The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 3, 1896, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1896. ...JULY 8, 1896 FRIDAY ..covevnnnen AMUSEMENTS. CALIFORNIA THEATER.—“A Bunch of Violets.” CorvMBIA THXATER—"His Wife's Father.” 3 Morosco’s OPERA-Housx—~One of the Bravest” TivoLt OPERA-HOvsy.—+“A Trip to the Morn.” ORrurEuM—High-Class Vaudeville. PARK TH¥ATER—Grove street, between Polk and Van Ness avi “The Rambler from Clare. SUTRO BATHS—Bathing and performances. SHOOT THE CHUTES—Daily at Haight street, one block east of the rk. INGLESIDE TRACK—Trotting Races. PICNICS AND EXCT/RSIONS. Excursiox—To Monterey, Friday, July 3. Excurstox— By the Southern Pacific Company, Saturday, Jul . AUCTION SALI By Ariex CowAN—This day (Friday), Furni- ture, a1 813 Powell street, at 11 o'clock. By CHas. LEVY & Co.—This dav (Friday), Furniture, at salesroom, 1136 Market street, at 10 ©'clock. BY (Fria o Fraxk W. BUTTERFIELD — This_ day ), Furniture, at 110 ELis street, at 10:30 CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. To-day is “free” day at the Art Association. The Free Press Defense Association has reor- ganized. The entries for the Pacific Coast field trials closed vesterday. The Board of Trade has joined the ranks of carnivel promoters. The Endeavorers will hold a picnic at Glen- wood Park on the Fourth: The drawing of dogs for to-morrow’s run at Ingleside has been announced. Dr. C. C. O'Donnell has been sued for four months’ rent due on his office. A. B. Spreckels has sued John Norman be- cause of a peculiar land transaction. The lepers at the Pesthouse have not yet been furnished with Dr. Goto's remedy. The wheelmen of this City will hold a grand lantern street parade on the night of the 25th i The eighth Grand Council of the Young Ladies’ Institute will convene in this City on Tuesday next. In the Thornton-Auzerais suit yesterday Mr. Thornton’s vill of damages was filed. The case goes on to-d Over $400,000 in special taxes will be paid into the Internal Revenue Office during the next thirty days. The hearing in the Fair will matter was post- poned for another week on account of the ill- ness of Mrs. Craven. terday applied for letters on the estate of ex-Super- Valleau. received a telegram from Peter Maher announcing that the Irishman will fight Choyi.ski in this City. The State Development Committee is nearly ready to issue the new topographical maps of California and of San Francisco. The attendance at Ingleside yesterday 10 see the trotting events was light. Marguerite and Bruno were the money-gutherers. | Captain Wittman stopped the Smith-Gal- lagher contest because of slogging and the referee dec.ared the match a draw. Emile Hestres, the old Frenchwoman who aisappeared thrée weeks ago, has been dis- covered to be dying in the Almshouse. In the trial vesterday of Creegan and Becker for the Nevada Bank forgery, A. H. Dean or Seaver occupied the stand most of the day. The Weather Office says *fair Friday and probably Saturday; fresh northwesterly winds, increasing in force during tae afternoon.” Mrs. Mary Yarde-Buller has again mortgaged he ororerty. T ime she has borrowed £25 on her interest in her father’s estate. The Young Men’s Catholic Union will con- duet patriotic exercises to-night at Metropol- itan Temple to celebrate Independence day. The Letter-carriers’ Mutual Aid Association will entertuin their many friends at the second annual picnic to-morrow in Schuetzen Park. Three of the defendants in the suit to quiet title 10 the Fair property at Pine and Sansome ireets have disciaimed any title in the prop- = Youths' Directory wills hold a grand fes- s in the Mechanics” Pavifion in October to rn]na 1h.mds fora new home and & technical school. The banks are bringing suit to have the As- sessor restrained from collecting personal property taxes from them under his present assessmients. _ Jacob Wolf, a barber, was arrested last even- ing for battery upon Frank J. Kane, secretary for the Pacific Coast Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. M. Linerer will preach to-morrow in the Minna-street synagoguc on Successful Building of the Tower of Babel in the United States.” A hundred men and seventy teams are now busily empioyed upon the site of the new Union-square Market, which will be completed and occupied in next October. Last night the executive committee for the Fourth ot July met for the last time before the celebration. The parade will probably be the finest ever witnessed on the Pacific Coast. It was stated yesterday by a leading Populist that Meguire will be supported for Congross from the Fourth in return for Democratic affil- iation in the Fifth Congressional District. The fiftieth anniversary of the raising of the American flag in this