The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 14, 1897, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MAY GET RICH ON FALSE RUBBER A Santa Rosa Finds a Substitute for Caoutchouc. It Winl Socn Be Mauufacmredi ¢ Sap Comes WRESTLED FUR BLODD. McLeod of the O'ympic D:feated by an had made such effec: e of in the out. For & time the movements of torcea MeLeod's shoulders fair i to the mat, making honors even and ating all the interest upoa the lsst Sercast of character, the second T hlegmatic ehampion, w»ici e piowed up the mat was 8 caution. McLeod vers d out of some very ticklish owly shuffling off some very he wearisome work of e champion was 100 much for th 14 1a1¢ him exBansied aad in to resist the Farmers fna ee minutes there was as flerce a l““&uunmmq of the mst ever fur- Reporter | rousiy execmed, nd fall, wi i Eu—n~ W'\A ectaters went | 4 recovered somewhat from | defeat had | mi » ‘deflant speeches wore ot ece:ved by ihe sudience. { VERY SMALL ROUTES. | John Riley Sues W. K. Hearst and M. | H. de Young for Alleged Breach of Contract. Jobn Riley, by his marmy- Smith &‘ evmne of lhl news- clnding the townships of e, Colma. Baden and San B the plaintiff had secured for the Examiner. avers that Mr. Hear: (GOT K FORTUAE IN FEATHERS :| Return of Four Adventnr- ous Nimrods Frem the Swamp of Chiapas. Found Huge Tapirs in the Wilds Nearly as Bg as a Cow. Battle for Lib With a Vicious Alliga- tor—Queer Isiand Nesting Place of Egrets. Four hunters who tave lad remarkable. | to anybedy but who has equal skl | h guns, highly dangerous experiences in l Chiapas, away at the taii end of Mexies, | srea: the International Hotel. They are | . Gar'ick, who bas tewn a hunterm | ia aod “all over” for more than | oty years; H. R sad C. H. Freer 0:5 ¢, younger men, but who have The Four Huntzrs Who Have Cl iapas, 1 | | ! Mexicans do not know how to hunt them. | On this island the birds were so tame that we went right among them and yet they wouldn’t fly more than a dozen or twenty feet away. “In the five months we got a littie over fifteen pounds of the egret feathers, which we brought with us bere. The feathers are worth here about $33 sn onnce, ora total of $9000 approximately. If we don’t get that we will go on to New York with them. The feathers are fine and we have no fear about muxinx at least $33 an ounce. “We saw many -ud animals, some of which were undoubtedly dangerous. There are many tapirs down there. They are low poaderous animals, weighing as much as 800 pounds each, and when they get started in a given direction keep right along. They can't tura aroand. 1f you keep out of the way you are prefty apt to be safe, otherwise you will get into trouble. “There are two kinds of tigers in the jungles, too, and of those We saw several. One is & very big animal, and the other small. We got several of them. A bird that interested us all was a singular fowl, bigger if anything than a t , but with a handsome crest. It resembles otherwise sbe turkey, but flies like a pheasant witn a whirring sound. The Mexicans eat them, and we did also. We found the meat wonderfully sweet liks the pheasant. There were so many of the birds that we | used when we killed them jus: to slice the meat off the breast and Iry it, and let the rest go. The meat was 30 white that it was almost transparent. “There is a black duck there, too, that is ashig as a goose and has s warty neck and head. It is splendia eating. The | alligators were pretty ugly at times, and we had to look sharply out for them. On | one occasion one was stealing silently on | one of our men, when he killed it with bis shotgua,” NEW HOME FOR SEQUOIA. Daughters of the American Revolution Will Have Headquarters of Their P'n. The last regulsr meeting of Sequoie Chapter, Daughters of the American Rev- | olution, previous to adjournment for the | | mmer, was neld last Tuesd: n the residencs of Mrs. Wil 00 Washing street. he meeting was that the chapter snould have a permanent home furnished 1n the colonial style and that the expenses attached to securing and roishing such should be met from the ecial fund set aside for the vurpose. am Alvord, | During vacation steps will be taken look- ing