The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 4, 1897, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 4, LHIER PAULISTS: N0 MORE Tather Hewit, the Superior- General, Passes Away in New York. DEATH CAME AT A RIPE OLD AGE. His Career Ore of Many Re- markable Vicissitudes and Achievements. WELL KNOWN AS A RELIGIOUS WRITER A Rolemn Requiem Mass Will Be Oelebrated in This City on Tuesday. Very Rev. Augustine F. Hewit, C.8.P., | D.D., superior-general of the order of | in the United States. One of these is in this City and the other is located in New York. That in this City was established bui two years ago. A General Chapter of the order will be called in about two or three weeks for the purpose_of electing a new superior-general. San Francisco will send two representatives ané New York about ten oreleven. On Tuesday mora- ing, July 5, a solemn requiem masa will be | ceiebrated in the Paulist church, on Cali- | fornia street, at the corner of Grant avenue, at 9 o'clock in commemoration of the deceased prelate. THE TORRENS LAND ACT, Attorney-General Fitzgerald and Secre= tary of State Brown Prepare the i Forms for Legal Procedure. County officers and others have been sending letters of inquiry to Attorney- General Fitzgerald lately as regards the Torrens land act, which went into effect the 1st inst. Accordingly, he and Secre- tary of State Brown have had a meeting and prepared the forms necessary for going through the legal precedure. The intention of the law is to better the system of ascertaining titles 1o real estate by making it unneccessary to go back to the Noachian era every time it is desired to make a transier of property. By proper application owners of realty may go into the Superior Court ana have the siatus of | the titie deciared. Under the order of court a certificate of title will be issued to the owner and & copy be kept on recori. Upon transfer of the property thereafter the only thing necessary will be to trans- for the certificate to the purchaser, as the certificate will always serve as an abstract of the title. The substitution of the new system for the old will take place gradually, for tne law does not make it compulsory on prop- erty-owners to observe its provisions. Ap- plications, however, on account of the simplicity ot the method, will be likeiy to | come forward pretty rapidly ———— City Litigation. City Attorney Harry T. Creswell has insti- tuted another suit to recover possession of a valuable piece of property on Braunan street, | near Dore, which he alleges belongs to the City and County of San Francisco, but which | | The Late Very Rev. Augustine of the . F. Hewit, D.D,, Superior-General Paulists, sts, tl.e head of at9:15 p rmaticn that organization, vesierday in New York. d event was received locaj “bouse” by telegraph shortly aiter the pissing away of thedistinguished Father Hewit was born in Fairfield, » November 27, 1820. His career was arkable one., His father was Ni haniel Hewit, a Congregational minister. Hewit, when he was 12 years of age, went to Phillips Academy at Exeer, Mass., to prepare for college. He entered Amherst College when he was 15 years of age and graduated in 1839. Afier that he studied law for one year with hia uncle. When 20 years of age he entered the theo- logical iustitute at Windsor. After study- ing there two years he was licensed to reach as a Congregationalist, but in 1843 sordained a deacon in the Protestant copal church. His heaith very precarious at this time and his physi- cisn told him that he could not Jive ior more than one year. Thinking that a trip to the Old World might be of benefit he was selected to accompany Bishop Southgate, x mission- ary to the Greek church in Constanti- nopie. Bul the missionary commiitee refused to ratify the appointment on the ground that Mr. Hewit's beliefs were too decidedly Caibolic. He was then lhiving in Baliimore under the jarisdiction of sishop Wittingham. Leaving more he went to Charleston, 8. C., in 1842 ana was received into the Catholic church there one year later. Afier two years’ study under Bishop ynolds, the Cutholic Bishop of Cuarles- he was ordained by that prelate in ch, 1847. Three years later he joined the Redemptionist order in Baltimore. Father Hewit worked in the diocese of sion, Jegan his work as a missionary in the Uniied States