The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 16, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARC BRYAN HAS A LUEID INTERVAL. LETTER by William Jennings Bryan written f\ in November, 1897, but just made public, shows the champion of free silver has occasionally a lucid interval, during which he sees things as they are and is capable of forming a reasonable judgment concerning them. The letter is, therefore, more in- teresting than his usual utterances, and its statements are 2s applicable to conditions now as to those which prevailed when it was written. Mr. Bryan's correspondent desires to have the Democratic party make in its national platform for 1000 a declaration in favor of the Government owner- ! ship of railways, and, writing to that gentleman, ex- pressed the hope that he would be renominated for IURSDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propristor. e Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts. S F. Telephons Main 1568. 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BRANCH OFFICE6—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | cpen until 930 o'clock. 367 Hayes street, open until ©:%0 o'clock. 62i McAlllster street, open uptil 9:30 | o'clock. 6!5 Larkin street, open until ©:30 o'clock. | i941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 229! Market | street, corner Sixteanth, open until 9 o'clock. 2618 | Fission strest, cpen untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, opan until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets. open until § o'clock. | To all that Mr. Bryan responded that he has never examined the subject of governmental management of railways and has formed no opinion on it; he is opposed to the introduction of a new issue into poli- tics because the people can deal with only one reform at a time, and other questions have precedence of the one proposed; and finally he says: “I think 1900 is too far away for us to know who may be most avail- able at that time. We are entitled to the most avail- able man whoever he may be, and the events of the next three years will be needed to aid us in selecting him.” There can be no question of the soundness of these statements. One issue at a time is all that can be effectually settled in a Presidential election. Even when two or more issues are before the country, as in 1896, when tariff reform, currency reform and the remonetization of silver were all at stake, the people cast their ballots with reference to one only. Many free-trade Democrats voted for McKinley and the gold standard, while a considerable number of Re- publicans who were stanch protectionists voted for Bryan and free silver. So it will always be. One issue dominates the campaign and the rest are vir- tually ignored. ‘When Bryan wrote the letter he doubtless thought the free-silver agitation could be kept up and made the salient feature of the 1900 campaign. If such a programme succeeded he would inevitably be the candidate of his party for the Presidency. If ever | hursday, March 23, et 12 m., Real | another lucid interval comes to him he will pcrcci\'c’ | that these hopes have no longer any reason to support | them. Whatever may be the subject of party conflict | in the coming campaign it will not be the remoneti- zation of silver. 3 Only a short time ago Mr. Wall of Wisconsin, a ndure the iniquity of de-|empber of the Democratic National Committee, the Supervisors were not slow | v o 5 letter to Chairman Jones declaring he can no timent. Hence it was that the | jonger support the free-silver doctrine. The reply of forced either to become the scene | the chajrman has not been made public, nor is it or to close. It will no longer | necessary that it should be. In all parts of the on the contributions of dupes, | country the former zealots for silver are falling away AMUSEMENTS. i | | | | | the Hero of Manila." Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon | Jderback—This Day, at 2:30 o'clock, Turkish | Ty street . at 11 o'clock, Horses, Bug- | n and Sixteenth streets. tolen by employes, or yielded by the | inspired by the hope of winning and e good faith of the racetrack promoters. | nditions racing may be legizimate: e conditions which have pre\‘ailed" aud and a snare. | »w forbids betting on races is a cir- has provoked lament, but this all | touts, the hangers-on or the mani- | ier their wail the more conclusive | rs have done wisely | jection s from the reputable m the head of a family, not a word | rom the business man, who was never d employe would not be led | In the estopping of betting a great 1 accomplished. pass this fact becomes emphasized. | o are glad that the Supervisors have | a course are the best citizens of the | The people who object constitute the | tofore thriving on unearned money, and | t even citizens of California. Theyi d here like buzzards, and now that their | passed they are at lib- | nc for preying ha nd they never will be missed. of the touts is vociferous, but it falls upon | They were expected to | r plea @ GOOD APPOINTMENT. I of all parties will approve the action of | or Gage in appointing Senator M. White to the office of Regent of | The selection is an excellent one in | It is in no sense a partisan reward, | White not only a Democrat, bu!