The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 28, 1896, Page 11

.THE SAN FRANCISCO. CALL, SATURDAY, MARCE 28, .1896. 11 set for Sunday, April 5, at 11 A. M. over the Long Bridge course. Arrangements for the South Ends’ re- ception, to be held at Native Sons’ Hall, April 16, are almost completed and the programme will be announced during the coming week. The committee of arrange- ments consists of J. E. Scully,J. D. Ma- honey, J. A. Lenahan, J. P. O'Dea, W. J. O’Brien and Al Fritz. Preceding the South Ends’ reception.will riels” entertainment on Apri uare Hall. of the Pacific Athletic Asso- ipient of a letter from the Pacific Northwestern Association in re- gard to the arrangement for holding the championship games and regattas, but nothing definite has been arranged as yet. e ATHLETIC. Wrestling at the Olympic Club. Boxers and Swimmers. The Olympic Club’s wrestling tourna- ment will be held on Monday evening in gymuasium, The entries for the events closed last evening., Professor , the instructor, says that the s which will be witnessed on Mon- evening will prove more interesting anything in the line of wrestling that place in the club for many there are several high-class g the entrants. irst of a series of sprints and long- races which have been arranged tain Gill, will be held at the Olym- letic grounds ou Sunday, April 5. en, the crack hammer-thrower and putter of the Universi ity for the statement that Berkeley nd & team to the Kast this year that ake the cobwebs from the eyes of ern college boys, who have been under the impression that the wild men of the est could not raise anything better than ypkins and “sich.” We will simply clean up the dust with ose Eastern chaps this year,” remarked [} the law he notified ity Club, is | = all, through the mediom of the press, that he would prosecute any person whom he found purchasing trout from the Indians. Then he watched the trains, and Wwhenever the mnomads brought in trout he followed them around and warned any one attempting to purchase them. As’ this ruined the demand, tne Indians have stopped bringing the slaugh- tered fish to market, but during former years thousands of pounds of speared trout have found a reag_v sale in this city. Helms declares that it will no longer be rermitted. He also stated that there are larger quantities of duck and quail -breed- ing this year than has ever been known in this vicinity before. _ Fish Commissioner Morrison, who has ust jreturned from a trip to the Scott | River district, in Siskiyou County, declares | that to be the Mecca of sporismen, al- though as he states the game laws are totally disregarded ; still ulemds of game and fish are so plentiful that no diminish- ment 1s perceptible, Steelhepds are being taken in that vicinity in larger quantities than ever before known. Doves are reported te be making their appearance in large numbers, and many ‘{mirs are already nesting. The Grass | Valley Gun Club is issuing invitations to sportsmen througnout the State to attend a bluerock tournament which will be given under its auspices within the next month. The Kimble and Upson opening shoot will take place next Sunday. No entries will be made until the meeting at the | grounds, but ‘Woodland, ‘Wheatland, | Stockton, Marysville, Oroville, San Fran- | cisco and Oakland clubs will all have rep- resentatives present. The Spoonbill Club | meet will take place the first Sunday in April at the Eckhardtshooting grounds at Agricultural Park. As yet the list of prizes has not been announced. The Swiss and Sacramento rifle clubs have consoli- dated and will tackle the butts every Sun- day. That enthusiastic sportsman, W. E. Gerber, has procured twelve pairs of Mon- Edgren with a setting sun smile, The Lurline Swimming Club will give an excellent exhibition of swimming and polo playing on Thursday evening next: One of the principal features of the even- g will be a polo match between two well- led teams. The Olympic only the very best talent from among the army of boxers for its special boxing night ShifhePeviihn. Wre oue il Behsidion Monday evening, when the good will be segregated from the bad. The bouts will be worth seeing. LB, HANDBALL. . Club propose to select Amateur and Professional Games Slated for To-Morrow. Tt was expected at the last meeting of the Olympic Club directors that the pro- posed” new handball court controversy would be settled. The energetic and enterprising director, E. E. Short, stated he had collected $1000 from members who are interested in the new enterprise, but the president, Mr. Eaton, stated that