The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 7, 1898, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1898. 5 | | i DEVRIES AIDS NPROVEMENTS Introduces a Bill Appro-| priating Half a Million Dollars. This to Be Us2d in Dredging | the Sacramento and Its Tributaries. Construction of Needed Impounding | Dams in the Yuba Also Belng Considered. Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, Jan. 6. tepresentative deVries to-day intro- | se a bill appropriating ging and otherwise im- amento River and its object of this bill 1s | Spectal Dispatch to The Call. ‘ | The out the engineers’ recommen- ion for the improvement of the Sac- submitted. the greatest improvement of the its tributaries T epto River, recently De Vries considers ths obstacle to the Sacramento River and has been removed, and a great step in | adva ce in that matter has been ac- He has devoted a great bringing influence to -partmental officers to ssity of early action by a Debris Commisslon in ing plans for the improvement the Sacramento and its tributaries, for the construction of impound as pre- The an ap- been overcome by ropriation has n Representative. De Vries said to- ht that every ef- °d toward se- and thereport ns for the im- ba. River, as ¥ ential to any - the improvement nto River. He speaks | of Chief of Engineers | sured him thi; for these d g as early as possible and as the pla were sub- would in ce a bill ap- £ the mc conventi nto > to approp om the engineers « ounding dam in the latter is a p opriatin, 1y n recently held having appointed a ald in securing an ap- the Sacramento and rs, De Vries s rangements with n of the Committee on Harbors for a hearing for men. De Vries is fully with map of the surrounding | nd an abundance of data to the matter, and will pre- to the committee. He visited | ramento and Yuba rivers dur- > recess of Congress, and is| ore thoroughly familiar with this | RED T0 REFUND | IS PEROUISITES Los Angeles Grand Jury Seu.lesl a Point With Regard to Fees. uihE The County Auditor Is Required to | attention of the authorities the swin- I { BUNKOED BY A DETECTIVE Many Persons Duped by an Original Black- mailer. The Scoundrel Now in Prison for Using the Malils to Defraud. Run Down by United States Postoffice Flint Los Angeles. Inspector at Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELF Jan. 6.—United States Postoffice Inspector Martley H. Flint has landed A. M. Williams, head of the Inter-State Detective Bureau of Riverside, behind the bars on a charge of using the malls to defraud. Willlams had a unique and novel scheme of blackmail and extortion by means of which he has for some time been enabled to make a living and to dupe a great many people in different parts of California and the entire West. His proposition was Intricate— so much so that the officers were for some weeks at a loss to understand how the man made any money by his knavery. His plan was to work on the cupldity of people by sending them a letter, which, they would see on open- ing, was not intended for them, but which, it seemed, presented them a means of getting some money belonging supposably to some one els of the same name. Then, after they had so far committed themselves b: keeping and replying to the letter, the schemer would attempt to extort money from them on the threat of ex- posure. In the case which came to the SALUTES FOR THE JUBILEE Department at Washing- ton Commands the Ar- tillery to Boom. The Governor Will Be Requested to Proclaim January 24 a Legal Holiday. Board of Supervisors Will Be Asked to Allow Union Square to Be Used for a Flower Fair. The managers of the Golden Jubllee celebration were actively engaged all day yesterday. An important meeting of the executive committee at the Pal- ace Hotel last night was attended by T. J. Parsons, Mayor Phelan, S. H. Daniels, J. H. Grady, Edward Cole- man, Peer Tiffany, Tirey L. Ford, Henry Lunstedt and Henry Martin. The chairman of the committee was directed to communicate with Gov- ernor Budd at once and ask that the opening day of the celebration be de- clared a legal holiday. The Mayor sald Mrs. Lovell White would ask the Board of Supervisors at the next meeting for permission to use Union square for a flower fair during the Jubilee week. The committee ap- proved the project. The parade com- estimate mittee made a rough that | $10,000 would be required to conduct the pageant. The Congressional delegation s working to advance the celebration. The annexed dispatch was received by The Call last evening: Jan. 6.