City is to be fittingly by the Exempt Fire 3 lia and the navy. Iohn Kehoe, a teamster, was arrested yester- ¢ on a warrant cuarging him wiih grand ' in_appropriating $140 belonging to nis _employer, Ed Tracy, which he got to pay freight charges on goods. A letter received by & mining man in this city tells of many horrors attendant upon the Matabele uprising in South Africa, the facts of which have been heretofore suppressed by the English chartered corporation. Judge Slack yesterday issued a writ of cer- tiorari commanding the Board of Supervisors 1o appear bofore Judge Seawell'and review their action in lettiug the Folsom-street pay- ing contract to the City Improvement Com- pany. The latest attempt of the attornevs for the Noe heirs to get Mission property-owners to buy quitclnim deeds is the sending of postal cards to members of the defense unions falsely warning them that their suits have gon default s Sult has been brought by the administrator of tne estate of Solomon 0. Heydenfeldt to re- cover possession of 4674 shares of stock of the Zeila Mining Company that were transferred to Hesdenfeldt's wife. There is an unsatisfied mortgege of $40,000 against the estate. Atan election of officers held by the Dray- 1's and Teamsiers' Union, Saturday evening, June 27, the following wers elected for the cnsuing ter Presideht, D. P. Brown; vice-president, 8. D. Cole; treas- urer, John 'S. French; financial secretary, George C. Evers; recording secretary. J. B. Niderost; scrgeantat-arms, b. W. Winkiey: trustees for long term, D. L. Farnsworth and William Grutzmacher. ——————— The Isaacs Divorce Case. Judge Seawell yesterday rendered his de- cision in the divorce suit of Agnes Isascs against Joseph Isaccs. He denied relief to both parties and took occasion to censure them severely for their actions, as shown by the testimony. NEW TO-DAY. SCRATCH SCREAM My baby broke out with a rash. He would acraich and soream. 1t would take two o bold him, and ono to put medicine on him. We had to hold him sometimes au hour before we could get him quieted down. All said that they never saw such a face or body on any baby as on him. I had to tie his hands tight ina elom,:fm sud day, for five months. My sister had used CUTI- CURA, and T began to use it. application, he down and slept as he had not for a month, poor Jittle fellow. He has not a scar on him now, and is as fair and his flesh isas soft as any baby, While he had this disease 1 had to cut the slceves out of his clothes, and put gauze underwear on bim to keep him’cool. I had to keep pieces of soft cloth around his neck, it was s0 wet with moisture from the rores, aud I bad to change the cloths sometimes ten or twelve times aday. Mms. A. HAYNES, Lisbon, N. . S Ct ATMENT YOR Bany Ilvsors — e D it DoricukA Boar, and gentie Epplin- tions of CUTICURA (ointment). the at skin cure. Sold throughout _the world. PorTer DKve AX: Carx. Cone., Bole Props. U.S. A only one RUSH TO DUTY, Quarantine Complications on Board of the Mariposa. AN OFFICIAL BOAT RACE. Two Sets of Papers Had to Be Made Out to Satisfy the Law. THE RAT PIT OF THE CZARINA. Men From the Adams Are Dissatisfied and Many Have Deserted. Dr. Chalmers, the local quarantine officer and Surgeon Rupert Blue of the United States Marine Hospital service had another spat yesterday. The Mariposa, from Australasia, was spoken about 9 A. M. and both quarantine officers were notified. It did not take the captain on the Governor Perkins long to get steam up, and Captain John McFarland on the Sternberg at once followed suit. Both vessels reached the Mariposa about the same time, but the United States officer held sway and Purser Smith was com- pelled 1o produce two sets of ‘‘ship’s pavers.” Drs. Chalmers and Blue both went over the list of steerace passengers, and after a careful examination allowed them to land. ‘When the whaleback City of Everett ar- rived last Wednesday, Dr. Chalmers boarded her and passed on her papers. In conseqaence Captain Buckman docked his ship, and vesterday morning he made preparations to begin discharging his ves- sel. An order from the United States quarantine officials stopped proceedings, however. and it was 10 a. M. before the matter was straightened out. As the mat- ter now stands all vessels from foreign orts must have & clearance from tne nited States quarantine officer and the State quarantine officer. One is no good without the other according to the au- thorities at Washington, and the sooner a ~hange is made the better it will be for the shipping interests of San Francisco. The Mariposa brought the following pas- senger list: From Australia—Hon. W. 8. and Mrs. North, Colonel and Mrs. Santa Maria, Mr. and Mrs. 8. nd Mrs. W. D. Haggard, Mr. and s. A. Yates, three chil- ; Mrs. O'Rorke, Miss