The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1897, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 1897. GREEKS WILL MAKE READY The Local Colony Is Very Eager to Oppose the Turks. FUNDS WILL BE RAISED TO HELP. Patriotic Addresses to Be De- livered at a Banquet Sunday. THEIR LOVE OF CONFLICT Is INHERITED. ! | So Say Demetrak and Vamvale Prominent M:mbers of th: i H llenic Society. | The members of the local Greek colony | are wrought up to a high pitch of patri- | otic enthusiasm by the news of the mother i determination to akable Turk and to draw 1 defense of Cretan stated in these col- enthusiasm has assumed a practical form; funds are being raised to succor the wives and families of the ma:- | Christians, and fully 250 able- | bodied Greek: are prepared to leave for | he scene of hostilities at most & mo- ent’s notice should the mother country beactually in need of their service i C. Demetrak of 1022 Mission street stated | last night that a banquet would be given on Sunday evening in the Druids’ Hall, itte reet, at the expense of A. Kosta, chiairman of the committee recently ppointed by the Hellenic Mutual Beney olent Society to consider the question of liberty. As alieady um tnis sacred raising fonds on behali of the Cretan patriots. The banquet proper will te preceded by a mass-meeting, in the courss which Messrs. Demetrak, M. D. Vam- | vales, M. Dam isand F. Vrewios will de.iver addresses on the subject of the present crisis and invite suggestions from | ihe rest of their countrymen in this City who are expected to a almost to a man. It was also decided the other evening to end the meeting give a ball for the benefit of the sufferers on the islana of Crete, at the Turn Verein Hall, 523 Turk street, on_the 27th inst., particulurs of which will be pub- Iished iater. Every guest will appear in the Greek national costume, and a large gathering is confidently anticipated, “All the Greeks in tue City,” said Mr. Demetrak, *‘are very euthusiastic, and the Cretan question ab oros our attention just now. We are preparing to assistour coun- try in every way possible, eizher with men or with mon If Greece has to fight Turkey, there are many of us, not only in San Francisco, but all over tne States, who will go over to help her. Most of us | are naturalized Americans, and love our adopted country, and are equally ready to draw the sword on her behalf when called upon. Just now, however, the United States enjovs peace and can spare us to fight for ihe mothercountry. 1 believe we can raise a company of 250 able-bodied men, fally equipped, to leave at a mo- ment’s notice when needed. It is a nat- ural instinct with the Greeks to aid the distressed, as was 1lilustrated last week, when our society contributed a large sum for the benefit of the sufferers by the re- cent floods a: Athens. To-day’s news irom the seat of war wes received with joy | among us, end we have been holding an impromptu celebration in honor of the event.” M. D. Vamvales echoed the sentiments of Mr. Demetrak, when interviewed yes- terda ““Yes,”” he said, *‘all is in readiness when the struggle really begins between Greece and Turkey. There are probably about 600 Greeks in San Francisco. and 1000 on the Pacific Coast. At least 100 in this City slone are qualified to fight when called upon. It should be borne in mind that nearly all of us have served our time in the Greek army, with the exception of those who left home before they were of age, and some others who were bornin this country. At present we are merely concerning ourselves with the raising of funds to assist the cause of Crete, and we give u ball on the 27th inst. for the bene- fit of the widows and children of the mas- sacred Cretans. N-vertheless we are pre- pared to form a company more than 100 strong to leave for Crete when called upon. | Many of the Greeks here are fairly | wealthy, and we shall have no difficulty in raising plenty of money.” Vamvales is & big, pow-rfully built man, and pnysically, at least, seems admirably qualified to undertake a warlike mission. The love of fighting for its own sake, he explained, was a national inheritance, dating from Thermopyiw, Salamis and a hundred otber blood-stained fields upon which his ancestors have vindicated the cause of freedom against the incursions of Asiatic tyranny. - Wherever there 1s any fighting,” said_Vamvales naively. ‘‘we must be in it. We would help the United States with equal readiness against a for- eign foe.” TUGGERS WILL TRAVEL, An Advertising Scheme to At- tract Attention to Califor- nia Products. Cars to Be Chartered to Carry Ov r the Country a Display of Cereals, F:uits and Muscle. The big international tug-of-war tourna- ment, which is to take place in the Me- chanics’ Pavilion from the 