The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1898, Page 15

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 1898 15 ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS. FIGHT FOR HILL'S LIFE To Be Renewed as Soon as Sentence Is Passed. The Order From Washington Has Not Yet Been Received. Grest Increase of Interest Efforts in to Obtain a Com- mutation. Oakland Office San Francisco Call. 908 Broadway, Jan. 15. Benjamin Hill is more fortunate than was his late ccmpanion in San Quen- tin, who dled protesting his innocence. all the efforts that have heretofore been made to obtain clemency from Jovernor Budd will be renewed, and all the pressure possible will be brought to bear to save the murderer’s life. _Attorneys Chapman and Bradley, as- | sisted by W. W. Foote, have. already done muck work, and have stated their | determination to go ahead and not | cease till a reprieve or the gallows makes further efforts useless. Every few days Hill writes to some of the prisoners in the County Jail with whom he is acquainted, and his letters are all in the nature of sermons. | The murderer expresses perfect Indif- | ference regarding his fate, and says that he has no desire to live, except to | convert others. There will be some | monster petition presehted to the Gov- ernor as soon as Hill has been resen- tenced. | NO HEAVEN FOR HOBOS Contra Costa’s Sheriff Is Praised for His Rock Pile. Grand Jury Urges That It Be Made a Permanent Institution. Berkeley News Notes. | BERKELEY, Jan. 15—Two_interestng { additions have been made to the Univer- sity library. One is a volume of German | poems by Theodore Kirchoff of San Fran- | cisco, and the other is a uniquely bound copy of “The Missi lifornia." Alameda County, Across the Line, Is the Tramps' Paradise of the is a student at the Universit The Berkeley Cotillon Club second cotillon at Shattuck Hall next | | Wednesday evening. Brockway Metcalf | and Miss Juliet Garber wiil lead the ger- H > will hold its Pacific. C. Minton will preach at the Oakland Office San Francisco Call, In one case the court on one occasion ‘was 80 anxious to expedite justice that it did not wait for remittiturs from Washington, but went ahead on the strength of telegraphic information. In the case of Hill the conditions are reversed. Forty-five days have passed since the Supreme Court of the United States decided that there was no merit in his appeal to that tribunal, and so | F Presbyterian. Church _to-morrow 908 Broadway, Jan. 15. ening on ““The Supreme Crim iy Saf St LA « | Dl T e R o Work!"” said Sheriff Veale of Contra Brynstein and a numt of other Costa, and immediately the hobos scat- srke ns are organizing Kiondike | tered and have not returned. have chartered a 1M-ton in which they will sail for the | | north about the 15th of next month. and the attendant fees are items that bore great holes in the county's finances, have decided that Contra Costa is no place for a decent tramo. e i Property Held Too High. | OAKLAND, Jan. 15—The value placed | upon various pleces of property by its The travelers whose arrest and keep | other, and there was no opportunity to cut off- the electricity or put on the brakes. The motorman on the passen- ger-car jumped for his life and the con ductor followed suit.. Mr. Chapman was inside the car and had no opportunity to move before the collision occurred. The cars came together with a terrific crash and were badly wrecked. Mr. Chapman was cut and bruised quite pain- fully, but no bones were broken, and he will soon be able to be out. The engineer. of the rock car saved himself by jump- ing off also just as the collision was about to take place. Both cars were smashed, the passenger-car getting the worst of it. The rock car ran ungfl' it and lifted it off the trucks, crushing the woodwork for some distance. No expla- nation has been given of how the two cars happened to be running in opposite directions at the same time on the same track in a part of the road which abounds with dangerous cur ——————— TRANSFERS Hl§_INTEREST. William T. Phelps Claims to Be the Heir of Thomas H. Blythe. An echo of the famous Blythe case ap- peared in the Recorder's office vesterday when William J. Phelps recorded a deed of all his interest in the estate to Charles F. Blandin. Phelps claims to be the lawful heir of Thomas H. Blythe, and conveys to Blan- din all of his interest in the Blythe block on Market street, as well as his alleged interest in mines and lands in Canada, California and Mexico. Considers med s $5. and transfer purports to be absolute. e NEW POSTMASTER. the Information From Washington That T. W. Leydecker Is to Be @ppointed. ALAMEDA, Jdn. 15.