The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 28, 1898, Page 4

A THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2§, 1898. S——— LEGISLATION | TO COMPEL EX Nearly Three Convicts Affected. Public Sentiment Widely Aroused Over the Recent Collins Murder. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—A Topeka (Kans.) special to the Herald says: A bill will be introduced in the Legisla- ture to-morrow morning by Represent- ative I. N. Ury of Bourbon County, making capital punishment compulsory in all ¢ of conviction of raurie in the first degree and fixing a penalty of e penitentiary sentence for any Governor ho fails or refuses tc sign the death warrant. The bill contains a section inanda- torily directing the Governor to sign the death warrants and order che exe- ion of fifty-nine convicts now <in- i in the Kansas penitentiary under the death sentence, but who have not been e ed, because the law now leaves it eptional with the Governor. When shown the bill to-night, Gover- nor Leedy declared he would sign it in the event of its passage. The bill 1d not become a law until published in the official State paper. Th= duty of ordering the execution of fifty-nine convicts would therefore devolve upon W. E. Stanley, the incoming Governor, who will be inaugurated January 9. The preparation of the bill is the re- sult of aroused public sentiment over the cold-blooded murder a few months ago of J. S. Collins, a prominent, To- peka capitalist, and the subsequent conviction of his son, John Collins, a young divinity student here, of the charge of having committeed the mu:- der. The public declar: st night of both Gove overnor- elect St that they would not sign young Collins’ death warrant had the effect of starting a movement among the legislators now a mbled in special ECUTIONS Score Kansas Will Be | session here to change the present law and make capital punishment .ompul- sory in cases of murder in the first de- gree. The bill, which will be introduced in the Legislature to-morrow, has prac- tically no opposition, taken as a whole. | Some members have expressed their op- | | position to the section of the bill call- | ing for the immediate execution of the | death sentence of the convicts now in | the penitentiary. The general impres- | sion, however, 1s the bill will pass the | Legislature as it now stands. | Among the death sentence convicts {in the Kansas Penitentiary is Emmet | Dalton, the sole survivor of the notori- ous Dalton gang, whose daring train | robberies a few years ago startled the | civilized world and whose depredations | were generally attended with a shock- | ing loss of life. About three years ago | | the Dalton gang descended upon the | | city of Coffeyville and attempted to | | rob the banks of the city in broad day- | light. The citizens were terrorized with | the exception of John Kohler, a plains- | {man and sharpshooter, who stood | across the street with a Winchester | rifle and killed four members of the | | gang and wounded Emmet Dalton. Al- | | though severely wounded Emmet killed | | several men before he was finally over- | | powered and captured. ' | _Another death sentence convict is | Mrs. Nancy Stafflebach, who was con- | { victed of chopping a miner at Galena | to pieces, but who is supposed to have |also killed over a score of persons, throwing their bodies in an abandoned | coal mine near her home. | | _Among these convicts in the Kansas | | Penitentiary are also many of the most | notorious criminals in the country, the | recital of whose crimes would read like | | chapters from yellow-back fiction. | SE PUTILE FOR HAWAIIANS CHINE Conflict Between Old and New Laws. - / CAN THE COOLIES RETURN ? QUESTION TO BE SUBMITTED TO | WASHINGTON. Dole Has Postponed His Visit to This Country—He Intimates That He Is Not Wire- Pulling. BY HORACE WRIGHT. Speclal Correspondence of The Call. HONOLU Dec. 19.—Are we in a state of peaceful rebellion against the United States or not? That is the ques- tion that many minds are pondering. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawali declines to recognize the power of Treasury Agent Brown to prevent Chinese landing who are in )ssession of valid permits to re-enter ued by the Hawalian Government is: under the statutes of its Legislature | passed prior to the passage of the New- lands resolution and. annexation consent, while Agent Brown practically contends that the instructions issued to him by the Treasury Department of the United: States, backed up as they are by the opinions of the United States law department, are paramount to the jurisdiction of the Hawailan courts in the construction of the paragraph in the Newlands resolution referring to Chinese immigration. The Chief Justice holds that this act | of Congress is not retrospective, and does not invalidate the bona fide per- mits issued by the Hawaiian Govern- ment prior to annexation, while he ac- knowledges that, from the date of ab- sorption, all Hawalian laws relating to Chinese immigration have been re- pealed by it. nsel, hold to the contrary—that solution of annexation not only is the law of this land, but it also abro- gated all privileges under former Ha- wailan restriction of Chinese immigra- tion acts, and that no Chinese can land in the United States Territory of Ha- wali except in strict compliance with the United States laws, hardship or no hardship, notice or no notice, It has been even intimated that, al- though the nine Chinese released under habeas corpus have been landed on American soil by the laws of Hawalii, now repealed, thev can be expelled from United States territory by the United States’ laws and forces, but it is held that the Hawalian officials can- not be called upon to enforce this rul- ing or to assist in its enforcement, as — T TCTL 28 Pears’ No other soap in the world is used so much; or so little of it goes so far. by | wn and our Attorney General, | |until the United States has taken | charge of our customs department | Honolulu is a foreign port. | The decision in question affects, as | nearly as can be ascertained, about 600 | Chinese holding permits of different | | classes, and as Mr. Brown has decided | to test every case on its merits before | the Supreme Court in bank the court | will be kept busy for the next few weeks until definite instructions are re- ceived from Washington as to the will of the supreme national government in the matter. | In the meantime the press and people indorse the decision of Chief Justice Judd for its spirit of equity and fair play, while the lawyers differ as to its | | soundness in law. This morning, the opening day December term, habeas corpus involving the landing of | | twenty-eight Chinese were made re- turnable on Wednesday next before the full court. @wing to the absence of Associate Justice Frear in Washing- | ton, D. C, as Commissioner, Circuit | Judge Perry will sit with the Chief Jus- | tice and Associate Justice Whiting in bank. Prior to appointing the date for | hearing an argument was had as to the right of the Chief Justice to sit, as | under the Hawalian constitution he| | cannot sit on an appeal from a case | which he himself has tried. The Jus- | tices held that these cases, being dif- | | ferent cases from the prior writ, did | not disqualify him, | | President Dole informs me that he | has decided to defer his projected visit ! to Washington until he again hears | | from Senator Cullom whether he is re- | | quired. He is not disposed to make | the journey at all unless it is shown /to be necessary. In regard to his “can- | | didacy” for the first Governorship of | our Territory. his views are contained | in the following paragraph dictated and | |approved by him: | "I do not consider that the matter | of the Governorship is similar to a | | question of the election of an official | by voters, and although it is proper for | people who are interested in good gov- | ernment to express themselves as to he personnel of the office—as sugges- | | tions to the appointing power—it would | be out of place for me to nominate my- | self for the position and work for my | | appointment. The appointing power | alone is respdnsible.” And with this statement Mr. Dole | contents himself and wards off further | | digcussion with a smile. | The ill fated City of Columbia has | reached our port from Hilo in safety and is now leaking at the rate of 24| | inches In twenty-four hours. She was no sooner tied up than the lawyers | plastered her up with more libels, ag- | | gregating nearly $20,000, half of which |is for seamen’s wages, a matter now | being investigated by the, courts. | The fate of the vessel has not yet ;haen decided upon, but she will prob- | ably be patched up sufficiently to take ‘the voyage to the coast when she gets clear of the shoals of litigation. The