in 1851 in the city ‘of New York. He, with Fathers Hecker, Deshon, Walworth and Baker, established R the first Catholic mission that was ever | given in the United States. He continued a Redemptionist until 1858, when Fathber Hecker founded the Pauiist order, which organization Father Hew:t then joined. An interesting account of the mission- ay labors of these seven years is to be found in a book written by him entitied, “The Memoirs of Rev. Francis Baker.” He continued the work of establishing missions uutil 1865. Since that time until the last two years, when he was iil, he was engaged in theological studies and literary work, teaching almost constantly in the reminaries of the Paulist Fathers in New York and at Washington. 1e has written a number of books, but est known by the articles which he has contributed to all the Catholic magazines and reviews in the United States and to some of those of Europe. He was editor of the holic Worla from 1869 to 1874 and professor of philosophy and theology in the Paulist Seminary. His opinions on Scriptural guestions have been highly esteemed amoug theolozians and received with the greatest respect by those who differed from them. His Ilinguistic ac- quirements were extensive, About fifteen y-ars ago Amherst Col- lege, in recognition of Father Hewit's licerary and theoiogical akilities, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, a strange fact when one considers that most of Hewit's theological writings are direcied pointedly against the theologi- cal views taught at Ambherst. Eleven years ago Leo XIII conferred the degree of D.D. upon him. e His death was due to a complication of troubles attenaant on old age. There are but two organizations, or houses, as they are called, of the Paulists 1 is claimed by the Sniels Estate Company E ald Peterson, Nellie Sachs, Alrich Woblken and others. Mr. Creswell hes met rin its object the recovery of temporarily passed out of with considerable success lu_the past ¥ litigation having for t nad | prope: the City ON A WEDDING JOURNEY. | GRS ARET I | Mr, and Mrs. Lars Anderson of Washington, D. C., in Town. | The Bride Is Richest Young Women in the United States. became | Mr. and Mrs. Lars Anderson of Wash- |ington, D. C., registered at the Palace | Hotel yesterday. They were married re- | cently in Boston and are on a wedding journey around the world, | Tne bride, who was Miss Isabella Per- ) kins of Boston, 1s rated as one of the rich- |est young women in the world. Her wealth is estimated as high as $40,000,000. | Even the most modest people of Boston, | people as conservative as Mr. Howelis, | who wrote “*A Chance Acquaintance” and | A Wedding Journey,” for the special de- light of Boston brides, estimate her wealth | at $20,000,000. She is accomplished, pre- | possessing and sensible. | " Mr. and Mr< Anderson took in_the sights of San Francisco yesterday. They | drove through tue par in the afternoon | und dined at the Cliff Houe in the even- ling. They will remain in and about the City until next Wednesday, when they 1 #ail for the Orient on the steamship Gaelic. The trip around the globe will be made leisurely, as Mr. Anderson is not | obliged to hasten in order to get back to his work. It is the present intention of the bappy young couple to loiter for sev- eral weeks in Hawaii and see all there is to be seen at the i<lande. Japan is a | country especially interesjing to brides in | general and to Boston brides in partic lar, hence a long stay may be made in that country. The account of the wedding of this young couple recently filled many col- umns of the daily press. The immense wealith of the bride’s ancestors was dwelt upon and the statement thai she had in- herited millions and would soon come into possession of millions more was elab- orated and perhaps slightly embellished for the occasion. In her jaunts about the City with her husband yesterday she wore a walking dress of navy biue and surely gave no outward sign that she was op- prested with the burden of ancestral mil- lions. One might have supposed her to be a well-to-co and proeressive delegate from New England to the Christian En- deavor convention. She said that the trip across the continent was pieasantand that she anticipated more pleasure in the vovage to Hawaii. Lars Anderson, who may bz called a lueky