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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1896. CRIINAL DAY IN SA JOSE'S COURT The Offenses Range From Double Murder to Petty Theft. AN OCTET OF PRISONERS Harvey Allender’s Arraignment Fills the Courtroom With Spectators. TRIO OF BOLD HIGHBINDERS. Ex-Convicts, Morphine Fiends, Sn:ak Thieves and a Rancher in the Motley Group. SAN JOSE, CAn, Aug. 17.—This was criminal day in Juage Lorigan’s court, and the octet arraigned before the bar of justice included all classes of criminals from an alleged double murderer to a petty thief. The fact that Harvey Allender was to be arraigned upon the charges of mardering i Feilner and Venanz Crosetti on agust 9, filled the courtroom tors. Allender was the neatest- appearing of the batch of offenders and showed no signs of worry or excitement. He was arraigned on the two charges and iven until Friday to plead. Herbert Kelley, a morphine fiend, pleadeda guilty to two charces of burglary in the second degree. Kelley robbed the Independent mill and the Brown ware- house. At the latter place his loot con- sisted of about $300 worth of household goods. 1sadorg Salazar, an ex-convict, pleaded Ity to a charge of attempt to commit er, but pleaded not guilty to the ior zonviction placed against him. On night of June 21, during a drunken row, he made a murderous assault upon John Nelson with a knife. The latter re- ceived several bad wounds about the head and neck. m A trio of Chinese highbinders—Ah Louie You ee Quon and Ah Fong Gun—were next called up to answer to a charge of robving Lee Wing, a resident of Sixth street, Chinatown, of $264 on July 13. They will plead August 21. Antonio Machado, a Milpitas rancher o attacked a neighbor with a pitchfork g a row over a water right, was ar- raigned on a charge of assault to marder. His case was also continued to Septem- ber 7. The case of Harry Everett, charged with receiving and selling goods stolen by Her- bert Kelley, was called, and he was given until the same time as the others to plead. Sty o B Killed an Immense Wildcat. SE, CAL., Aug. 17.—Charles A. , & wood-dealer of this city, killed an wildcat on Bear Creek, in the nta Cruz Mountains, yesterday. The al weighed twenty-one poundsand 1 claws an inch long. It is one of the illed in that vicinity. Milton M , 8 ar-old boy, was with his father, and when he approached the ani- mal after it had been shot, the cat started to attack the boy, but a well-directed shot ended its life. d . e Santa Clara’s Coming Fair. SAN JOSE, CAL., Aung. 17.—At a joint meeting of the committees from the Board of Trade and the Santa Clara County Agricuitural Society to-day it was decided th the Agricultural Society was to have full control of the races and livestock ex- hitit at the coming fair, while the Board of Trade have charge of the agricult- ural and horticultural exhibit in, the pa- vilion. Medals and diplomas will be given exhibitors iustead of cash prizes. 2R L S g Petition in Insolvency. SAN JOSE, CaL., Aug. 17.—B. C. Shart- zer, the proprietor of a general merchan- dise store'at Agnews station, to-day filed a petition 1n insolvency. The liabilities are $1617. . There &re no assets. TRUCKEL'S NEW RAILWAY. Trains Will Soon Penetrate to the Heart of the Timber Belt. TRUCKEE, CAL., Aug. 17.—Truckee is to-day one of the few towns in the land that is not depressed by ‘‘hard times.’’ Business men are prosperous; laboring men are busy and contented, In a few days the Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Company will have its road completed to the mill site, and soon after its mill will be finished. Employment will be provided for a great many more hands. The lumbering resources hereabout are unlimitead. One has to go but a short distance from town to see miles and miles of as fine sugar pine, yellow pine, fir and spruce timber as ever grew. It has only been within the past few years that this inter- est has received the attention due it. The railroad was a great undertaking, Capital long ago conceived the idea of apening the new lumber Mecca, but tim- idity predominated, and the same moun- tain might have for years been inaccessible were 1t not for the venture of the Sierra Company. S Garratt Writes From Los Angeles. SAN DIEGO. CAL., Aug. 17.