The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 24, 1897, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1897. > T ....FEBRUARY 24, 1897 AMUSEMENTS, FALDWIN THEATER —“Shore Acres CALIFORNIA THEATER~—“Our Litle Cinder COLUMBIA THEAT: R At the French Ball a - Hovse. - 10,000 Miles ZAR THRATER Eaints and Sinners.” 011 Orrua HOUSE - Galatea” and “Pa- r ~ High-Class Vaudeville. —The Vienna Orchestra. £ £ and ! erformances, 4AEE CHUTES AND SKATING Rixk—Daily at street, one block exsi of t . February 11 o'clock. Lo—This day, Feb- at 11 o'clock. s day. Febru: HEIN & Co—Thursday, February 25. 2t Salesroom, 513 Callfornia streel s IN BRIEF. H. Hammon, forecast CITY NEW Fair Wednesday—W official. ies has consented to g for Cuba. can known in rned here. s of the Greek church has e Cretan relief fund. Ty, has been 1y in Judge Cook’s court. angan’s will, filed yesterday, be- $7500 estaté to his insane sister. Ayala hassved her th as permane & Labor Convention mass-meet- eld to-morrow at Metropolitan band, J. support. e Green has sued for a divorce from . Green on the ground of failure to pervisors has adopted the oviding for the collection Artbur K.dd has been chosen assignee of Acres & Wilisms, insolvent debtors, with bonds tixed st $3000. A good tennis tournament was partially played oft at the Caiifornia Club courts on Weshington's Committecs ha appointed to superin- tend the Greek ball on Seturday, which prom- ites to be & great success. The Supreme Court hes upheld the pay for overtim H.°C. Dillon of L he wiil of the late Hannah W. Adams has been contested by her srandchfldren, who were bequeathed only $300 ea: The unemployed coliected two wagon-loads of lood yesterday for their headquarters, where 1100 men were f-d during the day. ed in the sterday of bis possession. 1d Chin Poy, charged with the arder of Little Pete, were ycsterday held to answer belore the Superior Court without g-house of Mrs. Cook, Van Ness 3 Grove strect, was eutered by a burglar Monduy afternoon and several articles stolen. A verdict of accidental death was rendered a Coroner's ju in the case of Daniel J. cide 1u the case of Emms itor of the School Department assassinate Principac Joseph of the Horace Mann School last > of Yee Chee, charged failed to agree in rday aud was dia Club is to pr John P. Nilsun and t Saturday evening at un 3 who killed James Childs in this City on the 18th o© murder in Judge temporary insa: i e residents of sewerage f bette . ern eral Republican [he directors of t Toad met yeste grading between gOing o0 Yery prosp-rc Attorness J. F. Smith and Joseph Coftey were given into the custody of the Sheriff by Judge Wallrce yesterday. An appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court. The brig Percy Edward probably sail for the Southern Seas to-morrow. Sne has er a hundred adyenturers aboard, who are in search of 8 new EL Dorado. A shortage in thisyear'ssupply of grain bags has caused an_advance in prices. The State Prison Directo:s have raised the price from 8475 to $5 on the prison-made bags. A party of officials of the Trans-Misst and International Exposition to be held at Omabs, will visit this State, and at Sacra- mento will confer witn the legislators, §. B. Abbott, M. McKenney, George M. Wood, 8. Slesinger and Henry Clement have filed ar- ticles of the incorporation of the Supreme Counctl of the Royal Fraternal Guardians. ¥red Vallandt, cook in a bakery at 836 Valencia street, was cuton the chin by Fred Ludemen, driver of & wagon, yesierday ana Ludeman'w as arrested for assault to murder, - The boutevard will be built to give work to the unemplcyed, and & committee will hur- riedly obtain rights of way while funds are being collected to carry on thisand other re- lief wor Henry Smith, who for many years was asso- ciated with Curry Bros., and for nearly two years pest s clerk in_the County Clerk’s office, died early yesterdsy morning at St Luke's Hospital. The genersl committee on arrangements for 8t. Patrick’s day ceiebration met Iast evenin an Joaquin Valley Rail- It was reported that no and Kings River was sippi and partly perfected s programie, but left much to pe planned at s meeting 0 be held next Sunday afternoon. The gy psies who have been camping in Mill Valley for monihs past attempted 10 get away on the Austialia yesterday. They had their passage money but could ot show the #50 apicce necessary to secure them a landing in Hawail. Every Steeraze passenger must have that much i his or her possession before the authorities will pass them. NEW TO-DAY. ‘Bloo Humors Whether itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, erusted, pimply, or blotchy, whether simple, scrofulous, or hereditary, from infancy toage, speedily cured by warm baths with CUTICURA S0AP, gentle anointings with CUTICURA (oint~ ment), the great skin cure, and mild doses of CUTICURA RESOLVENT, greatest of blood purifiers and humor cures. : (uticura 1as0ld thromghont the world. Porraz DEvG A¥XDCEEM. xr., Sol Boston. Cor. ; =" Hoy re Lvery Blood Humor,” free. FACE HUMORS Filis. 