The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1897, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1897. 5 “NIGHT ON THE WAVES AND THE MOON IS ON HIGH.” The Vessels at Anchor in Mission Bay Last Night Made a Remarkably Pretty Picture as the Moon Shone Through a Rift in the Clouds. British Ships and American Coasting Vessels Were Mixed Up in a Heterogeneous Mass, While the “Great Queen of Earth” Strove Vainly to Make a Pathway From Shore to Ship. Some of the Vessels Now at Anchor Have Been Chartered and in a Few Weeks the Fleet in Mission Bay Will Be Depleted. AND STILL THE CANDIDATES COME D. A. McDonald Wants to Bs Harbor Commis- sioner. Is Seeking on the | His Money on rown Himself. 5 the Governor, | McDona nd road. o to Sacramento eantime the employes along it are wondering who will Commi honor and glo salery, t“e new Commis- have very little patronage to for at least six months. Any now in contemplation are under trol of t ent bonra and owing to the old rule the retiring whari- ingers and collectors will have their places d by the appointees of Messrs. Coinon, irne and Cole. In the meantime, however, the scramble for the position goes on. The steam schooner Coquille River ed for Grays Harbor yesterday with a 0. She will there load lumber mpson, and after that may go gular Coquille River trade. ¢ yesterday that the vessel 1 ed by the Ha n ny, and would s for Honolulu. d not verify on said if there . and Cap truth in t of Para | yester- | overhauling | ma. Nordlyset went to Oukland yesterday. | tug Reliance had | irawbridges, | 2 an bark the new Capt in which hel would hava t The bridge-k iled to open the | upver draw wh cd and the big p broached tc | tug na nel. the towed | dock. | Tow chann L Iyset would hore and probably our hours, The captain of the new steamer Heleno, it for the Wilder Steamship C o has had ner first taste of | ancisco’s water front. Just before | al trip the vessel was thoroughly ed in every department. All the e on was silver and had fiag of the company and aiso that of the republic engraved on each fork and he chief steward asserts that he is alifornia is for free silver. Thieves ght before last and stole every ‘article of value in the pantry, and the only | spcons and forks left were those that hap- | yened to be in the captain’s cabin. A new £upply hos been ordered, and in the mean- time the harbor police are looking for the thieves. A woman accompanied by her son, whom she said was Sam Fechter Jr., made | a general tour of the water front yester- day. According to the story shs |old1 rento McDonald | o at once posted time Sergeant Mahoney of the harbor police her busband 1s missi “His name is Sam Fechter,” said she, “and we live on | O'Farrell eet. Monday last he went to | the races and lost every cent we had in the | world on a horse he dreamed had won a race. The colors of the jockeys were very | much alike, and he mada a mistake, When he came home be was despondent, and | yesterday be left home saying he woula wn himsell, 1 have not seen him nolice bave seen no trace of any n such as the woman describe { Capt Danle: s of the opi Mrs. Fechter wants to finc I she had better go to the T h of the Columbia River a we When the nor put to sea, an as made. Strange 10 say covered another rock, and had to Port Townsend, egain les is occasion will be theroug ed and Lier coal cargo discharged he again attempts to turn Cape an schooner Aida, now out i Shanghai for y overdu ad he: xious. ‘They I rnment to send a cb tor the missing and the chances are that the S y the Treasury wi end out one of t boats no port. The battleship O; on got in from Aca- pulco erd 2 nes w nce spe of the The e no will be laid up for lose his eyesizit is @ 12y he ¢ ether. Bay and will nchored in Richardsor pile-d immer used by James McMahon & Sons on Folsom-street wuarf went cverboard vesterday. While o slanting pile was being driven, | thers was a slip In the rope, a mis- stroke, and overboard went the hammer, A aiver was sent for, but as he reorted the 2000-pound hammer as being fifteen | feet in the mud ail aitempt at regaining it was given up until this morning. The schooner Una came in yesterday | from Panama witbout clearance papers. | She is loaded with cedarlogs, and because the fuil purch y wes not paid the captain left without permission, as the Colombian author tes wanted to hold the s oner irdciiniiel will probably be e in m the courts. ENTERTAINED FRIENDS, Enjoyable Programme at the Yonng Women’s Christian Association