The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1897, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1897 5 FRIGHTRL FYPLOSION AT EELTON Works of the California Powder Company Blown Up. NOBODY SERIOUSLY INJURED. : ; Great Alarm Caused, but the! Damage Is Comparatively Insignificant. SHOCKS THAT WERE FELT| FOR MILES. | Four Thousand Packages of Powder WILLIAM LAND, Republic an Nominee for Mayor of Sacramento. Gone-Not a Vestige of ths Mills Remains. SBANTA CRUZ, Car., Sept. 20.—T! 3 o'clock two violent ex- i atthe California Powder \ear this city. severe nd morning plosions oc Works at F While abou s, shaking creating alarm can g in this city LAND NAMED , the effect was really very in- | Sacramento Republi- i d with such ex- . . posions generally. Nobody was seri-| Cans Nominate a City ously hurt, tho ¢ man was twice Ticket. thrown to the ground and others barely e ed damacge from fi ¢ debris. | The loss will not exceed $20,000. Much | inery can be set up azain and | Not a Single Contest to Mar | airs can be madeina | 1 t portion of the works | e manage- tally upon its prod- | 1t 4000 Kezs or packages in the mills were destroyed. a vestige of the coining ground where they stood no The nan efforts, the fire reaqing to other tained powder. windows in the residences of and W. C. Peyt 11, were broken. | nad a narrow escape | alling picges of plate- | gentl Ccut by f om being e explosion was distinctly heard at | rey, Pacitic Grove and neighboring | ser and Ira Kennedy had | Warner wason a tram- second repert Wood and h se 8 and he fell ag; n were fall biilet of wood st ggered to the fl past. the eves by a ck. tress at the boarding- close call, as a seclion outside’ tne room in | There i1s no positive snowledge to be | ascertained as 10 the cause of the explo- n, though it is possible that the over- heating of the drying-room Was responsi- ble for it. - " K PIONEER M MAN DEAD.| Erpires From a Shoc: Cawsed by the | Powder- Aill Expio ion. SANTA Mary CRUZ Waker he CAL., Sept. 29.—Mrs. 1 died at Seabright this | t irouble presumably | the shock of the powder-miil | explosion. Tae dc a native of | M:ssouri, aged 65 years, 2 well ainted with uent people o Cali- ia in early days. | came to California in 1849 with her | Jobhn W itson, who was the | San Francisco, vein 1t Z E appointed by and was prior to that ti M sioner in the State. nt at the Admi : was on day ba:l in San nci- and danced with General Va- jo. - Ex-Governor Francis of Missouri was ber cousin. Sne leaves one daughter, Mrs. H. C. Cooper of this city. — . HOUES MUST BE NUMBERED. Ons Innovation Ffequisite to a Free Delivery System at Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, CaL., Sept. 29.—Post- office Inspector M. H. Flint has been siriving for a long time to bring about some improvements in the city which ate not only desirable, but from his show- ing absolutely necessarv. Though Los > | | was born in Herkimer County, N | 1860, and came di | the | tor a period ot eight the Harmony of the Convention. Young to Run for Audltor, Frost for Treasurer and De Ligne for Attorney. ed six feet deep. A grove of N 3 | SAC Sept. 29.— ses, some of them three feet thick, was | SACRAMENTO, Car, Sots 2 Tne e any others were burned., iRcbulL can City Counvention to - mght made the iollowing nominations by accla- mation, there being no centest: Mayor—William Land. Collector—C, C. Rubertson. Auditor and Assessor—J. D. Young. City Atorney—A. A. de Ligne. Treasurer—A. L. Frost. Trustees—First Ward, Wachhorst; Third, Charles W. P Fifth, Philip Douglass; Seventh, C. K. Lipman; Niath, 1. J. Penni h. 100l Directors—Second Ward, Georze H. to the mills when he saw a | Siack; Fourtn, Sl =i o e e e b SaW % | Howard Johnson; Eizhth, E. E. Pana: run ground rocked so itee—A, J. Rhoads, F. Daroux, T. J. Fi avanaugh, W. Ronrer, Ira corge Lagan Charies Merry and George F. Meister. A. J. Rnoads was elected as chairman of | the central committes. William Land, the nominee for on the 11th day of Octover, 1837. He came 10 Cailiornia by way of the Isthmus in ct to Sacramento. boy, waiter, runner, clerk, and to-day is 1@ owner of two large hotels, the Western nd State House, one at the foot of K street and the other as far ‘‘up town’’ as tis “down’’. 