é most active of his party in the cam- | Governor Gage in the last campaign. It gives the southern part of the State a strong repre- | sentative on the university board, and is thus as satis- 1 factory from geographical as from political considcra-\‘ tions. While the Governor could have readily found a nan in his own party and a resident of this section | of the State well fitted to perform the duties imposed upon the regents of the university, it is,;none the less gratify that he made the choice he did, for such | appointments should be free not only from political | bias, but from even the suspicion of it. | None will question the fitness of the selection made. | Senator White is one of the few political leaders cf the State who rank as statesmen and have the es- teem of the whole people without respect to party lines. His abilities are of the first order, and his | patriotic regard for the welfare of the State and of | its institutions is undoubted. Himself a man of| learning and culture, he will be in full sympathy with | the work to which he has been called, and can be | counted on to labor faithfully for the accomplishment | of all its great educational objects. | every respect. Alrcady there is an intimation that by an unwritten law the VicegPresident of the United States is cut off from renomination. This Government is not con- trolled by law of the unwritten kind. That Vice- idents are not renominated may result from their on to escape from obscurity. . +The millions sent to Cuban soldiers represent a gift, nothing more. If they have the bad taste to object to the size of it they have only to become as the “Man With the Hoe,” and Markham will write deathless verse about them, while they hustle for rations. Just because a woman in a Paris theater cried “Fire!” a panic arose. Several people had their stomachs trampled upon, but nobody was killed. The calmness and self-possession of the French when there is an emergency is the wonder of the world. Colorado Utes are said to be again threatening trouble. Such is their habit. They stir up trouble about once in so often and always find that they get the worst of it, but they do not seem able to learn anything. —_—— Cubans may go to war with the United States, but the chance of ever governing their own island will | own accord. from the standard and deserting the cause. A new | issue will engage the minds of the American people, and to meet it Democracy must find a new leader or suffer an even more disastrous defeat than that of 1896. Nobody at this stage of scientific development can yet dispute the claim of the physician who asserts that he has found a serum competent to defy pneumonia. | The race is hardly subject to a malady more fearful than this, and if it can be banished the society organ- ized for the purpose of extending life to 100 years can have something tangible upon which to base its hopes and its prospectus. “MUST EXERT THEMSELVES.” N a conversation with the New York correspondent I of The Call Mrs. Stanford stated that she has noted among the Eastern people whom she has met a much greater interest in California than on any previous visit. This is due of course to the grow- ing importance of Pacific Ocean commerce and to the general recognition of the advantage California will have in profiting by it. | Mrs. Stanford, however, is not one of the believers in manifest destiny who hold that the trade will come to us whether we exert ourselves or not. “Califor- nians,” she said, “must not assume for an instant that this avalanche of trade will sweep toward them of its They must exert themselves and co- quette a little with our foreign friends. Californians now have a golden opportunity. It remains with them to take advantage of it, and make the Golden State the empire State of the Pacific.” These statements are the results of impressions ob- tained from conversations with the great capitalists of the East. They are in accord with reports that have come to us from all sources for some time past. The East has an oversupply of money. Capitalists are seeking investments. The possibilities of Pacific Ocean trade have attracted sufficient attention to lead men to talk of it, but as yet no considerable amount of American money is flowing into it. Whether it comes or not depends upon ourselves. In the meantime the Southern States, having by two | expositions made known the extent of their re- sources, are drawing to themselves large amounts of Northern capital, and are rapidly building up a manu- facturing industry of vast proportions. Those States have nothing like the commercial and industrial pos- sibilities of the Pacific Coast, and yet are progressing