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8 THE SAN.FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1896. WASTHEHADJI POISONED? Strange Tale Told by an Egyp- tian at the Receiving Hospital. IS A SHRINER DEGREE MASON. When Seen at His Home He Flatly | Contradicts the Story Told at the Receiving Hospital. | About 9 A, x. yesterday a man hurried | into the St. Nicholas drugstore, corner of | Hayes and Market streets, and exclaimed that he bad been poisoned. An emetic was promptly given him, after which he was hastily driven to the Receiving Hos- pital. There the stomach-pump was brought into play, and the man’s stomach thoroughly emptied. ‘When he had convalesced sufficiently to talk coherently, be asked that a message be sent to the secretary of the Masonic Board of Relief and to Dr. Wallace de Witt to attend him at once. This was done, and pending their arrival the sick man told a story that for strange blending of the theatrical and the practical, the fresh scenes and incidents of Western civ- ilization and the mysticism of the Orient has never been excelled. It reads as if penned by,the hand of Haggard or Kip- | ling. Said he, “T was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1862, Four years later I lost my mother and came under the care of my grandaunt, who rearedl me tenderly because I was named after her brother, my grandfather, who was killed at Sebastopol. *‘1 commenced my education at Ismailia, Egypt, continued it in French at the Frere College and in Arabia at Kootab, finishing at the University of Cairo. “At 19 I married the daughter of A. Pessoah, the famous old merchant of Egypt. One of my children I have named after Victor Hugo and the other after Tuah, an Egyptian goddess. “I have traveled extensively and have been in Constantinople, Greece, Palestine, Rhbodes, Paris, London and other promi- nent places. Some of the men with whom 1 have been associated are Sir Arnold Morley, Mr. Gardiner, M. P., and Lord Porchester of England. “‘My linguistic education includes Eng- lish, French, Italian, Spanish, Turk- ish, Greek, and all Arabic dialects. Five of these I can write and hold cor- | respondence in. I have also taken the | thirty-second degree in Masonry. “During the Columbian Exposition I brought 160 persons, selected from the tribes and communities of Egypt, and | ensconced them in the ‘‘Streets of Cairo.” From there I came to San Francisco and invested at the Midwinter Fair. Here I met with ill luck, and lost everything. “To-day a friend of mine gave me some | candy. I ate it and was immediatety | taken sick. An examination showed me | that this candy had been steeped in a vir- ulent poison made from Indian hemp. That is how I came to be here now."’ Though the Hadji was repeatedly urged to give the name of this friend he stub- | bornly refused to do so. On arrival of Secretary Haw of the Ma- sonic Board of Relief it was ascertained that bis claim to be a Shriner Mason was legitimate. Shortly afterward Dr. de Witt procured a buggy and drove Raphael to | his home, corner Polk and Union streets. ‘When Raphael wes seen at his home late in the evening, though in bed by the physician’s orders, he did not seem to be in any pain, conversed freely and ration- ally and was generally cheerful. But he flatly cantradicted his former story of be- ing poisoned. “The reason I told the druggist that I had been poisoned,’” he said, ‘‘is because 1 | thought they would give me relief more | quickly than if they thought I was merely in.” When it was suggested that they might have not used the right remedies for his case, acting on this hypothesis, he re-| marked that a man soill as he could not they fought with one another for the pos- session of it. That man was something of a philosopher, and he concluded that if a man could eat pearsats here, but had to fight for the shells in the nether world, he would hold on to a good thing, and, as you Americans say, ‘push it along.”’ It is said that a lecture Raphael de- livered at the World’s Fair, entitled *“The American Seed in the Land of the'Pha- raohs,” is an eloquent tribute to the thrift, zenerosity and enterprise of the Ameri- can people in transplanting Western ideas to the Orient. It is also said that he has written an able paper on *‘The Chas- tisement of the Conscience.” An article published by him in the Overland Monthly for August, 1894, headed **Egyptian Super- stitions,” attracted some attention and shows much scholarship. Meanwhile, the ghost that sits over the tomb of the Pharaohs, when interrogatea as to whether Hadji Raphael was poisoned, endeavored to commit suicide or was only bilious, simply remains silent and “saws wood.” TWO WORKMEN INJURED Bucher Swung Round by a Belt and James King’s Fingers Drawn in by a Roller. A. Bucher, an employe in the California Wire Works, Bay and Mason streets, was caught in the belting yesterday afternoon and swung off his feet before being re- leased. The ambulance was summoned, A. NEW IN THE NAVAL LINE A Cruiser Whose Four Propellers Drive Her at Thirty Knots. ; WIDE - SWEEPING BATTERIES, Can Be Submerged to a Low Freeboard When Going Into Action—A Deep Ram. Something novel in cruiser-building has been invented and patented by Walter de Varila, mining and mechanical engineer, of 316 California street in this City. Mr. Varila, who is a member of the Mechanical Engineering Institute of Londou, has for some time been making a study of naval science, and the result of his research is a four-propeller ship of high speed, a peculiarly shaped hull con- structed to be submerged to a low free- hoard ana a battery having a greater range of fire than before known. These are the principal features claimed her to steam abont 7200 miles ata thirty- knot speed and 8400 miles at twenty-two knotsan hour. THE PEQPLE'S BANK SUIT. Petitlon Addressed to the Bank Com- missioners Asking an Investigation. The executive committee of the deposi- tors of the People’s Home Savings Bank held a meeting yesterday and adopted the following petition to the Board of Bank Commissioners: The undersigned, executive committee of the depositors of the People’s Home Savings Bank, respectfully call your at- tention to statements embvodied in a complaint filed in the Superior Court of the City and County of 8an Francisco by the Cali- fornia Safe Deposit and Trust Company and egainst its manager, John F. Sheehan, and five of the present directors of the above-named bank, to wit: 8. K. Thornton, George Eton}? Wy Taylor, Eugeny M. Freeman end W. H. elps. Said complaint alleges mismanagement of the affairs of the bank, misappropriation of its assets and gross negligence on the part of its directors and manager. We especially vall your attention to the allegations as set forth in ihe following sections of said complaint, be- lieving that in accordance with the provisions of the bank act you have the power to investi- gate all statements alleged therein: Section 6, page 3; section 12, page 6; section 13, pages 6 and 7; section 14, pages 7 and 8; sectfon 15, pages & and 9; section 17, page 9. section 18, page 9; section 20, page 10; sec- tions 21, 22 and 23, pages 11 and 12; section 31, pagesj15 and 16. We trust that you will as soon as_expedient enter into a full investigation of the matters alluded to in the compiaint mentioned, or at least as much thereof as comes within the pur- view eigvaur authority. g T. H. McCarthy (chairman), T 8. Williams Jr, (secretary), E. F. Kendall, George B. Conant, Action. [Drawn from the design of the inventor.] | A Four-Propeller, 30-Knot Cruiser That May Be Subinerged to a Low Freeboard When Going Into Deck Plan of the Vessel, Showing the Positions of the Amidships Propeller. [Drawn from the design of the inventor.] but Bucher refused to go to the Receiving Hospital and was taken to his home at 1438 Jackson street. His right arm was | sprained and he seemed to be injured in- ternally. It was only a week ago that Stanley Lytton, an electrician, was caught in_ a re- volving shaft at the wire works and was whirled round and round till his clothing was torn from his body and he was badiy injured. . ames King, an_employe of Porter, Slessinger & Co., 7 Battery street, was en- gaged yesterday afternoon putting leather into rollers to softenit. He stuck his hand HADJI RAPHAEL, WHOSE LIFE IS FILLED WITH MYSTERY. think of all these things at once. Evi- dently he overlooked the fact that his mind was clear enough to think up a means of being quickly relieved. “‘Let me tell you the trouble,” he said. “I was bilious. Tbis complaint is heredi- tary. My father used to be attacked this way