A. M George, Miss Wilson, Dr. Bloch, William Allen, Mr. Barber, W. J Chapman, T. L. Craig, F. H. Curtis, Dodge, H. Fischer, A. J. Greenshield, R. P Grier, C. A. Harris, E. Harrow, Mr. Janson, R. Edwin Fuller; Lieutenant O. Lasher, 5 T. E. Smith, W. Schneckendrick, J. H. Carey, S.N. Hovt, W. B. Jones, S. Witkowski, Robert Hind, Mrs. Hind, James Renton, Mrs Renton, Miss A. Wright, Mrs. Warner, Miss O. Cameron, M. 8. Grinbaum, Mrs. Grinbaum, Miss E. P. Judd, A. Ingalls, Mrs. Thrum, Miss Thrum, Samuel Wilcox, Ralph Wilcox, Miss Patch, Mrs. Cranaall, Miss Jaffers, Dudley Bates, Mrs. E. Milis, Miss M. Kennedy, Miss A. Kennedy, Charles H. Brown, Martin Smith. The Mariposa brought up four black swans and a wallaby for the park. The miniature kangaroo stood the voyage well but the swans did not_fare so well. They drooped during the midocean run but be- gan to pick up as soon as the coast of Cali- fornia loomed u They will be in Stow Lake to-day ready to welcome the glorious Fourth. Among the arrivals on the Mariposa yesterday was Mrs. W. H. Avery, wife of the popular representative of tue Pacific | Mail Company. S8ix months ago she left here an invalid, but a tour of the South Sea Islands has restored her to perfect health and she looked like a new woman as she stepved off the gangplank of the Mariposa yesterday. Captain Towbry of the bark Don Carlos was also a passenger. While at Honolulu his leg was broken and he was compelled to come to San Francisco for medical treatment. Lieutenant Lasker of the Adams is here on a peculiar mission. His wife accom- panies him, and, while he is apparently on ‘‘sici leave,’’ it is known that he is on “recruiting scrvice.” Over a score of men have deserted, and the vessel is short-handed. Some of the deserters came up on sailing ships, and the Aloha had two of them when she arrived in port afew days ago. TneJ. G. North hacd sev- eral, and the Alden Bessie and Robert Lewis had one or two more. All in all, the crew of the Adams seems to be more than discontented, judging by latest ac- counts. The steamer Syarina, lying at Folsom- street wharf, is infested with rats. Cats will not tackle them, and the night watch- man is kept awake keeping the rodents away from the soles of his shoes. If he ever dares take a wink they start in on his feet covers, and their gnawing soon wakes him up. The hold of the vessel is now almost empty, and a ratting main may be arranged. ¥ v’nllejo is to have a water carnival to- morrow night and excursions are in order. Piper, Aden, Goodail & Co. will not ran the Bunol, as they say all the townspeople should remain at home on that occasion. In consequence their vessel will not leave her dock and no one will be able to get here from Vallejo on the Fourth on the Sunol. San Francisoo people, however, will be able to get to_ Vallejo, as Mannie Fogel will run the Ida W from here to Vallejo and back, thus giving all & chance to view the carnival. Tom Sharkey visited the Charleston yesterday. As soon as he set his foot on the pangplank the boys seized him and carried him shoulder high all over the ship. He was the herooi the hour, and as such was treated by th:e officers. Captain Parker of the launch Belvidere will carry passengers to the Charleston on July 4 and 5. He will run excursions at short intervals during both days. A PECULiIAR LAND DEAL. A. B. Spreckels Sues John Norman for Selling Iard Not His Own. A. B. Sprecksls has entered snit against John Norman because of a transaction in which Norman conveyed land in Coos County, Oregon, to Mr. Spreckels, It is claimed that Norman had no title to a portion of the land which he sold to the guon Francisco man. Norman received $9500 cash at the time of the trans’er and romissory notes for $55,000, payable July f. 1896, July 1, 1897, and July 1, 1898, were made to cover the balance of the purchase rice. pJndge Black has issued a restraining order, prohibiting Norman from nego- tiating the paper until the case can be heard in court. —_———————— ‘Was Mrs. Craven Married to James G. Fair? You will find some entertaining thoughts on this subject in this week’s News Letter. An- other interesting article appears on the silver & patriotic Fourth the nsme of Dan 0O’Conne: The Sternberg and the Perkins, the Rival Quarantine Boats, Racing for Official Supremacy on the Mariposa. ALMA JOSSLYN AS HIS WIFE Dr. Marten Will Appeal to the Board of Health for Help. LOVE LETTERS SHOWN. The Doctor Says the Girl Was Intimidated Into Repudiat- ing Him. LOGAN CALLS MARTEN CRAZY. Miss Josslyn Still Confined and Ex. cluded Particularly From Reporters. The Jossiyn-Marten case has taken a new turn. In life or song or story, “the course of true love never did ran smoothly.” Where yesterday threats to kill were uppermost to-day