2, 8 meods Soim Weak backs, painfal Kidneys, sore lungs, uterine pains, muscu- "™ lar pains, rheumatism, relieved SPOTS quick as an electric flash by the Callins’ Voltaic Electric Plastors The Brig Percy Edward as She Will Appear When Under Way for an Unknown Iland in the Southern Seas. Over a Hundred Men Have Taken Passage on Her, and Her Captain and the Managers of the Expedition Expect to Get Away To-Motrow. "HERE'S FOR THE - SOUTHERN SEAS” Toast of the Adventurers on the Brig Percy Edward. Fortune on a Tropical Island. tributed $100 Each in Order to Joia the V:nture. Manager Reinhart of the South Sea island coionizing expedition is tne hap- piest man in seven States. He has at has only paid out $2500 for the old brig Percy Edward and say another $1000 for necessary repairs. are going they do not know, and further- more they do not seem to care. Nearly ail of them are unsophisticated farmers from the interior, and like the unfortu- nates who made an excursion from Aus- tralia to Paragnay in the Royal Tar, they | seem to think they have the ball at their feet and all they have to do is to make the necessary exertion and a fortuae is theirs. Some of the members of the expedition say they are going “to the South Sea islands just for fun,” and that they do not expect to have anything but an enjoyable cruise after an imaginary island. The fact still remains, however, that the Percy Edwards was built exactly thirty-one late owner did not fit her out again for another whaling cruise. The brig be- longed 10 James McKenna, and two years ago she went to the Arctic, but did not make enough money to pay the $1 that each member of the crew was paid off with. Since then she lay up in Oakland Creek until the man who invented ‘“‘the Adamless Eden” came along, and then there was a demana for a vessel thatcould be bought cheap. The Percy Edwards is 189 tons net, 105 feet 4 inches long. 28 feet 1linch beam and 10 feet 1inch deep. She hae been thoroughly overhauled and re- paired, and a cruise in her in the Soathern seas wili be as sufe as in any whbaler that has_ieft port during the past month. “‘Well! well! well!” said Henry Peter- son, the champion oarsman, yesterday, when he viewed the preparations being made, “they sav they are going to have plenty of fun. Well, I'm willing to gam- ble doilars to doughnuts that they’ll get all they expect. Why, they do not even know where they are going and God help the man who is going on a roving expedi- ton in the Soutnern seas in search of— nothing.” “This is the worst comic opera I have ever witnessed,” said an employe of the Harbor Commission, *‘There is not the slightest chance in the world for a man in New Guinea without money and as to the Solomon group or the New Hebrides, the men who go there shouid carry a Gatling ®un and plenty of ammunition. are more cannibals than Eves down there and the passengers on the Percy Edward bad better look out.” Nearly three years ago a similar expedi- tion to ibe one planned to leave on the Percy Edward next Thursday left Austra- lia on the bark Royal Tar. 1t was bound for Paraguay and everything that the colonists had was put into the general fund and all and sundry were to share and share alike. A concession had been re- ceived from the Gov-rnment of South America and each family was to receive so much land and each single man was to be given so much in proportion. It was a secona South Sea bubble and disaster fol- lowed it from the moment the vessel reached its destination. The colony i- now almost deserted and the colonists are nearly all back in Australia, sadder but wiser men. Will the expedition on the Percy Edward prove more successful, is the question of interest on the water front just now. First Mate Driggs of the brig is confi- dent that the venture will be a success, and says that besides owning the vessel and her contents there is $7000 in 1he treasury. Where they are going he does not know, and the destination wiil not be known until tne vessel gets to sea. *She will clear for a cruise in the southern seas,’” said he. According to him the pub- lic ana the press looked upon the scheme as chimerical, but be is certain that it wiil be & success. Three young farmers joined the expedi- tion yesterday, and each paid $100 iora chance in the glorious future that awaits them in the new Eden, serpents and say- ages barred. In the meantime the Percy Edward will probably clear to-day on cruise 1o the Bouth Sea islands,”and Thursday will see “all hands and the cook’ aboard and ready for the excursion. Revolvers, Win- chesters and shotguns are part of the pas- sengers’ equipments, and while the pas- sengers say they will not fight unless They Hope to Make Fame and | Over One Hundred Men Have Con- | least $10,000 “‘cash on hand,” and so far | Where the colonists | years ago in Boston, Mass., and that her | There | forced to they sre prepared for contin- | gencies. e LEALE AT GRANTS PASS. After Rounding the Horn a Dozen Times He Was Seasick on a Flume. Captain Leale of the steamer Caroline | had a peculiar experience during his re- | cent trip to Grants Pass. He has been | around the Horn a dozen times and never | was seasick, yet when he came to walking 1 aflume at the place mentioned he enjoyed | the first sensation of genuine seasickness he has known.” The party was on a visit | to one of the mines, and Leale was the only sailor in the crowd. The sight of the rushing water reminded him of the Caro- line in a sea way, and the experience was 80 unexpected that he immediately he- | came sick. In fact, according to his own | account, he had to get down and_clutch | the crossbrace in order to save nimself | | from falling. Finally his companions got | | bim on his feet again, and Leale finaily | reached the mine in good order. On the | return trip he bad recovered his sea legs, | and the captain of the Caroline was on | | deck again vesterday. He thinks so much | | of Grants Pass that be vows he will give up steamboating and start in as a rancher | and miner. | Poweil-street whart is dangerous and | vessels will not dock there for months to come. Tne Faralion went there on Sun- day and landed considerable lumber and 1bis caused the center of the pier 10 sag. The piles gave way and it looked as though everything was going, but luckily | something held and the structure was | saved. Yesteraay Chief W barfinger Root | issued instructions to the D. H. Bibb | Lumber Company and the Simpson Lum- | | ber Company to remove taeir belongings | |atonce and also posted a nbtice to the | effect that the wharf is dangerous for | | ve-sels to lie alongside. This particular | | wharf has been a dead loss to the com- | mission from the start. Vessels cannot lie at it at any time without extra moor- ing lines, and when a gale comes up they all seek safer quarters. Lust year over 100 feet was cut away from the outer end, 1 | and now it would not be at all surprising | | to hear of the present commission order- ing the whole structure torn down. The Oceanic Steamship Company’s Ans- tralia sailed for Honolulu yesterday with the following passengers: J. P. Groom, J. B. Hallady, Mrs. G. H. den, A. W. Kenuedy, T. A. | 3} Kirkpatriek, 3es, J. C. Kirkpatrick Lislie, J. B. Madden, Dr.W. F. McConk Lucy McGuire, J. N. Murdock, Miss P, mann, Miss Newiands, Mrs.'A. Preunss, H. B. Reid, A.Schmacher, William Waterhouse, P. L.'Weaver Jr., Miss J. 8, Wiison, Captain Z. Alien, Mes. W. G. Ashley and children, Eugene Bernietmer, Thomas Blyth and wife, Charies Biyth, 8. H. Boardman, J. W. Butler and wife, A.J. Cartwrignt, Mrs, ‘Bruce Cartwright, Di W.F. Channing, H. 8 Chann ing, A. F. Clarke, Mrs. Frank Davey and three chiidren, Miss Alice Deming, T. T. French and wife: The gang oI gypsies who have been making their headquarters in Mill Vailey for a month past attempted to get away on the vessel but fsiled. Thev had their passage money all ready, but the captein demanded that each head of a family should put up $50 to show tnat he was not a pauper, as otherwise he could not land in Hawaii. Tnis the gvpsies could not do, so the vessel sailed without them. It afierward transpired that they are pro- fessional beggars and that among them they have over $2000, butithat it is mearly all in negotiable paper on European banks, When the Austraiia satled Ser- geant Tom Mahoney marched them back to the Sausalito ferry and saw them salely’ en route for Marin County. The men of the party say they will have all the neces- sary money on hand before the Alame sails and that they willgo to Honolulu on her. Division 2 of the Naval Battalion had its revenge yesterday. Jeck Meyer of Divi- sion 1 and Harry Hartman (Handsome Harry) bad a dispute about the relative meriis of the two crews. Harry asserted that bad Division 2 had the gig its crew would