The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 22, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY BURIED BENEATH FALLING WALLS, Two Persons Killed and Many Injured by a Building's Fall. the Japanese Emperor to edveste his offi- cers of the army at 8t. Cyr, the first mili- tary school in Europe, and his naval icers in Amcrica. “The Japanese cudets,” says Captain Sampson, *'are unusually brigut, excelling in ordnance and mathematics. They are very gentlemanly and acquire knowledge very rapidly. When you remember that within & vear of their arrival they have | acquired our language sufficiently to be able to_understand technical works writ- ten in it and can recite from tiese works it will be readily perceived that they must be of no ordinary capacity.’” At the Secretary’s office it was stated that while the formal request for these | gentlemen’s admission had not been re- | ceived, the department has had an intima- | tion of its coming from our Minister, and | | it will be readily granted. NO CHANCE TO ESCAPE.| SHIP ON FIRE. [ The Horsa Puts Into Southport, . C., After a Thriliing Experience—The | Master Lost. | WILMINGTON, N. C., May 2L—The | British ship Horea, with a cargo of pine- | | apples and bananas, from Jamaica May | | 13, bound to New York, arrived. to-day at | Southport in distress, having been on fire. | It is completely gutted from stem to amid- : ships. Captain McIntosh, who brought the ves- | | sel into Southport, reports thatou the 18th | Disaster Follows an Attempt to Patch | inst. Captain Cook, the master, was missed | 2 - . | between 3 and 4 o’clock in the morning | Up ag 01d Prick Structure | and it is supposed he feli overbosrd. | Witheut a Moment's Warning a Score Are Buried by the Crumbling Ruins. { SOME MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVE. at Buffalo. Captain McIntosh. who was first mate, | | says the Horsa left Port Morant, Jamaica, |on the 13th inst. with & full cargo and | | crew of twenty men. At 6 .M. on the LO. N. Y., May 21.—A section | 16th a cry of fire was raised. nt of Brown’sbuild- | 0 ¢’clock this morning, | people in the ruins. and Jennie Griffith, All hands were mustered and went to | {an hour and a balf’s work the heat was | REGARDED WITH MUCH DISFAVOR Imprisonment of Leaders of the Reform Committee Opposed. REVULSION OF FEELING. In Not Liberating the Prisoners the Transvaal Lost a Chance of Uniting Factions. ERUGER PLEADED IN VAIN, Attempts to Have Fines Substituted Overruled by a Majority of the Council. PRETORIA, Soutm ArricA, May 21.— The sentence of fifteen years' imprison- | work to extinguish the flames, but after | ment imposed upon the leaders of the | They will never survive it. Johannesburz reform commitiee, who 29 =z, 1896. was built by President Pretoria, whence it derived its name. “The prison is sbout 100 feet square, | surrounded by a high stone wall loopholed | all around on the four sides and flanked | on the front orentrance side by two towers, which defend the gate with its foss and portcullis, which is lowered by a chain worked on the inside. The accommoaa- tions for prisoners, black and white, are the earthen floor and blankets which prisoners ! are allowed to supply themselves with. “The food allowed each prisoner is a | pound of cornmeal porridge and a half- %pint of sour milk every morning at 7 7 | o’clock; at 10 A. u. a half-pound of rye bread, washed down by a plentiful supply of brackish water. Dinner, or as the Eng- | lish call it, tiffin, is served at noon, and the bill of fare comprises: Boiled beef of | work oxen, or rather, oxen which couldn’t work any 1ore, half a pound of potatoes or black rye bread, acup of black coffee and water. At 6 o'clock comes supper, which consists of corn-meal porridge, soup of vegetables and bread broken up ia it. At night ground serves for a bed, the clothes and boots for pillows, with an ac- companiment of fleas, mosquitoes and other vermin. For music to lull them to sleep they may have the snoring of a dozen or more Kaflirs, some groaning from scars on their lacerated backs, in- flicted as punishment for having trans- gressed the Roman Dutch law of master and servant. For ventilation there are three small windows cut lengthway about three feet by twelve inches at the top of the wall near the roof. There are odors and smells in abundance. “Thisis the prospect before