The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 8, 1898, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1898. 11 ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS. T [FE DROVE A K I IS HEART Jackson Deering Could Not Endure His Suf- fering. A Successful Merchant Found Dead in the Rear of His Store. Left a Note Which Tragedy of All Mystery. Brief Robs the Element of Oakland Office San Franc 908 Broadway, March 7. n Fred Curtiss and D. Mardonaid went to the store of Jackson Deeriug this morning they found it locked, and ing through the glass door they the dead body of their employer on the floor in the rear with a his heart == Deerin. s the proprietor of a gents’ furnishing store on San Pablo avenue, near the City Hall. He had alw been moderately prosperous and s required the services of 1w For some months Jack- . complained of the pressure on his rain. He suffered rom se- pains in the head, but had not 1 any indication of a desire to end The following little note left :oat pocket shows plainly t knew what he was dol 1e plunged the weapon into his Sunday, March 7. am suffering with terrible brain ure, almost at times unendurable. Lord help me. 1 Last evening Deer i at Golds unusual about him, and he left hing an early hour. On his return to store he pur d one ou of udanum at Maclise’s drug He sl er and the empty vial, perly labeled, was found in his room As nearly a be ring went to his living which are in the rear of and drank the laudanum, af- ! e took a _knife about twelve inch nd plunged it into his body b an angle that insured ade reaching a vital spot. Such & d would be 1stantly when found d, on seeing ing to the store moned. D 1 dead several hours, ar sved to the Morgue. The dead s single and about 40 years of a brother living in San co and another in Fresno. He en engaged in business here for rears, and was a very steady, me B P NEED OF ANENDOWEDTHEATER 2 were thrifty Professor Lyle Declares 1t Would Elevate the Standard of the Drama. BERKELEY, March 7.—Professor Louls Du Pont Lyle of the English department a lecture this Advantages and De ndowed Theater,” declared were in the various large ties of America theaters endowed by the cence of the wealthy, such as many ities now are, there would be a he character of the univer reat improvement i ndard cl upon the stage re would b prevailing type, which consists of L se of unreal situations and alms at merely dollars and cents. ent there is no tendency of the »opular taste. Plays are to suit some particular > United States less attention to Shakespeare than in Germany, s lack of an endowed theater in y responsible for this. 1 plays are staged in Ger- > never see produced here; no pla takes unless it f the spectacular in it. r political reasons a theater en- by municipal or State funds would f the same liberality were wealthy men in the endowment y s as has been recently shown in the endowment of colleges such a theater would be a possibility. A $600,000 endow- ment would be sufficient to establish and maintain one.” e s LONG RIDE FOR A NICKEL. From Oakland to Alameda and Re- turn for One Fare. ALAMEDA, March 7.—The fact was de- veloped yesterday that by the recent changes in the electric car service be- tween this city and Oakland residents of the last named city could pay a visit to Alameda and return home for a single fare, instead of the double fare that it has hitherto cost them. Instead of run- ning cars continuously and having each one make the round trip from Oakland to Alameda, the corner of Park street and Santa Clara avenue is made the ter- minus, and cars run in both directions from there to Oakland and return, while transfers arve given at the point hamed. By this system a passenger can leave enth and Broadway and come to Ala- da by way of Webster street and ata Clara avenue, paying 5 cents. At corner of Park street he can take a hen ride back to Oakland by way of Twenty-third avenue, reach- ing “Eleventh and Washington. A great many people enjoyed the long ride for a nickel yesterday, but it is probable that the company will devise some means to prevent it in tae future. —————————— Adams Minors Demand Damages. ND, March 7.—The Southern iroad Company and the Pacific ent Company were to-day sued me s th transfer and t Impre for $20,000 damages for the death of Albert | J. H. Adams. He was crushéd on the morning of December 11 last in a collision two switch engines. The plaint- the minor brothers and sisters of eased, whom he was supporting. e Leonard, Rowland O. and Ar- Adams, aged 18, 16 and 15 years pectively they sue through their irdian, Bthel P.. Adams. These are sined by Grace H. Ellison and Adeline L. aner, the s, and their husbands. It is alleged that the engine causing the accident was handled by only one man and that he was in the employ of the Pacific Improvemen Compan, thur A. re e —— Berkeley News Notes. BERKELEY, March 7.