The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 4, 1898, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESI;Ai', JANUARY 4, 1898. ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS. OWEFR | ) CONTROLLER A New Element Enters| Into Alameda’s Fight. The Man Most Interested Does Not Appreciate the Honor. 1f the Governor There May Be a County Cannot Agree on a Compromise. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 3 908 Broadway, Jan. 3. meda County is witness- between two men for n nomination of Gov- iries from other camps are in the fold for the purpose of t imy ble for coveted nomination. the past few days have been circulated re- the proposition of taking wup man for me other office on icket and thus minimiging > chance of success for or Davis or Dr. Pardee. plan, which has been ntroduced into the fight, is to Auditor R. W. Snow for nomination for State Controller, and thus reward Alameda County. snow was asked to-day how far onal knowledge of the new deal He replied: E o the proposition w 1 took little stock in it. ever, considerable the mat and While A the ing mors to throw Undoubt- big re- of the al work in compatible would be by giving naming the head sent time the ing for the hon- y to looks as though the on till the primaries. d in municipal Ithough I Ve few ideas regard- idm tration that I would > go into effect. I have no mt esent outside of > in such a cl to make it nec- ¥ to accept any than that of Governor.” slidays are over, pol- During the past e hus been a good secretive work done, but now gling in the open and 1 be no cessation till next No- tic camp, as usual, 1 already there are car in different ;. The Populists do 1st where they are, recovered from of the last general ving 3 fusion c ANITING T0 OBTAIN FoOD Svard Was Not a Burglar, but a Starving Man Out of Work. i Smashed a Residence Door So as to Insure Having a Meal in Jail. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 908 Broadway, Jan. 3. d, a strong-looking of age, destroyed the inel in the front door of a Madi- residence this morning be- the residence of ind asked for relief. A servant told him to go away, and p on as she shut the door he picked rock and hurled it through the Mr. Lukens and several neigh- quickl d Svard, and al- though he showed no effort to resist bound him with balerope to await the police, and on the arrival of the patrol-wagon Lukens ex -4 they had captured a burglar. At the City Prison Svard robbed the . t of all sensation with his plain George T have been in the city weeks,” he said, “and I have been un- able 1o get anything to do. Last night I thought the atter over and deter- mined to do something to get in jail it I could not beg enough to appe my hunger. 1 had been to s eral places asking for breakfast. hen 1 made up my mind that if my t request were not granted I would do something desperate. When they refused me food at the Lukens house ck and threw it through t I am not going to beg for mercy from anybody. If you know how it feels to be hungry and willing to eral work and not able to get a breakfast on cold morning you can just im- ne how I felt. That is all there is to it.” rd will probably be charged with alicious mischief, as it would be ab- surd to talk of burglary under the circumstance: —_—————— EMERYVILLE HOTEL BURNED. OAKLAND, Jan. 3—The Bruns Hotel, at the entrance of the race track ut Emeryville, was totally destroyed by fire at 2:30 o'clock this morning. Forty iodgers escaped with little but their night clothes. The loss will exceed $2000. Help was asked for of the local e department, and Chemical No. 2 d Engine No. 5 were sent to the scene. A hard fight was made to con- fine the fire to the one building, which proved successful, although for a time it was doubtful if Burns & Water- house's stables could be saved. The fire is suppesed to have been of an incerdiary origin. BOTH PARTIES SATISFIED. OAKLAND, Jan. 3.—Judge Hall dis- missed all of the cases now pending against William S. Wason to-day. This was done on the filing of a stipu- lation whereby Mrs. Watson accepts $25 per month as alimony, instead of §35, as was ordered by the court. On this showing the order was changed to conform with the stipulation. This set- tles all of this family’s difficulties, which has been in court so long. this county | many | that | REMEDY FOR MARE ISLAND Secretary Roosevelt Is in Favor of a New Plan. Result of the Inquiry Into the Alleged Ezisting Scandals. Attorney Davis Discovers That the Fault Is the System. in [N COURT AT LAST Assessment of the Sev-| enth-Street Local | | Tracks. Question of Twenty Years’ Standing to Be De- cided. The Value of the Advice of Mr. More- house to Be Put to a Test. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 408 Broadway, Jan. 3. Attorney W. R. Davis, who appeared for the veterans at the Mare Island navy yard investigation, discovered, on behalf of the veterans, a very faulty principle that exists in the administra- tion of navy yvards all over the coun- | try. | He communicated his discovery, | brought out by the details of the inves- | tigation, to Secretary Roosevelt, and to-day received a reply from that offi- cial stating that the remedy offered was feasible and practicable. In his letter Mr. Roosevelt says, “I am very | much interested in your letter. I have been aware of the very difficulty which vou point out, and I am inclined to think you have suggested the only practicable way out of it.”” During the investigation regarding the partiality shown against veterans at the yard, it was Jearned that the naval officers in charge of the different | departments are not responsible for the discrimination and abuse directed toward veterans. These naval officers are all from Annapolis, are said to be gentlemen and thoroughly qualified for their position. Owing to the many dut- ies they have to perform they cannot give time to the details of their ‘de- partment, and the actual work is under the care of a foreman who is not known to the Navy Department except on paper. These foremen pass their examinations at any of the proper places in the country and are experts, but they get their appointments at the navy yard solely through influence and correspondence, and when they go to work they have a following that ex- pects to get work under them. This system prevails to such an ex- tent that the officer in charge does not know the record of the men who are under him, and when an order comes from Washington to discharge a cer- tain percentage of the working force, these foremen recommend who shall be let out. There is said to be no remedy for this except the appointment, by the Secretary of the Navy, of a sub-officer, who shall be of some standing and come from the service in the navy, and whose duty it shall be to fill in the gap between the foremen and the officer in charge of the department so that he could impartially recommend who should be dismissed and who retained. This is the plan that has been sub- mitted to the Secretary of the Navy and which Mr. Roosevelt saysistheonly practicable solution of the difficulty yet offered. FOOTPADS WERE - MERELY JOKERS | ;Explanation of the Recent | Thrilling “Hold-Up” at Berkeley. How Two Youths Held Up Robert | Agee at the Point of =a Finger. BERKELEY, Jan. 3.—The recent mysterious “hold-up” of Robert Agee on University avenue, which Marshal Lloyd and his deputies have been busily working to solve for two weeks past, turns out to have been a practi- cal joke perpetrated upon young Agee by two Berkeley youths. Carlyle Coey and William Lynch were identified this morning as the “footpads,” but not District Attorney and vigorously ques- tioned were the details of the hoax elicited. Young. Agee, it seems, had boasted to his companions that he would resist bravely should a footpad attack him. | An hour later Coey and Lynch ac- costed him on a dark corner, pointed their fingers at him and told him to throw up his hands. Agee submitted, and his captors relieved him of a poc- | ket-knife. As soon as he was allowed to go he gave the alarm at Berkeley station, where he reported that two footpads had leveled revolvers at him and relieved him of $3 50 in money. Subsequently Coey and Lynch showed the victim of the hold-up the knife they had taken from him, and thus he first learned the identity of the men who had robbed him. As the joke was “on’” him, however, Agee kept quiet, The two practical jokers were al- lowed to go this morning, but there | is an old charge against Coey of resist- ing an officer, which the District At- torney claims he will press unless Coey goes to work within a week. o AFFIDAVITS ADMITTED. | OAKLAND, Jan. 3.—The order of submission in the case of Given against Morris was set aside to-day by Judge Ogden, introduced to prove that Mr. Palman- teer had secured the signature of Mrs. Given by misrepresentation. was originally begun on a complaint to quiet title. In the answer the ex- istence of a note signed by husband and wife was set up, which was a lien on the property. In the amended com- plaint this was admitted, but it was alleged that the husband signed both names, hence it was invalid, and it was asked that her name be stricken off. The defense now has a week in which to answer these affidavits. TO HAVE A GUARDIAN. OAKLAND, Jan. 3.