The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1896, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1896. CHARLES L. FAIR MAKES DEPOSITION. He Testifies Concerning the Pencil or Craven Will. HIS FATHER'S WRITING. Believed That Senator Fair’s Hand Drew Up That Instrument. SOME INTERESTING TESTIMONY The Decedent Might Have Planned to Fool Angus and Bresse in Will Making. The Fair will contest was advanced an- other step yesterday. During a large part of the day Charles L. ¥air was engaged | with counsel in the offices of Delmas & Shortridge making his aeposition. He testified, among other things, in ref- erence to the action of Messrs. Angus and Bresse, who were executors under one of the wills. Mr. Fair alleged that within fifteen minutes after the death of his father these gentlemen took all his father’s papers away from deceased’s rooms in the Lick House. Mr. Fair also said that be thought that his father was capable of making a will just to fool Messrs. Angus and Bresse, which purported to give them everything they wanted and of then going away to chuckle and to make another will overturning the will which they, Angus and Bres se, might suppose would benefit them. The examination throughout the day was conducted by Mr. Delmas. Mr. Heg- gerty was present as counsel for Mr. Fair. | The deponent was careful, weighing all his answers, which were made with much Geliberation. The deposition was not com- | pleted. Charles L. Fairfirst testified to his name, age and nativity. He 1s 29 years old, was born in Virginia City, Nev., and he is a resident of San Francisco. He testified to the date of the death of James G. Fair Jr., and also to the date of his father’s death, the latter date being December 28, 1894. Atthat time Charles L. Fair was a resident of California. His sisters were out of the State. The witnees then testified concern- ing his own marriage, which took place in Oakland in 1893. He could not recall the precise date. His residence has been Cal- ifornia ever since, but he has occasionally been absent. After his father’s death he had notict that what !rurpuned to be his will, and which was dated September 21, 1894, had been filed. He first learned of thisturough the newspapers, and was aiterward told about it. | “Did you ever have any conversation | with your iather on the subject of_trusts, Exception was taken to the question, and the witness answered under exception that he had conversed with his father. He thought that his father wished him to get the money under his mother’s will, and wished him to break the trust in his mother’s will. The conversation was about bis mother’s will. “Did your father in that conversation o, sir. “He posed to the creation of trusts? “He was opposed to the trustin my mother’s will.”” “Qn what ground?” “He did not like the trustees.” “Was that 1he only ground he gave for being opposed to the trust?”’ “I don’t remember.”” “Will you please tax your memory and reflect, taking your own time to do s0?” Mr. Fair thought awhile, but could not recollect anything else than his father <aid, except that he admired the way in which the Astor property in New York is handled. “Did your father ever teil you, in speak- ing of irusts, that he did not approve of trusts in any particular?” “I don’t remember that he did.” “Did you, in an interview in the Exam- iner in March, 1895, say that your father told you that he did not approve of trusts under any circumstances ?” Tne witness did not think that he had been correctly quoted in the interview. He did not tell the reporter that his father had seid he was opposed to trusts under any circumstances. The reporler may have misunderstood bim. His father never had made any such statement of his opinicn, so far as the witness knew. The witness engaged coursel to break the trust in his mother’s will. His father gave him no money for legal expenses, When nedied he lefta fixed monthly sum for support of the witness. “Did you give your father any note or receipt or evidence of indebtedness?” The witness declined to answer. “Did you have any conversation with your father about wills?"’ “l met him one nl'sbt about 8 o’clock and he said he was? going with Mr. Crothers to make his will and asked me what I thought aboutit. I said thatIhad nothing to say about it. He asked meif I was satisfied with my marriage, and I saia that I had no reason to be discontented. This conversation took place in front of the Baldwin Hotel. He asked me how I wanted the money left, and I said that I had nothing to say about it. The con- versation was very brief. I was in the middle of the street and he wason the sidewalk. walk and he walked out to meet me and we met about fifteen feet from the curb. That was the only conversation that we had about wilis. The conversation was out of the hearing of Mr. Crothers. I do not know the date of this conversation, but think that if was apout Sentember 15. I was staying at the Baldwin Hotel at the time.”” “Was there an estrangement between you and your father?"" *““Well, as to that we had no conversa- tion on that puint. We had not seen each other for several months. We bad not written. We had not seen each other. I had been five months in Europe.”” “Was there any other reason why you did not see your 1ather?”’ The witness declined to answer this question. “When did your reconciliation with , your father take place?’’ Mr. Fair said that it was 6n July 24, When he arrived in San Francisco he thought that his father was in Yuma. He did not seek at once to find his father. He inquired after his father, going io his father’s office twice to inquire. He did not see his father for one month after he (witness) returned from Europe. At his father's office he asked of Mr. Angus where his father was. He called later at his father’s office with Dr. Levingston, at the suggestion of Dr. Levingston that his father would like to see him. Hedid not see his father for two or three weeks be- fore he was married. “Was your father at your wedding?"’ “No, sir.”” “Was he advised of your wedding?"’ Wiiness declined to answer. | that he was opposed to trusts in wills?” | "did’ not advise yon that he was op- l I waiked in toward the side- | His Father’s Will. Charles L. Fair as He Sat Yesterday Making His Deposition Concerning Matters Affecting the Issue Raised by the Contest of “Was there?”’ Declined to answer. “Was it not a fact that you went to your father’s office with Dr. Levingston to effect a reconciliation ?” “Yes, I suppose that is 80, if you put it in that way.” “Is not thata fact without any suppo- sition—isn’t that true?” “I went there to meet my father for the purpose of seeing 1f he was friendly to me. Dr. Levingston suggested going there. That is the reconciliation to which I may have referred in an interview with a reporter.” “After you knew that the trust will had been filed did you believe that your father | had filed another will of later date, written wholly by himseli and leaving all the property to you and to your sisters?” “I believed that another will, differing from the trust will, had been made.” “Did you believe that that will, later | than the trust will, was written wholly | by himself?"’ “No, I can’t say that Idid.” | “Did you believe that a will haa been | written ieaving all the property to yourself and your sisters?” “I believed that. I had a talk with Mr. Angus and he said that my father had made another will equally dividing | the proverty. In the trust will nothing any member of your family that there must be a later will. I may have said in an interview with & Chronicle | reporter that I believed that my father | bad left a will written entirely by himself | and that Angusand Bresse believed so.”” “If you said that in an interview were the statements then made true?” | *“To the best of my belief they were if | I made the statements.” “Did you after that time set about to find out whether there was such a will later than the trust will and giving the property to yourself and your sisters?” ““We applied for an order of the court to | searcn all wills in my father's pos- session.” The witness said that he first had an mn- timation of the pencil will from Governor | Budd, who was at that time his counsel. | He could not tix the date when the Gover- { nor spoke about the pencil will. He heard | nothing concerning the Craven will at that | time excepting through his counsel. He | first saw the Craven will at Mr. Lioyd’s. | Before he saw that wili he had entered | into an agreement and signed papers for the benefit of Mrs. Nettie K. Craven. He signed the instrument perhaps a week be- fore he saw the Craven will. He signed in Mr. Lioyd’s office. He did not see the agreement before it was drawn, that was left to the attorneys. Mr. Delmas said that he wished to show that the witness understood the agree- ment at the time it was signed, but the | questions were objected to. The wit- ness continued that the parties to the in- | strument were his sisters and himself, | Mrs. Craven and Richard V. Dey. He | thought that he saw the Craven will March 16. There were present Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Knight, Mr. Heggerty, Charles S. Hale and Mr. Walsh, Mr. Flood’s private sec- retary, and others. “Did you say, ‘This is my father’s hand- writing’ ?” “No. I said: ‘I think 1t is like my father’s handwriting. and I think it is.’ ” A certsin interview was read. In this Charles Fair was represented as saying that his father might have made a will in favor of Angus and Bresse just to fool them and to make them siave. The wit- ness testified tnat his father might have done such a thing. “Is that your conception of your father’s character?” “] think th:at he might have done that.” “Then it would, in your opinion, have been entirely in accordance with your father's temperament, disposition and in- clination to have told them that he had made a will in which they had been re- membered, and then chuckle and go off and make a new will?” “No, sir. If he had promised to do a thing, I think he would have done so. My iather may have been influenced to have made such a will, and then have gone off and made another.” ““Was your father subject to undue in- fluence?” “I don’t know.” “You have charged that he was?’ | “He may have been.” “By whom ?'’ The witness declined to answer. | “Did Mr. Heggerty in the presence of all the parties in Mr. Lloyd’s room, when | the pencil will was produced, say that the handwriting was your father’s 2”7 The witness declined to answer this | question. Then be was asked whether the handwriting in the will was declared by Russell T. Wiison or by Richard V. Dey to be his father’s handwriting. He de- clined to answer concerning Mr. Wilson. | Richard V. Dey had so declared on another occasion. Witness would not answer whether Charles Neal, his father’s secre- tary, had declared, after taking days to examine the paper, that it was in the | bandwriting of James G. Fair.. . At noon a recess was taken and the hear- ing was resumed in theafternoon. Mr. Fair said he remembered when the Craven will was produced in court. He heard the re- marks made then by Mr. Lloyd. He thought he knew the contents of the peti- tion concerning the Craven will, He had asked the court to admit that will to pro- bate. The petition was signed by himself, by his sisters and by at least his attorney. Mr. Delmas reaa the petition in part, ana Mr. Fair averred that the several clauses that were read were true. Tke will which was referred to as the last will and testament of James G. Fair in the pe- tition was the Craven will. and leaving property in trust by wills?” | was divided and this led me to believe | | George W. Baker, W. Pardy, W. C. Price, | . Tarpey. not? “Yes, sir.” “Did you understand that the facts stated in the petition were true?’’ I believed them to be true.” The witness then testified concerning the contest filed to the trust will which was filed May 7,1895. Mr. Fair did not recollect the date. He recollected that as a ground for that contest it was alleged that the trust will was revoked by a later will, which was the Craven will. This was the will which in the contest was al- leged to have been written wholly by the hand of James G. Fair. The same aver- | ment was made when the petition for the | filing of the Craven will was signed. Be- | tween the filing of the petition alluded to and the contest to the trust will nothing had occurred to shake his entire confi- | dence that the Craven will was the last | will and testament of his father. There | were some things that he did not like | about it. | “Did you make the averments in mak- ing the contest to the trust will believing | them all to be true?” - | S ¥ey “To whom did you refer in your petition | and contest as unduly influencing the | | mind of James G. Fair?” The witness declined to answer and also declined to answer whether he referred to eitber Mr. Goodfellow, James Angus, | Louis C. Bresse or Thomas G. Crothers as | conspiring, combining and confederating to influence the mind of James G. Fair to cause him to make a will by which they would be benefited. Mr. Delmas called attention to the fact that Herman Oelrichs Jr. based his right upon the will of September 21, 1894; that if that will was procured by fraud it has no standing in court, and