The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 18, 1897, Page 4

HE SAN FRANC O CALL, W ESDAY, AUGUS 18, 1897. FIRES AGAIN RAGE N THE (TIGA MINE Flames in Control of the Lower Drifts and Levels. FORCE AT WORE BARELY ESCAPES. Eight Men Almost Overcome by Gas While Fighting the Conflagration. IT IS BELIEVED TO BE UNDER CONTROL. This Time the Shafts Were Bulk- headed Instead of Being Flooded With Water. ANGELS CAMP, Car, Aug. 17.—The creat Utica gold mine is again on fire. At 4 o'clock this morning flames and gas, and it is prophesied thatthe Utica shaft will be in a condition to permit of a | resumption ‘of operations in afew days. It witl be different with the Stickle shaft, bhowever, which, in addition to being floodea, fills rapidly with water from seepage when the pumps are stopped, and it wili be at least a munth aiter the bat- | tening has been removed before work at mining can be resumed. | The Utica mine is the largest quartz | gold mine in the United States that is worked by the chlorination process, hay- ing 200 stamps and fourteen roasting ovens. It is owned at present by the Hobart state. The late Senator James G. Fair | was at one time a heavy shareho!der. The net profits resulting from the mine is | estimated to be nearly $150,000 a month, or §1,800,000 a year. The payroll for each month is $70,000. The deepest shaft, in- | cluding a winze of 400 feet, is 1400 feet | deep, while the others are nearly 1000 feet. Should it be deemed advisable not to open the shafts for some days there will be enough ore on the surface to keep a large number of the men employed for some time. The Madison shaft, which is not connected with the other mines, will continue work as usual. It is bard to estimate the amount of damage that has been done, but it wil] ex- tend 1nto the thousaads ROUND VALLEY’S S=NSATION. Rancher Cameron Causes an Arrest for the Alienation of His Wife's Affections. UKIAH, Cin, Aug. 17. — Constable G. R. Redwine of Round Valley Township to-day arrested John Gray of Covelo on a charge of having induced the wife of Alyin Cameron to leave her husband. Cumeron is the owner of a fine stock ranch near Covelo, and, although he has always pro- vided a good home for his'wife, who 1s of mixed blocd, she has on several occasions previous to the present one left hiin at the solicitation, it is claimed, of Gray and ARGUING FOR TAX REDUCTIONS Kern Leads Off in the Fight for Lower Assessments. Wants Its Valuations Placed on an Equality With Those of Its Neighbors. Apportionment of Raliwgy Taxes for the Several Countles, as Fixed by the Equalizers. SACRAMENTO,, CAL., Aug. 17.—Kern to-day opened the regular annual series of battles of the counties for reductions in assessments. Through H. A. Jastro of Bukersfield, the chairman of the Kern County Board of Supervisors, she asked for a reduction of 15 per cent on the as- sessuent as officially turned in by the Auditor. This is §14,595,744, as against §14,807,028 last year. Two other counties, San Benito and Santa Clara, have also ap- plied for reductions. Santa Clara will ask for 20 per cent reduction. What Be- nito wants will be learned to-morrow, when she will have a hearing before the State Board of Equalization. Sania Clara was aiso to have been heard to-morrow, but this morning there came a telephone message from San Jose asking to have the matter postponed. The board set August 31 as the date for the hearing. For some reason not made known to THE HOISTING WORKS AT THE UTICA MINE. smoke were discovered issuing from the crosscut connecting the Utica or oid south shaft with the Stickle shait at the 800-foot level at station number four, and the shift at work had barely time to make their es- cape through the new south shaft. Gen- eral Superintendent Thomas Lane, who was at the Calaveras Grove of big trees camping at the time, was telegraphed for | and drove furiousiy to Angels, a distance of twenty-four miles, making the trip in one hodrand forty minutes ovgr the rough mountain roads. Ali the water pipes leading into the TUtica group of mines were cut and the water directed down the Stickle shaft, as 1t was at first decided to flood the mines as was done two years ago. The flonding process was continued until noon, when all the shafts were bulkheaded in the hope of smothering the fire if possible withoat entailing the enormous expense and loss of time necessary 1o pump out the water and repair the damage caused by it. An effort made to prevent the flames irom spreading to the Utica shaft and to stop the draft by caving in the crosscut near the Utica end with giant powder. Five boxes of dynamite, weigh- ng 250 pounds, were exploded atonce in the hope that the effcct would be to cut off communication between the two mines, Timothy Donovan, who carried the powder into the crosscut by way of the old south shaft, which is now partially i | caved in and abardoncd, was twice almost | asphyxiated. to