The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1898. ARRIVAL OF THE OUEEN AT SEATTLE } I The Steamship Nearly Causes a Riot at Skagway. Old Trouble Over Unload- | ing by Indians Is Renewed. Soldiers on Board Disperse a Mob of Angry Long- shoremen. TERRITORY . IN = DISPUTE: sh Flag Hoisted on Debatable Ground—Restrictions and Cus- toms Duties. Special Dispatch to The Call. ATTLE, March 3.—The steamer positively that there is no epidemic whatever in the north, except an epi- demic of lying in the interest of each point of entry for the Yukon against all the rest. The average death rate for Dyea, Skaguay and Lake Bennett, he says, is no greater than in any city of | 10,000 inhabitaits, and there are fully that number in the places mentioned. The Skaguay trail is now in splendid condition, and men with horses can trail is not at all congested and men are going backward and forward with- | out any difficulty. Horses are far ahead | of dogs for hauling goods, dogs not | being able to haul as much, besides being more difficult to handle. ¢ four or five days travel was old weather, but this passed over and the men and horses got back to work. | On the Dyea trail there was a delay of | about two weeks on account of the | cold weather. The stories of men freez- ing to death on the White Pass trail, without | Mr. Hepburn says, are utterly | foundation. The only man freeze to death wa { who started out d | would hardly keep him warm in ! mer. On the Dyea trail the only vie- { women. DIRECTOR BILLINGS MAY BE RETIRED. Strong Probability the of the Courtmartial Will Be Duly Moderated. NEW YORK, March 3.—A Washington special to the Herald says: Instead of be- ing dismissed from the naval service, as recommended by the court which found him guilty of falsehood and scandalous conduct, Pay Director L. .Billings will probably be placed on the retired list. Were it not for the opposition said to have arisen from him a board would have | been ordered to examine his phy | @ition with a view to his retirement. understood, is transport goods from Skaguay to the| lakes at a cost of 4 cents a pound. The | stopped on account of the extremely| | tims of the cold have been two Xndifln‘ | | | | who did | a demented barber, | sed in clothes that | sum- | Findings | COSTA RICA PREPARING FOR A FIGHT | War With Nicaragua Now Considered Certain. Salvador and Honduras Will Not Participate in the Controversy. | | So the Forces of the Contending Nations Must Settle Their Own Difficulties. PATRIOTISM IS AROUSED. Men Who Have Been at Peace for Over Forty Years Are Anxious for the Fray. al con- | Copyrighted, 183, by James Gordon Bennett. has | PANAMA, March 3.—I am cabled on | ieen arrived in port this afternoon ,,:“.T."f.l‘,;fip552(2";“.’-11 B i and Billings | the best authority, both from Saivador rom sk According to Captain | Deeh fONRTREGee in the plan should the | and Honduras, to the effect that neither Wallace, the presence of a company | department disapprove of the findings of | government will take part in any war | Federal (ronps sas all that saved | the court. He wanis any Staln removed |y een Costa Rica and Nicaragua not | the Queen from falling into the hands | oM RS Zee0rd., J7% dge-advocate in- | coming under the treaty of the union of angry longshoremen when she | structed the court not to accept the state-| o¢ Amalpa. Nicaragua, therefore, will | led at her wharf at Skaguay last Of the pay director unless SUSh,ve to go single-handed If she goes to | y. The affair was a renewal of | ‘30 0N BU0E 00 08" (0 the secretary by | war with Costa Rica. | old trouble between the unem- | Billings' counsel, Herbert and Micou, it 1 am in receipt of further advices d at Skaguay and the Pacific| was asked that If the sccretary SROWd | ¢rom San Jose, Costa Rica, via Limon, Coast Steamship Company over the | DOt dISabDIORE T fhe case submitted to | by maifl, all indicating that war unloading of its steamers by Indians, | it again upon the evidence already taken | petween Costa Rica and Nicaragua who paid 2 cents an hour. | With reargument and Insirtc to con” lis unavoidable. Costa Rica is com- The s an entire victory | ST Hhe O Cevidence and that upon | pletely cut off from telegraphic com- for nen and the Indians | fech thal Billings be allowed to introduce | munication with the outside world, | t -t back on the boat. One | his medical record as evidence, and that | ;o ype only station working in| crowded off the gang-| D s incorporators or stock- | conjunction with the local govern- | nk and nearly drowned. | e of the American Compressed | pment lines is the Nicaraguan port of | When some one in the crowd drew | Food Company. Shs Suhc 06l B T s SRRy car a revolver 110 soldiers on board the mer left the Queen, made a charge on the longshoremen and soon cleared thy wharf. They stood guard over the ) while the unloading was in prog- to guard against a threatened at- tempt to blow up the big steamer. | The Indians unloaded the ship. The fact t the soldiers were on guard probably caused the passengers of the eamer Islander, which arrived in toria Wednesday, to give out the report that martial law had been de- clared at Skazuay. The Al-Ki had trouble of a similar nature some timme ago, in which the white longshoremen were rushed off the wharf after a hand to hand en- counter with the Indians brought up from Juneau and the crew of the steamer. A United States Deputy Marshal made the crowd disperse. When the Queen finished unloading at Juneau, the thirty-five Indians had been doing the work were taken aboard and carried to Skaguay. They do the work for 25 cents an hour, and the company refuses to pay the 50 and 75 _cents demanded by the white men. B. F. Jones of Denver was one of the Queen's passengers to-day. adds another name to the whose lives were sacrificed on the Clara Nevada. He states positively that his friend, Frank Reno of Mem- | charge of e phis, Tenn., whose occupation was that | [OF¢, the Superior Court. of a walter, started south on the Clara | Whoeat wmose toil s msol¢ C2se Of Jess| ter are of Nevada. The two men were together Three out of the five boys have served shortly before the steamer sailed. |terms in the County Jail for various Reno was a young man, who had spent | thefts, and their chance for the reform | considerable time In Seattle before | chool 18 sood JThc youmgest one, Joo T 2 2 | Stubendort, is a tough lad. He is only § g 0 He wanted to go into the | voars " of age, but has already served gold fields, but grew discouraged, ai.d 1 to return to the States. Among the crew of the Nevada was a waiter named Frank Perkins. He has been ted among the lost.” According however, he still lives, and aguay. He says that Per- to remain north, and so He had been in the f the Pacific Coast Steamship »any for a number of years past. day the Clara Nevada sailed, went up over the trail to the rning to Skaguay last Fri- y. He states that the story is untrue about the British having planted their flag on disputea territory. The report, he thinks, has been started because a Canadian official is at Summit Lake, merely warns Klondikers decid Pt ’:g‘e"’}g ;‘l}ep“g§30°2r;° Daw- | lic road near here the dead bodies of | Visloned. This ofeial informs ther | Liomas and Shepard Wood, brothers, that x]\nl b; gselesskw Prucefed far- ;Lf,l,l,dk?y?:‘xnnar:?ngwgv ffi'e’"fi“d' b ther unless their packs are of such | . e - B3 ody of one weight that when they reach Tagish | 725 2 Winchester rifle and by the other Lake they will have 1000 pounds of olver. Both men were killed by a Vi ons. y prospector is required to have amount, otherwise the Canadian ities will refuse to permit him to c« ue on his journey to the land of pébbly gold. Eugene R. Knapp of Boston alsocame down on the Queen. He expresses the Jinion that the reports first sent out out the hoisting of the British flag disputed territory were untrue, but now claims to have later informa- tion that puts a different phase on the matter. Mr. Knapp_says that one or teamsters came into Skaguay at 30 o'clock last Saturday night. The camster states that about 4 o’clock 1t afternoon he witnessedthe Canad- 1 pol plant their flag one mile the other side of the summit; also that they had moved the customs quarters cight miles nearer salt water and with- in ten miles of where the flag had been planted correspondent from Skaguay writes 1t false information is given out at Victoria and Vancouver, when it is stated that there is no duty to pay, d that the $6 inspector’s fee for ac- rompanying outfits is not exacted. erviewed Deputy Collector James E. »yd on the subject, who said: “There is absolutely no change in the instruc- t s from the department. We are collecting duties or requiring parties from Canada to give a good bond and be accompanied by an inspector at $6 per day.” - WILD RUMORS DENIED. No Epidemic of Spinal Meningitis at Skaguay. VICTORIA, B. C., March 3.