The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 14, 1897, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1897. D. B. Woolf, secretary to the Supreme | Court Commissioners, is at Sacramento with a big budget of statistics for the en- lightenment of those Jegislators who may desire information as to the work of that body during the discussion of the bill to continue its life. The Supreme Court Commission will, as such, die in May of this year unless the bill passes. The bill provides for the continuance of the commissioa for four years more. The business of the commission is to assist the Supreme Court in its work. The court assigns to it such casesas it sees fit, and the Commissioners study these cases and present the resuit of thair study in the form of written opinions for the considera- tion of the court. There are four Commissioners, Belcher, Haynes, Searles and Britt; seven Justices (Chicf Justice), McFarland, Har- rison, Garoutte, Temple, Van Fleet and Henshaw. Commissioner Van Clief—the law provided for five—died November 29, 1895. The Justices go over the work of the Commissioners, sometimes agreeing with it and sometimes, not often, remod- eling or wholly disagreemng with it. It is quite the thing, even among at- torneys, to smile when the Supreme Court | is mentioned as “working.’”’ During the lastd of the late Grand Jury it held an open session at which County Attorney Creswell was invited to be present and tender advice upon the subject under dis- cussion and this matter of the Supreme Court **working” was spoken of and raised quite a laugh. Creswell refused utterly to join it. In- deed he took the occasion to moralize upon this habit of the thoughtless of jok- ing about the Judges and the courts. He thought 1t ought to be discouraged; that it had a decidedly evil tendency, and grew ont of a misapprehension of the facts. As for himself he knew that the Justices of the Supreme Court labored as many hours as the averaga lawyer or other pro-| fessional or business man It was the general impression that the work of the | Supreme Court consisted in sitting on the | bench for a couple of hours moraing and | |afterhoon. The fact was, be said, that | | was the least part of tueir work. He hao- | vened to live in the same neighborhood | with a Justice of the Supreme Court, and | could testify that he rode home regularly | every evening on the same car that carried as well others who are accustomed to late dinners. | *Probably from his club,” remarked a | juryman. Vo, sir, he came from the Supreme Court rooms,” insisted Creswell. | So much for the County Attorney’s | wholly volunteer testimony. Itis in line | with the data referred to, which, of course, covers the labors of the Justices as well as | the Commissioners. The fact is the Justices of the Supreme Court arrive at tneir rooms, some of them, | as early as 8:30 every morning and re- | main there, some of them, as late as 6 Every even { in | is case means every evening—that is, it | | | | o'clock every evening. th LABORS OF THE HIGH COURT. How the Supreme Justices Earn Their Salaries by Working Early and Late Like Other People. includes Sundays and holidays. They have no vacations to speak of. Judge Beatty has taken but one vacation—a ten days’ sojourn at Lake Tahoe—since he went upon the bench in 1888, They them- selves confess that they do not consider this work arduous—they like it, they say, which is why they areat it early and late. | However, that does not mean to say that | the work to be doneis not as great as | they can do even under the stress of long | hours and constant employment. | Tue session of the Supreme Court be- ginsat 104 . and adjourns at 4 P. N, sometimes continuing as late as 5. There are two departments, three Justices to cach. Justices Harrison, Garoutto and | Vau Fleet compose department 1 and | Justices McFarland, Temple and Hen- | shaw No. 2. Chief Justico Beatty sits | with either, especially filling “the place of | any absent Justce. The Ceief Justice | aiso hasa quantity of special business, | which appe office. The court | meets at co on the second | Monday in January and the third Monday | in July, at Los les on the first Mon- day in Apriland the second Monday in i | October, and at Sacramento on the first Monday in May and the second Monday in November. During 1396 the Justices rendered 418 ovinions; the Commissioners rendered 234 opinions thut were adopted by the court, making