The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 10, 1896, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1896. 7 BUNDAY .- MAY 10, 1898 AMUSEMENTS. BALDWIN THEATER.—“The Strange Adventures £ Miss Brown.” CALIFORNIA THEATER—Primrose and West's Minstrels. CoLUMEBIA THEATER—*Faust.” MOROSCO'S OPERA-HOUSE—*Virginius.” 13v0L1 OPERA-HOUSE.—“The Chimes of mandy." OrpHEUM—High-Class Vaudeville. THE AUDITORIUM—Corner of Jomes and Eddy sireets—Prof. D. M. Bristoll’s Eques-Curriculum. MECHANICS' PAVILION—Bench Show. MACDONOUGH THFATER (OAKL:ND'~The Great Zanzics. Richard Mansfield to-morrow night. MARK HOPKINS' INSTITUTE OF ART.—Spring exhibition of Paintings. EXHIBITION OF SKETCHES—At 219 Sutter st., on Monday, May 11. TIVE SoNs’ HArt—Wagner night, Monday, May 1L BAL Pank.—Blcycle May 16 SUTEO CoNEY IsLaND—Batbing and Perform- ences. £300T THE CHUTES—Dally at Halght street, one block east of the Park. GOLDEN GATE PARK—Golden Gate Park Band. ¥4031 3¢ CoAST JOCKE B.—Races t0-morrow PICNICS AND EXCURSIONS. Ho! For THE SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS.—The First Anniversary b X ur ‘amily Picnic ©f the Union Printers’ Mutual Ald Society will be on Thursday, May 21, at Glenwood Park. Caxro—Music, Dancing, Boating, Fishing, Sunday. Races, Tuesday, cvers HAYWARDS PARK—Haywards—Choice Musical Programme every Sunday. iXCURSION TO RUSSIAN RIVEE—Sunday, May AUCTION SALES. BY F. T. KERLER—Monday, Oriental Curios at 419 Kearny street, By 8. Bascu—Mondsy. May 11, etc., at 319-521 Sutter sireet, at 10:30 o'clock. BY EAsTON & ELDRIDGE—Tuesday, May 12, By Real Estate, at 638 M BY K1LLp & Co.— , May 12, Horses, Harness, elc., at salesyard, corner van Ness ave. and Market st., at 11 o'clock. BY O'FARRELL & Co.—Thursday, May 14, Real t 12 o'clock. rday, May 16, nd ‘Telegraph avenue, 3 By SHAINWALD. BUCKBEX & CO.—Wednesdsy, May 27, Real Lstate, at salestoom, 218 Mont- somery street, at 12 o'clock CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. The Woman’s Congress adjourned last night. The prices of wine and grapes are climbing raplaly. The State Board of Prison Directors met at San Quentin yesterday The Arts and Crafts Guild opened its sketch exhibit last night at 219 Sutter street. “Fair Sunday; warm Sunday night” was pre- dicted last night by Forecast Official Hammon. Mrs. Sarah Pratt Carr, 8 prominent suffrs 1st, has been ordsined to the Unitarian mi istry. The will of Roger 0'Donnell, leaving $12,000 to his immediate relatives, has been filed for probate. There are nine men in the San Quentin prison upon whom sentences of deaih have een imposed. The first report of John M. Agar on_the es- tate of Joseph Macdonough shows the value of the estate 10 be §1,436,842 35. Trustees and managers of the Crocker 01d People’s Home were elected yesterday, and the home is in a thriving condition. There was an explosion of gas at 409 Post street, which did some damage to the house and more or less injured four men. C. H. Billings, a restaurant man from Stock- ton, who imagines he is worth millions, is in & padded cell in the Receiving Hospital. On motion, the lprenl of George E. Whit from an order compelling him to pay $100,00e alimony to his wife, Frankie A.White, has beeQ dismissed. Mrs. Teresa Parry, Mason street, fell down the rear steps at 104 Powell street yesterday morning and sustained & possible fracture of the skull. . Ir the programme ss srranged last night is carricd out Dr. Brown will preach at the Cali- fornia-street Methodist Church this morning at 11 o'clock. Dr. L. F. Garrigues, charged by the Health Department with neglecting to register births, pleaded guilty in Judge Low’s court yesterday &nd wes fined 5. Imp. Candid won the great four-mile race at Ingleside yesterday, The other winners were: Fiohenzoliern, Cabrillo, Montalvo, Olive, Mosier and Candor. Edward Collins, convicted of burglary and with four prior convictions against him, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment by Judge Babrs yesterday. The spplication of Erank Schilling to have Francis Pope removed as_joint guardian over the estate of Peter Alvin Matthews, an incom- petent, has been denied. Liberty Bramch of the Socialist Labor party has invited Rev. E. R. Dille to deliver a lecture on economic and social problems before the branch upon his return from Honolulu. G. B. Larkin, an old man, livlnfi at 1124 Howard