that as affecting the validity of that will this in- quiry is proper at this time. Mr. Fair declined to answer who were the persons meant in his contest who were alleged to have told his father that his children had no zffection and were anxiously wait:ng for him to die. Mr. Fair testified that the contest was signed by himself personally and by his attor- neys. He also testified that he had filed an affidavit in which he had denied the He did not to take the eggerty, that That was yhat you referred to, was it: o0 i genuineness of the trust will. | recall this, but was willin | word of his attorney, Mr. fi this was so. “Did your father tell you before his death that he intended to dismiss from his employmant Messrs. Angus and Bresse?” “I don’t know that, but I know that they intimated that they feared that he woula dismiss them.” “Is it true that your father told youa | month before his death that he intended | to dismiss them ?" *No, not just that, but he told me that he was tired of the way things were going on; that he was tired of the way they were administering his business. He did not is exactly. but gave me that im- pression. He intimated that.” During_his father’s last days, the wit- | ness continued, Mr. Crothers was much | with his father and would never leave him alone, but was aiwavs present when the witness was there, and was anxious t0 hear all that was said. The witness lieved that it was true that the breath had hardly left his father’s body when Messrs. Angus and Bresse removed from his father’s room all the valises, etc., con- taining pepers. Mr. Delmas read from interviews in THE CALL to refresh the memory of Mr. Fair concerning many statements at- tributed to him. g The deposition of Charles L. Fair will be continued Saturday at 10 A. M. This afternoon the deposition of Notary Craig wtiiél be taken at Delmas & Bhortridge’s office. FRLE SILVER M:N. An Independent Organization Is to Be ¥ffected This - vening. A California silver campaign committee held a temporary meeting yesterday after- noon in the offices of C. D. Lane. Those present were: Charles D. Lane, Alvinza Hayward, W. P. Lawlor, M. M. Hurley, Thomas V. Cator, Frank J. Moffitt and D. George W. Baker was elected temporary chairman; Alvinza Hayward, treasurer; D. F. Tarpey, temporary secretary. It was stated that the object of the meeting was to open headquarters for the advocates of the free silyer issue. Mem- bers of all and any political faction 1n favor of free silver desiring to advocate that issue independent of the Democratic State Central Committee were invited to join. A permanent orzanization will be ef- fected to-night at room 32, seventh floor, Mills building. | .. LSAUSALITC’S CARNIVAL. Ballots for the Queen # Lively. Sausalito is looking forward to the com- ing carnival and is putting her principal thoroughfare in order. Water street, from El Monte lane to Johnston street, is being graded a distance of over half a mile. Sewers will be laid. curbing constructed and the road will be macadamized to the thickness of one foot. The roadved will be raised over two feet. E. McCullough, Town Engineer, is superintending thg work, which is being done by Warren & Malley of San Francisco. £ Coming In WOMEN AT WORK IN THE PRECINCTS, Presidents of Clubs Meet in an Important Con- ference. PLANS OF CAMPAIGN. Ladies Relate Their Experiences in the Apostolate of Woman Suffrage. PROUD TO WEAR THE BADGE. Methods of Helping On the Cause Are Exhaustively Discussed and Compared. A largely attended and very important meeting of precinct club presidents was held yesterday afternoon in the meeting hall of the Woman Suifrage Bureau, Miss Mary E. day, the State organizer, being assisted by Mrs, Clara Long, to whom the City precinct club work has been en- trusted. Among the ladies present were the following named, all of whom are presidents of regularly organized clubs: Mrs, E. T. Winkler, Miss Angie Bemis, Miss Mary Geishaker, Mrs. Mollie Heilmann, Mrs. C, B, Urmy, Mrs. J. M. Verdenal, Mrs. Tilden, Mrs. W. H. Wiester, Mrs. Katherine H. Angelo, Mrs. Anna Haskell, Mrs. Florence A. Nichols, Mrs. M. J. Hale, Mrs. E. B. Griffith, Mrs. Abbie J. Forbes, Mrs. Louise L. Cloxton, Mrs. F. Diserens, Mrs. lvia Brown, Mrs. Martha Lawton, Mrs. F. , Mrs. L. R. Bartow, Mrs. M. J. Wheeland, Mrs. L. E. Noble, Mrs. L. S, Martin, Mrs. G. W. Reutchler, Miss Elizabeth Brown, Mrs. Mary Tering; Mrs. Minnie C. Hussey, Mrs. M. A