—Manuel Enos, an aged man who owns about forty acres in the heart of San Leandro, was examined before Judge Ellsworth to- day as to his competency. His oldest son wanted his father declared in- competent, but Antonio did not like the idea, although he admitted that his father was feeble-minded. The old gentleman has divided his property between the boys, and the court asked | West Oakland and the until after they had been arrested by | Marshal Lloyd and taken before the | and several affidavits | The suit | 908 Broadway, Jan. 3. The Southern Pacific Railroad Com- pany will have to answer the suit of the city to collect city taxes for the fiscal year 1895-96 on the Seventh- | street local system, the side tracks at long wharf. The legal point involved in the assess- ment of the property as put forth by the railroad company is: That the property having been assessed as a | portion of the main line by the State | Board of Equalization it is not possi- ble to make the company pay a double assessment. The company conse- quently declines to pay and instead of selling the property for delinquent taxes a civil suit was instituted to have the powers of the State Board of Equalization, County and City As- sessors passed upon in the court. County Assessor H. P. Dalton attempted to get the matter judicially determined, but his actions were nullified by the Board of Supervisors, who, ‘acting on the advice of State | Equalizer Morehouse, struck the County Assessor’'s assessment from the rolls. City Assessor Snow kept the prop- erty upon the city rolis, and the Coun- cil, sitting as a Board of Equaliza- tion, sustained his judgment, and the City Attorney was instructed to bring suit to collect. The railroad company filed & demurrer and asked permission to strike out certain portions of the | complaint, but to-day Judge Ellsworth overruled the demurrer and denied the motion. The case will be set for trial and a question which has been fought in this city for twenty years will thereby be determined. SUSPICIONS OF INCENDILRISY A Peculiar Fire Breaks 'Out in the Very Center of Berkeley. The Origin of the Blaze Traced to a Pile of Kerosene-Soaked Packing. BERKELEY, Jan. A fire of very suspicious origin did damage to the ex- tent of about $1000 this evening in the building occupied by Greenhood's candy store and George Schmidt's real estate office, on the northeast corner of Center street and Stanford Way. The building was owned by Mrs. Cath- erine M. Schmidt, and was fully in- sured. The fire broke out shortly after 6 o'clock, and by the efficient work of the local fire department, which has been recently reorganized with James Kenny as chief, the blaze was prevent- ed from spreading to the adjoining buildings. A large part of the loss was caused by water, which damaged Greenhood’s stock and fixtures. The fire originated in a small closet where the Berkeley Gazette Company had stored its files. Marshal Lloyd found in the closet a large quantity of excelsior packing soaked with coal oil, and also a half-emptied kerosene can. No clew to the identity of the person who placed them there could be found, but the marshal and his deputies are | busy investigating suspicious circum- | stances surrounding the origin of the blaze. ————— |BOARD OF SUPER\IISORS.i Various Items of Public Interest I Gathered From the Day's l Proceedings. OAKLAND, Jan. 3.—The Board of Supervisors this morning exercised considerable discretionary power to | deny a liquor license even upon avalid | application in regular form, and re- | fused to grant O. O. Fox of Elmhurst a license. A large number of citizens | protested against the issuance of any | more licenses in their town, on the | ground that they had all that were necessary already located. The board was asked to care for Miss Elizabeth Quinn, aged 60 years, whose mother wandered away from home last winter and died from a night's ex- posure. Miss Quinn is losing her mind and is unable to care for herself any longer. The hospital committee ! will see that she is placed in the Home for the Feeble-minded. % | An ordinance revoking the appoint- ment of township heaith officers was read and referred to the judiciary committee. In their places the District | Attorney said a county health officer | could be appointed at a salary not to | exceed $600 a year, but as no one thought it neceuu-y\no action was taken. E T. M. Crawford and Charles Guard were elected clerks in the County Re- corder’s office to compare the mort- | gage records and bring them up to | date for the use of the Assessor, at a salary of $100 a month each. It is| calculated that it will require two months’ labor to do the work. —_———— BOYS' BRIGADE RALLY. Listen to @ Man Who Helped to! Form the Very First ! Company. | OAKLAND, Jan. 3.