The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 16, 1896, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1896 AMUSEMENTS. BarLDwrx THEATER —“The Gay Parisians” CALTFORNIA THEATER.—“The Irish Artist.” CoLUMBIA THEATER—The Great Unknown.” 3 0R08CO'S Urkna-HoUsk—“The Two Orphans.” Tivorr Opxra-Hovsr.—«The Huguenots.” OxPE¥UM—High-Class Vaudeville. MACDONOUGH THEATEE (OAKLAND) — * The Masqueraders, * Monday evening. GOLDEN GATE HALL—Lecture by Prof. A. Vander Naillen, Wednesday evening, August 19. £UTRO BATHS g and performances. 1007 TH: CayTEs—Dally at Halght street, block east of the Park. BasEBALL—Sixteenth and Folsom streets. GOLDEN GATE PARK—Golden Gate Park Band. PICNICS A EXcUursioN—To the Martin Mur] Tract, near Mountain View, to-day. ExXcURsIoN—To Cazadero, to-da; AUCTION SALES. L. H. Busp—Monday, August 17, Farnl- Ness avenue, at 11 o'clock. ErpripeE—Tuesday. August 18, at salesroom, 638 Market street, at By ture, at 9 " OITY NEWS IN BRIEF. Fair Sunday — Forecast Officlal W. H. Hammon. A new bicycle bosat is the invention of Colin Thompson, & local man. A conference of local and United States meat inspectors is to be held within the next few days. Both the Junta and Buckley factions of the local Democracy organized a number of clubs last night. A Soldiers’ and Saflors’ Veteran Republican ub has been revived in the interest of the ublican party. 7 e reorganized Veteran Soldiers’ and ors’ Republican Club is coming to the front as a political power. can Chisholm, the well-known contrac- t died on Friday, was buried yesterday in Calvary cemetery. Mrs. Maggie Murray, late of Stockton, com- at her husband has left her and their d without means of support. The Municipal Reform League is circulating & pamphlet in which the proposed new charter is criticized in many particulars. Auditor Broderick’s corrections of the Asses- sor’s books have been finished and the result transmitted to the State Controller. The Hon. Charles N. Potter of the Supreme 3ench of Wyoming draws a glowing picture of e s of woman suffrage in that State. “aptain Tulloch of the British ship Brenda is lying dangerously ill in St. Luke’s Hospital He is suffering from typhoid maiarial fever. ch The inyentory and appraisement ‘'of the Joshua Hendy estate is missing from the County Clerk’s office. 1t has supposedly been The letter-carriers ization last I £ next year's this City. The Merchants’ Associntion has presented t e uniforms to its sidewalk sweepers v uniforms made their appearance formed s permanent t for the purpose of ational convention for the n uding investigations of the Japanese r problem confirm the belief that a wise ctive tariff is the American workman's eL. Lapthorn, 625 Ssn_Jose avenue, 1back in the dropping 1 elevator yesterday safternoon at 405 3oard of Health condemned nine Chi- eries and notified the occupants to &s the buildings are to be torn down of John Wills, the district engi- Fire Department, are much pleased he eonferring on him of the Scannell or gallant k has demanded that Asses- Siebe turn the treasury the sum of 5.299 98, being the amount of uncollected onal property. in athletics between the Y. M. X ission branch, at the grounds of 1e latter yesterday, the branch scored 120 s 10 the main body’'s 40. 1o discovery of an infernal machine in a gt t overall factory brought to a fie plot to murder the owner and burn down his establishment. Yesterday the Encinal yacht Fawn won the Challenge Cup race, besting the co Club yacht Catherine 6 minutes 119 seconds, correcied time. Eight members of the Socialist Labor party were arrested at Seventh and Market sireets night end charged with obstructing the et and disturbing the peace. Local marine engineers will hold a meeting g the coming week, having for its pur- the amelioration of the condition of en- l. gineers throughout the country. ert Chow, & newsboy arrested for violat- transfer ordinance, pleaded guilty be- Judge Low yesterday and was allowed to go on promising not to do it again. ne thousand boxes of fruit were given to ritable institutions by McDonough & Run- . the commission men, yesterday, in pref- nice to being dumped into the bay. The Mission residents held a jubilee meeting nse Hall last night in honor of the achieved in obtaining an appropriation 00,000 for the erection of a high school. The Merchants' Ass n has called a ng of property s and others to the raising of the City’s assessment roll as contemplated by the Board of Equalization. P. B. Tod, leading owner of the Jubilee mine, Transvaal, South Airica, isat the Palace. He has been examining the Bunker Hill mine, Ventura County, with & view of purchasing