The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 21, 1898, Page 8

\ -WOULD TRADE HIS HONOR \\ U. 8. Grant !Eent to the upper house of the Ameri THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1898. GRANT RESORTS 10 FALSERO0D AND EVASION His Duplicity Is Fully Exposed. OFFERED TO RESIGN IF ELECTED SENATOR. While Refusing Interviews to San Francisco Newspaper Men He Makes a Denial in Los Angeles, | | | | Jr., the young stranger m San Diego who thinks he can se- cure the Senatorial plum with the aid his father's and a judicious | ! the money furnished him by his | of name use « TWO ENGLISH B |THEY ARE GOOD CARRIERS FALLS OF CLYDE AND STAR OF Sail T stern political friends, s joined the ranks of those who lie for political | pur Some days ago The Call gave pub- | liclty to the statement that Mr. Grant | B¢ time ago approached a promi- nt Republican with the proposition | wat if the gentd 1 would lend aid to Grant's Senatorial candidacy he | nt) would, in the event of his| election, serve a year or so and then | steamer Alameda while she was in Syd- o favor of the man who aided | ©f Clyde Company, Limited, have been | ney, N. 8. W. Among her cargo was a h at was challenged to de- | tTYINg to sell the vessel for some time, | large consignment of apples, and when | he statement, and the promise was | Put 88 she was classed as one of the best | these came to be lgnded they were found | ny the statement, and the promise Was | o+ pnelish fleet and was In first-ciass | 10 be {nfected with the codlin moth. An made that if he so far disregarded the | grder a high figure was asked for her, | lDvestigation showed that the moths had ake | su a ol st A5ENa0 - | left the fruit and built their cocoons in | truth as to make such a denial the | There was in consequence considerable | the boxes, The apples were accordingly of the gentleman to whom he | negotiation before the sale was made. put in_ fresh boxes, and Captain Van proposition would be giv The Falls of Clyd bullt by Russell | Oterendorp was told to take tho old ones as bee C several | & Co. of Port Glas; . and is 1741 tons | With the codlin moths in them to sea and ba bb = 2 “'“l eebleddaa She 15 200 feet long. 40 feet | throw them overboard. Angther steamer een askec ¥ 1any et g E * | was going to sea at that time, so they newspaper representatives 1o express feet § ““";‘n,d"'ll"_{' s sald | wepe put aboard of her, and when she If as to the truth or falsity of S eE Do owners intend taking tic|was outside of Sydney heads about ten < = = s T Jigger mast. Ahis will leave | pijeq they were thrown overboard. The » statement made in The Call. This | her square rigged on the fore, main and | o °8 1an¥ HEFT RN OCRPRRES, o g De has declined to do, taking refuge be- | Tizzen, and fofe and aft riggeq on the | some of them going ashore as far hind the general declaration that he | irade under the same s the barky | a8 Newcastle, N. 8. W., and for we e time make reply 1 said about him. 1ore intimately ac- ith of mind and ¢ young Mr. Grant it e to know that his )ly due to the fact that would at some to all that had b To those who are quainted with the moral courag will n to whom he made the Ted to is a resident of this city. Reference would not | made to this were it not for the fa that Mr. Grant has caused to be pub- | lished in the Los Angeles Record an | interview in which he denies having made the proposition attributed to him, | While denying himself the pleasure of | making a o San | news| has sought to In- fluence sentiment in the southern part | of the State by giving utterance to a | deliberate falsehood for the benefit of | the readers of a Los Angeles paper. So | much for Mr. Gr s courage and city. Now for the facts in the| 2 | "he proposition attributed to Mr. | Grant was made to John D. Spreckels. | this it Mr. Spreckels has Grant visited me at my office, about a month age Mar He introduced th tion of a United Senator. He talked of his candidacy and said that y reason he wished to be elected for the honor it would give d me to support his can- v and said that if I would do so he would, if elected, serve only a year or two and would then resign in my fa- wvor. I told him that I was not seeking the position, did not want it and would mnot take it were it offered me with a tificate of election. That ended the tter, and r. Grant departed.” Here we have Mr. Grant’s confession of his own unworth. He has no desire | to serve the people of the State in| whose borders he is practically a stran- | ger. His only object in asking to be ican Congress Is that he may claim the right to be called * Grant. A worthy ambition, s one quite in keeping with th ‘will resort to falsehood to cover a prehensible act. To ach ambition this worthy son of his fath was willing to barter his honor, the