The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 19, 1896, Page 4

JEMBER 19, 1896. 4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DE RURALES BALKED GARD'S VENTURE Dunham Search Abandoned Because of Mexican Opposition. The Posse Certain of Arrest if the Boundary Was Crossed. Steps Taken to S:cure Co-operation for an Expedition Below the Line. SAN DIEGO, CaL., Dec. 18.—Consider- able information regarding the seareh made by Sheriff Lyndon of San Jose and ex-Marshal Gard of Los Angeles for Mur- derer James E. Dunham leaked out to- day. It was learned on the best authority that the officers had secured what they believed to be an authentic “tip’’ leading them toward the Mexican border, and even below the line. They intended, when they left here, to penetrate into Mexico, even though they knmew it was against the law for armed posses to enter a neigh- boring country. They hoped to keep their mission and destination so secret that the Mexican authorities would not suspect anything, and then, after Dun- | ham’s capture, they hoped either to hurry | him across the line without any nonsense about requisition papers or else to appeal to Mexico’s President and chief officers | ] and nothing can be learned regarding the alleged crime. All that is known is that the two left Reno 1n a cart abouu three months ago and were traced to this county by the movements of the wife of Taggart, who is McGlotchin’s sister. Mrs. Taggart was registered at the Russ House in San Francisco about the time the mea left Reno, and shortly afterward she left on a steamer for this ‘city. By watching her, the men were located near Ferndale, where they were engaged in chopping wood. Taggart is about 40 years old and Mec- Glotchin about 30. Botb have the appear- ance of laboring men. Taggart's wife is with him, g OREGON CITY ROBBERY. Expert Cracksmen Open a Postoffice Safe and Carry Away Its Entire Contents. PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 18.—A telegram was received this morning in the United States District Attorney’s oftice from Post- master S. R. Green of Oregon City, stating that the postoffice had been entered last night by burgiars. The safe was robbed and about $2000 in money, registered let- ters and stamps taken. The burglars were not only experts at their business but were evidently members of a well organ- ized gang that has recently arrived in Oregon from California. Their work on the Oregon City safe was identical with that of the burglars who on Wednesday night last blew open the safe of the Hub- bard postoffice. After that job they went to Oregon City, and they no doubt are in Portland now. The postoffice in Oregon City occupies the rear of a large store on the main street, the front of the room being occupied as a stationery and cigar store. The burgiars effected an entrance by pryingopen a rear door with & “jimmy.” They must have first gone to the cigar-stand, which was muleted of its choicest cigars and a few cents in change lefit in the money drawer. They then went at the safe of Postmaster Green, opening it and taking every possi- ble thing of value it contained. Even the private papers of Mr. Green, which could | | be of no value to them, and the pennies | in the stamp drawer, were confiscated. Secret Service Inspector Gordon, who has been at Hubbard investigating the in order to secure the co operation of the Lower California officials. | Through the Joguacity of alocal mem- | ber of the pariy the scheme fell flat. The | errand of Snheriff Lyndon was known be- | fore his arrival here and friends of Dan- | ham, if they had been so minded, could | easily have posted him on the Sherifl's | mission and the probable destination of | the party. The Mexican officials knew to a certainty that the American posse was headed for the Mexican line and wouldl probably enter Mexico without warrant of law or special permission.. It was on this | account that Governor Sangines was hastily notified and orders sent by him for the gathering of a posse of twelve rurales at Tia Juana to co-operate with another posse at Niji to head off the Americans and warn them out of the country. If they refused to go the co- | mandante of the Mexican party was under | orders to arrcst the whole party and con- i vey it to Ensenada, the Americans to be treated as prisoners charged with being filibusters entering a foreign state with which the United States is at peace. Just how Marshal Gard and Sheriff Lyn- don learned of the hasty but effective ac- tion of the Mexicans is not known, but 1t is presumed thaton accountof the im- portance of its mission the posse had se- cured the assistance of Mexican residents of Ensenada or Tia Juanato keep them posted rezarding the