the old south and a physician was hastily summoned. For a long time the men were uncon- scious, but under heroic treatment they revived one by one and are now pro- nounced out of danger. They are Dennis Cain, shift boss; Charles Davis, Lewis Ca an, Raggie, Timothy Donovan end “Black Jack.” hi-inch nozzle giant is kept con- tinuousiy playing above the abandoned shait in an effort to drive back cthe escap- ing gas, which finds its way to the surface through the numerous fis-ures caused by the partial caving in of the earth. It is impossibie to determine how the fire started, but it is prcbable that it caught irom the discarded wick of a miner's lamp which fell among timber saturated with coal oil. However, it might have. been caused by spontaneous combustion in oil-soaked wicks and can- dles deposited in the arift at the time. Snould the fire prove as serious as was at first apprehended, it will cause enor- mous loss not only to the company but to the entire townof Angels,which is almost wholly dependent upon the Utica mine for its support, as is the surrounding coun- try as well. Two years ago a fire started in nearly the same place and under simi- lar conditions, and after it was drowned out it was nearly two months before the water could be pumped from the mine and regular operations resumed. Merchants in Angels say they have not yet recovared from the disastrous effects of the former fire.” The pay-roll of the Utica contairs the names of over 600 men, many of whom are married, It is be- lieved that should the fire necessitate tie closing down of the mine for a consider- able time the men wiil be employed in rebuilding the great flume which trans- ports the water from the Stanislaus River, a distance of sixty miles. The water is used for all mechanical operations—work- 1og the hoists, running the mills and air blasts, and so on. It has a pressure of 500 ieet and 3000 miners’ inches. At 11 o’clock to-night the fire seemed to huve abated. There was le:s escaping While closing the entrance | \he vessel’s owners and Captain Manson’s aft seven other men | family in San Francisco. The schooner were almost asphyxiated by escaping gas, | will load lumber for O.kland. | rested at a ranch taken up her abode with the latter. Gray reached bere several days ago and was ar- south of town on a warrant issued out of the Justice’s Court of Round Valley Township. Csmeron claims to be the victim ofa persecution instituted by parties in Round Valley, whose enmily he has in- curred. Bl SR s DIES ON THE OCEAN/A VANCE. Captain Hanson Passes Away at Sea and Is Given Burial by FHis Crew. TACOMA, Wasn, Ave. 17.—The schooner Oceania Vance, 418 tons, ar rived to-day to load lumberat the Tacoma Mill. She brought news of the death of | Captain Manson, her master, who was buried at sea during the vessel’s voyage north. The Oceania Vance sailed from Ean Diego July 19 for this vort. The captain was taken ill with inflammation of the stomach and the services of the officers and crew could not preserve his life, | Everything possible was done to relieve | his sufferings and death came like sleep without pain. It was believed at first that he would recover, but he gradually became worse and passed away a week ago. The boay was lowered into the sea and the ship placed in command of Second Mate Hansen, who brought her :afely into port. A short stop was made at Port | Townsend to allow telegrams to be sent to | — NORTHERN FORE > ABLAZE. Consideradle Damage to Property Around Fancouvey, Wash. VANCOUVER, Wasi.,, Aug. 17.—The air in and surrounding the city has been full of smoke for the past few davs, indi- cating the presence of forest fires at a great cistance trom town. Yesierday evening it was reported that a heavy tire | was raging in the timber at tbe west end | of Mill Plain, about five miles east of this city. All the buildings on the Nelson ; piace were burned and considerable dam- age was done o fruit trees in the Nelson and other orchards in the vicinity. Sev- eral families in the neighborhood have found it necessary to remove their house- hold effects to a place of safety, and for | two days they were hourly expecting to see their houses and other improvements | destroyed. Every man in tke neighbor- hood has been fighting the flames for three days. Late yesterday evening it was reported that the fire had turned its course toward the fruit orchards on the piain and t:.at the danger in that direction was thought to be over, though the fire was still burn- ing fiercely further back in the timber. Several fires are reported to havk been started in the timber north and west of town. No damage from these has so far been reported. Lays Ciaim to Monterey Land. MONTEREY, CaL, Aug. 17.