—James E. Garratt, the Ensenada gold bar thief, was in Los Angeles on Friday last, a letter having been received here by A. E. Wil- liams, a former friend of Garratt, asking that Garratt’s mail be forwarded in care of Mrs. E. Cargill, 402 Banchet street, Los Angeles, and that any received later be returned to the dead letter office. Garratt intimates that he will take his departure for distant parts.. When re- Jeased at Ensenada las. Wednesday vy the officials on instructions from the City of Mexico, he endeavored to procure food from former friends, but was refused and shunned on all sides. He started to waik to San Diego, bus was given a ride on the stage and reached Los Angeles, 223 miles distaut, in two days. He has about $500 of his own money. Captured at Spokane. SPOKANE, WasH, Aug. 17.—Lillie Fisher, a gypsy fortune-teiler, last week sold to the demented wife of Judge More- house of Great Falis, Mont., for $1000 what she claimed was a charm against all evil. With the money the gypsy fled to this city, taking the entire gypsy band with her. She was arrested here to-day by Chuef of Police Guevin of Great Falls and taken back to Montana. e SO Rain Fails at Barstow. SAN BERNARDINO, CAL., Aug, 17.—A telegram received from Barstow reports that it rained very hard at that place Sai- urday and apparently all over the desert. NEW TO-DAY. A WEEK OF EXTREME PRICE-CUTTIN COLORED DRESS GOODS. At 15 Cents. 57 pieces 39-INCH FIGURED ALPACA, medium colorings, reduced from 50cto 15¢ a yard. At 25 Cents. 61 pieces 39-INCH ENGLISH MOHAIR SUITING, in greens, tans, biue, gray, garnet and slate, reduced from 60c to 25c a yard. At 35 Cents. 54 32ipieces 40 and 45 INCH FINE AL "WOOL ¥ RENCH CASHMERE, checks, plaids and stripes, reduced from $1 and $1 25 to 35¢ a yard. At 50 Cents. 41 pieces 52-INCH ALL-WOOL NOVELTY CHEVIOT SUITING, two-toned col- orings, reduced from 75¢ to 50c a yard. At 50 Cents. 72 pieces 44-INCH ALL-WOOL ENGLIEH NAVAL SERGE, 1n_surah and diag- onal effect, reduced from 75¢ to 50c a yard. LADIES’ KID GLOVES. 4 At 50 Cents. 300 dozen 5-BUTTON KID GLOVES, in biack. regular value $1, will be closed out at 50c a pair. At 75 Cents. 400 dozen 4-BUTTON KID GLOVES, in white and black, fancy colored em- broidered backs, . regular vaiue $1 25, will be closed out at 75¢ a pair. At 75 Cents. 300 dozen 4-BUTTON ENGLISH WALK- ING KID GLOVES, embroidered backs, colors navy, red, brown, tan and mode, also black, regular value $1 25, will be closed out at 75¢ a pair. At 75 Cents. 200 dozen 5-HOOK KID GLOVES,; black only, regular value $1 25, will be closed outat 75¢ a pair. At $1.00. 150 dozen LADIES’ 4-BUTTON DERBY KID GLOVES (large buftons to match gloves), colorsred, tan and brown, reg- ular value $1 50, will be closed out at $la pair. SILKS! SILKS! SILKSI1 At 50 Cents a Yard. 500 yards FANCY FIGURED and PLAID AFFETA SILK, marked down from 75¢ and $1 to 50c a yard. At 75 Cents a Yard. ards BLACK BROCADED BATIN, arge designs, marked down from $1 to 75¢c a yard. 750 At 75 Cents a Yard. 1200 yards STRIPED AND FIGURED SILK, changeable effects, marked down from $1 25 to 75¢ a yard. At 85 Cents a Yard. 700 yards 24-INCH BLACK DUCHESSE BATIN, soft finish, marked down from $1 25 to 85¢c a yard. At $1.00 a Yard. 1000 yards BLACK BROCADED BILK, gros-grain and satin grounds,@marked down from $1 50 to $1 a yard. BLACK DRESS GOODS. At 25 Cents. 15 pieces BLACK FIGURED MOHAIR, regplar price 50c, will be closed out at 25¢ a yard. At 37 Cents. 20 pieces 43-INCH ENGLISH FIGURED MOHAIR, marked down from 756¢ to 37%4c a yard. At 35 Cents. 20 pieces 46-INCH FRENCH AND ENG- LISH MOHAIR NOVELTIES, in a large assortment of patterns, worth 76¢, will be offered at 35c a yard. At 50 Cents. 75 pieces 42-INCH ALL-WOOL STORM SERGE, extra heavy, worth 75¢, will be closed out at 50c a yard. At 75 Cents. 