—Positive informa- tion was received here to-day from shington that the appointment of ameda was to be given | owners has lost for this eity the paint Every tramp arrested there has to do | manufacturing works of W. P. Fuller & & | a certain amount of rocK-breaking and | Co.. for which a lease has just been made . | at Baden. The tracts just back of the this of course is hard work. As the | California Cotton Mills, and at the foot [result of one year's experience it is i of Market street, were under considera- | noted that the county saved last month, Oakland's Murderer-Evangelist, About Whose - Remittitur There Is | No been heard of it. Hill moned to this coun- y set for his the belfry , but he has not yet been istrict Attorney Greene said that nothing had been heard of rder from Washington, although should have come, under ordinary in about thirty day i the District At- court to set a day ng of sentence. s the day of execution is set RuRBe seventy-four. These tramps usually : & | get five days in jail, which means a dol- e FOOTBA LL C L g | lar a head for food, and it costs on an 34 average $7 to arrest and pay the Jus- P 8 | tice's fee. In many cases there Is = Tl # | heavy mileage. The amount saved to & RO ES. § | the county almost pays the salary of 8 @ | the Sheriff. . —_— — In Alameda County things are dif- L5 # |ferent. The tramps are merely ordered 4 ¢ into confinement and Sheriff White has « Rev. Marshall Law, the Rector-Editor, Uses & |t e for them, and has no authority 5 S C .t. l v.t . I | to set lhem‘mdwlork. T{le aénounl‘o:‘ | money requires 0 arrest an convict e s g Lk @ |them provides salaries for a small %% %% %N %% % % %% % % % % % % % % % 2 | army of deputy constables and Sheriffs, | OAKL. copal chur k Rev. Marshal Law, icism of the festival of the San Franeci clation, and incidentally he said muc Floyd J. Mynard, rector of St. John’s, for an opinion regarding the criticism readily gave it. The ideas of the two rectors are sub; Rev. Floyd J. Mynard s: . 15.—The question The exceilent work of the five cholirs of vested -men and boys in the festival held on Wednesday evening last'has received most enthusiastic commendation from m who composed the congregation of “800” in the “little church” of St. John's, Oakland. There are, in fact, no evidences of anything but complete satisfaction, ex- cept on the part of the Choir.and Nave~ eritic at large. But even its strictures may beaccounted for on' the ground=or “offensive partisanship.” Perhaps the excellent work. was more distracting to the critic than was director’s baton to the boys whose-eves were 5o “glued to the scores” ¥ them “‘utterly oblivious” of the director’s presence. But quite as likely the Choir &nd Nave failed to aporeciate the fact that the 200 mén and boys were singing a8 men apd boys, and not as men and women. This ‘fact influenced the choice of music and the rendering of it., The “‘tuneful” jingle of lighter music’ was lacking from deliberate choice. For it was substituted the less operatic but more sober and worshipful music _es- pecially adapted to choirs composed of men and boys. From that standpoint the elections were most admirable, and “all the singing was true to pitch and excel- lent in time where the time moved straight ahead,” which was continuously. We are sorry that in future we must qualify our hitherto high opinion of the musical ability back of, the' Choir and Nave, since it advises remedying defects sopranos by adding women so. pranos. hat any musician shoyld at- tempt to combine two things so utterly different {s past understanding. The management sympathized with the Cholr and Nave in ifs reverence for ‘‘the cross of Christ—the flag of heaven"—as was shown by their care that not a sin- le cross should have a ribbon upon it. he colors of the different choirs were tied to the standards upon which the crosses were borne. The service Wednesday evening was a tample of a service rendered by men and beys. The “assoclation” has no quarrel With those who prefer other choirs and other music, but is satisfled in the opin- lon that the service in question deserved tommendation for body.