noaction could be taken in the matter until the club bad held an- other meeting with the owner of the prop- rty on which the proposed court is to be erected. There is evidently some hitch in the agreement entered into between the club and the property-owner in question if matters be satisfactorily ad- ted before the next meeting of the board, which will be on Wednesday even- ext, the future of tihie new handball ourt will be made known. The managers of the courts on Howard street have prepared the following pro- of gamres for to-morrow: an’s court—W. Manion and dwards and J. Collins to pla R. Murphy and W. Stansbury, P. Kelly and J. Slattery to play P. Hutchinson and on, Al Pennoyer and J. McEvelley . Lawless and D. Connoily; P. ) , the amateur champion, and G. Hutchinson to play J. Harlow, the coast champion, and W. Williams. ’ court the principal event bea match between T, F. ealon against J. J. rey and R. Leniban. This maich should prove very interesting. - THE RIFLE. California Schuetzen Club Spring Festival at San Rafaei. One of—if not the principal—event of the season will be the great spring rite- oting festival of the California Schuet- zen Club at San Rafael Park. Over nin prizes have been received by the sec 3 target contest, which promises to eclipse able scores anything ore been attempted. 0 end to the noise of crack- g rifles and the smell of burned powder. he language of Billy Jordan, the us m of ceremonies of prize- ats, it will be the event of the season. tofal amount of prizes which will be for on this auspicious occasion that shot amounts to $1500. . Schuman, the proprie’or of the park, is arranging an excellent programme of games, etc, inction with the great shooting festival. e-shooters from all parts of the State will be present. The following item recently appeared in the Banffshire Journal, a Scotch paper, concerning some wonderful shooting: Mr. Edward Charles Russell Ross, who won the first Queen’s prize at Wimbledon in 1860, when he was only 19 years of age, and who rward became ome of the most cele- brated deer-stalkers of his time, died on the 1st inst. at North Berwick. He was 55 years of age, His great skill as a pisiol shot ‘may be gathered when it is mentioned that one occa- for a bet, he brought down nineteen out nd on sion of t enty-one swallows on the wing, another occasion eniertained an Aust tor, Prince Esterbazy, by hitting butterflies finttering in his garden. e SACRAMENTO SPORTING. Kimble and Upson Trap-Shooting Tournament—Reel and Rod. SACRAMENTO, Can, March 27.—The roadrace of the Capitol City Wheelmen has been postponed indefinitely, owing to the fact that the roads are too heavy to at- tempt to make time over. The next thing of importance in wheeling circles will be the roadrace between the Stockton and Sacramento clubs, for which event relays have already been established. Apnl1 will usher in one of the most successful fishing seasons which have ever been known on the Sierra slope, so say all the old-time knights of the rod and gun who for years have frequented tlie moun- tain streams 1 search of the “‘speckled beauties,” and many are already making preparations for a trip to the hills, as the season will .open early owing to the fact that there is but little snowin the moun- tains this year in comparison with former years, and the streams Will run down rapidly. . Upson, who has just returned from a business trip, reports that tiie Grass Valley sportsmen are making ex- nsive preparations for the opening of the fishing season in Nevada County, and are expecting great sport. The Supervisors of Placer County have extended the close season until June 1. his time the spawning season is over d the streams will not be depopulated+ speedily. Parties who have been in the vicinity of the Rubiconand Truckee rivers report that trout are more pientiful than they have been in years. Salmon are being taken in large quantities below Rio Vistz, on the Sacramento River, but very few are being caught above this point. Striped bass are more than plenti- ful and are increasing ,—nyidly. Game Warden Helms has charge ot the stocking of a chain of lakes a few miles below this city with black bass, and as they will be preserved jocal wielders of the rod are looking forward to good sport in the future. This energetic official has put an entire stop 10 the sale of speared troutin ¢ of the club for tha honarary | for Sunday, April 5, in con- | golian pheasants from Eugene, Or., and bas placed them on_his ranch on Paynes | Creek, in Tehama County. If the birds | propagate he will introduce them through | various portions of Sacramento Uounty. | He has a crack place to raise the birds, as | his ranch lies 1n a valley between high | mountains, and with but few shotguns in the vicinity RUTHERFORD, | | THE YACHTING - SEASOM, Programme of the California | Yacht Club Regattas and i Cruises. !Opening of the Tiburon Lagoon To- | Morrow to Let Out the Tied- | Up Fleet. The yachting season has begun in earn- est and by to-morrow quite a flect will be at anchor off the clubhouses at Sausalito and Tiburon. The lagoon at Tiburon will be opened for the first time this year to- morrow, and all the imprisoned boats will be taken out. There will be a big gather- ing of yachtsmen, and the entire day will be spent in getting things shipshape. | The programme of the Califorma Yacht IClnb for the season will be about as fol- ows: —Cruise in squadron. . 10 and 16—Open. v 17—Regatta. Walter cup. —Cruise to the oyster beds. 9, 30 and 31—Cruise to Vallejo and re- 14 and 20—Open. d to Drakes Bay. 12 and 18—Oven. 15 19=Association regatta, | July priver cruise | Sacramento River. |~ August 2—Return of fleet. | August 8,9 and 15—Open. August 16—Ladies’ day. Clambake. August 22—Cruise to Vallejo. August 29,30 and September 6 and 7—Open, September 9—Inter-club regatta. September 12 and 13—Open. September 19—Reception to the San Fran- cisco Yacht Club. | September 20—Escort the San Francisco | Yacht Club home. | ~ September 26 and 27—Open. | - October 3 and 4—Cruise in squadron. | ing day. The yacht Juanita, owned by Savory | and Shields, has been remodeled and is | now one of the prettiest boats in the fleet. | She has new spars and sails and ber fur- nishing is of the best. Her ownersgxpect | to have many a pleasant cruise in her this | season. | Commodore Taylor'snew yacht Emma | will be launched from Stone's yard to-day | and the work of getting her in racing trim will at once begin. The new boat for Billings and Bridge is well under way and her owners say she | will be a crackerjack. The Trnant, owned by Commodore Peu. and the Eolus, owned by Morrow and Westerfield, are on the ways being overhauled, and the Queen | owned by Charles H. Morrell, will go on | next Tuesday. The Sappho, owned by E. | Enfelber% will go on the ways at Sausalito, and the Lurline will go to her summer moorings in a few days. All in all, the outlook for the yacttinf season is en- | couraging and the bay of San Francisco will see a collection of boats that probably cannot be beaten in the United States. et B OLYMPIC MEETING. Entries for the Tournament, Which Will Be Held Tuesday Evening. The Olympic Club’s wrestling tourna- ment will be held on Tuesday evening, the 3lstinst. Between the contests will be introduced something in the way of novel- ties, so as to relieve the monotony of too much of one thing. Through the kind- ness of Gustave Walters of the %rpheum Theater, the famous club_juggler8, Alber- tus and Britram, and the Pantzer brothers will appear in specialties. The following are the entries for the | tournament: - Feather weight, 125 pounds—G, Green, Acme Club H. Platt, Reliance Club; E. P. Armbrus- er, O. C. : Light weight, 140 ponnds—C. T. Kreling 0.C.; J. C. Williamson, Acme Club; H. J. But- ler.hO, C.; R. D. Wexson, Oakland Athletic Clu . Middle weight, 158 pounds—C. W. Hawks, 0.C.; F. G. Pnillips, 0. C. Heavy weight, over 158 pounds—F. V. King- ton, 0.5 C- W. Hawks, 0. C.: F. G. Phillips, R. McArthur will act as referee, and the timers will be F. R, Butz and C. F. Morel. The contests will commence at 8 Pt sharp, and each bout will be limited to ten minutes. - MANSLAUGHTER IS CHARGED. Daniel Dunn Held to Answer for the Killing of C. A, Marrs, The preliminary hearing of the strikers, Daniel Dunn, James Hoimes, William Potee, John Drugan, Michael Shineand William J. Dowling, charged with murder- ing Charles A. Marrs, took place before Judge Low yesterday. Dunn was held to answer (o a charge of manslaughter in the sam of §5000, the other five being dis- missed. ‘Whiie there was abundant evidence to show the presence on the scene of all the men charged with the murder, there was nothing to connect any of them directly with the act except in the case of Dunn. Several witnesses swore to having seen the latter strike the deceased several times with his fist. The case against Henry Rothgang, charged with participating in the same crime but who had asked for a separate hearing, was also dismissed. There is still a gattery charge restin| sgniun him, but that will probabl thdrawn also. week on the Clos- this city by the Indians. Finding that they do” not come within the