a total of 652 opinions filed. Dar- ing the year 26 rehearings were granted and 192 denied, In 1895 the total number of opinions filed was 715; in 1894 the number was 784; 1893, in 1892, 613; in 1891, 717; in 1890, 715; in 1889, 624. During the lastfivey ars the Justices rendered 2091 opinions; the Commissioners 1397. | The total causes filed in the eight years past numbered 6575. The total judgments | in the sams eight years numbered 6943, | showing that the court is creeping up on | the work, rather than that the work is everreaching it. The same is true of the | separate werk of the Commissioners. The judgments rendered from January 1, 1889, | to December 31, 1896, numbered 6342;. the | cautes filec in the same period, 657 The gain of judgments over filings was | 368. The number of cases filed during the | past four years exceeded by 52 the num- | the court moved to 121 Post street. After- | back as the memory of this generation ber filed durine the preceding four years. The total number of opinions written by the commissioners to December 31, 1896, is 3229. They have besides examined 379 applicants for admission to practice as attorneys-at-law, of which nnmber 277 have been admitted and 101 rejectel. One application wasrejected without examina- tion. On December 31, 1895, there remained 241 causes under submission. On Decem- ber 31, 1896, there were 273. On the Ist of February this number had been reduced to 260, but by the audition of new cases— no less than 86 since the 1st of January— the total number under submission stands 8L 346, which the court has ahead of it to Work upon. These statistics do not include all the work of the court—Ifor instance, the ap- peals heard and dismissed would in a few years number several hundred. The Supreme Court is now very con- veniently and handsomely housed on the seventh floor of the Parrott building. It was formerly located at Sacramento as a fixture. It came here 1875, veing locatea on the northeast coruer of Kearny and Clay streets. By the new constitution the number of the Justices was increased from five to seven, and the court thereupon moved to the northwest corner of Stock- ton and O'Farrell streets—105 Stockion. The commission was created in 1883, and ward it moved to the building at the cor- ner of McAllister and Larkin streets. Every session of the Legisiature as far runs has seen a bill *‘to accommodate the Supreme Court” struggle to becomea law. The Supreme Court has finally accommo- dated itself by secking the first really am- vle and modern quarters that it has ever | known. f The ashes of burnt corks inakes good black raint. | JUSTICE VAN FLEET. JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE McFARLAND. JUSTICE CALIFORNIA, - 7 W GAROUTTE. CHIEF JUSTICE BFATTY. TREBELLI CHARM A SECOND TINE Excellent Concert Given at the California Theater. The Young Vccalist Sings Oper- atic Arias and Simpe Longs. Herr Weiss, a New ’Cellist, Makes a Good Impression—Louis Crepaux Applauled. Mlle. Trebelli's second concert, which took place yesterday afternoon at the Cal- ifornia Theater, was os great an artistic treat to lovers of singing as her Tuesday night's recital. The more one nears this remarksble young singer the more one learns to appreciate the exquisite natural qualities of her voice and the finish of her art. Mile. Trebelli ¥as assisted yesterday afternoon by Mons. Louis Crepaux, basso, and by Herr Arthur Weiss, a violonzellist recently arrived from Europe, who made a very favorable impression. As arule when a concert singer, pur et | simple, essays an operatic aria, the result isat best a cold, mechanical rendering, devoid of any dramatic interpretation. This is by no means the case with Antoin- ette Trebelli however. She sang the well-known *“Ah, forse lui,” from “La Traviata,” with all the operatic expres- sion of a prima donna who is thoroughly at home in the role of Violetta. The same is also true of herrenderingof *‘Alleluia,’ the Infania’s aria from “Le Cid.” Her singing was so dramatic that one almost saw the stage and the Infanta distributing alms outside the catbedral on Easter morning. No doubt her power of dramatic interpretation is largely owing to her hav- ing lived in an atmosphere of operatic art from childhood. While she possesses this dramatic gift of the prima donna, Mlle. Trebelli b been spared the wear and ti involves on the voice, and Quence her rich sweet organ has the fresh- ness, purity and coloratura