The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 6, 1897, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1897 AMUSEMENTS. BaLowWIN THEATER —Mailsee, “Mary Stuart.” To-night, “Macbeth.” Cortauia THEATER -*The Prodigal Father. Moxoscos OPxma-HoUvsE— The Westerner ALCAZAR THEATER A Legal Wreck.” Tivol: Orera HOUSE.— A n; or, amp. High-Class Vaudeville., Bat ‘ ormances. AND SKATING RINK—Daily at of the Park. TER—Mé. Antoin Februsry The OnpuET CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. “A&VA‘XO“EY HR\\kh’.:I);i'} !L:D inquests yester- 1ge McKenna will not dectde the Oaklan1 d weather Saturday with showers fetion for | £5000 dam- owners of the held at repose mass was yesterday for the er, charged with try e, Was ac t night donated ud; alsothe ing yesr. Law School resolutions of regret e resignation of Judge Slack. harles Harold was admonished to stick to the truth in Judge Carroll Cook’s court yester- day. He came near being arrested for per- ills of Sarah B. Cooper and her dav , have been offered for probate in department of the sphews and nieces of Charles May bach, deceased, det bach heirs have no legal interest alins Me memb: ssion, w of the police force ile intoxicated yes. the matter of ce of Arthur Jackson, convicted of he crime of manslaughter for killiug August e 12th inst. g will be held at Metropoli- tunder the suspices of the and Producers’ Association to estion. ner Gunst was rday, and it wes lub held a cotillon at | g, which will e club un v led with Miss the case of Nan- 1 C. Murdock tnat | a divorced woman ub objects to 1posed to the Te- On the con- of thatis one of the on _\IllA lay e e elected for an & Co’s bid for putting a s inta the Mission High as uccepted, although was the highest of all the b asked for d o be on file in the office of at n withdrawn. esot Architect Havens hool work, the sal don of the new mun! eral other bills were ary Fish d Game Warden Mogan for a were don Auditor Brod: ionally enlivening the situation. publicis invited to attend n series of res by Rev. Haskett Smith, to be blden Gate Hall (not in the Y. M, C. A. Audi- torium as reported), the first two on the su ctof “Egypt.” The first lecture, which v be for the benefit of St. Peter’s organ d will take place on February 16, under tne au e Brotherhood of St. Andrew in rancisco. The Bishop of California will p side at this first lecture o The Council of Associated Industries will | meeting to-day at2 P. . in the urers’ and Producers’ uilding. 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Falling Halr and Baby Blem= FACE HUMORS Eitrs.nas ses bz i 10 CON OLD MYSTERI Large Colleges to Be Estab- lished for Their Study at San Diego. upon the | | secret in San D:ego, because 1f it had been | v yesterday | | some extraordinary 0, 1t was discovered that | | suppositions is quite correct, 0t enough at the City | k part in the | ceedings and papers in the mandamus suit | | the bess of all places for it. WHY A TRACT WAS GOT AT POINT LOMA. |One Edifice on the Corinthian Style and One on the Egyptian. FOUNDATION-STONES FROM IRE- LAND ARD £GYPI. E. B. Rambo’s Strange Acccunt of the Purchase ani the Many Mea Who Are Behind the Eaterprise. Over a month ago the announcement was made from San Diego of the mys- | terious purchase of 132 acres of land there | by two men, one unknown and the other | being C. A. Gricom of New York. Va- | rious reasons were assigned as probable | | for the purchase. According to one report the land was to | be usad as technical grounds for the Union | Pacific system, which was to be com- | pleted there from Salt Lake. Another had | it that since the land lay so near to Mex- | ico it was to be used for a trans-Pacific | | cable station. And still snother reason assigned for the purchase was that the | land was to be utilized for docks for a fast | steamship line to Japan. Another am- | bitious correspondent figured out that the | franchise was all owing to the determina- | tion to complete at once the Nicaragua cana Finally another dispatch reached San ncisco saying the secret was out. The | land had been bought for a second Monte | Carlo. All this was very interesting, but neces- sarily much of it