1885 Mr. Land took his first vacation in twen y-three years, and went to Europe | ng in the woods | Bosteiry] William Land has advanced | leading to Fel. | along the line until to-day he is one of A force of men is fighting it, so that | the leading hotel men in the Ugited & el A SAdiaE. | States. He served in the capacity of beil- | months. In 1893 he completed a trip atno place did he forget to leave a iin si:n or two telling the natives of the countries visited to 'Go to the New West- ern Hotel” in case they visited Sacra- mento. There is one feature in Mr. Land’s achievements which is not oniy a matier of personal pride to him but one of tne main sources of his success, and that is that he never discharges an emplove as long as he properly performs the duties of his employment. Alex Morrison has stood beniud the Western Houel counter for twenty-nine years, and the guests all say he still wears the same old smile. ‘‘Scotty’’ bas been in the employ of Mr. Land for even a greater period, and turoughout the hotel he points with mucn satisfaction to the long periodscovered by those in his empioy. In spesking of his candiaacy Mr. Land id: “I am getiing pretty well along now in years and miy business requires much attention, but if the people of Suc- ramento want me I feel that itis my duty | to give upsome of my time to the inter- ests of the city wherein I have made ali [ possess. Ishall live the remainder of my aays here, and aside from, the honor such & position confers I feel that I will find a pleasant task in the two years I hope to devote to the advancementand general prosperity oi the city I love so well.”” The D2mocratic City Ceatral Comnmittee met to-night and appointed delegates to the coavention to be heid on Friday, when candidates for city offices will be named. Apgeles is known to have over 100,000 | \ The struggle for the nomination for dpimsk comport pith_the elsimn for oX. | erinpnhnt Hach Wi G rOaeE SH T tended mail service. Inspector Flint said = to-day that the city was not eatitled to [ M108 s iree mail delivery service, accordingto| ;mprrsoNAT.. - = % 5 . UNAT. D 4N FICER, 1hie postal laws and regulations, and e = pddea: Drunken Man Pretends to Arrest Two “This talk of people being indignant because they don't receive iree deiivery of mail is all nonsense. Were I callea on | 10-morrow %o recommend a free delivery service for the city of Los Angeles 1 woald refuse. In the first place, the | law requires that zll the streets must be named and signs bearing the names posted on each corner, and that all houses must be numbered and all streets properiy lighted.” The inspector says that the city does not comply with this requirement. Theres is a‘lack of street signs and insufficiency f light to enable collectors and carriers 15 make their calls late in the day during tae winter season, when darkness comes on early.. Heemplatically declares that in view of the deiinguency he could nct conscientiously recommend free delivery, nd that if the city wants better postal ilies it must quickly put up street #igns, number all housés correctly and provarly light the streets. His words and implied recommendation wiil,it 1s thought briiig the Council to a realization of the needsof the cit e Thousand Dollars to the Ton. DELTA, Can, Bept. 29.—Men who have just arrived trom the scene of the gold st-ike made two days ago twelve miles fiom here say that the find was in the shape of a good quariz leige. The discoverérs have already taken out ore that will go $1000 to the ton Women and I« Himself Jailed. SAN JOSE, CaL., Sept. 29. — Arthur Bohimen, a farmhand employed near Mil- pitas and who bas been on a spree for sev- eral days, was arrested iast evening for impersonating an officer. Bohlman had | @ pair of handcuffs that belonged to Con- | stable Matthews of Miinitas, and, after b | coming drunk, he imagined that he was | an officer. | Inrunning around town he met Fannie Brown and a colored girl named Charlotte Miller and placed them under arrest. He took them nearly to the City Hall and then released tnem. They reported the matter to the police, and Bohlman was arrested. The girls were also charged with vagrancy. As Bonlman’s act was merely a drunken fr-ak the charge of impersonating an officer was not pressed, and he pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace and paid a fine of $10. S W o Srioken by Heart Di SAN JOSE, CAL, Sept, 29.