real tears and sighs re- place them. When the alarm bell of his office door sounded yesterday afternoon a German physician. his hair newly combed back from his forehead, appeared suddenly through a side door. He was Dr. Arthur Marten, who is out on bail on a charge of threatening to kill Alma Josslyn, the deli- cate young woman he has lived with three years and who has borne him two babies. Whoever has seen Sol Smith Russell in “The Poor Relation” and the “shabby gen- teel,” will see a picture of the Dr. Marten of to-day. But it was not always so with the doctor. A few years ago he wore dia- monds almost as large as a thumbp-nail, even to the extent of baving one in his collar-button. When arrested last Wednes- day afternoon he had 30 cents in his pos- session. When the caller from THE CALL intro- duced himself the doctor’s eyes at once | filled with tears, and the first thing he said s h, my heart is broken! I am a ruined man! God help the mother of my two babes!” Then the physician impulsively pulled himeelf together, and in a few moments was calm. The scene and the action were | dramatic, but he did not seem to have purposely made them so. His emotion was genuine or he is a subtler actor than Sol Smith Russell ever was. The new turn the case has taken is this: Dr. Marten declared his inten- tion of taking the case of Miss Josslyn immediately before the Board of Health. He claims that the young woman was not completely treated ir her recent confine- ment, that she is suffering from puerpal mania, and is being imposed upon and in- timidated by his enemies and hers, for its effect on the suit now pending of Miss Josslyn azainst George Staacke for $50,000 damages for seduction. In order to expose his affection for Miss Josslyn, and ner love for him, the doctor showed several letters she had recently written him, and several he had written her, which he had taken from the pillow of her couch the last time he visited her at 1322 Mission street. These letters breathed love in every paragraph. They were not model letters, according to liter- ary rules, but the expression was there, and plenty of it, and “love understands.” The pet names that each applies to the other in the letters is “Pummie.” This the doctor confidingly explained is on abbre- viation of that yellow, solid and succulent | vegetable, the pumpkin. It means, “*Aima you are my pumpkin and I am yours.” Don Juan might have envied the fervor of these epistles, Dr. Marten, in telling his story, said: ““The last letter I received from Aima was dated Jime 2l. As you see it is replete with affection, though my scul detects a change in its tone which you cannot see. It speaks abont putting the babes in an orphan asKlum as though I knew all about it, but I have never mentioned orphan asylum to her on any of my visits. those children and her. She bore them for me. I will defend and protect them all with the last drop of my blood,” and saying this the doctor significancly tapped his wrist. “I have learned,” he continued, “‘that soon after my wife—'" Dr. Marten evidently did not mean to use the word wife. He recovered himself quickly and resumed— “Ifound out that not long after Alma went to the house of Mrs. Small, at 1322 Mission street, a8 woman took board and lodging thiere. She was a sortof Spiritnal- ist. Pummie mentions her in one of her letters to me. These letters came by a mess&nger-boy, or by Dr. Loran, who at- tended her confinement for me. Now, this woman boarder has, taking advantage of Pummie’s weak physical and nervous condition, intimidated her and turned her against me. 1donot know who sent this woman there. The result is that I have not been able to see her for two weeks and she has brought a suit against me in another woman’s name for threatening to kill her. Why I would ,kill myself before I would barm a hair of her head. Wby, during the gem that we have lived together we have not had even a cross look. “I took her up and befriended her when others had cast her out. Later, we became more intimate. My time and most of my money has since izone to the defense of her honor, and I am in that fight to stay. If at this time I should say I am her hus- band, it might pe a legal error in consid- eration of the other suit. 1f any money 18 I love | | the charge of tbreats to kill. received in that suit her attorney has been directed to give it to an orphan asylum and in other charities. Why, Staacke pro- posed to compromise with me in my claim for medical services, and I would not accept it. “This young woman is suffering from mania as a result of childbirth, know it,”” he said. ‘‘She has had 3 degrees of fever for weeks. Think of that! You know a woman fades like lightning—n two or three months sometimes. I know what is the matter