confidence of the people and the f3 | ship of those deluded individuals w | are still unaware of the fact that hon- | jesty and integrity are not always | transmitted from father to son. | | | ho Some idea of the caliber of the man | who comes from San Diego with a bid for legislative votes because the acci- sdent of birth happened to give him th name of Grant may be given by the re- | lation of an incident that occurred in the corridor of a San Diego hotel dur- ing the progress of the recent cam- paign. Grant was discussing the political sit- uation with a group of politicians when one of them asked the aspirant for Sen- tatorial honors if he expected members . of the Legislautre to vote for him just Dbecause his name is Grant. ‘““That should have great weight with | them,” replied the budding statesman, “a very great weight, 1 should say,| especially in Washington.” “That is where you are wrong.” su!d‘ his questioner, “because you are spreading that idea and others are tak- | ing it up. There is an old gentleman | in Sierra County whose name is Georsge | Washington. He a lin=al descend- | ant, I belleve, of th Father of His| Country. Mr. Washington has heard | of your claim and has come out as Senatorial candidate. He Is gainin ;strength every .day and it looks though he was going to 4n the Senatorial fight.” “Is this a fac inquired Grant ex- “citedly. Upon being assured th:it the facts were as represented he burst out with: “You must excuse me, gentlemen, T must run upstairs and tell Milton | Green about this. If George Wash- ington is a candldate Mr. Green shonld know it right away. T pay him month to look after my political inter ests and he will know how to deal with | is matter.” Just what Mr. Green told Mr. Grant | the secrecy of their chamber will never be known, but speculation con- cerning 1t did not lessen the hilarity of the group in the hotel corridor. | a g as | be a big factor | Itching Scalp and Dandruf?f. One application of Smith Dandruf? Pomade stops itching scalp; to 6 re- move all dandruff. At all druggists. & m|v'r‘A free. Address Smith Bros., no, Cal. | —_——— Under the Hawaiian Flag. Mate Thomas Varnom of the Ha- 1 steamer Alexander surrendered self to United States Marshal Shine E he having learned that a war- out against him for beating nding sflfiors on the high seas. vas taken before United States :r Heacock for examination, and when the fact was made known that the Alexander was not an American reg- istered vessel the case was dismissed anu Varnom was discharged. B Bret Harte has one of his old-time Christmas stories in next Sunday’s Sall. Read it. Moa English crew of the Falls of Clyde left the Engl Consul. VESSELS NOW OWNED HER oth Will Go Into the| Hawaiian Trade. | RUSSIA THE SHIPS. ling of the City of Peking Post- poned Again — A Searching Investigation Into the Scandia Scandal, wo English sailing vessels have been | ised inSan Franciscowithin thelast | The four-masted ship Falls of | now owned by William Matson | and the Star of Russia by J.J. | Captain Anderson and the | ore & C vessel yesterday and will be sent to on other vessels by the British purchase of the fine four-masted ship Falls of Clyde. owners will proceed at once to get her ready for the Hawaiian trade. mast and she will be turned into a four-masted bark. FALLS OF CLYDE NOW OWNED HERE. ‘W. Matson, the well-known managing owner of the barks Roderick Dhu and Santiago, has just completed the The master and crew left the vessel yesterday and her new The yards are to be taken off her Jigger The Star of Russia is now at| . and | Union Iron Works drydock | will sail for Portland to-da Port Townsend loading for Honolulu. | for Haw The! Hins ot Badas vael The Falls of Clyde arrived here from | built by Harland & Wolff of Bel London with a general cargo on Novem- | I 1882 tons net burden. She is 215.5 ber 18 last. After discharging she was | 100, 40.2 vb:"k f“‘lm}d ':\I““ ;—’:-?d zost dee taken over to Sausalito and laid up as a | §av Francisco. Australia and Hawall, cha able rates. Roderick Dhu and_Santiago. B and 5 & C upo FPor fore sale sel rter could not be obtained at reason- Her owners, the Ship Falls | from San Francisco laden with ge fore Sngland t Star | : fore leuving England the 3147 Of| merchandise. It was not until the vessel came under that firm's flag to San | Which had taken -the boxes to sea and ncisco, Representatives of J. J. Moore | from which they were thrown ov erboard and Pope & Talbot looked the ves. | Teached her destinatlon | over with the intention of buying 3 v e but the flgure could not be agreed | The Mail Company's steamer City of n. so Captain Roberts took her to | Peking will not sail for the Orient until tland to 1t for Burope. Be- | to-morrow afternoon. It took longer « she re Astoria the terms of | than was expected to put the new shaft had been agreed upon and the ves-|in, and she did not get away from the was ordered to Puget Sound to load | Hunters Point drydock until erday. papers were full of the wreck of a ve: | There was a peculiar incident on the er reached her destination that the facts of D R R R e R R R R R S R e + + + + > + > . 