The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1899, Page 5

HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1899 e R AR R O e ———— MORE DELAY IN UNION BANK CASE Board of Directors Not Yet Named. COURT WANTS MORE TIME | CONTINUES THE MATTER TO | NEXT MONDAY. SAN LUIS OBISPO ICloses Its Doors Because of Lack of Business Due to @bsence of Rain. SAN LUTS OBISPO, March 10.—The business community was greatly astounded late this evening by the news that the County .Bank of this city had voluntarily suspended. The information came at about dark in the shape of the following notice posted on the door of the bank: “Owing to the fact that another dry vear seems imminent, and our fna- bility to collect on our assets, the directors have deemed it advisable to put Judge Lorigan Intimates He Will ; Reappoint All but Two of the Members Who Have Just this bank into a process of liquidation. The assets are ample to pay all de- positors as soon as they can be converted Into ca SR Jack made the following statement to-night: “There is an ample surplus on hand to pay all demands of depositors. The capital stock paid in amounts to $150,000 and the surplus $100,000. At the annual meeting to-day I explained the situation and argued that it was useless to keep the bank running when there was no opportunity to Cashier R. F Resigned. Dispatch to The Call. | March 10. ‘The appoint- over till depositors sel and i for the Attorney court inquired if a person r or could be named as dire St | certain about and | way would be to name | rs. He was of the of that one | acquired stock since the fail- | a member of the di- | he was not vet the ¢ C If Direc- | had resigned he would ckh a board would six direct- | would make the received a gram ng the court to giv that tion repre- sentation on the ard ¢ He felt inclined to sentative, but th meeting decided it. The board iid not c neld on Mon- ated that he with prob- ave just Amasa Eaton, C; N. Bowder C. 2. B f the lected but crash came. | 1d not name e Bowden, to con- Hersey and er in the | e y ed with | tter | f them now want | the stockholders, position, THOUSANDS OF IDLE | MEN IN DAWSON | nabie to Leave Because They Have Not the Wherewithal to Make the Trip. ancisco, ar and | orney red from business orts that as were w weeks n of the the had no 0 in squently » one who the ice ont snap hung up; nefsco. ADVERTISEMENTS. | Sl moe) . A womar | 3 does not have | to be placed ’ underan X-ray i to show to all | { beholders that she is suffer- | ing from | health. | % health marks | € ¢ woman much | ziore quickly | than it does a man. It de- | stroys the | sparkle in her eye, the bloan of health on her cheek, her vivacity of manner, her | sprightliness of carriage and makes her ant and despondent. health in a woman is due to crangements of the delicate | e organs which are 0 woman who suf- | s way can retain her good looks | or her attractiveness. The daily burden of agging pains that she carries, - her a physical wreck, and her kill her or drive her to ny woman may restore and re- i and strength in a womanly | way by the use of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite scription. It cures absolutely and com. | pletely the weakness and discases peculiar | to her sex. It does away with the neces- | | | | eventually e tain he ity for the obnoxious *‘ examinations "’ and “local treatments ”’ insisted upon by nearly hysicians, and enables her to treat her- self in the privacy of her home. Itis the invention of Dr. R. V. Pierce, for thirty ~hief consulting physician to the Hotel and Surgical Institute, at ffalo, N. Y. ‘Any woman may consult him by letter free of charge. All corres- pondence sacredly confidential. 1 was sickly for sixteen years with prolap- sus, weakness, disagrecable drain. pain in the small of my back and costiveness,” writes Mrs, Mary Ashfin, of Barronett, Barron Co.. Wis. *When 1 taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription ¥ could not sit up. After taking it for one week 1 gol up and did my honsework. T Tave taken four bottlcs of the * Favorite Prescrip- tion.’ one bottic of the ' Golden Medical Discov- ery’ and three botties of the * Pleasant Pellets.’ These medicines have cured me, I feel as welt as I ever did. Seven of the best doctors in the land treated my case, but gave me no relief.” | below. | are no hotel accommodations. All the men | with the lady.” do any bus owing to the present outlook. We did not close for but closed the bank in order to protect all our creditors. ness, want of mon Later the large depositors would draw their monay, leaving only the \all deposits, and then we would be obliged to close anyhow.” The County Bank has been doing business here for many years, and for a while was the First National Bank. It has always enjoyed the I ence of busir men and has been used as the repository of a large number of small depositors. Last vear was dry in this section, g8 and this year at present promises to be no better, although rain within £ a few days will make everything all right. Acting on the advice of the & vashier the stockholders to-day thought it wise to suspend before worse [y rtook the bank. i %05 O RORORORON disaster ov a3 0% e ANADIANS WILL | THE THIRD WOMAN B DRIVEN OUT HANGED I CANI Trouble Brewing on the!Crowd Jeers at Her in Porcupine. [ Death. | AMERICANS TO RETALIATE FACES ALL MEN BOLDLY ‘WILL BAR ALIENS FROM THE DIES ON THE SCAFFOLD WITH DISTRICT. HER LOVER. | The Miners Are Planning to Formu- | The Man Is Weak When It Comes late and Put Into Execution to Paying the Pen- an Exclusion Act of alty for His Their Own. Crime. By HAL HOFFMA atch | Spectal Correspondenca of The Call ST. SCHOLASTIQU = Mrs. low Quebec, March Cordelia Poirier and Samuel to-day at | I Spectal Dispatch to The Call. | | JUNEAU, Alaska, Feb. 27.—A report Porcupine were hanged here which came down from m. Life was declared extinct in | Creek by the steamer Wolcott, plying eight minutes, the necks of both having between Juneau and Haines Mission, | been broken. Mrs. Poirier, who said | caused excitement here. It-was to the | farewell to her relatives last night, was | effect that the Canadian flag had been [firm and collected throughout. She moved down the trail from Pleasant | took part in the mass said at 5 o'clock this morning and on the scaffold shook hands with the hangman without a tremor. The crowd Inside the Jjail jeered at her, but even then her com- s | posure did not desert her, and at the suggestion of the executioner she turned and fz amp, on the Dalton trail, four miles, | ) as to take in the Porcupine, Salmon Creek and other placer mining districts in American territory Coming did about the time sensational s were wired from Washington, D B > ced the jeerers and stood concerning the acquisition of Lynn 2 et 1 3 erect and prayed to the last. Parslow g ,y the Britl received con- % 2 5 Canal by the Brit it d was more dead than alive when the siderable credence. Inves tion has | grop fell. proved the report untrue up to the pres- The condemned were taken to the | ent time. It is known here, however, |scaffold separately and were kept from that a jan police officer left Lake | Sceing each other by a screen placed Bennett recently for Lake Tagish with ;‘Ml' n them. Six hundred men who 5 had remainec . e ok | instructions to secure there an extra | (p (‘v“‘}l::“'ml up all night witnessed | detail of police, return to Bennett and Outside the jail there were 7000 more, proceed thence to Porcupine post. who tried to batter, down fhe gate of tuation on Porcupine Creek is strained anyhow There is little doubt that should the Canadians get that sec- tion of country many claims would not be abandoned without bloodshed. ntiment crystallizing The the jail yard and could only be made to desist by the provincial police firing thelr revolvers in the air. The behavior of the crowd inside was such that one of the priests, Rev. Father Meloche, had to reprove them from the scaffold. there is against allowing any Canadian to make | Mrs. Cordela Poirier and Samuel Pars- a location or to mine there