The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 10, 1897, Page 12

2 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1 CITY REVENUES ARE WASTED RECKLESSLY Mayor Phelan tor Show Many Leaks and Burdens. A GREAT SHORTAGE IN INCOMES. How the Health Department Runs Without a Governor and the County Hospital Swells Its An Mayor Yhelan is determined to investi- gate the excessive expenditures of the | City and County government and try if possible to stop some of the many wastes and burdens in the revenues of the City. Auditor Broderick isalso convinced that | there are many losses in the City finances that might be stopped by the use of good business sense. He is particularly alarmed over the heavy expenses of the Health Department, where he says there are no governors on the engines that chew up money for fusl. One of his charges is that four assistant plumbers have been appointed when there is not work for two. The alarming feature of the entire situ- ation was made plain by Mayor Phelan yesterday in an authorized interview with Tre CALL. Speaking of the question of the City’s revenues the Mayor said that the falling off in the municipal income was a matter of very grave .importance, The Mayor wrote out his views, as fol- lows: There has been a great fall- ing off in the Cit revenue in the last fiscal year, due prin- cipally to legislativ. causes. In the Sheriff’s office, in the Re- corder’s and other offices it is estimated that the falling off aggregates $250,000. These things will have to be regu- lated by the new charter. To-day we are paying 12 cents a folio for recording in the Recorder’s office and re- ceiving only 10 cents a folio. Pcople who have valuable in- struments should pay more rather than less the cost to the City. The Police Courts eight years ago were not only sclf- supporting, but paid large sums into the City’s treasury from fines imposed and col- lected. Now nominal fines are imposed and very often not collected because the Judges do not requirc any alternative of imprisonment under the loose system in vogue, and the courts are far from sclf-sus taining. As the Police Judges are elected they are respon ble to the people. I believe they should be appointed under the new charter. JAMES D. PHELAN. Speaking more in detail of the excessive expenses the Mayor said: “The County Clerk is spending $28,000 | in excess of his pledge in the conduct of | bis office, and it was demonstrated by County Clerk Haley only three years ago that the office could be run for $76,000 a year instead of the §130,000 that is now de- manded. I will lay these and other mat- ters in detail before the Board of Super- NEW TO-DAY! Our competstors—ihe high class tailors. floos Bfias 27-37 Kearny corner Post Haberdashery. We’ve talked of men’s and boys’ suits mostly, but our stock of neckwear, shirts, underwear, etc., is complete and at- tractive. Here is a special: Fancy colored shirts, formerly $1.50 and $1.75, now $I1.00, Clothirgt;lis week : A few of those $5.00 long pants suits for boys still selling at $3.50. Boys’ suits with extra pants and cap of same material, all wool, for ages 8 to 15 years, $3.50. Men’s suits, some for business and some black clays, $10.80; worth $12.00 to $15.00. Alter, exchange goods or refund money cheerfully. 18 and the Audi- nual Expenses. | visors before they meet to fix the tax Iev_\;.. For the present this is ail I bhave to say. A study of the reports of the Auditor since 1801 will show a startling increase in the City’s running expenses. All | through the departments where political jobberv is pos-ible there has been an alarming increase in the waste of the | people’s funds. In 1891 the costof run- ning the government of the City and County was $4, 24 70, while it was §$6,577,248 45 in 1896, and will doubtless be | more 1118 year. The Mayor speaks of the increased ex- penses of conducting the police courts. This refers largeiy to stenographers’ bills and like expenses, aside from fixed sala- The expenses of ries. conducting the 5,200 7,000 4,200 | L4911 ition to the foregoing m more | | 000 was expended in tue Boys’ | and Girls’ Aid Society, one of the branches | of the criminal administration. g | ther startling fact in connection | with the City’s revenue 1s the loss of more than $54,000 in jury and witness iees by reason of regulations under the new law. Auditor Broderick is alarme about these | phases of the financial problem, but there | are other things thal worry jam more. “Theexpenses of the Health Department | have increased over 400 per cent,” said the Auditor yesterday, *“and things in that vranch of the administration are running wild. The doctors run this business and they work one another in for all itis worth, as they believe in the old maxim of charging the trafficall it will bear. They seem (o have no sense of economy about tbem and if they are let aione they w.ll swamp the funds.’’ An investigation of the Health Depart- ment funds and expenses revealed the | fact that the salary list reaches the enor- | mous sum of §50,000. Formerlythe de- | partment was aliowed but $5000 for ail other expenses. Now the printing bill alone runs to $4000. The telephone bill of the department reaches the gigantic sum of $715. Tae drug bili is $2500, while the incigental fund, chiefly posiage stamps, | has jumped 10 $390. 1. 1s these items that | are worrying the Aunditor and making him | | wonder when the end is coming. The City and County Hospital is said to | be honeycombed with useiess employes | and unnecessary expenses. The Auditor and otners will recommend a thorough | investigation of the expenditures in this great department of the City government. | " The estimated expenses of the City and | County Hospital for 1897-98 stagger the mathematicians of the Auditor’s office. | Some o1 the startling items are as follows, | ascompleted by the accountant vesterday : 829,546 19 . 6,316 61 30,000 00 1,800 00 4,000 00 etc st 12,632 00 The foregoing are only a few of the | items in the various departments named. | It is the intention of the Mayor to make & | thorough investigation of every subject | affecting the waste of the City’s revenue. He expecis to have his repor: completed | in time to submit it to the Board of Super- | visors early in September. Auditor Broderick was very busy all | day yesterday completing important re- vorts relative to the finances of the City. When he has all the data summarized the Mayor will make a thorough study of the items reported, with reference to the ex- penses of previous years and the methods of a strictly business administration. There will be an investigation of every- thing counecied with the School Depari- ment before the City officers reach the end of their researches. Mayor Phelan says he is determined to lose no time and spare no pains to glean facts that wili be of yalue to the taxpayers of the City and County. The matter prowises to develop the fact that there has been much waste for years and that the tendency is for it to increase. CHARGED WITH INSANITY, George J. Moore, Who Shot Himself Recently in a Shooting Gallery, in a Padded Cell. Repair George J. Moore, insurance solicitor and member of the Columbia Theater orches- | tra, was arrested yesterday afiernoon on the charge of insanity and locked up in a padded cell in the Receiving Hospital. Moore created a sensation about three weeks ago by shooting himself in a shooting galiery on Eddy street, near Mason. He had been on a protracted spree and his wite had left him. He remained in the Receiving Hospital several days, and_ since leaving there he has continued his devaucn, irequenting dancenalls and saloons. Sunday night he informed some of lus friends that he in- tended to k1!l his father, who is president of the Pac:fic Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany, and other relatives, and to prevent him executing his threat his brother-in- law swore to a complaint yesierday morn- ing charging him with insanit; He was located in a music-hall at 39 Fourth street and placed under arrest. He will be taken before the Insanity Com- missioners this morning. Moore has been the cause of consider- able trouble and annoyance to his rela- tives. About two years ago he shot his brother without cause, and since then has been hardiy responsible for his actions. o An Unknown Man Drowned. The dead body of an unknown man was found vesterday floating in the bay at the foot of Main-street wharf and was taken to the Morgue. The deceased was attired as a laborer or longshoreman, but the festures are unre- cognizable. The body bad been in the water for about two weeks. —————— To Save Her Sou. Annie Brown, alias Raymond, was arrested Tast night by Detective Anthony on the charge of yagrancy. Annie was living witia Reuben Awlwell, & tinsmith, in & <hop on Main street. | els holds that he was libeled by Hearst's SERVICE O HEARST 1 DENANDED Claus Spreckels Not Anxious to Punish Williams and Lawrence. HE IS AFTER THE PROPRIETOR. Hearst Is Skulking in the Dark and Putting Subordinates Forward, LIBEL SUIT N0 LONGER A JOKE. Great Alarm Is Manifested by the Examiner for Fear Some One Will Be Sent to Jail. William R. Hearst has been carrying things with a high hand in libeling citi- zens of this State and shielding himself in New York. His pace has been checked by running against a resolute citizen who will stand no evasion or shirking of re- sponsibility. In this libel suit Claus Spreckels means business, a fact which begins to dawn on the minds of Hearst's agents in San Francisco. The plea of a page for public sympathy and protection from Notary Crag, which was published 1n yesterday’s Examiner, counts for this much and nothing more: Claus Spreck- California paper, and, as a good, law- abiding citizen, appeals to the court for