The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1898, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1898. SUSPICIOUS MANEUVERS IN STR ,A'»Bald Effort to Pay Favorite .. -Contractors for Repairs. Down for Not Be Track: “Thete is a carrion smell in the atmos- w proposals for street improve- given out by the s, are tainted v repairs, stration, but just offen: than ve been making a quiet but vestigation to locate the a has some startling in- | nt Bc teh repaving rd of Supervisors sals from repairing » accepted cla of unaccepted en attempt within a c, and in view of | state- matter | nterest to tax- | reet apparently revenue to certain seem matter with to n with new bitumen, to lay, the prices were paid at itter of record. One vas exposed by a con- years ago, when the a Grand Jury and com- s were pressing > payments. Then jured virtue from and the crooked T oing on sinc crintendent of Streets Ash- r puted to be a friend of the official. eels then cost for a while about a year and were kept in falr con- Superintendent of Streets Am- work cost the city $13,147 by an averaging up il at the time pub- he Work W not let aperintendent Am- in a way re- i tha Street dep- e City Street Im- the work at 12 ot Call's exposure discontinuance of ime being, and the Super- was instructed to F ) the work himself, | that more politicians were | A tion of the re o et g the month o dent paid al items the fol- ..$970 58 to show the quan- | n inquiry was at the fig- Ip street-repair 1t had been t turned in Perhaps he d not. @ basis of com- ) proceed. Bitumen lay inches | 18 spent | antity t : total month— Teet— n of this ex- only po- 3ible explan: employme atio to do it at much less than 24 cents are foot. Why should it cost the ? If the claim be advanced that 1 torn up from the street: erial uc old ma forblds refore, claim_that it performed more . répair work {n June than Is indigated by the purchases of material. A number of comparatively idle men, politiclans on the “pay roll, will be a better explanation. The city having shown its own Incom- through the Supervisors, to repairing for anything like a nable figure, possibly not an unex- d thing among the officials con- the Street Committee now finds it v outsiders. This old plan has the charms held out by the pros- profitable “divvy.’ E interesting specifica- 1s were published by the Su- ommittee early in June, calling repair work and expressly the bituminized streets a be kept in proper repair contractor to the complete satis- of the committee, string_ which the committee pro- 1 to tie to the successful bidder was ly apparent to the initiated. In real- uired from the con- bond was of a most cter, the committee re- 1t to make him do_either amount of work for the s he was disposed to money there was noth- the committee from mak- e his contract unprofitable by ordering him to do two or three times as much tepairing as would he considered suffi- clent if he The beauty of these pecifications be seen at a glance. ‘A plain warning was conveyed to contrac- tors to “keep off”” unless they expected to » of protection. Five bidders d, an outsider, J. 'H. Bing- : 3 ar the lowest which was £20,00 west in his offer, * The Street Committee did not know Bingham very well. There was a lon nd anxious deliberation over the award. Fis bond was good and no technicalities could be found at first glance. The bid- -der was summoned before the commit- ““tée., He was asked if he understood all ~the possibilities of the contract. Bing- . ham bluntly sald that if the committee or fts expert on streets attempted to force ~“him to do unnecessary repairing or lay - ‘new paving where it was not needed he ‘. would go into the courts. “This programme evidently did not suft ‘the committee, for it was soon afterward ilscovered a flaw or technmicality in the specifications and the work would be re- advertised. - The result of all this scheming reached _‘a_olimax in new sepecifications on July 28 1898, in_which it was stated that nine- feen blocks and fifteen crossings were deemed to be bevond remair and bidders *.were asked to state a specific sum for the repaving and also for the repairs and maintenance of all accepted bituminized '6west Responsible Bidder Gently Turned d on the city was | bitumen | uare foot, | got it—and | nebody else. While to demonstrate that various | work was let out to a | the | ment made by | e the | : i pany effectual objec- | P y h | meént Company’s bid of $37,797, which large specifications for contract The department cannot, | t to suggest bids