toward the sccomplishment of this object. Braved the Tige's, Tapirs, Aligators and Miasmatic Swamps of and Returned With a Fortune in ife by @ “Call” Sketched from artist.] Feather:. sball pay him $360 damagesand | HOODLUM BRENNAN | He Will Ask the Supreme Court fora nted in a work of fiction, would bave ot by the en- ty e complainis were Brenuan, and on the pre- hearing in the Police Courtit ed by Brennan’s lawyer that 7 then taken should apply to case of extortion came for recurned a verdict of guilty | an, a typical hoodlum, who | o be proud of his prominence as pervers. n's lawyers say that the court | the motion to dismiss | n for felony because the de- ¢ on trial within the | ute, and for al- ts in the pleadings 3. t these alleged errors the be asked to remove | s from Brennan —_————— WAITED IN VAIN Peter Goldsione Left His Wife in a | Theater and Was Gone Three Years. Mrs. Frances Goldsione was granted s | divorce from Peter B. Goldstone yeste: ot aa i st | | $50 a montk alimony. Goldstone testified that she mar- ried ber husband on March 2, 1593, and that 1wo wee! later he invited ber to go | with pinx. In order to burglars and pickpockets | 3 d her purse containing $2000 | and all her jeweiry to him for safe keep- 10g. Atthe end of the second act Goldstone | said be thought he wouid like to “'go out | for & clove,” and left her to enjoy the re- | mainder of the performance aione. She waited for bim awhile, but finaily went | bome, expecting to find him there, bu: in this sne was disappointed as she did not see him sgain for three years. He was not desirous of living with her | any longer, so she sued for a divoree, and | was allowed to resume her maiden name, | G , the cour: remarking that it| | was not a very great favor to ask, since though differing in sound the words are | identical in meaning. — o o Gun Club Pastimes. The gun clubs have arranged to meet on Sundsy mext at their respeciive shooting grounds, viz: Olympic at Ingleside, Lincoln | at Alameds Point, Encinal st Birds Point, South Ends at Coima, and the San Jose and Empire ciubs will engage in & match shoot for 2 silver trophy with tea men on each at Alemeds Point. The State live-bird tourns- | effects of it. We landed at San Benito, [ want to Tapachuls, a town with 9000 in- | finally began our huat for the egrets. | cinity of Tonols to San Benito. e, who, like the others, has all his life been familiar with gun and trzp. These nimrods went {o that remote coun- | to bunt egrets for their feathers. They | aiter a fiye montbs’ | eturned here with a | le over fifieen jounds of festhers, and | these being worth far more than their weight in gold the bunters have made in this short time s comfortable little for- tane, In going to Chiapas, the southwestern which is on the Gulf of Tehuan- nd_the country itself reaching tan, they found a region egrets and other beamtiful They also found great tapirs ndance, two kinds of tigers, both of the latter being beautifully mottled, and 2 buge bird bigger than a turkey, but witd a crest, and meat as sweet a3 that of the pheasant. There were many other birds, a larze number of which had the most exquisite plumage. Besides these thers were marauding animals, not | the least dangerous of which were the alligators. which in large numbers infest that country. This wss found a virgin field for the nimrods, fur no white men, so they re- | count, bad ever before been in that part of the country. Besides the feathers, the | iger skins and the carios which the ex- | plorers brought from their incursion into the wilderness, are the breasts and crests of different birds. The colors are exceed- ingly brilliant, and the festhers sa fine and soft that they seem identical with tne finest fur. | In any book of reference regarding the | region which they visited may be found something like this: *‘Chiapas, the most southern State of Mexico. The highlands bave an sgreesble climate, but the low- lands are hot and sickly.” It was thus that the four hunters found |it. They deem it very strange that they | escaved from that bot, swampy and fetid country witbout fever. | “I regard it as most fortunate,”’ said | Mr. Freer last night, ‘‘that none of us | were at any time sick. The country is very swampy and overrun with alligators. | Wey, along one lake we visited the ex- crement was piled up six inches thick, and when we walked in it it was like step- ing on sawdust. The atmosphere was fetid, and it is a wonder we escaped the | ! the last port in Mexico, and from there habitants, twenty-two miles away. There we made our boats, and then conveyed them and our bageage in oxearts to Masa- tan, where we embarked in a river and *“The range of our hunting was overs distance of sixty miles, or from the vi- Itisa swampy country and the best for egrets that I eversaw. It is in Chiapas that these beautiful birds and many others have their rookeries. The egrets always select an island in a lake for their rook- eries. We found = place of this kind in | one of the lakes where there were, [ sup- pose, 5000 egrets, and there were as mauy five or six nests on a single bush. “The egrets were very tame there. They had never been hunted in our style, as no ment will open om the 31s: inst. at Ingleside. prmh men had ever been there, and ihe WHTTE LABOR A WINNER, Labor Commls:mner Fitzgerald's Conference With the Hawaiians. President Dole Appoints a Cemmis’ sion of Three to Confer With Local Officials. Labor Commissioner E. L. Fitzgerald returned to this City on the Australia on ‘Wednesday Irom his quest in the Hawaiian Islands, and brings with bim every assur- ance that American labor will cut a very important figure there in the near futare. His final conference with the planters was beld May 5, when they virtually bound themselves to give American labor the preference over either European or tic competition at every geod opportunity. During his visit Commissioner Fiiz- gerald has succeeded in convincing the planters that in its finality cheap labor is more expensive and less satisfactory than white labor. It was undersiood that the coolies now employed will be sent home a3 fast as their contracts expire, and their places filied with Americans. As a result the labor question is likely to bs made the issue of the day in the islands henceforth. The issue will be heighte: by the fact that Fitzgeraia gave the Hawaiians to understand that unless the preference is given to Ameri- can laborers he will use nisinfluence to turn the laboring classes here against an- nexation. President Dole hss appointed a Labor Commission in the persons of John Em- meluth, W. N. Armstrong and Alexander ‘xonn;. Armstrong I8 now in San Fran- cisco. *From the assurances received from the planters and the Govesnment,” said the Commissioner, “I am certain that they are sincere in this matter. I fally recog- nize the fact that the planters mus: be protected at all times. s0 did not ask for any radical change in the employment of labor on the plantations. Iknow that it must be gradual, and am wiiling that it should be so, so iong as it is steady and continaous. *“A very large mlivflty of the planters ba .pled their word that they w! American laborers as fast room c-n ‘o made for them on the sev- eral plantations. ~ They agree, first of all. to secure the 10 per cent of white Iaborers required by law from America, and to fiil with American laborers the piaces left vacant by the Japanese whose contracts bave expired.” Independent Eifies Outing. The twentieth annual excursion and pienic of the Independent Rifies will be heid Sunday at Glenwood Park, in the Senta Cruz Moun- tains. The membersof the company expect this to be the most suceessful outing they have ever heid. and srrangements have been made cursionists. A ket street st 8:15 A. X., aud leaves Glenwood at5P —_————————— Railway Conductors in Town. About 100 members of Ei Capitan Division No. 115 of the order of Raiiway Conductors arrived here Wednesday, en route to Los An- to attend the sanual convention. Mem- of some otner divisions and their friends They visited Sutro baths in the afterncon and went bathing in the salt water. FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1897. ACTIVITY ON THE VALLEY ROAD Rsgular Trains Will Be Running to Hanford in a Few Days. On May 22 the Event Will Be Formaily Celebrated by the People. That Day Is the Anniversary of the Birth