27th of Feb- ruary to the 9th of March, is merely a pre- liminary step to a bigscheme for adver- tising the State. D, McNeill, the lessee of Central Park, who will manage the tournament, intends to select a champion team from among the competitive ten teams, which iater in the year he will send on a trip all over this country and finally land them in Parisat the great World's Exposition of 900. They will be called the *Calhfornia Giants,” and McNeill is confident they will be able to outpull any team that can be brought sgainst them at that show, which is to surpass all the expositions heretofore given. It 15 expected that these Caiifornia giants will be a_wonderful advertisement for the State. The plan is to charter an engine and fourteen cars and take along with the giants a superb collection of Cali- fornia products. There will be an im- mense tent of red, wuite and biue canvas, under which these products will' be dis- vlayed, with admission free. After the free show there will be tug-of-war. con- tests, to which admission will be charged | to pay the expenses of the big traveling advertisement. Advance agents will precede the show ew months to get up tug-of-war tourna- ments to determine the best teams to put up against the Californians and compete for large prizes. The combination of champion athletic features with the dis- play of fruits, wines and other products, it is believed will draw a great deal of at- tention 1o this State. At the various training quarters in the City the teams are industriously training for the coming contest. In some places the rope is attached to a scale to test the increase of pulling force, and in others it is attached to a very heavy weight, h the men hold suspended a long time in the air to develop endurance. The Swedish team, which is the cham- pion at the present time, is in fine condi- tion. The men average 200 pounds each of solid bone and muscle. . — PERJURY 1S OHARGED. Sequel to a Divorce Suit of Hellman Against Hellman. John Pearson, 516 Precita avenue, swore to two complaints in Judge Low’s court yesterday charging Charles Hellman with perjury. 1n the first complaint it is alleged that Hellman on December 24, 1894, swore be- fore Charles H. Phillips, notary public, in an application for a divorce from his wife, E. Heliman, on the ground of desertion, that she had not lived wil year. whereas, in fact, they had been liv- ing together till within one month of the application for divorce. The second complaint charges Hellman with testifving to the same effect on Jan- | uary 12, 1895, before F. W. Lawler, court commis<ioner of the Superior Court, 1n the diyorce suit. WIS SHOT DOWN him for ome IN HIS SALOON Patrick Dolan the Victim of a Man He Knows as “Barney.” | The Assailant Says He Was | Avenging an Attempt to Poison Him. Eugene Kenn-y Has Surrendered Him- self to the Polics as the Man Who | I; Waated. With bullet holes through his body and life's blood oozing from him; knowing fall well that his hours were numbered, Pairick Dolan wept on the operating table of the Receiving Hospital yesterday morn- ing and made his dying statement. | This bit of ante-mortem history is part | of tue evidence relied upon by the police The Shooting of Patrick Dolan { | cewine HospimaL | in His Saloon on Ma:ket Street. JOF KING 1S A WITHESS, Asked to Fxplain Why the Hs- pital Work Was Not Let by Contract. The Mayor Will Be Asked to Abro- gate Morgan & Co’s Mission High Schocl Contract. Ex-Supervisor Joe King was the star witness before the Grand Jury yesterday afternoon. The jury wanted to know from him how it was that the $10,000 ap- propriated for repairs st the City and County Hospital by the last Board of Sup- ervisors was frittered away without any- thing being accomplished commensurats with that sum of money. King was chair- man of the Hospital Committee. The work that ate up the $10,000 wasdone In small jobs, such as did not require to be submitted to the competition of bidders under the law. It therefore could be given to anybody selected by the commitiee of the board, and it so happened tnat they were King’s friends who were selected in most instances to do the work The jury wanted to know why the work was not done regularly by contract. King was & good witness in his own behalf. That is to say his explanations lelt the jury as much in doubt as 1t was before. Several of the contractors were also before the jury, but their testimony was to the effect that they did the work that they were required to do. The investigation, however, is still on, and will be followed to_its furthest limit. The committee having in charge the special investigation of the Mission High School contract scandal has prepared a report which it will submit to Mayor Phelan to-day. The report