The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1898, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1898 11 Powder— California . B I | | Marin Co gpring Val [ o o Gas & Electric— |Pac A F AlL. 2 Cert GasMght. 98% — |Pac Bor Co... %% — Casital Gas. — |Par Paint Co. €4 — S10! 7: Glant Powder Con........ Hawaitan Commercial & 1% ng Valley igorit Powder ... 350 Contra Costa Water. 100 Gtant Powder Con 15 Ha 1 a.. oma. | Dye: Tace Portiana Humboldt. . Alaska Rio |Chi Humboldt Humbidt Bay. Newport. hré | Alaska. . Exceisio Walla W Arcata Pomona. Feb 3 la AND and Geodetlc Survey. ts of High and Low . Entrance to San hed by Officlal Au- dent. waters occur at wharf) about rt Point; at both places. and the successive tides of ths + of occur 2 d t column gives the sec the day, the third time column the third tide, t or right hand column gives the except when there are but sometimes occurs. The heights additions to the soundings on the tates Coast Survey charts. except when a minus sign (—) precedes height and then the number givcn Is subtractive from the denth iven by the charts. NOTICE TO MARINERS. tates Hyvdrographle ch: 1 arts and sall- are kept on hand and the Iatest obtained regarding fgation and all matters > ocean commerce. 1l on top of the bullding on Tele- fIl is hofsted about ten minutes befors is dropped at noon. 120th merldian ".'.\I eived each day from Naval Observatory at Mare stating whether the time hall was n Eiving the error. If any, fs | e day by the afternoon pa- pers, and by the morning napers the follnwing day. Ww. S. HUGHES, Lieutenant, U. 8. N.. in charge. THE TIME BALL. Branch Hydrographic Office, U. S. N., Mer- ants’ Exchange, San Francisco, February ball on Telegraph Hill was dropped n to-day—i. e., at noon of the an, or at exactly $ p. m.. Green- HUGH S. Friday, February 11 Br stmr Wellington, Salmond, 4 days from . Miller, 30 hours from Eureka. , 67% hours from ns, s; produce, 101 hours to G 30 hours from Eureka. rson, 45 hours from Spartan, Polite, 17 days from Seattle. Haw bark Santlago, Johnson, 16 days from . Peterson, 15 days from Ev- CLEARED. Friday, February 11 Rosa, Alexander, San Diego; kins & Co. r 'State of Cailfornia, Perkins & Co. SAILOD Friday, Green, Astorfa; February 11. ~Feb 11~10 p. m.—Weather, POINT LOBO ck; wind, calm SPOKEN. ! Feb 9-Lat 37 15 N, long 74 54 W, bark St James, hence Sept 18, for New York. TIC PORTS. Arrived TFeb c 2 11—Bark DIEGO—Arrived Feb 1i—Schr Azalea, from Grays Harbor: U § stmr Monadndek. COOS BA b 11—Schr Wing and Wing, for | PORT LUDLOW--§ Feb 11—Bark r Honolulu NWOOD — Arrived Feb 11 — Stmr Feb 10, Arrived Feb 11-Ship Yosemite, | alled Feb 11—Stmr Alcatraz, for L EUR ‘_KA~Amved Feb 11—Stmr North Fork hence Feb 10. - ASTORIA—Arrived Feb 11—Stmr Oregon, fm i ROCK—Sailed Feb—Schr Relfance, for isco. TOWNSEND—Arrived Feb 11—Schr Veza, hence Feb 3. N PEDRO—Arrived Feb 11—Bktn Willle me, from Port Blakeley. 4 'Feb 10—Stmr Alice Blanchard, for ancisco; stmr Hermosa, for San Fran- EASTERN PORTS. NEW YORK—Ealled Feb 10—Ship R D Rice, for San Francisco; stmr Alilanca, for Colon. NEW YORK—Arrived Feb 11—Bark St James, hence Sept 1. FOREIGN PORTS. KAHULUI—Safled Feb 1—Haw bark Nu- uanu, for New York. MAHUKONA—Arrited Jan 29—Schr hence Jan I8. HULL—Arrived Feb 10—Br meda, hence Sept 12. - VANCOUVER—Sailed Feb 11—Br stmr War- rimoo, for Sydney. Anna, ship Andro- | it was not more than $300. (. L. FRYER IS CHAMPION Berkeley Carries Off the Debating Honors From Stanford University. Carnot Contest Decided in Fa- vor of U. C. Unani- mously. The Result Received With Wild En- thusiasm by the Blue and Gola. BERKE , Feb. 11.—For the third | successive year the University of Cali- | fornia has been victorious in the annual | debate with Stanford for the Carnot | medal. Charles E. Fryer, a junior of | Berkeley, was this evening awarded the handsome trophy offered by Baron | Pierre de Conbertin. Fryer is a son of | Professcr John Fryer, the head of the department of Oriental languages at the State University. He is the editor of the '99 Blue and Gold and a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. This is the third time that he has represented Berkeley in the Carnot contest. when the Carnot medal was first offered, it was won by Stanford. In 1896 Martin C. Fiaherty of the Uni- of California was awarded the Harry A. Overstreet won it | ck Hall, where the debate was evening, was crowded to its apacity long before the debate began. Stanford had sent a delega- tion of from 100 to 150 to the debate, and for half an hour before the dis- | cussion began the hall rang with the | yells of the two colleges. | It w utmost s shortly after 8 o'clock when | President Martin Kellogg called upon | A. Suzzallo of Stanford to open the| debate. The question was: ‘“‘Resolved. | That in the light of experience a fur- ther extension of the French colonial | tem would be impolitic.” The judges were Sheldon G. Kellogg. | Charles A. Murdock and Charles P.