street, swallowed a dose of laudanum in mistake for cough medicine yesterday morning and died a few hours later. Abe Marks, 3 weeks old, living with his mother at 364 Minna street, was born with two thumbs on his right hand, and one of them was amputated at the Receiving Hospital yes- terday. . Jennie Morgan, alias Mrs. C. A. Douglas, was booked &t the City Prison yesterdayon the charge of felony embezzlement, the complain- ing witness being J. H. Scott, a dealer in pianos. It is reported that the Southern Pacific Com- peny is making three-year contracts at low Tates with San Joaquin shippers in order to hamper the San Francisco and San Josquin Valley Railway. There was a polo match at Burlingame yes- terday between the club team and Riverside. Crowds of society people attended and enjoyed the splendid sport. The score was 12 for Burlingame to 2 for Riverside. Both William F. Herrin and General Barnes deny that there 1s any unpleasant feeling be- tween them or thatany change in the terms of General Barnes’ employment by the Southern Pacific Company has taken place since Mr. Herrin became chief counsel for that corpora- tion. PULLED DOWN THE FENCE Mayor Davie Removes the Bar- riers to the Eighth-Street Bridge. OARLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL.} 908 Broadway, May 9. Mayor Davie pulled down the fence across the Eighth-street bridge to-night and Superintendent of Streets Milier at once rebuilt it. The Street Superintendent has been advised by the City Attorney that he did only his duty when be closed the bridge and he advises him to keep it closed, City Attorney Piersol said to Mr. Miller to-day: “'In answer to your question as to whether or not the Mayor has any power as such to direct the removal of said barriers, I would advise that the Mayor assuch has no right or power to interfere with you in yonr performance of this duty. The City Council is_the governing body of the city, and the Mayor, as such, has no powers except those specifically con- jerred upon him by the cfli"}m and ordi- nances tnereunder. While engaged in causing t! e removal of sald barrers his capacity could be no higher than that of a private citizen, and you can, if necessary, invoke the protec- tion of the courts in the performance of your official duty. But with a view to up- holding the good name of the city, and considering the frailties of human nature, any procedure of that nature should onl; be adopted as a last resort, and after all reasonable efforts have failed in carrying out the orders of the Council.” If the Mayor should again pull down the fence the Street Superintendent will probably arrest him. Tne Mayor says his power in the prem- ises is absolute, and declares that he will keep the bridge open now that it is safe. POPULISTS WILL TALK OF FINANCE. The Prospects of Their State Convention on Tuesday. TO TRIM THE PLATFORM There Will Be Women Delegates, but No Proxies and No Fights. SILVER FOR THE CHIEF PLANK The Local Delegation Decides to Go to Sacramento Early and to Stick Together. The Populist State Convention wiil come to order in the Assembly thamber of the Capitol in the forenoon of day after to-morrow, the 12th inst., and run for about two days. The active preparations for the conven- tion which are going on are quiet and businesslike. There is no hurrah in the air, the party feels the strains of no strua- gles about delegations, honors or policies, no sensational combinations sre talked about and there is nothing for anybody to get excited over unless it be the alleged sweeping victory for the party in Califor- nia, concerming which the leaders talk calmly with confidence and seli-possession. E. M. Wardell, the veteran chairman of the State Central Commitiee, went to Sac- ramento from this City yesterday after- noon to look after convention arrange- ments. Carleton H. Johnson, chairman of the local execntive committee, and some others, probably including T. V. Cator and State Secretary R. E. Bush, will be on the ground to-day. To-night there will be quite a gathering of Populist delegates up there, and by to-morrow night a majority of the delegates will arnive. Of course quite a number of Populists will attend as speztators. The roll will contain the names of 300 delegates. At the convention of 1894, the number was 310. There were fewer dele- gates elected this year by about seventy- five, but