2 + 4+ B v + + 144444444444 4444404434444 4444944404444 444+ HELD HER CLOTHES FOR A PALTRY BILL Dressmaker Petersen Kept the Waists of Mrs. Bandmann's Gowns and Now Wants Payment for Them. e ZNOT SATISFIED SWITH CURNITURE JHE ENDEAYORS: TO. “OBTAIN JEWELS Mrs, Julius Bandmann has been made the victim of misplaced kindnesses, and her dressmaker, Miss Alice Petersen, who owes to her her start in business life, has brought suit against her for a paltry bill of $18. The suit was tried in Judge Gr nger's court and judgment awarded the plaintiff. . Through her attorney, George Knight, Mrs. Bandmann has appealed the case and the suit will have a hearing In a higher court. Mrs. Bandmann asserts that the Petersen claim is an iliegal one, and as it dates back for more than two years and is outlawed, that the court cannot take cognizance of the matter. According to Mrs. Bandmann, §22 1s all that the dressmaker can justly claim, and even that sum, she says, is not honestly due, as the gowns for the making of which it represents payments were not delivered. “I recelved the skirts of those two gowns only,” Mrs. Bandmann ex- plained, “and when I sent for the waists I was told that Miss Petersen had left for the East. On her return I went to her, thinking that the corsages had been misdirected and wrongly delivered, and was confronted by the angry couturiere, who declared she had them in her possession and would not deliver them until I had paid her an old bill amounting to $185. I referred her to Mr.Bandmann for the old bill, but she declined to negotiate with him.” According to Mrs. Bandmaann, the bill of § represents the making of two gowns some two years ago. A week after the gowns were finished Mrs, Bandmann lost her daughter,and as she went into mourning had no use for bright colored dresse She allowed the frocks to remain with Miss Peter- sen, and asked the dressmaker to dispose of them for a price that would cover the making. The demands of the dressmaker were, however, so exorbitant that no one would take the gowns complete at a figure that merely represents the modiste’s fee. After six months the gowns were re- turned to Mrs. Bandmann, and theseare the dresses that the lady refuses to give the cash equivalent for. Miss Petersen, a tall, square-{faced woman, with a long reaching arm and supple fingers, says that her bill 1s a just one and that she has just escaped the outlaw time. “The bill dates back to December, 1896, the dressmaker said, *“and £0 my suit was brought just in the nick of time. Mrs. Bandmann has always given me a lot of trouble about her bills. I never collected but $28 from her, and I got that In a very peculiar fashion. She owed me the money for a long while, and 1 was finally obliged to go to her and explain that 1 needed it to purchase furniture with. ‘Why, I can let you have some furniture,’ said Mrs. Bandmann, and she sent me a three-legged bureau, a worm-eaten whatnot and a table to match. ‘How much is that furniture?’ I asked the lady. ‘Twenty-eight dollars,’ she sald, and that s all the money I ever got out of her.” 44444 PR S 3.0 S Mrs. Bandmann’s friends are up in arms against what they declare to be the outrageous treatment of the dressmaker. ‘“Why, Mrs. Bandmann started her in business,” they say, “and went security for her in all the dry goods houses of the city.” Mrs. Bandmann only says, “Preserve me from those who have enjoyed my bounty.” R Ry R T * + + 2¢ + R R R R MISS PETERSON IN HER GREAT COLLECTING ACT. Bttt 4444444044444 4 4444444444244 4 444444444444 | | prominent | shipful mastes | i \ Edward F brshipful maste Phil K. Gordon, senfor warden: Bdward Thomas, junior “harles L. Has kell, treasure: Anderson, { retary; John W 5 n, tyler; George . Dsew, senfor deacon; Walter B. Bur- | junior deason; Charles Bliss, ma: ‘Arthur H. Crookshank, senfor stew- by the lodge, the giving of srand honors | | to the n aster and the proclamatior | by the'm the choir sang “Gloria.” | ment on the ground that they woul The George W. Elder came off the sterday and The barkentine b N. Castie, the brig W. G. Irwin and the hooner Robert Lewe were all to leave Honolulu on the 13th in: for San Francisco. They should an interesting race up. but the Ir- win should win, as she is the speediest of the thre The scow schooner San Rafael was sold yesterday by the United States Marshal to John Perry for $810. She had been libeled by merchants and others for sup- plies. The Investigation into the