that are rarely heard nowadays in conjunction with dra- matic singing. The audience received both her operatic arias with warm ap- plause. As an encore to the scene and aria from the “Traviata’ Trebelli sang *Une Nuit d’Espagne,” by Massanet. In the florid votal embroideries of the “Villanelle,” by Eva dell’ Aqua, Trebetli showed ber remarkable vocal agility, and in this song her perfect intonation was made more noticeable by the long pieces of fioratura which she had to sing without sccompaniment., The tours de force in this song brought a clamorous demand { for ap encore, to _which the vocalist sponded with “Love WasOnce a Li Boy,” which she sang with deligati archness of expression. Another of her encores was Tosti's *Penso,” to which she plaved her own accompaniment in a | very effective manner. | There was no doubt about the good | measure given by Mile. Trevelli, for in | addition 10 all the above numbers she also sang a romanza by Mascagni, “‘Pena d’ | Amore.” Grieg’s Morning” Goring Thomas’ *Song of Sunshi | everything except the *Penso’’ she was sympathetically accompanied by J. | | Marrion. | Herr Arthur Weiss made quite an im- | pression by his ’cello playing. He is pos- | | sessed of great fluency of exccution, which he showed especiully m tue rapid ¢ matic passages in Popoer's “Gra | naise de Concert.’” His tone is smooth, | even and singing, and his shading and | | phrasing are thoroug ly artistic. ! | M. Louis Crepaux, who is weil knownin | | San Francisco musical circles, contributed | some good vocal numbers, which were | thoroughly appreciated. He opened the | concert with Martini’s *“Plaisir a’Amor,” | and as an encore sang an aria from Saint | Saens’ “Henry VIIL" Hisother namhers | and the encores which he was compelied to give to them were: “Nons Nous Aim- | | erons;"” “Ici Bas,” by C. L. Hess and “Pius | | Blanche est Mon Amour,” by Grieg. | | Mile, Trebelil will give her last concert | | at the California Theater to-night. A Music Festival. Four California oratorio societies have decided to combine in oraer to give a music festival during the month of April. These societies are the S8an Francisco and San Jose oratorio societies, members of | the Oakland Oratorio Society and the | Alameda society, which recently gave “The Messiah,” under the conductorshi; of Edward Crandail. The leading feature of the festival will be a grand performance of ‘“The Mes- iah,” and the other concerts will consist | of selections from well-known oratorios. Mme. Genevra Bishop, one of the best known oratorio singers in America, will come from Chicago as the soprano soloist. She has sung extensively in the East and E During her sojourn in the she rassed some time with -y-Nos. Negotiations with otoer Eastern soloists are also in progress. Singers of moderate ability will be re- ceived in the chorus. James Hamilton Howe will conduct and Bernhard Mollen- hauer will be concert-master and one of the soloists of the festival, R Snpr it b Hirschbach Lenefit. It is stated that one of the finest musi- cal programmes ever presented at a ben- efitin this City is being prepared for the ! testimonial benefit to be tendered on Thursday afternoon, the 25th inst., to Joseph Hirschbach, the weii-known con- ductor, who is very ill. A symvhony or- chestra of over fifty will participate, as well as a number of popular singers. The various members of the Tivoli Opera Company will appear in their best offer- ings. The performance will take place at the Tivoli. - A Locat Violinist. Miss Ethel Smith, violinist and soprano, who has recently returned from Paris, gives her concert Wednesday evening, February 17, at the Association Audito- rium. She will_be assisted by Mrs. Car- micbael Carr, Hilda Anderson, Edith Smith and Mr. Anarews in performing an excellent programme. } JUSTICE HARRISON. " JUSTICE HENSHAW. WILL SEARCH FOR THE NEW UTOPIK Brig Percy Edwards Is Almost Ready for the Cruise. Premium Now B:ing Paid for a Chauace to Ship on the Vessel. David C. Craig, ths Mail Company’s Watchman, Has Been Missing S nce Thursday. The men who are anxious to secure an Eveless Eden in the Southern Seas are deeply in earnest. The leaders expect to iand the men who are putting up their money to pay the expenses ina ‘land flowing with milk and honey.” As yet no one knows just where the new “land of promise’’ is located, but then everybody connected with the enterprise has faith, and they assert thatina few months they