The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 4, 1896, Page 11

THE TROUBLES OFA (0D FSHERMAN | | Captain Dolland Had toi Disrate Both His- | Mates. | | THE LA NINFA IN PORT Made 2 Good Catch, but There | Was No Peace During I the Trip. ! SUICIDE ON THE SHIP BOHEMIA Lighthouse-Keepsr Linne Thinks H: Is on the Track of the Peri- winkle, 1 There was considerable trouble on the | codfishing scHooner La Ninfa during the recent voyage. Captain Dolland and his | officers could not agree, and in conse- quence the first and second officers were disrated and sent into the forecastle, while the boatswain was promoted and helped the master to navigate the vessel | to San Francisco. | Of course there are two sides to the | story. Captain Dolland asserts that his | officers were thoroughly incompetent, and the men gay the skipper was over- bearing and tyrannical. The men de- clare that on one occasion the second mate gave an order that threw the La Ninfa up into the wind, and that he did not know what command to issue in order to get her away on her course again. The schooner is going to Hunters Point to dry out her codfish, and after that the troubles of the crew will probably be aired iz court. | The American ship Bohemia, which ar- | rived from Sydney, N. 8. W., last Wednes- | i | | i | | | day evening, had a rather eventful trip. | The Japanese steward grew despondent and on several occasions threatened_sui- cide. One morning when Captain H8gan called him he was not to be found and a | careful search of the ship did not show a | trace of him. The master was finally | forced to the conclusion that the Jap had jumped overboard during the night. | Captain Olsen of the schoonerJohn D. | Taliant bas purchased an interest in tne bark Undaunted and will go out in com- | mand of her. Captain Lewis, who was masterjof the Undaunted, will assume com- | mand of the ship Kennebeck. The wreck of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company’s St. Paul will be sold next! Tuesday at 1:30 . ». at the Merchants’ Ex- change. Purchasers wiil buy the hull as | it now lies at Point Pinos. The barkentine C. D. Bryant made the | N. 8 run from San Francisco to Sydn in the very smari time of fift; The Harbor Commissioners held a short | session yesterday. The California Wire | Works pointed out through its manager | that through its existence it had expended $60.000 in drayage, and asked that as an assistance to theindustry the belt-raiiroad be extended to the foot of Bay and Powell streets. The matter was taken under con- sideration. ~ 3 Attorney Tirey L. Ford reported that the | vondsmen of the late A. Page Brown were | liable for tl.e mistake in the.specifications | for the new ferry-depot. The matter of | making good the mistake was leit to the | bondsmen. [ The Oceanic Steamship Company’s Ala- | meda will be a full ship a week before her | with the missing craf! board her, but two men barred the way. On his return he told his father of the dis- He tempted to covery, and Linne started for Vallejo last night to investigate the matter. The light- house-keeper made several improvemerts in the bull of the Periwinkle, and is con- fident that he can tell the little launch among a thousand. The steamer disap- peared mysteriously about thneseun ago, and Linne has always maintained that she was stolen. PLANNING A REGATTA. The Pacific Inter - Club Yacht As- sociation’s Celebra- tion. The Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Associa- tion, of which all the recognized yacht clubs on the bay of San Francisco are | members, has called for an annual re- gatta, The date of the race has been set | for September 9 (Admission day), the start to be made at 11:30 A. M. Entries will close September 5, at noon. The course will be the usual one sailed in the association regattas. The rules of the association will govern in every particular. [f enough entries are received from the owners of yawl-rigzed yachts they will be placed in separate classes. Yachts must be sailed by & mem- ber of the club in which they are enrolled, and no professionels will be allowed aboard during the race, except in classes above that of the 44-foot racing length, where professional crews may be carried. The prizes given by the association will be a flag for first and second in each class, accompanied by a certificate of merit. At this race the first of the five cups, { valued at $250, offered by Joseph M. Mac- donough, will be sailed for. It is open for competition by all yachtsof thirty feet racing length and under, and will become the absolute property of the owner of the craft making the fasiest corrected time. Racing numbers, which will be fur- nished to the yachts at their respsctive clubhouses, must be displayed during the