as well as a deserving bridegroom, is a grandson of Lars Anderson and the son of Colonel Nick Anderson of Ohio. The family is related to Major Anderson of Fort Sumter fame. He is a manly looking and well-spoken young gentle- man of the American type. et IR BN o Tu B R S The fastest trains on the continent of Europe are the expresses of the Northern Railway Company of France, Tteir speed is thirty-six miles an hour, Rated as One of the SHIP-OWNERS T0 HAKE A TEST All Vessels Arriving From Foreign Ports Undergo Two Inspections. Welsh & Co. Refuse to Pay Fees Demanded by Local Authorities. Board of Health Brings Suit to Force Ship-Owners to Comply With Local Regulations. A case of unusual interest to ship- owners has been brought in the Justices’ Court to test the right of the State quar- antine authorities to collect fees for the inspection of vessels arriving from foreign ports. At the present time the arriving vessels undergo thorough inspection by both the Federal and State authorities, and the latter charge a fee in proportion to the tonnage of the vessel. A. 8. Lovelace, the Health Officer of the Board of Health, has brought suit for $7 50 against Welsh & Co., owuers of the bark R. P. Rithet in order to make a test case and have the proper courts furnish a decision, in order that the future actions of the officials may be conducted legally. Garret McEnerney appears as attorney for the local health officer, and Em1l Pohli has been retained by the defendant ship- owners, who are about to file their answer and bring the case to a speedy trial. 1t seems that when aship arrives in San Francisco from a foreign port Dr. Rose- nau, the Federal Quarantine Officer ap- pointed by the President, boards the ves- sel and makes a thorough investigation. Then the local Quarantine Officer, Dr. Chalwers, who is appointed by the Board of Health of this City under a State law bearing on the subject, makes an inspec- tion, but the permission of the Federal officer is the only one that isrecognized by the Collector of the Port. In this there is a conflict of authorities between the United States Government and the State anthorities. The State’s Quarantine Officer collects a fee measured by the tonnage of the vessel for thein- spection, and this fee he turns into the City treasury, In the disputed or contested case the fee amounts 1o $7 50, but the ship-owners, Weish & Co., bave demurred and ob- jected to paying the fee since they claim that the inspection instituted by the local officer is entirely useless, in view of the fact that a vessel has already passed through an inspection at the hands of the Federal authorities and that the latter’s vermission to land and dischargeis the one accented by the Collector of the Port. The objection of Welsh & Co. to pay the $750 leu the Board of Health to com- mence suit to test the question. Asthe question is one that vitally interests the big shipping houses much interest is at- tached 1o tue suit, which will be prose- cuted and defended by both sides with great earnestness, and carried to a court where a final decision can be secured. The defzndant corporation is preparing to file their reply to the complaint and this will be done within a few days. PRECITA VALLEY SCHOOL. The Board of Eduecation Has Given Hope to the Improvement Club for a New Building. At a meeting of the Precita Improve- ment Club Friday nizht, J. T. Granam reported that the Board of Education had promised him that a schoolhouse for the Valley should be erected befors many months. The necessity for this building was made apparent by the number of school children who were ready to attend, if there were but accommodations for them. The next important movement that in. terests the people in the valley is the putting of Bernal Park in condition. This, the club has been contending for since iis organization. The little patch of ground that the people want improved is 80 small that tney thinkK the Supervisors might gratify their pride by improving it for them, as the expense would not be worth the squabling over. The executive committee reported that there was a little improvement in the workin filling up tbe hollow ground along- side of the old creek. 