The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 20, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1896. FROM CALIFORNIA 10 FAIR FLORIDA Orders for the Transfer of| the Fifth Artillery Issued. ONE BATTERY TO TEXAS Boys in Blue Advised to Make Preparations for the Change. GENERAL GRAHAM SATISFIED. Although Nearing the Age of Retire- ment He Cheerfully Returns to the Everg ades. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept.19.—The War Department is completing arrance- merfts for the transfer of the Fifth Artil- lery Regiment from the Presidio to Florida. Orders will soon be forwarded to the Department of California head- quarters. Itisexpected that the transfer will not be made earlier than December. Colonel Shafter, commanding the De- partment of California, and General Graham, the regimental commander of the Fifth Artillery, have been officially advised of the order transferring this regi- ment to the Drpartment of the East. Following is a ccpy of the official order received yesterday: WASHT v, D. C., Sept. 18, 1896. Commanding General, Department of Califor- nia, San Francisco: Orders about to issue to transfer the Fifth Artiliery to Department of the East, except one light battery. to be se. lected by the regimental commander, which goes to Fort Sam Houston, Tex. The other light battery is to take station at Washington Barracks, The horses, guns and battery equipments will be left behind to be taken by the nging batterfes of the Third Ar- General Otis advised as to battery at Make preparation for change accord- By command, MAJOR-GENERAL MILES. UEL BRECK, Acting Adjutant-General. surmised here in military circles ingly. it i that powerful influences were invoked in New York and Boston to save the First Artillery, now in New York harbor, from a tour of duty in the South. Under a fair detail the First, which has escaped South- ern duty for twenty-one years, should be sent to garrison the forts in Florida, Louisiana and Texas. The Firstjhas had but three vears of duty in that region since the war, while the Fifth has had one turn of duty from 1865 to 1867 and a second from 1875 to 1881. it is known in San Francisco that the Secretary of War was reluctant to incur the expens of moving two regiments acrossthe continent. When he figures the slight cost of exchanging the First and Third, as compared with the enormous expense of exchanging the Third and Fifth, he will ses how the public money may be squandered to gratify favorites in New York and Washington society. It is highly probable that United States Senators White and Perkins may be in- duced, in behalf of justice and fair deal- ing, to submit some facts to the Secretary of War which may have escaped his observation. . Commissioned officers of the Fifth Artillery can stand the pecuniary hardships of the transfer. If they have not the ready money to move their fami- lies they can borrow it, but it is said that the musicians, non-commissioned officers and enlisted men who have families de- pendent upon them must endure a general home breaking up to meet the wishes of court favorites in the East. General Graham was seen yesterday at Presidio headquarters and asked if he had made the assiznment of one of his li ht batteries to Fort Sam Houston (San An- tonio), Texas, as the official order of trans- fer authorized. He said that he had not yet decided on that detail. A suggestion was made that General Graham, having only two years more to serve before attaining the age of retire- ment, might ask to be retired rather than go to Florida again. Replying to this sugeestion, he said: “I bhave served in the army forty-one years and I have never yet allowed con- siderations of individual convenience to influence me in the performance of duty. I shall not change my course now. The idea of retirement has not entered my mind. Yes, [ understand that regimental headquarters will be at St. Augustine. Lieutenant-Colonel Sinclair may prefer to accept the postat Fort Jack- son, near New Orleans. One major will probably be at regimental headquarters. The other two will be assigned to duty elsewhere in the territory to be garri- soned. I served in the Everglades of Florida in 1855. I was there again with the First Artillery, when the Pifth re- lieved us. §t. Augustine is a pleasant place to one who is inclined to lead an .idle or inactive life.” General Graham fancies that the Fifth will notleave here hefore December. MEXICANS PLAN A RAID. Lawless Mlen Gather on the Borders of Texas to Join the Followers of Santa Teresa. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Sept. 19.—J. C. Lawlings, a well-known ranchman of Pre- sidio County, arrived here yesterday. He reports a large band of armed Mexicans congregating on the Tex«s side of the Rio Grande River for the past ten days, The band numbered fully 800 persons when he left there yesterday, and their leaders stated that they were going to cross into Mexico, to join the followers of Santa Teresa. All were well mounted and armed. The recruits were ignorant of the leader’s plans. The attention of the authorities has been called to the rendezvous, and the Sheriff and rangers have gone to the locality. An effort will be made to arrest the Mexicans on the charge of violating the neutrality laws of the United States. .The Mexican authorities have been warned and aré on guard at the various points along the border, where it is prob- able the raiders will cross. Ever since the attack on the Nogales Cusiom-honse Mexican troops have been heid in readiness for instant service whenever they might be needed, and there is but little doubt that they could easily repel invaders without assistance from the United States. The only trouble is that the raiders might succeed in get- ting across the border and doing consider- able damage before they could be over- taken and reduced to subjection. Those gatherings in Texas, while made up largely of desperate, lawless men, are still without discipline or organization and without a recognized leader. pi R S PRISON EEFORMERS. National Association to Meet at Milwau- kee Newt Saturday. MILWAUXEE, Wis., Sept. 19.—One week from to-dey the Cream City will be the Mecca of philanthropists interested in prison reform, and of officersand directors of penal institutions from all parts of the United States. On the evening of that day the annual congress of the National Prison Association of the United States, the organization in which the late ex- President Hayes took so active an interest and of which he was for many years the president, will be formally opened with appropriate exercises, in which Governor Upham will represent the State and Mayor Ruschenberger the city. e Powder Mills Blown Up by Lightning. HAZARDVILLE, Coxx., Sept. 19.— Four mills of the Hazardville Powder Company blew up early this morning. The shock was felt twenty miles. No one was killed or injured so far as known, as the workmen had not yet entered the mills. The explosion was caused by light- ning. 5 sl Reunion of Zouave Cadet Survivors. CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 19.—Survivors of the United States Zouave Cadets, com- manded by the late Colonel Elisworth, held a reunion at the Sherman House to- day to celebrate the thirty-sixth anniver- sary of the capture of the champion flag by that company. Son of Alabama’s Governor Fatally Shot. | HELENA, Ara.,, Sept. 19. — Richard | Cobb, son of ex-Governor R. W. Cobb, was accidentally shot and probably Iatally wounded this morning. He was walking across a bridge when he stumbled. The rifle he was carrying was discharged, the ball passing through his lungs. IN THE PATH OF STORMS Destruction and Perhaps Death Caused by a Cyclone in | Massachusetts. Cotton-Mi Is Struck by Lightning and | Buildings Wr.cked by the i Wind. NEW BEDFORD, Mass.,Sept. 19.—A cy- clone from the west struck this city early this morning, dealing out destruction on every hand and perhaps death in one in- stance. There was, of course, an im- | many months. FILCHED FROM SHASTA'S VAULTS County Treasurer Jackson Found to Be a Heavy " Embezzler. MANY THOUSANDS SHORT Believed to Have Robbed the Exchequer Systematically for Years. EXPOSED BY HIS OWN RUSE. Lurid Tale of a Raid by Outlaws Aroused the Suspicion of His Bondsmen. REDDING, Car., Sept. 19.