‘ixea.wnen, power end worshipfulness, Drawn From His Picture in the Rogues’ Gallery. long been a debatable point among Episcopal clergymen. rector of the Church of the Advent, issued to-day a crit- he ! as to mnake The Grand Jury and be |in comparison, $518. has just complimented the plan | recommended that the rock pile | made a permanent institution. | In 1896, in November, there were 114 | hobos in Contra Costa County Jall. | That was the month before the estab- | lishment of the pile. Last November and that the nomi- 1 be made by the President fon wou n a few days. The information comes | from such a source that its authenticity | cannot be doubted. The contest for this position has been | a warm and prolonged one. Originally | there were ecight candidates, including | Mr. Leyaecker, E. D. Randlett, Dr. J. T. | McLean, M. L. Culyer, M rlor, G. | Bew, J.'W. Jackson and . Daniells The real contest, however, has been be- tween Mr. Leydecker and Mr. Randlett, It was understood that Mr. Hilborn had need no longer call upon them to serve in | such cases. This step is taken because | of the interpretation of the new State law, whereby examiners are not allowed fees except in cases of commitment. This they- clalm is an imposition upon _ their time and talents, and until a different construction is plagced upon the law they will refuse to serve. - Two New Theaters Contemplated. OAKLAND, Jan 15.—F. R. Porter 18 in- teresting himseif in the erection of a large theater on the ground adjoining the Central Bank bullding on Broadway. It is the property of the Realty Syndicate. He ciaims that F. M. Smith looks upon the project with approbation, and he is | now working to secure enough capital to | make it a certainty. The corner of Thir- | teenth and Franklin streets is also men- tioned as a site for another new theater. | This is the property of D. V. Moody, and at present there is a livery stable Monday afternoon lectures by members of the English department will be given at 3:45 every Monday during the coming | term. The subjects and speakers for the varfous dates are as follows: February 7 and 14—“Scott and Coler- idge,” a comparison with reference to the objective and subjective modes in outline, Professor Thomas F. Sanford. February 21<~*The Influence of Moliere Upon Congreve and Sheridan,” Professor L. D. Syle. February 28— The Advantages and the Desirability of an ~Endowed Theater,” Professor L. D. Syle. 3 March 7 and 14—““The Old_ English Treatment of Bible Subjects,” Professor Alexis F. Lange. March 21—“The Study of Fiction.” 25—*“The Works of George Mere- rofessor William D&llam Ar: April 4 and 11—“The English Essa Its ent and _Some of March dith,” P there. It is to be known as the Grand | 1S Develop: e Central. The plans are completed, and | TyPes” Professor C. B. Bradley. = Frank W. Stecham expects to man- | nyuon's Life and Art: Waiter M. Hart. g | May 2—*“The Art of Debating,” Martin Cross Town Car Line. | o Fianerty. OAKLAND, Jan. 15—The application of the Realty Syndicate for a on Eighth street, Broadway, was [ ranchise | between Grove and | recommended for pas- sage by the Street Rallway Committee last evening. This will, if passed, allow of the company to run from le avenue to West Oakland with- | out transfer. The company proposes to remove the track from Grove street, be- tween Eighth and Thirteenth streets, if this new line is allowed. No Verdict in the Shell Mound Mystery | OAKLAND 5.—The Coroner's ry in the J. H. Raeside, who s found on the t Kk ¢ hell Mound riday morning, did not reach a verdict to-night. The ca has gone over till Monday night in orde to permit of further inquiry into the cause of Raes death, there being more t a suspicion that he met h foul play before the Berkeley local struck and mangled his body. Willle Andrews Gone @gain. OAKLAND, Jan. the -G-year-old lad v on Thir brother an r. where his ive. No Church Services. OAKLAND, J: diphth the 1 parents, nion Presbyte: caused the church trustee to dispense with the regular church ser ices to-morrow and Wednesday evening. In the meantime the building will be Hurry. the company refused to pay | to $6000 per acre, as it was ex- Charles R. Root, the com- | nd manager, said to-day that | city had made the company the | offer Baden did the works would have be n erected here. Recommend M. H. De Young. OAKLAND, Jan. ‘The Board of Trade of this city has forwarded to. each representative in Congress from this State a set of resolutions urging the ap- pointment of M. H. de Young as the representative of the United States at the :\'olg%‘s Exposition, to be held in Paris n 1900. Comparison of the Tramp Question in Two Bay Counties. | | 25% % % | there were but and the Grand Juries have ceased to take notice of the matter. A few days ago the Grand Jury did express an | opinion on the amount of money given annually by the Supervisors to indi- gents without much investigation and with no return. In this county there are several of whether girls should sing in Epis- sco and Oakland Vested Choir Asso- h to stir up his brother rectors. Rev. where the festival was held, was asked blish Nav. tramps who call at the jail and stay Pl w il Sagterns Sl awhile just so often. One of these ho- joined: bos, G. Harris Williams, an artist, is a “regular,” and each time he does come he leaves some souvenirs of his visit. He once drew a series of plcmrea}?hov;'» ity occurred in St. John's, Oakland, last | ing what a good time a tramp has in Wednesday evening, and was a_great | this neighborhood compared with the success as a whole.