—Against the alarming statements as to the pre- valence of an epidemic of cerebro spinal momr.gx,l 5 at Skaguay there are em- phatic a tions by men who have passed through that town that they heard of no such epidemic and don't be- lieve that it could be kept quiet, as s,tmeg, If it existed. So said M‘aJor Perry to the mounted police, who was a passenger by the Islander last night, and so stated John Hepburn, a well- known contractor of this city, ' who has Just returned from the summit of. the ‘White Pass trail, where he has been in ¢onnection with the tramway construc- on. Mr. Hepburn, having read the repor from the Alaska Searchlight, llz'&é and began firing at the In- | that | victims | By the medical record it is believed by naval officers that Billings' counsel re ferred to the pay director’'s mental conc tion. He is alleged to have tried t mit suicide a few days ago. sick leave in 1883 when a bill wa: ably reported by the House Naval Co mitee authorizing the President to place n the retired list. Upon his return h the bill was dropped. nim to healt. SANTA CRUZ’S GANG OF BOY BURGLARS. Five Youngsters Held to Answer for | and fr a Series of Criminal Offenses. SANTA CRUZ, March 3. young fellows who in time w criminals this morning charge of burglary. for breaking into the drug store of P. P. Perry and stealing numerous articles. In the gang were five boys—Joe Stuben- dorf, Russell Kittrell, Alvin McCarthy, Seymour Kittrell and Jess Rhod | ages respectively are 9, 10, 12, yvears. A for examination on the batch of 1 make good | try. up before Justice Gardner They were arrested | fresh troops are sent to the es—whose | Peaceful, 13 and 14 and never, as a neighbor of Nicaragua, | They told how they tried to open | seeking military glory. Now the occa- respondent at San Jose writes on Feb- ruary 28: The wires from here to San Juan, Nicaragua, are in good condi- | tion, but since February 8 the Nicar- aguan Government has refused to re- | ceive for transmission over their lines to San Juan any messages whatever, commercial, diplomatic or otherwise. | The situation is really grave, and troops are hurrying to the frontier| daily. They are armed with the latest | Mausers. The correspondent adds that there is the greatest enthusiasm here, m the gray-red veterans of | Walker's days to beardless youths of | the present they are anxious to show | patriotism by shouldering rifles and go to the front in defense of their coun- | Since 1856 Costa Ricans have not been engaged in warfare, but are aroused on each occasion, and when frontier there are all manner of demonstrations, | as if going to a picnic. A corps of 1000 volunteers left here to-day, the 28th, for Sapoa, a frontier town. Costa Ricais industrious and progressive, | the door with a button hook and key, and | sion is arising, however, and she wants not being able to make it work broke the | window and smashed the sash lock. Two of the younger ones then entered the | store and handed out the plunder to the three on the outside le about five terms in the County Jall, once for stealing a horse, and another time for The been known to break into places al innumerable articles, and it has ible to keep him' at school. norror of rested and while i sobs and cries as if his he:lgns\g‘:‘)u!llg | break. The father of the lad is anxious | to have him sent to a reform school. | TWO BROTHERS FIGHT the stealing of a horse and buggy. lad ha: ak 1nto, fmpo: J Dispute and Engage in a Fatal Battle. | CORDELE, Ga., March 3.—In the pub- Winchester rifie, however, and | thought they engaged in a Aght and thay | one was killed and the other committed [ > th i | " This theory is so conclusive tha | Coroner's Jury has returned & verdist s | cordingly. These brothers were the best | of friends and were almost constant com- | panions. They were rich and prominent | in business and soclal affairs. They | ownead properties jointly, and were com- | monly “referred "to as the “Wood brothers,” and were never known to have had a dispute among themselves. They | were last seen at Seville yesterday after- | noon. There they attended to business | matters and left for their home shortly before night. They seldom went armed and why both of them should have car. | ried a e | tery. Where the bodies were found a horse and buggy also stood. and it is be- | lieved “that the two men disputed while riding and agreed to stop and fight it | out. | s | BORROWED A HORSE AND STOLE AWAY FROM HOME. | Watsonville Boy Who Had Got Into | Mischief Is Captured at Salinas. SALINAS, March 3.