redress. When the suthor of the libelous publication or the man responsible for the existence of the Examiner issought he cannot be found. Nobody can be found willing to represent Hearst as an agent or employe. Two agents or employes of the Examiner who are commonly supposed to speak and act for Hearst are made de- fendants in the libel suit, and when they refuse to answer questions they are com- mitted for contempt. Immedaiately an attempt is made to bulldoze the notary, to revoke his commission and threaten his vondsmen. The public is invited to intervene through newspaper interviews in the Examiner to save the employes from going to jail. All this time Hearst is in New York, where he has acquired a residence, ana presumes to laugh at the dea of being held responsible for the management of his paper in California. The statement1s irankly made by Mr. Spreckels and his counsel that they are willing at any time to dismiss the pro- ceedings against Lawrence and Williams provided the counsel for the defendant will admit service oa Hearst. A positive agreement was made in the presence of | witnesses last Wednesday to aamit the | service requested, but the agreement was | not only violated by Hearst’s counsel, but the refusal to answer the questions was persisted in. Mr. Spreckels cares nothing for these employes of Mr. Hearst. He entertains no feeling of hostility toward them. Hearst is the man he is after ana the one he intends to reach. When Mr. Spreck- els was aggrieved he went to the courts for redress of the grievance. He did not take a shotgun and go gunning for Hearst. He did not hire an assasin to waylay the provrietor of the Examiner. Like the voked the protection of the law and he | means that Hearst shall respond in a court of justice. Time and again the Ex- aminer has invited men who did not like its course to sue the paper. Now itis asked that Hearst shall have the courage | to come out of the dark and acknowledge bis responsibility for his California paper or openly repudiate his connection with the concern. When Claus Spreckles is sued he is compelied to go into court. One would iancy from reading some of the inter- views printed yesterday that Mr. Spreck- els was bouhd to accept tne kind of lnw, that is fixed up 1n the Examiner cflice for | the special benefit of tne New York pro- prietor. The law in this case is for the | Supreme Court to determine. The threats which did not frighten the notary will hardly frighten the court, although Max Goldberg was so badiy trightened thac he withdrew from the bond of Notary Craig. Claus Spreckels is a reputable citizen and taxpayer. He is entitled to the pro- tection which the law affords. His coun- sel desire to show that he is not the bad man which the Examiner represents him to pe. He does not bold up stockholders or stage-coaches. He has done more for California than any other citizen of the commonwealth. He has put his own money in vast enterprises of material de- velopment and the State has been en- riched by his enterprise and public spirit. ‘When the Examiner was crying aloud for a competing railroad and men were hesi- taiing about putting their money in a| scheme of this kind Claus Spreckels came forward and put in his own money to in- sure the building of the road. Tuis is one example in a hundred of his public spirit and his confidence in this City and State. The commitment of Lawrence and Wil- liams for contempt is only an incident, The main proposition is to determine whether, under the law, Hearst can shield himself behind his residence in New York, and conduct from that distant position a campaign of libel against reputable citi- zens of California. The decision of the Supreme Court may have some bearing on this proposition. There is a question of law to be decided, and the opinion of Tom, Dick and Harry obtamned on the street and handed down {o the agents of Hearst may cut but a little figure in the settlement of the main issue. The libel suit which seemed so funny to the Examiner when it was instituted has already lost many of its merry fea- tares. Nobody is casting lots for the privilege of paying $1,000,000. The joke has taken on a serious aspect. For once Hearst comprehends that he has libeled ' the wrong man. He has run up against a citizen who cannot be intimidated or cajoled. The coursge of Mr. Hearst is put to the test. He can hide in New York Reuben’s mother appliea to the police to help her in saving her son from ruin, wih the re- ult that Annie was arrested for vagrancy. for awhile, and let his faithful employes fight his battle and perhaps go to jail, but he cannot for all time shield himself behind others. The law basa long arm, and is not made shorter by Claus Spreck- els invoking its reach. When Hearst shows courage enough to come out of his hiding-place and face the responsibilty which he is seekine to unload on his sub- ordinates, the proceedings