—A suit of long stanaing, brought by Joseph Aram, one of the few surviving delegates to the first constitutional convention, held in Colton Hall, Monterey, in 1851, against the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, just came up for a hearing in the Superior Court. Aram claims a plat of ground which was granted him in early days by the Alcalde, and which, he says, ispart of theground uponwhich the Southern Pacific station is built, and he is suing the rail- road company for possession. map in possession of the County Buryeyor shows that the plat which Aram claims is not a part of that occupied by tne depot, but is aow (from the change of the coast line in recent years) over 100 feet out into the bay. Judge Dorn 1staking the case ander the board San Francisco has not yet sent in her assessment returns. Auditor Brod- erick was given an extension of a week, which expired yvesterday, but he is'still in default. No decision has yet been reached by the to show cause why should not be raised. It is generally be- lieved, however, that San Francisco, Sac- ramento and Alameda will be un the list. It was admitted by a member of the board this evening that Bupervisor Jastro made a good showing on bebaif of Kern, and it is likely that some concession will be made this county. Jastro’s argument was based almost altogether on the fact that he thought his county was assessed too high in comparison with the assess- ments placed on the neighboring counties of Fresno, Kings and Tulare. He made no claim that there had been any over- assessments in his county, but thought there had been heavy under-assessments in the counties named. It was further admitted by this same member that if Kern was reduced, it was very probable that Fresno, Kings and Tulare would each have to stand a raise. *'Kern County,” ne said to the board, “asks that a 15 per cent reduction be made on her assessment. so she may be placed on an equality with the counties adjacent to her. In Kings County,” he continued, “all the lands bordering on Kern were assessed on an averuge at $2 25 an acre, while the adjacent and similar land 1n Kern was assea at between $7 and an acre. In Kings County there were 77 miles of irrigation canals and ditches, with a capacity of 1350 cubic feer, capable of irrizating 100,000 acres. These have bzen assessed at $28,250. In Kern County there were 180 miles, with a capacity of 2857 cubic feet, capable of irrigating 190,000 acres. These have been assessed at $456,000. ;sr;;r;o had 70 miles, with a ca- pucitv of 1850 feet, capuble of supplyin 150.000 acre+, and ‘\\'nsl assessed ig:x’nex’: oniy $150,000.” I response to a question by More- house be stated that the canuls in both Kern ana Fresno were disposing of all the water they carried and he saia he believed this was true of Kings and Tulare also. Tulare, he continned, had canals that carried 150 cubic feet and these had been assesszed at $2000 a mile, R. H. Beumer of Woodland, the mem- ber from the Third District, asked Jastro hew he accounted for the reduction of $1,000,000 in Tulare’s assessment as com- pared with last year, *‘That is just what we want to know about,” quickly responded the man from Kern. On being further questioned by Beamer bhe said tue reduction in Tulare, s he was informed, was mosily on outside lands. He added ihat the owners of lands in Tulare were unprogressive, while the peo- ple in Kern were enterprising, and haa had nerve enougn to invest large sums of money in irrigation works, by means of which the lands were improved and en- hanced in value, “Most of the land in Tulare,’’ he con- tinued in a tone of evident conviction, *is owned by fossils and mossbacks,’’ “'Some first-class funerals are wanted there, 1 suppose,’’ suggested Beamer. "' heartily respond¢a Jastro. 1le meandered among those present. Responding house, Kern's representative staled that the best inside land was assessed at $150 an acre, and the best outside 21 $35; that land that had formerly been assessed at to questions by More- 25 cents an acre, was now rated as high as $12 ana $15. This was due to its having been reclaimed. “Do you consider that any of vour lands Lave been over-assessed?’ asked Morehouse. *Under ordinary circumstances, 1 would not think so, but of late the product has visoment, Lnot been sold to advantage,’” answered board as to which counties are to be cited | their assessments | Jastro. “In the adjoining counties values have gone down. Land that was previously rated at 15 cents an acre simply to give it a standing, is now assessed from 50 cents to $250 in Kern. s “What kind of propertv do you think is oves-assessed ?” inquired Chairman Moore- house. “‘All property,” replied Jastro, ‘‘is over- assessed, as compared with other counties. We simply want to be placed on the same basis with other counties. None of our property would seil for what 1t is assessed at, except some of the alfalfa lands. I think the lower-priced lands are over- assessed. Tiiere are about 3,000,000 acres assexsed in Kern, ana out of this I believe at least 2,250,000 are overassessed. I claim that we are entitled to a reduction, or