The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 15, 1897, Page 12

NG ANEW MASK The “Examiner’s” Futile Excuse for Its Convict- Made Twine. SAYS SOME ONE ELSE| BUYS PRISON BAGS. J. D. Spreckels Directly Charged ! With Encouraging a | State Industry. HE WOULD NOT PATRONIZE CALCUTTA. Officers of the California Cottcn Mills Declare That Spreckeis Wanted Them to M:zk: All the Bags. The Examiner tries to escape the re- | sponsibility of establishing a twine fac- | tory in San Quentin for its own personal use and benefit to the extentof2centsa | pound by crying out that John D. Spreck- els buys certain of the jute bags that are manufactured there. The Examiner has been unmasked and compelled to stand out in the light that the workmen of Cali- fornia may see it for what it is. The piti- ful spectacle it makes demands of it some excuse, some place to hide. Excuses or hiding-places are neither of them at hand in this instance. In'the first instance it whined that its purchases did not constitute .2 big transaction and therefore sbould be overlooked or con- doned by workingmen because of the charities it had time to ume bestowed. When it read the expressions of disgust and contempt that came from working- men all over the >tate—from men who had hitherto believed the Examiuer to be gheir friend as it bad claimed to be snd had waited to hear what explanation it might make before they would accept | THE CALL'S revelation as true—it felt that | it niust a1 least find something else tosay. | And so, it being impossible to aeny the | fact that 1 has sat up a twine factory in | San Quentin worked by convicts, whereby it might save 2 cents a pound, while twine | factories employing iree white labor are | in operation within telephoning distance of its Mission-street fakery—not denying this, 1t seeks to divert attention from its | pitiful position by crying that Jobn D. Spreckels buys jute bags at San Quentin. | Just what that has to do with the fact of the Examiner's twine factory, it does not explain. Itsays that it bas known thisa | long time. Indeed? And why not? It| has always been a matter of common knowledye. The affidavit required by the law to be made and which was indusiri- ously avoided by the Examiner, was al- | ways filed in Mr. Spreckeis’ case. The | manufacture of jute bags has been under- | | | | | | | si00d 1o be carried ou at San Quentin for | in San Francisco this afternoon and saw [ one years by a special exemption—the one | thing that was not likely to compete with | the irce labor of the State. The factory | whs established as a means of making the | institution self-supporting. | Why any act of John D. Spreckels or | any other business man should be offered | as an excase by the Examiner for what| it may do is not clear, however. As a| matter of fact Mr. Spreckels says he buys | bags for certain hawaiian plantations’ giving the preference to California over glish market. preckels’ business is Mr. Spreckeis business and no otber” It may be said for him, however, that the order for jute | bags left at San Quentin was in response to | a special request by the board of directors | of that insd.ution and even after the | California Cotton Mills hsd declared its | inability to furnish the bags at the price | at which the market haa been flooded | here by foreign n.anufacturers. i The bag furnished av San Quentin is a | peculiar quality, whicn is used exclusively | for export sugar manufactured at Hono- lulu. The Caifornia Cotton Mills, with its free labor, manufactures every bag that | is used by Spreckels in the home market, | and they number millions. The rough | “pocket” bags used in Honoluiu were for- merly manufactured in Calcutta, and in | giving the order to San Quentin, keeping | the money in the Siate and enabling that | institution to become sel1-supporting, both | the San Quentin directors and the Cali | fornia Cotton-mills Company give Mr. Spreckels credit for doing a patriotic and worthy thing. The statements of Mr. Spreckels and of ofticers of the cotton mills bearing out these statements follow. “The baga we purchase at San Quentin,” eaid Mr. Spreckels, ‘‘are purchased for various plantations in Hawaii for which we are agents. “Our purchase of sugar-bags is question of competition between manufacturers, but between this and England. “The Prison Directors came to us some time ago and asked us to get our bags from them rather than from India, and in this way save ihe State just that much. We thought it a patriotic policy to do so and consented. None of the bags