will be wealthy men. The brig Percy Edwards is now almost ready | for gea, and before the first of next month the entire party, comprising a hundred souls, will be under way for the Southern Seas. E. A. Coe will be the secretary of the colony, and G. W. Sickels, an ex-ser- geant in the United States army, will be commander-in-chief of the colonist army. Coe is well known here from his connec- tion with the heir presumptive of the Bis- marck Group, while Sickels is an old sol- dier and a fighter irom the word go. Other officers of the company are: Cap- tain J. Petersen, who israted as_‘‘master arine”’; J, R. Drake, who is classed as “first mate,”” and A. Z. Snyder, treasurer. L. J. Reinhard is the president of the con- cern and P. A. Myers vice-president. They expect to make a home in the Souihern Seas, and even if they do not | JUSTICE TEMPL OVER MEGES' | FAMOLS RALROAD Officers of the Philadelphia | Are Sick for Several | Days. | The Awiu! A titu’es of the Andes Turned Their Faces a Ghastly Blue. | | | | Condors and Llam:s of the H-ights Precipices That to Contemp.ate ‘ Were Nightmares. | | ‘Ward P. Winchell, passed assistant en- gineer of the United States ship Philadel- phia, has written Mrs. Winchell here from Callao, stating that a day or two before Christmas tho officers of the ship went | over the celebrated Meiggs road in the Andes to a height of 15,665 feet. Many of | the oficers were almost deathly sick, the sickness in some cases lasting several days. Mrs. Winchell is the daughter of A. P. Minear, the mining man, who was | yesterday seen at the Palace. The officers of th: Pailadelphia were the guests of the road and were takea up in a special train. The train climbed from sea level to the enormous beight alluded to in | going but 106 miles. There were always two or three tracks in sight on different levels, and in one place five were obsery- able. ““When we got well up we began to see droves of llamas, going in long proces- sions along the trail, each carrying 100 pounds of freight lashed to its back. *‘On the way we stopped at a smelting works at Casapolea. It 1s the highest manufacturing establishment in the world, being 13,606 feet high. They refine copper, silver and lead ores, and employ ab out 200 men. Here most of our party were very sick. Thei faces were a ghastly blue tint from the blood not being weil oxygenated. The disease engendered by the altitude is cailed the ciroche by the people. It is very much like seasick- ness. “To skirt alon the edge of one of these half-mile cliffs and sec the mist cov- ering everything below was like looking at the very end of tne earth—as thongh beyond that cliff was naught but the in- finite space one sees on starry nights. “I saw four condors, the larg-st bird that flies, sailing away up above the moun- 1ains, in the rare, cold air. ““As for the cliffs, they were 80 awful that they may be called dream cliffs, or rather nighimare cliffs, like those one sees when he is falling, falling all the time through hours of agony concentrated in & moment's nightmare. And the | the range, reaching a height of 17,5 | when the letter was dispatched. | back from his work asa member of the | there in all variety. Insome places there | would be two streams running toward the same point, one white and silverv shining pure in the sun, and the other sarthy and dark and muddy with tie red | soil it carried in its turbulent arms. But when they mingled and dasbed on to- gether the white one never turned the | other one white, and thereby bangs an | old, old moral as true to-day as it was centuries ago, before it was worn thread- | bare by the preachers.’” neineer Winchell visited the famous | 1ll-fights at Lima. He says Mount Meiggs, in s'ght of the summit reached by the railroad. is the highest of that part of feet. The officers of the ship had all recovered FIVE DAYS GRANTED. Attorney fpelling Objec the Peuce Groezinger's Ruling. A. T. Henderson, the plaintiff in the suit of Henderson vs. Peter Feutrier, has applied for a writ of certiorari 1o compel Justice of the Peace Groezinger to enter judgment at the conclusion of the trial “as by law required.” Attorney Spelling alleges that at the close of the proceedings he drew the tention of Justice Groezinger to the law and asked that judgment be rendered at once, but that “then and there said Jus- tice of the Peace refused to grant said motion, saying he would give five days’ stay of execution, though