this year the members of the new State Central Committee will sit as mem- bers of the convention. The State Central Committee of sixty-six members was selected by popular choice along with the convention delegates. The commi ttee will elect a chairman and it will unquestionabiy be E. M. Wardell of Los Angeles, who has so fully the respect and confidence of the party. The State Central Committee will elect an executive committee of seven members. The convention will adopt & platform, elect thirty-nine delegates to the St. Lou convention, nominate Presidential elel tors, nominate a United States Senator, and do any other business which itdoesn’t want to leave to the State Central Com- mittee, for there will be no second conven- tion. 1f the rasping sound of greatideas grind- ing against each other is heard at all ‘it will be while the platform is around, but it is not likely tnat there will be much struggling to ret things in or keep them out. The People's party is largely made up of what are, with increasing fre- quency, called *‘reform” elements, and at the convention of 1892 there was a torrent of principles and things 1n the platform that the country and society needed, but the party has become more homogeneouns and its principles wellsettled. TheOmaha platform is yet its creed. But then thereis in the party thisy general plan to shorten platiorms.” The party proposes to take up a few great ideas and get the Silverites and Prohibitionists and other elements to stand 1n with them. So the Btate Convention platform will likely be short. The free coinage of silver plank will be given the place of honor. The Populist campaign will be mainly on finance. The abolition of National banks will be tacked in. Direct legislation through the initia- tive and referendum will be the next im- portant plank. The Populists are everywhere for equal uffrage and always have been, and the conveution is so sure to indorse the suf- frage amendment that Miss Anthony and other campaign leaders are not likely to waste time and money opening headquar- ters at Sacramento this week. And the convention is so sure to declare for the Governmentownership of railroads and against the funding bill that Steve Gage will not give his whiskers an extra stroke on account of the convention. ‘Where the list of other things in the Omaha platform and the minds of dele- gates will be chopped off is hard to tell. This is what T. Be Cator said yesterday about the probable platform: In my opinion the principlesof the Omaha platform will be reaffirmed. The platform will declare for_free silver, direct legislation, the restriction of immigration, woman sufirage and the Government ownership of railroads, all of which are in the Omaha pYatlorm There will be some things pertaining to State issues. The convention will probably declare for economy in the State government and a fifty-cent limit on State taxation. eem wise to deal with other State issu as the reduction of certain State salaries, which are now as high as ever, while the prices of&mducta have fallen. e People’s party favors public improve- ments on a sufficient scale, and will doubtless declare for a system of good roads to be paid for in part out of money that ought to be saved in other directions. There will probably be a strong plank on the readjustment of our system of State taxation. Personaliy 1 favor making homesteads up to & reasonable amount exempt from taxation and incapable of belntg mortgaged, that the home, the foundation of a free people, may be safe from debt. Then I favor a graduated tax on land and land values, the ratio increasing with the proportion held by a single individual. 1 expect the Populist ticket 1o carry the State. 1t will no doubt poll 120,000 votes, though last time it reached but 63,000. Our vote has doubled every time, and we can double it this year easier than before. A 1ot of Populists from the southern part of the State will want to insert a temper- ance plank, and this will be opposed on the ground of expediency among others. Preferential voting will be among the things which will be pressed in the con- :enuon and probably leit out of the plat- form. It is not hikely tbat more than two Con- ressional District conventions will be field. The First and Seventh may nomi- nate Congressmen, but the others will wait. In the First District George W. Monteith will likely