—The board of | officers of the Second California Regi- | ment United Boys' Brigade met this| afternoon at the residence of Lieuten- ant J. Hanley, Alameda, for an infor- mal discussion of the brigade work. | Douglas Hay, M. D., of San Fran- | cisco, a man who has been closely con- | nected with Professor Henry Drum- | mond in England, came before the offi- them to agree upon an outsider to serve as guardian, which will be done. cers and gave them the benefit of his long exverience in brigade work in | turmed out in good style. ent were: | great interest to the taxpayer. | public convenience, | LEAVES THE SHERIFF'S | State. | rested for stealing bread from Ludwig | ,upon his offense, and then, out England and Scotland. He declared that the reason of the failure of the brigade on this coast was due to a lack of spiritual work. “Too much military and guns have been a main factor in the abatement of church help,” safd Mr. Hay. Continuing he said: "I was with Major Smith and Professor Henry Drummond when the first company was organized in Great Britain. We commenced with a handful of boys and now the brigade numbers 763 compa- nies, 2676 officers and 32,862 boys. “Besides this we have a large num- ber in Australia and Canada, to ‘Say nothing of those in this country.” Much enthusiasm was manifested and it was decided to hold a rousing meet- ing in the near future, at which all | pastors and official church men would The pfficers | be urged to be present. Those pres- Lieutenant Colonel William M. de Wolf, Captain H. F. Hobson, Dr. D. Hay, Captain L. N. Cobbledick, Cap- tain E. J. Walker, Lieutenants J. Han- ley, C. S. Bird, H. A. Woodcock, Wil- liam Locke, Renner, William Barber, Flemming, M. D. Bird, Sergeant Bord- well, Sergeant A. Pingree, Sergeant G. Dewing, Corporal Wold. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. OAKLAND, Jan. 3.—City Auditor Snow has had printed his eighth an- nual report. Itgivesthecompletefinan- cial transactions of the city and is of The city’s income is segregated as follows: Taxes, $487 79; State county school licenses, $92,607; dockage, $7350 35; Police Ccurt fines, | $5485; tuition, $3623 50; miscellaneous sources, $27,912 60. - Total, $818,542 88. The total expenditure for the year ending June 30 is estimated at $813, 901 61. This is distributed as follows: Maintenance of the city government, $70,297 76; public safety, $184,484 92; $209,657 14; care | of certain cases, $4780 61; higher ob- | Jects, 7,137 36; wharf, $9220 53; bonded debts, $33,500; bond interest, | $34,823 29. | OFF TO WASHINGTON. OAKLAND, Jan. 5.—Senator George | $2 | C. Perkins will leave to-morrow eve:n- ing for Washington, arriving there on Sunday. On Monday, tne 10th, the jud- clary committee will meet and, he says, recommend the confirmation of Judge McKenna. It will be reported tc the Senate on Tuesday, and he believes passed without trouble. “Over 11,000 bills have been intro- duced this session,” said he this even- ing, “and several of the appropriation bills, passed upon by the committee, are now ready for the Senate. The nomination of McKenna will be the first important thing to come up, I believe, on the opening of Congress. It will be confirmed, and then comes the Hawaiian treaty, which, they have assured us, will be brought up soon after the middle of the month.” MUST BE MODIFIED. OAKLAND, Jan. 3.—The Republican Anti-Civil* Service League has been sending out letters to Congressmen and is in receipt Among them Hon. S. of several replies. is the following from G. Hilborn: pect of a modification of the rules and a relaxation of verity is most encouraging. The t civil service ever re- t c the sweeping rules of Presi- | dent Cl and. 5 dent McKinley | would have been justified in setting it aside, and the country would have sus- Unless the Presi- order the House tained him in doing dent modifies his I will pass a bill repealing all laws on the subject of civil service. At any rate, it | seems 0 to me from the expressions I hear. 0. OFFICE. OAKLAN Jan. 3.—Deputy Sherift Will B. White, the third son of Sheriff C. B. White, has resigned his position and formed a partnership with F. J. Brearty. He recently passed the exam- ination successfully and was admitted to practice law before the courts of this | The revocation of his appoint- ment as Deputy Sheriff was filed this morning by the young man himself. | His position will not be filled. [ * ANNEXATION TEST SUIT. OAKLAND, Jan. 3.—The trial of the case of Thomas Cuff against the City of Oakland has been set for February 11, by consent of both parties. This is the suit to test the legality of the re- cent annexation. The stipulation of facts filed with the answer makes the taking of any great amount of testi- mony unnecessary. —_—— SIDEWALK OBSTRUCTION. ALAMEDA, Jan. 'he sidewalk obstruction ordinance will go into ef- fect in this ecity to-morrew. It pro- hibits absolutely any grocer or fruit- dealer from exhibiting any fruit or| vegetables in receptacies of any kind | on the sidewalk in front of their places | of business. The crdinance is severely condemned by nearly all the dealers | affected. - Some have their places of business arranged with open or re-| cessed fronts in which they can make | syitable displays, but most of them are not so fortunate, and therefore | consider it a great hardship that such | an ordinance should be passed and en- | forced. THE DEATH ROLL. | ALAMEDA, Jan. 3.