—Thatcher F. Barnes, a4 farmer residing near Alviso, dropped dead from hLeart disease at his home last evenin-. He was a native of New York, aged 68 years. The deceased was a pioneer of 1852 and was well known tbroughou. the county. A widow and two daughters survive him. — - ADVANCES made ou_iurniiure and_planos, with | oF without removal. Noonan, 1017-1075 Mission .round the world, and | BRANDING SEALS FOR MAYOR TH HOT IRONS Dr. Jordan’s Electrical Device Said to Be a Failure. Report Brought Back From Bering Sea by Officers of the Wild Swan. Declare That tha Herds Are Balng Frightenad Away to the Japanese Coast. VICTORIA, B. C., Sept. sloop Wild Swan has returned to E malt after doing duty wiih the British patrol fleet in Eering Sea. word of the progress of “Americanizing’ the seals on branding them this summer. Her officers declare that the electrical apparatus, Starr Jordan, did not work been resorted to. The electrical machine was not given up until after repeated trials had fully established its futility, and the fruitiess attempis to use it so tnoroughly fright- ened tue herds that there appeared to be a great exodus from the islands. The hot irons have been successfully used, however, on thousands of seals, upon whose backs great belt-like strips have been burned, destroying the value of | the skins for commercial purposes, and, | therefore, in compensation for the torture of branding, preserving the seal from From a head waiter in the oid Westery | Si8Ughter by any hunter who observes the mark of the brand. A party of officers of the Wild Swan landed on the St. Paul and St George Islands about the middle of August, when very large herds were to be seen. Tlere were seventeen or eighteen rookeries on | the islands, antl in one visited there were fully 17,000 seals. Yrofessor Jordan had then left the isl- | ands, having come down some time ago on the United States cutter Rush, but his aff, numbering six or seven, were still engeged 1in the work of branding seals with bot irons. The story was current in Bering Sea and among sealing men at Unalaska that seals frightened away by tie branding | operations were migrating to an island on t Northern Japanese coast in the | vicinity of tle Copper Islands. Thisisland, the sealers said, had been discovered by the Japanese sealing fleet, and each vessel of that fleet was reapinga very rich harvest. Thereport by the Casco afew days ago that the Japanese vessels were veing allowed by the Russian cruisers to go within ten miles of the Copper Islands, while Canadian vessels were kept outside the thirty-mile limit, taken in conjunction with this report by the Wild Swan, seems to establish the fict that the Japanese sealers are having some preference, SEALS NOT DELV 70 JAPaN. Dr. Jordan Brands the Siatement as a Deliverate Lie. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CAL., Sept. 28.—When suown a dispaich relative to the alleged failure of the branding appa- ratus tuken to Alaska by the recent fur- seal expedition, Dr. Jordan spoke as fol- lows: “The electrical branding apparatus in- vented by Mr. Farmer arrived the day we | left. We were afraid at that time that the dynamo was not large enough for the work we intended it to do. “However, we had along a thorough equipment of the very latest and most approved branding irons. They had been tboroughly tested, and there wes no doubt of tneir «fliciency. The statement that the -eals have been driven to Japan or anywhere ese is a deliberate lie and imaginary fabrication. “They do not 0 a rod away on account of any operatiop of that kind. They pay a great aeal less attention to disturbances than do sheep when being sheared. *It is a faci that ever since i799 all the males under 6 years old nave been driven 1o the killing-grounds every week and sorted over, and the old and young re- leased tu come back again a week later. “They return without the slightest re- membrance that anything nad happened. This shows how little they are influencea by enything that would ordinarily cause fear to other animals. “It was notour intention to brand any large per cent of the herd this year, bat rather to find the means necessary to do 1t on the lurgest scale if it should be found necessary. “The whole matter is left to the discre- tion cf the cniet agent, Joseph Murray, who originaliy suggesieu branding and who has had charge of the details from the first. Last year he wae appointed assistant to the commission by ex-Presi- dent Cleveland, and this year President McKiunley appointéd him agent on the island. “As far as known, there has never been acase of a seal crossing from the Ameri- can to the Russian 1slands. The sea:s on the Russian islands are a different species from those found on Pribiloff. There are ouly a few dozen individuals leit of the Japanese herd, and they differ from both the Pribiloff and Russian forms.” 