have won hands down in spite of the poor turn. Jack thought differently | and offered to back his opini “You were in the race,” said Harry. *“Now, I'll row you around the Anglesey just for fun and show you how easy it is to beat a | member of the champion crew.” Meyer | took him up and the race was rowed. | Hartman won hands down and Meyer | | Hol- | enuedy and’ wife, | I\{ J. paid for the drinks. The Occidental and Oriental Company’s Doric sailed for the Orient yesterday. Among the passengers was Commodore McCarthy of the San Francisco Yacht Club, who is poing to make a tour ot China. The vessel was heavily laden and H. Maitland Kersey, who is out here in the interests of the White Star line, was down to see her off. LITTLE PETE MURDER. Wong Sing and Chin Poy Held to An- swer Without Bail. Wong Sing and Chin Poy, charged with the marder of Little Pete, were yesterday held by Judge Joachimsen to answer be- fore the Superior Court without bail. maLast week Attorney Smith, for the de- lendants, after the prosecution had rested, made a motion to dismiss on various grounds. The Judge took the motion un- der consideration till yesterday and gave his decision re:using it. Attorney Smith then declined to pro- duce any evidence for the defense, and the Judge beld the defendants to answer. —————— Sued by a French Company. The Compagnie Francaise des Mines d'Or du Luicho, by Attorness Gordon & Young, yes- terdny filed a suit against W. R. Grace & Co, for $1132 59 alleged overcharge for freight on mining machinery conveyed by Grace & Co. o Mollendo, Peru. - BusNETT'S Corn Cure. 327 Montgomery st. 26¢, 1 CALIFORKIA BONDS QUOTED N LONDON A Distinction Accorded for the First Time in History. The Honor Secured to the Ha- waiian Commercial and Sugar Company. Stock and Bond Exchange Look to It as the Entering Wedge for Other Securities. The interesting Information eame by | cavle to the Stock and Bond Exchange vesterday that the recent issueof the locai bonds of the Hawailian Commercial and Sugar Company of this City bad been given an official quotation by the London Stock Exchange. This is an entirely unique distinction— 1t being the first purely Californian security so honored. The issue of three- quarters of a million of these bonds was recently floated by Colonel George W. Macfarlane in London. This issue is a conversion of the bonds of a former issue which had been running for some years at a7 per cent rate of interest. That 1ssue maturea last year and the conversion wes made at 5% per cent. The bonds have been also listed on the local Stock Ex- change and will thus have the advantage of a donble quotation, an advantage said to be enjoyed by no other bonds lere, and which is certain, say dealers, to send them to a good premium in course of time. The official listing of this California se- | curity in London, it is thought, will prove the entering wedge for floating other local bonds and shares of other and larger California corporations in that great money market. This is why the news cre- ated so much interest on 'Change ¥es- terday. *And why is it such a difficult matter to obtain recognition for Californian se- curities?”’ was asked of Colonel Macfar- lane yesterday. “Chiefly because of the long procession of insecurilies that have been offered there as bona-fide securities within recent years,” he said. *‘While there are plenty of sound and good paying investments in California, there is no doubt that London has been fooled a great deal in wildcat d schemes and other ventures. '‘Any security quoted on the London Stock Exchange, however, has a standing iz financial circles that it cannot obiain in any other way. Thisis because of t.e extraordinary care taken by the exchange to ascertain its status. It has en something over six mouths for these se- curities to pass the ordeal, A great num- ber of documents had to be submitted to the Stock Exchange commitiee, which is composed of thirty members of the high- est standing in financial circles. They re- quire of the issuing house in London, be- iore eranting a quotation, a complete and verified list of all the subscribers to the loan and the amount taken by each. The committee must ascertain if the subscrip- tions and allotments are made in good faith, and mus: find that no allotment bas been made to any member of the syn- dicate unless the subscription by the pub- lic has fallen short of the amount of the losn called for. Oniy upon such finding will official recognition be given by the Stock Exchange to the bonds. ““This is done to prevent stock jobbery and the consequent impairment of the credit of the