-, It was attended by | rest of the Union, and his annual tour some 500 people, packing the little church | ajways includes an engagement in Ala- ;:”tehestn;rfiu:(. l'lk;e kcl'ioirs represented | oaa County. e - Mark’s, ey z | : “ta’ meda; St John-n,"'oi;‘zf;mff"':,fid Als',’f; Contra Costa’s example 1s to be Luke’s and St. John’s in this city—five in | brought to the attention of the Grand all, with some 180 volces. It wag supple- | Jury now in session in this county. mented ‘most tellingly by the. Satucany R v Morning orchestra of the scity, iOPPOSlTlON GéS COMPANY of ladies and gentle: civil garb. et The assoclation by standing resolution | is dead opposed to vested lady choristers, Baldwin Gaslight Company Has yet were they inconsistent 1 | have lady members of an ercheroubh 0| Flled Articles of Incorporation With the County Glerk. tered among them- fn-stylish millinery and natty suits. The bass and tenor A new gaslight company, organized for the purpose of manufacturing and selling were good, strong, true to pitch and lusty lunged. The alto was._indifferent | illuminating and heating gas, filed articles | of incorporation with the County Clerk and with the soprano needed a few good lady choristers to make the musical ren- ssibilities of | | yesterday. The name of the corporation say poorly | ¥ 1t has :i;ringsrrlneniure up to ‘the e poorly chosen music. | ¥ chosen, for the selections were no ;| is the Baldwin Gaslight Company. They were not tuneful, and were sung | & capital stock of $100,000, S MIichisio 0y with no satiafactory shading of time and | has been subscribed, The directors are: power, as a g00d mixed choir could have | Marcus Btone, Crarles L. Asher, Frank executed them,notwithstanding the baton { Pauson, Joseph Naphtaly, A. Io. Brooke of_the director waved and gyrated before | Ridley and Charles L. Ackerman. the eyes of boys glued to the scores and —_—— utterly oblivious of his presence. This SERIOUS COLLISION. assoclation of choirs, or any choir, can be taught to depend upon the organ for = Onre Man Injured in a Smash Up of Two Cars on the Leona all these things far better than upon a Heights Railroad. distracting and distracted leader’s baton. The processional crosses, some of them, were tied with ribbons suggestive of foot- ball col‘ors. w&lhig were Bd lemish to dlhe rocession and the sacred reverence due| * the-cross of Christ—the “Flag. of Heays | ALAMEDA, Jan. 15.—There was a col en.” “All of the singing was true to pitch | lision on the California Rallway, or Le- and excellent in time when the time | ona Heights line, this morning, which re- sulted in considerable damage to two cars, painful injuries to Isaac N. Chap- man, the well-known civil engineer, and a narrow escape for the motormen. A passenger-car was going along at a moved stralght ahead. St. Paul's, Oak- land, 1s dropped because Brother Richie od rate of speed at a point just beyond ‘alcott’s dalry, in Fruitvale, and just as allows ladies to sing in his evening serv- ces. Although Christ Church, Alameda, has it rounded a sharp curve a car loaded with rock from the quarries in the hill Rev, Marshal Law says: The fifth festival of the Vested Choir Association of San Francisco and vicin- ‘composed men, “all 'dressed in a “fine ladies’ contingent, the rector is crafty enough to keep them out of the Sunday services as yet, so he is still per- mitted to be in the “assoclation,” though he totters on a precipice and ma'ilro over e do not sympathize with at any time. came_ thundel from the op Rector Richle, rather ‘were close to- ‘we congratulate site direction. e gether wl him on his nerve.) hen the motormen saw each forty, a decrease of | promised Leydecker the position in re- | turn for political services rendered, and | he made the recommendation some’ time ago. As soon as he did this the temper- ance organizations of this city formu- lated a protest against the appointment | on the ground that he had been a saloon- | | keeper in the city and was still believed | to be interested In the sale of liquor. This protest was numerously signed, and | was forwarded to Washington. It is be- | lieved that this was the reason for the long delay in making the selection, as it has been several months since Hilborn mmended Leydecker for the place. | Recently Leydecker's friends circulated