in retaliation | low, her reputed lover, were hanged for for the exclusion of Americans from ;’hn m";l{h)‘r of Isidor Poirier, the woman's o wel own some of the | husband, in 1897. The crime was commit- Atlin. well keoms Do ted in the Poirfer home fn St. Car Canadian police at Pleasant camp post | cifep s Py COREs, fome, n o n have staked claims at Porcupine. A |of 4 T movement is on foot to quietly notify church at Jerome, ns holding locations in American ng in the choir. Both prison- o to et sut of the country. This | €S confessed their gullt, each seeking to e es m‘;_f‘ulh"f‘ aors meet. | put the blame on the other. WL el e ~ | Mrs. Poirler was the third woman of ing, and such a meeting would be | eleven condemned since the confederation secret, as the law gives aliens equal | to recefve capital punishment. The two rights to mine. Anybody who knows v;v--v:x{-n whu“)uul_r-rv\-m;wl,\' .\vl?’-“rml 1)m any abo! hers’ meetings knows | death penalty since the ~confederation ”"‘;L‘h‘\"‘]“,“l'”(‘;‘pm:"’i,‘( B e were Phoebe Campbell, hanged at Lon- eyt el 5 No | don in 18 for cutting her husband's usually carried out to the letter. NO | throat with a knife, and Elizabeth Work- man would dare to stay in a mining | man, hanged at Sarnia a vear later for camp of the West or Northwest after | beating her husband to deaih with a club. having been notified to vamo It is | The sentences of eight of the eleven mu s e on swill | deresses were commuted to life imprison- ten to one that the proposed action Will | 1o ¢ ™ The crime of six of these women taken in the Porcupine country. was the murder of their husbands. C. P. Cahoon of Minnesota, the loca- tor of discovery claim on McKinley 5 Creele 1s mow here. He says he has | PROTEST AGAINST hes arge number of men express against allowing any Can- policeman or not, to work a Other locators on McKin- Lewis of Los Ange- Angeles and W. Alexander Mec- Los Angeles Temperance Workers Address an Appeal to the City Council. of Minnesota, S . Sl L.OS ANGELES, March 10.—Temperance e Bt ML Care e vashing- | in opposition to the petition of saloon men of the midnight and sking for the rep | are opposed o allo g ( a ans to 7S RN L tojalicwine Gaua i s inday closing ordinances are circulating Sorite claim-{mping s nomegoing on| & wempnsantesto bs tormelly inrescnted - to the Council an ntiments of the signe words: in Porcupine, as tent. Small are carryin xpression of the but not to any great ex- 3 R It s in these steamers on Lynn Canal more freight and passen- | gers to E Mission each trip. At | To the Honorable Councll, City of Los Ange- a8 Syt E les: Whereas, There is a_movement on foot to the pr rate there will be at least Council to re the ordi- | influence the City nance for Sunday 1 saloons in creeks The ent ra 3000 people on the trails and back of the mission in thirty lays. closing and midnight clos- Los Angel nd enact a weather now very cold and windy, ftute by which saloons may run all night ¢ t not see & o yment of $10 a month, and run open A em to stop thecoiied by an additional $10 added to the It has been unusually cold at Atlin and over the summit of White Pass re- cently, ranging from 50 to 60 degrees Many men—more than half the construction force—on the Skaguay Tegular license of $50 a month; therefore, ndersigned voters of Los Angeles, resp I protest against the repeal of the sted by popular movement nine vears - furthermore favor strict enforcement violators. We heartily favor the we, Railroad will it work in a few days, | ation of the Mayor and the Police account of the cold, but on that all saloons have but one 1g to a reduction of wages | entrance, and that from the front ew of the strong efforts by the 0 to $1 70 pe Tty conflicting forces and the complications of da | {nterests of temperance people, retail STRIKE ON THE YUKON. d"«-n]fir restaurant men, soda fountain owners and druggists, the Council ap- Railroad Constructors Oppose a Re- duction of Wages. SKAGUAY, Alaska, March 2.