pur- chased at San Quentin, however, Lave | been used in the sugar business here. The sugar from our refinery goes into bags made by free California labor. The baxs made at San Quentin go to Honolulu. They are heavy grain bags, weighing six- teen ounces. “Tbe ordinary grain bag weighs twelve ounces, but these, on account of the pur- pose for which they are used, are made extra heavy. Even when they are or. dered from Calcuuta they have to be spe- cially made. “In Honoluln we also come into com- petition with bags manufactured in Eng- land and sent to Calcutta by English ves- ® We aim to compete with England, that gets her jute from India, and yvet to get the freighting of the bags from here to Honolulu. That gives employment to our ships. ““Now, say, for instance, that the annual expense of running some department of the penitentiary was $10,000, and they made a profit of that amount upon the bags we bought from them every year, it would *imply mean that much saved to the State, would it not? “We used every effort to get the local manufacturers to compete and furnish us with bags at the same rate we could get them from Calcutta, but they declared it was impossible. So there was no alterna- tive—it was Calcutta or San Quen we decided, for the reasons stated, in favor . of 8an Quentin. I wish to reveat, how- ever,” said Mr. Spreckels, *‘that every bag for sugar used by us in this country is made by free labor and in California.” - OAKLAND, Can, March 14.—Reports were circulated to-day by emissaries of the Examiner that John D. Spreckels & Bros. were larger rurchasers of San Quen- not a local State | a long time Spreckels used imported bags, | | which came to San Francisco and wiich | were never out of boud, and consequently | tuey could be imported and laid down in | prices, | drive him out of business. never have made a solitary sugar-bag in | ° | at San Quentin,” he said. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 15, of the mill in the matter of sugar-bags that be might have purchasad at free- labor mills. These reports were repeated a CaLL veporter to the officers of th California Cotton Mills and they were somewhat amused. They said they were perfectly aware that Mr. Spreckels was. purchasing some sugar-bags from San Quentin and said it was a good thinz that he was as it kept the money in the State that would other- wise have gone to Calcutta When Mr. Spreckeis was making inquiry into the sugar-bag marker he consulted the cotton mills and was informed that they could not m:ke them so cheaply as the imported goods from Calcutia, With which the market was flooded. This be- ing =0, it was better to keep the money in the State by patronizing San Quentin instead of East Indian coolies. The bags bougnt by the Spreckelses at San Quentin are not used in tuis country. They are a coarse bag, known as “P.ck- ets,” and are shipped to Honolulu, For no duty was paid on them. They were merely in transit to Honoiulu. All the sugar bazs—and they amount to_millions annuaily—usea by Spreckels in California are made in_ free-labor mills, and the re- sult is that hundreds of peope areem- ployed in San Francisco and Oakland 1 are. G. K. Miller, when told of the oris said: “We were consulted at the ue the Spreckelses gave their order to San Quentin and we agreed that we could not make the sugar bags at the price at which San Francisco from Calzutta. We believe that Mr. Spreckels conferred a favor upon | the State of California when he ordered | his goods of Sun Quentin ratber than | from Calcutta. In this way he is heiping | to support the State insutution without competing with free white labor. Mr. Spreckels is a great pairon of free-labor jutemills. *“All of the goods that we manufacture ana he use, he purchases of us. To our mind, we could make ali of his sugar-bags if we could furnish them at Calcutta Wity Caicuita bags in bond at a price, no importer with any busi- ness sense can be expected to pay higher or his competitors would soon We do not nor our mills that is used for importation. All of bis_beet-sugar bags for Alvarado and the Western Refinery, San Francisco, are made by us 1n the California Cotton- mills. We ship by carload lots to both vlaces, and often fill orders nmounting to $5000 at a time. We consider that Mr. Spreckels is in every way iriendly to the | hundreds of people in our employ. I was { BERKELEY 1S T0 - HAVE A PARK Captain R. P. Thomas Will Deed “La Loma” to the Town. His Acres, Relics and Quaint Log Cabin to Be Berke- ley’s Own. Will Transfer the Property as Sacn as the Town