—Repre- sentative s notified by the War Department through the adjutant- clubs will show their style of bag punching, and the making of paper boxes will be another feature. Carnival Director Healy can be found daily at his headquarters at the Mechanics' Institute, and people who wish to enter for any contest are re- quested to communicate with him. He would like also to hear from the di- rectors of interior bands for the pur- pose of arranging a band tournament. On certain afternoons during the fair an elegant souvenir after-dinner spoon will be distributed to the ladles free of charge. In the bowl of the spoon there will be engraved, “Golden Jubilee Mining Fair, 1898,” and the dates of opening and closing. They are to be furnished by one of the largest manu- facturing silver firms In the United States. —_—— CAUSED BY AN ARC LANP The Fall of One Started Three Fires on the Front. Telephone Wires Between Here RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS. H. Crocker and @aron Crocker, Pawnbrokers, Are Placed Under Arrest. H. Crocker and Aaron Crocker, pawnbrokers, 608 Montgomery street, were arrested yesterday on a com- plaint sworn to by Detective Crowley of the Southern Pacific Company charging them with receiving stolen goods. Frank Allen was arrested a few days ago on the charge of burglary for breaking into a car at Port Costa and stealing thirty-two pairs of trousers. It is alleged that he shipped the trous- and Oakland Burned Out. A Rush of Boys Anxious to Shipon the Mohican at the Naval Rendezvous. The fall of an arc light on Washing- ton street wharf nearly caused three serious fires and cut the water front and Oakland off from telephonic com- munication last evening. When the arc light fell the wires became discon- nected, but the current was turned into the telephone wires at the Tiburon ers to the Crockers through Wells- Fargo's, and that eighteen pairs were ferry, section 1 of the sea wall, and | at the foot of Market street. At the | general that the requests of the Golden Dip Into His Pocket for $280. | Epecta! Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6.—County | Auditor E. C. Hodgman has been call- | ed to order by the Grand Jury and a | demand made upon him to refund | something like $250, which he failed to turn over to the County Treasurer in| way of fees received by him in hi 1 capacity for recording mineral | ms. Until recently the fee for re- ing a mineral c was 50 cents, «1d when received it was entered in : regular way upon the feebook of order’s e But Hodgman | fdea that for some reason the isite of his office and strict Attorney for his 1 furnished it to was properly a Recorder’s and that | make no entry of it | upon his feebook. The District Attor- | sney based his decision upon a case de- | cided in the Superior Court of San rdino County it 1s alleged, Recorder Hodg- | raised the fee for recording min- | He had been collect- y 50 cents for the county, but vanted $1 when he found that it Tect that the ite of the erefore was his. The Grand Jury examined into the matter, and, in the face of | the District Attorney’s opinion that| -order was entitled to the fee, manded that all amounts 1 had collected for the filing claims should be promptly turned into the county treasury and accounted for in the feebook. Mr. Hodgman promptly complied vith the demand, and therefore no | ceedings will be instituted against Hodgman claims that if the Dis- Attorney had mnot advised him that he was entitled to the fee he never would have retained ft. S e SAYS ENGLAND WILL NOT DARE TO INTERFERE. Redmond, Who Has Come to This Country to Lecture, Speaks of the Coming Cele- bration in Ireland. NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—John BE. Red- mond, M. P., and Hon. Robert Guin- ness, champion amateur oarsman of Great Britain, arrived here to-day on “"board the steamer Teutonic from Liv- erpool. Mr. Redmond has come to this country to lecture in various places on “The Rebellion of 1798,” and in a gen- eral way will endeavor to arouse the interest of Irish-Americans in the pro- posed pilgrimage to Ireland next July, which will celebrate the rebellion. Regarding the rumor that the British Government might interfere with the ennial celebration in Ireland Mr. Redmond said: “England dare not try to interfere with or suppress the cele- brat She 1s wrapped up in so many complications in the East and else- where that she cannot afford to meddle with the private affairs of Ireland. The truth must be known about '98. J’rhn people cannot be bulldozed any nger.” MAYRH! In this city, January 6, 189, Josephina, beloved daughter of Elizabeth and the late Peter Mayrhoser, & native of Ban Irancisco, aged 7 years 11 months and 1§ 5 The Building of Gol den Jubilee Floats at Lombard-Street Wharf. dler, one A. M. Williams, sent the fol- lowing letter under Riverside date to W. F. Baker at Banning: Dear Husband: I inclose to you here- with Mr. Hoyt's note of $150. Mr. Hoyt | wants to pay the note before due, and was quite disappointed when he called vesterday and found that