Mosher, Mrs. 8. Bryant, Mrs. Julia Jones, Mrs. R. C. Poultney, M Esther Pierson, Mrs. M. E. Morse, Mrs. M. O. Severance, Mrs. Eliza Dean, Mrs. Barbara Knell, Miss M. H. Johnson, Mrs. F. L. Whitney, Mrs. Gussie Jones, Miss Eva Deutsch, Mrs.” C. K. Brown, Mrs. H. A. Hobe, Mrs. 0. H. Schmidt, Mrs. J. J. Schoville, Mrs. Judge Colton, Mrs. Eva Bates, Mrs. Austin Sperry, Mrs. Lovell White, Miss C. M. Fuller, Miss Maybelle Holbrook, Mrs. Helen More, Mrs. H. A. McLellar, Miss J. Hill, Mrs. D. J. Spencer, Mrs. Helen A. Cross and Mrs. Sarah A. Eckman, The meeting was in the nature of a con- ference, and the session was executive. However. enough information leaked out to convince the most rabid anti-suffragist that the woman suftrage movement isa power not to be downed by the puny {orces thus far arrayed against it. Plans of work were detailed and their compara- tive merits discussed, the ladies telling of their labors and successes much in the fashion of an “experience meeting.” A German lady, one of the most de- voted and efficient apostles in the local field, related thatn Ecr travels she met one man who stoutly contended that woman’s place was the kitchen; her mind had no business soaring any higher. She asked him whether he considered his wife inteiligent enough #o raise children. He said of course she was. The precinct worker rejoined that then she knew enough to vote. The man at last ac- counts was almost under conviction, but the lady seemed to realize that a man con- vinced against his will is of the same opinton still, so she sent him a peck or so. of good sound suffrage literature to be ‘dl%eated in his leisure moments. s he distribution of suffrage tracts, leaf- lets and pamphlets was reported by all the ladies to be a most efficacious means for the cultivation of a friendly spirit among persons opposed or indifferent to the movement. Many persons who have neither time nor desire to talk upon the woman suffrage issue will accept a leaflet, and read it,-too. Men were reported to have asked for suffrage literature after reading one little flying dodger which some stray gust of wind had cast in their way. Another point upon which the ladies were all agreed was the advisability of wearing the suffrage badge in public. It showed that the ladies were proud of their connection with the cause, and frequently caused questions to be asked which led to a talk on suffrage and eventually to the enrolling of a neophyte. The workers all said they had found no opposition among the more cultured and educated residents visited, all the need for missionary work seeming to be found among voters of limited scholastic and social endowment. The importance of social conversations on suffrage as a means of propaganda was unanimously recognized. Meanwhile Mrs. Long keeps the ball rolling. * Held for Robbery. The preliminary examination of L. Roder- icker, Philip Canatezo and Joseph Baker, charged with robbing Martin Luigi on Broad- way early Sunday morning, July 26, was held betore Judge Conlan yesterday. After hearing | the evidence the Judge held the defendants to | answer before the Superior Court on $100 bonds each. t GAINING IN NAPA. Sheriff George S. McKenzie Tells the Recognized MNeed of Protec- tion in California. Sheriff George S. McKenzie of Napa County is at the Grand. some time lately in different parts of the State, and says he is convinced that the feeling for W. J. Bryan and free silver is | dying out. “A little while after Bryan’s nomin- ation,’” he said, “if a vote had been taken | I think California would have gone for him. But I do not think so now. Where | I have been I have fonnd the sentiment | had changed. They think more of pro- | tection now than they do of free silver. “In Napa County I know a number of leading Democrats who are going to vote for Mr. McKinley. I met some of them the other day and they said to me, ‘Well, Me, we never expected to come over and vote the Republican ticket with you, but it looks as though we would do it this year; weintend to, in fact, as we want protection and can’t get it without voting for McKinley. “I think the Republican party is getting stronger every day in California, and by election day I think it will be if not a walkover at least a victory for the old party that has gone through so many | campaigns, and nearly every time to win. | “I would be surprised if we hadn’t 500 | majority in Napa County for the Republi- | can ticket. Last year we had a majority of some 250. I think it will be more this year. We have about 450 army veterans in Napa County, and they help a good denl.’ The great majority are Republi- cans.” DAV ENTERED BY FORCE The Market Inspector’s Ener- getic Search for Diseased Meat. of J:flerson G. James’ Establishment at Butchertown Yielded Three Carcasses. Market Inspector Ben Davis made # capture of contraband beef yesterday that necessitated the use of a mixture of vio- lencé and cunning and immediately threw a cloud over the slaughtering establish- ment of Jefferson G. James in Butcher- town. Davis has had reason for some time to saspect that beef that was being handled by the James establishment was not all that it should be, and has kept a close eye on the place. Yesterday he made up his mind that some cdrcasses were con- cealed in an icehouse that had been un- used for some time, and attempted to enter the building to investigate. He found the door nailed at the bottom in such a man- ner that it resisted his efforts to enter, but that made lttle difference to the bulky inspector. A determined hand on the ring that serves as a knob, a knee against the jamb, and 2 long and strong pull completed the discomfiture of those nails, and when the door flew open the carcasses of three cows, weighing in the saggregate 1262 pounds, were found. A glance revealed the fact that had not the butcher’s ax ended their lives tuber- culosis would soon have finished the cows, and they were promptly ordered to the fertilizing works. The man in charge of the place gave as an excuse for having the diseased cattle on hand that he was saving them until he could get a sufficient quantity of bad beef on hand to warrant turning it over to the health authorities, but this flimsy excuse did not satisty the inspector, and he served a notification on the man tbat if further violation of the law were discov- ered in his place the mere confiscation of the beef would not end the matter. .. A Night With Shakespeare. The public will have an opportunity of en- joying a rare treat Thursday evening, August 20, when Frederick Warde will deliver a lec- ture on Shakespeare, with character sketches, at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium, corner of Mason and Ellis streets. Tickets now on saie at Sherman, Clay & Co.’s, Kearny and Sutter streets, and &t the association building, Mason and Ellis streets. There will be but one price to all parts of the hall, and the auditorium is sure to be erowded to its ull seating capacity. Meyers Again Acquitted. Leon R. Meyers was again fortunate in having & jury acquit him of a charge of an attempt at felonious assault upon a little girl last night: The case was tried in Judge Bahrs® court. There are {wo more charges against him, but they will, in all probability, be dis- misded to-day. He has been for | e LACK OF FUNDS 10 CLOSE SCHOOLS The Board of Education Warns the Super- visors. BIG SHORTAGE CERTAIN The Appropriation as It Now Stands Is Far From Ade- quate. NO MORE TEACHERS' CONTESTS. Advertising Schemes Frowned Upon. Report of the Classification Crmmittee. The Board of Education at its meeting last evening sounded a note of warning to the Board of Supervisors regarding the fate of tke public schools if the appropria- tion proposed—$1,000,000—is carried into effect. It came in the report of the Finance Committee, a copy of which was ordered sent to the Board of Supervisors, and in- timated plainly that unless the amount is increased it will become incumbent upon the School Directors to close the schools long before the close of the school year through lack of funds to pay the teachers’ salaries. Attention is called to the fact that the salary roll will be increased $16,000 over that of last year because of the large in- :rense in evening classes and other mat- ers. The committee figuring on the basis of last year’s payroll, the increase and con- tracts already let for work believes that the department will be $115,415 64 beh ind at the close of the fiscal year. The report was placed on file. The board put its foot down on the | | teachers’ voting contests that have been carried on by some of the evening papers for some time past when the following res- olution, offered by Director Murdock, was unanimously adopted: 'WHEREAS, Contests for favorite teachers, con- ducted by newspapers for advertising pur- poses, distract the attention of pupils from | their studies, stir