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

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 1898. CREDITORY ASK FOR THEIR OWN Mrs. Elise Fails for the Sum of $300,000. Sacrifices Everything to pay Those Whom She Owes. Bad Business of a Wine Com- pany the Cause of It. ASSUMES HUSBAND’S DEBT. At Last Pressed for Money She Asks the Court for Insolvency Papers. Mrs. Elise Kohler, the sole surviv- Ing partner in the copartnership firm of Kohler & Frohling, wine merchants, has been declared insolvent by Judge Belcher. Mrs. Kohler, in her voluntary application to be ed insolvent, echeduled her liabilit at $333,173 41, but to offset this v has in her po: indebtedness she sion property valued and a judgment of $34,- 891 20 against the Southern Pacific Company for damages to the Nadeau Winery, near Los Angeles, which be- longed to Kohler & Frohling, the dam- age having resulted from alleged neg- ligent construction of a railroad bridge near the wine The case is now on appeal to the Supreme Court, and in the event of th tribunal sustaining nt of the lower court it will iced among the a: ts. This will allow a complete settlement of the in- that for of January g of Eiise Kohler, Hans H. Kohler, in this city and of January, 1895, e firm was liquidation ohler and business On the arles Kohler die se Kohler, and on the , 189 he purchased Kohler his interest in the firm, and in consequence is the sole surviving part As the surviv- the liabilities n, and now surrenders all her i effects for the benefit of her ny, $4 F. Brecht, Phi hoelgens, Phi 3 delphia, adelphia, § ., San Francisco, . Ma Napa, $20,520 49; . Gerichten, San Francis- Mary Smith and John Han- nah Kelle 2136 34; Kate M $1806 54; 3G Somme 5; Anna L. Bauer, $3101 98; ). iry Hagen, Napa, $13,454 04; Van Bergen. San Francisco, $2476 79; En H. Bertheau, San ; Caroline Kohler, 5; Minna Roeder? With the ex- five on the schedule, ception of the la which indebtedness was incurred through open accounts,, the liabilit are in the form of promi; noies the firm of Koh sets consist of pe Frohling. > capital stock ciation, val- pledg to s Bank to s :nt of a promissory nc , is the largest item among the The remaining assets, how- msidered just ecure, and H ayment of the firm's liabilities will result. Mrs. Kohler is the widow of Charles Kohler, who in life was the senior part- ner of the old firm of Kohler, Frohling & Co. At the death of her husband she and her sons, Charles and Hans, tried to carry on the busi but it did not prosper. Tw s ago Charles died from poison, and it was sa.d at the time committed "ide, but this vas scouted by the young man’s of the Cal ued at Wells, Max Bertheun, the son-in-law of Mrs. Kohler, who is acting as her advisor in the affair, gave an explanation as to the cause of her insolvency yesterday afternoon. He said that the entire trouble was due to a large debt that her husband left at his death, and which she was compelled to assume. “At the death of the elder Kohler,” said Mr. Bertheun, “who was the chief partner in the firm of Kohler & Froh- ling, his wife assumed the management of the firm. At his death the entire in- debtedness of Mr. Kohler amounted to the emormous sum of $300,000.which Mrs. Kohler was obligated to pay when she assumed the management. “Shortly after she took charge of the business affairs of the wine establish- ment the California Wine Association offered to buy the busine being of- fered as payvment for the entire stock of the Kohler & Frohling wine vaults 400,000 shares in that corporation. She readily accepted the offer and transfer- red her entire stock over to the asso- ciation, receiving as before agreed up- on, 400,000 shares of stock iIn ex- change. “At the time this transfer was made the California Wine Association was paying large dividends on its stock, and it was through the hope of paying her husband’s debts with these dividends that Mrs. Kohler was prompted into joining the then lucrative concern. “Business affairs in the new house, said Mr. Bertheun, “prospered extra- ordinarily well for many years, and Mrs. Kohler received large dividends on her stock, which she devoted to the payment of her creditors. During the past year, however, business has been on the decline, and in consequence the cessation of dividends was deglared necessary to the existence of the as- soclation. “With this decline in business came disappointment to the hopes of Mrs. Kohler, and also the increased demand for money on the part of her