that the other counties ought to be raised. “'Several applications were made to the Supervisors, sitiing as a county board of equalization, to reduce individual assess- ments, but on motion they were rejected. We felt it would be an injustice to reduce a few and let the others stand. We there- fore dec’ded to fet all stand and go to the State Board of Equalization for reliel.” Jastro caused a sickly smile to over- shadow the countenances of the members of the board when he expiained that County Assessor Winfield Scott had stated that he had made the high assessments under the instructions of the State board. He asked the board to issue a subpena re- quasting Scott to appear before it, but no action was taken. gne case was then sub- mitted. To-day the Board of Equalization ap- portioned most of the railroad assess- ments among the various connties. In several instances important changes were made. Last year the Southern Pacific Railroad was assessed for $16573.334¢ on 1770.95 miles, at the rate of $9358 44 u mile. This year it is assessed for $14,664,580 on 1543.64 miles, at the rate of $9500 a mile. The decrease in mileage is due to the fact that that portion of the Southern Pacific which is operated by the Atlantic and Fa- cific has been assessed to the latter com- puny. The increase in the value per mile isdue to this transfer of the assessment of a portion of the Southern acific road. It is claimed that the portion now assessed to the Atlantic and Pacific is a weak por- tion of the property, and its withdrawal has enhanced the value of the remaining mileage of the Southern Pacific. In tne case of the South Pacific Coast Railroad its assessment per mile was re- duced from $12,000 to $11,500 because, as explained by the board, i% is a narrow- guage road. The road is now assessed for $1,105,840, as against $1,153,920 last year. The retuction is a little over 4 per cent and affects Alameda, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz connties. A reduction of §500 a mile was made on the Pacific Coast Railway. It is now as- sessed at $4000 a mile and an ageregate of $304,400, as against $342 450 last year. This 18 equal to an 11 per centreduction erd falls upon San Luis Ovispo and Santa Burbara counties. No changes were made in any of the other roads apportioned, There yet re- mains the following to apportion: Sun Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Rail- way, Alameda, San Joaquin, Califorania and Nevada, Pajaro Valley, San Francisco and San Mateo, Gualala River, that po tion of the Southern Pacific operated by the Atlantic and Paciiic, and the rolling stock of the Pullman Palace-car Company used on the Central Puc fic, Southern Pa- cific, Southern Californiaand Atlanticand Pacitic. These will prcbably be attended to to-morrow. The apportionment by counties follows: SOUTIHERN PACIFIC $15,300{Sun Brurdino, 6.:70 San Die $314,070 8id, co 534,850 | Sun Fra 1 Fresno 4835 ~an Jonquin Kern 5,685 San L. Obispo, Kiuga.... .l 540/ 1os Angelex . Nadera. 1,019,635 017,:80 CESTEAL PACIFIC. -$1,447.346/>an a Clara, 783,38 |Shasta, Sferra. 159 | Siakiyou . 639.764| <tanisiany #7428 1,448,031 » 398,955 174,085 SaoFrancisco Sun Jouquin.. NORTHERN CALIFORNTA. Alameda Amador. 2 2.9,16: 5.586 159,128 457,054 (S Bernadino. §821,625 2(San Diego...... 661,821 0 AND NORTH PACIFIC. Marin. £345.245(Sonoma..... .. $1,287,787 Mendecino.... 301,978 SOUTH PACIFIC COAST. Alameda.......¥36 ,790|Santa Cruz.....8318,560 Banca Clara.... 425,50, NORTH PACIFIC COAST. Marin... CARSON A Inyo.. L1188,683| Mono. . 371,317 EVADA, CALIFOBNIA AND OREGO Lassen .- $102.950 | ~i@rra. . $7,050 CALIFORNT, $728,889 ... 8889 A PACIFIC. Soluno Yoo COUNTY NARR - BK3,467|Piacer.... PACIFIC COAST. Sn Luls Obispo.$158,000| Santa Barbara . $146,400 711111 864,311 e ...$16,533 NORTH Butte.. Sutter. Rivorside........ $30,000;San Beruardino. $30,000 DIED ALONE AND UNATTENDLED, Henry O’'Farrell Found Dead at His Cabin Near Visalia. VISALIA, Cau, Aug. 17.—Another of the old pioneers of Tulare Couaty has passed from the, siage of action.” Henry O Farrell or Harry Parole, as he was more familiarly called, is dead. He was 72 years ola and a native of Maine. Harry was a miner and prospector and lived all alone far up on the mountains east of Visalia. His cabin was off the beaten trail of teams and horsemen, and just when he died is not known. A few days ago some of his neighbors éaled at his cabin and found his body lying on the ground not far from the open door. Wild- cats from the surrounding forest had mangled the body. 1t bad been 1 month since anybody had seen him alive, and it is probab.e that he had been dead for several days and.per- haps weeks\ The latest weekly paver that regularly found its way to the lonaly home was dated July 22. The money found in the old man’s eifects amounted to 6 cents. Two or three pack animals and a few humble to0ols and ccoking utensils made up the residue of his prop- erty. > O'Farrell claimed that his brother was the man after whom O'Farrell street in San Francisco was named. patant ey el Work on Lower Otat Dawm. SAN DIEGO, CaL., Aug. 17.