK, President. | H. F. WAGNER, Secretary. There were at the meeting master paint- ers Black, Kuss, \Wagner, Onadt, Sulli- van Phillips, Herringer, McGovern, Mc- Cord, Fraser, 8t. Denis, McCauly, C. Staten, W. Eaton and about ten others. President E. H. Black aiter the meeting was over said: The men in reality have brought the trouble upon themselves. From 1878 to 18380 they were working ten hours for 3. They struck for nine hours and then for $3 50. Later on they struck for eight hours. All of their de- mands were granted. A year ago wagesdropped through no fault of ours. While the standard wages were $3 the men themselves fixed their wages at $2 50 a day by offering to work for that amount. Even at this amount they are Tetter situated than they were when they were getting $3 and $3 50 for nine and ten hours’ work. Living and ciothing is much cheaper now than then and more than makes up the actual differecce. . They threaten us with the Building Trades Council, of which the Painters’ Union is a member, and talk about tying up all the build- ing trades in the City. With very few excep- | tionms, such as the Parrott building and one or two similar jobs, the Building Trades Council card system cannot affact us. All the carpen- | ters, [athers and others are through with a | bullding before the painters can go to work, | 80 they cannot tie up evervthing before there | is something to tie up. A lot of our other work is painting where none of the other trades have been at work, such as old houses, etc. | There is no doubt about our winning, for the | public is with us. [ Much has been said about the boss painters | giving in, but those statements are badly ex- | aggerated. gl ieT PAINTERS CALLED OUT. Unlon Mer.n_Ordured to Quit Work at Once. A copy of the foregoing decision of the Master Painters was handed to Rose, Mc- Ivor, Merrill and others of the executive board of the Painters’ Union soon after the meeting adjourned. The latter held a caucus at once and a decision was quickly arrived at. It was decided to call out every union painter on a general strike this morning, and by 8 o’clock it is expected that every | job in the City will be tied up. The lead- | ers are determined not to yield a single point, and they claim that the support | promised to them will enable them to stop | all branches of the building trades until the troubles are settled. | Another call has been made for all the striking painters to meet at the Tem- rle for the pupose of further organizing or aggressive work. 1his meeting will ve continued all day and the strike system- atized. - The most important will be the calling of a ypecial meeting of the Build- in% Trades Council for. 8 o’clock to-night. he council’s working card system is to g0 into effect on April'l, and itis the pur- pose of the painters to bave the council order it to go into effect at once. If this is accomplished it wili throw many thousand men into the strike instead of 1100 or 1200, | the present strength of the painters. The council has already pledged itself and its unions to do this if the occasion de. manded. All —— A UNION MASS-MEETING. The Painters Will Hold a Great Demonstration Next Saturday Evening. The meeting of the striking painters in the Temple at 115 Turk street was not so large yesteraay as usual. This was not because they were losing interest in the strike, but because the large majority of the union men are at work in the union shops, where the bosses have given in to all union demands. There was no lack of interest, however, and several important measures were discussed, and consequently there were fewer reports made than usunal. J. F.A Keefe of Sutter street was reported as !mvmz given in to all demands of the union. He has been one of the most stub- born of all the bosses in holding out against the strikers. H. A. Herringer of 813 Larkin street states that he never declined to pay less than the union’s ruling rate of wages. The polishers’ committee reported that another visit had been made to the Par- Tott building, and that the committee had found William A. Henry of 11 Clinton street, “‘Russian Sam'’ and a man from Oakland 1mported by Kuss. These three men defied the union. There are four men working for Breskey of the San Francisco Furniture Company. It was recommended that immediate steps be taken to tie up the work in al! its branches. It was deemed inadvisable at present to take such a step with regard to the Parrott building, On Aypril 1 the Building Trades | men the xm;iort.mce of regulating their | meeting in a body. Council’s card system will go into eflect, and then the council will act. The following letter was read and caused the painters to applaud heart- ily and extend avote of thanks to the Berkeley carpenters: USITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA, § BERKELEY UNION No. 22, March 16. To R. T. McIvor of Painters' and Decorators’ Union, San Francisco: WHEREAS, at & meeting of L. U. 23 of Berkeley, U. B. of C. and J. of A. it was brought to our notice that the painters and decorators of San Francisco were on & strike for living wages and the recognition of the card system, it was resolved to extend a donation of $50 to, the painters and decorators to helg carry the strike to a successful issue. We have been organized but a short time, so our donation is nccessarily not large. Wish- ing you every success and hoping for an early settlement of your troubles, we remain yours