50 pieces ENGLISH STORM SERGE, in three different twills, value for $1 25, will be closed out at 75¢ a yard. tracted by the STILL DE give an idea of the EPER CUTS IN PRICES QUOTED THIS WEEK, a few of which we submit to Thousands of Marvelons Bargains (ffered! RIBBONS! RIBBONS! At 15 Cents, FANCY AND SHADED RIBBONS, 3 inches wide, all silk, value 35¢, will be closed out at 15¢ a yard. At 15 Cents, 7 EXTRA QUALITY DOUBLE FACED SATIN RIBBONS, in oblack, value 25¢, will be closed out at 15c a yard. No. At 10 Cents. CREAM BSATIN AND GROS-GRAIN RIBBON, 2} inches wide, value 15c, will be closed out at 10c a yard. NOTION DEPARTMENT. At 7% Cents. ALL-SILK SEAM BINDING RIBBON, 10 yards to a piece, regular price 1234c each, will be closed out at 7}4c each. At 5 Cents. No. 3 Seamless STOCKINET SHIELDS, regular price 15¢ a pair, will be closed out at 5¢ a pair. FIBER CHAMOIS. At 7’: Cents. 100 pieces FIBER CHAMOIS, black, tan and gray, regular price 15¢ a yard, will be sold at 7}4c a yara. . HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR. At 25 Cents. 200 dozen BOYS' BLACK RIBBED COT- TON BICYCLE HOSE, extra heavy, made specially for boys’ wear, worth 40c, will be closed out at 25¢ a pair. At 25 Cents. 150 dozen LADIES’ BLACK MACO COT- TON HOSE, extra high-spliced heels, double soles and toes, worth $450 a dozen, will be closed out at 25¢ a pair. At 33% Cents. 175 dozen LADIES’ INGRAIN BLACK MACO COTTON HOSE, unbleached feet, nigh-spliced heels and toes, regu- lar price 50c, will be closed out at 3 pairs for $1. At 25 Cents. 100 dozen BOYS CAMEL’S- HAIR SHIRTS AND DRAWERS, non- shrinkable, will be closed out at 25¢ each. At 25 Cents. 75 dozen CHILDREN’S JERSEY RIB- BED EGYPTIAN COTTON VESTS, high neck, long sleeves; pants to match; regular price 40c, will be closed out at 25¢ each. OSTRICH FEATHER COLLARS. At 90 Cents. 100 OSTRICH FEATHER COLLARS, regular price $1 50 eack, will be closed out at 90c each. 5 b FALL IMPORTATIONS ARE POURING IN, but rTM:ES! LACES! LACES! still greater quantities are yet in transit, and their ‘display will tax to the utmost the enormous capacity of our mammoth salesrooms, hence WE ARE SPAR- ING NO EFFORTS TO IMMEDIATELY FORCE OUT EVERY DOLLAR’S WORTH OF SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS YET ON HAND. That our efforts will prove successful can readily be predicted from last week’s immense crowds of buyers and the still greater crowds bound to be at- At 5 Cents a Yard. 118 pieces IMITATION TORCHON LACE, regular price $150 a_ dozen, will be closed out at 5¢ a yard. At 10 Cents a Yard. 142 pieces BLACK WOOL LACE, regular pri%e 20c, will be closed out at 10c a yard. At 15 Cents a Yard. 236 Piaces BUTTER, BEIGE AND TWO- TONED POINT d’IKLANDE LACE, 7. 8 and 9 inches wide, regular price 35¢, 40c and 50c, will be closea out at 15¢ a yard. At 25 Cents a Yard. ieces BUTTER REAL POINT ENISE LACE, 4, 5 and 6 inches wide, regular price 75¢, 85¢c and 90c, will be closed out at 25¢ a yard. 79 EMBROIDERIES. At 121 Cents a Yard. 482 pieces NAINSOOK, SWISS ANDCAM- BRIC GUIPURE EMBROIDERY, regular price 25¢ and 30c, will be closed out at 12%4c a yard. At 25 Cents a Yard. 168 pieces CAMBRIC, NAINSOOK AND SWISS ALL-OVER EMBROIDERY, regular price 50c, 60c, 75¢ and $1, will beclosed out at 25¢ a yard. At 35 Cents a Yard. 113 pieces WHITE SWISS AND NAIN- SOOK EMBROIDERED DEMI- FLOUNCING, hemstitched and scal- loped edges, regular price 60c, 75¢ and $1, will be closed out at 35¢ a vard. At 45 Cents a Yard. pieces WHITE SWISS EMBROID- ERED FLOUNCING, hemstitched and scalloped edges, 45 inches wide, regu- lar price $1, $1 25 and $150, will pe closed out at 45¢ a yard. ; PARASOLS! PARASOLS! At 50 Cents. BLACK CARRIAGE PARASOLS, value 75¢, will be closed out at 50c each. At 75 Cents. COLORED CARRIAGE PARASOLS, value $1, will be closed out at 75c each. LADIES’ SUITS. At §4.90. LADIES' DOUBLE-BREASTED REEF- ER SUITS, in gray, tan and brown mottled effects, lined throughout; also Navy and Black: Cheviot Suits, with skirts lined; worth $10, will be closed out at $4 90 each. LADIES’ JACKETS. At $1.85. | LADIES’ DOUBLE-BREASTED JACK- ETS, in a variety of shades and styles, very good materials, worth $6 and $7 50, will be closed out at $1 85 each. LADIES’ CAPES. At $1.45. LADIES' SINGLE RIPPLE CAPES, in dark and medium shades, braided and embroidered ; also Double Capes, black and colored; both capes neatly braid- ed, ;vorth $5, will be closed out at §1 45 each. CHILDREN’S JACKETS. At $1.45. CHILDREN’S JACKETS, ranging in size from 4 to 12 years, in gray and brown checks and mottled effects, also solid colors, made with sailor collarsof same and contrasting shades, worth $3, will be closed out at $1 45 each, CRILDREN’S WEAR. At 25 Cents. CHILDREN’S MULL CAPS, of fine tucking, finished with wide strings, will be closed out at 25¢ each. INFANTS’ LONG COATS, made of fine white cashmere, yoke handsomely trimmed with embroidery and ribbon, regular price $5, wiil be offered at $3 50 each. INFANTS’ LONG COATS, of India silk, handsomely trimmed with embroidery and ribbon, regular price $6 50, will be offered at $5 50 each. At $2.00. 