The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 4, 1899, Page 5

THE' SAN FRANCISCO CALL. - TUESDAY, APRIL 4 1899. N0 BEST FOR MR, CORRIGAY N OAKLAND Raw Decision Hooted and Hissed. FEW LIKE IT ON RECORD PAT MORRISSEY WON AND WAS DISQUALIFIED. | | Race Given to the Corrigan En- v Adolph Spreckels—The Ex- iled Ingleside Association Has a Lively Day. ng over at Oakland | F 0 s to be at association can on this side of the to be pitied & was marked by a > uncalled for and ve. is > fast geld- ad beaten Spreckels nan had the | which was ) 10. Thorpe o the front | ng ridden out | half length in paddock, Bull- ard, thought he ry to pass Mor- re he got up to y thinking he gged the rail 18 with the 10 go on the 1cident that race run. n. Bullman re- removed his saddle idea of claiming a mind. Judge Smith turning to the 1 Thorpe into : Ed Corrigan, | an 8 ore a troubled Perhaps Mr. e did not. cléarly discern- | Without much that th winner, las on t o be s the fact the n the and was made rse out bid vn. request “orrigan f th £ was $ . the 13l % to give the gag members of v rpe had | for the e of the w Xcey I 2 3 tor of the w pr ( rs in the bet- t th 8 to 1, Ping 1 2 1 'being ¥ s f g, Frank Kit-| t n's g his reappe p T b ile selling run, and E a it. Hjs party got P 0d s ring, and_it I nut horse. The d ecem_to be with speed. but by ng Bullman landed him down in the mile Cabrillo but when 1l shot to Ping, and the first s for the 10 1 s Ridden ot Prince Bl a had a strong four furlong and won with | ntebank at the a was third. | favorite for | fourth rent to be de- W to sho on Headwater made a runaway race ating Horton out by | three lengths final_mile dash went to Los Me- t e, with Frohman a good d the winner. Bullman pi To-Day’s Entries. aceSix furlongs; three-year-olds and | 06 Horatio . 913 Lavator 598 Crossmolina 81 Sweet 12 573 Aluminum 54 El Salado 581 Charmante 65) Prompto 802 Don Luls Four furlongs; two-year-olds. 10| 903 Icedrop 510 Orthia 23 Sir Hampton... Yantic ....... 04 Tom Sharkey. Catulus . nd an eighth miles Joe Cotton 915 Colontal Dame.. 811 Rossmore ... olds and unward. 838 Sir Urian, (715)Gauntlet 913 Wyoming . 908 Stamina 884 Roadrunner 914 Guilder 59 847 Joe Mussle. 106 859 Rosemald . 106 (309) Benamela . 96 897 Ruskin 111/ 850 Cleodora. 104| 897 Kamsin . Fifth Race—Six furlongs; four-year-olds and upward. 903 Harry Thoburn.111) 8§10 Bonita 106 896 Bliss Rucker....111| 809 Februar 109 632 Geyser 902 Henry 108 176 Grady 915 Merry 1uL 902 Midas . 777 Crawford 114 578 New Moot 911 Tempo 111 9 Sea Spray.. .. Grand 108 7 Slver State 70 Loch Ness.......114 0 Lorena 11 Sixth Race—Six furlongs; three-year-olds and ppward. I 901 Recreation 3 Maud, Ferguson. 95 $67 Don Fulano. 109 (907)Limewater 911 La Goleta.. Selections for To-Day. First Race—Carter H. Harrison Jr., El Sa- | lado, Highland Ball. Second Race—Orthia, Flamora, Sfiver Tall. Third Race—Colonel Bartlett, Joe Cotton, | Colontal Dame | Fourth Race—Wyoming, Benamela, Stamina. Fifth Race—Geyser, Harry Thoburn, Febru- ary. Sixth Race—La Goleta, St. Calatine, Lime- | water. | s S | Abe Schwartz Arrested. | Abe Schwartz, son of Henry Schwartz, the bookmaker, was arrested at Emery- | ville track yvesterday and taken to the Oakland City Prison on a warrant charg- ing him with grand larceny. The name was erroncously reported previously as Leo Schwartz through the error of a | track office: He was later released on $1000 cash bail. Schwartz is the voung man who, it is claimed, snatched a handful of currency from the cash box of Bookmaker Johnny | Coleman during the progress of the race: on Saturday last. He disclaims all knowl- edge of the affair. It is understood, though, that George Suydam, cashier of the book, is positive that Schwartz took the coin. OLYMPIC CONTESTS. Finals in the Indoor Baseball and Water Polo Tournaments. There is a boom in indoor athletics at the Olympic Club at the present time. On Tuesday, April 4, the final indoor base- | ball game for the coast championship will be played