—The lower Otai dam, twenty miles sontheast of this city, has be2n finished tothe 134-foot con- tour line and the machinery is being moved to the Barrett dam, thirty miles farther on. Asthe dam now stand it has an imoounding capaeity of 13,766,3:8,500 gallons, or 2018 miners’ inches. It is the first dam of the four now under construc- tion vy the Southern California Mountain ‘Water Company in which A. B. and John D. Spreckels are the chief holders, The Ota: gam has cost thus far $200,000, and the entire system will have cost, 'when completed, §$3,000,000. Sriopiges AR \ High School jor Auburn. AUBURN, Cav., Aug. 17.—By an almost unanimous vote Auburn to-day decided 10 bave a high school. The oid Bierra Normal School building has been leased for a term of years and the school will probably be opened about the middle of nex: mnnth. The college isa large and commodious structure, with ample ac- commodation for transient students, who will be eamiited on payment of a small tuition fee. 5 HARSHAL CREED PLAYED FARD Marin County’s District Attorney Wants His Scalp. Sausalito Peace Officer Ac- cused of Standing In With Gamblers. Warrant for the Arrest of Willlam Dormer Placed In a Constable’s Hands for Service. SAN RAFAEL, Caxy, Aug. 17.—A war- rant for the arrest of the Marshal of the town of Sausalito, Jobn E. Creed, was sworn out to-day before Justice of ‘he Peace Edwin Gardner by one of the Morse detectives who raided the faro game in J. E. Slinkey’s Ei Monte Hotel in Sansnlng, Creed 1s charged with failing to do'ms duty as an officer in not informing agmx_ml. the proprietors or players. The complaint states the foliowing: That one John E. Creed, at and before the filing of this compigint, in tue town of Sau- salito, commitied the crime of refusing and neglecting to inform against persons vioia- ting tbe provisions of chapter 10 of title I of the Penal Code, as follows, to wit: The said John E. Creed was on the 7th of ! August, 1897, and ever since has been and now 15 & police officer of the town of Sausa- Mto. That on the 7th day of August, 1897, at and in the said town of Sausalito one William Dormer, in the presence and under the ob- servation of raid Creed, was engsged in car- rring on and conducting a game of faro for money and other representatives of value in violation of the provisions, etc., of the Penal Code. That said Creed on said 7th aay of August, 1897, did then and there willfuLy and un- lawfally refuse and neelect to inform against and prosecute said Willinm Dormer for the violations ot the Penai Code above mentioned, and ever since said day has willfully and uu- lawful'y reiused 1o inform against and prose- cute said Wiiliam Dormer. The warrant for Creed’s arrest will be served to-morrow. Itis now in the hands of Constable Gannon of San Rafa: Creed will offer a novel defe He will state that he was in the faio room and played the game, but that his purpose in “pucking the tiger’” was to obiain evi- dence against the proprie'ors and players; that in fact he really intended 10 arrest the entire outfit; but that the District Attorney got ahead of him, much to his disgust. William Harrison, one of the proprie- tors of the poolroom running under ihe name of Harrison & Co. in Sausalito, was in San Rafael to-day. He protested against the pnblication in a2 morning pa- per that accused him of having been at the bottom of the raid recently made on the faro, crap and rouleite outfits in that town. 3 “It not only reflects uvon me,” said he, “put it tends to give one the impression that District Aitorney E. B. Martineili is standing in w:th me and is under my dic- tation. 7That is not true,” E. B. Martivelli, Marin County’s Dis- trict Attorney, sai “It is not true thtat Mr. Harrison was in any way connected with my action in raiding the faro game. He knew nothing about it, and any assertion to thecon- trary is false. I planned the raid myself and carried it through without the assist- ance of any Sausalito people.” A warrant was sworn out before Justice Gardner this afternoon for the arrest of William Dormer. He is charged with dealing faro, and a_deputy left with the warrant to arrest him. Dormeris one of the owners of the game that the District Attorney recently raided so successfully. When the players: were arrested it was | Dormer who put up the cash bail on | wnich they were relensed. | When the ca es of the arrested gamblers were called to-day before Justices Rodden and Gardener the accused men were rep- resented by their attorneys, and each one entered pleas of *‘not guilty’’ and asked for jury trials. The complaint against J. E. Slinkey will be sworn out to-morrow. Slinkey will be prosecuted under thatsection of the code that holds the lessee of the gamblers’ retreat liable to arrest for al- lowing gamblers to play or rentapart- ments from him. Claims He daw Dunham. PH@ENIX, Ariz., Aug.17.