—Mrs. S. Paul- | sen, mother-in-law of G. E. Clark of | 2305 Clinton avenue, died to-day at the | age of 87 years. Death resulted from ailments incidental to extreme old age. Mrs. Beeching, mother of Robert Beeching, the attorney, died suddenly | this evening at the residence of her son on Santa Clara avenue. She was | a widow and her husband was a pio- | neer and at one time a prominent man | in this State. He held the position of | Prison Commissioner and other re- | sponsible posts. LET HIM GO. ALAMEDA, Jan. 3.—This was the | day set for the sentence of Albert | Hickox, alias Sutton, who was ar- ‘Warnke's grocery some time agq. Jus- tice Morris read the young man (who is of respegtable parentage) a lecture of consideration for his previous good | character, suspended sentence, WORK OF THE POLICE. ALAMEDA, Jan. 3.—The police made forty-four arrests during the month of December, of which eight were for va- grancy, five for malicious mischief, four for truancy and four for drunken- ness. Fifteen violators of municipal | ordinances were also arrested. Lodg- ings were furnished to eighteen per- sons and meals to sixty. DAIRY REPORT. ALAMEDA, Jan. 3.—The regular monthly dairy report was filed by the Health Officer to-day. It shows a favorable condition of dairies and a high 'percemnge of cream and butter fats, in some cases very high. Al the dairies but eight have complied with the tuberculin ordinance. ~ NOTES. A. Johnson of 1908 Broadway was bitten by a vicious dog this morning. The animal was killed by the Pound officers. The semi-annual election of officers of the Alameda Boating Club will be ! held next week on Tuesday evening. —_—————— WILL SING FOR CHARITY. BERKELEY, Jan. 3.—The Ladies' Relief Society of Temescal will give a cantata, “The Crowning of Christmas,” at Stiles Hall next Saturday afternoon. in aid of the hundred or more poor chiidren who are cared for by the so- clety. The cantata will be rendered principally by little children of Berke- ley, and a number of the most promi- nent ladies of the college town will be the patronesses of the concert. I HOFFMAN'S GHOST STALKS Police and Coroner Lock Horns Over Dow’s Death, Significant Assertion Made by Deceased to the Dalzell ‘Woman. Dr. Gallagher Says Either Wound ‘Would Have Caused Uncon- sciousness—Time Fixed. The police assert that John H. Dow, proprietor of the shooting gallery at 815 Kearny street, committed sulcide; | the Coroner and his deputies, after a } thorough autopsy performed on the re- | mains, swear by the Dog star that it would have been an utter impossibil- ity for the man to have shot himself even a second time after he reeeived the first wound. The antagonism be- tween the two theories is so similar that the ghost of the Hoffman case would surprise nobody by rising up and extending its hands in welcome to the disturbing elements. Several important things have tran- spired since the murder or suicide that lend interest to both theories. The police are more confident than ever that they are on the right track—so very much so, in fact, that one of the most important witnesses, the Dalizell woman, has been discharged from cus- tody as the result of her statements. ‘Witnesses have come to the fore and definitely decided one thing at least, and that is that the time of the shoot- ing was about 1:30 a. m., Saturday. To take the police end first, Detec- tice Crockett reported to Captain Bo- hen late last evening that he was con- vinced the case is one of suicide. The Dalzell woman was brought forward to make 4 statement, the result of which was that she was discharged from cus- tody. In the first place she asserted that the dead man had been in the habit | of carrying the weapon with which | the deed was done around in his pock- | ets for several months. The police re- gard this as very important, inas- much as it would tend to show that the man who carried the revolver would be likely to be the one that used it. “Last Friday,” she said, “I took a notion that I would like to celebrate | the New Year, and asked for a day off. Dow told me to go ahead and cele- brate, but he wanted none of it in his and said that he did not know if he | would ever celebrate anything again.” That ended the matter so far as the Captain was concerned, and the woman was honorably discharged from custody, leaving the police in a cheerful mood. But not so the Coro- ner branch of the local detective ser- vice. When it comes to them there is a distinct hitch. They bank much on the fact that Crockett discovered a hitherto unknown door leading from the back of the gallery into the yard in the rear, and also on the result of | the autopsy to uphold their theory of murder. Dr. Gallagher performed the autopsy on Dow's remains yesterday