The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 11, 1896, Page 6

6 ‘THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1869. DIMOND ASSAILS THE NEW CHARTER The Buckleyites Open Their Campaign at a Big Ratification. Their Big Guns Hotly Claim to Represent the Sure-Enough Democracy. “ANTI-CHARTER” PARTY NOW. Will Appea! From the Supreme Court to the People and S:e Who Are the Democrats. The Buckley Democracy which, with the Populists Dimond us leader, has become the “Anti- Charter” party of the local campaign, held its big ratification meeting at Odd Fellows’ Hall last night. In the many speeches that kept the en- th m roused the charter was much de- allies and with Joseph L | 0 !them. Tt tells the eitizens of this land that even though they are Americans for ten gen- erations and come here and live and labor, ihey cannot be employed in our publie schools. They say the charter can be amended. How? First is required the votes of nine Bupervis- ors; second, three-fifths of the peopie; third,a majority of both houses of the Legislature. Do you think it could ever be amended? i 1 have been told that I represent the péople who are responsible for the split in the Demo- cratic party, and'that if our enemies are suc- cessful we will be to blame. Now I will tell a story that has not been told before. Three months ago, before I was an aspirant for any office. I thought that I would individually be justified in trying to bring about & union of the party. I waited on several friends in this wing of the party and suggested that five honorable, eminent and disinterested Demo- crats be asked to take the party completely in their own hands and create a new organiza- tion at an open primary controlled by them. Your leaders quickly accepted the proposi- tion. I suggested tenator White, James G. Maguire and M. F. Tarpey as three. I went to the other side, and, while they couldn’t raise any objection, they said they would see me later. They haven’t seenme yet. The only kind of harmony they would have was, “You step out and we’ll step in.” We, with the people and the People’s party, ;,”“ sweep on 10 a glorious victory in Novem- er. | The Balfian Quartet sang, and then Fleet F. Strotner, candidate for Auditor, fol- lowed. He 'said much for the platform and ticxet and got in a whack at James D. Phelan, the Rainey candidate, when be | said: “Our candidate, the Hon. Joseph L Dimond, is not a millionaire, is not a banker, is not an aristocrat and isnota He is a Bryan and silver Demo- | Robert Ferral of the judicial ticket | turned himself loose for a few minutes. | Portions of his speech are as follows: Fellow-Democrats: I believe there is no law | against taiking that way, even if we didn’t get on the ticket as Democrats, although it is an | hour or two since I read the last Supreme | | Lourr decision and Idon’t know what the law | | really is. But, aiter ail, it doesn’t make a fel- | | low & Democrat to call him one or put his | name on the ticket. We are fighting each other when we ought to be going into battie | shoulder to shoulder. Igave what influence I | could to the efforts of our next Mayor to secure JOSEPH :I. DIMOND, Candidate for Mayor, Assails the New Charter From the Rostrum. nounced in fiery phrases, which drew cheers and hisses from the audience. Every speaker gloried that he was with the real Democracy of San Francisco, and the Junta and the Supreme Court were peppered with hot shot. In spite of rival Democratic mass-meet- ings, the auditorium was filled and haif the gallery seats were occupied, the crowd being much greater than at the frosty Rainey ratification the other night. There were some able speakers, music, a few ladies and much ‘‘real, old-fashioned under-dog Democracy” at the affair. The last-named element was largely furnished by a procession, 300 sirong, that gathered on Tar Fiat, lined up behind a band and marched to the hali with whoops and a forest of transparencies reading: G. Maguire Ciub, 28th Asm'y Dist.”; “Lawrence Conlon for Assembly, 28th Dist.”; ‘“‘Silver ls the Poor Man’s Money”; *Diamond for Mayor,” and so on. The old silken banner of the famous Hickory Club was relieved of 1its cobwebs and proudly given fresh air once more. Many of the Populists were there, but they had no partnership in the meeting. They will ratify nearly the same ticket next Wednesday night. ‘1 he stage was crowded with candidates, banners and flags. Josepk Rothschild, president of the general committee, ex- pressed pride in the ticket and introduced as chairman of the evening Dr. James L Stanton, who was loudiy cheered. He said tha' they were there fighting for the cause of Democracy and against an instru- ment designed to take the elective fran- chise from over 60,000 citizens by makin the Mayor a Czar. The speaker referre to the *“Monarch of the Dailies,” whereat a siorm of hisses arose. Joseph I. Dimond was cheered again and again, and nearly every sentence he spoke was arplauded. His yigorous ad- dress was in effect as follows: He must be of colder blood than the Celtic blood which flows in my veins who could siand unmovea in the face of the reception you have given me. But this reception is not jor me, but for the official and the candidate. T am your candidate because the people ap- prove my service. 