pale of the Dunn furnished bail and was released at 10 o’clock last night. GAVE BACKERS A SCARE The Judges "Deliberated Over Declaring Bets Off on Amnother Race. epnaraeiae 2t PERHAPS WAS THE WINNER, Good Day for Outsiders—Road Runner and Lena Both Repaid Their Friends Well, The judges officiating in the stand at the Bay District track deliberated for some minutes over the result of a race yester- day, and the crowd locked for a repetition of the Sir Richard ruling on Wednesday, when all bets were declared off. Perhaps, the fast brown gelding owned by Neil and Coney, took the fourth event, a five and a half furlong dash, in handy fashion, backed down a couple of points from 6 to 1. Realization opened an 8 to 5 favor- ite, receding in the betting to threes. He failed to run into a place, and the judges, thinking him capable of making a better showing, called his rider, Eddie Jones, and the owners of the horse, Hoag and Little, into the stand. Jones explained in a manner that was satisfactory that be was badly interfered with soon after the start, being compelled to pull up to avoid being thrown,.-and Charles Little, one of the owners of the sprinter, produ a ticket showing that he had backed the horse to the extent of his capital. The track, which was heavy, was exactly to Perhaps’ liking, and as the bookmakers’ sheets showed nothing of a suspicious character bets were paid as the horses had finished. Easel, a 10 to 1 chance, captured the place from Faro. The decision gave general satisfaction. The overnight cards announced Magnet and Libertine as starters i a condition event, but_their presence caused all of the other entries to scratch, and general disap- pointment was e.xp!'essed among the crowd. Two favorites were all that cap- tured purses. Dodg’u uncertain horse, Mt. Air, had slight call for favoritism honors in the opening six-furlong run, but he was atfiicted. with a loss of staying powers and tramped in among the ‘‘also rans.” Road Runner, with Shaw up, was always in front, and won easily from Charles A, another outsider. The seven-furlong event for mares proved rather an easy thing for O. Ap- ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— “THE CALL” RACING CHART. Forly-lourth day of the California Jockey Club’ trict Track, Friday, March 27, 1896. Weather fine. Winter [leeting, 1895-96. Track heavy. Bay Dis= 9] 5. FIRST RACE—Six furlongs; selling; three-yesr-olds and upward; conditions; aliowauces; + purse $300. Index. | Horse, age, weight. | 8t.| 14 % % | st | Fin Jockeys. ofi.’m 1 908 |Road Runmer, 5..110| 1. g BT ) 0 8 88% |Charles A, b. 08| & 235 | 28 | 28 | 28 6 10 912 |Bajo, 5........ 7 65' | 6n | 53 | 33 5 5 885 |Governo 3 73 | 72 | 41 | 4 1B 50 806 |Daylight, 3 0 813 | 8 7 510 [] 5 905 |Brametta, 8. 4 533 | 51 | 8 [ gL 901 M. Aur, 8 8 43" | 3n | 33 |7 3 52 895 |San Marcus, 3 5 3n | 435 | 8 850 60 150 882 |Joe Hill, a... 2 0 9 9 9 30 100 876 |Sugamore, 3.. 9 w |10 |10 [10 AT Starting-gate used. y. Winner, Antrim stable's ch. b, by Joe Daniels-Miss Hooker. Time, 111834, 9] 6. SECOND BACE Seven furlongs; mares; four-year-olds aad upward; couditions; allowances; « purse $300. Index.| Horse,sge, welght. [ St.| 34 % | % | S | Fin ofi'mna Ia, 4 1| 11| 1 13 | 14| 12 “l910 35 adke, 3| 5 33| 3% | 35 | 28 65 2 8 4| an" | 38 | 24 | 34 | 35 5 10 T, 3| 5 46 | 420 | 420 | 420 30 100 880 |Bravura, 4 5/ 42 | 51 | B 5 5 |T.Sloan. 355 15 Starting-gate used. Won easily. Winner, O. Appleby's b, m., by Peel-Faustine. Time, 1:33%4, Q]7, THIRD RACE—Four furlongs; two-year-olds; conditions; purse $400. lndex.‘] Horse, welght. sl 14 Fin. Betting, Op. 4] ey B ore [ Winper, F. Farrar's ch. 1., by Apache-Rill. Time, :5134. FOURTH RACE—Five furlongs; 91 selling; three-year-olds aod up; conditions; allowauces; « purse $300. Index. | Horse, age, welght. | St. 5 8% str. | Fin. Jockeys. U‘;’“""gi 4 33 34 13, 14 4 7 21 22 l/‘ 2h 10 38 4% 43 410 3h 8 1 1 y, 1h 2145 | 46 6 3 | | 5 [ 53 | 538 30 901 |Robin Hood I, 8. 71 7 614 63 4 878 | Last Chance, 93 9 9 78 13 602 |Quarterstaff, 6. 82 8 T 810 100 478 | Mount Roy, b. 61 5 8 9 10 50 - .|Ich1 Ban, 5 113 11 10 105 | R 300 596 |Soledad, a. 9 105 10 1 1120 'H. Wilson, 15 50 ........ |*Joe, &. 18 12 12 1220 |Ames.., 800 (674)| Realization, | 1210 |18 13 13 |E. Jones.. L Starting-gate used. Won easil ioner, Alma Dale stable’s b. &, by Kosclusko-May Viley. Time, 1:05. *Formerly Una gelding. 919, nrrs RACE—Seven furlongs: selling; « $400. inside course; three-year-olds and upward; purse Index. Horse, age, weight. | St.| 34 E™ 3% Str. Fin, Jockeys. Op. oL 598 ’mu..a. 83|65 | 43| 1% 905 | Decisfon, 3 Tan) aae | 14| 3 (805) | Tonino, 3. 