—An Itahan calling himself Pietra Quaaadra asserts he saw Dunham, the Calitornia murderer, in Hermosillo, Mexico, in June last. Dan- bam had shaved his mustache, but other- wise was unaltered in appearance and apparently 1n good health and spirits. He chatted for a few minutes with Quaddra, referring to his escape as something eusily accomplished and inauiring after ac- cuaintances about Los Gatos. He askea Quaddra to meet him thatjevening, en- joining upon- him silence as to his presence in Mexico. The Italian promised to meet him, but instead took the first train for the United States. . He says he was afraid Dunbam would murder him. He is sure of Dunbam’s identity, for he was employed by Dunham asa laborer for several w eeks vrior to the murders and was employed on the fruit ranch in the vicinity of Los Guatos at the time of the tragedy. e g T Brings Suit to Foreclose, LOS ANGELES, Cawn, Aug. 17.—Suit has been begun by the Welis-Fargo Ex. press Company against the John Custing Company of Sap Francisco, and numer- ous John Does and Richard Roes to re- cover various snms of money, alleged to have been loaned the defendants, amount- ing in all 1o aboup $10,000. At different times Cutting, it is alleged in the com- piaint, deeded to Henry Wadsworth, the cashier of the comnplainant, a number of pieces of properiy in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbwras and Los Angeles counties, | as security for money borrowed, He also | pledged with the concern sixty-iive shares of capital stock in the Satber Banking Compauy. S?z is brought to bring about the sale of thé property to pay the debt. Case Thrown Out of Cowrt. L0S ANGELES, CaL, Aug. 17.—In his negotiations with-San Diego to sell to that city a water supply and plant agsinst the objections of the Consolidated Water Com- pany, E. 8. Babcock won a point yester- day in the United States court, The Consolidaged Company. brought suit in the United States Circuit Court some time ago, to prevent the City Council from entering into a contract with Babcock to buy his plant. The' court this merning, in a decision of a half dozen words, threw the suit ont of court, because there were certain parties not joined in the case who should be, and if they were brought in it would deprive the court of jurisdiction. The matter will now have to come up in the State courts. e Tragedy at Long Jeach. LOS ANGELES, Can, Aug. 17.— At Long Beach about noon yesterday Gaorge ‘Waters (colored) shot his wife in the mouth and then turned the weapon upon himself and sent a bullet into his own brain. The wound inflicted upon the wite was a serious one, but is not thonght to be fat: Waters is still alive, though with a bullet in’ his brain. Jealousy ciused the shooting; Rt o Belieree Crerde Waas His Brother. LOS ANGELES, Can, Aug. 17.—The Mayor of this city has received a letter | from S, B. Harvey of Pensacola, Fia.. asking for assistance in determining whettier or not N. C. Creede, deceaseu. was Will Harvey, his brother. The writer suys his brother disappeared in 1859 from Springtield, Itl, and was alterward re- ported killed, but he believes the report was false and that Creede and his brother were one and the same person. An at- tempt will be made to verify the Flori- dan’s belief. —_——— MARIY COUNTY'S BOULEVARD. San Quentin Prisoners Construct a Model Highway Leading Into San Rafasl. SAN RAFAEL, Can, Aug. 17.—The greatest boulevard in Marin County is approaching completion. It will extend from Tiburon to San Rafgel and is being constructed by convicts from the San Quentin Penitentiary. That part of the road from Greenbrae station to San Rafael has been cntirely constracted and is in ex- celient condition. It will be thrown open in a few days. Already that part of the boulevart leading into San Rafael at the head ot Irwin street has been turned over to the county. The great boutevard has attracted con- siderable attention, and the expense of construction (o the county of Marin has been but a trifle, as the convicts supphed the labor and the only item of expense failing upon the county has been the em- ployment of a couple of armed guards to watch the convicts. T e working of the convicts does not conflict in any way with the employment of free labor. The county is in no posi- tion te build such a thorvughfare, and the boulevarc would never have been con- structed if the labor of the prisoners Lad not been used. e Embrzzied a Burial Fund. SAN JOSE, CaL, Augz. 17.—Reyes Ber- ryessa, a young Spaniard, was convicted in Justice Wallace's court to-day of em- bezzling $1 from Mrs. Neitie Hernandez, a young widow who had just buried her husband. Berryessa went among the friends of the Hernandez family to raise money for the burial. He was successful in this, but appropriated several doilars collected to his own use. Owing to the fact that Berryessa had an aged motkerto support sentence was suspended. A charge of obtaining money under false pre- tenses was dismissed. e LA San Jose Fruit Shipments. SAN JOSE, CaAL., Aug. 17.