for the repair | " announced that the bidder Bingham had | EET WORK Three Prices ing on the Inside | streets for a period of two years. The same clause existed in these speclfica- tions as in the former ones, making the committee the judge of the amount of work to be performed by the contractor repairing and maintaining streets for fixed sum of money. The bidder was compelled to be J\e owner of a plant als at the time of presenting his bid. More- over, he was to do all of the repaving within ninety days to the full satisfaction of the committee, Superintendent Am- brose and Expert Sullivan. the latter belonged the credit of having discovered that the blocks and | crossings already designated should be repaved, the work covering altogether 294,000 square feet. Following in the footsteps of Mr. Sulli- van, so to speak, The Call has had an experienced man carefully go over the | ground and make an estimate of the ac- tdal repaving needed. It was discovered that there were very few blocks, or cross- ings, where it was necessary to remove | all material. Some of the paving was bad. | | Other portions were cracked somewhat, | but by no meang so badly as to need re- the cracks not extending through Large sections in other | any flaws, be- moy | to the rock base. locallties exhibited scarcely lng good for years of service. | Supervisors Smith and Lackman, who | also looked into the matter, took a similar | view. When the bids were opened it was found that the City Street Improvement Com- pany had bid $377 for the work com- | plete and that J. H. Bingham had bid $23,- 000 for the repairing and 9% cents per square foot for the repaving necessary, with a guarantee of five years on all re- paving. Supervisors Smith and Lackman claimed that Bingham's bid was the lowest, as he offered to do all of the repair work for $23,000 and the city need not do much | repaving under his 1% cent proposition, as the streets did not need it. Of course, if | the whole of the streets mentioned in the | | specifications were relaid, then Bing- | ham's bid would rise to the high figure of ),930. Supervisor Britt contended vallantly for the City Street Improvement Company, | favoring their bid. The matter is still | hanging fire, but will come before the | Board of Supervisors next Monday after- noon. It has been suggested that one reason the street committee is so anxlous to| | have a large number of streets re- | Iaid at this time is-to remove the evi- dences of former bad contract work, | The shiftless manner in which some of | the streets were put down has operated against the use of bitumen in other cities | which had sent Inspection committees here to see how the pavements looked. In this way the people working the bitu- s0_were the men industry were hurt, railroads that made money by haulin it What is more natural than thal interested parties should have used their eloquence on the committee, or the street expert, to have these unsightly evidences of failure removed? The following table will show the quan- | tity of work actually necessary to be done | on streets, which have been scheduled for | complete or partial repaving: Ellis street, Fillmore to Steiner, repairs nec- | 50 square feet. | California to Sacramento, 125 Sacramento to Clay, 165 square | square feet. Franklin, feet. Franklin and Clay_crossing, 50 square feet. Franklin, Clay to Washington, 175 square feet. Franklin and Washington crossing, none. Franklin, Washington to Jackson, 125 square | feet. Washington and Gough crossing, 16 square feet. Fuiton, Devisadero to sroderick, 1000 square eet. Fulton, Broderick to Baker, 1000 square feet. Scott, Onk to Page, 2500 square feet. Scott’ and Page crossing, 500 square feet Scott, Page to Haight, 500 square feet. Haight, Scott to Plerce, 100 square feet. Haight, Plerce to Steiner, 150 square feet. Halght and Steiner crossing, in good condi- tion. Stetner, Hayes to Fell, poor material, but| unbroken. California and Sansome crossing, repairs nec- essary, 2600 square feet. . California and Battery crossing repalrs nec- essary, 2600 square feet. | California_and Front crossing, basalt blocks | in good condition. Golden Gate avenue, from Franklin to La- guna and Golden Gate avenue from Secott to Devisadero need 40,000 square feet of repaving. | Bartlett, Twenty-fourth to Twenty-sixth, | 31,968 square feet of repaving. Capp and Twenty-fourth, street crossing, 3840 square feet of repaving. Third, Mission to Howard, 9000 square feet } of repairs. | Grand total: Repalrs, 962,264 square fect. At the