and woula remain in a comatose f state for twenty-four hours al a time, Nothing eise was the trouble with me.” It was mentioned to him that some curi- ous-minded persons might think he had tried to commit suicide. **No, no!” he exelaimed rising on his el- bow and emphasizing his words with his forefinger. *‘That is the resourceof a cow- ard. The Egyptian motto is ‘The Dead Are Worse Off Than We.! Did you ever hear the legend of the Egyptian who had only a nickel to hisnames and contem- plated suicide? He purchased a sack of peanuts and went up to the top of the Sphinx, intending to eat them and then jump to his death. As he ate them and dropped the shells he went into a vision. “Below him hesaw the men of the nether too far in and it was slowly drawn under the roller. King yelled for help and at- tempted to pull out his right hand with bis left, which was also drawn in. The machinery was stopped and King was re- leased from his painful predicament. Both hands were torn and bleeding. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital in the patrol wagon. Dr. Thompson found that two fingers of his richt nand ana four fingers of his left hand were torn, but it was not necessary to amputate them. He was sert to his home, 234 ninth street. B D — Found Gold and Coal. Captain Hans Christian Pande of Tacoma, special inspector of customs on board the steam schooner Essex, which sailed from here for Cooks Inlet with eighty gold-miners aboard a few weeks ago, has returned here and is at the Grand. He says he met several Cooks Inlet goid prospectors at the spitin Katche- kamak Bay. They claimed they had found gold and were well satisfied. Inspector Pande says there is an_enormous amount of lignite coal at that point. It has broken off on the beach by tons. It is good for household use. —_————— By a short passage of 148 miles th Languedoc shil?l canal in France saves : sea voyage of mnearly 2000 miles by the Twenty- world, and as each peanut shell dropped Straits’of Gibraltar. by the young engineer for his invention, which, if found to be successful, will be anotheradvance in the nautical appliances of war. From the models and drawings may be seen in prospective a modern cruiser 375 feet in length over all, 56 feet beam at the ordinary waterline and 20 feet in depth from the garboard strake to the main deck. There is no material change in shape of hull beginning at the stern and moving aft until almost two-thirds of her length has been gone over. Then comes a striking change. On each side from bottom to deck tne walls of the ship almost abruptly fall in several feet, leaving a place for what the inventor calls the two amidship propeliers, Further under the stern are the twin screws of an ordinary vessel. In putting the auxiliary propeliers so near the center of the hull the inventor bas caught his idea from the rowboat moved by a pair of oars amidships; also from a desire to find a place for the two extra screws. He claims that his ship can be made to turn completely around in a circle of 300 feet in diameter going at full speed. One proveller backs as the other goes ahead, pivoting the ship, as the two oars pulled vice versa in the rowboat. Each of the propellers is driven by a separate engine, and with a coal consump- tion of 200 tons in twenty-four hours will attain a continnous speed of not less than thirty knots and twenty-two knots with 122 tons. These propellers are two-bladed and are of duplex power, constructed to give the greatest speea with the fewest revolutions. Their dimensions are 12 feet, with a con- tinuous curvature of 1914 feet. The inven- tor claims that he has tested them and has obtained an increase of speed over the ordinary screw of the same length of blade of 700 feet to a knot. Each of the four en- gines is of 3000 horsepower. The second great feature is the sinking of the huil to a low freeboard. The hull has double walls, and the compartments or spaces between the outer and inner casings are about 18 inches wide amid- ships, decreasing toward the stem and stern. These spaces can be filled with water, lowering the hull four feet, thereby presenting less surface ta hostile fire. This also drops the ram four more feet or tweive feet below the ordinary water line. Mr. Varila claims that as the armor of the modern cruisers