against Law- rence and Williams will be dismissed ac- cording to agreement. The commitment ef Lawrence and Wii- liams was placed in the hands of toe Sheriff yesterday. That officer desired to consult his counsel—Reddy, Campbeil & Meison—and the attorneys for Mr. Sprecke’s offered no objectiou. Later in the day Johnson, Linforth & Whitaker filed the following brief with the counsel for the Sheriff: In Superior Court—Spreckels vs. Hearst et al. Bricf us to power of notary to punish for contempt., The raking of a deposition is purely a crea- ation of statute, A notary is a statutory officer. The powers and duties of a notary are pre- scribed by statute, and among those prescribed is the duty— “To take depositions and affidavits and ad- minister oaths and afiirmations in all matters iucident to the duties of the office, or 10 be used before any court, Juage. officer or board 1n this State.” —Section 794, Political Code. “A notary can also take the proof or ackno edzment oi an instrument in this State. Section 1181, Civil Code. “Aad insuch proceedings can administer oaths, employ interpreters, issue subpena and publish for contempt.”’—Section 1201, Civil Code. Testimony of witnesses in this Stateis taken in three modes: 1. By affidavit. 2. By depo- sition. 3. Byoral examination.—Section 2002, Code Civil Procedure. “A deposition is a written declaration under oath, made upon notice to the adverse perty for the purpose of enabling him to attend and cross-eamine.” —Section 2004, Code Civil Pro- cedure. “The mode and manner of taking deposi- tions in this State is prescribed by the Code ot Civil Procedure.”—Sections 2019, 2020, 2021, 2031 and 2032, Code Civil Procedure. ““Ihese authorize the taking of the deposition of a party to the action at any time after th. service of the summons.”—Section 2021, Code Civil Procedure, her party may have the deposition taken of & witness in this State before n Judge or officer authorized to administer oaths.”’— Section 2031, Code Civil Procedure. “The process by which the attendance of & witness is required is a subjena. Itisa writor order directed to a person and requiring his attendance at a particular time and place to testify as a witness.”—Section 1985, Code Civil Procedure. “The subpena is issued rs follows: ‘2. To Tequire attendance out of the court, before a Judge, Justice, or other officer authorized to administer oaths or take testimony in any matter uuder the laws of this Siate, it is issued by the Judge, Justice or any other of- ficer before whom the attendance is re- quired.’ ”"—Section 1986, Code Civil Procedure. “‘Disobedience to a subpens, or a refusal to be sworn, or to answer as a witness, or to sub- scribe an affidavit or deposition when re- quired, may be punished 2s a contempt by the court or officer issuing the subpena or requir- ing the witness to be sworn; and if the wit- ness be » party his complaint or answer may be stricken out.”—Section 1991, Code Civil Procedure. “The power of a party to take depositions before a notary and to have notary issue sab- pena to compel attendance and the lack of power in the Superior Court to quash such subpena has been expressly upheld by the Su- preme Court.”—Pfister vs. Superior Court, 64 Cal.. 400. “‘The Superior Court has no power to punish a witness for contempt in refusing to obey subpena issued by notary. The court expressly dec.ines to decide wherher notary could pun- ish for contempt.’—Lezinsky vs. Superior Court, 72 Cal,, 510. *A notary public is authorized to punish a witness for contempt if the statute relating to depositions authorizes them to be taken be- fore notaries public, and declares that the re- fusal 10 answer as & witness when lawfully or- dered, may be punished as a contempt by ihe courtor officer by whom the sttendance or testimony of the witness is required.”—De Cimp vs. Archibald, 58 Ohio State, 618 (40 Am. St. Rep., 692); In re. Abeles, 12 Kansas, 451; Dogge vs. State, 21 Nebrasku, 272; ex parte McKee, 18 Missouri, 599; Welnstock vs. McClatehy, Superior Court Sacramento County, April 30, 1897. The statules regarding powers of notaries in the taking of depositions in above-mentioned States are ve'y nearly identical with that of California. Thus, Missouri statute reads that person re- fusing to give evidence “may be committed to prison by the court or other person authorized to take his deposition or testimony.” * * Thus, Ohio statute reads that a refusal to answer ‘“may be punished as a contempt ot the court or officer by whom the attendance or testimony of the witness is required.” iaw-abiding citizen, which he is, he in-4 We muyadd that in Ohio, Kansas and Ne- braska the witness wasa party to the action, and that in Ohio and Missouri the action was one for libel. We call attention to the fact that almost the identical question asked of Witnesses Lawrence and Williams was decided by the above cases irom Ohio and Missouri to be proper. Thus, in Missouri witness was asked as to the authorship of a communication published in a newspaper of which he was editor, which he refused to answer, and was committed for contempt for such refusal, and commitment was upheld.