creditors, who. seeing that she was unable to pay them the dividend money, demanded immediate payment, and, threatening the unfertunate woman with suit un- less she made immediate payment to them for the amount of their respective bills against the old firm of Kohler & Frohling. “This she was unable to do, and Kohler ‘ PALO ALTO’S SOCIAL HALL. A Beautiful Structure Which Is to Be Erected Near the Leland Stanford Jr. University for the Use of Fraternal Societies, e :mAT:riflAl HALL TALO . ALTO.CAL: - «+. - « : SAMUEL NEW IO M. ARCHT- RILDBLOG.O4 . THE NEW BUILDING AS IT WILL APPEAR Contracts were let y Leland Stanford Jr. Universi University avenue and Bry nal hall will be occupied the furnishings much more. nt street. The lower WA 37 ,n)‘/‘"“,, terday for a new hall for assemblies and meetings o f fraternal organizations, and corresponding in style of architecture to the It is to be of brick, two stories high, with the Masons, Foresters, Knights of Pythias and Workmen and for private and c floors will be let for stores. most of whom have subscribed for stock. Samuel Newsom of this city is the architect 'he new hall i suffic university building: strength of foundati socials. The pro lege pressed by the creditors for money, she 100K the last step in her business ca- reer and applied for papers of insolv- ency. In all these years, from the first day Mrs. Kohler joined the asso- ciation until she applied for insolvency papers,” said her son-in-law, ‘“she has done her utmost to pay the indebted- ness, even going so far as to sacrifice her personal property and everything, in fact, of any value that she possessed. in order to satisfy the demands of her unreasonable creditors. She, in fact, parted with everything but her Inter- est in the wine association, and this she clung to as long as she could. The time for the payment of her debts, however, was drawing near and the dividends in the wine association were already discontinued thereby compell- ing Mrs. Kohler to make her last sacri- fice in the interest of the creditors. “‘She, however, hesitated long before doing so, but at last, under advise- ment, she applied to Judge Belcher fot the necessary insolvency papers, stat- ing that she was financially bankrupt and turning her interest in the wine as- sociation over to the courts to be sold in the interest of her creditors. This stock is valued at $1 a share and if its disposal realizes, this sum the total amount of money received for the en- tire stock will amount to $400,000, which will more than pay the claims against her.” The discontinuance of dividends which compelled Mrs. Kohler to dispose of her stock in the wine association was caused by a disagreement between the wine producers and the makers and the uncertainty of the prices that this trou- ble caused in the market. WILL BE KINGS OF PURGATORY A New Side Degree That Will Be Given by the Pythians in February. The New Organization Will Meet but Once a Year for Business. A new organization, with the abbre- viated name of I. O. K. of P., which means Infernal Order of Kings of Pur- gatory, was brought into life last night in Pythtan Castle. The meeting for the institution of this new auxiliary degree of the Knights of Pythias was presided over by George W. Monteith, who stated to the representa- tives of the several local lodges of P: ians that the idea of such a body had its pn City Lodge. The idea was fully explained and discussed, and the organization was effected by the choice of a_committee that will report the names of officers at the next meeting. 1t is proposed that 1. O. K. of P. shail hold a session on the 18th of February of each year, the anniversary of the foundation of the order of Pythians. No one shall be eiigible to membership but members of the Order of Knights of Pythias, but the degrees of the new or- der, which will be several in number, may be conferred on any member of non-Pyth- ians, who will be permitted to apply for the priviiege of becoming inducted into the several mysteries, on the recommen- dation of members. The ritual that has been prepared with great care is, 1t is sald by those who have perused it, one of the most interesting of any side degree that has ever been pre- sented. The candidates will be given an insight into the workings of some secret societies, which will . make them feel at times somewhat startled, but the les- sons they will learn will be most in- structive. The paraphernalia necessary for the carrying out of the degrees and