while we are comparatively stagnant. The time has come for the Pacific Coast to make an exposition on a scale of sufficient magnitude to at- tract the attention of the world and turn in this di- rection a large part of that accumulation of capital which is already perplexing Eastern financiers and which will be increased by the course of foreign trade during the coming season. Mrs. Stanford has spoken wisely and timely on the subject. Californians must exert themselves. s e T —— A strange story comes from Nashville that while colored troops were returning from the front their sleeping cars were invaded by the police and the somnolent troopers beaten into insensibility. With- cut the slightest prejudice against these troops, who, according to all accounts, fought nobly, nobody will believe the story. f\ present Legislature is the passage of a bill add- ing two new sections to the Penal Code, under which hereafter it will be dangerous for candidates for the Federal Senate to “assist” members of the Legislature before their election. The sections referred to are numbered 63 and 63%4. The first provides that every Senatorial candidate who shall give or-loan a member of the Legislature any money or property in-advance of his election, whether under promise to vote for such candidate or not, shall be guilty of a felony. The rule thus laid down ap- plies also to an agent, and upon proof that a Sena- torial candidate has advanced money personally or through an agent, or that it has been advanced in his behalf, renders a conviction possible. The second section makes members of the Legislature who accept the money equally guilty, and evidence that the money A NEW PENAL LAW. MONG the many creditable things done by the be the price they will pay. | bas been accepted is prima facie proof that the legis- lator has promised to vote for the Senatorial candi- date, or, in other words, accepted a bribe. The custom of “assisting” candidates for the Legis- lature during campaigns in return for support after- ward has been a favored plan of securing the toga in this State. Several distinguished gentlemen whose names we could give have resorted to it without scruple, maintaining that while not entirely free from objection, it was perfectly legitimate and proper. These amendments to the Penal Code, however, will put an end to the practice; that is, unless the “sack” candidates are willing to take the chances of exposure and the penitentiary. Ordinarily Colonel Mazuma is not overbold. He prefers to transact business amid the confusion of a political campaign with individuals widely separated rather than appear in the lobby at Sacramento with a bag under his waistcoat, where the reporters can interview him and supervise his work. Perhaps it never will be possible to entirely eliminate money from Senatorial politics sc long as the Legislature is invested with power to elect, but these sections will go a long way toward confining that potent influence within proper bounds. CUT THEM DOWN. T is reported from the City Hall that, for the first l time in the history of the city, the Municipal Re- ports—a very interesting volume over which Clerk Russell excrcises personal supervision—will be bound in two volumes instead of one. This is said to be the result of verbosity among the heads of the various departments of the city government, who, instead of reducing their annual reports to constituent particles, have swelled them out with a view to ad- vertising their work or for the purpose of making their offices appear important in the municipal gov- ernment. It is hinted also by the reporter who records this prospect in the columns of a morning contemporary that another cause for the extraordinary enlargement of this branch of municipal literature is a desire on the part of officials to give the printer of the volumes as much work as possible. A desire to multiply the work of printers and consume appropriations, how- ever, is not by any means confined to the publica- tion of the Municipal Reports. A sentiment of lib- erality and extravagance in disbursing the public money permeates the entire city government. When appropriations are for any reason inadequate, or have been skimped to conform to a limit on taxation, it runs riot everywhere, finding expression in grumbling and kicking on the part of the officials thus forced to economize. Indeed, such a thing as business economy or a desire to reduce expenses is rarely or never found among either elected or appointed public servants. But there ought, nevertheless, to be some way by which to confine the Municipal Reports to one vol- ume. Not only will two volumes add to the confu- sion of reference, but they will take up more space upon the shelves of the libraries compelled to harbor them than is justified by the subject of which they treat. Why cannot Clerk Russell undertake the work | of condensation? Certainly the reports could well stand a liberal application of the shears. During late years