The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 23, 1899, Page 8

=y » WELCOME AWAIT N S THE EW ANGEL Memocrats Dr. Pardee Unwittingly Help ’s Political Future. id May Have to ~mpetition in Solve the Problem of Gas—Temescal Desires to Change Its Name. > San Francisco Call, Broadway, Jan. 22. stless many would-be . Oakland who would opening of the mu- | n to meet the latest | be brought forward | the public eye. He ul at this time, and | need not be in doubt . of the welcome he | 4 this city of practical pol- | ans. Thus refers to that class of angel ~such hovers around and without ,\‘n“(‘i-l tation, without guarantee, without consid- | eration and without any hope of reward | on this side of the grave, drops little _sacks containing nine hundred dollar | “wads” into the laps of those who are fortunate enough to be thus visited. Oak- jand has produced some ‘“‘good things” politically, but there is no record of any- thing quite so good as this. Dr. Pardee and his friends are showing a great deal of philosophical common- | sense in not per ng the doctor’s name | to be hawked about for any nomination | that is in the gift of the Republican | party. Alameda County morally took an oath last fall that she would have the | Governorship of the State for her favor- | ite candidate or she would have nothing. | A gallant start was made, and as things | are understood to be at p: , Dr. Par- dee is in line for the nomination for Go ernor when Mr. Gage shall be nearing his retirement. However, this does not ap- parently prevent the Democrats from try: ing to muke an Estec of Dr. Pardee. They are evidently anxious to have the doctor placed in a position in which it would | appear that he is a standing candidate for &nything that comes along. At present Dr, Pardce is the gratuitous cholce of the Démocrats for a Republican | Senator, but the doctor himself has posi- | tively said he is not a candidate and he | is paying no more attention to the mat- | ter. Nothing would delight the Demo- | crats more than to have Pardee taken up | for Senator and turned down, so that | four years hence his name would have become stale politically and he could with some degree of truth be classed with the chronic office-seekers. However, even the Democrats in their enthusiasm over the stion to have fallen short of their usual exercise of sagacity. Already they have supplied | enough material to the doctor through one-half of his campalgn when | he again comes before the State. Over 8 solid page of the most laudatory and pleasant criticisms_of the doctor's life | and doings, privately and politically, has | been sprea st by the Democratic press, all of which is being carefully filed away by the doctor's friends for repro- | duction in the future. If I might venture a guess I should say | that the burning issue in local politics | during the next two years will be gas.! and not water, as In the past few years. | A _very Interesting situation now exists, | which is entirely new to this community. | .and yet it can be said truthfully that| there is a precedent in degree, if not in kind, with which to compare it. Since | this city needed any other illumination | than c: les and coal oil lamps. there has been but one gas compan: t times com- | etition has been b ed, Uis ail, | he existing company Uways sought to secure and retain the friendship of the | municipal government and the citizens, | This has n done by a plan that might almost be called co-operative, inasmuich | as no demand has ever 1 corporation to r yet it has alw. zagio of the nu n niade uce the price of i ¥S been 1 ced in ber of consumer: the #A few days ago much surprise was cre- | ated by the incorporation of a new gas sompany. Thi company ha: agreed | <«mang its directors that for three years prices about 30 per cent less than those | now charged shall prevail. This of course, a question of maraked importa | ment. to the household consumer, especially as the use of gas for domestic purposes is rapidly increasing in this city. here is, however, a more important as pect of this question. The City of Oak- land now pays for its street lighting and for the {llumination supplied its municipal buildings a sum approximating $80,000 a year. This of itself is a tolerably com- fortable income for a corporation. Th means, of course, that the head and body competition will center itself about Experience has c!rcumfltanc}(‘s be of any the municipal contract. taught that under such either corporation would naturally forced for its own protection to do eve thing possible to secure the necessary six s in the City Council and two in the 3 d of Public Works to obtain the con- tract. No other possibility can exist. Oakland has, therefore, if the explofted plans of the new company be carried out, the prospect of a rate cutting war in gas | before her. Whether this will prove bene- al or not ultimately is the point to be determined. Four years ago Oakland had but one water company. The rates it charged were considered to be abnormally high, and the public volce was always heard demanding that the schedule be Somehow or other the corpora- 1 ays was able to secure the pas age of its high rates by the City Council. Periodically indignation would assert it- bs would denounce the water com- nd besiege the council chamber at ime of fixing rates, but after the al excitement died away the people were compelled for another twelve months to pay their tax into the coffers of the corporation, there being no altern tive. Competition came along and for about two years Oaklanders enjoyed pay- ing an absurdly low figure for watel lowered. Houses which would reasonably pay a | dollar and a_half a month were accommo- dated for 2 cents. Everybody was de- lighted and_ the city congratulated itself upon the advantages of competition, The situation is now different. There are still two_water companies, but no competition. Since the beginning of this year they should be getting rich, but it is at the expense of the people, who two ears ago were so jubilant over getting ater at a ridiculousiy low figure. The man who would be willing to pay a dollar and a half and got h ter now finds his bill over three dollars and the presidents of both water