Is Able to Care for It Properly. BERKELEY, Cir, March 14. — The town of Berkeley will ce presented with > i o CAPTAIN THOMAS and His GAPTAI - =4 Celebrated Log Cabin Built by His Own Hands. one of the middle men who handle our | goods. He never realized but that the competition in the price of twine was from free white labor until he read THE CALL of last Wednesday morning.” William Rutherford, the superintendent of tne East Oakland miils, laughed when it was hinted that an effort was being made to have it appear thst John D. Spreckels & Bros. were as much of a menace to free labor as the Examiner. “The Spreckels firm are doing the State a benefit by purchasing some sugar bags “If they aid not buy there they would have to use Cal- | cutta bags and thé money would then go | out of thie country. “We do not make any such bagsand could not Jo so at the price at which they are imported from Calcutta. Consequent- Iy, by all means rive the work to San Quentin and lessen its cost to the State. “I am certain that if we could make sugar-bags at Calcutta prices. the Soreck- elses would buy every oneof us. We make hundreds of thousands of bags for | the firm and every pound ot beet sucar | that is made in_tms_State and the sugar refined at San Francisco is placed in our bags. The only other bags used are a coarse kind made at San Quentin and which are sent directly to Honolulu. Everything tha: we manufacture and the tpreckelses can use they purchasa of us and the firm’s checks pay a goodly por- tion of the salaries of our 400 employes.” MIDNIGHT FIRE. A Mysterious Conflagration Causes Damage to the rxtent of Eleven Hundred Dollars. An alarm of fire was turned in at 12:30 o’clock this morning from box 28, located at the corner of Pine and Dupont streets. The call was for a fire which had started in some manner unknown in the building at the northeast corner of Pine and Kearny streets. & The fire started in a _saloon at 434 Pine street, known as the Market Exchange, and kept by A. C. Edwards. His damage was about $500. M. Hart, the lessee of the entire building and the proprietor of a furnishing goods store a 402 Kearny sireet, sustained a loss of §400 in damage to his stock. Cramer’s photograph gallery, on the second floor, was ‘damaged to the extent of $100, and H. Lando, who has a clothing- store at 404 Kearny street, suffered a sim- ilar loss. There was a partial insurance on the building. e FUNERAL OF GUSTAV SUTRO. With Simple Rites H Laid at Rest. The funeral of Gustav Sutro was held yesterday afternoon from the family resi- dence at 1718 Pine street. In pursuance of a request which Mr. Sutro had ex- pressed the services were brief and simple, but the remarks of Dr. Voorsanger, who was bis personal iriend, were beautiful and touching. There. were a great many friends in at- tendance, as the deceased wrs one of San Francisco’s best known and most popular business mer. Among those who called to pay their last respects were a great many of his former emploves. Many beautiful floral pieces were con- tributed, a large braken wheel by the San Francisco Siock ani! Bond Exchange be- ing particularly striking. ‘the pillbearers were: E. B. Pond, L. P. Drexler, . W. Heliman, Joseph Branden| stein, Herman Cohn, Capuin A. M. Burns, Judge Joacnimsen, J. Adelsdorfer, 8. Sussman, M. Grinbaum, uben H. Lloyd, Daniel Meyer, R. G. Brown and Otto Muser. A special train was engaged to convey the funeral party to Jthe Home of Peace Ctl,melary, where the interment took place. Kemains Are tin goods ghan the Examiner and conse- quently greater enemies of free labor. Boreckels, it was stated, purchased largely e ———— SEND books, music or magazines to be bound to the bindery. Mysell-Rollins, 22 Clay, * of the most beautiful and pic- turesquely located park sites in the State as soon as it is able to properly care for the gift. Captain R. P. Thomas, a soldier of 1861, formerly president of the California Na- tional Bank of San Francisco, and present owner of the Standard Soap Works, an- nounced to-day to a CALL representative that he intended to present to the town of Berkeley, by deed of trust, his home site of thirty-two acres at the north end of the university town. The quaint and pic turesque og cabin built by his own hands after seven years of labor, a portion of his large collection of war relics and souve- nirs of many battle-fie'ds, which sre now protected” from the elements by an iron- bound building, will also go to the fown. It is his purpose to give all these things to Berkeley as soon as the trustees can