The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 23, 1896, Page 14

THE 14 SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, A ALL WERE EATEN BY CANNIBALS A Noted Austrian Scientist Murdered in the South Seas. | He and Several of His Com- panions Were Ambushed by the Natives. THEIR BODIES NOT RECOVERED. While on an Expedition Into the Mountains They Were Attacked by Head Hunters. The arrival of the Monowai from Aus- tralasia yesterday brought the details of one of the most horrible massacres that has ever taken place in the Solomon group. A noted scientist and several of his companions were cut down by the can- nibals and their bodies were never re- covered. The chances are that the dead men were eaten. The story is a tragic one. Henry Baron Foullon von Norbeck and. an exploring party landed on the island of Guadalcanar from the Austrian gunboat Albatross to make an examination of the 1sland. Striking into the interior the party sepa- rated and were ambushed. The following is the Jist of the killed and injured: Killed—Henry Baron Foullon von Norbeck, Midshipmen Armand de Beaufort, Sesman Jakob Dokovic, Seaman Gustav Chalanpka, a native guide from Titiri, Petty Officer Peter Maras. Severely wounded—Petty Officer Kolomon Neupob, Petty Officer Peter Curcie, Petty Offi- cer Anton Covacevic, Seaman Anton Lovric, Seaman Frantz Sepcic. Slightly wounded—Native Johnny Para- matts, Baron's servant Nickel. A writer in the Sydney Morning Herald teils the following story of the massacre: You remember the Austrian man-of-war Al- betross that was on a training and scientific cruise to the Solomon group? Well, after cruising about among the different islands in the group she came to the north coast of Guadalcansar some time in the beginning of September and anchored at a place called Tiiri. From there a perty consisting of Saron Foullon yon Norbeck, Lieutenant Budik, Mid- shipman de Beaufori, twenty sailors, the Baron’s two servanis and two native guides, | started for the purpose of exploring a moun- | tain in the interior of the isiand called tbe | Lion's Head. (By the way, there was also,| another midshipman of the party.) The expe- aition started irom the ship on Wednesday, the 5th i After two days’ marching one midshipman and seven seilors returned, the men not being | gble 10 stand the heavy walking in the bush. | The Baron’s party that proceeded on reached a | camping-place at the foot of the Lion’s Head on the evening of the 10th. Nextmorning the party divided. The Baron, with three bush- men for guides, and accompanied by Lieu- | tenant Budik and seven sailors #nd his two servants, started about 8 o’clock in the morn- | ing for the purposc of reaching the top of the mountain. Those left at the camp were Mid- shipmen de Besufort, six sailors and two guides from the coast. The Baron and bis servants, with the native guides, were in the lead going up the hill, several natives being apparently near or ed with the party. When up near the top they beard two shots fired in the neighbor- hood of the camp they had left, and at the same time they saw what appeared to be & | bushman chief standing on the top of a rise | & little sbove them making some signs. | Whether he could see the camp from where he was of not is_not known, but he apparently, on hearing the shots from the camp, gave the signal to attack the Baron’s party. Natives from different parts immediately rushed on | them with tomahewks and clubs, but, as far as I can gather, no guns. The Baron being en- tirely without arms of defense, a native rushed athim with a tomahawk or small ax and cut him down by a blow on the back of the neck. Others were killed, and several of the men in tne camp only escaped by a scratch. - * - - * - . No doubt it would have been some consola- | tion to the friends of the dead could they have | been told that the bodies of their relativ: had received decent burial; lives should be sacrificed or even risked to satisfy what is, after all, but a sentimental feeling, As the bushmen are cannibals, I think it is highly probable that the bodies | would have been cooked and eaten long before | we could have reached the place. | The wholesale butchery of the Austrian | scientist and his companions has greatly ex- | cited the traders who stop at the Solomon Islands, to deal with the natives, and the peo- Ple of Sydney are talking of schemes for policing the islands. They seem to think that ihe home Government could not be expected 10 defray the expense, but suggest that the merchants of Sydney