reviews the evidence taken before the jury, as well as the investigations of the committee, an- urges that the contract with Morgan & Co. for putting in the heating plant be abrogated. GRADY MAYHEM CASE. Another Continuance Granted Yester- day for Nine Days. The preliminary examination of Attor- ney W. D. Grady on the charge of may- hem was set for yesterday aiternoon be- fore Judge Joachimsen. James Schafer. the complaining witness, who had neariy the whole of his left ear bitten off in the Orpbeum annex,and all the other wit- nesses were present. The defendant said he was ready to go on, but Mr. Ackerman, special counsel for the prosecution, had asked him to agree to a continuance, as he would be unable to be present. The Judge objected at first to granting another continuance, but finally con- sented to a postponement tili Thursday afternoon, February 25, when the exami- nation will positively go on. —————— NOT FOR THE ORPHEUM. Manager Walters Igpores Mrs. Dimond of Honolulu. Gustav Walters of the Orphéum is indig- nant because A.J. Moore, formerly tho press agent of the Orpheum circuit, hes been extensively advertised as man- aging Mrs. William Dimond of Honolulu for the Orpheum circuit. In aletter received by Philip Hastings yesterday Mr. Walters ssys that his thea- ters will not patronize amateurs, howevar clever, and thatall persons who become notorious by reason of sensational law- suits will be declined engagements. ————— THEY make a specialty of Bank Stock paper: thas the water-mark. Mysell-Rollins, 22 Clay* to convict Eugene Kenney, better known as “Barney, the Cook,” of one of the most | cold-blooded murders committedg here since David Fauss calmly entered a Fourth-street saloon about ninety days azo and emptied his revolver into the body of Biily Manning, who was quietly enjoying a game of cards. Fauss walked out of the place where twenty people had seen him assassinate his man, and he has never been seen since by any one authorized or inclined to take him into custody. Like Blanther and Dunham, he is still at large, and Eugene | Kenney might still be among the un- captured nad he not felt some unac- countable compunction and aelivered himself to the detectives. Patrick Dolan, the proprietor of a salaon at 1374 Market street, within a stone’s throw of the City Prison, took his regular morning watch yesterday. There were no people in the hou-e, excepting old Thomas Urowe, & hanger-on, who was 80 besotted and asleep that he did not hear the report of three pistol shots. The detectives cap- tu~ed him when they arrived upon the scene of the shooting, and upon compar- ing notes they agreed they each knew as | little as did the others about the affair. Crowe, bowever, was captured and is now in prison. The first evidence obtained came from Patrick Dolan himself, after he had been brought from the yard back of his saloon | and his wounds had been examined at the | hospital. He said: My name is Patrick Dolan. I am_proprietor of t_e saloon 1374 Market street. Iwas born in Ircland. am unmarried and have resided in this City fi teen years. A man by the name of Barney came info the saloon and asked for beer. 1went to draw it and he justshot me. I never had any trouble with him before. He | did not say anything to me except when 1 asked him if he wanted beer. 1 was walkin up to the kegs when he fired at me and I ran out the back way and said I was shot. He ran out the front door. There were two other men in the saloon. Tom Crowe, s janitor in the City Hall, was one. 1 doa’t kuow the other man. The man who shot me his name is Barney. 1dou’t know his other name. Belleving 1 am about to die, I hereby make this my last dying statement and deciare the same 1o be the truth. Signed) PATRICK DOLAN, 7290 Tehama. The statement was witnessed by O. H. | Heyneman and A. A. Maguire, M.D. | “Barney” is a well-knowu character | around {he saloons near the City Hail, | and he has been known for years us “Barney, the Coo He made a living by doing chores in and about these p:aces at odd umes, ! " George Young, a window-washer, work- ing across the sireet near Cemiral Park, | heard the thre: shos that were tired and saw two men dart out of the door of the saloon and separate. One went toward Seventh and the other toward Eighth street. Charles Lamb, a passer-by, likewise observed the fleeing men, but was not in- clined to stop either. Hundreds of others on the s:teet heard the thots, but walked away, leaving the two fugitives (o go un- arrested. There was nothing, therefore, upon which a clew could be fastenel excepting the dying statement of Patrick Dolan, that 1t was *‘Barney’” who di¢ the shool- ing. The Dolan saloon is a “*beer joint,” as such places are commonly calied. 