—Professor Hil- ard of the agricultural department has ust received from Dr. L. Trabut, director of the botanical garden at Algiers, North Africa, a dozen cuttings of a new tree, tamarix. orientalis, which grows. on the deserts of North Africa. The tamarix is a valuable timber and ornamental tree and the department will experiment with it on the Mojave and Colorado deserts. The following football players met this afternoon at the gymnasium, listened to a few remarks by~ Coach ‘ochran and signed the roll for the ‘coming season: McCabe, Thane, Hopper, Wolf, Kerfoot, Morgan, Allen, Specht, Mehlman, Tarpey, Bartlett, Greisherg, Ely, Burke, JKaars- berg, Em.fi Hall, Fowers, Masters, Horn ein,” Hughes, Haskins, Cralg, Whipple, Pringie and Hooper. & ey deceased’s two married sis- | EXPERT BROWN ON THE RACK 1 | | | | | Contractors Assert His Report Is Not Cor- rect. County Bridge Matter Again ! Reopened Before the Supervisors. Johnson and Peterson Claim to Have Been Grossly Misrepre- sented. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 908 Broadway, March 7. There is much dissatisfaction among some of the firms who bid upon the plans for building the new county bridge at Webster street. The trouble is over the figuring of Expert Brown and his report is challenged by Peter- son & Johnson and by the San Francis- co Bridge Company. This morning the Supervisors met and Mr. Peterson was present and stated his grievance. The report of bert Brown recom- mended that the plans of Johnson & Peterson and those of the San Francis- co Bridge Company be sent back, as they did not fulfill the requirements. : also recommended that the plans of Cotton Brothers be accepted. Last week final action was about to be taken when Chairman Talcott succeeded in having the matter postponed till to-day. The bridge company’'s man was on hand and declined to discu: the matter, merely demanding that his check and plans be returned. Mr. Peterson, however, was not so delicate. *““We claim,” he said, “that we have been grossly misrepresented by the board and we want & hearing. We understand, as Mr. Brown told us so himself, that he had a man to figure upon the strain sheets, and we assert that we have been misrepresented those figures, Mr. Brown says there is a discrepancy between our strain heéets and our sections, and we claim that they are correct. Our engineer is as competent as Mr. Brown, and we be- | lieve that we have good grounds for complaint.” Mr. Peterson also claimed that there had been a misunderstanding which operated against his firm in regard to the piling necessary to sustain the weight of the span Supervisor Mitchell doubted one to do the figuring for him, and Su- pervisor Church said it made no differ- ence, as Mr. Brown was alone respon- sible for his figures After further discussion the matter was postponed till to-morrow. morning. The expert will then meet with the Su- | pervisors and the contractors and the plans will be carefully examined. The contract for the new bridge is a large one and there is a keen contest for it. 1 e LOST IN THE FOG. | Adventures of a Student on the Red- | wood Canyon Road. OAKLAND, March 7.—George S. Evans, the missing Berkeley student, has turned up safe and sound. He walked several miles more than he intended to when he bade his friends good-I but hé is none the worse for his experience. Evans left a house in Berkeley where he had been visiting late Saturday night to return to Oakland, and belng over- taken by the dense fog that prevailed all night he lost his way. He traveled in a wrong direction from the start, and soon discavered his mistake. Instead of ap- proaching Oakland Evans headed unwit- tingly for Fruitvale. He soon found that he was going nowhere in particular, but decided to keep on, as it was too cold to think of resting. Evans wandered about all night and got into Redwood cCanyon. He could only make slow progress, as in the darkne: and thick fog he did not know where he might land. When the fog lifted he was near Fruitvale and about seven miles from where he should have been. He ar- rived home twelve hours late. ——————— CHOPPED ON THE WRIST. Narrow Escape From a Fatality in a Quarrel Between Two Men. | ALAMEDA, March 7.—T. H. Kearney | and Andrew Bangs are nelghbors, one | living on Railroad avenue and the other | on Clement street. on a modest scale and both have been staking cows on a vacant lot at the cor- ner of Eagle avenue and Mulberry street, where there is some good grass. While the two men were putting their cows out this morning a dispute arose, winding up with more than words. Kearney had an ax in his hand with which he had been driving stakes, and when Bangs ap- proached he aimed a blow with the weapon. directly. at his head. Bangs in the nick of time threw up his left arm |'and caught the blow on the wrist. The blade of the ax g(—nflm:cd it and severed an artery, which bled profusely. Bangs at once had the wound dressed and then swore out a warrant for the arrest of his assailant. Inherited a Small Fortune. ALAMEDA, March T.—Arthur Gale, a young man of this city about 19 years old, bas just received information from To- ronto, Canada, that by the death of an uncle’in that place he has fallen heir to a modest fortune of about $35,000. Young Gule is a hard-working youth-and is at prescnt employed as a clerk in Oakland. ie lives with his parents on Broadway. | The young man takes his good fortune very coolly and says that he does not pro- | pose to “blow It in,” but will invest it so | that it will bring him an income. | A House With a Hoodoo. ALAMEDA, March 7.