The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 20, 1897, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1897. OPPOSES STATE 4 QUARANTINE DUES| The Chamber of Commerce Boldly Advises Non- Payment, SAY THE SERVICE IS OF NO USE. Will Stand by the Mariners in Fighting the Matrer in the Courts LIVELY MEETING UPON VITAL MATTERS. Limit Put on Harbor Commissioners’ Salaries—A Point Arena Life Station. To American Shipowners Using the Port of San Framcisco. Gentlemen: The present conditions connected with the quarantine estab- lishment at this port are well known to ¥ou as unjust and objectionable to all ships arriving from foreign ports. This Chamber of Commerce has for years con- tended that the quarantine should be under Federal control at all United States ports, and pleased to observe the acceptance of this view in actusl practice. Thus we have now both a Federal and a State quarantine service at this port, only re- cently in contention with each other as to their respective rights, service has been The controlling factor, however, is that the Collector of Customs will recog- nize only the certificate of the United States quarantine officer and ignores that of the State. The former service is , while the latter is The State rendered free of co charged against the ships. Government possesses no quarantine facilities, while the United States has a properly equipped station. The service is worthless for the public good, State add an unnecessary tax on an interest already unjustly burdened with taxa- tion. The delay, annoyance and at times dangerof two stoppages at or near the entrance of the port is also a serious and proper cause of complaint on the part of and masters to have the State ine law repcaled at the present shipowners, pilots An effort will be made quara session of the Legislature. In the un- certai ¥ of success in obtaining repeal we T spectfully suggest that parties in by a erest apply prompt remedy joint refusal to pay the State qua dues, at the unjust commer same time an unn nd exaction on our maritime The board of trustees, in respectfully sting to shipowners and agents sistance to this useless burden placed pan their defense whenever a test may be made, and so far as within its means to rshippiog, volunteers to join in id in the litigation which may possibly but rot probably ensue. We are con- fident that the dy is in the hand. of shipowners if they will refuse pay- We m: properly commence our efforts on behalf of ‘the shipping interests of San Fran- cisco by contesting this vexatious and rem ment of this unjust demand. unjust annoyance. he Chamlb cisco, By order of the Board of Trustees, HUGH CRAI WILLIAM L. MERRY., Treasurer. President. Secretary and The State quarantine service must be away with as a superfinous and ex- ive institution. Money must be ved on the water front by limiting the payroll in charge of the Harbor Commis- ers to 10 per cent of the revenues. A station must be established dangerous Point Arena. Such are the reforms that were advo- er of Commerce of San Fran- | | cated and resolved upon by the San Kran- | cisco Chamber of Commerce yesterday | afternoon. It was the annual meeting of | the orzanization and 1t was also the in- | itial meeting of the year. " Other interesting matters came up for | discussion, and before the meeting ad- journed a lively and significant tilt ensued | over an attempt by a strong element in | the assemblage to lay aside all proposed | resolutions in a bunch for the purpose, as it later/appeared, of preventing action on certain measures—among them the promotion of a water-front. belt-line rail- | road caleulated to facilitate and expedite | traffic and save to the producer and the ! manufacturer the delays and expenses | - > tween railroads and ships. The president made an address, in | which he commented upon many things | of moment to the shipping, marine and | commercial interests of San Francisco and its future as a maritime city of in- creasing importance. g He spoke of the immediate vrospect of a naval training school on Goat Islapd and of a lightship and adequate signals | to be placed on the bar at the entrance to the Golden Gate. But his most radioal suggestions were with respect to the abolishment of port quarantine dues and the service that taxes shipping here for perfunctory quar- antine inspection. The resolution on the subject as adopted by the board is printed herewith. Last year it seems that 374 per cent of the revenues of the Harvor Commis- sion were expended in salaries. A special committee reported yesterday in_favor of | 8 regime whereby ordinary business-like | thrift might be observed and money saved that could be devoted to water- | front improvements. The.following resolutions were adopted looking toa curtailment of expenses on the front: Resolved, That