29 —The little ui- She brings the Pribyvloff Islands by the pride of Professor David neariy so smoothiy on the seals as upon paper, and inits place the more homely hot irons have FATE OF THE RIVAL, SUPERVISURS Will in All Probability Be Decided To-Day by the Supreme Court. CASE SUBMITTED T0 THE JUSTICES Merits of Morton’s Mandamus Petition Discussed at Length by Attorneys. BUT ONE REAL ISUE IS RAISED. i Did the Appeal of the 01d Board From | Judge Wallace's Judgment Aot as a Stay. Evidence ag to fact and argument as to law are now before the Supreme Court. The Justices are expected to reach a decision to-day in regard to the merits of vetition of ex-Supervisor Morton for a writ of mandamus compelling Auditor Broderick to accept the tax levy fixed by the old Board of Supervisors. The Justices of the Supreme Conrt, sitting in banc, listened all day yesterday to the representatives of the contending boards, and when Mr. Garber ended his | talk and the Justices were informed that | the questions of law were submitted to them they adjourned. The Jnstices promised to render an early decision. This is of course pleasing | to the people, ior they will soon learn whether they shall pay taxes fized by the new or old board. The session of the court was devoid of interest. Law and coustitutional rights were all that were heard. The attorneys | for the rival boards talked unceasingly of them, and after all was over the support- ers of the old board were willing to bet | dollars to peanuts that it would be recogz- nized by the court. ! They may be good mindreaders, but it must be said that the Justices gave no intimation in any way to the crowd which tilled the courtroom as to what their de- | cision might be. When the Justices took their seats in | | the morning Chief Justice Beatty called | !| for argument in the case of Morton versus | | Broderick. The testimony which had | | been taken by Commissioner Searls was before them, having been written up dur- ing the night ty the stenographer. In response to Mr. Pillibury’s question | as to the time tiat the court woula devote | to argument the Chief Justice said he thought two hours would be sufficient for | esch side. Then the argument started, and it was centered, as expected, the proposition as to whether or not the appeal from Judge Wallace's judement | acted as a stay, Many o:.her incidental questions wers raised in the argument. The conten'ion of the attorneys for the new board tuat the judement of Judge | Wallace was seif-cxecuting, was bitterly | | opposed by the representatives of the old board. They ridicuied the idea, and cited | many cases to show that the appeal fiied | by the old board should have acted as a stay. Mr. Garber, who concluded the argu- ment for the old board, made much of the | appeal staying the judgment, and quoted authorities galore on the subjsct, He dwelled particularly upon the case of Covarubias zgainst the Board of Super- visors of San Diego County, and held that the doctrine laid down by the Supreme Court 1n that case had never been de- | parted from. During the proceedings Thomas V. Cator, representing the intervenor, Jo- seph Greenberg, addressed tie court after | being snubbed by the Justices. He argued | in favor of Petitioner Morton and the old | board, and tired his hearers with a con- stitutional argument. In the afternoon old man McGinnis, who is an attorney, interrupted tue court and caused considerable amusement by filing a pencil-written brief in regard to some other case. The argument was opened in the morn- ing by Mr. McEnerney, and after he had recited the case of the petitioner cited what he considered the points at issue. He stated that the following qnestions arose and were in a wey involveu in the case at issue: First—Is mandamus the proper remedy | to try the disputed questious in this case? Sa=cond—Is there an appeal to this court from the judgment entered in the case of Fitch versus the Board of Supervisors? Third—Are the defendanisin that action entitied to remain in office pending ap- peal, having served and filed their notice of appeal and given the undertaking re- quired by law? Fourth—Is the appointed board a de jure board? In tuis question are in- volved, Were the six members appointed to represent wards in which they never resided or were eligible to the offices to which they were appointed? Were the undertakings given in the manner de- tailed as qualifications for the office? 