—What ap- peared at first to have been an attempted robbery of Shasta County’s treasury has transpired to have been a ruse of the vresent County Treasurer, William Jack- son, to throw a veil over the embezzle- ment of a large sum of the county’s funds at the bands of that “watchdog of the treasury,” who for seventeen years past has been intrusted with the office. The report Wednesday morning of the attempted raia on the treasury from the lips of the County Treasurer bimself was received with suspicion by County Treas- urer Jackson’s acquaintances, and espe- cially among his closest political friends was his statement discredited. It had been known that Jackson had been the victim of an over-indulgence in wine for looked upon as an honest, conscientious office-holder, upright and has been various sums of county money to his own | use, causing his own ruin and the deple- | tion of the pocketbooks of his bondsmen. An investigation of County Treasurer Jackson’s books and accounts reveals the mense number of minor accidents, trees uprooted, etc., but soon after daylight a particularly heavy burst caused damage of more serious import. About 6:30 o’clock a huge bolt of light- ning descended from a clond of inky black- nett mills. It ignited the inflammable fact that he is at least $12,800 short, and it | is the opinion of his bondsmen that before | the expert fihishes his examination be | will have been bound to be an embezzler | to the extent of $15,000 ot $17,000. | On Wednesday morning, about 7:30 His bondsmen, thinking | things were not running as smoothly as | they might, instituted an investigation, | and as a result Jackson, who has been | THE EMPORIUM. 1 THE EMPORIUM. | you now. New Style Jackets 4000 Pieces Fall Dress Goods. Special Sale Ladies’ Neckwear. and Capes. Blankets, Best kinds, lowest rices, our Comforts. RippM prices. Good California Wool Blankets. Com- forts made with substantial cover- ings and clean white cotton filling. Four items of interest to every house- keeper: Strictly All-Wool White Blankets, 66x78 inches, well worth at regular retail price $5.50. Our $4 25 i o Price.. Strictly All-Wool Blankets, both warp and filling, inches, 2x84 well worth $6.50. 6ur $5 00 .- o Large size fluffy, light and warm Comforts, covered with Silkoline and Cheesecloth, regular retail $l 25 worth 81.75. Our Price... . Large Size Comforts, filled with finc}—‘carded osqlox:lclss cottoln, covered with stout Silkoline, well worth $2.25. Our Price... $|.75 Best Values, Tac‘lfleN Dirpask . a 2 Table Linens. The tail mpore: tions are here. $25,000 of Irish and Austrian Pure Flax Linens. White as a snowdrift and every thread ness upon the big cotton shed of the Ben- | 0'clock, Jackson appeared before the po- | lice authorities of this city, his head badly contents and imperiled nearly 8000 bales of cotton of high grade and long staple. It took the firemen three hours to get the mad blaze subdued, and in all about 2500 bales, valued at upward of $100,000, were injured. Much of this damage will be offset by the proceeds of the sale of the damaged cotton, but it will still be a very heavy loss. It is generally insured. The cotton- of perhaps $6000. In the midst of the mill fire another cy- clonebuist upon the city, characterized by a terrific wind and & torrent of rain. The crowd near the mill fire ran for shelter and about twenty of them found it in a new building at the corner of Coggeshall and North Front streets. sooner were they entered than the wind took up the building, raised the roof bodily and the whole structure fell with a crash. All but one in the building escaped. He was Zoel Levigney, a Frenchman, aged 65 injared, several ribs broken and internally injured. The narrow escape of the car- penters forms a remarkable story. The building was the property of the contractor and is a total loss of $3000. Several other houses were unrooted. In Fairhaven big elms were uprooted and filled the streets for a time. In South | Dartmouth several buildings were blown | down and a horse killed. On the Fair Haven bridge a streetcar barely escaped a big tree from Pape's Island, and travel was blocked some time. Reports from suburban territory are to | the effect that the storm was of fegriul severity. OGDEN, Utan, Sept. 19.