compa s blandly tell the objector that he being greatly favored, the rates now charged are nothing mear those in the schedule which the water companies in- duced the Council to pass last spring. It expected that very shortly there wiil | again be but one water company and that | | the city will be called upon to pay the legal 6 per cent upon their united capi- | talization of $9,000,000. In other words property-owners have suffered greatly from competition in | water. Now the question has forced itself be- fore the public as to whether competition in gas is going to be a benefit or a detri- At present Oakland pays $1 50 and 51 % for illuminating and cooking gas re- spectively. The new company proposes to place its'stock in escrow, so that for a veriod of three years gas shall be sold at 1 and 75 cents respectively, and so that no rival corporation shall buy it out dur- ing that period. But after three vears? This is a ques- tion for the social and political economists to conjure with. Residents of Temescal have caused a small wave of disappointment to spread over Oakland. turesque little suburb of Temescal has rejoiced in its pretty, “Temescal” is rather poetic. Now come | the residents and demand a change. They declare that the name of their suburb means “a sweathouse,’ and this they consider an insult. No doubt they are right, they ought to know, but no one will willingly strike the pretty word from the nomenciature of this county. And, after all, it isn't so bad as Hangtown or Los Gatos (the cats), though it may not compare favorably with Los Angeles. STUART W. BOOTH. ALAMEDA CAMPAIGN WILL BE CLEAN CUT| HARMONIE HALL PARTY WOR- RIES THE CANDIDATES. Declares There Must Be Two Distinct Tickets in the Field and That They Are Out for Patronage. 2 ALAMEDA, Jan. The Harmonie | Hall party declared itself this afternoon | at a meeting of the general committee, and to-night all the politicians in town a.rc'; discussing the actions of the leaders and some of the admisions made at the meet- | . A few evenings ago the Harmonie Hall | executive committee adopted the follow- | ing resolution: _ “It is the sense of this committee that | any candidate who signs the platform of the Municipal League convention be not supported by this committee.” 1 As most of the local candidates had | been striving to shut off.opposition by se- euring the 1ndorsement of both the Zeague and the Harmonie Hall people, | the resolution sent them scurrying around | to ascertain where they stood. Then a mighty howl went up against the resolu- | tion. It was characterized as a high- | handed piece of business and an effort on the part of one or two men to run| the Harmonie Hall machine. The meeting this afternoon was called | for the purpose of discussing the actions of the exccutive committee. The outcome | was that the resolution was indorsed and | the action of the committee ratified. | As a result, two complete tickets will | pe in the field at the spring election, a | condition never heard of before in Ala- meda politics. | Henry Muller, secretary of the execu- | wv ~cOommittee, sald the purpose of the | ution was to compel every candidate | he ticket to get in and work for the A | 4t has been the practice,” he said, *for | me of the candidates to get on all the /kets, and then when election day came | ad they had a cinch on their jobs they | gould take things ea and smile while ibe rest of us worked | He also dwelt on the assertion that Har- monie Hall was out for the public patron- | age, and if the party was successful in | the spring every appointive office to be | filled must come from the ranks of the onife Hall organization. This is another thing never dreamed of before in the municipal affairs of Alameda. Alexander Mackie, who is a candidate gor City Trustee, addressed the meeting and charged that the city electric light ylant was conducted in an extravagant nner and that the city’s acounts were #ept very loosely. He asserted that the iy government could be run on a tax ,v‘§ of 75 cents instead of $1 22 as at pres- | nt. * B. J. Smith retorted by stating that Mackie did not know axle grease from jubricating oil. The chairman shut off the acrimonious debate before any blood was spilled. t was proposed to suggest names to go the party’s ticket, but such action was t) of bi;l the unique statement from atary Muller that there would be a meral understanding that the executive miittee would-take the matter in hand and determine who the candidates should be. In that event :* does not appear what the nominating convention, to be called hereafter, will have to do. The Municipal League will meet to-mor- row night to continue the work of naming its ticket. —_——— Church Services in Oakland. OAKLAND, Jan. 22.—Rev. O. E. Hotle of Berkeley occupied Rev. Mr. Harrlott's pulpit at the Brooklyn Presbyterian Church this evening. Rev. Charles R. Brown spoke on “Home Influence of Social Life” to-night at the First Congregational Church. “‘Courtship” was the interesting_ jtopic of an instructive sermon by Rev. MacH. Wallace at the Market street Congrega- tional Church to-night. Rev. J. R. Knodell, pastor of Pilgrim Congregational Church, spoke to-day on “The Obstacles and Opportunities With Respect to Christ.” ““Things Done Without Hands,” was the subject of Rev. Dr. Coyle’s sermon to- night at the First Presbyterian Church. Rev. Dr. E. R. Dille, at the First M. E. Church, to-day spoke on “God’s Ancies Sacrifice—A Broken and Contrite Heart. “‘Spiritual Foes” was the subject of Rev. A. T. Needham's morning sermon at the Eighth avenue M. E. Church. Rev. C. H. Hobart explained *“Devices of the Devil” in his morning sermon at the First Baptist Church. Rev. F. H. Church, rector of St. Luke's Memorial Church, Tacoma, occupied Rev. l\gygiu‘d s pulpit at St. John’s Church to- night. Elder Blair of Lamoni, Towa, spoke to- day at the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Salnts. . At the Gospel tent to-day Mr. and Mrs. Armour, evangelists of the Christian Al liance, from Los Angeles, addressed audi- ences. —_—————— A LINEMAN’S PERIL. i Gus Erickson Almost Killed by a Live Light Wire. ALAMEDA, Jan. 2.