The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 13, 1896, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1896. DEPOSITORS WILL LOSE BIG MONEY. Savings Banks Unable to Pay Former Rates of Interest. TAX LEVY RESPONSIBLE. Laboring Classes Pay the Larg- est Share of the Heavy Assessment. ABOUT $250,000 IS INVOLVED. Secretary Robert Tobin of the Hi. bernia Savings Bank Makes a Plain Statement. The semi-annual dividend to be paid the 120,000 depositors in the local savings panks in July next will be nearly a quar- ter of a million aollars less than the amount received by them during the same month of 1895. This enormous falling off is due to the excessive tax levy of the present year, the banks being called on to pay nearly three-quarters of a million more than in 1895. Last July the savings banks paid a dividend ranging from 41{ to 434 per cent. January 1, 1896, this was reduced to 4 per cent, and for the six months just ending a further reduction of at least one-quarter of 1 per cent is expected. This means that the depositors—the laboring class being most largely affected— will receive the smallest return on their hard-earned savings ever paid in the his- tory of local banking. Ten savings banks in San Francisco |- have on deposit about one hundred miilion dollars, divided among 123,000 people. On some the loss will be light, because their accounts are small, but a large percentage will be sorely discomforted at the unex- pected cut in their income. “The enormous tax levy is principally responsible for this reduction,” said Rob- ert J. Tobin, secretary of the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society, last night. “Last year we paid to the City and County of San Francisco $300,000, and for the cur- rent year the assessment reaches the enor- mous sum in round figures of $500,000. The rate, as is well known to every one, jumped from $160 to $225. The poorer classes are the principal sufferers because of the obnoxiouns law which subjects money to taxation. *‘Here we are called on to pay $200,000 more than in 1895. That year we paid a dividend of 434 per cent. Itis impossible at the present time to say what percentage will be paid in July—possibly 4, and it may bea great deal less. In any event | the man who earns his money by the sweat of his brow is the real sufferer. The rich are able to evade the law by kiting | their accounts from bank to bank, or| else doing business in another State. | Of course these methods are not| strictly. honorable, but it saves - taxes | and that is about all many of the present { generation seem to care for. Even if sav- | ings banks were inclined to do w:ongf there is no way in which a fraud of the | kind mentioned could be successfully | carried out. “The result is seen, therefore, in the divi- | dend about to be declared. The poor man, the fellow who saves a few honest dollars by hard toil and sacrifice, is practically doubly taxed. The pilferers, however, have fixed the levy, knowing that these people would be called on to bear the bur- dens, and they must perforce accept the situation gracefully. *“We hope to pay a 4 per cent dividend, though it may be considerably less; no man can tell at present just what 1t will be, though the outlook is not encourag- ing.” The Hibernia Savings and Loan Society is the largest institution of its kind in the | City. It has about $31,000,000 on deposit | and nearly 50,000 depositors. What is true of this institution in thbe matter of taxes and decreased dividends applies io every savings bank in San Francisco. GOLDEN GATE CARNIVAL. Miss Mary Kiely the First Candidate for Queen. | Although no date has yet been set for the | election of officers of the festivities for | the Carnival of the Golden Gate, already a | candidate for the honor of presiding over | the games and parades of the school-chil- dren has been received at headquarters, Miss Mary Kiely, a young lady of 18 sum- mers, who has recently graduated from the public schools and is about to enter the graduating class of St. Joseph’s Con- vent at Tenth and Howard streets, is the first who has consented to permit her name to go before the public for a chance as queen. Miss Kiely is highly talented and has won honors in drawing, painting and music. She is a_tall, stately blonde, Willh blue eyes and hair of a light chestnut color. ‘W. H. Mills has plans for the illumina- tion of Golden Gate Park. The plans;are quite