after- noon. He found three bullet wounds in the right side of the head. One was in the right temple and the other two immediately behind and just above the region of the right ear. They all made separate perforations, and all passed half way through the brain. All the wounds showed powder stains, and all were seared and burnt. “Any of them would have produced death,” asserted Dr. Gallagher, “but perhaps not instantly. One thing is certain—any one of the wounds would have produced instant unconscious- ness, and no man could have shot himself the second time after receiving the first. The man must have been shot late Friday evening or early Sat- urday morning, as decomposition had set in.” Three witnesses have now come for- ward and fixed the time of the shoot- ing definitely as about 1:30 a. m. Sat- urday. They are Fred Levers, pro- prietor of the saloon at 813 Kearny street; W. P. Griffin, the barkeeper, and Dick Seymour, a constant hanger- on at the saloon. Levers came over to the Morgue last night and informed Deputy Coroner O'Brien that he had heard the shots at that hour and the others had also. O'Brien went over and interviewed the barkeeper, who agreed with Levers. Seymour ran | across the way to the International Holet to see if the shooting occurred there. All describe the shots as hav- ing a much longer interval between | the first one and the last two than be- tween the last two. J. W. Johnson, proprietor of the shooting gallery, explodes the state- ments of Messrs. Childers and Little by the statement that the door of the Dow shooting gallery was closed and mo light within at 8:30 p. m. Saturday. He went there with his wife to pay a visit and discovered that fact. Jokn- son inclines to the murder theory, as he says Dow was cheerful and told him only last Wednesday that he in- tended to place a knife rack in the gallery. He also says that the dead man wore a gold ring now missing. Coroner Hawkins impaneied a jury yesterday to hold an inquest, the date not yet being set, composed of the fol- lowing: George Hinkel, 538 Market street; B. Anthes, 528 Market; J. Lehman, 526 Market; O. Feudner, 416 Market; James Goddard, 410 Market; C. Mont- gomery, 400 Market; F. Hammer, 212 Market; J. Stroufe, 208 Market; J. R. Barricklo, 138 Market. Considerable attention has been di- rected to an anonymous letter re- ceived by the Coroner yesterday. It was evidently mispelled and otherwise made crude in appearance for a pur- pose. It reads as follows: Coroner. Confidential. if you are smart you can find a klew. a short, stout man, red hair. with very shady utation hum of the black-haired girl, was FE treet Saturday Tuction Qalcy SPECIAL AUCTION SALE S P BOSTON LIVERY STABLES, 2918 MISSION SI. Between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth. FRIDAY. Friday.. January 7, 1898, A M. By order of W. §. B}!hnp (who is going to retire from business on account of part of stables burned down), we will sell the con- tents of above stables, consisting of 20 horses, including black team. 2 almost new Cunning- ham hacks, 15 open and top buzgies, 8 wagons. 3 carts, 30 sets of good harness, robes, blan- kets, riding saddles, 1 Hall safe, office fur- niture, etc., etc. Also the fast pacing mare, lora 'B., with a record of § years old, sound, kind and gentle; sired by -Mambrino Wilkes, and can be seen any time before day of SULLIVAN & DOYLE, Live Stock Auctioneers. Office—327 Sixth st. WANTT0 MAKE THEIR CHOICE City Council Requests Repre- sentatives to Make a Last Offer. District Liquor License Ordinance Passed to Print—Walker’s Bill Paid. OAKLAND, Jan. 3.—The City Coun- cil took another bout at the park prop- osition to-night, but is no nearer a so- met. a park site was referred to the ordi- nance and judiciary committee. Councilman H. D. Rowe introduced a resolution, which was adopted under suspension of the rules, providing that the representatives of the Adams estate be requested to submit a written state- portion it wanted bordering on Lake to be taken; also that E. A. Bruguiere be requested to do likewise on plot 25 of the Sather tract, not less than 110 acres to be taken. Councilman Cuvellier first intro- duced his resolution as published in The Call, which provided for the ap- pointment of a Park Commission of eleven (one by each of the Council- men), whose duty it would be to select and recommend to the Council a suit- able park site, for which the council should call a bond election. He ex- plained his proposition after it had been read and stated that his purpose was to take it out of the hands of men whom a certain morning newspaper had attempted to intimidate by say- ing, “If you dare to favor the Sather estate tract we will roast you, and your political life will be ruined.” He further stated that Mr. Adams had said he owned the Council. He said Mr. Adams was present, as was