price which the representa- tive of the City Street Improvement Com-~ said before the committee was the of thelr bld—7 cents per foot—the of repaving necessary ought to cost 8, as against $20,580 for the 294,000 , in the’ specifications. work the average cost of gll repairs, at price of 12 cents per square foot, has been $8352 per year for all bituminized work. Yet the street committee recommends the eptance of the City Street Improve- amount of money will do nothing toward repaving the worst blocks in the city which have b accepted and yet re- main as an eyesore andpa disgrace. Supervisor Sheehan made the statement | at the meeting of the street committee that Mr. King, superintendent of the Merchants' Association, had recommend- ed the repaving of all the streets men- | tloned In the specifications. Mr. King | informs The Call that neither he, nor the Merchants’ Assoclation have taken any | action in the matter. They are interested just now in securing the removal of the | unsightly cobble stones. It seems hardly possible, in view of the light now thrown upon the matter, that the Supervisors will find it neces- sary “‘for the city's interests” to make an ulvgaéd until better stipulations are pro- | vided. NOTABLE EXCURSION To Monterey Sunday, September 4. Round Trip Tickets. Only $2. The passenger department of the Southern Pacific Company have Jjust | issued a preliminary announcement to the effect that on Sunday, September 4, they will run two or more splendid trains of first-class coaches to historic Monterey, and as in former years will sell round trip tickets at the extremely low rate of $2. These annual exoursions to Monterey have proved the most popular of any sent out by the Southern Pacific, and | judging from the numerous inquiries that are being made at the ticket of- fices in regard to this excursion the patronage will be larger than ever. In taking this delightful trip the ex- cursionist has an opportunity to visit a chain of interesting resort places, namely, Hotel del Monte, the historic town of Monterey and that great fam- ily resort place, Pacific Grove, where the beautiful pine forests extend to the edge of the bay shore. In due time a variety of advertising matter will be distributed to the pub- 1ic, glving full details and information regarding this outing. On this occasion the citizens of Mon-~ terey have arranged for a very attrac- tive programme of old-time Spanish sports, such as the lassoing of a steer, horse racing, dexterous riding, etc. ‘As in former instances, this excur- sion will be under the personal super- vision of Colonel Willlam H. Menton, excursion passenger agent of the South- ern Pacific Company. much is Directum Kelly, bi’ Direct, 2:05%. He won the very rich M. & M. stake | at Detroit *and again won at Cleve- land for his owner, John Kelly, who also drove for Monroe Salisbury and made a good name for himself. The best | resigned the position, and been succeeded | from Montana to relieve Kenne; GREAT ARE OUR HORSES Success in Many States of California Flyers. LOTTERY OF HORSE BUYING RECORDS GOLDEN STATE CAN BE PROUD OF. Phenomenal Track Performances of the Keating, McDowell and Kelly Horses This Season. The California horsemen that sent strings of trotters and pacers to Denver and thence East are covering themselves with glory and fllling their pockets with coin, incidentally. Searchlight, in Tommy Keating’s hands, has won from the fast- est pacers in the land, is considered in- vincible, and at Cleveland went three heats easily in 2:05%, 2:05% and 2:06%, with Chehalls of Oregon in the place. Pre- vious to this the son of Dark Night had established a four-year-old record of 2:04%. Anaconda, in the same string, also paced in 2:04%. He is by Knight, 2:22, from an Algona mare. In Admiral Keat- ing’s stable is the great Eros mare Dione, who trotted in 2:09. She belongs to A. B. Spreckels, who bred her. Of Dione the Buffalo World says: ‘“Dione, 2:09%, by Eros, is about the best race mare ever brought East from California, with the possible exception of Hulda, 2:08%.” As A. B. Spreckels also bred and owned Hulda, who was a half-sister to Dione, there must be some gratification feit by that gentleman in the fact that he reared and sent on the grand circuit the two best trotting mares that ever left Cali- fornia. Tom Keating nas been very sick most of the time since he left the Golden State, but McHenry has peen handling the reins very skillfully for the Califor- nia horseman. who made a driving Andy McDowell reputation at the East Several years