company whose bonds are so placed. Tt is done likewise to protect the public ‘who invest in secnrities upon the express assurance of the exchange com- mittee that the representations made in placing them ere justitied and that the quotations are in good faith their repre- sentative value; that the business worid can with confidence expect the prompt payment of the interest accruing. The securities thus quoted, therefore, acquire a special value and usefulness, being recognized by the banks and financial houses. “In the course of time,” continued Col- onel Macfarlane, “the payments of inter- est being promptly made, the bonds go to a premium, which ultimately reaches a point that represents a certain unit of in- terest, so to speak. They can be then con- verted at par into others bearing less in- terest. In this way our California bonds may be placed at the same rate of inter- est which older and richer countries have obtained through the good failh shown in the dealings of our people with the finan- cial world of London. This is really what bas taken place, as explained, in regard to the Hawaiian Com’ mercial and Sugar Company _ bonds, being converted in its second issue from a 7 to & 5} per cent basis. This is upemnll{ notable in this case, it being a distincily local company, the management being entirely in the hands of the board of directors in this City. There are, you know, Californian com- panies formed in London, the board of directors being there. That is an entirely different matter.” Colonel Macfariane has had a_long ex- perience in London financial affairs and speaks from an intimate knowledge. He took Hawaiian Government bonds in London—$2,000,000 of them—and they went to 13 per cent premium. He after- ward floated the Hawaiian Street Railway bonds. This was a London company that operated the road from London. He also floated the stock of a large sugar estate, the mapagement of which was divided between London and San Francisco. A LAND SWINDLE, The Grand Jury Hears Evidence in a Sharp-Practice Case Between Farmer: The Grand Jury was employed yester- day in bearing a quantity of testimony in several allegations of crime. The case of Jacob L. Thurston, charged with firinga shot at George H. Pettis in a saloon on San Jose avenue recently, was begun and ‘will be resumed on Friday. A number of witnesses were heard in an allegation against George W., John T. and C. H. Donaldson, charging them with having swindled George W. Robinson in aland transaction. The story goes that Robinson exchanged a farm in Monterey County for a larger farm with Donald- son, in consideration for which he not only gave a clear deed for his farm, but $1500 in casb. It has since developed, ac- cording to the allegations, that Donald- son's farm, for whica he gave what pur- ported to be a deed, was, in fact, not his, having been sold to the State for taxes, as well as being heavily mortgaged. This case will also be conciuded on Friday. It is almost certain that an indictment will be found. ————— Charged With Forgery. Daniel Hogan and R.J. Maullins, the two young men who presented a forged order for $5, signed by Daly & Davitt, bakers, at their shop, 116 Ninth street, Saturday night, were booked at the City Prison yesterday on the charge of forgery. They were also suspected of breaking into the cigar and stationery store of Fred Statier, 167 Ninth street, Saturduy afternoon, but the police have been unable to find auy evidence against them. ——— NEW TO-DAY. The Glow of Health ON A WOMAN'S CHEEK, THE bright eye, the vigor, the spring in her step are the things that make her the ad- miration of men. 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She Among the cyclers and those interested in the sport there was butone topicof conversation yesterday, and it was such a satisfying morsel of gossip that none seemed to tire of discussing it. They talked of the League of American Whe men and the proposed secession of Cali- fornia and many other Western divisions. The secession movement is gaining friends here with every hour. The return of R. M. Weleh and nis report of the un- favorabie and selfish legisiation adminis- tered by the National assembly has in- censed the local cycling leaders, and they are anxious to take the initiative in a movement to better the racing interests here and elsewhere, with the full assur- ance of hearty support from all the West- ern and many of the Southern and Central States. Great faith 1s placea in Mr. Welch, and rightly, too, and the wheelmen feel that his view shall be theirs. He was the or- ganizer of the California Division eleven