—There is a house being built on Webster street, near Santa Clara avenue, the men employed upon which think has a’ hoodoo. Four of these men have so far been injured while at work, and the house 1s not yet finished. | One had an arm broken in two places, | fered internal injuries besides, and othiers have had bad falls and sustained painful bruises. | Alameda News Notss. | A fire in the old Bacon House on Fourth avenue did a little damage this after- noon. It originated from the furnace. | A meeting of the People’s party will be | held this evening at Liberty Hall, 1727 | Minturn street. The City Trustees will hold their regu- lar meeting this evening. The revised license ordinance will come up for pas- sage. A‘ special service will be held at Christ Church to-morrow evening under the au- Spices of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. The St. Cecelia choir of fifty voices will supply the music. —_———————— Skaguay Weekly “Gold Fields.” OAKLAND, March 7.-With an adver- tising contract for ?5000 with the San rancisco Board of Trade .Augustus ‘fiuchmore of this city and C. C. Morrison of San Francisco wiil sail Friday on the Humboldt for Skaguay, Alaska, th a complete plant for the publication of a newspaper in that city. They expect to clear about $25,000 the first year. The now sheet will be known as_the Gold Fields, and will te a weekly. Mr. Much- more {s well known here in fraternal and in | very | much if Mr. Brown had employed any | Both are dafrymen | | one has had three ribs broken and suf- | two | [RRIGATION IS BOOMING {One Result of the Dry Season in the Salinas : Valley. Thousands of Acres of Land Will Be Made to Produce Sugar Beets. | | « An Example of Energy Unsurpassed in California,” Says Inspector Shinn of Berkeley. BERKELEY, March 7.—“This dry year has had the one good effect of | turning the attention ef agriculturists to the importance of, irrigation,” de- | clared Inspector Charles H. Shinn of the university experiment stations to- | day. Mr. Shinn has just returned | from a wvisit to the Paso Robles ex- | periment station, where the rainfall for | the season so far has been only 3.2¢ | inches, as against 15 inches for last | year. “If the season continues dry,” he said, “in order to carry orchard and | vineyard through, the trees and vines will have to be pruned very closely and the cultivation will have to be very thorough. Every bit of moisture will be needed, and 1 have instructed the men to plow the ground a little at a time, and harrow it immediately af- terward in order to keep the mols- ture. “At Kings City, where I stopped on my way back,” continued the inspector, | “I saw an example of energy in the matter of irrigation that has undoubt- edly never been surpassed even in our wonderful California. Four or five frrigating schemes had been projected on various big ranches in the Salinas Valley, but none of the schemes were intended to be put into operation until next year. passed by with but little rain, |unusually dry season, preparations were made on the Spreckels ranch to |irrigate immediately. In three weeks they will have put in place-an immense centrifugal pump that cost $15,000, to pump water from the Salinas River for the purpose of irrigating the thousands of acres of beet sugar land on, the|tuck Hall '!"xil_v‘)Vedfne%day evening ranch. The work has necessitated the | under "gv‘\*"‘»‘l‘l}“scgun‘we E:fi;:tfxd e s S S | Trades of Alameda . 2 employment of hundreds of men, a‘x‘glfifll’fl’- ¥ 3 Gaivin, Ed Rosenberg while prospects are disheartening | agricultural regions all over the State there is an unprecedented activity in and about Kings City. or four thousand dollars a week are being spent in wages and a score of | new houses are being hurriedly erected in the town. “Mr. William Winterhalter, formerly of the Agricultural Department staff here at the university, has been placed in ‘charge of the Spreckels ranch as | superintendent. With this vast irri- gating project to be rushed through, in {addition to looking after the two ranches and the dairy and stock farm, he is kept on the rush. As soon as |'the water is got on the land the plow- ing will commence. Two immense stéam have been recently purchased for the ranch. The big traction engines 'were too heavy to go over the county | bridges between Salinas and Paso. Ro- bles, so they had to be forwarded by | rail. The beet sugar industry in the Salinas Valley, as well as everywhere | else that it has been tried in Cali- | fornia, is having a wonderfully rapid | and successful development.” |~ Inspector Shinn believes that the Sa- linas Valley offers the greatest oppor- tunities for irrigation to be found in the | “The ‘Salinas River would sup- | State. ply water enough to amply irrigate the whole Salinas Valley, which is nearly 100 miles long and averages in. width from three to fifteen mi Most of the soil is admirably adapted to beet rais- ing. I have seen land in the valley cov- ered with alluvial soil sixty feet deep. All it wants is water. The