1 CHILDREN'S PIQUE JACKETS, in pink and blue, sailor collar, finished ‘ with embroidery, will be offered at $2 each. At $4.50. CHILDREN’S ¥ANCY PIQUE JACK- ETS, 1n fancy shades of pink, blue and white, deep sailor collar, finished with embroidery and insertion, will be of- fered at $4 50 each. Murphy Building, ,, Market and Jomes Stregfs Murphy Building, Warket and Jomes Stregts. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Streets. Murphy Bullding, Market and Jones Streets. Murphy Building, Warket and Jones Stregts, Murphy Building, 4 Market and Jones Streets. FLAGG SALUTED BY THE FACULTY, |Highly Praised in a Me- moriol to the Re- gents. IS LEARNED BUT SHY. Inference That Dear Old Bun- nell Was a Back Num- ber. NOT UP TO MODERN METHODS. His Grezk Was Good Enough for Fred Henshaw, Alex Morrison and Ryland Wallace. The resolution to dismiss Professor Flagg, which failed of adoption by one vote at the meeting of the University Re- | gents last Tuesday, has been the talk of | the town of Berkeley ever since. It is claimed by Professor Flagg's friends, who seem to be rallying to hissupport, that much was said ia commendation of his capability as a teacher which did not ap- pear in TrE CALL's report of the executive session. The records plainly show that Professor Flagg’s earnest supporter, President Kel- logg, suggested the secret session, and the fact that the eulogies of Flagg were not mentioned must be due to President Kel- logg's weakness for executive meetings. On more than one occasion Governor Budd has plainly signinied his impatience with this fashion of closing the doors ana excluding outsiders whenever important subjects touching the management of the university came up for consideration; but still the Regents are shy of public comment. The fact is now clearly demonstrated that there is among the faculty a Flagg faction as well as a Bunnell faction. 1n the faculty, as in the Board of Regents, the factions may be of equal strength. It is said by the champions of Professor Flagg that he s a man of great learning in Greek and Latin, but that his transcen- dent genius in the field of knowledge is dwarfed by over-mastering diffidence and shyness. He is accredited with a deep and profound sense of gratitude, and as he was once placed under great obligation to Professor Bunnell the sense of this debt oppressed him, and he suffered great worry and sore trial rather than murmur against his benefactor. It is admittea that Professor Bunnell did render Professor Flagg a great service; that he did extend the hospitality of his home, which Professor rlagg accepted, but it is said further that Professor Bun- nell, as a compensation for his kindness, exacted an allegiance from Professor Flagg, and that these exactions were pressed so far that the obligations of grati- tude were more than canceied. 8o far did Bunnell go in demanding rec- ognition for what he had done in Flagg’s behalf that he insisted that the latter should cast his vote in the faculty as Bunuell desired, although the Flagg in- tellect and conscience, breaking away from the fetters of shyness and gratitude, impelled him to vote contrary to Bun- nell’s demand. No longer able to suffer this great wrong in silence he sought the advice of a well-known literary lady, and told her of his mental distress—his sense of gratitude for favors bestowed by Bun- nell and his sense ot duty to the faculty and to the ‘‘high ideals,”” as Reinstein would say of the university. She, a woman of sound judgment, quick percep- tions and alert intellect, recommended emancipation, the assertion of the Flagg independence, and the casting of the Flagg vote in the faculty according to the sacred and enlightened