The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 24, 1896, Page 7

~JULY 24, 1896 AMUSEMENTS. CALIFORNIA THEATER.—“Carmen.” Barowix THEATER.— Bohemia,” next Monday evening, CoLUMBIA THEATER —* Moths.” Morosco’s Urkra-hiousr— Irish Inspiration.” Tivors Orgra-House.—* Mignon.” OrruEUM—High-Class Vaudeville. £UTRO Barms—Bathing and performances. SHoOT THE CHUTEs—Dally at Halght street, cne block east of the Park. AUCTION £ALES. By s. Levy & Co.—This day (Friday), Farhiture st saicstoom, 1156 Mnrket street,at. 10 o'clock. By 8. Bascu—This day (Friday), Furniture, at 14164 Howard street, at 11 o'clock. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. The registration of voters yesterday aggre- gated 2221. ¥air weather with fresh westerly wind is forecasted for to-day. The Supreme Court has affirmed the decision in Downin, Murray et al. ron Works have bid for the con- ¥0 new Japaiese Cruisers. suslly large number of cases of ty 10 horses wers reported yesterday. The Supreme Court has affirmed the decision in Owens vs. McNally, adminstratrix, ete. ish capitalists intend to run trolley lines through Somoma County to tide- A middle-aged woman known as Mrs. Wilson was brutally beaten by Jack Condon last Mon- ibald Brown has ngphed for letters of adm ation on the $5500 estate of Marga- ret Brown. Costa Rica has declared for a on the ground that the value of fluctuating. The Golden Gate Carnivel has over $11,000 ht, with the big corporations to hear from next few days. The Board of Health met last night but took no action on Angel Island, owing to the non- appearnce of Dr, Rosenau. Twenty-eighth Assembly District Cantral blican Club held & meeting snd reorgan- st Wednesday evening. body of & young woman, probably 20 1d, ‘was found in a lodging-house at 801 o street yesterday morning. credentials of M. J. Donovan, the Buck- presentative, were placed on file by the tion Commissioners yesterday. The Pacific Coast Gas Association members closed their fourth annual meeting yesterday near the summit of Mount Tamalpals. On appeal to the Supreme Court the judg- ment in the case of 8. G. Murphy and the Pucific Bank vs. Columbus Waterhouse has been reversed. The Fire Commissioners yesterdsy imposed & number of fines upon members, accepted tions and 1nade several appointments old standard silver is too and promotions. Dr. R.S. Law, & prominent and wealthy single-taxer who has been taking a prominent pert in the Delaware campaign, is soon to ar- rive in this City. James Coffin of the Alaineda Sugar Company says that the appropriation for sugar manufac- turers is held back by the treasury and some official is culpable. Isanc C. Scharff has brought suit to foreclose a chattel mortgageon the property of Ruddiph Schnorf at 2034 Powell street. The amount of the mortgage is $2152. Commander Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army has arrived from the East. He proposes to esiablish homes for discharged convicts and others on the Pacific Coast. Attorness at Washington are contesting the recent ruling of the Postoffice authorities re- quiring raiirosds to pay postage on all mail matter of their own now carried free. Judge Coffey vesterday sappointed Frank J. Ksne of the S. P. C.C. guardian of two minor children of Mrs. Bessie Lang because of Mrs. Lang’s overindulgence in intoxicants, There is a mystery surrounding the streetcar travel over Kentucky street in consequence of the railroad company hsving instructed its conductors to miscall the names of streets. Frank Meade, & carpenter, was sent to the County Jail for four months by Judge Joach- Imeen’ yesierday for stealing incandescent globes from the Parrott building, on Market street. The Merchants’ Association will have & big float in the cyclers’ parade to-morrow even- ing. The membership roll was yesterday in- creased by the addition of forty-six new neames. Fred Lawrence, 514 Hayes street, applied for a warrant yesterday for the arrest of Thomas Callahan, an ex.policeman, for get- ting $250 from him last October by trick and device The retafl dry-goods and clothing clerks last evening effected & temporary organization for the purpose of persuading such merchants as now keep open later than 6 o’clock to close at that hour. The preliminary examination of Sol Lazar, dry-goods merchant, Grass Valley, on charges of obtaining goods by islse pretenses, was commenced before Judge Campbell yesterday afternoon. John Mattson was yesterday held by Judge Conlan to answer before the Superior Court in $3000 bonds on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon upon M. Sommer, 517 Pacific street, on July 15. The Young Men's Republican Lesgue held a meeting last night, when it was announced that