it. rles L. Fair continued his deposition erday. After some lively fencing between nsel it was agreed that Some of James G. ir's letters shall be brought into court next Weduesday. The Pacific Yacht Club held the first of a series of ‘‘at homes,” which it proposes to hold during the winter at Sausalito ast evening. The San Francisco Yacht Club elso gaves party at Ssusalito. The tug Fearless went from Folsom-street wharf to Sausalito and towed the ship St. Mungo to Port Costs, and then got to her dock inside of five Lours. Thisis the smartest per- formance of the season. James Mills, managing director of the Union Bteamship Company, New Zealand, has re- turned here frim England after ordering three vessels for #is line, one of which is to take the place of the Monowal. The Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company in- stituted suit in the United States Circuit Court yesterday against the Oregon Improve- ment Compeny to recover $5,000,000 on cer- tain bonds guaranteed by them in 1880. Cornelius Shine, & dairyman on the San Bruno Rosd, owned & horse that chased Mounted Policeman McKenna for over a mile 2 tew days ago and Shine was forced to part with it owing to its dislike to the officer. Arrest and conviction of William Edlin charged with obstructing s sidewalk by making an_address, is denounced as an out- rage, and the next case will be appealed to test the principle,and right of free speech. The Prison Directors met yesterday at San Quentin and heard a flattering report from ‘he warden for the last fiscal year., The cost of conducting the prison was a little over 30 s per capita a day, but tne jute mill lost 000. At the bier of George W. Cornwell, one of the Southern Pacific’s oldest engineers, who was married to &8 woman and living under the neme of Parker, two other women came for- ard, each ciaiming to be his wife, and hear:- broken scenes ensued. A matched game of tennis that was to have been played yesterday afternoon at the Cali- fornia Courts, corner of Bush and Scott streets, was postponed owing to the two days’ iliness of Hardy who with Driscoll was to have cpgmed the Whitney brothers. The game will probably be played next Saturday. A. B. Kinne was last night elected by the Populist County Committee to fill the vacancy in the State Central Commitiee, and the as- scmblage also decided to hold, next Wednes- day night, the first of & series of public Popu- list meétings, to be held in a large tent, cor- ner of Ninth dpd Market streets. An gerial navigation company, known as the Atlantic and Pacific Aerial Navigation Com- pany, was incorporated August 10. By the ans of airships constructed of aluminum d Jifted by hydrogen gas this company ex- pects to land passengers in New York within forty hours aiter embarking from San Fran- cisco. About twenty delegates representing the public school teachers of this City were to have met in the auditorium of the Girls’ High Echool this morning, to form & council of five to suggest to the Board of Education certain ueeded improvements in the schools. The at- tendance was so small thet no business was transacted. ASSESSOR MUST PUT UP THE COIN Auditor Broderick’s Demand for the Uncollected Taxes. THE AMOUNT IS LARGE. Siebe Has the Alternative of a Suit by the District Attorney. TOTAL ASSESSED VALUATION. The Auditor’s Corrections Made and a Report Rendered to the State Controller. Assessor Siebe’s annual ordeal, the time when he must turn into the treasury the sum he has failed to collect in taxes on personal property or stand a prosecution at the hands of the District Attorney, i= at hand, and was heralded yesterday by a sharp demand from Auditor Broderick that the law be complied with. Mr. Broderick's letter was as follows: Hon. John D. Siebe, Assessor of the City and County of San Francisco—SIk: Pursuant {o the provisicns of section 3831 of the Political Code of California, I have the honor to inform you that as Auditor of the City and County of Ban Francisco, I have, subsequent to the first Monday in August, 1896, made a careful ex- amination of the assessment books of the City and County of San Francisco, to_ascertain therefrom the amountsof all taxes that should have been collected by the Assessor in pursu- ance of the statutes of 1895, chapter CCXVIII of the Political Code, and which have not been collected. 