| Eells. | The speakers in thetr order were as follows: A. H. Suzzallo of Stanford, | affirmative; A. J. Dannebaum of Cali- fornia, negative; Charles E. Fryer of California, afirmative; A. B. Morgan tanford negative; Miss Anna sky of Stanford affirmative, and George Clark of California, negative. President Martin Kellogg of the Uni- | versity of California presided. Laurent | French Consul at San | PR SV S Parct eley also occupied chairs on the | platform. i The wildest kind of enthusiasm pre- | vailed when Charles A. Murdock, on behalf of the judges, announced that a unanimous decision had teen reached | in favor of Charles E. Fryer. One of the judges afterward stated that the judges considered the Ferkeley men the three best of the whole six speak- ers. President Kellogs formally present- ed the medal to the victor, who ac-| cepted the trophy in a graceful speech. After the audience dispersed the Berkeley students assembled and col- lege yells, mingled with cheers for the | debaters, lasted until after the visit- | ors had left on the last train for the city. A OUEER CAS | OF BURGLARY Money Alleged to Have Been Stolen From a Trunk ina | House on Green Street. “ | The Police Investigate and the Hus- band Blames the Wife and Vice Versa. | A tangled up case of burglary is bel. g investigated by Det ves T. B. Gibson | and Ellis, but they hav: bout concluded that they might as well give it up. | Louis Matti, who lives with his wife | in the rear of 632 Green street, reported | that the house had been entered by bur- | glars Thursday afternoon and $1500 stolen from a trunk that bad been forced open with a file which was found on the floor. Mrs. Matti, when seen by the detectives, | told different stories as to the amount taken from the trunk and finally said that | Matti was questioned by the detectives | at police headquarters yesterday alte noon and told a curious story. ana his wife W both cooks in the pl She is an old woman, the subject of marriage wa her he said he would ma rted him in the saloon business. She had money and she gave him $00 to | start a saloon Clay street. Then on November 22 last they were married. | Shortly afterward Mrs. Matti blamed | her husband for taking $200 out of a | satchel, where she kept her money, and | they were both arrested for disturbing Mrs. Matti had her satchel ssion of , and de- posited it in the Itallan bank. Later he placed it in the Safe Deposit Company’s vaults. | Thursday afternoon Matti asked his | wife to call at the saloon on Clay street and bring his four children by a former wife with her. She @id so, but Mattl did not show up till 7 in the evening. He | told her he had bought the Vallejo lodg. ing house on California street, and took | her and the children there. Mrs. Matti | remained till 10 o'clock, and when she | went home she found the front door open and the trunk rifled. | Matti_insinuates that his wife took the | money herself out of the tfunk, while she | hints” that he got her away from the | house till he went there and took the money. As it is supposed to be a ques- tion of husband and wife, the police will not trouble to search for the burglar. — SMOKELESS POWDER. Tests of smokeless powder of California manufacture will soon be made by officers of the ordnance corps of this department. In making the tests one of the ten-inch | breech-loading rifles planted near Fort | Point will be used. In order to ascertain | the strength and adaptability of the pow- | der, a solid projectlle will be fired through two wire-netted screens. Between the | screens on the direct line of fire a space | of 100 feet intervenes. The initial velocity | is registered by a magnet connected w][i; each screen. Several large lots of powder manufac- tured by the Santa Cruz works have been purchased by the Government, and, there- fore, it is believed that the manufactu ers have complied with all