1 feel honored by the nomination. You may have heard some doubts that Iam reallyin the fight. I am gratified at having now my first public opportunity to say to my friends nmfam in the fight to stay until the last bal- lot is cast. [Cheers and cries," We are iu the fight with you.” I wili but briefly refer tosome things I would like to discuss at greater length. It has been questioned which is the true local Democratic party. There is one true test. The true Demo- putting Wi T am Jennings Bryan in the Presi- dential chair. Our platform briefly is, first, that we are opposed to any law that will hamper the righis of any eitizen. Our second important piank is that the new charter shall be crushed. I eppe:r before you as the candidate of the Silver Demacratic party. We are this year nearer {0 the people than ever before, and Iam proud to be the People’s party candidate as well as the Democratic candidate. Tae Supreme Court has said that we are not the Democratic party. Now we wiil appeal from that decision to the peopie, who wili in November who are the Democratic party. We reaffirm the work of the Chicago conven- tion. Has the other side done 0 Out of this movement must come the Democratic party of the future or the Democratic party wnr die. There is before us & great question which is the wmosi important local issue of this cam- prign. 1f this new charter is adopted by the seople they will make themselves slaves of the bosses. 1t will enable bosses and corporations to put on your necksa band you will not be sble to throw off. Have you considered the position the charter places the Mayor in, and the position it piaces you in? It takes from you the privilege of naming your own officers and gives it to one man with 3000 people to hold him 1n power. It is un-American and un- democratic. It even tells you where you shall educate gour children and where you shallnoteducate “James | tic party in this City is the party in favor of | H. | party harmony, but when the time came I said: “Here is where my duty calls me, sink or s 1 wasn't born yesterday and I've battled for the Democratic party since before | many of you were born. yet I find to-day, aiter | all 've done, that I can't put my name on the | ticket as a Democrat. We got the worst of a decision by one vote, didn’'t we ? Well, so did Samuel J. 1iiden. So | did-the income tax. But we’ll battle on untit | we get the best of it by thousands of votes. There isn’t a man on our ticket with a stain | on his name. Our platform rings with the old truths of the Democratic party, snd it rings | with the name of Bryan. It declares for equal { rights to all and special privileges to none, and itis in favor of religious l.berty. W. G. Burke, candidate for Superior | Judge, said that the ticket was nominated | by a convention of 450 citizens, above | whom rose no shadow of religious | bigotry. 5 Joseph Leggett, also of the judicial | ticket, made vigorous assertions that he | was with the true Democratic party and would stay with his friends. He d eclared | the charter to be one of the most an- | democratic documents ever presented to | the suffrages of a free people. George D. Giliespie, candidate for Super- visor, vigorously described the party as | the anti-monopoly party and the one rep- | resenting the people. | _T. Carl Spelling, candidate for City and | County Attorney, in the course of his | speecn denounced the charter as an ‘‘ag- gregation of abominations,” a bunglesome instrument, one presenting more depart- ures from the common law than the four codes of California, and one that would precipitate fifty years of litigation. The quartet sang and the meeting ended. R L 0 SINGLE-BARRELED RATIFY | It Would Have Baen Awkward for the Populists to Join. The ratification was not & joint af- fair of the Buckleyites and Populists, as - | might have been expected from the suc. cess of Buckley’s fusion. At a meeting of | the Buckley candidates the other night | it was proposed to make ita joint affair, | but all the candidates who had got left on the Populist indorsement got up and howled at the proposition. Itreally wonld | have been very awkward, as