only extends about five feet below their water line his keen steel ram will pierce the comparatiyely unprotected bilges of an enemy’s hull like a knife blade through cork. is hull will be sheathed in armor belt of ample thick- ness, The third practical feature claimed for this new craft is the concentration and range of gun fire. All of the pieces have high mounts, permitting them to be de- {:rened upon targets close to the ship. In he two large turrets the 8-inch rifles may work on an - object twenty-two yards dis- tant and the 4-inch in the four side tur- rets muy make things warm for a torpedo- boat even twenty feet away. The two large guns sweeping around fully 270 degrees and the four smalier pieces describing a range of 220 degrees make the battery a most formidable one. The side Ems may be trained across the deck, making a starboard rifle bear on an object on the port side. A secondary bat- tery of machine guns will complete the new cruiser’s fighting strength. “She will be provided with three torpedo tubes, one forward and two aft. Another feature claimed is the ram, which is backed by biocks of heavy tim- bers placed fore and aft. This wooden filling not only strengthens the weapon, but takes up all the concussion of a blow, saving the ship from the possible injury of a jar, The forward turret is also the con- niniwwer to beusedin action, The coal- bunker capacity is 2000 tons, making her a long-distance cruiser, as this will permit A. L. Casavaw, Benjamin Lucy, man, executive committee o Home Savings Bank. REVOLUTIONARY DAUGHTERS. A Notable Reception by Them in the Century Club Rooms. The Daughters of ths American Revolu- tion gave a charming reception at the Cen- tury Club yesterday sfternoon from 3 to 6. The rooms were exquisitely decorated, under direction of Mrs. Moore, with Amer- ican- flags, bamboo and roses. Notwith- standing the threatening weather, the fashionable throng crowded the epacious rooms to suffocation. There was a delight- ful sociability about the whole affair that made the occasion an exception. A notice- able feature was the large number of very handsome women. There was a charming musical programme and it was a notice- able fact that the Daughters of the Revo- lution understood and practlced that cour- tesy to the musician or reader that 1s often lacking in other places. The Sequoia Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was organ- ized in December, 1891, at the residence of Mrs. General D. D. Colton, with Mrs. land Stanford and Mrs. Henry MacLean Martin as honorary regents, and Mrs, Wil- liam Alvord as chapter regent. Its prin- cipal object is to fi)uterapumohc 8pirit in celebrating National anniversaries. Lexington day, 1894, was celebrated in noteworthy fashion by planting a liberty tree in Golden Gate Park. Earth from 150 not:d and sacred spots was deposited. When earth from Lafayette’s tomb in Paris, from Mount Vernon, and many bat- tle fields were mingled together, many prophesied that it could not live in such a mixture, but it has thriven well. The E‘nem for the occasion, by Mrs, Frank J. rench, contained these lines: For never grow a tree 50 grandly fed From the mingled dust of a nation’s dead; And the society is proud of its emblem of liberty, which is a living thing. The scene of the planting was one of the most impressive ever witnessed in San Fran- cisco. Lexington day, '95, was celebrated by an elaborate tea at the Occidental Hotel, and this is the third time that the day has been observed. Mrs, Olive Reed Batchelder charmed all with an exquisite contraito solo, and Miss Henry of Berkeley made a hit and capti- vated the audience with her two delight- ful numbers. Miss Maud_ Noble gnve a trombone solo, ‘'Let Me Like a Soldier Fall”; Miss Pearl Noble gave a stirring and appropriate rendition of the ‘Star- spangled Banner'’; the Misses Noble after- ward gave a trombone and cornet duet from “Il Trovatore”; Mrs. C. Edward Brown read a most beautiful and patriotic essay. Among those present were: Mrs. Wil- liam Alvord, State ngbent; Mrs. Henry Wetherbee, regeny of Bequoia Chapter; Mrs. George Barstow, vice-regent; Mrs. Joseph L. Moody, Mrs, Selden B. w’rignz, Mrs. John D. “Tallant, Mrs. Wardwell, Mrs. Williams, Miss Taliafero, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Dr. Yeamans, Mrs. C. M. Keeny, Mrs, 