conscience of the Flagg man. 1t seems that Professor Flagg while suf- fering in silence was recruiting some iriends in the faculty. His skill, his methods and general style of imparting instruction in Greekarrested the admiring attention of his brother professors. His methods were so modern and effective and so much superior to those employed for seventeen years by dear old Bunnell that not only the faculty but the Regents pegan to rally round the Flagg. In the course of time Professor Bunnell received a letter dictated by the advisory committee, Regents Marye, Stebbins and Columbus Bartlett. The* exact language of the letter cannot be quoted now, but surely it was the desire that Bunnell should give an example of one of the noblest of Christixn virtues—the virtue of resignation. Professor Bunnell was sur- E‘rised. Even the stanchest supporters of lagg concede that Bunnell was surprised. The faculty, if compelled to take sides openly, would admit that he was sur- £rised. Before the effect of the surprise 2d vanished Professor Bunnell went to President Kellogg to ascertain what in- duced the Regents to ask for the resigna- tion. Then and there the old professor heard that he was ‘‘not sufficient’” in Greek. He began to count his eminent graduates, and since has been counting them. Itisconceded now by Flagg’s ad- mirin%lr‘.eudu that lovely old Bunnell did teach Greek to the delight and satisfac- tion of Fred Henshaw, Alex Morrison and Ryland Wallace, but not such Greek as would satisfy the grasping intellects of modern up-to-date graduates. It is said of Professor Flagg that he has ac%lired a prodigous store of Greeki lore, and independent of his acquisitions he in- herited more Greek than Bunnell ever acquired. But Greek aside, other things tarried weight, Bunnell was told by the Eregident that discourteous treatment of rofessor Flagg was one reason why the resignation was suggested. 8o now Bun- nell is out and Fiagg is in. Judge Wallace wants the position reversed; President Kellogg does not want the present status disturbed. The faculty is now in the fight. A memorial concerning Professor Flagg has been presented to the Regents. It speaks of Flagg as without question one of the- ablest and most distinguished classical scholars in this country, and mentions that his works are widely known and valued by all competent ~scholars and ‘used in the leading universities of the country. ‘‘His name adds to the fame of our university wherever classical scholar- ship is respected, and his dismissal woula be a serious blow to its reputation.” His qualities as a teacher are praised, and it is then said amphntie:lP that “after long acquaintance we know him to be a rarely gifted man of letters and a gentleman of unquestionable honor, and we are sure that his conduct since he came among us is open to no censure.” The memorial is signed by twenty-three professors, all who had returned from vacation to Berkeley when it was circu- lated. Professors Le Conte, Moses, Soule, Brown and Armes were inaccessible. Itis said that Le Conte and Brown would have signed. esterday THE CALL sought to obtain from Horace Davis, ex-president of the university, an expression of opinion as to the relative merits of Bunnell and Flagg. Mr. Davis’ remarks were so brief that the services of a stenographer were not re- quired to record them. He said: “I am not a Regentol the university and Idecline to make any statement pertain- ing to this controversy.” Then he was asked if he had, while presi- dent of the university, received any com- plaint against Professor Bunnell for lack of efficiency in Greek. Mr. Davis replied: ‘I knew Bunnell and Iknew Flagg, and I have resolved to keep out of this controversy. You had better ask President Kellogg about Bunnell.” BENNETT’S SETBACK. No New Trial for the Former Secretary of the Society for the Suppresion of Vice. It now looks as though Charles R. Ben- nett, former secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, would have to pay the penalty for his attempt upon the life of George Gray on the 28th of July, 1894. The Supreme Court has reversed the Superior Court’s order granting Ben- nett a new trial, Justice Garoutte in‘a rather caustic decision saying: **The law’s methuds must be pursued by him who seeks the protection of the law.”” It will be remembered that Bennett was charged with having disgraced a danghter of Gray. The father's indignation caused him to reproach Bennett in the bitterest terms when the two men fell foul of each other on one of the Oakland trains shortly after the scandal became public. Bennett ARE RELIGIOUS LIVES DEFECTIVE? Many Breezy Papers on Themes New and 0ld. A BAPTIST CONFERENCE Rev. W. T. Jordan’s Resignation on Account of IIl' Health Accepted. NEW PASTOR FOR SAN JOSE. shot at Gray, but missed his gim.. The charge against the former custodian oi the public_morals was assault to commit murder, whicb, afier a long trial, resulted in his conviction of assault with a deadly weapon. He asked and obtained a new trial, but fared even worse, the jury find- ing him guilty of assault to commit mur- der. Bennetf tnen appealed for another new trial on the ground of having been twice 1n jeopardy. This proceeding the Supreme Court designates as a sort of juzgling with justice, and the order grant- ing a new trial is reversed. ANOTHER AM: NDED CONTEST. Judge Paterson Will Have to File One in the Fair Case, Judge Slack’s decision as to the standing of Judge Van R.Paterson in the Fairlitiga- tion was not rendered yesterday, as was expected. Instead it was found that a flaw existed in the contest, and so the matter went over again. Itis, however, expected that on Monday next, when the case will be taken up, all obstacles to an immediate hearing will have been cleared away. Judge Slack sustained the demurrer in- terposed to the contest of Judge Paterson, in behalf of Herman Oelrichs Jr. and other minor heirs of James G. Fair, to the will of September 24. He said that the con- test failed to show, as it should to be legal, thal the contestants have a greater interest under the will of September 21 than under that of September 24, Judge Paterson announced that he ex- pected this decision and had already begun the preparation of an amended con- test, which would be ready in two days. Attorney C. T. Wheeler said that if the contest is ready in that time and he de- cides to file a demurrer tbereto, he will file it at once, so that the entire matter will be ready for decision on Monday when the case comes up. Threats to Kill, T. Picton, manager for E. A. Harris, livery~ stables, 807 Montgomery Street, swore to a complaint in Judge Joachimsen’s court yester- day charging John Brown, & dischar sl ble’m-n, gvi':‘h threats to Picton lfig th‘:; Brown approached him vesterday morning with an open knife in his hand and said he would do him up. Brown also told some peo- ple that he would lay for Picton while on his ‘way home at night and kill him. ——————— Malefactors Convicted. John Wiiliams, alias John Haulon, was yes- terday convicted of burglary in Judge Belcher's court. He will be sentenced on Saturday. John Carr was found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon. He tried to kill James Riley with a knife. H Banrs on August 2: e \Ell be sentenced by Judge | Dr. the Spiritual Needs of the Church.” Rev. During the regular weekly conferences of the various ministerial bodies yesterday many interesting themes were treated in original fashion. Some of the subjects were new and some old, but the manner of their treatment was in all cases in ac- cordance with nineteenth century ideals. At the Baptist ministers’ meeting Miss Mindora Berry, secretary of the State Society of Christian Endeavor, addressed the assemblage on the local Bible training school. She stated that on the occasion of lectures there has been an average attend- ance of 800, and that at present over 100 young m n are studiously preparing for Christian work. On motion, a committee, consisting of Reys. C. M. Hill, 8. C. Keetch and H. L. Dietz, was appointed to arrange for the holding of a religious conference in the month of September and to prepare a pro- gramme for such occasion. Dr. Sunderland made a very full and pleasing adaress on the late Baptist anni- versaries held in Asbury Park. The resignation of Rev. W. T, Jordan, pastor of the Alameda Baptist Church, which was sent in last week, was accepted. The resignation was caused by ill