—Further re- ports of the storm of last night indicate that there was widespread disaster in all | of the country tributary to. Ogden. The | most important was the wrecking entire of the large machine shops at the month of Ogden Canyon, where the Pioneer Elec- tric Power Company is putting up the steel pipe for their million-dollar plant. | The shops were directly in the line of the storm and were hlown flat, the thirty- ton steel crane crashing down into the machinery and badly damaging it. There were 500 workmen at or near the shops, but no one was hurt. Damage here about | ,000. All fruit was blown off the trees, the Reform Schooi building was unroofed and schoolhouses and barns all over the county | are wrecked. At Hot Springs, ten miles north of Ogden, the hotel building was damaged o the extent of about $1000. The total dam- age in this county will reach $200,000. In Ogden many buildings were badly damaged, but the amount cannot yet be estimated. Trains were badly delayed by fallen trees last night, but everything is running on tirhe to-night. HELD AT REDWOOD CITY. Mrs. Alice Burns Must Stand Trial in the Superior Court on a Forgery Charge. REDWOOD CITY, CAL., Sept 19.—Mrs. Alce Burns, a daughter of Banker Hol- lingsworth of Woodland, was to-day or- dered held before the Superior Court for trial on a charge of torgery. Mrs. Burns in March negotiated the sale of alot in San Mateo to a man named Copp. and signed to the deed the name of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Cornelia Burns of San Krancisco. Notary Morseof San g(n;eo took the acknowiedgment to the eed. Mrs. Cornelia Burns was at the time living with her son and daughter-in-law, and admits that she knew of the transac- tian. She went to live with another son, :n‘d d‘ few weeks Jater this suit was insti- uted. Mrs. Burns was arrested in Woodland, brought to Redwood City and released on a bond given by her father. The liminary examination began on Thurs ay and was concluded to-day. In place of the $2000 fixed by Justice Hannon a de- posit of $1000 cash was accepted. IR ay Stockton Stabbing Affray. STOCKTON, CAL., Sept. 19.—Ed Weir was stabbed to-night by George W. Hall, a blacksmith. The wound was made with a six-inch dirkknife and, while not liable to prove fatal, is very serious. The men were in the Mirror saloon ana Hall twitted ‘Weir with the fact that he recently failed house was destroyed and involved a loss | No | years, who had run in for shelter. He was | pinned down by heavy timbers, his spine | lacerated and, cut, and bleeding from | wounds. He declared that three masked | men appeared at his resideace and com- | manded him at thg point of revolvers to | go to his office, in the courthouse, three | blocks distant, and open the vaults of the }county treasury. Jackson stated that he | told the robbers that it was useless for them to attempt to rob the vault, as it had atime lock and even he could not gain access. According to his story they marched him to the courthouse, one rob- ber on either side of him. At the door | of his office, he #aid, it occurred to him to | make a defense, and on opening the door. | he states, he seized a large rock, which wad | lying on the counter, and with a swift | back-handed blow felled one of the rob- | | bers. The other, he said, hit him over the | | head, felling him to the floor. Jackson said he lay unconscious for | some twenty minutes, when, regaining | consciousness, he washed the blood from his face and started in search for the rob- | bers. The janitor of the courthouse heard | nothing of the disturbance, nor did any of the neighbors living near Jackson’s house, This story, together with the known fact of Jackson’s debauchery of the week past, | caused suspicion, and his bondsmen in. stituted the investigation. Investment in stocks has hel diminish Jackson’s accounts. Only last August, it is said, he invested some $7800 | with a firm in San Francisco and lost it. In order to mislead his constituents and the people he so arranged it that his | monthly reports would show a surplus in the treasury. This was easily accom- plished. A worthless check in the sum of $9000, supposed to be money on deposit with the State Treasurer, was each month carried and enterea in his reports as so much money on deposit. The experts who at various times looked over the county books took it for granted that that check was valid and so reported. From time to time his report was ac- cepted, and had it not been for his riaicu- lous story regarding the alleget robbery he would haye been enabled to have con- tinued his raid on the county treasury :n- definitely. Jackson is virtnally out of office to-night. His bondsmen have charge of his books and accounts, and Deputy Recorder Ross bas been placed in charge of the Treas- urer’s office for the bondsmen. They are all reputable and substantial citizens and will be compelied to make good the defi- | d to | ciency, which may amount to $20.000. The County Treasurer's bond was for the sum of $120,000, the deficiency having to be borne equally by some nine bondsmen. DEL MONTE'S LIVELY SEASON. Many Summer Guests Show No Intention of Departing and New Arrivals Are Pouring in Daily. DEL MONTE, CAL., Sept. 19.—Still the season at Del Monte liolds out. Although a great many of the summer guests have gone quite a number of the prominent families remain to enjoy the fine fishing and hunting hereabouis and other amuse- ments to be found at tne big caravansary. Two of the most prominent families that will remain through September are the Crockers and J. A. Donohoe. The baths seem alive with people every morning between 11 and 1, and the surf, too, comes in for its share of bathers. The cold surf of Monterey Bay is so invigorating, any- way, ihat most all of the guests take a dip each day. Driving and horseback riding occupy the earlier afternoon and wheeling and tennis between 5 and 6 seem to be the proper thine. Many wheeling rties have been formed during the past week in order to befittingly celebrate the glori- ous moonlight of the nights. Moonlight coaching paruies to the wrecked steamer 8t. Paul, near the Poiut Pinos lighthouse, also have been popular this week. To say the least, Dal Monte is indeed gay, and guests remaining seem to find all their time taken up from morning till nieht. Juan Vitere, one of the largest oofle:dplsmen of Guatemala, arrived Fri- day with his family and will remain until the middle of October or longer. Among other guests of the week are: W. K. T. Sachm, Pittsourg; H. W. Rowall, Captain F. W. Hart, W. H. McOarthy, Mrs. L. E. Baker, P. L. Baker, Levitt Baker, J. A. Donohoe, A. C. Duncan and William Relly, all of San Francisco; Frank B. Stone, Chicago; 0. J. Buck, New York; Louise Windmellen, Miss Windmellen, New York; Miss A. Jangen- sen, Mrs. B. Salles, S8an Francisco; Alex in business. Words brought on b) and Hall drew and used his dirk, 0" J. Dwyer and wife, New Orleans; Juan Vitere, Guatemala; George F. Gordon, é | % 5 | | | linen unl:ss we expressly state to the contrary. To make you "acquainted with the best Linen stock in the West we will, for fifteen days only, sell at almost manufacturer’s cost. 56-inch Cream Damask, all linen, a gogd line of dncwopatterns, well worth soc a yard. ur Spe- cial Price......... eosssnasiser 38C Go-inch Bleached Damask, quite hea\;‘}: and fine, dall urcslinen, well worth 75c a yard. Our Spe- eial Price e SUSRE IR S 55(: 72-inch Bleached Double Satin Damask, extra heavy and fine, beautifully r:jatte(r)ned,s well worth $1.10 per yard. ur Special 100 dozen ¢ Bleached Linen Nap- kins, gogr(i’ bargains,s well worth $1.50 per dozen. ur Spe- cial Price.... oo . $|-25 rsol dozen xé‘iner]llNapkins, hand- somely patterned, well worth $1.50 per dozen. * Our Price $I-I5 100 dozen 3; Linen Napkins, extra heavy satin finished, very handsome patterns, well worth $3.25 adozen. Our Special Price $2-50 Our Drug That we under- St Pri sell the ‘‘cut- ore Frices. Drugstores thousands already know, and we want thousands more to know it. Here are half a dozen price hints : . Cut Our Rate. Rate. Listerine..... 