with her. They are isoning her against me and trving to ill her for their own purposes. But they shall not be able to do it. I ghall go to the Board of Health, demana an investi- gation, and we shall then see who is right. Oh, if 1 could only see her,” said the doctor plaintively. “I know she would put"her arms around my neck and kiss me. Dr. M. H. Logan attended the last con- finement of Miss Josslyn for Dr. Marten. He says he heard her tell officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children that Dr. Marten had threatened her life. He says she is weak and nervous and on the verge of consumption. Drs. Logan and Marten have offices on Grant avenue, between Geary and Post streets. The former remembers when, several years ago, Dr. Marten was resplendent with dia- monds. He now says: “Dr. Marten seemed to have plenty of money several years ago, but recently he has not been so well off. He got me to at- tend to this case, saying the young woman had an estate and that [ would eventually be paid out of 1t when it was settled up. ‘‘He bas seemed to have some great bur- den on his mind for some months,” Dr. Logan said. ‘‘He talked about being ruied and broken-nearted, but he never explained why. His actions were very peculiar. I do not think the doctor is mentally sound. He called on her, but she was afraid and wouid not see him. He sent her medicine,which she was afraid to take, and the thermometer he sent to take her temperature was never used by her. It always registered 103, which is an abnormal temperature, and that one thing made Dr. Marten suspect that she was not treated properly. The young woman is doing nicely. The only thing the mat- ter 1s that she is afraid Dr. Marten will kill her and their babes and she won’t see him, “She admits that she was forced to make an affidavit in the Staacke case that was untrue,”” Dr. Logan said, “which amonunts to blackmail.’’ And so the doc- tors disagree. Dr. Marten has been living at his office and in Oakland with Miss Josslyn several years, There is no doubt that the doctor would not hesitate to say they are legally married if there were not legal reasons in the way at present, Miss Jossiyn is still with Mrs. Small at 1322 Mission street. Nobody is allowed to see her, particularly reporters. Mrs. Small receives visitors at ths bottom of the front steps. Yesterday afternoon she talked to a CALL reporter there, saying: “Iam not allewed to talk and 1 have nothing to say. We have instructions to let nobody in to see Miss Josslyn."” “Who are those instructions from, her attorney ?” “That is our business,” replied Mrs. Small. ‘‘Has Dr. Marten been here to-day "’ was asked. *‘No, sir. If he comes he will be ar- rested. The poor girl is afraid of him, and he shall not see her again. He made her worse every time he called. You need not come here, because you can’t see her.” While Mrs. Small talked thus decisively a lady inside advanced to the basement window, pulled aside the lace curtains and a face resembling Alma Josslyn’s peered out and then shrank from view. e i o MARTEN IN COURT. Admission That the Girl Is His Wife a Bar to Further Prosecution. Dr. Marten appeared in Judge Camp- bell’s court yesterday morning to answer He was rep- resented by Attorney Walter Gallagher, who immediately moved for a dismissal of the case on the grouud that the complaint was defective, inasmuch as it had been sworn to by Mrs. E. A. Basford, who was not the complamidg witness. Tne Judge refused to dismiss the case, but continued it until this morning, when he said he would give his decision on the motion. Alma Josslyn was in court, accompanied by Mrs. Basford and Officer McMurray of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Immediately after the case was con- tinued the defect in the complaint was remedied by Alva Josslyn swearing to a new complaint, which will be served upon Dr. Marten in court this morning. Dr. Marten is out on bonds, his bonds- men being Attorneys Gallagher and Mar- tin Quinlan. He waited outside the court- room till Miss Josslyn went out. As soon as he saw her he clasped his hands and ran toward her, saying: ‘ome to me, my darling; come to me.” Otticer McMurray pushed iim away, and kept him at a_respectful distance till the "1‘1 and Mrs. Basford got safely out of the all. it was the intention to prosecute the doctor for betrayal under promise of mar- riage, but no steps in that direction will be taken. The betrayal occurred five years ago when the girl was 15 years of age, and besides his public admission that she is his wife is a bar to prosecution. MRS. CRAVEN STILL ILT, The Hearing of the Case Postponed for Another Week. Mrs. Nettie R. Craven was still too ill to attend court yesterday and the inquiry which was set to be heard