many of the longest reports have been aban- doned. Take, for instance, the report of the Regis- trar of Voters, one of the most important of the bi- ennials. It used to be the practice to print his elec- tion figures in the Municipal Reports. Now he is compelled to publish them in a pamphlet. Why cannot the same thing be done with the swollen out statement of the Auditor and the long- drawn statistics of the Superintendent of Streets? ‘What readers of the Municipal Reports want for the most part is the necessary records of government —the bones after they have been picked, as it were. Ii there is any advertising to be done the officials should do it on the dead walls or in the newspapers. THE OUTLOOK IN SAN LUIS. EPORTS from San Luis Obispo are to the R effect that the financial flurry caused by the re- cent bank failures has virtually died out, and that there are now no indications of further trouble. It is to be hoped the report is not based upon a too sanguine view of the situation, and that with the coming of the rain the people of that section will share in the general prosperity of the State. There are indeed good reasons for believing that the banks suspended in that “darkest hour which pre- cedes the dawn,” and that had they been able to hold ¢n for a short time longer all would have gone well with them. The spring rains have started in with a profusion sufficient to give promise of good crops for farmers and good pasturage for cattlemen. That means immediate relief from the anxieties and fears that disturb business and the probability of complete relief later on from financial stringency by bringing into the county abundant revenues when the crops go te market. In addition to the rains there is promise for San Luis Obispo as well as for all the coast counties from Monterey to Los Angeles in the statement of Mr. Huntington that the work of closing the gap in the coast railroad would be begun at once and be pushed forward with such vigor as to make it probable the road will be open within a year. The opening of the road will make that route the chief thoroughfare of travel between San Francisco and the south, and as a result will aid in bringing zbout a general development of the resources of the section. With an increase of population there will come an opportunity for some of the residents who are now land poor to sell their estates in small tracts and thereby build up such communities as have made so many other sections of the State prosperous and com- paratively wealthy. A financial agent in Denver advocates the lynching of an editor there because of the paper’s opposition to trusts. The agent is silly, and his present attitude is not the first demonstration he has made of it. All ne has succeeded in doing this time is to give the editor a fresh text and renewed ardor. gy, Crown Prince Gustaf, who is visiting Stockholm, has been smitten in the neck by a few snowballs and feels aggrieved. Evidently the sensitiveness of Scan- dinavian royalty is abnormal. Good American citi- zens have been hit in the same place and never whim- pered. > Cubans have declared Gonzales de Quesada a traitor, thus placing him in the class with Gomez. No two more exalted patriots ever worked for the ele- vation of Cuba, hence the conclusion that the Cubans are a lot of blithering idiots is hard to avoid. Federal office-holders who have been neglecting their jobs so as to promote the candidacy of Burns are likely to receive official censure, but nothing short of the stoppage of their salaries will adequately meet | the case. An Ttalian mob is terrorizing two towns in Colo- rado, and when some of the ruffians get the killing they deserve Italy will be officially aggrieved to ob- serve that her people here are not protected from violence, 16, 1899 MRS, FURRIG IS AT LAST CORVICTED Verdict of Murder in Second Degree. DISTRICT ATTORNEY ELATED IT WILL PUT A DAMPER ON CRIMINAL OPERATIONS. The Prisonep Will Be Sentenced Sat- urday and the Court Can Give Her From Ten Years to Life. ® R S. MAPLESON. M b JOSEPH POHEIM. 3 % S GILLESPIE. 2 ¢ 3. T. BROPHY. 2 FA A. BUISLEY. & kg M. H. MOHRDICK. 2: 3 E. P. ENRIGHT. (s 2 T. FRAHAM. 2 & JAMES E DEALEY. 3 v JACOB WAND. v ‘;8 M. SPIRO. i: B ROBERT CLEARY. m The above are the'names of the jurors who, yesterday, after a brief deliberation, returned into court and rendered a ver- dict of murder in the second degree against Mrs. Dora Fuhrig, the notorious midwife and performer of criminal opera- tions. To this verdict there is due the support of the entire community, for it has condemned the acts of this notorious woman as second only in criminal vicious- ness to the deliberate, malicious assassin- ation of a human being. The verdict, if the Supreme Court does back for a new trial, will be the means of ridding the community of the most dangerous of this class of criminals—the most dangerous foe in addition to the inclination to perform such crimes as the one for which she will, in all probability, serve