8. A. Byrne, the president of the club, stated that until the Bryant-avenue sewer put in condition, there can be no real improvement considered, as all other matters for substanial prozress might be delayed until this is done. The executive committee was instructed to keep at the Snpervisors until the much needed sewer be putin proper condition. OVERWORKED CHILDREN. Labor Commissioner Fitzzerald Will Investigats the Condition of Affairs Which Prevails in This City. In view of the attention paid to child labor in this City by recent writers and speakers on local topics, Labor Commis- sioner Fitzgerald has determined that facts have been brought to light which warrant him in investigating the subject. At the recent Woman’s Congress Miss Carlin of Berkeley stated that between 20,000 and 25,000 children were breadwin- ners in this City. Mrs, Lydia Prescott of the Society for the Prevention oi Cruelly to Children listened to these statements and disagreed with them to_the extent that she ha« prevaiied on the Labor Com- missioner to give them his attention and mako an investigation. > This Don Quixote enterprise will begin next Weddesday, when the donghty Com- missioner will accompany Mrs, Prescott on the initial trip. The detail will be fol- lowea up until the whole Ciiy has been covered. HOMING PIGECN FANCIERS. Entries Made for the First Race for the Kunebu Trophy. ‘The California Pigeon and Homing So- ciety met last evening at 632 Market street and completed the entries for the second race for the celabrated Otto L. Kuenn tro- phy. The birds will be flown from Marys- ville at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning. The distance is 105 miles and the time limit is four hours. F. W. Johnson of the Marys- ville Daily Appeal will release the birds. ‘The entries were as follows: C. A. Jouett, iwo birds; John Mole of East Oakluna, six; John Felmer of 8an Francisco, four; H. F. Whitman of Alameda, three; G. T. Marsh cf this City, four; J. W. Welch of this City, four. The entries for the third race for this trophy will close on July. 10 and notice will be sent to the members where the en- tries will be receivea. T. W. Leydecker exhibited his prize bird (T 236) that m the remarkable voyage from Los Ange! .in six days. This is the first bird that ever made the trip, and the time would have been better had the weather not been foggy in_the sonthern part of the State. J. W, Welch exbibited a pair of young golden eagles that were captured in Ban Benito County. They are a pair of beauties, for although the: re not old enough ‘o fly they measure six feet from tip to tip. —————— NINE MORE DIVORCES, New Suits Filed in the County Clerk’s Office on Friday. Another lot of divorce litigants made their appearance on the records of the County Clerk’s office Frirday. The lat- est additions to the list of those who con- sider marriage a fai'ure and have sued for legal separation are tbe following: Joseph Meyer against Libbie Meyer, for desertion. Mary Wigmore against Alexander Wig- more, for failure to provide. Mamie E. Austin against Thomas Aus- tin, for willful neglest. Sarah J. Evans against Thomas M. Evans, for neglect and failure to vrovide. Ella Francisco Malloy against William Malloy, for desertion and neglect. Keithley B. Stevens against Hattie E. Stevens, violation of marriage vows. Katherine A. Colvert against Edward Colvert, for desertion. Mrs. R. Campbell against E. Campbell, for desertion. Charlotte McMahon against Peter Mc- Manon, for cruelty. . Divorces Granted. Divorces were granted by Judge Heb- bard Friday as follows: Emma B. Kal- loch from Randolph Kalloch, a son of the late ex-Mayor Isaac Kalloch, for desertion and negtect; Sarah Hillette from Alexan- der Hillette, for desertion. THE YELLOW PLAGUE Colonel Dan M. Burns and &, H. Clapp on the Ravages Along the Coast. The Buzzards Are the Sole and Only Scavengers in the Many Afflicted Places. Colonel Dan M. Burns, owner of the Candaleria mine at San Dimas, Mexico, 140 miles from Mazatlan, was among the arrivals by the Acapulco yesterday. He has been absent many months and was accompanied by his family. The colonel says that though there isno fever in the part of Mexico he was in, he under- stands it is very bad all along the coast be- iow there to Panama. This was the story of all the passengers. Itisa raging fever and a great many fatalities have occurred. From an account given by George H. Clapp, who is at the Grand Hotel, it would