—Gus Erickson, a lineman in the employ of the Sunset Tele- phone Company, while at work at the top of a forty-foot pole this morning received the force of the current used in operating the Alameda and Oakland electric line, and was nearly killed. Erickson was engaged with other work- men stringing new telephone wires along Park street, near the tidal canal bridge. The telephone wire crossed the feeders of the electric line, and when Erickson | took hold of it to make it fast to an in- sulator 1000 volts of electricity went through his system. The palms of the man’s hands were burned to the bones, the flesh peeling off in strips. . When he recefved the shock he dropped limp upon the crossbeams, where he dangled for a few moments in midair, the crowd below expecting that if he was not already dead from the shock he would be killed by the fall to the ground, which seemed inevitable. Erickson was in a semi-conscious con- | dition, but he still retained sufficient of his senses to clutch the pole with his arms. He swung his body from the cross- beams and darted feet first to the ground. He broke the force of the fall by cling- ing to the pole untll he was within ten feet of the bottom, when his strength gave way and he dropped to the pave- ment limp and a pa.remfy lifeless. He was carried into a house near by, where he was attended by Dr. E. M. Keys. The man was in_convulsions for :’\;,e;t tg;ge‘:n:surs. whe(rix he rallied some- remove: Hospital tn Oakiand, 0 ¢ Feoelving an- | s water for a quar- | For many years the pic- | euphonious name. | INTERPRETER FOR O FOON 5 ASSAULTED He Was Attacked by Highbinders. ONE OF THEM ARRESTED HONG SING SAYS THE SLAVE DEALERS WANT HIM. Louie Lee, the Man Under Arrest, Protests His Innocence and De- nies He Is a Hatchet- man. Hong Sing, 2 member of the Chinese | | Society for English Education, who| went to Santa Rosa last week to act as interpreter in the case of Ong Foon, charged with murder, claims he was assaulted last night by three members of the Bing Kong Tong. One of his supposed assailants, Louie Lee, he | pointed out to Officer Slattery of Lieu- tenant Esola’s squad, and Lee was charged at the California-street sta- tion with battery. 3 According to Sing's story he was sent to Santa Rosa to act as interpreter | and assist in the defense of Ong Foon. He returned to this city Saturday and |learnea on his arrival here that a price of $500 had been placed on his head by | | the slave owners, whom he claims are | interested in the conviction of Ong Foon on account of the harm the latter | has done the slave dealers by giving information to the authorities. Sing says that the Bing Kong Tong is an organization composed of those en- gaged in keeping houses of ill fame. | Sing states that as he was walking along Washington street, near the cor- ner of Fish alley, last night, he was assaulted by three men. He called for the police and his assailants ran. Offi- cer Slattery heard the commotion, and, seeing some half-dozen Chinamen run- | ning started for the nearest one, when Sing pointed out Louie Lee as the man | he wanted arrested. Slattery captured Lee, but the others escaped. At the station Louie Lee protested | his innocence. He declared that he was | standing at the corner of Fish alley and | Washington street when several men | ran past him. He turned to see what the trouble was and was grabbed by | | Sing, who cursed him and accused him | of having hit him over the head. Lee denies that he belongs to the Bing, Kong Tong, but admits that he is a | member of the Chinese Soclety of Free | Masons and wears a badge of that or-| | der. Those familiar with the socleties in Chinatown say that the Free Masons are a highbinder organization. One of | their clubs was raided by Lieutenant Price recently and the members or- dered to leave town. Sing, as soon as he was assaulted, made the statement that the attack | was due to the part he tock in the Ong Foon case. His charge that the assault | was made at the instigation of the slave dealers is doubted by some of the | | officers, as the Educational Society is| at war with the slave men and wish to | bring to their doors anything that goes wrong in Chinatown. As a matter of fact it is not the slave owners of San Francisco who are directly responsible for the prosecution of Ong Foon on the charge of murder. The complaint | was sworn to by Wong Tan, a resident | of Santa Rcsa. The murder was committed six years | ago and Tan claims that the first he knew of the whereabouts of Ong Foon was by reading an account of his ar- rest on the charge of attempted extor- tion. Officers from Santa Rosa were in the city severakdays before the trial | on that charge took place and it \\'asi | through the efforts of the parties in- | terested in that prosecution that Foon | was not arrested for murder before the | trial. The prosecutors of Foon claim that he he is also wanted for a mur- der committed in Sacramento the same year as that at Santa Rosa. They say | that the case was hushed up on the | condition that Foon would leave Sacra- | mento and not return. He went back | some time ago, it is claimed, but was | | | | | | obliged to leave to save his life. |DR. STEBBINS SENDS IN HIS RESIGNATION HE WAS THE SUCCESSOR OF THOMAS STARR KING. An Affectionate Farewell to the Con- gregation of the First Unita- rian Church. Dr. Stebbins yesterday bade farewell to | the congregation and the church in which | he has labored faithfully for so many | years, in the following tender words: SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22, 1599, To Mr. Frank J. Symmes, Moderator of the Board of Trustees of the First Unitarian | Church of San Francisco, and to the Trustees | and people of the church—Dearly Beloved: I | am admonished by time and events that the hour is come for me to resign the trust which I have held as your minister into your hands; and I do hereby resign it, that you may be free to act aceording to the dictates of your discretion and as the welfare of the church demands, "And I come to this decision by methods dictated alike by nature and heaven. God hath so ordered the generations of man- Kkind that one generation goeth and another generation cometh, and thus is kept the bond that binds mankind to the throne of God. Originally unknown to you. I was chosen through your confidence to be the successor of the beloved Thomas Starr King. With what- ever faithfulness or defect that trust has been discharged you are the most fit judges, and 1 submit it all to vour candid and true feeling. 