must be very unreliab The real reason, however, is now known. One of the men who caused 50 much cof jecture was E. B. Rambo of this City, and he yesterday gave the story of the purchase with the real reason therefor. | | 0dd as it may seem it is as surprising and strange as auy of the others that have been assigned. The land was bought for tle establish- ment of a school for the revival of the lost mysteries of antiquity This sounds | strange, even impracticable, in this mat- ter-of-fact time, but Mr. RamLo says that | not only 1s that the object, but that the | progressive spirits which have cast their lot “together in the enterprise huve incor- | | porated in almost these words. A building is to be erected st once. In tone is 1o be laid between 5th and 20th inst., as Mr. Rambo Already the piens are_compleied, is to be no del Foundation- stones are to be used in the masonry hered from different parts of the wi | Tere is large wealth repre-ented in tt | purchase. Mr. Rambo gave a list of the | prominent gentlemen identitied w: and witn the strange school that 1s to be established. Not only are & number of these men very wealthy. but they ar | widely known, and among them are some of the leaaing thinkers of the country “The exact amount of land which we | have purchased,” said_Mr. Rambo, “is 13234 ucres. It is on Point Loma, and borders the bay of San Diego, and com- mands a beautiful view of it. the ocean, Coronado and San Diego. In one place the ground rises 360 feet high, so that tne prospect all around is commanding. Mr. Griscom and myself kepi our mission | known what we were there for, we would have had to pay probably $25000 instead of about $12,000 for the land, and nine or ten years we would have had to pay a dozen times what we paid for it. *““I'nis land is jor a system of schoole anc colleges. It has been supposed by some that the Masons were going to begin educational work there, and by others that the theosophists were going to do s0. Neither of these though a number of those in the enterprise are either one or the other, but not all. 'Our object in buying the land is in brief to establish a college for the revival of the lost mysteries of antiquity. We have thought that at this remote pointon the American continent, where the en- vironment is so favorable, this would be It is not to be a school for youths, but for thinking people all over the world. We expect to have eminent men and women, 100, as in- | structors, but, perhaps, not immediately. They will come when we get the school under w “‘We will at first erect a handsome wooden building 120 feet long, two and three stories high, with Corinthn col- umns and broad piazz The building is | contracted for al There are 10 be extensive hibraries, a large hall, reading- rooms and other departments in the first story, inciuding a kitchen and dining- room, which occupy one wing. “The entire building will be classical in finish. It will have large verandas | facing the ocean and San Diego, with large | columns surrounding them. This build- | ing, though spoken of as temporary, will | stand and be used permanently. But the permanent bui 2, as it is now aliuded to, will be in another styleof architecture. **The cornerstones of this will be laid between tho 15th and 20th of this month. This is to be u school ol higher education, | 80 called, and in it will be taught phi- osopby, science and religions. Tais will | be a very large building of stone. The cornerstones haye been coliected from | gifferent countries. There 1s a stone from | Ireland aiready here, and stones from | Scotland and Egypt are on the way. “This building will be Egyptian in char- acter, like some of the old temples. It wlil be surrounded with smaller buildings. 