—Freddie Copeland, | a 12-year-old boy, small for his age and | an orphan, was arrested in this city this | evening by Night Watchman Hansen and | Happ. Word was sent to the Sheriff yes- terday from officers in Watsonville to be on the lookout for the lad, as he had run away from that city early In the day, and they thought he was headed for Salinas. The little fellow had taken a horse that did not belong to him. When the lad was placed in custody last night he told in substance the following story. His parents_were dead, and he used to live in the San Jose Orphanage. He was taken out of the institution some time ago by a gentleman and cared for in Watsonville. "Lne gentleman sent him to school, and the boy, being exception- ally bright, progressed nicely, but would ef into mischief. Yesterday the little ellow, knowing he had done something wrong, was afraid he was going<to get Whipped, so_he went to a stable, saddled a horse and then, to avoid punishment, rode over to this city. -——— | | Nicaraguan Canal Commission. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett. PANAMA, March 3—The Newport is reported to have arrived at Colon with the Nicaraguan Canal Commission on board. The commission will visit the Panama Canal Works to-morrow. Gene- ral Belin and Chief Engineer Roper went to Colon to meet them to-day. TO THE VERY DEATH. | | Thomas and Shepard Wood Have a | rms on this occasion is yet a mys- | to show that she is ready. When the | first war clouds appeared September | |1ast by the arrest of Consul-General | Berches at Managua, Costa Rica had They were all held to answer to the |less than 2000 men under arms, while harge of burglary and are to appear be- | to-day she has Their bail was | guards and Leonidas Placas. nearly 8000 general The lat- Ecuadorian revolutionary fame and are the commanding forces on the frontier. WILETT (ONFRONTED CINAL Continued from First Page. } F som for robbery committed in San| Bernardino. He had become ac-| quainted with a man who had just re-} ceived $500 and he laid plans to rob | | him. He first went to the keeper of a | notorious house and asked the woman | who kept it to assist him. Instead the woman informed the police of Wilett's | | plot. The police notified Wilett to | leave town, but no attention was pald | to the notice and the robber decided to | do the job alone. He inveigled the man | out to the suburbs of the town on some | pretext and then waylaid him. He| | sneaked up behind the man and| | knocked him senseless with a black- | | jack and took the money away from | | him. An hour later the man recovered | and returned to the town and was met | by Wilett. The robbed man told the | story of his assault and the lass of his money and the greatest sympathizer he had was Wilett. The robbed man had not seen his assailant and the last man he could suspect was the man | who professed to be his friend. The | man deplored the loss of his coin and | cried at the prospect of having no place to eleep or money with which to pay for his meals. Wilett in his ap- parent friendship, gave the man he had robbed enough from his plunder to | pay for a week’s board and parted with the suffering fellow after an ex- change of terms of good fellowship. Soon after that Wilett was caught and sentenced to a term of ten years in Folsom for robbery committed near Los Angeles. After his release he came to San Francisco and “turned many a trick.” For a time he kept the police of Oakland busy. His most profitable job there was when he took §130 from a commission merchant at the point of a pistol. It soon became too warm for him there, and he came to San Francisco. The chief field of his operations was in the Mission. Several of his victims were held up within the shadow of the Emmanuel Methodist Church. “It was an ideal place for crime,” he said. “The horror of the silent belfry with its stories