scction 2552 be amended to read &5 follows: The monihly salariesof the officers of the State Board oif Harbor Commis- sioners shall be as follows; 00; two Commissioners, each, The pres| $250. And they shall have power to appoint toserve during the pleasure of the board such assist- ants as may be absolutely necessary,and no more, at salsries not to exceed the following: assistant secretary, $160; at- i assistant en- 50 aisistant ngers, common la- borers, per day, $2; clerks, per moath, $75. And in no event shall any salary be higher than what is paid by average respectable ss houses for the same class of labor; vrovided, also, that the total amount ot v paid out tor salarics of Commissioners ployes, fuel, reut, printing, stationery expenses of every kind and nuture eed in all more than 10 per cent revenue received irom the water front. And provided, alsogghat tripli- C: les of the report now required law atroller before the of & fuil detatled aceount of bursements of their office th, to the ena that the San Francisco and the president ot hail each rec:ive hat it is the bounden duty of the islature made into the conduct of the Board of State ioners, through a competent t them and they have A resolution approving the general prin- ciple of arbitration in_all international ditferences and contentions was adopted and ordered sent to Congress with an ac- companying explanation that the princi- ple should be applied by special arbitra- tors appointed by parties (o each dispute rather than by a permanent body, and furthermore that no questions affecting | the Monroe doctrine shou!d be submitted to arbitration as that doctrine should be maintained as indispensable to the peace | and salety of this country. The establishment near Point Arena ot a life-saving station was urged upon the Government in the following expressions which were approved and ordered seat to the Becretary of the Treasury: Commerce respectfuily ntion the urgent need ofa ation just nerih of and mear ena, coast oi Northern Californja. | vessels have been wrecked near the nd, in the yicinity of which the ocean currents are known 10 be strong and irreguiar. Among them we recall the bark Hyack, the ship E. Buckley, che steam- ship Eastport, the schooner James Townseud, the schooner Ocean Spray, and the schooner ence, In to of the last two mentioned the en stranding near Point ena of the splendid steamsnip San_Benito, ththe loss of six lives, resuiting from the absencs of life-saving apparatus on_the coasi, is 8 most urgent a ent for the life-saving station we request. In his annual address President Hugh | Craig spoke briefly in review of the tnings | accomplished by the Chamber of Com- mferce during the past y-ar and com- mented hopefully upon pending and future reforms calculated to be of advantage to mlx_; port and to its commercial prosperity e d that during the forty-seventn | year of the organization just completed | the officers and trustees of the chamber | incident to other means of transfer be- mbled to cause | ed their trust or have wasted the public | re crews were lost. | T"ihe Tevoushis cutlook 1 Congress for the Nicaragua canal bill. As to the prospective naval school on Goat Island, in San Francisco Bay, he as- serted that with the able assistance of Senator Perkins its establishment in the near future is assured. Already 100 Ameri- can boys are enlisted on board the receiv- ing ship Independence at Mare Island awaiting the opening of the school, for which the steam frigate Pensacola will be fitted, while the United States ship Adams has been detailed to make two practice crui-es each year. An improvement to the ship channel to Mare 1sland Navy-yard ne declared to be an urgent necessity and a precaution for safe navigation, for which an appropria- | tion should be asked of Congress. A lightship and fog signal at San Fran- | cisco bar should be established before next | winter, an appropriation of $80,000 havin g already been obtained for thai purpose. He spoke with satisfaction of the work now in progress of resounding and ex- | amining the bay, and commented approv- | ingly upon the conduct of affairs by the | steamship examiners, | In conclusion he said some favorable things of the work of the Bureau of For- | eign Commerce, the Guatemaia Exposi- | tion, the Merchants’ Association as an | evidence of growing civic pride, and other | organizations publiciy associated with | commerce. Captain W. L. Merry as secretary re- ported that the membership had steadily increased, though not to the extent it might under more favorable constitutional provisions for admission. The corre- spondence of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, he said, now comes from all parts of ths world, and its influence at Washington is second only to that of the Chambers of Commerce of