af- | ford to convert the property into a park | with walks and drives and shrubbery and to keep up its appearance. The property is valued at about $25,000 and is adapted for a park, being now par- tially covered with eucalypti and trees of various other kinds, and command- ing as it does a most magnificent view of the bav, and the cities. From the promontory on t.c slope of the hill back of the main portion of the proverty, on which Captain Thomas has bilt np and equipped with broad-meuthed howitzers a veriiable fortress, a pano- ramic view of the land-cape below can be gained which is probably unsurpassed. This point of vantage is reached by a tortuous route from his dwelling, and along the path of travel are frequent set- tees with canopies above, From tie siie of the hill, under a weeping-willow tree, flows a perpetual stream of water. Though somewhat difticult of access at the present time from the center of town, Captain Thomas is planning for a scenic railway along Cednr street through his grounds to Gr zzly Peak. Surveyors have already mapped out the route of travel of the proposed line, and-as soon as the nec- essary franchises have been obtained the road will be put through. It is proposed further to build a resort at the end of the line which will contorm somewhat to that at the summit of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County. g 1n speaking of the proposed gift to the town and his rairoad, Capiain Thomas said to-day: “I want to give this property to the town, if they find they can care for it properly and convert it into a park for tke pleasure of irs citizens and visitors. Throngs of people come over from San Francisco every week, especially on Sun- day, fora stroll through the university grounds and over the hills, and I think that Berkeley would be greaily venefited by a good park. I had thoughtsomewhat oi giving the proverty to tie university, but I have coneinded that the town can make more use of it, sice I desire that the place should always be kept intact. “By the building of the suspension rail- road line which I have in mind the prop- erty will be made easy of access. Most of the trees on :he place have been planted by my own hand during the twenty years of my residence here, and the love I have gained for the place would not permit me to see it subliivided nor putto any other use than for a public benefit. “The little loz cabin among the euca- lypti, in which I spend much of my time, is a piece of my handiwork and is a resulc of seven years’ intermitient work. When Lcame here these thirty-two acres were as barren as any plain you ever saw. Al- most any kind of trees and shrubbery con be grown here. There are growing now almost every kind of frait-tree known to California orchardists, not even excenting the orange, the lemon and the olive.” SABBATH-SCOHOOL BENEFIT. Children Entertain at the Tivoll Opera House, The benefit at the Tivoli Opera House yesterday for the Bush-streer Free Sab- bath-school was well attended and quite a neat sum was netted for the beneficiary institution. Mre. Ernestine Kreling donated the use of the house for the occasion and the en- tertainment was under the management of Miss Hattie Nathan. Professor Dele- piane was musicai director. The first avent was a minstrel perform- ance by the Centennial Club Minstrels, which was warmly applauded. The par- ticipants were as follows: Interlocutor, George Appell. Ends—Walter Feisel, L. Van Vliet, Jacob 8. Meyer, M. O. Alexander, Jesse A. Platt, Mel- vitle Lehman. Centennial quartet—Meyer Leipsic, Edward Feisel, Alired Schmulian, Al Garrett. Al Levy, Charles Nadro, Marrin 8. Meyer, C. L. Badt, Fred Burnett, Andre Levy. The olio was followed by specialties by various members »f the company, the pro- gramme being as follows: Overture “1 Want Dem Presents Back,” L. Van Viiet; “Can You Then Love Another?” Alired Schmulian; *‘I'm the Man,” Jacob S. B “Whisper Your Mother's am “Tne Blow Almost Killed Name,” Ed Poor Fatber, Song” from | 00, Walter Feisel; quest), Meyer Leipsic: Lehmi A juvenile play entitled “The Three Fairy Gifts” followed, the cast being as foilows: Queen Titania, Cell Etna Schoennolz everson; Cynthia, Se 1, Lilian Reiss; Vera, Lilia 4 Reiss; Rupert, Waiter Brandi; Tiny Eifin, Little Irene Schlessinger. Fairies—Cora Korn, E.la Kaskell, Esther In- dig, Ethel Korn, Leonie Bresiau, Franceite | Muose, Dora Meyerstein, Mabel Senay, Clarissa Israel, Hattie Meyerstein, Sudie Oppenneimer, Olga ’Rosenberg, Rachel Goldsiein, Ernu Scuoenholz, Mabel Coblentz, Miidred' Maun, Margo Eisenbe Ciarence Marks, Lillian Friedman, Estells Schoenfeid, Selma Cohn, Edith Arouson, Lucille Aronson, Betiie Van Orden. A court entertainment was the next number and was divided into seven parts, | as follows: | 1. Turkeys: Willie Rothschild, Felix Korn, Bert Buer, Joseph tchoenfeid, Joseph Levy, Marry Wise, 2. Miss Rosine d’Ennery, dance, “Le Prin- temps.” 