1t is the intention of many of our people, who are men of wealth and living in the East and abroad, to come here and spend | a part of each year there. They will build their own residences there and with their iamilies enjoy the advantages o1 study and association with those who are study- | ing the mysteries of antiquity. Other | buildings will follow as we can erect them. “‘Among the officers of our society are men of wealth and distinction. Dr. J. | D. Buck, the president, is of Cincinnati nd the dean of the Homeopathic Med cal College there; T. M. Pierce, the vic president, is an electrical engineer of New {ork; E. A. Nercsheimer, the treasurer, | is a millionairediamond merchant of New | York; C. A. Griscom, the secretary, who was with me and assisted in making the purchase, is manager of the International Steamsiip Company, which owns the City | of Paris, City of New York and other | steamers; D, A. P. Buchanan, one of the | directors, is one of the foremost physicians {of Fort Wayne; Dr. A. Keightiey is | & wealthy gentleman of London, Eng- land; A. H. Spencer, another director, is adry-goods man of New York; H. T, Pat- The Corinthian Building Which Is to Be Erected at Point Loma for the Study of Lost Antiquities. terson is an extensive bardware manufac- turer in the same city; M. A. Opperman of Ford, N. Y., is in the iron busines Besides these there is Dr. J. C. Lopez of New Orleans, Dr. Robert Crosbie of Bos- | on, and E. T. Hargrave of New York. They are all practical and sensible peo- | ple, and believe the establishment of the colleges will result in great good to them- | selves and bumanity.” Mr. Rambo is secretary of the finance | committee of the incorporation. a dealer 1n guns and ammunition, thinks men can do better things than kil each other or themselves, und believes sult in the study, and indirectly the good of all man- kind.' He is a strong theosophist, but i | the study of the antiquities, as is intend- | ed, says that there is no bar to any per- | son. A morning newspaper in this City a | few days ago announced that a college for | the study of the antiquities was to be built | near New York, where between 300 and 400 acres of lsnd had been secured for a site. Mr. kind is to be built that the account, th doubtle: ear New York and ugh amisconception, s referred to the proposed college which it is now known will be erected at San Diego. Mr. Rambo says that tropical trees, such as patms, bananas and pepper trees, will be planted to beautify the grounds. Already there are bearing lemon trees in different places around the tract. E M. Greenway Has Miss Da- vidson For a Partner at the Coti'ion. Fiity-Five Couples Participate in the 0 d, Familiar, But Ever Popular F gures. ‘What will probably be the last cotillon before Lent of the Friday Night Clab was held last evening at Odd Fellows’ Hall. As usual, the decorations, while not elaborate, were aristic and consisted mainly of a tasteful grouping of palms | and ferns and a graceful arrangement of bunting. Five figures were danced—old and familiar figures, that confuse not the par- ticipants, but on the contrary add a de- lightful zest to the occasion. E. M. Greenway led with Miss Della Davidson. The other dancers were: Lieutenant Bent and Miss Emma Butler, S, C. Buckbee and Miss Julia Crocker, Danforth Boardman and Miss Jessie Glascock, Rhodes Borden and Miss Moffet, T. B. Berry and Miss Salife Maynard, Thomes Breeze and Carrie Taylor, Allen St. J. Bowie and Miss Jessie Bowie, A. R. Baldwin and Miss Helen Wagner, Licutenant Capps and Miss Jen- nie Blair, R C. Croxton and Miss Owen, Leonard Chenery and Miss Merry, R. W. Campbell and Miss Preston, A. A. Cotton and Miss Daisy Van Ness, M. F. Davis and Miss Bermice Drown, C. L. Davis and Miss Joselyn, H. Sprague, R. buperu and Miss Stubbs, Bryant Grimwood and Miss Hoffman, Southura Hoff- man Jr. and Miss Crocket, Edward Houghton and Miss Jessie Hobart, H. Higgins and Miss Patton, Percy King and Miss Kate Saiisbur John Lawson and Miss Cunningham, M Lindis and Miss Smith, F. W. McNeat and Miss Hoffman, H. B. Montague Miss Moody, Thomas ~Magee and Mrs. Magee, A. B. Moulder and Mrs. Mouider, Louis’ Masten and Miss Levert, Georgs A. Martin and Miss Carrie Tavlor, Licutenant D. E. Nolan and Miss Eshel Cohe 8. Ciark Porter and Miss Voorhies, H. D, Pil; bury aud Miss Taylor, Edgar Peixotto and Romie Wailace, Harrison Parker and Miss Rose Hooper, McP. Rutheriord and Miss Bate: A. B. Russell and Miss Cole, Gerala Rathbon and Miss Moore, Burbank Sumers und Miss Buckley, Ray Sherman and Miss Moody, E. C. Sessions and Miss May Thomas, Philip Tomp- | ains and Miss