New York and Boston. The library nad been increased by eighty-four volumes. The successful establishmeat of a car- rier-pigeon service with the Farrallon | Islands was characterized as the next best | thing to a marine cabie. | The board of examiners on steamsbip | and navigation had reported the admis- | sion on examination during the past vear | of thirty masters and five chief officers. | In this connection it was remarked that | shipmasters are encouraging candidates | for promotion who have pursued regular courses in the schools of navigation. Re- | gret was expressed that notwithstanding ) the great importance of this as a mari- time Cidy no instruction in‘navigation or its allied branches can be had in the pub- | lic schoois. The - treasurer’s report showed that $4928 had been collected and $3452 74 ex- | pended during the year. The report of the election committee | was read. It announced the election of | the following: President, Hugh Craig; first vice-president, John L. Howard; | second vice-president, Louis B. Parrott; trustees—Louis Sloss Jr., Charles M. Yates, George A. Newhall, Charles Nelson, Wil- ilam E. Mighell, A. G. Towne, A. Gerber- ding, Leon Blum, Edward Coleman, Oscar T. Sewall, 0. B. Field and W. L. Merry. The_committee consisted of J. Metcalfe, W. W. Montague, A. H. Herriman and | James Jerome. | ' The principal business of the meeting | then began in earnest, and a number of printed and other resolutions were pre- | | sented, some of which were intended to | be sent to the State Legislature. Some one at the back of the room | moved that they all be Jaid on the table. | The motion carried and was foliowed by parliamentary parrying that resulted eventually 1in the resolutions being brought up separately, to the evident | discomfiture of tt.e prevailing element, | had evidently hoped to keep certain subjects in the background. | During the argument raised by the | opposition, that the whole report naving | | been laid aside it was not parliamentary | to take the resolutions up separately, Mr. Williams asked why the chamber did not | vote on the question and so declare its meaning. What was the use of squab- bling about a parliamentary regulation but balf understood? He contended that they were not running the chamber upon | exclusively parliamentary lines. The | question before them was simply as to whether the water front was being con- | ducied economically and in & manner | conducive to the benefit of San Francisco. He saw no object in delaying a vote. The resolution was thereupon carried viva voce. 3 Mr. Corrwall rose to a pointof order and asserted that the chamber was pro- ceeding outside its own rules adopted in earlier days, and that it could not take up and pass resolutions seriatim after laying the same upon the table. The chairman decided that the point was not well taken, and Mr. Cornwall’s | subsequent appeal from that ruling was deieated by a vote of 14 to 4. Julisn Sonntag then moved that the resolutions not inciuded in the printed revort be taken up and acted upon by the chamber. The motion was carried. The first of these resolutions referring | to the construction of a belt-hne road was | read by the secretary, and a long discus- sion followed. | James McNab said the report under which that resolution nad been drawn | ‘buc from my personal knowledge I can i | bad given consideration to many of the | having been laid on the table, the resolu- interests germane to commerce. He de- | tion itself was deprived of all force. This | nounced the State quarantine service as | resolution was of a general character and ties were quite sufficient for immediate purposes and thut the railway company already had a belt-line road at the north- ern portion of the City, to which its cars could without difficulty be transported from the southern end of town. Julian Sonntag spoke of the proposed line as the most important matter upon which the chamber could act at the pres- ent time. It was a well-known faci that a bill would be introduced into the Legis- lature during the present session to estab- lish a free market in San Francisco. Fruit-growers and other producers had hitherio been everlastingly taxed by middlemen and merchants, with the re- sult that they had generally come out at the small end of the horn. The bill would probably receive fivor- able consideration at the hands of the Legislature, and in that event a belt-line road would be necessary, inasmuch as it was provided that the market must be located where water craft couid reach it, and also that there must be facilities for rail and other methods of conveyance. The producers of California who would be materially aided by this. measure could not permit their produce to be carted away from Third and Townsend streets over cobblestones, to be ruined before reaching