the person that had told him of Mr. Adams’ words. He wanted both sworn and let them tell their stories under oath. President Pringle said that such procedure was out of order and he would overrule the request. An appeal from the chair resulted in it not being sustained, and Mr. Adams was sworn. He denied that he ever said anything at could in any way be construed to mean that he thought he owned the Council. He was then asked if he had ever said he had one paper in his pocket and the other in his hand. He said “No.” Leroy G. Harvey was then sworn, and testified that in July last he | talked with Mr. Adams, soliciting his backing for the Sather estate tract. “He expressed surprise,” said Mr. Harvey, “that I had secured an op- tion on the tract. know what influence I had with the He said that he held the Tribune in his pocket and the Enquirtr in his hand and owned the Council. There was no one present at the time.” Mr. Adams—Did you know that there was some one present in the room all of the time, and that I would not talk with you without some one present? Mr. Harvey—No, sir. Councilman Brosnahan’s ordinance, providing for the districting of the city into five districts, with graded liquor license, was passed to print, with the understanding that it was for the enlightenment of the public and did not bind the members to vote for it on final passage. DISCORD IN THE POLICE DE- PARTMENT. OAKLAND, Jan. 3.—Chief Lloyd cre- ated a sensation in the police station to-night. He told Jailer Swain, who has been on prison duty for twelve years, that he would have to take a street beat after to-night. The Chief then turned on Captain Fletcher and accused him of not show- ing due respect to his superior. Lloyd said the captain did not salute him, and Fletcher denied it, and said the Chief never returned it. The trouble is the result of the ill-feeling between the great majority of Republicans on the police force who do not care to bend the knee to a rabid Populist who has never lost an opportunity to air his ideas. NEW POLICE APPOINTMENTS. OAKLAND, Jan. 3.—Mayor Thomas stated to-night that the ten new po- NEW TO-DAY. AS A FAMILY BEVERAGE Blatz Beer OCCUPIES A MOST PROMINENT POSITION The STAR Milwaukee VAL.BLATZ BREWING CO. MILWAUKEE, WIS., U. 8. A. uu‘c.u-cs« ‘Wholesale Dealers, *v QIIs‘m‘h.u,Sum of CASTORIA. lution of this question than before it | - o B S B An ordinance providing for the | *oneoster; B 2 by N 1%0: ho. selection of the Adams Point tract as | Merritt, not less than twenty-five acres | He then wanted to | newspapers. I replied that I had none. | ment of the price per acre on thelr,‘ lands, allowing the council to select the New Whatcom (Bellingham Bay, AUCTION SALE ©Of the McShane Collection of Japanese Curios Paintings on Porcelain and Embroidery an Silks, continued THIS DAY—TUESDAY—and Wednesday, At1l o'clock each day. 2 ARG At 2 O'Clock THIS DAY—TUESDAY, Fine Oriental Carpets, Rugs and Pictures. WILLIAM BUTTERFIELD, Auctioneer, 2d fioor, Crocker Building. MAGNIFICENT FURNITURE. THIS DAY. TUESDAY, JAN. 4, 189g, AT 11. A. M., 843 ELLIS STREET, NEAR VAN NESS AVENUE. W. BUTTERFIEL licemen would undoubtedly be appoint- ed Wednesday. City Attorney Dow and City Engineer Clement corrobo- rated this statement. The following resolution /was prepared by Council- man Girard and s to have been in- troduced at to-night's meeting, was held over until next week: Whereas, this council passed an_ordi- nance -authorizing the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners to appoint ten olicemen; and, whereas, the said board as not recommended any persons for the positions and numerous reports are flying around which reflect discredit on the board; therefore be it Resolved, That the City Attorney be and is hereby requested to prepare an ordinance repealing the ordinance au- thorizing the appointments of said po- licemen. > . o REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS Leopald I and Leah L. Cahn to Abraham Altmayer, lot on S line of Hayes street, 100 B of Van Ness avenue, E 136 by S 155; $10. Abraham and Rebecca Altmayer I _Cahn, same; $10. Jeannette Fleishman to Eliza Lyng (wife of James), lot on N line of Grove street, 112:6 E 5; $10. to Leopold rles Schering to Emma Schering, lot on NE corner of Fillmore and Green streets, N 41 y E 87:6, quitclaim deed; $10. Arthur F. Bridge to Jean W. Wright (wife of Howard E.), lot on SW corner of Webster and Filbert streets, W 100 by § 150; $1. Jean W. and Howard E. Wright to Willlam A. Matheson, lot on W line of Webster street, 125 N of Union, N 2 by W 100; $10. German Savings and Loan Soclety to Eliza- beth Sparrow (wife of Joseph W.), lot on W line of Julian avenue, 9 N of Sixteenth street, N 31 by W _100; $10. Same to Matthew Kelleher, lot on E line of Folsom _street, 75:i N of Seventeenth, N 24:11% by E 100; $10. Michael