The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 28, 1896, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1896. _MARCH 28, 1896 AMUSEMENTS. PALDWIN THEATER.—“A Milk White Flag.” CAYIFORNTA THEATER— Capt. Impudence; " or “Mexico.” CoLuMBIA THEATER—“Sinbad.” ROSCO'S OPERA-Housk—+An Irish States- id Pasha'" ORPEEUM.—High-Class Vaudeville. SKOVER's ALcazan.—Contusion” and Vaude ville, THE AUDITORTUNM—Corner of Jones and Eddy streets—Materna ana Ondricek, this afternoon. Macpoxoven THEATER (OAKI AND)—* A Texas Bteer.” Next Monday night Anna Eva Fay. SUTRO CoNEY [SLAND—Grand Athletic Exhibl- tion and Concert. §HOOT THE CHUTE: Cre block esst of the P Lay LisrrIcT TRACK Dally at Haight street, Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. *. MUTHER—This day (Saturday), Fur- 805 Capp street, at 11 o clock. 'his day (Saturday), at 236 Sutter st., at 2 o'clock. H. UMBSEN & Co.—Monday, March 30 e, at_salesroom, 14 Montgomery street ck noon. —Tuesday) March 31, at 12 0'clock CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. min C. Austin Jr. is accused of bigamy. air will case has been continued fora ick Old Ladies’ Home wants to change warmer; westerly winds—To-day’s fore- v Official MeAdie. The yachting season will be formally opeued to-morrow at Point Tiburon. President Law of the Van Ness Avenue Im- provement Club has gone to Chicago. Frank Adams is projecting & canal from the Sacramento River above Kedding to Suisun Bay. Robert Boyd was arrested yesterday on s charge of assault upon Rosa Martin on Pine street. A general mass-meeting of the Mission resi- dents has been called for Saturday evening, pril 4. The Hebrew feast of Passover will commence this evening and will be celebrated at all the syDagogues. hew of the late Dr.James T. Gheselin 2 Maryland in reierence to the i Chicago, who arrived m Hongkong yesterday,says the black plague g there. nth popular concert was given in vesterday afternoon by the The Golden Gate H Symphouy Ore New hog li established by the th and Poiice Committee of the Board of at the Bay District track Runner, Flirtilla, Lena, lie Clicquot. The Republicans of the Thirty-fifth Assem- bly District entertained their friends with music and refreshments last evening._ Evangelist Sankey closed his series of meet- | ings in ¥ by u song service at Y. M. C. A. Hall last evening to a large audience. The Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors has ordered_the poultry account of the City and County Hospital kept down. he Forty-fifth District Republicans met in Garibaldi Hall last night, chose Supervisor King for district leader and enrolled 400 names. | The body of Edward A. Hatherton, an archi- tect was recovered from the bay yesterday. He disappeared & month ago. It was a case of suic The Goto remedy for the lepers will be se- cured from Japan immediately, as Supervisor Benjamin has sgreed 1o, advance the sum necessary. B. Sturtevant Peets’ birthday will be 1 as franchise day by all the Woman’s Temperance Unions of the State April 2 Captain Lees said yesterday that Patrolman | Roucke was removed to a quiet beat because he bad shattered his nerves by overwork in the Lane case. ofessor Cory and Instructor Le Conte are ill guerded in their-staiements concerning their great discovery of tne source of the Roentgen ray. The question of consolidating the Mission hool Club and_the Park Club was dis- ev- ast night at Native Sous’ Hsll on or Wicklow of the State University P1 addressed the State Horticultural Society yes- | terday on the adulter of paris green when sold as an insecticide. General Marquis Yamagata, commander-in- anese army, arrived on the Cop- tic last even He is on his way to Russia 1o attend the coronation of the Czar. C. Ellinger, 8 miner, of Circle Cf arrived here yesterday, and says are wintering in the camp. Four new gulches were discovered before snow came on. Two San Francisco ladies are suing a_steam- ship company because they had to pay extra age money on their return from a trip to Europe. >. Bunner, editor of Puck, who has been seriously ill at the Occidental, is somewhat better, and if there is no relapse_he and Mrs. Bunner will staet for home next Wednesday. Three horses, the sole support of Mrs. Amelia Sternseher and her family, were ordered released from the Pound by the Health and Police Committee of the Supervisors yesterday. Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald has received 2 letter from President Phipps of Los Angeles Typographical Union in favor of the appoint- ment of & Deputy Labor Commissioner in that city. Mrs, Isabel Nolte seid, in the course of a woman suffrage symposium at the Third Con- gregational Church, that thoussnds of women will vote with no more regard for the result than & cat. Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald says there ,000 owing to laborers by con- tractors of this City, and he intends to draft sn important bill to be presented to the next Legislature. :tor Wise was beiore the United States Grand Jury yesterday in connection with the investigation that body is making into the charges of unofficial conduct against Chinese Inspector Williams. Harry Debel, the young South San Francisco tough arrested Monday last on a charge of burglary, was arraigned for trial before Judge Joachimsen yesterday. He was committed to the Youth’s Directory for sixty days. James Martin was convicted of battery ir: De- partment 2 yesterday and fined $50. A few days ago Martin made an unprovoked attack on Officer Grunewald, resulting in his arrest and ultimate conviction, as stated above. President Foster of the San Francisco nad North Pacific Railway will appear on Monday Dbefore Judge Seawell to answer a charge of contempt of court for his failure to recognize Sidney V. Smith as a director of the road. E. H. Hinton, the general agent of the Pana- ma Railroad Company, was summoned to Panama by wire vesterday. His departure at this time is believed to signify the reorganiza- tion of the Transcontinental Traffic Associa- tion. Robert Miller, 1039 Mission street, while alighting from & westbound car, was struck by an ingoing car, sustaining a fracture of the jeft leg. He was carried to the Receiving Hospital, Dr. Thompson attending nis in- juries. Negotiations are to be commenced between the Mechanics’ Institute and the Manufac- tarers’ and Producers’ Association having for their object the holding of a grand exposition of California- products in the Mechanics’ Pavilion. Another meeting of members of Dr. Brown's church was held in Dr. McDonald’s office to Seport progress on the petition to compel the tor to resign. A dispatch signed by C. O. Biown appears in the Kalamazoo papers to the effect that he had been acquitted. 1. A. Joy, living #t 2652 Folsom strect, was thrown from & milk wagon corner of Green e Jones street last night, receiving serious and possibly fatal internal injuries. He was Sorrid tothe Receiving Hospital, and at & fate hour last night was said to be slightly tter. MPro{eslor John Monteith addressed the weekly meeting of the Society of American Socialists last evening upon the prorosizxnp recently advanced by a professor o King's College, England, that the werking classes had Seeured their full share of England’s industrial prosperity. He argued that this position was Dot tensble. % g m Dailey, the empressario w! To- dxéuhthe Durrant case as “The Crime of a Jortury.” which was prohibited by Judge Murphy, hes gone to Tia Juana to engage Netse Gyerman and Mrs. Tunnell to play in a Dew piece written by Richard C. Whitc, de- jcting the Strong points of the recent Dr. Brown scandsl. (Goopxgss, gracious! I'm well already. How quickly Mitehell’s Magic Lotion acts! So cle.ln and casy to usé, 100 and were given poor accormmoda- | TRAIL OF FORGERY AND PERJURY., The Grand Jury Gets New Light on a Cele- brated Case. AN IMPQRTANT WITNESS Mrs. Sarah R. Spencer, Formerly Mrs. Owen, Tells Her | Story. lS}IE WAS FALSELY ACCUSED. Sequel to the Forging of Harriet P. Christy’s Name and the Trial of C. von Tiedeman. The Grand Jury is on the trail of a gang | of perjurers and forgers and several in- | dictments may follow. In March, 1894, an | attempt was made by forging the name of Harriet P. Christy to record a fraudulent mortgage on her property and raise | thereby $15,000, but the scheme was dis- | cavered and C. von Tiedeman arrested and tried for complicity in the transaction. It was alleged that he endeavored to get