he might over- ride the Supreme Court.”” The matter was referred to Presiding Judge Seawell, and he has directed Jus- tice Groezinger to show cause why the pe- tition of Mr. Henderson should not be | granted. ————— SPEEDING LITIGATION. Hiring a State Senator as Attorney Does Not Secure Delay. Judge Seawell has decided that a liti- gant has no right to demand a postpone- ment of a trial until his attorney comes | Legislature at Sacramento. In the case of Ames against krost in the court of Justice of the Peace Carroll the defendant objected to going to trial on the ground that his attorney is Senator Eugene F. Bert, who is not able to be present in this City because he is serving the State in the Legislature, cannot get back nntil after that body adjourns. Justice Carroll was disposed to grant the delay, but Judge Seawell was appeated to, and he said this was not a legal ground for a continuance; so the defendant must speak for himseif or get another attorney and let the trial go on. ————————— Pald Too Much for the Furniture. Magda Rickett and her husband, E. D. Rickett, have sued W, McGillivray and his wife, Mary A.McGiilivray, for the return of $1400 cash ana a note for $800, that the plain- fls were induced to give for the furniture in & lodging-house at 21 Van N ivenue. The Ricketts assert that they were deirauded and swindled by the McGillivrays in the trade, and they wish to get their money back. They aver that the furniture was old 8nd worn and that it was Rot worta more than $1000. —————————— Acres & Willlams Insolvent. The Acres & Williams Company, engaged in printing and bookbinding, yesterday filed a etition in insolvency. The debts of the cor- poration amount to $4178 82. For assets the company presents a statement of book ac- THIS BABE'S CAIME 1S BEING A GIAL So Both Her Father and} Mother Wish to Be Rid of Her. Peter Lamond and Wife Charged With Awiul Acts of [ Inhumanity. | The Sccisty for the Prevention cl: Cruelty to Children Finds a | Strange Case. | | “Take her away; we don’t want her. And, what is more, if yvou don’t we will leave her on somebody’s doorstep.”” This was the strange and inhuman re- | mark that greeted t.e ears of Secretary | Holbrook of the Society for the Preven-| tion of Cruelty to Children and a daeputy | as they stood in the doorway of 214 Carl| street yesterday. | The *her” referred to was a weakly | looking infant, scantily clad, lying on the cold board floor, and the SRR Mrs. | Hattie Lamond, a buxom English woman, | 23 years old, who lives there with her hus: band, Peter Lameond, who is a Scoichman | by birth and a gardener by occupation. | A complaint was received severai days | ago that the woman wasli-treating her | baby daughter, and it was thought proper 10 invesiigate the charges. The com-| plaint—an anonymous communication— stated that the baby was born Octover 16 | Iast, and because she was a daughter the | parents were trying to kill it by neglect. | Neighbors 1n the vicinity, among whom | was Mrs. Conneally, residing at 5t7 Fred- | erick street, informed Secretary Holbrook that the parents were in the habit of handling the child roughly, giving it im- proper food and wine to drink and letting it sleep at night on the cold, hard floor, with insufficient covering. | One ledy asserted that on one occasion, when the child bad been crying for an hour, she went in to see what was the matter. The parents were seated at the table drinking wine and plaving cards, while the child lay on the ficor. The neighbor was told 10 mind her own busi- ness. Mrs. Lamond aamitted to Secretary Holbrook that she gt the child sleep on the floor in an adjoining room because the fleas bothered her when she was in bed with_her unnatural parents. She admit- ted also that she wished to get rid of the baby, and that her husband dia, too, be- cause it was not a boy. Then it was that she grew angry and made the remark that beads this article. Holbrook would have broucht the child away, but it looked toofeeble to be moved. counts due from customers amountin; $2671 09, and the plant and machine: ’1 mountsain streams and waterfalls were business at 412 Commercial street, value un- knowan, The society will keep a watch on the | February 6 at 2:10 | The City of Paris, tind an El Dorado none of the members of ihe company will lose a great amount. The steamer Doric of the Occidental and Oriental line arrived yesterday with the following cabin passengers: F. Ayscough, General