elaborate, and the effects that will be produced at night are said by the elec- trical engineers who have drawn them to be of a very stiking character. A number of offers of assistance from various places of amusement have been made at headguarters. Ali seem anxious to assist financially, and only await the sanction of the committee to announce their programmes and dates. At the meet- _—mmm— NEW TO-DAYX. ko s i NO SLEEP DAY GRNICHT My hands were completely covered with Ee- zema, and between my fingers the skin was perfectly raw. I had to sit with both hands held up, and away from the fire. My husband had to dress and undress me like a baby. I tried the best fphy!hrhm, but their medicines gave me no relief, and drove me almost crazy. I was ad- vised to try CUTICURA REMEDIES, and did so, although my husband had to go twenty miles to et them. As soon as he got back, I used the JUTICURA, and in five minutes afier the first application I was perfectly easy, and alept soundly all that night. Before 1 commenced using the CoTIcURA REMEDIES I could get no ease night or day. I could not bearto get warm, it would ggtflme in a rage of itching. I always keep the (CURA REMEDIES in my house now, and recommend them to everybody, because of their wonderful effect. Yours gratefully, AGNES M. HARRIS, Push, Mecklenburg Co. Va SPEEDY CURE TREATMENT FOR TORTURISG, ing of the committee Monday afternoon !h% plan of arrangements wfll be com- pleted, and the public notified where they can be amused and at the same time con- tribute to the financial success of the car- nival. The special finance committee is still earnestly at work. They have extended their field of operations somewnat and find that all classes are fully alive to the advantages to be de- rived by the City from the carnival. So confident are they of their success in rais- ing the amount specified, $50,000, Lefore commencing work that they are already considering many of the details of the more important features. FOR.THE FOURTH. An Exceptionally Big Parade Promised. Marshal Umbsen to Pick the Goddess of Liberty. The parade committee of the Fourth of July committee met yesterday and ar- ranged certain details. The grand marshal was asked to invite the officers and men of the Zaragoza to participate in the parade; also to ask cos- tumers to submit ideas for floats. All applications for positions in the parade as Goddess of Liberty must be sent to the grand marshal, Henry P. Umbsen, Mills building, fifth floor. It was declared to be the sense of the committee that all actual industries be requested to participate with a float. Jommunications have been addressed by permission of the Board of Education to all schools, inviting the children to get up a float representing some revolutionary period. For the best float a $50 prize ban- ner and for the second a $25 banner will be offered. The m‘incigals or representa- tives of each school will meet at the grand marshal’s office this afternoon to make arrangements. A committee of three from each parlor SEATTLES SOLON COMES T0 TOWN Colonel James Hamilton Lewis, an Admira- ble Crichton. WILL FIX SOME FENCES. Most Likely He Means to Get the Democratic Nomination for Governor. FAVORS AN HONEST DOLLAR. Once Worked on the Docks—Can Paint the Lily, Fight a Duel or Lead the Dance. Colonel James Hamilton Lewis, the re- doubtable young Democcratic leader of the State of Washington, is making a Colonel James Hamilton Lewis, the Democratic Beau Brummel of the State of Washington, Who Has Sh:ed His Castor Into the Ring for the Governorship. [Sketched from life by a ““Call” artist.) of the Native Sons and Daughters of San Francisco, Oakland and Alameda, will meet at committee headquarters, Mills building, at 8 o’clock Tuesday evening to make arrangements for the representation of their order. The Veteran Volunteer Firemen have signified their intention of participating in the parade. Their organization con- sists of 300 members. It was definitely settied that the parade would be exceptionally elaborate. Gen- eral Warfield has declared that nineteen or twentfr companies of the National Guard will be in line from this City and across the bay, with perhaps one from Santa Cruz. This is a large increase on the contingent of former years. LOUS SCHMIDT'S STOR He Said That He Was Beaten by Employes of the Railroad. The Boy’s Troubles Grew Out of the Fatal Accident to May Quill Last February. Louis Schmidt, a lad 14 