of murder lent fear to the ever ready pistol he carried, and men gave up their valuables and plead- ed for mercy with trembling lips. “One man,” he said, “had only $18 in his pockets when searched. He plead- ed with me to return it saying he was a hard working man with-a large family dependent upon him. We were close to the Church Durrant made famous in criminal history. Whether it was the thought of the poor girls who met death under ({ts spires or the man's | pleadings that softened my heart I do | spondency, brought on by ill-health an | ity against the ratification of the Hawali- not know, but I gave him back his money and told him to go_home. “The next night I stopped a dude. He wore fancy clothes and came toward me with a lady-killing spring to his walk. He nearly fell dead when I stopped him. I thought I was going to get a rich haul, but all the fellow had was a few cents. He had fancy pockets, but there was nothing in them. He was too scared to ask for the return of the money and I kept it.” Gabriel, says Wilett, told him' there was a man doing time in San Quentin for robbery who was innocent of the crime. Wilett claimed he did the job, but an innocent man was suffering for it. Wilett boasted that it was an easy job to open a safe. He asked Gabriel to advance him $35 with which to pur- chase an electric battery and piece of | carbon, and he could melt a way into any safe no matter of what materiai it constructed. . Just before he left Gabriel's employ he asked Gabriel, in case he was caught and taken to Redwood City to visit him and to bring him some poison. He said it would be an easy matter to get it to him. He explained that if the drug were put in the center of a plug of tobacco it would not be detected. “I can chew around the outside of the plug,” he said, “and the officers will never suspect that there is poison in it. When the time comes I can take the drug and it will be all over and no one will know how I got it. I ask that in case I am caught because I do not want to go back to Folsom. I would rather hang than spend another ten year term there.” SUICIDE OF A TRAVELING SALESMAN AT PORTLAND. A. Goldsmith, Employed by a San Francisco Firm, Succumbs to Despondency. POATLAND, March 3.—A. Goldsmith, traveling salesman for C. H. Meyer & | Bros. of San Francisco, committed suicide | this morning in the Hotel Esmond by | shooting himself through the head. De- d | worry, caused him to end his existence. | He arrived here only a few days ago with | samples of the firm he represented, and spoke of his troubles to his friends. He stated that he was working on commis- sion, and owing to the dull dissatisfied with his earnings, He also | expressed fear that he might lose his | position. Although he acted despond- | ently, no one thought he would kill him- self, and his rash act caused much sur- prise. L. C. Meyer, one of the members of the firm of which Golusmith was an employe, was seen last evening, and when told of Goldsmith’s suicide, said: ‘“His death is a great surprise to me, and I regret it | exceedingly. He was in our employ since December last, and gave entire satisfac- tion. His accounts with us are correct, and there is no reason why he should end his life on that score. He always complained of bad health, and that is the only way I can account for his tak- ing his own life. THE “KING OF DUDES” TO WED MISS MARLEY. Los Angeles Belle Willing to Become | the Bride of the Notorious J. | ‘Waldere Kirk. NEW YORK, March 3.—A special di: patch to the Herald from St. Louis sa J. Waldere Kirk, ‘“King of the Dudes, arrived to-day from Los Angeles and is stopping at the Planters’. Hotel With him are Mrs. Marley and daughter, of Los Angeles. It was reported to-day that Kirk and Miss Marley would be mar- ried here within g tew deys. The mother and daughter did not come through from Los Angeles with Kirk, but joined him here at the hotel immediately after their arrival. Kirk, who was at the hotel, sent up his card and he was dt once ad- mitted. The trio have been together most of the day, and for some time werc out of the hotel. Miss Marley calls him “Jim,” and they are affectionate. Miss Marley was asked about the prospective marriage with Kirk, but she laughed and said that there was nothing in it, blush- ing, however, at the same time. She is pretty and dresses stylishly. The Mar- leys are said to be among the wealthiest | families in Los Angeles. Kirk himself | has left word at the hotel desk that he not in to any and all who ask for him. A friend of his said that he and Miss Marley were to be married. —_———— AFTERMATH OF THE ZOLA TRIAL. One More Witness Has Been Chal- lenged to Fight a Duel Because of the Affair. PARIS, March 3.