it was soon | realized, | Tom Egan, Senatorial candidate in the | Seventeenth, who lost the indorsement, ; declared hotly that he would not be | caughtdead in the same hall with“my ma- | lodorous opponent, Sam Braunhart,” and | T. Carl Spelling, who was turned down for . T. Creswell in the indorsement for City and County Attorney, asked how it | would look for him to sit on the stage in- tide bis rival, “who happenea to have the money and the positions to buy an in- dorsement from a Populist convention al* though he is a goldbug.” There is a current story behina this hot shot, whatever may be in the story. Spellinf, the Buckleyite canaidate, was certainly slated for the indorsement up to evening. The story which many are re- peating is that some of Creswell’s friends, especially the Gallaghers, got in among the delegates and accompanied their solicitations for votes with a suspicion that they might be appointed on the elec- tion boards bv Mr. Creswell and so earn $40 apiece. However this may be, Spell- ing’s majority wasturned into a minority in short order, and the Rainey candidate 2ot theindorsement. Ex-Supervisor P. F. Dundon has finally and wholly bolted the Buckl d for the time is out in the cols pendent citizen, All the municipal conventions except Pat Dol tician: excited about the indorsement of the organized Jiquor-dealers. It issaid that the last of the severa! hundred candi- dates has filed his application for indorse- ment and stirred .is boots for a pull on this important outfit. The liquor Interest is organized for this campaign as it bas never been organized pefore and it promises to cut a bigger figure than it ever has before. Five allied assoclations have created an executive committee which will pick out a liquor- men’s ticket from among the candidates. This executive committee is an important political convention in effect and it is composed as follows: Officers—Chairman, J. P. Edoff; vice-chair- man, John Nobman;' treasurer, D.B. Faktor; secretary, W. T. O'Brien; assisiant secretary, C. Michener; attorney, G. W. Baker. Delegates: California State Protective Asso- ciation—J. P. Edoff, Joseph M. Lowe, John Wolf. German saloon-keepers—John Hagler, Cap- tain Siebert, D. B. Faktor. Retail Grocers’ Association—John C. Nob- man, John Lacoman, J. H. Harje. San Francisco Brunch No. 2, C. 8. P, A—J. B, Garland, T. M, Ferguson, W. O’Brien. Brewers’ Protective Association—C. B. Stone, F.T. Schuster, H. Wreden. It is the plan to not announce the ticket until a very few days before election. Meantime the investigation of candidates by special committees is going on. ‘*We estimate this vote to be worth 12,000 votes in San Francisco,'’ said a prominent officer of the association yesterday. *‘There are about 4600 Jicensed liquor-dealers in San Francisco. Each one ol these is cer- tainly worth another vote or two on the average, by a conservative estimate. The brewery interest represents 1700 votes in addition. Then tuere is the wholesale interest, with the many people concerned in one way or another. *‘This vote will stand together practically solid. We are non-partisan and simply care that our candidates are acceptable men from our own standpoint. We have no particular issues to urge. We are like eft Davis, all we want is to be let alone,” This is the political power before which the candidates are tumbling over one another to kow-tow to. It is generally urderstood that Dimond will be the candi- date for Mayor. James D. Phelan has noted the winds and on the ground of good taste has let up in his active advocacy of the new char- ter. He thinks it would not look well for him to ask for more power for the Mayor when he is a candidate for that office. RO TWO OF A KIND. Buckleyites and Kellyites Find Themselves In the Same Box. Followers of Buckley are about the streets looking very sad at the prospects of a hard wiuter and no possible chance for a chance at the public treasury. When the Buckley ticket was denied a place on the official ballot by the Supreme Court it killed the last hope of those politicians for a chance to fatten on the plethoric coffers of the City treasury; conseguently the Buckley runners are sorry that they bad not the foresight io identify them- selves with the Junta managers, who have the only living show for success. In the Republican party the Kelly-Ma- honeyites are in much the rame predica- ment. They feel a great deallike the man who played pedro all summer and then had to wear a linen duster all winter. The saddest part of the whole thing was that the adverse decision which blighted ali their expectations was followed the next day by @ rain. Asone of them disconso- lately’ remarked, “Double misfortunes never come