supply of water is inexhaustible, and if irrigation facilities were sufficiently developed the whole valley between Bradley and Sa- linas, seventy-five' miles in extent, could be watered. The elevation at Bradley is 539 feet and at Salinas 44 feet. If the water were pumped to the higher elevations at the sides of the valley near Bradley nearly all of the valley clear down to Salinas could be used for raising beets. The possibili- ties of the Salinas Valley are simply wonderful. “Without a doubt there will be a | great development in transportation fa- cilities in that region. A narrow-gauge | road now extends from Watsonville, | where the Spreckels beet sugar factory | is situated, to Salinas. To my mind it | is only a question of time when the { road will be pushed on upthe valley so | as to take in Soledad and Kings City. | “Next Saturday a farmers’ institute will be held at Soledad, where the Sal- | vation Army settlement has been es- | tablished. Miss Mary -McLean, who |-was formerly a student in the agri- cultural department at Berkeley and | is now one of the leaders in the Salva- tion Army colony, will conduct the meeting. Professor Jaffa will go down from Berkeley and Superintendent Winterhalter of the Spreckels ranch will take an active part. Beet sugar raising and irrigation will be given par- ticular attention.” —_———— That Death Curve. OAKLAND, March 7.—Attorney G. W. Baker appeared before the City Council to-night in regard to the franchise sought by the Southern Pacific Company. so-as to. enable it to build the bridge ordered by the War Department at the foot of Harrison street. He rather surprised the Council by saying that the violent oppo- sition of Messts. Davie, Doane and Cam- eron. whicl was made o apparent two weeks ago, had beén appeased. He further stated that the block bought by the com- pany at First, Second, Harrison and Web- Ster streets would bé kept open by the company so that there would be a clear view across it. He also proceeded to show on the blackboard that such a fran- chise would not create a death trap. Mr. Rowe moved that the offer of Mr. Baker be put in the ordinance and it was sent to the committee to be so amended. Fall of a Metecrite. OAKLAND, March 7.—The discovery of what is believed to be a meteorite is re- orted by Messrs. Danlel Auseon and Fred Hoyle of Elmhurst. The find is the center of attraction at Elmhurst, where the former gentleman lives. Last Friday night, about 10 o'clock, the gentlemen named were returning to the power-house at Elmhurst from their last run as mo- torman and conductor of one of the Hay- wards electric_cars. When about half way between Baker avenue and Fiteh-- burg Motorman Augeon, who was sitting down, noticed what he supposed was a falling star. Afte# half an hour’s hunt Hoyte picked up a hard, burnt-looking ball, about the size of his fist, round as :a ball, except where a side seemed to have been broken off. Must Have Been Murder. OAKLAND, March 7.—A male infant's body was picked up in the bay off the Alameda mole yesterday by H. Anderson of 360 Second street and was turned over to the Coroner. An autopsy showed that the child had been alive, It was well business circles, being the vice-president of the Jordan Printing Company. Gressed, but there was hot the I means of identification. 2 oaenet As the winter has mostly | how- | ever, and the indications pointed to an | Probably three | LABOR FIGHT N BERKELEY Union Printers Strike Against a Change in Wages. Youthful Paper Carriers Join the Typos in the Walkout. Union Men Will Hold a Mass Meet- ing in the College Town Next Wednesday. BERKELEY, March 7.—The union printers of Berkeley are out on strike against a proposed change in their schedule of wages. Both the daily papers—the World and the Gazette—are involved, as are also the two college papers—the Californian and the Occident. Eleven of the em- ployes of the Gazette and World re- fused to go to work this morning and this evening the carriers of the World, all of them youngsters of less than 15 years, resolved to §0 out with the com- positors, and refused to deliver the | papers. The strikers were called out by Oak- |1and Typographical Union, which they | recently joined in a body. The old rate of wages before Berkeley was ‘‘union- jzed” was from $7 to $9 a week. The union rate was $15 a week. The strik- ers claim that the new scale means a reduction to $10 and $12 a week, but the proprietors of the papers claim that there “has been no materfal reduction made, that they merely propose a change from paying by piecework rates to paying by the day. The striking printers are ten in | number, three of them being women. They allege that the World and Ga- zette have combined to reduce wages, and in support of their contention state that both papers are printed from the same type, the headings only | being changed. The proprietors who | are sald to have joined the combine are S. Borkheim and Louis Borkheim of the Gazette and W. E. Sell and F. M. Marquand of the World. District Organizer J. J. Galvin of the Interna- tional Typographical Union, who tried in vain to effect a ecompromise, de- clares that the union will