receive the nomina- tion. His championship of the railroad strikers has won for him the hearty sup- port of the labor element. One novel feature of the convention will be the absence of proxies. Proxies won’t . Thisis the first time this rule has g:en adopted in this State. Its purpose is to head off anything like boss manipula- tions. There will be just as many votes as there are delegates present. County committees have, in view of this, provided for appointments in place of delegates who cannot attend, just before the convention. There will be’ women delegates in that convention, too. 8an Francisco will send but one—Mrs. T. V. Cator. T. V. Cator will unquestionably get the ar a | nomination for United States BSenator again, He has been indorsed in San Francisco and in several counties of the State. By the political theory of the People’s party a convention nomination for Senator is taken to morally bind all mem- bers of the Legslature elected by the party in exactly the way and sense that Presidential Electors are bound . by the party nomination for President, The San Francisco delegation, number- ing twenty-seven, held a lengttty meeting with the County Executive Committee last evening at Mozart Hall. = Chairman C. H. Johnson presided while the executive committee was in session. 1t was found that four delegates wouid not be able to go to Sacramento, and their Y{Iuces were filled with W. W. S8anderson, . J. Tobias, Hugo Horn! and Mrs. T. V. Cator. The delegation then met, electing E. 8. Barney chairman and W. E. Walker sec- retary. T. V. Cator said that the conven- tion wouid come to order promptly at 10 A. . next Tuesday and that 1t was urgent that the delegates go up Monday evening. Ahlter a while twenty-one agreed to go then. . How to travel there and back by the complicated scheme by which the South- ern Pacific works™ its concession of one fare to _convention dele- gates took long discussion as did the Sacramento hotel to which the dele- gation ought to go. They won’t go to the Golden Eagle. That was mentioned once in a joke. Lovers of the State House and the Western were there, but it was agreed that the delegation ought to stay together | and that it should camp at the State | House. A collection was taken up to send a leleeram engaging quarters and head- quarters. Burnett G. Haskell urged the impor- tance of a delegation caucus to see how it should stand together, name its repre- sentatives on committees and so on, and it was resolved to caucus at 9 A. ». Tuesday at the State House. The following comprise the San Fran- cisco delegation: State Central Committee—John C. Gore, T. H. Porter, J. D. Thompson, George D. Gillespie, C. H. Johnson Delegates—E. S. Barney, W. J. Greer, C. M, Harris, F. M. Tuley, W. A. Lewis, F. 1. Ho cher, Thomas Howard, G.W. Daywalt, F. W. Scheil, F. L. Brown, Theodore Pfund, J. A. Johnson, Joseph Fassler, W.N. Griswold, H. Huppert, W. E. Walker, A. W, Thompson, 7. Cator, B. G. Haskell, . Bair, H.J. Tobias, Hugo Hornlein, W. W. Sanderson, Mrs. T. V. Cator. At T. V. Cator's request the executive committee came together again to consider the important proposition of engaging for the campaign the vacant lot on Market street, opposite the City Hall, where the toboggan slide once made its noise. The idea was to rent this space at $25 or $30 a month, make a canvas pavilion of it to accommodate 5000 people and whoop things up in it. A committee was ap- pointed to go and see it and report next Saturday night. CAWO, ROCKES, FRE Festivities Opened the Season for the Pacific Yacht Club. The Tugs Fearless and Vigilant and Five Launches Carry Guests to Sausalito. ““There was a sound of revelry by nignt” at Sausalito when the tug Fearless, bear- ing a host of invited guests to the ball which opens the season for the Pacific Yacht Club, arrived at the little wharf in Bausalito. The whole scene, from the cottages perched picturesquely upon the hillside to the pleasure vessel anchored in the har- bor, was one red glare. Skyrockets added to the brilliancy of the scene, and the booming of cannon gave the element of excitement. About half-past 8o'clock five launches— Charles H. Crocker's Wanderer, Hugo Kiel’s Cynthia, Will Powning’s Wailele and the Wand and the Norwood came over from Bel vedere with full crews. Each one bore a rocket in his hangd, and as they neared the wharf these were set in