singly.” THE ““Swan,” “Ideal,” “Crown” and “Lead- er” are the best fountain pens n the world. The stationery department of Sanborn, Vail& Co, are special agents in this City. Ly —————— C. L. Taylor Ciub Organlzed. The C. L. Taylor Republican Club was permanently organized in Scottish Hall Friday evening, the following officers being elected to hold during the present cam- paign: William Urquhart, chairman; W. C. Cook, secretary ; John Reed, treasurer; P. Fraser, Peter Miller, T. J. Welsh, J, E. McCormac, George Buzzini and _A. Cameron, vice-presidents. Angus Me- Cioud, A. Lauriston, R. 8. Falconer, W. J. O'Brien, A. Graham, George Davidson, George Dingwald, J. A. Landlin and W. R. Eaton, executive committee. e Death of Mrs. E. T. Grosh. Mrs. E. T. Grosh died Thursday morning, in this City, at the family residence, 3000 Cali- fornia street. The death was asudden one, although not entirely unexpected, as the de- ceased had been ailing for a number of years, Mrs. Grosh was the widow of the late Samuel Grosh and ber quiet, unostentatious bene- volences were very many. She came here via | the isthmus {n 1852, and made this City her home continuously. ————— Peddlers Jubilant, The Peddlers’ Association met last evening st Teutonia Hall, and was jubilant over the {success of its attorneys, Treadwell and | Sweeney, in having the law repealed that | forced peddlers to wear badges, Over 500 mem- | bers attended and a motion was made to call all of the 1400 members together by next | Thursday evening to indorse certain candi- dates for election. Mr. O'Connor was elected vice-president. 1 ———— Fell From His Buggy. Charles Vocke, & pork-packer, residing at 486 Eighth street, fell from nis buggy on Ful- ton and Pierce streets Friday evening in an epi- leptic fit and_died a few hours ater n the He- ceiving Hospital. His skull was fractured. A California HOW JOHK MILLER ROSE AND FELL Strange Story of the Man Who Shot Himself on His Ranch.. He Embezzled a MiHion From the Four Railway Magnates Years Ago. BUT ESCAPED SAN QUENTIN. Kept Copies of Tell.Tale Books and Was Able to Defy His Employers. ‘When John Miller, the man who bilked the big four out of a million dollars back in the hey-days of the seventies, \lay aown in the shadow of his vines and fig trees and put a pistol ball throagh his brain he did the thing essential to prop- erly cap a most improper but very re- markable career. To bilk Collis P. Huntington and Stan- ford and Crocker and Mark Hopkins out of $1,000,000 ought to be distinction, if not honor, enough for one man. And so it seemed to be for John Miller. For after doing so, and even while they kept him captive in one of the secret chambers of their own bastile at Fourth and Townsend streets, challenging them to do their worst, and being at last released and told to go freé, aud even to take with him a large part of his plunder, he went almost directly out of the whirl of a brilliant career 1in the City to the seclusion of a ranch in the Sacra- mento Valley and there remained, almost forgotten, until the sounds of the pistol- shot by which he terminated his career Thursday morning directed attention to him again. Miller came to this coast at the close of the war, & young man under a cloud. He was & Virginian and had served in the Confederate army, brilliantly they said, earning spurs and shoulder - straps, but still having only escaped a disgraceful death as the result a senteuce of court - martial through the energetic efforts of influential friends. That was told concerning him as a fact, but lacking in detail it did not weigh against him. Besides those were days when priyate character was not much inquired into—people being too deeply steeped in the fascinating diver- sion of becoming rich. Sacramento was then the headquarters of the railroad enterprise which was hold- ing the attention of the world. The pul- sations of the big business that had its center there were felt through the whole country. In the throng of young men they at- tracted came John Miller, and he applied for work at the office of the Contract and Finance Company, building the Central Pacific Railroad with the money of the Government. He was about 25 years of age, tall, slim, of light complexion, quiet, almost reti- cent, in manner, evicently well bred, but having that ‘in his blue eye tba: told of force. He was given a clerkship, and in a few years his salary had d to $15,000 per annum. He had ideas about how things could be done better than they had been done before. Still, maintaining his modest demeanor through the whole rapid course of nis development, he stepped lightly up from the desk of a a month book- keeper to the rank of the most trusted employes of the company. He