conduct a vigorous and gentlemanly fight to pro- tect the members. ‘A mass-meeting will be held in Shat- | | and others will make addresses. Louis Borkheim, manager of the Ga- zette, stated this evening that the | places of the strikers had been filled Without any trouble. He said: “The proposed change made very little re- duction in the wages of the men, who would have received 50 per cent more than they used to get before the town was unionized. The fact of the matter is that the men did not go out of their own accord, but were’ordered out by the Oakland men. The Berkeley men joined the union recently and are not vet entitled to vote. They were com- pelled, without having any say in the matter, to quit their jobs. “We shall %ntlaug to get out the papers as usual, We have no fear as to the outcome of the affair and the men will find that we can stand it just as long as they can.” In the meantime the men are confi- | dent of winning their fight, which the | union considers an entirely just one. —_—— % GIVEN’S MORTGAGE INVALID. | Securéd Through Fear and Compul- | sion to Protect the Prisoner. OAKLAND, March 7.—Judge Hall to- | day refused to set aside the submission of the suit to cancel a mortgage executed by Mrs. Given to secure to her husband immunity from prosecution for forging her name to a note. This is a victory for | the widow, after a long and bitterly con- | tested trial, in which numerous affidavits |'‘and depositions were introduced. The { court instructed the attorney to strike | Mrs. Given’s name from the note and can- | cel the mortgage. | ““The original note and mortgage,” the urt continued, “‘are void, as they were cured through fear and compuision. The | law does not permit one to make.traffic | of crime, and In this matter I am satis- fied Mr. Given committed forgery. It was not said in the contract, but it was an es- sential element that if Mrs. Given would | make this note and mortgage her hus- band should not be prosecuted for his crime. “The defendant Morris must therefore submit to his loss despite the fact that ha loaned his money in good faith. He, how- ever, allowed the note to run until about outlawed before he presented it to or called Mrs. Given's attention to it. No | principal or interest was ever paid. He was no worse off before he secured Mrs. Given’s security than he is now, as Mrs. Glven had nothing, o nothing is lost by the change. —————— Oakland News Notes. OAKLAND, March 7.—Dr. J. M. Shan- non, whose skull was crushed last Satu day’ evening, regained consciousness to- day, and the attending physicians now have every. hope of his speedy recovery. John M. Helnbold, the Webster-street saloon-keeper, to-day filed a suit for a di- vorce from his wife, Christina Marle Heinbold, charging her with desertion. He recently published a notice stating at he would not be resposible indebtedness incurred by T oo Tot iy . M. Stine, a Southern Pacifi employe, filed a petition of Ihaolyenar i day. His labilities are placed at $867 20, With assets of &0, which I3 claimed as ex- emp! Ex-Judge Fred Adams has fafle liabilities amounting to $26,657 79 ax?d :}:R no assets. He is a well-known veteran of theé late war, and formerly resided at San Luis Obispo, where he once owned con- siderable prop(‘,rtgA The Board of Supervifors will meet as a committee of the whole to-morrow morning at § o'clock to discuss the Web- gter-street bridge plans. WORKING FOR GOOD ROADS. What the State League Has Been Doing During the Past Year. A meeting of the directors of the Cali- fornia Goodroads League will be held this morning in the office in the Mills building. Since its organization the league has been working quietly, but nevertheless its ef- forts have been far reaching. Within the last year the league has been very busy reaching out into the country interesting some of the best citizens in the State in the work In hand and con. templated. It is the wish of the leaders to have at least one responsible man in every town who will take up the work of ‘organizing ‘minor 1eafues with the ulti- mate view of accomplishing the objects of -the league. 'A press bureau has been o adias be under the direct supervision of the league, with F. 1. Vassault as chairman, the idea being that it will prepare for ublication two articles per month and orward them to the country papers. Al- ready two articles have been published editorially by the entiré country press. ——————— | ‘In'Russia it is the custom of duelists to breakfast together before going out to fight. TRAFFIC RATES DROP AGATN The Canadian Pacific Is Cutting Fares Still Lower. Fifteen Dollars Second Class From San Francisco to St. Paul. Passenger Agent Goodman Tells W hy the Southern Pacific Does Not Fall in Line. The Canadian Pacific has made a new move in the railroad game of freezeout. It has given notice that commencing to-morrow it will make a new cut of $5 on second class rates from San Fran- cisco and Puget Sound ports to St. Paul. This brings the second class fare | from this city to St. Paul down to the | $15 limit, which is $5 under the rate now in existence on the American lines from Portland to that city. This does not mean a