and the traders could establish & police system and meet the ex- pense by charging more for the goods waich they sell to islanders. Speaking of the Solomon group and of Guadalcanar a correspondent, of the Aus- tralasian says: It is the most fertile and beautiful island of the group, and extremely rich in bird and in- sect life, many of the species being apparently peculiar to it. The extreme length of the island is about eighty miles and the breadth about thirty. Ifs mountains reach a height in one place of 8000 feet (that is probably the mountain Lion’s Head, upon the slopes of which this massacre ook place), and there are numerous peaks over 4000 feet. There are meny small islands in the group, and they were first discovered by Mendana, & Spaniard, in 1568, who gave them the name of the Islands of S8olomon, in order that his country- men, supposing them to be the islands whence King Solomon got his gold, might be induced 10 colonize them. That the late Baron was one of the most distineunished of Austrian scientists was the' testimony of those who had had the good fortune 1o meet the leader of this'ill- fated expedition. A man about 50 years of age, short, stont and not unlike in build and stature the Prince of Wales, It was specially for his convenience in making his observations and researches that the Albatross was fitted out and sent to the South Pacific. When she calied here a {few months ago she remained a consider- able time in port, and 1t was the intention of the Baron to revisit Sydney toward the end of this year. H. M. S. Pylades is at present on patrol duty in the Solomon group, and has by this time probably taken some action in connection with the massacre. The Dep- uty Commissioner would invoke the aid of the captain of the Pylades in making an attempt to capture the murderers, though it is thought that to send a detachment of wen up in the mountains where this affair occurred would be risking unnecessarily the men’s lives. Captain Davis, formerly of H. M. 8. Royalist, once led a party into the bush and taught the Solomon Island- ers a lesson, but he said it wasdona2at a tremendous risk, the men being at a terri- ble disadvantage in the dense vegetation through which they had to march. A RUN TO SAN RAFAEL. To-Morrow’s Excursion to the Presby- terian Orphanage and Farm. An excursion to San Raiael will be given to-morrow for the benefit of the Presbyterian Orphanage and Farm. Spe- cial return trip tickets- can be bought for 25 cents at the rooms of the American Tract Society, 637 Market street. The excursion will léave this City for San Rafael on the 11 A. M. train of the North Pacific Coast Railroad.. Lunch will be served at the orphanage. Donations of provisions, clotking or any useful article will be appreciated. Free transportation for ail packages under twenty-five pounds. | cess. thing possible to make the trip a pleasant onre. Mrs. Pheebe Hearst recently gave to the orphanage a tract of thirty acres near Fairfax, and on this the directors intend to establish their institution. The chil- dren now under care are at present stay- ing at the old Gilbert House in San Rafael, but the place is very small and the accom- modations inadequat; WANTS ONE FARE. Otto Tum Suden Says That Tranafers Should Be Issued From Market Street to Kearny-Street Cars. Otto tum Suden, an attorney, petitioned the Board of Supervisors yesterday to compel the Market-street Railroad Com- pany to carry passengers on its Market and Kearny street lines for one fare or de- clare the franchise under which the latter is operated void. 7 The petitioner recites that in 1879 the ihen Board of Supervisors granted a fran- chise for a road from the ferries and along California street, thence to Market, and along that thoroughfare to Eightn street; that the franchise was later assigned to the Market-street Railroad combine, and that the Kearny-street line is operated un- der the original franchise, which calls for a single fare along the entire route. Mr. tum Suden also calls attention to the fact that some of the rails of the orig- inal road are still cumbering the street. He states that it is cleariy the duty of the board to force the combine to charge one fare for the two lines. The matter was referred to the City and County Attorney. HATS FF WS THE ORDE Pleasing Feature of the Women’s Suffrage Benefit Mat- inee. A Corps of Young Lady Ushers Attended to the Comfort of the Audience. A grand matinee performance was given by the artists of the local theaters yester- day in t he Tivoli Opera-house