—Ex parte McKee, 18 Missouri, 599. Thus in Ohio, witness was asked the follow- ing question, viz.: *You have stated that you prepared the substance of the article pub- lished in the Miami Valley News, and em- ploved somebody else, or got sumebody else to assist you in putting it irto shave. I will ask you who that person was?” Which he refused to answer and was com- mitted for contempt for such refusal, and the commitment and the question were both up- held. De Camp vs. Archibald, 58 Ohio Siate, 618 (40 Am. 8. Rep., 692). When the contempt consists in refusal to perform an act, which party cag perform, the imprisonment may continue until he performs the act. Sec. 1219, Code Civil Procedure. The following cases sustain our contention: Ex parte Priest, 76 Missouri, 229. Ex parte Kreiger, 7 Missouri Appes In re Jenckes, 6 Rhode Island, 18. It is fair tosay that the Populist Supreme Court in Kansas in In re Huron, 48 Pac. R., 574, decided April 10, 1897, reverse In ro Abeles, 12 Kansas, and many other cases in Kansas, which sustained In re Abeles, but it Was by a bare majority. GROUNDLESS COMPLAINT, Inventor Bowers Alurmed Because a Dredger Pipe Had Been Repaired. The San Francisco Dredging Company, was represented before United Stutes Cir- cuit Judge Morrow yesterday by D. M. Delmas and R. Percy Wright in proceed- ings institutel against the company for contempt of court. Last June the court issued an injunc- tion restraining, or to restrain, the com- pany from using a flexible joint to its dredger vipes. J. W. Bowers, inventor of the Bowers dredeer, complained that the order of the zourt had been set at defiance, Messrs. Delmas and Wright presented a large number of uffidavits establishing the fact that Bowers had no cause »f com- vlaint, and that the shadow on which he had based his plaint was a piece of pipe which had been broken on the dredging company’s dredger and which had been repaired. The matter was taken under advisement, ———— , 367. Litile Baby Connell. John Connell has been arrested on a charge of failure to provide. Officer Coleman of the California Society for the Prevention of Cru- elty te Children says that the prisoner re- {uses to care for his six-month-old babe. RUMORS OF AN OGLY SCANDAL School Directors Shift the Blame of the Text- Book Raid. The Action of Many Teachers May Be a Subject of In- vestigation. Indigent Fund Exhausted and the General Indignation In- creasing. There are rumors of a big scandal in the air in connection with the school text- book job. There is a general disposition on the part of those connected with the affair to shift the responsibility to the shoulders of his neighbor, but this mode | of doing things will undoubtedly result in a_general exposure if it be persisted in. The members of the “solid nine’’ element of the School Board say the course of study which provides for so many new books and innovations was the creation of Superintendent Webster, and that they adopted it ouly after his approval. There is talk of an investigation being held in connection with the actions of certain teachers and their apparent desire to forward the interests of one or two paper and printing houses that have made big profits out of the scholars during the past week. Scores of complaints have been made against some of these teachers during the past few days, and Superin- tendent Webster is being urged by his friends to put himself right before the in- dignant public. The matter of blank note books scem to have afforded the teachers an excellent opportunity to ‘“assist’ their friends in the stationery business. A rather humor- ous phase of this came to the notice of Director Waller yesterday and the victim of it happened to Le no less a person than Director Charles A. Bantel. When Ban- tel’s children came home from school on Friday evening last he was handed a list of the new books they would require for the presentterm. Running bis eye down the list he caught the words *‘Bank Stock No.1,”’ and “Bark Stock No. 2.7 The school director was puzzled. He had heard the curriculum read once or twice | ata meeting of the board and remem- bered no such books as these. In despair be rang up Waller by telephone and a~ked what kind of a texivook ‘“bankstock” was. Waller was so much alarmed that he rashed peli mell to the office of Super- intendent Webster to tell him to call a halt on the way matiers were being car- ried on at the Adams Cosmopolitan. Bantel ¢ropped in the office at the same time and was told that “‘bank stock” re- ferred to a certain kind of ‘notebook the Mysell & Rollins Company made, and ibat it was not prescribed in the course of