1 have determined that _the amount of taxes | that should have been collected #nd have not | been collected by you amounts to the sum of $138,299 93, as per my account to the As- sessor, accompanying this demand. I, there- fore, by this letier, demand that you, &8 Assessor cf the City and County of San Fran- cisco, O pay into the treasury of the City and County of San Francisco, within fifteen days from date hereof, the said sum of $138,299 93, said sum being the amount of taXes so remain- ing uncollected by you, &s hereinbefore stated. Very respectfully, = WILLIAM BRODERIC! Auditor of the City and County of San Fran- cisco. Accompanying the letter was a state- ment maxing the following showing: Total value of personal property rol ,174,980 Amount on which taxes have been c lected. . o reeeeeeees 37,028.316 Amount on which Assessor failed to collect Z5Y $6,146,664 Amount of tax uncollected by the Assessor, $138,299 93. The law requires that the Auditor must make this demand on the Assessor, and thiat the District Attorney, in cese of fail- ure to comply with it, must begin proceed- ings at once. Assessor Siebe won his case when tried | 1ast year for a failure to turn $40,180 13 un- | collected taxes into the treasury, Judge Trout deciding in_his favor on the ground that portions of the law were unconstitu- tional. The large amount of the taxes classed as uncollected are on the cash in the vaults of the banks that have had in- junctions served on the Assessor probibit- ing him from collecting them. Deducting these from the $138,299 33 demanded, it appears that the Assessor collected nearer to the total amount due than last year. Assessor Siebe declines to say what he will do in the matter until he has looked closely into the law. F. D. Burrows, the Auditor's account- ant, finished the arduous task of correct- ing the clerical and other errors in the Assessor’s books yesterday and prepared the annual statement to the State Con- troller, to be nsed at the meeting of the State Board of Equalization at Sacramento on Wednesday next. The revised figures show that the entire amount of taxable property is $357,586,126, or $29,780,979 more than last year. The complete figures for the past two years are as follows: Value of real estate other than city and town lots.... PO $2.848,170 Value of city and town lots 143,979,210 $185,827,380. Value of improvements on real estate Total value of real estate. other than City ana town lots. ...... _ $715,660 Improvements on city and town lots. 87,761,361 Total value of improvements..... $88,506,915 Total value of real es- tate, lots and im- 1896. 1896. provements.......... $265,018,605 $275,334,205 Vaiue of personal prop- erty than money ana solvent 45,664,056 47,073,097 solvent credits. 17,122,486 85,178,734 Totals..............5327,805,147 $357,586,126 The number of acres of land assessed is the same as last year, 27,200, while the amount of mortgages on property has in- creased from $49,684,914 in 1895 to $51,013,- 275 in the present year. The large increase in the assessed value of money and solvent credits is due to the action of the Assessorin taxing the cash in the various banks amounting to several millions. The question of who shall represent the City before the State Board of Equaliza- tion has not yet been settled, but the probabilities are that Auditor Broderick and Assessor Siebe will be the ones on whom the duty will fall. Auditor Brod- erick said yesterday thatif the State Board makes a horizontal raise on the total valuation of city property it will do so on the showing that the taxes on over $6,- 000,000 of personal property have not been collected and that the valuation presented tothem is fictitious. . “‘This will be an injustice to the City it it is done,” said Mr. Broderick, “‘because, while five banks have not paid the taxes on the coin in their vaults, I believe that they will yet be compelled to do so, and that in consequence the total of the uncol- lected taxes will be less than last year. ‘“The State Board probably figures that unless it raises the total valuation the State will not get its full proportion of taxes from this City, but in view of the fact that leaving out the amount on which taxes have not been collected the assessed valuation is many millions greater than las ar, 1 do not see what the State alizers have to fear. A determined will certainly be made to keep the board from making a raise.” “DOLLIE IN ‘fOWN.” Her Brother Declares That She Knows- Absolutely Nothing of the Win- throp Case. In the interval before the Winthrop- Campbell abduction case comes to trial detectives are at work following up clews. The latest development discloses the fact that the alleged *‘mysterious Dollie” is 1n own. Elmer E. Parmelee of 3508 Twenty- fourth street sald yesterday: “My sister was in no way connected with this abduec- tion of Mr. Campbell, and she has never written a letter to O. W. Winthroo. Neither she nor any member of her family knows anything as to the guilt or inno- cence of 0. W. Winthrop. As for her be- g in hidin - that is false. She has been living at 3508 Twenty-fourth street with her mother and brother for years. “She was formerly in the employ of F. 