seem that there are a great many deaths along the lower coast. “There have been twenty-five or thirty deaths at Champerico,” said Mr. Clapp, who is a civil engineer on one of the rail- roads ip Guatemala. “The deaths from the yellow fever in that part of the coun- try all occur in the cities. There have been none in the country. Th» cities have no sewerage, and the residents depena on the buzz:rds to clear away the offal of dif- ferent sorts. “‘Whean the sun comes out, after a rain, there are miasmas. It is no wonder, either. The fever is very deadly. The doctors say it is not yellow fever exactly, but what~ver it is it is pretty bad. One of my friends died with 1t. It has been very tatal along the coast to the isthmus. “In Guatemala, however, it is not as bad this yeur as it was two years ago. Then it commenced with the rains and continued right along, sweeping people away by thousands. This year it com- menced in the same way, but luckily dia notcarry away so many afterward.” P Qs St Mary Was Not Insane. Mary McManus was taken before Judge Hebbard to be examined on a charge of In- sanity yesterday moruing, but it appears that this move was an atiempt on the part of some friends 10 prevent the Police Court from sen- tencing her to the House of Correction, and accordingly the proceedings in insanity were dism issed. —_—— Eattan Company Incorporated. Articles of incorporation of the Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Company have been filed by Henry Heywood, B W. Fuller, Henry Fuller, William I Smnith and C. H. Lang Jr., with a capitai of $5000. The company will make and dealin all kinds of rattan goods and farniture. PLICE GLE 10 SING Preparations Being Made for a Men's Monster Mass- Meeting. Will Probably Be the Largest Reli- gious Meeting Ever Held in Oalifornia, On Sunday afternoon, July 11, at Wood- ward’s Pavilion, Valencia street, proba- ably the largest relizious mass-meeting for men ever beld in California will take place. The tervice will be under the spe- cial charge of H. J. McCoy of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and the speakers will be Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D, of Philadelphia, pastor of John W anamaker’s church, and Rev, C. Ford Ottman o1 Newark, N. J. The sineing will be led by a male chorus of 250 voices; and by special cour- tesy of Chief of Police I.ees and Captain of Police Wittman the San Francisco Police Glee Club will sing *Throw Out the Life- line” and “‘Nearer, My God, to Thee.”” Ten thousand cards of invitation are being issued for the service. The guests oi honor of this service who have been iavited are Hugh Craig, presi- dent of the Chamber of Commerce; Chief ot Police Lees; Rev. E. R. Dille, D.D.; J. J. Valentine, president of Wells, Fargo & Co.; Judge W. W. Morrow of tue United States Court, Irving M. Scottof the Union Iron Works, Colonel C. F. Crocker, C. R. Bishop and Edward Coleman, The tickets for this, meeting will be dis- tributed at the Young Men’s Christian Association Auditorium next Sunday aft- ernoon at 3 o’clock, when a grand Fourth of July service will be held, addressed by Rev. Dr. Kummer, pastor of the First M. E. Church, Oakland. ———————— Public Administrator’s Report. The Public Administrator filed his report yesterday. The approximate value of the es- tates administersa upon wi $318,7562 86. The total smount of moneys received was &85,090 08. The totalot the Administrator's s amounted to $12,623 26. There was dis- tributed to heirs $36,877 04 There was de- osited if the city ireasury $9515 42; in the glnk, $85,748 86. J € Lumbert’s Insolvency. Eustice Cullinan, assignee of J. C. Lambert, insolvent, has sued Arthur J. Meadows and Wilijam Lange Jr. for $1200, said to have been improveriy held by th: defendants when it ought to have been included in Lam- bert’s assets. W. G. Burke 1s attorney for the plaintiff. ——————— Patriotism at > impson Church, At the Simpson Memorial M. E. Church to- day there wlll be special patrioticservices. In the morning Chaplain Macomber of Angel Jsland will preach, and in the evening the Kev. Mr. Chap:li of Tokio, Japbn, a delegate to the Christian Endeaver Convention, will make an address. . It was & very sad affair that at 773 Market, that everybody could not get their and purple bunting, but we can supply them to- day only, . 