—Seven hundred of the 1400 laborers on construc- tion work of the White Pass-Yukon road pears in no hurry to adopt an ordinance changing the present order of things. NO PACIFIC RAILROAD came out on strike yesterday as a result | BONDS TO BE SOLD a reduction of wages from 35 to 3) —— s an hour and an increase of worl Secretary Gage Says There Will Be No Deficit to Be Met This Year. WASHINGTON, March 10 Gage s there is no truth in the story that $60,000,000 of Central Pacific Railroad k After the men struck laid off for a few days and the seven camps along the road were | closed for the present. The men are | coming to Skaguay. and all are orderly. | No violence is expected. A refuge camp | | Secretary will be formed for them here, as there have money. { bonds are to be sold to meet an expected FRESRC | Gefcir.""fre ’savs” Congress passed i pro- $laion conferring upon him authority to Shafter Denies It. | vii°these bonds, but he has not yet de- BAKERSFIELD, March 10. — Belng | sided that it will be necessary. shown a dispatch to the effect that a re- port was in circulation that he was en- gaged to mry the widow of General John A. Logan, General Shafter said to- n — Contracts for Gas Plants. | WOODLAND, March 10.—A contract has been concluded with the Pacific Acetelyne Gas Company by which the company ight: ““There i8 nothing whatever in the story. grees to put plants in the Courthouse I have only a very slight acquaintance BANK SUSPENDS WORU RO RO ROLOROROE SUNDAY SALOONS | lznd the County Hospital, i ADVERTISEMENTA WAS MRS, LUNG DEVOTED T0 THE LOWING BOWL? Her Appetite Caused? Much Comment. | SEVERAL DEPOSITIONS READ | | CORROBORATE THE HUSBAND'S | DIVORCE COMPLAINT. | Residents of Honolulu Tell What | They Know Regarding the Hab- | its of Dr. Lung’s Eccen- tric Wife. The action recently Instituted by George A Lung of the Ini S cru r Philadelp! for from | his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth on the ground of intemperance, was taken up | by Judge Hebbard yesterday morning and a number of interest depositions bear- Ing on the wife's devotion to the flowing R AR bowl were opened andréad. Dr.:Lang FORSALE 8 charges that on many occasions Mrs. | R ¥e T il.un;;. whom he married in Philadelphia | SG%EER PQTTLE < | June 1, 15, disgraced him while laboring & 3 | under ha cination: used by overin- | dulgence in_liquor. charges are | | corroborated in a larg sure by the | depositions given by v sus people of Ho- | nolulu. ! The sworn statement of A Hum- | | ph an attorney of Honolulu, ter! ned the court and spectators. In the document he states that he was well | aware that Mrs. Lung often indulged in | intoxicants to excess, and whe this | condition she complained to the. Withers The pleasant method and beneficlal effects of the welk | that her iying oo much | known remedy, Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the Califor- indignant- | pia Fig Syrup Company, iliustrate the value of obtaining the 2 story re- garding a painful incident which occurred LOUISVILLE KoY. * SO, YORK, N.Y. U.S.A_ DNDONEN Bttt 4 AN CXCELLENT GOMBINATION laxative and presenting them in the form most refreshing to the taste and acceptable to the system. It is the one perfect strengthening laxative, liquid laxative principles of plants known to be medicinally Overcomnling Habitual Constipation Permanently. m-=ke it the ideal laxative. | in the pre of when el o B neae weiing Cleansing the System Effectually, that caused no end of scandal in . m%l“"i“l."