'W. Brooks as bookkeeper, but left his em- ploy on July 30, and has since been living home assisting her mother. 8he bas never been out of the house except on busi- ness, accompanied by her mother or some member of the family. As she left her employer on July 30, she had nothing to do with the shortage of wages due August 1 at the Emporium. Brooks left on Au- ust 2, and Miss Parmelee was then and as since been in the City. “Captain Lees told me positively that he knew that my sister had no connection whatever with the case.”’ DESERTED AND POOR. Pitiable Condition of a Little Child and Its Twice Married Young Mother. Mrs. Maggie Murray, & young woman whose childbood was passed at the Roman Catholic orphan asylum in this City, told a pathetic story at the office of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children yesterday. On leaving the care of the sisters she went out to service as a domes- tic, after some years accepting a situation in Stockton, where she met Murray. The man fascinated her, and the inexperienced ii_rl expressed her willingness to become is wife. Murray took her to an office where the marriage ceremony was read by a man representing himself to be a clergyman in the presence of another individual who called himself the County Clerk. This happened in 1898, and in the following vear a little girl was born. Four months later the young woman_discovered the in- validity of her supposed marriage. Shortly afterward the couple came to this City and Mrs. Murray prevailed upon her deceiver to have the marriage revali- dated by Justice Barry. Legitimate matrimonial bliss seemed to vall upon Murray, and a short time ago he decamped. But he did not go alone. A fair but frail companion cheered his fli-ht and resided with him for some time in San Jose. The pair separated in a short time, and the last news of Murray re- ported him as living in Stockton with & giddy young creature of questionable ante- cedents. Meanwhile his wife and child have been enduring the severest ' ardships and privations, The officers of the society are endeavoring to make Murray do sowe- thing to alleviate the sad condition of the little one and its mother. A FAST BICYCLE - BOAT, Will Advance Aquatics—Is Pro- pelled With Little Exer- tion. A Trial Trip to Be Made Across the Bay Shortly With Copies of a Local Paper. Colin Thompson of this City has in- vented a water bicycle which he claims will completely revolutionize the method of propelling vessels through the water by the aid of human power. A great number of water bicycles have been invented, but the exertion required to propel them through the water was always too great to allow of them being put into practical use. Mr. Thompson claims to have overcome this difficulty, and with his water cycle expects to easily defeat any of the ferry- boats on the bay, using no more power thun it takes to run an ordinary bicgcle on a good road. This is due to the machinery of the craft, which is composed of a succession of small cogwheels with ball bearings, working one upon the other from a power developed by pedaling. The rider sits a little above the gunwale of the boston a regulation bicycle seat FOR MURDER AND ARSON. Fiendish Chinese Plot Un- earthed by the Fire Marshal. A FACTORY IN DANGER. A High Price Placed Upon the Head of Chun Man, the Owaner. TWO ATTEMPTS THAT FAILED. Matches and a Lighted Fuse Placed in a Sansome-Street Building. 0il, An attempt was made on Thursday night or early Friday to destroy the large overall factory on Washington and San- some streets by fire. The attempt only miscarried by an accident or perhaps ignorance on the part of the person who laid the train. The factory is owned and run by a Chinese by the name of Chun Man, who employs abont twenty-five of his countrymen in the manufacture of overalls. Man lives in the upper part of the fac- tory, and when he arose early Friday morning he found in his hallway at 50914 Washington street a curiously constructed contrivance, the purpose of which was apparent at a glance. It consisted of a quart bottle partly filled with coal o1l. The cork was slit open on one side and into this was punched two punksticks or slow matches. At the mouth of the bottle was attached a large bunch of lucifer matches, bound on with bamboo. The punks had been lighted and it was the intention that the fire should burn slowly to the bunchof matches, whick would ignite