a long term in prison, there is coupled profound ignorance, and this ig- norance makes her as dangerous to a community as the plague. Death has fol- lowed in her wake constantly and if the doors of a prison are now to be closed upon her it will be generally considered well and that the jury did but its duty. The crime for which Mrs. Fuhrig has suffered conviction is that of causing the death of Mrs. Anna W. Walmsley by in a cruel, bungling manner. It is mani- !gst from the testimony introduced in the case that she had no interest in_ the young wife whose death she caused ex- cept the few dollars she might reap if the the operation was successful. Itisofttimes necessary that this operation be per- formed for the relief of disease. tempt was made to prove that Su the condition the proof failel ch was failed, and there remained but the agonizing picture of a young woman lsr;oahtféoblo?l!;lldof health but with an ave T C! ren and a love of plea placing her life in the hands of a con: sclenceless midwife, whose ignorance and f{llunl'l]fl}glselntcglnatl]oél sacrificed her rather e gold she might ci to an illy gotten purse. _ St contribute thAs ;ell as to € efforts of District Attorney Murphy and his_assistant, At G cognmendable. torney Black, are everal weeks ago Mrs. Fuhri {ried and acquitted of the charge agaimst Aer Of having caused the death of Mrs. Annie Eggerston. A few days after this verdict the husband of this vietim a; onized over the loss of his life, took his ?“ln life, and it was not till then that the ull effect of this woman's crimes was appreciated by _ the community. After this occurrence District Attorney Murphy took the prosecution in hand,” and, as- sisted by Mr. Black, bent all efforts to secure a conviction. "All one afternoon a battle waged between the prosecution and the defense as to whether the dying ;ta(ement of the prisoner’s victim should Cook" nally Gecideq” to” aami s 12 "05 ided to admit i s Known that Mrs. EFuhrig's conviciiey was aésulred. admitting this statement as evidence it is sald that the defense will rest for a reversal of the verdict. District Attor- ney Murphy, however, says that the right of the jury to hear this statement is sus- tained by many decisions, and in conse- quence he is confident that the verdict will stand and that Mrs. Fubrig will go to State’s Prison for a term of not less than ten years and perhaps for life. Judge Robert Ferral, who represented Mrsa ‘'uhrig, made a hard fight to secure his client’s acquittal, but the case against her was too conclusive. It is seldom that Judge Ferral casts logic aside and at- tempts to play upon the sympathy of the Jury, but in this case he did. He en- deavored to lead the jury to the opinfon that in the event Mrs. ¥uhrig was con- victed the world would be deprived of a breadwinner and homes would be sad- dened thereby, but in answer to this Judge Murphy pointed to the homes that had been ruined through her nefarious calling and the homes that might be be- reft of a mother or a wife if she con- tinued plying her criminal trade. He did not deny that she was a breadwinner, he said, but he questioned her right to fill grave after grave with young and prom- ising wives in her battle for existence. ‘When Judge Murphy closed his argu- ment the jury was instructed and retired to deliberate on a verdict. In twenty minutes it returned, the foreman an- nounced the verdict, “murder in the sec- ond degree,” and récommended the con- vict to the mercy of the court. Mrs. Fuh- rig evinced no emotion, but tears filled the eyes of many of the women in the court, whether from gratitude over the conviction or sorrow for the convicted is not known. As soon as matters had quieted down to some extent Judge Cook set Saturday for sentence and the crowd filed out. Mrs. Fuhrig was immediately taken to Branch County Jail No. 3 to awalt sentence. “I consider the conviction of Mrs. Fuhrig a victory,” said Judge Murphy. “The crime for which Mrs. Fuhrig must pay the penalty is becoming fearfully prevalent. in this city and_ must be stopped. It is a crime second to none in the category of crimes, and those who commit it are as depraved as he who way- lays and murders for the gold in his vie- tim’s_pocket. Twenty years ago I con- victed Mrs, Hodgdon, and for a time her kind were afraid to practice their calling, but again they became fearless. conviction, besides ridding the community of this dangerous woman, will have its moral effect as well, and who can say the number of young women that, this verdict will save from the grave—women who would have taken this step had not its dangers and the darkness of the tomb been made known to thém through the trial and conviction of this woman, the most notorious of her class. “As an authority upon which I base my statement that this crime is becom- ing fearfully prevalent, outside my own knowledge, I can refer to the work of Horatio R. Storer, M. 9 who of alarming frequency among us, but that its frequency