years of age, who figured prominently in the May Quill inquest case in Berkeley, has again come to the front and yesterday he -swore out warrants for the arrest of several men whom he charges with battery. He says that the assault grew out of the case re- ferred to. On Sunday, February 16, May Quill, a little girl, was run over by one of the Southern Pacific Company’s locul Berkeley trains and one of the wit- nesses was Louis Schmidt. The boy lives at 824 Jackson street, Oakland, and is the support of his half-blind father and a lit- tle sister. He peddles pins and needles on both sides of the bay. Whén the inquest was held he gave tes- timony favorable to the railroad company, to the effect that the girl was entirely to blame. Later on he told an entirely dif- ferent story, which was to the effect that he had been induced to testify as he did by the Southern Pacific people, to whom he was under obligations, At that time he and his family were the recipients of special favors, being permitted to ride on the cars and boats at reduced rates. The latter siatements of the lad caused the company to withdraw the privileges and young Schmidt became identified with the lawyers for the Quill family, who have a neavy damage suit in the Superior Court of Alameda County against the rail- road company. Since then the boy states that he has been persecuted by the em- ployes of the company. he lad’s last story was toid yesterday to Judge Low, to whom he applied for warrants for the arrest of three men. He said that he wasin a saloon on Market and Brady streets at 11 o’clock, accom- panied by his father and sister. Suddenly Lwo or three men entered the premises and showed him a paper which they demanded that he sign. When he asked them what the paper contained one of the men answered that it was a statement which would exonerate the railroad com.- pany from all blame in the May Quill damage suit; that it was about the same as Schmidt had testifiea to at the inquest and a denial of the statements that he had subsequently made. Upon the boy refusing 1o sign the paper he said that the men began to beat him and his father, and even the barkeeper took a hand in the matter by closing the door 8o as to allow the assailants to pro- ceed without interruption. Finally the boy and his sister and father made their escape. ¥ The boy said that he does not know the names of his assailants. Judge Low issued the warrants asked for. The warrants were given to Officer Campbell, who last evening arrested the FI6URING Hoons. — Warm baths with CUTICURA SOAP, gentle spplications of CUTICURA (ointment), the great ekin cure, and mild doses of CUTICURA REsoLvENT, greatest of humor Soid_throughout the world. Price, Coricua, Boar, Sie,; Rxsorvewr. soe. and $1. PorFes Dasa e iow 1o Gure Torturiag Skin Discases,” froe. saloon-keeper, B. F. Carter. The latter went to the City Prison, accompanied by a num- ber of friends, who at once gave bail for his release. Carter positively refused to discuss the case or reply to-the charge made by young Schmidt. quiet visit to San Francisco. The colonel has left his law practice at Seattle long endugh to get a change of air, and enjoy a season of quiescence before the campaign comes on. Colonel Lewis, who is the Beau Brum- mell of the Northwest, is a leading candi- date for Governor of Washington, that is to say, he is in the hands of his friends. Apparently he stands & good chance to get the office, too. He was voted for for United States Sen- ator at the time of the last Senatorial fight at Olympia, and the show-down de- veloped that while he did not have votes enough to prove a winner, he had enough to indicate he was a very healthy can- didate. Colonel Lewis is a Virginian who arrived in Seattle in the hard days before the last boom. He hung out his shingle, but clients were few and the money he had brought with him was soon exhausted. In his predicament, though one of the curled darlings of society, he was forced to toil with his hands. He sought a job on the Seattle docks and for a time rolled barrels and trundled a wheelbarrow. This act, though per- formed for but two hours as his enemies aver, endeared him to the laboring men. He was made an honorary member of the Longshoremen’s Union, and his friends claim for him that he is solider with the masses than any other man who could be named. Colonel Lewis is quite a hand at oratory. He can paint the lily, and altogether is