Last Evening. The invitation musical entertainment ziven by the Young Women’s Christian Association lastevening was well attended, and by the time the first number on’ the programme was announced there were no empty seatsin the spacious recention-room of the beadquarters at 1221 0'Farrell stree The programme, which consisted of mu- ical and literary solections and exerc ses by the Delsarte class of the institution, was as follows: instrumental rezon | The matter | 10 THROW DEATH * FROM THE HEAVENS iv Professor Tuck Would Free Cuba by His Torpedo Rocket. Wall Street, by Stock Jobbing, He fays, Rcbbed Him of Millions. Now He Cliims an Invention, Light as a Pisto’, but More Deadly Than Cannon. Here's a new patriot for the cause ot iba. He wonld not only fres the Gem feet in New York harbor in 188, said | Professor Tuck yesterday, *‘and attached | two torpedues to the bottom of a ship. | The men of Wall streat immediately saw the usefulness of my invention and froze me out. It was a stcck company, aud they bought up all the stock, thus doing me out of $15,000,000 or $20,000,000. That was the end of my aspirations. They took the Peacem ught to utilize it | o their own advantage, but they could find no one who would dare to descend in it, and o to-day t at is lying idle on > of the wh York,"” Just now Professor Tuck is devoting his | attention to freeing the Cubans from the astilian yok is is the problem of Lis s studied, o Le sa his_pa g on against Weyler, and I s he has invented ‘something’’ that problem in Cuba once and e can only reach Palma, the 1 g 2 New Y The pat- ir on a guerilla form of | consequently not abie to i | neavens on galan | tute as the contents of the rocket dyna- transport | fi avy artillery, or even ordinary i guns in their rapid movements. ofessor Tuck would, in place of heavy all and sh torpedo rocket.” The plan of the tion milar to rocket, except that i colored chemicals that go to light the nis, he would substi- mite or fulminate of mercurs. “My rocket would be light,” said Pro- | | | | | I | | PROFESSOR J. H. L. TUCK. song, Miss | song, | Boyson; wand ex: Delsarte | class., All of the numbers wete well received the applause after the exercises of the De sarte class being particularly hearty. The entertaiument was got up under mittee, of chairman. wihich Miss Carrie Gould .. The Mechanics’ Instivute. The trustees of the Mechanics’ Institute have made final arrangem for the eclection of trustees, to be held on Februar. next. The n ol e, appointed: J y L. Davis, Wil linm Lockwond peciors—Anarew Wilkie Jr.. David H. Kerr, Fred M. Brown, George H.Trask, H. C. Kinne, J. Saulman. cemmitiee ‘consisting of Irving M. Scott, Samuel J. Hendy end George Cumming wero appointed 10 install ihe trustees at the annual meeting of the institute, March 6. Au exhibition of the pupils of the free-hand drawing class, under the supervision of In- structor L. P. Latimer, will be Leld at the Iibrary Thursday afternoon and evening of this week, 10 which the public is invited. ——— Third Street Lighted. The elecric arc lights on Third street, from Mission to Harrison, have cast their joyful rays over ihe heretofore dim thoroughfere, much to the joy of the merchants and prop- eriy-owners. following clec Judges—Aifreq the direction of the eutertainment com- | of the Antilles and its yeople from the thralldom of Spain, but incidentally blow the armies of Butcher Weyler into the place man knoweth not of. Tuck is his name, and he prefixes it with the ti:le professor. Profes-or J. H. L. Tuck is an inventor—as versatile an in- | ventor as ever drew drawings and taiked | of millions with a nonchalance that makes | te Bradley Martin ball a thing hardly worth consideration. The professor re- | sides at 34.9 Nineteenth street, and says | he has been a resident of San Francisco | for over forty years. Inventor Tuck maintains he is not a crank—far from it. No man ever talked more sanely on subjects of mechanical en- gineering. He is & geolorist and mining engineer by profession. His inventions include everytiing from a death-dealing submarine torpedo-boat to a sure preven- | tive and destroyer of the codlin moth and the red spider. The torpedo-boat he | claims 10 have invented he rays was | named the Peacemaker, and astonished | New York in 1886 with its wonderful diy- ing powers. “I weat down to a depth of ninety-six | | i | [ i | | soldier could carry st least a dozen of them on h:s back without seriously inter- fering with histie’d accourtermeats. Each