1t has an opening an Marketand reaches back to another on Park avenue. The bar proper cccupies the west side of the saloon to a row of beerkegs. There are numberless tables, billiard and other kinds, in the pack, A broken ‘‘steam-beer” glass, found on the floor of the saloon, corroborates Do- lan’s dyine statement that he was draw. ing the beverage for his patron when he was shot. There appeared, so far as the police could ascertain at the time, to be no mo- tive for the shooting. The builets entered on the right side, about the groin and a little higher vp, one puncturing the right lung. Dolan has been a mem ber of Court Inde- pendence of t.e Foresters o America for many years and many of his {raternal | had some stuff they put in my beer. confreres called upon him yesterday after- | noon. They were not permitted to see him, his condition being such that tospeak simply meant death. Kenny surrendered himself at the Cali- fornia-street station to Lieutenant Esola, shortly after 5 o'clock, scknowledging that he had shot Dolan. When searcned 1wo Smith & Wesson revolvers were found in his pockets, and one had three cham- bers empty. He was sent to the Receiving Hospital, where Dolan ideatified him as the man who shot him, and was then taken to the City Prison, where he was booked on the charze of assault to murder. Last night Kenny made the following statement to Captain Lees: The reason why I shot Dolan was on account of # poisoning effair in 1891. Mehan and the two Dolan brothers tried 10 poison me. They This was some time in June, July and August of 1891. I was cooking at 10 Sacramento street, and Pat_Mehan was the waiter. Dolan made the stuff for Mehan, and he was to putitin the beer. T got so stupid from the stuff that I left town. went to Denver, where I cooked. FromD-n- ver I went to Weshington. I was in Denver four months. Then I went to Butte City, Mont., cooking in a miners’ boarding-house for three mouths, Then ] went for a couple of wee tunnel on the Northern Pacific Rail- road, in the mountaius. I worked there two yearsinthe drift. I have been in this City for the past two years last November. I have been working on an off iu the VArious restau- rants; worked at 50 Taird street for two or | 1 have worked at419 | three’ months past Kenrny street and 410 Kearny street, cooking. This morning I s-arted out tog-t satistaction tor the poisoning in 1891. 1want to give you the straight story. I have not seen him for quite a while, for aimost five moutns. I never spoke to him about the poisoning. He wanted to beg my pardon some time ago for poisoning me, but I would not accept1t. I went to the saloou 1o settle up a grudge I had against Dolan. When I went in Dolan bowed to me and T bowed to him. He asked me what I wanted and I said I wanted a glass of beer and he went to draw a glass when 1 opened fire at | Lim. I fired three shots at him. 1wo pistols—one yesterd tois morning—paying one 10 do the same th saw him. Ispent nearly all my money for the pistols. 1bought them and the ammunition atan auction place on Kearny street, between Sscramento and Califoraia. My right name is Eugene Kenny; they call' me Barney in order to reflect upon me Barney is & sort of a nickname. 1 was born in Ireland, in the county of Galway. been in America since 1888. [ came direct to New York and then to san Francisco. I was in New York nearly two years, then came out here. Iam no: married and have no fa inave a cold and the grip, and have been twice to Dr. Bazet at the Phelan building. The doctor gave me some medicine. I sleep very well—ten or twelve hours & night if I want to, After the shooting 1 went up Market street to Eighth. down Eighth to_ M home at 13 Anthony street. Mrs. Welch keeps the house. 1have been there since last June. Iremained there for about twenty minutes, then went back to Market, down Kearny to California, where I met one of Morse’s men, and told him I shot Do an, aud he told me 10 give myself up at the Californis-street station. Iher I'had something to eat on Sacramento street, below Kearny, and remained there about twenty minutés. Then I came up to Kearny and California streets and read the papers, and then went down to the California- street station and gave myse f up tothe ser- geant in charge. Itold him ] wanted to give myself up; that I was the man whoshot Dolan. 1 feel as though I wes justified in what I did. The fact that I was being poisoned is known to many of your south-of-Market-street police officcrs. The poisoning is what made me leave here. My Christian name is Owen, but Ihave always called myself Eugene in this country. Ibelong to no church, although my parents are Cathoifes. Istill feel th sentment against Mehan. I know the Dolan bors pretty well to my sorrow. 