—Colonel Henry, one of the witnesses called in the recent trial of M. Zola to contradict minor points of tes- timony glven by Colonel Picquart, has challenged the latter to a duel. | times was | Colonel Henry iIn the course of his ex- amination lost his temper and cried: “Picquart is a liar.”” Picquart, leaping to his feet, cried to the jury: “I will tell why he brings these charges against me without proofs and denounces me as a liar. It is because he is one of the men who manufactured the Esterhazy affair as it was presented to the court-martial, And he is one of those who engineered Wwith Major Paty du Clam the previous affair, and who forbade fresh inquiry into the Dreyfus case when, in the course of my duty, by reason of new discoveries as to Esterhazy, I revealed the mistake that had been made. He and they have at- tacked my honor as a man and an offi- cer because I persisted in pursuing the in- quiry.” Colonel Henry succeeded Colonel Pic- quart recently as chief of the secret se \'iceldlvlslon of the French War Depart- ment. e, ANNEXATIONISTS ARE GROWING DESPERATE. Ready to Abandon the Treaty and Take Up the Bill or Joint Resolution. WASHINGTON, March 3.—The major- an annexation treaty in the Senate will be eight or ten according to the latest es- timate made by friends of the treaty. The present programme Is to drop the secret consideration of the treaty and take u. the joint resolution in open session an: pass that. Next Saturday the decision will be made whether it is wise to substi- tute a bill or joint resolution for the treaty and adopt the open discussion. - KILLED BY A RUNAWAY. L. F. Perkins Meets Death on an Arizona Grade. BISBEE, Ariz., March 3.—Henry Pyatt, a rancher, and his farm hand, L. F. Per- kins, were on their way to the Pyatt ranch this afternoon with a load of feed purchased here, drawn by four horses. ‘When about a mile east of town, while descending a steep grade, the horses be- came frightened at a passing train and dashed down the hill. On reaching the bottom the wagon was thrown over, and falling on Perkins killed him instantly. Pyatt was thrown some distance and landed in_a ditch of water, but escaped injury. Perkins was about 40 years old and single. He was a son of lgr. E. F. Perkins, a prominent physician of Lin- neus, Mo. ——— To Form a Grant Club. SAN DIEGO, March 3.—About thirty Republicans gathered to-night to discuss the advisability of forming a club to sup- port U. S. Grant for United States Sen- ator. Dr. Gochernaur presided and Mayor Reed and others made speeches eulogiz- | sentative White, the only colored NOTAVICTN OF POLITICIANS Other Reasons Urged for the Murder of a Negro Postmaster. Congress Will Investigate the Tragedies at Ada and Lake City. Resolutions Introduced to Provide for the Families of the Murdered oOfficials. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, March 3.—A Washing- ton special to the Herald says: Infor- mation reached Washington to-day by way of Atlanta that late Postmaster Freeman, who was recently murdered at Ada, Ga., was not a victim of po- litical prejudices, as has been asserted. The killing of Freeman is not denied, but an official investigation shows that his enemies may have been prompted to take his life for other than political reasons. I showed Postmaster General | Gary a telegram setting forth this new | phase in the case to-night. At the De- partment of Justice nothing has been | received from Federal officials in Geor- | gia who are investigating the case. | Walter Johnson, who recommexded the appointment of Freeman, is United States Marshal in Georgia. Prior to Freeman’s appointment Representative Lewis received letters from manyprom- | inent citizens of Ada, protesting against the selection of Freeman. It was as-| serted that his character was question- | able, and he was not fitted to preside over the postoffice to the satisfaction | of the best citizens. It is probable that the widow of Freeman will be