a | counter protest, in which they recited | the business ability of their candidate, | T his life-long service as a Republican and | his good record as a member of the | Board of Trustees of this city. It was | only a week ago that this was circulated, | and recelved the signatures of a good | | number of business men. | Mr. Leydecker is 48 years old, and was | born in Hanover, Germany, in 1849. Ho | came to this country when he was 14 years of age, and remained in New York City for three vears. Then he came to | California, where he has remained since. He was for years a resident of this city, and in 1893 was elected City Trustee, holding that position for four years and making a good record. For many years he was one of the groprlemrs of a saloon | at the corner of Clay and East streets | In San Francisco, but sold out his inter- | | est some time ago. Mr. Leydecker is | | well-known as a pigeon-fancier and breeder of homing pigeons. It is prob- | able that Charles Marston will be ap- | pointed by him’'as deputy. e S RELIANCE BOXING CARNIVAL. Several Good Events Scheduled by the Club for Monday Night. | OAKLAND, Jan. 15.—The Reliance Club has arranged a fine boxing carnival for next Monday evening. The affair is one of the club’s popular ‘“gentlemen’s nights,” but the programme is of unusual merit. There will be two preliminary three-round bouts. The elght-round contests will be be- tween Tony Williams (Reliance Club) and | Fred Maynard of San Francisco; George | Baker of Denver and Jack MeMahon of San Francisco; Billy de Coursey of Los Angeles and Marty McCue of New York. These men have been tried out. Some of them have attained more than a local repute as first-class boxers. A large delegation from San Francisco is seeking tickets, bemfJ especially anx- o Coursey come ious to see McCue and together. Special seating arrangements have been made and a splendid night's sport {s assured. Visit From Park Superintendent McLaren OAKLAND, Jan. 15.—John MecLaren, superintendent of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, was in the city to-day and drove over the proposed park site, known as the Adams tract. He said: “I wish that I could have the honor of laying out this land for a park. It is almost a park now, with these magnificent oaks and the view of the lake through the trees. It would make an ideal spot for a park. Its soil is excellent, as is evidenced by the growth of trees. The situation is well adapted, and the topography is varied enough for a magnificent park.” They Refuse to Serve. OAKLAND, Jan. 15.—Several of the physiclans who have qualified - as ex- aminers for the insane patients for the clty have notified Keeper Keating that he | almost strangling her. thoroughly renovated and all of the regu- lar services will be held a week hence. — e oe———— TRIED THE GAS ROUTE. Mrs. May Miller of Livermore Tries to Commit Suicide and Fails. ALAMEDA, Jan. I5.—Late last night two police officers found a woman in the narrow-gauge depot at Park street. She had closed the door and then turned on the gas, manifestly with suicidal intent. The officers turned her out of the place, gave her a warning and let her go. She left, but soon after went to the Park Hotel and applied for a room, which was iven ner. There she gave her name as Sirs. Mary Miller of Livermore. Eariy | this morning a young man who lives at the hotel smelled gas, and at once gave the alarm. An investigation showed that it came from the room occupied by Mrs. Miller. The door was forced open and she was discovered lylng on the bed in an unconscious condition, and with a handkerchief tied tightly about her neck, A physiclan was at once summoned, and after working some time over her, consciousness was restored and she was declared out of dan- ger. It was found that she had tried to stop up the crack under the door with a heavy shawl, but had not succeeded in doing so completely, which allowed the gas to escape and thus frustrated her design. ‘After she recovered she was questione but would give no explanation of the rea son for her attempt at self-murder. She sald she lived In Livermore and came up | vesterday to visit some friends in San rancisco. She had some business at an | Oakland bank to-day, she said, and that caused her to remain on this slde of the | bay. : Further than this she would say | thing. P Message from Livermore received lats this afternoon says that no such person is known there .and that if she belongs in that town she must have given a Wwrong name. Juvenlle Whisky Thieves. | ALAMEDA, Jan. 15.