rocket would be capable of traveling a mile, and could be o arranged as to be exploded eitier by timefuse or by concus- i Immediate'ly upon exploding it destroy every yestigs of anima life within a hundred feet of it. One hundred of these rockets discharged into an army, either in motion or in rest, would ann nilate it. Had Gomez these rockets it would have been impossible for Weyler's armies 1o exist at all. They would be de- stroved from ambush as they approached. “I bave alrendy brought the matter to Senor Palma through the instrumentality of a friend of mine in New York. I know Palma is anxious to utilize my invention, providine the rockets can be made cheaply and in quentities, This difficulty I have overcome.”’ Professor Tuck says he will leave for New York in a few days to submit his in- vention to Palma personally. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take Jaxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug gisis refund the money i it fails to cure, 25¢ 5 the cam- | iots have been | 1e be- | the | I, substitute what be calls a | fessor Tuck; *'so light that each Cuban | ONCY A HEAVE SPLASH What Called Attention to Mrs. Kate Canavan's Sui- cide. Sad Death of the -Wifs of James the Well-Kns Stevedore. Cavavan, Mrs. Kate Canavan, while demented | from the effects of an operation, com. ed suicide by jumping into the bay | from Hathaway’s wharf early yesterday mor navan was the wife of James van, the well-known stevedore, and ved with Ler husband | 3458 Beale street. ring that she wouid njure herself, her husband has had some { one watch her for several days pa | Mrs Life. About 4 o'clock Harry Strong, the night watchman on the dock, heard a heavy splash, and_running to the édge of tbe dock saw Mrs. Cenavan's almost nude ng awa but before ha could return with it the unfortunate woman had disappeared. The greater portion of her ciothing was ound on the wharf. | " About 7 o’clock one of the searchers for the body—Jack McArdle, a boatman— found it on the b-ach under Harrison- reet wharf, where it had beea carried b, tide. [ “Tho deceased was 18 years of ageand a | native of Ireland. | BOUGHT 2000 TONS OF RAILS. There Will Now 125 More Miles of Valley Road. | The directors of the San Jozquin Valley | Railroad met yesterday, First Vice-Presi- dent Watt prasiding. He announced that the case of ¥. N. vall for damages for passing over his property one mile south of Fresno had been submitted 10 a board of arbitration and fixed at $4000. This bad been paid, and the deed was presented. It was also decided to give a contract for 2000 tons of rails. The reason for this was that the insurance on 1¢00 tons of | rails, lost off the coast or Brozil on the bark Rosenield, had been received. The 400 extra tons bought are to be used for sidetracks. The other 1600 tons and what is now on hand will make a toral of 12,000 tons, which is enough to build 125 miles of new road. Canavan slipped away and ended her th e Murder Charge Against @ Doctor. LOS ANGELES, Cav., Feb. 16.—Dr. C. 8. Hastings was arrested this afternoon | by Officer Fowier on a_warrant charging | nim with murder. Hastings had been | conducting offices where he claimed to give electric treatment. Miss Liliie M. | Hattery, a young woman of San Bernar- dino, visited him several weeks ago for | treatment and died as the result of |an operation performed, it-is sup- posed, by Hastings with the assistance | of Mrl. A. C. Weaver, a ntrse, who was aiso arrested to-day. Both were held without bail. When the officer visited Hastinzs’ office he discovered a colored girl named Farny Norrs, who had been Similariy operated upon and was at the point of death. e A Swes a Street Railway Company. LOS ANGELES, CAL., Feb. 16.—On trial before Judge York is the damage suit for $20,000 brougiit by Thomas Welsh against ths Los Angeles Railway Company. | Welsh was going to his home on July 10 in an intoxicatea condizion. He was car- ried past his dwelling and on the return | trip got into a dispute with the con- | ductor over the pavment of another fare. He was put off and fell, injuring his foot 0 that 1t had to be amputated. e ey Use the Mails to Defraud. LOS ANGELES, CaAL., Feb. 16.—J. B. Kelley, a young man, was arrested by United Siates authorities to-day at the posteffice while cashing three money or- ders. He ischarged with using the mail for fraudulent purposes. He advertised to supplv a barre! of beet sugar on pay- ment of $2 and did not. —_———— Modjeska Is Improving. LOS ANGELES, CaL, Feb. 16.