no slouch as a spell-binder. Some two years ago the colonel made a pilgrimage to this City, and while here gotinto a verbal alter- cation with the city editor of one of the morning dailies. The colonel tersely penned a note to the editor in such a way that it was understood to mean nothing else than a challenge to fight a duel. The challenge created a good deal of interest, but no blood was spilled. They say the colonel will fight at the drop of a hat. He wears a thick bushy beard of a sangmnary color, still adhering to the old custom and defying the breezes that skurry about in the Puget Sound region. They do call him Dude Lewis, too. There appears to be no doubt that Colonel Lewis has strength. From both sides of the Cascade Mountains hosts of his supporters are sure to appear. If he gets the Democratic nomination it is be- lieved he will give Governor McGraw, if he is renominated, or whoever heads the opposition, a lively run for his money. olonel Lewis is coy about giving the public his views at this time. He contents himself by saying that he is the ardent friend of the toiler, that he is in'favor of an honest dollar, and is impressed with the need of Government appropriations for home improvements. He will prob- ably be here for several days. The colonel is at the Palace. DEATH OF SAMUEL VALLEAU. An 0ld Printer il Samuel Vallean, aged 40 years and a native of California, aied yesterday. The funeral will move at 1:30 P. M. to-morrow from the Masonic Temple on Post street, under _the au?lcel of King Solomon Lodge No. 260, F. and A. M. The deceased leaves a widow and two chiliren—Mabel and Tom. He was a well-known man, and for many years was in the printing and publishing business on Sansome street, nis partner, Oliver, having died some time ago. Formerly Sam Vallean was active in politics and served one term on the B of Super- visors. At that time he was associated with Steve Brodie, who was also an active politician. nd an Ex-Super- T The Looker-On. There are always some good stories told in the clubs. These find.their way every week into the ‘“Looker-on” department of the News Letter. . There are some good ones in to-Gay’s 18sue. NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS- CLEARANGE BARGAINS FOR T0-DAY —3IeO3> Among fhe many WONDERFUL CLEARANCE BARGAINS with which we close the week will be found the following offered at SPECIALLY DEEP CUTS IN PRICES! LADIES' SHIRT WAISTS! At 45 Cents. LADIES LAUNDERED_ SHIRT WAISTS, in fancy stripes and_figered ercales, regular price 90c, will be of- ered at 45¢ each. At $1.00. LADIES’ FINE PERCALE SHIRT WAISTS, in fancy blue and pink checks, detachable collar, regular price $1 50, will be offered at $1 each. At $1.50. LADIES’ FANCY DIMITY SHIRT WAISTS, fancy colors and Persian patterns, detachable collars, regular price $2, will be offered at $1 50 each. SIK WAISTS! % At $4.00. LADIES'® BLACK SURAH SILK WAISTS, latest style, lined through- out, regular price $5, will be offered at $4each. At $5.50. LADIES’ SILK WAISTS, of fancy Per- sian patterns, bishop sleeves, latest style, regular price $7, will be offered at $5 50 each. At $6.50. LADIES’ PLAID SILK WAISTS, lined and boned, full sleeves, finished with belt, regular price $8, will be offered at $650 each. At $8.00. LADIES’ FANCY FIGURED AND STRIPED SILK WAISTS, made in the latest style, lined and boned. regu- lar price $10, will be offered at $8 each. PIQUE JACKETS! 100 dozen CHILDREN’S PIQUE JACK- ETS, in pink, blue and white, large collars, finish«d with embroidery, at $1 75, $2 50, $3 and $4 50 each. LADIES' KID GLOVES! At 55 Cents. 2000 pairs 8-BUTTON LENGTH MOUS- QUETAIRE UNDRESSED KID GLOVES, in medium and dark tan shades, regular value $1, will be closed out at 55¢ & pair. At 65 Cents. 1800 pairs 4-BUTTON KID GLOVES (black embroidered back), in cream, white and butter, regular value $1, will be closed out at 65c a pair. At 65 Cents. 1600 pairs 5-BUTTON KID GLOVES, in dark and medium tan shades, also black, regular value $1, will be closed out at 65¢ a pair. At 75 Cents. 1500 pairs 4-BUTTON KID GLOVES (large buttons), in dark and medium colors, also black, regular value $1 25, will be offered at 75c a pair. At 75 Cents. 1000 pairs 5-HOOK KID GLOVES (black only), regular value $1 25, will be closed out at 75¢ a pair. At 80 Cents. 1000 pairs 4-BUTTON ENGLISH WALK- ING KID GLOVES (large buttons), in red, tan, navy and brown ceclors, also black, regular value $1 25, will be closed out at 80c a pair. At $1.00. 