75¢ 64c Cal. Syrup of Figs......35¢ 32c Italian Fig Juice. 35¢ 25¢ Pears’ Unscented Soap. 15¢ 2 for 25¢ Ayer’s Hair Vigo: 65¢ 59¢ S.S. S, large. 31.35 S. S. S., smal 75¢ Glover’s Dog Remedies, 20 per cent off the regular prices. Prescriptions g-mpgundsd of sh, pure drugs Cost 25?- —exactly what your physician prescribes. No sub- stitution under any .circumstances. If some ingredient unusually expen- sive is or Oerégl we charge cost— no more. rdinary prescrij tions. > 25¢ See e T S NE 22 E S s the Wondel_'ful Window Exclusive From fashion’s great centers Dress GOOdS- they come, bear- ing the stamp of the artist in design, coloring and weave, more than 4000 pieces here now and novelties still arriving daily. The EMPORIUM Popular Prices on every piece. Styles exclusive with us. Your money will go further this fall than ever before in making your gown purchases. Here are three lines that cannot be duplicated in style or qualities at the prices: s52-inch Crepe Mohair—blue and black, myrtle and black, rouge and black and modore and black ; 44-inch Faulaise Boucle, colorings as above ; 48-inch Mohair Melange in dark heather mixtures, and 44-inch Paris Cheviot Checks — extreme novelties. Price. 46-inch Boucle Mohair, in the new mixed effects. 48-inch Snowflake Cheviots, in Tan and Bronze, Gray and Navy, Bur- gundy and Rouge, Fawn and émwn, all with an overshot flake of cream, giving to the whole a very novel and [lich effect. . hese two lines at the ex- tremely low price of............ $I-I0 4z-inch Boucle Checks—very latest effects and combinations of coloring. 42-inch Boucle Mohair—grounds in Navy, Tan, Mouse, Brown and Myrtle, with an overshot Boucle tuft. We believe that these two fabrics will be among the most popular of }his scdast}n’s el‘f:ctsa X nstead of $1 a yard we have marked them at. 900 Neckwear, Five large cases of * new and exclusive eamitures, styles for fall and ilin winter wear have ell‘mg, Etc. just been opened. The new velvet and lace effects and Parisian Sxangled and Beaded Gar- nitures. mong which are: Eight dozen Velvet Collarettes in various designs, exquisitely trimmed, in lvery Oriental Lace, should be marked $r1.50, but EMPORIUM Price. 98C each Other styles in Velvet and Lace still more elegant and elaborate, $1.18, $1.38, $1.68. Spangled and Beaded Garnitures on Net, Yokes, new Plastrons, Epau- lets, etc., in black and all the new color effects to match the fall dress fabrics: Values $2.75 to $3.50.. Values $3.75 to §4.50.... Values up to $5.00..... .$1.68 Values $5.50 to $7. .$1.98 365 dozen Silk Border Veils, in all the new colorings—all that the manu- facturer had—purchased by us at an absurdly low figure. We are SC able to sell a 25¢ Veil for.......... Chenille Dot Tuxedo Mesh Veil- ing, 100 new patterns to choose from, full 18 inches wide, Black, Creams, Navy, Brown, etc. A splendid 98¢ .81.38 vy ey value at our special price, pes yard..... e 24C @ -~ The Emporium. .- Saturday, Concert [ illustrated Fall Nights. Granad Catalogue almost i SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20, 1805. =00 ¥ nost five pieces, and ® and addreff to leading operatic > " “Mail Order De- wei Blankets and Linens o Musical Director- EMPORIUM, and ship of Mr. Jobn copy will be mailed Marquardt, FREE. Special This Week. Big, Generous All-Wool Blankets and Fine Table Linens from Ireland and Austria at a slight advance on manufac- turers’ cost are among this week’ The great Fall Stocks, worth $ 8-Day Oak Mantel Clocks $2.48. Regal Axminster Carpets $1.20. Sale Men and Boys’ Clothing. MANTEL CLOCKS. Fine Carved- Oak Mantel Clocks with 8- day. pendulum movement—2r inches high, 14 inches wide—Ca- thedral gong— half-hour strike. OUR very special price $2.48. Clock Dcpartment, second floor, west. PLATED BUTTER DISHES $1 AN - Silver Quadruple-plate BUTTER DISHES with fancy glass drainers— butterfly handles—shaped and de- signed as in %c‘t}:llie—ma_del to sell at $1.85 each. special price this week..... $|-00 Plated Ware Department, Jfloor, west, near main ¢levators. second WATER PITCHER. French Glass WATER PITCHER from Le Gras Works — beauti- fully mottled and blended color ef- fects—holds three pints—two shapes --actual value 8sc. OUR special price this week 38c. Glassware Department, second floor Jessie=street side. This is HOUSEFUR- cerpet NISHING TIME. The Chances. first thing to do, of course, is to get your Carpets down. See how well and cheaply we can do - that for you. These prices mean sewed and laid. We have 100 rolls of BIGELOW and REGAL AX- MINSTERS in the new Fall patterns. The designs and colorings are choice. They will wear as well as any $1.50 Carpet you have ever owned. We guarantee them so. OUR sl 20 special price per yard........ . We have 100 pieces of Extra Super Imperial Ingrain—all wool—so de- signs and color effects to choose from —made to sell for 8oc a yard. 60 OUR special price. C A lot of VELVET and BRUS- SELS Carpets—still an excellent as- sortment to select from—Carpets that were made to sell up to $1.25 a yard. We discontinued the patterns and to close, say, your choicé 85(} O viiaisisgasassassansasinsansnassoses: Carpet Department, second floor, rear. Display—A Sce s special trade attractions. 2,000,000 Or more, invite TORTOISE SHELL COMBS. Genuine Tor- toise Shell Combs —new and novel designs — small and large sizes— most of them mounted with solid silver. 75c¢ to $6. CANES AND UMBRELLAS. Congo Wood Canes— solid silver mounts— g/ handsome and unique § handles. $1 to ! $3. Buckhorn Handle Canes. Solid silver mounts— very elegant — would make a most acceptable present to any gentle- man—sold everywhere at §5. OUR price Solid ‘Gold sand Silver mounted close roll Silk UMBRELLA for men and women at LOWEST living prices. Jewelry Department, first floor, back of main ¢levators on left. New In OUR Book Depart- ment the following ten Books. books have been having an unusually large sale all summer. If you have not read them, you ought to. They are too important to be overlooked. 8135 v,” by the author of “A "Kentucky Gamival? Ll T I “A Lady of Quality,” by Fran- ces Hodgson Burnett. $1.35 “Tom Grogan,” by F. Hop- kinson Smith... .....8L35 “Cinderella,” by Richard Hard- ing Davis... SR | ““Briseis,” by William Black...$1.55 “The Master Craftsman,” by Walter Besant..................8.35 “The Damnation of Theron Ware,” by Harold Frederic.$1.35 “The Seats of the Mighty,”” by Gilbert Parker. ....81.35 “A Singular Life,” by Eliza- beth Stuart Phelps............5!.10 . We sell direct to the Wallpaper consumer at Eastern factory prices—the largest assortment of Wallpapers in the West to cheose from. Artistic designers to help you in selecting, skilled workmen to hang it. Our Special Prices are: 5¢ Paper fo 6¢ Paper for 8c Paper fo Nice Gilt Papers that you have paid r234c for only 6¢c. Superior Gilt Papers 8c. Plain Ingrain reduced from 1sc to oc per roll. Walipaper Department, main floor, rear. San Francisco; George Crocker, Miss Thompson, Mrs. Churchill, Miss Churchill, Napa; Edward Dold and wife, Buffalo; A. Raulfs and wife, William H. Farr, Mrs. Walrod Winterberg, San Francisco; Mrs. Julian Jordan and wife, New York; Luther Rethus 'and wife, Theodore E. Schucking, A. L. Rickards and wife, W. A. Rickards and wife, Chevenne, Wyo.; C. J. Stied- man, H. H. Smith and wife, Denver; Mrs, E. R. Carroll and son, San Francisco; E. P. Manke, Adiel Sherwood and wife, St. Louis; Miss M. W. Parsons, Miss J. 8. Young, New York; J. Goodman and wife, El Paso; W. B. Cahoone and wife, Miss Lena Frank, tfoward W. Bean, San Fran- cisco; C. D. Hart, H. M. Hart, Phila- delphia; Floyd 8. Judah, Chester A. Judah, Miss G. Carter, Miss 8. Gardn T, San Francisco; Mrs. George T. Casebolt and Miss Casebolt, Newark, N, J. —_—— Coombaville Child Mistreated. NAPA, CaL., Sept. 19.—Jacob Rosen- berg, a junk-dealer of Coombsville, has been. arrested on a charge of cruelty to children on complaint of the State Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Rosenberg offered a neighbor $15 to take the child off his hands, as he doubted that it was his own. The little fellow is but 3 years old, and bas b en almost starved and neglected in a shameful manner. - TS Mill Valley Reformers, MILL VALLEY, CaL, Sept. 19.