Mr. | Mulcahy, a cigar-dealer mnear the City | Hall, to file the fradulent instrument, | There was testimony on Von Tiedeman’s trial before Judge Belcher of the Superior | Court that a lady representing herself to | be Harriet P. Christy signed the docu- ments- in the vresence of Lee D. Craig. | The picture of Mrs. Sarah R. Owen, living at Twenty-fourth and Shotwell streets, | was produced at the trial, and four or five witnesses swore that it was the photograph | of alady who signed the name of Harriet | P. Christy. | This testimony was vigorously con- | tradicted, and proof was offered that Mrs. Owen was not in San Francisco on March 8, 1894, when the forgery was committed. Judge Frederick Adams of Oakland knew then positively that Mrs. Owen was | in Chicago, for he was in constant receipt of letters from her, but his knowledge did | not change the current in favor of the | accused Von Tiedeman, who was acquitted. | That a woman associating with a_gang of swindlers did personate Harriet P. Christy there is no doubt. That the woman was not Mrs. Sarah R. Owen was | fully established by evidence presented to the Grand Jury yesterday. The chief witness vesterday was Mrs. Sa- rah R. Spencer,formerly Mrs. Owen. When she lett San Francisco in February, 1895, | she was Mrs. Owen, widow of Mr. Owen, a | former rancher residing near Red Bluff. | In March, 1895, at the Fifth-avenue Hotel, New York, she married Mr. Speacer. Her | busband was one of the witnesses vester- day. Mrs. Spencer is a lady who has property and money. She is an invalid, and had to be carried to the jury-room in an invalid’s chair, but she told her story | in a manner which fully convinced every one of the jury that her statements were true. She produced hoard bills and receipts | from the Palmer House, Chicago, showing conclusively by the hotel stamp that she was there on the very day that the name | of Harriet P. Christy was forged in San Francisco. Tracing her line of travel, she | produced a record of extension of her | ticKets at Hot Springs, Ark. She was sus- | tained by the testimony of two ladies who | accompanied her across the bay on her de- | parture from San Francisco prior to the | time the forgery was committed. | Judge Frederick Adams of Oakland pro- | duced letters from Mrs. Spencer with Pal- mer House envelopes, addressed in her | own handwriting and bearing Chicago | postmark of mailing and Oakland post- | mark of receipt. One letter was written | two days before the forgery and one two | days diter. These proofsof Mrs. Spencer’s | presence in Chicago on the day in March, | 1894, that the false witnesses swore that | she was at the office of Craig, the notary, | were submitted to the Grand Jury. | E.D. Piexotto, Assistant District Attor- ney, who conducted the prosecution of Tiedeman in Judge Belcher's Court in May, 1895, was a witness. Other witnesses were L. A. Souc, real estate man; James | Nagie, Mrs. Spencer’s attorney; Oscar Tolle, clerk of Judge Belcher’s court, and | J. J. McGinniss, stenographer of that court. The notes of the stenographer were produced to show the names of the witnesses who swore that Mrs. Owen signed the papers at the notary’s office. Mr. Abbott, the railroad ticket agent who sold Mrs. Owen her ticket East, gave testimony showing the date the ticket was sold. The strong chain of evidence presented was linked together by Detective Thomas Dilion. In the hearing of witnesses, Alfred | P. Black, Assistant District Attorney, at- tended the session of the Grand Jury. Detective Dillon has two women under suspicion in this case. One of them is Kittie Fletcher, who was accused of steal- ing vproperty. She subsequently jumped her bail and went away with her husband. John Desmond, who was on her bond, got fourteén years in the penitentiary for swearing that he owned real estate on Minna street, which, in fact, belonged to the Treadwell estate. It is not clear at present just how many people were connected with this gang of swindlers. The forgery of Harriei P. Christy’s name did not succeed, as a simi- lar game did in the celebrated Emma Dick case. There is proof now before the Grand Jury which may send some of the gang to prison for perjury and compel others to disclose the name