I would not accept payment and give up the note until it became due, or at least until I had consulted first with you. Now if you think best to accept payment and give up the note, then return the note to me so that I may collect the money from | Mr. Hoyt and send it at once to you, be- cause 1 suspect you need it. Mother is more down on you than ever, if possible, and she has just made a new will, giv- ing me her entire estate provided I get a divorce from you within a year after her death, otherwise Uncle Henry and Cousin Julig get it all. Lawyer Jones tells me that can get a divorce from | you on the ground of desertion and se- cure my Inheritance; then we can marry again and thus evade poor mother’s cruel will. The doctors all say that she can hold out but a few months longer at most, and the best we can do, dear hus- band, is to humor poor mother’s peculiar whim for the time. I have not heard from you since you left Charlie’s, and this is my first letter to you at your new address. Oh, how lonesome do _get in this big house without_you, and life is such a mo- notony here, alone with mother, that I am almost tempted to begin typewriting again for Armstrong & Co. Address all your letters to A. M. Wiillams, Rive: &ide, Cal., then I can call for them with- out much danger of mother seeing them. Hoping this will find you, like myeeif, in the best of heaith, but in better spirits, I am, as ever, your ful wife, MARY A. BAK Baker was an honest man faith- ER. and turned the letter he received over to‘ the postal authorities. This was all the authorities required. Willlams was arrested at once. His room was searched and it was dis- covered that he had sent out over 100 similar letters and was receiving many replies a day. It was evident that he had terrorized a number of people into paying him in each case $50 blackmalil. A full supply of paper bear- ing the letterhead of the detective agency and a quantity of incriminat- ing evidence was found MEETS WITH AN ACCIDENT WHILE HUNTING IN FRANCE. William E. Eustis, Nephew of the Former Embassador, Thrown Against a Tree and His Leg Broken. Copyright, 183, by James Gordon Bennett. PARIS, Jan. 6.—William E. Eustis, nephew of the former Embassador to France, had the misfortune to break his leg while hunting on Thursday with a pair of fox hounds. His horse, taking a “rop Jump into a road, swerved against a tree, thereby caus- ing the accident. A carriage was sent for and Mr. Eustis was conveyed to the residence of Stanley Mortimer, whom he was visiting. The injury is only a simple fracture below the knee. To Cure a Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al druggist ts refund the money if it fails to cure. e genuine bas L. B. Q. on each tablet. Jublilee Assoclation of San Franclsco for the firing of salutes during the exercises of the celebration commemorating the discovery of gold in California had been granted by the department and that in- | struction for the firing of a full salute had been sent to the different military stations on the coast. The department has also ordered an exhibition in rifle and gun practice to be held during the cele- bration. Additional subscriptionstothe fundof | $8620 already reported were announced last night: Pacific Coast Jockey Club $200, First National Bank $100, Chinese | merchants (partially) $74, cash $64 59, San Francisco National Bank $50, N. | Clark & Co. $50, George Haas & Son | $25, Boston Woven Hose and Rubber | Company $25, Willlam H. Burch & Co. $25, South Fureka Mining Company $25, Colonel John P. Jackson $25, Gutta Percha and Rubber Manufacturing | Company $10; total $9293 50. The number of representative floats promised and contemplated for the ju- bilee parade has exceeded the expecta- tions of the parade committee. The parade committee has decided that any business house may enter float provided the design of such float be first submitted to the committee for approval. D. R. McNeill has tendered the pa- rade committee the use of Central Park free of charge on January 26 and 26. It was decided last evening to Invite the California Miners' Association to parade by counties. Unattached miners will be invited to join the column and a place assigned to them. Among the features of the mining fair which the committee on special events has proposed is a carnival of contests, to last a week. Expert young ladles from the candy-stores will be asked to display their skill in wrapping caramels. Athletes from the various found in thelr store by Crowley and Detectives Bee and Harper. H. Crocker, who lives in Oakland, as a policeman in Oakland and was to have been appointed yesterday. BELASCO AFTER TALENT. The Alcazar’'s Manager Leaves for the East In Search of New Blood. Frederick Belasco, manager of the Alcazar Theater, left Wednesday