Frances Curry, Augustus Taylor and Miss Helen Hopkius, Lawrence Van Winkle and Miss Mamie McNutt, Douglass Watson and Miss Bertha Dolbeer, A. F. Willisms and Miss Gertrude Forma Wright and Miss Bernice Landers, Winn and Miss Schneely, A. Fane Wainwright and Miss Celia Tobin. x ey Told in Town Talk. Interesting tales are told in this week's Town Talk concerning the people and events of the hour. In brief, the news of the week in all departments of sctivity ia presented in crystallized form. The quality and quantity of Town Talk’s contents will equel any weekly in the journalistic market. Among the sub- jects of current interest noted are the first concert of the Ean Francisco Symphony Society, the municipality’s spasm of virtue, the diversions of our lawyers, legal lights in the Cooney case, weddings, dences, card arties, an aciress who cannot act, gossip rom the Rislto and other timely topics. * gy S The Willey Trust Case. In the suit of Edwin W. Carpenter and Wil liam Boericke against Elisha V. 8. Cook and Charles W. Willey, to test the validity of the trust crested by the will of the late A. P. Wil ley, Judge Hebbard has rendered s decision relegating the entire matter to the Probate Court. He holds thatsittine e achancellcr in equity he has no jurisdiction of this class of litigation. —_—— Suits for Divorce. Divoree suits have been filed as follows: Alice L Daley against Henry Daley, for deser tion; Annie Williams agasnst J.J. Williams,- for failure to provide; Sarah L 5. Page againet Dauiel W. Page, for cruelty. gopeid 8. Dutton and Miss | and | Though | he | | that the stuay of the antiquities wiil re- | betterment of those who | Rambo_says no_college of the | (LED WITH A DEBUTANTE. | are mandamus proceedings under way, | | asking for the origina | Miss | | | site. DAY OF HOLD-UPS I THE CITY HALL The Audifor and Supervis- orial Committees Ob- durate. Havens' Fees and Superintend- | P ent Condon’s Salary a-Giim- mering. Meantime the Grand Jury Puts Fire Under the Already Bubbling Mu- nicipal Kettle. There are great times at the City Hall. Bills are being held up on all sides. not be able to collect his fees withouta suit atlaw. The superintendent f co struction of the new municipal bhilding | yesterday had his bill for services for the | last month thrown out. Smaller bills are disputed and rejected. Meanwhile there others are threatened and the atmosphere of the City Hall corridors is filled with mutterings, objurgations and beat lightning. Yesterday, in fact, wasa sort of field day for holding up bills and bringing to a focus pending matters. City and County Auditor Broderick toiled on the lower floor ot the hall; the Finance Committee and the Health and Police Committee of the Board of Supervisors worked on the floor above. *Meanwhile, to add to the excitement, the Grand Jury was seeking nformation from the Board of Education, plans and specifi- cations of the Mission High School and also all 1he contractsappertaining thereto. The Grand_ Jury’'s atteniion has been | called to the Mission High Schoot matter through the opinion of Auditor Broderick, publicly expressed, and to the recital of ihe facts as publicly made by him. An investigation concerning the reasons for the excess of contracts over the estimated cost as made up originally by Architect Havens is probably the next move in that direction. So far as Architect Havens' fees are concerned, the issue was plainly made up yesterday. Auditor Broderick had complet- ed his siudy of decisions and authorities and had finally determined to rest upon | the opinion furnished to him by City and County Attorney Creswell. This he made clear to Mr. Havens, who called at the Auditor's office to ascertain what was to be done. Mr. Broderick said that he had determined to return the architect’s bill to the Board of Education. With this also went the premiums for the plan and, practicaily, all” that is left undisputea is the purchase of the site, as the situation interpreted at the educational depart- ment. The situation concerning Architect Havens' fees has been 8o fully explained in these columns that it may not be neces- sary to suy more on that point. The cost Architect Havens