in the club gymnasium between the Olympic nine and a team represent- ing the Young Men’s Christian Associa- tlon. The Reliance Club is out of the race and the cup will go either to the clubmen Lost Girl Calatine. on this side of the bay or the Young Men's Christian Association nine. Both teams are practicing for the match, as its victory means a_handsome silver cup. On April § the Olymple team will go to Stockton to play the Stockton Athletic Club. The men will leave here on Satur- day evening, traveling by boat. The game wiil be played the following evening in the Exposition buflding. A large delegation of Olympians will accompany the team. The water polo tournament will come to a close this week when the White Caps under the captainey of Tivoli Kreling and the Red Caps under George A. Hinkel meet for the champfonship cup. The riv- alry existing between these two teams is intense, and a hot time is expected in the cold club tank. The teams will float as follows: aps. Positions. Red Caps Cooper Forward...... G. A. Hinkel bson. . Forward......J. J." Phillips nneley. enter lec Pape Croal.... Halfback. F. Burnette I Jellette . Back.. _G. Habenich ritfith. ... ... Back J€. Melrose C. Kreling (Capt.)...Back G.. James _— — A Murderous Chinese. Thomas Kelly, 1629 Pine street, swore to a complaint in Judge Graham's court vesterday for the arrest of a Chinese em- | ployed by him on the charge of assault | h a deadly weapon. Kelly said the hinese thought he had a grievance against him and yesterday morning | selzed a gun and attempted to shoot | him. Kelly took refuge in flight and hur- | ried to the Police Court. \ Ocean Water Tub Baths. | 101 Seventh st, corner Mission. Salt water, direct from ocean. | from $10 to NO MORE MONEY FOR AGED AND INFIRM FIREMEN Pension Fund Law Is Unconstitutional. SUPREME COURT SO DECLARES THE AUDITOR WILL NOT PAY DEMANDS. Acting on the Advice of His Attor- ney—Deserving Pensioners Now Face a Serious Problem. The money in the pensfon fund of the Exempt Firemen's Association is no longer at the disposal of the members of that organization. As a consequence seventy-four aged, infirm or disabled fire- men, who have heretofore looked to the city for support through the pension fund provided for that purpose, are confronted with the most serious problem in life. Many of them must either become charges on their relatives or friends, be- come inmates of the Almshouse or starve to death. This serious condition of affalrs was made known to them on Saturday, when Auditor Wells, acting on the advice of his attorney, refused to audit their monthly demands on the treasury. These demands aggregate $1000 and are for sums ranging For many years the city has pald an ag- gregate of $12,000 a year in pensions to members of the Exempt Firemen's As- sociation, such payment being authorized by an act of the Legislature of 188, which Legi the existing law the city is empowered to set aside 312,000 annually for the pay of pensions to aged, infirm or disabled firemen. This has been religlously done during past ars and the firemen who were deemed worthy of pensions by the Exempt Firemen's Association have, on the first day of each succeeding month, received a total sum of $1000. Now the Supreme Court comes forward with a de- cision, rendered on the fourth of last month, in which it is held that the law authorizing the appropriation of this money is unconstitutional and therefore without effect. Acting on this decision Auditor Wells has refused to audit the d mands for March of the seventy-four fir men on the pension rolls of the assocs tion. The Supreme Court decision that caused all of the trouble was rendered in the case of George Taylor against the city of Oakland. The suit was one in which the plaintiff sued to compel the munic pality to pay his pension under the law authorizing the creation by municipalities of a firemen's pension fund. The court held that the statute of 1895 was in con- flict with sections 31 and 33 of article IV of tne constitution of the