1 will not dwell upon its imperfections, nor in- duige in any enthusiasms of self-depreciation or honorable pride of self-respect. These all are with you and are safe. 1 may say, perhaps, with grateful satistac- tion as under the guidance of a Divine Provi- dence, that this ministry has been devoted to those’ great human interests that belong to man as man, and to human nature in ite great common experiences and cvents rather than | to_a provincial ecclesisticism or parochial policy. The church of God is co-ordinate with universal man, and human progress is but an- other name for the increasing splendor of that light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. Tor this every human interest is | dear and religion consecrates, confirms and establishes all forever and ever. 1 thank God through Jesus Christ and the common daily life of men that this mlnlury‘ na. has reckoned human nature and the divine ture of kin blood and has never despised any man because he was rich or poor or igno- rant or black. but has esteemed uim as hold- ing some mysterions and eternal relation to the father of all, and In my heart of hearts T can ask no greater blessing on you all than that the ministry that shall succeed me may have as wide a grace and as free a love as the best that is in us can suggest of God or m: And now may love and blessing and hon: and power be upon you from on high evermore. Amen. (Signed) HORATIO STEBBINS. By Roderick Stebbins. As this resignation was given at the morning service, the trustees as yet have had no time to consider it in its business relations to the church. 'rhere is little doubt, however, that they will be un- willing to accept his resignation so long as Dr. Stebbins is alive and improving in health, but they feel that he desires rest. The people of the First Unitarian Church is loath to part with their beloved pastor, whose long service in that pulpit has en- deared him to their hearts. The matter will be considered at an early date by the trustees. i | through Bristol, | Colonel McGhee, thereby forming the | | Rotterdam to testify before the Court of | | cinet, the Minister of War, asking to be | | released from his FIFTEEN MILLIONS IN A LUMP SUM Big Deal Just Concluded in Tennessee. INVESTMENT OF A SYNDICATE BUYS FURNACG.S, RAILWAYS AND COAL LANDS. Strongest Company Ever Organized in the South Will Develop Hitherto Untouched Resources. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 22.—The largest business transaction made in the South in ten years has just been made here. It involves an investment of $15,000,000. The Virginia Coal, Iron and Railway Company has bought the immense blast furnaces at Max Meadows, Pulaskl, Roanoke, Va., and Bristol, Tenn.; also the Bristol and Elizabethton and the South Atlantic| and Ohio Railroad. Cash is paid for all the properties. The company be- comes owner of 125,000 acres of coking coal lands, 60000 acres of ore lands, | two railroads and nine furnaces. The railroads extend from Big Stone Gap, Va., to Elizabethtown, Tenn., passing Tenn., and the rich coal, mineral and timber lands of the new company. The result of this transaction is due to the efforts of Colonel E. J. Sanford of this city, president of the Knoxville and Ohio Railroad; Colonel E. M. Mc- Ghee of this city, who is known among the railroad® magnates, and Mr. Ben Dulaney of Bristol, Tenn. Colonel San- ford and Mr. Dulaney interested New York people in the enterprise and or- ganized the company with $7.500,000 stock subscribed and the same amount of bonds were issued and sold for spot cash. E. B. Chapman of Moore & Schley, the sew York bankers, car- ried the deal through and that firm un- derwrote the bonds. The Bristol Furnace was purchased over a year ago by Colonel Sanford and | nucleus of what has developed into | such a strong concern. This furnace will be put into active operation imme- | diately, under the management of George T. Carter, president of the new | company, who has for ten years been president of the Carter Coal and Iron Company. . The gentlemen composing the com- pany have made propositions seeking | the purchase of the furnaces at John- son City and Embreeville, Tenn. The company is the strongest ever organ- | ized in the south for a similar purpose. It will develop untold resources hereto- fore untouched. East Upper Tennes- see and Southwest Virginia are rich in coal, iron, zinc and other minerals, to- gether with valuable forests of timber of every description. The develop- | ments of these properties will begin at once. MAJOR ESTERHAZY TO GIVE TESTIMONY Prosecutor of Dreyfus May Appear Before the Court of Cassation in Paris To-Day. PARIS, Jan. 22—Major Comte Ferdi- nand Walsin _ Esterhazy, the reputed author of the Dreyfus bordereau, who ar- rived here on Wednesday evening from Cassation, wrote yesterday to M. de Frey- | oath of professional secrecy. M. de kreycinet to-day acceded to his request and it is believed that | Comte Esterhazy will appear before the | court to-morrow. He continues to decline | to receive visito: sl SRR RACE AGAINST TIME TO THE KLONDIKE Richard Butler Wagers $2000 That He Can React. Dawson in Twenty-five Days. SEATTLE, Jan. 22.—A race against time | from Seattle to Dawson for a purse of $6000 began at 12 o’clock to-night, when Richard Butler, a wealthy Klondiker, started for Dawson on the steamer City of Seattle. Joe Barrett, another wealthy Klondiker, bet Butler $2000 that he could not make the trip from Seattle to Dawson in twenty-five days or less, and $1000 more | that he could not make it in les than twenty days. e FO e BELGIAN CABINET CRISIS. Differences Between Xing ILeopold and Certain Ministers. / BRUSSELS, Jan. 22—According to the | Patriote serious disturbances have arisen between King Leopold and some of the | Ministers on the question of the introduc- | ton of the uninominal electoral system, which the King advocated. It is rumored | that the Premier, M. de Smet de Naeyr, will resign to-morrow, and that the Cabi- net will be reconstructed. Jumped Into the Sea. ROME, Jan. 22.