1s the power of appointment to these places, in the event of vacancies, lodged in the Mayor or the Governor? If lodged in the Governor, were the bonds not given before these appointments took place, and are they not therefore bad. Fifth—Without regarC to the question whether the new board is, or ever was, a de jure board, nas the old board acqui- esced in its removal and abandoned or surrendered its offices so as to constitute the new board a de fucto boara? Sixth—1s the signature of the Mayor | necessary to the vaiidity of the tax levy, and if so, bas it not been signed by the lawful acting Mayor? Mr. McEnerney argued on all these questions at length. He called up the Covarubias case and read to show that the now-famed gentieman had been removed from the office of Sheriff and that he was awarded the right of appeal. He cited other cases to show that appeals so taken acted as supersedeas. He cited the case of Marks, and after explaining about the changes in the constitution of the State declared that he had a right to appeal on four different grounds. Then he talked of the hasiy appoint- ment of the new Supervisors, argued against the county government act, and also declared and cited cases to show that the forcibie removal of Supervisors and recognition by the Mayor amounted to nothing, He contended that the Mayor's signaiure was not essential to a tax levy, arguing that the law so providing is un- constitutional because it was special legis- lation, avplying to San Francisco alone. Mr. Baggett, for the Auditor, followed Mr. McEnerney, and made a strong argu- ment in opposition to the granting oi the petition of ex->upervisor Morton for his writ of mandamus. He answered Mr. McEnerney's questions i a clever way, but when he intimated that the old board was removed for maifeasance Chief Justice Beatty stopped him and instructed him | day’s grace. to confine his remarks to the proper lines of argument. Mr. Baggett contended that the ousting of the old board was in the nature of a criminal proceeding. Chief Justice Beatty asked him several questions which seemed to show that he did not think the old board had been properly removed from office. Mr. Bacgelt aeclared that Section 772 of the Penal Code made it a criminal procedure and the Chief Justice declared that it did not. Justice Garoutte opposed the Chief Jus- tice in the matter by saying that he never had any doubt that the proceedings were criminal. He declared that the court was divided on the question and that the ma- jority of the Justices were against the Chief. Mr. Baegett continued his argument during a great part of tbe afiernoon ses- sion, and when he finished his_replies to the questions propoundea by Mr. McEn- erney gave way to his associate, Mr. Schell. Mr. Schell spoke for a few moments, contencing that the judgment of Judge Wallace was a self-executing judement. Mr. Garber ended the argument. When he concluded the Justices determined to take the matter under adviserent. Mr. Garber, who represenied the old board with Mr. McEnerney and Mr. Pills- bury, ridiculed the idea of a self-execut- ing judgment. He referred to it as a new= fangied 1dea, one that should not be tol- erated. . He spoke vigorously and con- tended and cited cases to show thatan appeal acted as a sta HOTEL “DEAD BEATS. The Recent Arrest at the Occi- dental Causes a Discus- sion, Various Methods Employed in This City in Apprehending Tricky Guests, The recent arrest at the instigation of the Occidental Hotel of a guest who owed a bill of more than $100 has aroused the interest ofall hotel proprietors in the city. It developed the fact also that there are known to the hotel prefession a con- siderable number of persons called ‘“‘dead beats,” who make a practice of living from hotel to hotel and from town to town without paying. As Colonel Young, the proprietor of the Russ, yesterday expiaineq, this man chuse the best rooms in the house, regis- tered, and withdrew, presumably to get his bugeage. He returned later, explain- ing that his baggasze Lad :one astray to San Rafael. So ne was given another The third day, no baggage haVing arrived and the bill having been unnoticed, Colonel Young gave orders that no more meals shouid be taken to the rooms. The manager of the hotel became ten- der-hearted and sent in meals during the next :wo days. He was told by his supe- rior to charge them to himself. He did <0 and went in search of the man, He returned with two lawbooks given him by the guest in settlement of the claim. Upon investigation he found that the lawbooks belonged to another man in the Mills building., He again demanded a setilement and