for the benefit of the Woman’s Suffrage Associa- tion. The affair was a success in every respect, the attendarce being large and fashionable. As might be expected the majority were women. As the people en- tered they were escorted to their seats by a corps of pretty young women. Just before the performance was begun George E. Lask, the stage manger, stepped to the front and requested that the ladies in the andience remove their head cover- ing. Theorder of ‘‘hats off” caused a little surprise, but nearly all complied with the request laughingly, and the men applanded. ‘The musical part of the programme was very pleasing and the volunteers did their best. The conclusion, a pretty little ro- mance entitled “Sweetheart:,”’ was well received. In a financial way the benefit was also_a success, the Woman Suffrage Association clearing something over $600. T GOODNI'S SHOM Miss Unser Says There Was All Kinds of It in Australia. But Mr. McLennan Says Everybody Was Used Kindly—Nobody Forced Out. Miss Dorothy B. Unser of the Nat Good- win company, which has been playing at the Antipodes for some time, arrived here yesteraay on the Monowai. She says Nat Goodwin has quarreled with everybody nearly in his company, and that they have all had a bitter time with him. She says she was forced out of the com- | pany and her part given to Gertrude El- liot, Maxine’s sister. She also says that Goodwin’s tour was by no means a suc- The lady’s criticisms are very in- cisive. “Even the men in the company,” she said, *“shake in their boots when Goodwin is around. He bas them all scared to death. Because I received some social at- tention he abused me from day to day.” On the same ship with Miss Unser was J. B. McLennan, who had Goodwin and the other people of the combination under contract, and G. Appleton, the business manager. Mr. McLennan denied last night that Miss Unser’s comments were well founded. “Inotice she says we played ‘In Miz- zouri,” but what we did play was ‘The Gilded Fool,” ” said Mr. McLennan. “The young lady has everything mixed up. We intended playing ‘The Prisoner of Zenda,’ but when we got over there we found the Australians were taking only light frothy things this season, aud we decided not to put it on there. “As for our having light houses every- body here knows how Nat Goodwin draws, and about our losing money, we didn’t lose any, and couldn’t, because we went over under contract to Australian man- agers. So how could we lose any?. She also implies that myself and Mr. Apple- ton were virtually discharged. *How absurd that is will be seen when Iam myself the contractor for Mr. Good- win’s services. Not only that, but he has a year yei to serve with me. That year will be put in in the United States, for Mr. Goodwin will soon arrive. Asfor Miss Eiliott crowding Miss Unser out, that is incorrect. Miss Elliott was engaged from the first to piay as leading lady and Miss Unser was used omly for alittle time to fill in. Miys Elliott is really a very talented actress. In regard to Blanche Walsh, who has been hitherto alluded to as also forced out of the company, that is not the fact. She was paid off in full, as all the others of the company have been, and Miss Walsh personally ex- pressed her thanks to me for the very handsome way she had been treated.” S e EMMET FOOTBALL CLUB. Its Fourth Anvual Ball Will Be Held on Saturday Evening. The Emmet Football Club, which is one of the oldest Gaelic football clubs of this coast, will hold its fourth annual ball at 0dd Fellows’ Hall on Saturday evening, and it goes without saying that a large gathering of the friends of the Emmets will be present on this occasion. The hall will be artistically decorated and Blanch- ard’s orchestra of sixteen pieces bas been secured. The committees are as follows: Arrangemenis—J. M. O’Sullivan (chairman), Fred Palmer, J. Fitzpawrick, J. O'Dowd, K. Creede, M. Ryan, M. Lynch, W. Ryan, J. Kirby, J. Mescall and J. Leonard, Reception—R. C. O'Coanor (chairmen), M. 0’Dowd, D.Sugrue, C. Duane, J. Kirby, T. Fitz- gerald, J. Kenealy and D. Kirby, Floor—John Fiizpatrick, James Smith, Fred Paimer, M. Dusue, M. Ryan, F. Creede and J. Leonard. The officers of the club: R. C. 0’Connor, president; J. 0’ Dowd, vice-president; J. Kirby, re‘cording eexggu“; F. Creede, financial sec- retary; . O’Suilivan, treasurer; M. marshal; Fred Palmer, captain, e The next game will take place on Sun- day afternoon, November 1, at Recreation grounds, Golden Gate Park, ————— TO CURE A COLD IN ONE'DAY. The officials of the road will do every. Takelaxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug- ) gists refund the money if it fails to cure. 25c. 1 A DUEL WITH SWORD AND KNIFE Two Japanese Cousins Have a Bloody Engage- ment. One Was Under the Influence of Liquor, the Other Was Sober. BOTH ARE SEVERELY WOUNDED The Room Where the Pight Took Place Resembled a Slaughter House. A desperate fight between two Japanese occurred yesterday morning in a sailors’ boarding-house at 110 Prospect place, one in the election of the various wheetmen’s cafididates, This was merely a political ruse {o secure the indorsement of several candidates in whom the wheelmen have no interest whatever, and as Mr. Fried- lander was 0 little familiar with wheeling matters that he called the meeting on the evening when the association was holding its annual theater party, the end desired 'was not reached. The \%ueolmqn‘s}dum— cipal League is the only organization to which the wheelmen wili look for instruc- tions in their political fights for the ap- proaching election. < 5 George M. Hamlin of the San Francisco Road Club will .try for the coast ten-mile road record next Sunday over the Fruit- vale-Haywards course, paced by three tandem teams of the sny City Wheel- men. Up to last Sunday Hamlin beld the world’s five-mile road record at 11:11 2-5, when it was lowered by C. M. Smith of the Garden City Cyclers to 10:20. Hamlin will go against that mark later on, but feels sure he can knock his time for ten miles Sunday. The Alameda Cyclers will hold a five- mile handicap roadrace over the San Leandro-Haywards course next Sunday morning. Last Monday evening the club elected the following officers: E. L. Gif- ford, president; V. A. Doud, vice-presi- dent; A. L. Behnemann, secretary; W. M. Ramsey, treasurer; J. A. Carpenter, ca@mn. here will be a large field of starters in the Imperial Cycling Club’s ten< mile bandicap roadrace next Sun- day. The handicaps will be announced later this week. I R. Lind is quite liable to lower Frank Byrne's coast record of 24:27 in this race. Walter F. Foster, the crack professional of the Olympic Club Wheelmen, may try for the five-mile professional road record next Sunday at San Leandro, paced by a quadruplet, a triplet and two tandem ma- chines. Foster is in spiendid condition and will show his rear wheel to some of ;he gli__ers at the San Jose meet on Octo- er 3 ———————— ‘The Guadaloupe Mine Case. The famous Guadaloupe mine case, which has been before Land Commissioner Dunn for two weeks past with a view of determining whether it is minefal or agricullnrnl iand, has gone over until November 10. It is under- stood that an effort is being made by those di- rectly interested to effect a comp romise. THE JAPANESE DUELISTS. being armed with a cantana, or Japanese sword, and the other with a long butcher’s Enife. One of the men is Harry Nishmoto, the keeper of the boarding-house, and the other is his cousin, Kitaro Nishmoto. Both are in the Receiving Hospital in a low state from their wounds. 5 Harry and s wife have kept the board- ing-house for the past six years. Heisa steady, hard-working man and his wife has helped him to save considerable money. Kitaro, on the contrary, bears a bad repu- tatio! About nine years ago he kiiled a man in Vancouver, B. C., with a razor. He was tried and sentenced to seven years for manslaughter. His term expired about a year ago and he came to this City, introducing himself to his cousin. Harry kept him in his hotel, but as he refused to work and was constantly bor- rowing money from Harry and spending it foolishiyv Harry, at the instigation of his wife, got him to leave the house and paid board and lodging for him at a house on Washington street kept by a Japanese named Kitchi. Kitaro continued to make demands for money upon his cousin and finally Harry refused to make further contributions. Yesterday morning about1 o’clock Kitaro, while under the influence of liquor, called at his cousin’s place. He had been making threats to Kitchi that be would kill his cousin and Kitchi was warning Harry when Kitaro entered. Kitchi grabbed him and took a knife out of his pocket. Kitaro went to his room in Kitchi's house and, arming himself with a Japan- ese sword, returned to his cousin’s nouse. | Harry’s wife was with him when Kitaro entered. The cousins had some angry words and Kitaro drew the sword from its scabbard and made a lunge at Harry, the point entering his chest. Quick as Light. night Kitaro made a cut at Harry and opened his left cheek. Harry’s wife screamed for hel% and