1 did not know tnem in Ireland. Pat Mehan introduced me to them. Imet Mehan at 10 Third street where 1 was cooking and he waited on the table. We, Mehan and 1, were always good riends'and I spent my money wita him. He is not a married man. We never quarreled and were the best of friends. There is something at the bottom of this, but | do not want to make the statement now Idon’t want to implicate certain people yet, the story will come out later. 1 am 35 years of age. There was a woman in it but she was a good woman. Dolan knew me when I saw him in the Recelving Hospital; he identified me as the man who shot him and I don’t deny it. The Dolans and Mehan were poison- iug me. The poison got to my brain and in my system and effecied my head. My brother wrote me about the poisoning maiter from I bought 5 morning and one for ench. 10 Mehan with if I Iwent away in tie fall of 1891, and | 1intended | I have | ission, to my | samer - | AN X RAY ON ROAD LAWS Supervisor Ayer Makes Some Drastic Crit- icisms. Santa Clara County, He Declares, Wishes No State Inter- . meddling. Throwing Two-Thirds of the Taxation on Incorporated Cities Termed | Unjust. | About a week ago the Assembly Com- mittee on Roads and Highways held a meeting to consider the bills providing for a State and county system of public roads and highways, to be built at the ex- vense of the State at large and according to the most scientific methods of modern road building. Several provisions in the | original bills were objected to for various reasons and it was proposed to reduce the number of Commissioners from three to |one. A fizht was also made to allow Su- pervisors to have some voice in the build- | ing of roads within their own counties and in expending money for the same. It was also pointed out as a fatal objec- | tion against the original bills that it would require twenty years to build all the roads projected in the State; that con- sequently some counties would be oblized | to pay the tax of 234 cents on each $100 for ten or fifteen years before the work of road-building would be begun at all, and that two-thirds the burden of taxation | would fall on the incorporated cities ana | towns, which would not receive by any means the commensurate advantage. | F. Ayer, one of Santa Ciara County’s nown and most popular Super- | visors, is now in this City attending to | busine s affairs. Mr. Ayer has been a | Supervisor of Santa Clara County since | 1876, with the exception of two years. \ | bes! Daring that time he has made the im- provement of public highways a special idy, and as one who is firmly opposed to taking the improvement and mainte- nance of public highways out of county juriadiction his opinions are of especial interest. In discussing the matter yester- day he said: “It is contemplated by the State Bureau of Highways that about 4000 miles of road in the State of Californis, running from Siskiyou to San Diego, shall be declared State roads, and the money for the main- tenance and improvement of those roads is to be raised by a general State tax. | Heretofore incorporated towns and cities | which have a system of their own have been exempt from county road taxes. *“This bill, however, provides that they shall pay a regular State tax. For instance, San Francisco would pay at least one-third the expense of building the roads, and the annual tax on this City vould amount to about $140,000, and the incorporated cities, taken as a whole, would pay about two-thirds of the tax. | " *Irvisa question whether it would be a | wise policy to take the management of | the roads out of the jurisdiction of the counties and vest it in a State Bureau of | Highways, to be managed by the Governor, or bave them managed and improved by the different counties, as at present. One EUGENE KENNEY. New York. My cousin, Pat_Smith, leit the City and told my brother in New York about itand wrote to ne. Dolan bagged my pardon in 1891 and he wanted me 10 S{ay in town. They 10ld me they had been poisoning me; they acknowledged that thev were aoing it Dolan wanted to glve me $200, but I would notacceptit. 1donot want to say now what their object was in poisoning me, that will come out later. - Kenny does not appear_ to be all right mentally at times, particularly when talking about the attempts to po son him. He was emvloyed up to Monday morning in Healey’s restaurant, 50 Third street, as rude 10 patrons. to be all right mentally. He does not ap- pear %o be in the least concerned over his crime. . Arrested for Eobbery. John Gorman, a man well known to the po-ice, was arrested yesterday morning and | detainied at the Southern station on a charge of robbers. Mary Debas, the compiaininy witness, alleges that while she was in a saloon at Third and Howard streels the prisoner | relieved her of a gola watch. ————— —— The