movements of Mexi- can cfficers. Gard is well acquainted be- im‘v the line and could easily secure such help. With plans made for the departure and no signs of suspicion on the part of the IMexicans Gard and Lyndon started out. | They had nardly left for Dulzura, how- | ever, before the Mexicans notified Gov- | ernor Sansines, who in turn lost no time | in ordering out the rurales. The red- | shirted guardians of the peace below the line wanted nothing betier than to give | chase to a lot of gringoes, especially men who might be charged serious crimes after captured, and they burnished their | carbines, looked to their sabers and in- spected the cinches on their wiry mus- tangs while awaiting orders at Tia Juana to give chase. Wtile Gard, Lyndon and the two San Diego Hawkshaws were running about in the hills of Duizura and looking longingly across the Mexican line the rurales were making for the spot post haste, armed and ready to give battle to the Americans if they entered Mexican territory. Gard evidently learned of this. as he never al- lowed his party to cross the border except when the coast was cicar, and then oan for a mile or so. He was too shrewd to be canght napping by the Mexicans. | There was a good deal of ground to be covered on this side of the line, inasmuch as the posse did not know the exact loca- tion of the *‘Robbers’ Roost” spoken of by | Murderer Dunham in his famous letter to | bis wife. Gard prevailed upon his party | to forego the pleasures of a chase after| Dunham over the Mexican line, where they were quite sure he would be found, and a thorough exploraticn was made of the rough and unsettled country sur- rounding Dunham’s bee ranch at Dulzura, Of course nothing was found. So the nosse returned to San Diego. Gard and Lyndon, chagrined by the fail- ure of their mission, told a cock-and-bull story of pursuing another man entirely, and boih solemnly denied that they were not after Dunbam. But Gard was not de- spondent over the matter. Itis known that he hardly returned to civilization be- fore he set a movement on foot to secure the proper papers authorizing him to en- ter Mexico and enlisting the Mexican offi- cialsin his behalf. If he is successful in his application to the authorities at the City of Mexico a new expedition will start out within a few days, headed direct for the Cocopah Mountains below the line, where Gard and Lyndon believe Dnnham is located. Sheriff Lyndon returned north to-day, presumably for his home at San Jose. Marshal Gard went to Los Angeles. REDWOOL’S ACTIVE NATIVES. Plans for the Entertainment of the Grand Parlor in Aprl. REDWOOD CITY, CaL., Dac. 18.—Red- wood Parlor No. 66, Native Sons of the Golden West, last night electea the fol- lowing officers: Past president, Clarence D. Hayward; president, Joseph F. Coffey; first vice-president, James T. O'Keefe; second vice-president, Henry F. Butts; third vice-president, Wiliiam G. Lovie; marshal, Fred W. Glennan; secretary, M. H. Thompson; treasurer, Hermann W. Schabereg; trustee, F. W. Johnson. Upon Redwood Parlor has devolved the great honor of entertainjng the Grand Parlor of the Native Sons at Red wood City in April. To do this properly the parlor has undertaken to raise $2000. Quite a snm has already been secured, and it is believed that the collecting of the balance will be an easy matter. The parlor has received material aid from the other par- lors of the county. It is understood that some time in the near future one of the leading tneaters of San Francisco will be secured for an evening's entertainment, the proceeds of which are to be applied to tkis fund. Sl agheer i CAUGHT NEAR EUREKA, Two Men Wanted for an Alleged Crime at Reno. EUREKA, CAL., Dec. 18.—C. D. Taggart and William McGlotchin are held in jail here awaiting the arrival of an officer with extradition papers for their return to Reno, Nevada, where they are wanted burglary there, was intercepted while re- turning this_afterncon, and is now in Oregon City. Two members of the gang, 1t is believed, arein custody at Newberg.. Their names are given as Howard Graton and Sam Bowman. Graton confessed to having pilfered a Lafayette dry-goods house. Both men had a preliminary examination at Newberz to-day and were held to the Grand Jury. Bowman is said to know something about the $600 burglary of Bord’s store at Dayton. —_——— AUBURN STAGE HOLD-UP. Bandits Loot the Georgetown Coach for the Second Time Within Twenty- Four Hours. SACRAMENTO, Car., Dec. 18.