rushed between them. Harry, as Kitaro was preparing to lunge at him and his wife, seized a -large butcher-knife and coming to close quarters with Kitaro slashed his leit arm, the blade catting through to the bone. The next blow of the knife opened Kitaro's left cheek, and the next cut through. Kitaro’s scalp and into his skull. . Kitaro was not idle and succeeded in getting in two blows on Harry, one cutting his left arm' and the other his right ankle. Harry’s wife and Mrs. O'Neill, who keeps a boarding-house next door and ‘witnessed the fight, rushed out of the house yelling for the police. Policemen Crowley and Connolly heard them and hurried to the house, Kitaro bad fallen underneath the bed and was lying in a pool of blood. Harry had dragged him- self downstairs and was lving on a louuge, whicl was covered with his blood. The patrol-wagon was summoned and both men were taken to the Receiving Hospital. Drs. Weii and Rinne attended to Kitaro’s wounds and Drs. Bunnell and O'Brien to Harry’s. Harry is in a dangerous condition from the wound in his head. The sword and butcher-knife were taken to the property clerk’s room in the City Hall, and Harry, if he should recover, will be charged with assault to murder. AMONG THE WHEELMEN. Annual Theater Party of the Asso- ciated Clubs Wednesday Evening. The annual theater party of the Califor- nia Associated Cycling Clubs held at the Tivoli Wednesday evening wasa big suc- cess. The house was packed to overflow- ing with wheelmen and their friends, and they thoroughly enjoyea the show ‘and the many side jokes that Ferris Hartman cracked at their expense. The prizes won by the ridersin the recent ten-mile road race of the association were distributed between the second and third acts, which gave the clubs an opportunity to cheer and yell for their champions. It was a sympathetic audience, and every one had a jolly time. ork is being pressed on the new Velodrome racetrack and grounds, and the track will probably be ready for training purposes by the fore part of next week. The secretaries of the clubs belonging to the California Associated Cycling Clubs of this City received a letter yesterday from cne A. A, Friedlander, asking them to attend a meeting Wednesday night, at which plans would be discussed to assist HEIRS WILL SUE A BANK Six Thousand Dollars May Be Lost on ‘a Void Judicial Order. Strange Complications of the German Savings Bank in the Collan Estate. Considerable interesting litigation prom- ises to arize at au early date over the es- tate of Philip Collan, who died at Fresno in 1885 and whose Irish heirs have re- tained Attorney Oscar T. Shuck to protect their interests here. ‘When Collan died be left many thou- sands in the German Snvinfs Bank here and $1050 in the Odd Kellows’ Savings Bavk. It was not known until recently that Collan had left any heirs, for he lived a quiet life and seldom spoke of relatives. ““The bankbooks snow,” said Mr. S8huck yesterday, “that he lived at Benton, Mono County, when he opened the accounts in the banks. Shortly after he died Patrick Crosby asked for letters on his estate, alleging that Collan had given him his hankbooks. The Fresno court gave letters tc Crosby and declared him the owner of the bankbooks and then made an order that there was no estate. On the strength of that order Croshy got the money, about $5000, from the German Bavings Bank and presented the order to the Odd Fel- lows’ Bank, but Secretary Benson referred him to Attorney Tilden, and the order was not recognized.” Now that the heirs of Collan have been discovered Attorney Sbuck will sue the German Savings Bank for the amount, now about $6000, on the same grounds of the Oda Fellows' Bank rejection. They claim that if Philip Collan owned the account 2t bis death and left a will it must be admitted to probate and the estate properly settled and distributed, and that if he did not leave a will his estate must be regularly administered on and prop- eriy distributed. If Collan did rot own the account when he died his heirs will demand proof of Crosby’s ownership and the entire case will be reopened. The po- sition will be taken that the order of court in the premises was wholly void. NOW ALL ARE HAPPY. Georgie Mitchell Grunted a Divorce ¥rom Her Willing Hus- band. Judge Daingerfield .vesterday granted a divorce to Georgie Mitcheil from Thomas J. Mitchell and awarded her the custody of their two minor children, §20 a mouth alimony and the community property. The ground of the divorce was Mitch- ell’s acknowledged