and set fire to the oil that escaped from the slit in the cork. The person who placed the deadly affair there eviaently did not know that the o1l running on the punk would extinguish the live coal the same as water. That was what happened when the punk became soaked with coal oil, and consequently the coal was not able to reach the bunch of matches which would, have caused the necessary flame. But for this accident or oversight the large factory with its valuable stock and the machinery would no doubt have gone up in smoke and flame. The case was at once reported to Kire Marshal Towe, who made an investiga- tion, and yesterday he learned of the cause of the attempt to destroy the fac- tory. This attempt to commit arson re- veals still another trait in the nature of the lower order of coolies. 1t seems that among the overalls and other garment workers there is a Chinese union, similar in its aims and objects to the white - labor unions, although the methods to effect desired ends are radi- cally different. A .year or two ago Chun Man had trouble with his union workmen and he hired a non-union crew for his fac- Colin Thompson’s Water Bicyecle, the W. J. Bryan, on Which He Expects to Make 18 Knots an Hour. and every turn of the pedals causes six- teen revolutions of the propeller, which is situated almost below the center of the boat and attached to a steel shaft that is in turn connected with the pedals by means of a small wheel, The boat itself is & very primitive-look- inz strucure and resembles a fiu-keel yacht. Itis double-ended, and fitted with air-tight compartments at each end, mak- ing it practically unsinkable. An open space is left in the center for the machinery, and the boat is so divided that it resembles two boats in one, or one boat above the water and one below it. The boat that appears on the surface only draws six inches of water and is twelve feet long, while the part below the water, that sustains the machinery and rider, is only four feet long and draws sixteen inches of water. The entire craft is decked over, leaving an open space in the center for the rider. It is 8 feer wide at the center and 22 inches deep, with only 6 inches of the boat ap- pearing above the water. Itis fitted with & lead keel 4 feet long and weighing 100 pounds, The inventor expects the craft to make 18 knots an hour, and to prove the feasi- bility of his statement he will have a try- out with one of the ferry steamers next week. He has negotiations pending with one of the Jocal papers to carry copies of their paper across the bay as an advertis- ing scheme on the part of the paper. The bicycle boat will be called the W. J. Bryan, and is almost in a completed state at the boatshop of S.J. Thornton, a local boatbuilder, and if everything con- nected with the invention proves satis- factory a plant for the constrution of bicycle boats will be erected here, —————— The Twentieth Century. The above is the title of a neat eight- page publication that has reached THE CALL office that possesses .many unique and useful features. It isissued weekly by the Emporium Company and is edited by W. E. Joslyn, the advertising manager of the Emporium. It is handsomely illus- trated with a number of novel designs executed by J. Otto Hunicke. The leading contribution to this issue of the journal 1s furnished by A. Feist, the president of the Emporium Company. In this article he detaiis in a briet and in- teresting manner the aims and objects of the Emporium Company,and demonstrates by facts and figures the advantages gainad b, truflnfi:t the twentieth century store. ‘aken all in all it is a unique and interest- ing publication, and if each issue contains as much valuable, Jive reading matter as the initial number, the journal will be much sought for by the public. ——————————— In the Crimea, fruit preservation is a new industry, but one which has advanced very rapidly. There are numerous factories where large quantities of preserved fruit are now turned out. 3 tory, and from that time to the present he has vowed that he would not have any- thing more to do with Chinese union workmen. The Iatier were enraged at this course and the union at once decided that Man must die. More than that, a price of $1000 was set upon his head and the assassin who was to execute the death sentence was picked out of the murderous crew. Man learned of this, but being a person of great courage he did not flee or shrink from meeting his enemies. In fact he armed himself and went into Chinatown and with the greatest coolness walked directly into the union’s headquarters. Seeing the man who had been selected as his executioner he went over to him and with a smile that meant mischief said : ““Well, here I am. Why don’t you earn your money? One thousand dollars does not grow on bushes to be picked so easily ever‘y day.” His personal courage cowed the fellows during the next week tremble. Judge Conlan 1son a vacation, and during his absence the mantle of his authority has fallen on the popular young Justice. ————— CITY OF PARA ARRIVES. Chief Steward Crosby and Charles Smith Die on the Trip. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s steamer City ot Para airived from Panama and way ports last evening. Her captain reports that on the down trip Charles Smith, a coal-passer, died.and was buried off the coast of Mexico. On the return trip Benjamin Crosby, chief steward, died of heart disease and was buried in the Gulf of Tehauntepec. The deceased was at one time second steward on the Pacific Coast Steamship Company’s steamer Columbia. He re- signed that position a number of years ago to take the position of first steward on the Panama steamer San Jose. He was finally transferred to the City of Para and remained on her up to the time of his death. George Crosby was married a little over a year ago and resided, when not on duty, with his wife in Oakland. ——————————— Three Inquests Held. Coroner Hawkins held three inquests yes- terday. In the caseof Ng Ah Sum, the Chi- nese who hanged himself on board theUmatilla, the jury returned a verdict of suicide. James 8. McGilvray came to his death by accident. He was employed on the new American Ex- change Hoiei, when the boom of one of the derricks broke, killing him instantly. Murder was assigned as the cause of the death of Au- gust Fiorentine, Arthur Jackson being charged Wwith the crime. e L P Bernstein Pleaded Guilty. Sidney B. Bernstein pleaded guilty totwo charges of misdemeanor embezzlement in Judge Bahr's court yesterday. Bernstein is the voung man Who has been renting bicycles and failing to return them. He will sentenced next Saturda; A MISSION JUBILATION, Family Gathering Celebrating the High Scnool Vic- tory. Resolutions Passed Thanking Those Who Assisted in Making the Residents H ppy. ‘What might be termed a family gather- ing of the residents of the Mission assem- bled at Defense Hall, on Guerrero and Twentieth streets, last night, to give vent to their expression of joy on having re- ceived $200,000 from the Supervisors, with which a high school will be erected in the sunbelt valley for the accommodation of the school children of the district. The meeting was called to order by J. F. Crosette, who stated the object of their coming together to be for congratulation and to recurn thanks to those who so ably assisted and responded to the necessity of having a high school in their immediate home. By a unanimous vote J. D. Phelan was elected chiairman of the meeting, and he in turn spoke of the benefis to the resi- dents of the Mission in their having a school where their children could finish their educa tion without being compelled to travel to the other side of the City. He said that 6 mills taxation on the dol- 1 ar was not too much for the people of this City to give to the wants of the peo- ple of the Mission district for educational purposes. So far as he was concerned he would contribute liberally his pro rata of taxes to educational purposes, and he was sure that all other taxpayers would be as gen- erous when they knew that the money thus given was put to landable use. John H. Grady, president of the Mis- sion High School Club, followed, giving & resume of the labors of the club and the results achieved thus far. Judge F. W. Van Reynegom offered the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: ‘WHEREAS, The Board of Education of the City and County of San Francisco recom- mended 10 the Board of Supervisors the neces- sity of estabiishinga high school in rthe Mis- sion district and asked the appropriation of 200,000 for the purpose of acquiring s site und erecting a building. Aud whereas, the finance committee of the Board of Supervisors in 1§ report states thac“as many of our de- partments and citizens have impressed the committee with their views on many public requirements it is but just to state that, but for the conditions exminy, these requirements would have been provided for,”” and they add, emphasizing our petition, that “among the many, none npge-l 10 committee more strongly than the appropriation ssked for & high school AP TheRf.ssion”; and, whereas, the citizens of the Mission district are unanimous in request- ing that such facilities be given their children; and, whereas, the Boys’ High School and the Girls High