Shoplifting Case, Mrs. Robert Stewart of Chico, who was ar- rested Monday afternoon in the Emporium for shoplifting, appeared before Judge Joach- imsen yesteraay. She was not ready to proceed with the case, and by consent s continuance was granted till February 24. . JEWELRY store, 5 and 7 Third street, removed to 203 Kearny street Beyond that he seemed | i ing iscertain—itisawell.known fact that the incorporated cities, ‘except a few which | bave been highly improved, possess roads | notan verv good condition. | *‘In 1876 the roads of Santa Clara County | were not in very good condition either, | when Lick mada the proposition to build the observatory on Mount Hamilton, pro- | vided good roads could and wouid be built i to it. The Supervisors gladly atcepted his | proposition, but first they found they would have fo go to the Legislature and have a road law passed enabling them to £0 to the expense of building those roads. Under the old constitution each county could have a road law of its own. *While we were at it we concluded to im- prove all our roads. Then we formed a system of watering them. The resultis that we have over 3000 miles of well- watered and eraveled roads, and they are in as good condition In winter as in sum- | mer. ~ Our main thoroughiares, north, east, south and west, are, as [ said, well watered and graveled, and the people of | our county have paid for it. ,The results | attained warrant them in feeling proud | over the expenditure. Winter or sum- mer, it makes no difference, heavy loads can be hauled at one time as well as at another. And every county in this State could have avaiied itself of the same privi- lege. “*Under the new constitution, when the road law had to be general, the State adonted a law very similar to the Santa Clara -road law which that county had under the old constitution. Of course we think that we are able and competent to second cook, He was discharged that ! morning because he was inclined to be | ZEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS ISSCHSSSTSS TPt NEW SILKS ’ FOR SPRIN G 1897. We have now on exhibition our first ship= ment of NEW SILKS for Spring wear. Our importation this season includes a full as= sortment of FOULARDS in all the new col- orings, Fancy Changeable ARMURES in new designs, Piain Changeable ARMURES in new colorings, Changeable TAFFETAS in all the latest combinations, and a full line of Plain TAFFETAS in the newest shades. 50 pieces 24=INCH FOULARDS, in Navys, Browns, Greens, grounds, Gobelin and Black b $|UU a Yard, TELEPHONE GRANT l24. 111, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET. ‘We do not ask manage our own roads. for any bureau of highways, or any com- missioner, or anything of that kind, and if they wiil only not interfere with usor; mutilate our system we can maintain our | system of good roads in the future as we | have in the past. X “The levy of 2}4 cents over 4000 miles of | roads 1s an absurd proposition. Why, it would take forty years to perfect such a system. I believe in a system that the present generation can get some good out of, and I do not see how itis that the Governor of this State can appoint three men to run a road system better than the | counties can by electing their own men. If appointed they would be only human beings—not necessarily have wings. I think it could be made one of the greatest | political machines in the State of Cali- lornia, because they could have their own men in every precinct, with over $300,000 behind them to spend. “Moreover, the Legislature can put the same restrictions on the Boards of Super- visors that it can put on the Bureau of | Highways, and can compel the different | boards to maintain jood highways in i their respective counties. The sum of $300,000 scattered over 4060 miles of roaa would not amount to anything at all, As I understand the bill no county can have | to exceed the sum of $15,000 in &ny one vear. That would not so much as sprinkle our 100 miles of road, which they propose to make State road. “1f the incorporated cities feel like pay- ing a road tax they had better spend it on themselve y need it about as bad as anywhere. Three en in the State Bureau of Highways have in two years spent about $30,000. If they had employes in the same proportion to the 4000 miles of | road it does not seem to me as if the ap- propriation would pay their salaries alone. “I want it to be understood that I am in full accord with the wheelmen. Ido not want to discourage good roads in any way or shape, and when wheelmen ~want to bave races you will notice that in most cases they come down to Santa Clara County to make their records. I am op- posed, however, to any system that takes the care of the roads away from the coun- ties. To my belief