ago, when with Monroe Salisbury, has been having things come his way with the pacing colt Klatawah, a brother to Charles Derby, 2:20. Klati#fwah has made a record of 5%4—one not like- ly to be beaten in a very short time. is odd that Klatawah shouid be a brother to Charles Derby, sire of Diablo, who made a pacing record of 2:09% when he was a four-year-old—then the best on record. McDowell _also distinguished himself by driving Lena N, the Sidney mare, a mile in a race in the race record for pacing mares. Another Cali- fornia bred animal that has accomplished three-year-old mark made by a three-yea-oid trotting fllly this season in a ras was_that of Ellen Madison, 2:19%, by James Madison, 2:17%; the fastes' b[)' a four-year-old trot- ting filly by Miss Beatrice, 2:13%, by Di- rect, 2:08%; the fastest record by a three- | year-old pacer that of Klatawah, spoken of above; fastest by an aged pacing geld- ing by Anaconda, 2:04%. The fastest of the new pacing performers (stallions) is Donnough, 2:12%, by Norval (son of Elec- tioneer), and the fastest ‘new’ 2:10 per- former is Miss Logan, 2:08%, by General Logan, dam by Firetail, son of Norfolk. General Lo%)nn is by Alex Button, who was_owned the late George Woodard of Yolo County, this State. Verlly Cali- fornia horses are great in many Spheres and wherever you find them. Norvin G, a bay gelding, by Norval, re- cently paced the last three heats of a six- heat race Bll Portland, Me., in 2:13%, 2:11% and 3 i on, 2:07% (sold for $125,- Rico, by A*rkl 090), has made a trotting record of 2:12%. He 1s one of the most sensational of the four-year-olds. Ben Kenney, for years the trainer of Marcus Daly’s trotters and pacers, has by Joe Rea. The latter has gone East Torsida’s recent win of the $.¥000 Daly | stake at Anaconda with Los Prietos in the place, speaks mighty well of Call- fornia-bred horses, for in that race was entered the pick of Marcus Daly’s big stable, as well as that of others of no lit- tle importance. Californiasent to Montana this season the best sprinter competing there in Miss Rowena, the record-break- er; Lucky Star, Flashlight (who has run miles in 1:40 oftener than almost any man’s horse), Dolore (who established a new mile and a sixteenth record), Val- encienne (who ran six furlongs in 1:13%), Peixotto (who went the route at Butte in 1:13%) and many others fast enough to win anywhere \lg to seven furlongs. Torsida has always been a good fllly, but her star was a trifle dimmed by the run- ning of the phenomenal Briar Sweet at the local tracks last winter and spring. However, ‘Daggle’” Smith’'s filly was good enough to win from Martha, a three-year-old miss that finished first yes- terday at Saratoga at a mile and a fur- long in 1:54%. In fact, Martha is at present considered almost unbeatable at the far Bast at any distance from six furlongs to a mile and a quarter. Oraibee, the chestnut two-year-old geld- ing which won at St. Louis yesterday for Dan Honig, has @ rather odd history. He was ralsed by L. J. Rose, who owned his sire, Orizaba, and his dam, Blondi- nette, by Joe Hooker. One day Mr. Rose took & notion to sell off all his wean- lings, and six by the then untrled sires Nomad and Qrizaba were disposed of for a sum not far from $200, Charley Kerr of Bakersfleld being buyer after Ber: Ben- jamin of the Chronicle had concluded he dldn’t want them. Now in this lot of six that went begging for a time at $200 was Oraibee, yesterday's winner, sold for 3130 as a yearling; Ranier, a stake-win- ner at Gafiana last spring, and sold for when a yearling, and last but not Jeast Toluca, which ~brought $500 as a cearling and now could not be purchased 32557000, Toluca is justly considered the best two-year-old filly in_the United States, and her wins over W. Overton, Formero, Kentucky Colonel and other P Ckerjncks show that the estimate Dlaced upon her worth is mot too high. ‘All this goes to demonstrate what a lot- fory the purchase of young horseflesh fs— the best filly in the country, a stake-win- ning colt and & race-winni: elding out o¢ & bunch of six sold for 5001 ° And there may be others in that lot which aver- Mo '$318 to make a mark In 28 racing line. Toluca’s sire, Nomad, sould have been bought for $300 any day in 1897, good horse as he once was, but now we suppose his owner would turn up his nose at $2000 were it to be offered m'n'\u mstats Falr meetin o tember 5 and thouch tufly 150 of our horses are racing In Montana, over a hundred will have returned to ‘the Gold- B State by the time the bell rings for the