The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1896, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1896. 1y PRONISED T0 DI f IF MARRIED Miss Rust Wedded an Old Man for His Property. He Got Well and Repaid Her Sympathy With All Manner of Meanness. Finally He Dicd and His Half-Million Dollar Estat: Cannot Be Located. OAXTAND OFricE SAN FRANCISOO OALL,) 908 Broadway, Dec. 25. | A well-known and respected resident of this city for many years past took her de- perture to-day to another eity to forget troubles that have made her life one of sadness for a period of nearly two years. Like the cynic who asked “Is marriage a failure?” she has reasons to believe that some marriages are not made in heaven, as her own proved. Her story reads more like fiction than fact. Among the first-ciass seamstresses of Jakland for many years was a neat- ppearing lady of perhaps 35 years of age amed Miss Rust who earned a comfort- abie living by sewing for wealthy Oakland families. Her home consisted of two cheap but cozy rooms in a Sixth-street lodging-house. She was not a selfish person and almost every evening was spent in Marshall’s Undenominational Mission on Eighth street, trying to help with the good work. Her sorrows date back to one unfortun- ate night when listening to the street ser- vices of the Salvation Army, in company with a friend and some children. These children were attracted by the attentions of an old gentieman disposed to be very friendly to them, until he got into conver- sation casually with Miss Rust and her friend. The old man resembled the pictures of Santa Claus and was evidently nearly seventy years of age. Nothing was thought of the meeting until the aged man became & regular attendant at the mission and always tried to be very court- eous to Miss Rust. The old gentleman was named Wright, and he was a widower. He gave Miss Rust to understand that he was rich and lonely. From escorting her home he began to call. Finally came a proposal of mar- riage and a decided refusal, but this only made the aged lover more determined. He dogged her footsteps and begged that she would marry him, telling her that if she would only consent he wouid make her a deed of gift to all his Oakland, San Francisco and San Diego property, claim- ‘:}»)g that it amounted in value to $500,- Then he fell very ill, the doctor said he was sick unto death, and his last wish was that Miss Rust would become his wife, to inherit his wealth, in proof of his great af- fection for her. Like a cautious woman she repudiated the offer, and some of her best friends thought it unwise, ag poor old Mr. Wright was dying and he would leave her a young widew, well fixed for the remainder of her life, She went to his bedside at his urgent request and with a feeble voice he ‘promisad it she would only grant his wish be would die contented. He promised so faithfully to die imme- diately that sympathy got tbe better of her juodgment and a_minister from the Thirty-fourth-street Methodist Church, where she was a member, came in and made them man and wife. Being conscientious, the young bride set about to nurse her supposed dying husband. But instead of taking his de- parture to the better world hedaily gained in strength and health until he was as well as ever. Instead of a devoted saint he became a tyrannical husband, requir- ing his wife to wait on him, allowing her no freedom or money, and the woman suffered k-enly. She bore it for two years, when the old man took the grip and one night died. and Mrs. Wright, with no pretense of sorrow, laid him away in Mountain View, paying for everything from her own savings before marriage. Then came the search for a will, deeds or property, but none were found, only pension papers entitling Wright to $10 a mounth. Records were next looked into, but his name was not found on the books; then the tax office was visited, but nothing was there to show that Wright had everowned & piece of Oakland property. San Diego end San Francisco offices were communi- cated with and the results were the same, and Mrs. Wright soon discovered she had been duped. Bhe does not intend to return to Oak- land. A FALLEN BARON. He Is Even Deprived of His Title of Constable. OAKLAND, Carn., Dec. 25.