the require- ments imposed by the Ordnance Depart- ment. Colonel F. M. Coxe, U. S. A, who was recently assigned to duty in.this depart- ment as chief paymaster on the staff of General Shafter, arrived in the city yes- terday. He succeeds Colonel Aufred E. Bates. —_——————— OMAHA LIVESTOCK MARKET. OMAHA, Feb. 11-CATTLE—Receipts, 1500; steady; butchers', strong. Beef, $3 50g4 60 cows and heifers, $3 25@3 75; bulls, g‘gs 50: stockers and feeders, $3 50G4 HOGS—Receipts, 3500; strong and active steady g yesierddy's prices; heavy, 33 800 s 10 ataw s et '—Recelp.s, ; Elow; ' ‘est- bs, H 0G5, erns, §3 6@4 W; laml CHARLES E. FRYER, Berkeley’s Winning Deba‘er. MAT INVALIDATE THE TAX LEVY Supervisors Have Appar- ently Made a Blunder. No Right to Agree to Appro- priate $400,000 for a County Hospital. A Prominent Official Cites the Law to Prove His Asser- tion. LR R The startling theory has been ad- vanced by one of the most prominent of the public officials that should the Board of Supervisors attempt to carry out the spirit of a resolution passed at a recent meeting it may invalidate the next tax levy and plunge the city into financial chaos such as it has mnot known for many years. At a meeting that took place not many weeks ago a resolution was passed pledging the board to appro- priate $400,000, to be provided for in the next tax levy, for the purpose of providing a new City and County Hos- pital. This action was based on an en- KELLOGG WON'T TAKE ACYION Declines to Comply With the Request of the Students. No Change to Be Made in the Faculty Athletic Com- mittee. Suggests That Charges Be Made if Any Real Grievance Exists. BERKELEY, Feb. 11.—President Kellogg's reply to the resolutions re- cently passed by the Associated Stu- dents’ Assoclation for an addition to the faculty athletic committee was made public to-day. The president de- clines to take the action requested on the ground that the resolutions in question affect the reputation of two members of the faculty committee. His reply is as follows: Gentlemen of the Committee of the As- sociated Students I have carefully considered the resolu- tion adopted by the Associated Students at their meeting of February 4 and have arrived at the following conclusions: This resolution cannot but receive a col- oring from the previous action of the stu- dent body. resolutions was well and wisely done; and for that step the students deserve unqual- ified approval. Rut the new resolution, courteous and innocent if viewed by it- self, cannot be separated from its history. It still affects, indirectly and unpleasant- 1y, the reputation of two members of our faculty committee. If the students have any real grievance against these gentlemen, it is my duty to transmit a proper complaint to the fac- ulty. But the grievance should be defi- nitely stated. Vague and unsupported assertions are not proper ground for a complaint. So far as I can judge such as- sertions are thus far the only basis of these late proceedings. If something more definite, and properly supported by evidence, is presented to me I will lay it sefore the faculty, who can decide what action t will take in reference to their committee. I wait for such further evi- dence, and urge that it be brought for- ward or frankly abandoned. As the matter now stands the members | of the faculty attach no weight to the complaint of undue interference or divis- ive action on the part of the committee. | The committee is one of the standing committees of the Academic Council, and the members continue In service till the close of the academic year. I must add my deep regret at anything which tends, not to lessen, but to in- crease, the want of harmony in univer- sity athletics. The faculty must have representative members on its committee, to protect the university's good name. If the students will loyally unite to win lau- rels for their alma mater, I am sure the faculty will be no_hindrance. Yours very truly, MARTIN KELLOGG. Editor Hopper, in to-day’s Occident, speaking in reference to the resolu- tions with which President Kellogg has refused to comply, condemns the com- promise measure as ‘‘unsatisfactory, equivocal and hypocritical.”” He con- cludes: So the Associated Students have really introduced the principle of taking up the personal fights and squabbles of their athletic managers. An athletic manager becomes imbued with some dislike, stores up some spite against a member of