President Spencer had been suthorized 70 call couventions in the Fourth and Fifth Congressional districts. Charles Nelson, arrested under the new transfer ordinance for offering to exchange s transfer ticket for & newspaper, appeared in Judge Joschimsen’s court yesierday and the case was continued till Monday. The woolen-making machinery in_the old North Beach mille bas been sold 10 & Japanese syndicate and eight Japanese mechanics are at work in the lls removing the looms, etc. for transportation to Osaca, Japan. ay, who arrived here from Chi- v ojourn in the State for five o investigate and report on antages offerea by California to invalids seeking bealth and nomes. The estate of Phillipine Langfeld:, Blan- ther's ‘vietim, was sued yesterday by Dr. C. Kieineberg, the physician in whose house she lived ntthe time of the murder. The claim is for $750 1o alleged medical attendauce. _Charles McCarthy, accused of throwing Chariie Sing, a Chinese, irom a stepladder in front of the Auditorium saloon eariy lastSat- urday morning, was booked at the City Prison yesterday on the charge of assault to murder. The committee of fifty met yesterday in Mayor Sutro’s office, appointed a committee to prepare an address io the Government against ine funding bill and another committee to secure indorsement frem Congressional nom- inees on the bill. Mrs. A. W. Marquis, formerly Alice H. M calf, & teacher in the Haight Primary Bchn:t who was married just after the adoption of the anti-marriage Tule, does not wish to resign ber position just yet and may enter into & cone test with the Board of Education. The Finsnce Committee of the Board of Surervisors last evening listened to repre. sentations of the Board of Health, Board of School Directors, Merchants’ Association, Mis- sion High School Club and other bodies in reference to appropriations to be included in the estimates. NEW TO-DAY. EVERY DOT PIMPLES Blotches, blackheads, baby blemishes, and falling hair, The only preventive is CUTICURA SOAP ‘because the only preventive of inflamma~ tion and clogging of the PoREs. Sale groster than the a—ihnflll‘:::klflm g24 eomplezion woupr. “Seid. {hrow PoTrzr Bria Axn Oy CORF., S Bogton. 5 Bena for ™ o tg Breneat Faciel Bierkaben” rom MAIL STEAMERS, The City of Sydney Two Days Ahead of Sched- ule Time. ¢ SO0 WAS THE COLOMBIA. Fastest Trip on Record From Honolulu Made by the Steamer China. RUMORS ABOUT THE SAN JUAN Another Overdue Ship on Which Reinsurance Was Paid Has Reached Port. The Pacific Mail Company’s steamers are all making time nowadays. New in- structions have been issued, and in conse- quence the China and Panama steamers THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1896. Christiansen reports light and bafling wonder that s brg togk twenty-0ve daye wonder t| 3 wenty-five days to make the run. ‘th Spreckels hqld.fia record, having come from Kabului to San Francisco in a little over ten days. San Francisco will be well supplied with tramp steamers in a few W One is now loading at Port Costa and two more are on the way from Yokobama the Agoraat, 1728 tons, from Santos; ne- ships, 2843 tons, from Singapore, and the Cedar Branch, 1542 tons, from Yokohama. All six vessels will load wheat, and in con- sequence the vessels at Sausalito will re- main idle for some time to come. John and Cesar Cummings, the River- side murderers, and Charles Marshall, the San Jacinto murderer, were taken across the bay on the steamer Tiburon yesterday. Tue two brothers are to be hanged at San Quentin on September 25, while Marshall has to serve sixty years at hard labor. The Cummings’ murdered a farmer named Murramer on the Riverside ranch, and Mar-hall killed ¥rank Hamilton in April, 1894. He was conyicted, but secured a new trial on a technicality, and was found guilty of murderin the second degree. THE CITY’S ASSESSMENT. Clerks In the Auditor's Department at Work Figuring Up the Totals in the Books. Auditor Broderick has a big force of clerks at work footing up the Assessor's books since they were sent down to him by the Board of Equalization after the many changes made had been entered. ‘Within a short time the amount of tax- able property in the City will be known, and the Bosrd of Supervisors will be able to figure, after hearing the various depart- ments on the subject of the appropriations they will expect, the amount of the tax levy for the next year. Though no accurate figures are obtain- able at the present time it is known to the The Pacific Mail Company’s Steamer City of Sydumey, Captain Frank Johnston, Which Made the Run From Panama Two Days Quicker Than Schedule Time.ll are all coming in ahead of schedule. The Colombia _was two days ahead when she ran on th® rocks at Pigeon