750 pairs 4-BUTTON DERBY KID GLOVES (large buttons), shades in red, tan and brown, regular value $1 50, will be closed out at $1 a pair. RIBBONS! RIBBONS! At 20 Cents. No. 30 3-INCH ALL-SILK DRESDEN RIBBONS, value 35¢, will be closed out at 20c a yard. At 25 Cents. FANCY DRESDEN RIBBONS, 3% inches wide, elegant quality, value 45c, will be closed out at 25¢ a yard. H At 30 Cents. FANCY DRESDEN RIBBONS, 4 inches wide, in handsome designs, value 50c, will be closed out at 30c a yard. At 50 Cents. DRESDEN RIBBONS, 5inches wide, en- tirely new, value 75¢, will be closed out at 50c a yard. | PARASOLS! PARASOLS! At 75 Cents. CARRIAGE PARASOLS, in satin, value $1, will be closed outat 75¢ each. At $1.00. CARRIAGE PARABOLS, in gloria silk, lined, value $1 50, will be closed out at $1 each. At $1.50. CARRIAGE PARASOLS, in twilled silk, ruffle trimmed, value $2, will be closed out at $1 50 each. MEN'S FURNISHINGS! NECKWEAR. 210 dozen ALL-SILK WINDSOR AND REEFER SCARFS will be offered at 12}4c, 20c and 25¢ each. HANDKERCHIEFS. 375 dozen MEN’S FANCY COLORED BORDER HEMSTITCHED HAND- KERCHIEFS, large size, will be offered at 614c, 7}4c, 10¢, 12}4¢ and 15¢ each, HOSIERY. 125 dozen MEN'S AND BOYS’ SEAM- LESS COTTON SOCKS, inbrown, tan, gray and mixed colors, will be sold at 10c and 12}4c per pair. 210 dozen SEAMLESS GRAY MERINO SOCKS will be offered at 15¢ per pair, regular price 25¢. OUTING SHIRTS. 150dozen MEN’S AND BOYS’ NEGLIGEE OVERSHIRTS, in a large variety of patterns, will be sold at 50c. UNDERWEAR. 85 dozen MEDLICOTT-MORGAN SILK- FINISHED BALBRIGGAN UNDER- SHIRTS AND DRAWERS, all sizes, at 75c each garment—half regular price. 120 dozen FINE AUSTRALIAN LAMB’'S- WOOL UNDERSHIRTS and DRAW- ERS, all sizes, at 65¢ each garment— regular price $2 each suit. Murphy Building, Market and Jongs Streets, Murphy Building, Market and Jones Streets Murphy Bullding, Market aud Jones Streets. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Strets. GRAND JURY D * THE TA LEWY Alarm Caused by Esti- mates for the Next Year. A STARTLING INCREASE Special Session Called to Con- sider the Serious Question. REPORT OF THE FXPERT Resistance to a Plundering Levy of Taxes May Be: Made in Court. The estimates showing the probable cost of maintaining the City government for the next fiscal year have so alarmed the Grand Jury that aspecial meeting has been called, to convene next Monday even- mg. What steps shall be taken to resist the proposed increase of the local tax rate may be decided upon at the special session. It is clear to the minds of active members of the jury that the taxpayer must be pro- tected—that the taxes necessary to raise the amount of money called for would paralyze the business of the City by con- fiscating the property of citizens. The Grand Jury’s expert, Horace Dunn, was recently charged with the duty of ex- amining inte the requirements of several departments to ascertain what reasons existed for demanding the large increase. Tt seems that Thomas Ashworth, Superin- tendent of Streets, wantas $400,000 to repair cobbled streets, and $150,000 more for im- Broving water-front thoroughfares. The treet Department has asked for an in- crease of $900,000 over the liberal allowance of the present fiscal year. . The School Department, which has always been lavishly supplied with mone wherewith salaries could be increased, new places created and teachers paid in full during ail vacations, is clamoring again for a larger aliowance. 5 he Park Commissioners are calling for another large appropriation immediately toliowin% an unprecedented allowance of ,000 for the year now drawing to a close. The Grand Jury hears all along the line of municipal office-holders a cry in chorus for more money. The Grand Jury's attention has been directed to a promise made by the Super- visors a year ago that the rate for the fiscal year 1896-97 would be low. As a justifica- tion for the high rate of 1895-96, the Super- visors explained that the City was in debt for supplies and that a balf million dollars extra to pay off all outside obligations Wwas an exceptional allowance which would not be necessary in the future; after pay- ing back bills economy would be enforced, and the next levy would be low. To the consternation of the taxpayers the proposition now comes to impose a 1ax equal to war indemnity levied on a conquered province. It is known to the jury that