race on both sides of the mainsail, about | four feet above the upper reef points and four feet from the luif. Protests must be made in writing and must be filed with the committee at its headquarters, Merchants’ Exchange, be- fore 6 p. M. on Thursday, September 10, | 1896, 1n order to receive attention. Colors—Captains are requested to dis- play at the main truck the colors of the club to which they belong and at the main peak their private signal. ALL ENORMOUSLY RICH Every Little Child in Custer County Has Over 100 Head of Livestock. Big Grass and Fat Cattle to B> Seen Everywhere—John E. Kennedy's Irrigation Enterprises. John E. Kennedy, who owns an exten- sive ranch on the Powder and Yellowstone rivers, in Custer County, Montana, the scene of many of the notable wars with the Sioux Indians, is at the Palace. Mr. Kennedy lives most of the time in New York, but usually passes his summers on the great Custer County ranch. He has lately been examining into the methods of irrigating large land areas in | California, with a view of applying the | same methods on his ranch. His purpose is to take water from the Yellowstone River. “It can be done at one-tenth the cost of such irrigation work in California,” he said. “I have land on several benches. The first lot consists of about 12,000 acres, and it is this that I will first irrigate. It can all be done easily. There is far more water in the Yellowstone, 100, than in many of the streams in Southern Califor- nia that are used for irrigating purposes. “Custer County is one of the greatest in its stock-growing interests in all Mon- tapa. It has 39 cattle, 27 horses and 50 sheep for every man, woman or child in it. This shows enormous wealth. It is the southeastern county in Montana, and John E. Kennedy, the Wealthy Ranc! Visit [Sketched from life her, of Powder River, Who Is on a Here. by a “Call” artist.] sailing date. Flour, canned goods, lum- ber, genenl merchandise, salmon and beans will form the bulk of her cargo, and her passenger list is already a heavy one. The steam schooner Navarro has been chartered to carry, supplies to Clipperton Island. Her place on the Crescent City run will be taken by the Rival. The men leit on Clipperton must be running short of provisions, and the owners of the guano deposit are afraid to let them await the arrival of a sailing vessel, so the Navarro was chartered. Latest advices from the steamer Gaelic are to the effect that she has got off the drydock at Yokohama and is now on her way to Hongkong to go on the marine ways for repairs. The damage is not as serious as was at first reported. Lighthouse-keeper Linne of Goat Island thinks he came across the track of the lost Government launch Periwinkle. Hisson was up at Vallejo a few days ago and there he saw & boat minus the machinery and smokestack that exactly corresponded is about two-thirds the size of Ohio, which is an average-sized State. The figures I have given about its livestock are given by the Assessor. “I may add that it is for gold, just as every agricultural county in the State i My Montana home is at Blatchiord, a sta- tion on the Northern Pacific Railroad, but Miles City is the county seat. It has but 1500 people, but that is not a fair way to i‘:dge it. It has two National banks and the center of business for 150 miles around. “'Grass has been good for some time in Montana, and cattle and other livestock have done well. Prices are lso retty good. The grass on the Powder, ‘ongue, Yeliowstone and Rosebud rivers is all good, as it is generally throughout Montana.’ Mr. Kennedy will probably remain here several days. He is to be very wealthy. New Corporations. The Carnival Company and the MacDsrmott Estate Company were yesterday incorporated. FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1896 11 HIGHBINDERS USE PISTOL AND DIRK An Attempt to Shoot a Merchant and Alleged Hatchetman, FOUR ASSASSINS FOILED. Lee Fook Ning, a Detective, Marked as a Sheath for a Knuife. WAS SAVED BY A MONGREL CUR Bo Ong and Bo Leong Tongs Now at War—More Trouble Exp:cted at Any Time. The Chinese highbinder is at his mur- derous work again. Sunday night an at- tack was made on a wealthy merchant, and early yesterday morning both the Bo ‘ hatchetmen were across the street watch- ing the would-be assassin enter his shop. | He says they must have laid their fac- | tionul fight aside temporarily in order to | make war on the common enemy. When the Chinese return in force from the fish canneries more trouble is ex. | pected, as these men are the most vicious and unruly in Chinatown. WORK OF ENDEAVORERS They Are Already Preparing for the Convention to Be Held Here in July, 1897. There is no lack of enthusiasm among the Christian Endeavorers on the ques- tion of the coming