before Judge 8lack was postponed for a wesk. Attor neys for both sides were in court, but the statement of the situation with regard to Mrs. Craven met with no opposition. The shooting that had taken place in the court a short time before the hour for the bearing made the court a ready listener to a motion to postpone. ———— N. P. C. R, R. Excursion tickets (via Sausalito ferry) to the giant redwood forests of Marin and Sonomsa counties, good from July 310 8. Fourth of July trains run on Sunday time and rates. * ————————— In Republican Ranks. The Scandinavian Independent Republican Club was organized last evening at 35 Edd; street. Som:';on members oinul«‘l‘ and elouui L. C. Larsen president and V. Koenig secretary. WILL MAKE HIGH ASSESSMENTS, Trouble Between the Local Banks and the As- SESSOr. SOME INJUNCTION SUITS. Courts Asked to Prevent the Collection of Taxes Due. SWORN STATEMENTS REJECTED The Valuations Were Taken From the Reports to the Bank Commission. There will be trouble and law and in- junction suits and plenty of work for lawvers and the courts before the assess- ment of the banks has been settled and the taxes paid. Two suits to enjoin the Assessor from collecting the personal property tax from the Bank of British Columbia and the Crocker-Woolworth Bank have been commenced and more will follow. The suit of the Bank of British Columbia was filed yesterday. In the complaint it is stated that the assessment levied by the Assessor is for $2,155,250, when, as a matter of fact, it should be but $459,063, and then it goes on to give par- ticulars. It has furniture valued at $1000; golvent credits not secured, worth §1,587,- 355: money to the amount of $346,468 and $250,000 belonging to its agencies outside of San Franci The bank owes to its depositors $1,475.760, and this, it says, should not be taxed. The $250,000, the bank claims, should not be taxed either, and the value of the solvent credits should be so scaled down by offsets as to reduce the total assessment to $459,063. The Assessor has taken the cash. the agency money and the solvent credits, and with some offsets has made the total the amount of his assessment. The question which has arisen concerns just what portions of the personal prop- erty of the bank is taxable. The baunk claims that money due from other banks outside of the State is not taxabie Lere, for it is already taxed in the States where it is held. Again, they claim that loans on bonds are not taxable because the se- curity for the bonds, the property upon which the bonds are issued, has already been assessed, and to assess the loan as well would be to assess the property twice. In answer to this contention the As- sessor claims that bonds are solvent credits in the taxable sense of the word. Loans uvon them stand in the same rela- tion to the personal property tax as the mortgage does to the real property tax. In the one the mortgage is deducted from the value of the real estate and the tax is divided between the owner of the roperty and the owner of the mortgage. Pn the other case the borrower will make his note as well as put up his bonds as col- lateral, the loan will be deducted from the value of the bonds and the tax must be dividea between the bond-owner and he who holds the bonds as security. Assessor Siebe has taken for the basis of his assessments on the banks the state- ments turned in to the Bank Commis- sioners, and not-the sworn statement made by them to him. Each bank has rendered an account of its property, but these have not been followed to any extent, and so the banks are up in arms. It bad been announced that the taxes of the City would be raised about $30,000,000 and of this amount $20,000,000 should be secured from the banks and similar insti. tutions, To this end the statement, of the banks to the Assessor were rejected as be- ing too low and their reports to the Bank Commissioners were taken instead. As soon as notified of the Assessor’s in- tention the banks prepared for a contest, and the result of the preparations is shown in the suits just filed. There will be more suits from the other banks and the whole matter of bunk assessments will be brought into court. Tn the Assessor’s office the case is ex- plained as a difference of opinion between the Assessor and the banks as to what as- sets are liable for taxation and what are exempt. Tlis, the Assessor says, he wants the court to determine, and hence his course of assessment according to his own ideas. STRUCK TE: WRLNG MAN. Barber, Jacob Wolf, a Arrested for Battery Upon Frank J. Kane. Jacob Woli, a barber, made a mistake last evening when he attempted to knock out Frank J. Kane, Secretary of the Pacific Coast Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Mrs. Joseph, whose