reduction on the first class rate from here to St. Paul, which remains $25, nor a cut on the through rates from here to New York over the Canadian Pacific, which are still $40 and $30, but it goes §5 un- der the rates on any of the northern lines from the middle northwest coun- try. Passenger Agent Goodman, speaking of the situation, said: “All this talk of the Southern Pacific acting as a bartrier to the prosperity of the business of San Francisco by not cutting things down is made by people who do not thoroughly understand the matter. We are getting our full pro- portion of the regular travel, and the | very slight increase of travelthatwould | result from a reduction of rates would | be of no material benefit to the city and would not begin to pay us for the loss we would sustain by the cut. Wewould | not only have to come down to the level of the rates on the northern | lines, but would have to cut under them $12 first class and $6 second class in order to absorb the steamer rates | from here to Seattle. “At the commencement of the rush to Alaska the steamer rates from Se- attle to Dyea were $40 first class and $25 second class, and some talk was made by the steamship companies of making an $8 and $4 rate from here to Seattle. Instead of doing that, however, they tacked on an additional $10 to both first class and second class rates from | Seattle, making them $50 and $35, and | increased the rate from San Francisco to that place to $12 and $6. Now, if| they could carry passengers at a profit at the original rate, all this additional | is a clear gain for them.” As things now stand the second rate fare to Chicago over the Canadian Pa- cific is $11 50 added to $15, or $26 50, | while the first class fare remains $36 50 | to that point and $40 to New York. The | second class rate from here to New York is still §30 on through travel. 10 PROTECT OCR ALASKA TRADE Amended Act of Congress to Take Effect This Month. Penalty Has Been Raised From Two Dollars to Twé Hundred Per Passenger. The attention of Collector Jackson has been called to an act of Congress which | will go into effect on the 17th of the pres- ent month. The act is a very important one, for it vitally affects, in the way of protection, the commerce of the United States by debarring foreign vessels from competing with American vessels in car- rying passengers and freight for the Klondike trade. The penalty, which for carrying passengers was $2 per head, has been increased to $200 per head, which cannot fail to make the statute effective. The act Is as follows: Be it enacted (etc.) that no merchandise shall | be transported by water under penalty of for- | feiture thereof from onme port of the United | States to another port of the United States, either directly or via a foreign port, or for any part of the voyage in any other vessel than a | vessel of the United States. But this section | shall not be construed to prohibit the sailing | of any forelgn vessel from one to another port | of the United States; provided, that no mer- Cchandise other than that imported in such vessel from some forelgn port which shall not have been unladen shall be carried from one port or place in the United States to another. Section 2. That section 8 of “‘An act to abol- ish certaln fees for official services to Ameri- can vessels and to amend the laws relating to shipping commissioners, seamen, owners of ves- Sels and for other purposes, approved June 19, 1886, is hereby amended to read: Sec. 8. No forelgn vessel shall transport pas- sengers between ports or places in the United States, either directly or by way of a foreign port, under a penalty of §200 for each passenger s0_transterred and landed. Sec. 3. Whenever merchandise is imported into the United States by sea for immediate exportation to a foreign port by sea, or by river, the right to ascend or descend which for the purposes of commerce ls secured by treaty to tge citizens of the United States and the subjects of a forelgn power, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to prescribe regulations for the transhipment and trans- portation of such merchandise. Sec. 4. That section 3109 of the Revised Stat- utes 1s hereby amended to read: ‘Sec. 3109, The master of any foreign vessel laden in ballast arriving, whether by sea or otherwise, in the waters of the United States from any forelgn territory adjacent to the northern, northeastern or northwestern fron- tlers of the United States, shall report at the office of any Collector or Deputy Collector of the Customs which shall be nearest to the point at which such vessel may enter such waters; and such vessel shall not transfer her cargo or passengers to another vessel or proceed farther fnland either to unlade or take In cargo without 4 spectal permit from such Collector or Deputy Collector issued under and in accordance with fuich general or speclal regulations as the Sec- retary of the Treasury may in his discretion from time to time prescribe. This section shall algo apply to trade with or through Alaska. For any violation of this section such vessel shall be selzed and forfeited. Sec. 5. This act sball take after Its