—Constable von Kapff of Alameda has revoked the appointment of ‘‘Baron” Baroteau as a deputy. He discovered that if he allowed the “baron’’ to continue wearing a star he might just as well throw up his office and quit. According to Von Kapff, Baro- teau wanted to run the affairs not only of the Alameda constables but of those who hold forth in Oakland as well. He 1gnored his principal entirely and undertook to handle all of the civil busi- ness that was lying around loose. He was serving papers in all of the surrounding towns and when the other constables ran across him they began to raise a howl. Barotean was appointed for the purpose of acting as keeper on aranch near Dublin. One More Burglar. OAKLAND, Can, Dec. 25.—James “Pug” Smith, an ex-convict, was arrested to-day on suspicion of purglary. He is believed to be one of the gang of four that recently arrived here. Three are now in_jail' and only one, Riley, is at large. Riley is the tramp who gave Cap- tain Lees the information that led to the arrest of Frank Miller, the butler who shot a burglar in San Francisco. A Woman’s Peculiar Death. OAKLAND, CAL., Dec. 25.—Mrs. Lydia L. Center was found dead this morning in her bed at the Grand Western House, West Oakland. She lived with her hus- band, Moses Shattuck Center, who is Xnown as a newspaper writer. The Coro- ner is not satisfied as to the cause of her death and will hold an inquiry. Father Yorke’s Lecture. OAKLAND, CaL., Dec. 25.—Tickets for 2ev. Father Yorke's lecture at the Mac- donough Theater next Monday evening are in such demand that the committee in charge bas decided to have the reserved sheet at Reilly’s drugstore all day and ¥vening BSunday, December 27. (3 Flannery Will Go Free. OAKLAND, CAL, Dec. 25.—John Flan- nery, the man who came from Colorado and who attempted to kill two people, will not be prosecated. His proposed victims be- lieve he is not responsible for bis acts, and if he will leave the State he m. 0 80. san Leandro Beaten. Decoto 30. Searles, Carr, Whipple and Garcia won the game. ——————— DANISH WEST INDIES. Three Islands Which This Country Might Purchase if It Would. The result of the Presidential election in the United States has been eagerly looked for by the population of the Denish islands in the West Indies since the Republican convention in St. Louis last summer, which made the purchase from Denmark of these islands a para- graph in its platform. The population is notdiscontented with the present Govern- ment, which is as free as possible, but it is a known fact that Denmark would not object to sell the islands, which, on ac- count of the.distance from the mother country and the difference in climate, have no such value for the Danish crown that their maintenance is of any import- ance. The time has passed when Denmark was one of the greatest naval powers, and it is not nece:sary now, considering the neu- tral position of Denmark in the European concert, to maintain any especially Dan- ish naval station in the West Indian waters. Once 1n a while the people of the islands have been alarmed by rumors that Denmark was about to sell the islands to Germany, a transaction that would cause general dissatisfaction, and they therefore will hail the day when they can change **0ld Dannebrog” for “0Old Glory,” know- ing that the question of ownership will then be settled forever and the islands be- long to that country to which they natu- rally ought to belong. The islands have been under the Danish crown since 1655, but have now their own government, consisting of & Governor (ap- pointed by the King of Denmark) and two Colonial Councils (one for 8t. Croix and one for St. Thomas and St. Juan), whose members for the greater part are elected by the people. The slave trade was prohibited by the Kingof Denmark in 1803 and slavery was abolished in 1856. | Of this population 5000 are white—mostly Danes and English—while the balance are colored. The language 1s English and the religion Lutheran, Catholic, Methodist and a few Jews. The islands have their own Court of Appeals, but cases for the Supreme Court are decided before the Danish Supreme Court in Copenhagen. Nearly thirty-six years ago Denmark agreed to sell the islands to the Unitea States for $3,000,000, but the Senate ‘at Washington failed to approve the treaty, | which accordingly became void.