Point. The China beat the record between Yokohama and San Francisco, making the final run from Honolulu in two heours’ better time than her own record. The City of Sydney arrived from Panama two days ahead, and Captain Johnston says that his vessel was not pushed. The Sydney is one of the handsomest steamers that comes into port She has been a Incky vessel for the Mail Company, as few if any accidents have happened on her, and she has always more than paid expenses. Captain Frank Johnston, commander of the Sydney, is one of the ablest masters on the Pacific and is a universal favorite. He was master of the City of New York when she went on the rocks at Point Bonita, but at the inquiry held by In- spectors of Hulls and Boilers it was shown that the pilot who was in charce insisted upon holding his course in spite of the protests of the master. When the vessel struck Johnston felt like throwing the pilot overboard. i There was a rumor current on the water front yesterday to the effect that the Mail Company’s San Juan had gone ashore in the fog near Manzanillo. It was near this port that the Colima capsized and weut down. The telegraphic communication is very poor and on the occasion of the Co- lima disaster it was five days before the news reached San Francisco. The Mail Company has received no advices, but then they got the first news of the loss of the Colima from the newspapers. The San Juan left Panama five days after the City of Sydney, and wonld there- fore be in the vicinity of Manzanillo last Tuesday. The Mail Company’s officials put no faith in the siory, however, and say that had the vessel gone ashore they would have heard of it. _The steamer Mariposa sailed for Svdney, N. 8. W., via Honolulu, Apia and Auck- land, iast night. The English mail was late, and in consequence the vessel was de- layed until 11 ». M. Among the vessel’s cargo is over a thousand bicycles and large cousignments of onions and flour. The former are a drug in this market, but are a luxury at the Antipodes at this time. The schooner Annie has been chartered by the North American Commercial Com- pany and will load provisions and general merchandise for Alaska at Steuart-street wharf. The Annie has been in Oakland Creek for quite a long time, but to-day she will come from her retirement, and aifter being overhauled and loaded will start for the Alaskan mining camps. Another overdue ship reacbed Wednesday. It was the British s ip Bed- fordshire, on which 12 per cent reinsurance was paid. The Bedfordshire was from Astoris for Liverpool, and reached Queens- town in company with the German ship Arthur Fitger. The latter was from San g;gncpe?.. and :mdo the lrxsm bx.n -101 days. This is far and away the St passage made this season. Y iigpss | The magnificent battie-ship Oregon will be open for inspection next Sunday. This isthe first time that the man-of-war has been thrown open to the pubiic, so there is bound to be a rush to see her. Henry Peterson will run the launch Amy from Kolsom-street wharf, and other steamers will make excursions to the big ship. The Harbor Commissioners beld a short session yesterday. The monthly bills were pasted and a few matters of minor importance were attended to. The brig John D. Spreckels arrived from Hawaii yesterday with & load of sugar, rt last board that the aggregate reduction will not reach $4,000,000 and that in conse” quence the tax levy is in no great danger of being placed at a high figure or of the State board making a general raise. Out- side of a few of the big corporations and a limitsd number of property-owners who appealed the reductions amounted to practically nothing. MRS. LANG'S CHILDREN. Two Taken From Her Because of Her Alleged Indulgence in Intoxicants. Frank J. Kane of the Society for the Suppression of Vice was yesterday appointed as guaraian of two infant children of Mrs. Bessie Lang of 917 Greenwich street. Kane is already the guardian of her 10-year-old son, having been so appointed several months ago. 1t is alleged that Mrs. Lang 1s habitually intemperate and therefore not a fit person to have charge of her babies. Sheis suing her husband, Charles Lang, who formerly conducted a cigar-stand at 328 Pine street, for divorce, and she says that a few weeks ago he deserted her and is now on his way East. She recently received a letter from him dated at Ogden, Utah, in which he stated she would never see him again, There was quite a miscellaneous ot of swearing in Judge Coffey’s court during the hearing of Kane's application for let- ters of guardianship. Mrs. Lang does not seem to have got along amicably with some of her neigh bors, and more than one of them swore that she nefleclad her off- spring and devoted herself