—The Eastern sbipments of green fruit are unusually large just now and far exceed those for ihe same time of any previous year. Over- lana shipments last week footed up 2,600,- 080 pounds; which is more than aouvle that for the corresponding week of last year. e L as e Garren Brought Baci by an Officer. SAN LUIS OBISPO, CaLn, Auz 17.— An officer arrived from Seattle to-night and lodged in the County Jail J. Garren, charged with embezzling the funds of the Paso Robles Water Company over 2 year ago. Garren was manager of the company. He was a highly respected | citizen and served as amember of the City Council. He bas been in hiding for a | year in company with a questionabie character with whom he left Paso Robies. | SEeas v - Stept on a Railrond Track. SAN LUIS OBISPO, CiL, Aug. 17.— Jesus Padillo, one of a section gang on the Southern Pacific, went to s'eep on the track and was run over at Grover ves- terday by a freight train. His head terribly bruised and his right arm cut off. He will recover. e Hello, There, s5an Diego! SAN DIEGO, CaL, Aug. 17.—The long distance teiephone line connecting San Diego with Los Angeles, San Francisco and the outside world wasopened for busi- ness vesterday. San Diego can now talk with Redding direct over 904 miles of wire —one of the largest circuits in tne Unitea States. RULED BY THEY HOUSEKEEPER. Complaint of an Old Man’s Bride Scelcs Divoree. BRIDGEFORT, C: Aug. 17.—Beach | Lattin of Nichols, in the town of Trum- bull, 60 years old, 1s the defendant in a divorce suit. The papers served upon him Monday charge that he has been guilty of intolerable cruelty toward his wiie and also of infidelity. Some mcnths age Mr. Lattin engaged Mrs, Margaret Morse as his housekeeper. She 1s a young widow, and says he asked her to marry him. last June, but she refused. Nextday he cume to Bridgeport, courted Mrs. Meade and | soon afterward married her. In July he took his wife to his home, wnere Mrs. Morse was in possession and asserted her rights. The new Mrs. Lattin, 8o she says, was consigned to a room in the aitic, while Mrs. Morse and Lattin occupied appartments on the ground floor. She was not even allowed to sit at the table with her husband. Mrs. Morse is named as corespondent. | ches PR FIGHT Who WiTH APACHES, | 4arizona Prospectors Have a Narrow | Escape in Sonora, Mexico. EL PASO, TEx, Aug. 17.—A company | of Arizona prospectors had a fight with Apache Indians—possibly Apache Kid’s band—and a few Mexican outlaws near XEW TO-DATY! Desperation will often lead a man to do valiant deeds and overcome seeming impossibilities. ‘What will not a man do to break out of the prison cell of a 2 3 tyrant? But the same man, imprisoned in the charnel-house of ill-heaith will but too often idly, and | without an effort, await the approach of death. There is but one way to meet and overcome the deadly disease, consumption. Itis to the best weapon at hand and | valiantly beat down the barriers of disease. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is the best and only sure weapon to use in bat- H tling with consumftion. It cures per cent. of all cases. It purifies and builds up the blood, and drives out the disease germs, ‘The lungs cannot long remain diseased that are constanu{renewed by rich, red, arterial blood of the best quality. When the lungs are supplied with pure blood, the germs of consuir‘n]g.uon are soon rendered harmless. The ” also contains elements iscove that steady and strengthen the nerves, an it is the gest medicine for those sufl"erin: from loss of sleep, brain fag and overwork. Thousands have testified to the great ben fits received from this wonderful medicine. Miss Whitman, of months I have had a bad cough, and instead of s::x;ln better, it grew worse, until I was ad- ical Discovery. I hesitated at first, fc to me nothing would give nlief%yofir = i‘.‘"‘fi? . h:?- z:,rn:“n“x:xi?us ntim‘lt ex:e, and I was said e ion. i i and before I taken Iu:y dmesr t'}?:::c;::t great t:hnn%e. When the ‘second bottle was ;l:l’pt-y ‘xr:z:dang&zo say I had no cough and T, M "Discoverer of such a mediciae s |1 10 the If you want a $1.50 doctor-book in covers free, send 21 cents in sumpfl."g:: French cloth binding, ten cents extra. by a friend to try Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med. | the Bavispe and Yaqgui river junction, Sonors, Mexico, August 10. Six miners and a packtrain of four.een burros were camped in a dry, brushy arroyo, where the fight occurred, which lasted _three hours. A thunderstorm ended hostilities, and the miners and their packtrain e-caped unhurt to the mountains and re- turned to the Mormon settlement at Casa Grande. LT GALVESTON YOUIHWS CRIME, Murders His Mother for Money to Spend om a Fariety dotress. GALVESTON, Tex., Aug. 17.