fraternally. J. T. Langlais, president; P. Steedman, secretary; J. V. McSheehy. R. T. Mclvor, the walking delegate, in- troduced a resolution which was heartily supported by the painters. It was that a big mass-meeting be held of all the unions under the auspices of the Painters’ and Decorators’ Union next Saturday evening in the Metropolitan Temple. He said that he was sure that all the unionsin the building trades would turn out in a body, and he was confident that the other labor unions would do likewise. For over a week the painters have been making a fight to better their condition and they haye been moraliy and financially sup- ported by every union man in the City. The mass-meeting, he believed, would be a fitting celebration of a victory which will no doubt be a fact by that time. Ifby any chance the victory is not won by Saturday night, it will be a fitting occasion to show the people of the country the strength of theunion and how it is supported by the other labor unions. Every union in this State has some grievance that should be corrected, and now that the first heavy blow has been struck, is the right time to impress upon the minds of all workirg- differences. In brief, if the present fizht is won the mass meeting will be a celebra- tion of the victory. If the strike is still on it will be to further enlist the sympathy of the publicin general. The motion was carried unanimously. President Hutchinson of Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union No. 483 stated that on Sat- urday evening there will be a mass-meet- ing of all the carpenters’ unions at 115 | Turk street to elect a_business agent, vice | Johnson, resigned. He said that the busi- ness would no doubt be hastened if the car- penters should attend the painters’ mass- It was decided {hst all the painters as- semble at 115 Turk street at 7 o'clock Sat- urday evening, and with band and banners march through the principal streets and then to Metropolitan Temple. A commit- tee was appointed to arrange the details, consisting of Melvor, Danielson, Merrill, Bean and Postler. One of the painrers, who had become im- patient at_the delay on the part of the master painters to make a settlement of the troubles, moved that every painter at work in the City be called from his work pending a settlement of the strike. BHis motion received no support, as the painters declared that it woula be breaking faith with those who have acceded to all the terms on the journeymen’s promise that they would not be moiested. Besides, an answer is expected from the bosses at any hour. Another resolution was passed that will be a severe blow to all non-union men who have ignored the union and may in the fu- ture desire to become a member. It was that afier Monday next the initiation fee shall be raised from 25 cents to $10. Every one favored the resolution. A similar law has been passed by several of the carpen- ters’ unions. This increase in the fee is intended to prevent backsliding on the part of those union men who frequentiy Loinnnnion when they have a desire to etter their condition and drep out when they have gained their peint. % A resolution to start a strikers’ relief fund by assessing those who are at work was Jaid over. as the situation is not yet serious enough to warrant such an action. A vote of thanks was extended to the Labor Bureau Association for the use of its hall and assembly-room during the strike, gl o5 ey STRIKERS DEFIANT. Ready to Compete and Take Palnt- ing Contracts. R. T, McIvor as spokesman for the exec- utive board last night made the following statement: While we expectea & different verdict from the master painters we are not so very greatly surprised at their action. It was a unanimous verdict, as I have been informed. However, since they have declared for a battle we will give them all they want and more, too. We will hit them & hard blow by entering into the market with them and making con- tracts with the property-owners direct. We will take all unfinished contracts and make new ones wherever we can at terms that they cannot meet. We will work ‘or $1 a day if neces- sary, the property-owners iurnishing the ma- terial, and we will do better work than was ever done before. We have nothing to lose, for we are not mak- ing over §7 o week on an average, and we have everything to gain. As'to our plans for the present we will do just as we have mapped out—call out all of the painters in the morning and call a meeting of the Building Trades’ Council. We will invite 10 this meeting representatives of all sympa- thetic unions in the City. 1 have no doubt that we can stop all building work in this City and force the bosses to come to terms or go out of business altogether. This verdict by the master painters is not by them alone. The delay in giving an answer to us was to enable them to confer with the other building contractors. This verdict 18 the verdict of all the contract- ors, and means nothing but a slap in the face at the Building Trades Council working-card system. It has reachea this point that our fight is the council’s fight, for if we fail they will go down with us, and they, like the paini- ;an, have everything to gain and nothing to ose. e STRIKERS IN COURT. The Preliminary Examination of D. J. McRea Commenced Before Judge Low. The first case against the striking lathers in connection with the affray on Post street, near Larkin, on Tuesday of last week came up before Judge Low yesterday afternoon. D.J. McRea appeared for his prelimi- naty examination on the charge of assault .with intent to commit murder, the com- plaining witness being Peter Trade. Attor- ney Coleappeared asspecial prosecutorand Attorney Ea!llgher represented the de- fendant. All the other defendants were in court and a large number of their friends. The witnesses examined for the prose- cution were Walter Trade, Peter Trade and James McCluskey, who testified to the assault upon Peter and that McRea struck him with a lath. Dr. Johannsen testified as to Peter's injuries, and Christopher Moorehouse, who has the contract for plastering the house, testified to discharg- ing McRea and employing Trade and Cahill. He also admitted that he had employed special counsel to prosecute the defendants. 