—Four small boys | were arrested yesterday evening for | stealing a demijohn of whisky from a de- livery wagon belonging to a liquor store while the driver was leaving some goods | at the back door of a house on Morton | street. Their names were I. Trethaway, D. Profumo, H. Lyon and P. Byer. They pleaded guilty to the charge of petty lar- ceny this morning before Justice Morris, who, after giving them a severe lecture, fined them $3 each and let them go. They | are believed to be the same boys who stole a demijohn of vinegar from the | same wagon in_ the same locality last week. Neither the whisky nor the vine- | gar was recovered. The boys are of re- | spectable parents. | Alameda Notes. ALAMEDA, Jan. 15.—Mrs. Elizabeth G. Bannister, formerly of this city, mother of Alfred Bannister the civil engineer, died in Binghamton, N. Y., on Wednes- day evening. She lived in'this ecity for many years. The Firemen's Exempt Relief Fund has filed an application with the City Trus- tees for a further appropriation of money. The Encinal Recreation Club nine and a picked nine of well-known players will lay & game of baseball to-morrow morn- Pae at Recreation Park. — e LECTURES ON LITERATURE. A Series by Members of the Unpi- versity English Department. BERKELEY, Jan. 15.—A series of | | | | { farm adjoined that of Bates, Sr. s LU e L GOT THIRTY DAYS. Esther Niles, Wife of a Saloon- keeper, Sent to Jail for Stealing Eggs. sther Niles, the wife of a saloon- keeper at Elghth and Natoma streets, sentenced to thirty days in the County Jall by Judge Low yesterday on a charge of petty larceny. She was ac- cused of stealing faurteen eggs from the store of Heinrich Huckfeldt, Eighth and Howard streets, on Wednesday last. Her defense was that she bought a dozen eggs from a grocer on Jessie street and on her way home she went into Huckfeldt's saloon to have a glass of beer in a friendly way. She denied steal- ing the eges, but couid not explain sat- isfactorily why she had fourteen instead of twelve. Huckfeldt swore he saw her take the eggs.and when searched they were found hidden inside her dress. e #6HE DEMANDS SUPPORT. Mrs. Lulu V. Bothin Has Sued Her Husband for Maintenance. Lulu V. Botbin commenced suit against ushand, J. C. Bothin, to compel hi her a reasonable sum each mo rt of herselt he also as nt be restrained by i rtering with her at t! . 715 Plerce street. Mrs. Bothin r he allege: rted and abandoncd nce that time has_neglect to her support. She claims that he enjoys a monthly income of $200, and she is entitled to support. At the present time the complainant states that by reason of serious injuries she able to move from her bed, but, notwith- standing this fact, she claims that unless ined her h and will remove the ure from her home and re furnit of it. REGULAR ARMY NOTES How Lieutenant-Colonel A. E. Bates Became a Military Attache. i A Reason Why the Light Bstteries of Did Not Better Scores. Artillery Make Major Edward B. Moseley of the med- ical department has been granted leave | of absence for fifteen days. Two of the officers of the Department of California have been selected as mil- itary attache, one to go to the United States Embassy at London, England, and the other to go to the United States Embassy at Paris, France. One of the fortunate individuals is Lieuten- ant Colonel Alfred *E, Bates, deputy paymaster general, chief paymaster on the staff of Brigadier General Shafter, | who has been selected for the embassy in London. Lieutenant Colonel Bates, while_still a youth in Monroe, Mich. was the companion of the late George A. Custer, who in after years became | | distinguished as an Indian fighter, and whose father's One day young Bates fell into the Basin River and was rescued by young Spald- ing. When the war of the rebellion broke out young Spalding, who had grown to manhood, organized the old Smith Guard te go to_the front with the Fourth Michigan Volunteers, and one of the first to answer the call was young Bates. After he had served as a private a few months he was appoint- ed a cadet to the United States Mili- tary Academy at West Point. He grad- of George Spalding, | uated, and in 1865 just as the war was closing he was commissioned a second lieutenant of cavalry and served on the frontier until 1869. During that time he gained an enviable reputation for his conduet in fighting Indians. In 1875 he was assigned to the paymaster’s de- partment, and on January 7 of last year he assumed the duties of paymaster general in the Department of Califor- nia. Some time ago he was granted leave of absence and went to Wash- ington, D. C.. where he waited on Gen- eral George Spalding, his old command- er in the Fourth Michigan, now a Rep- resentative from Michigan, and told him that he wanted to go to the em- bassy at London as