international Christian Endeavor convention, which wiil be held here next July, and each week shows some evidence of new arrangements having been made. | A communication has been sent to the trustees of the Mechanics’ Institute, ask- ing for the use of the Mechanics’ Pavilion as one of the great meeting places for the convention. The Endeavorers do not ex- pect that the Pavilion will be able to held more than one-third of the delegates and their friends who will be in attendance, and so arrangements will be made to bring from the East the two large tents which were used at the international convention beld at Washington, . C., last Tuly. The tents will each accommodate 10,000, and it has not Ket been determined just where to locate them. The trustees of Plymouth Congrega- tional Church Lhave sent a communication to the'97 convention committee offering them the use of the large lot west of Piymouth Congregational Church. On account of the location of the church ir is not thought probable that the offer will be accepted. Union Square has been sug- gested provided permission can be ob- tained from the Supervisors. Next Sunday evening the Endeavorers = Lee Fook Ning, the Chinese Detective, Who Is Marked for a High- binder’s Bullet, and the Dog That Saved His Life. Ong Tong and the Bo Leong Tong co- operated in an attempt to assassinate a Chinese detective who had been endeavor- ing to discover the identity and where- abouts of the malefactors. Saturdey night’s episode occurred in this wise: Lately there has been a rupture between the Bo Ong aud the Bo Leong tongs, presumably over the levying of tribute. Dong Quong, a merchant in business at the intersection of Jackson street and Sul- livan alley, is an alleged member of the former organization. For some reason he has incurred the special hatred of the Bo Leong hatchet-wielders, and the culmina- tion of this ill-will was an attack on him in Sullivan alley by four members of that organization last Sunday evening. Only one shot was fired, as Patrolman Owens was drawn to the scene by the report and the highbinders fled. Dong Quong was not harmed by the shot, but since then he stays at home. The affair was careiully investigated by Lee Fook ng, who was appointed July 26 by the Chinese merchants’ law and order committee “for the purpose of aid- ing and assisting in the discovery and suppression of highbinders.” Ning followed close at the heels of the wonld-be assassins aud was in a fair way to bring them to justice. Then the high- binders grew uneasy and a dark-cellar powwow was held, with the resuit that at a quarter of 6 o’clock dyosurdu morning an attempt was made to use Ning’s anatomy as a sheath for a dirk. Ning lives at 731 Sacramento street. The attempt on his life is best expressed in his own words: ‘A friend came to me yesterday,” he said, “‘and tola me to be careful as the highbinders intended to kill me. I was very watchful when on the street, but | never had the least idea they were so bold as to come into my house. ‘““About half past 5 this morning I arose from bed and came into the front room. Isat with mg back to the door smoking as I watched my brother work. Suddenly that little dog you see there,” pointing with his finger to a yellow cur curled up under a chair, “ran from his position near the door and began to bark. “I instinctively turned round. A high- binder whom I recognized as Cheong Ah Fook had just lu%ped inside the door. In his right hand he held a large dirk. ‘When he perceived that I saw him he quietly stepped out and started down the street. 3 I rushed to the door, when the sight of several highbinders stopped me. Three were directly across the street in the door- way of the Yeong Wo Association and four more stood on the corner of Dupont and Sacramento streets, *At this juncture my cousin, Lee Sing, who lives upstairs at 72614 Sacramento, rushed across to me. He said afterward that he had seen Cheong Abh Fook enter the doorway and was coming to my as- sistance. On his arnval the fellows that intended to kill me ran np Sacramento street and turned into Wave:ly place. “'zhe fellow that had been in my door- way was all this time walking leisurely down the street. I took after him and bbed him as he rounded the corner nto Kearny. As we struggled I man: to pull out and blow my pol ‘whistle. *'At this Fook quit fighting and reached for his knife. = “No policeman was in_sight, and being unarmed, [l..;ghl:;m £O. B:nix :cron the park to ton_ stree ave seen noue of them since, but they will doubt- to kill me again.’ “!;ln":un bont:a.Bo Ong and Leong Tong | bave planned to hold a grand nl% at Westminster Presbyterian Church. The meeting will be largely for the purpose of booming the coming convention. The | rally will open with a praise service at | 7:30. Brief addresses will be made by A. 8. Johnson, Donald Mackenzie, J. S. Web- ster and other prominent Christian En- deavorers. Mr. Webster will speak es- pecially on the benefits to be derived from an international Chbristian Endeavor con- vention. Rev. H. C. Minton, D.D., will lend the consecration service and the rally will close with a bymn and the Mizpan benediction. BSHOP FUSS I TOWN The Eminent Divine of the Methe- dist Church to Hold Con- ferences. His Account of the Work Among A!l Classes, Including Chinese and Japanese. Bishop C. D. Foss of Philadelphia, the eminentdivine of the Methodist Episcopal charch, is at the Occidental. He has come to preside over the conferences of the ministers of the church and make ap- pointments for the ensuing year, as is the custom with the church. The Bishop was last on the Pacific Coast twelve years ago, when he came to remain but a short time. He was never aresident here. He was for some time Bishop of Minnesota and for eight years past has been stationed at Philadelphia. He is a large, distinguished-looking gen- tleman, with a high, full forehead, and a beard which is getting quite white. The Bishop toid the object of his com- ing and that he would be in California for two or three weeks or more and wounld then go to Arizona. *‘We begin the regular conference at Pa- cific Grove on Wednesday, the 9th,’’ he said. “This will probably last six days. Then at Los Angeles, beginning on Sep- tember 18 and Iasting three days, there will be a conferei.ce of the Germai minis- ters. After this, beginning on September 23 and lastir.g about six days, the regular Bouthern California conference of the English-speaking ministers will be neld. “When this is over I will go to Pheenix, Arizona, and hold the regular conference there.’ In regard to mission work on the Pacific Coast and in the Pacific islands and coun- tries of the Orient the Bishop said : “‘Having been located in another part of the country I cannot recount the extent of the mission work, especially 1n a local m told that the mission work panese and Chinese nere has been very successful during the past year. “The conference at Grove has the oversight of the Japanese and Chinese work. There is a conference here in refer- ence 10 the Japanese work to-night.” The Bishop is looking in excellent heaith. He has a great many friends in Cullorfih .id hmregfl:dm the no\xlncry generally. He as one of the ablest men in the Methodist church. ————— The largest standing army bdonsu n:‘: Russia and the strongest navy to Britain, o THE AROMA OF THE CIRCUS SAWDUST It Will Pervade the At- mosphere for Several Days. NOVELTIES OF THE RING Old Reliable Features Not to Be Crowded Out, However. DPAZZLING STREET PAGEANT. Children Happy, Almost As Happy in the Prospect as Older People. The circus—its splendor and glitter, its merry clowns, its tights and tight-ropes, its aerial flights, its wonderful horseman- ship, its trained animals, the familiar cries of peanut-venders and sideshow men, the roar of ils menagerie, the fascina- tion of its gilded and pictured wagons and the smell of its sawdust—the circus is in full bloom 1n Central Park. The great oval surrounding the three rings was filled with an eager multitude last evening, the great space lighted by unnumbered gasjets and the band setting expectation on tiptoe before the *‘trium- phant entree” of the animals and actors of the great combined shows. From the moment of the entry of the great pageant to that of the chariot races, which have formed the finale of circuses from the beginaning of time, one dazzling spectacle followed another in such rapid succession and in such variety of form anda multiplicity of actors, that it kept the big | audience on the alert not to miss any part of it. The numbers on the programme were very properiy labeled “displays.” The second display was a series of illus- trations of history and art, executed by eight voung women, chosen for their “mold of form,” on a huge revolving ped- estal. This was in its way a novelty. In fact there has been some genius at work in the circus realm evolving novelties this year, for the programme presented a num- r. Butthe lover of the good old one- ring circus, or the good old three-ring cir- cus for that matter, need not be alarmed— there are plenty of the same time-honored features that he yearns for and goes es- pecially to see still on the balls. The third display was areal novelty. It was heralded as an “Introduction of am- ghibian wonders, the only pair of monster ippopotami, male and female, in cap- tivity driven loose around the hippodrome track,”” This of course called out the plaudits of the wondering multitude, as did afterward the strange exuibition of the trained seals. Five seals