ap- pointed postmistress to succeed her dead husband. That is the present in- clination of Postmaster General Gary. Both the Ada and Lake City trage- dies will be the subject of Congression- al investigation. In the House Repre- mem- ber of that body, whocomes from North Carolina, endeavored this morning to have passed a resolution providing for | the payment of $1000 to the destitute family of the late postmaster at Lake City, in South Carolina. No action was taken. In the Senate a resolution was intro- duced by Senator Mason of Illinois pro- viding for an investigation of the mur- der of Postmaster Baker at Lake City and the burning of his home. Senator Mason introduced a resolution for the relief of the widow of Baker of Lake City similar to that introduced in the | House by Representative White. Ma- son suggested that $10,000, instead of $1000, be paid to the colored woman and her surviving children. No action was taken on the resolution, it going over under the rul A DRYTOWN TRAGEDY CAUSED BY DRINK. Edward McKirtley, a Pioneer of the Place, Is Fatally Stabbed by James Currier. JACKSON, March 3.—Edward M. Kirt- ley, aged 65, a pioneer of Drytown, was instantly killed last night by James Cur- rier, aged 70. Both were living at Willow Springs, three miles from Drytown, where the tragedy occurred. It is said they had been indulging freely in wine during the day while they were branding cattle. Currier went to the Central House %o gather cattle and on returning home was upbraided by Kirtley for being so | late. Currier says that Kirtley became | so enraged that he was about to attack him as he was in the act of splitting kin- dling wood with a small butcher knife to start a fire. As Kirtley came toward him Currier made a thrust with the Kknife, | striking Kirtley in the neck and cutting his jugular. He died before a doctor reached him. Coroner Church held an inquest to-day at the scene of the killing. Currier was brought to Jackson to-night by Constable Scoble of Plymouth and lodged in jail. Deceased had been a widower for many years. His slayer is a single man. — - NEW CHARTER CLUB’S MAN FOR CITY CLERK. Indorses the Committee’s Selection of J. M. Allen—Candidates File Petitions. | SAN JOSE, March 3.—The New Charter | Club this evening indorsed the commit- tee report, naming J. M. Allen for City | Clerk in the place of G. W. Campbell, ’ resigned. [ The following candidates filed petitions | with the City Clerk to-day: A. B. Me-| Neil for Mayor; A. J. Cole, Appointing Board, and _W. G. Rogers, Councilman Fourth_Ward ADVERTISEMENTS. . A pickpocket is de: l:led, dreaded ¢+ and avoided. He =|is a sneaking, ldespicable foe '~ Who robs a man = unawares. Men hate him worse . than the more _bold highwayman whose attack is n. There are some dis- ADVERTISEMENTS. : FILLED WITH FEATURES! ehrele deife sfrede dede st doifs el i efrele o saele dede sheh e shef Jeife The Boys' Hat Department offers for to-day and to-morrow some 300 dozen Golf Caps, all new spring styles and a big lot of blues among em. Thesewill be offered to yow at 15G. The Juvenile Department of - fers as an at- traction for to- day and to-mor- row some 300 Suits, made in What dgreets your eyes now are only new things, the prettiest thinds dathered f[rom the marts, the fashionable marts of the world. . The merry race for the Spring Trade has begun. As usual, we begin it first. The: heads of our various departments have screwed their enerdies up to the highest pitch. Each one vies with the other to have his department do the leading and lardest. business. The manadement of the Big Kearny-street Store aids them. Here’s what they have prepared for yow to-day and to-morrow, but you must not expect the prices beyond the days adver- tised : WORD | MEN. | the zi,oublz - g;ia;’iidboy{s‘aie: What we have to say to our twoon, the ages|men folks is that a simple. of 6 and 15. Slance into owr Big Corner They’re good, Window will tell them what is absolutely correct for Spring wear, and there are some re- markable price revelations in that window. : In fact, we are the only ones showing wp new things for Spring and the only ones show- ing up a complete line. serviceable swits —well made and in spring color- ings. These to-day and to-morrow at $1.00. A pretty erop of nmew Spring Swits for little folks between the ades of Sand 7, with