the convicted members of the reform committee of Jo- hannesburg, and fifteen years of it, too. Hammond and the other Americans have my sym- the barber shop, are dead; Wil- raub, a contracter, is known to and a dozen others are | ured, one of whom will | 2 tal are: , scalptorr Jacob Lang- and body contused; Alexander, steam-fitter, scalp and body bruised; Jacob Rick- ed about the body and S. Hawke, carpenter, skull frac- may die; James Adams, mason, 12 T street, scalp wounds and injured | bael O’ Brien, carpenter, wrenched alp wounas; Joseph Builard, ed internally ; Edward M njured internally, right Formal, German la- ilding stood on the corner of Seneca streets, and for years the Union Tele Company had | or corner as a busi- \)“y‘c" ~et Vi ?/\'/ = ‘l_ On the Seneca-sireet were engaged in putting in | s and beams and new r them. ) Seneca street were un- al alterations being | . No. 12 was occupied as | i store and Thomas | ices on the nted, and Length of Time. THE 3 ¥ people The walls fell king down roof and ceiling d as though lars of brick rong enough to i the weight that had Here and there could ple who had not been caugt led to pieces, no he strengt wa into the street, e who had not had time to es- of dust ar from the de- from sight and cov- e Department was called, and, e police and workmen who came to the fallen building, the work of 8 of the peovle In Sienert's barber-shop were nine bar- he ier and several custom- came all made a front door, but the falling ington street. Those e aliey, only to be g rear walls, under which and killed. The others n a corner of the shop until the che ceased, when they made their v out. The cashier had her desk in the »p behind a wire cage. She le to get out of it in time to join , and perished beneath the fali- erience of the occupants of No. imilar to those in the escaped without in- d 10 were probably ding steam-fitters, carpenters and plasterers, d it was here that the crash was greatest. Near of the men were caught_in the ing walls and floors and buried in the ruins. The tenants on the upper floors had meany narrow escapes, but so far as known ail of them succeeded in making their escape. A search for the missing began, and the ruine were worked overin the hope of find- ing the bodies of Contractor Straub and Jennie Griffith, who were known to be ymewhere among the mass of wreckage. y before 6 o’clock the body of Miss Grifiith was found and removed to the e. Straub’s body bas not yet been Commissioners of Public Works will make & thorough investigation of the acci- d: JAPANESE AI STUDENTsS. Eight Young Noblemen Annapolis. to Be BSent to " YORK, irom Washington sa; tache of the American legation at Tokio writes that the Japanese Minister of he command of the Emperor prefer a request for the admission of eight young noblemen to the United States Naval Academy. the proposed students will be ason of Field Marshal General Count Yamagata, commanding the imperial army of Japan; a son of Vice-Admiral Ito, who was gradu- ated in the class of 1872 at the United States Naval the Emperor. Eleven Japanese officers have been grad- | uated at Annapolis. distinguished him tember, and Rear- 0] head of the Imperiai Naval Ordnance De. partment, and one of the best mathema- ticians that Annapolis ever turned out, were so graduated. ‘1 + All of them hold high positions at home and are among the most accomplishea of the Mikado’s officers. It is the policy of ce-Admiral Ito, who if at Yalu last’ Sep- m to the rear, wherean | Among | Academy, and a nephew ot‘ | dmiral Matshushima, | VZETRN \Fy PRISON AT PRETORIA, op by George Sienert, and 14 by | Where John Hays Hammond and the Other Convicted Members of the Reform Committee of Johannesburg Are to Pass the Next Fifteen Years, if Their Lives Are Spared That [From a sketch made by J. A. Harringtom several years since.] unoearable on deck, and Captain Cook or- | dered all hands to the boats. The crew lay by until 6 A. x. on the 17th, when the inflammable part of the ship had been consumed. All hands were ordered on board again, and after hard work suc- ceeded in extinzuishing the fire and she was brought into Southport. When asked about the Horsa's last ex- pedition to Cuba, Captain McIntosh re- fused to tal BISE OF THE MISSOURI Serious Floods Are Threatened in the Vicinity of St. Louis. | e Northern Minnesota Is Also Under | Water and Prairies Are Turned | Into Lakes. ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 21.—The rain | which has fallen almost steadily through- out Missouri since last Sunday continues, and great anxiety is felt for the safety of | the people living along the bottom lands |of the Missouri, Gasconde and Osage | rivers. In the Western and southern por- tions of the State highway bridges have | been washed away by dozens. early every stream is flowing over its banks and | the Tain is still falling. The situation is | | growing alarming. The danger line here | is expected to be reached to-morrow night. | If it continues at this 1ate for a few days | more the big flood of 1893 will be outdone. | A climax was reached in the local storm I‘ at 6 o’clock to-night. The clouds that had dropped occasional showers all day cen- | tered over the city and a deluge of rain | |and hail fell. The hailstones were un- | | usually large and considerable damage re- | sulted. The river continues to rise rap- |idly. AtS o’clock the water touched the | 30-foot mark and was advancing. The | Government Weather Service sent out warnings to property-owners along the river front and to-night hundreds of men | are at work removing lumber and other endangered merchandise to places of | safety. Every vessel in the harbor has | steam up. It now seems assured that the | disastrous floods of former years be | rivalled. | CROOKSTON, Mix~., May 21.—North- ern Minnesota is under water. There has been nothing like it for many years. The prairie has become a lake and farms have | been transformea into archipelagoes. The | situation is truly disconraging for the | | large agricultural interests in the upper Red River Valley, both in Minnesota and in North Dakota. One can start from | | Warren, Minn., in a boat and row to Hal- | lock, forty miles north, and not be oblized | | to portage the boat to exceed three miles | for that distance. % | When itis remembered? that this coun- | | try is usually dry prairie, too dry at times for the best crop results, it is possible to catch a glimpse of the condition in that | section at this time. The crop outlook is | exceedingly unpromising in the northern counties. | e Sacramento Switehman Killed. f SACRAMENTO, Car., May 21.— Man- | uél P.Mury, a switchman in the empioy of the Southern Pacific Railroad Com- pany, was almost instantly killed while coupling cars in the yard at an early hour yesterday. He lost his balance and fell between moving cars, the trucks pass- ing over his chest. Murray bad been in the employ of the company for several years | mson in his reply were originally sentencea to death lor‘ high treason, is regarded with disfavor by | the public here and has caused a great re- | vulsion of feeling among the Afrikanders. | It is felt that the Government in mnot | liberating the prisoners has lost the chance | of uniting the opvosing sections of the population in the Transvaal and that the evil consequences will be incalculable. It is credibly stated that President Kruger for three days persistently urged the Executive Council to substitute fines for imprisonment in the cases of all the pris- oners, but that he was overborne by a majority of the Council. LONDON, Exc., May 21.—The Times will | to-morzow publish a long dispaten from Pretoria detailing the excitement arising | from the heavy sentences imposed upon the members of the retorm committee. | The dispatch says that the wildest kind of | talk is indulged in, and that the situation is critical. The foreign residents of the Transvaal are dismayed. They are con- vinced that Great Britain will not meddle with their affairs or with the sentences of the prisoners. The annual gathering of prominent men interested in Bouth Africa took place to- night at the Hotel Metropole, where the | usual banquet wasgiven. The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, presided. Among those present were Sir Wiliiam Dunn, Consul- General of Cape Coiony, and Wal- ter Peace, Agent-General of Natal Mr. Chamberlain made a speech, in the | course of which he said he regretted that | little progress had been made in the at- tempts to reconcile the Dutch and English in South Africa. He confessed that he was disappointed by the decision of the Transvaal Government regarding the sen- tence of the leaders of the reform com- mittee, especially because he had always | trusted in President Kruger's magn’a- | nimity, believing that he was never ani- | mated by vindictive feeling against the men who, whatever their errors, had by their energy and enterprise, created the Transvaal’s prosperity. Mr. Chamberlain : declared that he could not discuss the | matter further, but the policy of the Goy- | ernment bad already been declared and | would not be changed. This declaration | was greeted with cheers. i In the Héuse of Commons to-day Mr. | Chamberiain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, announced that the Colonial Of- fice had received a telegram from Presi- dent Kruger of the Transvaal Republic, stating that the jai! regulations wounld be | immediately modified %o as to increase the | comfort of the reform committee pris- | oners. CAPE TOWN, Soutr Arrica, May 21.— The Transvaal Government, it is learned, again complained a few days ago to Sir | Hercales Robinson, the British High Com- | missioner, regarding the reported assem- bling of 2500 British troops and forty can. non between Mafeking and Ramutsa, near | the Transvaal frontier. Sir Hercules Rob- | ve the details of the smaller force which had been sent to Maf- king in accordance with the previous noti- fication sent to the Transvaal authorities, which force was intended to be used in quelling the Matabele revolt. Sir Her- cules aiso suggested that the Transvaal | Government should prosecute the person | who gave the false information on which its complaint was based. e 4 DISMAL FORTRESS, Pretoria Prison Wherein John Hays Hammond and Uthers Are Confined. “The fortress wherein Hammond and his companions are to be confined,” said J. A. Harrington to a CALL inaa yesterday, “isadismal and unsalubrious place. It |in the Atlantic squadron. pathy, but the Englishmen, who never show mercy to any political prisoners, de- serye all they get. They will have time now to think of the poor devils of Irish- men who were for more than twenty years lingering in Millbank. Some one ought to be good enough to send them for reading matter John Mitchel's Jail Journal or Michael Davitt’s Notes on Millbank.” Mr. Harrington resided on the Transvaal for several years, being artist and inter- preter for a mining company in the Ley- denburg district, and is familiar with the Three Different Cyclone Clouds Pass Over Portions of CROPS D CATILE DFA | Many Buildings Are Twisted to Pieces and Scattered Over the Prairies. S8T. LOUIS, Mo., May 21.—Specials from various pointsin Kansas bring details of disasters by cyclones last night. At Arkansas, Kans., settlers living in the strip five or six miles southeast of this city to-day report that three different cyclone clonds swept their section of the country. No lives were reported iost, but much damage has been done to fences and crops and on the Drury cattle ranch twenty head of cattle were killed. At Emporia, Kan., about 6 o'clock last night & funnel-shaped cloud was noticed south of the city. This morning it is learned that a twister passed from south- west to northeast about five miles south of here and near the town of Olpe, passing directly over the ranch of Hughes Bros., tearing a portion of their dweliing-house to pieces and throwing it across the Santa Fe tracks. The barns, corn =ribs and out- houses were all blown away. William Hughes was caught in the wreck of the barn and it is supposed that he is fatally injured. At Burlington, Kan., a cyclone passed one mile west of the city yesterday even- ing tearing down a building on the farm of W. H. Clark. COAST LIGHTHOUSE INSPECTOR. Lieutenant- Commander Merrill Succeeds Commander Farenholt. SEATTLE, Wass., May 21.—Lieuten- ant-Commander Merrill, U. 8. N., arrived in Seattle from Washington, D. C., this | evening, with orders to take charge as in- spector of the Thirteenth Lighthouse dis- trict, comprising the coasts of Waskhing- ton, Oregon and Alaska. He succeeds | Commander Farenholt, U. 8. N., who has | for four years presided over the district. Farenholt has been assigned to the com- mand of one of the Government's big bat- tle-ships, but which one he does not him- seif know. It will probably be a warship 1 Lieutenant Merrill, who was until recently executive otficer of the Baltimore of the Asiatic squadron, will be taken over the district and given instructions as to his duaties by Commander Farenholt in the lighthouse | tender Columbine. T L Fear a Rise in Skagit River. TACOMA, Wase.,, May 21. — Farmers along the Skagit River are daily expecting a heAvy freshet, and the people in that locality are exceedingly anxious lest the weather should turn warm and cause an inundation which would spread ruin in all directions. The farmers are building dikes in order to withstand the rush when it comes. SILVER MEN ARE VERY ACTIVE Their Plans a Source of Worry in Political Parties. ‘ no meeting and, what was more signifi- cant, there was a cessation of talk in the bolting strain. Instead the organization issued a statement merely denouncing the methods of the silver majority on the county committee and encouraging the sound-money Democrats to continue the fight for *fair play and honest primaries.”’ The situation to-night does not point to a bolt. Several prominent Democrats on the gold side have declared against such action. NEW TO-DAY. .flr{'y/d PORTER FOR SECOND PLACE. fieported Result of an Interview Between | the General and Halhn. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 21.—The ar- | rival in this city last night of William M. Hahn, the Ohio member of the Republican DELEGATES MAY BOLT. National Committee, occasioned much | | speculation among the Republican man- agers at the Fifth-avenue Hotel as to the | cbject of his visit. Mr. Hahn would give | Democrats Particularly Anxious as to Their Action at Chicago. | no information, but an incident that oc- | | curred at the hotel this morning satisfied | | the politicians that he had come here to | have & consultation about the Vice-Presi- | | dential nomination. General Horace Porter had an hour’s | conference with Mr. Hahn this morning, | | aiter which the latter started for Canton, | Obio. Neither General Porter nor the| Ohio committeeman would say anything about their conference, but the crowd of | politicians in the State headquarters were sure that Mr. Hahn had made the final arrangement with General Porter to take second place on the National ticket. The Platt men asserted after Mr. Hahn's departure that the McKinley manager's | plan included the nomination of General from Indianapolis, Ind., says: The Re. | Porter as }'lePrEsiden! and the appoint- | publican managers are gre.'lly exercised | 2ent of “ arner Miller as Secl:e:‘"y,of il over the prospect of free silver being made | L'°3SUFY in the event of McKinley's elec- the issue in this State, although Chair- | 100 man Gowdy denies that the free-silver Republicans will vote the Democratic ticket. He said in an interview yesterday that while there are many free-silver Republi- | cans they are all for protective tariff. | 3 There nrey nearly 30,000 I"’opulistu In' (hie/| SmsIL hoursiof the moming was riot to State, and the’ Republican mauagers have select a contesting delegation, but lo‘dls- digared out that if 75 per cent of these join | C“S; methods and plans for another State | the Democrats on a tree-ilver piattorm it EMNeTIng of the free-ilver wing of the i 2 ' Y, S T b, closs anll for the Bepal delegation o Chicago. Colonel Lynch de- It was decided by representatives of the | clared in favor of this plan, and it is known < g thers viewed i id. 1] ilver day that it is their duty to make a fight | Dresent at the convention. but the fact ‘;‘Fr“l:"‘].‘;"’ “":_’;;‘c’b: otia i’:'i‘;:;’r:“c‘; that the entire Black Hills was practically | h"eld'h‘re":m; Re ::‘ek whmepx’:m in control of three gold men loaded down | =y fnid 1t will be su”ge;wd Hhatiar wi}h proxies, and that the convention per- Con:")_mf‘n W.D. B\'nu';u t;e a gold can- | fmued‘ them to vote, put the silver forces aldata E" Conére;s " He will make a0 8minority. Had the silverites bolted strong fight, and ‘h!’: claim he hasa good | on the admission of !.bese proxies, they say prospect of winnin; | they could have broken up l.be convention L T | and made a strong case. The convention BLAND ON THE SITUATION., | attracted widespread interest. = SEs s s GENEKAL WARNER'S VIEWS. Says the Silver Men Maw Control the REPUBLICANS ALSO EXERCISED In Indiana Managers Are Fearful of the White Metal Being Made an Issue. CHICAGO, Iin, May 21.—A special e PLANS OF THE SILVER WING. Second State Conmvention to Be Held by b5 South Dakota Democrats. ABERDEEN, 8. Dax., May 21.—The con- ference of the silver Democrats in the Says That Free Coinage Is the Only Salvation for the Country. ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 21 —Ex-Congress- i Mo G man Richard P. Bland, Missouri’s candi- 3 date for the nomination of President of | CHICAGO, ILL, May 2L—General A. the United States at the hands of the | - Warner, the free silver leader, spent to- Democratic party, arrived 1n St. Louis last | 98Y in this city, on bis way home to Mari- night. He spoke confidently of the po- | &!t8 Obio, from Toledo. Regarding the litical outlook as regards free coinage. | Monetary and political situation he sald: “The people,” he said, “‘are tired of| “There has been a rapid growth in silver bonds, and free comnage e the | tentiment throughout the country lately. only legitimate relief, The administration | 1t has specially manifested itself in the policy means more bonds; the Republican®| Primary election for delegates to _the Chi- party’s return to power means more taxa- | G380 convention of the Democratic party. tion. It must be either bonds or taxation, | 1t 1S significant that there is enthusiasm and the people are taxed almost to destn 2MOng the silver Republicans over the already. For this reason the free coinage | €lction of silver delegates to the Demo- of silver, which is the only safeguard | CFatic convention. At least two-third of Chaps Like Bright, Smart Looking Clothes. Chose bright, swell Scotches, in bright Spring eolorings, in those new and decidedly clever plaids and checks, for lads be- tween the ages of Sand /5 years. 86 and $5 values, and eight sound bargains at those prices. & e Friday and Saturday, On our big floor devoted exclu- against the continuance of hard times, is being demanded more and more every day. I am satisfied that two-thirds of the people of this country want free coinage. “I notice,” he continued, “there is seri- | ous trouble in the Republican ranks. McKinley’s manazers are just fi.ding out that despite all their efforts to keep it down, the money question is the one| absorbing question of theday. They have endeavored to force the tariff to the front, but the public will not have it. Now an outery is being raised for an expression as | to goid or silver from McKinley. Coming as | this does at the last moment, on the eve of 1 the convention, this is very interesting to us Democrats, but to the Republicans it | is a serious situation. | | “If the gold standard be adopted as part of the St. Louis platform by the Re- publican party, you will see a big revolt | { among the Republicans, even of this | State. There are indications of this al- ready. | ““His adherence to gold proved fatal to the aspirations of Speaker Reed of Maiue. He knew in the last Congress that while | he might keep in touch wi{h New York | and the East by voting for gold bonds he | would forfeit all his chances in the West. | Had Reed been a Western man and in line with the West on the financial question his great ability would have made him the Presidential nominee. As it is, his anti- silver views have made his selection out of | | the question, and he has lost much of his | real influence.” As regards his own Presidential can-| didacy, Mr. Bland modestly declined to speak. g DISGUST OF EDMUNDS. Objects to Delegates Being Bound to Vote for McKinley. BOSTON, Mass., May 21.—A special in | to-night's Transcript from St. Albans, Vt., says in part: Senator Edmunds has written a letter to | at least one of the delegates chosen to | represent Vermont at the National Con- vention in which he virtually expresses disgust at the action of the Green Moun- tain voters in taking a stand which makes | it practically imperative that their dele gates vote for McKinley at St. Louis. The | missive was written about a week ago to Colonel Edward O. Smith of St. Albans. president of the Central Vermont Rail. | road, and one of the delegates-at-large. Speaking about the possibility that the Vermont delegates may not at St. Lonis‘ all carry out the exvressed wish of the State Convention, Colonel Smith said, in | his opinion the delegates would be obliged | to vote for McKinley as a matter of honor without regard to personal preference. | Colonel Smith expressed the belief that McKinley would be nominated on the first ballot at St. Louis, but said he thought McKinley’s boom would be so big that it | might at last break on account of its own weight. In that case the Vermont voters | would probably go to