even- ing for the East in quest of new plays and new people for his play house. His trip may extend to London should he not be successful in getting what he is after in New York. Mr. Belasco hopes to secure plays that have made a hit during the past season and wiil produce them at the Alcazar. Before he left he was elected an hon- orary member of the Theatrical Me- | chanies’ Association, and was present- ed with a beautiful diamond medal for his kindness and assistance to the or- ganization. ———————— COMING FROM THE EAST. Leading Rallroads Help This City to Secure Alaska Trade. Alaska bureau have not decreased. Advices from Chicago state that the leading railroads there favor San Fran- cisco and will use their best endeavors to assist its claims in every way. The travel from Chicago and vicinity will be very heavy and the outlook for San Francisco securing it is very favorable. The following subscriptions have been received since the last report: Western Meat Company, $100; B. Cogan, $20; W. M. Williams, $20; The Louvre, $20; Wil- son’s Dining Parlors, $25; California Jockey Club, $100; Armour Packing Company, $100; J. A. Folger & Co., $100. B — Stole a Trunk and Valise. Edward Ryan, an ex-convict, was booked at the City Prison yesterday by Detectives Bee and Harper on a charge of grand larceny. A few days ago he drove up to the Paclfic Transfer Com- pany’s office, 20 Sutter street, and coolly drove off with a trunk and valise con- talning wearing apparel valued at $152. ;r):\lv articles were en route to San illuu hispo. The old evangelist who spends h Sacramento in the days of '49, got back of Black Point yesterday. still there, and from that elevation th beaten than ever, and the sails will not prayers at sunrise for some time to come. Yar o BACK TO WINTER QUARTERS. is time in going to various points of the bay preaching the gospel from an old tub that was a lighter on the to his winter quarters under the sheiter The steps which lead to his seat on the mast are e old man will be seen saying his The old craft is more weather- hold together another season. ). was one of the men slated for office | In face of the rain the visitors at the | % _’* \ N\ o | sea wall the grain shed caught fire, but a few buckets of water put the | blaze out. At the Tiburon ferry all the company’s Sunset wires were burnt | out and Oakland was only reached | thereafter by way of San Jose. The pole on which the wires rested caught fire and also the ferry waiting room. A still alarm was turned in and the danger of a blaze was soon over. Double forces of men are at work re- pairing the damage and everything will be in good order again this morn- ing. The electric light people are of the opinion that some person on mischief bent caused all the trouble. The arc light on Washington street wharf is lowered and raised by means of a rope and pulleys. When the cieaner fin- ishes his morning work on the lamp he hauls it into position and fastens it securely. Some one must have loos- ened the rope and let the lamp down with a run. The wharf was crowded with teams at the time and the falling lamp nearly caused a stampede among the horses. The Harbor Commissioners heid a short session yesterday and paid the Risdon Iron Works the balance of its contract price for the iron work on the new ferry depot. The check was for $25,950, and is the second largest ever | drawn by the commission. The sanitary reduction works will be awarded a wharf at which it can dump garbage into scows as soon as | the Board of Health has passed upon the matter, and not until then. Presi- | dent Colnon gave that out as the final | decision of the Board yesterday. It, | therefore, looks as though the sani- tary reduction works will have to ob- tain some other water front facilities than those controlled by the board, as | the managers of the concern stated | positively at the last meeting of the | commission that they would under no consideration appear before the Board of Health and ask for a permit. The work of putting ferry slip § in repair is tc be rushed in order to have it in readiness for the rush to the races at Oakland, which begin next | Monday. President Colnon will see to | it that extra men are put to work on the job, and that everything will be in readiness for an extra boat on Mon- day. Boys anxious to join the navy as ap- prentices pour into the rendezvous on California street in dozens daily. Fully fifty boys present themselves daily for examination, but out of that number only about three out of every ten are accepted, the others failing to pass the physical test. The trip around the world in the Mohican has turned near- 1y every boy in the State into a would- be sailor, and all are more than anx- jous to take a four years’ course in seamanship. “Tommy” Reynolds, who lives on Natoma street, is one of the swer. Tommy lacks an inch and a quarter of the necessary height, and every day he goes to the rendezvous and measures himself to see how much he has grown. The officers in charge of the enlisting of the boys have taken a great liking to the lad, and {f it can be managed in any way “Tommy"” will be aboard when the Mohican sails. The following officers have been assigned to the training ship: G. M. Brock, commander; Lieutenant J. D. McDon- ald, Lieutenants H, M. Dombaugh, M. L. Wood and T. Porter, and Ensigns H. Lanmst.l G. E.d(‘iflhlm :%C. J. Lang, now on the rec Independ- ence at Mare mand‘.