the uniforms to be worn by the kings of purgatory, namely, the sublime king and is four imps, it is'said will be very. fine. At the meeting held last night commit- tees were appointed to carry out the ob- jects of the organization and to make preliminary arrangements for the con- ferring of the degrees on the 19th of next month. Another feature will be the selection of a queen for the day of the celebration. Each lodge will be permitted to suggest one lady; then a vote will be taken. The one receiving the highest will be the queen, and the four next highest will be her maids. —_————— Champagne. Moet & Chandon has the proud dis- tinction of occupying the second place in our Champagne table for the first time in the annals of the trade. The brand has not only moved up in posi- tion, but the importations have in- creased in 1897, as compared with the previous year, over 123 per cent, which is a larger ratio of increase than that made by any of the other prominent brands. In addition to this, Moet & Chandon was seclected during the year as the only wine served at some of the uitra-fashionable entertainments given in this city. The fame of the wine has traveled from coast to coast, and its quality has endeared it alike to the connoisseur and occasional Bonfort's Wine FARES WIL BE DOUBLED The Old Puget Sound and | Portland Rates to Be | Restored. | With the Sailing of the Walla Walla the Rate War Comes | to an End. U. S. Marsha! Baldwin Walited in the Rain All Day for the Steamer Peru. The rate war between San Francisco | |and Puget Sound ports and San Fran- | cisco and the Columbta River is over. | Fares wili go back to the old figures | on the 20th inst., both by rail and| steamer. The first steamer to go out | under the new schedule will be the| Umatilla, leaving here on the 21st inst. for Puget Sound, while the State of California will follow her two days later on the Portland route. The Walla Walla which sails to-day is the last steamer to go out under the cut-rate rule and In consequence there was not a spare berth on her. The cut rates between here and Port- land are $5 and 3250, and those be-| tween here and the Sound are $3 and $4. Commencing with the 20th inst. the rates to Portland will be $12 and $8, | while those to Puget Sound will be $15 | and $3. This is simply a return to the rates that were in force before the rate | war began two years ago. Many of the passengers on the Walla Walla are bound for the Klondike and will con- nect with the steamer Corona at S attle for Dyea and Skaguay. It was a most disagreeable day on the water front yesterday. At the north end it blew pretty hard and the revenue cutter Hartley had to move | away from her mooring at Meiggs wharf. At 6 a. m. it was foggy and| calm at the heads; at 9 a. m. it was| foggy and blowing eight miles an hour | from the southeast; at n it was foggy and blowing ten miles an hour | from the southeast, while at 3 p. m. it was “thick” and blowing twelve mile an hour from the northeast. The sud- den change in the wind was against the anxiously expected sieamer FPeru and the watchers at Meiggs wharf were correspondingly disappointed. Among those who waited all day for the steamer were United States Marshal Barry Baldwin and two of his depu- ties, the Japanese Consul, the Hawaiian Consul and several others who had friends aboard the incoming steamer. The Hawalian Consul was there of course to meet President Dole of Ha- waii, but the Japanese Consul was there for a different purpose. He wants Nagao Kamejiro, a Japanese forger, who made his mark !n Yokohama and then escaped with over 15,000 yen. The extent of his forgeries is not known, but they are saild to be double the amount he got away with. Besides the Japanese the Marshal was also on the lookout for Dr Herbert who is wanted in New Zecaland for murder. The latter fugitive left the steamer Al- ameda at Honolulu, bu* is expected to come on here on the Peru. The British torpedo destroyer Spar- rowhawk and the cruiser Phaeton must have caught It off the Columbia River on their way to Esquimalt. They came from San Diego here flylng, but left for the Sound in the face of a pre- dicted south storm. It took then *hree days to reach Tatoosh, which is = dow wun for such fast vessels. WILL HAVE GOOD JURIES. Superior Court to Be Purged of Professional Jurymen by a New System, The various departments of the Superior Court will be nurged of “professional jurymen.” This has b-en definitely de- cided upon by the Judges on