—Felix Tracy, agent and assistant superintendent of Wells, Fargo & Co., to-night received a dispatch stating that the Auburn and Georgetown stage was held up again this evening at about the same hour (5 o'clock) and place of the hold-up yesterday. As on yesterday the express-box was taken from the stage and broken open, but again the bandits were disappointed, for it con- tained no treasure. The probability is that the highwaymen have had reason to believe that there was to be a shipment of money about this time to some point in the mines of El Dorado, and baving missed i: yesterday they ex- pected to get it to-day. —_— FRANK 810CKLEY ESCAPES. The Straw Bondsman Malkes a Successful Break for Liberty. Deputy Degan of San Francieco was pass- ing through Chinatown on his way from the depot to the connty jail to-night with two prisoners for Folsom Frank Stockley, sentenced to ten years for perjury asa straw bondsmen, unlocked the handecuff which bound him to the other prisoner and escaped in the darkness. A duplicate key was found in the handcuff, with which some friend had provided him be- fore leaving San Francisco. He is still at large. gy SAN DIEGO JUDGE DEAD, Oliver S. Withirby Passes Away at the Age of Eighty-Two. SAN DIEGO, Can, Dec. 18.—Judge Oliver S. Witherby, one of the oldest resi- dents in San Diego County, died early this morning, aged 82. He was a native of Ohio, and came to S8an Diego in i849asa member of the Boundary Commission to establish a line between Mexico and the United States. He was elected to the Legislature which held its session at San Jose, was appointed by President Pierce Collector of Customs at San Diego, and was also in the early '50’s elected Judge of the district comprising San Diego and Los Angeles counties. Of late years he had been interested in a bank here. LT ENDS HIS LIFE AT SPUKANE, George Thornhill, a FVariety Actor, Be- lieved to Have ¢ ommitted Suicide. SPOKANE, Wasn, Dec. 18.—George Thornhill, a variety actor, better known to the profession as George Clark, is sup- posed to have committed suicide by jump- ing into the falls last night. He had gambled heavily, and latein the afterncon he went to the People’s Theater, where he was working, and took a lot of the be- longings of himself and Raifferty, his partner, pawning them for a few dollars. A .ote was sent to his partner in the evening, saying that he was nearly crazy; that gambling had been his ruin. Thornhiil was 40 years of age. He ex- vressed a determinatio a few davs ago that when in hara iuck he would jump into the river. He was well known in many California towns, principally in San T SnCAc TAn A S ACAIentD Rl ‘mother, Mrs. Clark, is said tolive in San Francisco. Susgs Tl Tragedy Near Spoicane. SPOKANE, Wasm, Dec. 19. —J. P. Davis, a farmer living a few miles easp of by taking arsenic. A few dayvs ago his wife, almost a child in years, had a guar- dian appointed, and through the guar- dian brought suit against him for adi- vorce. The trouble seemed to affect Davis’ mind. He was in the city last night and made an engagement with his attorney for this morning. Late at nignt he left his team at a stable in the city and | watked out to his home. There he met a | stranger, who asked if he might stay with him ail night. Davis consented. Later he awoke the stranger and a<ked him to write a letter, in whbich be recounted all his troubles; then he left the house ana ended his life in the front yard. e Defranded an Albany Company. ALBANY, Or., Dec. 18 —An exception- ally clever piece of work in the lime of forgeries has been unearthed here through the discov ry by attorneys for fhe Al- liance Trust Company that their deed 1o $3500 worth of property is bogus. Last July Henry C. Briggs, a stranger here, filed in the Recorder’s office a deed to a 318-acre farm in Linn County from A. S. Knox of Sun Jose, Cal. Briges received a $120C loan from the Alliance Trust Com. pany and left the city. The names of Mr. and Mrs. Knox, the notary and three wi nesses were all forgeries. ————— TuE Cough which is scarcely noticeable, s often the most dangerous. Very liitle doses of upon charges of obtaining money under false pretenses. The men refuse to talk, Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectoraut, frequently adminis- tered, will thke this away, For the Liver, use Jayne's Palnless Sanative Pills. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Dec. 18.—While!|. this city, committed suicide this morning | SEAMEN IN LINE FOR SAN PEDRO Favor the People’s. Harbor Because There Is No Undertow. Compare Santa Monica’s Inlet to the Dangerous One at Callao. Published Interviews in “The Call” Disastrous to Huntington’s Scheme. LOS ANGELES, Can, Dec. 18.