—A steamer just arrived at Genoa from Buenos Ayres reports that on January 14 a peasant woman named Ferrarini, in a fit of insanity, threw her three little sons into the sea and then leaped overboard. All four were drowned. Two days later her husband and daughter Jjumped into the sea and were lost. The remaining son, who has made a fortune in La Plata, landed at Genoa. HOTEL ARRIVALS. PALACE HOTEL. | | | € F Sheldon, Los Ang'A I Weng, N Y J B Dickson, N Y |] H Black,’ N Y W B Sargent, N Y C W Cook, N Y W D_Judd, Holyoke {J Bayha, Kobe Mrs W D Judd, Holyk W H Kinna, Chicago E P _ Barton, Philadel Mrs E P Barton, Phila E F_Morrison, N Y Mrs McKinney, § Jose Miss ' Cox, San Jose H J Cox, Cal H B Taylor, Oakland W Willls, Oakland W C Forbes, Boston Mrs Jefferson, L. Ang T L Copeland, L Ang W _W Dreyfoos, Chgo 7 Shesgreen, N Y T B Burdell, Burdell Mrs F H Barbour,N Y|~ 13 McLaine, N Y E 8 Barney, Amador {R C White, Cleveland Miss Barbour, N Y Mr» R C White,Clevid Miss H Johnson, N Y|.: Reid, New Zealand J A Brant, Cal rs C Reid, New Zlnd G Whiting, Boston J Michael, N Y L E Hunt, Rossland Mre J Michael, N Y G Hasor, Kobe E Schrimpff, Pa R Strickland, Spokane T Fox, Virginia City [ Hauser, N Y L Remhardt, St Lovis |E Goetze, Minn i A Lay, Mass J P Jefferson, Pa Mrs Henry, Pa Mrs Probot, Texas i Probot, Texas J 1. Bouhots, Lonlon M- J L Bouhots, Ladn 7 1 Holden, N Y B Rhodes, Texas € B MacNell, Vancvr |¥ C Kennedy, Mrs C T Juloes, N Y |I" Lirne, l:dly' N Mrs Flint Jr,8an Juan Hurst, N Y GRAND G W_Plerce, Davis L J Dake, S Cruz F McConnell, Dawson § E_Howe, Boston R W Howe, Boston ‘W Middlecoff, Stktn A Martel, Mexico ‘W_James, Cal J Poingdestre, S Jose B'J Crane, Menlo J Smith, Cal W Mariner, Eureka W Hammond, V] fa B R Stratton. Chicago F M West, Sfockton E Breldenbach, L Ang F Romain & w, Fresno 0 W Hazard, Towa G Adams & w, B C H Severn & w, N Mrs A D Currie, N Y Miss J Waldorf, N ¥ HOTEL. Mrs McGregor, N Y J Brown & w. Sacto M C Dry, Portland G Dickson & w, Wash H C Ray, Visalia Oakland Gurney, Angels W_L Rodgers, Cal T H Tuttle, Cal Mrs R Gray, Seattle W Timson & w, Wash S J Craft & w, Wash T Jones & w, Victorla G B Graham, Fresno Mrs A Hare, L Ang = = Rohrer, Fresno W D Bennetf, St Jjoe A J Larson, Lodi L Phillips & w, Lodi C E Williams. " Ukizh Miss D Holabird, L Ang E Boyer, N Y | healf}\.L STRONG EVIDENCE AGAINST MILLER Prosecution to Spring a Sur‘prise. HAS NOT SHOWN ITS HAND SUISUN SUSPECTS BEGINNING TO WEAKEN. Preliminary Examination of the Al- leged Slayers of Old Dan Wilson ‘Will’Open To-Mor- TOW. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. SUISUN, Jan. 22.—The authorities announced to-night they were in pos- session of strong evidence against Mil- ler, Mrs. Dickinson and Mrs. Wilson. accused of the murder of Daniel Wi son. The accused nersons to-cay displayed | great nervousness and apreared as if they anticipated evil forebodings. Mil- ler especially seemed anxious and was not as talkative as has been his wont since his incarceration. Mrs. Dickin- son occupied the morning in peering through the windows of her cell. which overlook’the main road to Suisun. as if in expectation of a certain person. Mrs. Wilson also evinced a weakening. Under Sheriff Robinson says the new evidence will greatly strengthen the prosecution’s case. He refuses to di- vulge its nature, but added that the testimony would cause a serprise to all concerned in the case. Ada Rice, a niece of Mrs. Lucy Owens. arrived from San Francisco this evening. <he resided with her aunt in Wilson's residence on the night of the murder. Mrs. Owens is expected to arrive from Santa Barbara on Mon- day. The preliminary examination will begin on Tuesday. OAKLAND, Jan. 22—Fred Harris, a United States prisoner, sentenced in 1896 | to ten years' imprisonment ii San Quen- tin for counterfeiting in Washington State, s at the County Jail, en route to Yumd, Ariz. He is in the care of Deputy ited States Marshal Littlefield, and_ is being taken to Yuma on account of his which failed at San Quentin. — e e———— Alameda News Notes. ALAMEDA, Jan. 22.—The celebration of Le Prevest mass was repeated to-day at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Miss Be: sie Hobart sang Gounod's “‘Ave Maria, with violin obbligato, by Julius Hang. g SAN FRANCISCO CALL. BUSINESS OFFICE of the San Francisco Call, corner of Market and Third streets, open until 12 o'clock every night fn the year. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 257 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street; open until o clock. 015 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. " 1941 Mission street; open untll 10 o’clock. 2261 Market- street, corner Sixteenth; until § o'clock, | 106 Eleventh street: open until 9 o'clock. 226 Biission street; open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner of Twenty-second and Kentucky rtreets: open until 8 o'elock. MEETIN ry. open NOTICES. SAN FRANCISCO Chapter No. 1, Royal ‘Arch Masons, meets THIS EVENING. M. M, P. M. and M. E. M. degrees. CALLED meeting—Occidental Lodge No. .22, ¥. and A. M., THIS (MONDAY) EVENING, at 7:30 o’clock. Second de- SITUATIONS WANTED—FEMALE. HELP W. NTED—Continued. A NO. 1 German cook, American born, with best of references, desires a situation; also a superior Irish cook, with references; also a Scandinavian cook, 2 years’ references. See J. F. CROSETT & CO., 316 Sutter st. AT the German Emjloyment Office, MRS. LAMBERT, 418 Powell st., tel. Main 5332, cooks, hougegirls second girls and nurses await positions. A GERMAN second and German _general housework girl, well recommended, desire situations. MRS. LAMBERT, 418 Powell st., tel. Main 5332, LADIES desiring first-class help of all na- tionalities can secure same by calling on or addressing Phone Grant 1201. MISS CUL- LEN, 3% Sutter st. NEAT German girl desireg situation as nurse or second girl or housewdrk, $10 to $15; refer- ences. MISS CULLEN, 32 Sutter st. COMPETENT Eastern woman, is a good cook and will do some washing; is neat and oblig- ing and has good references; wants a situ- ation; city or country. 