husband, a patrol driver, recently committed suicide, went to Kane's office on McAllister street yes- terday afternoon, accompanied by her mother. They raised a disturbance and Kane politely but firmly showed them the door. They went to Wolf and complained to him about Kane’s treatment, and he went to the. office to demand satisfaction. He struck Kane, who promptly placed him under arrest, and, with the assistance of Policeman T. J. Coleman, took him to the City Prison, where a charge of battery was booked against him. The present Mikado of Japan is the one hundred and twenty-third in the direc- line of succession. DEMOCRATS AND POPULISTS UNITE Some Interesting Statements From One on the Inside. MAGUIRE'S CANDIDACY. Populists May Support Him in Return for a Fusion in the Fourth. ROGERS NAMED FOR MAYOR. Warda'l Says Sntro Mav Accept a Con- gressional Nomination From the Fifth. According to reports from the ranks of both parties the Populists of this City bave arrived at what may be considered a har- monious agreement as to Congressional nominations from the Fourth and Fifth districts. Thougl the element of uncer- tainty still remains, owing to the action on the monetary qnestion that may be taken by the Democratic Nationai Con- vention at Chicago, yet it is commonly believed that the slate will not be dis- turbed. On the authorty of a leading Populist the leaders of that party have expressed themselves as thoroughly satistied with the record of Judge Maguire in the Fourth, and therefore will make no nom- ination against him. On the other hand, it is tacitly acknowl- edged that the Democrats, 1n considera- tion of this fact will make no nomination 1n the Fifth, leaving that district solely to the Populists. Various prominent Democratic and Pop- ulist politicians have met and discussed this proposition with the result that Mayor Sutro has been interviewed rela- tive thereto. Two men are commonly spoken of as available among the Popu- lists for a candidacy in the Fifth, the Mayor himself and Taylor Rogers. The latter is personally in favor of the May- or’s running. Many Populists would prefer Rogers as a candidate for Mayor rather than for Congress. This is well known in political circles of all parties, as those who are in- clined to think in that manner have made no secret of it. E. M. Wardall, chairman of the Popu- list State Central Committee, was ques- tioned in regard to the forezoing facts yes- terday and replied substantially as follows: “In regard to a fusion of the Democrats and Populists in the Fourth and Fifth, I am not entireiy at liberty to speak. My perscnal opinion is that it will depend in greau part upon the attitude of the Demo- crats toward the money question in the coming National Convention. “As regards Judge Maguire Iam willing 10 put myself on record as saying that the party with which [ am affiliated is thoroughly satisfied with his record. In fact, we regard bim asa man who repre- sents vastly better principles than the party of his choice. “Either the Mayor or Mr. Rogers would be an acceptable éandidate in the Fifth. Rogers himself, I understand, is in favor of the Mayor. The Mayor is anxious that the City government should be conducted in accordance with pure, clean and econ- omical principles. If he regards it as necessary he is willing to be a candidate again for the office of which he is the in- cumbent. “That Mr. Rogers is the choice of a large number of Populists for the office of Mayor is also true. But this must not be taken as indicative of a split in the party. Whoever is nominated will receive a unanimous vote. “There is one thing certain, however, that is admitted by all. Nothing definite in the way of selecting candidates for any office will be done until after the Populist Convention at St. Louis.” CRITTENDEN THORNTON’S BILL. It Is Against Mrs. Auzerais-Hoyte and as Long as the Law’s Arm. The proceedings in the suit of Mrs. Crit- tenden Thornton against Mrs. Lucy Auzerais-Hoyte were technical yester- day. The testimony heard was almost all that of tradesmen, who told of the repairs they had made in Mrs. Thornton’s house after Mrs. Hoyte's departure. It developed that $25 was paid for fixing the inlaid floors, $25 for repairing the clocks, $150 for going over the furniture and other sums for cleaning carpets, cur- tans, etc. Mr. Thornton’s list of damages inflicted on his defenseless belongings was filed in evidence and is a long and curious docu- ment. When court closed for the day the case 'was still unfinished i S — His Fortunate Escape. M. Dyer, proprietor of tin, copper and sheet- iron works, 763 Mission street, was crossing the street lust evening near his premises, NEW TO-DA' Do you know that deli- cacy and charm of tea- flavor that not one in a thousand in America knows, and that is an everyday matter to people who live in Japan? Did you ever taste tea in Japan or China or Cey- lon or Sckilling’s Bestin - America? They are the same. Tea roasted in Japan is not Japan tea to you any more than English mutton is mutton except when it is fresh. Schilling’s Best-—mon- ey-back tea at your grocer’s —is fresh-roasted. A Schilling & Company San Fi r:nr‘m:v & DR. A. BARKAN H S RETURNED FROM EUROPE AND RE- sumed practice ac his office, 14 Grant avenue. 