esiimated for the building was $137,000. The contracts amount to $140,000 in rouna figures. The architect’s fees at 5 per centamount to | $6000. The bill, which must be cotlected through the courts if at all, is for 23§ per cent, one half of the total. The Auditor bad hardly notified Mr. Havens of his final determination when papers were served upon him in the man- damus proceedings brought by Joseph H. | Mogan to collect salary as Fish and Game Warden far the City and County of San Francisco for the month of January. These proceedings later in the day resulted | in_the instruction by the Judiciary Com- mittee of the Board of Supervisors to the Oity and County Attorney to represent the Auditor in the matter. The Finance Committee of the Super- | visors had the next inningsin the game of financial battledore and shuttiecock going on in the City Hall. Daniel E. Condon, superintend ent of the work upon the new municipal building, sent in his bill for $250 for the month of January. The Finance Committee, upon motion of Supervisor Rottanzi, refused to recom- mend that the bulshould be paid, the ground of the refusal being that no work is being performed and, therefore, there was nothing for Condon to superintend. For the preceding month the salary of the superintendent was forthcoming. Then some grading was done upon the The cornerstone was laid and some other work was performed in preparation for the actual construciion of the build- ing. The refusal of the Firance Com- mittee will undoubtedly influence the ac- tion of Auditor Broderick when the bill shall come to him for services in January and more proceedings in court may pos: bly result. Bills from J. Millard, extra Chinese in- terpreter, and 8. H. Simon, extra German The | architect of the Mission High School will | { interpreter, were also held up, and also a | bill from Mr. Nolan for two revolving | | ¢ airs, which were billed at the rate of | $27 each, and were for the Southern police | station. Supervisor Rottanzi questioned | whether chairs at that price were not a little too luxurious for the police use. THE COOPER WILLS. | Earzvdiy | Last Testaments of Mother and Daugh- | ter Have Been Offered for | Probate. | Probate will be asked for the wills of | both Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper and her daugh- ter, Miss Harriet Cooper, who were found dead in bed at their residence in this City | on the 11th of last December. |~ Mrs. Harriet E. Skilton appears on be- balf of the will of Mrs. Cooper. She represents tha: the estate of the decedent consisted of real estate and personal prop- erty valued at about $10,000. It is assumed in the petition that Harriet | Cooper survived her mother, as Harriet is | named as Mrs. Cooper’s sole heir at law. | The proponents of Miss Cooper’s will also assume the same state of facts to be true. | Mrs. Irene M. Rawlings presents Har- | | riet Cooper’s will and describes the estate as worth more than $5000, thouzh the | value is 23 yet unknown owing to the fact | that no one can as yet say what interest ss Cooper had in her mother’s estat If Mrs. Cooper's will is declarea valid, as has been suggested, then Miss | Cooper inherited directly all of her mother’s estate, and the property of both vill be distributed in accoraance with the provisions of the daughter’s will, which | is admitted by all to be valid in every par- ticular. Several aecisions have been giveh by the courts of this State that a holographic | will is fatally defective if it is not entirely in the bandwriting of the testztor. Mrs. Cooper’s will was written on a printed | letter-head of the Golden Gate Kinder- | | Rarten Association, and in making the | | date the lady used the printed figures “189—," and filled in the blank by adding | | the figure 6" with her pen. A claim will | be made by Attorteys Gunnison, Booth | | & Bartuett that Mrs. Cooper republished | the date at the conclusion of her will by | the allegations that she signed said docu- ment “on the date above written,”” and that by this act the technical argument against validity is overcome. It appears probable there wiil be no contest or opposition to the propate of Mrs. Cooper’s will on' the