33 21| 21 31 435 | 44| 58 | 44 8 8 6 510 21 | 8 33 | 6 % Starting-gate used. Won driving. Time, 1:3414. . Winner, Garden Gity stable’s ch. b., by Major Ban-Miss Fiush 920. SIXTH RACE—Seven furlongs; selling: three-year-olds and upward; penalties; allowances; purse $400. Tndex. | Horse,age, welghe. | S| %4 | 34 | % | s | Fin | Jockeys [opetig —399 |Sallie Cliequot. 1 114 115 13 14 110 Slanght 0 888 iGPOrKI Milles 2! 3% | 26 210 210 23 H. Griflin - 1343 Howa 5. 3| 313 36 315 320 320 |Piggots 5 900 |Remus, 5. 4] 4 4 4 4 | 4 E, Jones. 30 50 Staxtinggato used. Won eastly. Winner, 0. B. Morris & Co-'s b £, by Salvaior-Widoy Cllaquot. “}'HE CALL” RACING GUIDE. % To-day’s Entries at Bay District Track. In races where the borses have no record at the distance to be run the records st the next nearest ¢lstarce sre given. Abbreviations—F., fast; Fa., fair; H., heavy; m,, mile; ., furlong; ¥, about. FIRST RACE—Six furlongs; selling. Best | Index. Name. thfiard.‘ Dist. Pedigree. 94 1:0214| 51 +|Imp. Greenback-Lillie W 101/1:009;| 5¢ | Rathbone-Victoria 91 norec. |........ B ‘o bie. . |Sensation-Favona 2514 6ig 1 ©|S. Merriweather.... [Prince Norfk-FrukleDevine Rosal 108 no rec. Wild Rose. J. Mad dox. Versailles-Cousin Kate Eolian-Respond El Rio Rey-Question Ben Ali-Hidalgo Glen Elm-Unknown *|Hidaigo-Glen Kllen Patten-Louise Forrest Lmp. Mariner-Rosy Wildi 1319 110 1:09%% idle-Rosetland 9 Tuberose.. 98 .|Wildidle-Agnes B 865 |Esperance ... Alta-Mother Hubbard 889 |Conchita.. -|Tmp. Friar Tuck-Pink BECOND RACE—Half a mile; two-year olds. | Best Index. Name. Lbs|record.| Dist. |Lbs Tk. Owner. Pedigree. 106 110 . H. Shields mp. Whistlejacket-Zul 112! 121 F..|Burnsa Wats i AndrewcOulsing o 108 97 104 903 |St. Dupstav.....| 97 (890) | Rey del Tierra..!112 (908) | Lumin <. /103 THIRD RACE—Six furlongs; selling. Pueblo stable Wildidle-Rosette - |Elmwood stek tarm D. A. Honig. +|St. Carlo-Marilee Cambridge ie..| Prince Norfolk-Haidee El Primero stable..|Ip. Martenhurst-Vandalight Best Name. record. Rapdo. Dist. |no rec. 41 92 0 6/1:01 (1:21 HI|E. Powe Owner. .|E. Kaufman .... Cyclone-Nyanza .| Burns & Waterhouse Surinam-imp. Faloma F, Brown & Co. ./ D. J. Tobin. J. Brenock. Pa n mp. Silk Gown-Ordnance L. Stephen: A. G, ‘mp. Darebin-Mura " Vivell. Argyle-Glenloch Musto & Ruyz.. Pr. 0t Norfolk-Gilroy Bella M. Greer. Alexander-May Pritchard Duke Norfolk-Futurity Imp. Kyrle Daly-Visalia Coloma-Laura Cyclone-Wanza Ip.True Briton-BigBertha mprorNorfolk-St.Cecilia California stable.. FOURTH RACE—One and a quarter miles; Burns handicap; value $7500. Best Index. Record 884 Ges) Lbs 843 | Thornhill : Wheel of Friune Pedigres. e Hindoo-Francesca Burnse Waterbouse | Wildidle-Free Love S. C. Hildreth. Imp. Woodinds-Lady’s Maid ‘f. Lundy. - {Imp.Cheviot-Pheebé Andrsa 135 183! Pt .08 Macionoigh Hon Benmeael .0B. Macdonough| Beau Brum: H &1 | Prioblo stable.. {xmg;-::: fomes A S ‘m. om] ... | Imy eviot- m {190 (F . Eimwood 8 0ok | Tmb. Bratus-Melrte 1. " 1345 m 108/ F..| Kimwood stock frm|Imp. Brutus-Installation one and an eighth miles; handicap; steeplechase. Dist. |Lbs Owner. Pedigres. *13, m|124|F...|F. Farrar. Spokane-Trifle_ *|A. H. Smaii..l .l Coloma-Laura D B. Rudolph TImp. Chevigt-Arethusa 3. 8. Oppenheimer..|Springbok-Astori 5. ¥ Tohnaon o St v Reevelia: Alta-Dizzy Blonds SIXTH RACE—Six furlongs; selling; horses entered not to be sold to carry regular weight, Name. Yankee Doodle,| all e -Playthi I St. Bllllu-fll‘:yd‘\flm‘ D. A. Honig... mp, Leonatus-Falaise J. G. Brown & Pedigree. e e Ao el A 1ap. £othen-Wyandotte Imp. Tl Used-Little H it o St. Corf-lmp. Maiden Belle pleby’s Flirtilla, backed down from evens 0315 She made all of the running and won handily from All Smoke, the sec- ond choice. A “sleeper” was unearthed in the two- year-old four-furlong spin. Lena, an 8 to 1 shot, showed in the lead soon after the barrier was raised, passing the wire an easy winner, with the 2 to 5 choice Roselle finishing in the place. As usual the favorite was beaten again 1n the seven furlongs decided over the in- side course. Tonino was figured a good thing on his easy victory of Wednesday, the talent backing him at odds of 8 to 3. Decision, the second choice, always had the lead on him and looked a winner up to the last furlong, when Ike L came with a rush and took the race by half a length. Tonino was a poor third. S ‘With but eighty-four pounds on her back, Sallie Clicquot, the 7 to 10 choice in the last race, a seven-turlong condition Tace, experienced no difficulty whateverin disposing of George Miller, who was well supported at 8 to 5, defeating him with the greatest ease by fully eight lengths. CONTRACTORS ARE LIABLE Commissioner Fitzgerald Says That They Defraud the Laborer., OVER $75000 OWING HIM, Proposed Bill to Be Introduced at the Next Session of the Legislature. 