was sent $5 50, a dollar in excess of his ciaim, with a request for the return of the books. That was all the ho- tel got. Discussing this subject of ‘*dead beats,” the hotel men of this city made some in- terasting a<sertions. Colenel Young, proprietor of the Russ House: “There is alot of people going around the country, from town (o town, irom hotel to hotel, known as ‘dead beats.” Som> of them carry very Trespecta- ble-looking valises, Many of them are respectable-looking persons. It is very difficult to tell tner at first. X¥requently they come here in company with a local business man, using him, as we afterward learn, simply as an in- nocent guarantee of their respecta- bility. Generelly I say nothing until the “week is up, and then presemt a bill. Often we have heid what looked like good baggage and have found valises filled with tanbark, with bricks wrapped in cioth, snd trunks weigited with old papers and other trash. **More than 1 per cent of all the persons that register arejdead-beats. T'ne punish- ment for dead-beats ought to be more severe. Care should be taken, however, notto do an honest but unfortunate per- son an injustice. ‘L'hatis why I object to the blacklist kept by many hotelss If| through carelessness in investigating the case an innocent man gets on the national biacklist 1tdoes him a great injury. Major Hooper, le-see of the Occidental Hotel: ‘I beiieve thatthe man we had arrested is a reguiar bi.k. From informa- tion I have since obtained it seems that he defrauded people in Baker:field and aiso beat his bill at the Russ House. A professional dead-beat should be appre- hended and exposed as a protection to so- ciety. Iam not compelled to furnish any- thing without pay. It costs to keep up a large establishment.” Jobn C. Kirkpatrick, manager of the Palace Hotel—"'Generally speaking, a man who deirauds a hotel or any other con- cern should be arrested. We have so few beats here, however, that we ara usually content to let them go and say nothing. There are bound to be some losses in every business. The ruie is to keep a careful lookout on the baggage, and if the guest does not settle when his biil is seut up inen :o lock the room the first time he leaves it and hold his e.- fects for the mount of his bill.” K. B. Soule, manager of the Lick Houze —*No business can be conducted without acertain amount of credit. There are al. ways some bad debts, The hotel-keeper has to take his chances. He must keep his bad debts down as small as possible. I have mnever vet caused a man to be arrested for not pay- ing his bill. There are occasionally circumstances in which it would be unjust to arrest a guest for non-payment. But 1 behieve that any man who deliberately beats his hotei bill deserves arrest, and I think the stututes make it a crime. If a man does not want to pay for what he gals we o not want to do business with bim. We soon find him out, and the law permits us to hold his paggage pendinga settlement.”’ H. W. Lake, manager of the Baldwin Hotel Company—*“Fortunately we have had but few beats. We keep a strict surveillance on baggage, rely a good deal upon judgment in presenting early bills, and lock up the room with the bag i payment is not made promptly. 3 hotels suffer more from beats than do country resorts. While I was at the Hotel Rafael I do not think we had one be: Most of the guests were, of course, San Francisco people known to us.” John H. Downing, chief clerk of the California Hotel—*"In my fifteen years’ experience in the hotel business in this city no guest acce})ted by me has beaten his bill, nor have I been caught on cash- ing a worthless check for a guest. I follow the same principle that a bank does. From a person unknown to me and without baggage ‘I politely ask for pay in advance. 1f he has baggage encugh to equal a day’s board I let uim go a day, ora week, as the case may be. Then 1 present a bill. The porters keep carefnl watch on baggage in rooms and report to me. 1f immediate payment or satisfac- tory explanation is not made the rcom is locked as soon as the man steps out of it. Micbael ¥. Bray, cashier, and Obadiah Rich, clerk, Grand Hotel: *“A hotel of this kind, on the European plan, does not have so many beats. They go to a house where they can gzet board and all. The rules of the house, if strictly enforced, would prevent any loss, as it requires payment for room in advance. Ii we are suspicious of a man, and he does not settle promptly, we lock him out at the first opportunity and hold his baggage, and that generally brings about a settlement.” SURGEON'S ART, LVER HEART To Prevent Pneumatic Tire Doctors Coiled a Bright New Wire. 