J. H. 8. Algar, R.A. Rev. W. H. %ossum, J. 8. Fearon, F.T. Gause, Surgeon G. P. Lumsden, U, 8. N.; Mrs. A. E. Monroe, L. A. Trapman, Hon. Paul Isenberg, Mrs. Isenberg and maid, Mijss C. Isenberg, Paul Isenberg Jr., Colonel R. H. McLean, Miss M. Hartwell, J. A. McCondles, Baron F. d’Ael renthal, Chief Engineer G. J. Burnap, U. 8. Rev. E. H. Van Dyke, Thomas Gittens, J. Horne, John Liddell, Mrs. M. R. Norris, Jac- ques Tassec, H. P. Whitney, Mrs. H. P. Whilt. ney and mai ss Isenberg, Mrs. C. Yotters, Mrs. P. Isenberg Jr., General A Hartwell, George R. Carter, A. P. 8impson, R. T. Lillis. The Doric made & very smart trip in some of the runs beating the record made by the Pecific Mail Company’s China. The official reportof the voyage as fur- nished by the master is as foliows: From China and Japan: Sailed from Hongkong January 16 at 11 . ., and had | strong head winds and sea to Shanghai (Woosung). Thence on 20th fine to Na- gasaki on 2Ist; thence on 22d to Kobe ad- ide; thence to Yokohamaon 24th thence ox 28ih, at 12:05 2. ax., moderate; moderate to strong northerly winds and following sea. Crossed 180th meridian in Iatitude 30.56 north, arriving at Honoluln A. M. in 9 days and 55 minutes. Thence on 7th to portat 10:13 A. M in5 days 23 nours and 51 minutes. Had moderate head wind and sea to 10th, thence fine to port. Record passages of the Occidental snd Oriental steamer Doric, voyage fifth, com- pleting her first year in the company’s service, outward and homeward: From Honoltiu to Yokohama, 3513 knots, 10 days 9 hours 6 minutes (record west con- sidering distance); Kobe to Nagasaki, 387 knots, 1 day 1 hour 26 minutes (ship’s rec- ord); Shanghei to Hongkong, 818 knots, | 2 days 2 hours 20 minutes (record time); Shanghai to Nagasaki, 452 knots, 1day 4 hours 42 minutes (Occidental and Oriental | Company’s record; Kobe to Yokohama, 346 knpts, 23 hours 5 minutes (Occidental and Oriental record); Yokohama to Hono- Iulu, 3400 knots, 9 days 9 hours 55 minutes (trans-Pacific record), except China, and only 234 hours behind that; Honolula to San Fraucisco, 2085 knots, 5 days 23 hours minutes (ship’s record). From the above it will be seen that the Doric has more than held her own on her maiden trip to the Orient in the Ocei- dental and Oriental line. ‘When the British ship Centesima was making port last month she struck on a rock in the north channel and came near to making breaking away from the tug. Captamn Freeman, who, as pilot, was in charge of the vessel demanded an investi- gation and the result is as follows: Lieutenant James H. Sears, United States navy, commanding coast survey | steamer McArthur, reports having found I | | | | | had her trial trip yesterday. (miagneiic), diniant a (hi.e and & guaricl (nautical) from Point Bonita lighthouse. 1t bears south by west 3{ west (magnetic), distant 208 vards from ine previously dis- covered 18-foot rock. The black buoy, No. 3, marking the latter danger, has been moved to a position south 3{ west, distant thirty-eight yards from tue newly dis- covered rock. The new coasting steamer Coauille River Siie proved herseif to be even faster than her owners expected and in consequence the bnilders were toasted again and again. Amo those who went out on the steamer were: Captain and Mrs. R. Sudden, Mr. and Mrs. iL Z. Burkhardt, Mrs. A. L. Ricnardson, Mrs. B, R. Keith, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Kronenberg of Oakland, Miss C. Sudden, Miss Emms Prosek, Miss Maud Haa, Miss E. Yacrington, Miss M. M. Richardson, Miss ons, the Misses M. and A. O'Brien, Miss R. Ewing, Miss A. Hall, Miss Dobson, Di. E. Rice, Captain J. A. To by, Captain G. Whitney, Captain_Jessen, Captain W.R. Perrinen, J. Dufesnu, T. B. Kerr, W Keith, F. W. Clark, Will Lyons, S, Lyons, E. Christeuson, R. C. Yanke, Charles Sudden, W. Goodell, H. C. Thomus, George Conway, Nelson, Peter Hall, O. C. Benjamin, W Tucker Jr., George Thomason, J. Deacon, E. M. Cottrell and Capiain Wheeler. The new steamer Helene, intended for the interisland trade, also had her trial trip on the bay, and’ made a very pretty picture as she sped up and down the water front. Pictures of both vessels bave appeared in Tue CALL, and a de- scription sccompanied each cut. The Pacific Mail Company’s City of Peking sailed for the Orient yesterday. The big liner never looked in fairer trim than when she moved away from her dock and encountered the Doric in mid- stream. The former was loaded to her full