1f Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald car- ries out his present intentions, and those who know him best do not doubt the tenacity of his purpose, a bombshell will be exploded 1 the camp of a large num- ber of prominent contractors within the next few days. Mr. Kitzgerald has the names of well- known contractors in his possession who owe over $75,000 to laborers in the various trades. His acquaintance with the labor element of the City and State and his knowledge of certain conditions which prevail long since convinced him of the necessity of some legislative action. That action would take the form of a law pre- venting any contractor who owes money for labor performed from taking a contract for public work until his former laborers have been paid in full. But it will be' some time before the meeting of the next Legislature, and in the meantime Commissioner Fitzgerald has made up his mind to move on the recreant contractors in the interests of the laboring men who have been deprived of their honest earnings. *'I have the names of all these contract- ors who owe this $75,000 and more, and if after due warning they refuse to pay the wages of their former employes I shall have them published. Buits will algo be brought against them on bebalf of the men who have been kept out of their money, “As an instance of the manner in which some of these contractors would treat their labor creditors I reed mention only a single case. Bowers, who has the con- tract for t.earlnig down the eld American Exchange Hotel on Sansome street, when questioned by me with regard to the pay- ment of certain back wages, calmly and impudently told me to perigrinate to that region where fur-lined topcoats are a not- able a\;rarfluny. He further informed me that I tried to interfere with him or his work he would punch my head. _“It was_a great bluff on his part, for when the interference occurred be went to the City Hall with me and made provi- sions for paying his men. Thisis merely an_isolated case quoted for illustration, and there are many others. “Iam convinced that there should be a legislative enactment. We can make the contractor do what is right with a great deal of trouble and needless bother, gut if there was a law on_the statute-books the laborer would get his due and without the need of a lotof lefial formul@. No con- tractor should be allowed to accept a con- tract for public works who owes a cent for prior labor. The laboring men in the sev- eral trades are amply protected in their work on private contracts, and this bill which I shall have brought up in the next Legislature will refer only to public works, “I think it will be advisable to incor- porate a clause providing for the appoint- ment of an attorney vo prosecute all cases under the new statute for a moderate com- pensation. There are many able and reputable attorneys here who, with their regular practice, could afford to take such an office for $600 or §700 a year. “And, again, the majority of the con- tractors are with me in the move. They freely admit that such a law would be in the interest of honest labor. As long as men who dodge the payment of a large percentage of their lngm- bills are permit- ted to compete with the contractors wiose conduct is governed by a different code of morals there will be suffering on all hands. Cheaper work will be done, wages will be kept down and the worker for wages will have trouble in getting his earnings, if he gets them atall. A very prominent builder came to me the other day and waxed enthusiastic in his indorsement of my purpose to have a bill passed atthe next session of the Le§- islature, ‘Yes,” he said, ‘push it for all it is worth: we will furnish the money,’ I told him I did not need any money to push such abill. Neither do we. All we ask is protection to the workingmen. Think of it! Over $75,000 owing to the laboring men i?‘ this City, and most of them of the ekilled class. “This burean has saved thousandsofdol- lars for the laboring men so far, and the figures will multiply before we finish.”’ : FEE BILL OF 1895, Sheriff Whelan Obeying the Law in All Its Provisions Except as to Keepers. Horace D. Dunn, the expert of the Grand Jury, is still working in the office of the Recorder, He has not officially visited the Sheriff’s office. Sheriff Whelan says that every facility will be extended to the expert whenever the latter is ready to begin his investigation. 