the Superior bench, and a system is nearing comple- | tion by which only men of good character and more than embryonic ideas of jus- tice will be allowed to sit on jurles, both 1ol | dental Hotel from Jackson, where he ha _for the p criminal and civil. The Great Register of last year is at present being carefully run over, and when an avallable j is_foi blue pencil mark is rumn mm; In this way the ju copy of the marked in the hands of each Ju vears it may be referr amount of lat will drawing s many v sel el w ected k out, accom the der to b questioned, and, dom challen become known : but their wa when the new list is ready men_sit in various ca ring the period of a > a number of t make th living by follow at h frequent- — e ——— MARK HOPKINS INSTITUTE. School of Design in a Prosperous Condition—New Classes Created. The School of Design of the San Fran- cisco Art Association is in a prosperous condition. At the end of the second week of the winter tern ninety- eight pupils in the day in the night classes and fifte urday classes. A night life class for women was inaugurated at the beginning of the present term. Instruction in | drawing from the nude is_imparted to the pupils. The life class for men is a separate department or c Captain Oliver Eldr has presented to the Mark Hopkins Institute of Ar valuable m: vi y 8 PASSES AWAY He Was Well Known in Busi- ness and Political Life. Had Extensive Mining Interests in Calaveras and Amador Counties. John W. Hepburn, a prominent citizen of Chicago, died at the Occidental Hotel yesterday morning at 8:35 o'clock. Mr. Hepburn had been in ill-health fer sev- eral months, and about six weeks ago his wife brought him down to the Oc large mining Dr. n Kerr has be attendance upon him, but he grew worse, and last Tuesday ning suffered a stroke of apoplexy, which ren- dered him unconscious; during the last four days his life has been maintained by oxygen introduced into his lungs by rubber tub but Saturday morning na- ture refu: be longer aided and the great struggle for life ended; he died peacefully and without pain, in the pres- ence of wife, Mary J. Hepburn, and some Chicago friends.” The remains will be embalmed By Gray, the undertaker, and will be taken back to Rockford, near Chicago, the early home of Mr. Hep- burn, for interment. John W. Hepburn for many years has been one of the best known men in Chi- cago; he was born near Toronto, Canada, forty-six years ago, but has been in ac- tive business and political life in Chicago twenty years: several years ago he was a prominent member of the Chicago Board of Trade, and iost and made many fortunes. About a year and a half ago Mr. Hep- burn came to Californfa and invested largely in the gold mines of Amador and Calaveras counties, being the sole owner of the Bell Wether mine at Jackson, which he has developed for the past yvear and in which he has invested about $10,000. ———— FOR THE TEXAS RAILROADS The Southern Pc’:’cil;ic Company Finds That Home Manufac- tures Are the Best. The Pacific Rolling Mills in Sacramento have just completed a shipment of angle bars, bolts and spikes for the Texas roads of the Southern Pacific Company and are now at work on another large order for more of the same sort of manufactures recently given them by the same com- pany. These orders are of interest inasmuch as they show that the Pacific Coast is gradually asserting itself and entering a field in which Eastern States have here- tofore refgned supreme. Formerly all materfal of this nature was contracted for and furnished by Pennsylvania firms and the order just filled is the first one of its kind on the Coast. H. J. Small, Superintendent of Motive Power for the Southern Pacific, has re- ceived ten new Pullman day coaches and perty There fore tha mence ¢ most as celved c wait the amount that next up less t on this t coal dealers were no ing the night, a of the string of carts was ers fully known the The coal > out of the hatche by dark last night the market W coast has held coal and the supplies for the past have not been as great as desired, and | then the recent cool spell gr | creased the consumption of the supply | then on hand, until now there is little coal of any kind to be had. pects for a supply for Immediate uses | are not very encouraging. The can possibly tion of the ci fully 240,000 tons. s O ey B w3 WHEN COMPLETED. to be erected at onca in Palo Alto, near the site of the 50 by 92 feet and stands on the corner of t for another story when required. 