to the bottle. me woman declared she watched an in- fant Lang roll in ‘the dirt in the rear yard of the parental domicile for four hours, meanwhile chewing vigorously on the un- nutritious rubber stopper of a milk bottle. This amiable argus said in all seriousness that she never once during that feur hours took her eyes off the wallowing babe. Other neighbors corroborated this testi- mony, but Mrs. Lang denied that she drank to excess, which statement was also made by her ten-year-old son. She ac- knowledged occasionally taking a glass of beer, but said one glass was her limit. Judge Coffey interposed, saying: ‘‘There has never been a woman in this court who acknowledged to more than one glass. They probably fill and empty that one many times.”’ Mrs. Lan: made quite a scene in the cor- ridor outside the courtroom when she was separated from her boy and declared she would work faithfully and sell her furni- ture if necessary, to support her offspring if the court would only allow her to keep them. —_————— A Democratic Rally. The Democrats of the Twenty-first Sen- atorial District will bold a grand rally at Mowry’s Hall, corner Laguna and Grove streets, on F'fldly evening, July 24, to ratify the action of the National and Fifth Congressional District Democratic con- ventions. PSS et ‘Will of a Chinese Woman. ‘The will of Hong Leen, a Chinese woman, has ‘been filed lorftohltt. She leaves her propert; in equal sharés 1o her two children, Henry an Marguerite. Margaret Culbertson anfi Donald- ina Cameron are named as executors. e A German statistician m~1 tion that there are in Bu sari tenarians, or one to every tl usa itants. ———— the asser- 983 cen- + inhab- and weut direct 10 the refinery. Captain Horrr's School for Boys, Burlingume. Sixth year begins Aug. 4. Ira G. Hoitt, Ph.D,, Master* DEMANDS MADE FOR CITY FUNDS, Large Increase Asked by the Board of Health. NEEDS OF THE SCHOOLS. Improvement Clubs Want More School Buildings Erected. FINANCES ARE DISCUSSED. Hearing Given A'so to the Represen- tatives of the Merchan s’ Association. Tke Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors met last evening to hear from improvement clubs, the Board of Health, Board of Education, the Merchants’ As- sociation or any other body that might wish to be heard. Dr. Clinton of the Board of Education said that he came to second the movement of the people of the Mission to secure high school facilities for the Mission, which section represents one-third of the wealth and one-third of the school chil- dren of the City. He considered that the Mission has a right to ask for this. Ex-Tax Collector Grady, the present president of the Mission High School Club, appeared to advocate a high school for the Mission, Mr. Grady told how other sections have high schools, while the Mission has none. There are in the district south of O’Farrell street certainly enough children to fill a high school. He was aware that there is a cry for economy this year, but he believes that there are otber ways of cuttingdown expenses. He thought that the funds asked for in the interests of the Golden Gate Park can be cut down. There are police enough for the present and there is no necessity for an immediate increase. J. F. Crossett, chairman of the executive com mittee of the Mission High School Club, seconded the remarks of Mr. Grady. He believed that the people of the Mission are entitled to a hign school not only as taxpayers but also as heads of families. Young men annoy the ycung giris going from a distance to attend the high school in the Western Addition.- They are an- noyed on the cars and on the streets. Mr. Crossett cited the Durrant case as an in- stance. There are 50,000 young people in the area which is represented in the re-+ quest for a high school. This portion of the Uity pays a great share of taxes, but 1s deprived of facilities which other sections have. The request was made for an ap- propriation or_$200,000 to provide a lot and school. “We will keep at this until we get it,”” said Mr. Crossettin conclusion. A. P. Van Duzer spoke also in favor of the proposed high school. He believed the taxpayers would stand & tax fate of $1 75 this year, or even 2 per cent. Last year the rate was $2 25. This vear the State tax levy will be 8 or 10 cents less than it was last year, He asked that the Mission be credited with the $200,000 now in the treasury. He believed that the amount cannot be iegally claimed by the associated creditors. He figured out that the expenses this year of the City and County wilfbe $350,000 less than last year if the Supervisors will cut down the park appropriation and other acts which he considered advisable. Incidentaily he said that the cost of providing janitors for the City Hall could be lessened. The Mission people object to the heavy ex- vense incurred in carfares sending their children out to Scott street. A (igh school in the Mission would be a monu- ment to the Finance Committee. Chairman Taylor said thatif there was nothing to add of importance the com- mitiee would take the matter under con- sideration. Judge Van Reynegom said that the Mis- sion is losing citizens who are going else- where to getschool facilities. 