the rich will shirk payment if possible and that the sta; burden must be borne by the h und honest worker, who has saved enough by con- stant toil and sacritice of personal com- fort to get a little lot of land and a house for his family. At the session of the Grand Jury yester- day, at which Theodore F. Payne was act- ing foreman in the absence of Frank Mas- key, the proposed increase of the tax rate was vigorously discussed. A volume of correspondence touching the question was read. For a long time the jury has been acquiring informaticn on the subject in order to make an intelligent presentation of the facts at the proper time. Generally speaking, the heads of depart- ments of the municipal government re- sent the idea of Grand Jury or newspaper interference in the management of their offices. When a man has been in public office for a year or two he is apt to fancy himself a little czar. Endowed with the authority to order the Board of Super- visors to provide him with all the money he desires he concerns himself chiefly about the clerks, who are so numerous around the hall that they are stumbling over each other every day. The Grand Jury has concluded to take up the subject, whether heads of depart- ments like'it or not. The facts as they appear to the jurors lead to the convic‘ion that twice as many clerical positions exist as are needed and that a reduction of $1,000,000 & year could be made without detriment to the public service. 8till, while contemplating a reduction and a smaller tax levy the demand comes from the spoilsmen to increase municipal ex- penses $1,500,000 a year and tax the people out of their homes to meet the increased burdens. Robbery in the guise of taxation is not a felony under the statute, so it may not be deemed best to indict any one for plunder- ing the community, but other steps may be taken to bring public servants to a sense of public responsibility. Merchants and professional men, own- ers of homes and dealers in real estate have importuned the Grand Jury to do something toward arresting the extrava- gance in the conduct of City affairs, and so at the meeting next Monday evening some plan of action will be formed. As a last resort resistance to the levy in court may be made, but it is deslm{ that the Supervisors having authority and control of expenditures should take hold and cut down the estimates to a reasonable basis, At the sessions yesterday some commu- nications handed down from the Eidridge Grand Jury and touching the manage- ment of the Public Pound were consid- ered. The charges were brought by Flem- ing, and for many months Ee sought to have the Pound “institution ventilated. One witness (John Partridge) was heard by the jury yesterday. At one time he was an officer of the SBociety for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals, and was appgosed to_know something of the Pub- lic Pound affairs. It was Fleming’s idea that money collected at the Pound haa been misappropriated, but Mr. Partrid could not give the Grand Jury much ligi: an this point. Last week Alfred Isson presented a case for the consideration of the Grand Jury, but the communication was vesterday handed over to the District Attorney for examination. The Isson case involves the retention of certain letters now in the gosuesslon of an attorney’s clerk. Judge anderson is held by Isson to be responsi- ble for withholding the documents. The letters were once produced in court and read to a jury. Itis said that while the letters are withheld some one who ought to be punished is shielded. QUICKSILVER DISPLAY. Board of Trade Will Soon Have a Fine Acquisition. Manager Filcher of the State Board of Trade expects soon to have one of the finest and most complete quicksilver and quicksilver ore displays of any Board of Trade in the United States. Alfred Abbey of the Great Euzstern Quicksilver Mining Company of Sonoma County has written ‘that a l-rie collection of the ore of this metal is already on the way. It is the in- tention of Mr. Filcher to make the display B:nicnh.rlv conspicuous, much as lifornia is the only Statein which quick- silyer is mined. | THE CATTLE KING 1S BADLY WANTED. Two Deputy Sheriffs Were After Him Yester- day. THE INSANITY DODGE. Mrs. White’s Attorneys Think a Clever Plan Is Being Laid. HIS SPIRITUALISTIC ANTICS. Will They Be the Basis for a Claim of Unsound Men- tality ? George E. White, the Mendocino cattle king and recently developed