passage. ———————————— MORE AFFIDAVITS. Commissioner Clunie Swears That e Is Not Actuated by Malice or Other Bad Motives. Insurance Commissioner Clunie filed in the United States Circuit Court yester- day a batch of affidavits in the insurance cases, particularly in the matter of the injunction prooceedings brought against him by the companies. In these af- fidavits Mr. Clunie denies that he has been actuated by malice in his dealings Wi the foreign insurance companies, and alleges that the Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific Coast is a body whose chief purpose is to prevent and suppress competition and to control the rates of premiums on insurance. The matter will be taken up by United gatel Circuit Judge Morrow next Mon- ay. effect one month The fac-simile signature of is on every wrapper of CASTORIA. DUGGAN POSES AS A MARTYR His Preliminary Examin- ation Will Commence This Afternoon. Mrs. Clark and Captain Engel- berg Are Unable to Fur- nish Bonds. Their Cases Were Called in Judge Conlan’s Court and Continued Till Thursday. A large number of people were at- tracted to Judge Conlan’s court yester- day in the expectation of hearing the developments in the cases of Mrs. J. A. Clark, the leader of God's Regular Army in this city, and her captain, George Engelberg, but they were dis- appointed. Mrs. Clark is accused of cruelty to Alice Loy, the seven-year-old girl who came with her from Portland, and En- gelberg is accused of beating the girl’s brother, Bennie, who is now at Youths' Directory. When the cases were called ex-Judge Lawler, who represented the defend- ants, sald they were ready to proceed and had all their witnesses present. Prosecuting Attorney Mogan, after con- sulting with Secretary Frank Kane of the Pacific Coast Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Children, said that as there was a case in another court which had a bearing upon the Clark and Engelberg cases he would suggest that they be postponed till it was disposed of. It would come up for preliminary hearing this afternoon and a continuance till Thursday might be granted. The Judge concurred and | the cases were accordingly continued till Thursday. Attorney Lawler asked that the bonds | for Mrs. Clark and Engelberg be re- duced. They were strangers in the city, and had no means of procuring bonds if they were made too heavy. The Judge said he would think over the matter, and ordered the two defendants to be| taken down stairs and locked up. The preliminary examinationof “Gen- eral” George Spurgeon Duggan, com- mander of the Jesus Christ Army, on the charge of criminal assault upon the little girl, Alice Loy, will commence be- fore Judge Low this afternoon, when interesting developments may be ex- pected. The girl will be brought from Sacramento to testify in the case, and also Dr. McGettigan. Duggan still declares his innocence, and asserts that his arrest is the result of a conspiracy at the hands of his ene- mies, among whom he numbers Mrs. Clark. The opinion is growing that Mrs. Clark knows considerably more about the girl than she has told, and| that her readiness to swear to the war- rant against Duggan was for the pur- pose of shielding some one else. Mr. and Mrs. Pray and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, who | came from Portland with Mrs. Clark and Engelberg, are expected to shed considerable light upon this point. —_———————— COUNTRY LAD BUNCOED. Fleeced of His Money Through a Tale of the Klondike. The wily confidence man with a tale of the Klondike, assisted by his sure-thing card pals, got in his work on a green lad from the country on Sunday and relfeved the youth of all the money he possessed. The police at the California street station were notified and are trying to find the crooks. A. E. Peck came in from Santa Barbara yvesterday morning and registered at the Russ House. He was soon approached by a well appearing hunchbacked ,man who engaged him in conversation and learned from him that he had $40. Thé conversa- tion was turned on- the Klondike and Pecic remarked that he would like to go if he had money enough to buy an outfit and pay his passage. The stranger told fhe boy he belonged to a company the Members of which could get passage free, and offered to introduce Peck to the president. The unsuspecting victim was steered to a house on Grant avenue, but the ‘‘president” was not at home. . A game of stud poker was “in,” however, find the boy was enticed inte it with the Tesult that he was soon ‘“‘out” his $40. The lad returned to the hotel, not realize that he had been buncoed until informed of the fact by a friend. During the evening the hunchback ap- peared at the Russ House and Peck en- aged him dn conversation while the riend went to the California street sta- tion and enlisted the services of Police- men Grunwald and Leonard to arrest the fellow, The hunchback got wind of the fact that he was wanted and left the place before the officers.arrived, and al- though he was followed by Peck he suc- ceeded in making his escape. Peck can- not locate the house in which he played the interesting game of poker, but he be- the | | Gaviota, Santa Barbara. Ventura, lieves