State of Califor- nia, which prohibits the Legislature from making or authorizing the gift of any public mon tate or municipal, to any person, association or corporation. The court £2 A comparison of the act In question with an act passed for a similar purpose by the Legislature of 1589 will direct the attention at once to the want of consideration for the THE CALL’S RACING CHART OAKLAND RACE TRACK, Mond day of the winter meeting of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club. fine. Track fast. ay, April 3, 1899. — Sixty-first ‘Weather JOSEPH A. MURPHY, Presiding Judge. JAMES B. FERC JSON, Starter. | 9] 4, FIRST RACE—One mile; selling; three-year-olds and upward; purse, $400. . Fin. ! %m. %m. Str. Jockeys. 548 Myth, 6....... S hHITEED 16 14 14 |Joe Weber. 7 Opponenet, 4.. 6% 6h 6% 2h 21 [Bullman Jennie Reid, 3.. 8735 550 T 42 31 *|J. Reiff.. Rey Hooker, 3 11 31 2% 3h 42 [Rutherfor Guilder, 4 51 5% 52 52 53 |Devin .. The Fretter, T4 4h 3h 61 64 |McNichois . Hohenz 41 2h 4% 13 72 (Plggott . Truxillo, 9 54 H 83 §4 |Jones . Bueno, a 31 71 52 s $ {Coburn . Time—K, :25%; %, :50; %. 1:15%; mile, Killicrates-Paradox. Good start. Won easil The result was never in doubt, Myth being collecting his speed 915. SECOND RACE—One and an eighth Durse, $400. Rey Hooker should have been third. McNichols rode The Fretter. 1:41%. Winner, F. J. Kittleman's ch. g. by imp. y. Second and third driving. eased up at the end. Opponent was late in miles; selling; four-year-olds and upward; | | Betting. Index. Horse. Age. Std. ¥m. ¥%m. Fin. | Jockeys. | (K (816) Ping, 4.... TAE G e 12 (L Powell BT 698 Cabrillo, a 3. 3h ST 24 |Bullman | 2 185 %07 Prince Blazes, 4h 4h 3h 33 |E. Jones...!l| 7 g 902 Merry Boy, 5 8% 71 6h 42 I Russeli.ll] 60 100 558 Dare IL, 5..... 61 5% 5y 53 |Macklin | 3 72 834 Frank Jaubert, Bih o B2 Y 62 |Devi & | & 10 (201) McFarlane, a u1 101 104 7h |MeNichols ..i[ 10 35 %7 Byron Cross, 4. DERME S TR £10 [W. Narvaez..| 100 7 Una Colorado, a. 3 93 (Jenkins B 902 Colonial Dami 10y Sk 81y 102 {J. Daly 20 B $76 Dick Behan, a. . 7% 115 115 111 |Hahn . 12 30 Adam Andrew, b... 13 1 12 12 Coburn . 10 3 Time- 13; %, :3T%; %, 1:02%: %, 1:28%: mile, 1:41%; 1% miles, 1:54%. Winner, W. B. Coffey’s b. h. by imp. Maxim-Music. Good start. Won easily. Second and third driv- in ®Ping shows vast improvement. Cabrillo showed signs of lameness, but ran his race. Merry Boy will bear watching. McFarlane frightfully handled. Colorado stopped Scratched—Durward 107, Montallade 107, Stan Powers 103, Peter 11 110, Bridlington 106, has | gift contemplated by the act of 1895. This act of 1889 provides that no person shall share in the funds of the municipality un- less he shall serve in the Fire Department of that particular municipality for fifteen years or shall have received injury in the actual discharge of fire duty therein. No such condition or restriction as this is to be found in the act of 1895, but, on the con- trary, all exempt firemen by becoming resi- dents and being enrolled must be permitted to participate in the funds of the munici- pality when they become disabled, whether they have ever performed any service in such municipality or not. This constitutes a gift and makes the statute subject to the objections already pointed out and which have already been lald down by the Su- preme Court. The decision affects San Francisco equally with every other municipality in the State. Believing this to be so, Au- ditor Wells submitted the matter to his attorney and was informed that he (the Auditor) would be exceeding his authority if he continued to authorize the payment | of money appropriated under an act that | had been declared by the Supreme Court | to be unconstitutional. When the pension demands were presented on the Ist of the present month the Auditor therefore gave notice of his intention to withhold his signature. The last Legislature passed a bill which, had it become a law, would have rectified the mistakes of the present stat- ute, but Governor Gage in his wisdom