1897. TWELVE TRAINS FRON OGDEN That Is the Number That Will Start for This City To-Day. Market=Street Cars Will Begin Running To-Morrow at 5 0’Clock. Arrivals After Midnight to Be Side- tracked at Sixteenth Street, Oakland. The Endeavorers are as yet coming in comparatively small nambers; thatis to say, though they are on the way they have not yet arrived. But it is otherwise with an army of people who desire to see the Golden State and have taken advan- tage of the cheap rates. Of these there are vast numbers. Some came from Ore- gon yesterday, some from the South and a great many from the East. Two trains of three sections each, and amounting to fifty-six cars in all, arrived from Ogden alone. Oue arrived in the morning and the other at nizht. Master of Transportation Richardson of the railroad gave the latest news regard- ing the incoming travelers. He sald: “Besides the Ogden train due here at 8:45 o'clock this evening, another train of thirty-one cars, divided in three sections, left Ogden about 6 o’clock this morning, and is due here at 10:15 to-morrow morn- ing. This is train No.4. The first section leit at 5:55 A. M., and was then four hours and ten minutes late. The train came over the Union Pucifie. It now looks as if train 2 on the Union Pacific from O:den would come in thiree sections. The trains are late on both the Union Pacificand the Rio Grande, but especially on the former.” Mr. Richardson called atiention to a dispatch from E. L. Lomox at Omaha to D. W. Hitchcock, general passenger agent of the Union_ Pacific here, saying that every Union Pacific train had gone to Og- den on time. Thedispatch also felicitated Mr. Hitchcock on their alleg: d - ood luck. “The fact is that not one of their trains has been on time,” said Mr. Richardson, “and this dispatch which has been pub- lished is an injustice to thisroad and a covert reflection on it. Itisa way of im- plying that all delays should be credited to the Soutnern Pacific. All Union Pa- cific trains have, in fact, been from one to five hours late at Ogden for connection with both of our trains for five or six days. They bave not been able to keep their regular trains on time. anager Fillmore also said: *They bave not had a train on time. In every single instance they have been from three to five hours late.’” It has been Jecided not to run all-nizht boats, was first intended, in order to accommodate the incoming throngs, but to discontinue the ferry at the usual bour each night. This was decided on because it was not considered advisable to land throngs of strangers on the streets of the City in the early hours of the morning, when most people are wrapped in steep. Especialiy was this deemed advisable in view of the fact that most of the people were going to siop at private houses. It was therefore conciuded not to bring any people to this side of the bay after the regular boat, which arrives bere at 11:45 P. M., until probably 5 o’clock. 1ne Market-street Cable Railway will run cars commencing at 5 o’ciock A. M. on Monday and continue them through L'ues- day, Wednesday and Thursaay. Trains arriving after midnigkt will be sidetracked at Sixteenth street or at the West Oakland yards till early morning. Most of the passengers will have sleepers. Itis understood tnat 6000 people have en- gaged rooms in private Louses. **We have already brouvht from Ogden since July 1" said Mr. Richardson, 108 cars by regular and special trains.” Twelye special trains are scheduled to leave Ogden for this City to-day and twenty-two to-morrow, while three or four will come on Tuesday and as many on Wednesday. At 2:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon General Passenger Agent Good- man said: “Up to this time 2170 passengers have left Ogden for this City by our line since July 1. There will be more this #fter- noon.” All the railroad officials are very busy anent the coming of the Chrisnan En- deavorers to this City, and they expect to be busy from now till the Endeavorers get out of the State. How to handle the guests in the easiest and most expeditious way has been the great study of the rail- road people. They have no doubt about doing it, well. “The firct Endeavor train proper,” said Master of Transportation Ricnhardson yes- terday, “‘will leave Ogden at 1:10 p. . Sunday and will, if on time, arrive