the man who devel- | oped the most strength. e ALTGELD IS IN CHARGE. Will Personally Conduct the Sitver Cam. paign in Cook County. CHICAGO, I, May 21. — Governor Altgeld came to town to-day to take per- sonal charge of the Democratic silver | campaign in the county, which will cul- minate in the convention next week. He | ridicules the talk of anti-silver Democrats bolting the county or State conventions of the party, and declared that after the county convention the gold standard poli- ticians would be found working hard for the majority. It was expected that a meeting of the | Democratic sound-money organization would be held to-day to decide on the question of holding a separate primary election and convention; but there was | is expected that the line will be in work- { ing order between Springville and Exeter | of phones in Porterville. | the best sarsaparilla is the sarsaparilla | | that is all sarsaparilla and herbs and con- | | been sonervous and weak that I have laid | sively to juvenile apparel, at =53, 95-- | Ore Ftat Department Is showing up right smart things in Fats for .@o_y:; some big bargains in straws. the Democratic delegates from Ohio will be in favor of free silver, and 1t looks now as if the silver men would control the Na- tional Convention. The Bimetallic Union believes in anything to win and is in favor of having oniy one silver ticket in the Presidential election.” A G~ S Davidson for Congress. BUTLER, Pa, May 21.—J. J. Davidson | of Beaver was nominated for Congress at the conference of the Twenty-fifth District | yesterday. | FISALIA’S ENTERPRISE, Frrvdy it .9 Incorporation of the Mount Whitney Tel- | VISALIA, Car., May 21.—Articles of in- | corporation of the Mount Whitney Tele- phone and Power Company have been filed | (Incorporated), with the County Clerk. The 200 shares of capital stock st $10 a share have ail been Gre s ke taken by ponular subscription. The di | 9, /4, /8, /5 Kearny Street, rectors of the new company are as folio®s: W. E. Sprott of Porterville, president; J. Sub Johnson of Visalia, vice-president ; H. F. Brey of Porterville, secretary; A. M. Lumley of Porterville, treasurer; J. M. Gilstrap of Dunt, James Bursell of Globe and Charles Rankin of Lindsay. | One hundred and twenty-two miles will | be built, connecting all the principal towns sou theast of Visalia. Enough poles have been ordered to set the line from Spring- ville to Porterviile and men wiil be put to work in a few days digging the holes. It | by the 4th oi July. The company arealso | contemplating putting in a local system | Sa——— AN EVENING AUCTION SALE ——OF —— 100 BUILDING LOTS! ADJACENT TO THE MISSION-STREET ELECTRIC ROAD, WILL BE HELD MONDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1896, At 7:30 o'clock, At the Salesroom of O’FARRELL & CO., 11 MONTGOMERY STREET, Under Lick House. et rid of your pimples and facial blemishes and don't ever use iodide of potassium -again. Remember, tains no mercurial poisons. When you | want the best get the best, and don’t let your druggist substitute. The best is | This property is the choicest portion of the Ex- celsior Homestead, that beautifal and rapidly growing sectton of the city. It is only 25 mine tes’ ride from the City Ha'l, anl a’l the lots are ely level and ready to build on. ' YOU MAKE THE PRICE ! | The termsare the most liberal ever offered. $10 | on the tall of the hammer, balance $10 per month; | 7per cent interest per annum on deferred pay- The Edw. W. Jor Company—Gentle- | ments. men: This is the first time I haveat- | ‘0“ MAKE THE PRIGE! empted to write vea: e ey 4 e i The title is perfect and will be guaranteed by the | California Title Insurance Company at the cost ef in bed for most of the time. | $10 per lot. A friend who had taken your sarsaparilla | sent me two bottles. The second one is | DO NOT-FORGET THE DATHL most gone, and I have gaine§ twenty ; R E‘:LE_?;QNDE"O':M‘AY Sl pounds, and surely feel 2 new woman. I| sendorcall for Catalogue. was pale, thin, no ambition. Had given O’FARRELL & CO., Auctioneers, up, as I had tried so many remedies and Testimonial. | 11 Montgomery Street. doctors, but found no benefit. If you care | NOTARY PUBLIC. to publish this you have my consent. HARLES H. PHILLIPS, ATTORNEY- (Signed) MRS. A. C. TILLMAN, l;'lnd Notary - Public, Glg_mllnku st., % Alameda, Cal. ™ ru‘::‘n;‘]:: Elmqy;sn . Q £ , i |