1in regard tothe new law known as the fee bill of 1895, Sheriff Whelan yesterday seid: “There is a misapprehension about the law and its relation to the Sheriff’s of- fice. Iam not ignoring the law, but am not following that Eamcn!nr proyision of the act relating to the payment of $2 a day for keepers. The provisions of the law, however, which relate to the payment of fees into the treasury, are respected and followed. . “As the case ison briefs before the Su- preme Court, I have been advised, for the protection of myseli and bondsmen, to fol- low the old law in relation to attachments until the court points out some way to compensate keepers under the new law.” *You will see by reading the new law,” continued Sneriff Whelan, “that it pro- vides that keepers shall receive no greater sum than $2 per day, but it doesnot say who shall pay the money. No provision is made for collecting the money from the party attaching the goods, and neither does it nz that the Auditor and Treasurer shail make the payment. Under the old law, I can release theattachment if fees of the keeper are not paid, but here another proposition is presented. I am simply waiting for the Supreme Court to interpret the new law.” —————— City of Oakland Enjoined. The London and San Francisco Bank has en- joined the city of Oakland from opening up Fallon street, on the ground that it isnot a blic thoroughfare, but belongs to the com- P?nnnw 'The case will be Mw in the United Biates Circuit Court on April 6, BANK PRESIDENT BEALS, The Great Financier Found Health in Prominent among the New England men whose brains and energy have belped to make the Western States rich and power- ful is General David T. Beals, president of the Union National Bank of Kansas City. Successtul in his many enterprises, helives to-day in a fine mansion at the corner of Independence and Wabash avenues. The work and the responsibility incum- bent on the president of so important a banking institution as the Union National would endanger the sturdiest health, General Beals’ clear-headedness and good sense were as manifest in the choice of a remedy as in bis business enterprises. He ulrengthened his tired nervous system by the uge of Paine’s celery compound. Its invigorating, health-giving effects justified | his expectations, and showed in his own | case the remarkable power of this much- | discussed remedy for thoroughly restoring and strengthening the ‘‘run-down” system. «I found Paine’s celery compound an agreeable tonic and soothing to the nerves,”’ says General Beals. %heu are the concise words of commen- dation characteristic of the conservative business man and the influential banker, who has learned well to weigh his words. The scanty sunlight, and the stagnant, used-up air of living rooms during the winter, reduce the strength and nervous | Paing’s Celery Compound. i - energy, especially of persons employed constantly indoors. The need—the abso- lute necessity—of a genuine invigorator at this soring season has impressed itself on the attention of all thinking people. In the famous laboratory of Dartmouth Medical School, Prof. Edward E. Phelps, M.D., LL.D., discovered the formula of Paine’s celery compound, a remedy that has become the standard nerve restorer, blood purifier, and strengthener from ore end of the country to the other, a prepa- ration that stands unrivaled as the medi- cine that makes people well. Itis a fact much commented upon that men and women of national reputation and prominence, like Gen. Beals, State Treas. Colvin of New York, Mr. Carlisle’s private secretary, Mayor McShane of Mon- treal, Rev. Fr. Ouellet, Com. Hewell, ex- Minister to' Austria John M. Francis, and a host of others who are careful what they employ when sick, and have the amplest opportunities for finding out what is best, have of their own accord sent letters de- scribing fully their permanent recovery from rheumatism, heart weakness, sleep- Jessness, debility, kidney troubles and diseasesof the stomach and liver. In all these cases Paine’s celery compound was the one remedy that was able to com- pletely and permanently bring back health. make poor blood again rich and pure, an regulate and build up the nervous system when weakened and deranged. ARE GROWING NO BETTER Socialistic View of the Work- ingman’s Condi- tions. Professor John Monteith Attacks the Deductions of a King’s College Economical Authority. Professor John Monteith addressed the weekly meeting of the Society of