of the ringleader. The committee on water and gas corpo- rations of the Grand Jury, consisting of Cornelius 0’Connor, C. S. Laumeister and A. F. Price, recently received a long letter from Joseph B. Crockett, president of the San Francisco Gas Company. It is set forth in the communication that the gas company’s customers number 30,000, and that the deposit fund does not exceed $35,- 000. The president explained that it was formerly the custom to exact a deposit from every customer, whether known or unknown. Now a deposit is not required from any customer who can give s guar- antee. The Health Department committee of the jury, P. F. Butler, Louis Feldmann and ‘E.” E. Cheever, will visit the Alms- house next Tuesday. DR. GHISELIN'S ESTATE. Fred Sasscer, a Nephew, Here From Maryland to Look After It. Fred Sasscer of Upper Marlboro, Md., a nephew and executor of the estate of Dr. James T. Ghiselin.of Portland, the retired army surgeon, who recently died at the Occidental, arrived here yesterday on busi- ness in connection with the estate. It is said Dr. Ghiselin’s estate will reach a valuation of several hundred thousand dollars. The doctor was an old army sur- geon, end was stationed in the early days at Fort Vancouver. He invested in Port- land real estate, and on his retirement set- tled there, graduslly accumulating a for- tune. In later years he resided here. MR. BUNNER OF PUCK. Lit- His Fover Has Decreased, He Is tle Stronger and Hopes to Start for Home Wednesday. H. C. Bunner, the editor of Puck, who has peen seriously ill at the Occidental for about three weeks, has improved materi- 2lly during the last day or two. It is be- lieved now by his physician, Dr. G. E. Sussdorff, that he will be able to start for his home in New York on Wednesday next. Dr. Sussdorff said yesterday in re- gard to him: “His fever has been reduced, he has gained a little in strength and he is feeling first rate. If no relapse occurs he will be able to make the trip without mishap and in comfort. The journey if made straight through would require about five days, but_if Mr. Bunner gets tired he will stop at g{nnsas City or St. Louis for a little rest.” Editor and Mrs. Bunner and their cousin, W. C. Bunner, of this City, who will accompany them, will go East via Ogden and Denver. Editor Bunner has complete confidence in_his ability to rally from the tuberculosis. He expectsto direct the destinies of the comic weekly Puck for many years yet and does not regard the fears of his friends as being well founded. Mr. Schwarzman who, with Mr. Kepp- ler, is proprietor of the journal, has sent many telegrams of inquiry and proffers of assistance if it was in his power to render any since Mr. Bunre:r’s illness. ALONG THE WATER FRONT The Unlucky U. S. Government Tug Unadilla in Trouble Again, SHE DAMAGED THE BALTIMORE Captain Nordling of the Christina Steffens Tells His Story of the Collision. The new United States tug Unadilla seems to be running in' hard luck. Cap- tain Redstone seems to have a penchant for running into wharves and steamboats, and in consequence a number of damage bilis have had to be paid. In docking yesterday morning the Unadilla struck Jackson-street wharf a blow that almost threw her passengers off their feet, and on | her initial trip she ran nearly five feet into Washington-street wharf. On her second attempt she ran between the dol- phin and the wharf, but no damage, out- side of the loss of some paint, resulted. On the occasion of her next visit the Unadilla very nearly cut the quarantine tug Governor Perkins in two. The latter was lying at Clay-street wharf, and, the Government vessel having too much head- way on, made direct for the Perkins, and had it not been for the presence of mind condition for the summer trade. The City of Stockton, which has been filling the glaca of the Peters, will probably go to ausalito, where she will be used as a float- ing home for the directors of the comnany during the summer. The little Sacramento River steailier Fruitvale is being put in order for the summer season. She went on the Mer- chants’ drydock yesterday and in a few days will be ready to resume her runs be- tween Rio Vista ‘and Sacramento. In the meantime the Belvedere has taken