up unseemly strife ana rob | the children of modesty and good manners, | it Resotved, That the Board of Education hereby | expresses its disapprobation of all such | schemes and pledges itself to do all in its | power to discourage and prevent them. To that end be it further 1 concerned that no leave of absence will be hereafter granted to any prize-winner. ==Recommendations of the City Board of Fxaminers were adopted, as follows: That Miss Emma H. Provost, Miss Lotta Bean, Miss Elizabeth Mayers, Miss Martha H. Poppe and Miss Nora NySullivan be recom- menaed to the State Board for grammar grade diplomus; that H. I Soper, Edward Ray Zion, Miss Ruby W. Studley and 'Clara B. Westphal be granted high school certificates; that H. B. Graham, Mabel L iNelson, Miss Mariana Ber- tola, Mrs. Mery Fitzgerald, Miss Bertha Zim- merman, M. S. Lehan, Miss Ad, nell, Miss Mary F. Wilsou and Mrs. Anna M. | Ryall were granted grammur grade certificates; | L. R. Griffin be granted a high school : that the high schcol certificate of the following named be renewed: Mrs. H. M. Gray, Miss Helen Wright, Miss Annie M. Forester, Miss Katle Mayers, Miss Kate | Lahaney, Miss Sarah Karsky and Miss Helen F. Mitchell; that grammar grade State educa- 1 diplomas be granted to Miss Nettle Cohen and Miss Sarah *Boukafsky. Mis: I. E. Coles, pr :cipal of the South | End Primary School, sent in a8 communi- cation calling attention to the crowded | condition of the classes in her school ana suggesting the formation of another class, The matter was referred to the Classifica- tion Committee. The resignation of Mrs. S. Aaron, formerly Miss Anita Cohen, as assistant teacher in the Carfield Primary School, was received and accepted. The name of the Winthrop School was changed to Bernal School on motion of Director Murdock. The resignation of Miss Annette L. ‘West, assistant teacher in the Lincoln Evening School, was accepted and Miss Eliza L. West was appointed to fill the vacancy. On motion of Director Knox Miss Mary M. Murphy was transferred to the princi- palship of the Le Conte Primary School and Miss Josephine Sanderson was elected principal of the Jefferson Primary School. Fred Boussi and J. Griffin, who had taken upon themselves the duty of exam- ing the calcimining that has recently been done in a number of schools, reported that in a number of instances the work was badly done and asked that the board investigate the matter. Director Carew said that the work had cost the board a large amount of money, and that if it was badly done the matter should be looked into and he moved that the report be referred to a committee of the whole. This was carried, the matter being placed in the meantime in the hands of the Building and Grounds Committee. A petition signed by several hundred residents of the district south of Market street protesting against the closing of the Webster School ;was received and placed on file. The Classification Committee reported that a class of children had been sent from the Crocker Grammar School to the Dudley Stone Primary School, and that two sixth-grade classes of pupils and one teacher had been sent from the Horace Mann Grammar School to the Haight Primary Schoonl. The committee also made the following recommendations that were adopted: That the sixth-grade pupils in t] Primary School be {ransferred 1o the gramivar schools pearest their residences; that high school classes be opened in the Horace Mann Evening School, Hamilton Evening School and Washington Evening School; that Miss K. H. Crowley, & teacher of the class in the Rich- mond Evenlng Schooi, be appointed to the po- :i‘lgol; of'pxilnc Dlllgf sn&:l schMool, without in- ase of salary; that Mis ] feacher of the class in the Foirmount poseess | School, be appointed to th pal of sald school, witho 1hg a8 substitnts in the 1 g ute in the place of i Jewett, absent from the'&irh‘ ?