—Mme. Modjeska is improving, her temperature being a fraction over 101 degrees. She was feeling nervous this evening, owing to the excitement caused by admitting 100 many visitors. ———————— Fire in a Saloon. The fire alarm from box 17 at 11:05 yester- day morning was for & bleze in the saloon of George Spenelli at 1016 Kearny street, be- iween Pacific and Broadway. The demage amouuted 10 $200, snd was caused by a de- fective flue, and children at| but | He hurried to get a | e Enough to Build | SAVING SOULS ON THE RAND Churches to Be Established in the Mining Camps on the D:sert. Evangelist Nazle Given Hearty Support in Randsburg and Johannesburg. First Telegram Sent From the Dis. trict Over the New Lins Frem Kramer. LOS ANGELES, CaAL., ~‘eb. 16.—The lat- est project at the famous mining camp of Randsburg and its newer neighbor, Jo- hannesburg, is in the line of evangelical labors, for which there is said to be ‘'emi- nent domain.”” Evangelist Nagle of the Kpiscopal Chuich has been preaching at various times in an improvised skating rink at Randsburg. He has had large numbers of rough but honest miners to hear his sermons and has been given sub- stantial encouragement in his chosen work. Parson Nagle has now decided to estab- lish churches in both Randsburg ana Jo- hannesburg, haviog been given a lot and other substantiai inducements in Johan- nesburg, with similar help in Randsburg. The two towns are so near together that hecan easily work in both, and it may be truthifully said that both places afford a wide field for evangelical work. A change hes taken place in the town- site management at Johannesbug. Eas- ton, Eidridge & Co. of San Frarcisco will now have entire charge and control of the townsite and_everything connected with it. George Easton was there yesterday and completed all arrangements, leaving for San Francisco this forenoon. He ex- pects to return on Thursday. The telegraph line reached Johannes- burg last evening from Kramer, on the Atlantic and "Pacific Railroed, and the first telegraphic message ever sent from that desert country was dispatched by Mr. Pratt, secretary of the company. This line will be continued into Randsburg in a day or two. e LOS ANGELES AFFRAY. Gambler 0'Keefe Shoois Another of the Profession ard -Wounds a Bystander. LOS ANGELES, Cawn, Feb. 16.—A gang of “tin-horn’’ zamblers and *“sure-thing’’ men, tncluding Bob and Heary Anderson, brothers, and William O Keefe, alias Bill Knight, alias Charley Keith, got into a | row in the Elite saloon, on South Spring street, about 7 o’clock this evening, and O'Keefs got much the worst of the en- counter at the hands of Bob Anderson. ngered by his defeat and bearing an old grudge against Anderson, O'Keefe quit the saioon, only to return in a few minutes with a revolver i, his hand. Bob Anderson was leaning agains® the bar and d1d not observe the approach of O'Keefe. Harry Anderson saw tue enraged man approaching his brother and stepped in front of the revolver-bearer just in time to stop with his left side a ball intended for bis brother. The bullet struck a riband passed around | to a voint near (ke spinal column. O'Keefe tired again in the direction of { Bob Anderson, but instead of hitting his foe he wounded a bystander in the right groin. This unfortunate individual proved 10 be an old German pickle pedaler named Damien Gebhardt. After this O'Keefe handea his revolver ! to an acquaintance, walked briskly out of | the saloon and went to his stopping place { on Tweifth street, near Union avenue. There he was found by Detective Steele soon afterward. Steele brought the shooter to the station and locked bim up. His face and leit eye showed signs of rough treatment and a finger had been crushed in the melee. Ivis said O'Kesfe has acted as *‘capper’” or this saloon for some {ime. Warren King owned the Elite until a few weeks . He had some differences with 0’ Keefe recently and sold the place to Anderson and Thomas of the Eintracht sstoon on North Soring street. The Elite bas long borne a hard name, many complaints reaching the police station respecting gambling gamey in the place. O'Keefe, or Charley Keith, as he is known about town, is not unknown to the police officers. He belongs to a gang of confidence men. He was ed for his side of the story shortly after his arrest, but declined to make any statement for publication, saying that he had been ad- vised to say nothing. The hospital sur- geons say that the two wounced men will probably