The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 22, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1897. | INSURGENTS OUT-GENERAL | THE SPANISH Details of a Great Battle at Yacta Ford. Crushing Defeat Inflicted | | Upon General Pando’s | Forces. : Garcia’s Patriots Carry Day Against the Spanish Regulars. the AN AMERICAN’S BRAVERY. Carries a Message Through the Line of Fire and Is Promoted Upon i the Field, [ | Spectal Dispatch to The Call. | NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Following ls! the Cuban version of the battle fought | at Yacta Ford, on the Cauto River, last ‘Wednesday. The details were received | through the mails from Captain Alfre- do Rodriguez, a Cuban insurgent offi- cer, who is invalided in this city. It| 1ells of a crushing defeat inflicted upon the Spanish general, Pando. Captain Rodriguez’ correspondent says: | “A part of General Calixto Garcla's | force, under Lieutenant Salvador Rios, [ was holding the Yacta Ford of the Cauto River. It was important for | Pando’s forces to reopen the river in | order that re-enforcements might be| sent to the city of Bayamo, besieged by General Roloff. General Calixto | Garcia’s main force was a little further up the river, protecting a ford threat- | ened by General Pando. General Al- | dave, in command of 2000 Spanish in fantry ‘regulars,’ a squadron of cav | alry and 3000 guerrilla volunteers, | twenty-two cannon and six light gun- | boats, attacked Rios. | “Disposing his artillery on the hills | commanding the Yacta Ford, Aldave | opened a hot fire on the insurgent | works on the opposite side of the river. | Rios and his 500 Cubans retired into | the cover of the woods and the ford | was open for the Spaniards’ passage. | “Aldave advanced a column of infan- try across the iord, holding their rifles and ammunition belts above their | heads, the men being protected by a continual artillery fire. Rios, seeing | that he could not hold his position | without help, sent a voluntary courier, | Lieutenant Charles Hickman, an | , to v hrough America he r Hickman had to ride di- the enemy’s fire, but s al Aldave landed men on the further side, and Pando with a large force at e made a feint upon the upper eneral Garcia, deceived by movement, decided that he re only a small re-enforce- to Colonel Rios, and sent Colonel Carlos Garcia with only 200 mounted men down the river. This re-enforce- ment, small as it was, renewed the| hopes of the defenders of the Yacta, | and they charged the Spanish with the bayonet. “The Cubans, however, were so heav- | ily outnumbered that they were forced 10 give way. Carlos Garcia’s horse was shot from under him, and Colonel Rios was wounded slightly in the leg. Colo- nel Garcia’s escort renewed the charge | with machetes this time and neld the | Spanish forces in check for a short | while. “By this time General Calixto Garcia | had seen thrcugh General Pando's feints on the upper ford and dispatched General Jesus Rabl with 1000 cavalry to their relief. These arrived just as tbe Spanish were recovering from the | machste charge, and fell suddenly upon their rear, throwing the troops who | had crossed the ford into confusion. | The Spanish had to give ground and became exposed to the fire from their own artillery in the hills and from the six gunboats which had joined in the bombardment of Rlos’ men. General Aldave ordered this destructive fire to cease, reformed his attacking party and dispatched a message to General Pando for assistance in carrying the Cuban position. “But it was too late. The Cubans, reforming, raised their battie shout of | ‘Al machete,’ ‘Cuba Libre.’ and fell | upon the Spanish ranks with terrible effect. A body of 1000 guerrillas was eut off from Aldave’s force and threw | down their arms. | “General Rabi, knowing the halt- | hearted loyalty of these volunteers, | told them they must fight their own comrades or be cut to pieces, and they obeyed, and really fought desperately on the Cuban side. General Aldave, seeing that his men would be annihil. ated, withdrew them across the ford, again protected by the artillery fire, “‘General Pando, with an escort, rode down from the upper ford and di. rected the Spanish to retreat. The Cuban loss in this engagement 106 killed and about 800 wounded. eneral Rabi’s men found 200 Spanish dead, and General Aldave, in his report | to Havana, said his wounded numbered | 200. The Cubans believe they have in- | fiicted much more damage, that the Spanish troops carried away many of their dead and minimized the number | of the wounded, reporting only a fourth. Among the Cubans