M. Donovan to Delia Donovan, lot on S line of Twenty- second street, 175 E of | Guerrero, E 25 by S'114; gift. Sarah Downs vs. Katherine L. Deery, ad- ministratrix of the estate of Thomas Deery, Charles H. and Mary J. Deery (minors) (by John H. Grady, referee,) to John Riley, lot on NW corner of _Eighteenth and Douglass streets, W 45 by N 110; $2500. Edwin R. and Lettie Pease, E. M. and Mar- guerette Morgan, D. O'Connor and Thomas Reagan (by P. J. Muller, commissioner,) to California Title Insurance and Trust 'Com- pany, lot on W line of Taylor street, 72:5 S of Vallejo, S 65 by W 100; $4500. Mary F. Howard (Hogan). to M. J. Stamp- er, lot on N line of Glover street, 91:6 B of Leavenmorth, E 23 by N 60; also 1ot on N line :11 Silver stree, 215 E of Fourth, N §0 by B 20; 0. Bullders' Contracts. Wells, Fargo & Co. (owners) with Richard Keatinge (contractor), architects Percy & Hamilton, fire-proofing of floors, iron columns metal cellings, partitions, etc., for a_6-story brick building on the NE line of Second street, 160 NW of Mission, NE 113, SE 160, SW 112, NW_160; $37,755. Dr. Gibbon’s Dispensary, 625 KEARNY ST. Established o 1854 for the treatment of Private ases, nbood. Debility or disease vearing on bodyand mindand Skin Diseases. The doctor cureswhen othersfail. Try him. Charges low. aranteed. Callorwrite, . Box 1957, San Francisco. OCEAN TRAVEL. PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP CO. Steamers leave Broadway whart San Francisco, as follows: For ports in Alaska, 9 a. m., Jan. 1, §, 11, 1 21, 26, 31, and every fifth day thereafter. For Victoria, Vancouver (B. C.), Port Town- send, Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Anacortes and ‘Wash.), § a. mi, Jan. 1, 6 11, 16, 21, 2, 31, and every fitth day_thereafter, connecting at Vancouver with C. P. Ry.. at Tacoma with N. Seattle with Great Northern R pany's steamer for Alaska. Cures Dr.J. F. GIBBG For Fureka (Humboldt Bay), steamer Po- mona, 2 p. m., Jan. 1 5, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 31, | Feb. 4, 5. 12,16, 20, %, . For Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Simeon; Ca- yucos, Port Harfard (San Luis Obispo), Gavi- ota, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Hueneme, San Pedro, East San_Pedro_(Los_Angeles) and Newport, 9 a.m., Jan. 1, 5, 9, 2, %, 0, and every fourth day thereafter. For San Diego, stopping only at Port Har. ford (San Luls Obispo), Santa Barbara, Port Los Angeles and Redondo (Los Angeles), a. m., Jan. 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 81, and every fourth day thereafter. For £nsenada, Magdalena Bay, San Jose del Cabo, Mazatlan, Altata, La Paz, Santa Ro- salia and Guaymas (Mex.), 10 a. m., Jan. 6 and 2d_of each month thereafter. The Company reserves the right to change without previous notice steamers, sailing dates and_hours of sailing. TICKET OFFICE—Palace Hotel, 4 New Montgomery st. GOODALL, PERKINS & CO., Gen. Asts. 10 Market st., San Francisco. THE 0. R. & N. C0. DISPATCH FAST STEAMERS TO PORTLAND From Spear-street Wharf at 10 a. m. Including Berth FARE §8 0% Chas, ™ond Heals SCHEDULE OF SAILINGS: State of California. Columb: -3 . Jan. 8, 15, 23 Through tickets and through bagi Eastern points. Rates and folders upon appli= cation to F. F. CONNOR, General Agent, €30 Market street. GOODALL, PERKINS & CO., Superintendents. , 17, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique. French Line to Havre. Company’'s Pier (new), 4 North River, foot of I-orton st. Trlvolenm by this line avoid both transit by English raliway and the discomfort of crosing the channel in a small boat. New York to Alexandria, Egypt, via Paris, first class $140, second class $116. December 11, 10 a. m. December 15, 10 a. m. December %, 10 a. m. January 1, 10 a. m. January 8, 10 a. m apply to . FORGET, Agent, No. 3, Bowling Green, New York. J. F. FUGAZI & CO., Agents, 5 Montgomery ave., San Francisco. S.5. MOANA for SYDNEY, Thurs- , January 8.2 p. m. .S, AUSTHALIA, for HONOLULU only -, Tuesday, Jan. %, at 2 p. m. Special party ral Line to COOLGARDIE, Australia, and CAPB TOWN, South Africa. J. D."SFRECKELS & BROS. CO.. Agents, 114 Montgomery Street. Freight Office—327 Market st.. San Franclsco. STOCKTON STEAMERS Leave Pier No. 3, Washington St., at 6 m. ® FREIGHT BE'::‘EIVED P TO 5:30 P. M. Accommodati the ons reserved by telephone. The only line selling through tickets and ing um‘)wh freight rates to all points on Valley iroad. C 5 5 TG WALKER, J. D. PETERS, GARRATT, CITY OF STOCKTON. .:\A‘:l‘ephono Auin 305 Cal. Nav. and Impt. Co, d ‘Telephone Green 381. | For San Jose, Los Gatos & Santa Cruz Steamer Alviso leaves Pier 1 daily ( ys excepted) at 10 a. m.; Alviso daily (Saturdays excepted) at 5 p. m. 'Freight and Passengers. Fare between Francisco and Alviso, G0e: to San Jose, Tic. Clay street, Pier 1. 41 Norts First street, San Jose.