action. Among those present was Captain James Bruce, who seemed to be the hero of the evening. The names of the guests present from Belvedere are as follows: Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dorsey, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Benjamin, Mr. and Mrs. George Frink, M Mrs. C. O. Perry, accompanied by Zahn and Miss Mamie Flood; Mr. Mrs. V. J. A. Rey, Miss Mamie Weigel, Miss Jerome, Mrs. L.'L. Baker and family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stone, Miss Florence Stone, Mr. and Mrs. George T. Baggett, Mr. and Mrs, T. E. Havens, Mr. and Mrs. Fusenot, Mr. and Mrs. Horace W, Ball, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Mat- toon, Dr. and Mrs. Westphal, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Bonnell, Miss Marguerite Brien, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Davis, Mr. and Mrs. J. . Maxwell, Miss Elsic Maxwell, Miss Chris. tine Rix, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Haines, Mr. and Mr: rank Miner, James Bonnell, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Janes, Mrs. Grace E. Janes, Mrs. M. L. Harrison, Edgar D. Peixotto, James Cun- ningham, Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Boole, Noble Eaton, C.'B. Sloan, Mrs. W. B. Hunt. Among those that came over in the tug Fearless and other craft were: Mr. and Mrs. Jucob Goldberg, Messrs. Sol Goldoerg. Tom Irvine. Joseph Emanuel, G. E. Hunt, Gus Burling, Fred Teller, Frank Ham- mer, Will Hammer, Gus N wman, Thomas | McCallaghan, George Bromley, J. P. Jackson, Paul Dunphy, Robert Mitchell, Frederick, Kuerr Noble Eeton, George Cameron. E. Williams, Arthur_Piper, Arthur Ebbets Jr., S'E. Kelly, Jonn Blanchard, J. H. O'Brien Sanford G.' Lewald, Sanford 'P) o Wise, Judge Kerrigan, Dr. R. W. Payne, Dr. Otto’ Westpbal, Robert F. Haight, Wallace Alexander, Harry Dott, Frank H, Powers, John Rhodes, Charles Harmon, J. G. Cox, E. L, Head, N. H. Hickman, Paol Jones, Dan 0’Connell, Will Finney, Will 0’Brien, Charles Drury, George Devine, F. Surrhyne, L. H. Heyniemann, R._G. Nunan, Frank Eckenroth, A. Raisch, Harry Flood, A Wallace, Theodore K. Romaine, E. O. Tuttle, William Cunning- ham, Captain Alexander 'Svenson, Captain John Bruce, Mrs. H.G. Corivin, Miss Nellie Dare, Miss Smith, Mr. and Mrs, Leigh, Mrs, Frank ~Eckenroth, Mrs. “A. J. Raisch, Mr. and red Raisch, Miss Nellio Healey, Miss Mamie Trolan, Miss Kittie Welch, Messrs. Robert Bridgeman and Thomas and W. Healey, Mr. and_Mrs. Haub, Mr, Ross, Mr. A. H. R. Schmitt, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Janes, Mrs. Grace Janes, Miss' Lizzie Wainright, R. B. Eilis, J. B. Thorn, Mr. Voor. man, Dr. Boise, General ‘and Mrs.'Dickinson, Putnam Jackson, Louis Woe=s, Thomas Walsh, Robert Martin, Captain Randall, Captain Hawley, Judge Joachimsen. ——————— A MODEL WHEEL, The Crawford Bicycle a Popular Favor- ite in San Francisco. The Crawford bicycle is fast becoming popular with the riders of this City. This wheel was first introduced into California during the season of 1895 and has given the best of satisfaction. The lines of the Crawford are mechani- cally correct and symmetrical, the mate- rial used is of the best and the workman- sh;p unexcelled. be company manufacturing the Craw- ford has one of the most extensive and complete plants in this country, and their guarantee is as broad as that iven by any reliavle manufacturer. The acific Coast agent is Edwin Mohrig, 1510 Market street, from whom catalogues can be obtained on application. Organ Recital. The following programme will be performed at the organ recital at the Art Institute this afternoon: March, “Athalin,” Mendelssohn; Concert Fantasie, Petri; “Pilgrim’'s Choru: Wagner; Offertory, in A flat, Batiste; over- ture, ~“Tancred,” Rossini; Intermezzo, Mus- cagni; Christmas offertory, Lemmens; “Traumerel,” Schumann; Grand Postlude, West. - There is a good deal of originality about the Guild of Arts and Crafts exhibition,‘ which opened yesterday evening at 219 | Sutter street. In the first place the walls are divided into sections, and each member who is an artist has been given his own bit of wall to fill, in the manner which pleased him best. The result is a series of private ex- hibitions, so to speak, each of which is | stamped with tae originality of its owner. Peixotto has given vein to his decided talent as a draughtsman, and has