killed was Major Lelada and Captain Garcia, a son of a rich planter. The Spanish left on the field Lieutenant-Colonel Ilave, two captains and one assistant sur- geon and the standard of arms of the battallon Ilanarosa. “General Garcia promoted Hickman, the daring courier, to captain on the field. “Pando has Blanco that 10 reported to General 000 men are needed fo break the backbone of the insurgent epposition in the east and that it is no Jonger practicable to continue the cam- n to relieve Bayamo. “This city General Garcia expects to capture early in January, being now able to detach troops from his com- mand to send to Roloff's aid.” Captain Rodriguez has also received news that General Maximo Gomez has d the Jahonyu River at Ciego de and has continued on his march ect a junction with General Rod- riguez. —— FIRST CUBAN VERSION OF RUIZ'S DEATH. Colonel Arango’s Sister Writes of the Span- ish Officer’s Hardihood and His Prompt Execution. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Senorita emencia Arango, sister of Colonel | take a proposal of autonomy to Colo- | | will it take our enemies to understand | | ald’s correspondent General Calixto Garcia, | | crime, which is murder and nothing less. It was outrageous and barbar- ous, and the perpetrators should be | in a precarious condition, due to three | vicious stabs from a large knife, while | | an ugly gash on the left shoulder, also Paul Arango of the Cuban army, to- day received a letter from a member of the Cuban revolutionary committee in Havana. This letter, which brings the first information by mail from Cu- ban sources about the killing of Col- onel Ruiz, is dated December 16, and translated is as follows: “‘Colonel Joaquin Ruiz, former su- perintending engineer of the water orks, paying no heed to the orders issued by General Gomez, and wishing to make little of the laws of the re- | public, had the hardihood to under- | nel Nestor Arangueren of the Habana | squadron. In consideration of his ac- | ceptance he was to receive a consider- able sum of money, which was to be increased in proportion to the number and rank of Cubans who should ac- cept the insulting proposition. ‘But Colonel Arangueren, in compli- ance with the orders, and setting aside all cousideration of personal friend- ship which he had for the Spanish in- truder, ordered that Colonel Ruiz be tried by summary court-martial. The military tribunal sentenced him to | death and he was executed three days | ag0. May Ruiz rest in peace; honor to | Arangueren’s stoic discipline. | Canalejas was making ready to go on a similar errand to General Pedro Betancourt in Matanzas. I believe he | has now changed his mind. How long | that the sacred cause we deferd 1s in- dependence or death?” SENOR GENTIL CASTRO’S TRIAL IN PROGRESS. He Is a Member of Brazil's Chamber alj Deputies Implicated in the Plot | to Kill Moraes. Copyright, 1897, by James Gordon Bennett. BUENOS AYRES, Dec. 21.—The Her- in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, telegraphs that the trial of Senor Gentil Castro, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, for complicity in the recent plot to kill President Mo- raes, has begun. The Brazillan government has in- creased the tariff on international tele- graph and cable dispatches to 200 reis a word. e Sl evo/t of Arabs. LONDON, Dec. 21.—A special dis- patch from Vienna says the Arabs along the Persian Gulf, notably at Bassah, Burnah and El Palif have re- | volted and that troops are on their | way there. ’ BERS DEATH | 10 BE AVENGED Nevada’s Governor Offers a Re- ward for the Arrest of Lynchers. Wil Prosecute the Cases Vigorously. Special Dispatch to The Call. CARSON, Dec. 21.—On recelving four petitions to-day from Douglas | County, asking him to offer a reward for the apprehension of the Uber | lynchers, Governor Sadler announced | that he would offer a reward of $500. | District Attorney Nagel was Inter- | viewed by a Call representative in Genoa to-day. He said: ¢ ‘l “I purpose to perform my full duty | | and make every effort to uncover this | | | | District Attorney Announces That Hel | | | | | punished. I have already several arti- cles in my possession which will lead | to the identification of the persons and no effort will be spared to bring these men to justice. Everybody who can throw any light on the case will be called before the Grand Jury.” Several responsible persons have al- ready given the authorities informa- tion which they will swear to’before the Grand Jury. The man who came over to Genoa and selected the tree and cut the telephone wire is already a pitiable sight and goes about the picture of despair, shaking and trembling continually. He is charged | by common report with having ar- ranged to have the keys of the Re- corder’s door lost so that it could not be locked. ‘Two Gardnerville men drove over to Genoa the other day and on their return one was overheard to say to a man in Gardnerville that he guessed he would have to face some music and had hired an attorney. FIERCE AFFRAY OF WOODSMEN Indulgence in Too Much Liquor | Leads to a Fight at La Honda. One Man Receives Knife Wounds Which Bid Fair to Result in His Death. Special Dispatch to The Call. REDWOOD CITY, Dec. 21.