years ago, and has been actively con- nected with it and has been indefatigable in his efforts for the general good of the members ever since. He is known to be fair, unbiased and impartial, and is not one to pass judgment too quickly. There- fore when he returned. here and told of the state of affairs in the East it needed no confirmation, though such had been received by several in the shape of private letters from his feillow-delegate, Judge Kerrigun, who is still in New York. Regarding what may be done, and to show the feeling of other States besides California over the action of the recent as- sembly, it may be opportuna to quote here an_editorial from the last issue of Cycling West of Denver, one of the strong- es. wheel papers published, and which presents the sentiments of Colorado, Wy- oming, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Utah and the whole Northwest. With no desire to be sensational I cannot Iesist the prophecy tnat the arrogance of the Eastern L. A. W. contingent, as demonstrated in the last assembly, will_result in secession on the part of the entire West, if not, indeed, of tue South as well. To be brutally frank about it, the seeds of rebellion sown in previ- ous discpatent have already germinated in the heat of natural resentment and the L. A. W. structure is crumbiing in rottenness. The New York and Massachusetts coterie have pressed their supercilious dominance t0o far and the back of the long suffering camel has broken. There will bea new league! A league that will have sense as its fundamental basis with a supersiructure of equity, and, betier still, efficiency. A league of wheelmen in which the meaningless, effete, obsolete term “ama- teur” will have mo recognition. It willbe a white mau’s league; a league which will recognize the sovereign rizht of every State to formulate its own regulations as to the hold- ing of Sunday races. contingent on the desires of its own constituency. A league which will institute no star chambers of say kind and a league which will from its very in- ception control cycle raciog in its entirety. It will be, primarily, an associated union of State leagues under the general direction of a National directorate. It will assume ana usurp no inequable power, no ludicrous arro- gance of jurisdiction over any but those whom it has & legal and moral right to govern. There will be no imbecility and injustice of “sus- pension pending investigation” of spiteful charges. 1t Will support no personal “‘offi- cial” organ for the convenience of any edi- torial ass who lusts to iuflict his opinionate idiocy upon a suffering constitueney. In short, it will have incorporated mone of the senseless features which haveimade the L. A. W. monstrosity a batt for contumely and rid - cule. The pretensions of the new league wiil be no insult to every decent man’s intelli- gence. It will simply be what the L. A. W. is not—an organization for the conservation and promotion of the interests of cycling in their entirety. The necessity of secession from any form of government is deplorable in itself. The advis- ability thereo! is always more Or iess prob- lematieal, but the results are always beneficial when such secession leads to the elimination of an abuse or the adjusting of & wrong. Human patience is an exceedingly circum: NEW TO-DAY. You can have Sc/illing’s Best tea on trial; you can try it as much and as long as you want. = You can try every one of the five flavors and get your money back in full if you don't like it. Tea and money at gro- cers’ A Schilling & Compa o i s NEW 7TO-DAY—-AMUSEMENTS. TIVOL!I OPERA-HOUSZ MBS ERNKSTING KREL1N. Proprietor & Manager — TO-NIGET — GRAND DOUBLE BILL! 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Tyranny in any form is unallowable in thess days of individual equality, and when a few interested members of au association scquire the power aud evince the disposition to exer- cise a drastic mismanagement of its policy in iher own personal or sectional aggrandize- ment, that association isin imminent danger of disruption. The L. A. W. is on the verge of acrisis. It is even worse. It has been suicidal enough to dig ils own grave and to put its foot in {t." It has had warnings sufficientand it has chosen to disregard them. \When an institution has undermined its own foundation and is crumbling in structural rottenness it were Detter that it should fall. The L, A. W. is tot~ tering to its nitimate destruction. Until some action is taken, the whole work of the league on this coast will be stagnated, and it is very doubtful if it will ever goon under any of the