troubles on he transport Scandia, begun yesterday 3 Edward Field,-1s to be very searching. When she sails again, about the of the year, there will be only one commanding officer on the ves , and clashes of authority will thus be avoided. The scandal in connection with the sale of whisky on the vessel during the voyage will recefve a vigorous probing. LADIES AT A MASONIC LODGE INSTALLATION OCCIDENTAL LODGE OBLIGATES ITS OFFICERS. The Fair Sex Assists in Rendering the Music Incidental to the Impressive Ceremony. A somewhat unus on Monday in King Solomon’s Hall, in the Masonic Temple, and that was the public 1 lation of the officers elgcted and ap- pointed to serve for the ensuing term for Occidental Lodge, F. and A. M., and there a novel feature introduced, the rendi- tion of solos by ladies and gentlemen, in addition to th > furnished by the 1 event took place mi cholr. = hall was profusely decorated | with garlands of smiax festooned from | the grand sunburst in the center of the hall to the wall large ferns Inte nd along the walls, with vening, while all over the hall there were immense palms. Most | over the station of the wor- in the east, far above the a beautiful American silk the loyalty of the l®ige to the . were present more than majority bemng ladies for the first time wit ry imposing and Impressive who were installed Savage, with Past man as marshal of rising are: e Delger; Abraham v 0. Hunt, organist. After the opening selection by the cholr | and a prayer, the officers-elect were es- corted into the hall by the marshal, the choir rendering ‘“Hail, Brother Masons, Halil.” Then as each officer was installed the choir rendered a sele nd a solo followed, the sts besg: Soprano, Miss Berglund; , Mrs. Nicholson; ten- or, Frank H. d barytone, Mr. Rowlands. Lewis, junior stewar ecuted a plano solo. After the vrocession Then there was a recess for congratula- tions and all present formed into a pro- cession to an upper hall, where there w spread a splenai. banquet. There were a number of toasts appropriate to the occa- sion and es by Dr. R. Beverly Cole, Rev. Bmith, Master M. I Savage, R. H. Counfryman, the newly in- stalled officers and others. The affair w: one of the most interesting and pleasant that has ever been given by a blue lodge in this city. e —————— ‘We keep a man in our store to stamp your name in gold letters, free of charge, on all our fine leather goods. Sanborn, Vall & Co., 741 Market street, 3 —————————————— BIAS IS ALLEGED. Policeman Blackman and Saloon- keeper Rood Ask Judge Mogan to Transfer Their Cases. The case of Policeman Cassius Black- man and Frank H. Rood, saloon-keeper on Valencia street, charged with stealing $180 from Cornelius Cronin, a stranger from Nevada, was called in Judge Mo- gan's court vesterday morning, The prosecution was réady to rroceed, but the defendants, through their atto: neys; submiiited an affidavit asking -that | the case be transferred to another depart- not from get a falr and impartial hearin, the Judge. owing .to his alleged bias and prejudice. The Judee denied that he had any blas or prejudice against the defendants, but said he would give his decision on the affidavit this morning. It is mot likely that Re will agree to transfer the case, as has the judg- ment of Judge Daingerfield jn the " case of A. M. Lawrence to guide Bim. SCHECK'S LOVE SPURNED, FOR HE WAS POOR MRS. ALLISON, A RING, A GOLD MINE AND A TRILBY. Fleeced by His Partner He Was Thrown Into Jail as a Default- ing Witness Against Sharpers. t is a mystery how John Scheck, hon- est and industrious worker in copper at the Union Iron Works, arrived at old age without the services of a guardian, if a recent adventure of his be taken as a sample of the manner in which he invests his earnings. He has been in jall for the past two weeks as a witness against Grace Allison and her partner, the plaus- ible Mr. Bain, the managers and patentees of a matrimonial bureau, warranted to lighten the pockets of the hopeful pat- rons of the wares of Hymen. The precious couple are under indictments by Federal and State Grand Jurigs for fraud, and among their numerous victims was Schec Scheck s a vigorous man in the lusty bloom of about 60 years, and a few months 2go he thought it would be a good idea to invest in a wife. So he called at the matrimonial bureau and upon payment of a fee of $5 was introduced by Bain to Allison, whom Bain represented as a wealthy widow, just dying to marry some nice, Kind old man who would love her for herself alone. Scheck was willing to love her devotedly on these conditions, and as an evidence of the unselfishness of his attentions he, at her suggestion very delicately made, presented her with a dia- mond ring, the cost price of which was $175. History does not record whether Scheck received a