study. Explanations were then 1n order. The trio proceeded to the school atonce and instructed the principal that it was against the rules to recommena any books or articles not contained in the course of study. The various teachers were s um- moned in turn in the eftort 1o find who had been adding to the financial burdens of Director Bantel. The culprit proved to be an elderly woman and she pleaded ig- norance of the regulations governing teachers in justification of her action. A dozen similar cases have been called to the notice of Superintendent Webster and it is probable that charges will be filed against all these teachers at once. Tue representative of the firm of Mvsell & Rollins isa woman who at one time veld a job as a teacher and is accordingly well acquainted with the insiructors. As a ubiquitous canvasser sheis without a peer, 1or since Monday last she has visited almost every classroom in the City in her efforts to monopolize the blank notebook and blue pad blotier sales for her em- pioyer. Her methois have been so suc- cessful that an urder will be made at to- night’s meeting closing the doors of the scnoo's to her and all otber canvassers. Instances of ber me'hods are reaching the board that are very interesting. In one school she entered tue classrooms as the childreu were veing dismissed and holding up a certain form of blankbook informed the scholars that this was a sam- ple of what they sbould buy and told where it could be obtained. Itwasa plece of enterprise that the teacher apparently apyroved of, and when the little ones re- turned home that evening there were in- dications that the coffers of Mysell & Rol- lins would be increased on the morrow. The members of the Committee on Ele- mentary Iostruction of the board say that the order issued by Superintenuent Web- ster, that the papils should procure Ward's business iorms, was made without | their approval. It was their instructions that these forms shoulu be purchased by the teachers for general class instruction in bookkeening. Some of the Directors say that Superintendent Webster has been inaocently made the tool ¢f a ring to filch the department and the taxpayers out of big money. As itis Webster seems to be ina very unenviable position; but the Kainey lieutenants in the Solin Nine could probably tell more about kow the raid was engineered than anyboly con- nected with the department. Tiis, at least, is the opinion of the thousands of indignant parents. There is taik of call- ing the notice of the Grand Jury to the condition of affairs and asking thst a full investigation be made. Crocker & Co., who have the contract for printing the new rules of the tepart- ment, have notitied the board that they do not care to deliver the goods unless some specific guarantee of payment is made. The reason for tais action, it is said, is the fear that there will be no funds for this purpose if Mayor Phelan vetoes the proposed tax levy. The School Department is authorized by law to provide a fund from which pay ment may be made for school books 1o supply the pupils of indigent parents, Since the action of the Board of Educa- tion in adding new and expensive tex(- books to the long list already in use many demands have been made on this fuad, and it is now practically exhausied. Parents who have bsen able heretofore 1o raise in some way money sufficient to meet the educational demands of their children now find that the burden is greater than they can bear. Tbe books ordered by the board cost in many instances three times as much as they are worth. 1THE Caun last Sunday quoted the prices charged for “‘Heart Culture” and Wagner's “*Pacific Coast Stories,”” and produced the fig- gurea ovtained from reputable publishers that the expense to the buyers of the books was three times as much as it should be. These books are said te be vrinted in San Francisco. The textbooks supplied by the Ameri- can Book Company are printed in the East. In November, 1896, this concern secured the introduction of “American Classics,” and at the Mission last eyening a gentleman purchased a copy for his child. The price was 70 cents. He noted the size of the book, tue quality of the paper and the style of the binding, and ———— e The fac-simile signature of is on every wrapper _of CASTORIA. [ computed the value of the publication at |2 fe s ms to make no difference where | the books are published, the prices chareed are monstrous. It makes no dii- ference, either, whether the books are needed or not, as the American Book Company insists that they must be pro- cured by the children because a previous Board of Education entered into a con- | tract with the publishers to use the books sor four years. Principsls may fancy | that the burden on the parents should be | | lightened and _therefore decide to use the book in the hand ot the teacher. The agent of the book councern is on the| alert, however, and he demands of the | scnool authorities that the teachers must | instruct the pupils to buy the books. | Another element of confusion has been ‘I | introduced. The Board of. Education did not decide what books should be intro- i r d the result opening of the school term, an 1t | iwp:h:n the dealers have not got the books op hand, and pupils go nightly fror{; oni | store to another hoping to obtain books { which have not been prinied. 