present officer: othing will be done until Chiet Consul rrigan returns, when he will probably be flooded with resignations from local consuls and committeemen. As ne will probably want to hand in his own at the same time, it is hard to say what the end will be. The feelinz of secession is very strong. It has gone to a considerable extent already among the higher officials. A half dozen of them were gathered on Market street yesterday afternoon dis- cussing the situation. ‘“Where is your league button?"” asked one of another, re- ferring to a lapel button they all wear. ‘“‘Here 1n my pocket,’” he replied, showing it. “I took it off this morning; I'm ashamed to wear it.” MILLER MURDER TRIAL. James Childs Slayer Belleves That He ‘Was Insane. John Miller, charged with the murder of James Childs on the 18th of last Novem- ber, is on trial in Judge Cook’s court. It is understood that Miller's defense will be basea on the theory that he was insane at the time he fired the fatal shot. Childs did not know Miller and met his death because he returned to help a woman who was being pursued by Miller with intent to murder. The tragedy oc- curred on Natoma street in this City. NEW TO-DAY. Y ~~BREATH Preserves the Teeth, hardens the 6ums and perfumes the Breath. A sample of Sozodont and Sozoderma Soap for Sc. Address the prop's, Hall & Ruckel, New York. NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. BALDWIN THEATER. ALHAYMAN & Co. (Incorporated).....FTopsiaiass ——THREE WEEKS—— EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY. Matinee Saturday Only. A TRIUMPHflT SUCCESS! It delighted the audience.—Report. “Shore Acres” will probably do one of the big- gest engagements that the Baldwin has known.— Chronicle. “Shore Acres” Is of finermold than *The Ola Homestead.”—Examiner. A wonderfully aturactive play.—Post. A qualntness and suzgestiveness that are inex- pressibly charming —Bu:letin. «Shore Acres’ i+ indeed an idyl, and Unile Nat is nature itself. —Report. JAMES A. HERNE As NATHANIEL BERRY in “SHORE ACRES” Direction of HENRY C. MINE CALIFORNIA THEATER. AL HAYMAN & Co. (Incorporated). ...Proprietors Extra!—Matinee To-Day—Extral TO-NIGHT! Last Performance. “OUR LITTLE CINDERELLA” COMPANY. Thursday, Feb. 25—SOUSA’S CONCERT BAND. CALIFORNIA THEATER. Thursday . 2 Evenings { Frida ebruary 26 Lsatur February 27 : ry 26 .February 27 February 28 Soprano loliniste -Trombone luegeihorn MARVINA JOH ARTHUR PRY ¥XANZ Hr LL.. 5 Prices—50¢, 75¢, 81, $1 MOROSCO'S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. WALTER MOROSCO...Sols Lessee and Manaza: SPLENDID REVIVAL Of Oltver Byron's Sensatlonal Melodrama, 10,000 MILES AWAY. Presented With a_Splendor Never Before Attempted in & San ¥rancisco Theater. BEAUTIFUL SCENERY ! STIRRING SITUATIONS! Many Specialties by Numerous Clever Arilsts. Evening Prices—1 25¢c and 50c. Matinees Saturday and Sunday. {2 'FRICOCANDER GOTTLOD A o+ LESsts AT rANALERS Fanny Rice’s Baby and the Doctor. ‘Everybody is talking abont them, but ber new version of “AT THE FRENCH BALL" and her splendid company exceis everything in sight. New Music, New Dresses, N Specialties. Only Matinee Satarday. Another c n Enthusiastic House Lnst Night! The Biggest Success in Year: The Great Madison Square Theater Piay, SAINTS AND SINNERS! GEORGE OSBOURNE, FRANCES JOLLIFFE, HUGO TOLAND und the Entire Company. Our Regular Prices! Telephone for seats. Black 991 Cbcion O'Farrell streed, uear >cockion. San Francisco's ¥ y Concert Hall, A MAGNIFICENT SUCCESS! HOUSES CROWDED TO THE DOORS! HERR FERDINAND STARK, The famous Hungarian Violin Virtuoso, and his Brilliaut Orgauization, THE VIENNA OKCHESTRA. #3-Grand Concert Every Evening at ¥ o'clock. PACIFIC COAST JOCKEY CLUB (NGLESIDE TRACK), The only Yerfeci Winter Raceiracs 10 America. RACIVG a8afec RACING Racing From Monday, Feb, 22, to Satar- day, March 6, Inclusive. Five or More Races Daily, Rain or Shins. FIRST RACE AT 2 P, M, Take Southern Facific tralos a: Thirl an} Townsend sts. depot, leaving at 1 and 1:20 . x Fare for Round Trip, including Ad- mission to Grounds, %$1.00. Take Mission-st. eleetric line direct to track. ‘The Moet & Chandon White Seal Staks Mon- day, February 22. ‘The chreiber Stakes Saturday, February 27. The Crocker Stakes Saturday, March 6. A, B. SPRECKELS, Presidens. ‘W. 8 LEAKE, Secretary. TONE THE CHUTES. EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BUSCH, the Golden Vamuire; SRESINO, Wire Waker. the ANIMATOSCOPE and The Mexican Band To-Night! ADMISSION 10¢ CHILDREN 5o " SUTRO BATHS. FINE PROGRAMME, Grand Concert Every Sunday Afterncon, Geoneral Admission, 10¢; Children, Se