School, overcrowded and inade- uate, are located in parts of the City remote rom the Mission, where dwell almostone- third of the children who attend the public schools, and, whereas, the distance imposes an additional and uniecessary tax upon said children who desire the high school education amounting in the carfare alone to the per .capita allowance for each child under the scgool levy, and,whereas, the people of the Mis- sion are not oblivious to the necessity of keep- ing down taxation in a season of financial and business depression through which we are passing, yet s high school isa permanent a tion to the City’s property, ylelding for the out- lay educated men and women to grow up to serve the community in which they are edu- cated: and, whereas, the demand for such facilities is real and urgent as made by the Board of Education haying the matter in charge and petitioned for by the families whose children suffer by reason of the absence of such facilities; and, whereas, it isonly just your and proper that the Board of Supervisors ahonl}:l f:n harkened to the voice of the people immediately interested in gnmlni their reasonable request, and no taxpayer wil. begrudge the payment of 6 mills on the dollar of valuation for such a noble and neces- sary purpose, especially when the district affected has contributed by taxation in the for the time and the assassin sneaked off into another room. He simply waited for his opportunity, as he did not have any idea of risking a personal encounter with an individual as Man. The latter, how- ever, reported the case to the Chinese Six Companies. This body, too, found that $1000 had been offered for Man's life, and the edict went forth that the assassin must I the country at once. He went to China on the next steamer and was on%y too glad to keep his own hide whole.| ‘he union workmen were not to be thwarted so easly, and the $1000 was then offered to the man who would destroy Man’s factory. lg fire. It was decided, however, not to make a move in this direction too quickly, but to wait until the excitement of ‘the first trouble blew over. Man recently learned that the union men were likely to renew hostilities and he kept a lookout for trouble. was not careful enough, as one of the ruffians succeeded in placing the firebrand in the hall on Thursday night as stated. The fellow knew.what he was doing for he put the bottle of oil in a lace where, had the plan succeeded, the Knildin could not bave been saved. Fire Marshal Towe does not propose to let this raatter drop, but will request the Mayor to offer a reward of for the arrest of the miscreant or any who are in the plot. Under the lawthe Mayor may offer such a reward for the arresto! pér- sons who conspire or execute such plots. The Queen’s Whaling Excursion. It is announced that the Queen, in addi- tion to the whaling feature of the cruise (uiling next Saturday afternoon) wifl also visit the wiecked s ers St. Paul and Colombia. The trip is such a novel one that everybody seems determined to go. ————————— Justice Carroll on the Police Bench. Justice of the Peace John A. Carroll’s severe judicial brow will make the offend- ers who appears in Judge Conlan’s court past and present vast sums to the City’s ireasury without any adequate return for schools and none for parks; be it therefore Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting be cordially extended to the Board of Education, and more particularly toihe Board of Super- visors, for having voted the necessary funds for providing the Mission with school faciii- ties for its children, and that we especially thank our representative, J. K. C. Hobbs, for responding soenthusiastically to our call; and be it further Resolved, That we assure the citizens of San Francisco that, with this improvement tardy justice will at last have been done to an his- toric and thickly settled portion of the City, which has been forced to yield, by previou Boards of Supervisors, to0 the necessitis of the new and growing Western Aa- dition, which is now well eqiipped with schoolhouses; that “when the case is roved and the hour has come justice delayed is justice denfed” ; that the growth and devel- opment of one part of the City is the benefit of all, and that no money can be so well spent by the municipality as for the educational wei- I o the ohildren of the City, which inures ultimately to_good Fovarnmenl. good citizen- ship and good morals. School Director Henderson stated that the architect had been instructed to pre- pare plans for the building. He thought suitable site could be obtained for $60,000, leaving $140,000, with which an elegant building