'Fu:};v | pupils were in a store at’ me; M qsmn":‘d i ast night and the deaer co | one time last nig sonid) upply more than one half the k gr?le:cfir;in. There will be great stocks in to-aay, to-morrow and the next day, but: meanwhile the classes are in a sense| demoralized. STOLE FROM HIS PARENTS. Davidson, Son of an Attorney, Arrested in Ukiuh. The police were notified Saturday that | Louis Davidson, 14 years of age, son of W. W. Davidson, an attorney living at 9 Ful- ton street, had run away from home and taken with him $150 in coin and nbf)\\l $1000 worth of diamond jewelry bzlonging to his mother. 3 It was thourht that he had gone to either Truckee or Ukiah, and Captain Bowen wired to both places, giving a description | Louis of the boy and ask ng for nis arrest. Yesterday Capiain Bowen received a| dispatch from the Sheriff of Ukiah that the boy hac been arrested there and that | the money and jewelry had been found in | his possession. The boy’s father left last might to bring hiw back home. 15 THIS DAVIS WILL? Many Witnesses Give Their Opinion in Regard to the Document. | | | | 01d Friends of the Testator as Well! as Experts Heard in Judge | Coffey’s Court. ! Sy | the Jacob Z. Davis will case, and 1t looks | as if the trial will end within the next fort- | night. Attorney J. C. Campbell, representing | the proponents of the will, has announced ! that he will get through with his witnesses in a day or two, and Messrs. Knight & Heggerty, speaking for the contestants, expect to have but iittle more testimony. But there is the ar-ument to come and no- | body can guess how long that will last, but it will probably not take more than a| Several witnesses who knew Jacob Z. their opinions in regard to the document. ! All of them declared that they thought it genuine. Among these were Attorney ! Charles L. Patton, Wiiliam M. Fonda, Louis J. Pheips, David Fitzgibbon, Charles Ash, Charles W. Gordon, Miss Enily L. Hammond and other old friends of the deceased. The day before he left for the East Mr. Davis told Morris Ruphael that he had made his will in favor of ‘‘the giris, meaning Mrs. CJurtis and Miss Muir. Dr.. 8. M. Mouser testified that he be- lon-ed to the society called *‘the Good Samaritans,” of whica Mr. Davis was also a member. Mrs. Curiis and Miss Muir,the beneficiaries under the will here in court, were introduced and nitiated in the Good Samaritans -s the daughters of Mr. Davis, Jonn W. Wiicox, formerly a prominent politician, known as “the Mariposa Black- smitn,”’ testified that he was talking with Mr. Davis and expressed a r that John M. Curtis, husband of the Mrs. Cur- tis in this case, was drifiing 1nto politics as it was sure to break him fiuancially as it had the speaker. To this Mr. Davis re- sponaed that it was all rignt for Mr. Cur- tis to 2o ahead and gratify his ambitions as he (Davis) intended to take care of Mrs. Curtis and see that she never wanted for anything. C. B. Holbrook, who was associated with | Mr. Davis for m.ny yearsin the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, swore that he believed the will to be gen- uine much to the surprise of Mr. Knight, who asked: “Didn’t y>u tell me you thourht this will a strange kind of a docu- men:?"”’ “I did,” replied the witness. o “Didn’t yousay vou thought it wasa swindle all through?"’ was the next ques- tion. Nes. "{{ayle you changed your opinion ?” 0. | Mr. Campbell came to the rescue of the | proponents o’ the will and asked: * Didn't you teli Mr. Knight that you velieved the | signature .o be genuine at the time to | | which he refers?” | | “Yes, and Iinformed bim that I should | have to so tesiify if 1 was ever put on the | | witness-stand,” was Mr. Holbrook's reply. ght wanted to know why Mr. Mr. Knj, Holbrook thougnt there was a swindle about but Mr. Campbell objected and | the question was withdrawn. It is an opensecrei that those who were associated with Mr. Davis in th~ different benevolent | societies with which he was connected, expected him to do something handsome for their societies in 1he disposition of his preperty, and it 1s assumed that Mr, Hol- brook’s expression was in a measure ex- pressive of his disappointment when it was ascertained that the societies were nqlnl mentioned as beneficiaries under his will, Rov Tburston Kimball, who was with Mr. Davis in many fmlerx‘l undertakings, and nad seen him write many times, said | unbesiiatingly that he beiieved the wiil to be genuine. He did not pretend to be an expert, but deciared that he would at a glance say that the writing was that of Mr. Davis. Georze Grant, paying teller of the Ne- vada Bank, swore that he had seen Mr. D.vis write his signature. He zave 1t as his opinion that the wil' is genuine, % NFW TO-DAY It Valiantly Stands wwi e The Test Nervine has stood the test of years of the most exhaustive triels. 