Government has'granted to the | new British-American line the same | | privileges as those accorded to other | | liners In exchange for carrying the | mails, except that there is no special | lconl storage site allotted to them, as there i none to spare. i The lack of wharfage accommodation { for the increased commerce is pressing | | very prejudicially upon Hawaiian ship- ’ | ping interests. ~ Conferences between | ‘mmmnteps of the Chamber,of Com- | merce and the Government result in no | | practicable action. The matter will | probably drift until the intentions and ! wishes of the home Government are | known, for the mattér of wharfage be- | tween the Government and the railroad | company is in litigation before the Su- ;preme Court and a standstill is created | | thereby. The pressure upon whart | | space s felt more now than hitherto, | to a great extent through the extra number of coal bearing vessels dis- charging here for the United States | Government stores. After having caused a very large number of milch kine to be slaughtered on account of tuberculosis during the past two years, the Government has at length ordered the inspection’ of neat cattle imported from the coast. Within the past two weeks the Jap- anese have increased their criminal record here by two homicides, with in- dications that they were fonl murders, and with a suicide; and at Koloa plan- tation thev broke out in a riotous strike and-fought with the police, but were overpowered and compelled to go to work again, As Chief Justice Tudd has now round- ed off his twenty-five vears of service on the Supreme Court bench the mem- Of the three more writs of | CALIFORNIA SHOT STARR DARE. NTSVILLE, Ala., Dec. 21.—Private David Dare, Company E, First United States Infantry, lies in a precarious condition at the general hospital at Camp Forse, as a result of a wound received on Dare was shot by a negro. * * Christmas night. his stomach. rested. blood. Dare is expected to die. wealthy Californian. £k ok ok K % Infantry, to Compan Tampa, Fla. v E of that regiment. honor—a worthy son of California. * EEEE R R R R R R a negro were engaged in a fight. one apart from the combatants fired upon him, the bullet entering Will Griggsby and Mack Lightfoot have been ar- Three eye-witnesses who saw the shooting testified in court to-day that Lightfoot is the man who shot Dare and that he did it in cold- He is a volunteer, is known at his home in San Franeisco as Starr Dare and is said to be the son of a Starr Dare, unknown to his parents, joined the First California United States Army, on April 19, 1898, and was assigned He was sent with his comrades to and, assigned to General Lawton’s command. On board the United States steamer Gussie the brave young vecruit had his baptism of fire in the first fight with the Spanish on the northern coast of Cuba, where they landed and engaged the enemy. part in the fighting at Santiago de Cuba also and bore himself with PRIVATE BY A NEGRO One of his friends and As he walked toward them some He took s % Kk ok ok ok ok sk sk ok ok ok ok ok ok %k ok ok ok % ok ok ok ok Kok HEEXFEEEEXR X R KKK KR bers of the bar are to dine him on Jan- ary 7. The University of California boys will be proud to learn that their football victory over Stanford was duly cele- | brated on Saturday by a banquet of her former students, who have formed a permanent organization with Hon. A. V. Gear, '87, as president and C. A. Elston, '97, as treasurer. The China arrived yesterday after a splendid run of less than ten days from Yokohama. She brought sixty-two more Chinese, who will have to run the habeas corpus gauntlet in all probabil- ity. | " The health of the soldiers in the hos- deaths | pital is improving. Two other must, however, be added to the long roll: Fred D. James, aged 22, Company K, Eighteenth Infantry, December 10. Clyde Minnis, aged 22, Twenty-third United States Infantry, discharged from Manila and landed from United States troopship Scandia, December 11. COMMISSIONER FROM HAWAIl TERRITORY HONOLULU, Dec. 20.—The Chamber of Commerce at its meeting to-day in- dorsed the appointment of W. A. Kin- ney to represent the commercial and mercantile interests of the islands. Mr. Kinney goes East, not as the represen- tative of the planting interests alone, but of the whole commercial interests of the group. It is felt by all mer- chants that there should be a represen- tative man in Washington who knows the islands thoroughly, is a son of the soil and can be ready to answer ques- tions upon any subject connected with the islands. PETRIFIED C SAN RAFAEL CEMETERY Easily Identified as That of Richard Snowden, Who Committed Suicide Years Ago. SAN RAFAEL, Dec. 27.