2 As the defense intimated there would be about_fifteen witnesses to testify it was agreed to continuethe case till Wednesday of next week. hog ranch has proved very offensive to us. We‘nre reliably informed that a member of the family of one of the owners of said ranch is now seriously ill. We believe said sickness to have been ceused by the unhealthy surroundings of the place. We areapprehensive of our own health, and we find the stench arising from the pens on tie establishment to be very offensive to us, and if the present nuisance is not abated we will be forced to move elsewhere large amount of slush is created there, and one of the children of one of the undersigned was nearly drowned in the same a short time ago. We could make other complaints in regard to said ranch, but the same being easily ob- served by any one who may go there, we know that a short inspection of said place will convince you of the merits of our complaint. We respectfully ask that you take immediate action in said matter. Respectfully, J. P. Peterson, G. F. Remmers, H. T. Gilberry, Mrs. T. Remmets, E. J. Stone, H. Anderson, Mrs. F. Siemer, Dan Larsen, C. J. Jorgensen, H. Hunter, Harold Paine, Thomas Gable, Mrs. F. Freitas, Mrs. Burnell. Inspector Kinney will investigate the matter to-day and report to the board at its next meeting. MAHONEY WAS UGLY. The Pugilist and Ex-Fireman Attacks Theodore Van Buskirk and Eddie Hanlin. Daniel Mahoney, pugilist and ex-fire- man, was arrested yesterday morning by Policeman F. W. Riley on the charges of assault with a deadly weapon aud battery. Theodore Van Buskirk, the champion heavy-weight of the Olympic Club, and Eddie Hanlin were on their way down town from their rooms at 1109 Larkin street wher: they overtook Mahoney at the corner of Ellis street. Mahoney was in- toxicated, and either purposely or acci- dentally brushed against Van Buskirk,who stepped aside. As he did so Mahoney pulled a revolver out of his pocket and flourished itin a threatening manner in front of Van Buskirk. Being unarmed, the Olympic Club champion bastily placed a telegraph pole between himself and Mahoney. This dis concerted Mahoney and he turned his attention to Haniin, pushing the barrel of the revolver against his breast. Hanlin grabbled with him and threw him to the %mumL Van Buskirk then stepped from ehind the telegraph pole and helped Hanlin hold Mahouey till Policeman Riley appeared and placed Mahoney under arrest. Neither Van Buskirk nor Hanlin seemed willing to prosecute Mahoney, but upon the advice of Judge Joachimsen, who was passing at the time of the arrest, they changed their minds. They could give no reason why Mahoney should bave shown a desire to shoot them, as they are ac- quainted with him. VALLEY ROAD FINANCES Not a Single Delinquency in the Call for the Fifth Assessment on the Stock. Every dollar levied by the fifth assess- ment on the stock of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad Company has been paid. It was a call for 10 per cent of the full amount of the stock issued, or $244,000. The assessment was made payable on the 9th inst. and would become delinquent on the 26th, but every stock- holder had by yesterday met his obligation. There has now been paid in just half of the total amount of the face value of the stock that has been’ issued, or $1,220,000. All of this has gone to pay for actual con- struction of the road and a part of its equip- ment. 1t has providea for, among other things, the material used in construction as far as Fresno, the locating or surveying of the road to Bakersfield, three locomo- tives, 150 freight cars and the boarding out- fit for the men at the front, consisting of two dining-room cars. 5 Owing to the absence from the City of a number of the directors of the road the regular weekly meeting, which is usually held on Tuesday, was postponed yesterday until to-day. e . THE FAIR CASE. Judge Slack Decides That It Shall Go On To-morrow Morning. The Fair case has gone over until to- morrow morning, when the exact position of the proponents of the pencil will will be argued and perhaps ascertained. All the attorneys were present in court when Mr. Delmas rose and asked for a con- tinuance. He had not been supplied with a copy of the proceedings of the day before, he said, and he could not go on intelli- gently without that.information. Mr. Pier- son objected, but Mr. Delmas reminded him that he had waited fourteen months before offering the will, and that an ex- planation of his sudden haste would be in order. Then Judge SlAck announced that he would take the case up to-morrow morn- ing, and in the meantime Mr. Delmas will be given a copy of the testimony. — e For Stealing Cattle. Ella Keith, alias Garcia, was arrested yester- day on a warrant