first race on the opening day. This Week’s Wasp. Aguinaldo's Future and the Empty Cuspidor ave the subjects of the two chief cartoons in the Wasp this week, the carlcaturist's art be- ing also brought into requisition in portraying the chief happenings in the municipality. There are some half-tone reproductions of the Purlingame Club's Coaching Parade, which took place last Sunday, showing the turn-outs of Messrs. Newhall, Hobart, Parrott, Caro- fan and others, as well as some excellént por- traits of prominent members of the Improved Order of Red Men, and of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Tauer (nee Friedlander), besides other ceptable illustrations. Bright, snappy edito- rials deal with local politics and other mat- ers, while ex-Senator Mulrooney gives In his own inimitable style his outspoken opinion of fhe reason for the backwardness of Democratic yotera:in<reglitering 1his ysar_and Long Green's utter fallure to help the Mayor's par- ""“The local bourse receives due attention and the musical and theatrical criticisms are bright and interesting, e e e e Suicide of Petaluma Oapitalist. PETALUMA, Aug. 12.—Joseph Soldate, a capitalist and one of the best known residents of this cit; jumtped into the river and drowned himself while tem- porarily insane last night. His body was recovered this morning. ~The deceased was a natlve of Bwitzerland. He had been drinking heavily of late. begins Sep- RETREATED BEHIND A HIGH FENCE Cowardice of Burke’s Companions. RAN FROM THE SCENE FURTHER INVESTIGATION INTO THE MISSION TRAGEDY. Evidence to Show That the Men De- serted the Brave Lieutenant After He Was Shot Down. The trial of Policemen Kennedy, Mar- lowe, Wilkinson and Merchant, the “brave” officers who so cowardly desert- ed Licutenant Burke when he was shot by Theodore Park Haynes, the eccentric tinker, was resumed before the Police Commissioners last night. Thomas Dudy testified that after Burke was shot he saw the accused officers run to a place of safety. They then emptied their revolvers at Haynes, but they were so excited they falled to bring him down. Marlowe; after exhausting his ammuni- tion, sent a boy named Conroy to get him | an additional supply. Emile Ott, a young man, deposed that Burke he s Iieutenant approach Haynes' cabin. He drove up in the p trol wagon. Burke was accompanied by three other officers, whose names the wit- ness did not know. When Burke was shot the policemen who accompanied him ran away. Officer Merchant, who was about twenty-five feet away from the cabin, drew his re- volver and valnly tried to shoot Haynes. The witness identified Marlowe as being the man who took refuge behind a fence. In answer to the guestions of Attorney Dunne, Ott said that he assisted Cashel, | the patrol wagon drivei Burke’s body from Hay was positive that the officials ran in different _directions immediately after Burke had_been shot down. The witness declared that Marlowe was So that he Kicked a hole in a fence crawled through the aperture. position he emptied Haynes. Sam Waters, the next witness, sald he had warned Burke to be cautlous, as he in dragging es’ cabin. He and feared that Haynes would shoot him. | one of th The lieutenant replied that he was able to take care of himself, and immedi- ately proceeded to arrest the murderous tinker. Burke had alr y drawn his re- volver when he was shot. The officers who were with him, after retreating, blazed away at Haynes. A short time before the shooting Officer Kennedy tried to arrest Haynes, but seeing a revolv in his hand he got ‘‘cold feet” and back- ed away. Wilkinson and Marlowe were present, but, llke Kennedy, they lost their nerve and made no attempt to ar- rest the tinker. George Ryan, who conducted a store contiguous to Haynes’ cabin, testified e saw Burke drive up to the cabin in the patrol wagon. He was met by Marlowe, Wilkinson and Kennedy. After learning 'the cause of the excitement he waved them back and started for the cabin. Ryan did not witness the shoot- ing, nor did he see the officers run away, F. W. Peters sald he saw Marlowe get behind a fence; he then blazed away at Haynes, but failed to hit him. He called to his companions to “‘come up and get Burke and he would get Haynes,” which he signally failed to do. James Ford saw Kennedy behind a fence with a shotgun. He was pouring shot into Haynes' cabin. John McGrath, the next witness, said | he saw Kennedy retreat before Haynes' | revolver. He and his companions seemed badly rattled. At this juncture further hearing of the case was