—The lit- tle inn run by the Kieffer Bros. in the | redwoods at La Honda was the scene on Sunday night of what, but for the prompt interference of the inmates, might have proved a fatal stabbing affray. As it is, Manuel Rosa now lies his assailant is a close prisoner in the County Jail. In the woods near La Honda a num- ber of Armenians have been at work chopping wood for a year past. On Sundaye and Sunday nights it is cus- tomary for them to congregate at Kieffer's place. Here they drink and become quarrelsome. On last Sunday night they were there as usual, and all had been drinking. Drink led to words and words to blows. It is understood that the direct cause of the alterca- tion was a woman. During the fracas an Armenian, who refuses to give his name, drew a large knife and started to slash at the oth- ers. He seemed to vent his spite es- ecially upon Rosa, to whom he gave stabbing him twice in the region of the heart, once above and once below. After a desperate fight the man was finally overpowered and made a cap- tive, while a young man named Sears was dispatched to this place for offi- cers. Night Watchman Gunning was found, and he, with Constable C. B. Barton, left here at 4 o’clock yester- day morning and proceeded to La Honda. On arriving there they took charge of the prisoner and brought him to this place. ‘While the wounds of Rosa are not thought to be fatal, yet they are of a very serious nature. WITY FARMERS ARE AGAINST ANNEXATION Sugar - Beet Growers Are in Need of Protection. Cannot Now Compete ‘With the Coolie Labor of the Islands. Secretary Snow Says Conditions in This Country Favor the New Industry. ENCOURAGEMENT NEEDED. Present Reciprocity Law Is Unjust and Only Benefits the Hawailan Planters. Spectal Dispatch to The Call CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—B. W. Snow, one of the editors of the Orange Judd Farmer, and secretary of the Amer- fcan Sugar Growers’ Soclety, an or- ganization natlonal in character which is encouraging the growing of sugar beets with a view to ultimate independ- ence of foreign sugar, says that the greatest danger now threatening this promising industry is the proposed an- nexation of the Hawaiian Islands. He says: “In the past eighteen months our society, which i{s a voluntary or- ganization, made up of men interested in the development of the American sugar industry, and whose officers serve without other reward than the knowledge of the great benefits which will accrue to American agriculture, has organized local branches in more than half the States of the Union. Through these local organizations we have distributed literature and sugar beet seed, and encouraged the experi- mental growth of beets with a view of determining localities in which the | | | | | | | soil and climatic conditions are most sultable to the successtul establishment | of sugar factories. Every well posted man knew before that this country possessed every requisite for the pro- | duction of beet sugar, but the recent rural dissatisfaction with the low prices of staple farm products gave exactly the conditions needed to dis- pose farmers to exper!ment with a crop | | Washington correspondent telegraphs: It was reported to-night that Senator Hoar, as the result of an agreement reached with the President since Con- gress adjourned for the holidays, un- der which the pending treaty is to be amended to preclude the possibility of statehood, would vote for fts ratifica- tion. Senator Hoar is out of the city. I was told at the White House that he had not seen the President since Con- gress adjourned. and that it was still the impression there that he was op- posed to the treaty. He is Included among those in favor of the new scheme of a protectorate in lieu of the treaty. IMPROVEMENT IN THE DOCKING FACILITIES. Naval Affairs Committee of the Senate to Take Up the Question After the Holidays. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Senator Hale, chairman of the Senate Commit- tee on Naval Affairs, was in confer- ence to-day with Secretary Long with reference to the proposed legislation for increasing the docking facilities of the country. The conference related especially to the advisability of sub- stituting floating for fixed docks at some points where docks are contem- plated. There are some places where docks are considered desirable, but at which steadfast structures are not be- lleved to be practical. Algiers, La., is one of these points, and it is practi- cally decided that if any dock 18 placed there it will be a floating one, made of steel. The estimates of the Navy Department so far as made are favorable to the steel structures on the point of economy, but all the fig- ures have not been completed. Senator Hale said after leaving the depart- ment that the general dock question would be taken up in earnest by the Congressional committees after the holidays, and he expressed confidence that legislation on the general lines of the department’s plans would be secured during the present session. He thinks that the continuing contract system will be adopted in preparing for the week, so that the immediate appropriation required will not be comparatively large. NEW EL DORADO © INTIE NORTH Gold Seekers Start From Los Angeles for the Stickeen Country. ‘Will Develop Placer Fields Found by the Man After Whom Dawson ‘Was Named. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21.—J. E. Per- rins, with a party of fourteen, left this morning for a new gold field that has been discovered in the Northwest Ter- ritory. The exact location has not been given, but it extends for fifteen miles along a tributary to the Stickeen River. One of the aiscoverers of it is a man named Dawson, after whom Dawson City is named. In a letter Dawson with which they were not familiar. The | States that the region gives every in. difficulty in introducing a new crop is to overcome the conservative inerta of | a rural population but hard facts of | non-remunerative toil disposed the farmers to listen at this time. | “I have knowledge of experimental | beet plats this year from Massachu- | setts to Oregon, and am assured that more than 100,000 men have engaged | dication of an abundance of gold, and that it will rival the Klondike. It is very difficult of access and tne win- ters are very severe. The men who left this morntng have been quietly making preparations for the trip for five months. They have made strenuous efforts to avoid publici- ty. It is designed by the discoverers to thoroughly prospect the region before any rush of prospectors begins. For in local tests this season. The rates of | this reason, under instructions from yield and chemical analysis have been | Dawson, the party was limited to four- remarkably favorable, and farmers of | t¢€n- a thousand localities are now prepared to demonstrate by actual exverience that capital can be profitably invested | There an outfit will be Bach man contributed his share toward the expense of the outfit. The party will leave San Franclsco to-morrow on a steamer for Victoria. procured and in the sugar industry in each of these | the journey will be by steamer to Fort communities. Farmers of the country have done thelr share in demonstrating that America can produce her own sugar and keep at home the $100,000,000 she now sends abroad each year. The question now rests with capitalists who can safely enter the business if pres- ent conditions are not radically dis- turbed. “It is at this point that the present agitation for the annexation of Ha- wail becomes With the Chinese and Japanese con- tract labor with which the islands are now flooded, and which has been largely increased in preparation for annexation, planters of Hawall can produce sugar at less cost than our beet-growers while they are learning the business. Ultimately we can raise it as cheaply, but it is the historvy of every new industry that in the begin- ning it must be fostered and protect- ed from old established competition, especially when that competition, as in the present case, involves the use of low-priced, unctvilized labor. “If Hawali is annexed it means that | the present promise for an American sugar industry will be blasted and our | farmers robbed of a new, paying in- dustry, must go on ralsing their old staples at unremunerative prices in order that a limited number of cane- planters, few of them Americans, may amass further wealth by the employ- ment of coolie labor. “Instead of reaching out 2000 miles to perpetuate a competition from which our own agriculture will be the sufferer, the American farmer de- mands that the