{ig‘l‘xhs“ch‘;:\elz‘: leave, be appointed an assistant teacher in | that school; that Miss Laura E, Fowler, acting e position of prinei- | ut increase of salary; | ynsky, at present act- rincipal of the San Francisco Nopmer s | be appotuted to ihe position of prine S out increase of salary; that Miss H. Corlett of the day substituté class be appoi bationary teacher in the dapa‘r’?m;:;te‘:x:dp:: signed o the Emerson Primary School to the class of Miss E. R. Pettigrew, absent on leave: that Miss May Laviged of the duy substitute class be appointed a probationary teacher and assigned to the Grant Primary School: that Georzjs 8 ites be appotnted to the position of teacher vi the high-school olacs to be formed in the Horace Mann Evening School ; that F. H. Dam be appointed a teacher of ihe. high-school class to be formed in the Hamil- ton Evening School; that a new high-school class be formed in the Business Evenin, School; that Miss Jennie Powers be appointeq o the position of teacher of the high-school ¢lass to be formed in the Washington Evening Schoot; that a new class in bookkeeping be opened in the Business Evening School, and that H. F. Soper i of teache of the samp s "o0 10 the position Mrs. Catherme Lennon was el janitress of the Monroe Pri mary Bcelz;grfd Wine Vaults Robbery. Frank Darregh, the employe in the wine ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Chiidren Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. Resolved, That we hereby give notice to all | die F. McDon- | Fairmount Evening | vaults of Lachman & Jacobi, Second and Bryant streets, arrested in connection with the robbery last Saturday of two sacks con- taining $1/ , was last night booked at the City Prison on the charge of grand larceny. Sty Dk WILL USE CATHODE RAY Nichols, Who Was Shot by Maywala on the Jersey Farm, to Be the Subject. 8. C. Nichols, the teamster who was shot in the face on the Jersey farm ranch on Tuesday morning by Edward May. wald, underwent a surgical probing at St.r Luke’s Hospital yesterday for the purpose of finding and removing the Winchester bullet wedged in his left cheek bone. The surgeons were unable to locate the leaden messenger that was intended for Superintendent Hawkins, but which en- tered the head of teamster Nichols. The next process to locate the lead will be to bring the cathode ray on the part where the bullet is supposed to be located. But this will not be done until the patient is free from the fever brought on by the shock and also until the danger of erysip- elas has passed. The cause of the shooting so far as could be ascertained, grew out of a row between the ranch hands on the night previous to the shooting, at which encounter May- wald was knocked down and beaten by, a: he supposed, Superintendent Haw Hence his grudge against the superinte ent the following morning. e o o Didn’t Ship in a Junk. Allen M. Pratt, who, a dispatch from San Diego yesterday morning stated, was supposed 10 be a refugee from Ensenada aboard the Pekin, is here in San Francisco. He vis | THE CalL yesterday, denied the ste | made in 50 far as they dealt with him, declared | that he had not left Ensenada disguised as n | middle-aged German, had not beeu aboard the junk Pekin, and had notgone to San Pedro, | but had leit Ensenada on July 28 on the Pa- checo for San Diego, whence he came to this City by rail, arriving here on the 30ih to ac- cepta position with a large insurance com- any. Hesays that the records of the City all show thut he declared his intention to become & citizen of the United states on July 21. DISOBEYED THE COUAT, Charles Ashton Is Very Likely to Be Committed for Contempt. 1 An Omnibus Restraining O der That Was Disregarded by a Real Estate Dea'er. Charles Ashtor of the firm of Ashton & Gardiner, real estate agents, who were recently sued by Mary L. Sime for an ac- counting of the property of the Sime es- tate, is in a fair way to be committed to jail for comtempt of court. The Sime case is ou the calendar of De- partment 8 of the Superior Court and was partially bheard by Judge Troutt before that official left on his vacation. Before he went away Judge Troutt issued an | order commanding that the entire matter | remamn in stata quo until a certain date. | Judge Hebbard, during the absence of his confrere, also issued an omnibus restrain- ing order commuanding ail the parties of | the suit to desist from any interference in | the estate, either in the collection of rents | of the San Francisco property or the dis- posal of agricultural products of the So- lano County ranch. Attorney Aiken, who represents Mrs, Mary L. Sime, has filed an affidavit stat- ing that despite these orders of court Charles Ashton, one of the defendants, has notified two of the City tenants that rent must be paid to Ashton & Gardiner, and not to the plaintiff, and further that an attachment has been levied at Ashton’s direction on hay and wheat on the Solane ranch. 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