—The friends of the free harbor at S8an Pedro read with great interest and undisguised elation the interviews with a large num- ber of seafaring officials printed in THE CavLL of yesterday respecting the constant and dangerous undertow at Santa Monica. For some inexplicable reason tnis had not received the attention from the San Pedro advocates which 1ts 1mportance deserved. As was well said by oune of the ses cap- tains, who spoke of this matter: “‘A strong and treacherous undertow cannot be circumvented by any break- water ever devised.”’ The 1interminable annoyance to ship- ping and {frequent losses at Callao, to which the seamen compare Santa Monica, seem to emphasize the follv of coustruct- ing a breakwater over these dangerous undescurrents, While the existence of the undertow has long been known to marine officers, little or nothing has been saia about it by the people who are engaged in the harbor fight. Taking its cue from Tur CALL's article, the Free Harbor League has opened this important branch of the inquiry and will naw see to it thata generous amount of information on the subject is supplied to the commission, which will begin holding regular sessivns with a view of hearing just such facts and arguments next Mon- day. The commission visited San Pedro to- day, going down over the Terminal rail- | way, General Manazer Hynes acting as conductor. On reaching the port Mr. Hynes got teams and the visitors were driven out to the lighthouse on the bluff overlooking what it is hoped will -be the outer harbor for Los Angeles. A steam launch was boarded and a trip was made from Dead Man’s Island by the break- water of the inner harbor to Terminal | Island and then the visitors came back to | their hote! here. The board wishes it understood that these visits are not for tiie purpose oi making a detailed study of the two places, but solely to famillarize the Commission- ers with the topography, so that at the ublic meetings, which will commence on giouday, they will havea thorough under- standing of the points described by the speakers. The Commissioners are con- stantly the center of a thronz of visitors, both of the interested localities having ‘their representatives constantly on duty, while the Free Harbor League keeps well informed of the progress made and is well prepared for the contest. To-morrow the commission wili make the trip from San Pedro to Santa Monica by water, taking the coust survey steamer | Gedney at the former port and sailing to the latter. This will complete its inves- tigations preliminary 10 the pubiic hear- ings. Aiter these are concluded the board will conduct its own investigations and studies and come to a conclusion. Engineer Hood of the Southern Pacific was the only one of Mr. Huntington’s representatives in evidence this evening, Mr. Corthell keeping in retirement. Atter dinner the Commissioners received a great number of callers, the majority of whom were champlons of San Pedro, but in no case was the conversation permitted to take an argumentative turn, nor was a word uttered by any of the members of the board that could possibly be construed 1nto an expression of opinion one way or the other. Al SR COLE-GRAHAM NUPTIALS, Pretty Wedding Ceremony at the Home of Senator Jones. LOS ANGELES, CaL., Dec. 18.—Miss Bessie Cornelia Graham, the only daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Graham, was united in wedlock to Schuyler Cole of Cole Grove, a son of ex-Senator Cornelius | Cole, last evening in Santa Monica. The ceremony was performed at the beautiful home of Senator John P. Jones of Nevada, the bride being a niece of Mr. and Mrs. Jones. The spacious parlors were gorgeously decorated in smilax, ferns and the many blossoms of which Eouthern California alone can boast at this time of the year. Miss Cornelia Hamilton was maid of honor, and Miss Marion Jones and Miss Grace Cole bridesmaids. Seward Cole, the groom’s brother, was best man. The ! bride was attired in an imported gown of white satin and tulle sprayed with natural orange blossoms, and carried in her hand a bunch of white violets. o g L R Favor a Statute Amendment. 1LOS ANGELES, Carn., Dec. 18.—The District Atiorney’s office is endeavoring to have Senator Bulla advocate at the next session of the Legislature an amendment to the statute on train robberies, making testimony as to events subsequent to the wrecking admissible 1n evidence, showing the boarding of the train for robbery after it has been derailed. Entertained by olaw Reid. PH@ENIX, Ariz., Dec. 18.—Whitelaw Reid and wife last night entertained eight guests at dinner, these being the first in- vited to tbeir hospitable home this sea- son. The favored ones were: E. R. Moses of Great Bend, Kans., president of the Irrigation Congress; C. M. Heintz of Los Angeles, secretary; J. G. Emery of Lawrence, Kans., National lecturer; T, H. Newell of California, J. E. Frost of. To- peka, Kans.; Mark A. Smith, Arizona delezate to Congress; Governor B. J. Franklin, and C. P. Leitch, Territorial Auditor. el ge Mrs, Dominis Visits San Rafael. SAN RAFAEL, CAn, Dec. 18.