is rapidly increasing, this having been made agparent by each link in the chain of evidence that has been presented. Every effort that might pos- sibly check this flood of guilt, if “de- layed, has so much the more to ac- complish. The crime is fast becoming, if it has not already become, an estab- lished custom, less honored in the breach than in the observance.” #¥or these rea- sons I am gratified that a conviction was had, and to sustain this conviction I will devote all my energies.” In the Divorce Court. Charles H. Harrington has been granted a divorce from Debora A. Harrington for desertion. ~William F. Schiller has sued Emily Schiller for a_divorce, alleging de- ) sertion as a cause of action. not see fit to reverse it and send the case | means of a criminal operation, performed | An at- | in the present case, but | the verdict of the jury | conviction was | On the ruling of Judge COOI:‘ This | says: ‘We are compelled to acknowledge ! not merely that criminal operations are | RAIN IMPROVES REALTY MARKET VERY RAPIDLY Investments Getting Scarce Downtown. LARGE LOANS BEING MADE \ | REAL ESTATE MEN ARE HOPE- FUL OVER THE OUTLOOK. | The General Rain Has Caused a Re- vival of Business and at Pres- ent Good Country Property Is in Demand. The real estate men were a happy lot yesterday. It was plain that they were receiving as much immediate benefit from | the rain as the country. There was but | one opinion among them and that was | that the prospects of California were never better. It is evident that they hope for a decided revival in business as a re- | sult of the rain. The realty market for the past few weeks has been steady, and in fact it has been improving. This fact, | coupled with the coming of the rain, makes them all the more jubilant. A. M. Speck said that there was plenty | of money to be had, and in fact that it | was never easler. This, he argues, is | a good sign. Good investments down town are getting very scarce, which shows that money is being placed in real estate. | Large loans are being made at 6 per cent, | and besides a number of mortgages have | been lifted. These facts show that money | is plentiful. Speck & Co. have a large | number of sales on which they hope to | consummate within the next few weeks. | They report that the corner of O’Farrell | and Mason streets is soon to be improved | by a modern seven-story bul]dln% The | sale of the old Cambrian Dancing Hall on Mission near Seventh street, for $23,000, | is_also reported. Thomas Magee & Sons also report some { small sales during the past week, and they have in hand the consummation of | | quite & number of others. Mr. Magee | | is very hopeful over the outlook and 1s | of the opinion that the realty business | will take on a great activity in the near | future as a result of the rain. Madison | & Burke also report the market as hav- | ing_been firm and improving. Burnham | & Marsh Company have a number of sales on hand for next week, and they | Jook for a decided improvement in the realty business, Center & Spader say | that the market has been unchanged but steady. They also have in view a num- ber of sales and are hopeful of a great | | and immediate improvement in their | business. | Never has the demand for country prop- been better, and this fact is taken {as a favorable sign. In a way the de-| | mand_for out-of-town realty is taken as | an indication of the financial pulse of the | country, and judging from the present ac tivity there is every reason to beli that the prospect is bright and promis | "™Fldwin & Howell report the Ia[lowingi | erty | Lot 25x125, with improvements consisting of two flats on the east side of Hartford street, I fect south of Eighteenth, price $3500; the en- | | tire Forner's Addition, block 176, 228x560 feet | in size—this lot is bounded by Castro and | Dimond, Twenty-eighth and Valley streets; lot and improvements consisting of three_ new | flats on_the north side of Page street, 75 feet cast of Fillmore, 2x100, price $8500; lot on the | South side of Twenty-fourth street, S0 feet West of Noe, size 45x1l4, price $2350; lot and improvements on the west line of 'Guerrero treet, § feet south of Seventeenth street, size 50, price $3500; the northeast corner of | Twenty-fifth and Shotwell streets, 25x9, price $4750; lot and Improvements on the west line of Powell street, 71 feet morth of Broadway, Size 20:8x67:9, price $4200; lot and improvements on the north side of Page street, 7o feet east of Clayton, 25x100, $8500. | | - The same firm also report continued ac- | tivity in the Sunset District, and many houses are being sold in the district | bounded by Seventh to Twelfth avenue | | and from H to O street. A large amount | Of street work has been done in this dis- | frict " lately, and more is now contem- | plated. There has also been quite a few | Rouses erected in the last six months. All ' of this has had a tendency to attract | buyers, and sales have been made as fol- | lows: J ! corner