8. W. Holladay, Mrs. Frank J. French, J. M. Chretien, the Misses Chapman, G. A. Crux, Mrs. C. Elwood Brown, 18, L. C. Branch, Mrs. L. L. Baker, Mrs. Frank Stone, Mrs. Bert Stone, Miss Alma P. Allen, Mrs, A. 8, Hubbard, Miss E. M. Jones, Mrs. T, Z, Blakeman, Mrs. Moores, Mrs. George Thurston, Mrs. Peter B. Sim- mons, Mrs. Lovell White, Mrs, Henry Gibbons, Mrs. Dr. Thomas Flint, Miss 8ai- lie Hule, Mr. Hule, Mr. Alvord, L. C. Branch; Mrs, Batchelder, the Misses No- ble, Mrs. Holmes, Mrs. Watson, Miss Henry, Mrs, Maddux, rs. Timothy Hop- kins, Mrs. T. V., O’Brien. ——————— Newsboys’ Concert Postponed. The musicale to'be given April 21 in aid of F. H, Qual- the People's 'the Newsboys' Home, 118 Powell street, has been postponed to May 5. BLODMERS PASSING AWAY| The Pretty Girl With Bifurcated Drapery Is Already Doomed. DECLINE OF ANOTHER FAD. Swelldom Smiled Upon but Did Not Copy Her, and Soon the Novelty Ceased. The bloomer girl of San Francisco is go- ing from us. Like all things that come to zlndden‘and distress the heart of man and sometimes incidentally to occasion family disputes, woman, fair woman, of all ages and of all previous conditions of flowing skirts, has, in her fickleness, begun to leave her bloomers to the seclusion of some dark and moth-threatened closet at home. For the fad for the natty, jaunty thinus that looked like baggy trousers and permit- ted just a suggestion, or sometimes more than a suggestion, of well-rounded calf to be visible, is certainly on the decline in S8an Francisco. When such another op- portunity for a display of coquettishness may occur isas uncertain as the equilib- rium of a beginner awheel. But it will manifest itself somewhere; for ever de- signing, charming woman will not remain content with what has been. The bustle came and went. It rose and then fell with the certainty of all things that are developed beyond an artistic semblance to reality. But the bloomer was not a monstrosity. It varied as did the individuals that affected it, but wher- ever it was unattractive the fault lay not so much in the material or in the fit as in the limbs and feet that a kindly skirt might better have covered. In it the matron who liked to imagine that she was still girlish and sprightly did not always look exactly angelie, perhaps because of a pair of beer-keg calves that maintained the same uniform rotundity until they w-ned into feet, She wonders why her dyspeptic, slen- der-shanked husband objected to her wearing bloomers! And the would-be- considered athletic woman, whose peaked features and swift, mannish stride were always an indication that if by accident she should gain an ounce of much-needed flesh she would hastily run it off—she aid not loom up much in bloomers, either; but she would wear them. And bow often did man think that whatever might be the extra cost for the lavish fullness of the modish skirts and voluminous sleeves and the high stocks, it was devoted to a good cause if it only made him forget that the owl is a very small bird when robbed of its feathers. But all this is only incidental to the fact that the bloomer craze is on the wane. The local dressmakers, women’s tailors, and dealers in ready-made bloomers, almost to an individual, admit that where the demand was at its height a year ago, it is become so light that the bloomer trade can hardly be considered one of their sources of revenue, Yet the exverience of these persons should not be taken as a conclusive proof. The great majority of bloomers have been made at home. Sometimes by dress- makers; more often by novices, who per- haps had never profited even by the expe- rience of making little Johnnie a pair of “‘pants’’ from papa’s discarded *‘jeans.” The bloomer may cost anything from simply the labor employed in the home product remodeled from an erstwhile skirt, to the most approved creation of the skilled artisan ranging up in the twenties, thirties and forties, leaving the ready- made article and the private dressmaker’s vroduction to fill in all the degrees between the extremes of absolute economy and lav- ish indifference to price. One pretty little dressmaker thinks that unskilled workmanship has had much to do with the decline and fall of the bloomer. “Oh, yes, most of them are made at home,"”’ she said, “and