became an oracle in its councils, an given direct- ing charge of the whole business. i{e came to Ban Francisco and built for himself a magnificent residence on Nob Hill—the residence which is now Fred Crocker’s. C. P. Huntington had been making his big fight at Washington against Tom Scott of the Pennsylvania company ana his Atlantic and Pacific subsidy scheme. Mr. Beott's defeat cost Mr. Huntington $1,700,000 so he said, but still he succeeded, and in the flush of his triumph, or rather in the weariness of his spirit as the result ot his long battle, he came to San Fran- cisco. They entertained him well. He wasa bigger man than he had ever been, and others were eager to show him honor. Btanford, Crocker, Hopkins, Colton—all gave him and each other magnificent din- ] ners, and to them all John Miller was in- vited. Although not one of them, merely Naval Cadet. For the first time in twelve years the candidate for admission to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis from the Second Congressional District of this State bas successfully passed the required physical and scholastic examination on the first trial. Arthur Clark of Stockton, the son of Railroad Commissioner William R. Clark, is the successful candidate. Arthur is a native son of the Golden ‘West, born in Stockton in 1879. He is a graduate of Hoitt's Military Academy, Burlingame, San Mateo County. Physically he is a perfect specimen of manhood, while intellectually camp, and | he is fully able to cope with the best product of the Eastern academies and colleges, as an inde- | He is the youngest in a class of 160 applicants, only five of whom were successful, Arthur will undoubtedly uphold the honor of his native State while at Annapolis, all heart, and will be a worthy America is 80 proud, ’s appearing to be over the poli- and should necessicy demand his services he will be found in the front rank, as he is follower of that grand old Admiral Farragut of whom an employe, Miller was treated fairly -n"eqn-l, 8o valuable had he proved him. self. He now urdertook in one stroke not only to show his appreciation, but to prove how well he deserved their consid- eration he would give them an illustra- tion of how a Southern gentieman of means could play the host. His dinner eclipsed the best efforts of all the others. The president of the company, who had come out here to rest from the labor of spending over $1,500,000 in a single winter, was dazzled by the splendor of the fur- uinhh:e%a of Mr. Miller’s home. While he laughed at the table jests and responded with evident gratification to the flattering of the toasts, all the while he was thinking mightily, “How much does the secretary of the Construction Company receive ?”” he asked of Colton next day. Colton named the neat sum of $15,000 a ar. “But with that money I cannot under- stand how a man may buy such statuary, btmlld Such a house and furnish it in such style. Colton suggested that there were ways by which a man with such a salary might supblement it. An inquiry was set on foot, but it could not be discovered that Mr. Miller had made any successful in- Ye:tments. On the contrary, it was found that he owned a8 number of very valuable pieces of land, among them a few choice City lots, a tract of ten acres of beautiful land near Linda Vista, besides a ranch or two, Then it was suggested that he be sent away for a while. fi‘he affairs of an agent of the company someé distance away was suggested as requiring attention, and Miller was given the delicate task. No sooner was im out of town than J. 0’'B. Gunn, expert, was turned loose among the books of the Construction Company, Bome friend advised Miller by wire and he attempted to get out of reach. He was captured, however, by the company’s detectives near Bakerstield, and secretly brought back to this City, taken to Fourth and Townsend streets, and through the little secret stairway was led into the ex- tra private rooms on the second floor that had been reserved for the doing of things about which the public must not know. The key was turned and there they kept Mr. Miller for six weeks, the impression being allowed to get abroad that he had escaped to Hawaii. ‘Mr. Gunn went on with his work and when he had finished they told Miller what they had found—that he was an embezzler in the sum of a million or thereabout. They were very severe with him at first, declar- ing a fixed purpose to send him to San Quentin fer life. To this Miller very coolly replied: “‘If you send me I will carry you along. Do you suppose I haye been such a fool as not to have prepared myself for a possibility of this kind? 1 have simply lpg;uprined | my share of some stealings. You have been biglger