the market. James McNab repeated his previous ar- gument that cars could already be loaded at the north end of the town without ad- ditional delay. There was a belt-iine road at the north end, connected by both broad and narrow gauge tracks, and the delivery of cars might easily be arranged for. To cut up the present limited wharfage facili- ties would be a great disadvantage to the shipping interests of the entire water- front. R. G. Sneath reminded the chamber that Mr. McNab’s drays and wagons were largely employed for ireight delivery pur- poses under the present system. The resolution and report had been draited on general principles and there was no question but thatif from halfa million to a million could be saved an- nually by the extension of the road busi- ness should be done with that objectin view. The present system was very old- fashioned, and it would be as reasonable to revert to the omnibus on Market street as to encourage the continuance of the present method of wagon hauling. Asit was, manufactures could not be estab- lished at the north and south ends of the town outside the cartage limits, because the | expense involved was too great, Accord- | ing to a carefully made estimate upward of 12,000,000 tons of freight were moving in aud out of the City every year, and if they saved only a few cents per ton upon | that™ quantity it represented a large amount of money. | “The Southern Pacific,”” Mr. Sneath | conciuded, “bad formerly objected to | | putting on a boat to 1ake cars round by | water, because thev feared there would not al'ways be sufficient freight to warrant that action.” James McNab said that Mr. Sneath had tried to make 1t appear as if he—McN ab— was personally interested in this ques tion, owing to the nature of his business. “Jt appears so to him,” continued Mr. | McNab, “because ne has & magnified idea | of the amount town. I don't basis for the number of tons conveyed, of transportation across state that 99 per cent of it is imaginary.” Mr. McNab, replving to a question raised by Mr. Sneaih, aflirmed that cars | could be carried to the north end of the | City from the Oakiand pier direct, and would never have to go near Fourth and | Townsend streets. He further stated that | the railway company actually made appli- | cation to the Harbor Commissioners a iew | months ago for permission to deliver cars | at the north end of town, but were op- | posed by some shipping people in that vicinity. Mr. Cornwall directed attenticn to the fact that there is now a slio at the north- ern end of the City—Vallejo street, where the railway company lands voth broad and narrow gauge cars. The railway bhad secured quite a large piece of property | there from the Harbor Commissioners, upon which they stored quantities of freight every day. All freight from the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys could be brought to the north end of the City, landed and distributed. On division the resolution was lost by a | voteof 10 to 7. | The remaining resolutions referred to |in Mr. Sonntag’s motion were adopted | without _debate. This concluded the reg- ; ular business of the chamber. Dr. Staliard, the anthor of a series of articles upon municipal government now | being published in the Overland Monthly, | was then introduced by the president, and | delivered a thoughtful and interesting ad- | dress, in which he urged some powerful | reasons why the present system of harbor management by Commissioners .must al- ways prove unsatisfactory. | extended discussion of these questions he | directed the attention of his hearers to his | published articles. substitute for control by commissioners, Dr. Stallard advocated the municipai ownership of such utilities. He stated | that Glasgow had thereby secured the most successful harbor administration in know where he gets his | For a more | As the only economical and efficient | | supertiuous and expensive. Continuing, he said the proposed Ha- waiian cavle is yet in the future, but a bill is now before Congress which, if passed, will secure the much needed telegraphic connection. The British are moving rap- idly to esta h a Pacific Ocean cable | under their own con:rol. He mentioned | stated somewhat indefinitely thatthe belt- | line road should be extended. He ques- | tioned the importance of that prorosition, | and it was for the committee to determine | whether it was advisable to cut up the | water front for the trifiing benefit which | would accrue from the construstion of the |road. He argued that the present facili- the world. The greatdockyards, shipyards and harbor railways of that- city were all the property of the municipality, and he insisted that in no other way could San Francisco acquire a properly managed belt-line road, which Le admitted wasa serious necessity. ‘The meeting