Nineteenth avenue and M B ta0, price $400; ot on the east line of Ninth avenue, 192 feet morth of P street, | 52:0x167, price $875; lot and improvements con- Fisting of a new cottage on the south side | of K strect, §2 feet cast of Tenth avenue, | Tice $1515: lot on the south side of O street, 4 Teet east of Eleventh avenue, 25xi0, price | :lot on the east line of Nineteenth avenue, 55" feet south of M street, 2x130, price $3003 fot on the west line of Bighth avenue, 275 | | feet south of M street, 25x120, price $300; lot | on the west line of Tenth avenue, 250 feet | South of O street, size 25x120, price 3250; lot on the west line of Eighth avenue, 275 north | of O street, 37%x120, price $475; lot on the east | line of Twelfth avenue, 125 north of I street, | 25x120, price §830; lot on the east line of Tenth avenue, 275 feet south of O street, S0xI00, | Price $300; lot on the west line of Tenth avenue, | 55 Feet south of O street, 25x100, price §230: fot on the west line of Eighth avenue, 200 feet north of O street, 76x120, price $300; lot on the soutn slde of O Btreet; 57:6 east of wiev: ivenue, 25x100, price | Y Bleventn avenue, 300 feet south of O Street, 60x120, price $450; lot on the west line of Tenth avenue, 100 feet south of O street, 50x120, price $500; northwest corner Ninth ave- nue and O street, 25x100, price lot on the north side of M street, 53 feet’ east of Tenth avenue, 2x100, price’ $00; lot on the south side of O street, 100 feet West of Tenth | venue, 32:6x100, price $300; lot on the west fide of Tenth avenue, 200 feet south of O street, 50x120, price $500; lot on the east line of Ninth avenue, 2 feet north of O street, 25x100, price $400. | street, lot on the east EXTENDING SIXTH STREET. Opening of a New— Thoroughfare From North to South San Francisco. The cutting down of Irish Hill, south of the Union Iron Works, upon which site the Scotts will build additional structures for the enlargement of their ship-building plant, has been the means of extending Sixth street. The grading of the ground tor the proposed new buildings was done by the Potrero Land and Development Company, and at the same time this com- pany obtained the contract for the exten- sfon of Sixth street from Channel bridge to Kentucky street. The work is now completed on both contracts and the teamsters and others whose business takes them to and from the Potrero and South San Francisco will have an additional roadway direct from the center of the city to the Union Iron ‘Works, sugar refinery and other manufac- turing industries on that side of the Mis- sion channel without being compelled to et there by the way of the Fourth street ridge. This new roadway will be hailed with delight by those whose business lies in this direction because of the unpleasant- ness of being compelled frequently to wait for several minutes at the drawbridge ‘while lumber and hay schooners are go- ing from the outer into the inner bay ihrough the drawbridge. This, together with the obstacles at the railroad cross- | ings at Fourth and Townsend streets, has | almost been sufficient to make the Fourth street route useless. The new street will, | therefore, become the principal driveway between the two sections of the city. It | take up his first build. not included in the udge pointed out that xistence an_old ordinance to meadow larks and it conflicted with the ndant_then pleaded but the Judge said meadow larks were State law, but the J there was in e specially referring he did not think State law. The defel orance of the law, that was no excuse. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Dr. J. J. Powers of Denver is a guest at the Grand. H. R. McNoble, a Stockton attorney, is a guest at the Grand. J. W. Kidwell, a Salt Lake business man, is staying at the Russ. L. G. Nesmith, the San Jose banker, is at the Palace with his wife. J. L. Hartman, a Portland business man, is a guest at the Grand. A. B. Butler, the Fresno vineyardist, will be at the Palace for a few days. Seymour Waterhouse, a mining man of Placer County, is registered at the Cali- fornia. Charles E. Uren, a mining man of Grass Valley, is at the Lick in company with his wife. G. E Goodman, a banker of Napa, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife and daughter. George H. Kraft, a banker of Red Bluff, and Hugh Maulden, a prominent Sacra- mentan, are at the Lick. J. W. Dayton, a business man of Eureka, who has come to this city to buy his spring stock of goods, is at the Grand. H. I. Bergance of Washington, who has come to this coast on special duty for the Navy Department, is registered at the California. W. H. Hearen, a Randsburg mining man; A. L. Battle, a Sissons Ilumber dealer, and O. C. McFarland, a San Jose attorney, are among the arrivals at the Russ. George H. Ballou, a San Diego mer- chant; George H. Stewart, a Los An- geles banker, and B. M. Hartley, a Vaca- ville fruit grower, are among the arrivals at the Grand. ————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 15—W. E. Carroll of San Francisco is at the Fifth Avenue. S e CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON ‘WASHINGTON, March 15.