0AL FAMINE IS THREATENED There Is Now a Secarcity of Fuel in the Local Market. Every Coal-Laden Vessel Ar- riving in Port Met With a Long Line of Carts. Prospects Not Very Encours an Immediate Increase in the Supply. is a scarcity and she ing rf with L ached nearly t the v el was to d that she harging at on as the arts were ar al of the v 1i hou el would ec twelve ve was haule far as the big bunkers at t e concerned, as bare as Empire came into port. The regent bad weather of foreign and ty da han 4 from all sc 000 tons. port fc The frater- The cost will be $10,000 as it stands and will be owned by the citizens, A C of coal | market, and coal dealers are far be | in filling the orders for their morning the pire arrived in the port with a ¢ of about 600 tons arrive her | | jing fog NEW TO-DAY. e i SPECTAL SALE OF' FITIN E Giolden Gate Blanxets! On MONDAY, January 17th, and following days, we will place on sale 35 CASES BEST QUALITY WHITE and COLORED WOOL BLANKETS that we have just pur- chased from the Golden Gate Woolen Manufacturing Company this citu. These Blankets are in all the different sizes. Theu come in white from 66x80 inches to 90x80 inches. The colored are from 5% pounds to 104 pounds in weight. They are all PURE WOOL. Most of them are made from IMPORTED AUSTRALIAN WOOL, and the en- tire lot will be offered bu us fully 15 per cent less than the present cost to manufacture. Sece exhibition of above Blankets in our show windows, with sizes, weights and prices marked on each quality. TELEPHONH GRANT 124. Crnois ORPORAy, - 1892, 0 < 1, 13, 1s, 17, 19, 121 POST STREET. Coos Bay the nd ustomers. in was met at coal carts The ¢ be- arrive dur- would com- | light. Al- were re- sent to the dock to el. at the bunk- before The first it ymmence to | was discharge, and all night long the line Zrew. d aw he w befo; along the | len vessels back, | month atly in- The pros- total Eastern coal in the wurces foots The consump- and vicinity depending | r its fuel supply will he It means that a big | draft will have to be made on the out- put of Seattle, British Columbia and had now is will there be enough v engaged all emergenc WHIST TOURNAMENT ENDED Pacific Coast Association Elects The Pacific Coast Players clos ment last n nolds_an % the Mill Valley Club, % will be held by the winning club subject Bxtra pri ed to the convention adjourned to m Nearly 70,000 tons of cork are needed | for the bottled beer and aerated waters | col T J am compc in, wing offi . Tormey -0al can possibly be , but the question dis- at the m the Klondike r1 fliciently large quantities to n the market to meet ) a FOR L ADIES ONLY Offcers—Winners in the Final Events. Association of Whist »d its fourth annual ht and the whole bly ssful and naged. At the morning's ing of the convention the rs were elected: President, of San Francisco (reel D. W. Harrier of V urer, F. H | All my NEW STYLES of JACKETS, | SUITS, CAPES, SILK SKIRTS, WAISTS, FUR CAPES, COLLARETTES marked down ng s f San E r‘l!\l’l>\\ (r Ladies must remember that all my ling ’5.-:. r(v‘l.xr,\. '," orge 15, | 0ld stock was sold last year in my big N Y Payot, | sale. Nothing now but Hum- | are hold- | NEW STYLES. who were Rideout NO OTHER house in town can com- pare with the finish, quality and fit of my Garments. Bever le ge under the rules adopted by for club pairs h s Brown of the | GENUINE 6-PRICE SALE. ARMAND CAILLEAU 48 Geary St., corner Grant Ave. were award- tants, and the et next year. med annually in Great Britain. 4 twenty more are ordered from the shops of Varney & Smith of Dayton, O. They are to be fifty-four feet in length, with high back seits, and will be furnished TR B tevar e, 0 ey n through s, placing the old coaches ngv‘v in Yan Vroom Electro- Dental Parlors. The Best and Most Dif- ficult Crown and Bridge Work—Work That We Guarantee-—at Such Moderate Prices that Every One Can Have Perfect Teeth. GEQ.W. KLEISER, D.D.S. Our { Specialties 5 4 0097 MARKET STREET, 5 ..-.25e up Cleaning Testh.50¢ up Bridgework, per tooth dge Lgftor ™) Gold Crown, 22-K.... $3.50 up for extract- ing when plates ars or- dered. NEW TO-DAY. — Furniture, Carpets, Bedding! “SORRY THEY MISSED US.” CASH or LITTLE-AT-A-TIME PAYMENTS. J. NOONAN, 1017-1019-1021-1023 Mission S, 516-518-520-522 Minna St,, ABOVE SIXTH ST. TEL.—JESSIE 1695. Open evenings till 10 o'clock. Sundsys, 9 to 12. German and French spoken. Telephone, South 14, Open Eveninga. e T ¥ attendants. 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