up the running and Captain Parker is reaping a golden harvest. The yacht Lucero with Charley Fair aboard had a race with the ferry steamer Tiburon yesterday afternoon. The yacht held her own for a short distance, but then the Tiburon putona spurt and simply ran away from her. Mr. Fair will take his firstkcnusa outeide tvhe latter part of this week. Another American ship has arrived with a tale of cruel treatment on the high seas. Thomas Olsen, a sailor on the Aryan, has sworn out a warrant for the arrest of First Mate St. Clair, He says the latter beat and maltreated him and that the crew was only half fed. Captain W. R. Dickinson says the charges are unfounded, and the chances are that Olsen will not be able to rove his case. When it comes to trial gis witnesses will have either changed their minds or disappeared. Problems in Mathematics. At the Mark HopkinsInstitute this morning, at 10 o’clock, Professor M. W. Haskell of the University of California will deliver the first of six free university extension lectures on «+Historical Problems of Mathematics.”” While the lectures are intended primarily for teach- ers of mathematics, all interested in the sub- ject are invited to be present. L Fair Case Continued. Owing to the death of Judge Slack’s father the Fair will case was yesterday continued for aweek. The Judge is much sffected by the sad bereavement, as he wasdevotedly attached to his venerable parent. DRUGS FOR THE LEPERS, The Goto Remedy Will Be Pro- cured From Yokohama Im- mediately. Supervisor Benjamin Will Advance the Sum Needed to Complete the Fund. The following is the complete list of con- tributions to the leper remedy fund: Mayor Sutro, $20; Supervisor E. C. Benja- min, $20; M. H. Heyneman, 33 Battery street, $20; subscribed through THE CALL, 50; Mrs. L. Wilkins, San Rafael, $10; 50; H. J. Crocker, stationer, 215 Bush street, | $5; W.W. Montague & Co., stove firm, 309 Market street, $5; George A. Newhall, autio neer, 309 Sansome street, $5; F. E. Benjamin, $2 50; C. G. Church, with A. C. Deitz & Co., $10; Mrs. Garthwaite, Oak- land, $1; O. B. Smith, 301 Front street, §1; T. H. Dowling, $1; Jim Salts, $1; T. D. Barnstead, $1; C. W. Benjamin, §2 50. To- tal, $159 50. Supervisor C. E. Benjamin, who has taken an active interestin the charitable plan of supplying the lepers at the Pest- house with the Goto remedy will not wait to collect the rest of the money needed. He will advance that sum, about $50, and send immediately to Yokohama for the Japanese medicine. ‘I am more than anxious to see thatcel- ebrated remedy tried here,” said Mr.Benja- min iesterdny, “and I want those unfortu- nate beings at the Twenty-sixth-street Hos- pital to get the benefit of the treatment as soon as possible. I have no doubt that the Treasnry Department will let the package of drugs come in free of duty that we ma get as much for our money as possible. Of course we cannot expect to have a foreign drug admitted free all the time, but as this is only atrial I hope to zet the duty omitted. If the medicine is a suc- cess ararngements will be made in the fu- ture to have the drug here for constant use. As Mr. Benjamin has advanced the necessary sum to complete the price of the medicine it is to be hoped that the chari- tably disposed will continue to make their donations, great and small, to the fund. A more worthy object never reccommended itself to the generous-minded, as the lepers at the Pesthouse are totally with- out medicine. Nothing whatever within the means of the Board of Health or any phyeician in this country can help them, bence the necessity of sending abroad for the medicine. THE CALL Will continue to receive and acknowledge all contributions made through its office. ———————— ‘Without an Equal. The San Francisco News Letter this week provides an elaborate feast for its readers. Editorially, treated by Arthur McEwen and other leading journalists, are such ug-m-dne topics as: “Faith and Morals,” “Capital and Labor,” “Perfecting the Funding Bill,”” **Money-Making Murphy," “The Italian Fiasco,” “The Local Democ- racy,” “The Case of Rev. Colburn,” “The ‘Rotten’ Examiner” and “Undermined Monarchies.” A new {feature of this week’s paper is a Berlin letter, which will be of great