capacity, while the latter was flying light. ihe steam schooner Crescent City ar. rived and sailed acain yesterday. ~The vessel was long overdue, and considerable anxiely was feit on her account. When off her port of cestination the storm caught her, and Captain Allen had to put out to sea. Time and again the steamer was swept by the waves, and everything movabl: was washed overboard, Finaily however, port was reached and the pas- sengers landed in safety. The Crescent was eleven days overdue, but the delay was entirely due to the weather. People on the Mail dock would like to know where David C. Craig is, The last seen ot him was when he was taking pass- age on the steamer Umatilla, for Victoria, B. C. A little while previously he was seen In the Safe Deposit building drawing money from the bank. Craig accused Superintendent Anderson of taking coffee beans away from the whart without acconnting for them. This was in a letter to the office, and when the superintendent heard of it he at once had Craig arrested for criminal libel. Craig £ out on bonds, and the last heara of im was when be was taking passage on the Umatilla for British Columbia. MAY COMMENCE A SUI An Evaporated Cream Company That Complains of the Board of Health. The Highland Peopls Contend That Their Product Has Not Rece ved Justice in Analysis Some time ago, as a result of investiga- tion among some of the condensed milk, evaporated cream and kindred industries of the City, various statistics purporting to be the result of correct analysis of their products were published in certain newspapers. Among the statistics so published were figures giving the alleged constituents of Highland Evaporatea Cream. The con- cern owning this particular article of commerce has taken umbrage and em- phatically denies the correctness of these figures. Moreover, they assert that the Board of Health does not claim that the analysis was complete at the time the figures were published, and they threaten suit against their traducers. As a matter of fact it seems that the special point upon which the manufac- turers of Highland Kvaporated Cream dwell is the abundance of ‘“‘butter fat’ contained in their product. According to the published statement their cream only contained 5.75 per cent of butter fat, whereas they contend that the completed analysis showsa percentage of 9 of the same desirable constituent. Another anal- ysis gave at least 8.88 per cent. In view of the importance of these con- densed milks as foods these facts would appear to lend special dignity to the con- troversy and entitle the Highland people to at least the justice of public statement. e A Bad Case of Cruelty. Officers Holbrook and McCurrie of the So- clety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals arrested Andrew Weber, a butcher, ia the Bay City market yesterday for sending out a sick horse to fulfill orders. The animal had & sore back snd neck and was so 11l that it was froth- ing at the mouth. It was found necesary to send for an ambulance and take, the horse o Weber's stables. The society has been waich- iug this case for some time and' finaily suc. ceeded in its quest. So indignant was the and deterniined the position of another | crowd that had gathered when the arrest was unken rock in the Bonita channel. Thuis new danger has 273 fedt of water over it at low tide and lies west by north 1§ north made that it was feared violence would be used on the prisoner, but he was hurried away to the City Prison. He was afterward bailed out. NEW TO-DAY —DRY GOODS. FIRST S PRING SHOWING . OF... SPRING NOVELTIES JUST OPENED A THE CITY OF PARIS LADIES ARE INVITED TO INSPECT. New Jackets ! New Suits ! Short Eaton and Hussar Jackets from gro. 50 to $25.00. he latest and most original styles in Suits, prices ranging from $13.50 10 $40.00. Cor. Geary and Grant Ave. Wash Goods ! A most bewildering as- sortment of Imported Wash Goods of lovely and exclusive designs at prices ranging from 1oc, case, and if the parents renew their cru- elty will arrest both of them. 15¢, 25¢ and up. Novelty Dress Patterns! Two cases in all the new shades of Etamines, Gren- adines and other new weaves at popular prices. Five cases all-wool new mixtures and checks, 10 different styles, soc yard. The City of Paris, Cor. Geary and Grant Ave. Just Opened! Three cases very styl- ish Tailor Suitings, direct IMPORTATION 'in all the very latest fabrics, $1.50 to $3.50 yard. ) & i i E ————————