could be erected, and if everything went along smoothly the school would be finished i one year from the present date. Julius Kahn, who was present, was called upon for a few remarks. He said it was better to give $6 for educational pur- ses than $1 for the support of a penal nstitution. Police Judge Low, who had recently taken up his residence in the favored belt, spoke of the loveliress of the climate an tge hope that in the near future they would have a public park where the ladies and the babies could spend the days and the evenings free from fog and cold winds. The meeting adjourned with three rous- ing cheers for the Mission High School Club and the committee that brought such crowning success to the people. NEW TO-DAY. “I don't believe there ever was 30 good a pill made as Ayer’s Cathartic Pills. 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Other coats INOTHER PAPER HAS BEEN LOST Inventory and Appraise- ment of the Joshua Hendy Estate MISSING FOR MONTHS. Disappearance of a Document of Great Importance to Con- testants. . ATTORNEY LANGHORNE ANGRY How an Apparently Prosperous Busi- ness Loses Instead of Mak- irg Money. There is another important paper miss- ing from the County Clerk’s office. This time it is an inventory and appraisement of the estate of Joshua Hendy. The loss, however, is not an irreparable one, as a copy of the missing document, which is very full and reliable, is in existence. The fact that the inventory of the Hendy es- tate was missing has been known to the attaches of the Probate Department of the Clerk’s office for some time, some say as long as three months. Attorney J. P. Langhorne, the legal representative of one o the contestants, hes also been aware of the loss for quite a while. $ The litigation over the Hendy property has been in the courts for a couple of years. Recently it has been charged that the executors of the will of Joshua Hendy are running things in such a manner that in the course of ashort time the entire es- tate will disappear. Samuel J. Hendy and John Hendy, nephews of the deceased, are acting as executors. While the business is ap- parently a profitable one, it has been the custom of the executors to borrow large sums from the estate to put into it. Con- sequently a petition for their removal was tiled by Mrs. Josephine Green, a sister of the executors and one of the heirs. Mrs. Green was at one time the favorite niece of Jushua Hendy. She, however, married in opposition to her uncle’s wishes, ana in bis will he cut her off with $5000 out of a $500,000 estate. She subse- quently began a contest, and the other Leirs compromised by allowing her $20,000. Not long ago the executors petitioned for an order for the partial distribution of the estate and filed a report of the property in their charge. It was this report that led to the upheaval regarding the missing inventory. J. P. Langhorne, who is Mrs. Green’s attorney, noticed that there was a dis- crepancy between the inventory and the report filed by the executors in the peti- tion for distribution, and as the estate consists principally of the stock of the Joshua Hendy Machine Works he deter- mined to investizate. He accordingly sent one of his clerks to copy the original inventory that he might compare it with a copy he had in his possession. The original document was a bulky affair in book form, but when the clerk looked for |, it he found 1t missing. Search was at once instituted and the clerk’s office has been ransacked fromend to end, but without result. : Yesterday, angered at the non-appear- ance of the paper, Mr. Langhorne deter- mined to keep the matter secret no longer. He says that he does not wish to make any charges against anybody, but that the missing inventory is material to his case and that he intends to get hold of it if it be possible, no matter who is hurt in the transaction. The deputies in the County Clerk's office made another search yesterday, but NEW TO-DAY. THE OWL DRUG CO., CUT-RATE DRUGGISTS. OPEN ALL NIGHT. We Cut Prices On Everything. SAVE YOUR DIrMES. Alcock’s Plasters. Belladonna Poron Pond’s Extract. Hood’s and. Joy’ Allen’s Female Restorative. California Syrup of Figs (We renuine)........ 35¢ Hoff’s Extract of Malt.. 25¢ Cuticura Resolvent. 70¢ Orange Blossom........ Paine’s Celery Compoun: Nelson’s Amycose. . ..50¢ Send for our Illustrated Price Catalogue, Contains cut prices on Drugs, Patent Medicines, Tollet Articles, Trusses, ete. THE OWL DRUG CO., 1128 Market 8t., San Franciseo. Tenth and Broadway, Oakland. 820 South Spring Mb., Los Angeles, failed to turn up the lon, for paper. 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