—Ex- Queen Liliuokalani visited San Rafael to- day, coming over on the noon train and returning at 3:40 .M. Sbhe was accom- panied by Colonel McFarlane and a maid. General Warfield met the party at Tiburon, and Mr. Foster placed a private car at their disposai for the round trip. Unfortunately she could see little of the beauty of the city or valley, owing to a dense fog. They stopped at the Hotel Rafael. _ e Fatal Wreck Near Benson. PH@ENIX, Ariz, Dec. 18.—A special to the Gazette from Benson says: H. J. Em- anuel was killed in a wreck fifteen miles from this place to-day. His body was shipped to-night to San Francisco. AR A Private Morgue Burned. CLEVELAND, Onio, Dec. 19.—The pri- vate morgue and undertaking establish- ment of W. C. Heffron, corner of Vermont and Hanover streets, was destroyed by fire at 12:30 o'clock this morning. The building contained a funeral car, two am- bulances, four horses and a large number of funeral cases and general undertaking supplies. All were destroyed, The loss cannot be stated. sl EEHES EXCESSIVE DIVIDENDS PAID. Stockholder Hendricks Makes Serious Charges Against Directors of the Manhattan Railway. ALBANY, N. Y. Dec. 18.—A sensa- tional case was begun before the Attorney- General of the State of New York to-day. Mortimer Hendricks of New York City, a bondholder of the Manbattan Railway Company, who owns and operates the elevated railway system of New York City, made application to Attorney- Generak Hancock, asking him to bring final action against the directors of the Manhattan Company for judgment, compelling it to pay back to the rail- road company most of the money paid to the stockholders in dividends in excess of the suiplus profits and removing the di- rectors from office and restraining them and their successors in office from declar- ing any paying dividends in excess of the profits of the corporation. Mr. Hendricks was directed to serve no- tice of his application upon the directors of the company ard a hearing was set be- fore the Attorney - General for next Wednesday. Mr, Hendricks asserts that during the year ending June 30, 1895, the company paid $1,800,000 dividends, which was $277,951 in excess of their surpius profits, and that during the year ending June 30, 189, the company paid the same amount of dividenas, which was $681,902 in excess of the surplus profits of the com- pany. He says that since June 30, 1896, the directors declared a quarterly dividend amounting to §$450,000, although the net income was only $147,000. He claims that the earnings of the cor- poration have not been sufficient during the last two years to pay the expenses of operating the road, its fixed charges and the dividends on stock by about $1,020,000. and he charges the fact to be that the ex- | cess of dividends over the protits have not been paid out of the surplus, but out of loans made by the corporation, and that thus a debt was created to pay excess dividends amounting to over $1.000,000. The directors who Hendricks desires the court to remove from office are George J. Gould, Edwin Gouid, Howard Gould, Russell Sage, Thomas T. Eckert, Samuel Sloan, Robert M. Galloway, Donald Mac- kay, Joseph Eastman, A. L. Hopkins, G: P. Morosini, Warren B. Smith and John J. Terry. The officers of the company are: Presi- dent, George J. Gould; secretary and treasurer, D. W. McWilliams, and the general manager, W. J. Franzioli. aibegiiy AFTER A TWO WEEKS' ILLNESS. Ex-Congressman Rosswell G. Horr of Michigan Passes Away at Plainfield, N. J, PLAINFIELD, N, J., Dec. 18.—Ex- Congressman Roswell G. Horr died to- night at 11 o’clock, after an illness of two weeks with bronchitis and Bright's disease. He wasfirst stricken after finish- ing his speechmaking in the late Presi- dential campaign. Roswell G. Horr was born at Waitsfield, Vt., November 26, 1830; removed with his parents to Ohio in 1834; graduated at An- | tioch College in 1857; in the same year | was elected cierk of the Court of Common | pleas of Lorain County, and served six | years; was admitted-to the bar in 1364 and | commenc-d praetice at Elyria, Ohio, in 1866; removed to Missouri and engaged in mining; in 1872 removed to East Saginaw, Mich., and was elected a Representative from Michigan to the Foriy-sixth, Forty- seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses. B it WILD SCENE THE CHAM BER Italian Statesmen Get Excited Over the Allowance of a Prince. ROME, Itavy, Dec. 13.