—New York Tribune. FOUAD, A LOST LOBSTER A Remnant of the Crustacea That Were Planted in Monterey Bay. | How The Scientist Sought tor Him. Tales the Men of the Sea Have Told. One of the lost tribe of Eastern lobsters that was planted in Monterey Bay about twenty years ago bas been found and the epicures may rejoice thereat. When the luscious crustacea were dumped overboard by the United States Fish Commissioner and told to multiply till every inlet on the Pacific Coast would teem with its increase, the oyster opened his shell and laughed in glee, the clam bade good by to the chowder-pot and the crab clappeda his double bank of claws for joy of it. That lobster—the ward of the scientist, the emigrant turned loose in California waters—would take their places in the market-stalls and they would wiggle through the marine deeps in peace. Their names woutd never again appear on the free-lunch menu. : But that lobster was not to be caught napping, nor in any other somnolent con- dition. He had been trapped once far away in his Atlantic bed and consequently he made good use of his newly found freedom. He burrowed deep down in the loam of the ocean and became only a dim and fast-fading memory. Wild story-tellers of the stormy sea came ashore and said that they had seen him. During their shipwrecks when they were singjing be- neath the billows they had intérviewed' the lost lobster. He was cruising in com- pany with the mystical serpent, and out of the depths they arose to tell the tale. One weird old man of the ocean said that when he was once banqueting with {acrew of mermen a thousand fathoms below the waves he had eaten salad made from the wily crustacean, and that sailor- man hitched up his trousers in a convine- ing sailor-like way. Many people believed the yarn and the scientists boarded their boatsand dragged their deep-sea nets over the alleged haunts of that lobster in the hope of gathering him from his submarine seclu- sion, and the menu of the mermen. Others not so wise in the curious things of the ocean wanad their skeptical heads and remarked in their whiskers that those narrators had evidently been flound- ering in grog instead of brine, and the wild shipwrecking gales they had encoun- tered blew only along the terra firma of the water front, and also that the rare salad of the mermen was only a dream dreamed in the lockup after a roaring cruise along the stormy Barbary Coast. Albeit, the lost lobster has been found, He didn’t travel with the sea serpent, he didn’i turn to cold salad for the menu of the mermen and he didn’t go glimmering through a dream of things that were. He went to Oakland. ‘ Many mystical things go to Oakland—at least they are found there, as was the lost lobster yesterday, by a clam digger. | The scientists might never think of { looking for anything remarkable in Oak- land, so be escaped their drag-nets for twenty years and slept like Rip Van Win- | kle in peace, while his brothers, tue crab and the shrimp, went one by one to the bill-of-fare. E. L. Rushmer, a lad of this city, was shoveling in a clam bed in the creek near the Peralta slip for the piece de resistance | of a Christmas bake when he turned up one of the transplanted Eastern lobsters. It was about three inches long and is undoubtedly one of the lobsters dumped into Monterey Bay years ago by the United States Fish Commission. They disappeared and it was thought that the plant was a failure, that either the water of the Pacific was unsuitable for the Atlantic-bred crustaceans or' that they had been desiroyed by their voracious enemies in the ocean. This one got into Oakland Creek and evidently was safe from foes within and without the sea. Even the scientist of the Athens of the Pacific never dreamed of his resence there. If he had gotten down to 'alo Alto, now, David Starr Jordan would have caught him. That lobster was wise in his generation. A BARREL FIDDLE. Peculiar Musical Instrument Made by a Massachusetts