the counties are able to and should maintain their own system of reads. There is another matter closely con- nected with the question of good roads that shoutd come in for the careful thought of all those who take an interest | in the welfare of the State. Two years ago a bill came * before the Legisiature to build a rock crusher at Foisom. The counties of Sacramento, San Joaquin and Yuba were very much in favor of it. I was liberal enough to help the matter along by using what influence I possessed to have the crusher putin. It was done at un expense of $30,000. “LL has now been in operation about two years, and I understand that none of the counties named have availed them- selves of the pr.vilege of using the crusher on their roads. This crusher may be a good thing for the counties near Folsom, but it is of no earthly use to those far away. The freightage of taking it around to the different counties is too great. When the other counties wish to have any ock-crushing done they bave to start crushers of their own. *In conclusion, let me state that if the incorporated cities of this State want to contribuie $200,000 to the improvement of the various roads of the Siate they had better do it through their respective boards of Supervisors and not through any commissicner, and if San Francisco feels Like coatributing $140,000 a year toward road building she ought to have some say as to how thines are done.” WANTED TO B: AUTORS. A Queer Sult for Damages Against Man- ager Be.asco. Manager Belasco of the Alcazar was sued in the Justice’s Court yesterday by Arthur Sears and his sister, Mrs. Nellie E. Cov- ington. The lady wanis $299 99 and Mr. Sears wants §240. The complaint alleges that the plaintiffs are suffering from great mental pain and anguish because they are not actors, ac- knowledged as such by the world. The complaint sets forth that Belasco conducts a school of acting; that he agreed to make his pupils first-class actors within six months, so that even old managers could not tell that they were amateurs. Sears allezes that when the second install- ment o fell due he was far from being an actor of such caliber that professionals would not know him from an amateur, for which reason he greatly suffered and was chagrined in the presence of his friends. He concludes by alleging that Belasco’s instructions have done him no good. Speaking of the matter last night Mr, Belasco said: “I know these people very | well, and_they have some talent, but the young man never knew his lines, and did not pay his tuition in full. He is a house- painter and a member of the guards. He used to say the soldiers were in bis way so much that be conld not study; that they held their socials at his home. TIhe suit is laughable and the claim ridiculous. Everybody knows that actors cannot be made in a few months, and that no teacher can guarantee such things as these complainants claim. Their suits are huge jokes.” S e iy Failure of a Boarding-House Keepers L. M. Ring, who has been conducting a boarding and lodging house at 801 Leaven« worth street, has filed a J»\:L(l(un i insol- vency. He owes $2766 37 and his assets amount to $173. His waiters, chambermaias and pantry girls are on the list of creditorg for considerable sums, i City Hall Dome Marble. The City Hall Commissioners have arranged to offer to marble-workers who have taken ex- ception to the manner in which marole has | been polished on the City Hail dome a chance to polish a large space, the contractors to pay them for the work. NEW TO-DA' Doctors are often handicapped by the mere fact that when treating the diseases of ‘women, they suggest and insist on * exam- inations” and ‘‘local treatment.” A great many of them do not know that this is abso- lutely unnecessary. Many a woman been thrown into a dangerous state of © vous excitement by the mere suggestion of such treatment. Many women lie to the doctor. That sounds hard, but it is un- doubtedly true. They know that if they admit certain symptoms that the doctof will inevitably insist on an ‘*examination. They do not give him all the facts in the case, and so he works in the dark. nite often the doctor is too busy and too hurried to make the necessary efiort to obtain the facts. He frequently treats symptoms for what they appear to be on the surface, when the real cause and the real sickness is deeper and more dangerous. A derangement of the distinctly feminine organs will derange the whole body. The woman herself may not know exactly what is the matter with her, but whenever she is sick, there are two things she should look out for first. One is what is called ‘female weakness;" the other is constipation, for these two ,'.hmgs frequently go together. 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