don’t they look it? ‘When a thing ceases to be natty it goes out of style. Many of the bloomers had be- gun to look about as genteel as workmen’s overalls,” The novelty of bloomer waitresses was tried and it resulted in only a more hasty return to skirts. Even the dives added to their doubtful allurements of baa music and faded and haggish femininity by introducing the bloomer., It soon ran its course. In the earlier rains of this winter the bloomer girl ventured forth, but in the recert snowers she has been only a pleas- ant memory to be mused on by the staring cigar-stand statuary on Market and Kearny streets, ‘Where the bloomer girl used to be seen shyly flitting out in the uncertain light of evening for a spin up and down the block on her wheel or her brother's wheel, she has ceased to wander. That girl is still in existence. Wait until she comes out in all her glory as the irresistible summer girl, and you will think so. The bloomers, too, are yet in- tact. The wheel is uninjured. The dis- position of the girl alone has changed. Always eager for that that is latest and calculated to make her most attractive, the San Francisco girl is becoming tired of her bloomers. They were real fun for a while, but when the novelty was gone the greatest charm was gone with it. The co-eds of the University of Cali- fornia and Stanford may cling to their bloomers for succeeding basket-ball matches, happy in the conseiousness that they will be flatteringly illustrated in the newspapers by horrid man, who must not see but who may imagine their struggles, Their experience will have about it the charm that has always been attached to things forbidden from the time of the first apple to latter-day notices on high fences warning boys not to filch the fruit within. ‘Whether or noc the shocked Berkeley women'’s cry of horror at the suggestion of their public appearance in basket-ball attire aided in discouraging the bloomer girl is not definitely known. That it formed one of the steps down from her platform can easily be imagined. Simply because much fewer bloomers are sold now and much fewer are made is not the basis of the assertion that the bloomer girl is unconsciously preparing to evolve into some other delightful form, Observation is the most conclusive proof that the bloomer girl that was will be no more. Bowhay, the ladies’ tailor on Post street, says that the really swagger set here has never favored bloomers, With them the short skirt, as high sometimes as the shoe tops, has formed part of their correct cycling dress, real knickerbockers, caught below the knee by an elastic band, being another part, but never in evidence. Miss Ostrander of the Phelan buildine says that dressmakers have probably made more bloomers for matrons than for misses, but that from her own experience and from what she knows from others, there has been a regular decrease for many months in the demand. D. Cohan of Powell street says that the bloomer trade is not anythinglike what it was a year ago. Davidson & Miller of Post street, while confessing that bloomers are going out of vopular fashion, think that it is only a natural response to the styles introduced in the East first and ultimately adopted here. They think that the divided skirt will take the place of the bloomer with wheelwomen. Newman & Levinson, of all the firms and dressmakers briefly ques- tioned on the subject, were alone in the experience that the demand for bloomers has not materially decreased. If, oh if, bloomers might become the thing for the small boy, think how readily he could come forth in San Francisco, at- tiredjas the legitimate successor to his older sister, his mamma, or his aunt! GOING TO MOSCOW. Some Well-Known Californians Who May Attend the Coronation of the Czar. Prince Poniatowski, who has been so- journing in San Francisco for several months, left the City last Wednesday for Paris. It is expected that he will extend his journey to Moscow and attend the cor- onation of the Czar. According to the present outlook San Franoisco‘ will be lurgely represented at that imperial func- tion. Colonel C. F. Crocker, who leaves for New York ina day or two, will prolong s trip to Moscow and tuke a look at the assembled royalty. 