shown principally pen and ink sketches. Lati- | mer, Judson and some of the other busy | bees of the fraternity have filled every inch of theirsections with paintings, while other painters have mads a very few pic- tures do duty for adorning a large amount | of wall. The result is interesting and | RN LG il \ L interesting. Mission Property-Owners Their Rights Against the Noe Litigants, Mission Defense Club held fare proposition. of carfare, lature. to the lands they claimed. characteristic, even if it is a bit hetero- geneous. g There were a number of people promi- Some of the Artists Comment on the Arts and Crafts Exhibit. of this wonderland was extremely vivid and FOR HOME DEFENSE. Protecting its usual weekly meeting at Twentieth and Guerrero | streets last night, at which a lengthy dis- cussion took place on the 214 per cent car- Supervisor Hobbs made a motion, which was seconded by Judge Van Reynegom. | n ! D to the effect that the delegates from that | 80d is now serving a life sentence. club in the Federation Club discounten- ance any interference with the reduction unless a general system of transfers be secured by act of the Legis- This was unanimously carried. Secretary Van Duzer stated that a de- | cision had been rendered by the Twelfth District Court in 1860, which virtually de- clared that the Noe claimants had no title It was stated the Cemeteries’ Associa- | tion, having for sale the two blocks of land, 0 { which is desired for a public park, would nent in local art and musical circles at the | sell directly to the City, and not permit opening of the sketch exhibit last even- | any middlemen to secure a commission ing. An orchestra, under the direction of J. Josephs, played in an arbor improvised with the artistic character of thie Arts and Crafts’ Guild. The platform of the hall decorations. It represented a studio, evidently of some opulent and prosperous artist for its | walls were hung with costly prayer rugs | and tap:stries, its chairs were antique and magnificent, and even the lay figure was clad in silk attire, As for the pictures the spectators took | for the sale of the same. | but would be turned dividuals to. them in sections and found enough variety | lowing: and good work to carry them all round the hall without wanting to pause to read. If any one wanted information the committee who had arranged the exhibit were there ready to explain. They were John Stanton, the president; W. D. Armes, secretary; Arthur F. Mathews, the chairman of arrangements; L. P. Latimer, A. Joullin, E. Peixotto. John A. Stanton, the president, has filled his space almost to overflowing with sketches of Paris and Brittany. They are done in his usual broad yet simple style, and, as usual, show his fondness for the decorative sid= of art. A sketch of a lion’s statue on the Paris boulevards looms up particularly strong, but it 1s a pity that Mr. Stanton does not turn his decided talent to something Cali- fornian instead of always going so far afeld as Brittany and Paris to seek his subjects. ¥ Arthur Mathews has a good exhibit, in- cluding some particularly fine pastels that are remarkable for their delicacy of color, d there is also a particularly beautiful little study of a child from the nude and a couple of studies for Judith are strongly painted. 5 % Gamble has a number of pictures, in- cluding a girl’s head, that might be a model for a fashion-plate. He is at his best in his marines. One in particular of a lagoon outside of Venice is an exquisite bit of work. Jo Strong shows some sketches from Samoa which are splendid bits of color, while their technical part is excelient. There are 0 a couple of thoroughly" characteristic etchings of Joaquin Miller and Mrs. Miller and a fine portrait of Reg- inald Birch, the painter’s nephew. Miss Elizabeth Strong of New York, the animal painter, shows a painting of a pair of dogs which is full of life and motion. Chris Jorgensen’s space is fairly well filled. All his work siiows his knowledge of drawing, though as a rule it is rather hard and cold in color. One ortwo sketches, | however, particularly the lagoon off Venice, are Food bits of color. Crane shows two brilliant water colors. Judson, who is & new man among the artists bere, showed a section crowded with Oalifornia sketches, which excited most favorable comment. All his work gives the atmosphere and color of