recover, Anderson’s wound being the least serious. PERRY S. CORL. Until a short tme ago Mr. Perry S. Corl was In rerfect health. He ate and slept moderately, but finely. Life was a pleasure (o him. Cf & sudd he developed a pecullar case of dyspepsia. It was an acute one. Many doctors were called in and tried to Telieve tne patient. The good was only temporary, and still Mr. Corl suffered. Alarmea at his conditiou, his friends advised him to use Joy's Vegetable Sarsapariila. P. &, Corl did use the medicine, and he began in a single day to show signs of rapid recovery. Twenty-four Lours after he began using Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla the gases in his stomach began to subside. e cou d iake small quantities of fcod, and he slept much better. He writes of his 6wn accord. He says: THE EDWIN W. JoY COMPANY, 269 Stevenson et, San Fra icisco, Cal. Gentlemen: 1am 5o glad at my recovery that 1 cannot find words to convey my gladness. My case was an acut> one. It was necessary that somethiig shoul - be done at once. and when the cociors shook their heads and marveled I did no like the tone of thewr conversation. Cf cour: now It 1a ali over. I can recall Loy the gases had distended my stomach out of all proportion. 1 could hardly breathe, my (ongue was heavily coated, my beart fluiteriog all the while. Yes, | am now a well man, aad can oniy praise Joy's Vegetable Sarsapariia. PERRY S. CORL, Signed [ened] Riverside, Cal. Instructions for making Art and Fancy Work | s. Nella Daggett of Boston has re- cently written a book, “Fancy Work and Art Dacorations,” that gives practical ine structions for making doilies, table-covers, scarfs, traycloths, pincushions, etc., etc., with fifty illustratio Th: boo , to- gether with “‘Successful Home Dveing,” will be sent free to any reader who will address *‘Diamond Dyes,” Burlington, Vermont, inclosing a 2-cent stamp. The above liberal offer is made to adver- tise the reliable Diamond Dyes, and to get their book upon home dyeing into the hands of women who want to dress well by making their old clothing look like new. The fact that Diamond Dyes have been the standard home dyes for nearly twenty years, and that their sale increases from ear 1o year, is proof positive that they ave never had an equal. FOR TWO WEEKS OUR SECOND SEMI-ANNUAL ONLY! GREAT AND GENUINE CLEARANGE SALE —OF— ART GOODS LA SRR S. & G. GUMP’S, 113 GEARY STREET. PICTURES, H'RRORS, VASES, ORNAMENTS, BRIC-A-BRAC, CLOCKS, BRASS TABLES, LAMPS, Crockery & Glassware Paintings, Bronze and Marble Satnary, Pedestals, French and Dresden Furniture, In Fact, Every Article in OQur Estab- lishment, at a Discount of 20 Per Cent FROM CUR REGULAR PRICES. AUCTION, THURSDAY,. EBRUAKY 25 At 12 sharp, by VON RHEIN & G0, 513 CALIFORNIA STREET. FOURTH STREET. RENTS $3900 PER YEAR 34:415x157:6—126 4ih st. south of Mission; ren:s 3525 per monih; large furniture-siore and basement and 40-r.om lodging-house. Cor. Ellis and Leavenworth; Rents $240. 77:6x83—N W. cor. Ellls and Ieavenwoitn sta.: a prominent transter points bar. frull-storc, bar: ber-shop and dwe.lings: rents $240. Bush Street 25x99-2122 Bush st., side; 8 rooms and bath rent for $50; must be sols 24th Street—New Cottage. 25x114—4157 24th st., west of Cast cottege of 5 rooms, bath ‘sod basement; soid. Large Corner—21st Ave. and California Street 57:6x100, in 1 or 2 lots—SE. corner California st avd 216t ave.; California-st. cars abous to be changed to electric. Kearny, near Green—Rents 839. 20x80, through to So-ora st.—1315 Kearny 3-atory house, coitage aud stable for 5 horse Dwelling. ast of Fillmore: sunmy with some repairs will a tasty ‘must be Large Valencia Street Lot. 61x117:6—134 feet south of 25thst.; in 1 or 3 lots, to an alley; facing S. P. R. R. station: thou- sands of passengers get on and off the cars at this point. Church Street, North of Market. 24x125—West lina of Church st., 363 foet north, of Market: Fillmore-st. electric cars pass. Erle Street. 26x84—56 Erle st., bet. Mission and Howard and 18:h and l4th: 8:r0om house; must be sold: good bargain assured. H S°., near Sth Ave.—Fronts Park, South 1lne of H st., 57:6 feet west of Tehama Street, near 3d—Rents 853. 26x80—250-260%4 Tebama st.; front and rear house: bet. 3d and 4th: rent $53; musc be sold. ©0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 AN EXCELLENT B PALACE THE PAINTER ME A L Properly prepared and Most Popular HAS REMOVED TC promptly served, can THE GRILL ROOM OF THE Dining Apart- | 379 MIssIoN st.