—Mrs. Kate Galiagher, for twelve years a school- teacher in th's city, was found yesterday with her throat cut from ear to ear and her body charred beyond recoguition. The body was discovered by firemen called out to extinguish a blaze at the woman's bouse. Virgil, the 20-year-old son of the woman, has been arrested, and he has conle-sed that he committed the crime to get money to spend on a variety actress. The crime was aeliberately planned and executed. The young mun had packed his trunk and was ready to leave. He had the furniture insured, and with the money expected to leavé Texas as scon as the fire loss could be adjusted. But the fire was discovered in time to prevent the destruction of the building and the bloedy shirt in which the crime was committed, DROP, “Continual dropping wi wear away a rock.” Noth- ing can withstand a wear- ing-away process. And you ought to know that your constinution is not a rock bv any means. But on you go! On go the drains. “One drop in a bucket” i3 an expressiofl that you may have heard. But your poor weakened constitu- iim cin stand only a very tew more of tne drains on vour big system—even if you were a strong man. DROP, For a moment drop your folly. TRY to wake up to the necessities of your case. Spots before your eyes; tremor in your speech; noises in your head: weak knees; no will DROP! power. Why will younos be a man? Right away will your AWAY wroubles flv if you want them to. The doctors of the grand old Hudsonian Institute will send you a great deal of pood-advics without cost if you but consult them. No pub- licity. Go and ask yourself as to bow much of a man you are. Then write and tell the doctors of the Insti- tute all about it. Your case is curable — don’t doubt that. If it were not curable you would be told. GOES The graattworry with you is that you do not try to help yourseli. You not oniy expect the doc ors to send you advice and testi- monials free, tut you do not seem to have energy enough left even to send your address. THE is a firm thing usually, but e,ntinuous droppings Wil wear it awsy. Areyou interested enough in your strength to try to save it, or do you want it to go altogetuer? Make up your mind and act] A rock ROCK. Hudson Medical Institute Stockton, Market and Ellis Sts., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. REFEREE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. Y VIRTUX OF TWO DECREES OF THE Superfor Court_in and for the City and County of San Francisco, State .t California (Depsriment No. 10), (he firs: of which decrees was made and is dated the 22d day of Novenibar, 1895, and the second of which decrees was made and is da ed the 25th day of June, 1897, and both of which de- crees were made and entered in an action pe iding in said Superior Court, wherein Adem Grant is plaindft ava Dantel T. Murphy and ochers are. de- fendants. being case No. 49,085 in the sald cour: the undersign. d. who was by said court appointed refereo in said action, will sell ai puolic auction, at the auction-rooms of 6. 1. Umbsen & Co., 14 Nontgomery St., in said City and County of San *ranct: Thu)siay, the 24 day of Seprember, 4. . 1587, At 12 0'clock noon of thiat day, to the Higheit b ddee for cah In iawtul money ot the United States, and subj -cc 10 confirmation by sald court, ali that certaia lo, p.ece or parcei of land sliuate, Iving nd being in the City and County of Sai Frane cisco; State of Californis, and bounded par ticularly described as follows, 10 wit: Commencing ac & point where the northery line of Bush street i3 Intersected by the easterly line of Sansome siree.; running thence easterly along th= northerly line of Eush sireet one nundred and thirty-seven (137) feet and six (6) inohes; thence ai right angles noriherly and parallel with ~an rome street oue hundred and thirty-seven (137y fectand sIX (6) inches: thence &. Tight aigles westerly nnd parailel with Bush steet. one hon- drod and thiriy-seven (187) feet and six (6) inches, and to the eisieriy side of Sansome street: and thence souiherly miong the essterly side of S - some stréet. one hundred and thirty-seven (137) feei and six (6) fnches 10 the point of cowmence- ment: together with the buildings and improve ments thereon. I he purchaser shall take the said Jot subject te the right of John F. McCauley and Henry Thorns ton Templeton, their heirs and assigns, to use the drick wail along the norther:y line of sald iot here- in described as & puriy wall, Terms and condions of sale—Cash in lawtul mouey of ihe United States of America; t*n per cent of the purchase price (0 be paid o 1he ref eree on the day of sale, when the lot Is knocked down 1o the purchaser, and the balan e on cons firmation of safd awle by said court. Dated San Franciaco, Cal, July 1, 1897 GUSTAVE H. UMBSEN, Referee. 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