thieves than 1 could ever hope tobe. You have plundered the Govern- ment, you have let contracts to yourselves at outrageous figures, and you have de- stroved the bocks and think there is no evidence against you. But I was not such a fool. I have copies of those books.” Mr. Colton, who was the diplomatist of the company and with whom the busi- ness of gaining a confession and a trans- fer of the property from Miller was left, reported this to the quartet, and the were, of course, surprised and alarmed. But they sent him back to threaien again and express unbelief. But Miller simpli said: *Ihave copies of those books an roofs of all your stealings. Send me to an Quentin if you want to.” But they didn’t want to. They wanted now, first of all, to learn if it was true that he had the books; if so, 10 gain possession | of them. Whan Colton asked him where the books were he answered that that was his affair. He furnished them copies of documents sufficient to prove to them that he really did have them and from that moment they dropped their threatening attitude. It got abroad that Miller was being keot & prisoner 1n the big brick building and such a8 howl was raised that he was re- leased and allowed to go home, but under the surveillance of the company’s detect- ives. And so this matter of a $1,000,000 defalcation blew over. Just what the terms of settlement were has never been made known. Miller gave up a large part of his hold- ings, but was permitted to still retain a fortune. In exchange, it is understood that he gave up the copies of the books that he had. On the othor hand there was to be no prosecution. Both sides kept to their agreement and a division was made between the big four of what had been turned over by Miller. His resi- dence went to Charles Crocker and the ten acres at Linda Vista to Stanford. Miller went down into the Sacramento nd, so far as San Francisco was concerned, dropped out of sight. There, however, he b-came known as a progres- sive rancher and pillar of the church. He was elected superintendent of a Sunday- ;cm:iol, and was highly esteemed by all ands. ‘When the commission ol inquiry as to the affairs of the Central Pacific came out bere in 1886 none of the railroas mag- nates knew where Miller had gone to. This was unsatisfactory, however, and he ‘was finally allowed to be brought to the City to testify. l{otwnhnundin his connection with the Sunday-school, he declared on the stand that he knew nothing of aM those things, the knowing of which allowed him subsequently to shoot himself to death upon his own ranch, instead of concluding his lite in Ban Quentin. Miller was married to a wealthy widow of Sacramento, but in the midst of his financial troubles a woman came here from the East, claiming him band and declaring that his Woodruff Miller. That scandai was also lived through, though Miller has since been known as Woodruff Miller. His death no doubt removes a thorn from the pillow of the Southern Pacific. === == =S S S e e NEW you’ve ever known want to unload. would rather lose been in ten years. never get again. Dress Goods Sale. Never again we hope will it be pos- sible for an American merchant to offer American merchandise at such ruinous prices. Double-fold Mixed Dress Goods.8}5c Double-fold Tartan Plaids.. -8} Double-fold Scotch Mixtures....15¢ 44-inch Brocaded Black Dress Goods.. 38-inch German Cheviot Suitings.25¢ 44-inch Arlington Storm Serges..39¢ 88-inch American Novelty Suit- T 35¢ 50-inch Imported Cheviots.. 2 100 pleces Fancy and Black Novelty Dress Goods §0¢. Goods that sold as high as $1 the yard. 52-inch Black or Blue Serges §0c. Always been our 75¢ bargain leader. $1 50 quality Black Crepons......85¢ 75cand 81 NoveltyStuffs, fancyblack fabrics, from 40 to 54 inches wide, in all the new Bourette, Boucle and fancy weaves, worth double. Silks. “ 50 pieces Colored Japanese Silks . @5¢ ’ 25 pieces Fancy Waist Silks...... 39¢ ‘u 50 pieces Fancy Warp Silks, in black and color effects....50c¢ and 59¢ ‘" 27-inch Black Duchesse We want to sell. We value of our goods and be busy than to carry them to the end of the season and lose more when nobody wants them. TRADE is DULLER to-day than it has know it. But it will be lively enough Monday when you see the crowds at “The Maze” fighting for stufi they’ll TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. SeSsiSr SIS == $50,000 worth of Merchandise to be sold this week while it lasts at less than it can be produced—at less than or heard tell of. We 50 per cent of the We know it; you = ! = = The Great Cloak Sale. When we get ready to Jet stuff out something is going to fall. You'll hear the report from your neighbors if you don’t come yourself. === $10 Plush