—In removing | the remains of deceased persons from the old cemetery on I street, between Third and Fourth, to-day, a force of workmen employed by Coroner Eden accidentally struck their picks into a coffin and sur- mised from the sound that 'they had struck a large piece of rock. On removing the 1id they were astonished to find a body, of which the head, trunk and one arm were perfectly petrified, while the other arm and the legs had crumbled u'l‘;w remains were those of Richard Snowden, who committed sulcide at Sa Quentin in 1865. He was an uncle of Si Charles Fairfax, after whom Fairfax Station was named, and was 5 years old at the time of his death. Strange the manner of the petrifaction thi tures were so well preserved that rec nition of the body was an easy matter. e s i DEWEY NOW SENIOR OFFICER IN THE NAVY ‘Will Go Upon the Retired List a Year 7 Hence Unless Ex- empted. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. — Admiral Dewey is now the senior officer of the American navy, having reached that position without Congressional action through the retirement Sunday last of Admiral Bunce. He will continue te hold that distinction until December 26 next year, when he will go upon the retired list unless Congress excepts him from the operation of the law, and after mak- ing him admiral of the navy, provides that he may hold that office in active ser- vice without age limit, NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—It was said at the navy yard to-day that Commodore Puailip. will ‘succeed Rear Admiral Bunce, retired, as commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard on January 15. sl Ly ek DYNAMITED A “JOINT.” Novel Methods of Kansans in Enfore- ing a Law. ABILENE, Kans., Dec. 2.—Citizens of ‘Woodbine blew up with dynamite a bulld- ing in which a “joint’’ had been started a week ago. Everything in the building was destroyed, timber being thrown for rods, and the adjoining stores were. also somewhat injured. No one was hurt. The *“Jointists’ had been ordered to leave, but refused to do so. A “joint” in Kansas is an illegal saloon, n 5 “ MILLER RETURNS 0 STAND TRIAL Surrenders to Police of Stockton. | | iDISAPPEARED MONTHS AGO iACCUSED OF HAVING SWIN- DLED BUSINESS MEN. Comes Back From Chicago and Is Arrested on a Warrant Sworn Out After His Flight. Special Dispatch to The Call. STOCKTON, Dec. 27.—David Miller, a successful dealer in beans and grain on the levee of Stockton, arrived to-night | from Chicago and gave himself up to | Sheriff Cunningham. He is in jail, but seems to make light of the charge against him of obtaining goods by false pretenses, and appears to think the af- | fair will be easily straightened out. He had been missing since the first day of last June, but says he would have re- turned earlier if he had had money to come back on. Miller is believed to have left here with $10,000 or $12,000, made in his pecu- | liar dealings with people here and else- where. He caught a number of men in San Francisco as well, and his personal effects left were sold out a short time ago on an execution issued on a judg- ment obtained by a San Francisco com- mission firm. The warrant of arrest was issued on the complaint of the cashler of the Navigation and Improvement Company, who charged Miller with having got away with a lot of beans belonging to the steamboat company, which he bought on a worthless check in the amount of $4200. It is charged that Miller bought the company’s beans, and, presenting the check on a bank where he had no money, was given a warehouse re- ceipt, which he hypothecated at the bank. There were other similar transactions, and when he fled he was missed by a dozen or more sharp busi- ness men, who were ashamed to tell of their losses, but the story got out. Miller says he went to Portland from here, and then to Chicago, where he has been since June last. He cut quite a dash here for a time, and seemed to have unlimited credit. It was remarked when he left that he had taken in some of the shrewdest business men in the city. He is credited with having crip- pled 1. S. Bostwick when the latter was considered a wealthy man, by inducing him to engage in coal mining and in the retail business in San Francisco. Mil- ler has lived here off and on for many years. . HONORS FOR OUR WARSHIPS, Gold Plates Presented to the Oregon and Towa at Callao. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—The Herald's correspondent' at Callao telegraphs that the arrival of the United States battle- ships Oregon and Towa at that port has caused the greatest excitement and en- thusiasm. They entered the harbor at 7 o'clock in the morning, and great crowds went out to see them during the day. Delegations representing the Cuban resi- dents of Peru went to Callao to meet the warships. They presented to each a gold plate. With the name changed, each bore the inscription: . “AR honor to the commander, the offi- cers and the crew of the United States warship Oregon, victorious in the naval combat_off nnuain de Cuba on the 3d day of July, 1883. This plate is given as a testimonial of the patriotic gratitude of all Cuban citizens in Peru.” 1 PRAYER INVOKED TO HEAL THEM Omaha Judge and His Family Sacrifice to Their Belief in the Faith Cure. The whole family are Christian aid was called, but a couple of the Mrs. Eller died to-day, but this change physicians. They asserted not be saved through the efficacy of call physicians. county bench. One of the healers ing” the Eller family with prayer is prominent lawyers of the city and had received proof of his ability to Mrs. Eller lingered twenty hours o E OB © B O H O8O Om the employment of physicians. stove exploded last night and burned four members terribly no medical ers were hurriedly sent for and prayed for the family at length. this treatment was being administered and the suffering victims were being told they were not in pain, flesh was dropping from their bodies. Judge Eller is a well-known lawyer, having served a term on the He gave up the law to become a Christian Science healer, declaring he during that time in the most frightful agony. cltizens may take the matter in hand and invoke the law to compel OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 27.—The faith of the family of Judge J. W. Eller of Omaha in Christlan Science is being thoroughly tested. gave up her life to-day for the faith. Her husband cannot live and two other members of the family are suffering from frightful burns. Mrs. Eller Scientists, and when a gasoline most expert Christian Science heal- ‘While did not cause the other sufferers to with the healers that if they could prayer it was not worth while to who has been industriously “heal- J. R. Clarkson, one of the most an ex-member of the district bench. heal with prayer. after having been burned, being If Judge Eller dies the 4-0-H-0H 050 0 HOEOHEOHOREOHEONO CRAWFORD PLAN— OF NOMINATING IS VALID. S Johnson of Sacramento presiding. UISUN, Dec. 27.—The case of Powers vs. hearing on a demurrer in the Superior Court at Fairfield to-day. Judge Hitchcock came up for a Hitchcock was elected Justice of the Peace of Suisun Township at the last election by a good majority and the certificate of election was issued to him. He was nominated on the Craw- ford plan, by the Republicans of the township. Afterward the county con- vention ratified his nomination and his name was placed on the ticket as the regular Republican nominee. Powers was nominated by petition, but was badly beaten at the polls. Powers claims that Hitchcock’s nomination was not regular and that all votes cast for him were illegally cast, and that court enjoin Hitchcock from using his certificate or attempting to, act as Justice. O. R. Coghlan, Hitchcock's attorney, demurred to the complaint ers had mistaken his remedy, if he had any, and that the time for ob- Jecting to the nomination had passed, and Powers, having slept on his saying Hitchcock was not properly nominated. The court sustained the de- murrer. The case excited some interest for the reason that all the newly cock was. APuget Sound yesterday morning with her cargo of lime on fire, was beached to-day. The deck load of lumber was removed, and an exami- forward hold were burning fiercely, and it was impossible to remove any of the cargo. The tugs Rescue and Escort and a city fire engine worked all in by the tugs and engine there was no abatement of the fire, and it is the general belief that the steamer will burn to the water's edge. Another lime will swell and burst her open. The lower hold of the Lakme is filled with lumber and strenuous efforts are being made to subdue the fire before used as a transport last August in conveying the United States Engineer Corps from San Francisco to Honolulu. She is owned in San Francisco. HICAGO, Dec. 27.