206 Fifth st. WANTED by a competent woman, a position for general housework; s good cook and laundress; best of references. Apply 324 Miuna ct, A STYLISH dressmaker would like a few more engagenients by the day; §125; perfect fit guaranteed. 705 Polk st, candy store. NTED—Sit uation by respectable weman to do* general housework or work by the day. 230 Minna st., rear Third. A FIRST-CLASS dressmaker wishes few more engagements; il per day. Address 1229 Mar- et st. RS—Good barber wants work for $9 per Jeek city or country. ~Address Barber, box 1 all. WANTED—Work of any kind by the day; first- class laundress; references. 5138 Larkin st. DANISH girl wishes position to do house and sécond work; best of reference. 537 Seventh. A REFIN German girl wishes a position as governess. Apply 1657 Post st. A_FIRST-CLASS dressmaker will work for $125 per 123 Turk st. LADY wishes a place as chambermald; sleep home. 1113% Howard st., room 21. AN Eastern lady desires sewing In private fam- ily; good on children’s clothes. M. WRIGHT, 923 McAllister st. PROTESTANT woman wishes a situation In American family to do cooking and light washing. Apply 1024% Geary on Monday a.m. DRESS and cloak making wishes engagements at 312 per day. Mason st. a perfect fitter 02 COLORED woman would like situation to do cooking, general housework or nursing. Apply 1103 Montgomery st. GERMAN widow wishes position as working b eper. 212% Sixth st. GIRL; 22; wants position in asylum, hospital or private family. G. KUPER, Ger. Hosp'l. WANTED, by a widow with two boys, ages 9 and 4 years, a place to do general house- work;: city or country; best of references. Call at 776 N no triflers. EXPERIENCED girl wishes position in bakery or lunch room to attend counter and assist with waiting. Address box 1603, Call. day washing or cleaning. 160 Tehama st. LADY wishes few more engagements out; shampooing, treating the scalp, manicuring; send postal and specify work desired. 1206 Market st., room 59. REFINED young lady desires position as com- panion to’elderly lady; understands music; remuneration small; city or country. Ad- dress E. M. PROCTOR, Postotfice, corner Seventeenth and Market st: SITUATIONS WANTED—MALE. JAPANESE-CHINESE Emp. Agency; ull kinds help. GEO. AOKI, 30 Geary; tel. Grant &6. CHINESE and Japanese Employment Office: best help. 4143 O'Farrell st.: tel. East 438 SOBER young man wants work of any kind; small wages. Box 1605, Call office. BOY would like to learn to make harness or work in wholesale house. Address 12 Rausch. WANTED — Situation, city or _country, by young married German groceryman; under- stands handling of wine; good barkeeper and | bookkeeper; good references. Box 1563, Call. YOUNG German, first-clags cook, wants posi- tion in restaurant or 15681, Call office. BITUATION wanted by a German gardener; a good propagator and can take care of horses; handy with tools. Address Gardener, 1569, Call office. OFFICE work wanted by a young man 32 years of age: good penman and bookkeeper: best of references. Address J., box 1574, Call office. ENGLISH butler of New York and London, would Jike a few engagements to work in private families to assist in serving meals; thoroughly understands decorating the table and making salad. Please call or address S. HOMES, 576 Sutter st., city. FIRST class bread and cake baker wants posi- tion. Address 2321% Pine st. WANTED—Employment, with opportunity for advancement; single man, aged 24; indus- trious, sober, learns quickly, bandy with tools and machinery; limited knowledge of bookkeeping, mining, civil engineering, sur- veying. L. E Oakland P.O., Cal. gree. By order of the W. M. WALTER G. ANDERSON, Secretary. MISSION Lodge No. 162, Called meeting YOUNG American family; wages no object; wants to perfect himself in the English language. Ad- dress A. C., 843 Pacific st. EVEN A gree. KING SOLOMON'S Lodge No. and A. M., Franklin Hall, more st.—Third degree THIS (MO DAY) EVENING, at 7:30 o'clock. By order of the Master. HARRY BAEHR, Secretary. THE Trestle Board; Weekly, month- Iy, 10c; sold by all newsdealers. Of- fice, 403 California st., San Fran- cisco, Cal. ST. ANDREW'S Sogiety will cele- Dbrate the 140th anniversary of the 3 birth of ROBERT BURNS by & concert and dance at Scottish Hall, L ., on FRIDAY EVENING, Janu- Stereopticon views of Scottish scenery, Admission 25¢. JAMES S. WEBSTER, President. A. R. PATTERSON, Secretary. THE regular annual shareholder's meeting of the Independent Red% Men's Hal! Assoclation will be held on TUESDAY EVENING, the 2ith inst., at Red Men's Hall, 510 Hush street, &t § o'clock sharp. Respecttully, CHAS. SCHLESINGER, President. B. A. SAMMANN, Secretary. S. F. FIRE @ No. 4 MONDAY, January 23, 1539, at § o'clock a. m., for the purpose of attending the fu neral of the late JOHN BURNELL, late member of this department. By order. D. T. SULLIVAN, Chlef of Department. STOCKHOLDERS meeting—The annual - ing of the Etockholders of ftha Unjon irom Works will be held at the offica of the com- any, 222 Market st San Franciseo, on UESDAY, January 24, 189, at 11:30 0'Glook a. m., for the purpose of electing a board of directors to serve for the ensuing year and for the transaction of such other business as may come before {ne meeting. . O'B. GUNN, Secretary. Office, 222 Market st., San Francisco CaL January 8, 1889. THE regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the National Ice Company will be held the office of the company. 327 Market s San Francisco, Cal.. on Wednesday, the 1 day of February, 189, at 11 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of électing a board of directora SITUATION wanted by experienced gardener; understands the care of greenhouses, lawn, flowers, fruit and vegetables. Address Ger- dener, box 1718, Call office. WINCHFSTER House, 44 Third st.. mear Mar- 200 rooms; 25c to $1 60 night: $150 to $6 convenient and respectable; fres ‘bus and baggage to and from ferry. HELP WANTED—FEMALE. WANTED—2 German, 1 Scotch, 1 English nurse and second girls, $25 each; waitress, restaurant, §6 a week; 3 French maids and second giris, $20 and 325; French cook, $30, no wash; Protestant girl for short distance, $20; girls for housework for several country places, $20 and $25; German cook, city, $30; a number of girls for housework for City too numerous to advirtise, $15, $20 and $25; nurse and seamstress, cut and fit, $25; young girls, $12 and $15. Apply to J. F. CROSETT & CO., 316 Sutter st. GIRL for light housework and sieep home, $15. hotel. Address box | box | GIRI Jight housework; wages moderate. Gg&{'urgafom st., mear Twenty-third; morn- ing. WANTED_First-class chambermaid; wages §15. 