'Twill Be Many Years Before He Dies, Though in Quietness His Safety Lies. The Pains of Dehertoghe Now Are Past, and Physicians Say He's Mending Fast. One does not often meet in the course of a lifetime with a man whose existence de- pends upon thirty feet of silver wire, wuich rests in a snug coil above the aorta, half an inch from his throbbing Leart. Yet there is such a man in San Francisco, and he is Adrian Dehertoghe, a Belgian machinist who sireet, Dehertoghe’s peculiar case was detailed at some lencth in THE CALL three weeks ago. At that time fatal results were mo- mentarily expected, owing to the peculiar circumstances suirounding his malad but in the intervening time it has bean e tablished that with proper care he may live to a good old age. It is this that ren- ders his case especially noteworthy and a suprise to the medical fraternity. Dehertoghe was afflicted with aneurism of the aorta, or saculated tumor of the ar- terial wall. U'he injury to ihe artery was the result of a frighttul stramn which he suffered some eighteen months ago while hanyzing the beavy iron gates in the Par- rott building. One of these was about to fall upon his son, who was working with him, and he sought to hold it up in order to prevent it from crushing out the life of bhis poy with its massive weight. Thelad was saved, but his father well nigh paia for his act of devotion with his life. Déhertoghe jeit something break in his he said, and immediately became ill. He was removed to his bom a swelling in his ches itgelf. Accompanving tnis very ana gradually manifested was a constant neuaralgic pain, which ren- dered rost in a recumbent position an im- possibility. Indes:, for many months Denertoghe slept nightly in a chair. The d:sabled machinist sought medical relief without result, and finally, when Dr. Carlson diagnosed his case as ancur- ism of the aorta, he decided to take the only chance for life and submit to an operation. On June 9, at one of the hos- pitals, in the presence of a num- ber of interested practitioners, Deher- toghe’s chest airectly over the heart was opened and the aneurism ex- posed. T is was on the upper wall of the worta and had a length of nearly four inches and a depth of one and a hali inches, ana it throbbed rightfuily ¢s tne blaod coursed with a rushing sound within, When the sack was punctured the physicians empioyed the Loretta method of introducing sterilized silver wire of the thici 1t The vrinciple was to fill up the sack with tue wire so that the blood in passing through the coil would be churned into a clot. This in time would canse the sack to shrink and finally disappear, at least to the extent that its presence wouid no longer be a menace to Dehertoghe’s life. Thirty feet of wire was carerully intro- duced into the cavity, and tiis done, the wound was aressed and Dehertoghe al- lowed to take much-needed rest. Greatly to hia relief, he felt littie pain, and for the lives at 9i4 McAliister | ness of a pin into the gushing cav- | first time in mary months he was enabled to sleep in a recumbent position. The operating physicians freely ex- pressed ths opinion that Dehertoghe could not recover. It was thought he might live a month or two and that at any moment a clot might escape the sack and be transferred to the heart, which. of course, meant instant death. Bug, strangely enoush, Debertoghe began to | improve in eve:y wav. The pain, which for months had kept him ou the verge of insanity, had disappeared and the wild beaiing of his heart could no lonzer be obsery.d. Whil he was unable to pursue his tion, he could, nevertheless, avout his nouse at light labor. work To-day he says he isa well man and seems proud of the rare distinc~ tion th:t his is the only case recorded in medical annals of survival four months after thé puncturing ot an arterial well. | Dehertoghe 1s 55 years of age and has a family. He is confident that bis troubles are at an end, ang that as time advances the chances of death by reason of his malady are becoming more and more Te- mote. He says the presence of the wire near his eart is unknown to him, as far as sensations go, and he is feeling as well as ever he did. Mecanwhile the physi- cians are watching him closely, and they caution him daily to avoid excitement of every kind and to abstain from hard manual labo: UKIAH QUTLAWS STILL AT LARGE, Bloodhound Quits 7 heir Trail After a Brief Pursuit—Empty Treasure Boxes Found. UKIAH, Car., Sept. 29.