—A sensational scene occurred in the Chamber of Depu- ties to-day over the allowance for the Prince of Naples. In the course of the de- bate Signor Costa, Socialist, declared that the monarchy was not only a useless but a dangerous institution, The President or the Chamber forbade him to speak fur- ther. A frightful uproar ensued. Depu- ties flew at one another’s throats. Some exchanged knockdown blows. The tumult continued fora long time. Finally the bill granting the annual allowance of 1,000,000 francs was carried amid great con- fuston. Just where the most blame lies for the shocking scene it is hard to say. All the Deputies were greatly excited and many did not realize what they were doing. The whole city is stirred up over the affair, el gy I CORBEIT CALLS THE BET, Anxious to Fight Fiizeimmons for All He Can Put Up. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 18.—‘“He wants to tight for $20,000, does he?" said James J. Corbett yesterday, aiter he read what Fitzsimmons had to say about the proposed fight. “Well, I'll fight him for $20,000, or $25,000, or $50,000, or any sum he may name. “If he means business let him send a check to the stakeholder for the amount he wants to fight me for. I will put up any amount he may name in the hands of the stakeholder to-morrow. “Or let him name the amount he wants to fight for and agree to Yorfeit the $2500 already up if he does not put upthe whole sum. DIl sign articles agreeing to forfeit the $2500 I have up if I do not put up the side het agreed. I want to fight and am willing to fight now or on March 17, or for any such bot as Fitzsimmous may care to name.” Corbett was very earnest in his talk, and evidently sincere. He wants to fight and is willing that the battle shall be fora large stake. gl Jim Williams’ Challenge. NEW YORK, N. Y., Doc. 18 —Jim Wil- lisms, the middle-weight of the Pacific Coast, called at the Illustrated News office to-day and issued the following challenge : “I understand that Dan Creedon claims the middle-weight championship. If this is so I will meet him for the title ir any style he desires. Iam not so well known in the East, but have fought sixry-two battles in the West, and desire to prove to the sporting public here that I am worthy of consideration. “Jiw WiLLiAms, “OI Salt Lake City, Utah.” Williams fought Tem B8harkey eight rounds just previous to the latter's meet- ing with Corbett. Pl R Racing at New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, L., Dec. 18.—SiX furlongs, Damocle: won, Brysn second, Sobriquet third. Time, 1:153 : 8ix furlongs, Sharon won, Gold Top second, Juanita third. Time, 1:02}. One mile and twenty-yaras, Seabrocke won, (130; :cm King second, Dorothy III third. Time, 8ix xurhn?, Clymena won, Scribe second, Hill Billy third. Time, 1:15%. Six furlongs, Denver won, Princess Rose sec- ond, Tom Sayre third. Time, 1:163,. Three-quarters of a mile, Moloch won, Sena- tor Morriil second, Elano third. Time, 1:1514. | 1ess children disappeared magically. CHILDREN'S DAY AT FRESNO'S FAIR Hundreds of Little Tets Admitted to the Big Payilion. Gaz: in Awe at the Display and Sample the Fruit on Exhibition. Dimeless Youngsters Allowed to Eater While the Doorkeeper Is "~ Not Looking. FRESNO, CaL, Dec. 18. — This wgs school-children’s day at the San Joaquin Valley Citrus Fair. The public schools and the parochial schools closed at noon, and before 1 o’clock children were flocking from every direction toward the pavilion. Some of the little ones could not stay long enough at home to eat their lunch.® They came to the main entrance eating bread and butter, with the butter side down, chewing gingerbread and hitin_g apples, just like the most aged exhibitor at the fair used to do long years ago. A double force of ticket sellers was on duty. The children planked down their | dimes and filed in in open-eyed wonder at what they saw beyond the entrance. There were qulte a number of sad little boys and girls outside who had no dime. Papa was out of work or sick, or there was no fire in the house. Itisnot very cold in the San Joaquin Valley 1n the winter, but a little fire takes the chill out of the atmosphere and makes a home more comfortable, and if during the afternoon there was any piciure that the sight of the happy children inside and the unhappy ones outside brought to the minds of “ye older folks,”” it was the pic- ture of John Howard Payne’s ‘‘Home, Sweet Home,” in all its color of recollec- tion and melody of domesticity: Backward, turn backward, O Time in your flight; Make me a child again, just for to-night, Quoted a fond father as he gazed at his two happy and well-dressed litile daugh- ters. One of the San Joaquin’s greatest attrac- tions is its homes—happy, prosperousand decked with flowers. ‘“‘Be it ever so humble’’ there are few homes in this beautiful valley that have not at least their flowers, even at Christmastide. fre- quently in the speeches made during the fair the valley has been referred to as the long-lost garden of Eden, now found. If it is not quite Paradise it is a city of homes. The dimeless children outside did not stand long in the shadow of disappoint- ment. Doorkeepers Kite and Ewing turned their backs and were deeply and deftly engaged in conversation. The dilme- na few moments not one was to be seen. One of the management, it is said, had beck- oned and pointed the way to the door. A plack-robed sister of charity who stood by wiped away a tear and smiled. 