interest to society and musical folks generally. All the other depart- ments are full of live and interesting mat- ter, and with_the sixth plate of the pic- turesque San Francisco series go to make up the best weekly journal San Francisco can produce. ———————— The Peralta-Reavis Case. The Peralta-Reavis case was continued by United States Commissioner. Haddock yester- day until 10 o’clock A.M.on Tuesday next. The courmuod more evidence before ren- dering & ion. The United States Tug Unadilla as She Lay at Jackson-Street Wharf Yesterday With the New Yawl 5 Yacht Arcturus Passing on Her Trial Trip. of W. Gatley a disaster would have re- sulted. He saw the Unadilla coming, and, casting off the mooring lines. got the uarantine boat away from the wharf. 'he Unadilla pushed her away when she came along, and no damage was done. Next she nearly ran down a schooner loaded with powder, and had that collision occurred there would have been no United ]stutes Government tug and one schooner ess. The latest escapade of the erratic boat hn{)pened last Thursday sfternoon. The Baltimore was being moved from the Mare Island dock in order to make room for the Bennington. Captain Redstone got too much headway on his vessel and in conse- quence ran the Baltimore into the sea- wall and carried away quite a number of iles. The cruiser received a severe shak- ing up, and she will be put back 1n thedry- dock as soon as the Bennington comes out to see what damage has been done to her. As soon as the Bennington is overhauled she will be sent to the Asiatic station. As she lay at the foot of Jackson street l\;esterday the Unadilla presented notbing ut a peaceful and handsome appearance. As far as construction and material goes she is one of the finest vessels of her class in the bay. Nevertheless she seems to be unfortunate, and there must be a hoodoo somewhere. The yawl yacht Arcturus, the first pleas- ure craft launched from Stone’s shipyard this year, had her trial trip on tue bay %—esterday. She is very fast but will not e seen much on the bay, as her owner is going to take her to Colusa. She is listed among the Corinthian vachts and will race in the annual regattas, but the greater part of the year she will be on the Sacra- mento. When the artist was sketching the Unadilla he caught the Arcturus just as she was Pl!!hli Jackson-street wharf. The schooner Christina Steffens, which was in collision with the schooner Helen Merriam, arrived from Timber Cove yes- terday. Her port rail, martingale and figurehead were carried away and her jib torn. Captain Nordling asserts that his vessel had her lights burning, and in sup- rt of his contention produces the follow- ing affidavits of the two sailors of the Merriam, who came down with him: 1, Julius Paul, am a sailor on board the schooner Helen Merriam. On Sunday morn- ing, thirty miles northwest of Ppint Reyes, I ‘was at the wheel, sailing aboat eight knots an hour. Wasalone on deck. The weather was hazy. Justcame on deck from taking coffee. Sailed across the Christina Steffens’ bow. Hi no time to do anything. The Christina Stef- fens was hauled fo, sailing against the wind. After we collided I put the wheel hard to port and tried to shove her clear. We finally got the vessel clear in about a half hour. Q'a packed our clothes and went on board the Christina Steffens. The lights were burnin, Steffens when we struck. and could not see anything when we struck. When we went on deck of the Christina Steffens the lights were bnrnin% Captain Krugel did not ask the captain of the Christina Steffens to tay by his vessel, but the Christina Steffens stayes l:{y until we packed our clothesand went on board. JULIUS PAUL. March 26, 1896. A. Norem, A. Nordling, Witnesses, 1. Donald Clow, was mate on board of the schooner Helen Merriam. On Sunday morn- ing, March 22, 1896, was three sheets before the wind. Was sailing about six and a half knots per hour. Was in m§ bunk when the vessel struck the Christina Steffens. Went on deck when I heard the crash and started to lower sails. The bowsprit of the schooner Christina Steffens was between our mainmast and rigging. Went and P\It the wheel hard down. ied to et the jib down, but every- thing went overboard, Then tried to shove heroff. Then packed my clothes and went on board the schooner Christina Steffens. When 1 came on deck of the Helen Merriam I saw the gon lights of the schooner Christina Steffens urning. That is the only light I could see after we collided. The starboard light was then taken from its place and moved aft to give light to the Helen Merriam. DONALD CLOW. Witnesses: A. Norem, A. Nordling. The testimony in the case is very con- flicting, and it will take a court of inquiry to place the blame. 