‘.",f;,f,T,‘”"J,‘,‘f “afted that 30 | Dispelling Col.ds and Headaches, L Preventing Fevers, Siost canged d confll s perfect freedom from every objectlonable quality and Sgd s ey This trouble all origi- | substance, and its acting on the kidneys, liver and bawels, | nated at the wexation ball, ess 5 ; caid. where Mrs. Lung charged her hus- | gently yet promptly, without weakening or irritating them, band openly with devoting all his time to | Mrs. Winte | “'The deposition of Mrs. J. H. Paty is 8 t interest She met Mrs. Lung | ar or Ly she_alleges. Mrs was xicated and swore at her | ‘And other aromatic plants, by a method known to the Cali‘or- much nia Fig Syrup Lompany only. nu hat Mrs. ble disposition and ws to exc When asked on c. nation if she did not know tk t 1 { Nuu ha ted his w 7 with disreputable - witness dis- | purchase at about the sams price that others pay for cheap and § s e ueh afairs. m. | worthless imitatlons. To com: Into universal demand and to will be 1 in event it is e herateonsiie i overruled the t B v | e cverywhere co.xsid‘redv(he best of Its class, an article must diate! to | be capable of satisfying the wants and tastes of the best in- figh tention 5 \fi\("‘-h ton of | formed purchasers. The California Fig Syrup Company hav- striking characteristics. DEMOCRATIC SHORTAGE. | Committee Expects to Make It Up | | Within Thirty Days. | Ways to obtaln means to liquidate t | $4000 still owed by the Democratic § { ral Committee were earne - ed yesterday at a meeting of the se- | t committee recently appointed to raise | nds to wipe out this shortage. There | Governor Budd, Walker “oupgye. K collectior tin K. » com: pre ce that the q Hmount would be secured within thirty vs For Mutilating Coin. 0 When searched two $1-bills were found Charles Sanford, Rounds, arrested | in his poc O e e at the on Thursday by Police- | raised to to $100. His other hor, was booked at e of vagrancy. zast, W - | companior the City ! GRACE GREGORY TO | RETURN A BRIDE D e0 0000 eDed00+0ebebedsedededededede@® i o - - | ¢ ¢ | 54 I's & . * . + . . 4 P ° . I'e & . . | & 1D + & @ . ® . @ + . et . fa RS ® IR * * $e ¢ ® ¢ + | 3 - ‘ & @ b g . . : @ * + & @ (1 1 ® (Photo by Aime Dupont.) L o B R R o S o s B s ] THE charming bride-elect of Senator Fred S. Stratton of Alameda County, Miss Grace Gregory, now of New York, was formerly a resident of Oakland. Some fourteen years ago she left this State, at first traveling abroad, then ottling down in Paris to a close study of music under the direction of the famous singer, Boutry. Possessing the sweetest of voices, she often delights her New York audiences with her chant-like Her father was S. W. Gregory, once prominent in the machinery business in this city. The family lived in the Charles Webb Howard house on Harrison street, Qakland. The future Mrs. Fred S. Stratton will find that she has not been forgotten by the old friends she left years ago. In order to get its beneficlal effacts, and to $void imitations, please rememter the full name of the company printed on the front ot every package. Consumers of the choicest products of modern commerce ing met with the high=st success in the manufacture and sale of its excellent liquid laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs, it has GAWIFORNIA FTG SYRUP (0, For Sale by All Druggists | TRANSIT FACILITIES In the process of manufacturing figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but The Medicinal Qualitics Are Obtained From Senna become important to all to have a knowledge of the company and its product. The Callfornia Fig Syrup Company was organized more than fifteen years ago, for the special purposs of manufacturing and selling a laxative remedy which would be more pleasant to the taste and more beneficial in effect than any other known. The great value of the remsdy, as a medi- | cinal agentand of the company’s efforts, is attested by thesale of millions of bottles annually, and by the high approval of most eminent physicians. As the true and genuine remedy named Syrup of Flgs is manufactured by the Caiifornia Fig Syrup Company only, the knowledge of that fact will assist in avoiding the worthless Imitations manufactured by other parties. FRANC : 2 o 'SGO, Ng W'YORK,“\'( Price 50¢ Per Botlle | mediate action in the matter as follows: Rapid transit in our district is a vital neces- UNDER DISCUSSION | 2t%;, the lack of which is .causing property owners the loss of tenants and the conse- | quent depreciation in rents and in the value | or property. Our aistrict is practically inac- EXTENSIONS AND A NEW LINE | cessible. We have nothing but bobtail car which necessarily give