3. Schlessinger children, Hilds, Florence, Irene, Alice, IRopoid. 4. Pantomime, “Tit for Tat”: Miss Leah Coblentz, Miss Selma Schoenholz, Sadie Roths- child; accompanist, ) y ider dance, Leonine Bre . Sailors: Dave e Rosenberg, Al ; “Armorer’s ,” A. Garreti; “Move Ship I Love” (by re- Tapioca,” Melville Friedman; Fairy Elfin, = | Ax | 7. Reciation, “The | (Cowan), Miss Hattic Nathan. The entertainment closed with a sword drill, the following taking part: Jake Kaskell, Irwin Baer, Martin Sten, George Uri, Sam _Stern, Erving Green, Lucien Reiss, Herbert Kramer, Bertie Gerson, Walter Brandt, Leiand _Meyer, Edgar Levy,’ Arthur Elkan, Milton Newhaus, Oscar Pollack and Bertram Altschul. . In 1606 there was passed an Actof Par- lismenc levying 1 shilling fine on every person absent from church on Sunday. WALTER FEISEL (Bones) and LOU:S VAN VLIET (Tambo) of the Centennial Club Munstrels, 1897. BOLD BURGLARS TOOK THE CHANGE A Grocer Held Up in His Store and Robbzd of $35 Two Men, Closely Disguised, Negotiated the Deal on Sat- urday Night. The Victim Was Postel of Union and Fillmore Streets—N) Clew to the Culprits. The work tbat has been going on for sorhe time on the parade ground at the Presidio, for the purpose of enlarging it, is still in progress, and what there is in evidence at this time gives a good idea of what the grounds will look like when they are leveled and brought up to the proper grade. When completed it will be one of the finest pieces of ground for the purpose tnat can be found in the United States. The officers ana the men at the various posts are all engaged at this time with thoughts of the great military tourna: ment that is to be held at the Presiio in April and in which competitors from all the posts in tk epartment of California will take part. This event is one that will be interesting, not only to the sol diers, but 1o the citizens, and it is believed that there will be au unusualiy large at- tendance. In the meantime the men are preparing for the monthly field day, which is an- nounced for next Wednesday. One of the events will be a sheler tent and equip- ment race, described in the schednle as follows: Two men armed with pistol, loaded with lank cartridges, in each tent, pitched; blan- kets sp ead under them: hats, bicuses, leg- gings, spurs and pistol off; saddle. bridle and blanket (unfolded) outside; horse held ten ards away. AU signsl rise, put on clothing, eggings and spurs; buckie ou pistol; strike tent; rell blanket inshelter half, and strap on cantie; fold saddie blanket; bridle and saddie horse; mount, draw and fire blank cartridge from pisiol as signal of comvletion. Another event that is on the list is called the mounted skirmish contes:, and is described as follows: Troopers armed with carbine, revolver and saber. Exch trooper to take track, draw saber, right and leit cut (alternately) against infantry ut six heads on ground and’ returns saber; dzaw pistol, fire six shots (blank carte ridges) to rightand left front (alternately) at heads on tall posts; halt, throw horse and magazine-fire five shots over horse, no shot to be fired except horse is down. Five seconds added to time for every head missed. (Time contest.) In addition there will be a number of events thai will test the agility of the par- ticipants. That men may sometimes aspire to rise from the ranks is manifest from an order recently issued appointing a board of offi- cers to meet at the Presidio mnext Wednesday to conduct the preliminary examination of Serg:ant-Major Robert McCleave, First Infantry, an applicant for a commission, with & view to determining his eigibility for promotion to the grade of second lieutenant. The board is com- posed of Captain Lewis Smith, Third Ar- tillery; Gaptain Guy L. Edie, assistant surgeon; Kirst Lieutenant Louis P. Brant, First Intantry; First Lieutenant Paul F. Straub, assistant surgeon; Second Lieu- tenant Thomas G. Carson, Fourth Cavalry. The following is the order that has been received relative 1o the coast defenses: No persons, except officers of the army and navy of the United States, and persons in the service of the United States emplcyed in direct connection with the use, construction or care of