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Ladies’ Extra Slippers, with be and band-turned soles, req sold regularly for $3 a pair. Remember, All Qur Shoes Are Reduced. We invite countr stock, but ¢o not g cou Orders 107 speciaily es da ing th's sale, as our local «ustorers have bees buylus up the Dargaius us so0u as they weie offered. $1.50 . , wiith Eand EE $1.50 Are vou lookiug for a snap® Here 1t 18, Ludies’ Fin- est Tan Vicl Kid Southern Ties, with tan cloth tops 5 to match, pointed 8 toes and tips. full \§ hand-turned soles and stitched French_heels, re- duced from $350 to 1 50. are free from tacks or threads, 1o breaking in. They are nes These Tieg durable, and every pair will be $1.90 New styles to be sacrificed. We havejust recolve a shipment of L dies’ kxira Fine Vicl Kid Button and Lace Shoes, with the latest coin toes and V shaped pai leather tips, sell for $2 60 a pair, prices rule, so we will offer the & pair tor this week. Prices like these prove conclus seilinz cheaper than any bui we have to do i our store Country orders solicited. B@ Send for New lilustrated Catalogue. Address B. KATCHINSKI, FHILADELPHIA SHOE co., 10 Third St., San Francisco. DOCTOR SWEANY. EN YFARS OF SUCCESSFUL PRACTICE Market street, Francisco, has San him as the leading specialist of the stamped Pacific Coast In the treatment of all {hronic, Nervousand Special Diseases of both men and women. Entire or partial 1oss of manly power and vigor in young, midule-azed or old men pos: tively restored. Weakening drains which sap th vitality, destroy the health, cause paralysis, (i sanity and premature death, quickly and pe oently stopped. Private diseases of every nam. and nature cured. Write if you live away from the city. “Gu.de to Health,” a treatise on all the organs and their diseases, free on application. Corra- spondence strictly confidential. Address F. L. SWEANY, 757 Market sireet, San Francisco, Cal REFEREE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. Y VIRTUE OF TWO DECREES OF THE Superlor Court in and for the City and County of San Francisco, State of California (Department Book, f which decrees was made and day of Novembar, 1895, and tha 4 le und is da the 25th day of crees were made and entered in an action pe in sald Superior Court, wherein Adam Grant is L] ' and others are de- in the safd court, id court appointed referes in said sction, will sell av public auction, plaint a Daniel | fendunts, | at the suction-rooms of G. . Umbsen & (o., 14 Montgomery St., In sald City and County of San iranclsco. on Tharaday, the 2d day of <eptember, A. D. 1597, a 2 0’clock noon of that day, to the hizhest b dder of the United States, on by said court, ali that Ivlng of Sau Fran ded and par- for cash in lawfol mo and subject to coniirs certala 10:, piece or i and being in the Clty and Cou cisco, State of (alifornis, and bo ecribed as follows, (o i e T e point where the northerly line of Bush street 1s Intersected by tie easterly line of S inning thence esasterly along tos Dormeny ho ‘of ' Eush sireet one hundred and feet and six (6) Inches; theuce portherly aod paraliel with San- s hundred and thirty-seven (187) (6) inches; thence &L Tight Angles callol with Hush strcet. aue Bhn- 7) es, d tbirty-seven (137) feet and six (6) in thence son:berly along the easterly aide of S some stree. Oue hundred and thirtys S0 &) Inches o the point of commenc T eitier witn the bulldings and improve- ments thereon. g R 1 e shall take the sald lot subje L P " McUnuley and Henry Thorne Dortherly lipe of thirty-seven (1 At right ang some street fect and six westerly and pa the right S o on Templeton, their heirs and assigna, to use the Eri‘q‘;".lfl’ix‘é:', he norther.y line of sald ot here- arty wall. scribed a3 o miliions of sale—Cash In lawful "nited States of America; t=n per omey O e hase price 10 bopald o'he ref erce on the day of sale, when the lot is knocked Sree1’to the purchas-r, ani the balau eon con Brmation of sald sale by said court, Pated San Francisco, Cal., Juiy 1, . GUSTAVE H. UMBSEN, Referee. -O0-0-0-0-0-C0 r money 000000 ' AN EXCELLENT MEA.L always be obtained in Most Popular IS TARLE OLL Send for Book,free. Patients nd sacrediy confldential, Cail oraddress Properly prepared ana THE GRILL ROOM OF THE Dining Apart- Spevinlist cuzes Private,N ervous,blood and Skin ms reasonable. Hours, 9 to P. ROSCOE MeNULTY, M. D., promptly served, can ment in town. DR.MCNULTY, ses of M Manly Po estored. Over TR evias. Sundnys, 10t0 12 Conmin 26} Kearny Street, San Francisceo, Cal.