saw fit to give it a ~ocket veto. now stands a great number of deserving ensioners in this and other cities in the State are left without the means that an appreciative public has provided for their relief and support. “T see no way in which the situation can be remedied.” sald Auditor Wells yester- ntil the next session of the Legis- lature GREEN AND SMITH READY FOR BATTLE HEAVY WELTER-WEIGHTS ARE IN FINE FORM. | The Western Club Expects a Large Crowd to See the Fight Between Tracey and Neill. The boxing instructor of the Olymple Club, Professor Van Court, is authority | for the statement that George Green, who is matched to fight Billy | condition to enter a hard fistic contest than he has been for three vears to his | knowledge. This will be cheering news to some of the friends of Green, who were of the opinion that the local welter-weight had already seen his best ds and that his chances of suc against stch a hard puncher as Smith were only | training since | slight. Green has been the match was consummated | Cliff House and at the Olympic Club. He | expects to enter the ring at the limit | weight, which is 154 pounds; doubtless | his opponent, Smith, will fight at pounds, which weight, he contends, w land him in the ring feeling strong and able to go any distance. Smith, who is training in ‘Alameda, near the is very confident of success. ' A friend of Green said yesterday that, had it not been for the excessive heat which pre- vailed on the evening he was defeated by Smith in New York, the Mysterious m: would certainly have taken the loser end of the purse. Green could not stand the fearful heat of the July night and be- came almost exhausted As the case | (Mysterious) | Smith on Friday night, is now in better | vs as a pugllist | 1| ter battling for | fifteen rounds. The local man must, | however, show corsiderable improvement in his gait on Friday evening to_ satisfy | | that he h the sports of this ci not | retrograded since he received that whip- | ping from black Walcott. Manager Long of the Club is exceedingly well pleased with the match he has arranged to take pl Woodward's Pavilion on the evening of Western Athletic | ace in | the . Tom Tracey is one of the ' most shifty lads in the fighting line, and during his years of hard experience in | fighting all kinds of men he has gained | a fund of knowledge which makes him | a master of the game of hit and miss. | Neill is a_strong and game fellow who | will_take heavy punishment. He is not | | as shifty or as cunning as Tracey, but his friends are very confident that he can whip the Australian by employing ag- gressive tact The contest will, how- ever, prove what Neill is cdpable of do- ing when he comes into contact with such a ringster as Tracey, who, by the way, has promised the managers of the Western Club that he will not resort to running and dodging tactics on this oc- casion The | an Francisco Athletic Club will { glve its monthly exhibition this evening. | B, Coine” will "hox six rounds with -C. | Vickers. “Kid” Johnson will box six rounds with J. Bell. “Kid" Hogan will meet Art Granfield in a six-round _bout. W. Condon is booked to meet C. Thurs: _ton, and John Dean, a clever lightweight I'of the club, will contest six rounds with | George Baker of Salt Lake, who is here | 1ooking for snaps. e s 5 SPORT FOR THE LADIES. | The Olympic Club Will Give an En- | joyable Entertainment This ‘ Evening. . | The Olympic Club will give a very pleas- | ant entertainment this evening to its | members and their lady friends. It -will be known as ladies’ night and the pro- | gramme of exercises consists of novelty | indoor athletics, such as potato races in | the swimming tank and indoor baseball, under the supervision of John A. Ham- | mersmith, the leader of the club. Following is the list of the ball and | water polo teams: | BALL TEAMS. | Positions. Y. M. C. A. . cher.. ...F. Foran | J.. Morton Pitcher ....W. Barbour | W. McLaine....Second base........F. Shaw | W. Hanrahan......Third base.....D. Hanrahan