here on Monday evening. Of course there may be some delays, for you know it takesa long time to feed 200 or 250 people, the number carried on each tramn. Manager Fillmore added soma details, besides new matter. Said he: *‘About seven or eight trains will come from Og- den Sunday. They wiil get here Tuesday at various times. It will be & very heavy Sunaay night from there. We are goiug to have a great many people. Tnere will be from 55 to 60 trains of the Endeavorers. All of the trains of the visitors oug.it to be out of Ogden by Tuesiay night, and here by Thursday. Thisjis the viggest travel any road has ever had during any convention. On otheroccasions the travel has been divided. Many roads huve got it, but here, when the people get to Og- den, the whole of the travel comes to one road. “Now, 80 far as handling the travel is concerned, we will have fifty-six engines at Ogden, and six at Carlin, 300 miies away. We will work trains westward from Ogden to Carlin, and thence to Wadsworth, 250 miles distant, thence to Sacramento, a distznce of 190 miles. ““When we get to the summit of the Sierras no train will leave till the train ahead of 1t is out of Cascade, That is to suy, putting it another way, they are all blocked one station apart.” Mr. Fillmore will go to Wadsworth, Nev., leaving here on Sunday night, and will personally advise his subordinates where anything of an unexpected char- acter may develop. General Passenger Agent Goodman said yesterday that stopovers on the Endeay- orer tickets would be allowed anywhere in California and also in Oregon, but that east of the California line the trip must be con:innous. He had a notics printed {uterdny to this effect, whicn is now be- ng circulated about this City. On Mon- day, as Mr. Goodman said, the railway will commence selling return tickets to the Endeavorers. The Pullman ticket office will b> moved on Monday jrom 613 Market to 607 Market street, the old quarters of the Western Un:on Telegraph Company. — THE NEW ROAD LAW. Its Constitutionality Will Be Tested in the Supreme Court. On the 12th of July the Supreme Court wll take up & case that will be of great interest to every office-holder and prop- erty-owner in the State, for it iuvolves the constitutionality of the Clark road law, passed at the last session of tne Leg- islature, This matter will come up in the 11 case of Fred A. Davis against Myron A, ‘Whidden, the Auditor of Alameda Coun- ty, on a petition for a writ of mandate to compel tnat officer to draw warrants for the payment of work dome on a public street upon the authority of the Super- vi-ors, On the first of June the Supervisors ordered BSupervisor C. Roeth, who is a qualified and acting Road Commissionre of the Piedmont road district, to hav: certain work done on Moss avenue and Howe street. Several men performed the work, which cost $50, and their claims ‘were approved by the board. Davis purcha<ed their several c'aims, which he presented to the Auditor, but the latter refu ed to audit the same, al- though there was money in the Piedmont road district fund for that purpose. Hence Davis petitioned the court for an alternate writ of mandate to compel the Auditor to draw the warrants. In his amenaed petition he says; The only ground upon which the defendant can justify his retusal 10 draw the warrants referred to in the petition is that by the road law known as the “Clark Road Law,” passed at the last session of the Legislature, * * * the powers of the Boards of Superv.sors over the roads were taken away from thcem and con- fined upon the road district trustees referred toin said act. 1f said act is constitutional, and if it was not repealed by the passage, sub- squlenuy, of the countv government act, and if the road districts enn be organized under the actat once, the Auditor’s refusal to draw tne warrants was justifiable, otnerwise not. Is the Clark road law constitutional? We sub- mit that it is not for the iollowing reasons: His reasons summarized were that every act shall embrace but one subject, which subject shall be expressed in ius title, and the act in question is special and uncon- stitutional. The act is not uniform in 1ts operations, and further the Clark road law was repealed by the county govern- ment act. Still another reason was that the road districts under the Clark road law