these works, will be allowed to visit any portion of the lake and coast defenses of the United States, without the written authority 01 the commanding officer 1n charge. Neither wriiten nor pictorial descriptions of these works will be made for publication with- out the authority of the Secretary of War, nor will any informetion be given concernin them which is not contained in the printe reports and documents ot the War Depart- ment. The commanding general of the army has prepared a memorandum relating to Iyceums. The 1dea of the revision is that these iyceums shall not be conducted in the light of schools wo prepare officers for promotion, simply for the purpose of ad- vancing a knowledge of tue military art and science. ESCAPED FROM A DEPUTY MARSHAL Two Counterfeiters Created a Scene on the Water Front. One of Them Got Away by Join® ing in the Chase After His Companion. There was a scene of wild excitement at the ferries yesterday morning. The steamer bearing the Los Angeles passen- gers had just discharged her human freight and everybody was making for the cars when there came a cry of “Stop those prisoners!” At the same instant two men broke through the crowd, and one taking the east side and the other the west side of East street, they ran for their lives in the direction of Folsom street. In a few sec- onds there was a yelling mob in chase, but had it not been for the pres:nce of mind of Harry Berges, watchman on the Oceanic Steamship Company’s wharf, both prisoners would have escaped. He tripped up one of the fleeing convicts and pinioned him before he could rise. A few minutes later the panting Deputy Marshal came on the scezie and again handcuffed bis man. The other prisoner was no- where in sight. 1 Last Friaay Deputy United States Mar- shal W. J. Oaks left Los Angeles with Frank Henning and John A. Clark in his charge. Both men had been found guilty of ounterfeiting and were on their wi to San Quentin to serve a five years' sentence. The E;i“m“ were handcuffed together and haved themselves on the way here. It appears, however, that Bauer could slip his band in and out of the cuff at pleas- ure, and he and Henning made all their arrangements for a break for liberty as soon as San Francisco was reached. While walking out through the ferry building the plan was carried ont and the wild rush followed. Clark ran like a scared deer, but Hen- ning concealed the handcuffs that dan- from his wrist in bis pocket and joined the pursuers. *“There he goes!” he led alone with the others, and when his fellow prisoner had been captured he quietly slipped away and has not been seen since. - : At the police station the recaptured NEW - TO-DAY — DRY GOODSs. N e e 2t el LINEN DEPARTMENT! ¢ 'GERMAN AND IRISH LINENS! in width, good value for $1.50 a yard. This week we will place on sale our SPRING I'PORTA~ TION OF HOUSEKEEPING LINENS and call particular attention to the following five SPECIAL VALUES EXTRA QUALITY GLASS LINEN, blue and red checks, warranted , worth 15c a yard. 400 dozen Superior Quality DAMASK 22 inches square, Irish man- ufacture, new designs, worth $2 dozen. es Extra Quality German TABLE elegant designs, full 72 inches 300 dozen LOOM HUCK TOWELS, size 18x36, warranted pure linen, Irish man- Extra Quality BLEACHED NAPKINS, 26 in. square, Ger= 12;0 ngO pieces Yard ( pure linen, $ID.50 g NAPKINS, $1.00 1 Damask. Yard ( $1.50 Dozen ( ufacture, worth $2.00 a dozen. | $3.00 gs"‘[’m‘?&’i’s“x Dozen Shams, Breakfast Sets and Fi man manufacture, regular price $4.50. We are also showing an elegant assortment of Bureau Covers, Scarfs, Sideboard Covers, Damask Towels, Lunch Sets, Pillowcases, Sheets, Tray Cloths, Doylies, Pillow ine Damask Table Cloths. ORPORAy, N a0z, %0 d 111, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121 POST STREEL prisoner explained that he had played an old trick on Deputy Marshal Oaks. When the latter put the handcufis on him he nad his hands clasped with bis thumb on his wrist. When the thumb was withe drawn there was plenty of room in which to move his hand 1 and out. The Depuiy Marshal took no further chances with the man he had recaptured, but at once started for San Quentin with him. On his return he will remain berea couple of days to ses if he cannot recap- ture his other prisoner. Henning is well known to the police here and it is thought that his liberty will be short-lived, more especially as he still has the handcuffs attached to his left wrist. Henning and Clark were arrested in Los Angeles last December for attempting to manufacture and circilate