it was on Grant avenue. He is very anxious to have the police find the place and recover his mone: —_————— New Mining Corporation. The Douglass Mining Company incor= porated yvesterday with a capital stock of $§1,000,000. The directors are F. R. Web- ster, H. R. Mann. T. C. Coogan, W. E. B. Mills and A. M. B Dr. Gibbon’s Dispensary, 625 KEARNY ST. Established in 1854 for the treatment of Private Diseases, Lost Manhood. Debility or disease wearing on bodyand mind and Skin Diseases. T'he doctor cureswhen othersfail. Try him. Charges 10W, Curesguaranteed. Callorwri J. F. «IBBON, Box 1957 n Fraocisco. e e OCEAN TRAVEL. Pacific Coast Steamship Co. L Tran at Seattle. For Alaskan ports (from Spear. street. whart), 10 a. m., March 2, 6, 10, 14, 1S, 2 30. Transferred at Portland, Or. For Victoria, Vancouver-B. C.), Port Town- send, Seattle, Tacoma, Evereit, Anacortes and New Whateom (Wash.), 10 a. m., March 2, 7, 22 17, 2%, 27, and every fifth day thereafter. connecting at Seattle with company's steam- v Tor Alaska and G. N. Ry.. at Tacoma with N. P Ry, at Vancouver with C. P. Ry. For (Humboldt Bay), 10 a. m. March 3, 9 15 21, 27, and every sixth day thereafter. F:\r Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Simeon, Cavucos, Port Harford (San Luis_Obispo). Hueneme, San Pedro (Los Angeles) and 2, %, San Pedro, East S Newport, 9. a..m., March 2, §, 10, 14, 13, 30, and every fourth day thereafter. For San Diego, stopping only at Port Hare ford (San Luls Obispo)gSanta Barbara, Pory Tos Angeles and Redondo (Los Anceles), 1} o ‘m., March 4, 8 12, 16, 20, 24, 25, and every fourth day thereafter. For Ensenada, Magdalena Bay. San Jose del Cabo, Mazatlan, Altata, La Paz, Samta Rosa- lia and Guaymas (Mex.), 10 a. 'm.. March 8, April 3, and 24 of each month thereafter. Hhe company: reserves the right to changa without previous notice steamers, sailing dates and houre of salling. TICKET OFFICE-Palace Hotel, 4 New Montgomery street. GOODALL, PERKINS & CO., Gen. Agts., 10 Market street, San Frarciscos THE 0. R. & N. CO.. DISPATCH FAST STEAMERS TO PORTIL.AND From Spear-street Whart at 10 a. m. FARE 812 First Class Including Berth 88 Second Class and Meals. SCHEDULE OF SATLINGS: State of California. Mar. 2, 10, 18, 20 Columbia... Mar. 6, 14, 22, 30 Through Tickets and Throygh Baggage to all Eastern Points. Rates and Folders Upon Ap- plication to E. C. WARD,. General Agent, 630 Market st GOODALL, PERKINS & CO., Superintendents. S. S. ZEALANDIA, for HONOLULU only, 'Saturday, March 12, at party 3 p. m. Special &@@R The S. S. MOANA salls via Honolulu and Auckland for Sydney Wednesday, March 23, it at 2 p. m. Line to COOLGARDIE, Australia, and CAPH WN, South Africa. T P SPRECKELS & BROS. CO., Agents. 114 Montgomery street. Freight Office—327 Market st., San Francisco. HAMBURG-AMERICAN Twin-Serew Express Line. | DIRECT TO PARIS, LONDON, HAMBURG. Normannia ..March 24| Columbia . May 12 A. Victoria. April 7| Normannia May 19 F. Bismarck....April 28| A. Victoria May 26 First Cabin §75 up. 24 Cabin $45 up. age $30 TWIN-SCREW PASSENGER SERVICE, NEW YORK-HAMBURG DIRECT. vania.March 26| Patria .April 23 5‘;&"(‘{{‘ .April 9| Phoenic Pretoria_. ‘April 18| Pennsylvania... First cabin, $50.up; 2d cabin, $0; steerage, $26. MBURG-AMERICAN LINE, 37 Broadway, HAMEURE HERZOG & CO., Agents, ‘. San Francisco, Cal. * 401 California st French Line to Havre. Company’s _FPier (new) 42 North fim. is line avold both transit by B¥ ciish raway and the discomfort of crossing e xandria, Egypt, via Paris, first class $160; 76, fnhacouR March 12, 10 a. m. Compagnic Generale Transatlantique. foot of Morton st. Travelers the channel in a small_boat. New York to m Aot March 19, 10 a. m. ars ap) A. FORG! No. 3, Bowling Green, New York. J. F. FUGAZI & CO., Agents, 5 Montgomery ET, Agent, an Francisco. STOCKTON STEAMERS Leave Pier No. 3, ‘\l’,-flllncton St., at 3 'm. Daily. FREIGHT RECEIVED UP TO 5:30 P. M. ‘Accommodations reserved by telephone. The only line selling through tickets and giv- ing through freight rates to all polnts on the Valley Railroad. STEAMERS T. €. WALKER. CITY MARY GARRATT, OF STOCKTON. J. D. PETERS, ‘Telephone Main $05. Cal. Nav. and Impt. Co. For San Jose, Los Gatos & Santa Cruz Steamer Alviso leaves Pler 1 daily (Sundays excepted) at 10 a. m.; Alviso daily (Saturdays excebted) at § p. m. Freight and Passengers. Fare between San Francisco and Alviso, Sc to San Jose, T5c. Clay street, Pier 1. 41 North First street, San Jose. FOR U. S. NAVY-YARD AND VALLEJO. Steamer ' Monticello” ‘Will lie up to receive new boiler and general overhauling on February 1, and resume her route on March 10. HATCH BROS. Laura. I bought m more out of curiosity than anything and was very much surprised at the results which followed their use. y first ‘sup'ply' ‘of Ripans Tabules else,, o often seen them advertised, but being a little prejudiced against patent medicines 1 thought they would do me no good. In future 1 never want to be without them. I had been troubled with indigestion and dyspepsia for along time, and although I tried many. kinds of medicine, I never found anything really to do me much good until I tried Ripans * Tabules.