1f the board cannot cut down somewhere to provide for ihe high school he would ask that an ad- ditional tax shali be made. He also % in response to a question by Chairman Taylor, that he had no suggestion as to where a cut can be made. He did not be- lieve that the $200,000 in the trcasury can be legally appropriated to the associated creditors. 8chool Director Knox said that the Pre- sidio Improvement Ciub was here in ref- erence to the school facilities in that sec- tion. B. Sbarboro spoke h;\lnvor of providing a better school and said that the children in the Presidip are now attending school in a mere box, which is a temporary structure. Ex-School Director Woodward described the Presidio school as inadequate and spoke of the rapid t;mwth of the district. Henry H. rt of the Board of Health presented the wishes of the board. He mentioned among the needs of the hoard the following: One veterinary surgeon, one chemist, one assistant chemist, eight food and miik inspectors, three sewer and three sanitary inspectors, two bakery and bath inspectors, a typewriterand a janitor. There are other desires. One of these is a permanent investment for horse and ambulance; another is the permanent establishment of a chemical and bacteriological laboratory. The board, in brief, asks for $40,643 in addition to what it already has. Last year the de- pariment had $49,700, including the quar- antine department. School Director Murdock submitted the wishes of the School Board, and said that the board expects to get what it asks for, because only the actual needs of the de- partment have been considered. The total amount is $1,565,212. This includes permanent improvements, these being the school buiidings proposed, which have been already mentioned, The total salary list amounts to $962,000, of which $895,000 is for the teachers. . Muardock saic that the salaries are reason- able, and that the bids for supplies are low. The amount of $1,015,000 is needed without counting anything for repairs. High schools are needed, but primary schools are also needed. The sanitary condition of some schools is very . Puile One new schoolhouse should be every year from the rent of the Lincoln school property. The item of general re- K:in is placed at $64,000. “The board,” . Murdock said, ‘‘would, under the es- timates made, be §75.900 worse off than last year.” The actual .ieeds of the depart- ment, if no new schools are built, will be $1,200,000. Chairman Taylor asked some questions and incidentally remarked that atter a riod of ten years the school expense has ncreased 20 cents per capita. Mr. Murdock said that he personally felt that this is not a good year to make manent improvements, but. enough should be given o permit keeping buildings in repair. The lowest the rd could get along with is $1,100,000 and the rents, which amount to about $48,000. Superintenaent Babcock of the School Depariment said that the departmen: can- not get along with less than $1,200,000 for the year. He also made a general state- ment concerning the schools and a general discussion occurred in which all the mem- bers of the committee and School Director Knox t ok Daniel Sullivan, president of the Bernal Heights Improvement Club, spoke in fa- vor of an appropriation for Bernal Park. It wonld cost between $3000 and $10,000 to complete the park, and Mr. Sullivan thought that the improvement is needed. Joseoh Ellis asked for an appropriation of $7000 for the improvement of Yerba Buena Park. M. 8. Kohlberg, vice-president of the Merchants’ Association, spoke briefly. He asked for $10,000 for sprinkling the business streets. He said that one-fourth of the sum is now paid for sprinkling Van Ness avenue. The Merchants’ Association pledges itself to sprinkle Van Ness avenue and all_other business streets if $10,000 is granted. If the appropriation is not enough the association will make nf the deficit. It costs the merchants a large sum for sprinkling business streets which they ought not properly to pay. The association in asking for the sprink- ling appropriation did not wish to em- barrass otber funds. The various funds were discussed by Mr. Kohlberg and the committee. Mr. Kohlberg spoke of the park npgropriation. He said that he had