Califor- nia, and his marines and sand dunes are as excellent as his Jandscapes. Latimer has a full exhibit, containing principally water colors. Most of the work is charmingly soft end artistic, though, as a whole, it bears the impress of the studio more than mostof Latimer’s work. Some of the pictures, however, are evi- dently careful studies from nature. Among the other ar‘ists, Robinson shows some sketches, principally of tie Yosemite, which bear the impress of hav- ing been painted far from the stuaio. The view of Mono Lake, with its fine grada- tions of color, is particularly weird and striking. Joullin shows some excellent sand dunes, and Bloomer’s pictures are also honest efforts from nature. Peters has some clever broad work and Raschen again shows himself to be a good draughts- man. — A Lecture on Malaya. Last Friday evening Rounsevelle Wildman, editor of the Overland Monthly, delivered a most interesting lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association, at their building, ANicE present for Eastern friends—Townjy send’s Cal. glace fruits, 50c1b. 627 Market st. * boulevard. to Appear in Dr. Good- win’s Pulpit. With the Idea — Large At- tendance Anticipated. Church this morning at 11 o’clock. hour last night. Superyisor Hobbs stated that the $35,000 of live bamboo and acacia, and the rest | appropriated by the Legislature for the of the decorations were quite in keeping | purchase of a home for the inebriates would not be expended for that purpose, into the general was quite the most admired spot in the | fund at the end of the fiscal year. This statement brought forth the remark from Secretary Van Duzer that during the past year no less than 1435 persons had been arrested in this City for drunkenness, and that he was opposed to building a fine bouse to take this class of dissipated in- Judge Van Reynegom offered the fol- The Mission Defense and Improvement Union respectfully request and urge upon the honor- able Board of Supervisors of San Francisco that the action proposed by satd board in bitu- minizing certain blocks of Dolores street be postponed until action shall have been had upon said petition for making Dolores street & J. D. Daly, John Bolger, George Walcom, C. Bravigan and J. F. Dorland were ap- pointed a committee to wait on the Super- visors and advocate the above measure. BAOWN PREACHES T0-DAY The Unfrocked Pastor Scheduled Many of the Members Are Not Pleased If Brown is sufficiently well he will preach at the California-street Methodist Such was the programme agreed on ata late IN THE MURDERERS' ROW Nine Man-Killers Who Now Stand in the Shadow of the Gallows. ONE HAS LOST EVERY HOPE. A Dark Chapter of Crime and Blood From the Condemn~d Cells at San Quentin. ‘With death upon the gallows staring him in the face **Kid”’ Thompson, the Ros- coe train-wrecker, is still the most profane | and toughest prisoner now confined in the State prison at San Quentin. His execu- tion is se. for the 22d inst. and he views his fast-approaching end with the stoicism of an American Indian. Of the nine murderers now under the death penalty in the prison across the bay the *'Kid” is the only one who has given up all hope of saving his neck by process of law or the Governor’s clemency. The Roscoe train wreck and the sacri- fice of life that followed are still fresh in the minds of the public. Thompson’s partner, Johnson, turned State’s evidence Thompson’s indifference to the fated 22d was explained yesterday in a conver- sation with Dan Sullivan, one of tne guards inside of the walls. To the guard he said: What is the use of me trying to fight the case? If theydon’t stretch my neck here, they will be sure to in New Mexico. The officers have a dead case on me there, 5o they say. You see, down in Albuquerque, some fellows made_a raid on one of tae banks and got away with $£1400, after killing the cashier and shoot- ing several others. The bank robbers escaped but were pursued by a posse. The officers run them down, and in the fight, one officer and one robber were killed. The robber who was killed was my cousin. The other escaped. Now they say J am the other fellow, and I guess they would prove that I was, but I was not within miles of New Mexico at the time. Neither was I in the Roscoe train affair, for I was £1ck in bed at the time. Iam convicted on one charge and woula be on ihe other,so I may