the athletic committee? Crash! Bang! The .ommittee is changed! e—beg pardon, the committee is aggrandized, the disliked member's influence is adroitly nullified by the appointment of two new members, carefully chosen. At this rate we'll have a big committee by the time we win our first football game. The prevailing opinion at the uni- versity seems to be that the matter will now be dropped. President Kel- logg's communication will be presented to the students at their next meeting, but probably a special meeting will be called for the purpose, so any action on it may not take place for several weeks. LYNN’S ADMISSION. The Murderer Makes s Mistake That 3 May Prove Fatal. OAKLAND, Feb. 11.—To-night murderer Lynn made a fatal He showed a knowledge of events that transpired subsequent to shooting his wife which showed conclusively that his statements made earlier in the day were false. When he was arrested he had $19 in coin in his pocket. This evening his brother- in-law, Roth, visited him, and Ly; the jailer that he had $19 m-:i ?Ifi}:;mwtl?e‘g arrested and told him to give $ to Roth. This knowledge of the contents of his ocket shows that there is no truth in _ynn’s claim that his mind was a blank for some time before the shooting till this afternoon. —Captain Fletcher says Wife- mistake. the admisslon of such knowledge is posi- tive proof that Lynn knows alf that has transpired. —_—— Dr. Melvin Dead. OAKLAND, Feb. 1L.—After 6 years of active, honorable life, Dr. Samuel H. Mel- vin dled early this morning, while sleep- ing. For some time he has been a suf- ferer from Bright’s disease, and on moye than one occasion his death has been ex- pected. He came to Oakland in 1578 and estab- lished the pharmacy in East Oakland. He leaves a widow and five children: James B., Charles S., Willlam P., Henry The rescinding of the former | s=—=—== | abling act passed by the Legislature D. and Mrs. M. M. Dewing. The deceased | that ostensibly gave the board the right was a member of Brooklyn Lodge of | t0 adopt such a measure but now there Masons, and they will attend his funeral | appears to ‘be a_hitch. next Sunday afternoon from the Pilgrim | An act passed on February 16, 1897, Congregational Church has been brought to light and the ‘“enabling” act appears to materially KIRCHHOFF WAS RIGHT. confiict with it. ——— The act of February last specifically Case Against the Man Who Criti- | States that the Boards of Supervisors of counties, or bodies having similar cized the IE):;;:?:::; Building power, may appropriate funds for the | bullding of county hospitals and carry B. Kirchhoff, the Mission grocer who | Out the projects, but thut in any event was arrested by Special Officer Kelly for | the cost of the structure must not ex- expressing his opinfon that the new Ex- | c6ed $300,000. As this act supersedes aminer building was a “shake” and o |the enabling act the inference is drawn shame and disgrace to that part of the | that only $300,000 can be appropriated. city, was given his liberty by Judge If such is really the case the appro- Campbell yesterday afternoon. priating $400,000 for the hospital Kelly told his story and then Kirch- | Séems to be sufiiclent to invalidate hoff remarked: “I don't see why a man | 0¥ taX levy in which the appropria- should be arrested for saying that a | tiOR May be included. | bu_ilding[ l(llltfi lhl: rl;:i?(mla:r glves khx;u a| A pain. not make the remark in a ’NE TH OLD GLORY’S FOLDS. toud and boisterous manner, and could not be charged with disturbing the peace.” “You were quite right in expressing Army and Navy Cotillon. Last Meeting of the Friday Nights. your opinion,” said the Judge. ‘'The pa- per freely expresses its opinion upon men | and matters and the proprietor is not | agrested _for disturbing the peace. The | case is dismissed.” The army and navy reigned supreme at the final cotillon of the Fortnightlys Sutter street at 1 o'clock Thursday morn- | at Golden Gate Hall Thursday evering. ing. The City Recefving Hospital am-| The military took entire charge of bulance was summoned, but the man died | the affair, and, brilliant and successful —_————o———— Sudden Death of George Nemethy. Policeman A. B. Thompson found an unknown man in an unconscious condi- | tion on the corner of Grant avenue and | before rl:m'hlm; !!!m hv»ap'm!. and\}hf hgdy as the preceding events of this fashion- was taken to the Morgue. Yes % afternoon Charle .4‘ S!mlkf