2 Joseph D. Redding of New York, who has been in town for several weeks, left for his Eastern home last evening. If he can arrange his business affairs in New York he will visit Moscow and see the Czar crowned. ik Commodore Harry M. Gilliz of the Larchmont Yacht Club, New York, will represent that institution at Moscow dur- ing the coronation. He is in San Fran- cisco now, but will start for the Eastina day or two. i Fred R. Webster will leave the City next Tuesday for New York. He will go abroad before returning to San Francisco,®but owing to engagements elsewhere will not be ab%e to reach Moscow in time for the coronation, Thomas A. Hubbard and Geners! Fran- cis Fessenden, who represent large in- terests in the Southern Pacific Railway Company, left the City for New York yes- terday, going via Los Angeles. They will not extend the trip to Moscow. Itis pre- dicted that Mr. Hubbard in 1897 will be crowned Czar of the Southern Pacific to succeed C. P. Huntington. It is known as a fact that the place was within his reach at the last election, but he was not in a position to accept the re- sponsible trust. His friends say that con- ditions will arise before the next annual meeting which will virtually compel him to accept the first place in the manage- ment of the corporation. Ed H. Hamilton, who is about to retire from the arduous position of managing editor of the Examiner, is said to have the option of reporting the National conven- tions in the United States this summer or going to Moscow to do the coronation of the Czar. Several well-known society ladies of this City are making calculations to attend the imperial function. The United States Ambassador to Russia, Colonel Clifton | Breckinridge of Arkansas, will have ail he | can do to provide places “on the inside” for the Americans who are inclined to see the Czar formally mustered in. TRAVELERS ELECT OFFICERS. Annual Meeting of the California Post at the Grand. At the second annual meeting of Cali- | fornia Post of the Travelers’ Protective Association of Americaat the Grand Hotel last night a communication was received from J. Wolf, the former secretary of the post which the existing one superseded, and which endeavored to enjoin the new post from transacting business as a branch of the National body. In this letter an offer was made to withdraw the suit on certain conditions. The matter was re- ferred to the National association. Officers were elected as follows: Presi- dent, E. M. Bachelder; first vice-president, L. C Kepfler; second vice-president, J. F. Cattshall; secrctary and treasurer, Solo- mon Davidson; board of directors—J, Zer- man, Jed M. Scott, H. W. Hickman, L. N. Tryon, W. B. McKay, C. H. Woods, Edgar Rosenblatt, H. J.” Darling, C. M. Zeitler. The two last named are from Sacramento; all the other officers are of this City. The following committee chair- men were appointed by President Bach- elder, each chairman having the privilege of making up his own committee: Rail- road, L. C. Kepfler; hotel, J. Zerman; wess, J. F. Cattshall; employment, C. H. oods; legislative, J. H. Batcher, Sacra- mento. It was decided not to send a delegate to the National Convention., All carnivorous animals have small ears, capable of very quick movement. NEW T AY, HUMPHREYS’ “77” Bids Colds Begone. 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We are selling a_Nobby Russet Goat Oxford, with Pointed Toes and Tips, fors 125 &5 Country orders solicited. 8% Send for New lilustrated Catalogus. s Addre: B. KATCHINSKI, PHILADELPHIA SHOE CO,, 10 Third Street, San Franciseco. FOR Fine Tailoring Perfect Fit, Best of Workmanship at Prices, go to JOE POHEIM THE TAILOR. PANTS mate to order from $4.00 SUITS mats to order from $15.00 MY $17,.50 ano $3! ARE THE BEST IN THE 201 and 203 Monlgomery S, e, Bsh 724 Market St 1110 & M2 Markst St. SAN FRANCISCO, e D NNubtys PRIVATE DISPENSARY. ALI'Y—DISEASES OF MEN, INCLUD- Sil’.’;:gc.{n"ful;zn of Blood, Skin and Nervous Dis- enses. Over 20 years' experlence. Book sent free. Patients cured at Home. 'l'erms reasonable. Office Hours, 9 to 3 daily: 6:30 to 8:30 evenings. Sundays, 10t012, Consultation free and sacredly confiden tial, Call, or address P. ROSCOE MeNULTY., M. D., 26} Kearny Street, San Francisco, Cal. NOTARY PUBLIC. HARLES H. 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For sale by BROOKS' PHARMACY, 119 Powell street