Man. H. H. Hustis Jr., assistant station agent at Prospect Hill, East Somerville, on the southern divisior of the Boston and Maine Railroad, is something of a geniusin the musical line, says the Boston Globe. When his soul yearned fora fiddle he set about and made one out of a half barrel. Burprising as 1t may seem at first thought, the fiddle has a very good tone, it is especially strong on the bass. ‘Cello strings are used. Mr. Hustis is a violinist of some merit, and when hs takes his violin to the station be and G. K. Walcott, the station agent, make music that is highh{‘y entertaining to those who hear them. r. Walcott plays the barrel bull fiddie verv well, consider- ing that he is'left-handed, and the rotund instrument is strung right-handed. THEY STUDED. | THE VERB “AMARE" Love and Latin at the University of Cali- fornia. Fred W. Koch, 96, and Miss Amanda Krenz, '96, Will Soon Be Wedded. The Prospective Groom a Track Athlete of Unusually Wide Reputation. BERKELEY, CaL., Dec. 25.—The most notable engagement in university circles which has taken place in many months is that of Fred W. Koch, ’96, one ot the best known track athletes west of the Rocky Mountains, and Miss Amanda Krenz, a 84x120 feet. The firm are now at work on the manufacturing of fire brick for the new ferry depot in 8an Francisco. Death to the Dogs. ALAMEDA, CaL, Dec. 25.—Not con- tent with stealing the most valuable canine pets of this place, some one has be- gun poisoning them. To-day the police were notified that a yaluable dog belong- ing to a resident on Railroad avenue had been poisoned last might. The police de- clare that the thieves who have been operating in this city are residents of the vlace, and know where to find the ani- mals that are of the most value. They would not be surprised to learn that the parties who poisoned the dog are the same that have been at work here. New High School. ALAMEDA, Car., Dec. 25.—One of the pressing needs of this city isa new high school building. With the present gram- mar schools the lower grades are well cared for, but the scholars preparing for the university are sadly crowded for room, Superintendent Sullivin is outspoken on the subject, and declares that some step must be taken to care for the coming classes, which are growing larger each year. With the best of all the accredited schools in the State, it is considered that room for them must be provided. — OHINESE SCHOOLBOY. Hard Regime of the Youngsters in the Flowery Kingdom.} ‘The Chinese school children have in- stilled into them at an early age habits of hard, steady study, says the London Mail. At the age of 5a boy begins his schooling. At daylight he rises, and, after dressing as quickly as possible, he starts s Miss AMANDA '____A&N.z—f‘\ recent graduate of widespread popularity. Miss Krenz lives in Napa, while Mr. Koch, whose home is at Escondido, 3an Diego County, is teaching science at the Merced High School. Every effort was made to keep the be- trothial a secret until the prospective bride and groom were prepared to announce it in the regular manner, but despite their desire for secrecy it crept out and soon spread like wildfire throughout the com- munity. What adds special interest to the en- gagement is the fact that the groom to be, while in college, carried off more student hpnors than any one for many years, be- sides being a prominent member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, while the pros- ective bride, being affiliated with the %nppn Alpha Thets Borority, completed the classical coursein three and a half years. Koch also completed his course in three and a half years, having taken the degree B.S. last January, while Miss Krenz received the degree A.B. only last Tuesday. What gives Koch a special place among the graduates of the institution is his won- derful athletic record, having won during his course tnirty-nine gold and silver 'medals, besides being captain of the Cali- fornia team which went Kast in May, 1895. During their trip he carried off more hon- o1s than any other two men on the team. In his freshman year he was elected “Bourdon president,” which is considered the nighest class honor at the university