placed upon their pedestals did a number of remark- able things, such as beating drums, blow- ing horns, singing (?) songs and twirling a baton in the mouth after the manner of a drum major. Messrs. Garnall, Lozell and Ryan did some sensational aerial performances on the swinging-bars, the trained ponies of Frank Melville and then a bewildering display, No. 7, of posturing in the ar, performance on a balancing-ladder, pos- turing on stilt-skates and a dozen ‘‘aerial | queens’ all going at once. The trained elephants, the riding men, women and monkeys, tumbling in air, leaping hurdles and plunging through hoops—all were there, together with the clowns in old and new styles, including a | couple of shrill-voiced women. The bicycle riding and posturing of the famous Stirk familv, the long flights in | air of the Arrigossi sisters and then the | hippodrome evenis—a long and exciting series of ,them, including broadsword combat and the remarkable riding of Mustang Wattes. And then the never- forgotten ‘“‘roncert” afterward. In a word the Forepaugh and Sells Brothers’ Circus is the best that ever came to this City and will attract throngs, no doubt, to every pertormance. The street parade is a notably excellent one and very well indicates what is seen under the tent. SOCIALISTS ARE ANGRY. Determined to Test the Right of Free Speech in a Higher Court. At a meeting of the campaign commit- tee of the Socialist Labor party held Wednesday night the following resolu- tion was unanimously adopted: ‘WHEREAS, There exists aserious difference of opinion between the San Francisco section of the Socialist Labor party and the police de- tment of San Francisco as to the rigitof Yr‘:e American citizens to peacefully assemble in public meetings on the City streets for the purpose of quietly discussing the political and economic guestions of the day, in order to ar- rive at a just, lnlelllgant and equitable solu- tion of the social problems that now confront the civilization of the ninecteenth century, which questions now vex and disturb the ce and prosperity of the land and threaten 10 seriously retard the future progress and devel- opment of the State ana Nation; and whereas, on the 15th ult. eight members of the Soctalist Lavor party were arrested on Seventh and Market streets on com- piaint of & secret society on charges of ob- structing the street and disturbinz the peace, and on the trial of one of them on the latter charge only the result was a police conviction ; and whereas, the Socialist Labor party (wish- ing to test the sincerity of the claim of the said secret society that they nad no objection 10 the principles advocated by the speakers of the Socialist Labor party, but merely objected 1o the loud tone of voice which a street speaker is necessarily forced to use in address- ing an outdoor gathering) advertised apd at- tempted to hold a “silent meeting” on the same corner two weeks later, at which no word shouid be spoken, and which meetfng was nevertheless aiso broken up by the police, and four of the participants arrested and 00 at the police station for a turbing the peace, although no noise whatso- ever had been made; and whereas, the inter- pretation of the nd of the constitution of the State of California, as sought to be en- forced by the police and the Police Court in which the case was tried, is in the opinion of the Socialist Labor party nothing more nor less than a barefaced and cowardly attempt on tlie part of the said authorities to override the plain provisions of the statutes, and substi- tute an unjust and autocratic authority in place of the wise and beneficent provisions made for the meaintenance of that absolute freedom of thought, speech and action which it has been the boast of all American citizens to maintain in its pristine purity; now, there- fcre, be it Ruoln%afiy the campaign committee of the Socialis bor party that, pending a decision by the Supreme Court on the legality of the conviction obtained in the trial court, and to prove to the public of San Francisco that we !iave nothing in common with the absurd and visfonery schemes of the anarchists (whose impracticable ideas are nothing more than the dreams of idle visionaries and only worthy the countempt of thinking persons), the weekiy ublic meetings on the corner of Market and Bernmh streets be suspended and another meeting place selected, of which due notice will be given through the daily press. Campsign Committee t Labor party, by Oliver Everett. e Sea e To-Night at Metropolitan Temple. To-night at Metropolitan Temple James D. Phelan will open the great mess-meeting. Prominent citizens will discuss all the impor- tant provisions of the new charter. Every citizen and taxpayer interested in the welfare of the City should be