“' ! e The Pacific Mall Company's steamer China sailed for the Orlent yesterday with only six paseengers, but a full cargo, C. H. Brickwedel Jr,, the purser NEW TO-DAY. A FREE RIDE TO AND FROM ALL PARTS OF THE CITY. The above building is the PATTOSIEN CO. Furniture Store. Itis the largest house west of Chicago, and is located on Sixteenth and Mission streets. Since opening this grand place they have done | the business of the city. THEIR RENT IS THE LOWEST. This accounts for LOW PRICES. To-morrow a GIGANTIC SALE will {commence. Mr. Pattosien purchased the ENTIRE STOCK OF 134 CARLOADS OF THE WEST MICHIGAN FURNITURE CO. for a TRIFLE, AS THEY NEEDED MONEY. The sale of it will start to-morrow. Each buyer during this sale will get a FREE RIDE to and from the store. Take the Mission, Fillmore or Kearny street cars. HOTELS, LODGING-HOUSES, FLATS, ROOMS, OFFICES, will be fitted out at prices to COMPETE WITH THE WORLD. boys who will not take “no” for an an- | WILL SHE PROSECUTE? Bessie Kleve, Shot by Her Fathzr,j Fails to Appear. | The case of Louis Kleve, charged | with an assault to murder by shooting his daughter, Bessie, on October 3, was called in Judge Low’s court yester- | day. Kieve sald his daughter did not wish to prosecute him and he thought the case should be dismissed. The girl did not appear in court, and as it was learned she was In San Jose the Judge issued a bench warrant for her arrest. The case was continued till next Wednesday. Philadelphia Shoe (o, No. I0 Thiro Sr. STAMPED ON A SHOE MEANS STANDARD OF MERIT SEND FOR OUR NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. NEW TO-DAY. | f As a delicious & pure food drink, as the purest and best of all chocolates, Ghirardelli’s Monarch Chocolate is the most popular chocolate in use. Used with pastry, too, Extra Bargains ! Special Offerings! Beginning to-day we will offer special inducements to our customers until we take stock in February. Every store accumulates a certain amount of broken lines and sizes, and we have resolved to dispose of these odd sizes during this sale. So we wish to {m- press on the minds of our customers that the shoes which we will adver- tise as broken sizes are really odd lots, and our country customers in particular shall not feel offended if we cannot fill their orders for these specially advertised shoes. When we have ali sizes we will state that fact. Spectal Sale—Ladles’ Silk Embroldered Vesting Top Lace Shoes, finest Viel Kid Vamps, new coln toes and tipe, al i . able soles, i Il widths. it imparts a delight- B i mate Tor 13357 rociis price .. 33 50 Infants’ Viei Kid Button Shoes, eir- cular vamps and heel foxing, pat- ent leather tips, pliable_soles, ali sizes, 1 10 5, re- duced from’ Hc . 3 s O Have Yon Small Feet ? 40Oc. Ladies' kid Oxford Ties, 0odd sizes, assorted kinds, n toea and broad or pointed toes, sizes 2 to 3, narrow widths; reduced to 40c. Sizes 215 to 3% of a better grade of Oxfords will be sold for 65c. All these Oxfords formerly sold for from..32 to $3 a pair D] tips. Ladies' Black or Bronze French Kid e e S e e e S g z pe + i Beaded Opera. Slippers, turned soles. 1 wooden heels, sizes 2 to 4. Reduced 20.vsenseeess-$1 2 former price $3 00 ¢ Ladtes’ Turkish Slippers, all colors and <+ sizes. Reduced t 5c @ pair Ladtes' Vit Kid Button Shoes. opera 3@ toes and "-:hfil (Eh’?‘ I;atl%gr thPs. sizes 2 to 41, wi s o E. e~ duced to.. Tse; formerly $250 > e i 3@ Ledies vict Kid Button Shoes, plain b d toes without tips, easy on the Ratifing. frsm 318 fer. ‘s‘tz"sd: 2o 5 widine A to & 0 Ind, sizes 4 and 414, widths AA, 3 The Desk e B Radncad go. e ot AAAAAA §5c; regular prices $2 50 and 300 BUSINESS S 2 38wz a Shoes, Office Desks and Furniture 3 |& - T L AT COST + | X edlé toes and 3 & needls Curtan, Flat, Standing and Typewriter 4 tips, guarant i Desks, Tables, Revolving Bookeases, T 8 e n G Chairs, ete.—all to go. 38 ekl C. F. WEBER & CO., X i Commer of Post and Stockton Sta, Under T & Pacifle Unlon Club, San Franclsco, Cal. 3 Klondlke Footwear a Specialty. Country orders solicited. Address B. KATCHINSKI, PHILADELPHIA SHOE cCO., 10 Third St., San Francisco. 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