3 he California Navigation and Improve- ment Company’s steamer J. D. Peters will resume her running between here and Stockton to-morrow. 8She has been thor- oughly overhauled and is now in first-class on the Christina ust came on deck USED TOD MARY TURKES Supervisors Criticize City and County Hospital Ac- counts. Unless Checked the Poultry Account Threatens to Swell to Enor- mous Proportions. Either the patients of the City and County Hospital are being better fed than usual or the internes, nurses and officials generally are living at a much better table, and which of these is correct is just what the Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors is trying to ascertain at the present time. No matter which way the question is decided the committee intends to curtail the poultry bill of the institu- tion. Under previous administrations the commissary department of the hospital ‘was permitted to run a bill of $25 per month for fowls, that amount being deemed suffi- cient to purchase all that was necessary for the'patients who required strengthen- ing brotns and to furnish an occasional change for the officials’ table. Recently, however, the poultry account has peen growing larger and larger until it threatens to reach four times its former size. The fact that the hospital expenses were increasing came under the notice of the committee and the expert of the board was sent to look over the accounts of the insti- tion and ascertain tbe reason. His practiced eve struck one bill, that of a fowl merchant, that looked very large, and he called the attention of Chairman Taylor to it. s rom the showing of the account chickens, turkeys and other fowls must be plentiful in the larders of the hospital, and the idea struck the committee that it would take many patients in need of broth and dainty wings of fowl to use up so much meat. “I think we had better send the superin- tendent of the hospital a quiet intimation that turkeys and chickens in such profu- sion are a ittle out of season when junds for absolute necessities are in demand in many institutions,” said Chairman Tay- lor. “I don’t see where so many chickens and turkeys go to, and we will have to re- quire the superintendent to keep within the appropriation.” CALIFORNIA PRODUCTS. A Grand Exposition ‘May Be Held in Mechanics’ Pavilion in the Near Future. There still seems to be some likelihood that a grand exposition of California prod- ucts will be held in the near fature. It will be recoliected that some time ago the project was broached, but little besides talk came of it. The consideration of ex- pense alone seemed rather disheartening. The Mechanics’ Institute refused to let the Pavilion for the exposition, and a building of adequate size would cost a sum the mere mention of which flung a wet blanket over the whole scheme. Now, however, thouzh no definite action has been taken, it looks as though matters might take a different turn. A conference is to be held between the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association and the direc- tors of the Mechanics' Institute, during which it is hoped that arrangements may pe.effected for the engagement of the Pa- vilion. In this event the association promses to open a display which in com- pleteness and interest will be a revelation in its way. NEW TO-DAY. U % Pure and Sure.” cvelands BAKING POWDER. «] have used Cleveland’s Baking Powder with entire satisfaction in the preparation of breads, biscuits and cakes.” JuLET CORSON, Founder of New York Cooking School, [T LOOKS LIKE BIGAMY. Bepjamin C. Austin Jr. Charged With Committing a Grave Offense. HE IS SHOWN UP IN A LETTER The Chorister and Violinist Accused of Trifling With Two Con- fiding Women. One wife is auid