advanced spiritualist, is about to assume a new role —that of a finished lunatic. At least that is what the attorneys for his divorced wife, who is trying to get some kind of a tangible hold on the $100,000 awarded her, assert. Two deputy sheriffs and Louis Martin were looking for the cattle king all day yesterday to place him under arrest for contempt of court for having failed to comply with an order issued by Judge Hebbard. Ever since his late wifs, Frankie White, won her decree and hand- some lump alimony of $100,000, Mr. White has been charged repeatedly with doing everything in his power and within the knowledge of modern legal necromancy to avoid the payment thereof, and this coutempt charge arises from the same cause. He refused to produce notes and mort- gages amounting to about $4000 and also to pay into court $500 in cash. When ap- rehended he will serve five daysin jail Eegid,es meeting other penalties imposed by the court. But that is not the story. Mrs. White’s attorneys believe and so assert cthat the cattle king is now parading before the public as a fanatical spiritual- ist for the purpose of establishing a foun- dation on which to base a plea of unsound mentality as & possible means of avoidin; the payment of the $100,000 alimony nng other consequences of his acts. His wild statements about materializing spirits of ancient Oriental magicians, dead several thousand vears and standing eight feet high, are quoted as an evidence of a clever concocted scheme to cast a doubt on his sanity. Other discrepancies are also pointed out, which go to show that however much care may have been used in formulating the lan, he has overshot the mark. He re- ¢rred in one statement to the materially embodied spirit of his first wife, when, so the attorneys say, she is alive and at pres- ent making her home in Oakland. They say the lunatic dodge will prove ridicu- lously inoperative Owes More Than He Can Pay. Nicholas F. Sargent, a steward, has m“:o a petition in insolvency. He owes $2664 and has assets amounting to .‘&0 g STATEMENT —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS ~—OF THE— MAGDEBURG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY F MAGDEBURG, GERMAN ¥, ON THE 81ST day of December, A. D. 1895, and for the year ending on that day, as made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of California, pursuant to the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Political Code, condensed as pet blank furnished by the Commissioner. CAPITAL. Amount ot Capital Stock, paid up in Ongh.c0oico0s $750,000 00 ASSET! Real Estate owned by Comp: Loans on Bond and Mortgags Cash Market Value of all Sto: $390,511 25 5 1/058,176 08 sonds owned by Com pan; 2,267,638 84 Cash in Company’s Offic . 78179 63 Cash in Banks......... 389,315 97 Interest due and accrued on Stocks and Loans. 13,636 54 Premiums in due Cou: O, - 283,000 23 Due by other Companies for Hein- IoRO00. o oere osr s rismeens 719,588 48 TOLAl ASSELS..evveersreressseeasess $5,088,678 85 LIABILITIES. Losses in process of Adjustment or in Suspense. . $457,032 06 Gross premium - ning one year or less ...... , Fe- insurance 50 per cent. . ... 1,608,719 98 Gross premiums on Fire Kisks run- ning more than one y reinsurance pro rata. 240,085 87 Cash Dividends Remaini 1,113 50 All Other Demands Against the COMPANY .ovcrvocssvoes . sorenecs 368,319 67 Total LabILILES. ..cuevveres oevens $2,575,150 98 INCOME. Net Cash actually received for Fire miums. . $3,599,821 98 Recelved for in ortgages. . . 4965161 Recelved for interest ana dividends on Bouds, Stocks, Loans and from all other sources. 90,083 94 Received for Rents..... 25,493 65 Received for Policy and wri 31,169 43 Recelved for Gain on Exchange. 56,770 26 Received for Profit on saie of Real 26,526 44 EXPENDITURES. e ein e 3605355 41 Tossen of incindin; 5 osses o ekelon Years): .$2,681,399 12 Dividends to Stockh 300,000 00 Paid or Allowed for Commission r Brokerage. ... .c............... 100,083 66 Paid for Salaries, fees and other charges for officers, clerks, etc... 226,881 26 Pald for State, National and local 1axe 2 ; 3768316 other Payments and Expendi- Al . 131,550 45 Total expenditures. ...... «. 84,027,528 65 Fire losses incurred during the year...$2,631,399 12 E. F. MIET ecretary. Subscribed and sworu (0 before me, this 7th day ¢ March, 196 ©JULIUS MUTH, U. S. Consul at Magdeburg. 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