139 Fourth st. GIRL assist housework; small family. Call 509 Ellis st. MAN for housekeeper on a ranch in Glenn nty. Inquire 706 Ellls st. [ WANTED—Waltress, restaurant. 513 Jones street. GIRL for housework, American family, small washing, §3; plain cooking. 631 Larkin st. BUSINESS women of small capital to control my business at Honolulu, Seattle, Salt Lake, St. Louis and Philadelphia; Instructions taught free. MRS. NETTIE HARRISON, Geary st., San Francisco. WANTED—Experienced operators to sew on men’s shirts and underwear; a few inexperi- enced will be taught. Apply between 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. at the L. ELKUS CO., 29-31 Bat- tery st. OPERATORS on white and flannel overshirts; & few inexperienced hands taken and taught. LEVI STRAUSS & CO., 36% Fremont st. WANTED—Experienced shirt operators: steady employment; best wages. EAGLESON 0.,,5% Market st. GOOD operators on bar_coats and _apron: steady work: power. B. COHEN, 63 Clay st., upstairs. RELIABLE, neat girl for general housewor! must be good cook; wages $20; apply to-day. 2712 Broadway, near Devisadero st. | WANTED—Young girl between 15 and 16 to assist in ‘housework; good home. Apply 1761 Eliis st. D—GIrl about 15 to assist. 214A Chat- ga st., near Twenty-third. G girl for housework; 2 In family: wages Church st., near Twenty-second. VIOLIN, viola, flute and clarionet players. 2133 Misston st.; call between 1 and 2 p. m. LADIES' skirt cperators wanted. KRAKER, 225 Bush st. < ED hands on gent's white shirt: steady employment. 535 Valencla st 2 LADIES of good address can make $10 to §15 eek at home. 331 Kearny st., room 1. _of all nationalities wanted at MISS WELLS' Emp Of., 12(3% Park st., Alameda. LEARN dressmaking and millinery; positions free: patterns. 2% up. McDowell’s. 103 Post. WANTED—German _porter store, $10 to $12 a_week; (marriad) for city restaurant porter, 628 Sacramento. boy for H aiter, §8 week; restaurant porter, §25; cooks, kitchen men and others. Apply to J. F. CROSETT & CO.. 628 Sacramento st. MURRAY & READY. .Phone Main 5848 Leading emplo-ment and labor agents. WANT MONDAY, nd buttermaker. 2 boys to learn city trade Stableman; country § farmhands, differe: Gardener; private famliy Dry goods clerk; country Bailor for gentleman’s yacht.See MURRAY & READY, 634-636 Clay st. 7 COOK .$50, $45, $30 and found. 6 waiters, waiter boys..$25 and $20 and found. 4 dishwashers, §15 and found on MURRAY & READY, 634-63 Clay st.. A_SPECIAL baker, $% and found; assistant baker, $20 and found; country. MURRAY & READY, 634-638 Clay st. MAN and wife to cook for miners, man to work around mine, §225 a day for man, $20 per month for wife,. MURRAY & READY, 63 6236 Clay st. C. R. HANSEN & CO. Phone Grant 18§ Office open 7 o'clock Monday morning.... French second cook, country, $60; French or Bwiss second cook, restaurant, city, $50; sec- ond cook, $50; cook, institution, country, see party here, $30; meat and pastry cook, coun- try, $60; German cook, country hotel, $40; second cook and baker, railroad eating house, half fare paid; baker and pastry cook, $50; cook, country 'restaurant, $10 a week; lunch cook, country saloon, $30; French om= nibus, §20; walter, country hotel, $25; waiter, $22 50, and potwasher, $20, springs, fare ad- vanced; 2 dishwashers, §25. C. R. HANSEN & CO., 104 Geary st. per month, hotel, country. MISS Sutter st. WAITER, country, §25, near city. HOTEL GAZETTE, 420 Kearny st. MAN and wife for country place; gardener preferred. Call 2 p. m., 602 Market st. BOY with some experience In printing office. Call between 10 and 12, at 410 Kearny st., 1. 10, SHOEMAKER on repairing. 53 Pacific st., near Kearn: DISHWASHER wanted. Potrero. WANTED—Boy about 15, strictly honest; jew- Iry store. 1505 Market st. WAITER for lunch house; 115 Drumm st. AT 202 Ninth st., near Howard, cook for small restaurant. NG man having_ 1245 Kentucky st., 2 hours, 11 to %, some experience in 2 YO -class tailors on custom coats rentices. 927 Market st., room 502. sD—Steady man; established cash busi- ness; good for $15 to $18 per week: must have $150 cash. National Exchange, 7 Grant ave. RECRUITS wanted for the United States Ma- Tine Corps, United States navy; able-bodled, unmarricd men between the ages of 21 and 33 years, who are citizens of the United Stat or those who have legally declared their i tentlon to become such; must be of §0od char- acter and habits and able to speak, read and write English, and be between 5 feet 5 Inches and 6 feet in height. For further information apply at the Recruiting Office, 40 Ellis st., San Francisco, Cal. TO go this week—300 palrs men’s shoes, some nearly new. from 50c to $1: new shoes, slight- Iy damaged, one-half price. 662 Mission st., bet. First and Second sts. Open Sundays. WANTED—At Montana House, 764% Mission €t., men to take rooms; 10c, 15c and 25c per night; 60c, %c and §1 per week. WANTED—Laborers and mechanics to know that Ed Rolkin} Reno House proprietor, still runs Denver House, 217 Third st.; 150 rooms, 25c per night: $1 to §3 per week. MISS CULLEN, 3% Sutter st. FRENCH second girl, $25; a French second girl, Alameda, $20; housework, San Rafael, 325 MISS CULLEN, 32% Sutter st. TWO waltresses, same country hotel, $20 each, fure paid; waitress, Bakersfieid, $20,’ fare paid. MISS CULLEN, 3% Sutter st. REFINED German nursery governess and seamstress, $25; & second girls, §15 and §: a mald and seamstress, MISS CULLEN, 3% Sutter st. NEAT waltress, $15 per month; chambermaid, $15; housework, Auburn, $20, 2 in family, wach; Alameda, §25: San Mateo, 32 housework girls, city and country, and $30; 6 young girls, assist, $10 to 315. CULLEN, 3% :utter st. THREE walitresses, city hotels and hoarding houses, $20 and $25. MISS CULLEN, 3% Sut- ter st. CONSTANT work for_good and steady shoe- akers on repairs. 