present reciprocity treaty with Hawall be abrogated. It is in no sense reciprocal. We each vear furnish a market for four times as much as we are able to sell to the islands, and with an annual deficit staring us in the face we remit duties on 350,000,000 pounds of sugar with no other result than the enriching of a handful of Hawailan planters. With our own farmers burdened by unre- munerative toll it is monumental folly to continue such jug-handled recipro- city and sheer madness to consider a scheme which will perpetually debar us from entering new and ultimately profitable fields of rural industry. “Our rural population knows its needs and its rights. It is awake to the situation and demands that the interest of the American farmer be placed before the interest of a hand- ful of alien planters. Charity begins at home, and it will go hard with a Congressional Representative elected by farmer votes who sacrifices his constitucnts upon any plea whatso- ever. The issue is an American sugar industry versus Hawaiian planters, and that issue cannot be obscured by the frantic waving of Old Glory and flamboyant appeals to national pride.” L e SENATOR HOAR AND ANNEXATION. Believed to Favor the New Scheme of a Protectorate for Hawaii in Lieu of the Treaty. NEW YORK, Dec. 2L—The Herald’s a disturbing factor. | | | | | | | Wrangel. From there the Stickeen route will be taken to destination. Dawson will join the party at Victoria. FRESNO'S FIRST POULTRY SHOW Finest Fowls on the Coast Tenant Coops in the Pavilion. No Admission Charged by the Asso- ciatlon Conducting the Affair. Specta! Dispatch to The Call. FRESNO, Dec. 21.—The first annual poultry show under the auspices of the Fresno County Poultry and Pet Stock Assoclation opened to-day in the li- brary building on Fresno street, be- tween I and J. Yesterday the fowls were placed in thelr positions. Judge Frank W. Breed of Oakland has been engaged to award prizes to chickens that showed the greatest merits. The pens are arranged in long double tiers the entire length of the hall, and each is occupied by from one to five chick- ens. Over 250 chickens are on exhi- bition, and the noise produced by the cackling of hens and crowing of roost- ers reminds one of the days “down on the farm.” Some of the finest fowls to be found anywhere are on exhibition. Every bird in the collection shows the points of a thoroughbred. Judge Breed is enthusiastic over the show. Said he: “Fresno is quite up to date on chick- ens. The buff Leghorns, brown Leg- horns, white Plymouth Rock and barred Plymouth Rock males are the finest ever brought together in an ex- hibition on the Pacific Coast. The Fresno fanciers have also set the pace in regard to giving a free show, and other cities will follow. This 1s the first free poultry show ever given in California.” The show will be open to the general public during the next three days. SuTe g e DR. BERGSTEIN'S OFFENSE. Charges Against the Nevada Asylum Super- intendent Proved. RENO, Dec. 21.—The Board of Com- missioners for the care of the Indigent Insane of the State of Nevada investi- gated the charges of Henry Wood yes- terday. Wood charged that Superin. dent Bergstein was In the habit of throwing the brains of deceased pa- tients on whom he had held autopsies into the Truckee River. He also charged that Dr. Bergstein kept a corpse last summer until it became dis- gustingly offensive. ‘Wood succeeded in proving his charges—in fact Dr. Bergstein admit- ted telling an attendant at one time to throw the brains into the river. He maintained that it made no difference what disposition was made of one's body after dissolution. ———,—— Four hundred more medallion plctures will arrive by ex| to-day. Sanl T BonlT AR 0wy, Bmhatry ARMOUR SOLD, LEITER BOUGHT Both Talk Calmly of the Great Wheat Deal at Chicago. “All the Necessary Bushels Are Ready for Delivery,” Says the Noted Packer. Now the Report Is Going the Rounds That the Supposed Warring Speculators Combined. Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—"“A mere Inci- dent, I assure you. We are now prac- tically out of the whole matter. We have a little wheat yet to deliver; the necessary bushels are ready for de- livery when the proper time ap- proaches for the filling of these com- paratlvely small outstanding con- tracts, and there’s an end of the affair 50 far as we are concerned.” Thus, with choice terseness, does P. D. Armour define his position in these, the closing days of one of the biggest wheat deals that has marked the his- tory of the Board of Trade. Joseph Leiter, his youthful opponent, is just as calm and confident in his expres- sions as the big provision man. “Mr. Armour sold wheat,” he de- clared, “and I bought of hi That is all. There was no battle. It was a common, almost elementary business transaction. I shall sell the wheat which I have purchased when the need of the forelgn market demands it. 1 shall sell at a profit, and that’s the closing chapter of my part of the story."” These statements, coming from the principals in the December wheat deals, have caused much comment in Board of Trade circles. Will Joseph Leiter make a profit in the round four | million bushels of wheat which has been placed in his hands by the pro- vision man? is now the question. The report is going the rounds that the whole affair was productive of results indicating a big Armour-Leiter com- bine. In many minds this rumor was given credence. The manipulation of the local market by leiter agents pull- ing the wires from the Liverpool end was recited over and over. This idea, however, is ridiculed by the majority of traders. Some members of the board say that Leiter has secured 5,000,000 bushels of the cereal. Others place the figures as high as 15,000,000, while the more conservative are wiliing to admit that half the latter amount is nearer the correct estimate. Mr. Leiter asserts that just as much of this will go abroad as the foreign market calis for if “they pay him his price.” “Some folks on the board think T can’t transport grain eastward by rail without a loss, do they?” said Mr. Lei- ter. ‘“Well, possibly they can't, but I'm willing to play out my end of the game along my own lines, and I may differ from these profits consider- ably.” AN OUTCOME OF THE RECENT SHOOTING AFFRAY. Richard Mandelbaum Sues His Wife for Di- vorce and Names Kirk as Correspondent. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—A suit for di- vorce is the first outcome of the shoot- ing affray at the Hotel Gerard on No- vember 13, when J. Waldere Kirk, the self-styled “King of Dudes,” shot and wounded Richard Mandelbaum of San Francisco. In_ his affidavit Mandel- baum names Kirk as co-respondent, and alleges that the act of Infidelity occurred on the very night on which the Western man shot the plaintiff. The divorce suit not only explains Mandelbaum's mysterious absence from the Police Court when everybody expected that he would appear to prosecute Kirk, but it also explains how the shooting came to take place, why it was that Mandelbaum broke into Kirk’'s rooms at the hotel and was shot for his intrusion. Nor does Man- delbaum in_ his affidavit confine his charges to that night alone. He gives other instances of his wife’'s al- leged infidelity, and papers have been served upon Mrs. Mandel- baum by Howe & Hummel, and she has filed her answer to the charges. The case will come up for trial in the Supreme Court on January 3. Mandelbaum is now in California and his wife is keeping her where- abouts secret. Mrs. Mandelbaum de- nies her husband’'s charges and will fight the suit. NEW TO-DAY. How m a Py marriage ties are daily cut asun- der by the grim destroyer, death. How many women go radiantly to the altar, only to pass ya few short months Nof agony and Xaiu, Y and then go down to early graves. There is one cause of this ever-recurring dy. No woman should enter the marriage state without some knowledge of the physiol of the female organs of reproduction, and of the wecessity of keeping them always healthy d orous. Igmorance om these points graves for thousands of happy brides [t digs but a few months’ journey from the altar. There is a sure and speedy remedy at hand. The most marvelous medicine ever dis- tovered for women is Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It is the discovery of a most eminent and skillful specialist, Dr. R. V. 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She expecis to become a mother next month.” Constipation if lected will lead the most robust to the doctor’s office. The blood gets loaded down with impurities which it deposits in every organ and tissue in the body. Serious illness is the inevi- table result. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cure constipation. They are prompt and %:mnt in their tefl‘:ln. 'thdey never‘ gripe. ey cure permanently, and are not mere liatives. Dru temporary pall seli them. If accept to be “just o o 500 will et ? NEW TO-DAY. | Santa Claus is on our sec- ond floor. Bring the little onzs to see him. Santa Claus is giving Toys “ with every purchase on that | floor—high-class Toys. WHAT DO YOU SAY FOR HIM? One of those very swell Blue or Black Twill Che- viot Suits, in the Double- breasted Sack style, with its silk facing. This will tickle him., as it’s a denteel, dressy, re-| fined and absolutely cor-' rect winter fashion. : Nothing in town at §16 will equal it. 