informa’ would be satisfied: with $250,000. He hought that the way to prowide for schoolhouses was by bonding the City. The Merchants’ Association delegation consisted of Mr. Kohlberg, W. 8. Doane and Secretary Freud. Thedelegation filed a report with the committee with sugges- tions. The substance has been previously ablished. Mr. Kohlberg said that the erchants’ Association favors economy, but at the same time wants the heads of the City departments to have enough money to carry on thewr work. At the same time he repeated that if ever there is a time for retrenchment this is the time. The association wishes to call attention to the fact that the City is charged a higher rate for lights than private parties are charged. The association sees no reason for_that. N. C. Weinholz appeared with a delega- tion for improvements at Hoily Park. Herbert E. Law appeared for the Van Ness Improvement Club in favor of mak- ing Lombard street a boulevard west of Van Ness avenue. The cost wounla be only $1250. He also w~anted Van Ness avenue bituminized from Pine street to Hayes. The authorities at Fort Mason have agreed to terrace down the bank on the east side of the grounds which abuts on the avenue and to make it attractive as a public park. D. T. Russell asked for the setting aside of $2000 for making a survey and setting monuments in the section bounded by Ot- tawa avenue, Mission street, Regent street and San Jose avenue. 8. P. Nolan of the Fourth-street Im- provement Club headed a delegation ask- ing for the repairing of the Fourth-strest pavement, which has been put in bad con- dition by the raising of railroad tracks to the grade. The street is below grade. Peter T. Seculovich appeared in favor of the acquisition of a piece of land at the junction of Mission and Valencia streets or 8 park. The committee adjourned until this afternoon. PREPARING FOR ACTION Official Conduct of Seven Super- visors Is to Be Investi- gated. Taxpayers Are Willing to Support the Grand Jury With Money. It is asserted that the postponement of the Grand Jury meeting until next Mon- day at 2 2. m. does not signify that the members of the jury are idle or indifferent. Inquiry made yesterday disclosed the fact that important preparations have been made for the next session. When the committee from the Grand Jury submitted a statement of the assess- ment case to District Attorney Barnes and sought bis advice he decided to recail from vacation one of his ablest assistants. It is well known that money has been tendered by interested taxpayers to em- ploy additional counsel if the District Attorney should require more assistance. The seven Supervisors who voted to re- duce the personal property assessments of the Spring Valley Water Works, the Mar- ket-street Railway Company and the San Francisco Gasiight Company do not say very much. They are awaiting with some degree of apprehens.on to ascertain what line of investigation will be developed by the Grand Jury. The members of the Grand Jury must have some gosmve information on the subject, but details of the knowledge pos- sessed by the jury are carefully concealed. The Grand Jury was invited to meet the Supervisors last nignt and consider esti- mates for maintaining ihe local govern- ment during the fiscal year ending June 30 next. This invitation was not accepted. The jury has resolved to confine its future action to an investigalion of the assess- ment case. No other business will be taken up. It is certain that the Grand Jury will not lack means to employ attorneys, ex- perts and detectives in case money should be required in the search for proof tiat improper influences were used to Induce certain Supervisors io favor the corpora- tions. A well-known citizen who served on the Wallace Grand Jury has offered to con- tribute money himself and to raise a con- sideaable sum to deifray expenses of the investigation. The Grand Jury has re- ceived many assurances of support from leading taxpayers of the City. The opin- ion is expressed that the Supervisors should be brought intocourt to state under oath what induced them to reject the fig- ures of the Assessor and the Grand Jury, and then, without any data to guide them, reduce the personal property assessments of the corporations. A FRUITLESS CLAIM. F. 0. Downing, Being Once Nonsuited, Fares No Better on Appeal to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of the lower tribunal in the case of F.O. Downing against M. W. Murray and others, The plaintiff und Defendants Murray, Treadwell, Fuller and Carroll were joint owners of the Bears Nest, Douglas Island and other mining proper- ties in Alaska. He had a separate one- fifth interest in the two mines named, but there was no evidence