749 Mission st. BOY about 18, not afrald of work, to learn carriage blacksmithing. Box 159, Call office. now traveling to carry side line Mexican carved leather goods on commis- slon. H. & H. Mfg. Co., 1005 Buchanan st. MEN to learn barber trade; easy terms; $10 and $12. 1542 Market st. BARBERS' Progressive Union: free employ- m't. H. Bernard, Sec., 104 Tth; tel. Jessie 1164. BOY to do janitor work for his tuition at 8. F. Barber School. 13%% Elghth st. SEAMEN—4 young men; 2 cabin boys. Office, euart st., upstal MOTHER and daughter as housekeeper and wait at table, small hotel, country, $30. MISS CULLEN, 32 Sutter st. NEAT young girl, assist light housework, $15; nursegirl, §15. MISS CULLEN, 32 Sutter st. to serve for the ensulng year, and for the | NURSE, $20; 2 second girls, $25 and $13; 3 res- transaction of such other business as may | taurant waltresses, $6 and $ per week; come before the meating. 2 French nurse, $25. MISS CULLI J. T. DONAHUE, Secretary. ter st. THE California Debris Commission, having re- celved applicaticns to mine by the hydraulie rocess, from S. S. Taylor, in' the Silver Star lume and Mining Company’smine, near Span- ish Ranch, Plumas Co., to deposit tailings in a worked out pit; from H. S. Byam, in the Bonanza claim, in Amador Co., near Michi- gan Bar, to deposit tailings in Arkansas Creek, and from the Badger Hill and Chero- kee Gravel Mining Company, in the Badger Hill Mine. at Cherokee, Nevada Co., to di posit t%unm in a worked-out pit, gives n tice th a meeting will be held at room 59, Flood bRilding, San Francisco, Cal., on Janu- ary 30, 1899, at 1:30 p. m. Pt o LRSS I RSN DIVIDEND NOTICES, PSRN S sl DIVIDEND NOTICE—Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Central Light and Power Company, held this d. an order was duly adopted, distributing by way of dividend, on or after February 1, 1899, to the stockholders of said corporation, the shares of stock of the Equit- able Gaslight Company, belonging to said Central Light and Power Company, subject to_the poollng dgreement now in force, Pursuant to said order sald stock will be placed in escrow, subject to said pooling agreement, in lieu of the certificate issued by said Equitable Gaslight Company to said Central Light and Power Company. By ore der of the h(\&l‘d.J > BAGEON e 0. J8 , Becretary. San Francisco, Jan. I, 1509, % DIVIDEND notice—Dividend No. 89 (fifty cents per share) of the Oceanic Steamship Comp will_be pavable at the office of the o pany, 327 Market st. on and after Wednes. day, 'February 1, 1889. Transfer books will close on Thursday, o'clock. January 26, 1899, at E. H. SHELDON, Secretary. SPECIAL NOTICES. £ o SRSt S AN ROOMS papered from §3; whitened, 31 up; painting done. Hartman Paint Co., 343 3d st. BAD tenants ejected for $4; coliections mad city or country. PACIFIC: COLLECTION €O., 415 Montgomery st., rooms 9-10; tel. 558 C. R. HANSEN & CO .’Phone Grant 185. 10 waitresses for hotels and restaurants in country, many of them fare paid, 320 and §: 6 waitresses, city, $20: 4 restaurant wait- resses, $5 and $6; 2 more chambermaids, Southern California, $20, to start Feb. 1; 2 chambermaids, near city, $17 50; 4 chamber- maids, to wait dinner, $20. C. R. HANSEN & CO., 104 Geary st. FRENCH second girl, country, $25; nurse, in- nationalities for city and country. §20 and $25; many young girls to assist, $10 to $15; young_girl, light housework, $8, fee paid. C. R. HANSEN & CO., 104 Geary 'st. BOARD: house cook, $20 to §25, San Rafael; two_second girls, $20° each; 6 housegirls, $25 to $20; middie-aged woman, country, §: chambermald, $15: nursegirl, $10. MRS. NORTON, 313 Sutter st. MIDDLE-AGED English woman, good cook and houseworker, $12 to §15;, two Swedish housegirls With good references, $20 to $2, and a first-class German cook. Apply MRS. NORTON, 313 Sutter st. . COOK, $30; seamstress, §25; waitress, §20; upstairs girl, 631 Larkin st. WANTED—10 girls for housework, country places, §15 and §20. MURRAY & READY, 634 and 636 Clay st. ‘WANTED—A German or Swedish girl for gen- eral housework and plain cooking; small fam- 1ly; wages $15 to $18: bet. 10-12. 2243 Post st. NEAT German girl wanted ~for dné'smuirs vork: must be a g« cook; wages . Ap- ply 1130 O'Farrell st. s 5 nursegirl, $15;, . MRS. HIRD, TED—Partner for first-class restaurant; 3350. 125 Montgomery ave. MEN'S fine cal shoes to order, §2 50; men's soleing, only one price. 933 Howard st. YOUNG men, seamen, carpenters, blacksmlths, for ships. HERMAN'S, 26 Steuart st. BARBERS' _ Assoclation Free Employment Office. S. FUCHS, Sec., 32 Grant ave. TRY Lindell House, Sixth and Howard sts.; thoroughly renovated; 200 rms.; 15c, %c night. c. 20c, 25c per night; Tse, $1 Eleho House, 8631 Market st. WANTED—To collect wages dus laborers and clerks. Knox Collection Agency, 112 Sutter st. S and ordinary seamen wanted at 54 Davis st., near Jackson. E rooms, per wl stitution, $20; 25 cooks and housegirls of all | SINGLE, furnished. fine. large, sunny and alry room, 25c night. Rosedale House, 321 Ellis st. TRY Acme Homse, 957 Market st., below Sixth, for a room: a night: $1 a week. WINCHESTER House, 44 Third st., near Mar- ket; 200 rooms, 25c night: reading-room: free *hus and baggaee to and from the ferrv. PARTNERS WANTED. $4000 to en- a business that has cleared $3000 in months; prospect now to repeat it. Ad- Call office, Oalland. PARTNER wanted with $3000 or larze sev baker, who has successtully mn“a‘edwllfi:xe l}:k{efles in the East, wlnlz partner capital; good pl: 3 - dress box 1578, Call ol’fl(‘?. e A WANTED—MISCELLASEOUS, WANTED-Light spring wagon in exchange for house or sign painting. Box 1602, Cal! office. — 0T R, Coll office, TYPEWRITERS. Al typewriters sold and rented, few partly used for sale cheap; send for samples and prices. ALEXANDER & CO.. 110 Montgomery. YOUNG girl to take care of child; Call atter 9 at 708 Geary NEAT, strong girl for gt AT Tk and 750 Castre st., near Twenty-first. A HAMMOND. $25: Caligraph. $15: Yost, $25: &et rample work. SCOTT, 332 Montgomery st. SEWING MACHINES. WANTED—A girl to do general housework at 731 Green st., near Mason. - £ MONTHLY, rented; re; bought. sold: machine supplies. 145 Sfx‘l‘!rl':d.phono M“ln:o“. W:NTED—Apmnuee on vests. 84 Folsom ALL kinds bought, sold, exchanged, rentedi Tepairing at lowest rates. 306 Fourih st.