American Socialists last evening. The speaker’s re- marks were directed mainly to disproving the assertiots of Professor Leon Levy, the head of the department of economics of King’s College, London, that the laboring classes of England had obtained their full share of the prosperity which the nation had enjoyed. Professor Levy’'s deductions were based upon statistics compiled from the income tax reports. These, Professor Monteith argued, were, for many reasons, misleading and inaccurate. Chief among the fanlts of the statistics, he pointed out, was the fact that only those whose incomes were derived from trades and professions were included, leaving out the class that the people were most interested in, the multi-millionaires, whose incomes were derived from possessions in every part of the globe. These people, he maintained, upon authoritz of leading economists, had practiced such comprehensive fraud in making out their income returns that no adequate idea could be gained of their wealth. “Figures are not facts,”” said the profes- sor, ‘“only the signs of facts. The dif- ficulty of them is that many people have a superstitious belief that anything quoted in figures must be true. The increase of the average income or the average wealth tells nothing about the average distribu- tion of either. Averages are for almost every purpose. If another man and I, both on the verge of starvation, are walk- ing down the street- and some one gives him a loaf of bread, the average of each of us is half a loaf, but he gets it all.” The speaker then showed by what he claimed reliable statistics that half the families in England to-day have no accu- mulated property. According to General Booth, in London loiper cent of a popula- tion of 88,000,000 are idle, and other econ- omihst.s have placed the number nearly as high. In spite of this dismal showing for Eng- land the professor scouted the idea which he declared politicians would in a few months be declaiming from the rostrum, that the working classes of the United States were immeasurably belter situated than-their fellows across the water. In answer to questions by members of the so- ciety he stated that socialism—liberal in that it is comprehensive and radical from the fact that it contemplates a complete revolution of existing social institutions— was the only logical remedy. Next Friday evening the society will discuss the new city charter. LABOR IN THE SOUTH. Los Angeles Trades Unionists Are in Favor of Having a Resident Commissioner. Friends of organized labor in Los Ange- les are apparently desirous of having a resident Deputy Labor Commissioner in the southern metropoiis. Complaints are being made by several of the unions that the workmen in Los Angeles are not being treated quite fairly. Apropos of this strained condition there has been consid- erable correspondence between the State Labor Bureau and several of the trades union officers of Los Angeles, the last letter received being the following from President Phillis of the Los Angeles Typographical Union No. 6, which arrived yesterday: Los ANGELES, March 25, 1896. Hon. E. L. Fitzgerald, Commissioner of Labor— | 204 South Broadway. ®: You may have noticed in the g:v‘:rssz( the early g&rl of the week that at the labor conference heid in this city last Sun- day a resolution was passed favoring the iving of more power to the Commissioner of bor, and also the appointment of & deputy in eaeh city of the State having over 30,000 population. Will you kindly send me a copy of the law by which your office was established, and alsa the amendments which have since been made? There is a widespread feeling among intellis gent labor leaders here that when we have a commissioner who is so earnest and true to Jabor’s interests as you are believed to be, he should hn\'s all the help which we can give him. As the originator of the movement which brought this sbout, I hope to meet you and present to you some of the grievances of the typographical union here. Respectiully vours, . JOSEPH PHILLIS. Commissioner Fitzgerald intends paying an official visit to Los Angeles in the near future, during which he will.do all he can to arrive at a correct understanding of the exact condition of things. As for the remedy, that may be more difficuit to obtan” and apply, owing to the limited resources of the bureau. At all events Mr. Fitzgerald promises to make a searching investigation and apply what remedies he may find at hand. FEurope produces on average about 55 percentof the world’s yearly wheat crop. 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