propr’}:tpo; a()!; able club have been, the entertainment the Hammam baths, Identified the dead A managed even to surpass the magnifi- manas oo methy, a rubber em-| cent record. The decorations of the | loyed in th residi Stock- | . the {)u(x;"plaérc‘_ 2 k s sy hall were in keeping with the spirit of the affair. The stage was banked with giant palms and cool greenery, in the | midst of which gleamed bunches of naked swords. The stars and stripes draped the balcony rail and were pinned up in graceful folds.at regular intervals with sabers, while at either side of the en- trance were stacked arms. There were 225 dancers on the floor. OWNERS OF 0L DEROSITS Oscar T. Shuck Discovers | T T The guests began to arrive shortly o ong s Lost after 9, and the cotillon was at once Heibs. inaugurated. Lieutenant Nolan and Miss Sharp led the first figure, Lieutenant Haine the second, Lieutenant Kilbourne and Miss Mary Bell Gwin the third and Lieutenant Carson and Miss Emma | Butler the fourth. % | The ladies in the flrs}iulet wf{re fi%xss sie ‘Blanding, Miss Helen Hopkins, | Oscar T Shuck, who is kmown as alo- | §iS Tana Hopkins, the Misses Borel, | cal sleuth who discovers lost heirs, has | the Misses Kate and Margaret Salis- just unearthed two mysteries that have | bury, Miss Alice Hoffman, Miss May puzzled bankers for many years. | Hoffman, Miss Therese Morgan, Miss The first case Is that involving the | Gertie Carroll, Miss Florence Josselyn, unclaimed bank accotint of John Buck- | Miss Fannie Haldwlln,Ati‘\lMStso H]&l‘en ley, who deposited money with the | Lhomas, Misg, Murie erton, ceane 3 A e | Bthel Smith,”Miss Helen Smith and | Savings and Loan Society in the spring | Afjss Clara Hamilton. | of 1874, after which he was never heard | The patronesses of the Fortnightlys, of again. So far as the bankers were MesdamesWGordonk{?'landg;lg, lAu(gine & , E. W. Hopkins, arles Jos- ble to discover he diszppeared from iolril e Dodg]::z, D e e the country as completely as if the yn, o s siyeni elptE carth had swallowed him. Year after | Jomroe Safispury: & i the season, each of year the fact has been published that dinges, CpEE which was a delightful success. They [ nearly $2000 awaited the appearance of | scored their two greatest triumphs in the rightful heir, but no clew seemed securing E. H. Sheldon and Max Mec- possible until a few weeks ago. Mr. Nt;xlttéo Jead at several of their fashion- Shuck discovered, after searching | 2Pl€ ances. ? | h Lent is still two weeks dis- through the city papers, that the last | ¢;nt. with the final Fortnightly of | Claimants Will Soon Reach This City From Foreign | Ports. heard of the man was that he was ar- | Thursday evening the soclal season rested in this city for insanity on Sep- mayrbe ;’am to be virtually closed. tember 19, 1874, by Policeman Gillespie. | The last meeting of the ¥riday He was sent to the Stockton Asylum, where he died in two months, This man’s heir is now on his way here from a foreign port,” said Attor- ney Shuck yesterday, “and there is lit- tle doubt that he will soon have the money."” The other mystery is that that has hovered for years over the unclaimed bank account of Mrs. Gumesinda Torres, who left half a thousand dol- lars with the French Savings and Loan Society in 1865. By reading the Sac- ramento papers, Attorney Shuck dis- covered that she was last heard of by reason of her attempt to get her child by habeas corpus when it was detained by one Eugene Uzeto in 1868. Follow- ing the clew thus given it has been discovered that the woman’s heir lives in Mexico. He is also on his way here to claim the estate. —_—— TUNION IRON WORKS SWINDLED. A Clever Scoundrel Receives the Salary of Two Employes From the Cashier. The Union Iron Works was mulcted out of $120 on their last pay day by a clever swindler. On each pay day the men employed in the great works stand in line and march toward the window, giving their number as they pass, and then are handed out an envelope containing their month’s Nights was held last evening at Native Sons’ Hall, L. M. Greenway leading with Miss Therese Morgan. H The hall was decorated in the usual artistic manner the attendants at the cotillon have learned to expect. Pink and green, red and white tones were artfully mingled, and the effect of the whole was brilliant in the extreme. Four figures of the cotillon were danced, and then supper was served. After supper general dancing was in | order and was continued unuil 2 a. m. The attendance was the largest that has lent its presence to the Friday nights this season, and included: Aiss Bessie Ames and Leonard Chenery, Miss C. Avers and G. Bates, Miss Muriel Atherton and G. H. Powers, Miss Bacon and E. McAfee, Mrs. Benedict and Lieu- fenant Capps, Leontine Blakeman and Lieutenant Gardiner, Miss Sophie Borel and Lieutenant Robins, Miss Bertle and Lieutenant Chadbourne, Miss Gertie Car- roll and Lieutenant Wilcox, Miss Cad- wallader and S. H. Boardman, Miss Fran- ces Curry and H. B. Beeder, Miss Sarah Collter and Harry Poett, Miss Mai Collier and P. McDonald,*Miss Della David- son and Gerald Rathbone, Miss Bernice Drown and A. B. Russell, Miss Jane Dunn and Aylett R. Cotton Jr., Miss Pauline Punne and J. M. Lewis, Miss Charlotte Ellenwood and Lawrence Van Winkle, Miss Lillie Follis and F. A. Greenwood, Miss Mary Bell Gwin and Joe Tobin, Miss Helen Hopkins and F. W. McNear, Miss Edna Hopkins and Latham McMullen, | Miss May Hoffman and Augustus Taylor, | Miss Alice Hoffman and Harry Stetson, Miss Marguerite Jolliffe and Arthur Al- wages. len, Ethel Keer.aley a,nd Chgflfis Ff‘rnald, : Florence Josselyn and Mr. Breeze, The swindler, taking advantage of tho | 38 fithing and J. D. Palmer, Mrs: darkness, cre] nto line, and. as he |y ondray and_A. Macondray, Miss Mae Eassed the window, called out the num- er of some man lower down, and the Moody and D. Watson, Miss Sallie M4y- cashier, not knowing him to be ‘otherwise d T. Berry, Miss Marie Messer R:&d }?:nr)' Dibblee, Miss Therese Mor- than what he claimed to be, handed out . _Greenway, Miss Alice the emvelope. The daring fellow. seeing | §oimir hng A. J. Dibblea, Mra. Berey that it was so easy, tried again with the | pfgore and Mr. Moore, Miss Frances same result. He then disappeared. When the men to whom the money was due called for their salary they were politely told that they had received it. The men easily proved an alibi, and the Union Iron ‘Works had to make good their loss. In future the foreman of each depart- ment will stand by and identify men un- der them, so there Will be no mistakes made. Moore and George Martin, Miss Adelaide Murphy and W. B. Sanborn, Miss Marle ©Oge and Lieutenant McCull{_ Miss Ethel Fatton and Lieutenant Wolff. Miss Ger- tle Palmer and ‘W. Crowell, Miss Isa- bel Preston and E. A. Wiltsee, Miss El- lita Redding and _Harry Pringle, Miss Mabel Swift and Percy King, Miss Ethel Smith and George . Wheaton, Miss Florence Stone and Stanley Jackson, Miss Molly Thomas and Clarence Follls, Miss Helen Thomas and W. Denman, Miss Helen Thornton and Ralph Carr, Miss Romie ‘vgallace .",','3 Ilfleflg 118‘“1{'}?' Miss len agner . " m] ¢ B oods and Burbank Somers, Miss Marie Wells and Alfred Clement, Mrs. Whittler and Walter S. Martin, Mrs. G. P. Ayers, Mrs. L. L. Baker, Mrs, 7T. Z. Blakeman, Mrs. Antoine Borel, Mrs. —_————————— Sudden Death. ALAMEDA, Feb. 11.—Mrs. Beebe died this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the home of Charles Dittmar on Park street. Death was caused from heart failure. The lady took suddenly ill vesterday afternoon. Deceased was the sister of Charles Ditt- mar's first wife. Mr. Dittmar {s away on his honeymoo= trip. Bruce, Mrs. R. T. Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. | E. R. Dimond, Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Dodge, Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Drown, Dr. and Mrs. Ellinwood, C. Froelich, Mr. and Mrs® Willlam Gwin, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Howard, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Hopkins, Mrs. Southard Hoffman, Mrs. Charles M. Keeney, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Lent, George T. Marye, Mr. and Mrs. Avery McCarthy, Mr. and Mrs, E. J. McCutch- eon, Mr. and Mrs. Seward McNear, Mrs. . L. Moody, Mrs. W. P. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. D.'T. Murphy, Samuel G. Mur- Rxh}'. George A. Newhall. J." B. Crockett, r. and Mrs. J. R. K. Nuttall, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Oxnard, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Pardee, Mrs. W. H. Patton, T. H. Pa- lache, George H. Palmer, Miss Palmer. Hon. James G. Phelan, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Pierce, Major Rathbone, Mrs. E! T. Pres- ton, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Redding, Mrs. Sydney M. Smith, Mrs. Reginald Brooke, Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas, Mrs. Crittenden' Thornton, Mrs. Tobin, Baron and Baroness von Schroeder, Mrs. George R. Wells, Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Wins- low, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Mountford Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton E. Worden, Mrs. Swift of Boston, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Girvin, Mrs. Hamilton Smith of New York, Miss ‘Congreve and Miss Canter of New York, Miss Ellis of Los Angeles, Count Ceni, R. A. Chadwick of England, Harry Holbrook, E. H. Shel- don, R. G. Hooker, A. D. Keyes, Mrs. Charles M. Keeney. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Cole, Mr. and Mrs. Pickering, A. S. Mac- donald, Lieutenant Noble, J. O'Sulllvan, F. Reis, Clement Tobin, W. H. Taylor, Mrs. W. 8. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Wood, Nat T. Wilson, Mrs. G. P. Ayers, H. B. Houghton, E. N. Bee, F. L. Owen, Miss Nellie Chabot, W. Northrope Cowles, Mrs. John E. de Reyter, G. B. de la Tour, F. J. Grace, R. M. Eyer, James Follis, Jerome Hart and G. E. P. Hall. JACOB C, JOHNSON'S WILL. An Estate Valued at Over Half a Million Dollars Bequeathed Rel- atives of the Testator. The last will of Jacob C. Johnson, a harness dealer, who came to this coast in early days, was filed for probate yes- terday. By the terms of the will an es- tate valued at between $500,000 and $1,000,000 was bequeathed relatives of the testator. The specific bequests are as follows: Eliza Jehnson of Newark, N. J., a widow of the testator’s brother, $2000; Sarah Johnson of New York, $2000; Maria Phillips, his sister-in-law, of New- ark, N. J., $2000; Maria Kip Orphanage, $3000; Betsy Valentine, his mother-in-law, $100,000 (this bequest fails owing to the death of the legatee); Mary Marthia of Bellville, N. J., a sister of decedent, $100,000; his sister, Anna Johnson, of this city, $100,000. The residue of the estate is bequeathed in equal shares to the nephews and nleces of the testator— Charles_and George Johnson of Newark, N. J.; Emilie Horton, Edward Horton, Harry Coursen, Mortimore Johnson and George Johnson of Pittsburg, Pa.; Ina Burnett of New York, Edmund Marthia of Newark, and Fannie Johnson, Euphe- mia Johnson, Frederick Johnson, Minnie Horton and Mattie Horton, who are resi- dents of this city PROSECUTION SCORES A POINT Embezzlement Evidence Vir- tually Admitted in the Figel Case. However, Judge Cook Allows the Defense to Make Any Objections Thought Necessary. At 10 o'clock yesterday morning the Judge, jury and counsel in the Figel case visited the store of Hoffman, Rothchild & Co., where the shooting occurred on the evening of June 1. The trip was made for the purpose of viewing the alleged bullet hole in the wall in the office which ad- joined the telephone room. The previous day Officer Russeil was to have testified | as to the hole in the wall, but it was de- cided to first allow the jury to view the | premises. After arriving at the store the party viewed the hole in the wall and then returned to the courtroom. It had been agreed that the jury and witnesses should be excused until Monday morning at 10 o'clock. After a short re- | cess the argument concerning the admis- sion of evidence in the embezzlement cases was resumed by Judge Murphy. The argument was based on decisions rendered in cases similar to the one now at bar, but the defense contended that the cases referred to brought out the vital point that evidence concerning em- bezzlements, forgery or robbery was ad- mitted in murder cases only where it had Deen shown that the deceased had inti- mated that he was aware of either one or the other felonious acts of the ac- cused. It was further argued that the evi- dence in the embezzlement cases could not be admitted to prove a motive for the destruction of Isaac Hoffman, as that destruction did not tend to destroy the evidénce of the crime now charged against the defendant. “One cannot give evidence,” said Gen- eral Barnes, ‘‘of an alleged motive where no corpus delicti is proved and where no eviderce is given to show that the de- fendant committed a crime, and it is not competent evidence, as no benefit could accrue to the accused of the alleged murder.” After mentioning some facts and inci- dents of the case Judge Cook in conclu- slon sajd: “In this case evidence has been given tending to show a homicide. It has been suggested that it