infidelity. He was ac- cused of having been too intimate with a Mrs. Annie Fairfield and acknowledged having gone to a Stockton hotel with an auburn-haired woman, but denied that it was the lady named as corespondent. E. L. Rhodes, Mrs. Mitchell’s attorney, while on the stand was asked by Mitchell if he bad not been in love with Mrs. Mitchell before her marriage. He denied the impeachment, as he aiso denied ever having kissed her. Mitchell appeared very willing that his wife should get a divorce and agreed to almost everything asked. He was said to be deeply in love witn M rs. Fairfield, as the result of a bicycling rom ance. ——— LEPERS ARE GRATEFUL. The Unfortunates at the Pesthouse Send Thanks to Supervisor Benjamin. Supervisor Benjamin has received a letter from the lepers confined at the Pest- house thanking him for his successful effort in procuring for them the_comforts of the Goto cure by getting an appropria- tion for that purpose turough the board. The unfortunates also asked Mr. Ben- jamin whether it would not be possible to prevent their removal from their present quarters to the City and County Hospital, a measure that has been ordered by the Board of Health. While they assien no reason for their request, it is though® that they areas anxious to be isointed from their fellow human beings as the latter are to bave them isolated. 8 OCTOBER 23, 1896 LAND INVESTMENT BROKE THE BAN California Savings Society Said fo Be Insol- vent. Decreased Value of Mortgage Securities the Cause of the Fall, LAWYER VAN WYCK'S ADVICE. Recommends That the Management of the Institution Be Changed at Once. The solvency of the California Savings and Loan Society was yesterday ques- tioned by Attorney Sidney M. Van Wyck Jr., who advised that the bank be not per- mitted to continue the conduct of its busi- ness on the present lines. Mr. Van Wyck was recéntly appointed appraiser of the collateral inheritance tax due on the estate of David Hunter, and in presenting his report to Judge Coffey re- ferred to the finances of the bank, much of the personal property of the estate be- ing money on deposit with that institu- tiom. T he California Savings and Loan Society was incorporated in 1873 and carried on an ordinary banking business until Septem- ber 13, 1894. Most of the money of the institution was invested in loans, secured by mortgages on lands irn the lower San Joaquin Valley. In one instance $100 an acre was advanced and in & number of other cases $50 an acre wasloaned. ‘I'wenty an acre was about the smallest loan made. In 1892 and 1893 land values depreciated greatly and in 1894 the bank found it diffi- cult to obtain even the interest on its money. Borrowers were unable to float their mortgages elsewhere and the bank was forced to suspend. The directors decided to set aside all applications for withdrawals, and devoted all the money on hand to the payment of taxes on lands foreclosed on and to pro rata payments to depositors. So far 13 per cent has been repaid. Mr. Van Wyck says that he finds that about $100,000 worth of deposit beoks have been sold to money-brokers, for which books from 60 cents down to 46 cents on the dollar have been realized. The latter figure is now the bestthat can be obtained, and at that there is no demand for the books. The report further says that there is now duye the depositors $827,586 77. To offset this the bank holds real estate of the value of $553,154 and unsettied accounts of the book value of $400,301 58. Of these accounts the appraiser says: ‘In view of the large amount of real estate held by the bank, of the large amount it is now taking, of its high cost, ot the dullness of the real-estate market and of the long time before cash can be realized for the land held, I appraise the accounts owned at 46 per cent of the face value.’’ In conclusion Mr. Van Wyck says: “I am of the opinion that the society should not be permitted to continue to conduct its business as at present, in view of the fact that its assets at their real present cash values are not, so far as I have been able to ascertain, equal to the amount due depositors.” In the British Isles during the present century seven instances have been re- corded in which the bride has married the best man by mistake. NEW TO-DA FOR MeRINLEY — AND— HOBART! S Re s HON. GED. A KNIGHT ——AT THE— AUDITORIUM, Corner Eddy and Jones Streets, TO-MORROW (SATURDAY) EVENING. The University of California GLEE CLUB IN FAVORITE SONGS. 