contintied until next Thursday. THE CHINESE BUREAU MAKES A DISCOVERY MONGOLS ADMITTED AS OMAHA EXHIBITORS RETURN HERE. Arrest of a Coolie Chair-Mender for Entering the United States by False Pretenses. The Chinese Bureau, under Chief Mere- dith of the customs service, has been keeping a sharp eye on the 400 Chinese men and women admitted here recently for the purpose of appearing as exhibit- ors In the Chinese village of Mee Lee Wah at the Trans-Mississippl International Exposition at Omaha. Mr. Meredith made inquiries recently of a Federal officer in Omaha, and learned that the number of exhibitors was much less than 400, and he shrewdly suspected that the missing men had Temained In California with, the in- tention of staying here indefinitely. Thelr names and descriptions were transmitted to the Chinese Bureau In this city, and last Monday several customs officials made a raid on a house in Wav- erly place and found one of the Omaha exhibitors named Lan Chon& On_ bein, landed In this city as an exhibitor he ha received from Collector Jackson a cert ficate, dated May 18 of this year, certify- ing that Lan Chang was duly accredited as an_employe of the Mee Lee Wah Vil- lage Company of Chicago, Ill., an exhibf tor at the Omaha Exposition, and that he had been permitted to enter this country as such employe, in pursuance of the act of Congress approved June 30, 1807. The certificate is valid for three months after the close of the exposition, and is to be surrendered when the holder departs from the United States to the Collector of Cus- toms at the port of embarkation. Chong had been In this city ever since, making his llvlng as a chairmender. He was arrested, and will be examined before United States Commissioner Heacock next week. There {s no doubt that he will be deported. RAILROAD IMPROVEMENTS. New Constructions of the Southern Pacific Company. The Southern Pacific Company has be- gun to ballast the road from Lathrop to Fresno. This work will be continued from time to time, the company using the locomotives that are disengaged from other more pressing use, At Tehama a new steel bridge will be built. The prog- ress in the work on the Oakland mole has been very noticeable, and the com any expects In the near future to Intro- guce its twenty-minute ferry service. The new drawbridge over Oakland Creek will be ready for use about October 1. The county has asked the company’'s permission to use their bridge during the construction of the new bridge. The War Department’s order to remove the Harri- Som-street bridge will be enforced by the company unless Alameda County obtains ermission from the Government for its urther use. e LOTTIE WAS EXPENSIVE. Arrest of R. C. Long for Defrauding an Innkeeper. R. C. Long, an Eastern drummer, was arrested last night and charged with de- frauding the Baldwin Hotel out of $233. On May 1 _Long and a woman, who is known as Lottie Lacey, registered at the Baldwin as man and e. Long re- mained énly a few days. The woman. however, lived in_the hotel for two months and then had her bill sent to Long. He refused to pay it, claimin that the woman was not his wife an that he had not authorized her to con- tract the Indebtedness. Long subsequently left the city, but re- turned last evening and was arrested. He was Immediately released on $500 bond, forwarded by two of his friends. his revolver at|on the steame: THE FARRAGUT IN COLLISION Crashed Into a Wharf at Union Iron Works. HER STEM BADLY TWISTED VESSEL HAD TO BE DOCKED TO MAKE REPAIRS. Thomas Movich, One of tkLe Owners of the Schooner Mary Ann, Is Drowned While on His ‘Way to Klondike. The United States torpedo-boat destroy- er Farragut had a narrow escape at the completion of her trial trip the other dav. As it was, her stem was all twisted and bent by striking the Union Iran Works wharf, and the vessel had to be docked for repairs. The stem has been complete- Iy taken out of the vessel, and it has now been almost straightened out. It will then be put back in the torpedo-boat chaser, and by that time the changes in the rudder will have been made and tne flier will be ready for another trial. When the Farragut completed her trial | over the measured mile sl went back toward the Union Iron Works at a fast clip. Owing to the fact that her rudder was not properly balanced she aid not teer as well as was expected, but that ault was not responsible for the accl- dent that followed. As the warship ap- proached her berth at the whari tne signal “Full speed astern” was rung up on the indicator. There was some