issued by a Benicia Justice of the Peace charging her with felony embez- zlement. She formerly worked on the ranch oi 8. Rossi, Van Sycklen Jsland, Sacramento River. About three months ago she shipped fifteen head of cattle belonging to her em- loyer to this City and sold them, appropriat- Tag the proceeds, She claims that she worked on the ranch for two years at$30 per month wages, but Rossi only paid her $60, and she took the cattle in part paymentof what was due her. e The sense of smell is probably more acute in the dog than in any other animal. NEW TO-DAY. Sometimes it seems to weary woman that she must certainly give up. The sim- plest and easiest work becomes an almost insurmount- able task. Lassitude almost _ overcomes her. Nervousness and sleeplessness and pain harass her and life seems hardly WS worth the living. That her sufferings are due solely to her own fault seldom occurs to hsx, but - often :a] is so. i{ealth“ st th and vigorous vitality are hers, if SRS Pl it sak i reach P Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription was made for her. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med- ical Discovery was made for her. The for- mer is for the ills distinctly feminine, the other for her general system. Together they supply a scientific and successful course of treatment. The *‘ Favorite Pre. scription *’ restores healthy, regular action to the organs distinctly feminine. It forces out all impuritics, strengthens the tissues, allays irritating inflammation. The “Gold- en Medical Discovery” makes appetite, helps digestion, promotes assimilation, fills out the hollows in cheeks and neck with good solid flesh and brings back the gladsome glow of girlhood. Best of all AGAINST THE RANCHES. Petition Presented to the Board of Health by South San Francisco Property-Owners. The efforts of the South San Francisco property-owners to have the hogranches removed to limits beyond the residence districts have not been abated, and peti- tions to the Board of Health calling atten- tion to the vile condition of the ranches are sent in daily. The following communication from the residents south of Butchertown was re- ceived by the Board of Health yesterday: To the Honorabie Board of Health—GENTLEMEN : We, the undersigned residents of this City and County, and living near the hog ranch con- du by Charles Juhl and Henry Seimers, on the corner of Eighth avenue and H street 0 hereby respectfully petition your le board to take action in relg.rd to the nuisance hereinafter mentioned. e said § with these remedies there is no need o detested ‘‘examinations’’ and “local treat- ment” so abhorrent to every modest ‘woman. i Thousands of grateful women have written letters like this: MRS. SAMANTHA M. CRANMER, of Box 3¢, Le Roy, Bradford Co., Pa., writes: **It is with pleas- ure that I write these few lines in favor of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical D and ‘Fa- vorite Prescription’—the medicines which have done me so much 1 was completely run down sothat I could scarcely drag myself around the house, had been getting weaker and worse for several years until I lost all hope of ever get. ting any better. I took four bottles of each of your medicines and am now perfectly well.” Respectfully yours, Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adbviser, a 1000 im doctor book, fusely illustrated, of which 680,000 have been sold lt}:.s}a copy, will be sent FREE on re- ceipt of 21 cents to stage and wrap- ping only. W(:nu?':y strmsmw Mzg- ICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y, 1 MINER'S LOCK, Grass Valley the Home of the Happy One. But it Was Not in Gold That He “Struck It.”’ IS FUNNY TO WATCH THE MAN WHO goes out to make his fortune in a way that is “‘out of the groove.” Sometimes he will ap- pear in the guise of a lottery fiend ; again he will appear as dabbler in stocks ; anet he is to be found as a gold mine prospector, and he has been heard of as trying to find gold on goose- berry bushes. In any case he is a man without an object—a careless, reckless and usnally worthless chap, whose duty to humanity (in his mind) is made up of getting rich at some one else’s expense. That is not the type of man, though, who carries his 1ifé in his hand from day to day, and who really works hard to secure fortune's favors. Heis usually a ster- ling, whole-souled fellow, fearing nothing, though he risks much. One of the sterling sort of searchers after “luck” who has recently “struek it rich” is Mr. A. Burton of Grass Val- ley. He was unable to pursue hisarduous call- 1ng as & miner because he was prostrated with aserious disease. He thought there was no relief for him and he began to look at death as a certainty., He had not heard of the grand old Hudson Medical Institute then. But he went there and he is cured now. “Health is more than wealth.” His good fortune wa health. Ina letter to the managers of that great institution he says : Grass Valley, Cal., August 15, 1895. Hudson Medical Institute, San Francisco, Cal- Gentlemen: 1left Gold Valley onthe 3 of June, and 1 have been to Nevada and all through the mining camps seeking to find “good times.” and that {s the reason I suppose that I did not get your letters before. At present [ am not doing anything and money is scarce. The medicine I took did me lots of good, and as soon as 1 am “in junds” I shall certainly send for some more. t Yoars, respectfuliy. A. RURTON. 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