chaste kiss from his flancee, but Scheck records with sorrow that after the widow got the ring on her finger and found that he had no more money to bestow upon her she announced that ‘she was tired of him and that he would oblige her If he remained away. Scheck raised a row s having been advised by his friends that Mrs. Allison was a gold brick, and Bain compromised the matter for $150. Then Scheck met a stranger named Gus Hall. Hall represented that he owned an undeveloped gold mine on the Mexican peninsula just below the town of Ensena- da. He (Hall) had been once bitten by a yndicate and would hayve nothing more to do with capitalists. He wanted some honest, hard-working poor man to go in with him. The ore exhibited by Hall was assayed for Scheck's satisfaction and showed a value of about $100 to the ton. The mine was twenty feet from the ocean landing and there was an abundance of abalone shells on the beach. They could buy a vessel and haul shells and nuggets to San Francisco and become wealthy in a short time. Scheck invested his $150 in the purchase of t)x‘gluup Trilby of twelve bout the matter, tons, and when he{went to go aboard he found a_woman and her baggage in the cabin. She sald that she was Hall's wife and dld not want to go, but Hall remarked that he guessed he was the boss and she would ha\J‘e to go. At that juncture some one gave the au- thorities the tip that Schw-kg w;nsltSy'i‘r?g to leave the State for the purpose of avolding the prosecution of Bain and Mrs. Allison and he was arrested and thrown into jail, while Hall, with the bill of sale made out in his own name, start- ed away in the Trilby for his Mexican mine. nie of the saflors of the crew of two insulted Mrs. Hall and there was a row, resulting in the return of Mrs. Hall by ‘rail to this ity Last Saturday Scheck was served In jail with a demand for $2 wages due the sailor for one month’s services, and this was backed up with a paper purporting to have been signed by Scheck, in which he agreed to pay all the expensés of the trip, Bcheck denounces the paper as a forgery and now Is in jall broke. Hall has disap- peared with the Trilby and Scheck now swears that he has been In jafl so long [ith drunken men 2nd cranks that he has oS! s memory o e evil doin, Bain-Allison outfit. Ey oo —_— Anakesis cures Piles, nothing else. Sam- ple free. Address Anakesls, New York. —_————— Highbinders Held Up. William Robinson, a Scotch sailor, had a lot of fun in Chinatown early yesterday morning, but when he appeared before Judge Mogan a few hours later he was repentant and blamed an overindulgence in whisky for getting him into trouble, | The Judge sent him back to prison, and Wwill decide this morning what to do w him. About 2 o'clock Robinson Wus““i}: Ross alley, and he was highly amused at seeing two members of Lieutenant Price’s squad hold up Chinese and search them for Weafions. as has been the rule for some weeks. After the two officers left Robinson started in to have some fun on his own account, and every Chinese that passed through the alley was or- dered to stop by the drunken sailor, who searched them for any old thing. ' The Chinese complained to_the officers, and Robinson was arrested and booked for impersonating an officer. ADVERTISEMENTS. - Hunyadi Jdnos Natural Laxative Water Has Merit : FOR . Reputation : Superiority. Constipation and Hemorrhoids IT IS UNEXCELLED. Beware of Substitutes! REAL ESTATE 15 MARKED BY PROGRESSION A Marked Movement in the Market. ADVENT OF RAIN THE CAUSE SEVERAL LARGE SALES OF GRAIN LAND ARE MADE. A Glance at the Records, Recent Sales, New Building Con- tracts—General Realty Notes. ‘With the advent of the long needed rain and a decided change in the general at- mospheric conditions has come a rev vification, as it were, in the general re- alty market. Property values all owar the State will now have a tendency to increase, particularly in the country, where progress inevitably hinges on the success of the crops. With a good year, which Is now as- sured, comes the payment of mortgages and the extension of building operations and improvements, which give an in- creased value and complete reanimation to the general market. Sales are already becoming frequent, and several, in fact many, are now In process of negotfation. Although In the large cities throughout the State the absence and the lack of rain is not felt as keenly as in the coun- | try sections, still, if one looks around lhei value of almost every article of commerce can be seen to increase during a drought and decrease markedly during a moist season. During the past week many sales of good value were negotiated In the city, | but the record showed an unequal balance compared to those made in the country. Building operations were slow compared | to those of last week, and