cannot be organized. - The Fourth in Religious Service. The service at the Young Men’s Christlan Association Auditorium, Mason and Elis streets, to-day will be open to the public, and a patriotic_address will be delivered by the Rev. Dr. Kummer of Oakland. Miss Maud Noble will p uy a trombone solo, **The Star- spangled Banner,” and vocal selections will be rendered by the California Quartet. The service will begin prompily at 3 o'clock and is botn Indies and gentlemen. At cards of admission to the great mass-meeting ior men, to be held at Wood- ward’s Pavilion on the 11th of July, will be ready for distribution. —————————— At Howard Church To-Night. Company F of the Boys' Brigade and a squad of the Girls’ Brigade will attend the Howard Methodist Episcopal Church, on Mission strect, to-night in & body. Dr. Case, the pastor,is chapiain of the company, and will make & pa- triotic address on the oceasion. All visliing Endeavorers and others are cordlally invited toattend. X Sent to Jail. J. Rubenstein, the last of the Rodgers gang of coin counterfeiters, was taken before Com- missioner Heacock yesterday for identifica- tion, and in the avsence of $3000 bail was commitied to the Connty Jail to uwait his ap« pearance before the United States Grand Jury. —_— Bismarck has fought in twenty duels, ana has been wounded once. And even that was through an accident, his adver- sary’s sword flying from its handle and cutting his face. i NEW TO-DAY. B MW PROGRESSING! SENT-ANNUAL CLEARANCESALE SHOES. The trade event of the season. Big, brilliant, booming bar- gains. Read these prices, then get your hat and start. KAST’S GREATEST SENML-ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE SHOES. All records eclipsed. Our own records, the records of others— all will be smashed during this great sale, Misses’ Black Cloth Top, laced or button, black kid, foxed, coin toe | =$L15| and tip, spring heel, sizes 11 to 2. Reduced from $1 75 to. Misses’ Chocolate Kid Lace, coin toe and tip, spring heel. sizes 11 to 2. $l w ( Reduced from $1 75 to Infants’ Chocolate and Russet Kid Button, sizes 2)4 to 5. Reduced from $1 to... e Y [ Child’s Chocolate Kid Button, hand- | turned, spring heel, 410 7. '0(‘ Reduced from $1. 10¢| Child’s Black Cloth Top Black Kid, foxed, lacs or bution. coin 'ln;c u‘{nl tip. spring heel, sizes 6 10 734. Re- duced from $1 25 to.. - 80¢ Sizes 8 to 10}¢. Reduced from $1 50 to. . 93¢/ Boys’ Veal Calf Lace, with heels, sizes 11 to 13. Reduced from 95¢| Bors’ Calf Button, siz-s 4 t0 6. Re- duced from $2 50 & Boys' Calf Lace, square toe and tip, sizes 5 and 6 only. Reduced from $1.10 $2 10 $1.25 Boys’ Chocolate Call Lace, coin toe and tip, sizes 11 to 5. Reduced $l 9% rom $2 t .. dLLY Kasts | Ladies’ White Canvas Oxfords, {L:diez' Chocolate Vici Kid Ro- meos, latest style coin tip. toe and fancy from §$2 50 to. Ladies’ Tan Vici Ties, coin toe and tip. duced from $1 50 to.. id Somhfi? $ll 10 $1.00 white kid tips. Reduced to.. Ladies’ Ox-Blood V: cloth top, lace, coin tip. Reduced to |Men’s Ox-Blood Congress and Lace, narrow square toe and & 14 tip. Reduced from $2 30 to.. “.4-) Men’s Calf Lace, vointed }éoe and tip (Bent's §3 sho-). Re- duced to....... $1-50 Men’s Rawhide Sole Bicycle Oxfords (Eastern make). Re- $l 55 duced Irom’ $250 to ) 8 Our say so in the paper is our do so in the store. Kasts 738-740 MARKET ST.| 738-740 MARKET ST. We do not prepay mailjor express charges on these advertised goods. WA NN A special Associated Press reporter has knowledge of the remarkable cure of the wife of & carpenter who related her experience as follows : *“For a good mnnylyurs I have been bothered an awful sight with my stomach. I got so I couldn’t eat.an stomach. Lots of times while worl thing at all without it souring on my ing I would spit up great mouthfuls of stuff bitter as gall. I kept getting worse all the time, and took piles of doctor medicine, but Imight as well have taken that much starch for all the good it did me. It run into neuralgia of the stomach and worked itself all over me. - The new doctor up on 20th street told me when I saw him it was my stomach that caused all the trouble and give me an order to the drug store. I took it there and the boy give me a box of -P- A.N.S TABULES I began gettmi better, and have used a little over two boxes, and am now sound and well.”