might have been a suicide, but were a special verdict to be called for and should such verdict find a homicide to have been committed by some one it could not be set aside, as there is evidence to support it. So far the evi- dence shows that it may have been a homicide and it may have been a suicide. The finding of the jury only can deter- mine this fact. The weight of that evi- dence is for the jury to determine. Then in determining who committed the homi- cide the relations of the parties would be clearly relevant. If the prosecution can prove, as they claim they can, that the defendant was a defaulter to the firm of the deceased and to cover up his defalca- tions and embezzlements had forged a gflper which purported to evidence that | e had paid the amount of such defalca- | tion to the deceased, there would be the | strongest motive possible for so sealing the lips of the deceased that he could not dispute the signature to the paper or deny the receipt of the mon, tive, taken in connection with the ability of the defendant to have committed the crime and the recent ownership by him of the weapon with which the crime was committed if proved would tend strongly to prove his guilt.” Many cases were re- ferred to by the judge while giving the decision on the important issue of the day’s session. —_— e SCORES EDITOR OVERSTREET. The TUniversity Magazine Charged ‘With a Breach of Faith. BERKELEY, Feb. 11L.—Editor H. A. Overstreet of the University Magazine has called upon himself the wrath of an un- dergraduate at Berkeley - by the an- nouncement in the February number of | the magazine that “none of the stories submitted in the freshman contest were of. sufficient mer. to warrant puplica- tion.” A P The contest referred to was announced last October, when stories from 1000 to 2000 words were solicited from freshmen. “The two stories which a board of judges shall decide to be the best,” the announce- ment read, “will be published in the mag- azine as a special feature of the Febru- ary number.” -Alexander Gordénker, a fréshman, in a communication in fo-day's Occident, characterizes the action of the magazine as an ‘“‘unwarrantable breach of faith, a fact that must ever remain a dark stain on the name of college jour- nalism.” —_—a— Assemblyman Austin Dead. STOCKTON, Feb. 12.—Charles Austin, Assemblyman from this county, died at his home in Farmington at an early hour this morning after an illness of sev- eral weeks duration of pneumonia. Most Complexion Powders have a vulgar glare, but Pozzox1's is a true beautifier, whose effects arc lasting. - ‘fhat mo- | AUCTION SALES Last Day —or— BASIL H. PAUL’S BONA-FIDE | AUCTION GENUINE o R1JGS TO-DAY SATURDAY =~ FEBRUARY 12, At 2and 8 p. m., at 116 SUTTER STREET, Between Kearny and Montgomery. TO-DAY ALL THE LARGE BOUK=- HARA, IRAN, SHIRAZ RUGS AND CARPETS WILL BESOLD OUT FOR ANYTHING. [ This sale is worth your while to attend. FRANK BUTTERFIELD, Auctioneer. ARE NOT GOING 10 KLONDIKE Instead a New York Company Proposes to Prospect in California. | The Secretary of the State Board o Trade Receives an Important Letter. . | J. A. Filcher, the secretary of the | State Board of Trade of California, has | received a letter that has brought joy to his heart. 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We will be able to do all that we under- take so far as the money is necessary, and we will use local labor.” From the general tone of the letter Sec- retary Filcher thinks the combine be- ieves it will be more profitable to come | to California than to go to the Klon- | dike. Dr.Gibbon’s Dispensary, ed 625 KEARNY ST. Establ | in 1854 for the treatment of Privats | Diseuses, Lost Manhood. Debility or disease vearing on bodyand mind and Skin Diseases. The doctorcureswhen othersfall. Try him. Charges low. Cureaguaranteed. Callorwrite, +IBEBON, Box 1957, San Francisco. o Dr. J. | OCEAN TRAVEL. PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP CO. Steamers leave Broadway whart, San Francisco, as follows: ‘% For ports in Alaska, 10 a. m., Feb. 5, 10, 20, 25, and every fifth day thereafter. For Victoria, Vancouver (B. C.. Port Town- | eend, Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Anacortes and J 10 | Naw' Whatcom (Bellingham Bay, | a. m., Feb. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and e thereafter, connecting pany's steamers for Alaska and G. N. 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