partof any of the heirs. In thatevent it remains to be seen whether the court will of its own | motion take Cogmizance of the alleged defect in the execution of the instrument. In any event, however, the heifs have it i their power to have Mrs. Cooper's wishes carried out, as the heirs of Mrs, | Cooper are also the heirs of Miss Cooper, | and both estates are amply able to meet the requirements of the legacies provided for. Both cases will be called for hearing in Judge Coffey’s court on the 19th inst. MRS. MURDOCH'S ALIMONY. Her Ex-Husband Must Pay No Matter What She Do Judge Slack has rendered an important decision in the divorce case of Nannie Murdoch against William C. Murdoch. Two years ago Mrs. Murdoch was granted a divorce on the ground of cruelty and she was allowed $125a month alimony and the custody of the minor child. Last month the ex-husband applied to be re- lieved of the burden of paying alimony on the ground that his former wife's life is not blameless. Mrs. Murdoch’s attorney objected to the stoppage of the alimony, saying thet whether she was guilly or not her husband was bound to support her, and that the decree could not be legally amended in | this regard. To support this position the | decision of the Supreme Court of New | York in_the noted case of Forrest against | Forrest was cited, where the great actor’s wife was granted a divorce. Subsequently | Forrest offered o prove that his former wife was not living proverly, and the court held that even if this were true it | would not_be sufficient ground for relie ing Forrest from the payment of alimony. | Judge Slack adopted this view of the | law in deciding the Murdoch case. —_———— Injured at a Fire, The Board of Fire Commissioners has recom- mended to the Board of Supervisors to authorize the payment of $50 to Michael Wright, truckman of truck 5. Wright was in- jured on the nands and face while doing auty ata fire Decemter 12, NEW TO-DAY. Mr.Grocer,why don’t you try money-backing every- thing you sell—as you money-back Sc/illing’s Bes: tea? It's first-rate for hones: business. A Schilling & Company San Francisco 28 | straments of | only partial success they served to aliay | to a certain extent the fears of the pa- | Charles Amacker of LOCATED WITH THE X RAY A Button in a Two-Year- 0ld Baby's Windpipe Photographed. An Operation Was Performed, but the Substance Could Not Be Found. It Hed Worked Its Way Through the Trachea and Lodged Against the Z:ophagus. ray and the surgeon’s knife | bave again been put 1o use in an attempt to save a human life where death seemed inevitable. Although the ure of the in- science was rewarded with tient’s anxious parents. Two weeks ago the two-year-old child of ramento while playing with an older brother accident- ally drew a large tin button which he was holding in his mouth down into his wind- pipe. The button stopped at the bifnrca- tion of the trachea, or where it divides into the bronchial tube: The child was seized with a fit of cough- ing, but the button refused to be dis- lodged, and in a few hours the child was suffering from severe inflammation of the bronchial tubes, making respiration ex- ceedingly difficalt and painful. Several physicians were called and the child was taken by the heels and shaken, head downward. Vomiting and sneezing were produced, but all efforts to dislodge the button proved without avail, and the | child was removed to this City for treat- ment. The baby was taken to the College of Paysicians and Surgeons, 818 Howard street, and it was decided to make a shadowgraph by means of the X ray, and in case the button was located to operate. Dr. Depuy, assisted by one of the college students. undertook the experiment of making the shadowgraph. The child was Jaid upon his back on a large sensitized plate, and after a towel had been placed over the breast to protect the skin from the rays the current was turned on. At the end of six minutes the child was re- moved and the plate developed. The first art of the operation was a success, as the BRtton showsa plainly; apparently located a little way down the right bronchial tube, This fact justified an operation and Dr. J. R. Laine, assisied by Drs, Southard, Healy