of Kings County — Great Demonstration Promised. The work of extending the Valley road is going forward bravely. The grading between Fresno ana Hanford has been finished and trackiayers are rusning the job of putting down the raus, so that trains over the line may run into Hanford on the 22d inst. Chief Engineer Story yesterday an- nounced that the work would be com- pleted on this section by May 22—which is the day appointed for the great celebra- tion in Kings County. The ceiedration will be a double-header, May 22 is the birthday of Kings Couaty, and the thousands of farmers who will as- | semble at the county seat on that day to commemorate the anniversary of the coun- ty’s birth will also celebrate then the com- pletion of the Valley road to that city. Many prominent citizens of San Fra ciseo, smong them several promoters the raiiroad enterprise, sare mak ng prep- arations to aitend the celebration. Claus Spreckels, president of the San Franci-co | and San Joaquin Vailey Railroad, may not be able t0 attend. The warm weather in the valiey this time of the year is not conducive to his heaith, still the hope is expressed that he will attend the| demonstration. The people of Kings County recognize the great service that Le has rendered to the State in gemera! and the San Joaquin Valley in particular, and are therefore anxious that he shall be with them on this eventful The graders who were so actively en- zaged a few days ago on the line from Fre=no to Hanford have been transferred | to the line from Fresno to Visalia, and | work on the latter section is now goinz ahead with vigor. The track is mow laid on tue Visalia extension to Kings River. | Six weeks’ timejmay be required to cor- | siract the important bridge to span this | siream. Itshould be understood toat the road forks at Fresno, one line going to Hanford and the other to Visaha Ata point tweniy miles south of the latter| place the forzs will unite. The prong sapplying the greater traffic will be classed as the main line. In the work of construction the con- tractors, Grant Brothers, do the grading, and the company looks to the work of ack-layine. It is the opinion of City 1sineer Story that the track-laying will reach Hanford by the 20th inst. Some work may be necessary around the yards t0 accommodate the celebration trains, but everything will be in readiness by the 2d. Ats conference held Tuesday between Vice-President Watt, Director Payson and Traffic Manager Moss it was decided to ron two excursion trains from Fresno o Hanford on the 22d. Ooue of these w make close connmection with the reg: train from Stockton, and the other w simply run the thirty miles between | Fresno and Hanford. Special rates will te made for the round trip. Thereafter a regular service will be es- tablished between San Franciscoand Han- ford via Stockton, and two trains will be Jerlt!d one leaving Stockion and one ford esch day. ‘While the passefiger equipment that the Valley road now possesses is adequate for | the service, four additional passenger | cosches have been ordered and will be put | 1 into service on their arrival. Advices received by the company con- cerning the crops in the San Josquin | Valley this season are to the effect that | the yield of wheat will not be as large as the first estimates contemplated. Tbe | vield of fruit will be large, and the com- | pany bas made a low rate to encourage shipment of the orchard product. THE CITY HALL ROOF. Condemned as an Unfair Job by the Baildiog Trades Council. At the meeting of the Building Trades Council last evening the matter of the City Hall roof was specially considered. Reports were made that the work is not being done according to the plans and specifications. Owing to the trouble be- tween the contractor, J. J. O’Brien, and the Metal Roofers’ Union, the members of the union baving been discharged and non-union men put in their places, the job was declared unfair. Delegates Lennon, Burns and Sheddy of the Sandstone-cuticrs’ Union were seated as memoers of the council. It is expected that the Plumbers’ Union will soon sena delegates. A committee was appointed to organize the ironworkers, tose en principaily in the iron superstructures