—A petition is being circulated among the residents of Mill Valley to bave the Sup- ervisors revoke the license of McGinnis’ loon, where Enl‘“- . Gray and Wil- m Mannion, char, Wwith assaulti Ebenezer Warmuth, g.:nt the mmmx:‘xs The suspects remain in the County Jlfl’l unable to procure bail. PORTLAND MEN IN LUCK Encouraging News From a Youth Who Left Many Creditors in the Lurch. Successfully Plays the Role of the Prodizal Son and Will Pay All His Debts. PORTLAND, Ogr., Sept. 19.—Former friends of J. H. Flinders of San Francisco and Portland, who mourned his departure for England much less than they did the loss of various large sums of money which they had advanced him, will be pleased to bear that he is now in a position to pay his debts, and is preparing to doso. He is in London, and a complete reformation of his habits has been effected through the medium of a series of parental lectures. Flinders’ father owns a bank 1n Lendon, and he is also a large stockholder in the London and San Francisco Bank. Young Flinders was rather wild in his ways, and he passed not a few of his days in the same way that a young Englishman of wealthy family, high social connections and fast companions usually does. About a year or two ago his parents ‘| cials of the bank. thought a change of climate and com- panions would cause a change in his babits, and accordingly his father sent him to BPortland to take a position as bookkeeper in the local branch of the Lone- dou and San Francisco Bank. Of excellent social qualities and finely educated, Flinders was not long in this city before he became a favorite with his associetes. He led a fust life and on the first of each month he found that his sale ary was not sufficient to pay his bills, so he resorted to borrowing. He obtained sums of from $20 to $50 from his friends, but these amounts did not assist him in paying his debts, for he loaned money at random almost as soon as he received 1t. Two months ago he was about $1000 short in his accounts with his friends, and hav- ing no money with which to pay the bills he decided to return to England. A friend of Flinders to-day received a letter from him stating that he intended to pay all obligations contracted by him while in this city. Some ugly reports about a woman being at the botiom of Flinders’ financial trouble have been in circulation and have been denied by his friends. It has also been reported that he drew three months’ salary in advance {from the London' and San Francisco Bank and left without formally or informally tendering his resignation’ to the manage- ment, but this is denied by the local offi- ‘The woman who was generally supposed to be mixed up in Flinders’ affairs was a Mrs. McDorald, who distinguished herself a few months ago by shooting a newspaper man in San Franci P, Shasta County Drencheds REDDING, CArL., Sept. 19.—A heavy rain began last night and has continued incessantly all day. Farmers are jubilant and the rain has been generally welcomed. About an inch has fallen during the last eighteen hours. STORW W THE SRR Snow Falls to a Great Depth and a Gale Sweeps the Mountains. Nine Inches of “The Beautiful” Ree ported at Cascade—No Sign of Abatement. SUMMIT, CAL., Sept. 19.—Snow is falle ing fast and the wind blowing a gale throughout the high Sierra. Mother earth, which was yesterday bedecked with wild flowers, is to-day enshrouded with a mantle of white. Bince early this morning the storm has continued without a moment’s cessation. On the high peaks nor.hwest of here an extremely heavy fall of snow is reported, and it is estie mated that all of eighteen inches has fallen there in the past twenty hours, Outside of the inaccessible portions of tha mountains, the heaviest snowfall is re- ported at Cascade, where nine inches ig said to have fallen since 8 o’clock this morning. There is no sign of abatement of the storm. It seems to be gaining in fury. and the heaviest snowfall in years, considering the season, is anticipated. 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