—The mur- | derers of J. R. Barrett, who was shot by outlaws while riding in a stage between Uktah and Booneville, are still at large. A posse, consisting of Urder-Sheriff Handy, Nebon McClure and Virgil and J. L. Jonnson leit for the scene of the ragedy as soon as the news was brought to town, but the robbers had a good three hours’ start, and darkness overtook the officers before they reached the scene of the crime. Upon arrival near the locality of the hold-up they were forced to await the return of Driver Rose from Booneville in order to secure a description of the rob- bers, as well as to learn the exact location of the hold-up. The driver arrived on time, late in the night, bui could give no particular de- scription of tne bandits other than that they were both short and heavy. The cold grew so intense that the bloodhound reiused to work after e had led the posse to the spot that had been used as a camp | by the bandits. The posse then returned to this city, but left early this morning to take up the pursuit. The deputies, Virzil and J. L. Joanson, have just returned with three broken treasure boxes, from which the coin bad all peen taken. The boxes had been broken open with a rusiy ax and an iron | wedge. The amount of money secured could not be learned, bui it is thought to have been considerable. The officers are ident that suspi- cions lead to three well-known local char- acters who are now under surveillance, and who will be carefully examined by the authorities. Parties are constantly forming, and the wooas in the locality of the roobers are well patrolied by arm d citizens, who ex- press siluply a desire 1o get a view of tlue bandits. SMRTO WS o dwo Resiaeuces Uestroyed, SAN JOSE, CaL., Sept. 29.—The resi- dences of Huygo Lieveati:al and George W, Lee, on Harrison street, near Home, in the Willows, were destroyed by fire at about 2 o’clock this morning. The fire originated in the Liebenthal place, where no one was at home, and it is a mystery how it started. Led’s loss is put at $1200 and Liebenthal’s at $1000. The home of William Eipps, adjoining, was also badly scorched. LY o Light Frost Around Saa Jo SAN JOSE, Car.. Sept. 20.—There was a slight frost over much of the lower val- ley early this morning, but not enough to do harm. Such crops as would have been injured have been gatheved and such as remain will not be materially damaged, unless there shouid be a freeze, of which there is no danger. : Flour meet the decline a now. The ‘‘rush buyers lay away goods are cheapes 20 per Cent mail LIMA BEANS. 10 1bs for ... 5¢ PEA BEANS. 15 ibs for. e0:250 GLUTEN FLAKES, A delicious, flaky mush, cooks in 1 minute, healihfui, 10 10s. ..... ......30¢ PRUNES. silver, per Ib. .. WHEATINA. 2 packages for. ALMONDS. IX L, 1897 crop AINE CORN. Our finest grade.. MACARONI. In tomatosauc 2-1b tins 10 In bulk, short pleces, GOLDENE. Same as Goid Dust: made by N.K. Fairbanks Co.: 2 5¢ packages for... 5o 3 small cans. Diting: ;0 No. 1, ib. APRICOTS. Russell’s, Saratoga; none so fine In town: ib......... -12¢ FLOUR. (:ood Fumlly Extra, bag. %1.20 Our Extra Fancy . C 81.25 HANMS. “Our Cnolce,” Sugar-cured, Ib....... 10¢ A, Chuice new sweet uncolored, equal 10 any 50c tea in town. Try & cup at our counter. free......... -wea25¢ Flour dropped 25 zents per barrel yesterday, and we SAV into. OVER-PROFIT PAYING avoided here. Try us THESE ARE OUR REGULAR PRIGES AT PRESENT: | CANDI TRUST US WITH YOUR NEXT ORDER OCTOBER PRICE LIST READY. L.ower. t once. Lay in your October Groceries season commences soon. Interior supplies for all winter. They find t and best at Smiths’. ED is what we claim for buyers by or at our counter. It’s worth looking | COFFE Lion Roast (Rio) 1214c; Arbuckle's (1 10) 3 Fine pure. FRUIT. Tab e Peacnes, Pears or ’'Cots, stan- durd, not seconds, 3 cans. e 25 | SODA. A & H. or Cow brand, 12-0z. pack- age (no: called 1 1b), 5¢. or 6 for.....250 CORN STARCH. A firsi-cla s No. 1high grade Mt..... be JELLIES, PURE. A few mors 2-1b tinslett at 2 for....25¢ | SOAW. Babbi’s 28, Sand 38 and Family 16-0z. bary, 40 for... ..$1.00 S House 28 for 25¢; Paraffine, 6-1bbox.48¢ OIL. bot- rt, Lucea size - 12Y2c row 5-b hoxes grown in Cailforui; SYRUP. Wil be highersoon; buy now. Sugar- house drips, fine ‘and sweer, good uco: gal. tins, 35c; d s 5c MACKERENL. Smail Kits, each, new. A 1ull line of Salt Fish Goods arriving all the . CASH STORE 25-27 Market Street, SAN FRANCISCO. One-Half Block From Koot of Market Street.