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LOT 5—65 pairs BEST GRADE MISSION BLANKETS, ex- tra size, bound with deep ribbon, fine Australian wool, specially made for us, regu- lar price $15 a pair, on special sale at............ $3.656 $5.50 $6.50 tish-net Ry L LACES! LACES! At 20 Cents D CREAM, BUTTER AND BLACK CHANTILLY and APPLI LACES! or Ward. 6 inches wide, regalar price 35¢ and 40c, on special sale at 20¢ a yard. t 258 Cents per TYard. A CREAM, BUTTER AND BLACK CHANTILLY and APPLIQUE LACES, 5and 6 inches wide, regular price 50c and 60c, on special sale at 25¢ a yard. t SO A Cents per Yard. CREAM, BUTTER AND BLACK CHANTILLY and APPLIQUE LACES,7, 8and 9 inches wide, regular price $1 and $1 25, on special sale at 50c a yard. LADIES’ HANDKERCHIEFS! 10 Cents Ea ch. At - 800 dozen LADIES’ WHITE SCALLOPED EMBROIDERED SHEER LAWN HAND. KERCHIEFS, regular price $2 40 a dozen, on special sale at 10¢ each. At 15 Coents Each. 200 dozen LADIES' WHITE SCALLOPED EMBROIDERED SHEER LAWN HAND- KERCHIEFS, regular price $3 a dozen, on special sale at 15¢ each. At 258 Cents Each. 100dozen LADIES' WHITE SCALLOPED EMBROIDERED SHEER LAWN HAND- KERCHIEFS, regular price $6 a dozen, on special sale at z5¢ each. VEILING! Cents VEILING! VEILING! a W At 25 ard. DOUBLE AND THREE-QUARTER WIDTHS CHENILLE DOTTED TUXEDO VEILING, regular price 5uc, on special sale at 25¢ a yard. LADIES’ GOWNS AND DRAWERS. At 65 Cents. LADIES’ GOWNS, made of heavy mus- lin, with tucked yoke and finished with ruffle, on special aale at 65c each. At $1.00. LADIES’ GOWNS, made of heavy mus- lin, with large collar, finished with embroidery, on special sale at $1 each. At 65 Cents. LADIES’ DRAWERS, made ot heavy muslin, deep ruffie of embroidery, on special salo at 65¢c. NEW DRESS TRIMMINGS. We are daily in receint of exquisite styles of Jet and Colored Bead Garnitures, in the Revere and Bolero shapes, at lowest prices. Our collection of Jet and Colored Bead Gimp Trimmings embraces every new de- sign, every width and quality, and we will offer “Special”’ a full line of Colored Bead Trimmings at 10c a yard. OSTRICH FEATHER BOAS. BLACK OSTRICH FEATHER COL- LARETTES, 20 inch, best qualities, lowest prices. ! BLACK OSTRICH FEATHER BOAS, 36, 45 and 54 inch, all grades and lowest prices. LADIES’ KID GLOVES, At 59 Cents. 200 dozen 4-BUTTON KiD GLOVES, large pearl buttons, in dark, medium and tan shades, also black, regular price $1, on special sale at 59¢ a pair. At 69 Cents. 179 dozen 4-BUTTON UNDRESSED KID GLOVES, large pearl buttons, colors and black, regular price $1 25, on spe- cial sale at 69c a pair. At $1.00. 105 dozen 4-BUTTON GLOVES, gloves, colors red, tan and brown, regular price $1 50, on special sale at $1 a pair. VELVET RIBBONS. At 10 Cents. COLORED VELVET RIBBONS, in satin back, assorted colors, value 25¢ and 385¢, will be closed out at 10c a yard. MACKINTOSHES. At $3.50. LADIES’ MACKINTOSHES, in black and navy, unattachable capes, on special sale at §3 50. At $5.00. LADIES' MACKINTOSHES, in black and navy, doable texture, on special sale at §5. DERBY KID HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR! t 20 Cents. A 125 dozen LADIES’ BLACK MACO COTTON HOSE, gh-spliced heels, double toes, Hermsdorf dye, worth $4 adozen, on special sale at 20c a pair.* t 838 Cents. A 250 dozen LADIES’ 4 THREAD BLACK MACO COTTON HOSE, extra high-spliced heels, double soles and toes, Hermsdorf dye, unbleached and all black feet, worth 50c, on special sale at 3 pairs for $1. 4 At 78 Cents. ¢ 3 cases LADIES’ NATURAL GRAY BANITARY WOOL VESTS, high neck, long sleeves; drawers to match; non-shrinkable, worth §1, on special sale at 75¢ each. At 82.00. 5 cases LADIES' JERSEY AND SWISS RIBBED WOOL UNION SUITS, high neck, long sleeves, ankle length, white, natural and black, worth $2 50, on special sale at $2 each. MEN’S FURNISHINGS ! At 22 dozen MEN'S EXTRA FINE 80 Cents. LAUNDERED PERCALE AND CHEVIOT SHIRTS, in a variety of the newest patterns, with two collars and one pair cuffs to each. At 18 Cents. 65 dozen MEN'S FULL-FINISHED SILK-EMBROIDERED BLACK HALF HOSE, s warranted fast colors, regular price 35¢, on special sate at 15¢ a pair. At 40 82 dozen MEN'S HEAVY DERBY RIBB. Cenx ED SANITARY UNDERSHIRTS AND T, DRAWERS, with anchor-stitched seams, regular price 75¢, on special sale at 40c each. At S1L.00. 25 dozen MEN’S AUSTRALIAN LAMB'S-WOOL and CAMEL’S-HAIR MIXED UN- DERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS, on special sale at $1 each. warranted thoroughly shrunk, regular price $1 50, MURPHY BUILDING, Harks! Strel, corner of Joneg, WAN FRANCISCO. QUE_LACES, 4 and large buttous to match - )