but slow service. consequence, trade s being diverted to other parts of the city where there are electric and cable lines and where business men have fast communication. | On motion of Joseph Rothschild, the Sixth Street and North Central Improve- | ment Associations were requested to ap- point a joint committee of three to co- operate with the Merchants' Assoclation in the work of securing the construction of the new railways by appearing before the Street Committee of the Supervisors and requesting the necessary franchises be granted the Market Street Rallway Company. L. V. Merle, H. H. Taylor and Edgar Painter were selected as this com- mittee. Before adjournment a_formal resolution adopted. stating that it was the nse of the joint conference that the pro- posed improvements be made and that every effort be used to this end. RECOMMENDED. Important Action Taken at a Joint Meeting of Property-Owners and Tenants Last Night. Extension of existing and the construc- | tion of new street railway lines was the | subject of discussion last night at a joint | meeting of the directors of the Mer chants’ Association and property owners and tenants along the route of the pro- | posed improvements. | Indorsement was given to the propos tion of the Market Street Railway Com pany now before the Street Committee of | the Supervisors. This provides for the | conversi Post and Leavenworth street cable line into an electric road, and its extension along Montgomery, from Post to Jackson, and for the construction of a new electric line from Jackson street, along Sansome to Bush, to Grant avenue, to Post, to Taylor, to Market and ———————— Father Against Son. The unusual circumstance of a father swearing out a_warrant for the arrest of his son on a charge of forgery was wit- | nessed in Judge Conlan’s court vesterday. The father is Daniel McClernon, and the son, James H. McClernon, foreman with down Sixth to Brannan | Bush & Mallett. The father alleges After the object of the meeting had been | that about four years ago the son col- tent Dohrmann of the Mer- | lected $16 interest on money he had de- cdocintion, who presided, a com- | posited in the People's Home Savings tmunication was read from the North Cen. | Bank and had forged his name to the tral Improvement Association, represent- | receipt. Since then the son had got mar- ing property owners In the district bound- | ried. The son was arrested and was re- ed by K and California streets and | leased on his own recognizance by acting of im- | Police Judge Barry. urged the necessit ADVERTISEMENTS. R 10} JORSOR SOR TORZORROREOTEONEOMIONEON 208 S04 SOR OB SOR gOR 4O ® 5e ® And show yourself a man. Use that remedy which not only brings ® you through your trouble, but + stays with you as a life-long ® friend. The real aim of a_man's + life is to live well and work well. ® Sound health is the basis of good + work. Disease robs a man of his ® strength. It spoils his hopes and + success; nay more, it racks the ® mind. The insanity of many who ® crowd out asylums is traceable to + their bodily ailments. Let the ex- ® perience of others be your warn- 5% ing. Where is your weakness? 9 2 Have you pains in he lower part ® of the back? That is a nerve center; pain there means kidney The helping hand of Electricity is trouble or weakness of the muscles. held out to you in my DR. SANDEN ELECTRIC BELT. Read this short letter from A. M. Farrell, of February 10: Belt, which I have worn for two months, has done me a great deal of “Your were very weak, now I am strong again and all the pains are gone.” 170 Orchard street, San Jose, Cal. Many more such letters are in my book, “Three Classes of Men.” Send for it and Jearn all about my famous Belt. The book is mailed free. 702 Market, Cor. Kearny, San Francisco, Or 20415 S. Broadway, Los Angeles. DR. M. A. MCLAUGHLIN, ocnc. i 5 2t 250 %75 55 St 0 1. Never sold in drug stores. good. My hips and back +O+O+O+O 4O +O+® +©: OO+ O+ O+ O+ O+ OO+ O+O+ O+ O+ O+ O+ O+O+O+ ® GHADHD+D+ O+ O+ O+ D+ D+DHOH HOH+DHO+ O+ O+ O+ O+ O+O+O+