C.” Kreling Shortstop.............P. Scott | L. Follanshee.. First base.... McShane | G. Follansbee Right short.. Bernhardt | €. Derham Right fleld ..H. Morton | F. But Left field J. Toohy | WATER POLO T! | White Caps. Positions. Red Caps. A. Cooper | porward 1 -G- A. Hinkel (cap.) J. Hobson. . FEOEWAI 3 J. Phillips | E. Connol enter.. lex. Pape A. Croal.. Halfback Burnette 1. Jellette i. Habenicht Backs Griffith Melrose 5 . Kreling Goal.. «.nG. James = — SR e = Potato race—E. Connolly F. Burgess, G “E—Four furlongs; two-year-olds; purse, $400. | Klarmann, W. Bush, G. Hinkel, Al Stone, J. | W. Coffroth. ST e —— Horke Weight.St. %m Basseda .............110| 4 Mountebank - 2 Florentia 1 Rachel C.. |3 Tilflouette |s Surigao §un Time 4%, Winner, E. 0 n easily. Second easily. Basseda was best. She cut Rachel C off soon after start. Corrigan’s br. f. by imp. Bassetlaw-Duchess of Tow- Betting. Fin. } Jockey: fu,,_ & 12% [Bullman 25 13 24 |Thorpe forg g 3n |Jones [*Fe. "y 45 . Daly s 1 51 [MeNichols L1 50 130 8 enkins . | 8 159 Third driving ADVERTISEMENTS. Reputation and extended use of Brown'’s Bronchial Troches, for Coughs and Throat Troubles, has caused them to be extensively imi- tated. The title ““Bronchial Trockes” was established asa trademark by John I. Brown & Son, in1856. Making or selling lozenges under the name of “‘Bronchial Zrockes” is a violation of this trademark, which has been sus- tained by the courts in numer- ous cases. Dealers are cautioned against selling infringements on Brown’s Bronchial Troches, which are sold only in boxes soc., and $1.00 with the imile signature of M'{%-A onoutside wrapper of box. fac 917 FOURTH RACE-Six furlongs . selling; three-year-olds; purse, $400, | | Betting. Index. Horse. Weight.[St. %m. %m. Fin. Jockeys. [Op. Ol 394 Headwater Iz 12 3 |E. Jones....| (881) Horton . 3 A 2h 3 |Bullman . 695 Allyar . 5 . 42 6 |J. Reifr, £69 Montanus . 4 7 5 1 |Devin | 851 Malay - 1 S W {Jenkins .01l Time—%, :24%; %, 8% %, 1:13%. Wini “o.’s br. g. by Imp. cress-Headflower. Straggling start. Won eas Headwater had all sorts of speed. Allyar ment. Malay fancies a muddy track. Scratched—Jinks 9. ly. Second and third driving. probably short. Montanus was a disappoint- 9[8 FIFTH RACE—One mile; selling; three-year-olds and upward; purse, $500. . R | ' [ Betting. Index. Horse, Age. Welght St ¥m. %m. %m. Str. TFin. | Jockeys. [op. CI. | 2 Pat Morrissey, 5...100/1 13 13 13 13 %11 [Thorpe . | §25 Ad spreckels, 5. 3% 2n 23 2% 26 [Bullman it 907 Torsida. 4 21 33 35 35 88 |Jenkins H 84 Midlight, 5 . 48 48 48 46 41 [Joe Weber..| 10 12 900 Mistleton, 5 5 A 5 5 |MeNichols ..l 10 2 “Disqualified for fouling and placed last T e %5, A9K: X, 1:4%: mile; 1:40). Winner, E. Corrigan’s br. g. by Long- Von first three driving. ‘Jennie Treacy. Good start. fellowejennie but was robbed of the race. Pat Morrissey, won on his merit: “big _doing: Spreckels was up to | Betting. Index. Horse, Age. Weight. Bt. %m. %¥m. ¥%m. Str. Fin. Jockeys. |Op. CI. edanos, 3. 2h 21 1h 1n 13 |Bullman 2 85 L aaiy 11% 124 22 22 34 (7. Daly 1 P. A, Finnegan, 4..113 3214 34 34 33 36 |Jones H Humidity, 3 9 e SRR e R H Bonnie Ione, 4 9 42 42 ' 640 540 54 0 Judge Wofford, 3.. 5 [ 6 6 H 3 £ None Such, 4........ 80| 59 a0 Gold Fin, 3 9| * 2 - eLett. i, 2% %, :50; %, 1:15%; mile, 1:42, Winner, E. J. Baldwin's br. c. ¥y Imp. Chesterfel -'.nn:.‘mv' o st W o y. Second and third driving. Humidity had no speed. Los Medanos won easily. Others out of their class. Scratched—Morinel %, Alhaja 87, Cardwell 115, Meadow Lark 100, Henry C 8, Elnsteln 14, Jingle Jingle 89. Platt Caught No Fish. A. G. Platt, special A sor appointed by the Board of Supervisors, called upon Customs Collector Jackson yesterday morning and requested the Collector to inform him as to the total value of the merchandise now in the United States { bonded warehouses in this city. | The Collector declined to give the infor- | mation. His declination was based upon | the rule of the department enforcing se | erecy in such matter: nd also upon the { fact’ that merchandise in bonded ware- | houses is not the property of the import- | ers, for it may be condemned and confis- cated or destroyed or ordered shipped out of the country for many reasons. ——————— Floral and plain crepe, tissue paper, flowers and lamp shades, cheap, at Sah- born & Vail's, 741 Market street. b —_—e—— Marine Firemen’'s Funds. The preliminary examination of Ber- nard Ward, ex-financial secretary of the Marine Firemen's Union, charged with embezzling $3000 drawn from the Hibernia Bank, was held before Judge Conlan vesterday, and after hearing the evidenc Which was very flimsy, the Judge re- | served his decision until to-day. The other three charges against Ward were dis~ | missed owing to a defect in the com- | plaints. —_——— Chinese Gamblers Fined. The thirty-one Chinese, Filipinos and white men arrested Saturday night by Lieutenant Price and posse for playing fan tan pleaded gullty in Judge Mogan's court yesterday and were each fined $: Won Chew, the Kkeeper of a lotter “joint,” was yesterday fined $100 by Act- 4ng Police Judge Barry, with the aiterna- tive of fifty days in the County Jail. —————— He Was Biind Drunk. Thomas Dunne, an old blind man, ap- peared before Acting Police Judge Barry esterday on .the charfie of vagrancy. He admitted to the Judge that he was drunk when arrested and the Judge sald he would give him ten days for being “blind drunk.” —_————— Ladies’ tallor-made sults, fur capes, cloaks. | Credit. M. Rothschild, 211 Sutter, rooms 6-7. | | i | | | THE EMPORIUM. | THE EMPORIUM. | THZ EMPORIUM. ?'.ODDDO’D”i’i’”""".””.')’ D!ii””!ili"’.'!!.i.’i””'b).a The Househoid Goods. Feist's 40c Perfection Wash Boards Large 5c size Embossed Tin Cup: Feist's 10c Knife and Fork Bo: “ookie Cutters, Feist's 5c Scalloped Pie ‘plates 2c and 35c Fine Steel Corkscrew 15c Double-Blade Chopping Knives l0c Single-Blade Chopping Knives. 15c Meat Pounders............. 40c Lemon Squeezers, extra large and g ¢ Fancy Wood Spice Cabinets., ¢ Wood Salt Boxes 80c and $1 highly BOXes, NOW.......... ¢ Knife-Sharpening Stone: Feist's price 40c Bottle Corkers Hardwood Mustard s Brass-hinged Butter Molds, or square, now Oval Dish Pans, ameled ware AT O PRIC scratched, at HALF PRICE Chipmunk or White Mouse Cages, wheel T5e, 1o close out. . Al A few dozen Oak Hat Racks, slightly daj aged, 4, 6 and §-hook, regularly 60c, d §1. now............15¢, 20¢ and 35 5 Galvanized Tron Ash Barrels, now. ...... S Kk and Sc Wire T ameled handles, Now......... 5 y0d Teepicks, some slightly rusted, Straine ble Stove Pokers. Strong, servic: i . large size.. regular marked prices. i By Special Re. quest Vargas and Querita will sing again Saturday, April 8. PR PR RSP PR R PR R PR PR RN R PSR VPR PP PP R RPN RR PR R PR R R PR NP R RN PR R R R R R R R VRPN PPV PP RPRR R R PP P RPRE PR P RRRR R R PP RS > *Feist's 5 Colored Shelf Paper, package. 1c 19¢ polished Hardwood Sait 5 45¢ 16e paint slightly seratched, regularly 20c professional Baseball Nut Crackers....... ... 4¢ : : : large size, flexible steel oys’ Ash Bats, oil finish. gty 5 Prisoner of Zenda Game. Lt Yale and Princeton Footbal One-~Third Off —During the sale of the Feist Golden Rule Bazaa CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST—AMERICA’S GRANDEST STORE. and Summer. Qfitat«««mugau«muttuaua-uu. 446444444 Feist Stock Bought at Abhout 50c on the $1. Thousands of doliars’ worth of House Furnish- ing Goods, Crockery, Toys, Games, Etec., bought by us at soc on the dollar of wholesale cost. are on sale this week at about ome~half regular prices— positively the lowest prices that similar goods were ever offered for in this city. There are hundreds of useful articles that are needed in every household, but in many instances only a few of each kind. Early comers will not be disappointed. House Furnishing Goods, Crockery, Toys, Efc., inspe- cially arranged departments—main aisle, rear of rotunda. Dolls, Wagons and Heavy Toys in rotunda, secend floor, next to Toy Department. 