save the editorship of the Blue and Gold, and successfully conducted the obsequies attending the burial of Bourdon and Minto in one of the hardest-fought class battles rver carried on at fiarkeley. Throughout his course he was identitied with nearly every movement of interest to the student body. Having won fame as astudent and an athlete, when it came to the selection of a man to lead the Berkeley team against the Eastern cracks Koch won the place vandily. The remarkable feature of his athleiic ability was his fitzess for so many different events. In ordinary fieid days he would enter tha quarter-mile, the half- mile, the high jurmnp, the shot-put and the broad jump. For a time he held the Uni- versity records in all of these events. His records of 503-5 seconds for the uarter-mile and 2 minutes 1 1-5 seconds or the haif-mile remain unbroken on the coast to-day. After graduating from the university he spent several months of special study in the department of botany, when .he re- ceived the appointment to the position he now holds. No date has been definitely announced for the wedding, but it is understood that it will take place either in the spring or early summer. Will Plead Guilty. ALAMEDA, CaL, Dec. 25.—H. J. Cro- nin, wanted on four charges of embezzie- ment preferred by his former employer, A. T. Newth, was arrested in a saloon” on the county road last ni'fht and locked up in the city prison. e drove a milk- wagon and collected money from his cus- tomers, but failed to turn the money over to the owner. When detected he was dis- charged, and later warrants were sworn out for his arrest. When g ioned by a CALL representa- tive this afternoon Cronin was not at all cheerfally inclined. “I have nothing to i when questioned. *“I will ! d be done with it. There is no use in denying the charges, for I had no excuse for acting as I did. I'll take my medicine.” They Will Build. ALAMEDA, CAL., Dec. 25.—On January 1, Clark & Sons will put on a full force of men in their terra cotta works and begin the erection of a tkree-story addition to their present works. The building will be OAKLAND, Oar, Dec. 2.—The Ban | Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. Leandro and Decoto football teams met 10-day. The score was San Leandro 0, FRED W. KOCH AND MISS AMANDA KRENZ, Both Recent Graduates of the State University, Whose Engagement Has Been Announced. breakfastless to school. He is given a task and ufter it is completed he isallowed an hour for breakfast. Again, later, he has an hour for luncheon, but he is at his study nearly twelve hours a day seven days in the week. All the time that be is not saying his lessons he is learning aloud at the top of his voice. He is taught rudimentary as- tronomy, physics and natural history, but greater stress is put upon writing and his literary studies than upon any other branch. “A Thousand Letters,”’ 8 poem, is the study that forms the backbone of his lit- erary education. In it are taught the duties of children to parents and all such matters. Whatever the study may be— history, classics or science—every lesson is learned and repeated word for word. rin Oakland. CHRISTINS BELLS * ACROSS THE B How the Great Festival Was Celebrated in Oakland. Convicted Murderers and Thieves Hold Service in the County Jail. Innocent Little Children Sang Carols Before the Christmas Sun Arose. OaxzA¥D OrricE San Fraxcisco Cu.x..} 908 Broad way, Dec. 25. Christmas was observed very generally Charitable institutions, churches, jails and missions all observed the day. Perhaps one of the most unusual gath- erings was at the Caunty Jail, where the birth of the author of Christianity was celebrated with fervor and earnestness. Sheriff White, although an agnostic, per- sonally places every courtesy at the dis- posal of those Christian workers who care- fully observe the rules of the jail. Under his shrievalty the various mis- sions have done much good work, but the largest number of converts have been made by the Salvation Army. At the service held this morning, C. R. Bennett, who was oncy secretary of the So- ciety for the Suppression of Viceand who isin jail for suooting at_George Gray, knelt by the