counterfeit coin. Clark had worked for a time in a dental laboratory, and he conceived the brilliant idea, it seems, that he could make counterfeit coins with the same material—plaster of paris—that he nsed in molding forms for the mouth. He took Henning and a boy of 16, of good parent- age, into partnership with him. The | young fellow was to “'shove the queer” on an unsuspecting public, but his very first attempt resulted in his arrest. He peached on his associates and the officers withheld his name from the public. The arrest of Henning and Clark followed. They were soon afterward indicted by the Federal Grand Jury, tried in the United States Circuit Court of Los An- geles, convicted and on March 4 were sen- tenced to five years each in San Quentin prison. In Clark’s den were found a clumsy pair of plaster of paris molds for | making four-bi. pheces and a quantity of very crude coins. The pair had apvarently come to grief on tneir first attempt to “‘do business.” Los Angeles knew of no pre- vious record of the pair in the line of counterfeiting. Henning, the one who escaped, is a native of Belgium, a butcier by trade, aged about 38 years, 5 feet 614 inches in height and weighs about 105 pounds, dark hair, gray eves, dark com- plexion, of compact build, scar on left eye- brow and another on right arm above the wrist. RAILROAD MAIL CLERKS, Several Hundred of Them to Arrive Here This Afternoon for To-Mor- row’s Convention. The railroad mail clerks, about 250 in a boay, will arrive here on a special train at 4:15 o’clock this afternoon to take part in their annual convention, which will open in the Y. M. C. A. Auditorium to-morrow morning at 10 o’clock, probably with 300 delegates in attenaance. This morning the delegstion will be given areception in the Assembly Cham- ber at Sacramento upon arriving there irom the East. Governor Buad and Mayor Hubbard will be present and ex- | tend greetings. About 150 of the visitors will stay at the | Baldwin, which wiil be the headquarters | of the organization during the several | days it will holu its sessions here. On Wednesday the entire party wiil make a tour of the bay on the big ferry steamer Ukiah, and in the evenine will attend the Tivoli. All day Thursday will be devoted to business sessions in the Y. M. C. A. building, but on Friday there will be an_excursion to Monterey, Sants Cruz and the big trees. On Saturday they will do Chinatown and other sights, and in the evening they will hold a public reception at the Bald- win Hotel. Sunday the deiegates will start for home by way of Los Angeles. ——————— Sons of Benjawin. Last Thursday evening San Francisco Lodge of In received a visit from mem- bers of Golden Gate, Pacific and California lodges, 4180 a number of ladies of Minerva Lodge. The visitors were received in Charity Hall, B. B. build- ing, aud entertained ata banquet, where several 0 h tly spent. The Iadies of Miaerva L+ dze will give a return of the compliment on Thursday eveuiug next in Social Hall Alcazar building, when a sclect pro- sramme will be presented. ————————— TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. ‘Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug- gists refund the money if it fails lo cure OLOBERR BOWEN & C0. The closer the investiga- tion concerning the goods we sell the better we are ad- | vertised. The term ‘‘ Pure | Food Grocers” is justly ap- plied here. SPECIAL- SAVING SALE. Monday—Tuesday—Wednesday Butter square 35¢ Quality unsurpassed; regularly 40c. Sliced Pineapple, 2-1b can 15¢ regularly 20c; packed at Singapore. Royans (a la vatel), can 15¢ regularly 20c; sardines packed in olive oil, with truffle and pick.e. Bouillon Capsules box 25¢, regulacly 0c; beel extract favore With celery. Combining healthfal. ness and pleasure. Oysters, 0.C., 1-1b. cans, 2 for 25¢ 2-1b. cans; 20c Regularly 15¢ and 25c. Cocktails bottle 75¢ 3 for $2.00 regularly $1.00; Manhattan, Martini, Gin, Vermouth, Whiskey. Our bot: ing of purest ingredients only. Fresh Eggs doz. 15¢ Complete stock of fish for the Lenten season— Full list in Catalogue, mailed free. Baja California Damiana Bitters 8 A POWERFUL APHEODISIAC AND specific tonic for the sexual aud urinary orxany of both sexes, and s great remedy for diseases ¢ the kidneys A greai Resiorativs, Invigorator and N . “Sells on its own Meri.s! 1o long-winded tesiinionials necessars. NABEK, ALr> & bKUNE, Agents, 23 Market St., S. ¥.—(Send for Circular) & J ‘The most certain and safe Pali edy. e gz oo il (i Henaa e Lt : : tlons. 50c per bottle “m#m‘lmm v L e — e ————h r