20c and 25c full-sized Hammers. 2c long-handled Steel Cleavers. 60c White Enameled Egg Poachers. ¢ | 16e | 33¢ | Very large assortment of White | Enameled ~ Kettles, Saucepans, } Platters, Vegetahle Dishes. efc.— some slightly chipped in moving and handling—on salz while lot lasts at a fraction of original cost. 25¢ Alcohol Stoves, large burners. 10c Steel Tack Puller: 25c Nickel-Plated Towel Racks, scratched Crockery—Lamps. 3 \ | English Decorated Tea Cups and Sauce: blue, black or brown decorations, larly $130 for set of 6, now 2c English Decorated Milk Pi Clear Glass Lemonade Gl dles, regularly %0c dozen, ach. . | English Tea Sets, 44 pieces, decoratio pink, blue or brown, slight manu er's imperfections, to close out, ot glass : a Lamps s—colored globes, $2 08, NOW....... Toys, Games, regu- .81 31 Ete. ’ | | | soc 014 Maid and Old Bachelor Game.. | eAnd many others equally as low priced. - ones, A B C Cubes. c ones. roquet Rising Sun Stove Po .4c | $17 Hardwood 20c Fancy Tiled Teapot Stands, with metal | $ very fine Croquet Sets. | rims 9c §1 Rotaryscopes, with pictur | and LORENCE 13 DECLARED THE SOLE HEIRESS Gypsy Blythes’Claims Are Dismissed. SHE GETS FIVE MILLIONS VERDICT FROM SUPREME COURE OF THE UNITED STATES. Final Decision Has Been Rendered in the Long and Bitter Litiga- tion Over the Big Estate. The highest tribunal in the land, the Su- preme Court of the United States, has given its final decision in the Blythe liti- gation, and it seem! Hinckley. s at last secure in the posses- sion of the fortune left by Thomas H. the precisely sixteen years ago, for s death took place on April 4, 1883. The decision was in the suit of John W. Blythe and Henry T. Blythe, known a “the Kentucky” or “Gyps Blythes, | against Florence Blythe Hinckley, and, as reported in a telegram received by the defendant yester afternoon from Washington, D. recites that ‘*the Blythe appeal has been dismissed on the authority of the cases formerly cited. Chief Justice Fuller to-day delivered an opinion holding that the decisions of the and treaty questions and of the objee. tions respecting sectlon 1978 of the United States revised statutes.”” This decision was given on motion of Attorneys John Garber and Robert Y. Haynes to dism or affirm a summary proc that waiv argument in court and, disregarding the court calendar, brings the case up for de- cision on “law and motion day’'—the first Monday in the month—thus saving many weary months of litigation. The property left by Thomas H. Blythe at his demise in 1883 was estimated to be worth_ $5,000,000. It consisted chiefly of San Francisco real estate, including the famous Blythe block on Market and Geary streets and Grant avenue, and it produced a revenue of more than $15000 a month, and this is the fortune of which Mrs. Florence Blth? Hinckley becomes ossessed through the decision of the Tnited States Supreme Court. The at- torneys’ fees in the litigation have been heavy. but the income of the estate has, it is said, been sufficient to defray them. Blythe died a bachelor, but there were several lurid episodes in his career on which colorable claim was made to a share in his estate. When the litigation over the property he had accumulated was fairly under way, there were no less than thirty-one claimants to portions of it, the chief claimants being Alice Edith Biythe, who set up a claim as the mil- lionaire’s widow, and Florence Blythe, now the widow of Frederick W., or “Fritz,” Hinckley. Alice Edith's claim went glimmering under the sledge-ham- mer blows of the many attorneys who took part in the litigation, and Florence’s attorneys downed one opponent after an- other until by this last decision her claims stand iIncontrovertible. She s the daughter of a woman whom Blythe met in London while she was still un- married, and the courts have held that he recognized Florence as his daughter. She came to this country on Blythe's that Florence Blythe | State court disposed of the constitutional | et Wb e was bht 0 yearaiof nae. | and, shortly after