817 Pilgarlic, there is no need for you to contemplate a wig when you can enjoy the pleasure of sitting again under your own ‘‘thatch.’” You can begin to get your hair back as soon as you begin to use Ayer’s Hair Vigor. when he was knocked down by an electric-car. The blow fortunately knocked him clear of the track, Which saved him from being crushed. He was picked up and taken to the Receiving Hospital in & semi-conscious condition. Dr. Kearney found that no bones were broken, but the patient was suffering considerably from the shock to his system. Bt e o B The Public Library to Close. The officers of the Public Library have deter- mined to take advantage of the two holidays, the 4th and 7ih of July, coming so close to- getlier to complete some repairs, chiefly paint. igg. The library will be closed from the 4thto the 7th, inclusive. Dl n il Excursion Tickets Extendod. In view of the fact that the Governor has de. clared July 7 a holiday, the Southern Pacific Company has extendedsthe limit on all excurs sion tickets sold to points within the State to July 8. NEW TO-LAY—AMUSEMENTS. NAYMAN (ALITORMEY 5 This Week Only. Matinee Saturday. LAST TIME SUNDAY NIGHT, Sydney Grundy’s New York and London Triumply “A BUNCH OF VIOLETS” A POWERFUL PLAY, POWERFULLY INTERPRETED BY ol L. R. Stockwell's Company of Players! Including MR. HERBER' MISS EFFIE SHANNON and the Star Cast. Prices—Evening, 15¢, 25¢, 35¢, 500, T5¢ atinee, 25¢ and 50c. NEXT MONDAY—The Comedy Drama Buccess, “AMERICANS ABROAD,” By Victorien Sardou. author of “La Tosca,” ‘Fe- dora.” etc. Superbiy Staged. Handsomely Coss tumed. SEATS NOW READY. July 13—“CARM with Frederick Warde, Rose Coghlan and entire Stockwell Co. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE MBS, BENESTINE KRELTNG, Proprietor & Manages TO=NIGEIT:? 18TH ANNIVERSARY!—— —SOUVENIR NIGHTY OUR SUMMER SPECTACL “ A TRIP 0 THE MOON” MONDAY EVENING, JULY 6, OPENING OF THE GRAND OPERA SEASON Under the Direction of MR. GUSTAV HINRICHS, Repertoire. Tuesday. Thursday, Saturday, LUCIA™ (In Italian). Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, “ROMEO AND JULIET” (in Englis Entire Eastern Company. Enlarged (rchestra! Augmented Chorus: SEATS NOW ON sALE. Prices—256¢c and 50c. FRICOLANOLR GOTTLOD & o+ 123585 AND MANAGERS -+~ T I BECOMING is STALE To Tell of Our Great Houses—The N ewest Thing 1s ‘The 6th Clause, one ofthe Laughing Hits of —“HIS WIFE'S FATHER.” — By the Only Dramatic Organization, —THE FRAWLEY COMPANY— See the “Curtain-Raiser,” —A SILENT SYSTEM"” — Next Monday—"LONDON ASSURANCE.” MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater in America. WALTER MOROSCO, Solo Lesseo and Managas THIS EVED AT EIGHT, The Distinguished Comedian and Singer, —EMMETT SHLRIDAN— In His Roilicking Comedy-Drama, «ONE OF THE BRAVEST!” Special Engagement of the Popular Pair, GILBLRT AND GOLDIE, And of the Favorite Soubrette, JOSEPHINE _GASSMAN. 3VENING PRICAS—25C and )% Family Circle and Gallery, 10c. Usnal Malinees Ssturdsay and Sundav. Qi O'Farrell Street, Between Stockton and Powell. A TRULY WONDERFUL BILL! HOUSES PACKED TO THE DOORS! 18—NEW VAUDEVILLE STARS—18 THE GREAT FREDERIUKS TROUPE, FOUR MAISANOS, ROSSOW MIDGETS, LAST 2 NIGHTS OF THE VITASCOPE. Reserved Seats, 25¢; Balcony, 10c; Opera Chairs and Box Seats. 50c. THE CHUTESI GREATEST SCENIC RAILWAY 0N EARTH! SUMMER SEASON BEGINS TO-MORROW |-———TO-MORROW ! —And Thereafter— EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GRAND CONCERTS BY THE RUSSIAN €COURT ORCHESTRA! THE BIG CASINO! ARAGON, Queen of Wire Walkers. SISSERIETTA JONES, the “Black Patti.” PROF. MACART'S BABOON, DOG AND MONKEY CIRCUS, and the Wonderfnl MARLO-DUNHAM FAMILY. The ‘Amusement Event of the Decade! Magnificent Pyrotmics on the Lake! ADMISSION—10 CENTS. Casino, Including Refreshments, 10 Cents. Sutro Baths, —DAY AND NIGHT— July 4th and Sth, GRAND VENETIAN WATER CARNIVAL, BEAUTIFUL ELECTRICAL DISPLAY. SUTRO SCENIC RAILWAY' HAS NO EQUAL. Monday, Poptiiar GENERAL ADMISSION— Adults, 10c ‘Children, 5e. OPENING OF THE GRAND CIRCUIT TRCTTING-HORSE BREED. RV ASYN. Goree RACEN! NN INGILESIDI. June 27, 30; July 1, 2, 3, 4, 1898. Great races every day. Best horses on the Coass. present. Kaces begin at 2 o'clock. Mission.strees cars. Special train 1:16 o'clock.