—Louis Sliclz, aged 68, a harness maker, despondent because out of work, committed suicide this afternoon by taking coals till he fell to the floor unconscious. He was so horribly burned that the flesh fell off his head and face, exposing the skull and jaws, and his pulse continued to beat for eight hours. Physicians who were called attempted to restore him to life, but could not. They believed that, having been thoroughly deadened by the intense heat to which it had been subjected while his head was in the stove. SAD HOME-COMING FOR CHRISTMAS. he (Powers) ought to have received the certificate. Hence he asks that the on the ground that it did not state a cause of action, arguing that Pow- rights, was now estopped, after the people had signified their choice, from elected Justices and Constables were nominated in the same way as Hitch- STORIA, Or., Dec. 27.—The steamer Lakme, which arrived in port from nation of the vessel made. It was found that many barrels of lime in the afternoon pumping water into the Lakme’s hold. Despite the water pumped danger which now threatens the total destruction of the steamer is that the it reaches this portion of her cargo. The Lakme is a wooden vessel and was THRUSTS HIS HEAD INTO A COOK STOVE. C the lid off a cook stove and holding his head against the red-hot presenting a ghastly sight. In spite of the fearful mature of the burns though the pulse beat, the man suffered no pain, the brain undoubtedly \/\[ Alexandria Bay says: ATERTOWN, N..Y., Dec. 27.—A special to the Standard from Yesterday three of the children of Charles Hagerman were playing on the ice off the north shore of Wells Island in the St. Lawrence River, when the ice broke and they all fell in and were drowned. Mrs. Hagerman rushed to the scene and in her endeavors to rescue the ehildren broke through the ice and she, too, was drowned. Mr. Hagerman, who had been in the drowning to take Christmas dinner with his-family. went to the river and alone recovered the four bo Canada, arrived home an hour after Arriving home he dies. ERNE AND HAWKINS AGREE UPON TERMS. 9 EW YORK, Dec. the ‘erms for their coming battle. in San Francisco the last week in at 6 o’clock, before the club offering a side. ARCHBISHOP IRELAND’S NAME NOT MENTIONED No Determination Reached as to Representatives to the Disarma- ment Conference of the Czar. }EW YORK, Dee. 21.—The Washington correspondent of the Herald telegraphs as fellows: I was assured by a high offi- clal of the administration to-day that there was absolutely no foundation for the report that President McKinley has decided to appoint Archbishop Ireland as representative of the United States Gov- ernment at the proposed disarmament conference called by tae Czar of Russia. The President discussed this matter at a recent Cabinet meeting, but no names were mentioned in connection with the possible representatives from this coun- try, and acgording to information which Sécretary Hay was able to furnish the Cabinet it scemed to be by no means cer- tain that the proposed conference would actually take place. Notwithstanding ca- ble dispatches from St. Petersburg stat- ing that the conference would certainly be held in that city in March next the authorities here are rather skeptical, both as to the probability of the confer- ence and as to the outcome in case it held, They decline, however, to express any definite opinion until the arrival next month of Embassador Hitchcock, when they expect to have reliable information on the subject. At the Cabinet discussion referred to the conclusion was reached to have one or more American representatives partic- ipate in the conference in case i1t was held. e PECK SUITS DISMISSED. Involved Thousands of Acres of | Santa Cruz County Land. i SANTA CRUZ, Dec. 27.