side of Ben Hill, who shot his wite; John Martin, a burglar, and William Morriss, W. Taylor, M. Connolly and John Taylor, also burglars, were raying with Louis Muhlner, who kilied s‘ennie Lewis, and all these men claim to be sincere Christians. They are certainly among the very best bebaved of the pris- oners, and Sheriff White would be only too glad to see them all converted. When Louis Muhlner goes to San Quentin he will find a convict Salvation Army corps there, so he will not be lonely. The Sheriff furnishea a good dinner for his guests, and at the City Prison the in- mates were likewise well attended to. At the West Oakland Home ninety-six little children woke up early this morning and rushed to their stockings, to find them weil filled. Thlrt{ other little to ts, who do not know stockings from night- caps, were also remembered in a manner suitable to their years. The inmates of the Home for Adult Blind_were specially treated by Colonel Jack Hays, the superintendent. The festival of Christmas will be cele- brated at most of the churches next Sun- day. ’{hs little carolers from Etnemere, the residence of the Hushes at Fruitvale, car- ried out their svmgnmma before sunrise as outlined in Wednesday’s CALL. They came to Oakland on a special car and sang beneath the windows of residences on Jackson street, and their efforts were greatly enjoyed. A LUOKY PENNSYLVANIAN. Suit of Butternut Colored Clothes Helped Him Out of Libby Prisou. “There was an odd fellow, a Pennsyl- vanian, on our floor in Libby prison,” said Colonel Richardson. ‘‘He was tall, angular, stoop-shouldered and had the regular North Carolina dialect. Nearly everyoody liked him and all talked with him. He had been a prisoner some time; his suit of blue had become a bunch of rags. By some means he managed to get a new suit of butternut-colored clothes, and after that we called him ‘Old North Carolina.! One of the prisdners asked him when he was going to join his ‘tar-heel’ regiment. * “You jest wait and watch.” “In those days it was a common thing for citizens to accompany Major Dick Turner, who had charge of Libby prison, on visits to the prisoners. One afternoon half a dozen citizens of Richmond were with him and when they marched out our ‘tar-heel’ soldier fell in and weni with them. He was standing by the door in Major Turner’s room when that officer, noticing him, asked: ‘Well, sir, what do you want here?’ *‘Oh, nothin’in particular; jest thought I'd look around the prison a little.” ““Well, you can’t look around the prieon alittle, and you had better move on. “But Cupps—that was his name—stood there looking as innocent as a boy on his first visit to town, when Turner lost his patience and said: ‘Come, move on! Get out of here!’ and gave him a push into the street. *“As Cupps passed out into the road where we could seé him from our windows he took off his hat, made a low bow and started on a gentle shamble out of town. He made his escape. After that there was a great demand for butternut suits, but no more could be smuggled into the prison.” —Chicago Times-Herald. CHAS. LEVY & €0., AUCTIONEERS. Salesrooms—1135 Market Strees. SPECIAL: SALHE THIS DAY. December 26, 1896, alesroom, E WILL SELL.... AN ELEGANT LINE OF FURNITURE, Carpets, Stoves, Ranges, Tea Cans, Tea, 40 Vienna Chairs, 11 Tabies, 1 Stationary Range, Casors, Glassware, Counters, etc. CHAS. LEVY & CO., Auctioneers. WILLIAM BUTTERFIELD ILL OFFER A 3 Bankrupt Stock of Cloaks at Auction At 11 A. M,and 2 and 7 P. M. TO-DAY AT 422 KEARNY §' 422 HOTEL ARRIVALS. ' RUSS HOUSE. Miss M Evens, Pt Arena M Fuller, Pt Arena M Bowers, Fresno Mrs & E Bard, Chicago Miss ssard, Chicago C Mclain. Madera N B Rogers, Cal J E Whitsore, Fresno T B Corkan, La £ D Sanford, Cal H Clagand & w, Mass J N Payne, Minn J A @ill, >acto T C Jones, Sausalito G'W Boggs, Tracy CJ Brumley,SL O F Hennewell, Sulsun J Morrisey, Orland H Wilson, Petaluma N E Gray, Vacaville P Doland, Monterey S A Peacock, San Ratael W Scott, Pacific Grove S Bell, Sacramento W J Jones, Valley Fora J R Bane, Santa Rosa T Bridmyer,Copperoplis M _Emerson, Stockton A L McKing, San Jose Mrs M Strinring, Cal L Dean, Reno G A Atwood,Los Angeles 8 T Tolana, Oroviile