the value of contracts was considerably lower. The aggregate value of mortgages and | trust deeds was uniform, while the rec- | ord for releases and reconveyances was unusually large. REVIEW OF THE RECORDS. v vere fifty-four mort- prInE e et decds recorded, amounting fo & sum total of $169,347. For the same period thirty-two releases and reconveyances passed to record, amounting in the aggregate to $124,- | 490, ] ncipal mortgages and trust deeds are as orbrwes Py "the ‘Home Mutual Bank and Loan Association (o Annie M. and Freférick . Spaulding, $9000 for six year: 7 i eyt Fhe Weatern Addition block 165, situated on the southerly line of Vallejo str:v’(, 137:6 feet west ot Gough, west 6 by south 137 | by the Hibernia Savings and Loan Soclety to Joseph A. Ol $12,500 for one year at 6% per cent on property in the Western Addition block 209, situated on the southwest corner of Hayes and Octavia, west 137:6_by south 120; by the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society to Kate Norton and John: D. Hatch, $10,00 for one year at 6% per cent on property in the 0-vara block 314, situated on the northeast corner of Turk and Larkin streets; by Mathias Rosen- | shine to Adolph and Lizzle Rosenshine, 10,000 for one year at 7 per cent on property in the B0-vara Dblock 160, situated on the southeast corner of Mason and Jackson streets, south -7 by east 47:6; by the Hibernia Sayings and Loan Soclety to Mary J. Lomman, $20,000 for one year at Gl per cent on property in the one hundred block 352, situated on’the north- Vet 1y line of Townsend street, 137:6 feet Northeast of Second, mortheast 11i:6 by north- west 247 e principal releases and reconvevances were recorded aa follows: From the Hibernia Sav- ings and Loan Society to John, Patrick and Cormac Carberry, $10.500 on property in West- ern Adaition biock 211 and the one hundred blocks 897 and 3%, situated respectively on the northwest corner of Octavia and Lily avenue, the northeasterly line of Garden street, 150 feet southeast of Harrison, southeast 25 by north- east 75, and the southeasterly line of Jessie Street, 220 feet southwest of Sixth, southwest 25 Dy southeast 76; from the Humboldt Savings and Loan Soclety to Ephraim Frank, $10,000 on property in the 50-vara block 180, situated on the southeast corner of Mason and Jackson streets, south §9:7 by east 47: RECENT SALES. The largest sale of the week, and in fact the largest for months past, was that ne- gotiated by Magee & Sons on the corner of Fllis and Glasgow_streets, for an estimated price of $107,600. The property was purchased, through the agent of the realty firm, by Henri Kahn and Jules Levy from the Gor- dan estate. The lot has & frontage of 100 feet on Ellis street and a depth of 110 feet, minus an L In the northwest corner in the rear. The buildings that now occupy the site will be demolished and repl;;celd by a six-story struc- vith a front of stone. e pab been rumored that the Tondon and San Francisco Bank Is negotiating for lhg prop- erty adjoining the northwest corner of Califor- nia and Leldesdorff streets. The lot has a frontage of twenty-five feet on California street and extends back 117:6 feet, finally abutting upon a strip twenty feet on Leidesdorft street. The present owner of the property 18 the Sun nce Company. ln'F;ll;afirm of B‘l’)\'“. Toy & Sonntag reports the following sales: 1020 acres of grain land In the Rancho de San Jose, situated four miles from Sunol, Alameda County. The land was dis- posed of by George Rohr to Danlel Sullivan. The estimatéd price is $30,000. A similar sale was made in_ Tulare County, four and a half miles from Sanger Station, 921 acres of grain and fruit land was sold at estimated prices of $21,000. The seuer was Mre. Mary A, Foley, and the buyer, James A. Swinner. The Burnham & Marsh Company reports the sale for Henry Levy to Dr. W. E. Price of the property situated on the northeast corner of Golden Gate avenue and Fillmore street, 45x90, and three-story frame building, renting for about $200 a month, for $25,000. Also three acres at Belmont, with cottage, barn, etc., for M. King to S. H. Mill for $1500; also lot on Octavia street, near Vallejo, 25x125, from the estate of E. Stevenson to B. Schafer for $2500. NEW BUILDING CONTRACTS. Westerly line of San Jose avenue, 94 feet south from the southerly iine of Widow Bernal Reservation, east 129 by south 26 by west 129:8 and by north 26—All work for a frame cottage; owner, Henry C. Hagensen; architect and con. tractor, L. G. Bergren: cost, $1430. Northerly line of Ellis street, 60 feet west of Gough, west 105 by morth 137:6 by east 75 by South 370 by east 30 by south 100-Excavations preparatory to building; owners, . T Wolt; architect, Phillp Schwerd| En Tuttle. T ner of Mwenty-ninth and Tiffany avenue— Three frame