then adjourned. COSMOS CLUB WILL SOON MOVE Lease of a Fine Building Owned by the Fair Estate. The: New Quarters in Every Way Suitable for Club Purposes. Will Remove From the Old Building Early in March—Increase in Membership. Ata well-attended meeting of the mem- bers of the Cosmos Club, 317 Powell street, last night, it was almost unanimously de- cided to confirm the arrangement entered , by an authorized committee, under which the club will shortly move into the handsome building at 1534 Sutter street, corner of Octavia. The building in ques- tion is owned by the Fair estate, and as recently as last June was occupied by the Lake Echool. is new departure on the part of the Cosmos Club has been contemplated for some time past, and is justited by $arious good and sufficient reasons. In the first ace the location of the Sutter-street 1ilding makes it eminently desirable for e purposes of a quiet, refined club, such 8% _the Cosmos is admitted to be. Its proximity to the best residential portion of the City will appeal to a wide circle of those sociably disposed persons who are prevented by family responsibilities from coming downtown in the evening. The convenient situation of the new building will make it possible for the paterfymilias to enjoy a smoke and a quiet game of billiards among his male friends, and re- hour, and without fear of undergoing a Caudle curtain-lecture. The new building is also much larger and more comfortable in its_architecturai appointments than that on Powell street. 1t contains thirty-one living and sleeping | rooms, in addition to spacious parlors, | dining and reading rooms. Several neces- | sary and somewhat elaborate improve- ments will be made on the main and din- ing-room floors wl.)icu, when completed, will transform the building into one of the finest evening clubs in the City. “The proposition wuich we submitted to the trustees of the Fair estate,’” said Secretary Hart last night, *was confirmed by the court last Saturday, and ail the other details in connection with the lease were concluded this afternoon. “The proposed changes in the internal arrangements will be undertaken with 1he consent and approval of the architect, Mr. Echultz, and will in no way impair the strengib and ability of the building. ‘We expect to be ready to move by March 1 next.”” The club’s removal to its new home will doubtless result in an increased member- ship. As a matter of fact, twenty appli- cations have already been received, and more are expected to follow. The present membershipof the Cosmos Club 1s 123 in the City alone, and this number does not include many army and navy mem- bers who make the club their headquarters when in town. ’ The terms of the lease are not known, but that they must be satisfactory to the lessees goes without gaying. S — THE FERRY POSTOFFICE. The Government Must Soon Select Its Space or Lose It. Postmaster McCoppin feels much en- couraged over the prospect of a new home for the ferry postoffice. “The Harbor Commissioners want a rental of $1000 a month,” said he yester- day, ‘“for apout 13,000 square feet, with elevators and steam heat, but First As- sistant Postmaster-General Jones thinks this is too much. This sum 1s about 90 cents a square foot, whereas in Chicago the Government pays 50 cents a foot for the same space.’’ The matter mnst be decided soon, for if the building be finished without reference to Federal rules it will be too late to get the required space. Doctors Want Bodies. Coroner Hawkins yesterday received a re- auest from the College of Physiciansand Sur- geons for all unciaimed bodies. He relused (o surrender any bodies until be can see whether Le is authorized to do so by the law.” turn to his own rcoftree at a reaszonable SHE HAS TWO HUSEANDS, Peculiar Predicament of Mrs. Mary Thiery and Her Two Spouses. } Becoming Despondent She Attempted to Commit Suicide by Shoot- ing Hers»lf Mrs. Mary Thiery attempted to commit suicide last night by firing a builet into her left breast. Thinking she was going to die she told sensational story of being married to two men, and for years neither knew that the otber had any claim upon her. Mrs. Thiery keeps a lodging-house at 828 Howard street. Her husband. Charles Thiery, who is employed at Wieland’s brewery, accused her of being unfaithful to him. The wound, although serious, will not probably prove fatal. Believing that she was about to die, Mrs. Thiery told the strange story of her life, and did not appear to think she had done anything wrong by marrying two men. “1 was’married in Germany nineteen years ago,” she said, “to Charles Thiery. ‘About three years afterward we came to this City, and after being here for a year or so my husband went to the country. *1 feit lonely, and, not hearing irom him for some months, I thought he was either dead or