and Gardener, underiook to remove the button. The operstion known as tracheotomy was performed. As low as possible the windpipe was opened and the surgzeons egan their explorations for the button. They used long forceps, but although fre- quent attempts were made to locate the foreign substance, they were unsuccessfal. A slight break in the trachea proved the reasons of the failure. The button head ulcerated its way through the windpipe, nd presumably lodged against the wsophagus. If it remainsin its present position, the physicians are confident that it will become encysted, and if the child recovers from the shock of the operation, will cause no further trouble. THEIR BIG DINNER. The Iroquois Club Preparing for the Annual Gathering of Braves at the Banquet. The Iroquois braves are getting ready for their big annual powwow. At a meeting of the club last evening the thir- teen delegates to the annual State League of Ircquois Clubs, to meet in this City at Pythian Hall, February 22, were elected |and a fourteenth—Joseph Leggstt, was elected as delegate at large. The thirteen are: Thomas Ashworth, J. H. Barry, E. J. Craig, G. H. Cabanis, D. J. Cullen, Charles Edelman, C. H. Holcomb, John Kreling, Samuel McKee, T. J. MeBride, Raymond Robin,T. J.Walsh and Peter Kelly, The State League will be called to order at 10 o’clock on the morning of Washing- ton’s birthday. Reporis from the State officers will be heard and an election of officers for the ensuing year will be held. NEW TO-DAY. A CORRUPT COMBINE —IN THE— NEW SCHOOL BOARD. Capt. I W. Lees’ Bad Record And Other Live Articles in To= day’s Issue of THESTA JAMES H. BARRY, Editor. NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. NEW TO-DAY. Woman’s Writes s Believe in Woman’s Writes? Of course we do. Who could help it when women write such convincing words as these: “For seven years I suffered with scrofula. I had a good physician. Every means of cure was tried in vain. At last I was told to try Ayer’s Sarsa- parilla, which entirely cured me after using seven bottles.” —MRS. JoHN A. GENTLE, Fort Fairfield, Me., Jan. 26, 18g6. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla 1 the evening the big annual banquet be held at Deimonico’s. Tickets, at $3 each, are now on sale at the meetings of the club. At other times Louis Metzger and E. P. E. Troy have the bandling of the pasteboards that signify s0 much Democratic enjoyment. L R Estates in Probate. Mrs. Kate Armstrong’s will wes filed in the Probate Court yesterday. Her property, worth $1000, is bequeathed to her {riend, Mrs. Mary Ellen Long. The will of J. M. Voorhamme, deceased, hes been filed for probate. Itis holographic and gives the entire estate to Mrs. Frances Voor- widow of the testator. Value of the - $2000. 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AFTERNOON Oraway, the Trick Bicyclist; Brown, the One-Legged Chuts Coaster, and Potato Race. TIVOL!I OPERA-HOUSZ MusERNEesTINE KREL'N4. Proprietor & Manager —An Entertainment of Delight!— —THIS EVENING— %5~ AT S &y OUR UP-TO-DATE EXTRAVAGANZA, ALADDIN, Or, THE WONDERFUL LAMP. A’ Hodge-Podge of Mirth, Music, Ballet and Beauty. S E G “La Danse des Fleurs Electriques!’’ The Latest Sensation. FILLED WITH THINGS THAT NOT BE EXPLAINED! BRING THE CHILDREN TO- Popula- Prices... -250 SUTRO BATHS. Open Daily From 7 A. . to 6 £, M. Swimming Season 1897. Bathing, Including Admission—Adults General Admission, 10c; Children, 5e. CAN- IGHT, 504 25¢c, Children 20c. EVENING TWO-MILE BICYCLE CONTEST, ORDWAY—BROWN, New Scenes by the Animatoscope, AND MILE SKATING RACE, KENNA v BALLOON ASCENSION SUNDAY. PACIFIC COAST JOCKEY CLUB (UNGLESIDE TRACK), The only Pertect Winter Raceirack 1o Amerios, RACIVG a32a8ee RACTNG Racing From Monday, Jan. 25, to Satur- day, February 6, Inclusive. Five or Mere Races Daily, Rain or Shine. FIRST RACE AT 2 P. M. Take Southern Pactfic tralns at Third and Townsend sts. depot, leaving at 1 and 1:20 p. 2. ¥are for Round Trip, including Ade mission to Grounds, %1.00. Take Mission-st. electric line direct to track. The Tarpey Stakes Saturday, January 30, ‘The Hobart Stakes Saturday, February 6. A. B SPRECKELS, Presidens W.S LEAKE, Secreiary.