of buildings. The same committee will also endeavor 10 reorganize the local painters. _———————— MBS. RUDDELL'S DEATH & Lady Whose Charitable Deeds Made Many Families Happy. Mrs. Marzaret Gertrude Ruddell, wife of Samuel J. Ruddell, Deputy Surveyor of the Port, died at an early hour yes- terday morning aiter a long snd lingering e decessed was a daughter of the iate Philij McGovern, a well-known pioneer. She was a woman whose life was devoted to relieving the poor and the distressed, and she was an active worker iu several charitable institutions. Her oss will be mourned not only by her own family, but by a large number of poor pecple, to whom she was as & minis- tering angel. The funeral will take place®from St. Agnes Church on Masonic avenue next Saturdsy morning at 10 o’clock. New Way of Robbing Malls. An ingenious way of robbing the mails was discovered yesterday by Postal Imspectors Erwin and Munroe. A young man brought to them s registered letter addressed to him from a friend in an- other State. It had contained bank notes, but they had disappeared. The wax seals of the letter were intact and he Wwas puzzled (o sc- count for the manmer in which the contents had been extracted. The Inspectors discovered a slit_cut with s sharp knife om the insideof the envelope. The stamps had been moistened aad taken off and the siit was made on the occupied by them. After the notes were (aken out Pine thief pasted the siamps on sgsiD, tOus com- cealing the cut. e e e — Socialist Labor Party. Theodore Lynch was the lecturer of the evening st Wedzesday night's meeting of the Liberty Branch of the Socialigts in the Turk- stzeet Temple. His topic was “A Call 0 the TUncouverted,” and in an earnest and foreible manner the speaker engaged the attention of his audience, The lecture was preceded by & reading given by P. Ross Martin and a brief outline of the aimsof the party the chairman of the evening, Henry Warneeke Jr. The address of the evening was followed by remarks by severa! others of the sudience, The meeting closed with an announcement s lectare i the same dall oa Wednesday, n., 19, by Dr. Jerome A. by | ginning to be anxious for his safety, par- THE EMPORIUM. The Emporium. Remnants!--0dd Lots, ‘Broken Sizes Of All Kinds of Merchandise at LESS THAN HALF PRICE. To-day we hold one of the Largest Remnant Sales ever known in the history of San Francisco. Every department will participate. During the great Doane & Henshelwood sale we have accumulated thousands and thousands of remnants, odds and ends of all kinds of merchandise carried by them, all of which go on sale to-day in their respective depart— ments ; and those attending this GREAT SALE will get some of the biggest bargams they ever picked up in San Francisco. 500 Remnants of Embroidery. 500 Remnants of Veilings. 500 odd lots of Handkeumefs. 500 Remnants of Lace Flounc- ings. 1000 odds and ends in Neck- wear. 1000 Remnants of Ribbons. 500 Remnants of Linings. 1000 Remnants of Dress Trim- mln'JS. 1000 odds and ends of Crochet Buttons. 1000 odds and ends of Silk Ties. 1000 odd lots of Hosiery. 500 odd lots of Underwear. 2069 Remnants of Colored Dress Goods. 0dd Lots and Broken Sizes Ladies’ Jackets, Skirts, Waists, etc., at Less Than Half. Five items out of @ hundred in the Suit and Cloak section. 53 an[v—-James in fine cheviots, cn\ert cloths, storm serges % % | § | | 2 | : 1174 Remnants of Black Dress Goods. 500 Remnants of Colored Silks. 300 Remnants of Black Silks. 250 Remnants of Velvets. 1000 Remnants of Wash Goods. 1000 Remnants of Flannels. 1000 Remnants of Table Linens. 200 odd lots of Napkins. 500 odds and ends of Blankets and Comforts. 500 Remnants of Sheetings. 200 odd lots of Gloves and Parasols. 500 odd lots of Ladies’ Underwear. 250 odd lots of Infants’ Wear, Muslin fects, nea'lv even sxze m thls lne. wers $roto $18 ongm~ 17 cnIv—Sllk “areen and Silk Broc: mrougwut, perfect in cut and finish, were $12 Closing price.. yo0l, Braided Dresses for ci 12 years, navy que, red or bmwn effects, were 53 25. Ym_‘ ph.'