health, which the ailing pastor is endeavoring to improve at present by a sojourn in the mountains of Glenn County. The Baptist Tabernacle Church of San | Jose has secured the services of Rev. 8. T, Young of Moline, Ill, who is expected there §n September. Dr. Young is con- sidered one of the ablest wearers of the cloth in the West, has an excellent repu- tation as a man of eloquence and has been very successful as an organizer. The former pastor oi the church was Rev. F. T. Mitchell, who was called to Calvary Baptist Church in Sacramento in May. [ It’hns been decided to hold the Baptist State Conference at Twin Lakes, Santa Cruz. It will' open next Tuesday week and wiil continue till the following Sun- day night. Among the subjects discussed will be the State, foreign and home mis- sions, college education, religious litera- ture and Sunday-school work. One dn'y will beentirely devoted to the Women's Home Missionary Society and one to the Baptist Historical SBociety. the Presbyterian ministers was a paper on “Some of the Spiritnal Needs of the Church,” by Rev.Dr. F. H. Foster. The paper was introduced with the statement that the greatest need of the church to-day is more religion. The vital questions, in the essayist’s opinion, are: ‘‘At what points are our religious lives aefective, and what is necessary to enlarge them?”’ The first point to which Dr. Foster drew attention is right living. He did not be- leve that being a member of a church could be taken as indicative of reliability in business men. Neither did he believe the church is making the impression of moral earnesness and selt-consistent fidelity to principle she should. “The present cecline calls for more earnest preaching of plain duty,” he de- clared. ‘“What is wanted is God in the soul; hence, God must be in the preach- ing. The effect of pulpit utterances on the hearer depends on the type of piety cherished in the church. Our preaching is largely topical—we depend too much on the Sunday-school and not enough on the pulpit.”’ The second point the writer made was in reference to the attitude the church should maintain toward the world. “There isa very strong tendency,’” he asserted, “‘to regard the civilization of the nineteenth century with a complacence which overlooks its defects and invests it with an aitogether ideal quality. Yet in many respects it is far from being what the Christian ideal demands."” Continuing, Dr. Foster spoke of warfare and the deadly weapons of late invention, deprecating the awful carnage resulting F. A. Fester on ‘“‘Some of | from their use. In discussing the paper Dr. Minton said he considered latter-day methods of war- fare less cruel than the ancient methods because wars must perforce end more quickl}g. Dr. Frazer, Dr. Alexander,Dr. Mathena, Rev. J. B. Warren and Rev. F. H. Brusn also spoke to the question. Dr. Mathena thought preachers would do better if they would only keep their eyes off their salaries. At the Congregational Morning Club Professor Geurg{a{ F. Mooar, D.D., read a paper on “The Mission of Congregation- alism in the Development of Mankind.” | He said sometimes men were accustomed to talk as if there were a Congregational polity without the gospel. If so, he asserted, it would only bear a facial re- semblance—it would not be the heroic, the zenuine product. The Christian ministers failed to appear in iorce, and an adjournment was taken without trausacting any business. The Mcthodist ministers met at the Fred Finch Orphanage in Fruitvale. SUFFRIGIST o HOMES” New Social Feature to Be In- augurated During the Present Week. Good Reports From Oakland and Los Angeles—Mrs. Sweet Leaves for the Interior. In compliance with numberless petitions from various guarters, an innovation is about to be inaugurated at the Woman Buffrage Bureau in the siape of fort- nightly evening receptions. Women whose occupations at home or at work prevent their visiting the bureau during office hours have long complained of their enforced isolation from the companion- ship of kindred spirits, while numbers of men who are in hearty sympathy with the movement have not been at the rooms for the same reason. Now, however, this lack in the ‘otherwise perfectly organized plan of the woman