attaining her majority, | became the bride of “Fritz” Hinckley, | son of the well known foundry man. Mr. Hinckley died of pneumonia a year or so ago. | The “Kentucky, or “Gy ."" Blythes' | claim was based on the supposition that | Thomas H. Blythe died without issue and | that inheritance therefore vested, through | common ancestry, in John W. and Henry T. Blythe of Kentucky. They maintaine that Thomas H. Blythe was of Gyps | ancestry, though he ignored that fact on | coming to this country, and that h est kin are the descendants of | Biythe who settled in Kentucky. { years ago. Their latest contention | been that an alien of British birth can- {not inherit, there being nu treaty to that effect with Great Britain, and that Flor- | ence Blythe t ien at the time of { Thomas Blythe". P nd for more than | limitation Gypsy the statutory of five years thereafter, could not legally claim the dead millionaire's fortune. The words of the telegram, “holding that the decision of the State court disposed of the con- stitutional and treaty question,”” would seem to settle this matter-once and for all. But Attorney Edmund Burke Hollada who has the interests of the “Kentucky Blythes in charge, refuses as yvet to be- | lieve that the new decision is all-compre- hensive. “Wait until we see the full text | of the decision,” he said last night, “‘and | then we shall know."” \GEESE ARE TUMBLED | BY EXPERT HUNTSMEN | | FOUR VELL KNOWN MEN ENJOY | GOOD SHOOTING. | Grand Prairie Alive With Wild Fowl That Are Brought to Earth | by the Sportsmen. | A number of well-known club men met | in the rooms of the San Francisco Club last evening and the conversation turned upon the subject of feats with rod and | gun. W. W. Foote had just finished a yarn about the way he landed a gamy | trout weighing pounds when Henry | Pains Yield to Electrical Treatment. stock we offer our entire stock of Banquet Lamps, Bisque Figures, Dresden and China Ornaments, Bric-a-Brac, English and Bohemian Vases at the above re- duction from regular prices. 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In fact he had a good v as'it was fresh and could by a number of gentlemen well known in legal and commercial cir- cles. | Mr. Fortman w. hunters who left evening and re eral hours Prairie, tw | party cons d s one of a party of four this city last Saturday ched their destination sev- later. The place Grand ve miles from a. The ed of Justice F. Henshaw of the Supreme bench, W. G. Henshaw of the Union Bank of Oakland, Judge E. Nusbaumer of Oakland, and Mr. Fortman. | The hunters were prepared to slay the geese that are at present destroying the growing grain of the farmers of that lo- cality, and from all accounts they had all | the fun they desired. They stayed over night with Doc Stewart and Abe Krumb, ! and under the guidance of their hosts found themselv S n_the pits or blinds in the great expanse of valley at an early hour the next morning. Judge Henshaw, Mr. Fortman and Abe Krumb oceupied | three of the pits, and about a mile aw: | W. G. Henshaw. Judge Nusbaumer and Doc Stewart hid themselves in similap places. Surrounding the pits were a lot of live and dead decoys to attract the birds. but better than the decoys were the goose calls of Stewart and Krumb. / on as it was light the ge to fly, and such variety—Ross geese, snow ' geese, Mexican, grey. cackling. Hutchins. grev brant and others. They came in bunches. flocks and swarms and right merrily did the hunters keep up a shower of No. 6 shot upon the flving birds. When the time came for the hunters to start for the train a count-up showed that | Mr. Fortman and Judge Henshaw had | bagged 107 geese of various kinds. While | Judge Nusbaumer and W. G. Henshaw had tumbled over 166 geese. At last ace | counts thelr hosts were still picking up | birds that had ‘“died out of hounds,” and had increased the lot by about fifty. “T tell you it was great sport,” remarked Mr. Fortman e e — | Improvements Demanded. 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