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Commencing To-Day and Continuing Until Christmas Night CANDY FOR THE OHILDREN With Every 3o Purchase. SACHET AND PERFUME For the Ladies With Every 25¢ Purchase. COME ONE! COME ALL! Every Patent Medicine in the House WILL BE SOLD AT COST. WALLER BROS., Cut-Rate Druggists 33 Grant Avenue, Corner Geary Street. The Turkish Rug Co. STATEMENT —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— FIREMAN'S FUND INSURANGE COMPANY F SAN FRANCISCO, IN THE STATE OF | ‘alifornia, on the 3lst day of December, | A. D. 18%, and for the year ending on that day, es made to the Jnsurance Commissioner of the State of California, pursuant to the | | provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Polit- | | fcal Code, condensed as per blaak furnished | | by the Commisstoner. CAPT 3 | Amount of Capital Stock paid up in { Cash ASSETS. | Real Estate owned Ly the Company.§ 411,700 00 | Loans on Bonds and Mortgages. 488,178 59 | | Cash Market Value of all | ~and Bonds o d by Comp: 1,714,470 00 | Amount of Loans secured by pledge | "ot Bonds, Stocks and other mar- | ketable securities as collateral 210,762 55 | Cash in Company’s Office . 5.257 19 | Cash in Banks .... 256,104 08 | Interest due and ac Stocks and Loans 5,850 53 | Interest due and &ccru and Mortgages .... B 11796 39 Premiums in due course of 1OOHONY ;5o oy Ao st L SN 70084 Bills receivable, not matured, taken | for Fire and Marine Risks ........ 42,090 14 om other Companies for Re- ance on losses already paid ! in cpen account 5,945 05 | Fire Premtum tes 11,257 41 ‘Warrants .. 3.483 06 Total Assets .. B | LIABILITIES. H Losees adjusted and unpaid. .3 1310195 | Losses in process of it i or in Suspense ...... . 6,012 13 Losses resisted, including 7,035 10 Gross premiums on Fire Risks run 3 ning one year or less, $994,469 07; i reinsurance 50 per cent. el AST2RSES | Gross premiums on.Fire Risks run- ning more than one year, 31,247, 300 22; reinsurance pro rata. 544,451 65 Gross premiums on Marine anc land Navigation _ Risks, 329, 215 66; reinsurance 100 per cent... 29,215 & Gross premiums on Marine Time Risks, $9,174 93; reinsurance 50 | per cent. A R R 45,087 47 | Voluntary reserve to offset cut rates in Californla .... 75,000 00 Commissions and Broke: to become due Marine bills payal | Agents' credit | i Total Liabilities .. i INCOME. | Net Cash actually recelved for fire B I R $1,98,081 01 Net Cash actually received for ma- rine premiums Mortgages 2 % Received for_interest and dividends i on Bonds, Stocks, Loans and from | all other sources.. { Received from Rents Total Income .. EXPENDITURES. Net amount pald for Fire Losses..$ Net amount paid for Marine Losses Dividends to Stockholders .......... Paid or sllowed for Commission or brokerage Paid for salaries, charges for officers, Paid for State, nati 785,274 43 144,728 56 120,000 00 237,911 07 19,724 19 fees and other clerks, ete.. al and local . 96,659 83 res 161,642 78 eve oeea 81,675,940 85 All other payments Total Expenditures, LOSSES. Fire. 1 " Foit Marine. Losses incurred ng the year .. --$744,151 32 156,479 4 RISKS AND PREMIUMS. |Fire Risks. —— Net amount of Risks written during the $ 157,3567,366/81,892, 58 61 yehr Gl G Net amount of ~Risks Z expired during the| year 157,439,611 1,898,486 13 Net amount in fo orce| December 31, 18%6....... 190,217,653 2,241,768 29 Coke! Coke! Coke! P.A. McDONALD 818 FOLSOM STREET, Wholesale dealer and shipper of the best brands of FOUNDRY AND FURNACE COKE. I bave on hand a large quantity of San Francisco Coke, superior to anthracite for furnace or cannel for grate use. This coke is made from the best Wallsend coal, and can recommend it to consumers as an Al article. Will Deliver Any Amount From Sack to & Shiplosd. CARLOAD ORDERS SOLICITED. (1] " OPIUM ELIXIR OF Sismaen The pure tains all Marine Net amount of m.n\ ( written Quring the year|s 44,180,558/5 436,338 54 Net amount of Risks| expired during the year| 42,109,281 417,408 1 Net amount in force| December 31, 18%.......| 4415176 119,3% 4 D. J. STAPLES, President. BERNARD FAYMONVILLE, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this i5th day of January, 187 M. M. RHORER, Deputy Insurance Commissioner. ITISWELLTO KNOW THAT YOU CAN o0 sun¥ BORROW MONEY Reai batatoasc® FROM US. . . . . GI\2 per ct. CALIFORNIA TITLE INSURANCE AND TRUST CO., MILLS BUILDING, CHAS. PAGE, President, WRIGHT, R S Mflm“"" I Secretary and Manager.