had deserted m~, so [ went with Andy Briegle, a friend, to a Su- perior Judge, and we were married. “Some time after Thiery returned, and Briegle had to leave me. I begged him not to say anything about being marriea to me, and he promised. Sipce then he has been visiting me, and about three years ago my husband became jealous of him, and I thought it better to tell him what 1 had done during his absence. “Briegle would not stay away from the house, but he was careful not tc call upon me while my husband was at home. He threatened to claim me as his wife if I forbade him to visit me. “My life has been made miserable by the two men and the talk of my neigh- bors, and I hope I will die.” Thiery catled av the hospital to inquire about his wife, and confirmed her story of ‘having married Briegle. Thiery has employed a private detective for some time to watch his wife and Briegle, and be haa found out that Briegle had em- ployed men to watch him. Mrs. Thiery will live, and her troubles with her two hushands are not yet over. . GEOGRAPHIOAL SOUIETY. Election of Directors and Councilors, Reports Rendered. At the annual election for directors and counc lors of the Geographical Society of the Pacilic, which took place yesterday, the following were choseu: Directors— Professor George Davidson, Charles L. Taylor, Harry Durbrow, John Partridge, E. J. Bowen, Louis L. Nelson, John Dol- beer. Councilors—Hon. Ralph C. Har- rison, Hon. Jeéremiah Lynch, William Hood, Hon. Charles Goodall. Mark Suel- ¢on, F. Stevens Cook, .D., Houghton, Gustave Niebaum, Hon, Goorge C. Perkins, Henry Lund, Irving M. Scott, Hon. Adolph Sutro. At 8 o’clock P. M. the annual meeting of the society was held at the rooms, Mer- chants’ Exchange building, California street, President Davidson in the,chair. The reports of the directors, secretary and treasurer for 1896 were read, accepted and ordered on file. The reportof the com- mittee which represented the society at the Nicaragua canal meetingin the Cham- ber of Commerce was read and accepted. The meeting then adjourned. CLAUS SPRECKELS ON THE SANTA FE Says the Valley Road Ex- pects to Connect With It This Country Can Produce All the Sugar the People Could Consume. Surveying Parties Still in th: Field Between San Francisco and Stockton. A The San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad is steadily proceeding with the work of preliminary surveys be- tween the bay and Stockton. The survey- ing parties are not large, but they are of ample size to do the first necessary work. No surveys for grades are being made. Buch surveys will not be made till itis de- cided which one of the several routes under consideration is the best for all purposes of tne railroad. The parties now out are simply making a rough survey and examination of the country, and when a route is finally chosen, a large party will be sent out, and the survey made with no more consumption of time than is neces- sary for good work. Even after the choice of route is made, rights of way must be secured, and, as Chief Engineer Storey said yesterday, it may take considerabie time yet until the company is in & posi- tion toannounce the route of the pronosed extension from Stockton to San Francisco. If the route known as the Kennedy sur- vey, made some years ago for the now abandoned San Francisco and Great Salt Lake line, were selected, Engineer Storey said considerable time would be saved, but that in case that routa be decided on, and the railroad come through Fruitvale down to a point south of the Oakland narrow-gauge pier, the old survey will have to be entirely gone over again and some changes made. Preliminary examinations and rough surveys must be made back of all the points on the bay which the company has under consideration as a possible terminal. These points are San Pablo, Malate, Dum- barton Point and Richmond. Clavs Spreckels, president of the San | Joaquin Valley railroad, was seen yester- day by a CALL reporter and asked concern- | 1ng the alliance with the Atchison, To- peka and Santa Fe Railroad by connection with the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad-at Mojave. Mr. Spreckles said: *I do not like to talk to newspaper- men on this or any otber subject.” “What do you think of Vice-President Watt's statement concerning connection with the Santa Fe as published in THE CawwL last Sunday ?”’ *[t's all right; iv's correst. Thatisall I have to say.” Vice-President Watt said the Valley | road proposes to effect an Eastern connec- | tion with the Santa Fe. | The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad is to | be sold some day this montn. Itisthe | connecting link between the Santa Fe and the Valley road. It extends from Albu- | querque, N. Mex., to Mojave, Cal., and the Santa Fe people bave for some time been buying up all they could get of the $16.000,000 of Atlantic and Pacific bonas. The Valley road will be extended to Bakerstield probably by June next, and there remains only a streteh of forty-two miles of railroad to be built from Bakers- field to Mojave to connect the two roads. When the connecting spike is driven California will have a transcontinental | com peting railroad. Itis said to be highly probable that this spike will be driven in- side of a year. The proposed route from Madera, with entrance to San Francisco and China Basin, will be surveyed also when the con- | nection with the Santa Fe is effected. | Mr. Spreckels was also asked if the Val- | ley Railroad would be extended to Wat- sonviile. He said it would not for the | present. When asked concerning the proposed increase of the tariff on sugar, Mr. Spreckels said that California at pres- ent might not be able to produce all the sugac that is annually consumed in this country, but that the United States could. THE LADDER SLIPPED. A. H. Gauss Precipitated Through the Window of a Restaurant on Market *treet. A. H. Gauss, a young man 22 years of age, met with a painful accident yester- day, and as it was he had a fortunate es- cape from more serious injuries. He was standing on a step-ladder clean- ing the window of a restaurant on Market street, between Fifth and Sixth, when the ladder slipped. He was precipitated through the window, and his right hand ana wrist were badly cut by the broken glass. A piece of elass entered his wrist, and was forced downward to the paln of his band, and Dr. Bunnell had to cut it out at the Receiving Hospital. There were aitogether six wounds on his hand and wrist. and a ring that be wore on his little finger was cut through. Gauss is a young fellow of good educa- tion. His family reside in Chicago, where he was employed in the office of the Pheenix Insurance Company. He wasin- duced to come here a few months ago, and, being unable to procure a situation, his funds became exhausted, and he was glad to do odd jobs around the restaurant. Dr. Bunneli telegraphed to Gauss’ father in Chicago, informing him of the accident, and :uggesting thav some funds should be sent him. e Teachers on the Retired List. Mrs. Josephine E. Gerichten and Miss Eliza- peth M. Molloy have been placed on the list of those entitled to draw quarterly allowances from the teachers’ retirementiund by the Board o1 School Teachers’ Retirement Fund Commissioners, consisting of Mayor Phelan, Superintendent Babcock and City and County Treasurer Widber. Mrs, Gerichten has been in the service twenty-two years and Miss Molloy twenty-nine vears. The board also sudited the quarterly payments of other teachers on the list, which Tun from $135 to $150 per quarter. NEW 70-DAY. mWorld’s Best Natural Aperient Water Hunyadi Jinos Buyers should not allow any other water to be substituted, but INSIST upon having the GEN UINE bearing on the blue label the signature of the firm By “Andreas Saxlehner” NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS TEMPTING OFFERINGS OF - CLEARANCE BARGAINY! 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Special sale will be offered at, yard ....................................................... [30¢ MURPHY BUILDING, Market Stoeet, Corner of Joneg San Francisco. A Wi ‘. !"‘?‘,”Q:\‘l\‘l gl )/ 4 “ Almost with the regularity of f:lndbml," when relatiog bis expericace with o [ ] 4T used to feel at about 11 o’clock that something had gone wrong with my breakfast. Especially was this true if I had had a restless night, as you know is not an uncommon thing with head-workess. My stomach,” continued he, **is under the standard as to strengthandit used to seem at those timestoact nnlyindifitr(nd{lnd sometimes to even stop work. Clouds wotld come before my vision and then aslight nausea would be felt. Ycarsof that sortof thing had made me know the sympioms as well as [ know my pame, but since [ learned about Ripans Tabules I have practicaily overcome the difficulty and it is not often that any one gets as enthusiastic over anything as I do over them, Now- adays, whenever I recognize the old familiar symptom, DOWN GOES ONE OF THE BLESSED LITTLE CONCENTRATED BOONS, And in a few minutes the visual clouds Hft, discomfort casses away, my stomach apparently resumes its operations and at half past 12 or 1 o’clock I go out for my usual rather hearty luncheon —all in elightful contrast with my former practically ruined afternoons which I used vainly to seck to escape by fasting and various doses.” said the editor of & New York trade paper, | ©0-0-00-0-0-0-00-0-000 AN EXCELLENT Baja California Damiana Bitters S A PUWERFUL APHKODISIAC AND specific tonic for the sexual aud urinary orkans of Loth sexes, and s great remedy f ot the kidneys and bladder. 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