'here were not less than 2000 present They simply took the fair by storm. They captured the pand and the bandstand and the management :and everything else almost. The unrelenting exbibitor with his conspicuous sign, *‘Do not handle the exhibits,”’ melted before the children. Many an orange and appie and almond aud walnuot and raisin and prune, which money could not tempt from its place of exhibition beforg, went us a gift into the chubby-fist of young America or between the clinging fingers of little Miss Colum- bia. Not a single thing was vulgarly “'swiped.” After they became tired of sightseeing, the children played hide ana seek among the beautiful piles of oranges and lemons and flowers. The band played several selections pleasing to little ones. The children of the Park-street School sang “America’’ and *The Battle Hymn of thie Republic,”” and the children of the K-street School sang ‘Jingle Bells” and “Columbia, Gem of the Ocean.” There is measles in the Orphan School so the little orphans could not come. A jollier crowd never attended the fair. Like Brownies the children swarmed everywhere. Ex- actly 2091 persons attended the fair to- day. It has been decided to continue the fair into next week. This is to give the pec- ple of San Francisco and the whole Siate a longer opportunity in which to see the citrus wonders. The.fair will be continued | through Monday and will close on Mon- day vight. The Pavilion will be open on Sunday. Excursions are coming on Sun- day irom Stockton, Porterville and other towns of the valley. A very large num- ver of visitors is expected on that day. The San Francisco excursionists arrived to-night. Phey will be formally received in the morning and to-morrow evening there will be a public reception and speeches at the pavilion. In the after- noon the visitors will be taken for a drive over the city. A. R. Biggs will deliver the welcoming address snd Hugh Craig of San Francisco will respond. Saturday is farmers’ day and also Por- terville day. The fruit-grower and farmer from every place under the surrounding horizon 1s expected to drive in to-morrow with his family and team. The Stockton excursion train returned to the Mill City this afternoon. Quite a number of Stocktonians remained over to see the fair through. Colonel Skew has added to the San Joaquin County exhibit a Stockton scene, showing water and railroads, ships, loco- motives and cars—"where the rails meet the sails.”’ The exhibitors are puzzled. Not one amongithem has been informed of the name of a single judge. This has been kept secret by the management. The exhibitor jeels himseif lost. When a man who apvears to know iruit when he sees it pauses befcre hisexhibit he does not know wiether to smil, look pleasant and give bim the “‘glad hand”’ under the suspicion that he is a judge, or toassume the *'glassy eye” as he wouid before an ordinary spectater. = Late to-night it leaked out among a very few that the judges on the quality of fruit are Mr. Woods of Whittier, Supervisor Sayre of Fresno and Mr. Hobbs of the Hobbs-Parsons Company. Considerable dissatisfaction is likely to arise over the selection of these judges, as two of them have fruit on exhibit. Among those who are nursing a griey- ance in regard to the method of awaraing prizes is *‘Uncle Dan” Thomas, the “widows’ friend” of Visalia. How ‘*Uncle Dan’ acquired the affixed title is a legend of this section of the valley. ESome years ago he had in his nursery a Jot of fruit trees which he could neither sell nor keep until the following year, as they would then be too large. He haa it circulated throughout the valley that be would give 135 trees, embracing—which word the narrators of the story say is a very good one to use n connection with it—embracing every variety of fruit, to all the widows in thu valley who would apply for them. The result was that “Uncle Dan”’ gave away 7290 fruit trees to fifty-four San Joaquin widows; hence the name **'widows’ friend."” Subsequent eyents showed that Daniel e ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— Children Cry for !'