military attache. Congressman Spalding told him he would do what he could for him, and in a short time he secured the appoint- ment for him. notwithstanding that there were a number of other army of- ficers who were well recommended and desired the billet. The wife of Lieuten- ant Colonel Bates was a niece and the adopted daughter of the late Edwin D. Morgan, the New York banker, and she inherited a good portion of his milllons. Mrs. Bates and her two daughters will accompany the Ileutenant . colonel to his new station, and as the family has large means. it is more than likely that they will entertain on an extensive scale. Captain Alexander Rodgers of Troop K, Fourth Cavalry, stationed at the Presidio, is.the other fortunate soldier who will go to. Paris. He has held his commission as captain since February, 1887, is' a man of ‘fine education, speaks the French language fluently and s well qualified for the position he has been chosen to fill. The captain will remain with his company until the 1st of February, when he will make ar- rangements-to take his departure for his future home. The recent target practice by the heavy batteries of the Third Regiment of Artillery -developed seventy-three first-class gunners, thirty-two of the second class and twenty-three of the third class, besides nineteen specialists, one at communication and eighteen at instruments and range tables. This is a total of 147 out. of 192 competitors. The results of the target practice by the light batteries of the Third Artil- lery at Redwood City some time ago was not up to the standard that -the department expected, but that was not the fault of the men, but of the ammu- nition. The shells that were used -as NEW TO-DAY. CONSUMPTION To THE EDITOR : T have an absolute Ci¥e for CONSUMPTION and all Bronchial, Throat and Lung Troubles, and all conditions of Wasting Away. By itstimely use thonsands of apparent. 1y hopeléss cases have been ‘)mnm ly cured, §0 Progt-positive am I of ita power to cure, 1 will Send ZREE to anyone amicied, THEFE BOTTLES of my Newy Discovered Remedies, upon receipt of Express. Postoffice address. TUA SLOCOR MG ) BB, N )CUM, M.C.; , New York, ‘Whea writing the Dootor, p"unnu&mlhbm of last year her hus- | un- | A dispose | J range-finders were good, work was done with them, but it was with the shrapnel, that with which the most execution is done, that the fault was found. The shrapnel were issued in 1894, but the walls were so thin that they could not stand the force of the and good discharge and exploded between the point of discharge and the object aim- ed at, which was a namber of dummies representing a company of forty-five men in columns of four in line. Taking as a criterion the number of hits made and.the number of dummies disabled with the shrapnel that proved effective, it is probable that the battcries would have doubled their scores. The prac- tice developed the fact that the “kind of ammunition furnished in that year cannot be depended upon, but it is claimed that since then better shrap- nels have been issued. It is announced that there will be a grand field day at the Presidio on either the 26th or 2§th inst, and that on one of those days there will be a grand review. HOTEL ARRIVALS. 2 RUSS HOUSE. | N Richardson, Truckee|J B Owen: | Capt McCulloch, Alam J A Pie H J McKenno Mat|C D Haywar G C Farwell, C H Hickok, , Redding |Z Dawy G Bennett,' Niles on, Alameda Ohio Cleveland as, Cal 1, Grizzly Mrs M Thomy J W Wells, F N Legane, 'Daw | T A Fowler, Dawson T Summers, Bishop Sacto Hanson, P P O’'Donne J A Cheesor LB Derby, A W Hopkins, Cou J J M 2 R J Davidsc © M Coakley, Petalum 1 Howard. Davisville lac J Dawson & w. 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The remedy has a peculiarly grateful effect of warmth and seems to act direct to the desired location giving strength and development just where it is needed. It cures all the {lis and troubles that comé from years of misuse of the natural functions and has been an absolute suc- cess in all cases. A request to the State Medical Institute, 193 First National Bank ng, Fort Wayne, Ind., stating that you desfre one of ‘their free trial pack- ages will be complied with. The institute is desirous of reaching that great class of men who are unable to leave home to be.treated and the free sample will en- able them to see how easy it is to be cured of sexual weakness when the proper remedies are employed. The in- stitute makes no restrictions. Any man who writes will be sent a free sample, carefully sealed in a plain package so that its recipient need have no fear of embarrassment or publicity. Readers are requested to write without delay. £