sure to attend. e e Frizze’s Denial. John Frizze, whose name was mentioned as one of the men implicated in some trouble at Larkspur, in which the Rev. J. A. Gardiner had sworn out warrants for the arrest of some men on the charge of malicious mischief, de- nies that he was in any manner connected with the affair. He says he resides in this finy, and had not been at Larkspur for some me. R ——————— OPPOSITION T0 MAGUIRE. ’Brien Club Organized in the Fourth Congressional District. At a meeting in Judge Campbell’s court- roor last night the O’Brien Fourth Con- gressional District Club 1 was organized, with a membership of between fifty ana sixty, composed of both Democrats and Republicans. Captain J. Sheehv was elected presi- dent; utenant M. Mannix, first yice- president; Dr. P. J. Conran, second vice- president; W. B. Shorten, secretary. The club will meet every Thursday night, and at next week’s meeting the president will appoint an executive com- mittee. The onbject of the ciub, according to a resolution adopted, is to use every effort to secure the election of T. B. O'Brien as Congressman. An | Edward Baker’'s Will. The will of Edward P. Baker was yesterday filed for probate. He left property valued at $11,045, all_of which is bequeathed to his widow, L. Maria Baker, who is named as ad- ministratrix. .. —— A Silver Meeting. The Western Addition Democratic Silver Club ‘will meet this evening at Coakley’s Hall on Geary street, near Central avenue. THREE WANT THE MONEY Mrs. Josephine English and Her Alleged Substitute Will When One of the Three Claimants Is Vanquished the Other Two May Fight. There is a prospect of a lively three- cornered legal fight over the estate of Mrs, Josephine English, which consists of real estate in this City. She was formerly a Miss Hawkins, who married & man by the name of Gavin. He died years ago, leav- ing his widow considerable money which he had made in the mines. Mrs. Gavin afterward married Joseph English, an- other well-to-do miner. The Englishes continued to prosper, and for a while lived at the Palace in elegant style and also made a number of trips abroad. Like all speculators on mining margins Joseph English made and lost several fortunes in his deals. It appears that the husband and wife, baving no children, made their wills in favor of each other, consigning the two papers in safe places against the time when a death would occur in the family. Afterward they separated by mutual con- sent, and Mrs. English took up her resi- dence with a sister, Miss Lizzie Hawkins. The Hawkinses were related to Mrs. Peter Donahue, and a brother now living in this City attempted to shoot that lady a few years ago. He was arrested, but for fam- ily reasons the case was not prosecuted against him, and the affair was soon for- gotten. After Mrs. English’s death her husband was surprised to learn that she had re- moved her former will and substitated a later document in which all her property had been left to her sister Lizzie. Eng- lish returned from abroad, where he was engaged in mining projects, and began a contest in the couris. The case was dropped, some satisfactory arrangement having beer made, and English went 1o England, where he was engaged in sales of mining property, which are said to have netted him about $25,000 or $30,000 in com. missions. It is not known whether hg was in possessioh of the mines or nog when he died later on at Murray Hilj Hotel, New York City. Soon after his decease three cousins by the name of Beeson, claiming to be next of kin, proceeded in the local courts to administer on the estate on the ground that he had died intestate. It 1s not known tbat there was any property be- longing to the estate, but apparently the Beesons were getting themselves in a legal position to begin proceeding against the estate of the late Mrs. Josephine English, which tbey could do after estab- lishing their right as the heirs of Joseph English. They would take up the case formerly begun and dropped by English and attempt to prove, as he intended to do, that the woman had been unduly in fluenced into making her second will. ) The estate of Mrs. English was origi- nally valued at between 560,000 and $70,000, but is said to be incumbered to the extent of about $30,000. While the Beesons were prerparing to proceed against the estate they were startled by the appearance of another claimant. “A man named Parrish, in New York, came forward with a will which had been made by Englisb shortly before his deatn. Parrish had been connected with English in some of their mining business, and the document in his possession made him the sole legatee of the dead man’s estate. Attorney J. J. Dwyer of this City, who has charge of the Beeson interests here, wrote to the solicitor of the