to be fully enough, and sometimes too much, for a man to handle, but when there are twoof them the hus- band may as well resign himself to all the horrors which so grave a violation of the law involves. Benjamin C. Austin Jr.,, who is well known in town in the triple role of choris- ter, violinist and insurance clerk, is a very dashing voung gentleman, at present re- siding with his father, General Austin, at 1104 Pacific avenue, Oakland. In 1889 he led to the altar Miss Fannie Oneida Druf- fel, and went with her to live in the Druf- fel residence on Hyde street. Austin was then earning about $125 a month as clerk in an insurance office, but soon after started in business by himself, doing better by the change. But according to his wife's complaint, filed in an action for divorce, which she commenced on February 8 of this year, he began by degrees to drink to excess. Then, 1n 1893, he met a Mrs. Wil- cox, keeper of the Auzerais, or, as it was afterward cailed, the Annandale, alodging- house on California street. The meeting resulted in a protracted tcur wherein Mrs. Austin did not figure, her spouse and Mrs. ‘Wilcox being the only voyageurs. Something akin to repentence would seem to have pricked young Austin’s ten- der conscience some time in 1895. He made overtures to his wife and she was seriously thinking of forgiving hLer truant husband and resuming love’s young dream so rudely interrupted. A letter prevented her softening at this stage. The letter was as follows: = PUEBLO, November 28, 1895. Mrs. Austin—DEAR Mapam: I received a letter from a friend of mine from San Fran. cisco a few days ago in answer to a letter I had written her some time in July, asking her to go and see Ben’s mother and find out where he was. You, of course, know all, £0 it is no use of me going into detail any further. 1was never so surprised as when she wrote she had seen Ben’s wife and that he had never been divorced. Itishard to beisieve. When I first became acquainted wich him he told me he had been married, but that he had to marry, and _that he took to drinking and travel to compel you to get a divorce, and that you got iton the ground of intemperance, and even told me the court jt was granted in and before what Judge, and that I could go and find out. Itdoes not seem possible that he could tell me such a falsehood. I should have thought 1if he was a married man he would have been afraid to play his game in Hold, for we were together so much, and in fact he spent most all of his times at my house. I went toSan Francisco before we left Sacramento on our trip. 1 calied at his father’s house about 5 P. M. to inquire for him. He came to my friend’s house about 7 P. M. He wanted to know what kind of a looking hdrf Isaw. Oh, that was his sister Fannie, he said. Well, there is no use of me writing you any more on the subject. AlLI ask of you is to please answer and let me know if vou are really B. C. Austin Jr.'s wife. B. C. Austin and I were married in Carson City, Nevada, the 21st day of June last, 8 o’clock in the evening, by Judge Hawthorne. I have my marriage certificate, also a letter from the County Recorder saying it was on record there. Ben also registered at the Nevada State Prison on the visitors’ book as B. C. Austin and wife, on the 224 June. He must have felt rather shaky if he was already a married man when he married me, knowing that he bad laid him- self liable tc be put behind the bars. I am only waiting to hear from you before I do any- ihing. sont & letter to Ben, to 1335 Hyde. Has he received it? Very respectfully, BLANCH AUSTIN JR. Pueblo, Colorado, 113 Second street. P. 8.—1s your name Oneida? I received a letter from Van Tarsel, a friend of Ben, in San Francisco, that Oneida used to be an old flame of Ben's that he lived with, but that she was living with a sporting man now in San Francisco. Strange that Van Tarsel never told me that Bi was & married man. He was to my home with Ben often. I under- stand Ben denied marrying me. I can easil Droye our marriage. AndihatT was sn_ ad. venturess and blackmailer, he would never say that to my face. Of course, he had to say something to you. And I am very little older than he. 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