suffrage work in this City is to be remedied, and the receptions The principal feature of the meeting of|are sure to prove interesting to the par- ticipants and productive of good to the cause. The first and third Thursdays in each month have been fixed upon for the even- ing at home. The receptions will open at 8 o’clock and close at 10, though if when the curfew rings some Philistine shonld be just undergoing the throes of conver- sion, the hour would doubtless be ex- tended until such time as the brand from the burning could be safely corralled and tagged with the pretty badge which onlya champion of woman suffrage may wear. The ladies of the State Central Committee will conduct the receptions. Miss Mary E. Hay, the State organizer and lady chair- man, will be the hostess par excellence, thongh she will bave to contend in the role of ‘‘everybody’s favorite’’ with no less an adversary than Miss Susan B. Anthony. Mrs. A. A. Sargent and Mrs. Austin Sperry will with sweet patience try to talk reason to any chance anil-suffrazist who may heed the cordial invitation which the committee extends to folks of that ilk, Mrs. John F. Swift will crush the more obstreperous scouts of the enemy under tons of hard and weighty argument, while Mrs. Nellie Holbrook Blinn will charm voters into the ranks before they can tell “where they are at.” The bureau is getting out five new leaf- lets, whaich mfi be distributed by the thousand. One will answer the argument, so-called, that women should not vote because they cannot fight; another will deal with the desolate, neglected home of the horrid voung woman so eloquently described by anti-suffracists; a third will treat of suffrage as a boon to working women, while the other two are to con- tain brief opinions by eminent jurists and men in public life. Mrs. Emma B. Sweet, Miss Anthony’s private secretary, left yesterday morning for Stockton, where in_the afternoon she addressed a mass-meeting in the pavilion, under the auspices of the San Joaquin County Equal Suffrage Club. She will get the precinct club work of the county into shape, proceeding thence to San Jose for the purpose of inaugurating a similar work in Santa Clara County. Reports from Oakland and Los Angeles are most encouraging. Thejnoble workersin these two great centers of culture and com- merce seem to be working miracles in aid of the cause. Woman suffrage has become quite the thing in both cities, while har- mony and efficiency would seem to be the watchwords of the campaign. ———————— BUHR'S INDIGNANI REPLY. Scores the Som of Sarah Jenks for an Attack on His Moiher. B. F. Buhr, who is named as executor of the will of S8arah Jenks, has filed an answer to the contest of Walter Jenks, a son of the testatrix, who lives in London, England. L4 In the son’s contest of his mother’s will it isfalleged that Buhris a gambler and a “person of uncertain position in society,’” and that he resided in the house of, was unduly intimate with and unduly infla- enced the deceased. Buhr, in his answer, while acknowledg- ing that he has been a sheetwriter in the employ of a bookmaker, denies that .heis a gambler or that his living is dependant upon the uncertainties of any gambling game. As to the charges of undne inti- macy with Mrs. Jenks Buhr says he de- clines to discuss such a matter, and that 1f the son sees fit to make charges against his dead mother over which, even if true, be should attempt to throw a veil he for one will not be a party to such an une seemly discussion. 3 —_———————— Jonas Heller's Estate. J. Albert Engelhart of New York City has filea for probate the will of jonas Heller, who died in New York City on July 4, 1896, leave ing an estate of unknown value in this City. Jonas Heller leit $10,000 to the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, of which he was a trustee; $2500 to the Mount Sinai Hospital; $2500 to the Hebrew Orphan ylum ; $2500 1o the United Hebrew Charities; $2500 to the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids; $2500 to the Hebrew Technical Tnstitute; $500 to the Society of Ethical Culture; all of the above-named being New York institutions. . nce of the estate is left to the widow of testatrix, in trust for his niece and nephews.