of separate owner- ship on his vart 1n the other Eroperfiel. In the latter part of 1891 the Bears Nest mine and certain other mining properties were sold, the cash received for them being $650,000. Downing received $35,374 as his share and gave a receipt in full settlement of his claims. Three months later, the entire business being tnought to be con- cluded, he rescinded his final settlement and demanded a fifth of all the money re- ceived for all the mines. He was non- suited in the first action at law and fared no better on appeal. ks Labor Uni At the meeting of the Building Trades Coun- cillastevening the vexatious question whether or not the Sninglers’ Union shall be admitted into the council was broughtup and continued until next week in order to permit the car, ters’ unions to the matter stiil further. On Wednesday night the Painters’ Union ‘will held an open meeting at 35 Eddy street as a sort of farewell to their old quarters. On the 1st of next month the union will move to 915} Market street. The open meeting will be of the nature of a social and entertainment. ——————— Signor Paolo Tosti has written nearly 500 songs. Trunks Moved 25 Cents. Transfer Co., 43 Sutter atreet. Main 49. Keep your checks for us.* ion that the Park Commissioners | THO MEN WHD KNEW T00 MUCH, Hurried OQut of England to Avoid an Official Inquiry. WERE IN KRUGER’S CITY Attacked the Boers and Now + Making for Australia to Hide. LEFT HERE LATE LAST NIGHT Captain Paterson and Thomas Grahame Advised by British Authori- ties to Flee. ‘When the Mariposa left this port late last night she had among ber passengers two political refugees from England, who were ringleaders in the Johannesburg outbresk, and who left Paris three weeks ago at the instance of the Brit- ish Government to make themselves inaccessible as valuable witnesses for an official inquiry into the origin of the up- rising in South Africa. The men are now on their way to Aus- tralia. One is Captain W. 8. Paterson of Stirling, Scotland, who is bound for Syd- ney. The otber is Thomas W. R. Gra- hame, an Englishman, upon whose fash- ionably engraved calling card appears the address, “269 West One Hundred and Eighteenth street,. New York city’’; his destination is Brisbane. They arrived here Tuesday night di- rectly from New York and took rooms at the Lick, according to arrangements made by Grahame's younger brother, who reached bere several days previously, but who did not himself stay at the hotel until Wednesday night. That last night was an unfortunate ex- perience for the captain. He got out alone and attempted quietly to lose his identity while exploring the ‘‘cocktail route” and the mysteries of the Bar- bary Coast. He succeeded in losing his identity. He lost his way. He lost his personal liberly. And he lost $80. But these are all trivial facts gathered from his remarks yesterday afternoon as he sat on the edge of his bed sucking mechanically at an extinguished cigarette and wccasionally passing his fingers through his disheveled locks to take the temperature of his feverish head. “We were sent away just as fast as ever we could go,”” he explamned. ‘“Mr. Cham- berlain advised us 1o light ont. “The way of it was I had brought the Arawa from Sydney to Durban. The Arawa is a 5500-ton steamer. Was an ex- periment of the company’s coming straight across from Australia. Won’t do it again. They lost £10,000. Never got any freight. Put in at the Cape and got butter—just some cases of butter. All had on trip up on way home was 1700 pounds beef. **Well, when I was at Durban I got orders from 8ir Frederick Carrington— ‘What do you want to know how all these names are spelled for? He was down at the Capes at the time. 8o I organized a cavalry company—twenty-five in the com- pany—and started for Johanmesburg. I was one of the police, you know, captain of the police. I was told to get ready to go to Johannesburg, and we went. Tom was a trooper with me. Tom? Tom Gra- hame, of course. Where is he now? I'll be blamed if I know. Ain’t he here?”’ And then the captain got up and hesi- tatingly peered round the" room and over the foot of the bed in search uf his com- rade. “I never tried to boss my men when I took command. I just treated them like companions. Isaid to them, ‘Boys, we got to start d— quick,” and in ten minutes we were in the saddle. And when Pilgarlic, there is no need for you to contemplate a wig when you can enjoy the pleasure of sitting again under your own ‘‘thatch.” VYou can begin to get your hair back as soon as you begin to use Ayer’s Hair Vigor. we fonnd the Boers too strong for us and Dr. Jameson rode in front of us and told us to stop firing, and we did stop firing. Was there fighting? Fighting nothing. We fired seventeen shots. Boers fired about seven. Then Dr. Jameson comes out and says, ‘Give up, boys,’ and that’s all there was to it. “Was there a crowd of Boers? Wall, you can bet your life. But they wouldn’t have stopped us if the people of Johannes- burg had come out and supported us. Johannesburg would have been British territory now if they had. ““We got out of South Africa about three months ago and made for England. I was sent away from London that I should not have too much to say; that I shouid not beecalled up as a witness. Then we went to Paris. ButI guess they thought we weren’t safe there. “I've been a saiior since I was 11 years old—am §8-38)¢ now. I'm a ‘leftenant’ in the British navy. I've been on her Majesty’s ship Durham and on the Glas- gow, and — I’'m a Scotchman, but Tom he’s an Englishman. He thinks he’s an American citizen now. *‘Oh, I'm well known all right in Sydney. Just ask the Chief of Police. I've got some horses down there. Stromboli was one of my horses. I senthim up here. “What am I going to do in Australia? Nothing. Just get there asfast asever we can first.” Captain Paterson is 2 man built much on the plan of Sharkey, the pugilist. He is about the same height and perhaps a little lighter in weight. His hair and heavy mustache are already muci streaked with gray. His companion, Grahame, isatypi- cal Englishman, perhaps 40 years of age, small of stature and slight of build. KEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. AL HAYMAN & CO.’S THEATERS. A TO-NIGHT AT 8. T THE MATINEE SAT. CALiForNIA | Last Time Sunday. L. R. STOCKWELL'S FLAYERS and FREVK WARDE——ROSE COGHLAN In the Spectacular Production, C A R NTFN. PRICES—25¢, 50c and 75c. MERCHANT OF VENICE Next Monday, T—l GRAND REOPENING I LDW' *_ A Honday, July 27. CHARLES FROHMAN'S EMPIRE THEATER COMPANY, Presenting Clyde Fitch's Play, BO H-NT A First time in San Francis «Better than Triiby.”— World. A5 g00d as Trilby. —Times. «More artistic than Trilby.”—Sun. SEATS NOW READY. Lmlishatie PRICDLANDER GOTTLOD & co- LS5 ATID MAMAGERS++ was AS OF Recerven | OLD! A Crowded House Charmed With ‘MOTHSY Presented as Only the FRAWLEY COMPANY an— Monday Next—“THE HIGHEST BIDDER.” Another Great Success. NEW TO-DAY. We Americans are a nervous people — how nice that sounds!— Nervous | It stands for fineness and quickness and delicacy of feeling and thought. Yes; but do you know that nervousness is mostly stomach-out-of-order? We eat too much, and eat in a hurry, and wash down our food. We don’t taste our food—is it because our food is not worth tasting? The remedy is: slow eating and pure food — have good meat and pota- toes and fine tea and coffee, and take time to enjoy it. The palate is the stomach’s boss, and has to be pleased. As far as drinking is concerned, the cheapest and best palate-pleaser is pure fine tea— Sc/illing's Best. But you can spoil it by boiling it like cabbage. A Schilling & Com San Priecime T 338 GOBSWELL POLYTEGHNIC COLLEGE The next term of this school will begin MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1896. Pupils desiring admission and not yet enrolled ‘wili apply at the office, 26th and Folsom sts., from Ba. M 012 TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE Mus BRNESTINE KRELING, Proprieior & slanagss Season of Italian and English Grand Opera Under the Direciion of MR. GUSTAV HINRICHS. ~—THIS EVENING— Also Sunday Evening, Ambroise Thomas' Romantic Opera, “MIGNON.” ——To-morrow Evening—— “MARTEIAL REPERTOIRE FOR NEXT WEEK : Monday. Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, ‘CARMEN. J. H. CULVER, Manager. | Open Daily Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, ‘“rATUST.! Popular Prices—25c¢c and 50c. MOROSCO'S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater in A merica. WALTER MOROSUO, Sole Lesses and Mausxar THIS EVENING AT EIGHT, Return Star Engagement of the Popular Comedian —EMMETT SHEGIDAN— In Howard P. Taylor's Latest Success, “IRISH INSPIRATIONI”* A Picturesque Story of the Emerald Isle. Evening Prices—25¢ and 50c. Family . ircl- and Gallery, 10c. Usual datinees Saturday and Sunday: s O'Farrell Street, Bet'veen Stockton and Powe' Week Commencing Monday, July 20. THE NOVE! ™/ OF THE DAY! EE THE GREAT—— BIONDI ! BIONDI! Only two nizhts more of Prof. Macart’s Dog, Monkey and Baboon Circas. 28——ALL GKEAT A . 11> Reserved Seats, 25¢; Balcony, 10c: and Box Seats, 50c. THE CHUTES, CASINO! And Greatest Scenic Rail way on Earth! THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LAST TIMES OF ARAGON—Queen of Wire Walkers—ARAGON ‘Continued and Unqualified Success of the MARLO-DUNHAM F AMILY. AND OUR GREAT BILL OF NOVELTIES! 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