as well swing here as to prolong the agony. Ihave been a tough citizen and had uy fun. Now I will pay for having a bad name. Sc the days and hours goby, and the Kid counts them as they pass without hope or any regret save one—that he cannot live long enough to get even on the rail- road company, which he holds responsible for obtaining the evidence that landed him at tue foot of the gallows. But he is only one of nine men now under the penalty of death. The next toughest citizen there is Frank C. Kloss, who a few months ago de- liberately cut William Deady’s throat in a saloon in Hayes Vallev. Kloss has hope that the Supreme Court will assist him in escuping the penalty of his crime or that the Governor will prolong his commuting the sentence to imprisonment for life. There is one in whom the Governor is interested. It is Dennis McCarthy, a San Francisco boy who shot a ranch kand to dezth in Sonoma County for a fancied of- fense. Medical experts say that McCarthy is weak-minded and subject to epilepsy. His case is now on appezal to the Supreme Court, and if the death penalty is sus- tained it is said that Goyernor Budad will interfere with the execution. The Cummings brothers, John and Ce- sar, from Riverside, are hoFing to be spared from paying the penalty for mur- der, and their execution is stayed by pro- ceedings in the Supreme Court. These brothers rented a ranch from an old man, and when he went to coilect the rent one slisped away and returned with a mask and played robber. He hit the land- owner on the head and took the money his brother had just paid. The blow Ernved fatal, and the robbery story might ave held, but the plot was revealed by a Mexican in the Cummings’ employ. A case almost parallel is that of Marshall Miller, also under the sentence of death. Miller and Stewart Green assaulted an aged pawnbroker in Marysville for the purpose of robbery. The blow broke the money-lender's skull. Green turned State’s evidence and is now under life sentence. Miller’'s case is before the Supreme Court on an appeal for a new trial. 1f the prayer is not granted Miller will have to be re-sentenced, as the original date of his execution is passed. Charles Marshall, who owned a fourth interest in the famous Desert Queen gold mine, also wants a new trial. He killed a man in a salovn at Riverside during a row. There are two men whose necks may be spared. One is William Leary, who killed aman in a saloon row in Salinas. Leary is now 78 years of age and the Governor has spared his life by a reprieve. The other is Bruno Morosco, who killed an Italian near Vacavilie over two years ago. He too has been saved by the Gover- nor. Leary is too old to work but Morosco is employed in the jute mill. All of the other condemned live in mur- derers’ row, a row of strong cells on the north side of the prison in sight of the of- ficers of theinside guard. Once or twice a week these felons are taken out for an NEW TO-DAY. Moved. ‘We have moved the Agency for our Homeo- Ppathic Medicines and Suppiies to 119 Powell street, and appointed Mr. Wm. A. Brooks General Agent for the Pacific Coast. BOERICKE & TAFEL. Philadelphia, February 13, 1896. Boericke & Tafel’s medicines are the most reliable and give best results. They can be ears by | Dr. Goodwin’s flock is not by any means unanimous as to the propriety of their pastor’s course. Those opposed to Brown’s appearance in the pulpit contend that it is a slap at their common brethren had in San Francisco only at 119 Powell street. Open Sundays until 9 ». M.; weekdays until 11 P.M. Mail orders promptly filled. Correspond- ence solicited. airing by Guard Sullivan. For two or three hours they are permitted to walk up and down in the fresh air below their cells. No other prisoner is permitted to approach or speak to the conderned. There they walk in pairs and discuss their hopes of the future and adventures of the past, and in most cases the one is as dark as the other. Poet Riley Bocomes a Wheelman, A man with a smiling face, eyeglasses on his nose, and a toothpick hanging to his lips, stepped up to the wicket window in the city comptroller’s office yesterday afternoon. % ‘'Give me a license, a bicycle license,” he said to the clerk. “How long have you had your wheel?" asked the latter. *‘Oh, I've had it a good while, but that don’t matter. 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