Oapes, beaded and braided and edged with Baltic seal....85 $10 Ladies' Black Oloth Jackets for.. .................. ceeee- 88 of 40 and 42 sizes for big women. $10 Tan Jackets, made of kersey, but- ton to the neck, new sleeve and RO o o meatitaatay $12 50 Irish Frieze Jackets for.8$7.50 They are price wonders. Qur Novelty Jackets and Capes from $10 to 820 will cost you double downtown. We don't ask you to buy, we simply want you to com~ pare our prices with the others, and if we don’t beat them all to hollow, why, go there and pur- chase, FURS AT 50c ON THE DOLLAR. $20 Baltic Seal Capes for ....810 $25 Baltic Seal Capes for. $12.50 These are 30 inches long. Ladies’ Figured Black Alpaca Bkirts ..... I s RS e« T Ladies’ Silk Skirts.......$10 to 835 New Tailor-made Suits. Lots S E2FE o =1 =1 SESE eI Come in. You don’t have to buy, but you will the moment your eye ‘“ rests upon these silks. We defy every “ and any one to meet prices. W 810, 815, $20 ‘We want to sell and we will sell, and you'll buy if you come in. The prices are incredibly low. [ == (%G mfi'm:aeré & Propes & 950 Mewxe s MARKET AND TAYLOR STS. STATEMENT ——OF THE— CONDITION: AND AFFAIRS ——OF THE— ROY AL INSURANCE COMPANY ol, Enzland, on the 31st day of Decem- ge’r?“l‘;fol 95, for the year endinz on tbat day, as made to the Insurance Commissioner of the Siate of (alifornia, pursuant to the provisions of Sections 610 and 611 of the Po@ycal Code, con denscd as per blank furnished S the Commis- sioner. CAPITAL. tock, pad up Amount of capital s P o company .. 84,967,649 94 Real estate owned by comp : Loans on bonds :lnd m:ru:l-s 8,572,312 94 Cash market value o ‘and bonds owned b - company ... 26.776,334 42 Amount of loans secured by pledgs ‘of bondy, stocks and otner mar- Ketable securities as collateral. Cash in company’s off Cash in bank: Interest due 5,859,765 75 4,026 16 2,582,167 08 stocks and lo;ns 808,667 50 In:erest due an A5 mortgages. s TA08 50 i S Sourss S 685,753 1a Total assets. $49,782,915 93 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid, losses in process of adjustment or in suspense, losses resisted, includ- ing expenses... 618,115 00 “17” used in - SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, will keep you free from COLDS all Winter long “Brain Fag” General Debility; Physical and Nervous Weakness and Prostration, arising from long continued illness, Excessive Physical or Mental Application, Exhaust- ing Drains upon the system beyond its power of recuperation. Cured by HUMPHREYS’ No. 24 a HoxeoraTHIc NERVE ToNIO that will make you well. If there is Indigestion alternate with Ne. 10, the tamous Specific for Dyspepsias indigestion, weak stomach, bad taste, coated tongue, offen- sive breath, loss of appetite and dull, heavy stupid feeling, rising of water or food after eating. Scores of sufferers have been restored to Lire, HEauta and Vieow, by the use of | of Amxm 8pecirics No. 24 and No. 10. ‘ire risks Tun- 1 on Gross premioms 58.850: ning one yearor less, 87,7, reiusurance 50 per cei Gross premiums on ning more than one year. 177; relnsurance pro rata Amount deposited by the insures on perpetual fire lusurance poll- cles...... see seseaass e Liability underlife depa tmen! Cash dividends remainin: un 8,898,825 00 8,451,690 00 216,299 58 25,816,046 39 27,629 64 182,566 41 ‘Total Uabilitles....cevrreeraee. . $34.155 672 02 _— INCOME, Net cash actually received for fire premiums. . .....810,236,000 00 Received for interest and divi- ‘dends on bonds, stocks, loans, and from all ovher sources. Recelved for transfer fues, Total income.. 585,000 00 303 00 $10,821,803 00 EXPENDITURES, Net amount paid for fire losses. Dividends to stockholders... Paid or allowed for commission or broker«ge, pald for salaries, fees and other charges for officers, clerks, etc., paid for State, Na- tional and local taxes.... Total expenditures.. 85,693,660 L0 1,095,797 50 LOSSES, Incurred during the year by fire... $5,603,660 00 RISKS AND PREMIUMS. ] FIRE |__PREMIOM. | FREMION Net_amonnt of Tisks wrtten during the year. Net amount of] risks expired during the year. Net amount in force December, 81, 1895....... 2,870.793,291| 14,479,827 86 CHARLES ALCOC! J. BEAVAN, Sub-Ma ag: and sworn to before me thls 11th HENRY GLYN PIKRCE, Notary Public, Liverpool. $2,549,962,190|$10,236,000 00 2,468,754,630| 10,169,615 00 Subscribed DR. HoMPHREYS' HOMEOPATHIC MANUAL | Invested in the United States.......$7.454.943 11 oF Diseases Free At YOUR DRUGGIsTS OR MaI1LED ON REQUEST. Smail bottles of pleasant pellets, fit the ive for umj Cor. William & Jona sis., New York, S5 ROLLA V. WATT, Manager Pacific Departmsnt, 502-504 Montgomery St., San Francisco. 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