hitch in the engine-room, and the engines did not respond as quickly as was expecte Before the vessel could gather stern she struck the whartf, and the result was a stem twisted in half a dozen different directions. An hour later the Farragut > was on the drydock, and the work of taking out the twisted iron began. The{ torpedo-boat destroyer will be better than ever as soon as she leaves the dry- dock. The stem will not show the slight- | collision, and the steering djusted to the immense d of the vessel. Company’s 5 Michael ite a number of gold hunters, while there was more freight of- fering than she could carry. Dr. Hart, late of the Board of Health, was among the passengers. He gu\'s to Dawson to open a drugstore and go st trace of the gear will be power and great e Alaska steamer Lelanaw last night with q at number of his friends were down him off, Three steers that went up cansed a great deal of the morning. They re- fused to enter the boxes in which !heg were to be carried to St. Michael, an broke a horn off in his efforts to get a They several times jumped clean over their prisons, and the vaqueros had to lasso them to prevent an escape. A big black fellow nearly drove Freight Clerk George Thorp and Customs n- excitement durin spector Gallagher overboard, and had it | ntry-box on the not been for a friendly wharf both of them would have got a | ducking. The pany has &- urchased the schooner Charles evi Woodbury to replace the schooners Alexander and Theresa. lost in waters. Captain Peter Delaney will go out in command of the Woodbury. The latter schooner, a party of Klondikers the here from stern wheel steamer F. M. Smith, | Th late the H. C. Grady, is to replace the San Lorenzo on the Alviso run, while the Alice Rix is to run in opposition. Both the Smith and Rix were intended for service on the Yukon River, but neither of them could be towed to St. Michael. Both are first-ciass river steamers, but an ocean steamer could not be got to tow them up. The Harbor Commissioners yesterday appointed Hugo R. Herold office collector, vice John R. Maginess, deceased. The Mateo electric ssion to lay its tracks along from Howard to the ferries. This will give the road a terminus at the new depot, instead of at the foot of Steuart street. Acting on the advice of Chief Engineer Holmes, the Commissioners decided that the roadbeds of all street railways on State property shall be of steel and concrete, S0 as to make them permanent. The schooner Mary Ann, which left this port June 8 for St. Michaél, arrived there prior to July 7. When five days out Thomas Mofch, one of the owners, was lost overboard and drowned. A boat was lowered, but no_trace of the unfortunate fellow could be found. He leaves a widow and child In San Francisco. The British bark Invercauld is now out 145 days from Cardiff for San Francisco with a cargo of coal, and fears are er tertained for her safety. The under- writers are now paying 8 guineas per cent to_reinsure her. The United States steamer Rush was at Folsom-street wharf, coaling, yesterday. Now that the war is over, she may be gent north to Bering Se Wichman and Thomas Released. United States District Judge de Haven yesterday ordered the release from the San Quentin Penitentiary of George N. Thomas and George Wichman, members of the Emerald gang of oplum smugglers. Their cases were similar to that of Louls Greenwald, who was released on the day before on the ruling that a prisoner hav- ing served his term in the penitentiary could not_be legally detained any longer because of the non-payment of a fine. 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B.” latest embroidery, in Sagset tan, mode, brown, $1 glove. red, blue, green, sil- ver gray, slate, white, pearl and black ; fitted to your hand, kept in repair and cleaned promptly. “The store tha Dewey given away at our concert to-day. ale’s We received a handsome silk flag yesterday, presented to Hale’s California stores by the working women of San Francisco. This letter came with it: The flag and the letter are displayed in our window. Boston Elite Orchestra, Leo Bruck director. Program: These items among others are on sale to-day: celebrated 2-clasp overseam,| Hale’s, 037-039-941-043-945-947 Market St., Opposite Mason. Saturday, August 13. venir programs of San Francisco, Aug. 12, 1898 MESSRS. HALE BROS.—Gentlemen : | have great pleasure, on behalf of this company of white American women, in presenting you with the accompanying silk American flag. 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