cottages: owner, architect and contractor, W. C. Hammerton; cost, $5800. Westerly liné of Bartlett street, 110 feet south of Twenty-third, south 25 by west 120—All work for a two-story frame building (two flats); owner, Mrs. Amelia P. Hogan; contractor, W. . Hanchett; cost, $2150. Northerly line of Howard street, 9110 feet west of Steuart, west 45:10 by north 137:6—Al] Work and materials, except cement, for & two- Story brick bullding; owner, E. A. Howard; contractors, Peacock ‘& Butcher. Northerly line of Waller street; 221:3 feet west of Octavia, west % by north i37:6—All work, except mantels, gas fixtures and shades, for a two-story frame dwelling and a stable in rear; owner, V. Simi; architects, Martens & Coffey! oontractors, Caccla & Pecarich; cost, $3445. Southerly line of Halght street. 125 feet west of Webster, east 2 by south 120—Carpentry, brick work, plastering, Iron work, tinning, ex: cavations, etc., for a three-story frame bufld- ing: owner, Patrick Barron; architect, R. H. White: contractors, Willlam and Henry White; cost, $6463. UNDER THE HAMMER. The following sales were made by pblic auc- tion last Monday at the rooms of the real estate irm of G. H. Umbsen & Co.: The lot and improvements belonging to the estate of A. Cooper, deceased, at 323 Washington street, east of Battery, eighteen building lots on Po. trero avenue, Nineteenth, Twentieth and Hamp. shire streets, the lot and dwelling at 1913 Stockton street, the lot on the southwest corner of Turk street and Central avenue, two flats at 1410 and 14101 Harrison street, between Tenth and Eleventh, five houses in flats of four rooms each at 1201, 1203, 1206, 1207, 1209, 1211, 1213 and 1215 Sanchez street and 391 and 298§ Twenty- fifth street, a residence and stable on the northwest corner of Clipper and Sanchez streets, with a building lot on the east line of Sanchez street, 112 feet north of Clipper, and a lot on the southeast side of Howard street, 165:3% northeast of Thirteenth street. The following ten pieces of property were disposed of at public auction by the firm of Easton. Eldrdge & Co.: The improved property on the southeast cor- ner of Hyde and Green streets: a hotel of sixty rooms at 247 Second street, 7 feet northwest of Folsom, with lot 35 by §0; a dwelling at 3870 Twenty-fourth street, 125 ‘east of Sanchez: a 1ot 50 by 100 on the northwest line of Market, 142 southwest of Reservoir street, on which i3 a store, two flats and a cottage; three flats on the east line of Stevenson, 210 west of Ridley; a enito street: flats at 121 Liberty street; a dwelling at 845 Castro; the, lot # by 80, and_cottage southwest corner of Sanchez and Twenty- venth, and building lots on the morth side of Montana, 100 west of Plymouth. RANDOM NOTES. Architects Shea & Shea have been directed by the Board of Supervisors to prepare plans for a filter systom for the City Hall, and for a new police station on Seventeenth street. An_advertisement for bids has been ordered for the erection of an engine house on Tenth avenue, between 1 and J streets. The managers of the Californta Fig Syrup Company are erecting & new bullding at the corner of ‘Sixteenth and Church streets. The building fs being constructed entirely of brick and cemented walls. , i ; The fifteen architécts who submitted com- | petitive plans for a city hospital building have made a propesition to the Supervisors offering to relinquish their claims If $7500 be divided among_them. T E. Hesthal will erect a five-story brick | buliding on the west corner of Third and Stevenson streets. Albert Koster is the archi- tect. Joseph Weil has filed a declaration of home- stead in $7500, and his wife one of $5(, on property situated on the northerly line of Pine street, 84 feet from Octavia. A $5000 homestead has been filed by Mrs. James D. Ralph on property situated on_tha northerly line of Ellis street, 177:3% feet west. of_Pierce, Joseph Tobin is erecting & cottage at Bur- lingame. X ‘erop mortgage of $10,000 has been given by M. H. Watson and W. P. Buckingham to the Earl Frult Company in Solano County. It was recorded in_this city. " Miller & Lux, the cattle dealers, are build- Ing o ranch house at Los Banos to take the place of the house recently burned. WEDDED AMONG THEIR FRIENDS A Pretty Home Ceremony Unites Miss Panno and Walter Schranz. The wedding of Miss Elmira C. Panno and Walter D. Schranz took place last Wednesday evening, December 14, at ‘the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Dickey, 1821 Oak street. The house was beautifully decorated. Smi- lax hung from the chandeliers, and in the bay window, where the ceremony was performed, white doves, suspended, held streamers of smilax and pink ribbon. Back of these the windows were a bank of ferns and pink carnations. The halls and supper rooms were