late Joseph English and he was informed that the story was true, and that the new claimant was preparing to carry his case into the courts. This is a triangular complication in- deed, and between the Hawkins, the Bee- son and the Parrish claims that estate will be sorely tried. Parrish will stand by his alleged will and the Beesons will fight both bis and that of Miss Hawkins. She will contest the Parrisn document and the Beeson claims. The latter fully recognize the fact that the Parrish will, if sound, ‘deprives them of securing a hold on the estate, so they will oppose that paper on the same grounds that they base their action ggainst Lizzie Hawkins, namely, that English being sick and of unsound mind was unduly influenced. It is stated that even if Parrish’s will is decided to be valid and he fails to make any headway in a fight with the Hawkins will he is in a position to know more about the value of the estate of Joseph English than the world at present knows, and that the $25,000 in commissions is lying around somewhere in his sight. One of the Eng- lish deals was the Tybo silver mine ‘in Eastern Nevada, which is claimed to be a valtable proEe g “I am unabis to give any more informa- tion regarding the Parrish claim,” said Mr. Dwyer last evéning; ‘“but 1 am of course pickin?v up all the news I can re- garding it, If that Eastern will is held to be valid the case will be—well, a very in- teresting affair. But if the Beesons or Miss Hawkins can knock out Parrish then the Beesons and Miss Hawkins can turn their attention to each other. If Parrish’s will is all right he gains a victory over the Beesons, and can transfer bis fight to the Hawkins corner of the case.” So the estate of Mrs. Josephine Enelish will probably bein the courts well into the next century. The time for contesting her will expires about the end of this year. ————— LESS MONEY IN CIRCULATION. Jmmense Decrea. as Compated With August of Last Year. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 3.—The treasury circulation statement shows that on September 1 all kinds of money in the TUnited States, outside of what is held in the treasury, aggregated $1,539,169,634, or $2 48 per capita on an estimated popula- tion of 71,649,000. As compared with Sep- tember 1, 1895, the circulation shows a decrease of $64,413,394. During the month :! ?:[Illt. ht;wever, t&cire‘r‘n’lnfion shows n increase of $24,266,492, made up largel, irom the treasury loss of gold. 3 . CHINAMEN WHO VOTE THIS YEAR Their Number Is Seven- teen, With a Solitary Japanese. NEARLY ALL FOR BRYAN China Wiggles Along on Free Silver, so They Think This Country Should. ALL SAVE ONE NATIVE SONS, The Japanese Is 31 Years of Age and Cares Not to Leave the United States. A Chinese voter! That doubtless sounds tunny, but nevertheless the number of Celestials who cast the ballot in this City form an appreciable quantity. Of course, they are native born, and, with a single exception, are Native Sons of the Golden West. Two years ago the number of descendants of Japhet that exercised their prerogative of walking to the booths and depositing their ballots in company with their brethren who look forty. This year the vote will be lighter. Exactly seventeen Chinese and one Jap- anese exercised the necessary agility to reach the Registration Office in time to be registered. Every man of them lives in the Forty-third Assembly District, and, with two exceptious, in the Sixteenth Pre- cinct. Those two are in4he Twelfth Pre- cinet. The names of the Chinese who will vote this year are, in connection with their pre- cincts and homes, as follows: Twelfth Precinct—Wong Ding Yu, mer- chant, 1005 Stockton sireet; Lan Yuen Yu, cigar agent, 18 Prospect place. Six- teenth Precinct—Kong Yu, laborer, 807 Dupont street; Wong Wing, dressmaker, 10 Sullivan alley: Ching Tuck Toy, laborer, 805 Washington street; Sue Lock, insurance agent, 820 Dupont street; Lee Kin, merchant, 939 Duront street; See Too Joo, apprentice, 1016 Stockton stree: Lee Hoy, cigar-manufacturer, 1114 Stoc ton street; Wah Ting Ho, artist, 1116 Stockton street; Leong Geet, laborer, 10 Brennan place; Ng Gun, capitalist, 814 Stouts alley; Poon Gay, undertaker, 743 Pacific street; Wing Fook, merchant, 706 Sacramento street; Wing Fook, interpre- ter, 12 Bartlett alley; Chun Dick, commer- ctal agent, 743 Pacific street; Chun Lung, merchant, 59 Spofford allev; Chee Lee, cigar-manufacturer, 1114 Stockton street. Every oneof these Chinamen can speak English. The majority of them are going to vote for Bryan. Their reason is, that China isa free silver country,and they can’t understand why the United States cannot manage to wiggle along on 53-cent dollars if the Flowery Kingdom can. 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