their little vest. Pret- ty colorings, choice and new. Nothing in town like ’em at dow- ble the price. To-day and to-morrow yow will find these swits on sale at $2.95. The men’s Hat Department has a big attraction A Swit Feat- wre to-day and to-morrow. On the side we show yow avery pretty Single- breasted Sack Swit. It's the now spring cut of the Sack ; a very pretty and Zdenteel darment. In brownish effects as well as in blue and black. We will star these Suits at $4.95. A star feature in Quercoats for to-day and to- morrow. The prettiest thing: for Men'’s wear | | | | | | for yow. It con- for spring is a sists of some 200 Covert Coat, in dozen Men’s those Tan fashionable Al- shades, in the pine Hats, as box length. It's shownin picture real swell; in opposite ; dowble fact, the only L7k the money stylish Top Over- wouldn’t towuch coat and the ‘om in other stores. To-day and only correct thing for men’s wear. These Tan Coverts have satin sleeve to-morrow they will be a feature in the department at 60¢. ' linirlvgs. . tDou}I:le the money wouldn’t tow 2 i 172 A WHIRL IN NEN'S NECKWEAR. |stgres.” " °7 7 27 For these to-day and to-mor- row we say ~ $7.50. A High- Class Trowser feature for gentlemen’s wear to-day and Some of the prettiest and newest things for spring wear —High-class Silks, and yow can have your pick from the Fowr-in - Hand, | £ to-morrow— |the Puff Scarf. We have taken | the Knot Scarf S0Te GGl et and the Flowing Giest W oratad | End Fouwr-in - T t}: STeei e rousers, e eases that are like pickpockets. They are sneaks. If men only knew it, these sneaking diseases are more to be dreaded than small-pox or yellow fever. The sneaking disease begins with some slight disorder of the digestion and sluggish ac- tion of the bowels. The blood becomes disordered and the bod; cient or improper nutriment. Emacia- tion follows and the sufferer is troubled debility, and very likely falls a victim to that dread destroyer, consumption. All this happens before the sufferer fairly realizes that he is in danger. These sneaking diseases that undermine a man’s constitution, and rob him of his health are conquered by Dr. Pierce’s Discovery. It ts Golden Medical pu strength into every fiber of the body and replaces the lethargy of sickness with the buoyancy of health. It is the best blood- maker and flesh-builder known to science. Mr. A. W. Caynes, of Elkhart, Elkhart Co., Indiana, writes: “I send you a testimonial in regard to Dr. Pierce’s Goldén Medical and what it did for me in acute inflammation of the liver, about six years ago, when I had an at- tack in Los Angeles, Cal., and also ome since I came here. I consider Dr. Pierce's Golden Med- jcal Discovery one of the best medicines effered to a suffering people to-day. It has only to be given a fair trial to prove itself such.” Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Ad- viser has had a larger sale than any other book of this class ever offered the public. This book of 1,008 pages with 300 illustra- tions is full, from cover to cover, of practi- cal advice on health matters. This great book, in heavy manilla covers, is now of- fered FREE to whoever will send 21 one-cent stamps to Kay for mailing only. TYf an ele- ln§ Mr. Grant. A committee was ap- P°m°d to arrange for a public meeg- ng at which the Grant Club will be formed, gant French cloth binding is desired, send To cents extra: 31 cents in all World’s Dis- pensary Mzdlusl Association, Buffalo, N. Y. v receives insuffi- | with nervous prostration, brain fag, and | colorings are all new, and they're real swell and excellently tail- ored. They're Form - Fitting Trousers, right up to date, and built for those that like stylish Trousers. Were we to say dowble the money yow wouldn’t ~ hesitate paying it but it will be a star feature in our department devoted to Single Trousers. To-day and to-morrow these at . $2.50. pretty lot of goods—cost double money elsewhere. To-day and to-morrow they will be a feature in our Men’s Furnishing De- partment at 19¢. A White Shirt feature in our Men’s Furnishing section—To- day and to-morrow we will have on sale some 250 dozen Men's Dress Shirts, correct styles in bosoms; laundered goods, re- liable goods ; double the money elsewhere wouldn’t buy a better shirt. These at %9¢. | | | 9-i1-15-15 KFARNY ST. Two Entire Buildings—8 Floors