draped with red ribbon and holly berries. The ceremony was performed by Rev. E. B. Church of Irving Institute, from which seminary the bride is a graduate of the class of 1896. Frank J. Waizman was | the best man and Miss Alice Emerson of as maid of honor. While the entering the parlors Mrs. Pillsbury sang Stanford bridal party Copping and Mrs. Promise Me.” The bride wore white mousseline de sole over white taffeta and carried white roses. She also wore the slippers her mother wore at her own wedding twenty-five years ago. Miss Emerson, the mald of honor, wore pink mousseline de sole over pink taffeta and carried pink roses. After the wedding supper the newly married couple went their way amid the usual shower of rice and old shoes. They will spend their honeymoon at Del Monte and on their return will reside in this city, where the groom is engaged in business. The wedding presents received by the happy couple were exceedingly beautiful | and costly, and so numerous that one room would not hold them all, thereby attesting the popularity of the bride. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schranz, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Dickey, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brownell, Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Keil, Mr. and Mrs. Keith, Dr. and Mrs, M. A. Greenlaw, Cap- tain and Mrs. A. H. Herriman, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Griffin, M. d Mrs. C. W. Griffin, Mr. and Mrs . G. and Mrs. F. C. Howard, R B. Church, Caj and Mrs. Fred W. . B H. W. Spaldin% Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Keil Mr. and Mrs. Schumacher, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Foster, Mrs. Anna Lee, Mrs. E. J. Williams, Mrs. Pillsbury, Mrs. Lillian Copping, Miss Louise Brownell, Miss Lena P. Atkins, Miss Alice Emerson, Miss Tu- die Kalser, Miss Sarah Blake, Miss Alice Harlow, Miss Clara Becker, Miss Jennie Willlams, Miss Edith Norris, Miss Fanny Wallace,” Miss Carolyne Howard, Miss May Greenman, Miss HKthel Young, Messrs. Ed A. Kell, Captain J. L. Panno, Marion Danley, Frank J. Waizman, An- drew J. Griffin, James Polk, Wilder Mur- gy, William Blake, Bert Cheney, Harry Schumacher. —_ In the Divorce Courts. Herminia B. Gordon has been granted a divorce from Percy Gordon on the ground of desertion. The plaintiff was allowed to resume her maiden name, Bachmann. Mary E. Waterman has sued Charles H. ‘Waterman for a divorce, alhz&‘[n% cruelty as a cause of action. Julia 5. Mathews asks for a divorce from E. M. Mathews on the ground of intemperance. Suits for divorce on the ground of desertion have been filed by Annie E. Albrecht against ‘Walter Albrecht. Nellie Simon against Samuel Simon and Mary Sullivan against James M. Sullivan. Decrees of divorce on the ground of desertion have been granted Sarah E. Haynes from Joel G. Haynes and Eli vingston from George Livingston. e — Died of His Wound. Hermann Nyman died at the Lane Hos- pital last Monday from the effect of a gunshot wound accidentally inflicted in Libbey, Oregon, in the middle of last September. Coroner Hawkins held an inquest ' yesterday on the body after it had been embalmed by the undertaker. John Gustafson, a nephew of the de- ceased, testified that he was cleaning a rusty gun with the muzzle pointed to- ward his uncle when the weapon was dis- charged, the bullet passing through the body of the deceased. Mr. Nyman was brought to this city for medical treat- ment, but succumbed to the wound. ADVERTISEMENTS. DR. WURTH'S OPINION OF THE NEW DISCOVERY IN MEDI." CINE A Remarkably Successful Remedy for Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Stomach Troubles, Dr. Wurth, In commenting on recent discoveries in medicine, sald: There ig none which is certain to be so valuable and far reaching in benefit as Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets, the new stomach remedy; I say far reaching, because people little realize how important a sound stomach and vigorous digestion is to every man, woman and child. Indigestion is the starting point of consumption, heart disease, Bright's disease, diabetes, nervous prostration, liver troubles; why is this so?: Simply because every nerve, muscle and tissue in our ‘bodies is created and nourished from the food we eat. If that food is, by reason of & weak stomach, compelled to e for hours, a sour, fermenting mass of half digested food, it poisons the blood and nervous system, creates zas which distends the stomach and bowels, causing pressure on the heart, | lungs and other organs, and seriously impeding their action. He says further, the point to direct attention is not the nerves, nor heart, nor lungs, nor kidneys, but the stom- ach, the first cause of all the mischief. 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