—W. H. Den- ing of San Francisco is at Willard’s. Captain A. T. Barrett of San Francisco was in Washington to-day, en route to New York, where he will sail for Europe on Friday. — e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MRS. HERMAN OELRICHS-J. J., City. The New York city residence of Mrs. Herman Oelrichs is at No. 453 Fifth avenue. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT —Subscriber, City. Melville W. Fuller of Illinois _is the Chief Justice of the Su- reme Court of the United States. Joseph gchenna of California is one of the As- sociate Justices of that court. PART PAYMENT—Reader, City. You ask for an opinion in regard to the part payment of a note the receipt of which payment is acknowledged, but not having the language of that receipt it is not pos- sible to answer the question asked. FALSE LABELS—R., City. A man who puts up a medicine in this city and places upon it a label to create the impression that it was manufactured in a 10reign country is guilty of fraud and would be liable, in California, to punishment for misdemeanor. The same would apply to gll‘ned bottled in this State and falsely la- eled. OKLAHOMA—J. L., Isleton, Cal. The Governor of Oklahoma Territory is C. M. Barnes and his address is Guthrie. With- out knowing where your brother was when last heard from by vou it is im- possible to direct you to whom you should write for information. If you will give the name of the city, town or village in which he was when you heard from him last, this department will be able to an- swer your question. THE PHILIPPINES—Enq., City. The Philippine Islands were discovered by Ma- gellan in 1521. The Spaniards took posses- sion of the islands a few years later, and Cebu or Zebu, on the island of that name four hundred miles southeast of Manila, became the chief Spanish settlement until 1581, when Manila was started, and that became the seat of the Spanish Govern- ment and remained such until the United States captured the place. THE RULES OF CASINO—C,, City. In the game of casino a player may not alter his build; that is, if A and B are playing, A plays a five, placing it on a four, he calls it nine, and if B does not take it up he is not allowed to add an ace to his build and call it ten, but he may, before taking that up, make another build; say, place his ace on an eight and call that nine, or he may play a card or take sev- eral cards by combination, but he must comply with one of these conditions or If the {)Ifl_ver hac built up a card, and has in his hand more than one card of the same denomination as his build, and his opponent leaves the build undisturbed,the player may play one of these cards upon the cards constituting the build at the same_ time repeating his announcement of the dehomination of the build, and the card so played is equiva- This may be done a sec- lent to a call. | ond time before taking up the build. That is to say, A has three fours and an ace in his hand, and there is a three on the table. A may play his ace on the three and make it four; if it remains undisturbed he may play a four from his hand on the buiid and call it fours, not four; if that is not taken, he may play another four on the build and still call it fours before tak- ing up the build. Each of the fours so played on a build has all the immunities of a call. —_—ee——————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® s Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, * ——— There are more medical men in London than in all Scotland and Ireland together, and in those two countries the number has actually decreased during the past year. —_—ee—————— California Limited, Santa Fe Route. Leaves Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays. Elegant service. Vestibuled sleepers, observation cars. Harvey's Dining Cars through from California to Chicago with- out change. Get full particulars at company’s otfice, €23 Market st. . e u Angostura Bitters, prepared by Dr. J. G. B. Siegert for his private use, has become famous as the best appetizing tonic. ‘There are some 60,000 costermongars who carry on business in the streets of Lon- don. Their capital is supposed to be $250,- 000 while they are said to do a trade dur- ing the year of three millions. The profits of this turnover are about a million. will require, however, about o the newly made ground to ber:;%ny::a;ugf &llengy aieétled"be ?fiehn can be paved. In e meantime it will be ope v the Ist of April. B u vy . MEADOW LARKS ARE GAME. Matteo Campagno é;nvicted of Offer- ing Them for Sale. Matteo Campagno, dealer in g game and poultry, Clay Street Market, was yester- day convicted by Judge Mogan on a c):‘t:.rgg of oflerlnf! meadow larks for sale out of season. e will appear for sen- tence this morning, wh peal will likely be givern. B oo 1t was contended for the defense that