_i—t—c;her's Castoria. was long-headed. The next sezson he sold over $3000 worth of nursery stock to the widows in recognition of the previous season’s generosity. here is considerable talk among com- mitteemen of the Midwinter Citrus Fair and leading growers of the valley in favor of making a protracted exhibit of San Joaquin Valley citrus fruits at Chicago next winter, and calling it the San Joaquin California’s Citrus Fair. Ir this is done—-and it is quite probable that it will be—an exhibit will be got together which will excel the present fair and o the eyes of the Chicagoese. The v: ley will also be represented at the Hamburg (Germany) Horticultural Exposition, which will be opened next May. The town of Lindsay’s exhibit is very unique. 1t represents a fort. Oranges piled in regniation style represent can- non-balls and gleaming on the muzzles ot several miniature mortars are orange shells. From the flagstaff flies the name “Lindsay.” R S Sagendorf Pleads Gualty. FRESNO, Cavn, Dec. 18.—Frank C. Sagendorf, whose wife died in this city a few days ago of a broken heart because of his heartless treatment of her, was brought back from Riverside by Deputy Constable Crutcher this morning. He was imme- diately taken before Justice St. John, where he pleaded guilty to a charge of petty larceny —the theft of a pair of trousers from a friend. The officers are working on more serious charges against him. 00 NOT DESIRE THE CUT Richmond Residents €£ay the Sutter-Street Extension Is Unnecsssary. An Improvement Association Scored by a (itizens’ Meeting—Vote of Thanks. The residents of Richmond district, who oppose the extension of Sutter street through Odd Fellows’ Cemetery, are elated at the action of the Board of Supervisors in postponing action in the matter for sixty davs. A meeting of the citizensand taxpayers, who have opposed the project, was held in Crossthwaite’s Hall, at the corner of Fifth and Point Lobos avenues, last evening. The meeting was somewhat in the nature of & ratification meeting, and incidentally the Richmond Improyement Association, which presented the petition asking for the extension, and more par- ticularly C. H. Hubbs, president of the association, came in for considerable severa criticism. Mr. Fletcher made quite a lengthy state- ment of the reasons which prompted property-holders to oppose the extension. “In the opening of Sutter street,” he said, “Mr. Hubbs states that this district will not be assessed. Under the laws of the State of California the Board of Supervis- ors is powerless to make a special appro- propriation for such a purpose without the consent of the Legislature. Then it will have to wait until the next fiscal year. That appropriation is only for purchasing the land. It is not for making the road. “To make a 6 per cent grade they wil have to cut it down nearly sixty feet in solid rock. Whois going to pay for it? [A voice, ‘Richmond.’] = Certainly, we will bave to pungle down in our pockets for the coin. I for one am goingto ob- ject.” Y James Bowban made a keenly sarcastic speech, in which he impugped the mo- tives of those who have been urging the Supervisors to have the cut made. Hubbs, he declared, was in the employ of the Cy}gress Lawn Cemetery Association. 5 dward Ginsey moved that a vote of thanks be extended to the Board of Su- pervisors for postponing action for sixty days. The motion carried unanimously. HRS. JOSIE NIEHLSON, 1019 GUERRERO ST, An intelligent and highly re- spectable lady of this city, has an experience at the STATES BLECTRO-MEDICAL INSTITUTE Corner Markct, Powell and Eddy Sts. TESTIMONIAL: I, Mrs. Josie Niehlson, residing now a 1019 Guerrero street, San Francisco, desir to testify to the excellent results that T have experienced under treatment at the State Electro-Medical Institute, corner Market, Powell and Eddy streets. Since last Christmas I have been quite an invalid from troubie in my chest, with cough, difficulty in breathing and general nerve debility, On Monday, November 30, 1896, I applied for advice at the Insti- tute. Ihad been treated by three well- known medical men of this city without any relief. Dr. W. K. Vance, at the State Electro-Medical Institute, made a careful examination of my case and pronounced it one of Bronchial Asthma. He placed me under a course of electrical treatment with medicines combined, and I at once bezan to pick up, and am now wonder- fully improved in health and spirits, As this is the first and only relief thas I have obtained from my distressing complaint I desire to give the State Electro-Medical Institute a public testirnonial. I will gladly and wiltingly reply to any ques- tions, either personally or by letter, that may be addressed to me here. Signed: MRS. JOSIE NIEHLSON, 1019 Guerrero Street, San Francisco. 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