—Judge Dooling to-day dismissed the Peck suits. Plaintiff | brought suit against about 800 defendants | to recover possession of land valued at several millions, and which is covered by villages, hamlets. farms, schools and churches. The plaintiff claimed that her grandmother, Mrs. Martina Castro De- peaux, who owned much land in the early days, was of unsound mind when she conveyed the lands she sought to recover. Judge Dooling’s decision ends the cas. The plaintiff brought suit as special ministratrix of the Depeaux estate. Sub- sequently her letters were revoked. Then she sought appointment as administratrix, but it was proved the deceased had not left any estate to be administered, so the petition was denied. It ,was while she was special administratrix that the suits were brought. | Stuart’s 7.—Frank Erne and Dal Hawkins have agreed on They are to box twenty-five rounds in February at 135 pounds, ‘weighing the largest purse, and a stake of $2000 —————————————————————— ADVERTISEMENTS. A POPULAR MISTAKE Regarding Remedies for Dyspep= sia and Indigestion. 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STATEMENT —OF THE— | CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— Scottish Union and National INSURANCE COMPANY F_EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, ON THH 31st day of December, A. D. 1897, and for the year ending on that day, as made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Cali- fornia, pursuant to the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Political Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the Commissioner. ASSETS. Real estate owned by company, $101,387 96 Loans on bonds and mortgages. 1,452,850 93 Cash market value of all stocks bonds owned by company. 1,780,875 61 Amount of loans secured by pledgs | ~of bonds, stocks and_other market- 5 able securit: eral 2,80 00 Cash in com 1,366 34 Cash in ba A 424,563 51 Interest due and accrued stocks and loans....... - 18,740 69 Interest due and accrued on bonds and mortgages.... 23,133 83 Premiums in due course of collection 271,237 93 Total assets. in suspense. 220,333 48 Losses resisted, 17,641 67 Gross premiums on fire risks ru ning one year or less, $1,501,671 8 reinsurance 50 per cent. .. 900,835 93 Gross premiums on fire risks run- ning more than one year, $1,75,~ 420 08; reinsurance pro rata. 998,233 21 Commissions and brokerage to become due....,, 23,435 63 Total labilitles. §2,148,368 25 INCOME, Net cash actually received for fire premiums 32,854,554 8¢ Received for interest on bonds and mortga 76,714 34 Received bonds, stoc! all other ‘sources. Received for rents. Total income.. EXPENDT S Net amount paid for fire losses (in- cluding $291,545 03, losses of pre- vious years) $1,241,3¢8 83 Pald or allowed for commission or brokerage . 611,087 99 Paid for salaries, fees and other charges for officers, clerks, ete. 107,198 29 Pald for State, onal and I taxes cova 57,792 32 All other payments and expendi- tures 131,042 85 Total expenditures........eessessess! 8206850 17 re. Losses incurred during the year......$1,197,946 95 Risks and Premiums. |Fire Risks. Premiuma, Netamount of risks writ- ten during the vear....[ $836,508,92553,201,387 45 | et amount of risks ex | pired during the year. 161,257/ 2,898,850 85 Net amount in force De cember 31, 1597. MARTIN BENNETT, United States Manager. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of January, 1898 CLARKSON N. FOWLER, Notary Publie. 'R. C. MEDCRAFT, GENERAL AGENT, 319 CALIFORNIA STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Dr. Wong Him, Nos. 15 and 117 Mason street, San Francisco, Cal,.—Thia is to certify that I have been for several years o great sufferer from Bright's Disease ot tha Kidneys, a tumor in ths left side and other di: incidental to nd months at @& : been totally unable affairs, and much of bed. Nothing couls led more than - n r ¢ P nterview, after feeling my pu you described my condition more accurately {han T could have done myself. . After using Your medicine and following your advic: since that time 1 am very happy to 84y I hive en- tirely recovered my health; am fully able to fuifll all my duties as the mother of & larga family of children; indeed, for the past 15 or 29 years I have not enj as robust health, MES. HETTIE E. LOWE, 3371 24th street, San Franc Cal October 18, 188, | NEW WESTERN HOTEL, | K BEARNY AND WASHINGTON STS.—REe | modeled and renovated. KING, WARD & | CO. European plan, Rooms 36c t> $1 50 day; | 8 to 3 week; 35 to §30 month. *r-e baths; hot and cold water every room; fire grates in every room; elevator runs all night. W. T. HESS, KOTARY PUBLIC AND ATTORNIY-AT LAW, Tenth Floor, Room 1015, Claus spreckels Bldg. ‘Telephone Brown @1 Residence, 521 California st., below Powell, San Francisco. Weekly Cal $1.00 pr Vear