D Leopold, Liverpool H A Craig, Oakland Mrs Ame & dght, Cal Miss L M Kainey, Cal A Dias & w¥, Reno 3 C Pence, Fresno M Leopold, Liverpool T Wiison, N Y E Ames, Oakiand T Wilder, Oskland - J C Muber, Or M Carlsen, Angels Camp B M Calwell, Nev @ Hal, Healdsburg @ E Brown, Famosa Dr V Gesner, Or W waldo, Or J F Brandon & wt,Cal F Lind, Denver GRAND HOTEL. W H Nichols&w,Courtld S Price, Sacramento F W Daveson &W, N Y D G Atwood, Sonora Miss J Johuson, Napa S Bernstein, Cal J Arthur, Cal M Roiph, Cal J M Taylor, Nayaro T Brisco, Stanford W Hammond, Stantord M C Osborne. Nev. W A Steel. Seattle MeTarland, Stocktn C W Roby. Fresno Haslans, Sta Cruz Dr T Flint & w, S Jusn X Blddle, Hanford Edrg=0 o E Crawiord & w, Mich Mrs S W Rose, sta Clara E E Biggs, Gridiey Mrs ¥ Long, Chicago B Slolteriont, Japsn J A Fergusondw, London Miss Bogue, London A G Schloesser, Chicago Earl Barnes, Stanford M. J Berr, 8altimore T J Hart, Huntlugton N B Hoghes, Ukiah ‘W Muilenney, Sacto W C Swain & w. Marysv E M Bradley, Marysvilie @ } Lane, Fortu ,Cal Miss M Cuddiback, J M Eddy, Eoreka J Burns, Sonoma T L Carothers, Ukiah LICK BOUSE. C Jshepherd, Ls Angels J M Fulweller, Auburn J T Porter, Pajaro ‘A Doud, Menlo Park J Tibbetts, Cailfornla F Ward, California W H Deanls, Alameda H T Schreiber, Berkeley | W T Coftman, Merced ° | C M Shepherd, Los. Angls HJ Davis. Sacramento CC Shneider, College Pk J Livingston, Pinole irs Shneider, College Pk J M Smith, Uskland Mrs Pritcbard, San Jose C M Creaner, Stktn Miss Creaner, Stockton s N Creaner, Stocktn J 1 Coleman, Nevada Lonttit, Stockton , J A Webster, Vacaviile Terry, Hartford ' R Barcar, Vacaville Gray, Fresno M J Berry, Baltimore M Hunt, Caiifornia Miss Biack, Truckee E White, Marysville ~ Miss A B Karr, Marysvie NEW WESTERS HOTEL. T J Quigley, Santa Rosa R J Hunter, Sacramento E Bosseman, Denver MissWebb, Walnut Creek 8 James, Alcatraz M > Parks & wi, Boston W J Younger, Alcatras Mrs J T Jones, Cal H Coppler, Gridley F Davis, Niles 7 snyder, Sheridan ¥ Andrews, Cu Chanan 8 Smith, Sonoma © Silse, Soiloms. J Wadde, sonoma F Andrews, Ca. H Bechtel, Lal® G Burnrite, San Jose, J P Mylar, China A @ McKinner & wi, L A G H Woodruft, Stanford J Jackson, £ Oakland J F Watson, Port. Costa W Clark & wf, Fresno J Williams, Fresno J T Wilson, Los Angeles ¥ Fay, Vallejo E L Stuart, Vallejo J Carrington, Vallejo H S Lunt, Chicago 3 A Cook & Wi, Portiana J Hangman &w,Newman J ¥ Robiuson, Folsom J M Henld & wf, Folsom H Sommerst, Aicatraz 1 Slade, Alcatraz COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL M W Smith, San Jose Alien Sublett, U S8 Ore Jonu Mcorath, Los Ang 1 ¢ Wand, New York G ¥ Davison, New York M J Healey, Loomis H W Gruusky, Stockton ¥ Keogh, Dutton's Landg ¥ Worlund, 4¢h Crossing F W Goeway, 4th Crossg James Kennedy, S Mateo Charles Morris, Suisun W.JGood & wi, Minnesota Joun Mcurath, Placervl G Sherman, Ferndaie J B Harrington, Fresno M W smith, G O P M Duffy & wf, Stockton Thos R Gray, Modesto Truxton Maguire, Vallejo J R Blood, Angels Camp A E Johns & wi. N ¥ Allen Farrell, Portland J W Crotts, Ohio W 8 Harper, Los Angeles BALDWIN HOTEL. M J Barr, Butte O M Hewlett, Oakland H Velter, - akland B Martin, Oakland Capt Davidson. Oskland J Smith, New York J Woi, New York C M Hunter, New Orlens M Seiigman, New York S coglander, New York F B Newich, New York C P Fegan, Dallas J A Bitte, Chicago LT Quimby, ~an Mateo Mrs H D Cousins, Eurka H Milier, Néw Y ork F scott, Vallejo G B Barman, Seatile F Cullins, Fresno C Goft, Los Angeles © J Moor, Bosion H Muller, Beston Miss Jones, St Paul PALACE HOTEL. Mrs LE White, Berkeley James Kelway, Langport J A Fergusou & wif, Lon Miss Bogue. London © H Jordan, Stanford J 3 Wiliamson, Berkeley W H Smith, Berkeley S W Mitcnell, Chicago C H Hoist, Stanford L B Spencer, Stanford Lee Freeman, Victoria MasterFreeman, Victoria AW Well, Stanford G E M Pratt, Chicago G Moore, Dayion, 0 G Carr & wi, Sacramento R B Cross, Stanford e There Always Have Been Lubbers. This word 1% in “Ralph Roister Doister,” circa 1550, IIL., 3: And where he fs louted and laughed to scorn, For the veriest dolt that ever was born; ‘And the veriest lubber, sioven and beast, Living in the world from the west to the east. Tusser uses the word in “Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie,” 1580, page 131 (E. D. 8.): For tempests and showers decelveth a mente, And lingering lubbers 00se many a penle, The woyd “lubbera” was in constant use in the sixteenth century, and occurs at least twice in Udal’s translation of Eras- mus’ *“Apophthegmes.’”’ Almost 200 years before this Langland told of the “‘Grete lubres and longe”” who were too idle to —Notes and Queries. W P Marshall, Cal L Hammersmith, Cal J H Howell, Merced T S Minot, Coos Bay W B Manstield, Cal E J Chatham, Stockton ] TR M M J 5 J A SAuction Yalcs AUCTION SALE! === 2 [ Ferguson’s Stables, 134 and 136 Neventh ON ACCOUNT OF SICENESS. TUESDAY, December 29, 1896, AT 11 A. M., WE WILL SELL THE CONTENTS OF ABOVE STABLE, ....CONSISTING OF.... 88 Head Good Work and Business Horses, 9 Open and Closed Carriages, 4 Landaulets (almost new), 8 Open and Top Rockaways, 5 Spring Wagons, Carts, 40 sets Hack, Buggy and Wagon Harness, Blankets, Robes, etc. Every article must be removed by the 30th inst. 27 Stables To Let. SULLIVAN & DOYLE, Livestock Auctioneers. HOSPITAL BURNED NEAR LIVERMORE the Inmates Were Removed Without Injury. Tuesday, Office—827 Sixth st. All No Water-Main Was Available, £o a Bucket Brigade Did Good Work. Destruction cf the Sanitarium Owned by Dr. Robertscn, County Expert on Insanity. OAKLAND OrFicE SAN Francisco CALr, 908 Broadway, Dec. 25. The large residence that formed part of Dr. Robertson’s sanitarium at Livermore was destroyed by fire to-day, and although there were some narrow escapes of the in- valids no one was hurt. Fire was first observed about 8 o'clock issuing from the roof and an alarm was at once given. Owing to the unfortunate conaition of many of the inmates some heroic work was needed. As soon as it became known that the sanitarium was on firm all the able-bodied people in the town went to the rescue and accomplished good work. Tue hurning residence was that portion of the institu- tion in which the nervous convalescents were housed, and they were soon out of danger and some of them helped after- ward to fight the flames, Ounly one or two required help to take them to a placeof safety. The flames worked rapidly down from the roof, and the Fire Department turned out, but when they got to the scene they found that they could do nothing with their apparatus, as there was no water. The city’s mains do not extend so far out as the sanitarium, and so the firemen could only belp the bucket brigade. The citizens, with the aid of buckets and.ladders, did good work, but for a couple of hours the fire gained on them. The roof was rapidly destroyed and the larger part of the upper story was burned before the workers could control the flames, but after they got the upper hand the fire was soon subdued. The wrecked building was erected for the Livermore College and after some years of service as a scholastic institution it passed into the hands of Dr. Robertson, who is the county expert on insanity. The loss is great, as in addition to the upper part of the building all the furni- ture is spoiled. Making the Desert Blossom. In Eastern Australia a hundred million sheep and great herds of cattle and horses now feed upon pastures covering flat ground which thirty years ago was a desert of soft sand, so ‘“‘rotten’’ that the feet sank ut every step. This once worth- less ground has been beaten into compact soil by the feet of the sheep and cattle, and it is believed that other great desert expanses in Australia may be turned into productive pasture. and in a similar manner. ——— Menelik, the Emperor of Ethiopia and Negus of Abyssinia, has promulgated sev- eral sumptuary laws. Among them is one forbidding any woman to wear jewels of gold. This vrivilege is reserved exclu- sively to the Empress Taitu, Dr. Gibbon’s Dispensary, 625 KEARNY ST. Established in 1854 for the treatment of Private Diseases, Lost Manhood. Debility or disease’ Welflnq’nn bodyand mindand Skin Diseases. The doctor cureswhen othersfall. Try him. Charges low. Curesguaranteed. Callorwrite, Dr.J. ¥. GIBBON. 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