( now at.. 2 $2 00 Foulard Silk Waists, wool plaids and plain wool waxsts, cor- duroy waists, wm-l. and without s;épara}fe collars, the very latest summer styles, were $4 to our pick of the lo: now 2t TN 82.85 A collection of Novelty 1897 Shirt Waists, in fine dxmvues‘ Scotch lappets, etc., atout 2 dozen of a kind, 20 different styles, regular prices $2, $225 and $250. To-day and s| 50 Saturday your choice at... — $2.50 Separate <kn’ts. lined 50 to $16 sc $8_45 0dd Lots and Broken Sizes Men’s Shirts and Underwear at Less Than Half. Six items out of a hundred equally as Good Bargains. 5 dozen Men’s Laundered White Shirts, sizes 1534, 16, 16¢ and 17 only, were g1. Now. B 2 40c 92 Men’s Laundered White Shirts, linen bosom, muslin, sizes 14, 16, 165 and 17, were $I 2: 7 dozen Men’s Vicuna Merino Underwear Shrts, 34 to 46, drawers 40 and 42 only, were per garment $1. Now. 11 dozen Men’s Derby Ribbed Balbrigzan Shirts, brown, blue, sizes 34 to 42, were 75¢. Now..... 3 dozen Men’s Natural Merino Shirts, sizes 34 and 36 only, soc. Now... g dozen Men’s English 12 were $1 50. Now. TRAVELERS’ SAMPLES CARPETS. To-day and Saturday we shall offer 1000 samples Fine Wilton, Axminster, Body Brussels and Tapestry Brussels Carpet> fresh from the looms, from 1 to 1} yards long, worth from 75¢c to $2 50 a yard, at 25¢ to 95c¢ each. This is an exceptional opportunity to buy cheap Rugs. 0dd Lots and Broken Sizes Shoes for Ladies, Men and Children. If we have your sige in these lofs you can buy shoes cheaper than ever before m}aur life. Ladies’ Dongola Kid Oxfords, opera toes, sizes 21 to 5 only. Ladies’ Dongola Kid Oxfords coin toes, sizes 3 to 6 only.. Ladies’ Dongola Kid Oxfords, opera toes, sizes 2 to 53 only. Misses’ Russet Spring Heel Shoes, sizes 13 to 2... Misses’ Russet Spring Heel Shoes, sizes 13 to 2, the $1 50 grade. Youths’ Button Schoal Shoes, sizes 12 to 2 only.. Men’: ’s Cal! Congress Shoes, sizes 6 to 8 only. ici Kid Shoes, all sizes but in narrow widths onlv, The Emporlum WP D EREE R S IR ) PRESCOTT SAWYER -dmmeutha !Z:lndsomn Josephine, a Ta- gt Jaig, He Sailed From Tacoma in His Yacht Eleven Days Ago. % § 2_ = : § | As she was for_sale and he was amply provided with funds be bought the bo“, and the next heard of him he was paring for a voyage to San_Francisco xy in his new acquisition. He wrote to a namber of local yachtsmen inviting them to go north and mske the trip down, promising to give them a pleasant voyage. None were able to accept the invitation, and a couple of weeks ago a letter was re- ceived from Sawyer by a particalar friend stating that he would sail on the 2d inst., with a crew of three seamen and a cook. | Since then nothing bas been heard of the schooner, and his friends figure that he should have been weil down the coast by this time unless some accident has hape pened to the craft. The Josephine is supposed to be & stanch ¢rait, that cost nearly $5000 when new, and Sawyer’s friends say that while he was an adventurous fellow, fond of danger and storms at sea, he was too sensible to g0 upon the ocean unless his yacht was well found. The recent storms that bave prevailed along the Oregon and ‘Washington coasts have given them food for alarm, but they still have hope that hs has been delayed by bead winds and will yet sail proudly into the bay with the | Corinthian embiem et his masthead. Sawyer is single, about 30 vears of age, acd on the death of his father a few years ago mherited 2n ampie fortune. He paid $2800 for the Josephine and spent several 2z her out for the ~ Friends Think He Should Have Been Heard From by This Time. His Craft, the Schooner Josephine, Is a Stout-Built V ssei Bought in Tacoma. Prescott Sawyer, the well-known yachts- | man snd son of the late United States Judge Sawyer, has been out eleven days from Tacoma in his schooner yacht J hine, and his friends bere are be- Annie Besant 1alks. osephine, Mrs. Aunie Besant gave an informal talk on Theosophy st the ehurch of the Unity yester- day aliernoon from 3 to 4 She answered guestions periaining to tbe cult at Sauve sons’ m4105P. % There were many hqnuwl Dresent at boih -nlln'l, and the Theosophists regarded them as resuliing in ticularly as none of the incoming vessels from the north have reported seeing the trim pleasure-boat. Young Sawyer has property interasts on. Puget Sound and receatly went thither to